What is something odd that you find fascinating?

The peroxide bubbles are weird. Jeffrey Dahmer weird.

Soooooo, anyway. In the same vein. I had a few toenails that turned black and dropped off from running, leaving a freaky wet exposed toe top. Moist and spongy.

Moist and spongy. Yep. Enjoy.

I have a fascination with death pictures from auto collisions and bombs.

@YARNLADY My dad was a reporter in a small city in the 1950s. We had a stash of his photos when I was a kid. LOTS of car accidents, with crushed and burned participants.

Imagine a red cabbage. That’s the image that sticks with me, a guy’s burned head sticking out of a burned car looking like a red cabbage.

I’m of the age that publishing grisly car wreck photos was normal in the US when I was young, and forbidden when I was a teenager.

Just the sort of thing that I was fascinated about. My favorite (I’m sorry) were the photos of the people who had just been hit by the Atomic bomb in Hiroshima.

Everyone on Earth should read John Hersey’s 1946 Hiroshima story

It’s free. It’s online.Sorry to threadjack, but this is an extraordinary case.

I’m fascinated by black-and-white (mostly black) artworks of vintage cities. I always feel strangely drawn to those artworks, as if I’m looking at my own home. My ideal artwork is a desert, depressing-looking street at night, with an unclear silhouette standing somewhere in the middle.

Apparently you can purify urine for drinking water.

I am intrigued by everything that is odd which is why I found Charles Fort’s writings so interesting.

Fluther ;-}

@Mimishu1995 I’m fascinated by black-and-white (mostly black) artworks of vintage cities.

Maybe you’d like Jacques Tardi, who writes and draws great graphic novels in that noir genre.

I am fascinated by the skin healing process, e.g. of bruises, the way the new skin progresses day after day until there’s hardly any trace of any wound any more.

I like to watch videos of surgeries.

Lately, I’m all about Neanderthals, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens and that they all co-existed for a period of about 5,000 years around 40,000 years ago in Melanesia, West Asia, the Middle East and Europe. And there was some hanky panky between the species. I’m reading everything about them that I can find.

@Call_Me_Jay Thanks for pointing to the Hershey article. I copied it onto a document and will read it tonight.

I’m fascinated—horrified is perhaps more like it—how social media and mobile phones have taken over our lives.

@Espiritus_Corvus – I’m 2.7% Neandertal.

No shit. How’s it feel? Lol.. I’m getting tested this month. This will be interesting. I wonder if I’ll beat your numbers.

Does Björk count?

I’m 4% Neanderthal! 23andme told me I was in the 90th percentile.

It probably sounds strange but I love cleaning and otherwise doing maintenance on my fish tank. Scraping the algae off the walls, vacuuming up fish poop, rearranging the airline tubing…it’s so satisfying!

I hope your hand heals up okay, @jonsblond! D:

I love these answers. Thanks everyone.

Thank you @Mariah!

I love to watch women birth babies into the world.
I have 2 sons myself so I have had the experience
but I just am astounded how our bodies can make
another human being and there is nothing even
remotely close to this. I always think “this is God’s
greatest work of all.” And it is ironic that my brother
is a OB/GYN but I have never saw him “in action” as
we are not close.

Murder in general and everything about it. 6th through 8th grade I was OBSESSED with the Manson family. I wonder if my parents were concerned.

Later in high school I worked at a photo lab and the county coroner would sometimes bring in their crime scene/general death photos. Oh my god. Those were the best days!

I’m obsessed with conjoined twins, bioluminescent fish (the kind that glow in the dark/make their own light) or anything that is black-light reactive or glows in the dark, medical oddities (like one-eyed babies or those born without a head even though the rest of the body is fully developed), genealogy, early Americana (especially the late 1800s and early 1900s), the Donner Party, and hermit crabs. I also have a fascination with understanding the human mind, especially in regard to the variety of kinks and fetishes, which my husband finds irritating and suspicious, even though it is completely innocent.