r/Nope - Don't try this at Home 

The rabies description is honestly more scary than any of the crocs, snakes and spiders that came before it

Honestly, the 3 most terrifying words you could say to anyone with an interest in public health are "rabies is airborne". If that virus mutates to become airborne, that's an actual zombieland scenario right there.

No furry snake, but my cousin once had a ferret named Stumpy who lost all his feet to frostbite. Not her fault, he was found half frozen to death in Massachusetts. His favorite way to get around was to roll. It was hilarious! He unfortunately only lived to be 5, though.

The phobia warnings were actually really nice. Coming from someone who is very prone to anxiety atacks, seeing something that scares me out of nowhere can really mess me up. Finally seeing someone give warnings is really refreshing

I dont have any of these phobias, but I really appreciated the phobia warnings anyway, it’s always nice when people think about what others might not enjoy.

You ask for a fuzzy snake, but I raise you... ferrets.

The rabies post kinda reminded me of something. I had a classmate in high school who, for his anatomy project on neurological disorders, decided to cover prion disease. We were expected to give a reason for choosing our disease, survivor accounts, symptoms, treatments, etc. He was a funny guy, and everyone loved presentations he made because he got really animated, making jokes and engaging with people. So he starts his slideshow talking about the different kinds of prion disease, how you get it, and everyone's happy because he's invested and the presentation is interesting and he's cracked a couple jokes. When he got to to survivor accounts slide, it was blank save a quote I can't remember, and he just said, "I couldn't find any survivor accounts, and that's because there aren't any." I have never seen a mood die so quickly and completely, not before and not since. It felt like a scene from a movie, where a character gets thrown underwater and everything moves at half speed until they break the surface a few moments later. He went on to explain the disease progression, how there was no treatment, and it was the most dread inducing thing I have ever seen. It was a good presentation. I would go so far as to say it was a great one. But that feeling of going from knowing prion disease killed you to understanding prion disease kills you was the most jarring, awful experience I have ever had. I did not walk into that room afraid of prions, but I was when I walked out.

18:55 For anyone wondering, No, that is not a weird exit to the slide. The dude got stuck in the middle of the slide, so the staff had to open the slide up to get him out.

The symbol on the floor of the attic is Vegvisir or the Viking Compass. Usually used in Nordic Paganism to prevent people lossing their way. It's a protective symbol so if the person who owns the house is superstitious they needed worry as it's not a curse or anything scary.

As someone who is allergic to just about any plant imaginable, that mound of pollen pretending to be a tree would absolutely kill me.

The lady swimming with the gator is Gab from Florida's Wildest, and the gator is Casper. He's not drugged, just exceptionally well trained. He lives in a facility for wild caught nuisance gators in Florida that otherwise would have been killed if it weren't for Gab and Chris and other volunteers capturing them and taking them in. I can't remember the name of the facility but you can pay to swim with Casper and Chris, behind a safety net, that is. Not the other gators though, just Casper. He's a good boy.

The rabies description was horrifing. I only kept listening because Click has a calming voice, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to. Truly terrifing.

As an Australian, I can confirm that spiders that size or a bit bigger often live in mailboxes. We had one that refused to leave, we kept evicting it but it would keep moving back in.

2:38 This is actually a rather famous Icelandic rune called the Vegvisir (Wayfinder/Compass in English). It is supposed to help the bearer find their way in rough weather and help them find their way home when lost. Perhaps this house was bought in Iceland or from Icelanders - or more likely Wiccans. Or maybe the former owners just played too much Valheim lol.

I can't blame the crocodile hanging out in the sewer, especially given current rent prices

At 10:45, those are called "Yellowjackets" or "Ground Hornets", or as we call them in their native territory, "assholes with wings", they will literally chase you for 2 city blocks, and get inside your clothes, stinging over & over again.

It's dangerous to assume something paranormal happened when the non-paranormal explanation is breaking and entering. I hope that family is ok

For anyone unaware, the man who posted the "photo of himself" runs a horror tiktok account, it's just a story to scare people.

26:59 That's a stick insect (phasmid). The wing cases are held out to make it appear larger, the stabbing motions with the abdomen resemble a scorpion striking. A number of stick insects species use a display like that to deter predators by impersonating a scorpion. This one had been tentatively identified as a Paronchestus cornutus (Inland Horned Stick Insect)

The waterslide thing is probably with a looping. Because the person wasn't fast enough, they got stuck. The door is for people that got stuck to get out safely. The one where I went only allowed people over 50kg to use the waterslide because if you weigh less you won't get fast enough for the looping. Maybe their clothes caused too much friction, too, so that they didn't get the speed they needed to make the whole looping

I love that this man is just checking out all of nature's horrors and half of them are just "aww"

I was so proud of The Click for all the warnings about spiders, snakes and bugs, and then he launches that Ant-video with NO WARNING.

20:10 you got a phrog. call the police immediately. have them check any crawl space, attic, crevasse, vent, etc. Your life is in immediate danger. A phrog is a person who lives in a person's house without them knowing. They can live in attics and basements, usually attics, which are rarely checked.

Don’t ever stop the “dad” jokes. PLEASE. Losing my husband a year ago, hearing the jokers in my head he would make always match up with you saying them. Even the timing….. please always make the jokes. So great to hear them said out loud. Hard to explain but it makes me smile.

The 'small, short, chubby snake' is called a ferret, or weasel. The only problem with them, from what I know, is that they like to dig nests in soft furniture.

Fun fact: rabies may have actually been what inspired Bram Stoker (or more likely the original folk tales) to write Dracula! Messed up sleep schedules (awake at night), fear of drinking water (now make it holy water for extra spookiness), getting scared and aggressive randomly, your senses get screwed up so garlic likely smells horrifying and you can hear (the children of the night) clearer, etc. And of course bats being a common carrier. And this might also explain the lead/ mirror lined coffin/ coffin encased in cement due to not wanting to expose others to the body (virus) after death. Pretty neat and horrifying at the same time.

Ah yes, that's why I love The Click. Sarcasm and crass jokes one second, and the next: "OMG, a little danger noodle, it's doing the sippies! Aww!"

On the drinking and driving one, I came across a video in Australia where a cop pulled someone over for a breath test and US people were getting pissed at it saying "Why are Australians always bending over backwards for cops and yah dah yah dah". Now here we have breath tests all the time because one of our main causes of death is due to cars and drink-driving. Also keep in mind the dude in car in the video was taking people home from an area with clubs in the dead of the night. So naturally the cop was gonna be breath testing them. It just always amuses me how the US is so scared of "anarchy" and that "the country is going to the dogs!", but the moment any reasonable rules come in it's "we've lost all our rights".

The "creature from hell" is actually a type of stick insect. They're not venomous and that behavior was a harmless (but very effective) ruse to scare off potential predators.

The photo while asleep one became significantly less creepy as soon as they started ascribing a paranormal cause. I find it far more disturbing to think that a stranger has been in my room as I slept.

Me, watching all the spider and snake warnings: oooh, how wholesome ❤ he’s taking care of people’s phobias! I don’t have a problem with neither of them in specific but it’s good to know I’m safe here *ant video starts playing without warning Me: … oh yeah, I have a weird, never organically thought about, weird weird phobia

I read a lot of wildlife journals, and I remember an artical about some biologists studying anacodas. They got the local natives to help them track down a large one so they could measure it. When they found one it took the entire team and a large amount of the local village to try and force it straight so it could be measured, and the snake was so big that doing so made it suffocate under it's own body weight. The village ate well for a week, though.

The circle on the floor at 2:38 actually looks like the norse compass or Vegvisir Compass. It's actually a good symbol for not losing your way while traveling. It's got a lot more names such as Odin's Compass, Viking Compass, and Runic Compass though those are less well known. Instead of saying nope to that circle, its actually a very good one that should help people rather then hinder. My guess is the person who owned the house used that room for Astral projection and meditation and that symbol was a means to find their way back to their body. I am wiccan so I learned a few sort of things like that. I can't say for sure that is what it was used for but it looks like something that would be used for that.

I think the biggest problem with the file cabinet BBQ is the toxic fumes from the paint.

being a hypochondriac with chronic headaches, adhd, and anxiety, hearing the Rabies rant actually ruined my day. shit SCARRED me

Rabies is honestly so terrifying. I've been afraid of it since I was little. It literally morphed into an out-and-out fear of squirrels (the animal I saw it most in as a child) Every time I see a squirrel I freeze. I'm not usually afraid of anything, it always throws people off when they see me act like this, and it's all because of the most terrifying disease in the world.

Oh dear. I have had an intense fear of the idea of rabies for my entire life since watching Old Yeller as a kid and also seeing a news/documentary about a teacher who saved her students from a rabid fox also when I was a kid. After the explanation of *why* rabies is scary, I definitely understand why I was so scared. It's like an internal understanding that loss of control of oneself is absolutely terrifying.

As a biologist working with genetic engineering, I 100% support Click’s fuzzy snake project.

I adore insects and spiders, I currently own four and two are deadly, but the joy it brings me that you added arachnophobia warnings is immense. I want to see the spiders but so many people don't, and they shouldn't have to risk surprise spiders just by watching a fun video

5:06 wait till he finds out about ferrets-

Click's setup makes him look like the CEO of a professional company but he's really just looking at crocs and snakes

I appreciate the arachnophobia warnings, I would've definitely noped away from this video without them.

The hair burning is a cultural thing- in places where they believe that anyone who gets a piece of you; hair fingernails, etc., they can use it to cast black magic on you, they have to take steps to avoid leaving such things around to be taken and used.

A more fearsome looking mouth than that of a Great White? Lamprey's mouths are definitely _creepier,_ though perhaps not more "fearsome". The inside of a Leatherback Turtle's mouth though? Absolutely terrifying.

"Imagine a fluffy danger noodle!" Click has never met a ferret, I guess.

That corpse sign probably is next to a power plant or something, because if a cable snaps and hits the ground it electrifies the ground, and you get too close to the corpse, you might also get electrified

11:19 This doctor's kit obviously comes from the Warhammer 40k verse, where the Medics of the Imperial Guard must always be prepared to give those who are too wounded to save the Emperor's Peace.

_"I'd say I need Jesus, but he probably should be nowhere near me."_ Quote of the month!

Hey Click, I used to work at an alligator park/farm in northern Louisiana while I attended college. With reptiles like that their demeanor is based on a couple of factors. Temperature of the water, conditioning around humans, how well fed they are, and whether or not they are defending a territory or a nest. Most likely that swamp doggo was probably raised by humans, well-fed, has no nest, and the water was a lower temp. The lower the water temp the more "stoned" they seem to be as the cold makes them very lethargic. We had to close our park during the coldest months of the year because the alligators were too lazy to perform their tricks. Like jumping out of the water for food, etc. They also don't eat much or at all when cold because the food can literally rot in their bellies. Their metabolism slows down so much that they can't properly digest anything. Also, the lady was smart by swimming beneath the gator. They can't really see below themselves or even look down unless they roll over, and even when they do that their natural instinct is to close their eyes.

27:14 That's not the beginning of a tornado, that IS a tornado. Though when tornadoes occur over bodies of water, they're called a "water spouts." Water spouts will sometimes pick up spawning frogs and fling them into the air, leading to it "raining frogs." It's a real thing. Shoutout to the movie Magnolia (1999).

28:55 About giant holes in the snow and skiing close to them. Even big, popular, maintained ski parks can have very dangerous spots like that. I was in Slovakia in a ski park called Jasná and there was like a giant crater in the snow with rocks on the bottom, good 100 meters in diameter and 25-30 meters down RIGHT UNDER A BUFFET with the rest of the track going AROUND THE GIANT HOLE, meaning if you tried to ski down to the buffet and went too fast, had to go around it the only thing between you and the giant hole was a thin nylon net secured with thin plastic posts put around that. And yes, a woman died in that hole the same day I was returning home. How TF could the ski resort do that I don't know.

The symbol drawn on the floor of the attic is the vegvisir, which is an Icelandic magic symbol often misattributed to the Vikings (it's from the 1500's, so long after the Viking Age), and it's meant to help lost people find their way, so definitely a lot less creepy than it seems. I have one of those on a poster that I got on vacation in Iceland.

Fun fact about the anaconda, the only danger those people might have been in is the danger of their boat capsizing, other than that the snake wouldn't have attacked cause it has just eaten something big. Actually on a meal that size it could go months without another meal.

I was not expecting the gater smack on the head lol 9:35 I genuinely cackled out loud lol

Now I'm going to freak out and think about rabies every time I get a headache. Thanks, Click! Love you ❤😂

I haven't played spore in years, me and my brother would play at my aunt's house. Thank you for unlocking a core memory of mine. I had a bunch of awful years after and I can't remember any happy memories before those crappy years. This has truly made my day.

Anyone else getting less spooked when that dude was like "maybe it could be something paranormal" like the thought of an actual intruder is just so much worse than a hypothetical ghost xD

Listening to the rabies symptoms (parents described me them for funsies at the age of 6, but not nearly as graphic) with a strong headache and then going into panic because of said headcache, and then panicking because anxiety is one of the symptoms was NOT a good idea.

So rabies is even worse than I ever imagined. Thanks, Click! New fear unlocked!

You can teach alligators to come when you call them. My grandparents started feeding hotdogs to a small one they called Albert, and he would come swimming through the lake to get snacks. This was up in the north Louisiana swamplands. He got to be a REALLY big swamp puppy.

The sigil is the Vegvisir, it's inspired by old norse runestaves, but is actually pretty new in terms of history. It's sort of a spiritual compass to guide toward home.

It's always the best when Click does science and nature stuff... hopefully some mad scientist will bio engineer him a fuzzy snek pet

my heart breaks for that little tarantula on the water so far away from land. i will literally lose sleep over it

The one with the symbol drawn in the attic is, I believe, a symbol now commonly used in norse paganism/neo-paganism known as the Vegvisir or the Viking Compass, that is meant to be a compass of sort and is meant to guide a person through a storm/bad weather. It isn't 'ancient' viking symbol, and the first known usage of it was in 1860 in a magical grimoire known as the Huld Manuscript collected in Iceland by Geir Vigfusson in Akureyri. There's quite a few different sources you can research for it.

For an alligator swim experience, they overfeed them until they don't want to eat anymore. This makes them slower and sleepy. As long as you don't act like a threat, they will mostly ignore you so long as they've been well fed. It's not 100% safety guarantee, but it's pretty good odds, especially if it's been raised around people. They mostly attack only when hungry or threatened. Go slow, don't make threatening gestures and a well fed alligator won't have any reason to bite.

I love all these sorts of videos. A couple of clarifications: the Mormon crickets were everywhere because they mature in massive numbers and begin to wander around during a set season of the year, every year. The weird critter with wings and the stabby tail was a large harmless stick insect with the front pair of legs folded up and the tail poking forwards, probably imitating a scorpion in a defensive posture.

Alligators are ambush predators that won't bother chasing you, proven on Mythbusters. They're pretty chill, so don't freak out if you come across one. They have no reason to eat a human unless they're insanely desperate for food. It's crocodiles you need to look out for. They're surefire man-eaters. I'd swim with an alligator any day of the week. Big, cute, scaly cats.

25:14 It's not only that he's walking that high up, those are also high tension electrical power lines.

For anyone worried about the dad with his baby that had the picture taken. It turned out to be an ARG story, so both he and his kid are perfectly fine/safe.

As someone who delivers packages to people here in Australia, I can confirm that near enough every post box will have either a huntsman spider or a gecko in residence lmao

As for the videos of people getting photos of themselves sleeping. Check your ceilings for cameras. There are some creepy people out there and Bluetooth is a thing.

35:33 THAT WAS SO FUCKING INTERESTING IVE DONE SO MUCH RESEARCH ON RABIES BUT IVE NEVER HAD AN IN DEPTH EXPLANATION ITS SO COOL

That's not a normal tornado. That's a waterspout. It's basically the same thing as a land tornado but forms over water or moves from land to water. I saw one form once while I was out fishing on a lake in Wisconsin. It was far enough away that we could just sit and watch it and it was amazing.

I had a similar experience to that blood red sky. It was Halloween morning and there was some really heavy cloud cover and not too far away where I lived. There was a giant greenhouse that produces strawberries and stuff, but it creates an ungodly amount of light pollution so it just turned the entire sky red on Halloween morning. It was kind of awesome

Sidenote to the rabies description, it does not a complete 100% kill rate anymore. A few people did survive, I believe it's just over 20 repored cases, and at least one isn't majorly impaired. While the chances are nothing to bet on, I think it's interesting that a small number of people did survive the virus that usually seals your death with the onset of symptoms.

Good news! The short chubby fuzzy snake exists, its just more commonly called the ferret. ❤

I'm REALLY grateful for the danger noodle warnings. So many videos like this there are arachnophobia warnings, but then nothing for snakes. As someone with Ophidiophobia, I am very happy you warn before each one.

I think that "satanic circle" might actually be a witches moon water setup. Based on the window position, im guessing the jars are placed in the path of the moonbeams shining through the window during the full moon, which blesses the water, which can then be used for other things. That or a kid just wanted to prank the next owners lmao

the bread box thing at 8:37 reminded me of how I would hang out with my cat in the attic to do online school during lockdown and apparently the last time I was up there I left a tupperware with a banana peel there for what was probably over a year. When me and my dad found it is was so rotten that it was completely black, didn't even remotely resemble a banana anymore and so decomposed that it didn't even have a smell.

Fun fact the reason you see big cats chilling with people in cars is because as long as you stay in the vehicle the cats associate you as being part of the vehicle and sees you as something to not mess with because predators don’t fight unless they have to (which is why despite what many thing the most aggressive creatures tend to be herbivores, such as hippos and wildebeest) but predators don’t fight unless they feel they have no option and when your in the vehicle they don’t think your worth fighting because the risk is too high. This is why when people go on those tours they are told to absolutely never leave the vehicle because while on the vehicle you might have a lion literally snuggling you in your lap and be very safe but the second you step away they are way more likely to attack you

28:43 looks like if you walk outside you’re dying of blood loss, Just hope they don’t find a way in That amount of mosquitos in one place at the same time just screams “If you don’t die of blood loss you’re definitely gonna catch something that will kill you”

17:05 (danger noodle warning) That's a sea snek!! And despite being very venomous they're actually pretty chill! They look for food at the bottom of the sea and can hold their breath for up to 8 hours. They even sleep underwater. Remember- they don't see you as prey, you're too big to be food, so they see you as a predator and will bite for self defense, so avoid sudden movements!

the thing in the "storage space" attic looking thing i'm almost certain is Vegvísir, i first heard of it as a norse runic compass, but wiki says it's an icelandic magic stave, most commonly used to guide the bearers through rough weather! So i'm assuming it was probably an icelandic practicioner's equivalent of an altar or meditation space!

The plane picking the dude up was an early evac idea for operatives on foreign soil called a "Skyhook". The idea being that in potential hot zones, the operative would be able to deploy the skyhook and be pulled out of danger.

24:36 This reminds me of the case where there was a man who had an office in a high rise. The windows were bullet proof. He liked to freak new visitors out by running at, and launching himself at the window. Over time the window's connection weakened. So, one day it popped out of the frame when he tried the stunt and he fell 20+ feet.

As someone with severe insect and spider phobias I cannot describe just how grateful I am for those warnings!!!!!! Genuinely saves me from having an anxiety attack. You’ve been one of my fav RU-vidrs for a while and this just makes me feel so respected THANK YOU!!!!!!!

A short fuzzy snake is called a ferrit. They are adorable. You may now consider yourself informed.

Nightmarish things spiders can do. 1. Crawl 2. Make sticky and annoying webs 3. Walk on water 4. Fly 5. Bite 6. Make a home in the most awkward places then bite you. 7. Some spiders can kill birds and lizards 8. Theres even a species of spider that lives underwater. 9. Eight eyes/legs = creepy

2:38 That's a Vegvisir, The Vegvísir is a magical symbol that is intended to guide people during a day of bad weather and low visibility. Also called "guide post", "direction sign" or the "Viking compass"

Interesting context on the Safari one. The person who sits on the front of the vehicle like that is usually ignored by the wildlife, just like the people inside the vehicle, because it is like the animals think you are just part of the vehicle. They think you are a part of some large object and/or animal and not something to attack. This isn't true for all animals, but at least some of the bigger predators animals seem to follow this.

That was a waterspout at 27.20. It's pretty small, and looks like it's about to rope out. There are huge ones that develop from time to time along the gulf coast, and I'm sure plenty of other places. Thankfully, the majority of them don't move onto land. They're mesmerizing to watch.

The waterpark one was an 'escape hatch'. On some of the big loop drop slides, you may not always have the momentum to complete the loop. So you either backslide and have to be let out at the bottom loop at the beginning (which I think happened there.) or you get stuck at the top and have to scoot back for forward to get to the hatch or slide slowly out the end.

24:48 im pretty sure a guy got darwin award for trying to show how sturdy a window on a skyscraper is, by running into it with full speed. The window didnt break, it just simply fell out of its case, and the guy followed

Hello there "Ya can't drink when we want to we can't drive without our seatbelt, this country is becoming communist" the amount of brain gymnastics needed to come up with the connections between those things is amazing

9:55 I was living in Estes Park when the huge fire happened and everyone had to evacuate and the sky looked almost exactly like this. Its almost like you're in a horror movie. and for those wondering it is caused by the smoke in the air

1:07 this is more scary than the scare videos I had to watch to get a license lmfao

20:35 read a scary story once about a woman who had trouble sleeping, like was known to sleep walk and talk and such. Well, I think it was her doctor advised her to set up an audio recording device to help find the issue/monitor her sleeping, and not too long after she got it (I think), she started hearing some sort of sound on it, a sort of clicking maybe? And eventually, after looking EVERYWHERE in her room and house, she found nothing, she decided to believe it must have been some sort of house thing or mechanical thing causing the noise. That is, until one night, as she hears the sound again on the recording, there is then the sound of her sitting bolt upright in bed, asking "What are you doing?" And a voice saying "Nothing. Go back to sleep." in response. Freaked her the fuck out, rightfully so, and she moved the hell out of there. I've heard enough and seen enough videos of shit like people living in the walls and such of someone's house to know there was something fucked up about her home that she didn't know about.

"Shouldn't you use a dummy for the first test?" They did! Anyone who would throw themselves over the edge of a balcony, net or no, certainly isn't smart!

The “ritual” circle is actually called Vegvisir! It has Viking roots and is also called the Viking Compass. Its name, Vikings Compass, comes from its more traditional roots to help the Vikings find their way in bad weather, whereas many witchcraft practitioners have adopted it as a symbol of protection and spiritual guidance. Hope this helps anybody who was wondering! ☺️

24:42 This one reminded me of the office manager that worked in a skyscraper where he'd throw himself against the window to show off the safety feature of the window to visitors ... until the time where he had weakened the framing so much over time that the window popped out with him right behind it, plummeting many stories to the ground below.