Lists about some of the most shocking and upsetting documentary films & series that you should totally watch anyway. If you're looking for an extremely disturbing documentary film, you'll find it on these lists!

Disturbing Documentaries

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Allen v. Farrow is a docuseries that&nbsp;casts a stark light on the decades-long allegations made against Woody Allen that he sexually abused his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, throughout her early childhood. Dylan and Mia Farrow, along with their family and close friends, including celebrities like Carly Simon, give candid and sometimes disturbing accounts of Allen&#39;s behavior around his young daughter, as well as his affair with Farrow&#39;s daughter Soon-Yi Previn&nbsp;and the emotional abuse Farrow says she suffered during their relationship.

Although Allen does not appear in the series, he maintains his innocence, and audio excerpts from his 2020 memoir, Apropos of Nothing, give insight into how the famed director viewed the events that culminated in his separation from Farrow in 1992.

This list will update with crucial new information from <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-hbo-miniseries/ranker-tv" target="_blank">HBO&#39;s</a>&nbsp;Allen v. Farrow, giving you the chance to decide who&#39;s telling the truth, and if it&#39;s ever possible to fully separate the art from the artist.

‘Allen v. Farrow’ Sheds Light On A Dark Hollywood Secret

General

Patrick Thornton

Strange True Stories

Trusting your gut feelings about someone can be tricky -&nbsp;after all, you don&#39;t want to seem rude.&nbsp;But maybe someone is standing a bit too close at the bus stop, or maybe that person asking for directions doesn&#39;t need directions at all. Street smarts are important, and sometimes they can even save your life.&nbsp;

These stories demonstrate just how necessary street smart skills are, especially when you&#39;re on your own and something just doesn&#39;t feel right.

People Describe The Times Street Smarts Got Them Out Of Danger

Sarah Blumert

Roommates, neighbors, drunk people passed out in the alleys behind your building... 

The People We Live With

Tenants having bad blood&nbsp;with their landlords is unfortunately a very common situation. From pocketed security deposits and untimely repairs to no-notice&nbsp;intrusions and rent hikes, there&#39;s plenty a landlord can do to anger a tenant. But these renters decided to take matters into their own hands when it came to meting out justice, exacting their revenge be it petty and harmless or truly evil.

So read on, and vote up the landlord revenge stories that you think are the most devious... but try not to get any ideas.

20 Tenants With A Vengeance Describe How They Got Back At Their Landlords

Tenants Share How They Got Revenge On Their Landlords

Linda Meyers

If there&#39;s a strange creak in the middle of the night, usually it&#39;s just the house settling. That figure you saw lurking in the corner of your room? Just the shadows of the tree branches outside your window. The pair of eyes staring out from within your closet, and the growling you heard from somewhere in the dark... well, maybe there isn&#39;t an explanation for that one. These 18 Redditors similarly experienced the unexplainable, from possible ghostly encounters, visitations by humongous creatures, psychic phenomena, and eerie disappearances.&nbsp;&nbsp;

People Describe Creepy Things They've Seen That They Cannot Rationally Explain

Christopher Shultz

Meeting internet friends for the first time can be a scary experience, no matter how long you have been chatting or gaming with that person. While most people are perfectly nice and lovely folks just looking to make new friends, there are always the occasional bad apples with more insidious intentions. Here are a few horror stories about IRL meet-ups gone wrong.&nbsp;

People Are Sharing Horror Stories Of Meeting Online Friends For The First Time And It Is Alarming

People Share Horror Stories Of Meeting Online Friends For The First Time

Erin Maxwell

Medicine

Nosocomephobia describes an extreme fear of hospitals. Although most people do not look forward to a hospital visit, they&#39;re&nbsp;not usually terrified of being admitted. Doctors, nurses, and surgeons all have our best interest at heart and strive to help keep us healthy and well. But what happens when the safe space of a hospital stay&nbsp;goes terribly wrong?&nbsp;

These true stories about nightmare hospital experiences are bound to have you rethinking your next check in.&nbsp;

Patients Share Stories From Their Worst Hospital Experiences

Amanda Ashley

People share their eyewitness and firsthand accounts of true creepy and wild stories that really happened to them.

WTF Stories You've Gotta Read

<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6ga6rm/cops_of_reddit_what_has_so_far_been_the_creepiest/?sort=top" target="_blank">Police officers and&nbsp;friends and family of police officers are sharing</a>&nbsp;creepy and unnerving&nbsp;tales of invisible assailants, hidden intruders,&nbsp;suspicious circumstances, and things that go bump in the night. From kids reporting zombie attacks to ghostly phone calls, these stories will have you double-checking your locks in the middle of the night.&nbsp;

Cops Share Stories Of The Creepiest Calls They Ever Responded To

Mysteries

California has the infamous escape from Alcatraz&nbsp;and the unidentified Zodiac Killer of&nbsp;the late &#39;60s. Ted Bundy terrorized women in the Pacific Northwest in the &#39;70s.&nbsp;Florida even boasts a tale of spontaneous human combustion in the &#39;50s. Just like all of the other states in the US, Oklahoma, too, has its own unsavory secrets.&nbsp;

The Sooner State is known for many things - its football teams, its famous residents like Carrie Underwood and Blake Shelton,&nbsp;tornadoes, and the Great Plains. What many people don&#39;t realize is just how many disturbing <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/cases-solved-by-unsolved-mysteries/patrick-thornton?ref=profile_pub" target="_blank">unsolved crimes</a>&nbsp;have taken place&nbsp;in Oklahoma. If you&#39;re in the mood to be mildly disturbed, tuck into this list and vote up the most mysterious stories.

Haunting Unsolved Crimes From Oklahoma

Chrissy Rose

In scary movies, dreams,&nbsp;novels, and the liveliest of&nbsp;imaginations, the &quot;disappearing into thin air&quot;&nbsp;trope is common: lonely and abandoned abodes, structures, or towns vanish&nbsp;mysteriously, without a trace, often&nbsp;accompanied by fuzzy&nbsp;fog and hushed music. Apparently, this happens in real life,&nbsp;too - according to people on Reddit who <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/95bsre/seriouseerie_towns_disappearing_diners_and_creepy" target="_blank">shared their true tales</a> of encounters with places that later vanished. They wrote about gas stations, restaurants, cabins, waterfalls, tombs, and even bakeries that were there one minute, then gone either immediately&nbsp;or days later when they tried to return.

The reason for these mysterious disappearances might have a logical explanation in some cases, but most have a sure tinge of the paranormal. We can attempt to figure it all out, or just let our spines shiver (in a positive way) to consider&nbsp;that because so many people have experienced this phenomenon, these secret places&nbsp;surely exist, even if we can&#39;t explain why.&nbsp;&nbsp;

People Describe Their Haunting Encounters With Disappearing Places

Samantha Dillinger

Pop Culture

Most people can tell immediately when it's time&nbsp;to&nbsp;nope out of a situation. And indeed, when certain&nbsp;situations&nbsp;seem particularly scary or suspicious, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/righteous-quitting-stories/lowe-saddler" target="_blank">you should leave post-haste</a>. Not everyone has experienced these kinds of scary&nbsp;&quot;oh, hell no!&quot;&nbsp;moments, but those who have, happily share their stories on Reddit.&nbsp;Even if you were&nbsp;lucky enough to avoid moments when everything goes wrong, you should always follow your intuition. Never trust a creepy&nbsp;situation if you don't have to -&nbsp;and be mindful of exit routes.

People Share Their Scariest 'Oh Hell No!' Moments

17 People Share Their Scariest "Oh Hell No!" Moments

Lowe Saddler

"Revenge is the act of passion; vengeance of justice." -Samuel Johnson

A Dish Best Served Cold

Homeowner&#39;s associations don&#39;t have to be evil. In fact, some people might like the idea of community dues and contracts to help keep up property value and bring neighbors closer together - but these people are not those people. In fact, all of these stories center around HOA committees run amok. Whether it&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/queen-karen-hoa-revenge/erin-maxwell" target="_blank">Karen-run commities</a> that spend their days ensuring a homeowner&#39;s grass is the proper length, or faceless tyrannical mini-governments that keep dropping pointless fines in residential mailboxes, all of these HOAs have taken things&nbsp;too far. So far, in fact, that some people took it into their own hands to put these little bureaucracies in their place. Read on to see if any of these <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/queen-karen-hoa-revenge/erin-maxwell?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">HOA revenge stories</a> of petty payback and <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/malicious-compliance-stories/joshualee" target="_blank">malicious compliance</a> quench your thirst for justice, and don&#39;t forget to vote up the best ones!

Homeowners Share Their Most Satisfying HOA Revenge Stories

20 People Share Their Most Satisfying HOA Revenge Stories

We all have primal instincts that warn us when danger might be afoot. Maybe it&#39;s a shiver&nbsp;down your spine, or a pounding in your chest, or an urge&nbsp;to run as fast as you can - the mind has plenty of ways to put you&nbsp;on alert, and sometimes those seemingly insignificant signals can end up saving your life.&nbsp;

The people of Reddit have shared their tales of near mishaps and <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/street-smarts-saved-my-life-stories/sarah-blumert" target="_blank">narrowly avoided catastrophes</a>, all thanks to that little voice in their head telling them to head for the hills. Perhaps after reading some of these hair-raising stories, you won&#39;t be so quick to dismiss those foreboding feelings that give you the willies.

People Describe The Foreboding Feelings That Got Them Out Of Danger

People Describe The Foreboding Feelings That Saved Them

True Crime

For the true crime community, 2021 was full of twists, surprises, and tragedy. The Gabby Petito case rocked the US in the fall, and even years-old cases, such as those of Kristin Smart, Elisa Lam, and D.B. Cooper, were revived through limited series&nbsp;and fresh evidence.

Here are the true crime cases that we couldn&#39;t stop thinking about in 2021.

13 True Crime Cases We Couldn't Stop Thinking About In 2021

Working in law enforcement is difficult enough as it is - when you&nbsp;add on the fact that officers sometimes have to respond to calls that force them to reconsider their perspective on the paranormal, the job becomes downright chilling. The spookiest calls cops have received include everything from unidentified footsteps&nbsp;to retroactively discovering that someone really was inside the caller&#39;s house.

The people of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/26wk9p/dear_police_officers_of_reddit_have_you_ever/" target="_blank">Reddit</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dravqs/law_enforcement_of_reddit_what_was_the_most/" target="_blank">shared</a> the creepy calls cops have responded to that sent chills down their spine or even made them question their own sanity. These stories also prove that you don&#39;t need to be working the graveyard shift to encounter something spooky. When someone is scared enough to dial the local police - or&nbsp;even 911 -&nbsp;it likely means there is something seriously scary happening on the other end of the line.

Law Enforcement Officers Describe The Spookiest Calls They Ever Received

Law Enforcement Officers Describe Their Spookiest Calls

Sammy Leary

For all the countless discoveries made&nbsp;in the world of science, there are still some things that seemingly no one can explain. Legends of frightening, mysterious creatures&nbsp;permeate practically every continent and culture, and many of those creatures, known as cryptids, are rumored to still make appearances every now and then.&nbsp;

The people of Reddit shared their experiences with these mystifying beings, and they range from unnerving to downright terrifying. Take a look at these <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/creepy-stories-of-encounters-with-unexplained-creatures/sarah-blumert" target="_blank">frightening cryptid encounters</a>, and vote up the tales that will make you think twice about those things you see out of the corner of your eye.

People Who Have Encountered Cryptids Describe What They Saw

First-hand accounts from real people who have met very creepy people and done very unsettling things.

People Who Give You the Creeps

True Stories

Creepy things that happen to us don&#39;t always involve the paranormal or stuff&nbsp;we don&#39;t understand. Our fellow citizens are just as creepy and scary as ghosts and monsters. People behave strangely for all sorts of reasons,&nbsp;and most of the time we don&#39;t understand it.

We get creeped out in all sorts of ways,&nbsp;whether someone makes a prediction about our future or crosses paths with a serial killer, these chance encounters always send a little shiver down our spine. Vote for your favorite non-paranormal creepy incident.

People Describe Terrifying Encounters With Weird Strangers

Creepiest Non-Paranormal Things That's Ever Happened To People

Vicky Choy

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