Warning signs are incredible. Clearly, they’re designed to keep us safe, but they also hint at a specific incident or story that we can only guess at. They’re intentional, if not sometimes cryptic, environmental storytelling. Other times, they’re so direct that they almost seem cruel or uncaring. We’ve found a lot of both and quite a bit in between. Here’s our collection of scary signs that we feel would be great starting premises for a horror movie.
1. “I’ll just hold it”
2. “Found in the Adirondacks. Explosive and Acid is a good combo.”
3. “Watch where you step”
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4. “Under terror”
5. “Fight back”
6. “A disease which has no cure”
7. “Any questions?”
8. “Yikes”
9. “You will die”
10. “The School Lockdown Song”
“Lockdown, lockdown, lock the door.
Shut the lights off, say no more.
Go behind the desk and hide; wait until it’s safe inside.
Lock, lockdown it’s all done, now it’s to have some fun!”
11. “Cute cartoons don’t make creepy messages better”
12. “The drowning machine”
13. “Apparently from Killington Ski Resort”
14. Terrifying statistic
15. “Is not an emergency, yahuah”
16. “Ok, I understand”
17. “At my apartment complex”
18. “Saw this at my new job. Wish me luck.”
19. “Found this gem at a local bulk food store”
20. “Posted on a hiking trail at a very high waterfall”
21. “You don’t know who is lurking here”
22. “Sign near nuclear planet in NJ”
23. “Bronx Zoo”
24. “Careful when skiing”
25. “Just another day in Alaska”
26. “Warning sign near Peggy’s Cove lighthouse. Nova Scotia, Canada”
27. “No worries, 3 layers of glass still remain to protect you from the king of the jungle”
28. “I think I’ll just take the stairs next time”
29. “Tell someone where you are going”
30. “If polar bear attacks, you might fight back”
31. “I explored an abandoned mine this weekend. The floor drops down in an abyss past this sign”
32. “Inside the boy’s bathroom at school”
33. “This got dark real quick”
34. “Spotted while delivering food today”
35. “Do you know where the bears are?”
36. “You get the gist, even without knowing a word of Swedish”
37. “Trust me, I won’t”
38. “Good to know”
39. “On a gas station outside of Valdosta, GA”
40. “This sign by the entrance to my church”
41. “A happy little sign at my work”
42. “Saw this walking through my university after hours”
43. “Escape is impossible”
44. “Save the bees”
45. “Do I trust the sign or the sensor?”
46. “Stay out of the water or you’ll get burned”
47. “At least they give you a choice”
48. “Fact.”
49. “Percy Preist Lake in Nashville, TN”
50. “When you buy the old neighborhood drug house”
51. “Straight to the point, don’t become soup”
52. “In Bear Trap Canyon, Montana”
53. “Don’t do meth”
54. “Ryan Dam, Montana”
55. “Uh oh. Keep out of the danger noodle room”
56. “At a nearby wolf sanctuary”
57. “Beware of falling deer”
58. “Slowly puts shovel back in trunk”
59. “That’s reassuring”
60. “Oddly poetic sign in Sea Ranch, Ca”
61. “Amazing how saying ‘when’ instead of ‘if’ can make such a difference”
62. “Sign at Lava Falls in Grand Canyon”
63. “Took this picture a few years ago in near the border”
64. “Casual sign I took a picture of in Cambodia”
65. “Area closed”
66. “Are we still talking about ice cream?”
67. “Isn’t there an old movie about being snowed in at a ski lodge? Did it have a happy ending?”
68. “Yeah I think I’ll pass”
69. “This anti-gambling ad seems awfully dystopian”
70. “At a beach along a hiking trail in Kauai, Hawaii”
71. “Saw this on my walk earlier”
72. “I work in a foundry, where at any given time up to 26 tons of molten iron could be going right over your head”
73. “Uh, what’s out there?”
74. “Road sign on the M25 Highway following the London bombing on July 7, 2005”
75. “Perth at its absolute finest”
