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** Similarly, the Anons later found that playing a recording of [[L. Ron Hubbard]] reciting the infamous Xenu story would cause any Scientologists who haven't reached OT3 to back off and leave the area. This is due to the fact that they have been told that anyone who hears it before they're spiritually ready will get sick and die.
* In the DVD commentary for one of the Alien movies, it is mentioned that in one of the test screenings, groups of older people kept excusing themselves. Upon asking them about this, it was revealed that they were leaving to use the restroom, due to sudden urges. It turned out that apparently the composer for the score had used brown notes in the score, unknowingly. When they changed the score, the problem stopped.
* The short story ''Guts'' from the larger book ''[[Haunted 2005(Palahniuk novel)|Haunted]]'' by [[Chuck Palahniuk]] has been known to have this effect in real life. According to [[That Other Wiki]], [[wikipedia:Haunted (Palahniuk novel)#.22Guts.22|more than sixty people have fainted]] while Palahniuk was doing readings. Palahniuk himself talks about it [http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/palahniuk/haunted/html/haunted_aboutAuthor.html here]. Note: he doesn't consider ''Guts'' to be worst, most horrifying, or darkest part of ''Haunted''. In fact, ''Guts'' is the first of an entire book of often horrifying and/or [[squick]]y short stories.
* The bizarre angles of the [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Oregon_vortex Oregon Vortex] will cause most people to lose their balance trying to cross it, or even become physically nauseous. In this case, it's the mind trying to correlate the ear's sense of gravity with the eye's [[Alien Geometries|wildly different impressions]], until it just reboots.
* Throughout the world, it has been proven that two words that can cause unfathomable rage within many people, but only when their attention has been drawn to it. In casually noticing the words, as you, the reader have done do 9 times on this page alone, there is no ill effects. But once one's attention is brought to the words, the rage begins. The two words in question? {{spoiler|The Game}}.
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