User blog comment:Delnum/Why is it creepy?/@comment-24352864-20140316160852

I watched in an anime where it said that dolls drain your energy because they're "hollow", soulless even. Mannequins are a fine boundary between man and doll whose connection makes them scary. Skeletons are technically dead people and there were some incidents in the past where most child kidnappings were conducted with men dressed as clowns.

Anyway, I guess creepiness stems from the fear of the unknown. It's kind of hard to explain so think of it this way: You're not really afraid of the dark per se, but you are actually afraid of what might be lurking within it or you're not really afraid of heights rather you're afraid of falling from that height. In the end, it's the possibilities and scenarios that are mind comes up with that makes things scary. Now I'm just rambling too but that's just what I think so take it with a grain of salt.