Couple of seaweed ones too - drowned sailors
I have been creeped out by this animal from the first time I saw it in my encyclopedias as a child. Luckily it hasn’t caught on in popular culture. But as an amateur naturalist it pops up too often. Not crazy about lotus seed pods either. Trypophobes, I am you.
that is a harmless shower head. For pond dwellers?
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The saddleback caterpillar has an ominous appearance
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/183546533
The Bold Jumping Spider can be quite cute, until they have their fangs on your neck!
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/92661448
This rusty spider wasp, paralizing this rabid wolf spider
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/179670649
And of course stumbling upon dead man’s fingers is always a frightening sight! 
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/250127848
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This crab spider I saw this summer looks like a glowing green skull with legs, but that’s mostly lighting/blurriness :)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/224327487
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Louse flies (Hippoboscidae) have always looked to me like something that could have been created for a horror movie.
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One of the few animals that freak me out are bedbugs. Once had the unpleasant experience with a (luckily only) minor infestation due to a secondhand piece of furniture a roommate brought in, but that was enough to leave a lasting negative expression.
Overall, their ability to survive without food for many months, paired with their mating habits that sound like straight out of a splatter movie, and the whole “home invasion” schtick they have going on makes me really uncomfortable just thinking about them…
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For anyone who doesn’t know, this is a reference to traumatic insemination!
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There are a lot of terrifying animals in the deep sea that look like aliens. I don’t know why, but the Magnapinna Squid scares me the most.
Magnapinna Squid Attack | New ROV Footage 2023 - Deepsea Oddities
Another species of ghost bat. This is one of the World’s largest carnivorous bats. It feeds mostly on vertebrates, including other bats
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/165635979
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