Weird. Bizarre. Strange. Eerie. Uncanny. Unearthly. Mystifying. Kooky. Oddball. Singular. And that’s the end of this thesaurus entry. Sometimes, you happen upon an image you just can’t unsee and just can’t describe in words. The only real way to tell someone about it is to show it to them. The image doesn’t feel bad or good necessarily, it just strikes your brain like a strong wind and blows your attention in a totally different direction from where it was fixed before. Something's just…off about it, and that's sometimes the best sort of image out there, because where would we be without confusion and our online debates about what exactly these mean?

Images like this are sometimes made by nature, and sometimes made by the ever-inventive hands and minds of human stock photographers. They are posted on the very predictably-named subreddit /r/Weird. So sit back, suspend disbelief, and enjoy twelve weird images carefully selected to optimize your scrolling pleasure.