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“It’s Chilling”: 47 Disturbing Found Footage Stories That Still Haunt The Internet
We all know that truth is stranger than fiction. But in many cases, it can be more terrifying as well. And in this day and age, those haunting moments are often caught on film.
If you’re in need of some spooky stories to impress your friends with on Halloween, we’ve got you covered, pandas. Reddit users have been recalling the most chilling and disturbing pieces of found footage they've ever seen, so we’ve gathered their replies below.
Now, we have to warn you that we’ve intentionally omitted the links to these videos, as many are quite unsettling and gruesome. If you really want to see the tapes, you can search for them at your own risk. But if you’d prefer to err on the side of caution and simply read about them, this list has just enough details to spare you from being scarred!
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#1
Officer Kent McGowan kicked in the door on a felony warrant and shot 41 year old Susan White claiming she'd pulled a gun on him. At first, everything seems kosher, but later on that night, the officers investigating the shooting found that she was on the phone with 911 at the time and isn't the aggressor, she's scared out of her mind.
It appears that McGowan had been stalking her and had basically fabricated the circumstances that led to her having a warrant out against her. He then broke into her house, ran up to her bedroom and shot her. She's frantic, telling the operator that he's trying to break into her house. One of the last things she says is "HELLLLLLP!!!!" It's chilling.
Earonn - 1 month ago
But hey, what's the problem with "influencers" who tell weak men that they are entitled to a girlfriend? Or that women are inferior?
patricia patricia 1 month ago
These bastards existed before the internet and "influencers".
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Peter Bear 1 month ago
ACAB. You're either part of the problem, or your silence is protecting those that are. Serve and Protect, there is no 'thin blue line'.
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#2
I'm going to go with the man they found alive in a sunken tugboat 3 days after it capsized.
>As a rescue diver probed the wreckage of an overturned tugboat, it was assumed that all he'd be doing would be recovering the bodies of those who perished.
However, as he was swimming through the murky water inside the capsized boat, a hand suddenly reached toward him.
It was the ship's cook, Harrison Okene, who had somehow survived for approximately 60 hours in only his underwear in the freezing cold water by breathing from a small air pocket and taking sips of Coca-Cola.
Okene was the only one of 12 crew members who survived when the Jacon-4 tugboat capsized.
Serena Myers 1 month ago
What is BP up to now? Upstaged75 has five upvotes, yet "This comment is hidden:Click here to view" I've noticed this a few times recently. Well, BP, why are you doing this?
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 1 month ago
It's always comments with links, and you aren't allowed to reply. I assume it's an effort to cut down on spam, but the spam bots usually alter their links, so the only people affected are actual users trying to send context or more information. Typical.
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John Dilligaf 1 month ago
must have been kinda of a shock to the rescue diver too. Pitch black water in a overturned boat filled with bodies and someone reaches out to grab you.
Svenne O'Lotta 1 month ago
Oh, so we're just hiding random comments now. That's cool. And no access to notifications? Also cool.
Riccola Tesla 1 month ago
i hope the divers wetsuit was able to deal with the s**t he took after a hand reached out of the darkness at thebottom of the ocean to grab him
#3
Recently there was a guy in Chicago who was breaking into houses. He was caught on security cameras slowly creeping down some stairs and just watching the homeowners sleeping on the couch. Not as violent as some of these other posts, but super creepy.
Mel in Georgia 1 month ago
I was just thinking about how scary the scene was in Paranormal Activity where the wife is just staring at the husband asleep in bed. This is scarier because it's real!
Toni Ahlgren 1 month ago
"Did you know you're very pretty when you sleep?" makes an awesome pickup line.
angelmomoffour62 1 month ago
That is really creepy and wrong.... If that happened to me I would feel violated...
Digital Fantasy 1 month ago
It would almost be less disturbing if he at least tried to k**l someone.
#4
That chimp owner's 911 call while her escaped ape was eating her friend, Charla Nash; coupled with her recovery photos this was pretty disturbing.
Not as bad as some of the others on this thread but a fair contribution, I think.
Upstaged75 1 month ago
This is absolutely one of the worst things I've ever heard. I don't recommend you listen to it if you're sensitive to violence.
Ms.GB 1 month ago
You're correct. I hate it for so many different reasons. It's awful.
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KatWitch57 1 month ago
This is why you should not keep wild animals as pets. No doubt the poor chimp was insane.
patricia patricia 1 month ago
Despite popular opinion, chimps can be real a******s. They are vicious, very strong and their teeth can break your arm. They are also wild animals which are sometimes kept in totally unsuitable conditions by people who think they are toys instead of living creatures with specific needs. But hey, what can go wrong?
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ILoveMySon 1 month ago
A friend's husband was one of the first officers who responded to the chimp attack of it's owner in Connecticut approximately 25 years ago. He's a seasoned detective and said it was, undoubtedly, one of the worst scenes he had, and has, ever witnessed.
Robyn Hill 1 month ago
From what I remember, the chimp, Travis, was basically raised by this family. He had his own room and knew how to use the remote to the TV. He had his favorite toys and knew how to unlock the doors and open them to go outside. There were changes (IIRC, the husband died, and the daughter moved away), and he was put on ADHD meds as a result - which did NOT act the same in a chimp as they would in a human. He had been sneaking out and essentially terrorizing the neighborhood for several weeks before this event. Police had been called by neighbors. His owner was trying to find a sanctuary for him, but none would take him. The most chilling thing to me is that she let him sleep in her bed at night. IIRC, he weighed about 200 lbs when this happened. People don’t realize how big male chimps can get, or how aggressive they can be.
Molly A. Block 1 month ago
OMG I remember this--- but had forgotten. WHY did I have to go and google it? WHY did this chimp go nuts? I didn't realize they were that strong! Michael Jackson had one--his seemed ok??????? What happened? I don't know the entire story. God, it's awful, that poor woman! Did she faint or pass out? How did this happen ????
patricia patricia 1 month ago (edited)
I won't Google the story for all the he tea in China, but I think I can guess the chimp was kept in totally unsuitable conditions, in a closed space as if he were a person, no exercise, no room to climb and behave in a natural way, and treated as a toy instead of a wild animal. People don't understand wild animals may tolerate us, or seem to adapt, but they will always be wild. If they feel threatened, in danger, anxious, in pain, etc, they will become unpredictable. The chimp could also have been jealous of her. God only knows! In a zoo, there are two animals people think are cute and huggable, but they are quite the opposite: chimps and zebras. They are neither cute nor huggable.
Load More Replies... Riccola Tesla 1 month ago
the first time i heard this call was in the S*****e Silence song "and then she bled" which is just brutal death metal guitar over the 911 call. the breakdown comes after the 911 dispatcher says "he ripped her face off?" s**t made me nauseous listing to it when i realized it was real (i think the version in the song is a recreation of the transcript but its still the same words)
Roxy222uk 1 month ago (edited)
Firstly, no one deserves what either of these women went through.No one. But why on earth are people in the US keeping animals like this as pets? They are complex, intelligent animals with a huge number of needs, and also VERY dangerous. In the wild they will hunt, k**l, and eat human babies. They have similarities to us that makes us able to relate to them, but they are NOT humans. Chimps suffer and humans are at risk.
Patti Vance 1 month ago
i worked at a zoo while is college. i loved all the animals there except for the chimps and some other monkeys/primates. they are vicious and vindictive if they don't like you.
#5
19 year-old Russian girl and her stepfather are camping. He gets attacked and dies. His stepdaughter calls her mom on a cell phone in-between attacks by a brown bear and her cubs.
"Mum, the bears are back. She came back and brought her three babies. They’re... eating me."
then...
“Mum, it’s not hurting anymore. I don’t feel the pain. Forgive me for everything. I love you so much”.
Upstaged75 1 month ago
I just read about this after I saw it on another BP article. Poor people.
Child of the Stars 1 month ago
My city is backed against a national forest. The other day, the elementary school where my son goes went into lockdown because a mama bear and two cubs had wandered into the area. The Forest Service had to come in and sedate all 3 so they could be taken back into the forest. A few years ago, a couple of mountain lions wandered into one of the neighborhoods outside of town and they had to do the same thing. It doesn't happen often (in the 25 years my family has lived here, those are the only 2 occurrences), but it does happen.
Nicole Weymann 1 month ago
She was dying and wanted a clear conscience. Maybe she faught with her mother before she left, or skipped school or called her names, maybe she didn't even do anything particularly bad. Pain, panic and blood loss are not helpful when trying to think clear.
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Lila Allen 1 month ago
Why would she stay in the area? She knows the bears will come back to feed.
SweetCheesySpaghetti 1 month ago
She tried to escape. The mother bear stalked her, chased her down and incapacitated her, and then left to get her babies and finish the job.
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A call from the weepy voiced k****r fits the bill although it's audio only. Basically if you don't know this guy would k**l almost involuntarily, and then usually call the police expressing remorse for what he had done while crying.
He eventually got caught because his final victim injured him in self defense. Knowing the k****r was injured the police were on the look out for anyone checking into hospitals with injuries like his.
angelmomoffour62 1 month ago
I seen this story before that killer was really strange by doing that calling 911 and crying. I wonder if he had a reason for doing that....
#7
The recording of the 9/11 call where the guy is calling 911 and then you hear his terrified bloodcurling scream as the tower collapses...and then silence as the line goes dead.
F****d me up for a while.
#8
I saw a road rage video on Reddit that was absolutely terrifying. This m*thd out lady was trying to run some girls off the road and was impersonating a police officer so they would open the car door.
#9
The sinking of a ferry filled with Korean students that were told to put on their life preservers and stay seated in a ship the captain knew was sinking. The part that makes it all seem real is when a kid jokingly sings a song from the titanic thinking it'll all be fine.
Riccola Tesla 1 month ago
not only that but the captain and his crew were the first people to abandon ship. they were on life boats by 9am, and the ship finished sinking at 1130. the captain told the passengers to stay put, and then left them all to die. f**k captain lee to death, i hope he gets m******d in prison.
Floeckchen 1 month ago (edited)
Rotten Mango has a very indeptht documentary on this case (Sewol Ferry disaster)
#10
I don't remember her name but the lady in a hotel was wigging out in the elevator like someone was there (she was alone) and then later her body was found in the water tank.
Tomas O Flatharta 1 month ago
I think there was a series on Netflix about this. She was bipolar and wasnt taking medication for it.
Lee451 Henderson 1 month ago
It is believe she (accidently) committed s*****e while in a paranoid state.
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Elisa Lam was a diagnosed Bipolar patient that had not been taking her medicine and in her manic paranoid state climbed into the hotel water tower and drowned. whats even worse, is that she wasnt discovered until days later when hotel guests started to complain the water coming out of their shower heads was black and smelled terribly........................
Bored Trash Panda 1 month ago
Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. I will never in a million years stay there. The amount of death surrounding that place is insane.
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The video diaries of Bjork stalker Ricardo López. His descent into madness is fascinating to me. There's an hour and a half video on YouTube that shows him progressively getting worse. It doesn't end well.
Farah (she/her) 1 month ago (edited)
I'm trying to find the diaries anywhere, but I can't (Edit: nevermind! I just read the Wikipedia page and saw the bit RIGHT before his death (didnt witness the s*****e though) but yeah its so weird he cut his hair bald and he painted himself red and black was it? Idk. quality wasn't good. Then he was breathing really strongly like putting his head back then lolling it forwards it was really creepy. Anyway, I don't want a random stranger's s*****e to be impacting my life, so I'm not going to go look for the videos, and I suggest you don't either)
#12
Not found footage exactly, but the one where a family a driving and a brick from the truck in front of them goes through the windshield k*****g the mother. Their panicked shrieks are f*****g heartwrenchingly terrifying.
I'm not going to link to it because I don't want to accidentally see it again.
Kerry Borthwick 1 month ago
I watched wish I hadn't the pure agony in the family's voices I hope the family are ok and got help they needed for such a horrid incident
#13
Yuri Lipski.
A diver that got disoriented in an underwater tunnel in the Red Sea and went down and down until he died.
Annik Perrot 1 month ago
I did à lot of diving in my younger years, but always refused to enter any underwater tunnel, and in the Red Sea there were lots of them, often formed by corals. "Come on, it's easy, you can see the other end." Nope.
Lila Allen 1 month ago
Self preservation is a good thing. I don't know why anyone cave dives. So wicked dangerous.
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Upstaged75 1 month ago
Not quite what happened, but he had NO business diving there because he didn't know what he was doing. He was warned by several dive instructors not to dive there. And then he filmed his own death by stupidity.
Liz Rutherford 1 month ago
I saw that a few days ago. He was inexperienced, was told not to do what he did by divers that had actually done the dive and was told that he *could* do it if he had 2 weeks of training. An absolute blazing moron.
Nicole Weymann 1 month ago
"Don't tell me what I can and can't do!" /S I'd love to know how many (and especially exactly which) accidental deaths that epitaph would apply to.
Load More Replies... Sam Trudeau 1 month ago
Too bad he wasn't Moses. Though after saying that, I'm curious how that would have gone.
Michael Cullen 3 weeks ago (edited)
That's one reason why cave diving is considered a specialty that requires specific training. (Certified diver here.)
#14
In 1984, a Cessna L-19 Bird Dog crashed in the Tabernash, Co. The wreckage wasn't found until 3 years later by a couple backpackers. The local law enforcement found this heavily damaged VHS tape and were able to figure out what happened. From Wikipedia:
> On August 10, 1984, a Cessna L-19 Bird Dog (registration number N4584A), piloted by James Jeb Caddell, 38, crashed in a forest near Tabernash. The aircraft was en route from Granby, Colorado to Jeffco, Colorado. The wreck was found by a pair of backpackers three years later on August 23, 1987. A 6½ minute video shot from a VHS camcorder mounted on the instrument panel was found at the site. The heavily damaged tape, some of it hanging from tree branches, was recovered and repaired by Colorado deputy sheriff Dale Wood. Subsequent analysis of the footage revealed that the pilot had not taken into account the density altitude conditions that existed on the day of the flight. The aircraft was unable to climb away from steadily rising terrain due to the fact that it was essentially at or above its service ceiling, and in an attempt to remedy the situation, the pilot stalled the airplane three times during a steep bank to the right. The pilot could be heard yelling, "D**n, hang on Ronnie!" to his one backseat passenger, Ronald Hugh Wilmond, 36, three seconds before impacting the terrain.
It's the "D**n, hang on Ronnie!" that gets me.
Bob Brooce 1 month ago
To expand on Forrest's post - Standard flight performance is based on standard temperature and pressure, which is 59° and 29.92 inches of mercury (standard sea level air pressure). Lower air pressure reduces density and therefore lift, and air pressure decreases with altitude. At any given altitude temperature and humidity are also major factors in the air pressure. That means that for a plane, which flies in air of course, 14,400' may be the altitude above sea level but not the effective atmospheric altitude, or density altitude. It's counterintuitive to most people, but wet, humid air is lighter than dry air, so humidity also reduces air pressure. At 80°, a sea level pressure of 29.02 (3% lower than standard), and relative humidity of 70% the air pressure would be almost 10% lower than standard, which increases density altitude by about 3,000'. The plane may have been perfectly capable of flying, but the rate of climb could be severely compromised.
Forrest Hobbs 1 month ago (edited)
Bob Brooce: thanks for your information - it's always good to learn more. For those who think in Si units: FAA standard temperature and pressure is 15°C and 101.3 kPa. 80°F is 26 2/3 °C and 29.02 inHg is about 98 kPa. It turns out, the current US FAA definition of STP is given in SI units: 15°C and 101.3 kPa - which as Bob Brooce states is exactly 59°F and 29.92 inHg (not exactly, but fine for the intended practical purposes). I've just checked and apparently standard temperature and pressure are -currently and for scientific purposes - defined as 273.15K and 100 kPa (10^5 Pa). That's 0°C/32°F and 29.53 inches of mercury. I'll put the link to the Wikipedia article I got all that from in the next comment which will be auto-hidden.
Load More Replies... Lukas (he/him, it/its) 1 month ago
BP is hiding all links now, Forrest Hobbs is adding useful context, they didn't make a bad comment.
Forrest Hobbs 1 month ago
Lukas (he/him, it/its): thank you for your explanation. I was wondering why some of my recent comments were being hidden straight away. Does anyone have any idea *why* BP is auto-hiding comments with links? It seems a bit strange to me.
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#15
There's a documentary on YouTube that details the m****r of a farm family in Texas. The survivor was Robin, the 10 year old daughter. She was watching from her bedroom door, she ran back into bed and they shot at her as she laid in bed and missed. The most disturbing part is probably how she'd hang her robe up on a hook on her door every night, and after she "got shot" she lay on the bed, pretending to be dead for hours, because she thought the robe was the man who did it watching her. And the most heartbreaking part is when all the police arrived, and she just cried about needing to feed her animals. One of the saddest stories I've ever heard.
#16
There was a clip of an elderly woman calling 911 about a suspicious looking man outside, you hear the door creek open, then she screams bloody m****r and the call ends. There was no resolution. It's on YouTube somewhere.
#17
The video of the 9/11 attacks filmed by a NYU student from her dorm. It captures the feelings of confusion, shock, and hopelessness when they realize s**t just got completely real.
Gabby M 1 month ago
What I find most disturbing, sad is the generations who will never know ... NEVER FORGET!!
Coral 1 month ago
While it is a significant historical event and very horrific, I'm not sure why you would wish other generations to experience such a traumatizing event. Shouldn't we wish for our children to never experience something like this and strive to make the world safer for them? I don't mean to sound overly idealistic, but as an educator I feel we can do better to educate younger generations without wishing them to live through horrific violence just so they "never forget".
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#18
Timothy Treadwell aka Grizzly Man. He went up close to the bears on multiple occasions. The most horrifying footage is the audio captured of his screams as a grizzly mauls him to death.
Partypants 1 month ago
This guy was an absolute nut job. Did more damage to those bears by constantly being in their space. Rowdy finally had enough.
Ms.GB 1 month ago
It's definitely a,"play with fire and get burned" scenario
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I would think the worst audio would be of his girlfriend who just saw him k****d, then saw the same bear approaching her. That bear k****d her, too. I can only imagine what she was going through in her last moments before the bear attacked her.
Tea Drinker 1 month ago
Probably "I shouldn't have worn perfume." Not kidding.
Load More Replies... Crouching_Penn_Hidden_Teller@yahoo.com 1 month ago
I saw that movie. What a tragedy. He insisted on relating to those bears as if they were dogs or something.
Roxy222uk 1 month ago
The number of people that think they know about animals deeply, and connect with them, when they have no fücking clue is just bamboozling. I was told by a keeper at our local wildlife park, so I’m inclined to believe it’s true, that there was a woman who believed she connected with a gorilla on a soul level and visited the zoo regularly. She would sit on the other side of the glass, maintaining eye contact with him the entire time. He would maintain the eye contact too. Until the day he was so outraged by her continual aggression that he smashed through the glass and k****d her. If you don’t even understand that eye contact longer than a second or two is a threat to many animals than you have really have no basis for relating to them at all.
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Stephen McDaniel peeping Tom video before he breaks into Lauren Gidding's apartment and k*lls her.
Edit: Bonus: McDaniel being interviewed several days later by local news as a "concerned friend.
Wysteria_Rose 1 month ago
The video of him being interviewed by a reporter is very unsettling. When they let it known to him that a body was discovered (they did not say it was hers b/c they couldn't confirm, just that the police had found one) he immediately blanks out and you see his life just drain away. He has to take a seat, and innocently you'd think it's b/c he's a caring friend, but no, it's because he realized he was done for and his life was over.
#20
The WTTW pirated broadcast that happened in Chicago 1987.
Rinso The Red 1 month ago
Yes. Well, someone in a Max Headroom costume at least. It's VERY weird and worth checking out.
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#21
The Estonia cruise/car ferry sunk in the Baltic Sea on 1994, taking an estimated 853 passengers with her into the deep, ice-cold water, in the middle of the night. Most people drowned in their cabins.
Just a handful of passengers managed to get out of the ship before she sunk, most of them freezing to death while waiting for the rescue :(
It might not be "found fotage", but here's the whole, actual mayday call and radio communications between her and the other ferries in the area. It's chilling that no one realized how bad the situation is, not the captain, and not the other boats, but you can hear the panic rising on the radio from the ship, as Estonia starts to tilt over and looses the electricity.
Even when the other boats arrive to the scene and Estonia is gone they just can't get their minds around the fact that this cozy, "safe" luxury hotel has been swallowed whole by the sea. Chilling, especially as someone from the Nordics who travel with these huge ferries fairy often...RIP :(
Pelle Lövet 1 month ago
Horrible. I remember when the news were brodcasted early in the morning
#22
Surprised no-one mentioned Unknown russian soldier yet. It's a video from the Kazaa era of a guy getting his throat slit. Cured me of all these kinds of videos. The sound the guy makes and the way the knife pretty much saws through his throat is forever ingrained in my mind.
Upstaged75 1 month ago
I accidentally watched the Daniel Pearl video. (He was beheaded) I wish I had known what it showed. I guess I didn't really believe until I saw it.
Dragons Exist 1 month ago
I saw an ISIS beheading video (with two people getting their heads cut off at the same time by two different people) a few years ago. While the blood and death didn't bother me, the sounds (no screaming, just the blood splattering and the knives going through flesh & bone) did
Fungus John 1 month ago
ah yes, what a pleasant thing to see on a tuesday afternoon as a 12 year old
Jallamedalla 1 month ago
The first "beheading" vid I ever saw. It made an impression, to say the least.
Sam Trudeau 1 month ago
Anyone else wondering if it's by coincidence a Ukraine "incident" is right above a Russian one on the list?
Riccola Tesla 1 month ago
the list changes as people upvote and downvote indivdual posts. so yes it is a coincidence that the ukraniane one is above this one because its not above it currently
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Definitely the shooter's first-person view of the live on air shooting in Virginia last year.
David Houde 1 month ago
I saw that footage (if it's the one I'm thinking of). It was just so bizarre. The guy is filming himself pointing a gun at the newscaster who is giving her report, and her cameraman. He's only a couple of feet away and neither notice the gun until her starts firing. It was both surreal and terrifying at the same time.
#24
Definitely, definitely, *definitely* this dash cam footage from a strange road block in the middle of the highway in the middle of the night.
#25
The Leonard Lake footage. Now I am not 100% sure this is verified to actually be the video they found at lakes home. But it is incredibly unsettling. Lake was a serial m******r who had a t*****e chamber in his home. The video basically consists of him interviewing a woman about the terms of her imprisonment and talking about his desires with his partner in crime. The story is creepy as. Give him a Google.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 month ago
A serial mudlarker who had a trifle chamber. That's terrifying.
Upstaged75 1 month ago
This is truly awful. I didn't listen, but I read the Wikipedia article and that's bad enough.
#26
The death of Kelly Thomas has to Be one of the most disturbing ones.
Worst thing about the incident is the
fact that Kelly suffered from Schizophrenia and because of that saw his father just standing there watching.
And I think the police Officers who beat him to death got their charges dropped after a while.
John Dilligaf 1 month ago
Happened in Fullerton CA. Two of the three cops went to trial and were found not guilty. Charges were dropped against the third after the not guilty verdicts against the first two came in. All three were fired though and the police chief resigned.
TheMFKNXerdo 1 month ago
Cops committing horrendous crimes and being found not guilty? Wow, surprising. ACAB.
Peter Bear 1 month ago
Agreed. And before all the whataboutism starts... all cops are either part of the problem, or protecting the ones that are. Any cop who does not stand up against the rotten apples in their bunch has failed in their oath to Serve and Protect.
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#27
I don't know if you can still find the video online, but google Luka Rocco Magnotta. He filmed himself dismembering a young man he had just m******d... Then proceeded to mail body parts to different government institutions across Canada.
Heather Murphy 1 month ago
I watched that documentary. His mom was in deep denial about his guilt.
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Malor Brycington 1 month ago
The series "Don't F*ck with Cats" is about him. It's actually a really good miniseries for anyone who enjoys m****r documentaries. Really interesting how it was actually a facebook group who had tracked him down and helped police catch him.
#28
A woman wakes up after giving birth without arms or legs.
I think this is especially disturbing because she supposedly got an infection in the hospital and that's why it happened.
#29
I wouldn't call it found footage, as such, but the recording that exists of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady torturing and murdering a child (without looking, I believe it was Leslie Ann Downey) with Little Drummer Boy playing in the background, is one of the most harrowing things I've heard of. My Aunt (who was one of the prison officers who was responsible for Hindley in the early years of her sentence), says its the worst thing she ever heard in her time (and she saw some bad stuff..).
#30
I always thought the Polaroids of the girl who was kidnapped and in that rickety tower with duct tape over her mouth were just terrible.
Jude Corrigan 4 weeks ago
I think this post refers to a polaroid picture of a teenage girl and a younger boy in the back of a van. Some people believe the teenage girl is Tara Calico(19) and the boy is Michael Paul Henley(9).
#31
Anyone got that footage of a b**b going off in a classroom(?) and eviscerating a woman that was in the room.
Then there's the guy who got arrested (I never found out what for), and wasn't searched when he was brought in. He was given a bottle of water and then the cop who was about to have a sit down with him walked out of the room. He took a sip from the bottle, pulled out a gun, and with one hand, flicked off the safety and put a bullet in the side of his head, without hesitation.
He's right in the middle of the frame the whole time, and you see blood flowing out the entrance wound, hear a groan from the moment he pulls the trigger that gets weaker over the following seconds, and his body goes from tense to limp. You literally see the life leave his body. It kinda makes you realize, that s**t isn't instant death.
Chich the witch 1 month ago
Read an account of first responders going to a s*****e. Guy had shot himself in the head but did not die right away. There was nothing they could do. Blew enough of his head away to ensure he wasn't going to make it but left enough so that he was conscious till the end as his eyes followed them around as they worked to get him ready for transport.
Bored Trash Panda 1 month ago (edited)
A friend of mine shot himself in the head with a sh0tgun and "lived" for a few days. He was on a ventilator and luckily his grandma knew there was no coming back from that so had them take it off.
Laserleader 1 month ago (edited)
Yeah, its ain't the movies or television. Even if you blow your head off there are death rattles for several minutes after...the sucide in my apartment staircase taught me that.
#32
The photos from the cellphones of the Dutch girls who went missing in South America scare the s**t out of me.
Upstaged75 1 month ago
They were taking pictures to use the light from the camera flash to find their way in the dark. Unfortunately they went hiking in a dense jungle unprepared and got very lost - and then died out there.
Tyke 1 month ago
That is a theory not a fact (using the light from the camera flash). By 2014 most phones had a torch function, so it doesn't really make much sense.
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Hippopotamuses 1 month ago (edited)
It's times like this that I really wish that dogs could talk (They were accompanied by a local dog for part of their trip... he came back alone.)
#33
I can't find the video but I recall a video of a number of workers getting electrocuted. When others come to investigate the power flips on again k*****g even more people. So eerie. They just drop.
#34
The night club fire. F**k that. I've seen some s**t, but that one stuck with me for a while.
Manny 1 month ago
Great White doing a concert and pyrotechnics and foam of the club (for soundproofing) caught on fire and in the stampede to get out (only 2 exits) 100 died in the fire
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Isabella K 1 month ago
I can recommend the "station nightclub fire" episode from the podcast "swindled"
Adrienne Gallo-Girard 1 month ago
Everyone in Rhode Island either knows or is related to someone who perished or was injured in that fire. Horrible.
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#35
Three guys one hammer was a tad bit unsettling.
Upstaged75 1 month ago
From Google: Three guys one hammer" refers to the Dnepropetrovsk maniacs, three Ukrainian serial killers who committed a series of gruesome murders in the summer of 2007. The name is derived from a leaked cell phone video, "3 Guys 1 Hammer," showing two of the perpetrators brutally murdering a man.
Riccola Tesla 1 month ago
3 guys one hammer is 3 teenagers beating a homeless man to death with a hammer and stabbing him in the face with a screwdriver so yeah, a little worse than scat p**n
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#36
At the 5:36 mark of Vsauce their video "If", it shows and lets us hear what Americans would see and hear on radio/TV when a nuclear attack is happening. It honestly gives me a f**k-ton of chills just listening.
Lila Allen 1 month ago
The Day After was a movie shown in the US and it realistically depicted what would happen if there was a nuclear strike/war. It traumatized a generation and actually led to Ronald Regan changing his beliefs and starting nuclear disarmament
Batwench 1 month ago
It was shown in te UK and had a traumatic effect on us as well.
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TheMFKNXerdo 1 month ago
There is a whole genre of EAS videos on Youtube, and many of the older, more realistic ones are phenomenal. Sadly, a lot of newer creators have made really mediocre ones, and now, many AI-Slop generated ones, and those are unwatchable. Still, some EAS simulations and audiovisual narratives are a very entertaining watch. There is a radio drama from 1983 called "The Last Broadcast" that may be quite interesting if you like this kind of fiction.
#37
The Valentich Disappearance. The original tapes have been destroyed, but there's a full transcript available, and several dramatic reenactments on youtube.
Valentich was flying a plane off the coast of Australia when he began to give a report about 'something' in the sky with him.
> Valentich: Is there any known traffic below five thousand [feet]?
> Robey: No known traffic.
> V: I am—seems [to] be a large aircraft below five thousand.
> R: What type of aircraft is it?
> V: I cannot affirm. It is [sic] four bright, it seems to me like landing lights. . . . The aircraft has just passed over me at least a thousand feet above.
The transcript continues for a few pages of Valentich describing this thing passing around his aircraft. The final part of the transcript is as follows:
> V: My intentions are, ah, to go to King Island. Ah, Melbourne, that strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again. [Silence for 2 seconds.] It is hovering, and it’s not an aircraft. [Silence for 17 seconds, open microphone, with audible, unidentified staccato noise. End of transcript.]
Although some theories suggest that the four bright 'landing lights' were just the planets Mars, Mercury, Venus, and Antares - which is a little goofy, as it might be quite difficult to confuse a planet for landing lights.
Wrecked pieces of Valentich's aircraft were later found washed up on several beaches around Australia.
#38
Theres a guy who dives i think its the red sea, with a gopro on and he decends further than his tank is fit for. Upon recovery they got the gopro, you basically just dive down with him and he dies.
Bob Brooce 1 month ago
If you descend fast enough to not run out of air a scuba cylinder is "fit" for a few thousand feet (you'll be dead much shallower). This post is probably about Yuri Lipski, who was attempting a deep dive and became severely disoriented as a result of nitrogen narcosis. Regular air becomes toxic due to the oxygen pressure at depths over 230' but the nitrogen can cause an effect similar to being drunk at far shallower depths.
#39
The recording of Byron Smith murdering two teens who broke into his house. He was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. super creepy and really NOT SAFE FOR WORK.
Upstaged75 1 month ago
Yes, those kids were incredibly stupid to break in, but he went completely overboard. He was not quite sane to begin with. They definitely picked the wrong house to rob!
TheMFKNXerdo 1 month ago
And they had robbed him repeatedly, too, and the authorities would not help.
Load More Replies... TheMFKNXerdo 1 month ago
I have been broken into more than three times. I have had to fight off an intruder who came armed into my house, and I had to use violence - my fists mostly, being that most guns are not legal in my country. Thankfully he didn't get into my mother's room (The previous break-in, somebody did, and she lost all her jewellery from her entire life) but into mine instead. I am an extremely left wing man, but I believe that Byron Smith should have been given a fine, at most. One should be allowed to defend family and home, even more so if the authorities won't help you.
FABULOUS1 1 month ago
Defending your home and lying in wait to m****r someone is two completely different things. He could have subdued them and then called police, but he made sure neither would leave his home alive before they even arrived. It doesnt excuse their actions, but m****r as the best solution is not the answer either. He will sepnd the rest of his life in prison.
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#40
I can't remember the account name but this kid did a series of Slenderman videos that were ridiculously convincing. Still gives me chills thinking about them.
ArchangelLoki 1 month ago
I don’t think its the one referenced, but The Everyman Hybrid is a brilliant YouTube series for this.
Sam Trudeau 1 month ago
That seemed to be a phase of the internet. Even Minecraft had "Oh look, Pennywise" or some random pop culture figure people would recognize. I don't see them much now though.
#41
There is a video of a dude driving through Mexico on a dirt road at night and this crazy woman in white appears in front of his headlights and starts screaming and running up to his car and chasing him as he drives in reverse. Not going to try to find it.
#42
Sorry for the lack of details but there was a tv show about serial killers I watched and one of the murderers would abduct women off the street and record what he did to them in his basement. They didn't show that footage but they showed him on camera afterwards saying (Paraphrasing) '(Date and time) First victim, name... I don't know... (you can hear how that bothers him) *chuckles* and I don't give a F***.)' Eventually he got caught and hung himself in the back of a police van if that's any consolation.
#43
The dashcam footage of a young cop getting shot by a guy in a routine traffic stop. They show that video in police training.
Laserleader 1 month ago (edited)
That kind of PTSD is why cops shoot unarmed teens. Should be attached to actual numbers of incidents so cops are aware and careful, but not expecting EVERY interaction to lead to attacks. My 20 yr old sister was picking flowers on the side of the road and cops pulled up, so when she put the flowers in her car and saw the cop she stood back up the cop had his gun on her. Why? Because of this garbage.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 month ago
Maybe if everyone and his dog didn't have guns in America this wouldn't happen as often. Not rocket science.
Nicole Weymann 1 month ago
Yupp, that - and more/longer training, like de-escalation tactics and whatnot, instead of something between a crash course and summer school, ending with the recommendation of "this is your badge, this is your gun, you know what to do. And remember: they're all out to get you! Good luck"
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Poor Blockbuster employee attempting to do his job while a ghost is coming at him.
#45
The video of the chef that was found alive in sunken ship wreckage during a recovery mission by a scuba diver.
#46
Everybody knows about it but the Paris Catacombs footage.
EDIT: basically the story is a dude who illegally ran into the Paris catacombs (a massive underground burial place iirc, it has a lot of spooky skeletons) got lost and started recording. You can obviously see he's scared and eventually he drops his camera and starts running for an unknown reason.
Riccola Tesla 1 month ago
my running theory is that it was filmed by the Catacomb Preservation Society to scare people away so they can have their cool goth dance parties in the bone caves without being disturbed.
Load More Replies... Annik Perrot 1 month ago
The Catacombs are not à "massive burial place". Not to start with. Overflowing cemetaries were displaced and emptied into former stone- pits.
#47
The creepiest thing I have ever seen is the dash cam footage where they are on the highway and some debris flies through the windshield and kills the person in the passenger seat, you see it go through the windshield, and a second later you hear the blood curdling scream of the driver who apparently just lost their loved one. It was the most heart wrenching, haunting noise I've ever experienced.
What do you think ?
Tea Drinker 1 month ago
Not sure how to express how I feel, but I guess I'd say this was eye-opening, i.e. that these particular crimes, etc. have footage/sound that's available to really just anyone. I mean, I knew it was, but seeing so many people post that they saw/heard it kind of got to me.
BrunoVI 1 month ago
Does Luis Wain's work count as footage? He's the guy that continued painting his popular series of cat paintings as he gradually became worse and worse afflicted with schizophrenia. At first, they seem like cool designs based on cats; as you understand what's happening more, they get more disturbing.
Mavis 1 month ago
Most of these are too gruesome and disturbing for me to look up. One video not on this list that I would recommend is the real time reaction of a group of male friends to the death of Princess Diana. They were having a get together at home and they were filming that, but they just happened to have their TV on in the background as the newsflash comes on about Diana. Their emotional reactions to it are very real and instant.
Lila Allen 1 month ago
The left out Bittaker and Norris, but I expect that is because those recordings are held by the FBI and not published anywhere for VERY VERY good reasons
PenguinEmp 1 month ago
Wow 3 down votes because I asked about the footage? Bp at it again
Load More Replies... Earonn - 1 month ago
Not 911 but a German TV report about se.xual abvse of children did something quite clever (if horrifying): they broadcast a minute or two of a video of it. The screen went totally black and you could only hear the men (at least two) encourage each other to "push it in deeper" and the crying of the little child, it might have been around 5 years old. THAT hit hard. But it was good they did it. People are too willing to look away, or aren't aware how awful things really are. A good shock to the system.
Tea Drinker 1 month ago
Not sure how to express how I feel, but I guess I'd say this was eye-opening, i.e. that these particular crimes, etc. have footage/sound that's available to really just anyone. I mean, I knew it was, but seeing so many people post that they saw/heard it kind of got to me.
BrunoVI 1 month ago
Does Luis Wain's work count as footage? He's the guy that continued painting his popular series of cat paintings as he gradually became worse and worse afflicted with schizophrenia. At first, they seem like cool designs based on cats; as you understand what's happening more, they get more disturbing.
Mavis 1 month ago
Most of these are too gruesome and disturbing for me to look up. One video not on this list that I would recommend is the real time reaction of a group of male friends to the death of Princess Diana. They were having a get together at home and they were filming that, but they just happened to have their TV on in the background as the newsflash comes on about Diana. Their emotional reactions to it are very real and instant.
Lila Allen 1 month ago
The left out Bittaker and Norris, but I expect that is because those recordings are held by the FBI and not published anywhere for VERY VERY good reasons
PenguinEmp 1 month ago
Wow 3 down votes because I asked about the footage? Bp at it again
Load More Replies... Earonn - 1 month ago
Not 911 but a German TV report about se.xual abvse of children did something quite clever (if horrifying): they broadcast a minute or two of a video of it. The screen went totally black and you could only hear the men (at least two) encourage each other to "push it in deeper" and the crying of the little child, it might have been around 5 years old. THAT hit hard. But it was good they did it. People are too willing to look away, or aren't aware how awful things really are. A good shock to the system.
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