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In the internet age, it’s all too common for people to just aggressively overshare online. For the most part it’s banal and really just a waste of time, but there are always some experiences and stories that would never make it to TV but are just as weird and terrifying.
Someone asked “What are some of the darkest stories and posts [online] that many people don't know about?” and people shared their worst examples. Be warned, many of these get pretty unpleasant. So just be aware of this as you read through, upvote the most interesting posts and be sure to add your thoughts to the comments below.
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#1
The story about the grandma who used coconut oil on her grandchild who was allergic. She knew the child was allergic and chose to disregard it. The child passed away and the grandmother doesn’t understand why the parents do not want contact with her.
Leoninus Fate 10 months ago
well, im severly allergic to coca bean, so everything with it, including chocolate.... my stepmom used to try and touch me with it, and sneak it in my food when i was lil, now I'm over 30 and she still sends me chocolate every other week, or food with hidden coca, but she also tried to slit my throat at 12 years old so..... yeah
Lila Allen 10 months ago
I remember that one... she was so adamant that they needed to get over it
marcelo D. 10 months ago
she probably understands, she doesn't care about anybody else but herself
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
I really...don't understand some people...This is so sad for the family!
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#2
Anyone remember the story of the guys doing some tree work with chainsaws in a remote area when one guy slipped and cut himself bad. As they were trying to get to a hospital, driving erratically and fast, some lady started to block them as she thought they were just some a-holes. The guy ended up dying and they were able to get in touch with police. The lady ended up getting a ticket and one of the guys threw the bloody clothes at her car.
That one stuck with me for some reason.
Colleen Glim 10 months ago
Not everybody is just an a*****e. You don’t know what is happening in somebody else’s life. Have some compassion. We seem to have forgotten that
elmortero 10 months ago
Apart from that, if they are really doing it because "a-hole", they'd probably retaliate
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Leigh 10 months ago
I was crossing the street with some friends once and we saw an ambulance coming. I make sure I'm not in the way as do all but one of my friends. He decided to walk right in front of it causing it to slow down! We got upset with him. How would he feel if he was being rushed to the hospital and some jerk got in the way?
Binky Melnik 10 months ago
In his mid-80s, my uncle was in the woods chopping trees with a chainsaw, and he hit a piece of barbed wire, lost hold of the chainsaw, and got knocked to the ground and broke his hip. It was winter and getting dark and the old man was all by himself. Had no choice but to drag himself home, over rocks and stumps and hills. What a tough old man! I still admire him for that. I imagine I’d have died out there.
Lene 10 months ago
Why just think they were a-holes? I mean... why not assume that they just really had to pee or that they are about to shít themselves and want to go back home asap? That's what I'm teaching my kids to think when somebody passes our car. It makes the kids giggle and they build stories upon what weird things I tell them that people are rushing home for.
Reset Game 10 months ago
Use your emergency lights. It's a signal that there might be a genuine emergency/ a reason you're driving so fast
#3
The guy who couldn't figure out who was leaving post it notes all his house. He had a CO leak and was sleep walking/partially unconscious due to oxygen deprivation and writing the notes himself.
Susie Elle 10 months ago
Would his handwriting be the same under the influence of CO poisoning as it normally would be?
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Spinstapink 10 months ago (edited)
That happened to a couple of friends of mine. My friend called me and sounded really weird, but she knew exactly what was going on. I didn't know their address because they had just moved, and she was so messed up she couldn't tell me, so I couldn't even call the police for them. At one point, she told me she couldn't stand up. I told her that they should crawl to the front door and try to call an ambulance. Thank God they were able to do so, and both survived!
#4
I don't know if it quite fits, but I remember coming across a post that had a bunch of updates. I lost track of it for a while then stumbled across it again and went down a rabbit hole reading every update. It was about a guy who works on historical buildings in the UK and has a specialist skill. He got fired by the big boss because he wouldn't go fetch him a cup of tea and the big boss (not knowing the specialist field was this guy's job) decided to throw his weight around.
It was a great read as there were multiple updates following the fall out of it all. Until there was an update to say OP had been in an accident. He was in hospital and his wife was posting at his request. Then... he died from complications. I'm not going to lie, I ugly cried for this man that I had never met.
I don't know if the original posts are still available but it's available here:
Part 1
Part 2
electronicgogo 10 months ago
this was an extremely satisfying & fantastic read!! it deserves to be MUCH higher!!
tameson 10 months ago
Just read the story. If I could give this 100 upvotes I would. It is incredibly funny and interesting, but then you find out that it was really about love and friendship. The people of Reddit mourned with this women, they shared her loss, and she very much appreciated it. I hope she is doing better now.
#5
There was a young man who went on holidays and when he came back he swore there was a bathroom where a cupboard now was and he didn’t believe anything his room mates told him that it had always been a cupboard.
He came to reddit to explain the story and basically found out he had a brain tumour.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 10 months ago
His Reddit account hasn't posted/commented in two years, since the original story :( Could be that he got caught up in treatment/surgery/etc. and forgot to update/comment again, but... a lot of brain tumors can be inoperable or fatal.
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Tom De Paul 10 months ago (edited)
Years ago I ate dinner at an Italian restaurant on Polk Street in SF. It was so good I invited a friend to go the following Friday. As soon as we were seated I started to notice that the restaurant's layout was significantly different. Same decorative style but it was a completely different layout. I mentioned it to my friend and began to seriously question my memory and sanity. I sheepishly asked the waiter if they had changed the layout (!). He informs me there are 2 restaurants, owned by the same people, with the same name within 2 blocks of each other. Who does that?
LakotaWolf (she/her) 10 months ago
Man thought he was going crazy because he came back from vacation and saw that there was a cupboard in a location where he thought there had been a bathroom BEFORE he went on vacation. His roommates told him that there had always been a cupboard there and never a bathroom. Man probably thought his roommates were lying to him. Turns out that the man had a brain tumor, and the tumor was causing his false "memories"/hallucinations(?)
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Earonn - 9 months ago
Your brain can lie to you so easily, and how would you know? Remember that when people tell you about miracles, gods telling them what to do and who is allowed to live etc. Epilepsy can lead to very convincing deja vus (i.e. you see something your rational mind knows MUST be new to you - like a newly built building - but your emotions would make you bet your annual income of having seen these things before). Also a stern reminder that your 'gut instict' can be horribly wrong.
#6
There was a short video of a plane crash accidentally taken by one of passengers inside the plane. It wasn’t gory. This guy was smiling and laughing and excited to reach his destination. Then the plane crashes suddenly, everything goes silent, and his cell phone camera is pointed up at the sky. No one survived the crash. The suddenness sticks with me. From happy and excited to gone from this world in almost no time at all.
Glen Ellyn 10 months ago
Eerie, especially following the two air disasters in the US this past week.
Zander Porbanda 10 months ago
It’s weird what can happen when you stop funding the government and send home directors of aviation safety.
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Shannon Donnelly 10 months ago
Actually, I find that very reassuring, knowing that the passengers had very little time, if any, to suffer or to know that they were going to die.
Xenia Harley 10 months ago
I read an account about the doomed plane on 9/11 in PA. The young woman was calling her stepmom, she was the only one the young woman could reach, to say good-bye. She told her stepmom that she could see her grandmas coming for her. They were both already deceased. That story has stayed with me for decades.
Bored Birgit 10 months ago (edited)
I don't want to see such videos on the internet. Out of respect to the deceased.
patricia patricia 9 months ago
I don't think the deceased care, honestly. I think they shouldn't be shown because it's horrible for the families. I will always remember a photo of a dead elderly lady "sitting" next to one of the bombed trains in Madrid in 2004. It was everywhere. She was like a symbol, but it must have been absolutely heart breaking for her family.
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Kazó-Horváth Dóra 10 months ago
Usually you do not need to turn your phone off during the whole flight.
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Might not be considered the “darkest” but the guy who lived an entire second life while in a coma… that story still sticks with me.
lostinthecapes:
I still think about that story, it gives me the chills, then I sometimes wonder if this is all a dream, and I'm in a coma?
Annabel Again 10 months ago
Shout out to my ppl and especially my fellow mentally dubious pandas: do not go down this rabbit hole. You will only drive yourself crazier. I speak from personal experience. If in fact, we are any of us in comas relative to our “real life“, then stressing about it is only gonna ruin our time and not change anything. And if we aren’t any or all of us in comas, same same. I repeat do not go down this rabbit hole. There are no bunnies down there. I promise.
Regina Holt 10 months ago
Annabel Again, thank you for saving me from this rabbit hole. Sometimes you wind up in one quicker than you know it, and then, no bunnies.
Load More Replies... CD Mills 10 months ago
I am guessing that some people in a 'natural' coma have the ability to hear/understand people when they are near enough to hear. I was in a medically induced coma for ten days. Due to it being medically induced and the d**g they use to keep you out, Propofol they call it "Milk of Amnesia". Not only did I not remember anything from the ten days I was out but the entire month before I fell ill, just gone, no whispery memories, just a total blank. Zero stars, would not recommend!
LinkTheHylian 9 months ago
What kind of hyper intelligent beings would simulate such a mundane existence for us and then create exciting simulations for us to manipulate ourselves?
Load More Replies... Maria Maria 9 months ago
I have heard other stories like that. Who is to say this is "reality"?
Tweetysvoice 10 months ago
I literally think about this story all the time. I've told it to just about everyone I know. I can't imagine the pain this guy went through. It's terrifying!
#8
The guy in China that stumbled upon all the dead bodies in an abandoned building. He kept coming back and noticed that things would be moved or bodies added or removed.
0mnigul:
I remember this. Wasn't it suspected as the victims being harvested for their organs?
David 10 months ago
Pro tip: If you find a building full of dead bodies, report it to the police. Don't "keep coming back"
patricia patricia 10 months ago
Pro tip: depending on where you live, if you find a building full of dead bodies, just run home and don't say a word.
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Nikole 10 months ago
Okay that video is something… Is it real? They look like bloated, half-preserved bodies. No organic harvesting happening, unless that was the intention and the people who did this made a series of mistakes. I think it’s c**p.
mria alternativa 9 months ago
One theory was medical research or med school students practicing, another was funeral home cutting some costs. The way the bodies look make it kinda unlikely to be dolls/dummies. But as yet, it's not been confirmed either way.
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I believe the poop knife deserves an honorable mention, it's a classic, although it isn't dark.
TiNaBoNiNa 10 months ago
Some weirdos somewhere thought their poop was too big for their pipes to swallow so they kept a knife in the bathroom to "help" things along.
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Kristy Sambey 10 months ago
I have no idea about the story, but “poop knife” sounds particularly ominous.
The Other Guest 10 months ago
Not ominous, just a kitchen knife that apparently some people keep in the bathroom, in order to dice up extra-large feces before flushing so they don't plug up the pipes. I am grateful that I've encounted this only as anecdotes online, not in real life.
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Daniel Gómez 10 months ago
This one almost made me PMPL when I read it some years ago. Certainly not "dark", but that also boils down to the poop's shade of brown, if we are literal about it.
Amanda Reinstatler 10 months ago
K, so I have questions, but I am not sure I want answers.........
MM2k7 10 months ago
You should play poop roulette. Wash the knife then put it back in the cutlery drawer. Then have a dinner party and tell everyone at the table what you did. And whoever finishes their meal gets $100.
#10
The guy who wanted to try h*roin to prove he wouldn’t get addicted. Ended up getting heavily addicted and posted on reddit semi-regularly for about 8 years before disappearing completely again.
jeffrey champion 10 months ago
It's these sort of stories why I don't try any substance, not even tobacco. At best, you don't like it( so it's something you'd have preferred not to do anyway) or at worst you do like it, then you proved to hurt your body , your wallet, and everyone around you.
Amanda Reinstatler 10 months ago
You are wise to steer clear - it really can happen to anyone. I understand people that get perscribed opiates and then get addicted, (because its basically pharmeceutical heroin ), but what I DO NOT understand is people "trying" things like meth, or crack or heroin. WHY!?!?!? All it takes is a dose or two, and you have become a slave to your addiction. What did they think was going to happen....??
Load More Replies... Tom De Paul 10 months ago
He's probably dead. I have never been more thankful that I had to go through "d***s are the devil" curriculum in school. I know myself and I would have LOVED heroin.
Neopet22 10 months ago
Not necessarily as bad as heroin but I am so grateful that after trying cigarettes as a kid,I never got addicted to it. Tried it few times at different ages and it was nasty. My friend also convinced me to try weed in my mid 20s and glad I hated it. D***s and different substances are a slippery slope. Although I am addicted to energy drinks 😓
Zander Porbanda 10 months ago
There are lots of people who start d***s without mindfully asking themselves “What percentage of people who use intend to become addicts.” It’s almost like a kind of narcissism like it won’t affect them… because of their strong personality and character? Perhaps?
Sven Grammersdorf 10 months ago
Heroin feels f*****g amazing, anybody can get addicted to that. It's seriously a pure, otherworldly pleasure. Nothing in life can ever compare. This fentanyl s**t they have today, it's nothing compared to the real thing.
#11
For me it's definitely post from jasoninhell. Guy found out his wife was cheating on him. He asked on Reddit what he should do and then filed for divorce. The wife then [tried to] k*ll herself and their children.
It was a heartbreaking post to read.
Edit: As people in replies say, the wife tried to k*ll herself but didn't succeed and was later sentenced to 120 years in prison.
David 10 months ago
Good ol BP. Won't let you say words like Sewy-side or Murrr-der, but dedicates an entire thread to dark scary accounts that are mostly about "unalived" people. Hypocrites. If you want to pretend to be wholesome then be wholesome.
Az Oz 10 months ago
BP is a Lithuanian website. Different countries have different censorship rules.
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Huddo's sister 10 months ago (edited)
I don't know which country this happened in but I am surprised she got 120 years (though of course I don't disagree with it). Far too many people in Australia (mostly men) try to take this action when their partner leaves them and they will get about 10 years max.
TiNaBoNiNa 10 months ago
"The wife then [tried to] k*ll herself and their children." If she succeeded in killing her children, then 120 years is very appropriate.
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David Beth 10 months ago
Can we please stop trying to censor the words kill, dead, suicide, etc.? Pretending those things don't exist won't stop them.
Michael Largey 10 months ago
It plainly says that she tried to kll her children.
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#12
There is a sub for s*x offenders where they support each other crying around, feeling sorry for themselves and never mention a victim.
Bunch of a******s and reading in that sub makes you really angry.
#13
I'm surpised nobody mentioned the reddit thread where a bunch of backpackers came home only to discover a dying woman's body in the background of their pictures.
Upstaged75 10 months ago
And they saved her! Mr. Ballen did this story on his YouTube channel. Totally crazy. The other person she was with sadly died.
Zero Costa 10 months ago
they took a bunch of photos that they only then looked at after they had gotten back home, discovering that there was a woman dying in the background of some of those shots
Load More Replies... weatherwitch 10 months ago
I wrongly assumed this was the UK one where some walkers posed by a stream for a photo, only to see the poor womans body lying in the stream. It's taken twenty years I believe I get her husband who did it 😒
#14
The one where a married couple were financially struggling and the wife caused a car accident to make money off their insurance. She even suggested this to her husband beforehand since it happened to a friend of hers, but he was against it. The car she hit had a mother and son who both died in the accident, but the wife didn't see what the problem was. She thought she was doing something good for her and her husband.
The post was made by the husband who was deciding if he should turn his wife in or figure out a way to move forward. The post was taken down an hour later.
Joanne Earle 10 months ago
If she caused a collision, esp. a fatal one, there will be no insurance to collect and the family will sue the pants off the woman that caused it.
#15
There’s a video of a motorcyclist crashing at nearly 250 mph. The video shows the aftermath and it looks like a movie with how many parts of him are scattered across the road and siding.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 10 months ago
Yes. And that should apply to everyone, not just motorcyclists. On December 19th of last year, a motorcyclist was killed right outside my family's small business office. The cyclist had the right-of-way, but an SUV made a high-speed left turn into our strip mall/commercial lot. It was over in - literally - two seconds. If the SUV hadn't been in a huge pointless hurry, he would not have struck the motorcyclist. I ran out as soon as my family and I heard the sound of the impact and tried to perform CPR, but the motorcyclist had been killed instantly. He was only 28 years old. His name was Justin Ketteringham. Please, everyone - drive safe. Slow down. It is better to be late than to kill someone else - or yourself.
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My O My 10 months ago
That's why there are more organ transplantsin spring. The motorcyclists go out again and drive like they have 7 lives. And the elder people tend to die because their ageing bodies can't cope with the spontanious heat waves very well
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Scott Rackley 10 months ago
Doesn't have to be 250. When I was in my early 20s, me and a couple friends were behind a Honda Interceptor at a red light. Super fast bike. Light turns green and guy gets on it hard, up on the back wheel. Hit 2nd gear with it still in the air. His front wheel just hit the ground as he impacted an F150 that had pulled out of a side street. He flew probably 30 yards and centered a concrete telephone pole/light stanchion. Tore his arm and half of his leg off, but he didn't know, because it caved in his helmet.
CD Mills 10 months ago
In the town I live in we have a guy who likes to hit racing speeds on his motorcycle between 12 and 2 AM every freaking night! Every night I hear this Yoyo flying down the street I keep waiting for the inevitable crash. I'd bet he runs his fair share of lights and stop signs because I never hear him throttle down, the longer you hear him the faster he goes.
Panda'sMom 10 months ago
We always have an idiot like this during the Rally. (Sturgis, SD motorcycle rally)
Mark Bayliss 10 months ago
No. Not as standard. 250Kmh but not Mph. Would have to be very heavily modified to get anywhere close to that.
Load More Replies... ZombieMommy 10 months ago
Brings me back to drivers ed classes, motorcyclist through the driver side window with no edits.
Laura Parker 9 months ago
Motorcycles that can go that fast are NOT street legal, and too expensive for most people to afford. My question is, where did this happen, and to whom?
#16
Carl H programming. There was a guy who ran a comprehensive sub with tutorials, YouTube videos on how to program. It was incredibly popular. At some point the user went quiet and someone by chance came across an article that explained why. Carl H had been committing heinous s*x offenses against boys with his male partner. I don't think the details were ever released but the words "depraved" were used by the judge.
EDIT: I've just googled this guy and apparently he was found hanged in his cell in 2014.
Enlee Jones 10 months ago
**he was found hanged in his cell in 2014** ...And nothing of value was lost.
Gadaffi Duck 10 months ago
He locked his own son in the basement and abused him to create content he shared online. Threatened to kill the boy if he told anyone and never let him out of the house not even for school.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 10 months ago
There was also a guy called Hans Reiser who developed a popular (at the time) file system for Linux called ReiserFS. I used to use it. It was more stable and easier to recover data if a problem occurred than the other popular alternative, ext2. Well, development on ReiserFS stopped suddenly, and the reason was that Reiser had been convicted of murdering his wife and sent to prison. Developers are an odd bunch. And I say that as one.
#17
A dude who had a sick fetish for parasites
He willingly infected himself with and sustained as many parasites as he could, and what’s more, he spread them around as much as he could, to as many people as he could.
Of course, I speak in past-tense, but there’s no telling if this guy stopped. He had not expressed any intention of stopping when he wrote his confession. I forgot what sub he wrote this in.
#18
The guy who has a cockroach fetish and created a cockroach wife named Ogtha. He remains faithful to her and tried to come out to his family.
Hidalgo 10 months ago
Don’t let MAGA world hear about it or they’ll blame it on public schools
Captive 10 months ago
With all respect. At what points do we therapy kinks instead of accepting them?
#19
There is a redditor, u/imflukeskywalker - who was very well known in the Cincinnati area for his charity work. He looked remarkably similar to Mark Hamill, and would dress up as Luke Skywalker and go around children's hospitals visiting them and bringing them toys. He was eventually caught with CP and k**led himself before he could be properly sentenced, it was a huge shock to the community but we all probably should've seen it coming.
Elizabeth Meyer 10 months ago
He was my Uber driver from the CVG airport once, told me all about his charity work, even gave me his Fluke Skywalker card
Say No to Downvoting 10 months ago
I don’t know the full story to this so I don’t have the entire context but what are the reasons for “we all probably should’ve seen it coming”? The suicide or the CP?
#20
The darkest one I remember, but can't find was I believe an off my chest / confession.
Guy was a gas fitter or plumber and installed a hot water heater in a families basement. The next day the police had found the family had died of CO2 poisoning and had him come to check for a leak.
He said it was his fault as he had left a rag in the wrong spot which had caused the gasses to build up, he removed the rag to hide the evidence and it was deemed a tragic accident.
Charlie C 10 months ago
I don't believe this. Surely the police would get an independent person who did not install the heater to check for any errors to prevent such a cover up from the original installer?
HeavyMetalHeart 10 months ago
He was the landlord as well as having installed the water heater, so he was called as soon as the family were found, giving him the chance to cover it up.
Load More Replies... Colleen Glim 10 months ago
Have a carbon monoxide detector. You may never need it. But if you do….
Stephen Wild 10 months ago
Almost certainly the poster is referring to CO - carbon monoxide - poisoning, not CO2 - carbon dioxide - poisoning...
Seadog 10 months ago
And it's a water heater not a hot water heater. Same common mistake as safe deposit boxes not safety deposit boxes.
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#21
There was a comment that somebody left on one of those “what’s something you’ve done that still haunts you” type threads that I read back in 2015 and I still think about it today. A guy admitted that when he was 8 years old, he was playing with the fire in the fireplace while his family was sleeping (just now occurring to me that they definitely should have put out the fire before going to bed though so it’s really not all his fault) but he was like poking it and a piece of log jumped out and before he could process what was happening the fire got bigger and most of his family died, but he survived. Not sure if it’s true or not, but I just think about the guilt he must feel in his everyday life.
Multa Nocte 10 months ago
OK, I'm outta here with these stories. I don't know how I made it through this many.
Polly Fukuhara 10 months ago
I know someone who told me when he was young he played with matches and started a fire that burned down six houses. He was old when he told me this. It has always haunted him. No one died, thank the stars.
Susie Elle 10 months ago
So the family left the fire burning and an 8-year old alone while they went to bed??
Blue Bunny of Happiness 10 months ago
My parents would make the fire bigger (can’t remember the technical term for it), so that it would keep burning into the night and keep the house warm for when they woke . We had a mesh metal fire guard in from the of the fire to stop any stray embers. By age 8 my parents absolutely would expect us to be sensible around the fire. Don’t know about others, but as children we often got up early or went downstairs to get a glass of water if we woke during the night. I can easily see how this could happen.
Load More Replies... weatherwitch 10 months ago
You don't put the fire out overnight if this is your only source of heat or if the fire powers your central heating and hot water. Until recently this Was the only heating source in my home. You bank it for the night and if you're lucky you can keep it going several months 24 hours, seven days a week. You teach your child that playing with fire is Dangerous. You have multiple smoke detectors and now heat detectors too as well as fire extinguishers. And you Teach your Children ffs. This is absolutely horrific
Ruth Watry 9 months ago
6 year old neighbor boy permanently traumatized (d***s, homeless, etc.) because he played with matches and his 3 year old brother died
#22
I think it was originally from 4chan but I saw it on Reddit. It was the guy that k*lled someone and would just kind of chat about it, people realized he wasn't joking, and I think shortly after he got caught.
Wysteria_Rose 10 months ago
I don't know if it was the website Tickld but I do remember some guy off'd family members, made a meme about it, and posted it. It wasn't right away but people realized he was being serious and he got caught because of his post.
#23
That one about the guy and his wife who had a kid and that kid turned out to be crazy and one day he caught the kid holding a knife over their new born baby. The wife beat the absolute dog s**t out of the kid and left him for dead basically. After a day or two they never saw him again.
I could be remembering some details wrong but that’s the jist of it.
Beak Hookage 10 months ago
I believe I've read this one before. Kid was a teenager by that point and had a history of extreme violence and general evil behaviour. Both parents were terrified of him. They ultimately beat him up and he ran off and was never seen again. Something like that. It was utterly horrible to read.
Zero Costa 10 months ago (edited)
wasn't this where they left the kid in the house while he was out of it, took all they could, and abandoned the home? EDIT: no hold on! they got him EMT help, but moved into their basement? the dad would go to work thru the cellar door or something... teen came back to the house after being in the hospital , trashed the place, and eventually left after some period of time? it's been so long!
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Saphyre Fyre 10 months ago
don't know why this has been downvoted; there was definitely something so very wrong with this person's brain. evil from the very beginning.
Load More Replies... Seadog 10 months ago
a reversal of roles, a friend recently took care of a child where the parents killed his brother and was in the process of killing him. He was 8 years old, couldn't speak and had to fed through a tube because of what they had done to him. The good news, he was improving, and the damage doesn't appear to be permanent. Personally, I think the parents should be drawn and quartered. Even the treatment they'll get in prison is too humane for them.
bElLa sTairZz 10 months ago
'they never saw him again' feels strange to me, your saying that the cops or cps never wanted a single word with them about their son? noone ever traced him back to them?
HurlWurk 10 months ago
Cops and CPS are a relatively new and very American thing. Even if it was just the rural 70s in America, a kid could disappear easily.
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#24
For me it was when the Pain Olympics sub was still active. I remember the top post was a guy who castrated himself and documented it every step of the way. It was VERY graphic and very unprofessionally done. He did the stones AND pillar. By the end of it there were only hand done stitches of where it all used to be. I cannot imagine the type of person who could do that and where they might be today.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 10 months ago
Could be an extreme case of self-harm. I do minor forms of self-harm to myself (focusing on the pain helps keep my mind off of the bad thoughts/shuts my brain up temporarily) but I'm not sure I'd have the hutzpah to do more than surface/skin damage to myself.
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Lene 10 months ago
Hmm.... ok? Is this a case of that mental illness where a person feels like one of their arms/legs whatever does not belong to their body so they will do whatever it takes to get rid of that body part? If the doctors won't help them they will do something crazy to have it done "accidently". Or is it just some extreme case of self-harming as a s3xual pleasure?
#25
The whole CarlH saga was really dark.
There was also a post a couple years ago, I think in one of the legal advice subs, where a guy was asking about how r*pes were investigated, claiming that a friend had been ass**lted. It became abundantly clear that he was looking for tips on how to not get caught himself. That was chilling.
Lyoness 10 months ago
If you don't already know about it, don't look up the CarlH case. It's horrifying.
Regina Holt 10 months ago
Thank you for the warning, Lyoness. I'll move along now.
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Serena Myers 10 months ago
Carl Philip Herold, aka u/CarlH on Reddit, was an American Youtuber. Source: Wiki.
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A story where OP and his friends were big bullies as teenagers to this one disabled kid in a wheel chair, so much so to where they k**led him eventually. I don’t remember the full story, but something they ended up on top of a mountain or hill and they pushed him off thinking it was funny. Apparently they never found the kid, they never got caught, but OP feels immense guilt for his actions but from my understanding, OP really wasn’t the bully, he was just hanging out with his friends.
bElLa sTairZz 10 months ago
'he wasnt really the bully he was just hanging out with his friends' something that kid in the weelchair will never do again. this was more than just being a complicit bystander, he was in ever position to prevent this from ever happening
Lily bloom 10 months ago
Or at the very least report it after if he couldnt stop it from happening
Load More Replies... Mike F 10 months ago
This reads like a bad horror flick, seriously. I can't remember the name of it, but there was a movie with a VERY similar story line around halloween.
Beak Hookage 10 months ago
Heck, a wheelchair using kid gets pushed off a cliff in Mac and Me, and that's pretty much a horror movie.
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Amanda Reinstatler 10 months ago
There are two kinds of evil. He is just as culpable as those f***s who did it.
weatherwitch 10 months ago
The kid was never found? I find that hard to believe. As a wheelchair user myself it's nigh on Impossible to get up a mountain or hill too. So further suspicious of this story. And then the bit where the OP wasn't really the bully, he was just hanging out with his friends All of whom were bullies. He was. He had the power to stop their bullying. Had he spoken up he'd have found others in the group who didn't want to be bullies but only dared speak if he did. I'm incredulous about multiple aspects of this story 😕
#27
This girl is r/sh**momgroupssay about the mom who gave birth outside in a bathtub, labored for like 2 days, refused medical care, baby wasn't breathing for MINUTES when born. and the last update we had (that Ik of) was that at 9 months old baby couldn't sit up on their own, or feed themselves. Or HOLD UP their own head.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 10 months ago
JFC this sort of thing drives me bananas. We have hospitals, doctors, d***s and medical equipment for a REASON.
Annabel Again 10 months ago
Minutes and minutes of oxygen deprivation will do that to the brain. That’s so sad that kid was screwed before they even open their eyes
#28
I once stayed up all night going down a rabbit hole of disturbing stories on Reddit. A lot of ‘what are the most disturbing Reddit threads’ would have links to older similar threads so I was reading a lot of them. I haven’t been able to find this story again because there’s been a lot of these kinds of posts. But this is the one that stuck with me the most.
OP told a story recounted by his mother who was a kid in 50s Texas. She was at a funeral of a disabled kid. The kids disability was a huge strain on the family and when he got sick and passed away a lot of people were saying it was for the best. Half way during the service they started hearing crying and banging and it was coming from inside the coffin! So they cut the service short and quickly took the coffin out and buried it. Only when OP was overheard by his mother telling the story to someone else did she mention that the family was her family.
David 10 months ago (edited)
Yeah, I don't believe this at all. If someone did plan to do away with one of their kids, they wouldn't commit the crime in front of whoever was at the funeral. Plus if in the US - then legal issues about burying people without a death certificate from a doctor / coroner.
bElLa sTairZz 10 months ago
this reminds me alot of a similar story where the kid was pronounced dead, but woke up crying again in the coffin. plus in a small town with a heavily disabled kid a doctor could even pronounce them dead without checking properly for life, not everyone follows exact protocal afterall, and the kid would have been seen as being on the way out for a long time beforehand
Load More Replies... Kabuki Kitsune 10 months ago
This one is BS, as even in the 1950's, embalming was standard practice for bodies. So, even if the kid was knocked out when he got to the funeral home, he wouldn't have survived them draining all his blood and injecting embalming fluid in.
Neb 10 months ago
I think it might depend of how remote/rural it was. But everyone heard crying and did nothing? bit hard to believe
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Gotta be b******t. The entire congregation is fine with that? The Priest or whatever?? Yeah right...
#29
There were 2 no sleep stories that have stuck with me. One was about a guy going through depression where he eventually tries to end it. The way the writer describes the depression, is spot on. Talks about the lights going dim, how he tries to tell his family he needs help but that's not what comes out.
The other story is about a kidnapping of a child. The kidnapper takes the kids life fairly quick. Then he sends ransom notes to the family, with proof of life photos taken before the child's death, or faked in some way, I can't remember. The family agrees to pay the ransom, all the police the family everyone goes to the meet up point. The kidnapper goes to the family home and erases all images of the child. That was his goal the whole time.
Those two have stayed with me.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 10 months ago
NoSleep is a subreddit for creepy fiction, so it's not a surprise it doesn't make sense.
Load More Replies... Kabuki Kitsune 10 months ago
The second one looks to be somewhat based off an actual case that happened in Alaska. Where a guy kidnapped a girl, then killed her. He then took a photo with the body, her eyes glued open, and holding up a newspaper as 'proof of life' before he sent a ransom note to the family.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 10 months ago
Just an FYI - the NoSleep subreddit is for fictional stories, so they're not true/real stories. So if there are inconsistencies/things that don't make any sense in reality, it's because they're (...hopefully) all fictional stories XD
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#30
Many of the things mentioned here are Reddit staples, so here's one I never see anyone talk about. It's more creepy/obsessive than dark, but I keep thinking about it even so.
IIRC a few years back there was an askreddit thread about peculiar behaviors people were willing to admit to or something of the sort.
This one guy said he keeps a detailed wiki of his own life. The wiki contains entries on every person that made an impact on his life, and he updates it daily. He even posted a screenshot of one of the wiki pages about some other guy that details where they met, their interactions, relations to other people who had entries in the wiki etc.
The OP is likely on the spectrum or has some kind of OCD, as he said he updated the wiki religiously and spent a minimum of two hours each day on doing so.
Honestly, I'd really like to find that thread again. Hell, I'd like to reach out to the OP - maybe they'd include me in the wiki xD.
#31
It's not as dark as some of these but
The girl who worked with this guy that was basically obsessed with her. Documenting what she wore, how she had her hair. Apparently she got transferred and he flipped out, threatened s*icide or something. Had a stand off with the cops.
But he also mailed her all his diaries, which laid out his undying love for her and his plans of their future, but it also had all his writings about her appearance and even his opinions on her personal life that he pieced together by eavesdropping
Wish I could find it.
ebolapudding:
I think this might be what you're looking for. I read it ages ago and think I found it again with some google-fu.
Steïcy Gya 10 months ago
That was creepily crazy!!! I hope that the woman stays safe. These guys never seem to get out of it. Or sometimes they only pass to the next victim.
#32
A car crash video from India which showed a few kids partying, and then cuts to the aftermath of the accident caused by drunk driving.
Multiple heads severed and lying on the road. Kinda looked like they were sleeping, which made it even more spine tingling.
#33
To me its the guy whose favorite teacher groomed another student, and he basically tried to chastize the kid who got groomed because he had "behavioral problems" or something along the lines. That one definitely feels wrong everytime I stumble upon it on youtube shorts.
Skywitness 10 months ago
That was a problem in my daughter's HS. Several male teachers lost their jobs because they felt their female students were "fair game." One did eventually lose his job and married his student after she graduated.
#34
Two stand out. Both are not Dark in a sense.
First one.
The thread was about medical people sharing “patients last days” stories. I’ll be paraphrasing here.
One nurse loved spending time with a 90yo patient. The female nurse mentioned how the 90yo lady brought joy to the entire hospital. The nurse was also trying for years to get pregnant with her husband. There were “close calls”, miscarriages and lot of disappointment.
One day the nurse found out she’s pregnant. In order not to Jinx it, she did not share the news with anyone. Only her husband knew.
The nurse was a few months pregnant, but still able to “conceal” the pregnancy. She walked into her fav patients room to check for vitals. The old patient lady said something to the effect of “I’m think I’m ready to go. I want to leave this world”. Lady paused, and tapped the nurses belly and said “don’t worry, I’ll take care of her”.
The following day the old lady passed away. That same week, the nurse miscarried.
Story 2
This one isn’t dark. Just hit home.
I just got divorced. I ended up living in the boonies by myself. It was ideal for me. Tranquility and peace was what I needed. I picked up running and made it a mission to finish a marathon. I got tired listening to the same songs so I listened to Reddit stories on YouTube. For some reason the stories made my runs smooth and bearable.
I listened to one story that hit home. Guy went through the same thing, an ex’s infidelity. I must’ve ran an extra 5 miles listening to the guy. He did everything right in regard to the separation and divorce. He did everything I wish I did.
The story made feel like I’m not alone. I still have the link on my phone and listen to it once in a while.
#35
The one about the guy who’s wife survived cancer and decided that she deserved to have an affair which she asked him to accept but when he couldn’t she apologized for putting him in that place and then had it anyway.
#36
The story where somebody as a teen m*sturbated in a sock, but once he left it on the furnace and caused a house fire. Then his family were in trouble about finding another decent place to live for a couple of years. He never told the secret in real life.
#37
Not the darkest but the story about the girlfriend using her boyfriend’s socks to wipe her poop was crazy. Serious mental issues.
#38
That poor guy whose dad always beats him with jumper cables.
mcmanninc:
I can't believe that was 9 years ago. That just doesn't seem right. Oh, well. I'm off to stare at the lamp some more. Maybe this time it'll be my ticket out of here.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 10 months ago
"For the uninitiated, it was a novelty [satire/joke] account, u/rogersimon10. Rogersimon10 always ended his [comments] by mentioning how his dad beat him with jumper cables."
#39
I'm not sure if this one ever made it to reddit.
But the girl who was putting rotten meat in her v*gina and she loved the feeling of the maggots moving around or something?
Carrie B 10 months ago
I love that they censor the word v a gina but still post the disgusting story lol
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Lee Banks 10 months ago
This sounds like a version of an urban legend I heard in middle school in the 90s.
Kabuki Kitsune 10 months ago
2000's, early Snopes entry if memory serves. Never was verified. Believed fake.
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#40
I remember not here but one of those YT channels reposting disturbing posts. One I remember was this OP confessing that they drowned their little sister over a broken book, I think OP was like 5 and sister was 2. The aftermath is one of those 'Jasoninhell' or 'Coconut Oil' kinds of gut wrenching you wish to unsee.
#41
When reddit thought they “solved” the Boston Marathon bombing and falsely accused somebody who was innocent.
Drogovich:
reminds me of more recent thing with smartschoolboy. Reddit fumbled it big time and the attention of reddit detectives only resulted in the creep removing the evidence and dissapearing.
#42
I think all of the gangstalking subreddit qualifies for this - not least because they have something in the rules that says "if you say we're crazy & need help you will be banned from the subreddit"
it's heartbreaking that they've created a community for support & to help them but inadvertently created something that furthers their delusions.
#43
I've been on Reddit for quite a while now and remember being told about an AMA from a n*crophiliac. I read through it a little then posted a joke of heard that was on topic, thinking nothing much of it. The poster replied, saying he liked it and wrote another necro joke that made me feel a little sick reading it. Early AMAs were wild.
#44
This post was made by an account belonging to Brian Cohee, an extremely unhinged teen who ended up brutally m*rdering and dissecting a homeless person and ended up being locked away for life.
There is a comment at the top listing his previous deleted reddit posts that were basically his diary. It is HORRIFYING to read.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 10 months ago
I actually recently watched one of those "true crime" type reports on Brian Cohee. It included police bodycam footage of when they first confronted/arrested him (tl;dr, his family found some body parts he'd kept as "trophies" from his kill) and he was just totally calm about it. He said "I murdered him" when the cop asked him how he ended up with the body parts in his room, in the tone of voice a normal person would say "I'm going to the market." He was very relaxed during police interviews and said things like "I've been wanting to murder someone for a long time" and "Ted Bundy and the Zodiac killer said murder is the best feeling in the world, so I'm like, I'm going to try that." Cohee is a complete monster. His excuse was that he was "in a bad state of mind" and "hadn't taken his meds" (he has ADHD.) He'd been planning it for a long time and had a "murder kit" (zipties, shovel, etc.) Cohee was sentenced to life in prison with NO chance of parole.
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I remember someone cut one of his balls(left nut?) because he lost a bet and upload a video.
Michael Largey 10 months ago
Leaving the job half done. Removing the other testicle would have safeguarded the world from him reproducing.
Robert Beveridge 10 months ago
What in the living f**k were you betting on for those stakes? I
Skogsrået 10 months ago
Hmmm, halfway there cause he didn't off himself nore sterilise himself.
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There's a video of an attempted robbery of a vape shop where the worker stabbed one of the robbers to death after he jumped the counter. The video has made the rounds, its the one where the robber says "im dead, im dead" while he gets stabbed.
The worker essentially made a reddit post immediately after this happened talking about k**ling the guy and everybody pretty much unanimously told him to delete the post and talk to a lawyer. It might have been an AMA but I can't remember, I know I saw the OG post though and it was crazy. Pretty sure he caught some hefty charges and the post was used to incriminate him.
He posted a video of himself stabbing the dude and did an AMA. Don't think the robber actually died but the whole thread is still crazy though, here's a quote:
>_______no________:
You looked like you had some stabbing experience. Was that your first time, or did you play through similar situations in your head before?
>xiaomxlo
never been in this situation before or anything similar. But I feel like i learned to stay calm under pressure because of my experience playing league, teamfights made my heart rate rise but i was able to keep calm in that. weird how stuff in games can apply in real life.
Scott Rackley 10 months ago
Jumped the counter for robbery and got stabbed? I don't see the problem.
#47
It’s not unknown, but one that sticks with me is the guy who tried datura leaves, despite everyone advising against it. Specifically the last comment he made.Just really depressing.
It could be made up of course, but it’s just really sad as I have lost people in real life due to similar issues. It seems the comments he made on the initial post are gone, but I’m sure you can find them somewhere online.
#48
WarPhalange faked having cancer for karma.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 10 months ago
A Reddit user, apparently. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/qdmb8/comment/c3wsz9s/
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There was a guy who went insane after becoming obsessed with the concept of Quantum Immortality, he made multiple posts on Reddit talking about it with multiple nights of intense insomnia, with each post his mental health deteriorated until he stopped posting all together. It’s assumed he k*lled himself, though that’s not yet been confirmed.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 10 months ago
Wow...quantum immortality is an interesting topic to read about, but I didn't think anyone hasd ever taken it that far. That's sad.
What do you think ?
David Beth 10 months ago
Enough with the 'unalive' nonsense. Pretending death and suicide aren't real won't remove them from reality. It's OK to say "dead". It's OK to say "kill". It's even OK to say the word suicide. Enough already.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 10 months ago
David, it's not about pretending death, suicide, and murder doesn't exist - it's because the companies who purchase ad space on Bored Panda don't want words involving death/murder/suicide or rape/illegal substances appearing on a site they're advertising on, to prevent any possible associations with their brand. Unhinged? Sure, but it's about ad revenue and companies who take out ads on the site, not because BP is worried about triggering people.
Load More Replies... Multa Nocte 10 months ago
Got to about #15 and then asked myself why the hell I was reading these. It's been a particularly low day for BP with articles like this. BP - do you remember when you used to be nice? When you used to publish pleasant things, positive things? My fault, however, for having started reading these out of boredom. Thank God for Hidrėlėy who keeps me here at BP.
Mike F 10 months ago
These started out weird and got horrifying. Jeez, and it's late night here! 😳
Karen Bryan 10 months ago
I see the urban legend phenomenon is still going strong. I recommend the books by Jan Brunvand on the subject.
David Beth 10 months ago
Enough with the 'unalive' nonsense. Pretending death and suicide aren't real won't remove them from reality. It's OK to say "dead". It's OK to say "kill". It's even OK to say the word suicide. Enough already.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 10 months ago
David, it's not about pretending death, suicide, and murder doesn't exist - it's because the companies who purchase ad space on Bored Panda don't want words involving death/murder/suicide or rape/illegal substances appearing on a site they're advertising on, to prevent any possible associations with their brand. Unhinged? Sure, but it's about ad revenue and companies who take out ads on the site, not because BP is worried about triggering people.
Load More Replies... Multa Nocte 10 months ago
Got to about #15 and then asked myself why the hell I was reading these. It's been a particularly low day for BP with articles like this. BP - do you remember when you used to be nice? When you used to publish pleasant things, positive things? My fault, however, for having started reading these out of boredom. Thank God for Hidrėlėy who keeps me here at BP.
Mike F 10 months ago
These started out weird and got horrifying. Jeez, and it's late night here! 😳
Karen Bryan 10 months ago
I see the urban legend phenomenon is still going strong. I recommend the books by Jan Brunvand on the subject.
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