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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.
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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
#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.
#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!!
#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.
#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.
#7
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?
#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?
#9
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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#26
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
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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?
#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.
#45
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.
#46
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.
#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.
#49
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.
Lyoness 10 months ago
On Boxing Day a few years ago in Ontario, a man stabbed his wife while his son watched, shot the child, set his house on fire, them shot himself. All three died. The wife planned to take her son and leave and the husband knew it - she just wanted the family to have one last Christmas together. He decided to kill them rather than lose them.
Igor914624 10 months ago
There is a video on youtube where two 20 something (I think) Indian women are taking selfies next to the water, and a huge crocodile attacks and eats the woman closest to the camera. It all happens in seconds and you can briefly see her legs hanging out of the croc's mouth still twitching.
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.
Lyoness 10 months ago
On Boxing Day a few years ago in Ontario, a man stabbed his wife while his son watched, shot the child, set his house on fire, them shot himself. All three died. The wife planned to take her son and leave and the husband knew it - she just wanted the family to have one last Christmas together. He decided to kill them rather than lose them.
Igor914624 10 months ago
There is a video on youtube where two 20 something (I think) Indian women are taking selfies next to the water, and a huge crocodile attacks and eats the woman closest to the camera. It all happens in seconds and you can briefly see her legs hanging out of the croc's mouth still twitching.
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