The Thread of Creepy

[theimage13]

I really missed this one from the old ETS...it kept me up waaaaaaaaaaay too late on a number of nights. Post creepy shit here. Photos, videos, stories, whatever.

This kind of gives me the willies. I'm always skeptical of "ghost shows," but even if there's an innocent explanation, I know that if I ever witnessed that in person, I'd be freaked the fuck out.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9L7QLzNLa4&feature=player_embedded

[Fixer808]

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1113/5147670245_bbc7e0712f.jpg
This place. It is all of the creepy. Crease Clinic, ex mental asylum, now used by the film industry for various interiors/exteriors. Battlestar fans will recognize the outside steps there as the front of the building Starbuck was imprisoned in on Caprica. Once you're the last person out of the building at night, not much else is creepy. Especially considering the fact that the STILL ACTIVE part of the institution is just up the hill. Awesome.

[halloween]

ugh i hate HDR photography...

(yeah, that's all i have to contribute.)

[DF118]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns1SGo3WCF4

[Christo]

ugh i hate HDR photography...

(yeah, that's all i have to contribute.)
I was literally about to type that the only thing scary about that building was the photograph itself.

[Harry Seaward]

It has been reported that some victims of torture, during the act, would retreat into a fantasy world from which they could not wake up. In this catatonic state, the victim lived in a world just like their normal one, except they weren’t being tortured. The only way that they realized they needed to wake up was a note they found in their fantasy world. It would tell them about their condition, and tell them to wake up. Even then, it would often take months until they were ready to discard their fantasy world and please wake up.

[marodi]

One of my favorite threads on Old ETS; glad to see it back! I have some of the links that were posted on the other thread on my old computer; I'll see if I can dig them out.

In the mean time, I saw this a while ago on cracked.com and it scared the heck out of me. I've often found sounds to be as creepy as images (if not more sometimes) and this is one of them.

According to cracked (http://www.cracked.com/article_18381_the-5-creepiest-unexplained-broadcasts_p2.html), it's called the "Backward Music Station" and it's broadcasting "
something from the fucking bowels of Hell itself". You can read more in the article, including attempts at an explanation for it. Here is an example of what it sounds like:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgF9ZlI_R-8&feature=player_embedded

[Torgo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgF9ZlI_R-8&feature=player_embedded

Produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

[richardp]

What was the thing about the russian hikers who went apeshit over night? Because that was terrifying.

[marodi]

What was the thing about the russian hikers who went apeshit over night? Because that was terrifying.
The Dyatlov Pass incident (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident)

One of my favorite creepy thing. This would make such a terrifying movie!

HEAR THAT, HOLLYWOOD? YOU SHOULD START WORKING ON THAT INSTEAD OF REMAKING MOVIES THAT WERE DONE LESS THAN 10 YEARS AGO!

[Torgo]

This thread might be naming a few creepy/weird videos that should be checked out... (http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/nnpuh/reddit_what_is_the_scariest_creepiest_video_out)

[the exit]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_State_Hospital_at_Byberry
I got to sneak into this place before it got demolished when I was in college, definetely the coolest/creepiest place I've ever been in.
http://www.hauntednorthamerica.com/byberry.jpg

[carpenoctem]

It has been reported that some victims of torture, during the act, would retreat into a fantasy world from which they could not wake up. In this catatonic state, the victim lived in a world just like their normal one, except they weren’t being tortured. The only way that they realized they needed to wake up was a note they found in their fantasy world. It would tell them about their condition, and tell them to wake up. Even then, it would often take months until they were ready to discard their fantasy world and please wake up.

UGH I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

I was listening to Kate Bush's "Waking the Witch" the other day and there's this part full of people whispering "wake up!" and it made me think of this.

[The Reason Being]

I thought this was pretty creepy...

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31 (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcomic.naver.com%2Fwebtoon%2Fd etail.nhn%3FtitleId%3D350217%26no%3D31&h=rAQFpluI2)

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[DF118]

I thought this was pretty creepy...

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31 (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcomic.naver.com%2Fwebtoon%2Fd etail.nhn%3FtitleId%3D350217%26no%3D31&h=rAQFpluI2)

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Oh, you utter utter bastard.

I just actually screamed like a total pussy.

Not even half way through.

[halloween]

I thought this was pretty creepy...

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31 (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcomic.naver.com%2Fwebtoon%2Fd etail.nhn%3FtitleId%3D350217%26no%3D31&h=rAQFpluI2)

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Jesus christ!!! Both fucking times, just sent intense shocks through my body (you know, the deer in the headlights type of feeling since i'm not a screamer unless someone else screams first)

[DF118]

Jesus christ!!! Both fucking times, just sent intense shocks through my body (you know, the deer in the headlights type of feeling since i'm not a screamer unless someone else screams first)

I have never been that scared by something on the internet before. If ever. Fuck.

[The Reason Being]

I feel kinda bad now lol, although it scared the crap out of me too.

[theimage13]

All I get is a Facebook page with a security warning...what's so scary about that?

[scorpiusdiamond]

All I get is a Facebook page with a security warning...what's so scary about that?

Copy and paste the link. I wasn't even reading it properly and I freaked out. I think if I had the suspense followed by the OH GOD would've given me a heart attack.

[marodi]

I feel kinda bad now lol, although it scared the crap out of me too.

Don't feel bad, it's the most AWESOME thing I've seen in a long time. I love it!

[lady weetly]

Oh god, I saw that months ago and it scared the living shit out of me. Didn't help that I read it right before bed because that image was like imbedded into my eyeballs before sleeping.

[danebraddy]

I thought this was pretty creepy...

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31 (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcomic.naver.com%2Fwebtoon%2Fd etail.nhn%3FtitleId%3D350217%26no%3D31&h=rAQFpluI2)

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I hope my coworkers don't realize I just shit myself.

[xmd 5a]

http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-series

Lots of interesting/creepy pieces here.

[Eos]

I thought this was pretty creepy...

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31 (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcomic.naver.com%2Fwebtoon%2Fd etail.nhn%3FtitleId%3D350217%26no%3D31&h=rAQFpluI2)

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HOLY FUCK. I closed the tab without reading the rest.I'll be sleeping with my light on tonight, thanks.

ETA: It's also kind of freaky how the page doesn't really let you scroll back up once you scroll to the terrifying thing.

[coolguy]

(http://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-with-really-obvious-solutions.html)The Dyatlov Pass incident (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident)

One of my favorite creepy thing. This would make such a terrifying movie!

HEAR THAT, HOLLYWOOD? YOU SHOULD START WORKING ON THAT INSTEAD OF REMAKING MOVIES THAT WERE DONE LESS THAN 10 YEARS AGO!


http://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-with-really-obvious-solutions.html (http://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-with-really-obvious-solutions.html)
The first one.

[Alexandros]

HOLY FUCK. I closed the tab without reading the rest.I'll be sleeping with my light on tonight, thanks.

ETA: It's also kind of freaky how the page doesn't really let you scroll back up once you scroll to the terrifying thing.

The thing is, it doesn't seem to work always. The first couple of times I was scrolling down, the...um...thing that was supposed to happen, didn't, it just scrolled down normally, so it wasn't scary. Third time's a charm however, it was quite more unnerving then!

[sentient02970]

The Dyatlov Pass incident (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident)

One of my favorite creepy thing. This would make such a terrifying movie!

HEAR THAT, HOLLYWOOD? YOU SHOULD START WORKING ON THAT INSTEAD OF REMAKING MOVIES THAT WERE DONE LESS THAN 10 YEARS AGO!

Wow I love this kind of "what the hell happened here?" kind of events. Never heard of this until now. I only hope, if hollywood does decide to do something on it that it NOT be yet another "we found some footage and here it is in raw form" type of film. That whole deal is getting old. I far prefer the "here's what we discovered and here is our best guess as to how it occurred" kind of movie.

[Delusional]

The thing is, it doesn't seem to work always. The first couple of times I was scrolling down, the...um...thing that was supposed to happen, didn't, it just scrolled down normally, so it wasn't scary. Third time's a charm however, it was quite more unnerving then!

Haha, I was wondering what the fuck every one was going on about, No Script beats cheap jump scares.

This is the kind of stuff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs) that truly creeps me out.

[theimage13]

I thought this was pretty creepy...

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31 (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcomic.naver.com%2Fwebtoon%2Fd etail.nhn%3FtitleId%3D350217%26no%3D31&h=rAQFpluI2)

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I'm amazed at the response this is getting. I read this at work today, and just kind of shrugged at the end. Post in a spoilers-esque way if you want, but what the hell was so scary about that?

[theruiner]

I'm amazed at the response this is getting. I read this at work today, and just kind of shrugged at the end. Post in a spoilers-esque way if you want, but what the hell was so scary about that?I felt the same way. I mean, it startled me a tiny bit, but that was about it.

[The Reason Being]

Well umm, *spoiler* I guess!

I was sat in a dark room with my headphones on full when I checked it out, and had never previously been informed of the idea that comics could suddenly animate in front of your face and blare a horrible noise in your ear.

Like looking at a painting of a cow and hearing it moo, except completely unlike that. haha

[halloween]

[URL="http://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-with-really-obvious-solutions.html"]

http://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-with-really-obvious-solutions.html (http://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-with-really-obvious-solutions.html)
The first one.

Hah, that list is great. I especially like the hopkinsville goblin case.

[Torgo]

Apparently there are these sounds that people are hearing all over the world from "the sky" and they are now calling it "UAO" - unidentified audible objects - and that they only just started this year.

This is a montage of some example videos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ2ZcmMxehk&feature=related)

This blog has been following and debunking / exploring a lot of them. (http://strangesoundsinthesky.com/)

Some people are likening it to the sounds of the trumpets of the apocalypse. Or something.

[theruiner]

Some people are likening it to the sounds of the trumpets of the apocalypse. Or something.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVwCYJj4THQ

[REPLICA]

Some people are likening it to the sounds of the trumpets of the apocalypse. Or something.

That video creeped me out! Now I'm going to be paranoid when I go outside...

Four things I think it could be... 1) it could be the trumpets (of the apocalypse) or 2) (I hate to be all NIN fan about it) it could be the Presence (although it's not showing up visually yet) or 3) Massive shifts in atmospheric pressure change in high altitude or 4) Government(s) conspiracy.


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I thought I could hear children laughing in the Conklin, Alberta Canada clip.

[JessicaSarahS]

I've been keeping an eye on that topic lately and getting super creeped out by it in the process. :(

I like this video.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEvXII4ntZQ

A later news article says it was speaker feedback.

[Alexandros]

Apparently there are these sounds that people are hearing all over the world from "the sky" and they are now calling it "UAO" - unidentified audible objects - and that they only just started this year.

Some people are likening it to the sounds of the trumpets of the apocalypse. Or something.

I caught up on this subject a few days ago too, if it's legit it's very creepy and awesome at the same time. But I have a feeling that at least some of the videos (in general, not necessarily the ones you posted) are bullshit, in one video the sounds heard are very clearly the blaring of the Tripods from Spielberg's War of the Worlds. Is there a way to tell if a sound has been added in a video artificially?

EDIT: The blog you linked to is very helpful, it appears that some of the videos are definitely fake, in that they have the exact sounds (blaring, birds, background noises and all) as others. But there also genuine videos for sure. Some of the rumbles/hummings/whistling sounds seem undisputable, the question is what is causing them. Right now, my money is on atmospheric, electromagnetic phenomena. Similar occurances have been recorded as far back as mid-19th century. One person in the blog commented that in that period of the 19th century, the largest solar flare ever recorded had occured (Carrington super flare). Whatever the cause, the sounds are creepy as hell.

[frankie teardrop]

two contributions. firstly, the entire concept of this skeeves the shit out of me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo

and then there's these books, these stories, and the artwork:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_stories_to_tell_in_the_dark


http://johnnycompton.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/oh-susanna.jpg

^this one is my yearly christmas facebook default photo, with a santa hat photoshopped on the demon in the sky.

[JessicaSarahS]

and then there's these books, these stories, and the artwork:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_stories_to_tell_in_the_dark


I loved those books! I owned all three when I was a kid, but lost them over the years :( The artwork was so scary and amazing. I would sit and stare at it over and over, I loved it!

[theimage13]

I loved those books! I owned all three when I was a kid, but lost them over the years :( The artwork was so scary and amazing. I would sit and stare at it over and over, I loved it!

Ditto. I remember the stories kind of creeped me out, but the pictures scared the shit out of me when I read them under the covers with a flashlight at night.

[Fixer808]

Apparently there are these sounds that people are hearing all over the world from "the sky" and they are now calling it "UAO" - unidentified audible objects - and that they only just started this year.

This is a montage of some example videos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ2ZcmMxehk&feature=related)

This blog has been following and debunking / exploring a lot of them. (http://strangesoundsinthesky.com/)

Some people are likening it to the sounds of the trumpets of the apocalypse. Or something.
Well, the YZ miniseries IS in the works... ;D

[YKWYA]

Red State 2 ARG?

[theruiner]

Red State 2Dude, don't even joke about that!

[Frozen Beach]

http://youtu.be/CnJIBfH2GBI
This video is by far one of the freakiest "sounds from the sky" videos out there. It's like a scene from a David Lynch film.

[theimage13]

Apparently there are these sounds that people are hearing all over the world from "the sky" and they are now calling it "UAO" - unidentified audible objects - and that they only just started this year.

This is a montage of some example videos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ2ZcmMxehk&feature=related)

This blog has been following and debunking / exploring a lot of them. (http://strangesoundsinthesky.com/)

Some people are likening it to the sounds of the trumpets of the apocalypse. Or something.

Holy shit...it just hit me. This is exactly like what I noticed before bed about a week ago. I live about two miles from a small airport (no jets, just small planes), and chalked it up as air traffic...until I realized that it was drawing out a lot longer than any plane I'd heard here before, and without seeming to change distance. I creeped me out a bit that night, but I honestly hadn't thought about it again until now.

[Jinsai]

Absolutely terrifying....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kvenmWEhFE

[october_midnight]

Oh man those Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark books freaked me out as a kid. The one where the guy's in the back seat of the woman's car, and you think the guy following her in his car flashing his headlights on is the killer, but he was just flashing them on every time the guy in the backseat of her car would rise up to stab her, just to scare him back down....wigged the hell outta me.

[coolguy]

I've been keeping an eye on that topic lately and getting super creeped out by it in the process. :(

I like this video.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEvXII4ntZQ

A later news article says it was speaker feedback.
Haha I saw that game live, and about 150 other Rays games this past season. The sound is the wind. Tropicana Field is the last indoor baseball stadium (some have retractable roofs now) and when it storms, which is quite frequently in St. Pete, then wind can get to sounding pretty crazy.
Oh and Rays to win the World Series in 2012 ;)

[theimage13]

So....nothing creepy happening lately? Nuts. Kinda want to scare myself out of sleeping tonight.

[carpenoctem]

A Good Night Story (http://iwastesomuchtime.com/on/?i=29065)

Wish I could just post this in here directly, but whatevs. This kept me up on the night I saw it!

[theimage13]

I love the real short ones like that. Since I haven't lived with my parents in years (and never in a two story house), that one in particular doesn't really get under my skin. But it is kind of spooky to imagine that scenario.

[sentient02970]

I lived in an old house that had me convinced it was haunted. Similar to the "mom downstairs" I recall my wife yelling at our daughter to go to bed after seeing her cross the computer room down the hall. At that very moment her older sister was standing with us and said "um, mom she's already in bed, that wasn't her". We'd occasionally see/hear other odd stuff since then until we called the landlord and asked if they ever heard reports of odd stuff in the house. The landlord got instantly defensive asking "What what did you see? It's all been reported as benign and never malevolent. Have you told anyone else?" Right then I knew this was more than a bunch of weird coincidences.

[Christo]

Four things I think it could be.2) (I hate to be all NIN fan about it) it could be the Presence (although it's not showing up visually yet)
Prepare yourself for dying alone.

[theimage13]

and then there's these books, these stories, and the artwork:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_stories_to_tell_in_the_dark


http://johnnycompton.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/oh-susanna.jpg

I meant to look for those when I went home for Easter last week, and completely forgot. Decided to take a back road on my way home from my Saturday bagel walk, and found the first and third books - with the original artwork - at a garage sale for ten cents each. These are going to stay in my bunk when I go back out on tour. Can't wait to read these in the dim light in a small bunk out on rural highways in the middle of the night.

[Goldfoot]

two contributions. firstly, the entire concept of this skeeves the shit out of me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo

My grandpa used to tell me about this when I was a kid and we were camping in the woods. Nice, huh? Gotta love local legends.

[henryeatscereal]

This is an oldie but what the fuck, it reminded me Jinsai's post:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezkx07HYylo

[theimage13]

Thanks to these clips, I'm inspired to fire up Netflix and watch this for the first time since the original airing.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy_OzBEXhMA

This episode scared the fuck out of me, my brother, and my mom when we watched it that night.

[theimage13]

A few years ago, a mother and father decided they needed a break, so they wanted to head out for a night on the town. They called their most trusted babysitter. When the babysitter arrived, the two children were already fast asleep in bed. So the babysitter just got to sit around and make sure everything was okay with the children.

Later that night, the babysitter got bored and went to watch TV, but she couldn’t watch it downstairs because they did not have cable downstairs (the parents didn’t want children watching too much garbage). So, she called them and asked them if she could watch cable in the parent’s room. Of course, the parents said it was ok, but the babysitter had one final request… she asked if she could cover up the angel statue outside the bedroom window with a blanket or cloth, at the very least close the blinds, because it made her nervous.

The phone line was silent for a moment, and the father who was talking to the babysitter at the time said, “Take the children and get out of the house… we will call the police. We do not have an angel statue.”
The police found all three of the house occupants dead within three minutes of the call. No angel statue was ever found.

[DF118]

Has anyone ever heard of the Eridanus Supervoid? It's a hole in the universe that was discovered in 2007, with absolutely nothing it it. No planets, no stars, no dark energy, nothing. It's bigger than any other known hole in the observable universe. At one billion light years wide, and nobody has any concrete idea what caused it (because it shouldn't exist according to what we know about the creation of the universe being relatively uniform) or what it's doing there.

One billion lightyears wide is inconceivably massive, see. And there's nothing in it.

The best explanation anyone has right now is that it's a super-super massive black hole, sitting there in space, munching on entire galaxies. Here's a picture, it's crappy but can help you get an idea of the scale involved.

http://www.solstation.com/x-objects/void2com.jpg

[henryeatscereal]

i heard of the "Deep Web" if it helps

[theimage13]

Was there a special on Discovery or anything like that in the last couple of years that explained what would happen if the sun went supernova or we got sucked into a black hole or something like that? I vaguely remember someone mentioning that they saw something on the topic, and that it was one of the most disturbing things they've ever come across.

[Fixer808]

A few years ago, a mother and father decided they needed a break, so they wanted to head out for a night on the town. They called their most trusted babysitter. When the babysitter arrived, the two children were already fast asleep in bed. So the babysitter just got to sit around and make sure everything was okay with the children.

Later that night, the babysitter got bored and went to watch TV, but she couldn’t watch it downstairs because they did not have cable downstairs (the parents didn’t want children watching too much garbage). So, she called them and asked them if she could watch cable in the parent’s room. Of course, the parents said it was ok, but the babysitter had one final request… she asked if she could cover up the angel statue outside the bedroom window with a blanket or cloth, at the very least close the blinds, because it made her nervous.

The phone line was silent for a moment, and the father who was talking to the babysitter at the time said, “Take the children and get out of the house… we will call the police. We do not have an angel statue.”
The police found all three of the house occupants dead within three minutes of the call. No angel statue was ever found.
UPDATE:
They actually found it, but the STATUE OF LIMITATIONS HAD RUN OUT!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!











Sorry.

[theimage13]

I love you.

[playwithfire]

http://hermits-united.net/images/em/we.jpg

Don't Blink.

[Ryan]

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxa10vutoJ1r9zzdto1_500.png

[theimage13]

Wow, this (http://www.xboxmb.com/forum/10-general-discussion/26436-woo-creepy-pasta-thread.html#post277591) actually made my heart skip a beat. If you don't see anything after staring at the circle for a few seconds, scroll down to the last post.

[halloween]

Anyone want to take some psychology test?
http://www.hypnoid.com/EM_entropy/

[henryeatscereal]

mwahaha!

http://thecount.com/wp-content/uploads/canyouseeitviral.jpg

[M1ke]

Anyone want to take some psychology test?
http://www.hypnoid.com/EM_entropy/

What the heck was that?

[carpenoctem]

I absolutely LOVE the whole "when you see it..." pic trend. That one of the living room actually made me jump when I saw it, but it took me forever.

[ImTheWiseJanitor]

I guess I'll post this here.

After work last night/this morning (around 4:30 am, so it was still plenty dark), I felt like going for a drive and just parking out of town somewhere to look at the stars for a while. I haven't done that for a couple years. Felt pretty good. Just parked and laid out on the back of the car for about 15 or 20 minutes.

But when I hopped off my trunk to head home, I just happened to look up in the sky over the hood of my car, and I saw the weirdest fucking shooting star/UFO/whatever the fuck I've seen in a looong time. (I swear to God, I saw one when I was little. No doubt about it. I still remember where I was and everything.) It was only for a second or two, but this huge red/white light was falling at an almost horizontal angle, like any shooting star, and after a moment of following that path, it just veered straight down from where it was, no curve or anything, like it just dropped straight from the sky to somewhere I couldn't see. It was completely quiet out there, not a car or house for miles, and all I could say was "What in the fuck??" out loud, and I stood there for a minute to see if I could hear or see anything else...Nothin'. So I just drove home and kept looking out the window in that direction, hoping I'd see something else.

It very well could have been some kind of weird shooting star or debris I guess, but the way that thing moved was too...I dunno, unnatural. I don't know of anything that moves in the sky that just makes 90 degree turns/drops THAT fast.

[henryeatscereal]

I guess I'll post this here.

After work last night/this morning (around 4:30 am, so it was still plenty dark), I felt like going for a drive and just parking out of town somewhere to look at the stars for a while. I haven't done that for a couple years. Felt pretty good. Just parked and laid out on the back of the car for about 15 or 20 minutes.

But when I hopped off my trunk to head home, I just happened to look up in the sky over the hood of my car, and I saw the weirdest fucking shooting star/UFO/whatever the fuck I've seen in a looong time. (I swear to God, I saw one when I was little. No doubt about it. I still remember where I was and everything.) It was only for a second or two, but this huge red/white light was falling at an almost horizontal angle, like any shooting star, and after a moment of following that path, it just veered straight down from where it was, no curve or anything, like it just dropped straight from the sky to somewhere I couldn't see. It was completely quiet out there, not a car or house for miles, and all I could say was "What in the fuck??" out loud, and I stood there for a minute to see if I could hear or see anything else...Nothin'. So I just drove home and kept looking out the window in that direction, hoping I'd see something else.

It very well could have been some kind of weird shooting star or debris I guess, but the way that thing moved was too...I dunno, unnatural. I don't know of anything that moves in the sky that just makes 90 degree turns/drops THAT fast.
I saw a UFO or something too not long ago, it was shocking, it was just "lights in the sky" (no Pun intended) and they disapeared but the were very low, so im pretty sure it wasn't a plane, it was creepy alright!

[ImTheWiseJanitor]

I saw a UFO or something too not long ago, it was shocking, it was just "lights in the sky" (no Pun intended) and they disapeared but the were very low, so im pretty sure it wasn't a plane, it was creepy alright!

I wish I could say I've seen anything like that. I see satellites all the time (of course, part of me wonders if it's something else. Not like anyone can tell for sure, it's in friggin' space), but almost never anything like that.

I remember another time when I was on a walk a few years ago, on a pretty well-lit street right by our house. I mean, I could walk 5 feet to my right and hop the fence, and I'd be in you backyard. I was just walking along, my head down and kinda nodding to some music, and I remember seeing a BRIGHT blue light light up the entire area around me. I thought it was a car, so I glanced behind me to move out of its way, but it was nothing. I looked around really quick, looked up at the sky, and there was a fucking...something, flying through the sky. It wasn't a ship or vessel or thing with lights on it, but it looks like a really, REALLY low shooting star or something. It was low enough that it freaked me out and stopped me dead in my tracks and had me bracing for some kind of impact. I could see bits and chunks flying off of this thing while it was giving off a really bright blue and white light. After a couple seconds, it broke up into several flying pieces and it all just disappeared.

Whatever it was, I just couldn't believe how freaking bright it was. I've never seen anything in the sky close enough to light up an already lit-up city street, except for fireworks. But this thing was definitely NOT a firework. Definitely some random debris or something. Damn near gave me a heart attack when I saw it falling.

By the way, the videos about the noises remind me of when I stumbled across this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum

[theimage13]

I absolutely LOVE the whole "when you see it..." pic trend. That one of the living room actually made me jump when I saw it, but it took me forever.

Yeah. The beauty of these is that they can't be too hard to create - the human eye is naturally drawn towards the brightest point in an image (or so claimed every photo professor I ever had), so all you have to do is get a nice bright photo with an inauspicious corner in which to hide something freaky. This one doesn't quite fit that description, but it startled me when I caught it.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110702232124/creepypasta/images/d/d5/What-is-wrong28.jpg

[Jinsai]

mwahaha!

http://thecount.com/wp-content/uploads/canyouseeitviral.jpg

I've been staring at this for a few minutes, and I don't see it. A little help?

EDIT: that skull thing? Was hard to see with screen glare

[Big Fat Matt]

Anyone want to take some psychology test?
http://www.hypnoid.com/EM_entropy/

that was 100% accurate. i think im going to shit myself

[Nyx]

I've been staring at this for a few minutes, and I don't see it. A little help?
Lower left corner. And it's been staring back at you this whole time.

[halloween]

that was 100% accurate. i think im going to shit myself

yeah....i took some of their other ones too and it was creepy and accurate. then you have to read the information about how these tests came about, equally a creepy story. the guy was commissioned by some doctors overseas...and well, if you have the time read the info because it's very strange.

[nemesiswontdie]

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo14/nemesiswontdie2/empty.jpg

[henryeatscereal]

This one always disturbs me

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__g1Ebj9yxS4/SVed8j7UXEI/AAAAAAAAAAk/VP9pUmMiN4E/s1600/fantasmas%2B2.jpg

[Jinsai]

pure nightmare fodder

http://io9.com/5913114/vintage-ventriloquism-portraits-were-incredibly-unnerving?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

[marodi]

pure nightmare fodder

http://io9.com/5913114/vintage-ventriloquism-portraits-were-incredibly-unnerving?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Oh man, the horror stories are almost writing themselves. I was almost certain to really have nightmares from seeing these pictures but then, I clicked this link at the bottom of the page:

http://io9.com/5907063/holy-crap-these-bees-will-drink-tears-from-your-eyes

I am never going outside again. Excuse me while I'm going to tape my doors and windows.

[henryeatscereal]

i like this thread :)

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/deadcall.asp

:O

[Jinsai]

Oh man, the horror stories are almost writing themselves. I was almost certain to really have nightmares from seeing these pictures but then, I clicked this link at the bottom of the page:

http://io9.com/5907063/holy-crap-these-bees-will-drink-tears-from-your-eyes

I am never going outside again. Excuse me while I'm going to tape my doors and windows.

Given that I'm allergic to bees, this definitely messes with my head.

[Beef of the Sea]

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo14/nemesiswontdie2/empty.jpg

That décor sure is terrifying.


On another note, someone just sent me uncensored footage of a triple fatality car crash, Yay friends.

[Sutekh]

Yeah. The beauty of these is that they can't be too hard to create - the human eye is naturally drawn towards the brightest point in an image (or so claimed every photo professor I ever had), so all you have to do is get a nice bright photo with an inauspicious corner in which to hide something freaky. This one doesn't quite fit that description, but it startled me when I caught it.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110702232124/creepypasta/images/d/d5/What-is-wrong28.jpg

I give up... what am I looking for? It's not that thing top centre on the bunk is it?

[Goldfoot]

Anyone want to take some psychology test?
http://www.hypnoid.com/EM_entropy/

Hrmm, I just did it and it is completely wrong. This is the first line of the second paragraph and it is completely opposite of how I actually am. "You feel a sharp lack of appreciation from the world around you. "

[theimage13]

I give up... what am I looking for? It's not that thing top centre on the bunk is it?

Maybe it's just me, but "the thing" there sure looks like a somewhat creepy eye stalking the girl in the picture. Meh.

[henryeatscereal]

http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc446/Seek_the_shadows/contest.png


Bonus: im watching this tonight!!!

http://www.nefariousfilms.com/Images/Monsters/thetallman.jpg

watch my movie, NOW!!!

[theimage13]

I give...what am I looking for? Just spent close to 10 minutes scanning that pic, and the only slightly out of place thing I've even noticed is that the guy on the right (our left) seems to be missing an arm.

[theruiner]

...the guy on the right (our left) seems to be missing an arm.http://i.imgur.com/BLocN.jpg


In all seriousness, though, I looked for a few minutes, too, and the only thing I noticed was that, on the far left side of the picture, there appears to be some sort of pale white "demon" on one of the trees. It's one of those, like, "Oh, that cloud almost looks like a..." sort of deals. I still think it's a stretch, and I might be wrong, but I honestly couldn't see anything else off about the picture at all.

[henryeatscereal]

In all seriousness, though, I looked for a few minutes, too, and the only thing I noticed was that, on the far left side of the picture, there appears to be some sort of pale white "demon" on one of the trees. It's one of those, like, "Oh, that cloud almost looks like a..." sort of deals. I still think it's a stretch, and I might be wrong, but I honestly couldn't see anything else off about the picture at all.
Yup there's a pale tall man on the left, he's called slenderman, he appears in a bunch of pictures, he's clearer on this one:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DcD796chCes/T1_eF_59wGI/AAAAAAAAAV4/HtwQoMjiXqg/s640/slenderman2.jpg

[Goldfoot]

Yup there's a pale tall man on the left, he's called slenderman, he appears in a bunch of pictures
I found out about this from this thread on the old board last year some time. I watched nearly all of the Marble Hornets (http://www.youtube.com/user/MarbleHornets/videos?sort=da&view=0) videos, at night, at my mom's, which is out in the middle of fucking Amish country. Every time I had to go to the bathroom or let the dog out I was legitimately terrified that he was outside watching me. It's probably my favorite thing that's come of this thread since it still freaks me out from time to time.

[Necrodoommonkey]

Yup there's a pale tall man on the left, he's called slenderman, he appears in a bunch of pictures, he's clearer on this one:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DcD796chCes/T1_eF_59wGI/AAAAAAAAAV4/HtwQoMjiXqg/s640/slenderman2.jpg

Didn't slenderman originate on Something Awful in a photoshop phriday contest?

[theimage13]

Well damn, you know your memes (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/slender-man)!

I had no idea that this was how Slenderman got started.

[nemesiswontdie]

That décor sure is terrifying.


On another note, someone just sent me uncensored footage of a triple fatality car crash, Yay friends.

It's weird. I can see it on my laptop but I can't see it on my friends laptop. There's a creepy doll in the lower left corner.

[Jinsai]

Some of the Slenderman photos are pretty great.

This one in particular

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/DavFlamerock/slenderman2.jpg

I wonder if the general concept was influenced at all by the character "Pipes" from the one-off broadcast of "Ghostwatch."
I really love Ghostwatch... a really clever idea, with impressive execution considering. Too bad it never got the exposure it deserved outside of the UK, but then again maybe the impact would be considered lessened... not only because people outside the UK would not be familiar with the telecasters, but the whole "this is a live broadcast" element would be completely spoiled.

Still, if you're into creepy stuff, youtube "Ghostwatch." Last I checked the entire broadcast is on there. I'd love to see them try to pull off something like that again today.

[Goldfoot]

^^See, I think that's too much. My favorite Slenderman moments are when he's just there all of a sudden. Like when they're shooting for Marble Hornets, the camera moves slightly and then back to where it was, and suddenly he's standing at the treeline.

[theimage13]

^^See, I think that's too much. My favorite Slenderman moments are when he's just there all of a sudden. Like when they're shooting for Marble Hornets, the camera moves slightly and then back to where it was, and suddenly he's standing at the treeline.

Eh? Sounds interesting...any links available?

As for the above photo - it's much better than a lot of the others in that Something Awful thread, in terms of technical quality. But the multiple arms thing just moves it from "holy fuck, I can see that happening" to downright fiction. Subtle shit freaks me the fuck out. Like this.

http://seemslegit.com/_images/6f53459c561a5d6b4ae2dca95de4968c/434 - basement creepy shadow.jpg

[Goldfoot]

Eh? Sounds interesting...any links available?

As for the above photo - it's much better than a lot of the others in that Something Awful thread, in terms of technical quality. But the multiple arms thing just moves it from "holy fuck, I can see that happening" to downright fiction. Subtle shit freaks me the fuck out. Like this.


I put this link in my post earlier, but here it is again. There's apparently more than one Youtube account related to this, but Marble Hornets (http://www.youtube.com/user/MarbleHornets/videos?sort=da&view=0) is the one I watch, which I was linked to from the old thread. In these, the dude doesn't have multiple arms, he's just creepy as fuck.

[theimage13]

30 second commercial for a two minute video. Thanks, youtube :/

[Jinsai]

Eh? Sounds interesting...any links available?

There's this stuff: http://marblehornets.wikidot.com/the-entries

[theimage13]

This isn't ghost story creepy, but it's really creepy in my book.

A few years ago, I photographed a Memorial Day parade for one of the newspapers I was freelancing for. Among hundreds of other frames, there was a Korean War vet with a poster his granddaughter had written and signed before taping it to the back of his wheelchair. There's a few photos of that, then a few from the front of the man and his granddaughter.

Last year, the man's daughter (the girl's mother) killed them both before killing herself.

For the first time since taking and filing the shots, I just found them in my archives. I just stared at the one frame of the two of them for ten solid minutes, because my brain simply shut down entirely. I know I won't be sleeping well tonight.

[Goldfoot]

Don't Blink.

Just got to this episode. :D

[theimage13]

This is generally the episode I use first on Who virgins. I have yet to have even one person who started here not go back and watch the entire "New Who" catalog.

Just wait until you get to Silence in the Library and the couple episodes afterward...they give me the willies a bit, too.

[JessicaSarahS]

Agh... why do I always end up in this thread! :(

[henryeatscereal]

I know this movie is fake, but damn this scene is creepy:

http://rapidimg.org/images/loZ0s.png

[theimage13]

Agh... why do I always end up in this thread! :(

I'm staying in the creepiest hotel I've ever been in. the building is a weird triangle-frame shape (think the lines that would cut a triangle into thirds), everything looks outdated, light bulbs burned out, AC outlets that don't work, room doors that don't close behind you and the old school chain locks...all that's missing is the 20" CRT TV. Although with the thunderstorms we're having now, the dozen-ish channels of analog satellite that we get all say "no signal".

So yeah...why am I here, too?

[carpenoctem]

Omg henry, why would you post that picture, and why do I keep looking at it.
ontd_creepy on LJ is doing a free watch-along tonight of that movie, if it's what I think it is. Grave Encounters, right? Omg, will not watch. Want to. But. Never sleeping again.

[henryeatscereal]

Omg henry, why would you post that picture, and why do I keep looking at it.
ontd_creepy on LJ is doing a free watch-along tonight of that movie, if it's what I think it is. Grave Encounters, right? Omg, will not watch. Want to. But. Never sleeping again.
Yes, the movie it's Grave Encounters, it's decent, a bit better than Paranormal activity but no better than REC and Blair Witch (i still find this movie awesome), much recommended to watch with a pretty lady!

[Blackbookpress1984]

just read the wikipedia article on the dyatlov case. crazy shit. That wold make a great movie.


The Dyatlov Pass incident (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident)

One of my favorite creepy thing. This would make such a terrifying movie!

HEAR THAT, HOLLYWOOD? YOU SHOULD START WORKING ON THAT INSTEAD OF REMAKING MOVIES THAT WERE DONE LESS THAN 10 YEARS AGO!

[Blackbookpress1984]

Eh? Sounds interesting...any links available?

As for the above photo - it's much better than a lot of the others in that Something Awful thread, in terms of technical quality. But the multiple arms thing just moves it from "holy fuck, I can see that happening" to downright fiction. Subtle shit freaks me the fuck out. Like this.

http://seemslegit.com/_images/6f53459c561a5d6b4ae2dca95de4968c/434%20-%20basement%20creepy%20shadow.jpg


is that a naked dude?

[Goldfoot]

At the risk of sending you into an endless web of Cracked articles, here (http://www.cracked.com/article_19837_the-7-most-terrifying-archaeological-discoveries.html)'s one about archaeological discoveries that are pretty creepy. They use the word terrifying, but I think these are a good fit for this thread. Especially the Vikings, Moa, and Bog People entries.

[hollowed_point]

Haven't posted in forever but I love this thread.

Good times with slenderman:
http://www.mediafire.com/?vql3a6fbjq0qbbv

Can you get all 8 pages?

(safe dl. It's a slender man game that is...just play it. Link from ign.)

[theimage13]

After two months of fly dates, we finally picked up our tour buses a few nights ago. And I made a horrible realization: I forgot to pack my copies of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

Good thing I'll be near the house in a week or so. What good is a bunk and a dim reading light without proper reading material?

[henryeatscereal]

I missed this thread (http://www.thisman.org/)

[theimage13]

I don't think I ever found Slender Man as creepy as a lot of people, but if you like him and have an Android device, today's (March 9) free app on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/mobile-apps/b?ie=UTF8&node=2350149011) might be up your alley.

[Space Suicide]

More than likely not real but still creepy


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc6nCy068VU

[JessicaSarahS]

I've seen xrays and other pictures of children's teeth within the skull, and I'm usually not squeamish about most things regarding the human body, but the angle of this picture really creeps me out and triggers my trypophobia. :X

http://2.media.collegehumor.cvcdn.com/18/71/9799a70fbfb57298c4e43e6bf1048b8a-childs-skull-before-losing-baby-teeth.jpg

[rhet]

wow that is so creepy! I never thought about kids teeth being in their jaw before. teeth probably creep me out more than anything else and then I googled trypophobia and jesus that was a million times worse. ughhhh thats going to be stuck in my head for a long time.

[allegro]

wow that is so creepy! I never thought about kids teeth being in their jaw before. teeth probably creep me out more than anything else and then I googled trypophobia and jesus that was a million times worse. ughhhh thats going to be stuck in my head for a long time.
We used to have "nipple seed pod girl" over and over and over in the old version of this thread, and even though it was photoshopped it would creep a lot of people out. Not ME, mind you, but yeah...

[rhet]

yeah, i knew most of what came up when i googled was photoshopped but still. and aside from teeth, most things like ghosts or gore or whatever don't bother me..at work i'm always the only woman who doesn't run screaming away from bugs etc but teeth and dentists..man i can't stand seeing creepy dentist scenes in movies.

[Stereo75]

wow that is so creepy! I never thought about kids teeth being in their jaw before. teeth probably creep me out more than anything else and then I googled trypophobia and jesus that was a million times worse. ughhhh thats going to be stuck in my head for a long time.

& steer clear of those English Muffins! EEEEEEEEeeeeee... *runs away*

[marodi]

We used to have "nipple seed pod girl" over and over and over in the old version of this thread, and even though it was photoshopped it would creep a lot of people out. Not ME, mind you, but yeah...

You mean this one? NSFW (http://i43.tinypic.com/2mmhhkg.gif)

The teeth pic I find fascinating though.

[allegro]

hahaha I never saw the ANIMATED one!

[henryeatscereal]

Kill all the white people!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwzw3sTr5n1qzg6kuo1_400.jpg

[halloween]

Oh god, nipple seed pod...here's to another several years until I forget it exists again.

[richardp]

There's this meseum about an hour north of where I live in Kansas City that's an old Psychiatric Museum built in an actual old Psychiatric Hospital and their crowning jewel is THIS:
http://www.dailyyarnsnmore.com/mid_life_bliss/2012/06/stomach-contents.html

Among that peice of awesome creeptastic, the basement also features an active morgue that is still used every now and then when other morgues are overbooked. You can walk down into it and they've got a slab open and since it's active it's cold as FUCK. There are also plenty of rooms set up as replica psychiatric rooms with torture devices etc. It's crazy. If god forbid you ever find yourself near the shithole of St Joseph Missouri, I'd highly suggest you check it out.

[alg]

yeah....i took some of their other ones too and it was creepy and accurate. then you have to read the information about how these tests came about, equally a creepy story. the guy was commissioned by some doctors overseas...and well, if you have the time read the info because it's very strange.

I'd really like to read more about the origin of this test. Link, please? Thanks.

[theimage13]

Today, I learned about UVB-76 (http://www.wired.com/2011/09/ff_uvb76/), and it's exquisitely creepy. Military application? Doomsday related? Or just some weird scientific testing that, for some reason, has continued for decades and through multiple regime changes with no explanation?

[henryeatscereal]

Reminds me to the HAARP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program) project, i even read once the main goal of the project was to control the weather, creepy...

I've been thinking lately about the "Numbers stations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station)", strange spoken broadcasts picked up in short wave radios that repeat a number sequence (sometimes it's a woman's voice, sometimes there's children voices...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VIC7G7FbNE

[theimage13]

Reminds me to the HAARP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program) project, i even read once the main goal of the project was to control the weather, creepy...

I've been thinking lately about the "Numbers stations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station)", strange spoken broadcasts picked up in short wave radios that repeat a number sequence (sometimes it's a woman's voice, sometimes there's children voices...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VIC7G7FbNE

Well, that's just leading me down a spiraling Wikipedia adventure. Another Friday night successfully spent alone, glued to my computer.

[marodi]

Well, that's just leading me down a spiraling Wikipedia adventure. Another Friday night successfully spent alone, glued to my computer.

Welcome to my life! I open one Wiki page and 5 hours and lots of pages later, I wonder where time went. Avoid the "list of..." pages at all cost!

Also: there are many rational explanations but it's still kind of cool and you never know: it might be the real McCoy!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXLAsFEo7A4

[henryeatscereal]

Did you guys hear this one? fuckin creepy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db2a1r3AgFc

Also:

http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/bb401.png

[marodi]

Taxi drivers in tsunami disaster zone report picking up ghost passengers (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/12111749/Taxi-drivers-in-tsunami-disaster-zone-report-ghost-passengers.html)


One of the men told Ms Kudo that a woman climbed into his taxi near Ishinomaki Station just a few months after the disaster. She asked him to go to the Minamihama district, to which the driver said there was nothing left standing there.
The driver recounted that the woman asked, "Have I died?" and, when he turned to look, his taxi was empty.

*whimpers*

[henryeatscereal]

Last Monday my ex told me a history about a couple she's friends with:

They used to have a "goblin" in their house, it wasn't like a "traditional" one if you could describe it, it would look like "a black dog standing up".
The creature moved really fast and was always around the house, both persons on the couple were able to see it but were growing desperate of it, so one time they decided to chase it with an axe, but the creature moved so fast it was impossible to catch it.
It all "ended" when they were at home and they overheard her daughter say: "Hi, who are you...", at that moment they decided to abandon their house for good.

Fuckin' creepy stuff...

[Ryan]

^ Tell me more.

[henryeatscereal]

^ Tell me more.
Well i haven't seen her lately so that's all... As far as i know the "Thing" was a presence that kept moving around the house really fast, it didn't tried to do anything else till they tried to chase it with an Axe, gotta ask her if she's talked with them lately...

Also: I recently found this Youtube channel called: "Dad's tapes"; it's some kind of "webseries" about the VHS tapes supposedly found by this guy that used to belong to his dad (who apparently was the Zodiac or had to do with him).
The videos are short, but very creepy, i liked the idea, it's obviously not real but gave me chills anyway...

https://www.youtube.com/user/DadsTapes

[theimage13]

Literally everything about this.

http://www.dailydot.com/technology/creepy-puzzle-video-poland-11b-x-1371/
(http://www.dailydot.com/technology/creepy-puzzle-video-poland-11b-x-1371/)
edit - including the wikipedia link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11B-X-1371

[henryeatscereal]

Holy shit, i wish i did not look

[theimage13]

Holy shit, i wish i did not look

Right? Unfortunately, I didn't realize until re-reading the wiki page (AFTER posting it) that they've since figured out who did it, and a whole lot more has been explained. Last I had seen this, there was literally no credible lead whatsoever on who was responsible and all sorts of freaky chaos theories. It takes a LOT to really just unsettle me, and this nailed it. Major credit to the person responsible.

[Exocet]

Its absurd how creepy this channel can become after a few minutes. Something is just off...and it plays with your mind.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-unsettling-mystery-of-the-creepiest-channel-on-youtube

Its all building up to something.

[theimage13]

Its absurd how creepy this channel can become after a few minutes. Something is just off...and it plays with your mind.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-unsettling-mystery-of-the-creepiest-channel-on-youtube

Its all building up to something.

The use of the word "disquieting" in that article is extremely appropriate. It's not scary, maybe even not "creepy" on a traditional level. But there's just something very....off.

[elevenism]

Why did no one tell me that this thread had been resurrected? I was thinking of making something similar. I'm ALL over this shit.
:)

[theimage13]

Why did no one tell me that this thread had been resurrected? I was thinking of making something similar. I'm ALL over this shit.
:)

We thought you knew? If you're all over it, how about some new content? It's been too long!

[elevenism]

i am pretty much a "gentleman of leisure" these days, and having a profound adoration for the esoteric, mysterious, and macabre, spend at LEAST a couple of hours a day looking into these subjects. I even sift through off-the-deep-end conspiracy theories in search of the rare, disturbing bit of god awful truth.
What i REALLY enjoy is mysteries that can't be solved or debunked.
I also get into purposely creepy youtube videos and such. I have a veritable mental cornucopia of these types of things.

here are a couple of my all time favorites, as far as, ahem, "art" goes.

Are you guys familiar with Shayne Saint John and the "hand thing?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtSgWZbL_kE&feature=youtu.be) Some people think it's funny, but it scares the living shit out of me for some reason.

"Dining Room" aka "There Is Nothing" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdKOC3m3a1A) is fucking awesome, and i'm fairly certain that it's the same forwards and backwards.

I'd imagine most of you have seen these. I'm just dipping my toes in the water here.
I could go on about this stuff for hours-youtube videos, alleged incidents, and personal experiences alike, but i will save some for later.

[Ryan]

Not creepy per se, but thinking about these concepts freaks me out when I think about it too much



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SWvDHvWXok

[theimage13]

I'll be honest: none of the above have really creeped me out. (In fact, the hands thing just annoyed the shit out of me.)

But this...this makes me skeptical, but if I read it as though it's fact, it kind of unsettles me.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanbergara/these-chilling-encounters-with-the-men-in-black-will-make-yo

[marodi]

This site is live streaming a supposedly haunted doll for the next two weeks (http://www.the-line-up.com/live-cam-meet-ann-our-haunted-doll/?utm_campaign=TLU+Brand&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=IN_SK_6045260947901)

The Lineup has gotten hold of a doll called Ann who is said to be haunted by the spirit of a little girl who died at the Waverly Hills Sanatorium in the 20s. So they set up a live stream for the doll where you and I can watch to see if she moves or whatever she feels like doing and they are going to conduct tests with Ann. Scrolling down the page will get you to the log detailing what has happened already.

Just the idea of watching a live stream of a doll is creepy to me.

Oh and if you feel inclined, you can own the doll at the end of the two weeks.

[elevenism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USZGm9GR7ak

this scared the shit out of me when i was a kid and it still creeps me out
@theimage13 (http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/member.php?u=809) , much like horror movies and comedy, creepiness is subjective.
also, 99% of the creepy youtube things are hoaxes or art projects.
purposeful suspension of disbelief helps ;)

[elevenism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gYBXRwsDjY

have you guys seen this one?

[Jinsai]

well, I'm generally not a fan of "top five things you blah blah blah" videos, and I'm not generally creeped out by "shocking" collections...

but this was pretty genuinely unsettling (http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/5-creepy-real-found-footage-recordings/85026798/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=page-posts&utm_campaign=5-insanely-creepy-real-found-footage-recordings)

[elevenism]

well, I'm generally not a fan of "top five things you blah blah blah" videos, and I'm not generally creeped out by "shocking" collections...

but this was pretty genuinely unsettling (http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/5-creepy-real-found-footage-recordings/85026798/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=page-posts&utm_campaign=5-insanely-creepy-real-found-footage-recordings)
i've seen all of those things.

i watch entirely too much of this shit.

i should get a job.

[Jinsai]

i've seen all of those things.

i watch entirely too much of this shit.

i should get a job.

I'd never seen the Bjork assassin suicide video/manifesto, and the hammer killer bit was so unnerving... the way they're laughing, talking like they're about to prank someone in some harmless way.

I will say though, number one is bullshit. The whole catacombs disappearance dude thing being real. I wasted at least an hour of my time looking into that to see if it could have any bearing on the truth... nope. Not true, still, good job guys, totally creepy

[Nyx]

The college kids disappearing in the abandoned mental institution also seems to be fake.

[Substance242]

One video remains in my head from this thread (I think it was here): "hand thing" - that was really weird. :-)

[elevenism]

The college kids disappearing in the abandoned mental institution also seems to be fake.
as Jinsai said, the ummmm hammer brothers thing is totally real though.

that is disturbing on a different fucking level, for real.

as for me, i'm more into the CREEPY things, real or fake

[Deepvoid]

I love discovering new threads on this board.
Here's one I found recently. Shit gets real at 2:35.
Note that this guy isn't out there to look for ghosts. He explores abandoned mines.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReYbrlG4BAU

He did return after this first video.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCy8iWxf1Us

[Frozen Beach]

Dan Bell's urban exploration videos are worth watching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTLqJ76hosI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfKcF9S1z1E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K1q1AEdFLw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8DdlxbrBV0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miQFqE0UrFo

[Deepvoid]

I love Dan Bell's video. Even the abandon mall series, shot in daylight, is eerie.

[elevenism]

so you are into creepy youtube vids and such, Deepvoid ?

Man, i bet we will come up with a lot of shit for this thread between the two of us.

I spend a ridiculous amount of time seeking this shit out. I just need to start sharing it with you guys

[Ryan]

Dan Bell's urban exploration videos are worth watching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTLqJ76hosI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfKcF9S1z1E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K1q1AEdFLw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8DdlxbrBV0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miQFqE0UrFo

these are sweet

[Deepvoid]

so you are into creepy youtube vids and such, @Deepvoid (http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/member.php?u=676) ?

Man, i bet we will come up with a lot of shit for this thread between the two of us.

I spend a ridiculous amount of time seeking this shit out. I just need to start sharing it with you guys

It's just a long task to weed out all the fake stuff. Especially for paranormal stuff.

Just recently heard about the Buzzer or UVB 76.
More mysterious than creepy. This has been broadcasting non-stop since 1982 I believe.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lHkONy37nA

[richardp]

One of these days I should take a camera and walk around the building that I work in and post it. It's an old Theater built in the first decade of the 1900s, and was used as a Vaudeville Theater until the mid-30's then, transformed into a movie theater which last until the 80s. Then it sat empty for 20 years before being somewhat renovated. So currently our theater is built within the building and there are there are still a LOT of spots around the building that are hidden.

A few examples, down in the basement, you can crawl through a hole in the wall that leads you to the original orchestra pit door/pit that is still VERY creepily in tact. Our entire upper balcony is still in tact, and if you climb up to the top of the old Projection booth area, you can shimmy along a wall to a ladder at the other end of the room. And if you crawl up that ladder it leads to two things: an old steel crate that is locked super tight (rumors are that it holds either booze or hidden money/weapons stashed by KC Mafia who used the building as an illegal speak-easy during Prohibition and smuggled booze through a man-made underground tunnel, that is now filled in sadly, to a hotel across the street. ALL TRUE.) and to your right of that box is an a weird square room with old elevator pulleys and a door that is probably about half a foot thick of solid steel. So many employees have had "experiences" in that building at one point or another that its kinda crazy. And yes, it is historically proven that multiple people have in fact either died or been murdered in that building. The most recent being a guy who was stabbed to death while watching Flash Gordon in the 80s.

[Swykk]

Interesting. Nobody has tried to open that crate?!

[Deepvoid]

One of these days I should take a camera and walk around the building that I work in and post it. It's an old Theater built in the first decade of the 1900s, and was used as a Vaudeville Theater until the mid-30's then, transformed into a movie theater which last until the 80s. Then it sat empty for 20 years before being somewhat renovated. So currently our theater is built within the building and there are there are still a LOT of spots around the building that are hidden.

A few examples, down in the basement, you can crawl through a hole in the wall that leads you to the original orchestra pit door/pit that is still VERY creepily in tact. Our entire upper balcony is still in tact, and if you climb up to the top of the old Projection booth area, you can shimmy along a wall to a ladder at the other end of the room. And if you crawl up that ladder it leads to two things: an old steel crate that is locked super tight (rumors are that it holds either booze or hidden money/weapons stashed by KC Mafia who used the building as an illegal speak-easy during Prohibition and smuggled booze through a man-made underground tunnel, that is now filled in sadly, to a hotel across the street. ALL TRUE.) and to your right of that box is an a weird square room with old elevator pulleys and a door that is probably about half a foot thick of solid steel. So many employees have had "experiences" in that building at one point or another that its kinda crazy. And yes, it is historically proven that multiple people have in fact either died or been murdered in that building. The most recent being a guy who was stabbed to death while watching Flash Gordon in the 80s.

That would be awesome if you find the time to film these hidden areas.
I absolutely love urban exploration. There are so many buildings here in Montreal that are prime locations for that type of exploring. I'm just too old to get caught for trespassing or some shit like that. I know it's just a ticket but still...

[richardp]

Interesting. Nobody has tried to open that crate?!

Oh no we've tried. Its like bolted shut by a giant screw that is probably the size of my fist, but it's so rusted and stripped that it's virtually impossible. And I don't think our GM actually cares enough to pay someone to come open it, so everyone just always fantasizes about what's in there.

[elevenism]

Deepvoid , a lot of the creepiest stuff i've seen is "fake."
i don't want to see fake ghost footage, mind you, but i love me some terrifying avant garde art projects-especially the ones that are posted with no explanation.

[Deepvoid]

@Deepvoid (http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/member.php?u=676) , a lot of the creepiest stuff i've seen is "fake."
i don't want to see fake ghost footage, mind you, but i love me some terrifying avant garde art projects-especially the ones that are posted with no explanation.

Even some of the weirdest videos have ultimately been explained.
On the top of my head I'm thinking about ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLy-AwdCOmI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAqF8JTR4Ys

But with that being said, here's something I find creepy. The disappearance of Lars Mittank.
This is the last known footage of the guy. Been missing since July 2014. Some background info: https://www.bizarrepedia.com/lars-mittank-mystery/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqCokFceWTw

[Deepvoid]

I will say though, number one is bullshit. The whole catacombs disappearance dude thing being real. I wasted at least an hour of my time looking into that to see if it could have any bearing on the truth... nope. Not true, still, good job guys, totally creepy

Wait a minute .. there's an explanation for the catacombs video? I've never seen one. You have a link by any chance?

[Jinsai]

Wait a minute .. there's an explanation for the catacombs video? I've never seen one. You have a link by any chance?

The proof is more in the fact that there is no existing uncut version of the entire video. The expose on it was part of an ABC tv show about the most haunted places in the world. The same show had been outed on another occasion of fabricating their "evidence" and making stuff up. That tv show is the only source of the footage.

Now, think about it... the footage on that video would be important evidence to turn into the police. It would be a matter of public interest, as the person from the video could be missing, and their family might want to know about it.
But we're to believe that this guy just can't be bothered to upload the full video?

Additionally, he stages some really obvious things... The most obvious of which is his claim that the catacombs are sealed off from the public. That's not true. You can go in with a guide for a two kilometer tour for 5 euros. I'm not sure of the exact timeline here either, but it seems that this ABC episode would have been released shortly after the Blair Witch Project found-footage craze, so it seems likely that it was trying to tap into that. All signs point towards it being completely staged.

[Deepvoid]

The proof is more in the fact that there is no existing uncut version of the entire video. The expose on it was part of an ABC tv show about the most haunted places in the world. The same show had been outed on another occasion of fabricating their "evidence" and making stuff up. That tv show is the only source of the footage.

Now, think about it... the footage on that video would be important evidence to turn into the police. It would be a matter of public interest, as the person from the video could be missing, and their family might want to know about it.
But we're to believe that this guy just can't be bothered to upload the full video?

Additionally, he stages some really obvious things... The most obvious of which is his claim that the catacombs are sealed off from the public. That's not true. You can go in with a guide for a two kilometer tour for 5 euros. I'm not sure of the exact timeline here either, but it seems that this ABC episode would have been released shortly after the Blair Witch Project found-footage craze, so it seems likely that it was trying to tap into that. All signs point towards it being completely staged.

I agree with some of your arguments.
From the video, there's really no way to identify the person. Who knows if the police was informed. Is it possible to sweep the entire catacombs for a missing person? I really doubt that.
My biggest issue with the video is the fact that he dropped his cam for no apparent reason, except to create some "found footage".

[Ryan]

A tree in Tahiti

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CoRhsuKVUAAwdOc?format=jpg&name=large

[Space Suicide]

Speaking of trees, I always found this one interesting...

http://67.media.tumblr.com/ba77a1919bf5827fb6db25357c28803a/tumblr_nkbjk8eOWz1tv7yvfo1_1280.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Tree

[Ryan]

^ That's pretty cool. I wonder if that film about it will end up happening.

[kel]

trees?

c'mon ... i love seeing this thread bumped, but for trees? no offense to either of you, just got my hopes up.

sorry to bump it again. just sayin'.

edit: okay, checked out the devil's tree wikipedia and i kinda get it. my bad.

[cashpiles (closed)]

LOOK AT THIS. PROOF THAT OUR CONSCIOUSNESS CAN EFFECT REALITY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRSBaq3vAeY


The key here is that a focused, meditative state has a greater effect.

[kel]

dafuq? not creepy.

someone give me something that will keep me up tonight. plz kthx.

[Space Suicide]

dafuq? not creepy.

someone give me something that will keep me up tonight. plz kthx.

http://www.planecrashinfo.com/lastwords.htm

Enjoy being awake.

No disrespect to the deceased.

[ldopa]

the since debunked, but fun and creepy fake area 51 caller on art bell and that tool album you kids like.

no links for added creepness.

yesterday was the anniversary of the whitman shooting spree. very not so much oddly, my local ass local channel is playing 'bowling for columbine'

what a subject shift...

[theimage13]

http://www.planecrashinfo.com/lastwords.htm

Enjoy being awake.

No disrespect to the deceased.

Okay just from the URL alone, there's no fucking way I'm clicking on that link. As someone who flies constantly, I don't need this shit on my brain.

[Deepvoid]

They just caught an alien on tape in Peru.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P93Ovski9eE

[marodi]

elevenism I think you're going to like this one.

I came upon it yesterday while on one of my Wikipedia Adventures.

Return to Babylon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Babylon) is a black & white silent movie that was made in 2013; it's about the lives of silent area movie stars. As it says in the article, part of the marketing of the movie was made about a claim that the film is haunted, with reports of all sorts of paranormal phenomenas.

So I went looking for the film and for some more info. Never found the film (according to a thread on the imdb boards, there's "clearances issues" about it) but I found a couple of articles about the creepy stuff.

And it is creepy indeed:

http://moviepilot.com/posts/2866261

http://paranormalistics.blogspot.ca/2012/09/return-to-babylon.html

Okay, it's probably due to matrixing or pareidolia but still, creepy! Then again, there is plenty of creepy stuff to be found about silent area Hollywood I think.

Someone find me this movie!

[elevenism]

thank you for thinking of me @marodi (http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/member.php?u=125) .

i will look for the movie :)

[theimage13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Ramirez

Despite all the rational theories, just the description of the timeline of events gives me the creeps.

[theimage13]

People kept telling me that reading about sleep paralysis would creep me the fuck out. I kept thinking "what, the sensation where you feel momentarily unable to move after waking from a dream?

Oh. Nope, wayyyyy different.


It is often accompanied by terrifying hallucinations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination) to which one is unable to react due to paralysis, and physical experiences (such as strong current running through the upper body). These hallucinations often involve a person or supernatural creature suffocating or terrifying the individual, accompanied by a feeling of pressure on one's chest and difficulty breathing. Another common hallucination type involves intruders (human or supernatural) entering one's room or lurking outside one's window

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

[Boots]

I find it funny and also a bit creepy when people use British slang. They think they're being cool or sophisticated but no one knows what the fuck they're talking about. It's like they're from another planet.

[Dr Channard]

Dolls and mannequins creep me out real bad. Even if this stuff is 100% hoax, it still makes my skin crawl.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ce-JlG11kc

[henryeatscereal]

Then, you'll "love" this trailer:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezkx07HYylo

[Dr Channard]

Then, you'll "love" this trailer:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezkx07HYylo


no i don't

[Boots]

There were 2 coyotes outside of our house last night. Now I'm looking up what to do if you run into a coyote. They don't usually kill humans, but sometimes they attack them. We live a block away from a a ravine. That's where the animals come from.

[Boots]

Men in their 50's who go trolling for girls in their 20's. That is just so sick.

[theimage13]

People who refer to grown women as "girls". That is just so sick.

[muad'nin]

I love discovering new threads on this board.
Here's one I found recently. Shit gets real at 2:35.
Note that this guy isn't out there to look for ghosts. He explores abandoned mines.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReYbrlG4BAU

He did return after this first video.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCy8iWxf1Us

Since the two Horton Mine videos were uploaded, he has encountered some other creepy phenomena.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVEU6n2eKtg&
The creepy stuff starts at about 12 minutes, but the whole thing is rather eerie, as many of his videos are.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWGx4i-nsq4
7:15ish is where the good stuff is on this clip.

[richardp]

God I love these dudes videos. I can't tell if he fakes all of these instances or not, and I love it.

[the duder]

People kept telling me that reading about sleep paralysis would creep me the fuck out. I kept thinking "what, the sensation where you feel momentarily unable to move after waking from a dream?

Oh. Nope, wayyyyy different.

I used to suffer from this pretty frequently when I was in undergrad. When I realized I was having an episode, I would begin to breathe very rapidly and shallowly to get the attention of my GF at the time. She would wake me up to bring me out of them. After we broke up, I read more and more about it, and how to deal with it. Much of the time, they say it's a precursor to lucid dreaming. I began to go with it, and not fight it, and was able to have a few sustained LD experiences. Once I had a few of them, the night terrors became far more infrequent, maybe one per year or so. I recently had one a few months ago, though, that freaked me the fuck out. Everything went black, and I stayed with it, then there were some creepy AF ghouls/reaper type figures, and I started the heavy breathing to get my wife's attention. She woke me up, asked what was wrong, and I told her nothing. She scares easily, and I didn't want to tell her the details of the dream.

[elevenism]

bump bump

i got something REAL fucked up.

it's some sort of community of a bizarre sexual fetish involving opening women's eyes while they're asleep.

This video managed to get the biggest purveyor of this content to shut down his youtube channel, but, there are others. There's a part 2 of this video.

People apparently trade videos of shit like this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5sKXKn6pCY&t=221s

[ickyvicky]

what's wrong with people?!

[marodi]

The Dyatlov Pass Incident has been solved... most likely: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/17/has-an-old-soviet-mystery-at-last-been-solved

A slab of snow, not a full blown avalanche. Makes sense, damn it.

I like my creepy mysteries unsolved!

Oh and meanwhile, in other news: Australian authorities have exhumed the Somerton Man to try to identify him through DNA.

Just Google it, it's a great Strayan mystery.

[MrLobster]

The Dyatlov Pass Incident has been solved...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29TKoDwKRcA

[elevenism]

The Dyatlov Pass Incident has been solved... most likely: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/17/has-an-old-soviet-mystery-at-last-been-solved



Don't despair: they've been "solving" this one for decades. This is just another theory.
But, if this ruins the mystery for you, there's always the Khamar Daban incident, which was strangely similar, and, also occurred in the mountains of Russia.


https://youtu.be/RZXr2LlnG9o

[Erneuert]

what's wrong with people?!

Everything.

[Erneuert]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0s7_jVPG0A (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N0s7_jVPG0A)

[Erneuert]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXiiulGxrT4 (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jXiiulGxrT4)


And MC freaked us all out with this little gem yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oFMiTv4JAM (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5oFMiTv4JAM)

[Siah13]

You know what creeps me out? How many people go missing in Southern Oregon, particularly near Josephine/Jackson County... The number of stolen, abandoned and randomly found vehicles... So many burned cars! So creepy! Ack!

[muad'nin]

https://youtu.be/H4dGpz6cnHo

Kane Pixel’s currently unfolding Backrooms narrative (check out his YouTube channel) is creepy as fuck. He’s also only 16, so it’s even more impressive.

[Erneuert]

https://youtu.be/H4dGpz6cnHo

Kane Pixel’s currently unfolding Backrooms narrative (check out his YouTube channel) is creepy as fuck. He’s also only 16, so it’s even more impressive.

I watched that about 2 weeks ago and it’s creepy as fuck!

[elevenism]

https://youtu.be/H4dGpz6cnHo

Kane Pixel’s currently unfolding Backrooms narrative (check out his YouTube channel) is creepy as fuck. He’s also only 16, so it’s even more impressive.

It LOOKS dope. I love these sorts of things. I actually saw a YouTube commercial for a new arg/online horror lore thing yesterday, but I can't remember the damn name of it.

[Alexandros]

^ This sort of reminds me House of Leaves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves), but with lights on!

[allegate]

I just bought that book for my son. I showed him how it 'works' and his comment was "I don't know how to read this", lol

[muad'nin]

^ This sort of reminds me House of Leaves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves), but with lights on!

Damn the premise of that book sounds so cool.

[allegate]

You cannot read House of Leaves on an e-reader; it's not possible, so please don't.

Well, I guess it is but the whole premise of the book is that it's a physical object in your hands. You absolutely need to experience it that way or you miss a huge part of what it's trying to do.

Also:
In 2017, Danielewski entered talks to adapt the novel into a TV series.[10] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves#cite_note-10)[11] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves#cite_note-11) with Danielewski stating that if a deal was not made by February 2020, the project would be abandoned.[12] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves#cite_note-12) However, the screenplays have since been published online.[13] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves#cite_note-13) The screenplays present a sequel to the book, extending the story to the present day: the first three published episodes set up a conflict between Mélisande Avignon, a filmmaker who witnessed and filmed Johnny's discovery of The Navidson Record, and Skiadyne, a "data disposal" company which successfully suppressed public knowledge of both The Navidson Record and Avignon's film. Both sides, joined by private security personnel, fight for control of the films after unknown parties steal the films from Skiadyne and return them to Avignon.what the hell?! I need to find those screenplays. I always thought there was a really good horror film based on The Navidson Record part of the book, I wish this could have gone on. Mike Flanagan would knock it out of the park and I could totally see Hamish Linklater as Navidson.

Oh right, sorry. well it's still creepy so still on topic! whew.

edit: almost forgot why I was reading the wiki in the first place!

House of Leaves was accompanied by a companion piece (or vice versa), a full-length album (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album) called Haunted (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_(Poe_album)) recorded by Danielewski's sister, Anne Danielewski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe_(singer)), known professionally as Poe. The two works cross-pollinated heavily over the course of their creations, each inspiring the other in various ways. Poe's statement on the connection between the two works is that they are parallax (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax) views of the same story. House of Leaves references Poe and her songs several times, not only limited to her album Haunted, but Hello (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_(Poe_album)) as well. One example occurs when the character Karen Green is interviewing various academics on their interpretations of the short film "Exploration #4"; she consults a "Poet," but there is a space between the "Poe" and the "t," suggesting that Poe at one point commented on the book. It may also be a reference to Edgar Allan Poe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe).


The album Haunted also draws heavily from the novel, featuring tracks called "House of Leaves", "Exploration B" and "5&½ Minute Hallway", and many less obvious references. The video for "Hey Pretty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Pretty)" also features Mark Danielewski reading from House of Leaves (pp. 88–89), and in House of Leaves, the band Liberty Bell's lyrics were also songs on Poe's album.

[richardp]

^ This sort of reminds me House of Leaves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves), but with lights on!

Never heard of this book but I'm guessing this book I have called "S" is a direct homage to it, because it's done in the exact same format. It's a trip. Took me forever to read but it was worth it.

[Erneuert]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py6c5NaHeB8 (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=py6c5NaHeB8)

https://youtu.be/eXdIDjzy6KY

https://youtu.be/tvmEc7JhR0E

[allegate]

Never heard of this book but I'm guessing this book I have called "S" is a direct homage to it, because it's done in the exact same format. It's a trip. Took me forever to read but it was worth it.


Ah, S.
S. by J.J. Abrams, Doug Dorst (Goodreads Author) (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17860739-s)
Much like how Nightmare Before Christmas has Tim Burton's name on it though all he actually did was direct Batman Returns, this is not a J.J. joint.

January 30, 2017 – Finished Reading
November 30, 2016 – page 10 2.19% "Trying this one again."
March 22, 2014 – Started ReadingIt took me almost three years to read because I realized that you have to read it three times (!!!) to get the meaning behind the notes. I did not read it three times. I gave up on the writing in the margins because the main story itself, about the Ship of Theseus, was way more compelling than whatever the two other characters were doing.

I did enjoy what the book was trying to do with the puzzles, but some of the puzzles relied on in-world explanations and in-world books that you don't have access to and that just pissed me off.

HoL did it first and if you liked S. please try it out. The actual story is way more compelling in the end.

[henryeatscereal]

you know what's creepy? i totally forgot this thread existed and i could swear i already posted about Selene Delgado, but if you are not familiar with her, here's a video:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vlH9Eml2HU&ab_channel=LazyMasquerade

Scary that i remember watching these spots during my childhood!

[Alexandros]

Damn the premise of that book sounds so cool.

It certainly is a very impressive work, though not always easy to get through. Depending on your mood, you may find it completely engrossing or obnoxious. It's not a book to read lightly, or with a lot of distractions around you. For example, when I read it I was between jobs and had relatively ample free time to sit and read. Nowadays, due to work and family I mostly read on my way to and from work and just before I fall asleep at night. I don't think House of Leaves would be a good fit for that.

[wampa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py6c5NaHeB8 (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=py6c5NaHeB8)

https://youtu.be/eXdIDjzy6KY

https://youtu.be/tvmEc7JhR0E

i know this is the creepy thread, but these videos and the original are great! very awesome use of liminal space!

[muad'nin]

You cannot read House of Leaves on an e-reader; it's not possible, so please don't.

Well, I guess it is but the whole premise of the book is that it's a physical object in your hands. You absolutely need to experience it that way or you miss a huge part of what it's trying to do.

Also:what the hell?! I need to find those screenplays. I always thought there was a really good horror film based on The Navidson Record part of the book, I wish this could have gone on. Mike Flanagan would knock it out of the park and I could totally see Hamish Linklater as Navidson.

Oh right, sorry. well it's still creepy so still on topic! whew.

edit: almost forgot why I was reading the wiki in the first place!

Thanks so much for going to the trouble of letting us know all of that, allegate! Great tips, and I’m definitely going to track this down (once I finish my read-through of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles/Mayfair Witches novels). :)

[muad'nin]

It certainly is a very impressive work, though not always easy to get through. Depending on your mood, you may find it completely engrossing or obnoxious. It's not a book to read lightly, or with a lot of distractions around you. For example, when I read it I was between jobs and had relatively ample free time to sit and read. Nowadays, due to work and family I mostly read on my way to and from work and just before I fall asleep at night. I don't think House of Leaves would be a good fit for that.

This is exactly how I like to read, so I may just be the perfect audience for this one! ;)

[elevenism]

https://youtu.be/H4dGpz6cnHo

Kane Pixel’s currently unfolding Backrooms narrative (check out his YouTube channel) is creepy as fuck. He’s also only 16, so it’s even more impressive.

Holy shit. I just watched all the vids, and yeah, this looks VERY promising.

I also found a backwards string of characters in the second or third video: dNch/by=8000.

I searched for it and it took me to a website about an LHC test.

Has anyone tried calling the phone numbers in the Missing Persons video?

[elevenism]

allegate I think House of Leaves is, hands down, the most frightening thing I've ever read.

And I don't even think "read" is the right word: you EXPERIENCE that thing.
You sort of live in it, and I hope this doesn't sound too crazy, but I feel like it still lives in ME, in a small way, in that, the feeling I get when thinking of it is so intense.

The only other thing I've found to be as immersive, in such a powerful and intimate way, is Infinite Jest.

[henryeatscereal]

A few posts ago i posted about Selene Delgado, now i found another video with a similar character:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Budtqc2wZGc&t=332s&ab_channel=Deburke321

Seems all this missing persons cases have lots of urban legends and creepy stuff attached to them, but i sill find Selene's case creepier...

[richardp]

God why does every person who narrates a video on youtube sound like it's the first time they've ever attempted to talk or read anything in their life?

[elevenism]

So I watched this other YouTube analog horror series called The Mandela Catalogue, and it was pretty badass, too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0EpOiu8YkI&list=PL58-sFMumjhU-O-uEGZOTqK5wjMzh-mzH

This is supposed to be a link to a playlist that shows the vids in order, but I'm not sure if these links work that way.

Anyway, the channel name (and creator's name) for this is Alex Kister, if you get lost.

There's also a "season 2" that's all one video.

I'd try to explain what it's about, but it's somewhat open to interpretation, and I also think it's better to go in blind.

[muad'nin]

Another of Kane Pixels’ Backrooms videos was released a short time ago -


https://youtu.be/ZIFhglHn3W0

[Erneuert]

^ Came here to post that as well. It looks like there are two other new ones as well? Check out the first comment in the above video.

[muad'nin]

^ Came here to post that as well. It looks like there are two other new ones as well? Check out the first comment in the above video.

Thank you! :) I would have missed that without your heads-up.

[Erneuert]

More like terrifying than creepy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nZKhmY4puo (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5nZKhmY4puo)

[elevenism]

God why does every person who narrates a video on youtube sound like it's the first time they've ever attempted to talk or read anything in their life?
You talking about Deburke321?

Idk. I watch everything he puts out. He's not THAT bad. Plus, he gets millions of views and has like 550k subscribers.

Lazy Masquerade covered this story last week, if you need a sexier voice. ;)

[elevenism]

ANYWAY,

Mandela Catalogue Season 3 coming soon!
Dude posted a teaser.

I know that Backrooms thing is amazing, and I love the liminal space stuff, but I think Mandela Catalogue is creepier.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o3E3pNCFM6s

[Erneuert]

You talking about Deburke321?

Idk. I watch everything he puts out. He's not THAT bad. Plus, he gets millions of views and has like 550k subscribers.

Lazy Masquerade covered this story last week, if you need a sexier voice. ;)

I loved the comment someone posted on this video:

”The guy’s voice made me a believer.” lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW1M5AuIHrg (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WW1M5AuIHrg)

[Erneuert]

ANYWAY,

Mandela Catalogue Season 3 coming soon!
Dude posted a teaser.

I know that Backrooms thing is amazing, and I love the liminal space stuff, but I think Mandela Catalogue is creepier.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o3E3pNCFM6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhe3vSe-mmw (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vhe3vSe-mmw)

[elevenism]

@Erneuert (https://www.echoingthesound.org/community/member.php?u=7060) and @botley (https://www.echoingthesound.org/community/member.php?u=469) @henryeatscereal (https://www.echoingthesound.org/community/member.php?u=1572) - matador de los froot loops , it's a teaser for the third part of a stunning YouTube Horror thing called The Mandela Catalogue.


https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkk6ZuwrqcsFn7_AV3582ZhveOi6C9PI9

Click on the above link to watch season 1 (which is like 40 min total).
There's also a season 2.I think there are ten vids aside from the 333 teaser, making a total of eleven.
OH. And turn on CC to get added parts of the story!

It's REALLY badass. I'm loving these new storytelling mediums.

[henryeatscereal]

Saw the first episodes, David Lynch would be proud, lol

I'm also waiting for the Selene Delgado cameo.
elevenism you made me LOL with the "Matador de los Froot Loops" thing!

[muad'nin]

https://youtu.be/0XwlWXtpaCM

Ohhhh boy…

[chuckrh]

Oh nice, a thread about Elon Musk.

[Sarah_Munn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py6c5NaHeB8 (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=py6c5NaHeB8)

This was great, thanks for sharing.

[Erneuert]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T__yM4npU3M (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T__yM4npU3M)

[allegate]

What is it? Amarillo Zoo needs help identifying mystery object
(https://www.abc27.com/news/what-is-it-amarillo-zoo-needs-help-identifying-mystery-object/)

https://gray-kcbd-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/ag4516UQpl1123VyRTbeZkMJqW4=/1200x675/smart/filters:quality(85)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gray/GPIMZDN5JVHTFI4IYBMCGOPDX4.jpg

[GastonKappa]

It’s Crash Bandicoot.
https://twitter.com/CrashBandicoot/status/1535058815736877057?cxt=HHwWgsCg1YP3z80qAAAA

[marodi]

Groot carrying Rocket?

[allegate]

I check out some comics like Foxtrot and Calvin & Hobbes and the commenters all speak to the characters like they're real people, I totally don't understand the thinking there. Are you so removed from reality that you don't understand these are fictional characters?

[GastonKappa]

Just spotted a big, black moth / butterfly (not sure what it is) in my home, we got it out of the house. I’m scared because this means in the cultures of Mexico and the Rio Grande, somebody will die, such as a relative. I don’t know my guys.

[marodi]

Oh and meanwhile, in other news: Australian authorities have exhumed the Somerton Man to try to identify him through DNA.

Just Google it, it's a great Strayan mystery.

The Somerton Man has been identified!

https://nyti.ms/3vjVMJ3

Good job, Straya! Now, all that's left is to find out how he died and why he was on that beach. Oh and find out what happened to the Beaumont children, doggone it! That case is so heartbreaking.

[allegate]

https://twitter.com/blameaspartame/status/1560264844447608836

whaaaaaaaat.

[elevenism]

So what in the actual fuck?


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aFy-IHRZRJI

I mean I guess it's just filed with the rest of today's insanity, but YEEZUS. They had her in a goddamn paramedics' "body bag" and she TRIED TO GET OUT.

So...zombie apocalypse incoming?

I can hardly wait.

[elevenism]

Just spotted a big, black moth / butterfly (not sure what it is) in my home, we got it out of the house. I’m scared because this means in the cultures of Mexico and the Rio Grande, somebody will die, such as a relative. I don’t know my guys.

I never knew of this particular symbol, despite being a lifelong Texan with many Mexican friends and family members.

What happens if the cat kills the moth?

[henryeatscereal]

I never knew of this particular symbol, despite being a lifelong Texan with many Mexican friends and family members.

What happens if the cat kills the moth?
Basically a greater evil kills the original one, lol