Oradour-sur-Glane

Remember when I posted the video about Chernobyl and said I can think of a ghost town more ghostly than Pripyat?  Well this is the one.  Oradour-sur-Glane.  This is a very sad story from WW2 and the video below does show images of some of the bodies.  They are not really that graphic but people have different tolerances for such things and put the images together with the story and it's horrifying.

The village was destroyed by Nazis on the 10th of June 1944 and 642 of it's occupants were massacred including woman and children of all ages.  The men were put in a barn where machine guns were aimed at their legs.  They were shot down but mostly still alive, this is when they had fuel poured over them and they were burned alive.  The women and children had been put inside the church and locked in.  fires were lit around it and as they tried to escape from doors and windows they were met with the machine guns.  Many simply burned to death.  Only one 47 year old woman managed to get out alive.  She, another woman and a child had managed to get out at the back but all were shot.  She crawled, wounded in to some bushes and hid there until rescue came the following day.

After the war a new village was build nearby but Oradour-sur-Glane was ordered to be kept as it was by the French president.  It stands to this day and a museum and memorial.

The Polaroid in the car park

On June the 15th 1998 a woman found a Polaroid in a car park which depicted what seemed to be two young kidnap victims.  She said she had parked next to a windowless white van and gone in to a shop.  When she came back out to her car the van was gone and the photo was on the floor.

It is believed that the girl in the photo is Tara Calico who went missing the year before on September 20th in New Mexico.  She went out in the morning for a bike ride only to vanish, her and the bike, and never be seen again.  No one saw her being taken but it is widely accepted that she was kidnapped.  There was a sighting of a truck following her as she was riding but this could be just a truck going the same way as her cycle route.  The boy in the photo has not been identified.  There was a claim it was Michael Henley who went missing in April 88.  However his body was found in 1990 in the Zuni mountains, 7 miles from his families camp site and 75 miles away from where Tara had gone missing.  It is believed he had gone off alone for some reason, maybe he became lost, and died of exposure. 

There has been recent efforts to find Tara and look in to the origins of the photo but so far they have turned up empty handed.

 

By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47933067

Botcaster

I was going through a site called PetitTube (go try it, it's odd) and I found this.  Botcaster.  It says it is a smart robot that learns from the net and uploads videos from what it learns.  It has shocking numbers of videos even though it was only started in January this year.  If you go on the playlists you will see the mammoth collections of different video types.  It's been telling jokes (bad ones) and reading the Bible as well as giving definitions for thousands of words.

Botcaster Inc

Don't Move

Time for a short horror movie me thinks.  The kind of thing you can watch before going to bed tonight to give you some good old fashioned nightmares.

Don't Move is set in a house just after playing with an Ouija board.  I am a part time ghost hunter and have used them loads, they are not scary and do not summon demons.  However this one does summon a demon because it's a horror film.  This demon is hard of hearing and has sight problems so the people are reasonably safe if they just Don't Move and stay quiet.  The last one alive gets to live.

Give the full movie a watch here, it only 15 minutes of your life but it might haunt you forever.

Creepypasta

I know this site is already a very popular one but not everyone knows about it so I am going to point you in it's direction anyway.  Creepypasta is the place for the public, yep that's you out there, to write creepy fiction and have it featured for the world to read.  The site is packed full of creepy stories for a night in alone.

Visit Creepypasta

The Sodder Children

The Sodder children were either killed in a fire or went missing. No one knows which, no one knows where they are and it's likely that no one ever will.  This video from the wonderful Cayleigh Elise tells you the full story in depth.

Salad Mix Up

I made this ages ago.  It's a cross over of David Firth's Salad Fingers and Aphex Twin.  Please do give it a watch and hop on over to the Holy Creep Sauce channel and subscribe to get the usual creepy stories in video form.

Chernobyl Tour

I have always wanted to visit a ghost town and this has to be the most ghostly of all ghost towns (there is one I can think of that might actually be more ghostly but I will leave that for another day).  I'm going to assume you know about the Chernobyl disaster as I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't know at least some about it.  If you don't then you can read about it here.  This is a 5 part video set by Exploring with Josh.  He takes us on his tour around the abandoned city of Pripyat which was evacuated just after the disaster in 1986 and has been left unoccupied ever since.

nana825763

This is one of those YouTube channels that just makes you go "Whaatttttt??"  The videos are quite diverse and some are just crazy.  I saw somewhere, but for the life of me I can't remember where it was, that someone managed to email the owner of the channel and they got a reply saying something along the lines of don't tell anyone, forget this email, you got too close already, delete this if you value your life.  Again.... Whaatttttt??

Take a look and see what you think.

nana825763

Poppy, creepy as hell

I have only just got on this Poppy band wagon.  This channel seems a bit normal and dull when you see the stills.  Yeah yeah another girl just talking about hair and make up and teenage drama stuff. Not of interest to those of us with a taste for the creepy stuff.  She is a pop star with fluffy music videos.

WRONG!!!  Just watch her.  You can't help but click on video after video.  They are all so short and....unnerving.  She appears to be an art channel that focuses on celebrity culture.  She's so creepy.

Visit Poppy's channel

Amy Lynn Bradley

Amy Lynn Bradley was a 23 year old American on a cruise ship named Rhapsody of the Seas in 1998 when she disappeared without a trace.  She has never been found.

She had been up dancing and drinking with the ships band on the night of the 23rd of March through to the morning of the 24th.  She parted from them and her father saw her asleep on the deck.  He later went back to check on her but she was gone.

The ship docked at Curacao, Antilles not long after it was found she was missing.  The ship and sea were searched but there was no trace of her.  It was thought that she may have fallen in to the sea and been lost but reports followed that indicated otherwise.

Two Canadian tourists said they saw her on the beach in Curacao in 98 and a member of the Navy claims he saw her in a brothel in 99, telling his she was Amy Bradley and asking him to help her.  In 2005 someone in Barbados claimed to have seen her in the toilets of a department store.

Photos were also sent to the family showing a woman posing sexually who looks very much like her.  This along with the brothel sighting has caused people to believe she may have been kidnapped and sold to sex slavery.  But no one actually knows for sure.

The strange mind of David Firth

You may remember an online animation series from a few years back that goes by the name of Salad Fingers.  I know he wasn't a household name but he did become very popular with a lot of people.  

Well Salad Fingers is the brain child of crazy animator David Firth and Mr. Fingers is only mildly creepy next to some of David's other offerings.  I could sit and watch his animations all day as you never quite know what is going to happen and what the tone will be.  

Anyone who likes anything strange and unusual should have a David Firth night followed by a night of weird crazy nightmares.

Visit David Firth's YouTube

99 rooms

This is a very strange site.  Can you get through all 99 rooms?  I got to 37.  This is probably one of those for a dark night on your own with the headphones on.

99 Rooms

ARG's

Wiki says "An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and uses transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions."

You can find a few of these on YouTube and below is one that seems only have been running since January this year. I will be highlighting a few others in later posts.

The games normally consist of codes and hidden clues and secrets that people have to work out and follow to find a message or meaning behind it all.

This channel uses Hex code along with others.  You can find decoders on the net just by Google searching for them.

I have not yet seen all the way through this channel myself but I am working my way through and have decoded some of the Hex in earlier videos.  The video 'Nervous Hex.avi' is numbers and letter read backwards.  I downloaded the sounds and ran it through Audacity to flip it.  Then I typed them in to a converter online and it said 'Northampton State Hospital Hassachusetts'.  No idea if the typo is intentional or not.  This is just an example of the kind of thing you might be looking for to follow an ARG.

UPDATE: I have gone through more of Slob Room and the channel has changed now with the creator talking about ARG's and YouTube channels.......still in the mask though.

Slob Room

Modern day murders

Killers are often spoken of as a thing of the past, especially the really gruesome gory ones with extra sick minds.  However there are still serial killers and twisted murderers in the world at large and unless you frequent the likes of Best Gore (graphic warning) you might not really get to hear much about it.

Two of the most noted cases of recent times are commonly known as 1 lunatic, 1 ice pick and 3 guys, 1 hammer.  I am not going to link these as they are VERY graphic but they can be found if you want to find them.

1 lunatic, 1 ice pick was the sick work of Luka Magnotta, a former porn actor.  He might be a pretty boy but he is one sick puppy.  Lin Jun was a student in Montreal who was last seen on May 24th 2012.  On the following day the 11 minute video was uploaded to Best Gore showing a man tied naked to a bed.  He was stabbed many times over with an ice pick and a kitchen knife.  He was then dismembered and these were acts of necrophilia.  Police believe there was some cannibalism involved too.

On May 29th a package was delivered to the Conservative Party of Canada containing a left foot.  A package containing a left had was stopped at the post office, addressed to the Liberal Party.  A janitor found a decomposing torso in a suitcase left in a rubbish pile behind an apartment building.  The right hand and right foot had been posted to schools.

Luka absconded but was caught in an internet cafe on the 4th of June 2012 while looking at himself on the net.

Mark Marek, the founder of Best Gore was also caught up in the Magnotta case for allowing the video on his site.  He was arrested and charged for corruption morals and I believe to this day he still has no control over the site himself.  The site is now run by friends and members of the Best Gore community.

                                          Lin Jun                             Luka Magnotta                                       

                                          Mark Marek of Best Gore

After all that nastiness, let's leave 3 guys, 1 hammer for another day.

Seeing without eyes

Here is a little more super human action for you today.  This is Ben Underwood.  He had cancer of the retina and lost both his eyes at a very young age.  But Ben seemed to turn part bat when he began to use echo location to see even small details.  This is just a short clip of him seeing his way around but I have seen him before giving very good descriptions of things just by clicking at them.

Sadly Ben passed away in 2009 at the age of 16 due to a return of cancer but he leaves this unbelievable skill on record.

Little ghost, little ghost, what I'm scared of the most

Can a ghost be caught on camera?  Maybe.  There are a lot of people out there saying they have done it though many of these tend to end up being faked.  Here is a picture for your consideration.

These lot were having a get together and decided to take some snaps.  The little girl had apparently been getting upset a lot and saying the boy was scaring her.  When she refused to pose with them for a photo and just stood crying at the scary boy they thought it was just her childhood over active imagination and carried on.  When looking back over the photos at a later date, they found a boy peering out from between them.

Is the story true?  Did they fake the image?  Was it some kind of tech glitch?  Or is it true that children can see ghosts when adults can't?

Sitting and Smiling

A YouTube channel that does exactly what it says on the tin.  

Benjamin Bennet is a performance artist who has been performing sitting and smiling for a VERY long time.  He puts on his web cam, gets comfortable and then he sits and smiles and nothing more......for four hours.

The first video is dated July the 28th 2014 and to date there are 219 videos (at the time of writing this, with the last one being added three hours ago).

In that time he has had a couple of slight problems.  In one episode he forgot to go pee before starting and wets himself, but the really crazy one is early on.  Episode 5 has a special guest.  He is sat there doing his thing when someone breaks in to his house and opens the door behind him.  What does he do?  He sits and smiles.

UPDATE: I am currently sat here watching Sitting and Smiling on live steam #221  There is something even more unsettling about it when it's actually live.  Knowing he is sat there right now with that creepy smile and his eyes burning a hole in to my soul.

Visit Sitting and Smiling

Google if you dare

Today I am not going to give you a picture or a video.  No stories or files.  Just a word.  One word that when Googled will bring up some really gross pictures.

Jiggers

Google if you dare.

Human ice-pop

I have seen plenty of cases where people become frozen and then thaw out to survive but this one really takes the biscuit.

19 year old Jean Hilliard ended up walking in the snow after her car broke down.  She was frozen solid....but lived.

Unusual funerals

There are some strange funerals out there and here are just seven of them.  What do you think about posing the dead as they were in life?  I quite like it.

The creepiest of Creepy Pasta

I think we all know Creepy Pasta, but if you don't, it's a place for fictional stories of a creepy nature.  I have read this pasta before and I find it a very weird and creepy one.  Here it is being read to you.  The Russian Sleep Experiment.  Enjoy my creepy ones.

Impossible skills?

Let's talk about super humans.  Regular people with abilities that seem impossible.

This is Isao Machii and he can slice a tiny BB gun pellet with a samurai sward as it flies through the air at 200 mph.  Crazy mad skills of perception that should not even be possible. Secret super hero?

Death Row - Last Words

Here you can see who has been executed for their crimes in Texas, updated as and when.  It gives information about the person and their crime as well as their final statement before death.  It's grim and it's sad.

Death Row Site

On the Writings of the Insane

On the Writings of the Insane is a book written in 1870 by G. Mackenzie Bacon M.D. and it is exactly what it says on the tin.  

Here is a link to the scanned book.  Enjoy.

The Voynich Manuscript

Wilfred Voynich was a Polish book dealer who purchased the manuscript in 1912.  It's origins are unknown.

It is a codex, written in a text that is indecipherable but on studies by code breakers, they find that it does have some meaning behind it rather than random jibber jabber, and it is written left to right.

It has around 240 pages though there are some pages missing.  It is filled with strange drawings and diagrams.  Carbon dating has shown that it was made some time in the early 15th century.  No one has been able to read it and no one knows what it is or what it means.

Visual Birth and Death

Here is a world map with a simulation of birth and death in real time.  It is worked out using real data to give a realistic view of how many people are coming and going and at what pace.

The Birth and Death Site

Ricky McCormick and the Encrypted Notes

Ricky McCormick lived in Missouri until his death in 1999.  He was found dead and very decomposed in a corn field only five days after going missing.  He was a high school drop out and it was said by his family that he could only write his name.

He had been seen getting a check up in hospital on the 25th of June, he had heart and lung problems.  He was then found in an advanced state of decomposition by a woman driving through a field which was 15 miles from his home.  He was identified by finger prints.

12 years later the authorities announced that he had actually been found with two notes in his pockets written in some kind of code.  His family didn't even know about this finding until it was on the news.  They said there was no way he would be able to write such a thing.  The FBI have been appealing for help in cracking the codes, believing it may lead to his killer, but as yet there have been no breakthroughs despite all the interest in the case.  It is being listed as a mystery along with the likes of Tamam Shud.