No One Listens To Me - An Original Creepypasta

I keep thinking about taking up writing Creepypastas and I was yet to take the leap.  Earlier you may have seen my real life ghost hunting experience stories.  They were true, but sitting and writing just got my mind back to the idea of creating short creep stories.  I can't sleep, it's now 4:41am and I have just pulled this short story out of my grey matter.  Don't judge it too harshly.

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Kathy Jones, diary entry 2/4/17

I know a lot of people say they have a problem when speaking up in conversation but I have that problem really bad.  I do talk but not that much, because I know that when I do speak people either ignore me or just talk over me.  I tend to be much more of a listener really.  It didn't used to be this bad when I was a bit younger but I think I have just become more quiet and less assertive over time.  Even though I am silent most of the time and people tend to overlook me, I am quite a sociable person and do get out and about a lot.  I go out with family and friends in town and on nights out, but even they don't always pay attention to me.  It really gets to me sometimes but I have just come to accept that I am not really a loud or assertive person.  I just have a wall flower thing about me.

I am, however, really pissed off about something that happened last night with my brother, Dale.  We went out for a meal with the family for my birthday and, as always, they weren't really that excited about it, we've been doing it every year for the last five or so years and it's always as dull as they seem to find me.  And, as always, they didn't really speak to me and didn't really listen when I had anything to say.  Other family members get proper parties for their birthdays, so I just know I'm not a favorite.  I swear I'm going to just throw my own party one year and make something interesting of it for once.  After the meal my brother and cousin were on about going out for a drink in town so I decided to tag along with them.

While we were out my brother and I both saw this guy.  He was so cute and was looking over at me.  I was feeling a bit more gutsy than normal so I decided I was going to go talk to him.  I told Dale I was going to chat with him but he didn't seem to get the message that I wanted to chat him up.  Maybe he thought I couldn't or shouldn't be going over alone to talk to a guy I didn't know.  Whatever the reason, he came over with me.  But then the curse of being me struck again and once again, I found Dale talking over me and even saying things I had just said, but when I said it no one was interested, when he said it, it was fascinating.  

I am so mad at him for stealing my attempted thunder and even more pissed off today to find out that when we lost sight of each other in the bar and I went home with my cousin, the cute guy had gone home with Dale.

I was so sure it was me he was eyeing in the bar but I guess I could have been wrong, maybe he was looking at Dale the whole time.  Still, Dale didn't have to come over and be like that, he didn't give me a chance to find out if Mr. Cutey was interested in me.  He just barged in and took over the conversation.  Taking the guy home for the night when I had told him I was going to chat with him and that I thought he was giving me the eye.  Just a shitty thing to do really.  I'm seriously going to flip at him when I see him, when he crawls out of bed.  Not fucking happy, worst birthday ever.

Dale Jones, diary entry 02/04/17

We went out for my sisters normal boring birthday meal last night.  I keep saying we shouldn't even bother, they all just sit about looking bored as hell.  I just about got through it but was so fed up I needed to get out for a bit.  I told Mike and he agreed so we went out and I only went and pulled this super hot guy.  Back to mine for the night.  He's really sweet, fast start I know but sparks were flying.  Gunna go out with him again this weekend.  I really needed something good to happen to cheer me up after this crappy week.  Even this morning I got up and felt like there was just this heavy vibe in the air, it just made me feel really crappy, and then my favorite Star Wars mug smashed on the kitchen floor.  Must have not put it on the side properly or something, I just heard it go.  Gutted.  Anyway, gunna try and go for good vibes from now on and next year I might tell the parents to just stop with this shitty meal routine, just because Kathy isn't here anymore doesn't mean we have to remember her birthday in such a miserable way.  Next year I'm gunna throw her a kick ass party.  I miss you little sis.

Written by Violet De'Kay AKA Holy Creep Sauce

The End of an Era

I have recently had the news that my ghost hunting team will no longer be holding public hunts.  Private ones should still be going ahead but with being self funded, I am not sure how many of these I will be able to afford to attend.  Here, in honor of Haunted Britannia, are the three most compelling pieces of evidence I have personally experienced while hunting with the team.  The inspiration to write these up comes from conversation with a fellow horror Youtuber Hollowkeez, who is going to narrate these in the coming weeks.

Enjoy.

I have been on many paranormal investigations, but they are nothing like the shows on TV.  They always make it seem that ghosts are all around and will make themselves very known at every possible opportunity.  The truth could not be further from their works of entertainment fiction, most hunts are very quiet and nothing really happens all night.  Most of the time it's just feelings and small sounds.  However, there is that odd time when something happens that makes your blood run cold and your spine tingle.  Here, I present to you the three times I have personally experienced something that was beyond my explanation.

Two of these events occurred on the same night, Halloween night.  The team were in the cellar of Nostal Priory in West Yorkshire, England.  Do you know about table tipping?  It's when a small group of people gather around a table and all place their finger tips on it's top.  They then call out to the spirits to use their energy to make the table move.  There are many theories as to how it works, and for the most part I am of the belief that it's the ideomotor affect, people making small movements that can build up the momentum of the table even though they have no idea they are doing it.  I have seen more tables tipping and dancing around than I can count, but it never convinces me that spirits are present.  Save for this one time.  A group of four gathered around our little Ikea table in that cold cellar and place finger tips on it's surface.  The table started to rock upon request, it started to tip this way and that.  Then it slowly tipped over to one side, slowly, slowly, more and more.  Now normally when the table tips so far it will crash to the ground, they have light legs and a heavy top.  With just fingers rested on it's top there is nothing to really hold it up.  But this just kept tipping gradually over without falling.  It's top was only 4 or 5 inches from the ground and it still didn't fall.  It never fell, it held there and then came back up to standing.  I wasn't quite sure how it was possible so I had to investigate this further.  After everyone had moved on to another room, I took the table and tried in as many ways as I could to replicate what had just happened.  I failed.

I would like to move on to a different night and location now, and leave Nostal Priory's second offering til last.  I would like to re-visit the events of a seance that took place again in West Yorkshire, but this time in Knottingley town hall.  I'm sure everyone is familiar with a good old fashioned Victorian style seance.  We had large round tables in the old dance hall, located on the 1st floor of the building.  The 1st floor was also the top floor so there was no other level above us.  No one else was on our floor, everyone who was there was sat around the table in that large dark room.  The lights were out and we had a little torch light on the table.  We held hands and called out many times over.  We had little sounds in the room here and there which is normal and can mostly be attributed to the old building settling in the night.  It was very sudden and out of nowhere.  It was loud and clear.  Heavy footsteps sprinted towards us from across the room and stopped right next to the table. It was behind me but I managed to hold myself enough to stay put.  All heads turned and gasps sprang from everyone's lungs.  One girl who had the footsteps stop directly behind her chair, shot up and landed on the knee of the woman next to her as she screamed.  We all heard it, it shocked and freaked us out.  Even our resident skeptic of the team still says to this day that he can't explain it and will recall how it scared him.  And this is a firm none believer.

Ok, let's take a trip back to that night at Nostal Priory.  At the time the team were working with a guy who was very into his gadgets, all the tech stuff.  One of the things he had was a modified baby monitor.  It gave a constant sound of low, white noise.  We gathered as a large group in one of the big rooms in the cellar.  The monitor was set up and the lights switched out.  In the darkness the white noise quietly mumbled away as our medium called out and started to describe to us what he could see and hear.  He told us that a large man was stood in the room with us.  He was well dressed and thought of himself as being better than us, that he was above us. The man apparently thought we were all stupid and wasting our time.  As the medium had a little conversation with the spirit man, we heard him reasoning that we were not stupid, just curious and wanted to talk to him and see proof from the other side of death.  Then the medium said to the man "Oh no no, don't laugh at us". Immediately after the sentence slipped from his lips, the monitor made a very loud sound.  It was all in static but sounded like laughing.  It's hard to express in text what it was like.  It was six short bursts of loud static that was like a chuckle.  Everyone was astonished and right after, the monitor cut dead and the room fell in to silence.  A torch was put on and the monitor checked but there was no evidence as to why it was not working.  It would not even switch back on again.  All of a sudden it just sprang back to life and continued to make the same low white noise as before.  It didn't do anything else and the medium said the man was gone.

I do sometimes feel that spirits are not real, but when I think about these events, I can't help but to continue to question it.

A turkey circle around a dead cat. Very odd bird behavior.

A group of wild turkeys has been see circling around a dead cat in the street and it's very strange indeed.

Check it out here

Live Ghost Hunt Tonight

I am just getting all set up and ready for our first ghost hunt live.  It's going to be a small and simple investigation but we hope it will be effective.  Please do join us and see if you can spot anything we miss.

Base Line Testing the K2

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Been away for a while...

...but I shall be coming back.

I am one of those people who has a faulty brain.  It was a very bad year for my silly brain and it just got worse and worse.  This year is going to be my year though, and Holy Creep Sauce is one of the things I am going to be kicking up the ass.  I am currently on with making a video for the YouTube channel about people who are alive but really shouldn't be after what happened to them.

Keep and eye out for it....much like one of the guys in the video.

Spooky Thursday with Haunted Britannia - 21 grams

This post is something I have shared before but it defiantly deserves to be brought back up for spooky Thursday.

I'm not going to say anything about this as the video here explains everything you need to know.  It's a heavy subject so let's make it light on the reading.  As light as the soul perhaps.

Is the soul a real and measurable thing?  Does it really weigh 21 grams?

The Hamburger Lady - Creepy Deep Web Video Explained

The Hamburger Lady video is meant to have been pulled from the deep web some time ago and has had a lot of speculation over where it comes from.  If you are unsure on what the deep web is then this diagram should help make it clear.  There are layers to the internet at different accessibility levels.  The lower levels are the deep web and are not accessible on a normal browser.  These are the Tor networks and you need the Tor browser to find them.

I have seen people saying that it's a cursed video, one of those "if you watch it you will die in three days" things.  I have heard some say the story behind it was real and it was made by the orderly or the doctor or even the spirit of the Hamburger Lady herself.  

The story is about a woman in a hospital suffering from major burns all over her body.  The doctor has written a journal entry about her and the way her flesh looks like hamburger meat.  He speaks of taking turns caring for her in her suffering and how an orderly was sick all over the floor from dealing with her.

I have had a dig around and I found a few things out about this video.  It is creepy for sure, that we know, but what is the real story of it and was she a real person?  Click below to watch my explanation video and see the original video taken from the deep web.

The Hamburger Lady

Spooky Thursday with Haunted Britannia - How does the Ouija board work?

So as promised last week it's time to talk about theories on how the Ouija board works.  This one is going to be short and really is more of a 'what do you think?' kind of deal.  So the main options are:

It's a ghost moving the glass/planchette.

It's the spirit making the people move to their will.

It's the people moving it on purpose.

It's the people moving it without realising.

The first three don't really need any further explaining but that last one is talked about a lot as to where the information is coming from.  If you ask something and the board gives a right reply then is it just you moving it subconsciously to what you want it to say even though you don't think you are?  Sometimes the answer is correct and you think you don't know the answer so it could not have been you that moved it, but is that always true?  Is it that you do know this information or is it in your head somewhere at the back and it again comes forward subconsciously?  Or, links in with point two, did you genuinely not know and the spirit is putting the information in your mind so you will pass it on through the board?

These questions don't stop at just the board.  They also apply to dowsing, automatic writing and table tipping to name just a few.

I am very on the fence with all this.  I do see that some people force it and cheat results which is totally pointless and defeats the object of what you are doing.  But do I believe that it is just human subconsciousness or actual spirit?  I can't decide. 

So which theory do you go with or do you have one of your own?  

Elliot Rodger - The Virgin Killer

Elliot Rodger was from money and fame, being the son of Peter Rodger the film director.  He was loved by his family, he had cash, nice expensive things, travelled the world and as if that wasn't enough he was also a pretty good looking cat.  Unfortunately he suffered from some major malfunction in the mind department.

Elliot had some kind of problem with speaking to people, especially the ladies, and this led to him being very lonely.  He craved for the life of those he saw around him and could not see a way that he might be able to have a slice of it.  He blamed them for not letting him have a great life rather than seeing that he was preventing it himself.  Other guys were all seen as being 'losers', 'brutes' and 'beasts' who were undeserving of beautiful girls and he found himself to be 'superior' in his money, car, clothing and intelligence.  He blamed the girls for not wanting him and said he could not understand why they don't.  From all accounts he didn't really talk to girls through shyness and when he did, they found him creepy.  From the videos he left behind and his manifesto that is very easy to understand.  

Elliot came across as a spoilt, ungrateful, misogynistic child with a hugely over inflated ego in his videos and I was shocked when I found out he was 22.  I not only think he looks younger but the strange mind set seems like one of a frustrated teenage boy, which is reinforced by his over use of the phrase 'it's not fare'.  He had been in therapy from a young age so it was pretty clear he had some kind of long standing mental issues but no one seemed to know the full extent of what he was capable of.

On May 23rd 2014, Elliot made a few last videos for his YouTube channel, emailed his manifesto titled "My Twisted World" to a few people and then set about his killing spree in Isla Vista, California.  He stabbed three male students to death in his apartment, two who lived there with him as room mates and a third who was visiting them.  He drove to a sorority house as planned in his final video but could not get in.  He got back in his car and shot at three female students around the corner.  Two of them died and the third was injured but survived.  After this he went by a deli and fired in, killing another male student.  He drove around and fired randomly at people on the street, hit people with the car and even ended up in a shoot out with police.  Elliot was hit in the hip but drove on until he crashed his car.  He then turned the gun on himself.

If you would like to read more in to his story and what happened then the wiki page is quite extensive.  You can still view Elliot's YouTube channel but the final video has been removed, however here is a compilation of all his videos made on that day which includes he final one.

You can also read the manifesto here or listen to it read out in the video below.  At first I thought it was a 10 minute video and then quickly realised it is actually 10 hours.  It's a long read.

Bellow is a 20/20 documentary all about the incident, how his problems were missed and the aftermath.

Spooky Thursday with Haunted Britannia - Ouija Boards: Kids toy or a gateway to hell?

The feelings on Ouija boards are like the feelings for Marmite, only it's less of a love/hate thing and more of a love/fear thing.  I am not going to go through the full history and origin of the board, but if you are interested in reading about it then click here.  I will just say it has been around since the mid to late 1800's and sprang up from the love of all things spiritual in that era.  One unconfirmed story I really like is about the name Ouija which is said to have come from the board itself being asked what it should be called, it was then asked what Ouija meant and the board replied "good luck".

So why are so many people scared of the Ouija board?  This is just my view on it but it seems to be mostly from stories and films, rumours and urban legend.  The boards were around and widely used for such a long time with very few people having a problem with them.  Then they were used in horror films as an obvious choice because they are very visual and can give accurate messages plus the added factor of the audience being able to do it at home with a home made board and very little know how.  This was fuel for the fear and the urban legends got more graphic in people's minds because of the movies.  When you hear about how someone did a Ouija board in real life and it said they would all die then the dog freaked out and the light bulbs all exploded, who did it happen to?  That's right, a friend of a friend.  You don't often find someone telling you this stuff first hand, and the excitement of telling a scary real life story naturally brings on over exaggeration and embellishment.  Even if it doesn't it ends up with the Chinese whispers effect of altering each time it is told.  So are the stories of Ouija boards greatly over exaggerated?  Yes, I would say they are.  Big time.

Ouija boards are just one of many ways to try and contact spirits, others including a seance, pendulums and calling out for sounds in return.  It all boils down to the same thing.  The only difference is what you are asking the spirit or energies to effect, a glass on a board or pendulum in your hand.  The board is just the one that has a bad rap.  Some people are also quite hesitant when it comes to a seance as they have been shown to be scary in films and stories too but what about the poor little pendulum?  Or the dowsing rods?  No one bats an eyelid at them because they are famous for finding water underground which is more interesting that scary.

So in conclusion I would say that you have no reason at all to be scared of the board and it can't be used to open portals or summon demons, it won't kill you or curse you.  I know some people will still disagree and say they are to never be used for fear of death and destruction but honestly I have used them on investigations so many times I have lost count and you know what?  I have never had a good, clear, straightforward message from one yet, never mind a curse placed on me and I am fine as are the rest of the crew.

There is another question about the boards though, a big one.  How do they work?  Sometimes they really do work and you manage to get correct answers from them, so how do you think this happens? Let's look at that one next week.  For now, let us know what you think of the Ouija board.  Are you scared of it?  Do you have a good story?  Let us know on the Haunted Britannia post comments.

Ouija at Toys R Us, fun for ages 8 and up.

The Hum

I became aware of The Hum quite a while back and find it very strange. I think I might have even heard it and not known about it, thinking it was a car running or distant industry.  Again for this one I am not going to go off in too much detail as below is a wonderful video from Thoughty2 who I highly recommend you check out on YouTube, I love his videos.

In short, The Hum is a low rumbling sound that has been reported all over the world with no clear cause.  There are many theories on what it is and where it comes from but an answer has never been found.  The Hum has even driven some people insane and terrified others.  

You can check out The World Hum Map and Database Project if you want to see where the reports of The Hum are coming from and what people have to say about it.  Has someone in your town reported it?  You can ever make a report yourself if you believe you have heard it.

Now get a cuppa, sit back and relax as the wonderful Thoughty2 explains all about The Hum.  Do subscribe to his channel, he is awesome.

Spooky Thursday with Haunted Britannia - Disneyland Ghost

Hello and welcome to the new Spooky Thursday which I am doing in partnership with Haunted Britannia.  The ghost hunting team are a new, more wide spread venture from the long standing local group Pontefract Paranormal.  I have been a member of PP for quite some time now, well over a year I think, maybe nearly two, and I am also now a crew member with HB.  I have a separate blog called Finding Slimer in which I enter my report as I see it from investigations I go on and I have a couple of personal spooky experiences on there too.  I am aiming to have something related to the paranormal world on here every Thursday for the purposes of debate among Haunted Britannia patrons and fans, so without further ado, let's get on to the first one and let's make it a big one to celebrate this newness.

This video was captured at Disneyland in 2009.  It is a recording of the security monitors as a ghostly figure roams around the closed park in the night.  Some people say it is a ghost, maybe even Walt himself, and others have rather different explanations.  I am going to try and go through some theories and ideas to see what I can make of this.  When doing any kind of paranormal investigation you need to try and debunk everything in as many ways as you can, otherwise you just end up believing anything and everything is a ghost.  Eg the cat fell off a table in the next room "ohh it was a ghost".  That kind of thing.  And that proves nothing.  Only once you have ruled out as much as possible can you then begin to really look at something as a real candidate for para normality.

So this video I have chosen because it is pretty clear to see what we are talking about and it is compelling.  You can see the figure is very human in some of the shots, not just a strange mass.  It walks across different cameras which all line up perfectly and passes through some closed gates and does a Jesus impression over the boat lake.  So what are the possible explanations for this?

Someone on the net has mentioned the idea of screen burn, the image has been shown on the screen for so long that it has burned in.  So the background would be burned in, not the figure.  I think the person was suggesting that there really is a person walking through the park but they didn't show properly through the burnt images.  This should not really make any difference to the image of people on the screen, they should still show up fine not like a white transparent figure.  If this was the case then all people would show like this all the time on that screen.  That would be creepy to look at but unfortunately there are no other people in the shot to confirm this.  Having watched old TV screens in my youth with screen burn though, I'm not buying this one at all.  If it is a real image of someone walking through, how do they walk through closed gates and over a boat lake?

Old VHS tapes being reused with the 'ghost' image still hanging around.  I buy this one more as that does happen.  Like a double exposure, you can see a little of what was on the tape before you recorded over it with something else.  I do have a little niggle with it.  This does explain how the figure walks through closed gates and I am guessing all the tapes will be recording the same cameras all the time over and over.  The figure walks the path perfectly but then walks over the lake?  It could be that the tape was changed from recording another location before BUT we are talking about this same image crossing over four different screens which are either A those same 4 cameras are on a constant feed to one tape so it would have meant someone did walk over the lake or B that 4 different tapes record each camera feed and this same image is on ALL of them separately at the same time which seems very unlikely.

It was suggested it might be a reflection on the screen.  This one I am not buying either because it's very human looking and it shows on 2 screens at once walking between cameras which perfectly sync up.

After all that you are left with the question of it being a hoax.  If this is a hoax then it's quite a good one and must have taken a bit of skill and time.  It was uploaded on a YouTube channel called ghostatdisneyland on the 15th September 2009 and was followed by another video on the 23rd and a final one on the 29th.  The channel has no real information on it and just these 3 videos all as from the security cameras.  So what can we get from this?

These were put here anonymously on a channel that was made just for them with the look of the name and the fact it was created on the same day as the first upload.  So it could be someone who works there leaking footage they have found or they have taken the basic footage and manipulated it digitally.  That could be just for fun as the videos do not seem to have been monetised for viewer revenue.  Seems like a lot of trouble to make content that you will not have credit or money for creating but some people do still do these things.  Another idea is that it was a viral ad created by Disneyland to promote Halloween events.  The date would check out on this one with it being mid to late September.

If you take a look at the other 2 videos on there you have this Tower of Terror one which shows flashes of someone sitting first behind and then to the side of this maintenance worker going through the ride.  Someone said this was images of the same man repeated and reflected but it clearly isn't the case as you can see from my still shots below.  This ride does however use screens and holograms to scare the riders.  I can't help but feel that the ghosts in this video look quite conveniently like holograms in a place where hologram projection is installed.

The final video does look to me like a good candidate for ghost image on VHS as it is one camera view of one spot.  It could be someone getting in the train before imprinted on the new recording.

So personally I am going with this being a Disneyland viral ad.  I think anonymous channel creation ties in to that well.  Not monetised so no links to another account for payments and no other advert interruptions over their videos which are in themselves adverts, well timed for Halloween and pretty good images like it might have had some real thought and money put in to it to make it quite convincing.  It does look from a quick search that they had a 2009 Halloween festival so that links in well too.

This is just my thoughts on it all and my personal conclusion but as with all things ghost, it is open to interpretation and it can be hard to truly pinpoint an exact right answer.  It is possible I am wrong and it really is a security guard who wanted to show the spooks without getting fired for releasing Disneyland security footage.  They could be real or there could be another explanation for them.

The main question is, what do you think?

Ever wanted to change your eye colour?

Thanks to modern day medical science you can.  Not just with regular contact lenses, but with a chunk of plastic permanently jammed under your cornea.  I don't know about you but I can think of nothing more appealing than having my eye balls sliced up like a cooked chicken.

Here is a news report on Bright Ocular and their eye changing ways, below this is a video from Bright Ocular of an implant being placed in the eye.  If that makes you cringe then get ready to hide behind something for the next video, removal of an implant that went baaaaaaaaaaaaad.

If you are happy with the current colour of your iris but still want to give your eye a little artificial pop of colour, why not consider an eye tattoo.  The white of your eye can be changed to any colour you like with a few injections of ink in to the cornea.  Lovely.

Botfly

Botfly larvae are the things of nightmares.  The human Botfly (Dermatobia Hominis) female will capture a mosquito and attach her eggs to it's body and let it go.  Once the mosquito lands on a human (and some other primates) the eggs will enter at he point of the mosquito bite to incubate for 8 weeks in the subcutaneous layers of the skin. It will fall out and develop for a further week in the ground.

This species is native to the Americas from Southeastern Mexico (beginning in central Veracruz) to northern Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. The adult fly is quite large and resembles a bumblebee.

Here is a video of Botfly larvae removals.  Be warned, it's cringe inducing.  also if you suffer from Trypophobia it might trigger that too.

It's my birthday, let's get our creep on

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me.  So it's my birthday today and I decided to make an attempt at using the date to create a special Creep Sauce to celebrate.  The searching has brought up some nasty things and some pointless things.  I already know that Antonio Banderas is my birthday buddy and I have just found out that so is Kylie Jenner (woo bloody hoo).  

One thing I found that stood out above all others, something that is the right kind of creepy for Holy Creep Sauce was related to Charles Manson.  On August 10th 1969 his cult killed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca after killing Sharon Tate and four of her friends just the day before on August 9th.

Read about the August 10th murders Includes photos of the bodies but through external links so you don't have to see them if you don't want to.

Recent article about Leslie Van Houten of the Manson Family

Rosemary and Leno

The night before.  Top line killers, bottom line the victims

The Manson Family

Tickle in the ear

Hi creepsters.  I know I had been putting a creepy thing on everyday and that just recently I have been missing a few days.  I have not had as much time to dedicate to the blog lately as I had before.  I don't want to stop the blog though so I am going to reduce the post frequency to weekly rather than daily.  On that note, here is a man going to the doctor with a tickle in his ear.

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.