It all started here, the strange and creepy side of the web. HCS has migrated mostly to YouTube and has started to branch off towards horror stories, but in these pages you will find a mixture of all sorts of bizarre things.
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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.
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.
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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.
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??
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.
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.
At 6:30 am on the 1st of December 1948 a man was found dead on Somerton beach near Adelaide, Australia.
He had no identification and a public appeal brought no information on the man at all. To this day no one knows who he was or why he was dead on the beach. When an autopsy was performed no cause of death could be found.
A re-enactment of how and where the man was found.
His pockets contained a used bus ticket from the city, an unused second-class rail ticket from the city to nearby Henley Beach, a narrow aluminium American comb, a half-empty packet of Juicy Fruit chewing gum, an Army Club cigarette packet containing (the different brand of) Kensitas cigarettes, and a quarter-full box of Bryant & May matches.
One month later a suitcase was also found at the train station and is believed to have belonged to him. This still didn't give any clue as to who he was. The case contained:
■ Red checked dressing gown
■ Red felt slippers, size 7
■ Undergarments - four pairs
■ Pyjamas
■ Four pairs of socks
■ Shaving kit containing razor and strop, shaving brush
■ Light brown trousers with sand in cuffs
■ A screwdriver
■ A cut-down table knife
■ A stencilling brush
■ A pair of scissors
■ A sewing kit containing orange Barbour's brand waxed thread
■ Two ties
■ Three pencils
■ Six handkerchiefs
■ Sixpence in coins
■ A button
■ A tin of brown shoe polish, Kiwi brand
■ One scarf
■ One cigarette lighter
■ Eight large envelopes and one small envelope
■ One piece of light cord
■ One shirt without a name tag
■ One yellow coat shirt (a shirt with an attached collar)
■ Two airmail stickers
■ One eraser
■ One front and one back collar stud
■ Toothbrush and toothpaste
Months after he was found, someone going back over the case found a small scrap of paper in the fob pocket of his trousers. It said Tamam Shud in print, which is Persian for either ended or finished and it was identified to be ripped from a book. It was worked out that the book was Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a book of 12th century poetry.
A man heard of this case and the book. He came forward with a copy of the book that he had found tossed in to the back of his car the night before the man was found. The back page was missing where this phrase would have been printed. On the inside of the books back cover they found indentations from hand writing which showed a code that has never been deciphered.
There have been many people working on this case and it has spanned out all over the world. There are many theories and some possible ideas on who he might have been but there is nothing solid anywhere. This is still now considered a great mystery and we will probably never know who he was, why he was there or what it all means.
On February 19th 2013 the naked body of 21 year old Elisa Lam was found in the water tank on the roof at The Cecil Hotel in LA. Residents had been complaining that the water was running slow, had an odd taste and was looking a little brown so the tank was checked and there she was.
She was last seen alive on January 21st and once she was found they checked over the video from the lift and found this. No one has been able to pin down exactly what she is doing or why but the theories are all over the net. The most accepted one is some kind of mental episode due to her background with depression and bipolar disorder and the four medications she was taking for it. It was ruled that she died of accidental drowning which they do believe was most likely self inflicted.
There are still a lot of questions around the case though as to how she managed to get up there to the roof, how she managed to get in the tank and how she managed to drown in it unassisted. Some people believe there is someone unseen in this video that is the cause of her freak out while others have suggested demonic possession. There are even conspiracy theories about her being involved in something to do with Tuberculosis research as the vaccine for it is called Lam-Elisa. Thoughts?
Jerry Ehman, a radio astronomer, was looking through data collected by The Big Ear Telescope in 1977 and he came across something staggering. This was done in the search for any communication from alien life. He made the freak discovery on the data print out, circled it in red pen and wrote 'WOW!' next to it, thus the WOW signal was born.
The Big Ear was listening for radio waves from an area of sky near the constellation of Sagittarius. The data print outs were a visual representation of the sounds it was collecting. In all the 1's and 2's on the print out, Jerry saw 6EQUJ5. This is the actual recording that was picked up.
The same patch of sky has been listened to for years to see if anything else comes from it, but nothing ever has. It's estimated that the distance the signal traveled to get to us was 200 light years. This means the signal would have taken 200 years from being transmitted to the day it actually reached us. If we send one back it will take 200 years to get back to them.
We may never know where the signal came from or who sent it. It looks like this is another mystery we will never solve.
