Happy Anniversary
How can you not find this one creepy especially if you read about the backstory of this one? Eight years after the 2004 disappearance of UMass student, a series of creepy videos hit the Internet. In one, an old man cackles into the camera before the screen goes black and the phrase “Happy Anniversary” appears. They were posted by a user called Mr112dirtbag. The true identity behind the user has yet to be uncovered.
On February 9, 2004, Murray’s wrecked car was discovered on Route 112 in New Hampshire. She was never found. Naturally, when the videos surfaced, people who saw them said the uploader likely had something to do with Murray’s disappearance. The user's name, a seeming reference to the New Hampshire roadway where the car was discovered, added fuel to the theory. Maura Murray's family dismissed the videos as “cruel and hideous.” After investigators watched the videos, they said there was nothing in them that could be used as evidence.
Most of the Mr112dirtbag videos are no longer available on YouTube. Yet viewers still believe there may have been something on the videos that investigators missed. They are undoubtedly mysterious and cryptic, showing simple drawings of a stick girl with a black eye, a man’s cartoon face beside a lopsided clock, a man playing the electric keyboard, and others. The videos also make references to two other missing persons cases: Molly Bish, 16, whose body was found in rural Massachusetts, and Patric McCarthy, 10, who vanished in 2003 from the White Mountains of New Hampshire and was found dead five years later. Whether the cases are connected or not, authorities never had enough evidence to open an investigation.
In 2015, the YouTube channel Obscure Horror Corner uploaded the first part of Sad Satan, said to have risen from the Deep Web. The game was supposedly named after the famous Led Zeppelin song, “Stairway to Heaven.” Around the time of the song’s original release, some conservative religious groups claimed that the game contained hidden messages praising the devil. The messages could be revealed by playing the song backward.
In the game itself, there isn’t a huge amount of playtime available. Rather, the heightened user experience comes from the creepy music and messages that play as the gamer makes their way through a series of dark passages. While it seems basic and rather plotless, users delved deeper and uncovered something unexpected. Periodically, Jimmy Saville and Rolf Harris, two UK television figures found guilty of serial child abuse, make appearances in the game. Since this discovery, many of the other audio clips and references in the game have been linked to child abuse.
In addition to these cryptic references to illegal activity, there exists a “bad” version of Sad Satan, which contains various illegal images and viruses. Most of these have been scrubbed clean. Fans of horror and mere curious minds alike have tried to complete the game, hoping to uncover its mysterious message. So far, little insight has been provided by those who’ve finished.
The Elisa Lam Footage
As I may have said, the most creepy will be the real ones. If you’ve heard of any of the videos on this list, it’s most likely Elisa Lam. This video was released by the LAPD on February 14, 2013, after Lam went missing from her room at the Cecil Hotel. It shows her acting strangely in the hotel's elevator. She enters and presses several buttons, but the doors refuse to close. She tries the buttons again and gets the same result. She presses her palms to her ears, seeming distressed, rubs her forearms together, and returns to the back wall of the elevator. After some time of this repeated action, the doors finally close.
On the morning of February 19, after hotel guests complained of poor water pressure and strange-tasting water, Lam’s body was found in one of the hotel’s rooftop water tanks. Her death was deemed an accidental drowning as there were no signs of foul play or suicide. While traces of prescription medication and a small amount of alcohol were found in Lam's body, they found no suspicious substances that may have contributed to her death.
5. Me Singing 'Pretty Woman’
This oft-circulated video features a ghoulish man with a nightmarishly expressive face recording himself lip-syncing to the Roy Orbison track, "Pretty Woman." The video seems relatively harmless, if you can resist those bedroom eyes he makes at the camera. Partway into the song, he takes off his sweater and adjusts his collar. Weird, sure, but you could chalk this one up to Grandpa getting a new laptop.
Well, the man's real name was Edward MUSCARE, or Uncle Ed. He was a TV personality on a local station in Kansas City, but was convicted of sexual battery in 1987 for contact with a 14-year-old boy. In 2006, he began posting these videos to YouTube. The videos were pretty popular, or at least got of clicks, which led to Muscare landing himself back in jail. See, as part of his probation, Muscare wasn't supposed to be on a computer, let alone become a burgeoning YouTube star. He was given leniency at first, but was sentenced to five years in jail after he started getting friends to post his videos for him.
Muscare, who was required to appear on the sex offenders' registry for life, later argued that he should be given a second chance as he was never known to commit another crime. He died before he got out of jail. Continue reading
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