Who’s Behind These Mysterious Videos?

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00:00Paris Catacombs Lost Footage

00:02This footage of a man losing his way at over 300 feet below street level in the Paris catacombs

00:07has deeply disturbed viewers since it emerged in the year 2000.

00:11The catacombs were originally used for limestone mining way back in the Roman era,

00:15but when cemeteries in Paris began to overflow in the late 18th century,

00:19the French government exhumed the bones and bodies from overcrowded cemeteries

00:22and buried them in the catacombs.

00:25Over time, the catacombs became a curiosity for locals and visitors,

00:28looking to catch a glimpse of the more than 200 miles of tunnels

00:31that stored the remains of over 6 million people,

00:33and they were open to the public in 1809.

00:36Today, the catacombs are one of the most important tourist attractions in Paris,

00:40even though only about 1% of the network of tunnels is mapped and open to the public.

00:44Most of the tunnels are not structurally sound or safe enough for tourist activities,

00:48and it's actually illegal to access the unmapped parts of the catacombs.

00:52But this hasn't stopped hundreds of locals from exploring

00:54the seemingly endless network of underground tunnels.

00:57For several decades, French authorities have done everything in their power

01:00to cover the hidden entrances to the tunnels,

01:03but people keep finding manholes and secret access points throughout the city

01:06that lead to the off-limits areas of the catacombs.

01:09Although this footage was recorded in 1993,

01:12it wasn't released to the general public until the year 2000,

01:15when it was shown as a part of an episode on the ABC family TV show

01:18Scariest Places on Earth.

01:20The episode features Francis Friedland,

01:23a French filmmaker who says he came across the mysterious tape

01:26when it was given to him by a catacomb explorer who found it in one of the tunnels.

01:30Disturbingly, in the episode, it's mentioned that the man

01:33who recorded the point-of-view footage was never found or identified.

01:35This video camera was found deep in the catacombs.

01:40It was picked up by a catacomb explorer,

01:41some of the people who wandered down there.

01:47It was given to me.

01:48I looked at the tape.

01:49It's very bizarre.

01:51This person occasionally stops and he photographs bones,

01:53often in the shape of an arrow.

01:55These arrows point in a direction.

01:58Occasionally also he stops to photograph roomfuls of bones,

02:01which means that he's very, very deep inside the catacombs.

02:06What happened to him?

02:08Nobody knows.

02:09Some of the clips show rooms full of bones,

02:12arrows painted on the ground,

02:13and even a strange painting of a silhouette of a person on one of the walls.

02:22So basically, he's filming what he's seeing.

02:25Endless.

02:26Very deep inside the catacombs.

02:29A few shots, other than our pictures of bones.

02:31Human bones.

02:35These were the poor Parisians who died over the last thousand years.

02:44At times you'll see there's signs, painted signs on the wall,

02:48which is not uncommon.

02:48People have been painting in the catacombs for centuries.

02:52So it is possible with these paintings

02:53that we may be able to be traced by itinerary to some extent.

02:57At one point in the footage, the man's breathing becomes faster,

03:06and he begins to run,

03:08as if he was trying to get away from someone or something.

03:11Occasionally, the man stops,

03:13presumably to get his bearings and find a way back to the surface.

03:16We hear his breathing get louder and louder,

03:21as though something was scaring him.

03:22He's frightened, he's frightened.

03:24Occasionally, he stops, perhaps,

03:26to try to decide which way to run,

03:27among all the many different corridors.

03:30He's running faster and faster and faster,

03:33deeper and deeper into the catacombs.

03:34As the footage progresses, he runs faster and faster,

03:50until suddenly he drops the camera on the ground,

03:52where it continues to film until the tape runs out.

03:55After analyzing the video,

03:56Friedland explained that the room's filled with disorganized heaps of bones,

04:00and the fact that there's little to no graffiti on the walls of the tunnel

04:02meant that the man who recorded it would have been extremely deep inside the catacombs.

04:07Determined to unravel the mystery of what had terrified the missing man,

04:10Francis Friedland ventures into the catacombs with his crew.

04:13After comparing the footage to what they were seeing inside the catacombs,

04:16Friedland and his crew estimated that the missing man

04:19had been exploring the tunnels at around 300 feet below street level.

04:23At that depth,

04:24if flashlights or other light sources malfunction or run out of battery,

04:27the chances of getting out are pretty much zero.

04:30At one point during the episode,

04:31the crew's flashlight batteries begin to run low,

04:34and Friedland decides to give up the search,

04:36but then realizes that getting out is going to be much more difficult than getting in.

04:40Suddenly,

04:41Francis spots the same painting on the wall from the original footage,

04:44and after walking through the tunnel,

04:45they find the same room full of bones from the video.

04:49Despite these discoveries,

04:50they couldn't find whatever had scared the explorer who recorded the footage,

04:53and in the end,

04:54Francis and his crew give up,

04:55and decide to call off the search after spending 12 hours underground.

04:58After the episode was released,

05:01thousands of viewers took to online forums to discuss possible theories regarding the footage.

05:06One of the most widely accepted theories is that after losing his way

05:09and realizing that he was probably not going to make it out alive,

05:12the man panicked due to claustrophobia and began to run,

05:15not knowing what else to do.

05:16But this theory wouldn't explain why he would drop his camera,

05:19one of his only sources of light.

05:21This fueled the possibility that the man had seen another person inside the catacombs.

05:25In the last few decades,

05:27several catacomb explorers have reported being robbed while they were inside the tunnels.

05:31If the man unexpectedly saw another person so far below street level,

05:35he may have feared the worst,

05:36which would explain why he began to run and drop the camera.

05:39Another popular theory is that the man saw something else that scared him.

05:43Scientists have explained that when the wind blows through the cracks in the walls of the catacombs,

05:47it makes an extremely low frequency noise called infrasound,

05:50or as it's sometimes referred to,

05:52the ghost frequency.

05:53This sound is normally inaudible,

05:56but the extreme bass sound has been demonstrated to create a range of bizarre effects in humans,

06:00from chills, to anxiety, to extreme sorrow.

06:03The ghost frequency is also known to make the human eye vibrate slightly,

06:07which makes people see shadows out of the corner of their eye,

06:10and coupled with the strange sensations the frequency creates in people,

06:13it's not hard to see why the man could have thought he saw something down there with him.

06:17This is definitely a possibility,

06:19but other people think the footage was just staged by the producers of the show to creep people out.

06:24It's strange how only about a minute and a half of the original footage was released to the public,

06:28but in the episode,

06:29Francis Friedland claimed that the original footage was over 40 minutes long,

06:33and all we have is his word about how the footage was even found in the first place.

06:37It was never confirmed whether the footage was staged or not,

06:41but what we do know for sure is that it was recorded 300 feet below street level in the catacombs.

06:46Hopefully with time we'll have more information,

06:48but for now the origin of this unsettling footage remains unknown.

06:51Mirjana Mordigard-Glesgorev

06:56The words Mirjana Mordigard-Glesgorev might sound familiar

07:01if you've ever spent time searching for creepy videos on YouTube in the past.

07:05The story of Mirjana Mordigard-Glesgorev first emerged in 2008,

07:10when a 20-second video with the same title was uploaded to YouTube by a random channel called Erwitzy.

07:16After the video was taken down by YouTube for unknown reasons,

07:19it was re-uploaded in April of that same year.

07:22The video in question shows a man with a mustache in front of a red, cloudy background,

07:27staring intently at the viewer,

07:28while an unsettling, high-pitched drilling noise plays in the background.

07:46Right before the end, the shot zooms into the man's face,

07:49and he can be seen grinning with his eyebrows raised for two seconds.

07:53In the weeks following the original upload, multiple duplicate videos surfaced on YouTube,

07:57including an extended two-minute version accompanied by a creepypasta in the description,

08:02which was uploaded by a small channel dedicated to posting random, disturbing videos.

08:07According to the description in the extended video,

08:09the original version that was taken down also lasted two minutes,

08:12and it was removed by YouTube after 153 people who viewed it ended their lives by taking out their eyes

08:18and mailing them to YouTube's main office in San Bruno, California.

08:23The myth says they also put cryptic messages on their forearms, which were never deciphered.

08:28As the story goes, the video was only viewed by one YouTube staff member who started screaming 45 seconds into the video.

08:35The story also says that none of the other staff members who were in the room dared to look at the screen,

08:40but they reported hearing a high-pitched drilling sound before they turned off the monitor.

08:45It's mentioned in the myth that the staff member who viewed the video was left severely traumatized

08:49and is under constant sedation to this day,

08:51and that he claims that he can't recall what he saw.

08:53According to the Creepypasta, because the IP address for the original video was non-existent,

08:59the uploader couldn't be traced by police, and the man featured in the video was never identified.

09:03After the extended version was uploaded with the Creepypasta in the description,

09:07the video quickly gained traction in various online forums,

09:10like Unexplained Mysteries and 4chan's Xboard.

09:13This triggered the creation of dozens of viral chain emails and articles

09:17related to Miriana Mordegard-Glezgorf in several different languages.

09:20Thousands of users discussed the video on different Q&A sites such as WikiAnswers and Yahoo Q&A,

09:27which raised Miriana Mordegard-Glezgorf to classic Creepypasta status,

09:31and the story was archived on the website Creepypasta.com.

09:34In August of 2008, the story spilled over to the Russian web,

09:38where it was covered in different blogs and articles.

09:40The Russian version of the Creepypasta was updated with new details,

09:44including a popular conspiracy theory which claimed that the video was created by the U.S. Secret Service.

09:48Two days after the original video was uploaded,

09:51a now-deleted debunking video was uploaded to YouTube,

09:54which claimed that the story behind Miriana Mordegard-Glezgorf was a hoax.

09:58It also claimed that the man in the video was identified as Byron Cortez,

10:02a Guatemalan marketing coordinator at an L.A.-based advertising agency who lives in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

10:08An image of him was used in a 2004 online survey about marketing professionals,

10:13and an Ebumsworld user edited it to make the disturbing video.

10:17Considering the evidence that surfaced, the disturbing story behind the video is clearly a myth.

10:22If 153 people had really sent their own eyeballs to the YouTube's office via mail,

10:28the authorities would obviously have gotten involved, which never happened.

10:31Since the man in the image that was used for the video was found to be a normal guy with a job and a family,

10:36the picture was probably randomly selected by someone who just wanted to make a random, unsettling video,

10:42which later turned into a creepypasta by someone else.

10:48BlankRoomSoup.AVI

10:49BlankRoomSoup.AVI is a strange video that has been on YouTube since 2005,

10:55and has received attention from some of the largest horror channels on YouTube

10:58on account of it allegedly being a leaked deep web video.

11:01This is what it looked like.

11:02The video in question shows a man in a white tank top

11:31eating a bowl of soup with a large wooden spoon in a room with white walls.

11:35A few seconds in, the man is approached by two people in doll-like costumes

11:39with black, lifeless eyes, who appear to be comforting the man as he eats the soup.

11:44But the man doesn't seem comforted at all,

11:46and instead appears to cry inconsolably as he continues eating the soup.

11:50Immediately after the video was uploaded,

11:52disturbing theories started surfacing about this possibly being a real torture video.

11:56Because platforms like 4chan and reddit were pretty new at that point,

12:00they became hotbeds for speculation on the meaning of BlankRoomSoup.AVI.

12:05According to one of the most popular theories,

12:07the man and his family had been abducted by people in costumes,

12:10and after they murdered his wife and kids,

12:12they force-fed him soup containing the remains of his family,

12:15threatening to torture him if he didn't comply.

12:18Another theory was that the man was kidnapped alone,

12:20and that he's crying in the video out of fear while his captors taunt him with false comfort.

12:24In later months, more videos featuring the same characters started surfacing online,

12:29with some of them being pretty disturbing.

12:31One of them was a continuation to BlankRoomSoup,

12:34and another involved the disguised characters kidnapping someone on video.

12:38While doing research on the origins of BlankRoomSoup,

12:41the name of a man named Raymond Percy came up in connection with the mysterious costumes shown in the video.

12:46From what I was able to find, Raymond Percy is an animation artist and director

12:50who has worked on several big projects, including The Simpsons, Frozen, and Wreck-It Ralph.

12:55He also has an account on the video-sharing platform Daily Motion,

12:59where several videos featuring the same characters from BlankRoomSoup can be viewed,

13:02but in much more innocent contexts.

13:05Using the Wayback Machine, I found that the creepy video itself was posted on Raymond Percy's account,

13:10but with the title FreakySoupGuy, along with the caption,

13:13a clip of people who look like us doing something to someone that we would never do, we promise.

13:19Most of the videos have since been deleted, including FreakySoupGuy.

13:23The strange caption indicates that perhaps this creepy video was not made by Percy at all,

13:27and in 2016, YouTuber RainBot contacted him directly to get to the bottom of the mystery.

13:33Raymond Percy explained that he had created the costumes himself.

13:36The characters' names were RayRay,

13:38and he had used them for several live performances all over the world.

13:41After one particular performance at a club on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood,

13:46the costumes were stolen when Raymond and his crew were cleaning up the set.

13:50A few weeks later, he received an email with an attachment containing the creepy video,

13:53and he immediately posted it to YouTube and Daily Motion to share it with his team.

13:57According to Raymond, the creepiest thing about the video was that the characters move in the same

14:01slow-paused fashion in which his own performers were trained to act during their performances,

14:06meaning that whoever stole the costumes must have been watching Percy's live performances for a while,

14:10and perhaps they were even fans.

14:13This new information disturbed a lot of viewers,

14:15giving way to a new wave of theories and speculation regarding the unsettling video.

14:19It was later found that the man who was being kidnapped in one of the later videos that surfaced on YouTube

14:24was actually Gil Cherone,

14:25the drummer of a horror-themed experimental rock band named Stolen Babies.

14:30Raymond Percy's sister, Dominique Lenore, is the band's lead singer,

14:33and Raymond had animated some of their videos in the past,

14:36and included the Ray Ray characters in the videos.

14:39In one of the band's photo shoots,

14:40the drummer can be seen wearing the exact same costume as in the kidnapping video.

14:45The fact that Raymond Percy had participated in the creation of one of the creepy videos that surfaced

14:49led many people to believe that the man in the original Blank Room Soup video was actually Percy himself,

14:54and that his eyes had been covered so that he wouldn't be recognized.

14:58Even if the man in the video is not Raymond Percy,

15:00the fact that three sequels to the Blank Room Soup video surfaced on YouTube discredits the idea

15:05that the original video was a leaked Deep Web video.

15:08It's rare enough to see a leaked Deep Web video on YouTube,

15:10let alone four consecutive videos without any of them getting taken down.

15:15With all the evidence that emerged,

15:16many users claimed that everything Percy had said about the costumes being stolen was a lie.

15:21Because if they had actually been stolen and used for the disturbing videos,

15:25the last thing Raymond Percy or anyone would have done

15:28is to post the videos on YouTube and not report them to the police.

15:32Some people even speculated that the whole thing might have been a promotional campaign

15:35for the band Stolen Babies, but this hasn't been confirmed.

15:39Regardless of whether Raymond Percy was telling the truth,

15:41the one thing we know for sure is that Blank Room Souped on AVI was never a Deep Web video.

15:47While some still argue that the video and its sequels are genuine,

15:50there's just too much evidence against the authenticity of the videos today

15:53to conclude that they actually came from the Deep Web.

15:58I Feel Fantastic

16:00Those who have explored the horror side of the internet have most likely at some point

16:05come across a bizarre video of a singing android.

16:08In 2009, a single video named I Feel Fantastic was uploaded to YouTube by the channel Creepyblog.

16:15It was the only video ever uploaded to the channel,

16:17and it basically shows a robotic humanoid singing the words

16:21I feel fantastic, you feel fantastic, you are fantastic, I am fantastic, hey hey hey,

16:27over and over again inside a room at night.

16:29As the video progresses, the android is shown in different poses and wearing different outfits.

16:34At one point in the video, the robot starts singing more mysterious lyrics like

16:49please leave, please me, and run, run, run.

17:01The description of the video is also extremely strange, and goes into the Greek myth of Pygmalion,

17:07the sculptor who couldn't find a woman who was good enough for him, so he decided to make an

17:10ivory statue of the perfect woman himself, which the goddess Aphrodite later brought to life for

17:15him. The only link between the myth and the video is that the person who wrote the description

17:19suggested that maybe the robot was its creator's idea of beauty. At around the two-minute mark,

17:24the video turns into a shot of a heap of leaves and branches in a random backyard with absolutely

17:30no context or explanation.

17:31After watching the video, many viewers reported feeling anything but fantastic,

17:47and conspiracy theories immediately began to emerge in online forums.

17:50One of the most popular theories is that the creator of the video was a serial killer,

17:54and that the different outfits worn by the singing android throughout the video belonged

17:58to his victims. According to this theory, the killer created the android as a sort of tribute

18:03to his victims, and the backyard shown in the video is where the victims are buried.

18:07The strange lyrics and the overall creepy nature of the video reinforce this theory to some extent,

18:12but fortunately none of it is true, and the information regarding who made the android and

18:16why is actually available online. The robot in this video is called Tara the Android,

18:22and in my research I found that she was designed by a college professor in Connecticut

18:25named John Bergeron. According to the website geocities.ws, John Bergeron created Tara the

18:32singing android as a way to break into the android and animatronics industry, and even planned live

18:37performances for his android in order to get more visibility. Tara the android also appeared on a

18:42sketchy looking tech website called androidworld.com, where you can buy the original DVDs and music

18:48videos of Tara and other similar robots singing. Some of the other music videos are even creepier,

18:53but that doesn't change the fact that this was an engineering project, not the work of a serial

18:58killer. Interestingly, although the video was uploaded in 2009, the last update that John Bergeron

19:04made to his website was in 2006, which means that the channel creepyblog might not even be John

19:09Bergeron's channel at all. I feel fantastic might have just been uploaded by someone who thought the

19:14video was creepy or interesting and decided to share it online. The one thing that's confusing about

19:19the whole thing is why John Bergeron made such creepy music videos if his intention was to make

19:23a name for himself in the animatronics industry. He never provided an explanation for this.

19:31Dining Room or There is Nothing

19:32Out of all of the creepypastas and scary top 10 videos that have gone viral in the last couple of

19:38decades, Dining Room or There is Nothing is one of the videos that has left the largest number of

19:42viewers feeling creeped out. This unsettling one-minute loop film was uploaded to YouTube

19:47in 2006. It shows a pale-faced woman sitting at the end of a dining room table in a dark house with

19:53a fire burning outside the window.

20:14After the woman opens her eyes, she says the words, There is Nothing backwards. She then shoves her face in a

20:20bowl of food as the camera pans out to show the rest of the room.

20:24The video then plays in reverse, and after the woman raises her head from the bowl, she

20:27repeats the words there is nothing, this time in normal order.

20:30The video ends with the chilling image of the woman closing her eyes.

20:58A year after the original video was uploaded, the creator uploaded the same video in high

21:09definition.

21:10Since the original upload, Dining Room or There is Nothing has received almost 10 million

21:14views, and the haunting video has become a classic in the online horror community.

21:18The creepy nature of the video created a lot of speculation in online forums and social

21:23media platforms, with several users claiming that whoever watched Dining Room or There

21:26is Nothing would be cursed.

21:29The intense stare of the woman and her cryptic message have continued to terrify viewers to

21:32this day, and even if there are countless other videos online that could be considered creepier,

21:37many people have reported that something about Dining Room or There is Nothing has made them

21:40feel especially unsettled.

21:43After seeing how much attention his video was getting, the uploader created a website where

21:46he talks about the meaning of Dining Room or There is Nothing, saying,

21:49this piece was inspired by a personal paradoxical desire for empirical proof that there is nothing

21:55on the other side of life.

21:57I wanted to blur the distinction between the two states, and to state the paradox by showing

22:01someone who is coming back from life or death and denies its existence, thereby fulfilling

22:05the paradox.

22:07Despite the unsettling nature of the video, and the fact that it has haunted millions of viewers

22:10worldwide, Dining Room or There is Nothing is just a short film created by David Earl, a communications

22:16professional with a passion for experimental films.

22:19The woman in the video is Lia Porseger, a Danish artist who frequently participates in projects

22:23related to esotericism, such as this one.

22:27Even if it was just an art project, Dining Room or There is Nothing has become a classic

22:31video in the online horror community since its original upload 17 years ago.

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