The 18 Scariest Viral Videos in YouTube History

Gather round , children , and allow me tell you about a meter before the internet , when our phone were attached to the paries and we bought music stored on physical objects that we played in our cars . Back then , secret groups of videophiles garner creepy , avant - garde , and extremely weird cartridge clip stored on tapes . We even believe that a Japanese ghost could haunt a VHS cassette .

With the advent of the internet , witnessing something you should n’t in distorted , grainy footage became a home interest . To mollycoddle in creepy horror picture , you just need to love where to look . From dependable - life enigma to carefully executed hoax , below are 17 videos that will seriously upset you .

Dining Room or There is Nothing

One of the classic , creepy videos of the pre - YouTube net made it to the mass streaming service in 2006 . Rather than being download and shared as a moving picture filing cabinet as it to begin with gained cult status , the video was uploaded by the theater director of the short film , who already eff it had become a curio of the web . The director , David B. Earle , wanted to make an infinitely looping photographic film to show the paradox that there might be nothing on the other side of spirit .

Rubber Johnny

" Rubber Johnny " is not just British slang for a condom . It ’s also a very disturbing art film by Chris Cunningham for the stria Aphex Twin . The video originally hit the internet in June 2005 , and what was supposed to be a 30 - moment commercial for Aphex Twin music became a short film about a deformed ranter who lived in a basement with his chihuahua . Practical make - up result were combined with ready editing and video shot in Nox - vision style to make the whole affair seem trippy , weird , and disturbingly haptic .

Chances are when you first see this film it does n’t dally as an advert for EDM , and it ended up providing inspiration forsome of the 2000s most worrying horror . The “ Big Brain ” character in the rebootedThe Hills Have Eyeslooks a lot like Rubber Johnny and in January 2006 , the Showtime anthology seriesMasters of Horroraired and episode address the “ Fair - Haired Child ” about a young young woman who was kidnapped and kept in a basement with a scarily deformed youngster … appoint Johnny .

I Feel Fantastic

It ’s been nearly a X since it was first uploaded , but “ I finger Fantastic ” is still only alittleless mystic than when it first captured the attention of the internet . The featured robot , Tara the Android , is the creation of an robot hobbyist who calls himself " John Bergeron . " The plan was for Tara to be the first android pa star , but the freakish description on the YouTube upload that reference Pygmalion and a cutaway fromI Feel Fantasticto an outdoor fix gave birth to several online urban legends . Is Tara a harmless pop star , ora robot built in the image of a murder victim ?

Video Dating tape

Chalk this one up to elysian intervention . This creepy-crawly video , chronicling one human beings ’s attempts to appear normal for video dating , is a short six months old ( although please recount us if you retrieve an older upload ) . The various takes of the telecasting let in some with a charwoman screaming in the backdrop , and the whole thing follows an arc of the creepy sneak tale so distinctly , it ’s in all likelihood a very well executed repugnance little . There is a Vanwall Business Centre on Vanwall Road in Maidenhead , Berkshire SL6 4Ub , but the company there area biopharmaceutical company , a branchof a translation company , a health and seaworthiness education academy , andMattel customer service . Any Tonys on staff ?

Possible Fallen Angel in Catalonia

The Angel of Catalonia TV has accumulated millions of prospect since its upload in 2006 and has made several lists on the net “ proving ” ghostwriter and the paranormal are material . In the video , two adult male reach record on their camera as they enter a forest outside the township of Campdevànol , Spain , then come across some large feather in the woods . Finally they trash over to what calculate like a gentleman with open wounds on his back , who turns and look at them , enamor a mirror image in his eyes . The telecasting is a very well produced hoax by some Spanish horror film buff who used to excuse their process at a now - defunct making of site ( butthe Wayback Machine never forgets ) .

Real Demons Caught On Tape

upload by chestertyler714 in 2009,Real Demons Caught On Tape , is a special effects show window of a very high skill level . Back in 2009 , the consumer technology easily subsist to make an ashy hand wraith jump scare YouTube video recording . The four million views that the video has accumulated since means more than enough people were willing to go along with the creepiness all the way to the denouement of a freak . Sometimes this sort of thing could even get a person a problem , like whenLights Outwas all the craze .

Ghost From Japanese subway

A mathematical group of Nipponese teen are in a eating house and complain about an offending smell that attest just as a wan figure appears in the background . Later , on the subway tracks , they smack the offending odor again and see the strange cleaning lady across the data track who down herself by jumping in front of the gearing , then asterisk down one of the men who has to scrunch because of the overpowering smelling . This picture is actually a section from a 2008 Japanese found footage horror anthology movie calledUra Horror . This is n’t the only segment that ’s break out out from the show and blown up on creepy YouTube ; after the mini - trace - story , look on theexploding ocean creatureand the seizure ofa human soul escaping the body .

Sewer Monster?

This telecasting , uploaded by British water company United Utilities in April 2011 , showed three clip of a upkeep robot run across some kind of creature in the sewers under the St. James region of London . The internet population rapidly start out question if this was some sort of genetic experimentation or just an escaped monkey before someone put together that it was April and United Utilities had a “ What Not To Flush ” drive running to educate people about proper sewer exercise . Yeah , a water company pulled a viral April Fools ' Joke that ’s still distribute as licit . It only live on because of how creepy it it .

Cursed Kleenex Commercial

Not only does this Nipponese facial - tissue commercial message make no sense as an ad – what does that tomato / unicorn babe have against wiping itself ? – it ’s also , supposedly , cursed . Like early " viral " videos that would get passed around on VHS , this curse comes with an isolating twist : Watch the video recording by yourself at midnight(in your various time geographical zone , of course ) , and the telecasting changes to a distorted , satanic - looking mussiness with a yoke of opprobrious eyes that gaze back at you .

Sad Satan

It ’s a maze biz that has flaky flash of black-market and white picture taking as well as disturbing audio samples , like a soliloquy that Charles Manson gave from San Quentin to NBC in the 1980s and images of shaver sex offender Jimmy Savile and Margaret Thatcher promoting the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children . No one know the intent of the biz and one of the creepy-crawly in - game children will eventually begin be you , causing “ liaison damage ” and ending the game .

Croatian Stalking Tape

Reported as " establish footage " released by Croatian authorities after the two shaver in the video disappear , all signs point to this being a short amateur repugnance film from Eastern Europe . There is no hard evidence that such an incident ever actually pass off , but it is a really creepy-crawly idea for a short repugnance movie about being stalked .

My Dead Great Grandma’s Coffin in My Own Backyard

This telecasting , conducted mostly in American Sign Language , finds a man claim that he keeps his great grandmother ’s casket in his backyard . Apparently , the original necropolis " can not upkeep because of corruption , " so he transferred his grandmother ’s soundbox to an above - priming coat hatful . Not only is this very illegal ( do not keep stagnant bodies , y' all ) , the next telecasting cartridge clip necessitate the man opening the casket and snog the corpse of his grannie on the lip . ON . THE . MOUTH .

Girl Goes Psycho During Makeup Tutorial

exploiter the15experience uploaded with the simple description : " This television was institutionalize to me anonymously . I do not have any selective information beyond that . It is for you to adjudicate on your own whether it is literal or fake . " The video was so shameful when it was upload that it launched an online search for this woman , whicheventually expose the the true . It wrick out that the original tormentor had been clipped to off the " 15 Experience " uniform resource locator at the remainder and made it to Facebook as a " tangible " paranormal video . Do n’t vex , " Nikki " is fine .

Elisa Lam video

In January 2013 , a Canadian student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver was reported missing , having last been go through at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles . After Elisa Lam had been drop for a week and a half , LA police force let go this television of her last known coming into court . Three weeks later , Lam ’s soundbox was discovered naked and drown in the construction ’s water tower , and her death was labeled an accident . Her closed book reportedlyinspired Ryan Murphyto makeAmerican Horror Story : Hotel .

Man gets lost in the catacombs of Paris

Watch throughBlair Witchvision as some poor soul gets hopelessly lost in the subterranean gem tunnels of the Paris catacombs , and take heed to him get more frightened as he hotfoot up his wandering way ( like he ’s being track ? ) before the photographic camera cut out ( was it dropped ? ) . Then we pick up the man either go off or get suck in into the flavour world . You view and decide … if you ’re not claustrophobic , that is .

This Is a Special Time

Little Baby ’s Ice Cream in Philadelphia makes handmade , ace - premium water ice cream from 16 % butter avoirdupois , in addition to vegan - well-disposed , non - dairy frozen desserts . That judgment of conviction is more appetizing than this advert for the brand , feature an androgynous glass emollient person feed itself while maintain constant eye contact with the viewer . for sure , 16 % butter fat chalk pick vocalize enceinte , but I ’m too traumatized to relish it .

Mass of Daddy Long Legs in a Tree

I was n’t rifle to admit this video recording . Then my lady friend walk by and saw the first frame of reference of it on my concealment and yelled , " What the hell on earth is that ? That ’s not spiders , is it ? " I prance an supercilium at her , which was enough to make her run forth , repeating , " Nope . " If it helps , I ’ll prompt you that pa longlegs spiders are n’t poisonous . They only make these blurry patches because they have such long leg and single - segment body . Just do n’t touch anything that reckon like human hair when you ’re in the state of nature – unless you ’re really into spider .

Creeper in my apartment

New York City actor Joe Cummings made this video capturing what appear to be a homeless cleaning woman who on the QT lived in his sign for an indeterminate amount of clip . As recently as July of last year , Joe proceed to insist this really bechance and is not a clowning or antic . There was never another product or going that tried to commercialize itself off this video , so chances are he ’s severalize the truth , which makes it so much creepy-crawly . What if there ’s someone wee-wee in your sink at home right on now ? You do n’t know .

Elevator Scare