July 14, 2025 • 5 mins
“What would you do if you stumbled across a teddy bear… made of human skin?”That’s the chilling (and hilarious) question that kicks off this unforgettable episode of The Ben and Skin Show, where Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray—dives headfirst into one of the weirdest viral stories of the year.In this episode, KT leads the news with a jaw-dropping tale out of Victorville, California, where a grotesque teddy bear made of what appeared to be human skin was found outside a gas station. Was it real? Was it a prank? Or was it the work of a horror prop artist with a flair for the disturbing? The gang breaks it all down with their signature blend of curiosity, skepticism, and side-splitting commentary.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you excited?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Featuring veteran news anchor Katie fun tweets.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
San Bernardino County, what California? Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
I just sent you guys a picture of the subject
matter that the story we're about to do. Okay, I have
audio from the news team there. They're a little freaked
out by this one as well. She'll play the story here.
Don't set too much up here now too. A disturbing
discovery at a Victorville gas station and what viral?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
But now it appears it was all just an elaborate prank.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Yeah, and that hoax is turning heads in a few
stomachs as well. And we want to warn you. We're
going to show you this video, but it could be
upsetting for some of you sensitive viewers, certainly young children
as well.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I love it every time you get the warning out, huh,
because how many like what percentage of parents have time
to usher their kids out of the room when the
news guy goes certainly material here and young children should
not watch us.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
We want to warn you, dude, you're not enough time. No,
it's not enough time. But they it's cya.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So when Karen sends an I cannot believe you had
the audacity to show that.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
They're like, dude, we told you get the kid out
of there. All right, You guys.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Are both right, But let me offer a counter. Kids
are never in the room and the news is on.
It's just depressing. They want to get out, they want
to go play, they have They're not going to sit
there and listen to Steve Eager.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I deal with that at home even I'll like to
I like to throw it on the news and just
kind of see what's going on, and she like, why
are we doing this? Hey, okay, to put it on
something else. Then wait, let me ask you, it's nice
to have the news on. I think you deal with
a similar spouse. So when you're watching the news on television,
do you do a thing where you keep turning the
volume up and she keeps turning the volume of TikTok
(01:47):
up until they're both so loud they're competing with each
other at a forty decibel level. It was a bad
plan to get her earbuds for her AirPods for her birthday.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
They're always in at least just one in. Oh okay,
but now it's definitely something that happens. But I don't
really my wife will get magic. Turn that down.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I'm like, your TikTok is so loud. I have to
just keep turning it up.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I need to hear the news because I'm in my
fifties and so I watch news on television and you're
on TikTok.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I don't know what to tell you. I'm deaf.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Always have the volume way up. I'm getting so old. Okay,
a few stomachs as well. And we want to warn you.
We're going to show you this video, but it could
be upsetting for some of you sensitive viewers, certainly young
children as well.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
But take a look.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
A teddy bear that was believed to be made out
of human remains and skin was found this afternoon outside
of an AMPM on Bear Valley Road. Now police cordoned
off the area and they began investigating it, and soon
a horror special effects artist who makes Elaborate and Macob
props came forward claiming that he had made the bear
(02:51):
and that it's not actually human skin. It's rather latex
where the creator, Robert Kelly, has a whole collection of
terrifying props.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
The things that we're known for is that we make
a lot of props that are fake human skin. My
phone started blowing up and Facebook started blowing up with
you know, people, you know this looks like your stuff?
Is this? Is this yours? And I was like it,
it definitely looks like mine.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Well. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department says that a
corner investigator has the bear tonight and would not coming
further on whether it was actually a prank that.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
The corner's going to make bear. They wouldn't comment. They
would just put it to bed and say it was
a prank.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Okay, So it's good marketing for that special effects company, wonderful.
But I was a little confused because he was like,
it kind of looks like one of ours, but he
didn't say it's ours, right, He never fully said it, Yeah,
because he's worried about how much of a ruck is
he caused with the police, huh, you know, and so
he's like now he's trying to like kind of leave
it out there. Man, that thing got stolen from me.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I don't know what happened there.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
But if it if it was just some guy who
made it, and it's even if it's not real, put
him on the Serial Killers list of like people to
look after.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
If we find out twelve months from now or whenever
that that guy is caught up in something, we're gonna
Oh he was.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
The guy was Teddy Bear.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
He's passing lowering lotion down into a well to somebody.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Who was right in front of us this whole time.
Why didn't we do something?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Then we should post this picture because to me it
looks like a Teddy Bear made out of potatoes.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I was thinking that too.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I would not post that's nice, disgusting potato.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I would have rather seen the Connor McGregor pick than
what you said. I don't want to see that, dude.
Can you take Connor McGregor's dong and put it on
that bear and post that dude?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
The fact that he was said he was lifting weights
is amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
The bear No McGregor, Oh right, I thought you were
saying the special effects guy.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
He's like, yeah, I was lifting weights.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
On a lighter note, George Strait has announced he'll be
doing a benefit concert on July twenty seventh for the
Hill Country Good Floods.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
We'll still tell you to go there.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Community Foundation dot net iHeart set up a place that's
a you know, reputable it's been vetted, you know, place
to donate to the Kirk County flod reef because they
got more rain and I know we got a lot
of rain up here, but they are just continuing to
get battered with rain, which is making the relief efforts
even worse. So a lot of resources going to be
(05:12):
needed their community Foundation dot net.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Good job, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
All right, thank you, Kevin. Coming up next in the
Wildlife News, a mountain lion is loose and it demands
news coverage. We are the only show with the courage
to talk about it, and we'll do that next
Are you excited?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Featuring veteran news anchor Katie fun tweets.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
San Bernardino County, what California? Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
I just sent you guys a picture of the subject
matter that the story we're about to do. Okay, I have
audio from the news team there. They're a little freaked
out by this one as well. She'll play the story here.
Don't set too much up here now too. A disturbing
discovery at a Victorville gas station and what viral?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
But now it appears it was all just an elaborate prank.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Yeah, and that hoax is turning heads in a few
stomachs as well. And we want to warn you. We're
going to show you this video, but it could be
upsetting for some of you sensitive viewers, certainly young children
as well.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I love it every time you get the warning out, huh,
because how many like what percentage of parents have time
to usher their kids out of the room when the
news guy goes certainly material here and young children should
not watch us.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
We want to warn you, dude, you're not enough time. No,
it's not enough time. But they it's cya.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So when Karen sends an I cannot believe you had
the audacity to show that.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
They're like, dude, we told you get the kid out
of there. All right, You guys.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Are both right, But let me offer a counter. Kids
are never in the room and the news is on.
It's just depressing. They want to get out, they want
to go play, they have They're not going to sit
there and listen to Steve Eager.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I deal with that at home even I'll like to
I like to throw it on the news and just
kind of see what's going on, and she like, why
are we doing this? Hey, okay, to put it on
something else. Then wait, let me ask you, it's nice
to have the news on. I think you deal with
a similar spouse. So when you're watching the news on television,
do you do a thing where you keep turning the
volume up and she keeps turning the volume of TikTok
(01:47):
up until they're both so loud they're competing with each
other at a forty decibel level. It was a bad
plan to get her earbuds for her AirPods for her birthday.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
They're always in at least just one in. Oh okay,
but now it's definitely something that happens. But I don't
really my wife will get magic. Turn that down.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I'm like, your TikTok is so loud. I have to
just keep turning it up.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I need to hear the news because I'm in my
fifties and so I watch news on television and you're
on TikTok.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I don't know what to tell you. I'm deaf.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Always have the volume way up. I'm getting so old. Okay,
a few stomachs as well. And we want to warn you.
We're going to show you this video, but it could
be upsetting for some of you sensitive viewers, certainly young
children as well.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
But take a look.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
A teddy bear that was believed to be made out
of human remains and skin was found this afternoon outside
of an AMPM on Bear Valley Road. Now police cordoned
off the area and they began investigating it, and soon
a horror special effects artist who makes Elaborate and Macob
props came forward claiming that he had made the bear
(02:51):
and that it's not actually human skin. It's rather latex
where the creator, Robert Kelly, has a whole collection of
terrifying props.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
The things that we're known for is that we make
a lot of props that are fake human skin. My
phone started blowing up and Facebook started blowing up with
you know, people, you know this looks like your stuff?
Is this? Is this yours? And I was like it,
it definitely looks like mine.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Well. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department says that a
corner investigator has the bear tonight and would not coming
further on whether it was actually a prank that.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
The corner's going to make bear. They wouldn't comment. They
would just put it to bed and say it was
a prank.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Okay, So it's good marketing for that special effects company, wonderful.
But I was a little confused because he was like,
it kind of looks like one of ours, but he
didn't say it's ours, right, He never fully said it, Yeah,
because he's worried about how much of a ruck is
he caused with the police, huh, you know, and so
he's like now he's trying to like kind of leave
it out there. Man, that thing got stolen from me.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I don't know what happened there.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
But if it if it was just some guy who
made it, and it's even if it's not real, put
him on the Serial Killers list of like people to
look after.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
If we find out twelve months from now or whenever
that that guy is caught up in something, we're gonna
Oh he was.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
The guy was Teddy Bear.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
He's passing lowering lotion down into a well to somebody.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Who was right in front of us this whole time.
Why didn't we do something?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Then we should post this picture because to me it
looks like a Teddy Bear made out of potatoes.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I was thinking that too.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I would not post that's nice, disgusting potato.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I would have rather seen the Connor McGregor pick than
what you said. I don't want to see that, dude.
Can you take Connor McGregor's dong and put it on
that bear and post that dude?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
The fact that he was said he was lifting weights
is amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
The bear No McGregor, Oh right, I thought you were
saying the special effects guy.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
He's like, yeah, I was lifting weights.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
On a lighter note, George Strait has announced he'll be
doing a benefit concert on July twenty seventh for the
Hill Country Good Floods.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
We'll still tell you to go there.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Community Foundation dot net iHeart set up a place that's
a you know, reputable it's been vetted, you know, place
to donate to the Kirk County flod reef because they
got more rain and I know we got a lot
of rain up here, but they are just continuing to
get battered with rain, which is making the relief efforts
even worse. So a lot of resources going to be
(05:12):
needed their community Foundation dot net.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Good job, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
All right, thank you, Kevin. Coming up next in the
Wildlife News, a mountain lion is loose and it demands
news coverage. We are the only show with the courage
to talk about it, and we'll do that next
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