August 6, 2025 • 38 mins
The world of lost media is filled with mystery, and sometimes, genuine horror. From the disturbing "Basement Tapes” connected to the Columbine tragedy, to the on-air tragedy of Christine Chubbuck, and even a bizarre, unnerving Japanese commercial that was wiped from existence…
Today, we’re diving into some of the most Disturbing Lost Media ever recorded.
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Some lost media is just forgotten.
Old tapes, canceled shows, things that just slipped through
the cracks. But some of it, it's different.
It's disturbing. I'm talking about footage tied
to real life tragedies, video sounsettling they were buried on
purpose and broadcasts that seemlike they were never meant to be
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seen in the 1st place. This media wasn't just lost, it
was buried for a reason. If you like creepy videos like
this, make sure to like and subscribe.
It helps more than you know. Now let's dive in to some of the
most disturbing lost media ever uncovered.
And before we begin, this video is for educational and
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informational purposes only. This video contains discussion
of real life violence and disturbing subject matter
related to the Columbine High School tragedy.
Viewer discretion is strongly advised.
The Basement Tapes On April 20th, 1999, two students walked
into Columbine High School with guns and explosives.
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Eric Harris and Dylan Clabold killed 13 innocent people and
themselves, injuring dozens more.
It was one of the deadliest school shootings in American
history, and it changed the country forever.
The footage of what they did exists, but not in the way you'd
expect. After the shooting, police found
five videotapes recorded by Harris and Clay Bold in the
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weeks leading up to the attack. These weren't just kids messing
around with the camcorder. These were detailed plans, rants
about life, death and revenge. They showed their weapons,
listed names and even laughed about what they were about to
do. A Time magazine reporter, Tim
Roche, got to watch them in late1999 and wrote an article about
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it, calling them The Basement Tapes.
That name stuck, and the public went insane trying to get a
look. But even the victim's parents
hadn't seen them. So Jefferson County, the county
where Columbine shooting took place, showed the tapes once
only to the families and then locked them away forever.
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No copies, no leaks, just sealedin a vault.
And that's haunted the Internet ever since because nobody
outside that tiny circle has ever seen them.
And according to officials, theydon't even exist anymore.
In 2015, it came out that Sheriff Ted Mink had actually
destroyed the tapes back in 2011.
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They were gone permanently. Whatever was on them, lost
forever. And according to Tim Roche, the
reporter who saw them, those tapes were some of the most
disturbing things he'd ever watched in his entire career,
which only made people want to see them even more.
What made these two kids do something so horrific?
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What were they like when no one else was watching?
The problem is, the tapes were never recovered.
Once they were gone, that was it.
Or at least that's what people thought.
Because even though the tapes themselves were destroyed, the
transcript survived word for word.
Accounts of what Harrish and Claybould said and did still out
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there. And that meant the mystery
wasn't completely lost. People could finally know what
was inside those tapes, and it was worse than anyone imagined.
The first tape, evidence item number 265, March 1999.
It opens in Harris's house. He and Clay Bold are sitting
there with a bottle of Jack Daniels, laughing like this is
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some kind of party, almost like they're starring in their own
movie. And honestly, that's what they
wanted. Harris even says he hopes these
tapes will be seen by the entireworld one day.
Once our masterpiece is complete.
They talk about how they got their guns and bombs, how easy
it was to trick people into selling to them.
Then, almost like it's nothing, they drop a classmate's name,
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Brandon Larson. Harris looks at the camera and
says you will find his body. From there, it spirals into
their philosophy, how they hate people, how society is broken,
how no one understands them. It sounds like the kind of
teenage rant you'd see online today, but darker, because these
two already knew what they were about to do.
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The tape cuts out static and jump cuts, then picks up again
later that night. Now they're bragging about how
many people they're going to kill, joking about who might
direct a movie about their lives.
Spielberg. Tarantino.
They laugh like it's just one big joke.
They even talk about credit cardfraud, how easy it is to get
bomb parts without raising suspicion.
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Harris looks straight into the camera and says he knows the
police will see these one day. He laughs, saying they'll
probably slice up the footage totwist what we're saying.
And then it gets even darker. They talk about mailing copies
of the tapes to four major news networks.
Harris holds up his personal journal, calling it his writings
of God. And that's how it ends.
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No dramatic outburst, no last laugh.
Just a calm, almost casual promise that what they're
planning is going to shock the entire world.
Second tape. The next tape feels different.
Evidence item number 298. April 11th, 1999, just one week
before the massacre. It's labeled Reb's tape.
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Reb was Harris's nickname. It starts simple, almost
harmless. Harris and Clay Bold are sitting
in a car, filming like it's justanother random road trip.
Except it's not. Harris looks straight into the
camera and says we're on our wayto get the rest of our gear.
The footage cuts, then jumps back to them.
Driving home, they're grinning, laughing like they just bought
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snacks for a party. But what they actually bought
were massive fuel containers andpropane tanks, key parts for
their homemade explosives. The camera shuts off.
When it comes back, it's only Harris.
He's staring directly into the lens, and his tone changes.
For the first time, he actually sounds human.
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He apologizes to his family, says it isn't their fault, says
he loves them. He knows what he's about to do.
We'll destroy them. But he's already too far gone. 7
and one third days left, he says, almost like he's counting
down to a vacation. Then he lists 5 names.
No context, just names. And then comes the journal
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again. He holds it up, calls it the
Writings of God. Inside are his violent sketches,
strange notes about fate and revenge, and ramblings about
destiny. The tape ends quietly, but the
message is clear. This isn't just an attack.
This is a legacy they want carved into history.
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And the second tape bundled thisone, just random school footage,
Harris, Claybold and a couple ofother kids messing around with
the camera. Totally normal teenage stuff,
which somehow makes it even worse because in the middle of
that ordinary life, this massacre was already in motion.
Third tape. The final tape is the hardest
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one to even process. Evidence item number 333 labeled
top secret. Rampart authorities found it in
a Sony 8mm camcorder. Columbine High School, literally
scratching to the side. And this wasn't some diary style
entry. This was a mission log.
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It opens in Harris's house again.
Weapons are spread out across the floor.
Pipe bombs sawed off, shotguns, carbines, boxes of ammo.
Harris is talking straight into the camera like he's filming a
how to video, even explaining how the pipe bombs work.
Clay Bold takes over filming while Harris poses with the
guns, smiling like this is something to be proud of.
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Cut. Now Harris is alone in a car,
camera on the dashboard, and fora moment it feels like you're
watching an apology video. It's a weird feeling, knowing
you're about to be dead in 2 1/2weeks, he says.
He wonders out loud if he shoulddo it before prom or after.
Then the smile fades. His voice shakes and he wipes
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away a tear. He actually begins to cry on
camera, but he keeps recording. Cut again.
Now they're in Clay Bolts room, strapping weapons to their
bodies, the exact clothes they'dwear.
A few days later, Harris mentions Brandon Larson again,
giving another oddly specific threat, one that never actually
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happens because luckily Larson survived.
Then they sit down and film farewell messages.
Harris speaks directly to his family.
Then Clay Bold does the same. No yelling, no theatrics, just a
cold, calm goodbye. And then Harris says that's it,
sorry, goodbye. Clay Bold leans into the camera,
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fill in the frame and says it again.
Goodbye. The last shot is unsettling in
its simplicity. The camera was left running,
pointed at a wall in Harris's bedroom.
On it is a piece of paper with CHS written in bold black
letters, along with a crude drawing of a bomb in the word
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clue. Authorities later determined
this footage was recorded roughly 30 minutes before Harris
and Claybold walked into Columbine High School and left a
horrific stain on American history.
Rest in peace to the 13 innocentpeople who lost their lives at
Columbine High School that day. They deserve to be remembered.
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The shooters do not kito gotta. The internet's full of weird
lost media. Old TV shows that just vanish,
commercials no one remembers until somebody posts about at
3:00 AM. But there's one that still
creeps people out to this day, and it came out of Japan.
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It's called Hirogata, which translates to white humanoids.
Some people call it white people, but mostly just stick
with hirogata, which roughly translates to humanoid.
The story popped up in 2004 on 2Channel 1 of Japan's biggest
anonymous forums. Someone claimed there was a
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strange PSA, or maybe it was a late night commercial.
No one could really agree on what it was, but everyone who
said they'd seen it remembered one detail. 2 white, featureless
human figures. No faces, no clothes, just blank
humanoid shapes standing there while the sound of a railroad
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crossing bell plays in the background. 1 fades out, another
fades in, and then text appears.Some people swear there's a
voice over saying something chilling like every two seconds
someone dies on Earth. The exact words change depending
on who's telling the story, but the vibes always the same.
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It's creepy, weirdly existential, and doesn't feel
like something that should have aired on TV at all.
But here's the weird part. No one has ever found it.
No tape, no record of it in official listings, nothing.
People have searched for years thinking maybe it was a school
PSA or an obscure commercial that aired once and then just
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vanished. And while there are tons of fan
recreations and entire threads dedicated to finding that, the
original thing is kind of gone, and to this day, Hitogata is one
of those Internet mysteries thatmakes you question your own
memory. Maybe it's real.
Maybe it's some kind of mass hallucination or an example of
the Mandela Effect. But if it is real, someone out
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there still has the footage. And that's the part that creeps
people out most. Because if it exists, why hasn't
it surfaced? It started with a thread about
creepy commercials people remembered from childhood.
You know the kind. Those ads you see once late at
night and then wonder if you imagine them.
Buried in that thread was post number 854, the one that kicked
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off the entire legend. There was this terrifying
commercial stuck in my head. 2 white human figures on a black
background, railroad bell ringing on repeat.
Texts on screen saying somethinglike every two seconds a person
dies on earth. Every time the bell rang, 1
figure disappeared, then reappeared and the other one
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vanished. That was all anyone had to go
on. No channel, no production
company, not even a year it supposedly aired.
Just the memory of two faceless white figures fading in and out
while they death statistics showed on screen.
Finding Hidugata has been almostimpossible, but that hasn't
stopped people from trying. For years, threads and forums
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have been filled with people searching for it, wondering if
it was a school, PSAA, late night experimental ad, or
something even stranger or darker.
Yet nothing has surfaced. No tapes, no screenshots, no
official records, only that one haunting description and fan
recreations trying to imagine what it might have looked like.
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Even the memories don't line up.Some people swear there was a
railroad crossing sign on screen, while others remembered
nothing but a black void behind the figures.
A few claim it looks like sepia toned as it pulled from an old
decaying tape, while others insist it was harsh black and
white. The timeline is just as blurry.
Some say it aired in the late 90s, others insist it was early
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2000s. After years of people digging
through broadcast schedules and commercial databases, the best
anyone has managed to narrowing it down to somewhere between
1996 and 2003. There was even talk of a 1999
post years before the original thread where someone described a
commercial with two monochrome people blinking on and off
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alternating with a pawn pawn sound, calling it one of those
local Psas that made no sense. But that thread is now gone,
with no archive whatsoever, leaving only second hand
memories and half dead links. Maybe it's real, or maybe it's
just a false memory that snowballed online over time.
And that's what makes HITO got us so unsettling.
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The harder people search for answers, the blurrier the whole
thing becomes. You see, there could be a pretty
rational reason behind this ad, because in the time span that
this ad aired, as word rates in Japan had gone severely high,
and most of them were in fact caused by railroad crossings.
In that span, multiple trains have been derailed as well,
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killing a large number of people.
So the chance of this existing isn't impossible, however.
Or the problem is, who would make such a commercial?
And it's almost so obscure that a normal person wouldn't really
be able to figure out the message behind it.
The leading theory, and the one most people lean towards, is
that Hedogata was actually just a commercial.
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The original testimonial even said it was only 15 seconds
long, which fits perfectly with standard ad slots in Japan.
But then comes the real question, what was it even
advertising? That's where things get even
stranger. Some think it was a drugstore
ad, or maybe soap or even genes.Others swear it had to be the
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UNICEF or some NGO because of the death statistic.
And of course there's a group convinced it was APSA, maybe
about health or safety. Most of those theories have been
debunked. The so-called soap commercial
turned out to be a totally different ad, one that only
looked vaguely similar but didn't match any eyewitness
descriptions. Someone even reached out to AC
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Japan, the nonprofit behind mostJapanese Psas, and they flat out
denied ever making anything likeHidogata.
Another theory pointed to Tokyo Yama, a chemical manufacturer.
In Tokyo, there's a separate urban legend about one of their
mid 90s ads. A white featureless figure on a
bluish black background surrounded by floating white
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spheres with text translating tochemistry is now in the unknown
world. People linked it to Hidogata
because of the similar imagery, but even that hasn't been
proven, and that ad is its own mystery entirely.
Some people believe it could have been a school safety
program, maybe about railroad crossings or traffic hazards.
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Japan has a long history of using cartoons and even big
characters like Mario for safetyspecials.
But those programs are usually way longer than 15 seconds and
rarely shown outside of schools,which brings everyone right back
to square one. If Hitogata really was only 15
seconds long, chances are it wasprobably just a commercial.
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And then there's the last theory.
Maybe the whole thing just a collective false memory, a
Mandela Effect moment where people vividly remember
something that never really existed.
As of now, there's still no proof either way.
No tapes, no screenshots, and nothing concrete to confirm Hido
Gada ever aired. But that hasn't stopped people
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from looking. Even though the original post
dates back to 2004, search efforts have been going for over
a decade. The rumors spread so much that
on some forums, like 5 Channel, moderators banned discussion of
it entirely because it kept derailing unrelated threads.
Still, people kept digging. In 2019, an entire thread
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dedicated solely to Hido Gada appeared on Five Channel, and
since then, the search has gone global.
People from all over the world are combing through VHS records,
TV archives and obscure commercial collections, still
hoping to prove once and for allwhether Hido Gotta actually
existed or if it was nothing more than a ghost story for the
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Internet age. Christine Chubbuck On the
morning of July 15th, 1974, viewers in Sarasota, FL tuned
into the Suncoast Digest, a small local morning talk show
hosted by 29 year old reporter Christine Chubbuck.
They had no idea they were aboutto witness one of the most
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infamous moments in live television history.
Christine wasn't like most reporters.
She hated what she called blood and guts journalism, that rising
trends of sensationalized violence driven news coverage.
And yet, behind the camera, she was fighting her own private
battle with depression. In the weeks before her death,
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she'd volunteered to produce a segment on S word as part of her
research. She even asked a local sheriff
what kind of gun and bullets he'd use if he were ever to do
it himself. She asked calmly,
professionally, like it was justresearch for a story.
But there were warning signs. One Co worker recalled her
saying off hand, Wouldn't it be wild if I blew myself away on
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the air? He laughed it off, thinking she
was joking. What no one at the station knew
was that years earlier, Christine had already tried to
take her own life by overdosing on pills.
And then came July 15th. That morning at WXLT started
like any other. Christine even seemed cheerful,
happier than usual. Nobody thought much of it until
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right before the show went on air.
She told the crew she needed to read a news bulletin before
starting, something she had never done before.
It confused everyone, but they let her do it.
For 8 minutes, she read the newslike it was any other day.
Three national stories, nothing unusual.
Then she moved to the 4th, A report of a shooting at a local
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restaurant. That's when the film reel
jammed. Christine didn't panic.
She just shrugged, turned to thecamera, and delivered a line
that would haunt everyone who heard it.
In keeping with the WXLT practice of presenting the most
immediate and complete reports of local blood and guts news, TV
40 presents what is believed to be a television first.
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The screen went black almost instantly as the technical
director scrambled to cut the feed.
Viewers flooded the station withcalls and even police got
involved, some thinking it had to be a sick joke or some kind
of stage stunt. Even Christine's coworkers
thought it was a twisted prank until they saw the truth.
She was rushed to the Sarasota Memorial Hospital, but her fate
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was already sealed. She'd even planned for what came
after, leaving behind a completed nude script predicting
she'd been taken there and AS word note addressed to her
family and Co workers explainingshe wanted everybody to see what
she had done. The script she left behind was
sent to national news networks and many read it word for word
in their coverage. By the following day, Christine
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Chubbuck was gone. And this is where the story
shifts from tragedy to lost media legend.
Yes, Christine Chubbuck's death happened live on television, but
that doesn't mean people actually have the footage.
This was 1974. Home video recorders existed.
Things like ematic decks, but they were rare, expensive, and
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mostly used by professionals. The average person watching at
home, They weren't recording live TV.
So unless someone just happened to have one of those massive
early VC Rs running that morning, there's almost zero
chance a home copy exists. For decades, people assumed that
was it. If you didn't see a live, you
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were never going to see it at all.
But the rumors didn't stop. People claimed they'd seen it
floating around early websites others swore had been used in
FBI training videos or even appeared in shock films.
But none of those claims have ever BeenVerified, and most are
considered nothing more than urban legend.
Then, in 2016, everything changed.
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An article from Vulture revealedthat the tape does exist.
Not in an archive, not locked down in some government vault,
but in the hands of Molly Nelson, the widow of the man who
once owned WXLTVTV. For whatever reason, her husband
had kept a copy of the broadcast, and when he passed
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away, it went to Molly. When word got out, people
started reaching out, begging tosee it.
She refused, saying it made her uncomfortable, that she had only
kept it to honor her husband. Eventually, she turned it over
to a major law firm for safekeeping.
Locked away, completely inaccessible.
So yes, Christine Chubbuck's as word still exists on tape, but
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no one outside of that law firm has seen it in decades.
And according to Molly, no one ever will.
Not long after the incident, Christine's family took legal
action against Channel 40, preventing them from ever
releasing the footage. The 2 inch quad master tape,
along with a copy confiscated bythe Sarasota Sheriff's
Department, was turned over to the family.
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According to reports, both were destroyed.
But then there's the rumor of 1/3 copy.
Some claim it ended up in the FCC archives, sitting quietly in
a government vault. The problem?
The FCC has flat out denied sucha tape exists, calling the rumor
baseless. Ironically, the only reason the
broadcast was recorded at all was because Christine
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specifically asked for it. Back then, recording a live
broadcast wasn't common. It was expensive, but she
insisted. Decades later, in 2017, the
Internet erupted when a YouTube named Nation Squid uploaded a
video called Freaky 5 Lost Footage.
It featured 5 pieces of creepy lost media, with Christine
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Chubbuck's broadcast taking the number one spot.
But what shocked everyone was atthe end, the video appeared to
show the S word itself. Black and white footage,
distorted audio, chaotic static.Immediately people began
dissecting it frame by frame. Threads blew up on 4 Chan,
Nation Squid's own forums, even Lost Media Wiki, all trying to
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figure out if this was the tape.Some swear it was real, others
said it was staged. Nation Squid never commented,
which only fueled the fire. On February 13th, 2017, the
debate finally ended. Gordon Galbraith, who had been
the news director at WXLT duringChristine's death, confirmed the
footage was fake. Just another Internet hoax
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feeding on an already haunted story.
Then, in early 2021, something new appeared.
This time not a video, but audio.
A YouTube named Atalsi claimed you have acquired A legitimate
cassette recording of the broadcast from a private
collector in February. They uploaded a portion of it
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the part of the newscast before Christine's S word.
Out of respect, they left out the actual moment itself.
Even that short clip was chilling.
The voice was unmistakably Christine's, matching other
recordings of her used in the documentary Kate Plays
Christine. It aligned perfectly with the
news stories printed in the Sarasota Herald Tribune that
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day, leaving little doubt it wasreal.
Then, in April, Italicy uploadedthe full video.
Yes, including Christine's finalwords in the gunshot.
But not for long. Both uploads were quickly made
private, disappearing back into obscurity almost as fast as they
appeared. Lost briefcases Between 1963 and
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1965, Ian Brady and Myra Henley carried out one of the darkest
crime sprees in British history.They abducted and killed five
children, burying 4 of them in the remote, desolate Saddleworth
More Brady was eventually caughtand convicted alongside Henley
in 1966. Henley would die in prison in
2002, while Brady went on to become at Braden's longest
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serving prisoner, locked away for more than 5 decades until
his death on May 15th, 20, 17. But even in death, Brady's name
hasn't stopped haunting the public because he left behind
something 2 locked briefcases. Inside those briefcases are his
personal documents, which many believe could hold the key to
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something the victims families have been desperate to know for
decades. The exact location of Keith
Bennett's body. The only victim never recovered.
Over the years there have been petitions, legal challenges,
even public campaigns to open them.
But the cases remain sealed, andone of Britain's darkest
mysteries remains unsolved. Brady and Henley didn't come out
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of nowhere. Their lives were already
fractured long before they became at Britain's most
infamous couple. Brady had been in trouble with
the law since he was a teenager,mostly for petty crimes.
By the early 60s, he was workingat a chemical company called
Millwards, and it developed a disturbing fascination with
ideology. Henley's childhood wasn't any
better. She grew up in an abusive
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household with a father who pushed her to be tough like him,
which in his eyes meant solving problems with violence.
She later got a job at Millwardswhere she met Brady and quickly
became infatuated with him. Over time she adopted his views
and even changed her appearance to fit his warped ideals.
By 1962 they were officially a couple and everything spiraled.
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Their first known victim was 16 year old Pauline Reed, lured
into Henley's van on July 12th 1963 under the pretense of
helping look for a lost glove. Once on Saddleworth Moor,
Pauline was killed and buried inthe wilderness a few months
later. They use the same tactic to lure
12 year old John Kilbride, who also never returned home.
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The killings continued in 1964 with 12 year old Keith Bennett,
who disappeared while helping Henley load boxes into her van.
His body was buried somewhere onthe Moor and has never been
found despite decades of searches.
Six months later they abducted a10 year old Leslie Ann Downey,
taking her to their home where she was killed and buried as
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well. Evidence from that crime,
including an audio recording of her final moments later, became
crucial at trial, but by UK law it remains permanently sealed.
Their final victim was 17 year old Edward Evans in October
1965, a murder Brady carried outin front of Henley's
brother-in-law, David Smith. Hoping to recruit him instead,
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Smith went straight to the police.
By the next day, Brady was in custody and officers had
discovered Evans body. A search of Saddleworth Moore
soon revealed the remains of Leslie Ann Downey and John
Kilbrid. In May 1966, Brady was convicted
of killing Kilbride, Downey and Evans, while Henley was found
guilty of killing Downey and Evans.
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Both were sentenced to life in prison and would never walk free
again. At the time, they weren't
charged with the murders of Pauline Reed and Keith Bennett,
so years later both Brady and Henley admitted their
involvement. In 1987, Pauline Reed's remains
were finally located. Keith Bennett's body, however,
has never been found, despite decades of searches and even
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modern forensic technology. Henley died in prison in 2002 at
the age of 60. Brady, diagnosed as a
psychopath, spent the rest of his life in a high security
psychiatric hospital, making several failed S word attempts
over the years, and he died in 2017 after more than 50 years
behind bars, becoming one of EU KS longest serving prisoners.
After his death, the focus shifted not to his crimes, but
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to what was left behind, two locked briefcases.
People weren't just curious about his personal notes or
writings. Many believe these cases might
hold the key to finally finding Keith Bennett's body.
Brady seemed to know exactly howmuch interest there would be
before his death. He instructed his lawyer, Robin
Mackin, to keep the briefcases sealed.
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In 2017, Greater Manchester Police even went to court,
hoping to search them for any clue about Keith's burial site.
The request was denied, and there was no active prosecution
to justify the order. Keith's brother Allen,
personally pleaded with Mackin to release the documents,
believing they might finally bring closure.
The police supported him following their own formal
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request. Macon refused every time,
declining to comment on their contents and keeping the mystery
alive. There's still hope, though.
In March 2021, Parliament introduced the Police, Crime,
Sentencing and Courts Bill, which introduced a new, powerful
police the ability to access information about undisclosed
burial sites even if the suspectis already dead.
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If passed, it would allow Greater Manchester Police to
finally open Brady's briefcases in search for answers.
But until that law moves forwardand it's still being debated,
those briefcases remain locked away with Brady's lawyer, their
contents unknown in one of Britain's most haunting
mysteries, unsolved cannibalism tapes.
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And before we get into this one,I did cover briefly in the
disturbing dark Web websites video.
So if this sounds familiar, it is.
But in that video, I covered it very briefly, and this is kind
of more a deep dive and into thelost media of it.
So that's why it sounds familiar, but this is more of a
deep dive. Anyways, on to the case.
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On March 9th, 2001, in the quietGermantown of Rotenberg, 2 men
met under circumstances that would horrify the world for
decades to come. One was Armin Moise, a 39 year
old IT technician, an ordinary man you'd never look twice at if
you pass him on the street. The other was burned brand Ace,
an engineer of about the same age.
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But this wasn't just a casual meeting.
They weren't catching up for coffee or talking about work.
This meeting had been planned for one single horrifying
reason. Brandis had agreed to let Meiwis
kill him and eat him. This wasn't random.
Meiwis had spent years developing A disturbing
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cannibalism, and it didn't stay as just a dark fantasy in his
head. He took it online back when the
Internet was still a Wild West of chat rooms and forums where
people openly shared things they'd never say out loud in
real life. That's where he found the
Cannibal Cafe, a now devunct form built around cannibalism
fantasies. To be clear, the site itself
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warned people to keep things fictional.
It basically said, if you can't separate fantasy from reality,
don't be here. But someone always pushes the
limit. Under the Alliance.
Frankie, he posted an ad lookingfor a willing victim.
Not role play, not pretend, but an actual person who would let
him kill and eat them. And disturbingly, someone
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answered before Brandis. There were a few near misses,
One man even showed up at Meiwis's house but backed out at
the last minute when reality hithim.
But Brandis was different. He had his own dark one that
lined up perfectly with Meiwis. He didn't want to eat human
flesh. He wanted to be eaten.
And he wasn't bluffing. After training messages, the two
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arranged to meet in person. Brandis knew exactly what was
going to happen. He wasn't tricked.
He wasn't forced. He walked straight into Maui's
home, fully consenting to what came next.
But what happened afterward wentbeyond even the darkest corners
of imagination. When Brandy's arrived at Maui's
home, there was no hesitation. He knew exactly why he was
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there, what he had agreed to, and disturbingly, he seemed calm
about it. Inside, the two sat down and
began what would soon become oneof the most infamous consensual
killings in history. Brandy's then wanted to begin
being eaten, so may we scrap theknife and did what biting
couldn't. What happened next was even more
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surreal. Brandy's actually tried to eat
of what had been cut off of himself, but it was too tough
and too raw to swallow. So may we decided to cook it and
did all of the things with cooking, diced it fried in the
pan and even use some spices andmarinades.
And at this point, fantasy had become horrifying reality.
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Brandy's, who had already lost adangerous amount of blood, was
placed into a bathtub where he laid for three hours.
Mewist didn't panic, didn't callfor help.
He sat nearby, reading a Star Trek novel while Brandy's slowly
faded. Brandy's had dulled the pain
with sleeping pills, alcohol andpainkillers.
But eventually, he couldn't fight what was happening.
That's when Mewist walked over, kissed him on the forehead, and
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ended his life. And every moment of this was
recorded. Mawis had prepared a special
room just for this, a room to carry out the killing and
capture it all on tape, using his own camera.
He recorded everything from the first conversation to the final
moments. And through all of it, he kept
posting online, talking about what he had done, even looking
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for a second victim. That's when someone from the
Cannibal Cafe finally alerted the police.
When police raided Mawis's home in December 2002, they didn't
just find remains. They found A2 hour videotape
documenting everything, every single moment, and that tape
quickly became one of the most infamous lost pieces of media in
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history. The video has never been
released to the public, and for good reason.
Investigators who viewed it described it as so disturbing
that some journalists attending the trial later needed therapy.
But the fact that it exists turned it into a legend.
On forums and lost media circles, people obsess over it,
debating whether supposedly screenshots are real, claiming
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to know someone who's seen it, even insisting they have secret
copies. None have ever BeenVerified.
Only four alleged screenshots have service online, and whether
they're genuine is still unknown.
What is certain is that the tapeis real, and it's locked away by
German authorities. During Maui's trial, the tape
was played once for the court and then immediately secured,
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never to be shown again. No official copies were released
and no bootlegs have ever been confirmed.
That's why it's considered one of the most sought after pieces
of quote forbidden footage online.
The rest of the crime scene feltlike something out of a horror
movie. Freezers full of labeled human
meat, carefully stored bones, and that camera holding every
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second of what happened. This wasn't a moment of impulse.
It was planned, methodical and horrifyingly consensual.
And that complicated the trial. Mae Wiese didn't deny a thing.
He admitted to every detail, calmly explaining the online
messages, the agreement with Brandis, and that Brandis wanted
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to die. So the question became, was this
murder or assisted S word? At first, the court leaned
towards manslaughter, giving himeight years, but public outrage
pushed for a retrial in 2005. This time the court called it
what it was, murder. Meiwes was sentenced to life in
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prison, where he still is today at Castle Prison in Germany.
And all right, guys, that wraps up some disturbing lost media.
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Some lost media is just forgotten.
Old tapes, canceled shows, things that just slipped through
the cracks. But some of it, it's different.
It's disturbing. I'm talking about footage tied
to real life tragedies, video sounsettling they were buried on
purpose and broadcasts that seemlike they were never meant to be
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seen in the 1st place. This media wasn't just lost, it
was buried for a reason. If you like creepy videos like
this, make sure to like and subscribe.
It helps more than you know. Now let's dive in to some of the
most disturbing lost media ever uncovered.
And before we begin, this video is for educational and
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informational purposes only. This video contains discussion
of real life violence and disturbing subject matter
related to the Columbine High School tragedy.
Viewer discretion is strongly advised.
The Basement Tapes On April 20th, 1999, two students walked
into Columbine High School with guns and explosives.
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Eric Harris and Dylan Clabold killed 13 innocent people and
themselves, injuring dozens more.
It was one of the deadliest school shootings in American
history, and it changed the country forever.
The footage of what they did exists, but not in the way you'd
expect. After the shooting, police found
five videotapes recorded by Harris and Clay Bold in the
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weeks leading up to the attack. These weren't just kids messing
around with the camcorder. These were detailed plans, rants
about life, death and revenge. They showed their weapons,
listed names and even laughed about what they were about to
do. A Time magazine reporter, Tim
Roche, got to watch them in late1999 and wrote an article about
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it, calling them The Basement Tapes.
That name stuck, and the public went insane trying to get a
look. But even the victim's parents
hadn't seen them. So Jefferson County, the county
where Columbine shooting took place, showed the tapes once
only to the families and then locked them away forever.
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No copies, no leaks, just sealedin a vault.
And that's haunted the Internet ever since because nobody
outside that tiny circle has ever seen them.
And according to officials, theydon't even exist anymore.
In 2015, it came out that Sheriff Ted Mink had actually
destroyed the tapes back in 2011.
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They were gone permanently. Whatever was on them, lost
forever. And according to Tim Roche, the
reporter who saw them, those tapes were some of the most
disturbing things he'd ever watched in his entire career,
which only made people want to see them even more.
What made these two kids do something so horrific?
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What were they like when no one else was watching?
The problem is, the tapes were never recovered.
Once they were gone, that was it.
Or at least that's what people thought.
Because even though the tapes themselves were destroyed, the
transcript survived word for word.
Accounts of what Harrish and Claybould said and did still out
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there. And that meant the mystery
wasn't completely lost. People could finally know what
was inside those tapes, and it was worse than anyone imagined.
The first tape, evidence item number 265, March 1999.
It opens in Harris's house. He and Clay Bold are sitting
there with a bottle of Jack Daniels, laughing like this is
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some kind of party, almost like they're starring in their own
movie. And honestly, that's what they
wanted. Harris even says he hopes these
tapes will be seen by the entireworld one day.
Once our masterpiece is complete.
They talk about how they got their guns and bombs, how easy
it was to trick people into selling to them.
Then, almost like it's nothing, they drop a classmate's name,
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Brandon Larson. Harris looks at the camera and
says you will find his body. From there, it spirals into
their philosophy, how they hate people, how society is broken,
how no one understands them. It sounds like the kind of
teenage rant you'd see online today, but darker, because these
two already knew what they were about to do.
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The tape cuts out static and jump cuts, then picks up again
later that night. Now they're bragging about how
many people they're going to kill, joking about who might
direct a movie about their lives.
Spielberg. Tarantino.
They laugh like it's just one big joke.
They even talk about credit cardfraud, how easy it is to get
bomb parts without raising suspicion.
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Harris looks straight into the camera and says he knows the
police will see these one day. He laughs, saying they'll
probably slice up the footage totwist what we're saying.
And then it gets even darker. They talk about mailing copies
of the tapes to four major news networks.
Harris holds up his personal journal, calling it his writings
of God. And that's how it ends.
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No dramatic outburst, no last laugh.
Just a calm, almost casual promise that what they're
planning is going to shock the entire world.
Second tape. The next tape feels different.
Evidence item number 298. April 11th, 1999, just one week
before the massacre. It's labeled Reb's tape.
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Reb was Harris's nickname. It starts simple, almost
harmless. Harris and Clay Bold are sitting
in a car, filming like it's justanother random road trip.
Except it's not. Harris looks straight into the
camera and says we're on our wayto get the rest of our gear.
The footage cuts, then jumps back to them.
Driving home, they're grinning, laughing like they just bought
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snacks for a party. But what they actually bought
were massive fuel containers andpropane tanks, key parts for
their homemade explosives. The camera shuts off.
When it comes back, it's only Harris.
He's staring directly into the lens, and his tone changes.
For the first time, he actually sounds human.
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He apologizes to his family, says it isn't their fault, says
he loves them. He knows what he's about to do.
We'll destroy them. But he's already too far gone. 7
and one third days left, he says, almost like he's counting
down to a vacation. Then he lists 5 names.
No context, just names. And then comes the journal
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again. He holds it up, calls it the
Writings of God. Inside are his violent sketches,
strange notes about fate and revenge, and ramblings about
destiny. The tape ends quietly, but the
message is clear. This isn't just an attack.
This is a legacy they want carved into history.
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And the second tape bundled thisone, just random school footage,
Harris, Claybold and a couple ofother kids messing around with
the camera. Totally normal teenage stuff,
which somehow makes it even worse because in the middle of
that ordinary life, this massacre was already in motion.
Third tape. The final tape is the hardest
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one to even process. Evidence item number 333 labeled
top secret. Rampart authorities found it in
a Sony 8mm camcorder. Columbine High School, literally
scratching to the side. And this wasn't some diary style
entry. This was a mission log.
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It opens in Harris's house again.
Weapons are spread out across the floor.
Pipe bombs sawed off, shotguns, carbines, boxes of ammo.
Harris is talking straight into the camera like he's filming a
how to video, even explaining how the pipe bombs work.
Clay Bold takes over filming while Harris poses with the
guns, smiling like this is something to be proud of.
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Cut. Now Harris is alone in a car,
camera on the dashboard, and fora moment it feels like you're
watching an apology video. It's a weird feeling, knowing
you're about to be dead in 2 1/2weeks, he says.
He wonders out loud if he shoulddo it before prom or after.
Then the smile fades. His voice shakes and he wipes
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away a tear. He actually begins to cry on
camera, but he keeps recording. Cut again.
Now they're in Clay Bolts room, strapping weapons to their
bodies, the exact clothes they'dwear.
A few days later, Harris mentions Brandon Larson again,
giving another oddly specific threat, one that never actually
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happens because luckily Larson survived.
Then they sit down and film farewell messages.
Harris speaks directly to his family.
Then Clay Bold does the same. No yelling, no theatrics, just a
cold, calm goodbye. And then Harris says that's it,
sorry, goodbye. Clay Bold leans into the camera,
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fill in the frame and says it again.
Goodbye. The last shot is unsettling in
its simplicity. The camera was left running,
pointed at a wall in Harris's bedroom.
On it is a piece of paper with CHS written in bold black
letters, along with a crude drawing of a bomb in the word
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clue. Authorities later determined
this footage was recorded roughly 30 minutes before Harris
and Claybold walked into Columbine High School and left a
horrific stain on American history.
Rest in peace to the 13 innocentpeople who lost their lives at
Columbine High School that day. They deserve to be remembered.
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The shooters do not kito gotta. The internet's full of weird
lost media. Old TV shows that just vanish,
commercials no one remembers until somebody posts about at
3:00 AM. But there's one that still
creeps people out to this day, and it came out of Japan.
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It's called Hirogata, which translates to white humanoids.
Some people call it white people, but mostly just stick
with hirogata, which roughly translates to humanoid.
The story popped up in 2004 on 2Channel 1 of Japan's biggest
anonymous forums. Someone claimed there was a
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strange PSA, or maybe it was a late night commercial.
No one could really agree on what it was, but everyone who
said they'd seen it remembered one detail. 2 white, featureless
human figures. No faces, no clothes, just blank
humanoid shapes standing there while the sound of a railroad
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crossing bell plays in the background. 1 fades out, another
fades in, and then text appears.Some people swear there's a
voice over saying something chilling like every two seconds
someone dies on Earth. The exact words change depending
on who's telling the story, but the vibes always the same.
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It's creepy, weirdly existential, and doesn't feel
like something that should have aired on TV at all.
But here's the weird part. No one has ever found it.
No tape, no record of it in official listings, nothing.
People have searched for years thinking maybe it was a school
PSA or an obscure commercial that aired once and then just
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vanished. And while there are tons of fan
recreations and entire threads dedicated to finding that, the
original thing is kind of gone, and to this day, Hitogata is one
of those Internet mysteries thatmakes you question your own
memory. Maybe it's real.
Maybe it's some kind of mass hallucination or an example of
the Mandela Effect. But if it is real, someone out
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there still has the footage. And that's the part that creeps
people out most. Because if it exists, why hasn't
it surfaced? It started with a thread about
creepy commercials people remembered from childhood.
You know the kind. Those ads you see once late at
night and then wonder if you imagine them.
Buried in that thread was post number 854, the one that kicked
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off the entire legend. There was this terrifying
commercial stuck in my head. 2 white human figures on a black
background, railroad bell ringing on repeat.
Texts on screen saying somethinglike every two seconds a person
dies on earth. Every time the bell rang, 1
figure disappeared, then reappeared and the other one
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vanished. That was all anyone had to go
on. No channel, no production
company, not even a year it supposedly aired.
Just the memory of two faceless white figures fading in and out
while they death statistics showed on screen.
Finding Hidugata has been almostimpossible, but that hasn't
stopped people from trying. For years, threads and forums
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have been filled with people searching for it, wondering if
it was a school, PSAA, late night experimental ad, or
something even stranger or darker.
Yet nothing has surfaced. No tapes, no screenshots, no
official records, only that one haunting description and fan
recreations trying to imagine what it might have looked like.
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Even the memories don't line up.Some people swear there was a
railroad crossing sign on screen, while others remembered
nothing but a black void behind the figures.
A few claim it looks like sepia toned as it pulled from an old
decaying tape, while others insist it was harsh black and
white. The timeline is just as blurry.
Some say it aired in the late 90s, others insist it was early
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2000s. After years of people digging
through broadcast schedules and commercial databases, the best
anyone has managed to narrowing it down to somewhere between
1996 and 2003. There was even talk of a 1999
post years before the original thread where someone described a
commercial with two monochrome people blinking on and off
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alternating with a pawn pawn sound, calling it one of those
local Psas that made no sense. But that thread is now gone,
with no archive whatsoever, leaving only second hand
memories and half dead links. Maybe it's real, or maybe it's
just a false memory that snowballed online over time.
And that's what makes HITO got us so unsettling.
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The harder people search for answers, the blurrier the whole
thing becomes. You see, there could be a pretty
rational reason behind this ad, because in the time span that
this ad aired, as word rates in Japan had gone severely high,
and most of them were in fact caused by railroad crossings.
In that span, multiple trains have been derailed as well,
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killing a large number of people.
So the chance of this existing isn't impossible, however.
Or the problem is, who would make such a commercial?
And it's almost so obscure that a normal person wouldn't really
be able to figure out the message behind it.
The leading theory, and the one most people lean towards, is
that Hedogata was actually just a commercial.
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The original testimonial even said it was only 15 seconds
long, which fits perfectly with standard ad slots in Japan.
But then comes the real question, what was it even
advertising? That's where things get even
stranger. Some think it was a drugstore
ad, or maybe soap or even genes.Others swear it had to be the
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UNICEF or some NGO because of the death statistic.
And of course there's a group convinced it was APSA, maybe
about health or safety. Most of those theories have been
debunked. The so-called soap commercial
turned out to be a totally different ad, one that only
looked vaguely similar but didn't match any eyewitness
descriptions. Someone even reached out to AC
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Japan, the nonprofit behind mostJapanese Psas, and they flat out
denied ever making anything likeHidogata.
Another theory pointed to Tokyo Yama, a chemical manufacturer.
In Tokyo, there's a separate urban legend about one of their
mid 90s ads. A white featureless figure on a
bluish black background surrounded by floating white
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spheres with text translating tochemistry is now in the unknown
world. People linked it to Hidogata
because of the similar imagery, but even that hasn't been
proven, and that ad is its own mystery entirely.
Some people believe it could have been a school safety
program, maybe about railroad crossings or traffic hazards.
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Japan has a long history of using cartoons and even big
characters like Mario for safetyspecials.
But those programs are usually way longer than 15 seconds and
rarely shown outside of schools,which brings everyone right back
to square one. If Hitogata really was only 15
seconds long, chances are it wasprobably just a commercial.
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And then there's the last theory.
Maybe the whole thing just a collective false memory, a
Mandela Effect moment where people vividly remember
something that never really existed.
As of now, there's still no proof either way.
No tapes, no screenshots, and nothing concrete to confirm Hido
Gada ever aired. But that hasn't stopped people
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from looking. Even though the original post
dates back to 2004, search efforts have been going for over
a decade. The rumors spread so much that
on some forums, like 5 Channel, moderators banned discussion of
it entirely because it kept derailing unrelated threads.
Still, people kept digging. In 2019, an entire thread
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dedicated solely to Hido Gada appeared on Five Channel, and
since then, the search has gone global.
People from all over the world are combing through VHS records,
TV archives and obscure commercial collections, still
hoping to prove once and for allwhether Hido Gotta actually
existed or if it was nothing more than a ghost story for the
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Internet age. Christine Chubbuck On the
morning of July 15th, 1974, viewers in Sarasota, FL tuned
into the Suncoast Digest, a small local morning talk show
hosted by 29 year old reporter Christine Chubbuck.
They had no idea they were aboutto witness one of the most
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infamous moments in live television history.
Christine wasn't like most reporters.
She hated what she called blood and guts journalism, that rising
trends of sensationalized violence driven news coverage.
And yet, behind the camera, she was fighting her own private
battle with depression. In the weeks before her death,
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she'd volunteered to produce a segment on S word as part of her
research. She even asked a local sheriff
what kind of gun and bullets he'd use if he were ever to do
it himself. She asked calmly,
professionally, like it was justresearch for a story.
But there were warning signs. One Co worker recalled her
saying off hand, Wouldn't it be wild if I blew myself away on
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the air? He laughed it off, thinking she
was joking. What no one at the station knew
was that years earlier, Christine had already tried to
take her own life by overdosing on pills.
And then came July 15th. That morning at WXLT started
like any other. Christine even seemed cheerful,
happier than usual. Nobody thought much of it until
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right before the show went on air.
She told the crew she needed to read a news bulletin before
starting, something she had never done before.
It confused everyone, but they let her do it.
For 8 minutes, she read the newslike it was any other day.
Three national stories, nothing unusual.
Then she moved to the 4th, A report of a shooting at a local
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restaurant. That's when the film reel
jammed. Christine didn't panic.
She just shrugged, turned to thecamera, and delivered a line
that would haunt everyone who heard it.
In keeping with the WXLT practice of presenting the most
immediate and complete reports of local blood and guts news, TV
40 presents what is believed to be a television first.
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The screen went black almost instantly as the technical
director scrambled to cut the feed.
Viewers flooded the station withcalls and even police got
involved, some thinking it had to be a sick joke or some kind
of stage stunt. Even Christine's coworkers
thought it was a twisted prank until they saw the truth.
She was rushed to the Sarasota Memorial Hospital, but her fate
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was already sealed. She'd even planned for what came
after, leaving behind a completed nude script predicting
she'd been taken there and AS word note addressed to her
family and Co workers explainingshe wanted everybody to see what
she had done. The script she left behind was
sent to national news networks and many read it word for word
in their coverage. By the following day, Christine
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Chubbuck was gone. And this is where the story
shifts from tragedy to lost media legend.
Yes, Christine Chubbuck's death happened live on television, but
that doesn't mean people actually have the footage.
This was 1974. Home video recorders existed.
Things like ematic decks, but they were rare, expensive, and
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mostly used by professionals. The average person watching at
home, They weren't recording live TV.
So unless someone just happened to have one of those massive
early VC Rs running that morning, there's almost zero
chance a home copy exists. For decades, people assumed that
was it. If you didn't see a live, you
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were never going to see it at all.
But the rumors didn't stop. People claimed they'd seen it
floating around early websites others swore had been used in
FBI training videos or even appeared in shock films.
But none of those claims have ever BeenVerified, and most are
considered nothing more than urban legend.
Then, in 2016, everything changed.
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An article from Vulture revealedthat the tape does exist.
Not in an archive, not locked down in some government vault,
but in the hands of Molly Nelson, the widow of the man who
once owned WXLTVTV. For whatever reason, her husband
had kept a copy of the broadcast, and when he passed
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away, it went to Molly. When word got out, people
started reaching out, begging tosee it.
She refused, saying it made her uncomfortable, that she had only
kept it to honor her husband. Eventually, she turned it over
to a major law firm for safekeeping.
Locked away, completely inaccessible.
So yes, Christine Chubbuck's as word still exists on tape, but
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no one outside of that law firm has seen it in decades.
And according to Molly, no one ever will.
Not long after the incident, Christine's family took legal
action against Channel 40, preventing them from ever
releasing the footage. The 2 inch quad master tape,
along with a copy confiscated bythe Sarasota Sheriff's
Department, was turned over to the family.
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According to reports, both were destroyed.
But then there's the rumor of 1/3 copy.
Some claim it ended up in the FCC archives, sitting quietly in
a government vault. The problem?
The FCC has flat out denied sucha tape exists, calling the rumor
baseless. Ironically, the only reason the
broadcast was recorded at all was because Christine
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specifically asked for it. Back then, recording a live
broadcast wasn't common. It was expensive, but she
insisted. Decades later, in 2017, the
Internet erupted when a YouTube named Nation Squid uploaded a
video called Freaky 5 Lost Footage.
It featured 5 pieces of creepy lost media, with Christine
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Chubbuck's broadcast taking the number one spot.
But what shocked everyone was atthe end, the video appeared to
show the S word itself. Black and white footage,
distorted audio, chaotic static.Immediately people began
dissecting it frame by frame. Threads blew up on 4 Chan,
Nation Squid's own forums, even Lost Media Wiki, all trying to
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figure out if this was the tape.Some swear it was real, others
said it was staged. Nation Squid never commented,
which only fueled the fire. On February 13th, 2017, the
debate finally ended. Gordon Galbraith, who had been
the news director at WXLT duringChristine's death, confirmed the
footage was fake. Just another Internet hoax
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feeding on an already haunted story.
Then, in early 2021, something new appeared.
This time not a video, but audio.
A YouTube named Atalsi claimed you have acquired A legitimate
cassette recording of the broadcast from a private
collector in February. They uploaded a portion of it
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the part of the newscast before Christine's S word.
Out of respect, they left out the actual moment itself.
Even that short clip was chilling.
The voice was unmistakably Christine's, matching other
recordings of her used in the documentary Kate Plays
Christine. It aligned perfectly with the
news stories printed in the Sarasota Herald Tribune that
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day, leaving little doubt it wasreal.
Then, in April, Italicy uploadedthe full video.
Yes, including Christine's finalwords in the gunshot.
But not for long. Both uploads were quickly made
private, disappearing back into obscurity almost as fast as they
appeared. Lost briefcases Between 1963 and
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1965, Ian Brady and Myra Henley carried out one of the darkest
crime sprees in British history.They abducted and killed five
children, burying 4 of them in the remote, desolate Saddleworth
More Brady was eventually caughtand convicted alongside Henley
in 1966. Henley would die in prison in
2002, while Brady went on to become at Braden's longest
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serving prisoner, locked away for more than 5 decades until
his death on May 15th, 20, 17. But even in death, Brady's name
hasn't stopped haunting the public because he left behind
something 2 locked briefcases. Inside those briefcases are his
personal documents, which many believe could hold the key to
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something the victims families have been desperate to know for
decades. The exact location of Keith
Bennett's body. The only victim never recovered.
Over the years there have been petitions, legal challenges,
even public campaigns to open them.
But the cases remain sealed, andone of Britain's darkest
mysteries remains unsolved. Brady and Henley didn't come out
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of nowhere. Their lives were already
fractured long before they became at Britain's most
infamous couple. Brady had been in trouble with
the law since he was a teenager,mostly for petty crimes.
By the early 60s, he was workingat a chemical company called
Millwards, and it developed a disturbing fascination with
ideology. Henley's childhood wasn't any
better. She grew up in an abusive
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household with a father who pushed her to be tough like him,
which in his eyes meant solving problems with violence.
She later got a job at Millwardswhere she met Brady and quickly
became infatuated with him. Over time she adopted his views
and even changed her appearance to fit his warped ideals.
By 1962 they were officially a couple and everything spiraled.
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Their first known victim was 16 year old Pauline Reed, lured
into Henley's van on July 12th 1963 under the pretense of
helping look for a lost glove. Once on Saddleworth Moor,
Pauline was killed and buried inthe wilderness a few months
later. They use the same tactic to lure
12 year old John Kilbride, who also never returned home.
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The killings continued in 1964 with 12 year old Keith Bennett,
who disappeared while helping Henley load boxes into her van.
His body was buried somewhere onthe Moor and has never been
found despite decades of searches.
Six months later they abducted a10 year old Leslie Ann Downey,
taking her to their home where she was killed and buried as
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well. Evidence from that crime,
including an audio recording of her final moments later, became
crucial at trial, but by UK law it remains permanently sealed.
Their final victim was 17 year old Edward Evans in October
1965, a murder Brady carried outin front of Henley's
brother-in-law, David Smith. Hoping to recruit him instead,
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Smith went straight to the police.
By the next day, Brady was in custody and officers had
discovered Evans body. A search of Saddleworth Moore
soon revealed the remains of Leslie Ann Downey and John
Kilbrid. In May 1966, Brady was convicted
of killing Kilbride, Downey and Evans, while Henley was found
guilty of killing Downey and Evans.
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Both were sentenced to life in prison and would never walk free
again. At the time, they weren't
charged with the murders of Pauline Reed and Keith Bennett,
so years later both Brady and Henley admitted their
involvement. In 1987, Pauline Reed's remains
were finally located. Keith Bennett's body, however,
has never been found, despite decades of searches and even
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modern forensic technology. Henley died in prison in 2002 at
the age of 60. Brady, diagnosed as a
psychopath, spent the rest of his life in a high security
psychiatric hospital, making several failed S word attempts
over the years, and he died in 2017 after more than 50 years
behind bars, becoming one of EU KS longest serving prisoners.
After his death, the focus shifted not to his crimes, but
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to what was left behind, two locked briefcases.
People weren't just curious about his personal notes or
writings. Many believe these cases might
hold the key to finally finding Keith Bennett's body.
Brady seemed to know exactly howmuch interest there would be
before his death. He instructed his lawyer, Robin
Mackin, to keep the briefcases sealed.
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In 2017, Greater Manchester Police even went to court,
hoping to search them for any clue about Keith's burial site.
The request was denied, and there was no active prosecution
to justify the order. Keith's brother Allen,
personally pleaded with Mackin to release the documents,
believing they might finally bring closure.
The police supported him following their own formal
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request. Macon refused every time,
declining to comment on their contents and keeping the mystery
alive. There's still hope, though.
In March 2021, Parliament introduced the Police, Crime,
Sentencing and Courts Bill, which introduced a new, powerful
police the ability to access information about undisclosed
burial sites even if the suspectis already dead.
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If passed, it would allow Greater Manchester Police to
finally open Brady's briefcases in search for answers.
But until that law moves forwardand it's still being debated,
those briefcases remain locked away with Brady's lawyer, their
contents unknown in one of Britain's most haunting
mysteries, unsolved cannibalism tapes.
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And before we get into this one,I did cover briefly in the
disturbing dark Web websites video.
So if this sounds familiar, it is.
But in that video, I covered it very briefly, and this is kind
of more a deep dive and into thelost media of it.
So that's why it sounds familiar, but this is more of a
deep dive. Anyways, on to the case.
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On March 9th, 2001, in the quietGermantown of Rotenberg, 2 men
met under circumstances that would horrify the world for
decades to come. One was Armin Moise, a 39 year
old IT technician, an ordinary man you'd never look twice at if
you pass him on the street. The other was burned brand Ace,
an engineer of about the same age.
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But this wasn't just a casual meeting.
They weren't catching up for coffee or talking about work.
This meeting had been planned for one single horrifying
reason. Brandis had agreed to let Meiwis
kill him and eat him. This wasn't random.
Meiwis had spent years developing A disturbing
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cannibalism, and it didn't stay as just a dark fantasy in his
head. He took it online back when the
Internet was still a Wild West of chat rooms and forums where
people openly shared things they'd never say out loud in
real life. That's where he found the
Cannibal Cafe, a now devunct form built around cannibalism
fantasies. To be clear, the site itself
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warned people to keep things fictional.
It basically said, if you can't separate fantasy from reality,
don't be here. But someone always pushes the
limit. Under the Alliance.
Frankie, he posted an ad lookingfor a willing victim.
Not role play, not pretend, but an actual person who would let
him kill and eat them. And disturbingly, someone
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answered before Brandis. There were a few near misses,
One man even showed up at Meiwis's house but backed out at
the last minute when reality hithim.
But Brandis was different. He had his own dark one that
lined up perfectly with Meiwis. He didn't want to eat human
flesh. He wanted to be eaten.
And he wasn't bluffing. After training messages, the two
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arranged to meet in person. Brandis knew exactly what was
going to happen. He wasn't tricked.
He wasn't forced. He walked straight into Maui's
home, fully consenting to what came next.
But what happened afterward wentbeyond even the darkest corners
of imagination. When Brandy's arrived at Maui's
home, there was no hesitation. He knew exactly why he was
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there, what he had agreed to, and disturbingly, he seemed calm
about it. Inside, the two sat down and
began what would soon become oneof the most infamous consensual
killings in history. Brandy's then wanted to begin
being eaten, so may we scrap theknife and did what biting
couldn't. What happened next was even more
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surreal. Brandy's actually tried to eat
of what had been cut off of himself, but it was too tough
and too raw to swallow. So may we decided to cook it and
did all of the things with cooking, diced it fried in the
pan and even use some spices andmarinades.
And at this point, fantasy had become horrifying reality.
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Brandy's, who had already lost adangerous amount of blood, was
placed into a bathtub where he laid for three hours.
Mewist didn't panic, didn't callfor help.
He sat nearby, reading a Star Trek novel while Brandy's slowly
faded. Brandy's had dulled the pain
with sleeping pills, alcohol andpainkillers.
But eventually, he couldn't fight what was happening.
That's when Mewist walked over, kissed him on the forehead, and
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ended his life. And every moment of this was
recorded. Mawis had prepared a special
room just for this, a room to carry out the killing and
capture it all on tape, using his own camera.
He recorded everything from the first conversation to the final
moments. And through all of it, he kept
posting online, talking about what he had done, even looking
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for a second victim. That's when someone from the
Cannibal Cafe finally alerted the police.
When police raided Mawis's home in December 2002, they didn't
just find remains. They found A2 hour videotape
documenting everything, every single moment, and that tape
quickly became one of the most infamous lost pieces of media in
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history. The video has never been
released to the public, and for good reason.
Investigators who viewed it described it as so disturbing
that some journalists attending the trial later needed therapy.
But the fact that it exists turned it into a legend.
On forums and lost media circles, people obsess over it,
debating whether supposedly screenshots are real, claiming
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to know someone who's seen it, even insisting they have secret
copies. None have ever BeenVerified.
Only four alleged screenshots have service online, and whether
they're genuine is still unknown.
What is certain is that the tapeis real, and it's locked away by
German authorities. During Maui's trial, the tape
was played once for the court and then immediately secured,
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never to be shown again. No official copies were released
and no bootlegs have ever been confirmed.
That's why it's considered one of the most sought after pieces
of quote forbidden footage online.
The rest of the crime scene feltlike something out of a horror
movie. Freezers full of labeled human
meat, carefully stored bones, and that camera holding every
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second of what happened. This wasn't a moment of impulse.
It was planned, methodical and horrifyingly consensual.
And that complicated the trial. Mae Wiese didn't deny a thing.
He admitted to every detail, calmly explaining the online
messages, the agreement with Brandis, and that Brandis wanted
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to die. So the question became, was this
murder or assisted S word? At first, the court leaned
towards manslaughter, giving himeight years, but public outrage
pushed for a retrial in 2005. This time the court called it
what it was, murder. Meiwes was sentenced to life in
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prison, where he still is today at Castle Prison in Germany.
And all right, guys, that wraps up some disturbing lost media.
This video was horrifying and disturbing.
And comment down below what you thought about this.
These cases were utterly disgusting but interesting in a
weird sort of morbid fashion. I don't know.
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Comment down below if you'd liketo see another Lost Media video
in the future. I really enjoyed this.
I thought it was very interesting and a more dark turn
to lost media, but I appreciate you all watching.
Thank you so much, it means the world.
Check out all the videos on the channel, I'm sure you'll love
them as well. Please like and subscribe.
Thank you so much and I'll see you next time.
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Bye.
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