Unexplainable Reddit Users

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Reddit is massive. Millions of users, endless
posts, and usually it's nothing more than people talking,
joking, or venting. But hidden deep in the threads
are accounts that feel wrong, posts that don't add up.
Users who appear, say something bizarre or chilling, and then
disappear without a trace. No explanations, no closure,

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just a lingering sense that something was seriously off.
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Today we're exploring some unexplainable right of users,
the ones that left behind more questions than answers.
Let's get into it. Yay video games.

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We start with the user who went by the username you slash.
Yay video games. At first the name seemed
harmless, just some guy online who really liked video games.
But once you start reading this post, something feels off.
His messages had no context and no logic whatsoever.
They read like someone stuck in a completely different reality,

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typing out thoughts that didn't belong anywhere.
He had been on Reddit for a while, to be specific since
2010. He had a lot of interest like
gaming, anime, editing, animation, mountain climbing and
surfing. Out of all these interests, as
his name suggests, he was more into gaming.
He would talk about games in various subreddits.

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For instance, in February 2010 he commented under post in R
slash Gaming. Bungie saddened by Xbox Live
closure and they work responsibly well too for the
original Xbox, but good old Microsoft took note of that and
made sure to kill for the 360. All LAN games for the 360 have a

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ping limiter built into them that will make the game drop out
if the ping reaches anything beyond what you'd expect from
another box in your house. I tried it with a friend a few
blocks away and it cut. There's no way you'd be able to
play with random people like youdo now with Live.
So yes, you have your alternative when the Xbox dies,
but when they shut down the 360 live service, you won't have

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anywhere to go. Pretty normal, right?
But that didn't last. This account ended up becoming
one of the biggest mysteries Reddit has ever seen, spiraling
into a rabbit hole so strange noone could figure it out for
years. During this time, the user also
shared some of his personal experiences, which are, let's

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just say, not very ethical, but do give us an idea that he'd
like to have some fun every now and then.
In a post made under R slash AskReddit Yay Video Game shared one
of his experiences. This is not my account.
What are the best things you've stumbled across that people
forget to log out of? Fun times with Facebook a few

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years ago on an old I board that's 4 Chan invasion type
stuff organizing. Some dude posted student names
and login info to the network ofa Christian School.
So naturally with some digging you found the Facebook or e-mail
of these kids and hope they use the same password as they did
for the school. Almost all of them did.
Anyway, I got into one guy's Facebook account, let's call him

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Josh, and lo and behold, I see the Holy Grail.
A long, long, long chain of messages between this guy and
some Christian youth leader. I have no idea what exactly that
is, but he listed it on his profile where Josh is saying
that he has something he wants to tell him, but he isn't sure
how the youth leader guy will take it.

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The last e-mail in the chain is A1 Liner Male.
Come on Josh, you know you can talk to me.
So obviously there was only one option for Josh's reply.
I have feelings for another boy at school.
The counselor guy had no idea how to handle it.
I got back something that was mostly filled with ellipsis and
Oh dear, I shot 1 back with something about Jesus loving me

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anyway, but he never replied. Then the next day I get an
insane e-mail added to clear that up.
Facebook e-mail to Josh's account.
He found out someone else was onthe account from the youth
leader guy threatening to track me down and beat me up or put me
in jail. All the usual.
And in amongst the sea of uppercase madness, he berated me

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for worrying Josh's parents likethat.
Oh Lord, I'm a huge jerk. But the mental image of a youth
leader man telling the parents and then these Christian parents
freaking out and sitting there sundown to have the gay talk
with straight old Josh who knowsnothing about my emails,
frantically denying it still cracks me up now.
Until here everything was fine. But then something shifted.

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In August of 2010, a user named Red Apple Core made a post in R
slash gaming DAE turned subtitles on every time they
start a new game. And then you slash EA video
games decided to jump on the thread and instead of dropping
one comment and moving on, he posted 16 back-to-back.

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And every single one of them was, well, a little weird.
Does anyone else ever play the game on hard?
First time through I noticed me and my brother always do this,
yet it never seems to be the default difficulty.
Does anyone else ever just turn a game off when the credits
start rolling without sitting through them?
Does anyone else ever adjust their settings directly in the

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settings text file where possible?
Does anyone else ever play through a game a second time
with the commentary on because they were interested in what the
devs have to say? And so on for 16 more posts very
similar to that. Each comment felt completely
random, like he just typed whatever popped into his head
and hit send without thinking twice.

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There was no structure, no meaning, just scattered thoughts
thrown into the comments. But that was just the beginning,
because a little while later he had another episode, and this
one was worse than anything Reddit had seen up to that
point. The incident occurred in
September 2010 when a user namedI Wish I was a Meme started a

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thread in R slash gaming. Just got Oblivion for PC.
What are your favorite mods? I want to make this game as
pimped out and awesome as I can.Edit OK I have 00 O that's
covered. Yay video game.
Saw the post and decided to makea comment.
The uninstall button. The game is great and all that,
but God is it hard to fully remove all the junk it leaves

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behind on your system. You really need to check out
that mod when the time comes to get rid of it.
Otherwise I think a Squirrel's Oblivion overhaul is a nice
start. Deleted user what the uninstall
button? The game is great.
Ubisoft goes steamworks bye bye always on DRM but you off go
work always on work Dr. Check out the junk it leaves behind in

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you. Deleted user again.
This makes even less sense. Oblivion has an uninstall
button. It works.
I've used more times than I careto mention.
All mods install themselves in Oblivion's directory.
The uninstall doesn't touch themas it is unaware.
All you do is delete the Oblivion directory.
Yay video games. Steamworks bye bye always on

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DRM. Now this is where things start
to get really dark. It happened again another
episode, but this time it wasn'tjust 16 strange comments he
posted over 4000. Let that sink in.
For a regular person, even typing 500 comments would take

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an entire day of non-stop work and commenting.
And that's assuming you're not eating, sleeping, or taking
breaks. But this guy managed to push out
4000. And here's the part that
completely breaks logic. Every single comment was unique.
Different wording, different sentence structure.
Which means that he did not copyand paste the same phrase over

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and over again. They were all manually typed
like he was in some kind of trance, just hammering away at
the keyboard. Some of the comments even had
bizarre low res images attached to them.
And it didn't stop there. After the comments storm under
the same post, he then created an entirely new thread with the
exact same title. Ubisoft go Steamworks, bye bye

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always on DRM. Then the same phrase is repeated
over and over again in the comments of the thread.
The situation worsened when he started spamming other random
phrases in different subreddits.Lol benign lol benign lol benign
exclamation mark. And then so on for a long, long
time. And the spam didn't stop right

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away. It actually dragged on from
August into September of 2010. Sure, he posted a few normal
things here and there, but when you stack that up against 4000
bizarre, unexplainable comments,the normal stuff barely
mattered. Eventually the account was
suspended, and after that, nothing.
Complete radio silence. But by then, the damage was

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done. The Reddit community was hooked
and people wanted answers. None of it made sense until
users started digging and what they uncovered revealed a much
darker truth. Suddenly, everything started to
fall into peace. For this we have to go back
prior to the Steamworks incidentbecause the Yay Video Games

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mystery actually involves four other Red Ed accounts, the first
one being U/NO substance here. They made a post in the R slash
cleanliness subreddit and all itsaid was one simple strange
sentence. Zelda.
Zelda the Princess. Weird post, sure, but if you

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Scroll down to the comments, that's where things get strange.
There's a user named, not sure how big you are, spamming the
thread with comment after comment, none of which made any
sense. Link.
Link the hero, my hero. Mine too.
Upvoted, upvoted, upvoted, and the post had weird phrasing and

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just odd wording. However, we still see the OP
somehow interacting with this user like they were having some
sort of cryptic conversation that no one from the outside
could really understand. Sounds familiar, right?
Well yeah, it did to everyone else too.
Because if you actually go and open the R slash cleanliness
subreddit yourself, you'll notice something strange.

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Something that ties it all back to yay video games magic.
I need some for help. I would not use it evilly.
He was there too. Now going back to the Spam and
the Zelda post, we can see another user with the name U
slash Vinyl Record throw anothersimilar comment Zelda and if we

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open his profile we will see a familiar pattern and a familiar
user. None other than not sure how big
you are. I'm on vinyl.
I'm on vinyl. Now if you haven't guessed
already, all these accounts belong to the same user.
Yay video games. The reason is that all of these
accounts went inactive after theSteamworks incident.

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Then different Redditors did their own digging, and finally
the truth about Yay video games was revealed.
He was no ordinary person. He had a history of trauma and
bad experiences that made him behave that way, and his faith
was no less than tragic. But before we talk about that,
let's uncover who he was as a person.

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A user named You slash Geek Gentleman posted a thread asking
a very serious question. Please share one major, major
way in which CFS Chronic FatigueSyndrome has shaped or
influenced your life. Under this thread, the user, not
sure how big you are, made a comment.
A very detailed and chilling comment.
It totally my brain. Not just normal brain fog but

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total and utter decimation. I can't hear my own thoughts
sort of thing so I had to give up.
Surfing, skating, mountain climbing, white water rafting,
hiking, like week long trips over mountains with tents and
stuff. Fun roller hockey and free
skating which is just amazing. The leader of our group uses
time traffic lights so we could just blaze down city hills

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without any cars bothering us. Objective was to gain enough
speed to jump clear over the intersections.
One managed a few times and finally urban exploring and just
walking around at night and jointhe atmosphere.
Ah that got too long, I'm sorry.So then I turned to my non
physical stuff. Piano, keyboard, mixing and
remixing, video recording and editing, animation, full deal

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sound work, music composition, voice acting, etcetera.
But my brain gets fucked, so that's all gone.
Oh, and fun story. While I was sitting in my room
in excruciating pain, my best friend who's band and I had to
drop out of because of my mind energy issues were toying in
Russia and Japan. Right now they're in Germany
negotiating a better record dealand playing around in a little

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in Europe while they're at it. It also got a small spot at the
little thing called Wacken. And there's also the pain.
So to sum it up, no brain to do things, no energy to do things.
In bad pain, don't know what to do.
Also I was getting better a little while ago, but then I had
a 2 month flu and a few months later I still have a constant

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fever of 38°C. No one knows why, but I've been
through three tests for cancer in the last three weeks, so
apparently it's something bad and I guess at least they're
trying go cancer. Yeah, he was suffering from CFS.
For those who don't know, CFS stands for Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome. Sounds simple, just being tired,

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right? But no, it's way, way worse than
that. This isn't the kind of tired you
fix with a good nap or good night's sleep.
People with CFS wake up feeling like they ran a marathon in
their dreams every single day. It messes with your memory, your
focus, Even basic stuff like standing up too long can make

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you feel like you're about to pass out.
In the worst part, doctors don'tfully understand it.
There's no single test for it, no clear cause, and for a long
time, people who had it weren't even taken seriously.
They were told it was all in their head.
The account not sure how big youare was an absolute goldmine for
people looking to uncover this mystery.

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It had really extensive commentsand a lot of personal
information. It was then uncovered that this
might have been his main accountand yet another comment made by
him. We get information surrounding
his family which is quite sad. Are there any successful stories
with your family? So I don't know how much help
this will be, but I drew my entire family out.

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Pioneering mom, dad was the PO, two siblings when I was about
12. That was preceded by an awful
shit fights abuse for years beforehand, but eventually I got
them out with what was I guess essentially emotional blackmail.
Actually I'm not sure if that's the right term, but there wasn't
any logical debate or eye opening involved.
In any case, I confronted them with all the awful shit they

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subjected us to over the years, how unhappy would always been
over and over again until the fact that this life wasn't
working sort of sunk in. I think the fact that this all
started when I was young threw them off balance just enough for
me to get my foot in the door to, so to speak.
So aftermath time. Mom can't set foot in the
Kingdom Hall because she's ashamed of all the things she

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did and Dad is stuck in limbo. The usual out but still believe
her sort of story. I think the parents would be
much happier now if they were still in, but us kids need are
out then and there. So there you go.
Fighting irrational beliefs based on emotion and not logical
thought with appeals to emotion worked pretty damn well for me.
YMMV. He was also quite active in the

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ex Jehovah Witness subreddit where he used to talk about his
contrasting beliefs. So it is safe to assume that he
was also dealing with moral, ethical and religious dilemmas.
After that I found another post on his account that revealed A
darker truth about him. He was also dealing with S word.
Thoughts. So tired of being tired and
getting worse. Well I do know that cane

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yourself is either fucking hard or painful.
I feel more or less like you. So I had a shot.
I've eat a whole lot of certain anesthetic I get my hands on.
Took redacted ridiculous amount of klonzepam, prepared about
1800 milligrams of codeine to wash it down and went to sleep
with the Exit International approved bag overhead tied with

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belt. And what do you know I that up
too. Don't know how but apparently
oxygen got in because I was knocked out for a good 12 or so
hours and that thing. And yet I'm still here.
Jesus Christ, when will I get a break?
Actually no brain damage was probably it you.
God, I don't appreciate being a joke.
And then my circumstances improved quite miraculously due

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to the an outside force within afew months.
I'm aware that not exactly encouraging for someone in this,
I mean your situation, and I still wouldn't mind not waking
up tomorrow I suppose. But there will always be some
tiny sliver of hope somewhere out there.
And you can fight that shitty crippling digging decline.
Fight for it until you are really need to sign off for

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good, all the while hoping for amiracle.
And that's as far as I think people like us can afford to
hope. And unfortunately K going to ask
that you can learn to get in theright mindset.
For that shitty slog. I've managed off and on, it's
not great but. What the hell is?
So in short, now we know what kind of person yay video games

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was. He had a history of trauma, he
was suffering from a disease that had no cure, and he was an
ex member of a religious cult. However, the big question still
remains, who is behind this count and what happened to him?
Well, you guys better be ready because all this information
might be a little hard for some of you to take in.
For a long while, this mystery remained unsolved.

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Many people tried to cover it, but they were always left with
dead ends. However, a ready user named U/LL
N K3R did some digging and finally managed to connect all
the dots. There's one more account we need
to look at another alt. This account went by the name U
slash Nebs locks. In a post made by Not sure how

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big you are, we find out that hewas from Melbourne, Australia.
Surprisingly enough, the user Nebs locks was also from
Melbourne, Australia. Don't you wish the radio was
actually a means to find out newmusic?
Down here in Melbourne, Australia we have link name
among others. No playlist, every played is
completely up to the host. The user then found out that the

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user nebs locks had made posts about love Glum Buster in the La
La Land series which were very unpopular game series.
Surprisingly enough, another altof his named Pony Arcade had
also talked about the game Glum Buster, along with the account
that we started with. That is, yeah, Video Games Glum
Buster. Korsakovia Love LL NK3R then

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also mentioned that there were only 29 comments ever made about
the game Glum. Busters at the time.
So this was a pretty solid lead.Now the main incident that gave
it all the way was when the usernebs locks made a pretty similar
post to what we started with a user posts.
What the fuck Redditor goes mad.Nebs Locks answers by saying

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Ubisoft goes Steamworks bye bye always on DRM.
And surprisingly the post was hyperlinked.
Which leads us to this full circle right back to where we
began. To top it all off, the user also
found Nebs Locks's Steam account, which created another
connection as the profile picture on that account matched.

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With one of the links. Yay Video games hyperlinked it
in one of his spam comments. Now you might be thinking this
is just another alt. We still do not know what really
happened to him. Well, the username Nebs Locks
turned out to be his OG username.
You know the kind of username you created when you were 13 and
then stick with it for the rest of your life.
It was then revealed that he hadused the name Nebs locks on

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countless other sites like for instance his steam accounts and
this site and this sites. However, one site in particular
led to the big reveal. You see he had an account on
Last dot FM and if we go to his profile we can see that he had
his real life friends out of there.
Out of all these people, one person particularly stood out,

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Luke McLeish. He had a member of a band called
Jack the Stripper in the account, Not sure how Big You
Are, had mentioned that band in one of his posts.
This connection then LED people to connect all the dots as they
found an interview that Luke gave to an online magazine.
In that interview he said my best friend who I learned how to

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play music with and who was always a massive advocate of the
band and everything we've done, committed S word last January,
says Fryzon. And that's had a profound effect
on everything I've done since that point.
He was my best mate to my first friend in high school, so it's
been a difficult period and it still reverberates emotionally.
Yay. Video games had committed S word

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and for a long while no one knewuntil some random Redditors and
Youtubers made the connection later on.
Once everyone had connected the dots, Luke actually came on
Reddit to make one final post tosum up the whole story in the
yay video games. The post read.
Hi guys, I'm Luke and I'm one ofyay video games best friends.

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Ask me anything. First off let me say it's a
great surprise to see such a bigcommunity around my best mate.
I had no idea about this until today.
His name is Lyndon and we. Lost him at the beginning of
2015. Life hasn't been the same since
someone reached out to me on Facebook, so I thought I'd come
over here and shed some light onLinden's life.

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Linden was an amazingly kind andintelligent guy who was really
creative. He was constantly creating art
to music, which he never recorded to my knowledge,
Animation of which I have some of the archives, and he loves
storytelling. He had a small group of friends
in real life as he bailed on high school and started
isolating himself due to his chronic illness in about 2005.

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We miss him very much due to hisJehovah Witness background.
He never really let us know the day he was born, but based on
bits and pieces I picked up overthe years, it would have been
about his 31st birthday last February.
I know we would have loved that there's this much mystery around
him after he's left us, but I think there's some important
topics to cover here. Hari, chronic pain, self

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medication, invisible illness, the allied health system, and
how important it is to seek to be among others in some way.
I hope that we can draw some closure out of this and
hopefully move a little closer towards having further
understanding and compassion towards people who may be in the
position Linda suffered through.This whole case turned out to be
a powerful reminder of what Reddit can be at its best.

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A place where strangers come together not just to scroll or
argue, but to truly care. For years, the mystery behind
you slash EA video games and hismanic episodes was brushed
aside. Most people had no idea what
happened to him, or even who he really was.
But then a group of users started digging.

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They pieced everything together 1.
Comment at a time. And in doing so, they didn't
just solve a mystery. They gave meaning to something
that had once seemed like pure chaos.
I like to think that wherever heis now, maybe he felt it.
The care, the curiosity, the compassion.

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Maybe, just maybe, it gave his spirit a bit of peace.
Carl H. All right.
The next user we're diving into is a little different.
He did things so messed up. Some people now call him the
most hated man on Reddit, and honestly, once you hear what he

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did, you'll understand why. Now, this story isn't exactly
neat. It's not laid out in one clean
thread or some dramatic post. It's scattered.
But I've gone ahead and pulled it all together for you.
The account itself was made 18 years ago, ancient by Reddit
standards. For a while it looked like
nothing special, just a helpful guy mostly posting about coding.

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He gave out advice, answered questions, and seemed like a
regular tech dude. This post on his account
suggests just how normal he was on the outside.
Update. I'm thinking about starting a
course soon on how to build a real web application that
actually generates income. I'd be live streaming the entire
process of programming and business planning, etcetera.
Hello everyone, Two months ago Imade this post asking if there

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would be any interest in this project.
There was a great deal of interest and so I've launched
the project. I've already live streamed over
3 hours to the approximately 2500 existing subscribers at our
slash live stream startup. Every session is recorded and
made available forever to watch so that if you aren't able to
make it for the live broadcast, you can still watch it after the

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fact. This post has all the links to
all live streams and is updated constantly.
The whole idea here is to present a realistic picture of
what it is really like to work on a real project in a true
professional setting. I'm not building some demo or
example program, but an actual real and valuable web
application that will make revenue.
You get to watch the entire process from start to finish,

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from the idea phase all the way to completion.
All of the code I write, settingup servers, planning, and all of
the frustrations that go with it.
You get to see the entire process of building an Internet
startup. Pretty normal guy who likes to
code and hustle. Then on September 25th, 2009, he
made a subreddit called R slash Carl H Programming.

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At the time, it seemed like justanother niche community, but his
timing was perfect. Back then, programming was one
of the hottest things on Reddit.People were obsessed.
It was constantly trending, showing up in top searches and
dominating discussion threads. Carl knew that, and he took full
advantage of it. His subreddit offered free
programming lessons, everything from how to write your first

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line of code to more advanced stuff most people would have to
pay to learn. And people loved it.
The subreddit took off like wildfire.
New coder started pouring in, asking questions, joining
discussions, and treating Carl like a trusted teacher.
Soon he got really popular on Reddit and YouTube, though soon
trouble found him. Reddit, can you please help me?

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For five years I've lived with this and I do not know what to
do. I hate to put something that's
personal out to everyone on Reddit, but I'm desperate.
Five years ago, an Internet marketer agreed to do a venture
with my company at the time. He then tried to claim I owed
him thousands of dollars in commissions, which was false.
He threatened that if I didn't pay him he would ruin my
reputation. He posted a false RIP off report

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on me in 2005, a total lie claiming I stole from his
checking account. This now comes up as the number
one result on Google when searching for my name.
In 2005 I started losing clients.
Sales became impossible to make.Sometime later that year I ended
up losing the company which was at the time low end, valued at

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$600,000. I lost everything.
Those who took it over ran it into the ground, thus hurting my
reputation even further. Obviously I know that RIP off
report alone didn't 'cause that there were a lot of factors, but
the RIP off report certainly didn't help.
The bottom line is that for the last five years I've had to
struggle with the fact that the 1st result on Google for my name

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is this RIP off report lie. I've lost great opportunities
and it has been a great struggle.
Everyone does a Google search ifthey plan to work with someone.
A claim, even false, that you are a thief showing up on result
#1 doesn't help. Just imagine if the first search
result for your name was a lie claiming you are a thief.
How would that affect your friends, family, work, etcetera?

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I've contacted Ripoff Report andthey don't care.
It is bringing traffic to their site and so they will do
nothing. They do not even care to
validate whether or not the claim is even true.
For five years I have struggled because of that lie.
Even friends and family want me to explain it.
I did not do anything wrong. I've tried to do good for others
continually. And to have all that shoved

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aside because of one very loud lie, I must admit it's quite
depressing. Is there anything I can do here?
Does anyone have a suggestion for me?
Edit Totally unrelated except inthe whole Let's Mess Up Carl's
Live area, another company has been selling stuff on YouTube
slash Google video using video excerpts of me from a
presentation I gave a few years back.

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They never asked my permission, never paid me.
I do not endorse what they sell.I don't really bother with that
much because it doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of
things and the video probably gets 3 views a month anyways.
Of that, I figured I might as well mention that too.
The whole Reddit community really looked up to him, so they
helped him out and it worked. And one of his posts he wrote.

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Amazingly, so many of you did this that for part of June 30th,
my name was actually the fifth most searched for item on Google
worldwide, even beating Larry King on the day of his announced
retirement. Many of those searches came from
people who just happened to see my name from your post and went
to Google to figure out why so many people are saying it.
Reddit, in a matter of less than12 hours you shifted the search

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behavior of the entire Internet in much the same way of a major
geopolitical event. At least 10s if not hundreds of
thousands of searchers were donefor a search term that prior to
the point had few if any searches.
Things were working out really well for him.
His YouTube channel had gained over 34,000 subscribers and on
July 26th, 2012, he was even named Redditor of the Day, which

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was a big achievement for peopleon Reddit at that time.
In 2013, all of his accounts suddenly went blank.
People thought he had maybe goneon a break, but he never came
back. A few weeks later, something
dark was revealed. Around the same time, the FBI in
Alabama came across disturbing content involving a young boy

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who appeared to be around 9 years old.
Because the child was clearly a minor, they prioritized the case
and were able to identify and locate him in under a week.
It turned out the boy had been held captive for several months,
and there were two prime suspects for this heinous crime
who tortured him and filmed it all.
The boy, as it turned out, was Carl's own son, and that single

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detail shifted everything. At first, some thought Carl had
gone. Silent because of something.
Tragic happening in his personallife.
Maybe he was grieving. Maybe he just needed time, but
instead, he used that time to continue the harm he had been
causing the child for more than two years.
When the news finally surfaced, one Reddit user shared a
detailed article explaining the situation.

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The community was stunned. No one had expected this.
The same man who had taught themhow to code, who seemed helpful
and kind, had been hiding something unthinkable behind the
screen. Carl's entire reputation
collapsed. His once praised posts were now
filled with shock, betrayal and outrage.

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In November 2014, Carl Harold and his partner Charles Dunevant
were officially indicted on 30 separate charges.
Out of those, Carl alone faced 18, ranging from conspiracy to
commit S and SA to direct involvement in child abuse and

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aggravated assault. Some of those charges
specifically involved a child under the age of 12.
At the time, Carl was also in the process of being extradited
in New York, where he was facingfederal charges related to CP.
He was set to appear in a federal courtroom in Syracuse on
November 21st. However, before that could
happen, something much darker took place.

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On November 3rd, 2014, Carl was found dead in his cell.
He had hung himself. His story had finally come to an
end. Nothing could ever undo the
damage he had caused or the painthe child went through, but
there was some comfort in knowing that justice had caught
up with him. The Reddit community, once full

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of people who admired his work, never saw him for who he really
was, and watching him face the consequences brought a sense of
closure. His chapter was over.
As a bizarre twist of the story,nearly two years after Carl's
death, his Reddit account suddenly came back to life out
of nowhere. A comments appeared that read as

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I posted a thread on 4 Chan. You can read upon it.
Yes, this is Carl Harold. I escaped and in currently in
Russia going to submit an AMA today for proof.
I in fact did fake my S word. Naturally, Reddit users started
digging. They asked for proof, question,
everything, and then the accountresponded again.

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I escaped from a morgue. Of course, it was obvious
someone had hacked the account, but in a weird way, it felt like
the perfect ending to Carl's twisted legacy.
His story started online, it ended in a prison cell.
And then, for just a moment, it came crawling back from the
Internet grave. Tempto Tassoon after everything

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we've just gone through, I'm guessing you're probably ready
for something a little lighter. Well, this next one is for you.
This one's more like a slow burning existential dread, the
kind that makes you stop and question reality itself, and it
is a classic. So I hope you guys enjoy this
one. Have you ever felt a deep
personal connection to a person you met in a dream, only to wake

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up feeling terrible because you realize they never existed?
A parallel life awoken by a lamp.
Throwaway account because this is really personal.
My last semester at a certain college I was assaulted by a
football player for walking while he was trying to drive.
No, he was 325 lbs. I was £120 while unconscious on

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the ground. I lived a different life.
I met a wonderful young lady. She made my heart skip in my
face red. I pursued her for months and
dispatched a few jerk boyfriendsbefore I finally won her over.
After two years we got married and almost immediately she bore
me a daughter. I had a great job and my wife
didn't have to work outside of the house.

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When my daughter was 2, she, my wife, bore me a son.
My son was the joy of my life. I would walk into his room every
morning before I left for work and dotted on him and my
daughter. One day while sitting on the
couch, I noticed that this perspective on the lamp was odd,
like inverted. It was still in 3D but just
wrong. It was a square lamp, base red

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with gold trim on 4 legs in a white square shade.
I was transfixed. I couldn't look away from it.
I stayed up all night staring atit.
The next morning I didn't go to work.
Something was just not right about that lamp.
I stopped eating, I left the couch only to use the bathroom
at first. Soon I stopped that too as I
wasn't eating or drinking. I stared at the lamp for three

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days before my wife got really worried.
She had someone come and try to talk to me.
By this time, my cognitions was breaking up and my wife was
freaking out. She took the kids to her
mother's house just before I hadmy epiphany.
The lamp is not real. The house is not real.
My wife, my kids, none of that is real.

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The last 10 years of my life arenot real.
The lamp started to grow wider and deeper.
It was still inverted dimensions.
It took up my entire perspectiveand all I could see was red.
I heard voices, screams, all kinds of weird noises and I
became aware of pain and shit ton of pain.
The first words I said were I'm missing teeth and opened my

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eyes. I was laying on my back on the
sidewalk surrounded by people that I didn't know.
Lots were freaking out. I was completely confused.
At some point a cop scooped me up, dragged or walked me across
the sidewalk and grass and threwme face down on the back of a
cop car. I was still confused.
I was taken to the hospital by the cop.
Seems he didn't want to wait forthe ambulance to arrive and gave

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CT scans and shit. I went through about three years
of horrid depression. I was grieving the loss of my
wife and children and dealing with the knowledge that they
never existed. I was scared that I was going
insane as I would cry myself to sleep hoping I would see her in
my dreams. I never have, but sometimes I
see my son. Usually just a glimpse out of my

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peripheral vision. He is perpetually 5 years old
and I can never hear what he says.
Edit 24 hours after a post. Never thought anyone would read
this. I changed the line so that it no
longer seems that my 2 year old daughter or a child.
I've never seen Inception or theStar Trek episodes so many have
mentioned, but I will eventually.

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I will not do an AMA. I've had many PMS describing
similar experiences and three posters stating such experiences
are impossible. I'd say more research needs to
be done on brain functions. Pre Med students.
Don't assume you know everything.
The few have asked if they can write a book, slash screenplay,
slash stage play, slash rage comic, etcetera.

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Please consider this tale open source and have fun with it.
Deleted User This next post camefrom a user who deleted their
account not long after sharing it.
And no, it's not one of those typical stories where someone
talks about a creepy experience and leaves everyone hanging with
0 proof. This one's unsettling in a very

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real way because this time the story didn't come alone.
The OP also shared pictures along with the experience and
just a heads up, they look disturbingly real.
The bridge this is was going to be short but the memory sprung
into my mind a couple days back and I thought it would be worth
sharing. I live in North Wales, United

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Kingdom, but for anyone who has had the pleasure visiting, it is
truly a beautiful place to live,though for an adolescent boy, it
is certainly lacking in things to do.
As a result, my friends and I would often find ourselves
mindlessly exploring areas of countryside and coastline,
despite it being quite sparsely populated in comparison to the
closest cities. There's a dual carriageway

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running right along the coast from Wales into England.
Also, train tracks run alongsidethis road for most of its
course, occasionally passing overhead via a small cement
bridge. Anyway, there was one night a
few years ago when about four ofus randomly decided to try and
explore the inside of one of these bridges, as one of the
group had observed A manhole cover nearby which we believed

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to be the entrance. On closure inspection, we
discovered that several tools would be required in order to
gain entry. We returned with the necessary
equipment and proceeded to unbolt the cover.
This had to be done stealthily as the train track was right
beside us. Not close enough to be of any
danger, but definitely a sufficiently small distance to
cause panic for any driver, and panic usually means police.

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It wasn't long before we had removed the heavy steel disk and
it started descending the ladderdown into the structure.
Once we had all safely reached the bottom, we decided to
progress to the other side. At this point we are totally
confined into the narrow space that leads into the main area.
If you're confused as to what the hell this bridge is supposed
to be, you probably should be, because it was rather peculiar.

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I mean, I would have never knownthere was even an inside.
Have we not found the manhole? So as we squeeze and Crouch and
at one point scrape along our bellies to the other side of the
structure, there's a growing sense of claustrophobia between
us. The distance from end to the
other is surprisingly long, but by the halfway point you can
look down through narrow gaps onto the motorway below.

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This was actually pretty cool, which helped us keep us calm in
a strange way. At this point, apart from the
mild discomfort and confinement,we were still just a group of
guys on adventure. This was about to change
dramatically. No more than a few meters beyond
halfway, which we could tell dueto the symmetry of the
passageways through the bridge. One of us claimed they could see
some object in the distance at the far end.

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Slightly hesitantly, we agreed to investigate.
Bad move. I reached the end 1st and let me
tell you, I've never felt the same sense of dread before or
since. In front of me was a single fold
away chair position facing a wall.
On the wall was a partially tornpage from a newspaper or a
magazine showing a fully naked lady in an erotic position.

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The reason I don't just refer toit as corn is because something
was different about it. I can't put my finger on it, but
it seemed more sinister than sexy, if that makes any sense.
More disturbingly, the eyes of the woman on display have been
cut from the page, removed with precision, not just hastily
ripped off the scene. That label for us had rendered

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us completely speechless and an overpowering sense of panic
could be felt collectively. That was when we found the the
horrendous, gut wrenching, blooddrenched.
Needless to say, we got the out there as fast as humanly
possible, smashing our knees andshins against these sharp cement

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edges that line the path to the ladder by which we had entered.
Of course, we are all praying toGod that the man made whole
hadn't been resealed as it was impossible to tell until you
reach the ladder itself. Thankfully the exit route was
clear and we promptly dashed as far as our legs carry us.
I'm sure this ending comes as a disappointment to some of you

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rating this as we luckily never bumped into the twisted
individual who sits in that chair, but I must stress how
radically out of the norm this was given where I live.
The reason I mentioned the population earlier was with
purpose. There is easily enough people
here to escape the realms of crazy country folk, yet nowhere
near enough people to have someone clearly lose grip on

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society without somebody taking notice.
For example, there was literallyonly one homeless man who
everyone in the area knew and grew fond of, eventually
resulting in a mass gathering athis funeral when he passed away.
I sometimes think, though not recently, as I had more or less
forgotten about that night entirely, about the person who

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climbs down into that bridge andnavigates through the darkness,
sit facing the wall into God knows what that ends up with a
condom full of blood. You honestly couldn't envision a
more surreal situation. It has just come to my
realization that what we on earth that night has not once
been uttered to another soul. As a naive teenager, it was the

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type of thing you just wanted toforget.
But thinking about we probably should have just let the police
know or at least someone know about what was down there
because it wasn't the doings of a healthy minded individual.
So there you have it. Apologies for the length, I got
a little carried away as it is my first LNM post and I wanted
to make the reading experience as similar to the reality as I

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could. Now I'm a few years older and
hopefully a bit braver, I'm considering going down there
again, accompanied of course to see what shit might be waiting.
This could well happen in the next couple of days and rest
assured I will 100% post an update as I currently have no
job so time is plentiful. Thanks for reading.

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So as you probably guessed, the user ended up going back to that
same messed up place, but this time he didn't just talk about
it, he posted pictures. Edit As promised, here are the
photos from the return visit. We went early evening so there
was still plenty of light, and as a result I've decided to use
a simple filter on most of the outdoor shots simply to reduce

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the light and give it the eeriness it deserves.
I'd forgotten that the passageways don't actually run
all the way through the structure.
It is sealed off at the midway point, so the slight dip above
the supporting pillar is where the sinisterness took place.
This makes me wonder, is there anything untoward on the other
end? If you look closely, my friend's

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left hand can be seen gripping Arung, the rest of him
disappearing into the darkness. When you're staring down this
passageway, it is virtually complete darkness.
You couldn't see your hand in front of your face.
To give you an idea of the size,you would definitely have to
squeeze through this on your stomach.
It wouldn't be a super tight squeeze, but it wouldn't be
possible to Crouch. Also, the slightly raised

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surface you can see just throughthis hole is an indicator of
what the rest of the passageway leading to the dip looks like.
Random race surfaces and narrow gaps making it impossible to
stand up. The user then wrote in the
original post that the group that he went with to revisit the
bridge backed out, so the pictures he had taken were not
as detailed. Here's what he wrote.

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Unfortunately, I hadn't adequately conveyed my plans to
Those are coming to me, and theypresumed I just wanted to check
out the small area before the entrance of the passageways, as
they had been there before. When I expressed my wishes to
navigate through the bridge, they instantly nopped out of
there. As you can imagine, I was
massively disappointed. I hope to go back soon with a
different bunch of guys but I can't promise when.

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Perhaps if everyone who would like to see the re return visit
just leaves a single comment saying update I could reply to
you individually so you don't have to keep checking back, just
wait for a message. Just a thought.
A lot of people thought the story had ended there, but some
were still curious. They wanted him to go back one
more time, just like he hinted he would.

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And surprisingly he kept his word.
He went back again. The Bridge revisited.
For any of you guys who missed the original post, you can find
it here. Early yesterday evening, a
friend and I decided to embark on the revisit to this awful
place in the hope of finding some remnants of the twisted
scene that had been stumbled upon several years ago.

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We are not disappointed. If anything, it was even worse
than I had imagined. Aside from what you will see in
the photos, the general environment within the bridge
structure is practically uninhabitable, as a bloody well
should be and stomach turning tosay the least.
The amount of dust in the passageways is actually quite
unbearable, but that is nothing compared to the constant stench

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that must be endured. Also, the heat didn't help the
situation either. I won't ramble on, but I must
express how vulnerable you feel when navigating through these
tunnels. Even with two of us both
carrying appropriate weaponry, the sense of evil was
overpowering. The attention is amplified
tenfold by the fact that had we encountered someone or
something, the layout of the structure and the multiple tight

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squeezes mean a safe, speedy exit is nigh on impossible.
It truly is a hellhole. Without further ado, here's what
lies in the bridge. Enjoy.
Instantly we came across what appeared to be a makeshift bed.
The sheet accompanying the foam suggested it would have been

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used to sleep on. Going further into the
passageway it opens up slightly.I included this to demonstrate
the amount of dust particles in the air.
It was quite a pain to get any clear photo from any sort of
distance other than close-ups. This is the broken padlock that
I believe would have originally secured the entry not even a

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third of the way through the bridge at this point.
A used candle. Random piece of rope.
Now this is where things get a bit disgusting.
That liquid definitely wasn't milk.
That's a standard milk containerin the UK.
And here was the first confirmation that the intense
smell we're expecting was in fact human feces.

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The brown substance on the paperwas undeniable.
This was the second more damningconfirmation.
A bag with loads of human feces.This nearly made us vomit and
sorry for everyone watching. This also needs to be blurred
for YouTube reasons. Just as we approached the end
room, we stumbled upon this disconcerting tape.
It reads Crime scene. Do not enter the narrow entrance

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to the final opening. At this stage, even with two
powerful torches, you honestly could not see if there was
anyone slash anything in the endroom.
This makes for a particularly nervy decision to proceed.
Here you can see how tight this section is.
Not fun. The entrance to the end room
taken with no flash to get an idea of what this may have

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looked like in candlelight, which we presumed must have been
the light source for this sick individual.
Truly the stuff of nightmares. All of the following images were
taken inside this room. Here goes nothing.
Literally the first thing I see after squeezing into the end
room is a knife. Oh shit.
Next up is this raunchy image. You may not be able to see

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properly but the area has been burnt through with a cigarette.
It is only a small hole hence you may struggle to see, but
very strange nonetheless. And for once again the YouTube
viewers, this will be heavily blurred in more magazine pages
on the floor. You can tell from black sticky
tape these would have been once been stuck to the wall.
And sorry once again a random pile of items including

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scissors, tape and a brush of some sort.
A rather large nail. This could have been simply been
part of the structure at one point, but after closer
inspection of the surrounding area, it did seem to be an
anomaly. This candle had been melted into
place under the wall. I imagine it would have been the
main light source, the only remaining page still attached to

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the wall. This, unfortunately, is not the
image I described in the original post.
If you zoom in, the top of the page has a date from 1997,
suggesting this stuff has been here for a long time.
And here it is, folks. The devil's chair.
There was so much dust in this area that I simply couldn't get

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a decent flash shot. Another attempt.
Here you can see the bundle of items to the left and a blanket
of some sort to the right. We searched thoroughly and but
rather worryingly the blood soaked was nor to be found.
This was strange given the otheritems had remained.
This is a God awful place to be and this is what you would see
if the chair was facing the other way around.

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You can see how these steps openup so you could stand up and
also how it would be easy for somebody to hide in waiting in
this area. The same image, just using
torchlight to give you an idea of how dark this would have been
even with candles. A bit of proof, if you will,
that this trip actually took place.

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Nobility Scooter 2012 Very glad to be leaving.
The final shot I took from inside the structure just before
the exit ladder and this was thelovely view that greeted us as
we popped our heads out. I thought I would include this
as it did well to brighten our mood and hopefully we'll do the
same for you. Thank you all for reading and

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being patient whilst I found thetime to make the return visit.
I hope you enjoyed it. And that final sunset picture is
almost poetic in a way because it wraps up their day in this
final story, wraps up today's video and in all honesty this
was the most favorite video I'veever covered.

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These stories, these unexplainable Reddit users was
so, so interesting to me. And in all honesty of out of
every case I've ever covered, that last one, by far my
favorite. It is so disturbing, so weird
and so thoroughly covered and honestly, you know, honest and
true because he had pictures to back it up.

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It just made it my favorite kindof case story, whatever you want
to call it ever. That was so interesting at the
end. And same with all the beginning
posts. Those were even more interesting
as well. But the final post, by far my
favorite. Let me know what your favorite
was down below in the comments. But yes, this, this video was
just very, very interesting to me and I hope it was for you

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guys too. Thank you so much for watching.
I appreciate you watching to theend of the video and like I
said, comment down below, like the video and subscribe to the
channel. It helps more than you will ever
know. And this was snuck and I'll see
you next time. Bye.