# Strangest or grossest thing you've seen online **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443 "2015-10-12T17:29:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/41 "2015-10-14T19:40:38Z")
I recently heard about the Mexican sandwich called “ahogado”, which is sort of a French dip done Mexican-style: dipped into a red chili sauce rather than au jus. I Googled the term ahogado, and that’s when I discovered that the term means “drowned”. Some of the first images I saw were of horrific bloated drowned people which had been posted on Mexican news feeds. They are not shy of publishing gruesome death images front and center in their newspapers. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/42 "2015-10-14T20:21:47Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > Back in the day when we first got the Internet we went to every depraved site we could find _just because we could_. Rotten .com and goregallery .com were the best (worst). There was a series of photos on one of those where this lady and her boyfriend killed her husband and posed for photos while chopping up the body, then posed the body parts. Severed head with a foot in his mouth was one. I was gonna post about rotten(dot)com before I read this post. It’s still there and still as gross as ever. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/43 "2015-10-14T21:18:40Z")
I used to spend a bit of time on rotten dot com back in the '90s. I still pop in occasionally for old time’s sake, but last I checked (probably a couple years ago) they hadn’t really updated much. One of the grossest things I’ve seen was supposedly a shot of a guy following a motorcycle accident–the whole lower part of his face was pretty much gone, but the guy was still alive and sitting up. I found out later that it was actually a botched shotgun suicide. Dunno if the guy survived, but I think he did. A couple episodes of the show “1001 Ways to Die” grossed me out pretty bad too–one with a guy who somehow managed to vacuum out his guts, and another one with a couple of guys riding on a pallet being dragged behind a forklift. Something went wrong and one of the guys was pulled in half, showing his upper half dragged along the street with his guts hanging out. I think they were based on real cases, but some of the stuff on that show was pretty farfetched. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/44 "2015-10-15T14:24:48Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > A couple episodes of the show “1001 Ways to Die” grossed me out pretty bad too–one with a guy who somehow managed to vacuum out his guts, and another one with a couple of guys riding on a pallet being dragged behind a forklift. Something went wrong and one of the guys was pulled in half, showing his upper half dragged along the street with his guts hanging out. I think they were based on real cases, but some of the stuff on that show was pretty farfetched. I agree…a lot of that stuff seemed like urban legends. Some of those deaths were so outlandish I’m surprised they didn’t make the news. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/45 "2015-10-15T22:35:51Z")
This thread’s pretty gross, and it’s all text. It’s also reminded me of some real horrors I’ve accidentally seen, please, someone pass the brain bleach. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/46 "2015-10-16T00:01:45Z")
1 lunatic 1 icepick, the Luka Rocco Magnotta murder video. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/47 "2015-10-16T00:49:53Z")
I’ve seen that, chizzuk. But I’m an EMT. Unusual, disgusting things interest me. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/48 "2015-10-18T00:04:18Z")
> [@chancetx](#): > > Goatse is something I wish I could un-see. Even worse was the video clip of some guy trying to insert a glass jar or bottle up his ass and the glass broke. Blood pours down while he calmly tries to pick out the glass shards. Eventually he walks off camera and you just hear a loud scream. :eek: I didn’t have to see it – the reaction videos were enough. _shudder_ (Who else has some perverse urge to google this stuff?) ---
**Author:** ![Greekfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@Greekfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greekfreak)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/49 "2015-10-22T00:52:50Z")
The 3 guys 1 hammer video repulsed me to no end. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/50 "2015-10-22T01:11:49Z")
No love for Divine and dog poop? [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTkDyjKXN2U) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/51 "2015-10-22T04:17:07Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > No love for Divine and dog poop? > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTkDyjKXN2U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTkDyjKXN2U) That was the second movie I got from Netflix. That scene is the LEAST outrageous thing in the whole movie. I first heard of “Pink Flamingos” in a book about cult movies; the story started out, “John Waters must have gotten the idea one day that he would like to make movies that were so bizarre, the reviewers would look like perverts for having sat through them.” ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/52 "2015-10-22T04:58:16Z")
> [@chizzuk](#): > > 1 lunatic 1 icepick, the Luka Rocco Magnotta murder video. I was gonna say that one (and did in the other recent thread on this subject). But what’s really interesting about it to me isn’t the video itself (which shows a guy murdering his boyfriend, dismembering the body, and having sex with it as well as feeding parts of it to his dog - I couldn’t stomach watching the whole thing), but the fact that they actually charged the owner of the Bestgore website, Mark Marek, with the very rare charge of “corrupting public morals” for simply having published the video on his site (the guy who did the murder and actually made the video was also charged and convicted with “publishing obscene material”). Yet putting the video online led directly to identifying and capturing the guy. The authorities actually dismissed it at first as a fake: > [@Wikipedia](#): > > On May 26, an attorney from Montana attempted to report the video to Toronto Police, his local Sheriff, and the FBI, but the report was dismissed by officials.[37][38] Bestgore viewers also attempted to report the video.[39] Police later confirmed it as authentic and identified the victim, an Asian male, as the same one whose body parts were sent to Ottawa.[40] [Link to Wiki article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luka_Magnotta) (just describes the guy’s case and a mugshot, SFW) Marek’s trial hasn’t happened yet, and is scheduled for January '16. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/53 "2015-10-22T14:30:17Z")
Perusing rotten .com back in the day I found a picture of a cat that had been cleanly severed in half on a railroad track. Funny how out of all the depraved photos on that site that was the one that upset me the most. All I can think is that the cat had to have been dead before being placed on the tracks. It’s always the animal ones that I’ve accidentally clicked on (or some a-hole posts on FB so I end up looking automatically before I can stop myself) that bother me. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/54 "2015-10-22T14:38:27Z")
Someone started a thread asking “Is this real?” It had a photo of a guy who, apparently while drunk, accepted a bar bet to bite on a blasting cap! He first told the hospital that he’d fallen off his motorcycle. When they pointed out the injuries were consisting with putting a gun in your mouth and shooting it, he confessed what he had done. You do not want to see that image. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/55 "2015-10-22T14:44:43Z")
I’ve seen that image. I still think the krokodil videos are worse. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/56 "2015-10-22T14:58:34Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Someone started a thread asking “Is this real?” It had a photo of a guy who, apparently while drunk, accepted a bar bet to bite on a blasting cap! > > He first told the hospital that he’d fallen off his motorcycle. When they pointed out the injuries were consisting with putting a gun in your mouth and shooting it, he confessed what he had done. > > You do not want to see that image. Ever. Ah, so that’s what happened. That’s the same one I mentioned in post #43. Yeah, you don’t want to see that picture. It bothered me for weeks after I looked at it. It was worse because the guy was still alive, sitting up, missing most of the lower half of his face. Oh, reminds me of another one I’d rather not ever see again: the shot of the guy with his leg blown off following the Boston Marathon bombing. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/57 "2015-10-22T16:02:43Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Oh, reminds me of another one I’d rather not ever see again: the shot of the guy with his leg blown off following the Boston Marathon bombing. Several days after the fact, I went to Facebook one morning and saw that picture posted by two different people! :eek: IDK if the picture they thought they were posting had the bare bones cropped out, but that’s not something you want to be surprised by, and there’s also the victims’ personal dignity to keep in mind. If such a picture existed of you, would YOU want strangers all over the world looking at it, whether they wanted to or not? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/58 "2015-12-08T01:51:56Z")
I recently stumbled onto a You Tube channel called “h3h3”. It’s a husband and wife who make reaction videos to other things on You Tube; he does 95% of the talking, etc. and she films. They have about 150,000 followers; some of the things I’ve seen are funny, and most of it is just really dumb. They have made a few “original” videos. You do not want to see them. Here’s an example. I thought he was kidding when he said he was do this. He wasn’t. He said, “I’m gonna take a dump and find out what it tastes like!” He then proceeds to do exactly that, all over his bathroom floor, and then the dutiful wife cleans it up. I think the cleanup was part of the whole “let’s see how disgusting we can be!” shtick. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/59 "2015-12-08T02:19:59Z")
Coincidentally I was browsing [a site](http://thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2014/07/of-the-darkest-creepiest-places-on-the-internet/) earlier which listed some gross-out links. Most of them were pretty tame but one of them definitely put me off my supper. It’s [a German website](http://www.gebrauchte-tampons.de/) which sells used tampons. (No pics, thank God, just business-like text in German, which I’m grateful I can’t understand!) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443/60 "2015-12-08T03:26:55Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Coincidentally I was browsing [a site](http://thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2014/07/of-the-darkest-creepiest-places-on-the-internet/) earlier which listed some gross-out links. Most of them were pretty tame but one of them definitely put me off my supper. > > It’s [a German website](http://www.gebrauchte-tampons.de/) which sells used tampons. (No pics, thank God, just business-like text in German, which I’m grateful I can’t understand!) I thought Japanese vending machines that sold used women’s underwear was disgusting enough. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-or-grossest-thing-youve-seen-online/734443.md?page=4)