# What's the most disturbing thing you watched on purpose? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769 "2010-04-11T21:31:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/21 "2010-04-12T01:55:34Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > So for people that watch these things on purpose… why? 9-11 didn’t affect me much; I think watching the beheading was kind of a hairshirt moment for me. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/22 "2010-04-12T02:16:29Z")
Saddam Hussein’s execution. (Please google it yourself, I’m on dialup). I watched it because I had been over there, and followed the trial along with everyone else. (And waited in traffic while convoys carrying him passed). Everyone assumed that he’d be executed, due to the newly-elected, US-supported, majority-Shiia government. Sort of like watching a bunch of Hatfields decide on the guilt of a McCoy. It was really weird, watching a full-fledged monster at the end of a rope, and actually feeling like one of the bad guys. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/23 "2010-04-12T03:10:08Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > A couple years ago I was browsing though some website with examples of twisted asian porn. One of them was an otherwise naked Japanese woman stomping a kitten to death with a high heel. I’m pretty tolerant when it comes to sexual fetishes, but what kind of sick fuck would actually get turned on by that? Just a nitpick, but I believe that was a Chinese clip. http:/ [english.sina.com](http://english.sina.com) /life/p/1/2006/0303/67958.html The Japanese have their own disturbing fetishes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/24 "2010-04-12T03:13:34Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > There was a documentary about Golden Gate jumpers ( I forget the name). The small bit I watched of it had video of 3 or 4 different jumpers… It was [The Bridge](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799954/). Very good film. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/25 "2010-04-12T07:56:18Z")
Some British documentary footage of West African rebels killing a guy, cutting out his organs and eating them raw. ---
**Author:** ![palacheck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@palacheck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palacheck)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/26 "2010-04-12T08:16:22Z")
I’ve visited a couple shock sites and watched more vids than I should have. For me it was the vid made by the Dnepropetrovsk maniacs showing them kill a guy with a hammer, then shoving a screwdriver in him–all the while laughing. Also a couple rape vids. Seems like it’s impossible to look away for me. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/27 "2010-04-12T09:23:52Z")
> [@palacheck](#): > > I’ve visited a couple shock sites and watched more vids than I should have. For me it was the vid made by the Dnepropetrovsk maniacs showing them kill a guy with a hammer, then shoving a screwdriver in him–all the while laughing. > > Also a couple rape vids. > > Seems like it’s impossible to look away for me. Jesus. What are these shock sites you speak of? ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/28 "2010-04-12T12:15:35Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > OK, here you go: > **This is a serious warning** : This will be the most horrendous thing you can see. People burned as witches. I had heard about it but watched it anyway. I don’t think I can ever forget it. You are warned (broken link and spoilered). > > http:/ /www.bestgore.com/execution/five-people-witchcraft-suspects-slowly-burned-alive-in-kenya/ Holy fuck! That goes up there with a beheading vid I watched were the guys head was basically sawn of with a smallish knife. I find these things shocking but they don’t leave me disturbed for long as I’ve already accepted the fact that humans can be absolute animals when given the chance to be. This ‘civilized’ western world we live in is only a few meals away from any horror imaginable. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/29 "2010-04-12T12:31:39Z")
I went to the Museum of Death in Los Angeles- lotsa still photos of various accident & crime scenes, including the Tate-LaBianca murders- which I just took a quick glance at. Compared to you all, I’m kinda a weenie!:eek: ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/30 "2010-04-12T13:43:21Z")
I’ve avoided the beheading videos and I certainly wouldn’t watch the Dneproppetrovsk Maniacs. I’ve seen some deaths on the Internet, but they tend to be small, fuzzy videos. Probably he worst I’ve seen was on this video: [http://www.amazon.com/Banned-TV-Uncensored-VHS-Television/dp/6305072418](http://www.amazon.com/Banned-TV-Uncensored-VHS-Television/dp/6305072418) There’s a hostage situation somewhere in South America. At some point a crowd of hostages come pouring out of a building. A policeman accidentally shoots a hostage point-blank in the chest with a shotgun and he dies right in front of the news camera. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/31 "2010-04-12T14:57:26Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > Jesus. > > What are these shock sites you speak of? The Dnepropetrovsk maniacs one is at the site provided by **PlainJane**. (I haven’t watched it. There’s a long description of it there, and eyes being stabbed is one of the very few things I will not watch.) ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/32 "2010-04-12T15:19:40Z")
I’m haunted by a documentary that was on TV years ago. It was about a South American Indian tribe. I had surfed by the show which was in French and managed to see a scene which I cannot bleach. It involved them getting ‘high’ by filling a 4 foot tube and blowing some sort of liquid up a persons nose. Gross in itself, but the video then showed them casually vomiting for a prolonged period volumes of nasty bile. I truly wish I had never seen it. ---
**Author:** ![davekhps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@davekhps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davekhps)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/33 "2010-04-12T16:09:17Z")
I’ve seen it all, unfortunately. The Faces of Death stuff, animal cruelty, executions, beheadings, impalements, car accidents (Nikki Catsouras is particularly awful, especially the story behind it). Every possible sexual thing: bestiality of all kinds (I saw a video of a man giving a dolphin a BJ that is as funny as it is horrifying), all kinds of “showers”, goatse, giant starfish tattoos over the anus, Lemon Party, 2 girls/1 cup, octopus in orifices, “crush” videos (a.k.a. women stepping on animals-- it’s an international thing), castration fetish. I’ve managed to avoid anything with children, thank God, but the internet is home to everything vile. I won’t say that none of this disturbs me-- it ALL still disturbs me, you never get desensitized to it-- but off the top of my head, the two things that made me wince more than anything. One: horse castration via the Henderson Equine Castration Device. Google it, there are demo videos out there. It’s basically a special attachment that fits a power drill that grips, then spins off, the goods. Don’t know why that bothers me more than watching poor Daniel Pearl meet his fate-- probably because the latter makes me angry more than anything. Two: the most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen online was a self-made video of a guy squatting down to, ummm, pleasure himself on a homemade sex toy. Unfortunately for him, the homemade sex toy was a glass bottle that didn’t survive the pressure he placed on it, and proceeded to explode with an audible POP! You can imagine the rest. Awful place, the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/34 "2010-04-12T16:14:06Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > A couple years ago I was browsing though some website with examples of twisted asian porn. One of them was an otherwise naked Japanese woman stomping a kitten to death with a high heel. I’m pretty tolerant when it comes to sexual fetishes, but what kind of sick fuck would actually get turned on by that? fap fap fap ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/35 "2010-04-12T16:15:35Z")
Maybe not the worst thing I’ve ever seen, but I haven’t been able to get it out of my head. It was a news story about a guy who had led a troubled life and had found God. They were talking about what led him down the path his life had taken. Turns out his mom was a junkie with a string of violent boyfriends. One night, when he was about four or five and his little brother was two, the most recent boyfriend decided that he wanted to go rob a house while he was alone with the two kids. He didn’t want to leave them alone (?!) so he took them along. They came at the house through the woods, but his little brother was scared and started crying. The boyfriend wanted him to shut up so he hit him a few times. That only made him cry louder. The big brother tried to make him stop crying so the boyfriend would stop hitting him, but he couldn’t stop. The boyfriend then picked up the two year old by the legs and swung him like a bat into the nearest tree. He went in a coma and died a couple days later. Just a video of a man telling this story of something that happened to him on a winter night twenty years in the past, but holy crap, I cannot get that out of my head. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/36 "2010-04-12T16:24:44Z")
A while ago, someone posted a video of an Indian monk or some such who burned himself alive as a protest. He just stood there, on fire, not making a sound, until he fell over. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/37 "2010-04-12T18:22:25Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > The Dnepropetrovsk maniacs one is at the site provided by **PlainJane**. (I haven’t watched it. There’s a long description of it there, and eyes being stabbed is one of the very few things I will not watch.) Holy god. Nah. Don’t think I’ll be checking that particular clip out. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/38 "2010-04-12T18:22:44Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > A while ago, someone posted a video of an Indian monk or some such who burned himself alive as a protest. He just stood there, on fire, not making a sound, until he fell over. I remember that one. Although I was kind of sad for the monk, I wasn’t disturbed because I was memorized and in awe of the fact that he didn’t cry out in pain, or do anything but just sit there and burn. I wonder if he took some sort of drug or something. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/39 "2010-04-12T18:28:01Z")
People jumping out of buildings on 9/11 and still photos of them on the ground. What could I possibly have been thinking? ---
**Author:** ![Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amber_in_Treasury)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769/40 "2010-04-12T18:34:24Z")
> [@Lakai](#): > > It involved a certain number of girls and a cup. 2g1c is gross, sure, but at least it doesn’t show people getting tortured/raped/killed. > [@alphaboi867](#): > > Also pretty much anything on [www.charonboat.com](http://www.charonboat.com). Seconded. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-watched-on-purpose/535769.md?page=3)