# What's the most terrifying thing on the Internet you've seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 23, 2015, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-terrifying-thing-on-the-internet-youve-seen/732284 "2015-09-23T09:46:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dereknocue67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-terrifying-thing-on-the-internet-youve-seen/732284/41 "2016-01-08T08:20:56Z")
Yesterday’s stock market closing stats. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-terrifying-thing-on-the-internet-youve-seen/732284/42 "2016-01-08T10:54:26Z")
> [@Indus.1999](#): > > The 20 Scariest Google Street View Sightings on [mashable.com](http://mashable.com) [Google Street View Fail.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocNWHr5_2as) 🙂 The other day I ran across video taken by a Mexican cartel who executed two police informants via decapitation by chainsaw. Apparently it was posted to LiveLeak but got taken down due to violating their TOS. When it’s banned by _LiveLeak,_ you know it’s gotta be nasty… ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-terrifying-thing-on-the-internet-youve-seen/732284/43 "2016-01-08T13:19:23Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > 1 Lunatic 1 Icepick. I didn’t watch the whole thing (couldn’t possibly have, and wouldn’t want to), but I saw enough to be traumatized. > > (If you’re not familiar with it, don’t Google it. You _don’t_ want to see it. It is a snuff video made by some guy who murdered his boyfriend with an icepick and dismembered the body. Apparently he also had sex with it but I didn’t get that far) So does that mean a snuff film does exist? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-terrifying-thing-on-the-internet-youve-seen/732284/44 "2016-01-08T13:51:36Z")
[Burning suspected witches in Africa.](https://wwwxxx.youtube.com/watch?v=wgrGQl5kEME) WARNING: This is seriously graphic stuff and the link is deliberately broken, just remove the xxx after the www. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-terrifying-thing-on-the-internet-youve-seen/732284/45 "2016-01-08T14:46:42Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > I heard a piece on NPR about the Dark Net and went to see it for myself . . . > > :eek: As I understand it, it’s a very large place. And most of it is junk. How far did you go? How did you get there? What parts were so scary? I’m genuinely curious…I was gonna go look but like I said, I heard that it’s slogging through lots and lots of meaningless crap to even find things comprehensible. > [@Randolph](#): > > _Terrifying_ is the wrong word, but that picture of the Korean girl who went looking for her lost dog and found him char-broiled at a roadside food stand. The image of her squatting down, petting a cooked dog and crying her eyes out… ah, jeez. I could look at piles and piles of gore all day long, of every description…but not that. It would shred me. Dead bodies are just meat. But that is a genuine emotional experience arising from a horrible experience…involving a child and a dog. No way could I would I ever watch that. > [@buddha\_david](#): > > The other day I ran across video taken by a Mexican cartel who executed two police informants via decapitation by chainsaw. Apparently it was posted to LiveLeak but got taken down due to violating their TOS. When it’s banned by _LiveLeak,_ you know it’s gotta be nasty… Yeah, I JUST closed the window where I COULD have watched that, but while my thirst for gore is pretty serious, it mostly stops at the actual process of going from alive to dead, particularly in close up extremely violently with the victim aware. That’s a different thing. However, thanks to this thread (indirectly) I found a fucked up shit site I was previously unaware of, surprising in itself, and it introduced me to a lot of extreme BME video… along with a bunch of other incredibly fucked up stuff and the thing that shocks me is that even now, almost 20 years into the existence of the internet and lots of checking out fucked up shit of every possible description… I can still be shocked, freaked out and have my mind blown by human behavior. And I would also like to vote for Mr. Hands as among the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen, even though what you see is actually very little, and in no respect gory. It’s the old imagination thing I guess… Oh, and I can also take boatloads of gore and mangling and disease…but no shit, shit eating, vomit eating, general bodily fluid stuff… GAH… ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-terrifying-thing-on-the-internet-youve-seen/732284/46 "2016-01-08T17:07:06Z")
> [@harmonicamoon](#): > > Bush won the president job two times. I saw it on the internet. It was (is) terrifying! Yeah yeah, obligatory saw Obama do the same thing… :rolleyes: > [@Shagnasty](#): > > Th Station nightclub fire was terrible especially because I don’t live that far away from it. However, watching ISIS execute the Jordanian pilot they shot down was one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen because the video made it so personal. One of the things that make it so disturbing is that it isn’t just grainy footage. It has fairly high production values for a piece of terrorist propaganda but it is very real. > > Watch it at your own risk. ISIS produced it as a short and extremely disturbing documentary. > > [WARNING GRAPHIC: Complete ISIS Video of Pilot Burned to Death](http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/04/warning-graphic-complete-isis-video-of-pilot-burned-to-death/) ISIS has put out even worse ones since that. One featured all of the following: Three guys hung on chains over small fires being slowly roasted to death, four guys locked inside a car that was then shot point blank with an RPG, and four guys locked in a cage that is very slowly lowered into water and drowns them (then very slowly lifts them out dead). Again, with almost surreal high production values. For those who haven’t seen The Station fire video, it isn’t so much graphic as it is emotionally disturbing. It’s one long unbroken take. It starts happy with the guy filming the band from the back of the crowd with everyone cheering, then it all goes bad, agonizingly slowly at first then faster and faster. The guy finally just puts the camcorder down (still running) to help the firemen. It very much makes you feel like you’re actually there. Do yourself a favor and don’t watch it (I only watched it once…) ---
**Author:** ![\_Raven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/_raven/32/20435_2.png) [@\_Raven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Raven)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-terrifying-thing-on-the-internet-youve-seen/732284/47 "2016-01-08T17:40:49Z")
> [@harmonicamoon](#): > > Bush won the president job two times. He may have won it once, in 2004, although the manipulation of vote-counting machines in states like Ohio would have brought investigations under any other administration than his own. But as to 2000, it was (very quietly, yet very clearly) established that more Florida voters had selected Gore than Bush on their ballots, including the so-called “double votes” of marking both straight party-line and candidate – for the same candidate – which under Florida law made “the voter’s will” clear and should have counted as valid votes, yet were not included in the totals. The US Supreme Court, in halting the manual recount of ballots ordered by the Florida Supreme Court, violated its own rule of deferring to state supreme courts on their interpretations of state constitutions, and two of its majority Justices ramming that decision through declined to recuse themselves despite having immediate family members employed by the Bush campaign and transition team, thus financially profiting by the decision. So 2000 was not a case of Bush winning, but of his being handed the prize after the race was halted. ---
**Author:** ![Dustin\_the\_Wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f1d935/32.png) [@Dustin\_the\_Wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dustin_the_Wind)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-terrifying-thing-on-the-internet-youve-seen/732284/48 "2016-01-08T17:59:50Z")
> [@Shamozzle](#): > > What is the point of this thread? To celebrate those Dopers amongst us craziest enough to stick the butterknife farthest into the wall socket? > > There is horror, darkness and chaos beyond imagination lurking in the far recesses of the internet. Close your eyes and conjure up the most sinister, debased shit you could possibly conceive. Somewhere on the internet, there’s worse, it’s real, and it’s happening to real human beings. There, I just “won” the thread. Happy now? > > Now everyone can stop reducing the collective rot of the human psyche into a 14-year-old’s truth-or-dare birthday party game and start regarding the unfortunate reality of others with the solemn respect it deserves. > > I’m not normally one for preachy rants and those on The Dope who indulge themselves thusly are routinely poked with a stick and mocked accordingly, but that’s fine by me, mock away, because this thread is ridiculous. My god, GTFU, we are better than this. Go play Candy Crush, or build a fort out of cushions in your living room, or something. So why did you even enter this thread? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-terrifying-thing-on-the-internet-youve-seen/732284/49 "2016-01-08T18:31:35Z")
> [@\_Raven](#): > > …although the manipulation of vote-counting machines in states like Ohio would have brought investigations under any other administration than his own. Watch _Hacking Democracy,_ you’ll never trust any election results ever again. ---
**Author:** ![HowSoonIsThen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@HowSoonIsThen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HowSoonIsThen)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-terrifying-thing-on-the-internet-youve-seen/732284/50 "2016-01-08T23:25:52Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > So does that mean a snuff film does exist? Depends how rigid your definition of snuff film is. If it’s simply “real people really killed on camera”, then there are hundreds, if not thousands of snuff films out there. If it’s the more specific “real people killed for the purpose of a film (and not film of people who would’ve been murdered anyway) that was released primarily for commercial reasons”, then I don’t think there are. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-terrifying-thing-on-the-internet-youve-seen/732284/51 "2016-01-09T03:43:50Z")
The Jordanian pilot burned alive by ISIS. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-terrifying-thing-on-the-internet-youve-seen/732284/52 "2016-01-09T04:16:46Z")
I don’t recall ever seeing anything on the internet that terrified me. I don’t terrify easily. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-terrifying-thing-on-the-internet-youve-seen/732284.md?page=2)