Grave Robbing for Morons: The Internet's Worst Tutorial Video...
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- Опубликовано: 5 янв 2025
- During the 80s, a teenager created a VHS film to teach people how to rob graves. Although he makes no effort to hide his identity, he never got caught stealing from cemeteries. Is the video real or a hoax?
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"I mean he is holding a skull, which is a bit weird, he is in a basement which is a bit weird"... " You're being a bit harsh on him"
Said factboy recording a video in his basement studio before proceeding to stroke his super realistic fake skull...
Right, could have been left over from his audition for Hamlet.
I like this comment
80's metalheads.
🤘
Your first reaction to grave robbery is "Go for the jewelry, bones are worthless" and its on the internet forever.
Hey, it'd be mine too, tbh. I mean, respecting the dead is cool and all, but if I was desperate enough to dig up dead people I'd be after something actually valuable or else it wouldn't be worth the time and effort.
New tshirt idea!
Between Kevin's script, Jen's editing & Fact Boi's delivery... these videos are fast becoming legendary.
Thanks!
Alegendly legendary.
Yes, I love them.
Ha
You don't know these people. Get real friends.
While filming Apocalypse Now in the Philippines, a local was hired to provide dummies. It turned out the guy was a grave robber and the bodies were real, which got Coppola et al in one hell of a lot of trouble. Their passports were taken away and the cast and crew were questioned, but eventually they were allowed to resume filming after the bodies were taken away. The documentary on the making of the movie is just as entertaining as the film itself. It defined the term "production hell".
The bodies used in the river scene are all the real thing. They were left over from the civil war and Coppola made sure they were left up for the scene.
@@ymirs4400 I think Marlon Brando had got beefy prior to Apocalypse Now. And yes it was a crazy set, The Heart of Darkness documentary about making the film is enlightening.. Drugs, dead body’s, heart attacks etc
I remember hearing that story. Don't major studios have high-paid vice presidents in charge of researching that kind of problem?
@@larrygrimaldi1400 not 50 years ago and in a, let's call it developing, country. AN wasn't that far removed from the days of horses dying in droves making movies. Not that they would neccessarily catch something like that today. Trust in prop masters got an actress killed recently. It seems ridiculous in hindsight, but it's not like any business today questions where there catering gets its food or wardrobe sources its retro duds.
@@larrygrimaldi1400it probably wasn’t up to the Vice President of a studio. The VP would be dealing much more than overseeing the intricacies of a single movie.
Simon is a true thespian. When he narrates he commands the room and seems truly invested in what he's presenting. But then you listen to him talk casually and it's kind of like a teenager lol
He also owns a skull lol
He has a great voice. When he goes off script, he’s a bit of a goofball, and I don’t think he’d disagree, in fact he plays up to it. He’s obviously pretty smart, just not in the same way as his writers/researchers are. Entrepreneurial guy with a smooth, yet assertive voice that is easy to listen to.
Most people with his quality of voice will go into broadcasting, usually radio, but if they do RUclips, will want to at least have input into the scripts he reads, not record cold reading them. But he seams to enjoy that, and so that joy of wanting to know what happens comes out strongly. He’s literally finding out with the listener along the way, which makes his narration great, but his off scripted tangents don’t come across as fake at all. In fact, I like them, as you will find out if you continue reading long enough. That genuine sincerity combined with great stories, great narration and actual facts is what sets him apart from most, if not all.
Known knowns, if you will😏 all this is his USP, I guess, and pays for his pilot’s licence and house in the country. Not sure how expensive Prague is,certainly cheaper than London, Paris etc, but not as cheap as Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur etc. Still, I’ve heard from a few people that Prague is the most ‘livable’ city certainly in Europe, possibly the world. These are people who have travelled about and spent time in 20-50 countries each, probably 90% of all countries on earth between them, so must be pretty good, right?
I may have to seriously think about going to find out for myself. Been to France, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, UAE, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, USA (only Florida though, albeit twice, last time in early October 2001, hence last), Barbados, and of course my home country England as well as Scotland and Wales…never Ireland, proper nor Northern, despite being half Irish… mothers side is pure Irish (O’Donnel, Garvin etc).
Technically Luxembourg and Belgium too, but only driving through to Austria via the former two and Germany. Been to Germany a few times whilst in the Netherlands as was in Eindhoven and only 2 hours by train to Düsseldorf direct, and Essen, Bochum and Dortmund, all on the same line not much over an hour to the final one, Dortmund.
Please, stop me when you’re getting bored. I like to write, it helps, but just doing it in a private app is boring and I have no motivation whatsoever. I can watch RUclips and eventually get some inspiration and comment and just write whatever comes out, and see where it goes. Fun and the memories it conjures up are satisfying as I remember all the great times I had.
Hope to get some more, and always wanted to go from Rome, Pompeii etc, all the way through the ancient worlds best places and finish at Delphi… by then having the wisdom of the sign reportedly above the sanctuaries entrance of ‘Know Thyself’ after such a journey, reading the Marcus Aurelius and Homer as I go farther back in time. That’s the dream, and has been for a while but the coof as explained above, scuttled my plans. But they can’t steal my future entirely.
Also, after the lockdowns and restrictions on travel, this was extended and exacerbated my not being ‘vaccinated’ with the experimental therapeutic drug. You know the one, that makes sense from a risk/reward perspective for old people and/or people with underlying health concerns and co-morbiditys, ie diabetes. I’m in my mid 40’s, gave up smoking age 31/32, drinking 37/38 and was never a big drinker, and smoked 10 per day at most, sometimes 20mg the worst, but rarely for short periods.
I’ve taken drugs, but not pot a lot since very early 20’s (smoked a lot for a few years though) and opiates, but pharmaceutical mainly which don’t really cause any meaningful long term damage. Got heroin off the street for a few years, which is a concern, not as much as it was then, but only for 3-5 years, depending on how I measure it, 3 nearly everyday, 5 dabbling. I was lucky as I got to go to Malaysia every year as my dad worked there and his company gave immediate family a ticket every year to see him, so 2-3 days sick, then playing golf, with a few drinks at night. Good times.
Got a bit crazy in Thailand when I found diazepam (Valium) sold in chemists (pharmacists) with no prescription. Blacked out once, so controlled it pretty well. Didn’t need many drinks and wasn’t nauseous they ‘function to reduce anxiety and anticipatory nausea and vomiting’. It’s just that it’s so easy to take too many with too much alcohol, but I was able, after a few misadventures, to get the balance right, and as pot was so hard to get.
I only got it twice in 20 years of going at least 2 weeks per year sometimes twice, and up to 6 months when between school and/or jobs, once in Ipoh, Malaysia which was crap, once in Bali, Indonesia, which was pretty good, but both times it was hard to get and pretty shady.
Whilst we’re at it, took MDMA aka Molly or to Brits, ecstasy (xtc). Took it most weekends for 3-5 years in the 90’s after the outside parties were shut down by police but the clubs started to cater for that market with same music, high entrance fees, like average £10 on the door, as you’re not drinking alcohol, but no drinks aloud, and water was £2-£5 per bottle. They had to make money, obviously. But £10 door, £10 E, £3.75 for ‘teenth (1/16th of an ounce) of weed and £2 for the water, split to get enough, and have some in the car, which was also great as we could drive there, saving money as no drinking.
But, I got stopped when the scene was winding down, I’d turned to heroin to ‘come down’ got stopped off the police, almost got away as they didn’t search me, but as I was about to drive away, the b*tch copper tapped on my window and asked to search me. She found a £10 baggie of heroin in my ‘johnnie pocket’ of my jeans (the small pocket on the inside of usually the right pocket of most jeans). Never forget her glee in her shouting ‘Bingo’ taking relish in destroying my short term life and prospects due to just going out partying on a Saturday night.
Astonishingly, they thought it was weed as it was in a rock form due to compaction, but was actually >80% pure heroin as I discovered when my dealer* was caught and it was tested. A £5 bag would get me high, nodding, 3 separate times. So when that was cut off, the ~20% at the very best, just wasn’t doing it, at all. So I quit.
I got blood tested though, after all breatherliser teases were negative, but was acting, well strange, as I had taken the 3 xtc tabs in my pocket so I didn’t get a charge of possessing a class A, and already thought of my defense of I thought I was buying amphetamine (I was 19/20, what can I say, under pressure in the back of a cop car with my mothers car being pawed at by dirty cops). 3’s when in a cell requires positive thinking not to spiral. But I made it.
Kicked on the streets of a town that my pal paid £25 to get home, but I had to leave my car and pick it up at 9 or 10am, so 6-7 hours away. There was a group of drunks walking down the street, so I picked off one of the stranglers, told him my story, with a few white lies to play the victim, and he offered me his caravan parked outside his parents house (he was 19ish like me).
Ended up on the settee/couch in the main living room and he broke out the whiskey. Was obviously struggling for friends. Woke up with a yapping dog and a fat old lady knitting in the armchair right next to me. Still kinda high off the e and drunk on whiskey, that was pretty surreal. I didn’t really sleep, but passed out enough for them to come in and make themselves comfortable
He gave me a lift in his Mini to the Police Station, with fake name, address and phone number in his hand, and I was clear… except the year, or maybe just 6 month driving ban for driving under the influence on a controlled substance. Never affected me really. Maybe after the ban and started driving again, insurance was high, but today, I’d have to resist my driving exam etc etc.
Lucky. Never again… so far.
So feel my health is good enough for the risk to not outweigh the reward, not even close, really, as the ‘vaccine’ has side affects that are perhaps worse for me at my age than the thing it’s supposed to protect against, which is a whole other thing, which is far too long, even for this diatribe.
Time for real work now I’m all warmed up. Thanks for reading. Please… Comment 👇
* the guy I was with in my car when I was caught with heroin on the way to a club, and also, whose brother was a professional footballer even playing for England National team as well as 2-3 Premier League teams.
@WouldntULikeToKnow. It's not real lmao
He says that it isnt real in the video. Just that its realistic. When he turns it upside-down, he said that you could see the plaster or resin throughout. This was most likely made in a mold. That skull is just for aesthetics
He is not the brightest that's for sure
I absolutely LOVE Jens Video editing....she has a great sense of humour, and an endless plethora of memes at her disposal. 👍 Jen! You do a good job too Simon 😉
He has so many in his dungeon
It seems that she really stepped up her game. I remember that just a few month ago I found her editing absolutely atrocious. It was an endless loop of the same goddamn overlay effect to a point that I was able to draw every single frame from memory and it started annoying me so much that I couldn't even concentrate on the story anymore and stopped watching this show alltogether. But I agree, this was brilliant. I might just give it another go ;)
Def wouldn't be the same without the memes!
I just like memes that make fun of Simon
Simon has a couple of people with him who do a great job with these videos! Next level stuff guys!
I’m a human bone expert! (I got my masters degree in anatomy) the short answer is yes I can tell that the skull you have is fake. But that’s just because it’s too uniform in color, (the teeth give that away) and the suture joints look too shallow. This is also a very high quality video. If you were to show a close up, I’d be able to see that different holes and features would either not be there, or would be too shallow. It is extremely difficult to find a completely accurate skull model. Even plastic skulls used in medical schools that are super expensive and accurate on the surface, have foramina that don’t follow through. Like you can’t stick a pipe cleaner in one hole and have it come out another, and they certainly don’t have the same weight or feel of a skull.
What’s a skill you have that if you’re too good at it people think you’re a serial killer
@@Ihat-b2j do you want milk with that homonym error
Any thoughts on the authenticity of the skull shown on the VHS footage?
Given your specialty, I think you just solved the mystery of where a human skull would come from as well as a convincing fake. Forensic science wasn't as advanced in the 80s as it is today, students in the field would still need to work with good-quality replicas and even actual samples to hone their skills. So would any student aiming for archeology, and being able to spot the difference between a fake skull and a real one would be important to spotting jerks trying to make a quick buck with fake artifacts. Does this project look like something drunk college kids studying for a somewhat morbid profession would do for a prank with things they used for actual class? Yes.
Pretty sure the video's skull is fake. It doesn't follow curve of Spee which is common in Halloween decorations to avoid that goofy skull smile
"A bowlodrome, is that where American people go skating?"
No Simon, that's where American people go for aqua aerobics.
Bowling mate, bowling! It's literally in the name ^^
Not going to lie, I assumed it was a fancy word for bowling alley but Simon made me second guess myself. I've never heard the term before.
@@bo7341 we also have Bowl-O-Ramas. Anything to make rolling a ball over and over sound exciting.
I guess it worked...I miss bowling.
@@ladykoiwolfe I've heard of a bowl-o-Rama, and like I said that's what I assumed a bowlodrome was. Then Simon started speculating and I doubted myself.
@@ladykoiwolfe Haha, I was going to reply the same :D Yeah, Bowl-O-Ramas are also a thing
I think what threw FactBoi off was the drome part of the word. You expect something spherical or elliptical when you hear drome.
"He's holding a skull, which is a bit weird. He is in a basement, which is a bit weird ", says the guy filming a video, in a basement, holding a skull. Hmm
That's the joke
I follow a GeoGuessr streamer who can often ID a country in seconds based on a single textless road sign (not necessarily even a front view of said sign either). Nice to see Simon out here representing those of us who are closer to the other end of that particular knowledge spectrum, lol.
We stole the illuminated blue police sign from out front of a police station. Then wired it up in the lounge room as a lamp
@@andrewthompson6908 Props to you! Cops are always fair game, lol.
Tiffany is a famous style of copper foil (or sometimes leaded) stained glass, which you may have seen as colourful lampshades in restaurants or boutiques and were made from about 1890-1930. Real ones sell for $4,000 to $1,000,000 each. Coca-Cola started producing them for popular restaurants, and still do today, with lead for the older ones, and zinc for the more modern creations.
"Ennui" (from the French) is pronounced "ON-WEE and refers to overwhelming weariness with whatever life has to offer... It manifests as "exhausted boredom" from not being able to arouse interest or derive pleasure from anything.
But how long does one have to wait before grave robbing becomes archeology?
Asking for a friend.
I say this to my husband every time he tries to make me watch bloody time team!!!
I'd say as long as the place you're digging is known as graveyard, you're grave robbing.
Ok we hate this question, but here's the answer: literally modern archaeology is never grave robbing, ESPECIALLY in the US. Here we only really dig up remains if they're in the way of building, in which case they're returned to the family or tribe for re-burial. The difference between isn't a matter of time, but of purpose. If there's no reason to dig up a body, we just don't do it. In fact NAGPRA means that unexpected remains found at a site results in a stoppage of work until it can be sorted out. Robbing is done with the intent to steal, usually for personal reasons, and to keep the remains for yourself. It's stealing. Archaeology usually only removes remains to conserve them (Europe is very different because they don't have the same history of colonization that we do.). They're two different activities no matter the age of the remains. We're not grave robbing any more than someone who is legally exhumed a body is grave robbing.
Back in the day though, pretty much all if it was unethical grave robbing. Usually of colonized people. It's more a problem in bone collections than new digs.
Lol - great point, actually
@@emmajones8715 what?!?
The word "ennui" is pronounced en-wee, and means "boredom." The town where I spent my teenage years had a roller rink, a bowling alley (that's likely the American version of your Bowl-O-Rama), a McDonald's, and various fast food restaurants. However, I didn't get my driver's license until I was 17, and my parents were loathe to loan me their cars unless I had a specific destination in mind. However, I had the social life of a snail and tended to spend my Friday and weekend nights reading books.
I'm pretty sure Kevin is American, like us. We have some weird names for our bowling alleys.
I thought it was pronounced ahn-wee?
We could have lived in the same town. I think the roller rink in mine closed for good when I was a kid though.
@@williammatthews693 I always said it 'ahn-wee,' as well - but I've heard several different pronunciations of 'ennui' in the States... we Americans do seem to struggle with French, lol
@@brondroid ironically, americans are still much better with french words than the British. very low bar
A morgue is where the dead body has an autopsy, a mortuary is at the funeral home where the body is prepared for the funeral. If they are cutting off the arms it would be done at the morgue where they have the tools
But they don’t cut off body parts and put them in bins…
@@DocBree13 limbs no, but organs sometimes and yes it's legal atleast in the states. If the Corner deems they may be needed in the future ( murder cases or Suspected homicides)
Sounds more like an anatomy lab.
30:03 Tiffany started off as a lamp and glass company (the lamps all had stained glass shades), family owned. I think it was the son who left to design jewelry.
Well, at least Simon is consistent. 😆 He still doesn't know who Louis Comfort Tiffany is since he mentioned it in The Casual Criminalist episode about John Emil List. For those who are curious, Louis C.Tiffany is famous for designing beautiful stained glass items and Art Nouvaeu jewellery and objects d'art. Louis's father, Charles Lewis Tiffany, founded the famous luxury goods store Tiffany & Co.
I've heard of Tiffany lamps but didn't know anything else. Thanks!
Tiffany & Co is or was a family owned company that specializes in stained glass and jewelry, but have made lamps, desks, office supplies, and other things over the years as well.
He must have been kidding, that must have been a joke. Although there are probably Americans who dropped out of school at `10 or 11 who don't know antique Tiffany lamps go for millions at auction.
I came here to say this but knew in my heart someone else already had.
It's ok, I'm pretty sure he doesn't know what bowling is either! 🤣... or ennui apparently lol. Sorry Simon, still love you!
We have "roller skating rinks" in the US, Simon. 👍🏻😀 And yes, it's everyone going around in a big oval...usually counterclockwise.😆
Did you also have that part of the skate session where everyone skated clockwise for a bit? And, the backwards skating as well? Good times, good times.
Yes. And why was it counterclockwise? I never thought about it, but I went to a few different Roller Rinks as a kid, and they all skated counterclockwise as the norm.
@@hepchaos just a theory. But, most people predominantly use the right side of their body the most (writing, kicking a ball, etc.). It's easier, and more natural, to do right leg cross overs when skating. I've noticed this playing roller, and ice hockey as well.
@@danielreuben1058 footedness like handedness is a thing so you might be right. Footedness generally corresponds to handedness and ambidextrous feet are undocumented but your preference can be changed similarly to how southpaws used to be taught to write with their right hand. I'm right handed, was right footed and became left footed after a surgery which resulted in me overcompensating to the point I started favouring my opposite leg even after full recovery. As I understand it it's where the line "put your best foot forward" comes from.
@@danielreuben1058-interesting thought.
Jen's memeistry is on a whole other level. One can only aspire to be such an accomplished Memestress.
Memestress? I am stealing that word now.
@@chrisshorten4406 Go for it! haha thanks!
Memestress.
Somebody call Websters.
A Caitlin Doughty (Ask A Mortician) collaboration on this one would work very well, I feel.
😮😮😮😮😮😍😍
YES
@Nowt Are you a Deathling too?
@@choklityum Yes, I am, happy to be one.
I think one of your writers should look into the Coral Castle that some guy built by himself in Florida. He was a rather old man that built an impossibly detailed house in a rather short period of time. He swore to never reveal his secret and I would absolutely loooooove to hear your take on it!!!! Love all your channels by the way!!
Same with the Winchester home that was built to confuse ghosts ie. doors that don't open, stairs that lead nowhere, hidden rooms. The level of paranoia is really high PLUS it's supposedly haunted so.
Yes please do Coral Castle!
Archaeologist here: your graves are OURS. Those pesky robbers need to get their grubby fingers off our future colleagues' work. Jokes aside, robbed graves really are a disappointment, as the disturbance more often than not greatly reduces the scientific value.
I don't remember which script it was anymore, but I definitely feel like I wrote something where they excavated an archaeological site with dynamite, so sorry you'll have to endure that.
@@ThatWriterKevin dude your writing is top notch! Excellent work!
Aren’t archaeologist just well educated grave robbers?
@@MonkstaRS3 thanks!
@@MonkstaRS3 Fun fact: First thing I learned at university was that excavating is the last option, as it permanently destroys any and all context beyond documentation, so in a way we do rob futurescientists with better tech of the opportunity to learn more than we today ever could. So you are not too far off there, if you add "reluctant" to the assessment. :)
Simon. I will one-up you. The town I grew up in had literally nothing. No bowlodrome. No pubs. No restaurants. No grocery store. No tea room. No gas station. NOTHING.
The local hooligans rode their bikes to Walmart in the next town over because they couldn't cause trouble closer to home since there was absolutely nothing.
Lack of imagination! Our village had 2 benches… the local horrors decided to… well, make a dog very happy on one of them.
There were many, similar, weird adventures! I am very, very grateful that I never understood other kids&teens. I stayed home and read/played on my computer…
@@terryenby2304 you're probably right. Lol. I think the worst I ever got up to was shooting a deer with an airsoft gun. There really wasn't any opportunity to cause trouble.
We had nothing as well, but somehow we managed to cause lots of trouble and damage 😬
@@ilarious5729 There wasn't anything to cause trouble to. Worst we could do was shoot a deer with an airsoft gun or carve our names on a tree 🤣
I grew up in Manchester we had smack heads and turbo nounces, loads of fun.
Dear Simon;
I would like to propose a rephrasing of the rule, "Don't Write Down Your Crimes."
I would recommend it to state, "Don't Create A Record Of Your Crimes", to cover the aspects of making videos, leaving voicemails, taking pictures, mentioning it to others, and of course writing them down.
"Those poor ass moderators...I don't know how you do it"
I remember reading something from a Facebook moderator. He was traumatized by the stuff he saw.
I find learning new things to be very entertaining... which is why I love all of Simon's channels. Keep expanding your vocabulary, Simon. It alleviates the ennui. 🙂
Ba dum bum bum, am I right peter?😁
Perfect intro. I love these videos because I live in an area where conspiracy theories run rampant and your calm, logical exploration of such crazy subjects soothes my intellect.
Now on to the idea of growing up somewhere boring. I spent my youth in a small Ohio town. We went out trespassing to “explore” old empty houses and hang out in old graveyards. We also threw the world’s most sedate parties.
My friends and I, allegedly, also stole street signs. But, they were mostly road names. It was especially pertinent to try to find your girlfriend's name, as this was a true "sign" of your love, that you gifted to her.
Lol - I broke up with my first bf at 16 for stealing a street sign (not my name, tho)
High St.😉
I grew up on Log Road. Yeah, that was stolen a few times lol
@@ImTheJoker4uBlaze Way was the most stolen sign in my neighborhood
Thanks to you I missed the road I needed to turn on
"Like some kind of weird vampire"
Love it!
Also Evil Dead 2 still holds up! One of my favorite lines is when the hooligan lady says "Don't you ever fantasize about being eaten alive?!?" And everyone just looks at her and say "uh..No?"
"He is in a basement holding a skull...That's a bit weird.".....Says Simon, in a basement holding a skull :)
I was born 1965 ... internet? 😆 Mobile phone? 😂 VCR?? 🤣🤣
All we could do was to READ! That's it! Or drugs ... But I was too scared of drugs to even try ... You're soon lucky!
How about impromptu song and dance numbers at school?
Or is that covered in drug use?
@@resileaf9501 that was a common result of drug use then because of how strict school systems were at the time, I've heard a lot of stories from people who were kids then about how strict schools were at that time.
@@michaelmckinnon7314The schools didn’t care about drugs in the 70s and it was extremely common. 80s 90s 00s they cared a lot and that’s where the anti drug programs came in
Grave robbing for bones isn't as uncommon as you may think. Ask medicine doctors. They all have to go through very tough anatomy course and exam, which makes sense, but I was still surprised that they learn on actual skeletons. And I don't mean they learn on them during the classes where bones are probably legally sourced but they somehow obtain "a set" for themselves to keep at home to study. I was so shocked when I learned that. My friend got hers from friend of a friend, she had no ale idea where it came from. She "didn't ask". She told ke that when she was googling where to get one (if you can't borrow it from somewhere) to general advice was to bribe an undertaker. Basicly university doesn't have enough sets to rent to all students but they require you to get one. Even my aunts used to have skulls and bones at home when they were studying, my mom told me. And she also has no idea where those were from. It looks like there are human skeletons in private homes around the city and nobody is asking questions! I thought my friend was making fun of me (even though she isn't a type to do so) and it took her good 20 minutes to convince me she wasn't.
A next door neighbour many years ago, an old, weird lady, would visit the cemetary and steal porcelain doves and flower arrangements. If it wasn't firmly attached to anything, she'd steal it. My partner and I discovered this when she invited us over for a cup of tea and scones. Her home was full of grave ornaments. Not just a few, but every shelf, every table, every wall space had these things attached to it. There were more decorating the garden. She would say that it is a shame that these beautiful things are left where no one really enjoys them...
So, you know the cemetery she visited, well yeah, of course you do, yeah soooo..... what I’m saying is.... well so.... that neighbour of yours.... um..... well I’m.... let me just say, that wasn’t a house you entered and none of those things were stolen. Your neighbour was right, it is a shame. It’s a shame for everyone involved.
So about the tea & scones. Do you remember what they tasted like?
@@FromThe3021 Seeing as you're asking, she made lovely tea and scones. She was also one of those old ladies who didn't apply makeup in the morning, she painted herself with it. She was quite the eccentric.
@@BradGryphonn - Seeing how my comment might be confusing or misinterpreted and you’ve hit me with a prompt, polite reply, I’ll explain.
I was insinuating your neighbour was a ghost hosting you in her mausoleum at the cemetery. It’s a shame beautiful things are left there because it means someone has passed.
@@BradGryphonn - I see how her complexion could of been confused with excessive make up.
I now say “savage” all the time become of Simon lol. Another great script from Kevin and Jen’s edits were already hilarious and now they’re seriously primo! 🤘❤️
Mine is "(what're you up to,)mate!"
Dude... there is so much horrible shit out there which makes it to the internet. Imagine the absolutely wretched stuff which DOESNT tho. Humans are truly brutal and horrifically capable.
The mortuary story honestly sounds like a school. Because that's the kind of shit that schools used to have back then.
One of my friends and we were 18 years old at the time. Well we got obliterated on devil's springs and the next day when we woke up we found a stop sign in my backyard not just the sign 🛑 but the bar that holds it up and we were completely covered head to toe in mud.. so we brought it back to were it came from as we walked we found many mail boxes and other signs that had been taken down...so we put it all back up until we got to where the stop 🛑 was supposed to be so we started to put the sign back up and a cop rolls up on us!!! We said we were just putting the sign back up because it was important for it to be there and fortunately she just left us. (We have absolutely no memory of what happened after we left my driveway.
What’s devil’s springs?
@@DocBree13 really strong alcohol.
Well, at least you cleaned up after yourselves lol
Woke up to a Skyrim quest 😂
narcoleptic here.
the number of times i have fallen asleep, dreamt, and woke up thinking it was real happens several times a day.
you're really missing out on a lot of fun.
Fun fact! Many signs (like stop signs) are the same across the world so that anyone who is driving but may not speak the language of the country they're driving in will still be able to drive safely. So, yes, stop signs, yield signs, etc, are the same shape and color.
6:47 "It's my job to steal and rob... GRAAAAAAAVES!"
Simon if you haven't seen Repo! The Genetic Opera you desperately need to. It has got Anthony Stewart Head as a repo man for financed human organs and it is simply amazing!
stealing a stop sign and immediately after a terrible murderous accident takes place has happened more than once. while i was in highschool that happened to people... my friends stole a fullsize stop sign from a walking trail. no one ever got hurt. also the people that moderate the inappropriate things from the internet suffer from SEVERE PSTD...! it's a very sad and unrewarding job.
I look at detours and stuff for roadwork in my day job, and the number of times we've poo-pooed covering up a stop sign during work... people crash if you change things like that suddenly, let alone twice in a relatively short period of time.
1:59 "It's big, it's red, it says STOP in the middle"
Oh man the missed memes opportunities...
Simon casually holds up a skull 💀
My first thought: DANNY!😱😱😱😱😱
Ya I remember a couple VHS's going around and I lived in a small town near a somewhat major city. Amazing how these got circulated. Great vid. Take care 😎 🤘 🍻
The whole team that makes these videos is amazing and hilarious. Please keep up the great work!
Thanks!
I just love Jen's edits so much. All hail Jen!
The stuff you can accidentally see online is traumatizing sometimes, particularly the cartel type stuff.. yikes
It just dawned on me, this is the same Kevin that also writes for the Casual Criminalist. Sweet!
Indeed it is! And Sideprojects, and Megaprojects, and...well we'll see how the one script goes.
Next Business Blaze episode: A brief history of Tiffany and Co.
I heard about the video "grave robbing for morons", in a comment section on a different RUclips video like a year ago.
Just happened to click on it and watch it. Super weird.
I helped shut down geocities. Literally. I ran the shutdown command on the servers. It was like shutting off a piece of my teen years.
I like how Simon keeps dropping comments about the super screwed-up picture and video he saw, leaving the rest of us to ponder what it could be. "Mortuary of the Dead" comment: "Super screwed up, but not as f---ed up as that picture and video I saw once."
Also, the scariest thing of "Mortuary of the Dead" is that it implies the existence of another place, the Mortuary of the Living.
Nice to know that at least Simon would rob graves for the right reason. Family heirlooms not bones. Nice job Kevin. Being a fellow Americans who grew up with similar circumstances & same choices.
@5:00 I remember trying to look up obscure things on the internet back then and not finding any information and thinking to myself "well maybe in a couple of years..." 😅
simon vs french term "ennui" (pronounced similar to "on-wee" (and even that's not right but CLOSE ENOUGH)) gives me life
Omg! I was a teenager around NYC on long island actually in the 90s and a friend of mine who was often left alone in NYC while his dad drove limo had a copy of this VHS, crazy. I remember we honestly considered grave robbing for a minute enough that we actually looked up the laws to see how illegal it was. I didn't remember much about the video we watched it once when my friend brought it over one night when we were having a sleepover. I was definitely convinced it was real at the time. When you first showed it in this vid I had remembered that he tells you to murder anyone who catches you because my friend and i had a big conversation about how stupid it was to murder someone who had caught you doing something that would probably get you a lesser sentence than murder. Although as kids we thought maybe grave robbing was like an equivalent sentence to murder because it seems so serial killer-y. So crazy to think about that video and that night more than 20years ago watching that VHS.
Do you remember a specific year you saw it? So weird how you were located in the same area that kid was and was probably around the same age as him.. did you by chance recognize the boy at all?
I think Simon underestimated this one. He's not Jack the Ripper but it is one video out if millions that no one has disproven or identified in any way. Everything on the internet gets figured out or disproven. Hell pizza rat was debunked and this kid stole human parts and bragged on film.
"I'm making educational videos, I don't want people to have to learn..."
I wonder if Simon is familiar with the podcast known as "It's probably (not) aliens" it's a pretty entertaining podcast debunking Ancient Aliens
I'm going to have to check this out, do they focus on how it's often based in a Euro-centric belief that "primitive" cultures were incapable of "advanced" technology? Because, seriously, so much of them are.
I don't know how this dude has enough hours in the day. Simon hosts what? 455 different RUclips channels?
Even in the 80's you could get more convincing bone props than the cheap Halloween decorations most people are familiar with. Let alone if you had connections to someone who works in, say, medical science and education or anatomy studies. That is a way to get real bones without robbing any graves at all, whether by permitted borrowing "for a film project" or by taking without permission then quickly slipping back in.
Hell, even in the most basic college-level Art 101 classes, having quality skeleton models for drawing studies is pretty much mandatory. Artists can also have very well-paying and steady careers drawing high quality diagrams for medical textbooks and posters, but they need to study real human body parts and corpses for that work. Even 3D models from scans, and high-definition videos and photographs are considered inferior to seeing and working off of the real thing for several reasons.
I had to look it up just because. Grave Robbing in Canada can result in prison time of 1 to 10 years and/or fines up to $10 000. Minimum Charges are a $500 fine for grave robbing. The charges would change if you desecrate or process the body.
When I was in HS we had a teacher with the same last name as a street. Some of his students stole the street sign, turned it into a plaque and gave it to him. This became an open school secret about the sign being stolen, we all came over to look at it but didn't push the question. Lol.
Bet that teacher was a fucking legend.
3 minutes in and he hasn't even talked about what the video is about but he's talked about memes his video editor and the town he grew up in every single time I try to watch one of these guys videos I can't even get to the part where he actually talks about what I originally wanted to hear
6:30 - Chapter 1 - The video
13:35 - Chapter 2 - Ensuring your place in hell
19:30 - Chapter 3 - Anthony casamassima
23:15 - Chapter 4 - Say you love satan
26:40 - Wrap up
28:20 - Bonus facts
I can't believe you Simon! Wow thanks dude. I love the critique (thank you spell check) from the "reader". I would have thought this might have jeopardized your chance at another script. Dude you are ALL OVER THE NET. I love your shows.
I felt that aside about seeing fucked up stuff on the internet. Don't darkweb kids. Even if you think you need to. Just don't.
I've run across enough 'can't unsee' on the normal internet. I have *no* desire to go poking around the darkweb for worse.
"Exploding varmints" the sequel to hungry hungry hippos we never got.
It's Awwwn-wee, Simon. From context clues you can tell it means boredom. "Pedantry is a great way to relieve ennui"
My very first job was on an excavation in an old cemetery (from the Charité) in Berlin. That I think about it now, it's perhaps a little Strange was paid my first job, the first work for me, consisted of excavate, catalog, and photograph old Skelettons.
You can cop a charge of manslaughter or maybe even murder (I can't remember which) for stealing a stop sign and someone dying. I have a human skull and I think the skull looks real in the video. But having the skull in my collection doesn't mean I'm an expert in any way. However I don't think his claims of asking for a million dollars for Elvis or Monroe's skull are realistic. There is no way you can certify who the bones belong to or prove they are actually infamous bones, plus they're stolen. That's a tiny market and you'd have to know where to sell them. You can buy skulls but the people who trade in them don't want dodgy ones.
I loved the mystery of the internet back in the 90s...endless hacks and mods and legal mp3s to upload to my minidisk player then pack a bag and a bowl and hit the skate park
But we still have outside life.
I love how Simon just randomly pulls out a skull
I knew that skull as background decoration. At some point a large number of red paper cups made their way into that shelve and one sits on that skull like a hat.
3:43 .. Simon that's luxurious, when I was growing up. My town had a combination (one pump, regular only) gas station & general store, and they would not let us buy anything specific ...
20:31 I imagine he loved and appreciated this art as I would a lost or neglected dog. I just would want to get it out of harm and into the arms of someone who loves it like I do.
I didn't go into a super amount of detail, but the guy really did love the art. He didn't sell that much, most of it was stolen for restoration. Even after the authorities confiscated a lot of his stuff, he was allowed to keep all the broken Tiffany shards so he could keep doing his hobby.
@@ThatWriterKevin whoa! I'm starstruck at seeing you comment down here! Love your scripts!
@@kaitlynnp582 Thanks!
"It's big. It's red. It says STOP in the middle." I don't know why, but when Simon said this I burst out into a cackle that would make an evil witch proud.
One year in high school (early 00’s), our health teacher showed us a video, that was probably filmed in the mid-late ‘80s, of a woman giving birth. At one point the camera looks straight down the barrel of the gun as the baby is coming out and that scene scarred me for life. I’ve seen some wild, wild, videos on the internet, but, somehow, none of those videos scarred me quite like the birthing video did. I will never forget that baby’s bald, slimy, bloody, head crowning and because of that video, I don’t think I’ll be able to stomach a front row seat to the birth of my first child… Everyone says it’s different when it’s your kid, but after nearly passing out when the veterinarian showed me a tumor he’d removed from my dog, I don’t think the fact that it’s my child will matter much…
Barrel of a gun....?
I passed out and smashed my head badly enough that I needed stitches and I have actually done surgery on people …it’s worse when it’s your kid
'Bowl-o-drome' is a new one on me; we always called them 'bowling alleys'... The other you described is what we called a 'skating rink' (ice or roller).
...I can't resist answering that kinda question, I love language
... also, yes - same Tiffany. The glass is legendary, and figures in a number of Frank Lloyd Wright houses. (Biographics video, anyone? Anyone??)
When I showed up at my first duty after boot camp , I used my state issued driver's license. Leather jacket removed, 30lbs lighter , long hair shaved, and clean shaven. My ssgt ,my caption ,and Sgt basically called me a lier and told me to stop playing and give them my real ID. My point. Appearances can be very deceptive. Just because he didn't look like the guy doesn't mean much. I look like I am in my early 20s and I am 39. Food for thought
Large open building with an open, usually wooden, floor for roller skating in: Roller rink. Bowlodrome...I would imagine a bowling alley, particularly a large one set up with additional entertainment features like 90's neon lighting and such, se also bowlorama, compared to the smaller "it's a bar with 4 lanes in the back" like you see in the movie Groundhog Day.
Bowling, Simon...Next (very funny) movie to watch: The Big Lebowski
re: skeletons: In the States....probably middle 20th century, the skeletons
used for high school biology classes turned out to be real skeletons, not plastic or whatever ones.
Just found this channel, recently, and I love how much more casual and hilarious Simon is.
Bowladrome is a bowling establishment. And ennui is pronounced enwee. It means a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement
In french, ennui is literally the word for boredom.
Simon, when you get all meta to comment at your crew or about production really makes your vids more entertaining these days. It makes you so human rather than trying to pull the mainstream media style manufactured composure that ruins trust and relatability
The video starts at 6:25.
Also the video if the stuttering guy in leather jacket with a skull… it seems like the type of video you make for a class project. I saw tons of weird videos in the 90s that were made by fellow students as assignments. Bad acting, bad quality, weird subject matter.. like he wrote it himself. Thats my guess
You should make an episode of the most myserious song on the internet perfect for decoding the unknown
It's coming
@@ThatWriterKevin Whang has covered that one super comprehensively.
@@BatDeckard1138 Our video on it has been out for like 6 or 7 months at this point I feel like. But there is a very finite number of unsolved interner mysteries that aren't boring as shit, so yeah multiple channels will cover the same stories.
Personally I can absolutely picture these drug addled dudes robbing graves. I mean jeez. Their whole vibe screams 'I do weird shit you dont want to know about' lmao.
That was an occult shop that Simon visited, not a magic shop. Magic shops are for stage magicians.
Illusionist!
I was confused for a moment, wondering what kind of magic trick is done with a "glass sphere". Then I realized he was talking about a crystal ball and it was a metaphysical/occult shop. 😂🔮
@@ComedorDelrico When I was a child there was an actual magic shop I frequently visited. Very cool place. It was gone before my childhood even ended though :(
What did he call that place? Osteri?
@@EvelyntMildostuary. It's a where bones are kept like the catacombs or under Cathedrals.
”Back in the day”?
You’re like 20 Simon. When I was a kid stone drums were all the rage
Interesting that the video discusses that Anthony almost tells the world his last name before cutting himself off and dispite of this, Simon happily almost tells the internet where he lives.
Fun fact (and it is, in fact, a fact because I learned said fact from a mortician when I worked at a hospital!) If someone has a limb amputated they can elect to have the limb stored by a funeral home/mortuary until they themselves pass away. When their body is buried/cremated, the amputated limb goes with them. I'm in America, so this may not be the case elsewhere. Thanks to your and the rest of the team for the entertainment!
I think the other thing is that if he truly graverobbed, he did it on someone with non living relatives so it wouldn’t have been reported. And in an area with high crime rates so police wouldn’t investigate and people just can’t be bothered to report crimes
Someone out there knows this kid and has seen and heard of the video. They just don't want to admit to knowing him.
And also, there's a good chance the kid is still alive and in his 40s or 50s, and he knows his video is a famous internet mystery. And hasn't come forward because he gets a KICK out of it.
Or he doesn't come forward because he's ashamed. Then there's the camera man named Gino.... He hasn't come forward either lol
ur seeing those crazy vids on ur time line it’s bc u interact with similar content that ppl who acc like this crazy vids also interact with, i noticed how simon says he likes guns, so he’s probs interacting with insane gun enthusiasts in a six degrees kind of way
For my level 1 HAZMAT certification, I had to watch a video of a police officer dying by running into a cloud of cyanide in his attempt to rescue the truck driver carrying the gas (the driver had an accident and was already dead from gas inhalation). The worst part about it is that his microphone was connected to his dash cam, so we could hear him going into respiratory distress and knew the exact moment that he died. Really struck home the fact that accidents involving chemicals are no joke.
Was it cyanide or was it ammonia from a nurse tank? If the video was the same one I watched for my EMT course it was ammonia
@@ShadowGem07 I feel certain it was cyanide, but I saw this back in 2015 for my first training and haven't seen it since, so it's entirely possible that I'm misremembering. I remember that the semi-truck was pulling a metal tanker filled with gas, was on its side and that it was surrounded by cornfields, but I can't remember if there was a T junction.
"I'd be robbing graves for like jewelry and shi- I mean I wouldn't be robbing graves!" Yeah, sure lol
I'm not fazed by much I see, especially on the Internet having grown up in the days when the URLs for ”rotten” websites were shared on on the schoolyard. But the one thing I feel I'll never unsee is this one video clip I came across on Reddit a couple of years ago of a teenager using a nail clipper on his front incisor and then being horrified when his tooth broke.
A biker missing his lower jaw from a helmetless crash? Horrible but I took it as more of a life lesson.
The slaughter house photos that the militant vegans at my school would shove into my food at lunch? Hmm, so what's this amateurishly butchered cow have to do with my fish sticks?
But whether it's fake or real, the sheer stupidity of tooth vs nail clipper and then the surprised, panicked expression over the sharpened steel winning. Ugh.
Not quite on the same level, but the clipper reminded me of an acquaintance who decided to show off at a party by setting a firecracker off while holding it in his lips.
I've done dumb shit, but always stuff that was at least ....achievable without personal harm...I guess?
The full body cringe reaction I had to reading about the tooth and nail clippers omg, I want to loose that mental image forever.
Watched a video on youtube of people going on a trail in some country to take a swim in these remote ponds(or lake, cant remember exactly). Once there, they hear sirens blaring, but are not sure what it means so they stay. Then a deluge of water comes and some of them get swept away and drown. Turns out there was a sign(or signs) along the trail, warning that if you hear a siren, you need to get to high ground, but apperently someone had remeved it.
when I was a teen, as a joke we got some old cow bones and two plaster skulls from our High School Biology Department. We then went to the beach behind our house, built a fire, let it burn down a good bit and then placed the bones and skulls in the Ashes and waited for the beachgoers to arrive to discover it. It was wild, screaming women, cops, fire department, investigators went door to door asking questions...greAT PRANK.
Now that's nearly victimless.
Legend!
Our city has a street called "Dingleberry Road.". That sign is the single most-stolen street sign in the state.