The Scariest Short Story I've Ever Read: Borrasca

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  • Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
  • This is a reupload due to a mistake on my end, sorry.
    Read the original story: / borrasca
    Buy the book: www.amazon.com...
    All music in this video is by Myuu and Kevin MacLeod.
    Thanks for watching!

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  • @jaybird160
    @jaybird160  11 месяцев назад +2831

    TRIGGER WARNING
    POTENTIAL SPOILERS
    This video contains mentions of disturbing content such as rape, sexual assault, incest, violence, and self harm.
    Viewer discretion is advised.
    Thank you.

    • @Forgotten_Lives
      @Forgotten_Lives 11 месяцев назад +44

      Thanks, I guess.

    • @vlad_ap5313
      @vlad_ap5313 11 месяцев назад +102

      Thank you for this, truly. I watched the previous version without trigger warnings, wasn't good for me. I'm happy these are here. I think you reuploaded to include these? Or maybe I just didn't see them. I personally would recommend including them in the video itself, or at least saying aloud that the trigger warnings are in the pinned comment, as many people don't really look at the video if they're doing something else while listening (unless you did include it later on, then disregard this recommendation). Regardless, thank you for these, truly uwu

    • @Nico-zt5jl
      @Nico-zt5jl 11 месяцев назад +35

      The ending was uncomfortable to hear. I hope you cover the sequel, since it defiantly needs the hear the fate of Borrasca.

    • @meowmeow-ju8mk
      @meowmeow-ju8mk 11 месяцев назад +7

      Thank you

    • @friot4972
      @friot4972 11 месяцев назад +15

      @@vlad_ap5313what do you mean not good for you? sorry if it sounds rude I just don’t really get it

  • @biblicallyaccurateangel2476
    @biblicallyaccurateangel2476 11 месяцев назад +3387

    i listened to borrasca several years ago and the plot has stuck with me since then. i expected a supernatural creature the whole time so when i was confronted with the twist it really hit hard

    • @angelfrancisco8256
      @angelfrancisco8256 11 месяцев назад +64

      I had a hunch the whole time I knew something was up. Since it was only women being abducted. The only thing I got wrong was I thought it was the father of Jimmy not Jimmy himself.

    • @dalegaliniak607
      @dalegaliniak607 11 месяцев назад +46

      I listened to the podcast and honestly didn't like it. All that buildup, with the Borrasca parties, shinning men, masked figures, screams heard throughout town, mile markers and so on, felt like a build up to this large supernatural thing, and when I got to the twist, it didn't feel shocking, it just felt convoluted. It seemed like most, if not all, of the adults in the town were in on it, why would they bother setting up all that lore? You can pay off the police and federal government, you can't tell me you couldn't pay off the town doctors to do a blood sample during the yearly school physical. And so on.

    • @Demortixx
      @Demortixx 11 месяцев назад +17

      Yeah the twist is stupid and makes no sense. Ruins the entire story

    • @Demortixx
      @Demortixx 11 месяцев назад +11

      @@dalegaliniak607yup. It makes no sense and ruins the story

    • @heathersworld9881
      @heathersworld9881 10 месяцев назад +11

      I felt absolute horror when the twist came.. and I love horror. The only other story that has hit like this is “penpal”.

  • @numberii300
    @numberii300 9 месяцев назад +1531

    I think something else that’s terrifying is when Sam and Kyle confront the sheriff, and when talking about Whitney and Sam makes remarks about them not finding her, Walker says (and i’m paraphrasing) “I love her more than you could ever know.” Thinking back on that, knowing that he knew what happened to her, and what he did to her, is even more terrifying.

    • @a_literalrat1096
      @a_literalrat1096 9 месяцев назад +112

      No fr like im going to throw up

    • @TheTmieBandit
      @TheTmieBandit 9 месяцев назад +35

      I think i threw up a little

    • @jennaowens248
      @jennaowens248 9 месяцев назад +24

      ew omfg ... the shock of it all is hitting me again

    • @avryantoinette
      @avryantoinette 8 месяцев назад +8

      Oh. :(

    • @makkabeech
      @makkabeech 8 месяцев назад +42

      and how later Jimmy was saying "She isn't mine" and "Her Babies aren't any good" i was sick

  • @hannahbarrett6074
    @hannahbarrett6074 10 месяцев назад +3323

    dude, that was NOT how i expected that story to go. whitney not having any justice and her own FATHER?? that poor girl. Kyle and Kimber being siblings unknowingly makes a lot of sense, given how Kimber's parents were against them dating. I honestly wish it was paranormal now, because this has left a pit in my stomach and a hole in my heart. Incredible story, but man am I upset now.

    • @smnthatj
      @smnthatj 10 месяцев назад +23

      this is exactly how i feel

    • @natashiafrelin1590
      @natashiafrelin1590 10 месяцев назад +48

      What’s crazy about it for me is the my son’s father has a terrible trauma of remembering seeing his father sexually assaulting his half sister (his fathers daughter)…and her name is Whitney 😮😢

    • @alexliddell3171
      @alexliddell3171 10 месяцев назад +163

      I didn't quite realise until it was pointed out at the end of this video. It suddenly makes sense that the "did something bad & the cops transferred him to a different town rather than prosecute him" & subsequently why he went along with the cover up throwing his son under the bus, was most likely because Sheriff Walker was a dirty cop who committed sex crimes.
      What's chilling is that in real life there are so many cases of cops who are sex offenders or corrupt in other ways getting treated exactly like this, instead of being brought to justice they're just transferred far away so the department they got caught in is spared the embarrassment & their good friend on the force can be happy indulging in crimes elsewhere.
      This shifts Sheriff Walker's whole character.
      At first I thought he was just an inept cop who got let go by the St Louis police force to work in a smaller town with less work & hopefully lesser stakes.
      By the end of the story we find out not only does he know exactly what's going on in those mountains, but he's an active part of the operation.
      Considering that his daughter "goes missing" so soon after he arrives, & he's incredibly calm about it (which I initially thought was his way of coping as a detective, albeit an inept one), I believe he knew about the secret of the town from the start & was secretly elated that he finally had not only a place to sexually abuse women & girls any time he wanted, but he could finally do it to his own daughter & never worry about the legal or social repercussions.
      And rather than being the bumbling but nice cop dad he's introduced as, he is revealed as a truly evil psychopath who wears a perfect mask of polite authority.
      His manipulation is so good, his morals & empathy non-existent, he convinced everyone that his son just beat up his best friend for no reason, a story that would crumble under the slightest scrutiny if anybody bothered to think about it & didn't just take the Sheriff's word for it.
      The monsters weren't just in the old mines, it was in Sam's home the whole time, that's what kicked me in the gut.

    • @heehoopeanut420
      @heehoopeanut420 10 месяцев назад

      ​​@@natashiafrelin1590I'm sure she loves you posting about the most fucked up terrible thing that's ever happened to her and using her fucking name in it. A little girls rape is not your fun shocking story to tell. God you make me sick to my fucking stomach.

    • @MYo-to9lc
      @MYo-to9lc 10 месяцев назад +55

      I have such a love/hate relationship with stories like this. On one hand, I love how well the story is crafted that it can leave such an emptiness in me. But I hate feeling this way, and I hate being confronted with the fact that something like this could absolutely happen in real life. It is truly horrifying.

  • @hugot9830
    @hugot9830 10 месяцев назад +503

    When I heard about Sam getting blamed for what happened to Kyle, and the sheriffs response, I had to get up and pace in my bedroom for a solid 20 minutes before coming back.

    • @lelmasterextras
      @lelmasterextras Месяц назад +2

      There's a sequel, and stuff gets even darker

    • @alishegamer8490
      @alishegamer8490 Месяц назад +1

      @@lelmasterextras THE WHAT

    • @lelmasterextras
      @lelmasterextras Месяц назад

      @@alishegamer8490 yee its called Borrasca V ruclips.net/video/ylTWCgwK-HY/видео.html

  • @xXjesterXjacksXx
    @xXjesterXjacksXx 4 месяца назад +73

    Now looking back on sheriff Walker's line of" I loved her more than you can ever understand" feels so sickening

  • @Yologamer9
    @Yologamer9 10 месяцев назад +872

    Borrasca is the "the adults are out to get you" troupe in its ultimate form, and that definitely had me hooked when I first read this in HS. Love this story and I'm glad to see a breakdown on it!

  • @stinegregersen6553
    @stinegregersen6553 11 месяцев назад +992

    It really helps that I can hear really loud metallic sounds from the local crane factory during this story

    • @sebby324
      @sebby324 10 месяцев назад +25

      Oh no I’d cry lol

    • @CrescentCaribou
      @CrescentCaribou 10 месяцев назад +15

      did any of them line up with where they happened in the story? bet it sounded creepy as hell lol

    • @stinegregersen6553
      @stinegregersen6553 10 месяцев назад +33

      @@CrescentCaribou it did once actually, really improved the experience for me 🤣

    • @SusanB-ru7zn
      @SusanB-ru7zn 4 месяца назад +2

      Oh man! That woulda blown me away immediately! I probably woulda had to stop listening.

    • @groupdismemberment
      @groupdismemberment 2 месяца назад +2

      Yeah I feel you, read the whole story at three am and the sounds of the wood processing factory outside really didn't help with sleeping

  • @sadlyimawake2359
    @sadlyimawake2359 10 месяцев назад +1626

    All I can think about is the triple tree and how everything started there...
    "I went room to room - four in total - and found nothing of real interest until the last one. An old mattress lay in the corner and piles of musty, ripped clothing scattered the floor."
    That room is where it all started. That mattress is haunted by the ripped clothes of the first victim. It's practically spelled out to us with the words written on the ceiling:
    "Road to the Gates of Hell Mile Marker 1"

    • @jbailey5061
      @jbailey5061 10 месяцев назад +61

      I felt like the story didn't need the tree house for this very reason. Everyone in town. including Sam and Kyle, would guess what's going on here. C'mon they left the ripped clothes?? There would be rumors and myths about the horrible stuff going on at the tree house and at the mines.

    • @sadlyimawake2359
      @sadlyimawake2359 10 месяцев назад +209

      I don't think thats neccesarily true. While the mattress and ripped clothes could be seen as an indication of a horrendous crime, there are other assumptions that could be made. When he sees the room, Sam asks “Did a hobo live here?" To him, this just appeared to be the old belongings of a homeless person. It could also be assumed that local teenagers use the spot for their own consentual activities. These characters don't have the insight that us readers do, so I don't think they would make those connections given the information available to them at the time.

    • @pompe221
      @pompe221 10 месяцев назад +95

      @@sadlyimawake2359 Honestly, homeless person/escaped convict was where my mind went right away and I'm not a teenager.

    • @heehoopeanut420
      @heehoopeanut420 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@sadlyimawake2359You're naive if you think that and that's exactly why stories like this suck and are cheap and lazy. This shit happens in real life everyday and you still won't believe it, when women and victims or just people with a fucking brain could tell you exactly what's going down from day 1.

    • @heehoopeanut420
      @heehoopeanut420 10 месяцев назад +10

      ​@@pompe221Do homeless people tend to rip up the only clothing they have? Like ots very obvious, you people are just oblivious to this type of crime irl.

  • @TehPompkinHead
    @TehPompkinHead 10 месяцев назад +1151

    The insane part about this is that this is REAL. Borrasca may not be, but I know these “baby mills” are, child trafficking is, I mean there’s no way the author hadn’t at least heard rumors of something like this in my mind.

    • @melanie6981
      @melanie6981 8 месяцев назад +35

      sickening

    • @chat4538
      @chat4538 8 месяцев назад +145

      I'm from rural Texas, and just the other day, there was a bunch of police officers in the same department busted for child trafficking. I shit you not there's certain towns that have reputations for human trafficking as well. I also remember when I was in college, a human trafficking ring was busted in the apartments right beside the girls' dorms.

    • @juuchanIRL
      @juuchanIRL 8 месяцев назад +47

      in the 90s, poor people in my country did this on masse and sold the children to rich americans. around 1996 a law passed to stop this, but a family in my grandma's town sold 5 or 6 kids of their own for as little as 300 dollars.

    • @samuelellis9051
      @samuelellis9051 8 месяцев назад +4

      @@juuchanIRLwhat country?

    • @juuchanIRL
      @juuchanIRL 8 месяцев назад +33

      @@samuelellis9051 romania. post-communist 90s were an anarchy.

  • @VUND-25
    @VUND-25 9 месяцев назад +357

    This story had filled me with a rage I've never felt before, it's such a well written piece to be able to invoke that emotion, and I'll probably start getting mad at the mere word "Borrasca"

    • @Epicotters
      @Epicotters 8 месяцев назад +18

      God yeah. Because there's not a good ending, no justice. I remember first reading borrasca when I was like 14-15, I was enthralled and excited to find out what creepy thing might be living in the mines, only to be shown the horrible truth of what people are capable of.

    • @its_sisha_not_chair505
      @its_sisha_not_chair505 3 месяца назад +7

      I envy the people that listened to this and could feel mere rage. I feel such a fucking trembling fear, like a deep profound realization of how real and putrid this is. The vivid image of what god did not intend for this earth, a forsaken image burned in my mind of the raped bodies of women, all formed in a line, like mere product, the cold demeanor of not having a fraction of remorse, the control one single man with economic power could do. Why can the mind be so depraved? Why is this a possible real scenario? Maybe its because i love reading and stories and i try to get into the story, it felt so bad in my soul making my own realizations during the reading, when i heard the name William, how the sheriff loved his daughter in a strange way... The mattress... That everything in this town, all the lovely children and memories are born from an act of pure evil and sin, unstopped, unchanged. Men looking at the little girls, thinking of what will they be and what will they give, as borrasca will take them someday to repeat it, for as long as borrasca stays. Maybe this personally hits me because i live in a town surrounded by forests and everyone knows everybody.
      And from my window, i can look to the forest, sometimes, a big light can be seen from there, from a big house i assumed to be. Before, i just thought it was a fancy place... Now, my mind will remind me of this story and beg to god if hes still there, for fantasy being that, fantasy.
      In my life ive heard of this type of tragedy and worse a million times, yet, ive never actually stopped to feel the horror we are

    • @NeoZ45
      @NeoZ45 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@its_sisha_not_chair505On my end I feel a mixture of rightepus fury and fear, fear as you said of it not being just fantasy, it being real, that out there things like this happen, and sadly knowing that it is true...
      Yet I feel rage, fury because I get tired of being complacent, of just being part of the enabling masses, that I wish to inflict pain and justice towards these monsters in human skin...

  • @latayantheazran
    @latayantheazran 10 месяцев назад +5462

    This isn't a horror story. This is a rage story. This doesn't scare me, it makes me want to beat up something.

    • @Thelastmanalive565
      @Thelastmanalive565 10 месяцев назад +96

      I believe that story continues with sam and Kimberly( I think her name is).

    • @SirBeanz1937
      @SirBeanz1937 10 месяцев назад +136

      There is a season 2 where sam comes back for revenge

    • @r3ntz699
      @r3ntz699 10 месяцев назад +4

      @@Thelastmanalive565fr

    • @latayantheazran
      @latayantheazran 10 месяцев назад +9

      @@SirBeanz1937 i gotta check that out

    • @ametuergamer1524
      @ametuergamer1524 10 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@SirBeanz1937can you give a summary

  • @mmcc3454
    @mmcc3454 10 месяцев назад +2656

    I totally saw the sex stuff coming a mile away, mostly from the description of the dirty mattress in the treehouse. I could’ve never guessed just HOW putrid and deep this ran tho. The Walker-William shit made my skin CRAWWLLLL

    • @janerecluse4344
      @janerecluse4344 10 месяцев назад

      It's just so stupid! There's a whole black market of unwanted kids even if none of these people can find a sleazy adoption agency to help them, and honestly, they could just keep their young people bored, not let 'em have any birth control, and inseminate girls on the sly at gynecological appointments! Then they can stay home, you don’t have to pretend to feel bad, and their parents pay to feed them!
      IT'S JUST DUMB! *flings hands up in disgust*

    • @rapturebeautv4345
      @rapturebeautv4345 10 месяцев назад

      I'm with you here. Mine is the fact that most of the victims are girls.

    • @ninjadudezack
      @ninjadudezack 10 месяцев назад +88

      This comment made me realize the Walker William thing, holy fuck

    • @theycallmejodamo
      @theycallmejodamo 10 месяцев назад +43

      Same. As soon as I heard that description, I knew. I just didn’t know that it would veer like it did.

    • @galaxymoon8071
      @galaxymoon8071 10 месяцев назад +68

      I thought it was odd that it was only girls that disappeared, but I assumed it was just the author subconscious misogyny. Oh how wrong I was.

  • @thefruitsong
    @thefruitsong 11 месяцев назад +1798

    "no one loved her like I did." Says sheriff Walker.
    They move right after she gets her first boyfriend. (Sam calls him her "new" boyfriend)
    And Whitney disappears right after she gets a boyfriend in the new place. (Well, not right after, but shortly)
    ...
    Good lord.
    (Edited to add)
    I also read the sequel and he someone gets worse.
    A serial predator who marries one of Sam's classmates (and has a new daughter named Whitney with her and a shrine to the old one), victimized Kimber
    And the reason he was kicked out of the last police department?
    "The girls were 14 dad."

    • @CanisSubwoofus
      @CanisSubwoofus 11 месяцев назад +139

      I mean…he wasn’t wrong…
      God that makes me throw up.

    • @SpamorammA
      @SpamorammA 11 месяцев назад +94

      How did that go over my head. UGH.

    • @su_zuki_2310
      @su_zuki_2310 10 месяцев назад +92

      OMG I FLINCHED AND CLINCHED MY TEETH SO HARD READING YOUR COMMENT EWWWWW😭😭😭💀💀💀

    • @samarabrown7838
      @samarabrown7838 10 месяцев назад +113

      And the new baby (which was announced right around the time whitney was supposed to give birth) was named William 🤢

    • @devilsguy8711
      @devilsguy8711 10 месяцев назад +103

      That’s why Kimber’s mother hated Kyle so much. That relationship starting sped up her “selection” process.

  • @stupidsoul
    @stupidsoul 10 месяцев назад +474

    Right after the letter ends at 1:40:50, an ad played talking about therapy for childhood trauma survivors. Both the worst and the best timing. Either way, no urban legend made-up monster could ever be scarier than the real monsters that walk among us like the ones in this book. For anyone out there that's suffering from something similar: your beautifully strong and i wish you the best on this healing journey. Stay safe everyone, and remember you're never fighting this alone ❤️

    • @felipevega484
      @felipevega484 9 месяцев назад +4

      All my adds where about cereals for breakfast.

    • @Thornnbush
      @Thornnbush 9 месяцев назад +6

      Dawg I got a Burger King ad 😭

    • @kristyhendrickson1951
      @kristyhendrickson1951 9 месяцев назад +4

      😢 this story is a hard to listen to if you are a recovering from that kind of trauma ❤ my story is a real horror story. Thank you for saying what you said God bless ❤😢

    • @celestialknight2339
      @celestialknight2339 9 месяцев назад +2

      Hey better than me, I got a Papa John’s pizza ad 😅 Totally ruined the mood lol

    • @michaelgutierrez8894
      @michaelgutierrez8894 9 месяцев назад +1

      among us mentioned 🗣️‼️⛔️📮📮🔥🔥

  • @MikaelaCher
    @MikaelaCher 10 месяцев назад +158

    I saw Kyle and Kimber being related somehow from a mile away but never thought THIS would be the way tbh-
    The horror aspect is definetly lacking a little bit, it's more rage inducing. However, it is scary to think about how often these things actually happen irl. How corrupted the powerful people can be and how shady their bussiness is

    • @mashal7965
      @mashal7965 Месяц назад

      When did they reveal that they were siblings

    • @cprhroaehssneteonr5488
      @cprhroaehssneteonr5488 Месяц назад

      ​@@mashal7965after it is revealed that the babies are named after either Prescott or the Sheriff's name, the sheriff's name started with K, and Kimber and Kyle both start with K, meaning they have the same father, maybe the same mother.

  • @Vynglamour
    @Vynglamour 10 месяцев назад +874

    This story makes me sick to my stomach, but the bit that really broke me was the parts about Kimbers Mother. My own Mother committed suicide, apparently I was left a letter. I was never allowed to see it. Of course that's different from the story but hearing the letter be read out made me think of all the times I thought of the letter from my own Mother. Absolutely heartbreaking

    • @o5-193
      @o5-193 10 месяцев назад +33

      Why didn't they let you see it

    • @Vynglamour
      @Vynglamour 10 месяцев назад +76

      @o5-193 a good question. Unfortunately though, I was never told why I couldn't see it. My father told me that she had written a letter to me and that she loved me very much. I was too shocked to ask at the time, and any other time I tried to bring it up, he only told me 'your mother loved you very much'.

    • @aMondayMorning
      @aMondayMorning 10 месяцев назад +28

      ​@@VynglamourI'm sorry for your loss. I hope you found closure.

    • @Vynglamour
      @Vynglamour 10 месяцев назад +21

      @@aMondayMorning thank you very much, I've only seen this comment. I've found my closure

    • @chattycatty3336
      @chattycatty3336 10 месяцев назад +23

      @@o5-193 what makes you think they would know that lmao. I doubt if their father is going to give it to them, that they would explain why. Probably just wants it forgotten about
      although i think its ridiculous to that. Unless someones parent was losing it and started to to blame the child or say something insane like that, theres no reason to hide a letter addressed to them. Their parents dieing wish was for these words to be read, and thats being taken from them.

  • @CypressDahlia
    @CypressDahlia 11 месяцев назад +1743

    I feel like Twin Peaks really kicked off "horrible sex cult in a small town" horror. Also makes you wonder what Sam's father did to disgrace the police. And I wonder if the town specifically seeks disgraced police officers to take in because they are either corrupt or easily corrupted. Or maybe Sam's father was blackmailed with whatever he did. I'm not gonna assume his father was a good person because a good person woulda just moved his family back out of the town lmao. I'm assuming he did something really really bad.

    • @veronnie2130
      @veronnie2130 10 месяцев назад +138

      I think it insinuates in Borrasca V that he'd been doing what he had been doing at Borrasca for a while.

    • @hermescarraro3393
      @hermescarraro3393 10 месяцев назад +288

      pretty sure the guy was sexually attracted to his own daughter for a long time before she was captured, since she disappeared right after she got a boifriend and he complained about him "loving her more than he cold ever know" or some shit

    • @who_the_fuck_is_riley5813
      @who_the_fuck_is_riley5813 10 месяцев назад +332

      @@hermescarraro3393 it's also said at the end that Whitney is about to give birth and be killed
      The baby a couple gets at the end is named William, so he's one of sheriff Walker's kids
      Heavily implied he's the father of Whitney's child.
      In the sequel he remarries and has another daughter, who he also names Whitney. And his house is covered in pictures of the original Whitney. When Sam burns all the pictures the sheriff's new wife also becomes terrified because of how he could react to that.
      Basically, Walker was *absolutely* attracted to his daughter, forced himself on her, and after she died he kept a weird shrine to her and named a second daughter the same thing. Absolutely sick bastard

    • @ThatDudeJerm
      @ThatDudeJerm 10 месяцев назад +115

      AND his second wife was a girl from the town that Sam literally grew up and went to school with his whole childhood. ON TOP OF THAT, the baby that Walker conceived with Whitney(potentially) was given to Sam’s old boss from the sandwich shop. This story is f@cking incredible and heart wrenchingly, gut punchingly, unexpected when you get to the plot twist. I remember the first time i read Borrasca, I was not prepared for the reveal of what really goes on in the town whatsoever. I was expecting some kind of cult taking the girls and sacrificing them to some monster or Eldritch horror-style God. And then when Sam Kyle and Ember go to Borrasca and see Sherriff Cleary and the cops up there and hear them talk about the powder. I thought maybe they were making some kind of supernatural drug that required human(specifically female) sacrifice or something to create, and were trafficking as some kind of small town drug cartel. The truth was even more horrific and so much worse than any kind of Cthulu-esque monster God, or drug manufacturing involving human sacrifice. It was so much worse than ANYTHING I could have ever expected or predicted.
      Thats why C.K. Walker is an incredible writer. Her Jeff the Killer reboot series is great too.

    • @frocoshake2107
      @frocoshake2107 10 месяцев назад +18

      Iirc the idea of a small town with a dark secret started with Stephen King and Salem's Lot, although it probably goes back far before that. Heart of Darkness was a thing after all.

  • @emzkinz
    @emzkinz 10 месяцев назад +699

    I wonder if Kimber's mom was depressed because she knew what would happen to Kimber.

    • @kitkatboard
      @kitkatboard 10 месяцев назад

      I don't think girls born from this... system are made into slaves (inbred kids don't sell for much). But knowing she contributed to the torture and rape of unknown women is probably what made her depressed.

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB 9 месяцев назад +151

      Yeah that was the implication. Also why she unalived herself. The guilt was too much.

    • @samuelosborn2148
      @samuelosborn2148 8 месяцев назад +122

      also why she hated Kyle so much. Knew that they were half siblings and didn't want them to date

    • @01hfjfj
      @01hfjfj 7 месяцев назад

      They probably were twins they both have the same red hair and are the same age, with them both being in the same grade ​@@samuelosborn2148

    • @nidhibhatt3765
      @nidhibhatt3765 7 месяцев назад +32

      ​@@samuelosborn2148 more likely to be full siblings because both are redheads which is a recessive trait, means they had the same mom, as well as the same dad.

  • @sicksalt7765
    @sicksalt7765 9 месяцев назад +385

    Very interesting story. Though whenever women start disappearing in horror, it pretty much always leads to the same place, so the twist isn't all that twisty. And as soon as you figure out it's all leading to rape-sex-cult-corruption-whatever (which, in this story, was almost immediately) you can also figure out that the story will probably do the whole "the worst monster you know lives in your own home" thing. ALL THAT BEING SAID. I love a story where the kids in a small town have manufactured their own lore around some creepy happening. Very true to life and always an interesting way to inject some unreliable (but deeply engaging) narration!

    • @lazydroidproductions1087
      @lazydroidproductions1087 9 месяцев назад +27

      Yeah, the transition from supernatural horror to reveal that it is all very very mundane is done really well

    • @blep8895
      @blep8895 7 месяцев назад +3

      I'm extremely dense and didn't figure it out until it was revealed

    • @sicksalt7765
      @sicksalt7765 7 месяцев назад +25

      @@blep8895 You’re not dense lol, the story is only as iconic as it is because most people don’t figure it out until the end. It’s just a matter of what media and tropes you’ve already been exposed to.

    • @Mr.Socinante
      @Mr.Socinante 4 месяца назад

      this shits awesome its as if kafkas novel on 10 x and sex related

    • @evie7500
      @evie7500 Месяц назад +8

      yeah, i liked this story in how the kids’ reactions were handled during the first bit, but i personally am not a huge fan of horror that just turns out to be SA/r*pe/torture. i understand why people enjoy it, because it reflects the actual horrors of the world, but i also kind of wish that we had a focus on escaping that stuff in fiction.
      when people are being trafficked and assaulted in real life, constantly, every day… using it as a plot device always comes off as exploitative shock value to me, no matter how well-written it is. and this isn’t me coming for the author of borrasca at all, i read the story and enjoyed parts of it, and clearly watched the video. i just have personal gripes with the entire genre of abuse-horror itself.

  • @0MissPhoenix
    @0MissPhoenix 9 месяцев назад +62

    Darn, title sounds really interesting but as a survivor I can't handle those trigger warnings. Big appreciation for putting those in!

    • @oddbirdMusic
      @oddbirdMusic 3 месяца назад +21

      The trigger warnings are no joke, the story hits like a truck. The story is fiction, but doesn't contain any supernatural elements - just (human) monsters.

    • @NolomEbal44560
      @NolomEbal44560 3 месяца назад +3

      @@oddbirdMusic The story may be fiction but it's based on truth.

    • @panielrosebud
      @panielrosebud Месяц назад +2

      I wish it was on the official story too. I didn’t want to waltz into this blind…

    • @andrewcassady2743
      @andrewcassady2743 6 дней назад +1

      Its okay, the "twist" isnt really worth it, the story takes a nosedive after the reader finds out what is really going on

  • @gabefarris7005
    @gabefarris7005 11 месяцев назад +710

    I think disturbing is the word you’re looking for. Also slightly disappointed Sam didn’t end up a vigilante. Decent story tho made me ill

    • @Nevermore-Nevermore
      @Nevermore-Nevermore 11 месяцев назад +91

      If you read Borrasca V, he does kind of go vigilante.

    • @kerdnerl
      @kerdnerl 11 месяцев назад +103

      ​@@Nevermore-Nevermorekimber went vigilante, sam just went along with it

    • @ProjectSebastiann
      @ProjectSebastiann 10 месяцев назад +31

      @@kerdnerl I think it started that way, but as it goes on he grows a backbone

    • @niksonrex88
      @niksonrex88 10 месяцев назад +38

      @@ProjectSebastiannif theres no killing bad guys, punisher style, i wont waste my time..

    • @maefromnitw
      @maefromnitw 9 месяцев назад +11

      my thoughts exactly. calling it scary is kind of misleading and made me read something i probably wouldn't have read otherwise

  • @nebulaayt
    @nebulaayt 10 месяцев назад +314

    This is probably one of the most effective horror stories ive ever read and now watch. The way you always expect this supernatural, horrible creature that commits these terrifying noises, but it really is a reality check when you realize that there wasn't ever a supernatural side to anything of this. This could very well happen somewhere out there.

  • @jackager1584
    @jackager1584 11 месяцев назад +639

    For me, this and Penpal by Dathan Auerbach both hold special places in my heart as Creepypastas that go above and beyond being great horror stories to legitimately emotionally devastating pieces that I revisit every year. If you haven’t read the latter story, definitely check it out

    • @WingItMan217
      @WingItMan217 11 месяцев назад +26

      Pen pal is lowkey becoming one of my favorite stories ever. Every time I read it I just get this feeling of dread and nostalgia

    • @BadPabda
      @BadPabda 11 месяцев назад +35

      Penpal is devastating but also well written and a good story with genuinely creepy unsettling parts to it. THIS is just gross and depressing with no purpose. They have similarities with the feeling supernatural at first but turning out to be traumatically mundane but this story is just excessively fucked up nonsense that I feel worse for having heard.

    • @velocityhdmi8140
      @velocityhdmi8140 11 месяцев назад +9

      I listened to penpal but it left me confused on what its about I expected it to end with the older kids taking down the stalker

    • @ameldavolvagia6164
      @ameldavolvagia6164 10 месяцев назад

      I loved it! It so well written that I felt so disgusted and horrified.

    • @WingItMan217
      @WingItMan217 10 месяцев назад +24

      @@BadPabda I disagree. While I think borrasca is definitely more brutal than penpal, I’d argue that’s the point. Sorry to use this term, but it’s a subversion of expectations. It starts off as a typical urban legend story with the shiny gentlemen and the skinned men. Then it becomes something even more horrifying because it’s closer to reality than the reader expects. The horror stems from the twist and when you go back and read it, the hints are all there. Borrasca’s definetly pretty intense and messed up, but it’s far from bad imo. It’s ok if it doesn’t work for you tho. I can see why it’d be too much for some. In a weird way, I lowkey feel like penpal is a bit more accessible despite the pretty disturbing subject material

  • @WillCawrse
    @WillCawrse 9 месяцев назад +50

    I remember listening to Mrcreepypasta releasing a reading of both this original story and its sequel. Genuinely one of the scariest stories i've ever heard because its so grounded in reality. It also gave me extreme rage because of how infuriating the situation is

    • @JimmyJohnson-fv3mq
      @JimmyJohnson-fv3mq 8 месяцев назад +2

      Truly one of those “I would go full postal” moments

  • @Gallop4Me
    @Gallop4Me 6 месяцев назад +9

    The second part ties it up. SPOILER ALERT
    DON'T READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW
    Sam and Kimber are now adults. Kimber finds Sam in a crappy apartment, high on drugs and basically just existing from day to day. She tells Sam she is going to Borrasca. He won't hear of it but she's persistent. They end up going together and what a dangerous adventure it is. Sam finds out that his father is his supplier just to keep him drugged and out of the way. Sam's father is ashamed of him because he didn't turn out to be a ruthless scoundrel like he is. Sam was too weak, according to his father. Sam and Kimber find Borrasca, along with the sheriff and his evil cronies. The sheriff shoots Kimber and Sam goes into a rage, after the sheriff has almost beat him to death. Sam remains defiant, however, and the sheriff says, "Well, you do have spunk. Maybe there's hope for you yet". The ending finds Kyle in a "home", completely catatonic. Kimber gets on her knees and puts her head in his lap and weaps, softly saying "Kyle. I love you". Sam turns away, but then he hears a familiar voice softly say, "Kimber".

    • @Eavontide
      @Eavontide Месяц назад +2

      You phrased it like Kimber and Sam just walked off right after being beaten and shot to go see Kyle, and as if the Sheriff is still alive by then.

  • @liammiller6247
    @liammiller6247 10 месяцев назад +174

    I read Borrasca back when I started high school. I'm in uni now and no story has ever come close to replicating the gut punch of an ending it has. When I think about creepypasta, the stuff on r/NoSleep (where "Borrasca" originated from, btw!), and horror involving teenagers in general, I think about Borrasca because this story demonstrates what you can do-how far you can go-with that setting and these character archetypes. I wish more authors were willing to put in the work and actually make something as impactful, disturbing, and heartbreaking as Borrasca, because I need more of this kind of horror!!

  • @tarded_4
    @tarded_4 11 месяцев назад +807

    You know the video is good when RUclips forces you to reupload

    • @danteshollowedgrounds
      @danteshollowedgrounds 11 месяцев назад +1

      😆😆😆👌👌👌

    • @connor48880
      @connor48880 11 месяцев назад +4

      actually according to the description it was a mistake on their end
      wonder what it was…

    • @cogumigs
      @cogumigs 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@connor48880i wanna know too

    • @tarded_4
      @tarded_4 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@connor48880 still, the video is a banger

    • @ownitervi241
      @ownitervi241 11 месяцев назад

      The video was soo good. I didn’t spot any mistakes.

  • @scabbarae
    @scabbarae 11 месяцев назад +7192

    SPOILERS
    ...
    The one theme I don't hear people talking about is how Borrasca starts as a supernatural horror, but then slowly reveals that there are no supernatural elements at all. Just like how, as kids, we're raised with fairy tales and then wonder why we're so ill equipped to deal with the real horrors of the world. We're taught to believe that evil exists in the form of demons and ghosts, when in fact it exists as prevailing structural atrocities that are implemented by malicious elites and enabled by a complicit public- so the evil remains, in a word, invincible. Just like our own world. *That* is the true horror.

    • @thatlycantomboy
      @thatlycantomboy 11 месяцев назад +122

      definitely this! I first read it as a mid-teen trying to figure out what exactly scared me, because supernatural stuff wasn’t so bad usually-at least, it didn’t keep me up at night. so naturally Borrasca screwed me up good, lmao. it’s also (imo) a rare example of good shock horror? like the twist of no supernatural elements is ofc very brutal, but it further adds to the themes and narrative

    • @Penz
      @Penz 11 месяцев назад +16

      Christ.

    • @legion999
      @legion999 11 месяцев назад +18

      Unless by "fairy tales" you mean "religion", your comment is nonsense.

    • @LocalNoob_2
      @LocalNoob_2 10 месяцев назад

      shut up you get pegged by women

    • @TS-uu4hp
      @TS-uu4hp 10 месяцев назад +34

      This is my favorite kind of horror. Paul Tremblay, who is one of Stephen King’s favorite authors, writes a lot of books where the story has a supernatural/paranormal vibe that has you questioning every 30 or so pages if it is truly supernatural. Or if the horrors being experienced are grounded in reality. If you’re a reader I’d check out some of his work.
      This is also the reason I love the movie Hereditary. While Hereditary has many many aggressive paranormal elements, it’s the trauma and pain of grief that is explored in that movie that makes the very real elements much more horrifying than the paranormal ones while delving into the similarities between the two. Nothing is scarier than what’s real.

  • @Youser999
    @Youser999 8 месяцев назад +9

    I guess my question is, how are some of the girls potentially sold back to the operation if they grew up drinking the contaminated water in the town? Then I googled and it seems extreme excessive consumption of iron (or copper) can cause infertility in men rather than women. But then how are the Prescott men who've lived in the town for generations, starting with the father back in the 1950s, impregnating the women?

  • @srishtisrivastava2456
    @srishtisrivastava2456 4 месяца назад +3

    Why! WHHYYYY!!!! I just wanted a normal paranormal story!! Damn I was soo invested I couldn’t even stop when I realised towards the end!

  • @aneverdayhobbiest2837
    @aneverdayhobbiest2837 11 месяцев назад +292

    I just finished Borrasca today. I was so angry(in a healthy way). I had to pause the audio book and eat dinner right after the drop(before any details), and the whole time, I was thinking to earlier parts. 10/10

  • @moisthedeer
    @moisthedeer 10 месяцев назад +127

    The use of that machines echo is so well done and so haunting. I remember listening to this story years ago, it’s so good and so gut wrenching that i come back to it every few years. Your video and the comment section opened my eyes on even more details years later. You’re an amazing storyteller, definently looking forwards for more content like this!

  • @Kamenriderdecade105
    @Kamenriderdecade105 10 месяцев назад +264

    I genuinely think the twist makes it even scarier because just at how depraved and downright twisted humanity could get when push comes to shove.
    An absolute chilling listen! Thank you for making this video!

    • @dusk4974
      @dusk4974 10 месяцев назад

      It's the reality that this is happening. In a way. Epstein, global powers, hell, this is probably ACTUALLY happening somewhere in almost the same way right as we speak

    • @heehoopeanut420
      @heehoopeanut420 10 месяцев назад

      Men* not humanity. Women have never grouped together to do such fucked up things on such a large scale. Sex crimes are overwhelming committed by men. It's a man problem.

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB 9 месяцев назад +7

      But it’s not even “when push comes to shove”. It’s an intentional choice on the villains’ part. They’re choosing to do what they do for their own selfish reasons.

  • @whodatninja2143
    @whodatninja2143 10 месяцев назад +9

    Brilliant job,you randomly popped up on reccomended. Never heard of the story,but was instantly hooked through your telling of it,so thankyou!

  • @Someone-ji6ni
    @Someone-ji6ni 9 месяцев назад +113

    This story’s twist lowkey makes no sense. If there’s a town fertility issue why wouldn’t you bring girls from outside town? And OP said the women are more affected by fertility issues. So these girls drinking the water for like 10+ years would already be affected. Also if it’s the water then why would people bother to buy a baby rather than just moving away?? It literally falls apart when you even just ask basic questions.

    • @TomSawyersLeftNut
      @TomSawyersLeftNut 9 месяцев назад +53

      Also the fact that surrogacy exists so there are women who would do this 100% willingly, no crimes had to be committed at all.

    • @miau256
      @miau256 9 месяцев назад +30

      The Prescott's paid a fortune to purify the waters, so only old people were affected by the iron ore poisoning.

    • @valhund2629
      @valhund2629 9 месяцев назад +55

      The point is that that you’re right. There are better ways to go about this. But they didn’t because the people in charade and the people in power are sick bastards. Hell they’re probably also making it harder for women to find outside help and if we take into account how the town as a whole seems to be in financial trouble, it’s possible they don’t have the money for outside help. The charity babies are free. It’s fucked but it does make sense in a deeply twisted way

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB 9 месяцев назад +81

      @@valhund2629Exactly. The reason they didn’t “just do [something else]” is because _they didn’t want to_
      That’s the horror. It’s not some actual issue pushing their hand, it’s that they’re _choosing_ to do this.

    • @davidisaschizo8605
      @davidisaschizo8605 9 месяцев назад +23

      Well although the original reason was infertility, they also had the incentive of selling children to human traffickers, which brought money into the town and gave it a level of "prestige".

  • @EchoEchoChi
    @EchoEchoChi 10 месяцев назад +98

    I read this on nosleep as each part came out, and I was maybe 13 or 15 at the time. Anytime I hear it or even think about it, I get such a profound sense of dread. No short series has really rocked me to the core since

    • @Bepetoni
      @Bepetoni 10 месяцев назад +3

      Wait, it was on nosleep? That explains things..

    • @toxicllama2766
      @toxicllama2766 26 дней назад +1

      that’s when I first heard it too

  • @LittleMissFoxy
    @LittleMissFoxy 11 месяцев назад +152

    Man on a second read everything starts to make sense and it hits you so hard when you put everything together. I’ve heard this story so many times and it never gets old to me and each time I hear it I always take note of everyone’s names because if you know you know.

    • @oddbirdMusic
      @oddbirdMusic 3 месяца назад

      What makes me sad is the way Kim avoids the sherrif at school in the first third. Does she know something? Just have a feeling? Or has something already happened?

  • @ThatDudeJerm
    @ThatDudeJerm 10 месяцев назад +307

    Theres also a podcast-style narration by ‘QCODE’ of Borrasca where all the characters are voiced by different actors and Sam is voiced by Cole Sprouse. I highly recommend listening to it if you love Borrasca.

    • @lazydroidproductions1087
      @lazydroidproductions1087 9 месяцев назад +2

      Absolutely a fantastic audio-drama, surprised me to learn by this video appearing on my feed that it was a short story first

    • @LunykStormdragon
      @LunykStormdragon 8 месяцев назад +4

      he literally mentions that in the video.

  • @Taxman37
    @Taxman37 9 месяцев назад +5

    This story has stuck with me for years, I’ve tried explaining why I love it so many times to people but I can never seem to put it in words. Glad people are still covering this today

  • @jessicarepp2430
    @jessicarepp2430 9 месяцев назад +14

    Bro, I have been searching for this story for YEARS. I asked people about it, Googled it, and got nothing. I hated it, but loved it for the fact that it was the only creepypasta that wasn't just some ridiculous, made-up psycho-killer monster, but in fact a chilling tale with which far too many people are familiar; I'm so glad someone else knew of Borrasca and I can hear it again.

  • @jojol.2630
    @jojol.2630 10 месяцев назад +251

    God, the people of the town were so willing to comply with these atrocities because they couldn’t have their own children? I’m sorry but boo-fucking-hoo I’m playing you a song on the worlds smallest violin.

    • @camdecay
      @camdecay 10 месяцев назад +52

      honestly like every single one??? all of yall??

    • @nirvool_6968
      @nirvool_6968 9 месяцев назад +48

      Tbf, only the ones who complied with it were left in town, the rest were either sent to borrasca, silenced, or moved out

    • @EE-iv5ej
      @EE-iv5ej 9 месяцев назад +12

      Worst part is they could've gotten children with non-illegal means. After all they already know these children aren't biologically theirs anyway.

    • @peacefulpossum2438
      @peacefulpossum2438 9 месяцев назад +14

      Kind of reminds me of Greg Abbott justifying the. Texas abortion ban because he and his wife adopted and other couples should have the same opportunity. So gross.

    • @melanie6981
      @melanie6981 8 месяцев назад

      @@peacefulpossum2438that’s so enraging. he views women as nothing more than baby making machines: we should bear children we don’t want so people can have our babies. what the actual fck

  • @kenwu369
    @kenwu369 11 месяцев назад +194

    So glad I found this video and your channel, unlike other storytelling channel, your delivery and tone are totally fine and you don't overexaggerate or use cringe deep voice or disturbing images to boast the already well-done content, keep it up man, I am here to support the re-upload

  • @bananajoe5511
    @bananajoe5511 11 месяцев назад +1732

    I liked the story and the ending is interesting, with the skinned men and shiny gentlemen being what they ended up being, but I think I’m just so tired of stories of crooked cops and disgusting older men getting away with stuff like this that it just felt so unsatisfying. With the world we live in today, creepy older men with power and police are scary, and I guess seeing them get away with doing things they probably do in real life is exhausting

    • @jakemyers7826
      @jakemyers7826 11 месяцев назад +192

      That's just it, though: the media we normally consume has conditioned people to believe that evil is done by supernatural monsters and demons, and that some hero will always come along and slay the beast and bring a happy ending. But that's not how it is in the real world, and we need more stories like this to shake that naïve and stupid belief in happy endings. It's a belief that holds us back from effecting any kind of positive changes. It's not a tasty ending, but it's good, healthy spinach that we all need more of.

    • @Rebecca-bk9bd
      @Rebecca-bk9bd 11 месяцев назад +299

      @@jakemyers7826i get that and respect it, but it’s just so exhausting when creeps and rapists are literally all we have to think about as women normally that when a story decides to go there it just feels cheap and unsatisfying

    • @Googleusergoogleuser-b4p
      @Googleusergoogleuser-b4p 11 месяцев назад +133

      Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. For me, feeling powerless and disappointed, and looking for a thrill and horror are two very different emotions, and I only seek the latter from horror stories. I felt the former instead, sort of like reading gruesome, gut wrenching, but real news.

    • @Googleusergoogleuser-b4p
      @Googleusergoogleuser-b4p 11 месяцев назад +13

      ​@@Rebecca-bk9bdyes, you phrased it well.

    • @andrewjennings7306
      @andrewjennings7306 10 месяцев назад +40

      ​@@Rebecca-bk9bdborrasca was written by a woman

  • @_letstartariot
    @_letstartariot 10 месяцев назад +41

    Holy hell that was darker than any supernatural monster could make a story. Putting myself in Sam’s shoes, I do not blame him for becoming lost as an adult. The ending is wrath inducing. Jesus. And wow, kudos to the author. I am glad I did not give up listening to this. It is worth the near 2hrs.

  • @Nightshade_Realm
    @Nightshade_Realm 7 месяцев назад +3

    The rage I feel. The fact this story makes me feel genuine anger for these people just shows how great it is.

  • @Chr0nicly0ffline
    @Chr0nicly0ffline 11 месяцев назад +149

    Borrasca is, to this day, my favorite 'creepypasta' of all time. The characters are so well written, the little details are so well woven as hints within the story to piece things together, and it's so easy to get emotionally invested in the story from beginning to end.
    Thank you for making this, I'm glad it's getting more and more recognition. I was mind blown when they did a story-cast with Cole Sprouse, that version is so well done too, highly recommend!

    • @rex4796
      @rex4796 10 месяцев назад +2

      Do you really believe Kimber is well written? Please convince me.

    • @Chr0nicly0ffline
      @Chr0nicly0ffline 10 месяцев назад +16

      @@rex4796 nah I'm good, thanks though

    • @vermithraxpejorative7364
      @vermithraxpejorative7364 10 месяцев назад +13

      Borrasca and the penpal series have lived rent-free in my head since they were published.

  • @Mothlocks
    @Mothlocks 11 месяцев назад +54

    So many heart breaking little details, genuinely devastating story

  • @eightwinter3082
    @eightwinter3082 10 месяцев назад +55

    The fact that baby mill/baby factory stuff aren't that farfetch from reality really messes me up. There are actual cases like this out there.

  • @ValisX
    @ValisX 9 месяцев назад +30

    There’s a manga that does what this story is attempting to do leagues better.
    I cannot remember the name of the manga but it’s about a turn of the century prison that the warden is secretly letting the prisoners have captive girl(s) to curb their aggressiveness. The Japanese have a terrible gift for making haunting, f’d up stories that just stain your psyche forever. If you’re disappointed in this story I will try to find the manga and link it here later

    • @heartIucy
      @heartIucy 9 месяцев назад +1

      bro if u know the name i’d love to read it !!!

    • @ValisX
      @ValisX 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@heartIucy it’s called Bradherly No Basha
      I wasn’t sure before but I see now it’s a story by the creator Blade of the Immortal

    • @phabiorules
      @phabiorules 22 дня назад

      Just out of curiosity, what do you think the story is attempting to do and why do you think it’s done so poorly?
      While I have my criticisms for the story, it seems incredibly well written with how the urban legends matched up with reality, as well as the hidden meanings behind what a character says once you know their true intentions.

  • @heroyolkie
    @heroyolkie 10 месяцев назад +9

    I felt so sick to the stomach by the end.
    I was already feeling extremely anxious during the middle section of the story, I already kind of realized it had hints of trafficking and r*pe but JESUS CHRIST THIS IS MUCH WORSE.
    Thanks for sharing this man. Will you ever talk about the sequels? (I only read a few about Borrasca, but I wanna know if you'll cover them ❤)
    Keep it up man.

  • @kyu2o337
    @kyu2o337 11 месяцев назад +82

    Listened to this earlier today, then based on a comment went and listened to The Spire in the Woods. I came back once I finished that for more suggestions, and now I'm creeped out at the odds of this being reuploaded around the exact time I was looking for it and failing to find it in my history.

    • @paintchuu
      @paintchuu 11 месяцев назад +3

      same omg,, fell asleep listening to this last night and wanted to replay the vid to hear the whole story, only to find it reuploaded right as i was looking for it

  • @agoogolofgeese
    @agoogolofgeese 11 месяцев назад +55

    Instead of listening to this while cleaning my room, I listened while cooking my books to dodge taxes on my small business. Perfect background sound. Thank you!

  • @hidden3197
    @hidden3197 11 месяцев назад +2866

    SPOILERS:
    KIMBERS "MOM" PROBABLY DIDN'T LIKE HER DATING KYLE CUZ SHE KNEW THEY WERE SIBLINGS- STOP I'M GUNNA THROW UPPP. Anyways loved this, I literally love all your videos.

    • @vickyallen2433
      @vickyallen2433 11 месяцев назад +217

      Oh my funking god I didn't realised that oh that's horrible

    • @hidden3197
      @hidden3197 11 месяцев назад +19

      @@vickyallen2433 I know right! 😭😭

    • @virtueofabsolution7641
      @virtueofabsolution7641 10 месяцев назад +1

      “Why can’t you just date a nice P name boy”
      “Lol mom u and ur weird alphabetical obsessions”
      “🍆💀🍆”

    • @PurpleLemonn
      @PurpleLemonn 10 месяцев назад

      FUUUUCK you are right!! They both were described as ginger..... fuuuuuc

    • @Jackson-vm6nv
      @Jackson-vm6nv 10 месяцев назад +48

      No spoiler warning is crazy

  • @stucoofoo
    @stucoofoo 9 месяцев назад +9

    Alternate ending:
    Dracula captures the men responsible for Burasca so that he can torture them for many decades, and obliterates the town with a neutron bomb.

  • @highstrangeness1824
    @highstrangeness1824 7 месяцев назад +3

    Awesome story telling...new sub. The internet seems to have discpnne ted many of our collective emotions, but your compassion during the re telling is whats missing today. Good job empathizing and showing the humanity in such tragic stories.

  • @sexxie.24
    @sexxie.24 11 месяцев назад +24

    this is the scariest situation ever fucking conceived jesus.

  • @justcheckingin2105
    @justcheckingin2105 10 месяцев назад +137

    Spoiler Warning:
    Sam was working for someone who went along with it. She knew she couldn’t conceive so she chose the inhumane option of getting one. I literally cried over this. Theses are peoples babies and children. To do this to another human being makes me literally sick to my stomach.

    • @asleepyb0i400
      @asleepyb0i400 10 месяцев назад +12

      It’s mentioned in the story that Meera initially didn’t want to go through with that option, but then agreed to it. Still pretty horrible- but she knew it was horrible and tried other options.

    • @judyroberts1710
      @judyroberts1710 10 месяцев назад +2

      I didn't get that until I read the comment.

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB 9 месяцев назад +5

      @@asleepyb0i400Doesn’t in any way make it any less disgusting.

    • @scrungo7610
      @scrungo7610 8 месяцев назад +1

      It’s not real

    • @rosiv9617
      @rosiv9617 7 месяцев назад

      ​@asleepyb0i400 fucking nasty. Thats not ok.

  • @el-nz7xc
    @el-nz7xc 10 месяцев назад +29

    im really glad this story is getting the attention it deserves. Ive listened to this story since i was a child and really hope a movie or adaptation is made out of it

  • @Paladin_DeShazo
    @Paladin_DeShazo 11 дней назад

    I’ve been listening to Creepypastas, listening to lost media reports and reading ARGS for a little over 12 years and I AM VERY HAPPT to have found your channel, big subscribe!

  • @greedavaricious7760
    @greedavaricious7760 8 месяцев назад +7

    Thankfully there is a second part to the story Barrosca V. Won’t spoil it for whoever wants to read it but thankfully the ones who did these things to those poor women get their comeuppance. Just for those who had the same pit in their stomach I did after finishing the first part.

    • @milktenders6219
      @milktenders6219 Месяц назад +2

      Honestly that makes the story somewhat worse to me. The reason the horror works so well is because there is no justice, because something like this wouldn’t be able to be undone. It was going on for literal decades and was such a well kept secret that someone committed suicide rather than say anything about it to anyone but their daughter. If you add justice to the end of the story, the impact of how realistic it feels is impacted. V very much feels like an ending made for people who didn’t want such a sour ending, and that’s neat, it’s just not as good as the original ending

  • @Wildclaw07
    @Wildclaw07 11 месяцев назад +40

    Thank you so much for covering this story, Borrasca is my favourite short story of all time and C.K. Walker/Rebecca Klingel is one of my favourite horror writers. I also really love some of her other works, particularly Room 733 and the Deepwood Trilogy which I really recommend reading if you like Borrasca.

  • @sh0eh0rn4
    @sh0eh0rn4 10 месяцев назад +48

    WOW. I just need to tell you how wonderful of a storyteller you are. Your tone, the pacing, the emotion you express in your voice…just beautiful. Wonderful work.

  • @camdecay
    @camdecay 10 месяцев назад +235

    i’m gonna leave my review here. the whole point is for us to believe supernatural elements are at play, but we are then met with the twist: real human cruelty is the true evil. however, so much of it is just not realistic. sam’s mom just didn’t care that her sheriff husband wasn’t doing shit to look for their daughter? so EVERY single person in the town was involved in the baby black market/trafficking ring? did no one who disappeared have any relatives out of town? this just reads like someone who believes human trafficking is a man in a white van driving around looking to snatch a girl off the street. i’m not against themes of sexual violence in horror works, as that is a very real fear for many, but it has to be done by someone who can apply the proper nuance. having a whole town hide the secret rape baby factory in the mountains is just kind of absurd. i’m not a fan of supernatural horror but even that would have been better/less ridiculous.

    • @lemonZzzzs
      @lemonZzzzs 10 месяцев назад +82

      This story was originally basically a series of r/nosleep posts, iirc. So, this shallow level of research is kind of par for the course. It is pretty well written, though. And I'm not sure if people with a proper level of research into the subject would necessarily _want_ to write a story like this to begin with?

    • @standard-carrier-wo-chan
      @standard-carrier-wo-chan 10 месяцев назад +58

      The problem is it's not as absurd as you think, just the wrong place. You think of Borrasca as some sort of far-reaching story because both it and you are probably in a place where it's nor realistically doable, but these things do exist in poorer African and Middle Eastern nations. Money is a really powerful motivator, close behind spite.

    • @alienangel777
      @alienangel777 10 месяцев назад +20

      I agree. I wrote a detailed breakdown above if you're interested, of the things that don't make sense and why the ending kind of ruined the excellent majority of the story.

    • @luthor24127
      @luthor24127 10 месяцев назад

      Aaah that explains, thanks! It kinda ruined it for me when we got to that baby making factory and it's just rows of beds stacked together... the author didnt' think this through lol, the smell must've been awful and even wicked men aren't animals enough to rut in a place like this for fun if they had alternatives @@lemonZzzzs​

    • @janerecluse4344
      @janerecluse4344 10 месяцев назад +2

      Preach my truth.

  • @TheVoidIsBees
    @TheVoidIsBees 4 часа назад

    This is genuinely the most disturbing creepypasta to me. The way I engage with creepypastas is listening to someone reading them out while I do something else, like gaming or crocheting. I put Borrasca on once late at night while playing the sims 2. I'd heard much about it, being one of the more famous creepypastas from back when, and I wanted to check it out. I was expecting the usual monster. But the ending has such a crushing visceral weight to it, it actually hit me so hard. It's one of the very very few creepypastas that have cemented themselves in my mind as the most terrifying. Some nights I lie awake in bed and think about it. It's one creepypasta I never want to engage with again.

  • @fantasticalleigh
    @fantasticalleigh 10 месяцев назад +1

    Your video just unlocked a deeply buried memory in my mind! I remember reading this story as it was being posted to one of the creepy stories forums on Reddit in multiple parts yeeeeears ago. I forgot about it COMPLETELY until I saw the thumbnail for this vid recommended on my front page and I couldn't figure out WHY Borrasca sounded so familiar. So glad I clicked through.
    Fantastic walkthrough of the story! Genuinely gave me shivers to remember the horror/disgust of the huge reveals in the ending. Sort of wishing it had stayed forgotten but I don't regret watching this lol.

  • @hudz2008
    @hudz2008 10 месяцев назад +67

    Part One had the kid part of me shiver to my core. It made me so excited to hear Part Two but when i heard that part, all my excitement instead turned into... "This is downright fucked up"

  • @sushik595
    @sushik595 11 месяцев назад +23

    This was a wild ride for me…I have just come back from a trip overseas, I am horribly jet lagged and started watching this video before it got first deleted. My horrible jet lag basically means that I’ve slept for the past 24 hours, waking up every once in a while to eat something and gulp down water straight from the sink in my bathroom. The first couple of times I’ve put this to fall asleep to id get 6 minutes in and pass out. On multiple occasions I had dreams about the plot of this story, which surprisingly weren’t that far off…
    I was a little horrified when I realized the video was gone during one of my rare lucid episodes, but as soon as I was back amongst the living for a breath moment and realized it was up again I finally managed to finish it! My god I’ll definitely never forget this video, not only because of the circumstances I watched it during, but also because of the story itself.
    Your narration of this entire story was delightful and I am so sharing this with all of my friends who enjoy horror. I might have some more insights when I am not so jet lagged, but for now… This entire idea of a city prospering because of someone else’s suffering really reminded me of a short, philosophical story called “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”. It’s a very short read but I though you might enjoy it.
    Thank you for this video and for reading through my rumbling, i’m off to sleep again now!

  • @Snowmanse
    @Snowmanse 11 месяцев назад +78

    This one was a bit too nutty for me. Red herrings that don't make sense if you go back and look at the initial hints after finishing the story, like the tree. Villains whose motivation doesn't make sense. A level of indifference and weird moments of complicity from every person living in the town that would put Derry to shame, like the librarian, or multiple women who have the thought "I'm barren. I'm ok with human trafficking now because of it."

    • @scabbarae
      @scabbarae 11 месяцев назад +67

      You'd be surprised what becomes normal and acceptable when everyone around you is doing it. People's morals are disturbingly flexible.

    • @fricka4798
      @fricka4798 11 месяцев назад +12

      i disliked the red herrings too

    • @greifstricken
      @greifstricken 10 месяцев назад +15

      I'm really surprised people like it as much as they seem to, the construction really wasn't anything special

    • @chattycatty3336
      @chattycatty3336 10 месяцев назад +16

      honestly the "im barren so im ok with human trafficking now" thing is unfortunatly not far from the truth... that kind of stuff has absolutely happened

    • @SpoopySquid
      @SpoopySquid 10 месяцев назад +24

      ​@@greifstrickenit's the kind of story that hits hard when you hear it for the first time but then falls apart if you sit and think about it afterwards

  • @MyPronounsISwhom
    @MyPronounsISwhom 7 месяцев назад +2

    I've had this video saved on my watch later playlist or maybe a couple of months already and I have no idea why but really wanted to check it out. I've seen your channel a little bit in the past but not a whole lot but you're the kind of content I do like so I plan on seeing a lot more of you anyway. However this video has been chilling in my watch later playlist and I just watched it today and I'm really glad I saved it for as long as I did. That was a really cool story and really sweet video you made brah

  • @josepena7845
    @josepena7845 9 месяцев назад +9

    I hate this sort of stories with no satisfactory resolution. This is basically torture porn with a coward protagonist.

    • @JiaYoung
      @JiaYoung 5 месяцев назад +3

      If you think about it though, a borrasca is a dry mine, a mine that can’t fulfil its job and cannot provide a satisfactory product, the story lacking action at its conclusion mirrors that of the mine. The protagonist also could be considered a borassca due to his inability to produce a “happy” ending. I don’t think the story is trying to be torture porn, I think it’s trying to illustrate the borassca in all of us. We let our problems sour and fester only slapping on a bandaid while the foundational issues remain. Much like the town failed to fix its water supply and reckon with its issues, we as people rarely take the time to fix our true problems and instead attempt to create a false sense of “profitable production”. For me, I have issues around food and eating, I can lose all the weight I want even if it kills me. It could bring me beauty, affection, friends and more but it can’t solve the deeper issue. I may not get a satisfactory resolution when it comes to my own barrasca, that’s just life! I don’t think everything needs a conclusion that’s wrapped up in a bow, it’s much more realistic to leave things unknown.

    • @josepena7845
      @josepena7845 5 месяцев назад +1

      @JiaYoung While I wouldn't call it torture porn now after some time has passed, I still stand with what I said. I believe, in fact, that this was the intention of the author all along to make the reader fill this range of emotions. I think this is a clear-cut example of the saying, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." But the thing is that in the end, evil triumph regardless.

    • @rolandsquire6555
      @rolandsquire6555 2 месяца назад

      If it makes you feel better, there's a sequel which resolves a lot of things

  • @jbailey5061
    @jbailey5061 10 месяцев назад +177

    This is very effective but also kind of frustrating in a way that a lot of grounded horror/crime stories are. It's a horror story so writers feel as if the characters need to fail to some degree, but I end up just getting kind of annoyed at them. They always need to have the characters freeze up or give up or split up as something horrible is happening. You can justify it sure...doesn't mean I can't be annoyed at the writer being so transparent about it.
    Also Sam and Kyle KNEW they were heading into a dangerous situation, supernatural or otherwise. They didn't arm themselves in any way? Sam didn't steal one of his father's guns? If this was literally any other genre that would have happened. It gives horror a bad rep when the heroes are written like this. Also....Sam....just contact the FBI....

    • @ainsleigh351
      @ainsleigh351 9 месяцев назад +16

      Listen to Borrassca V, the sequel! The second part will probably satisfy you a bit more

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB 9 месяцев назад +28

      They were teenagers. What teenager knows how to contact the FBI?!

    • @wizardsmix7961
      @wizardsmix7961 9 месяцев назад +11

      @@DeathnoteBBit’s literally a google search away. They could’ve brought a camera, emailed a few photos, and the end. The characters in this story acted insanely stupid.

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB 9 месяцев назад +18

      @@wizardsmix7961 Depending on when the story is set, Google didn’t exist and presumably the parents would have been wary of what they were searching and who they would be calling

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB 9 месяцев назад +20

      @@wizardsmix7961 And again, yeah because _they’re teenagers_
      Most teenagers aren’t prepared for a town-wide conspiracy involving their loved ones and CSA

  • @NotUlpoadingAnything
    @NotUlpoadingAnything 10 месяцев назад +37

    There's a brand of sparkling wine called Borrasca and every time I see the label I think of this story.

  • @Makewell_catto
    @Makewell_catto 11 месяцев назад +47

    im only half way through the vid but man i gotta take a moment to just praise how good this is. ive been watching your channel for a bit now, every video is getting better and higher in quality and im really proud of you! I cant wait to see you grow as i know someone as talented as you will

  • @actualturtle2421
    @actualturtle2421 9 месяцев назад +1

    DUDE! I randomly thought about this story yesterday and couldn't remember the name or where to find it, then this pops up in my recs. The algo is scary. Nice work man, this video kills!

  • @sherlock___holmes
    @sherlock___holmes 10 месяцев назад +6

    i honestly wish this story stayed supernatural

  • @dieyng
    @dieyng 10 месяцев назад +86

    I remember reading this story. And I hate it, not because it's a bad story, but honestly because I don't like stories that end so depressing.
    I can dig it, if supernatural is involved, but if it's really only people who are the villains, I honestly prefer them to be punished.
    The monsters among us win so often in the real world, in my stories I prefer they lose.

    • @jrmetmoi
      @jrmetmoi 10 месяцев назад +14

      I want the real life monsters in the world to lose and to keep on losing for the rest of their lives

    • @DP-ib3tl
      @DP-ib3tl 9 месяцев назад

      Hellooo read part 5 it wraps things up in a happier bow!! Just type borrasca V on Google

    • @dieyng
      @dieyng 9 месяцев назад +5

      @@jrmetmoi who doesn't? But that's sadly not how it works.

    • @sittienakan1594
      @sittienakan1594 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@dieyng I respect your opinion on Borrasca, but it's honestly a great story that accomplishes what it was trying to accomplish. It's grounded in reality, the characters are well thought out and you get attached to them. It's suppose to disturb you and invoke negative emotions, wether it be sadness or rage. The supernatual stories are sometimes too cliche or just poorly written out, that's why stories like this are fresh to most people. In terms of scarier, there are probably scarier ones out there, but in terms of most disturbing, I think Borrasca definitely takes the crown. A story that accomplishes it's goals is a great story.

    • @knowone2240
      @knowone2240 8 месяцев назад +1

      They made a part 5 where things have a happy ending, you can find it on the writers website

  • @Fairy_Teeth
    @Fairy_Teeth 11 месяцев назад +37

    I loved this story. I was a junior in high school the first time I ever heard it and I remember it just sticking with me so prominently because of how close I felt to the characters it felt like I knew them very well so when that was all happening to them, and all the hardships they were facing, it felt personal lakin attacked my own neighborhood. And then the horrors and tragedy that we thought we’re gonna be a monster only to find out it was way worse something much darker scarier it’s one of the best short stories I’ve ever heard and I recommend it to anyone any chance I get that is if they can actually handle it

  • @leandroconti4435
    @leandroconti4435 11 месяцев назад +23

    I would change the title to "most disturbing short story", otherwise excellent video, you have a really compelling way to tell a narrative

  • @xxfisherxxdonut7858
    @xxfisherxxdonut7858 10 месяцев назад +2

    Wow this was incredible, i did an hour of washing dishes since it was Thanksgiving and your voice and tone really made me invested. Of course the story sells it too. I even forgot that I was washing dishes sometimes because of the story. Major twist at the end, i did not expect that. Thank you for posting this and just existing in general haha!

  • @lexysue9556
    @lexysue9556 10 месяцев назад +4

    Bro i am so happy to see someone on youtube talking about this masterpiece. It has stuck with me for YEARS. I re read it almost every year. Nothing has crawled under my skin and infiltrated my brain like this one. It crosses my mind so often and sends shudders down my spine. One of my absolute favorite works of fiction ever

  • @zaprod
    @zaprod 11 месяцев назад +16

    Commenting to say that I loved the pace and style of your narration. The background music is just the right volume, and the whole video was super engaging!

  • @mistake_rachel
    @mistake_rachel 11 месяцев назад +20

    I commented this on the first vid and I'll do it again here. This video was absolutely amazing, the mix of you retelling the story and using direct quotes from the book really kept me engaged. Please please do more shorter horror stories like this. Amazing work dude

  • @foncess
    @foncess 11 месяцев назад +6

    I haven't seen the video yet, but thank you for talking about Borrasca. It's my favorite short story of all time, and I haven't seen a lot of people discussing it until recently. It deserves all the attention it can get, so I hope it only spreads further

  • @connyaaaa5555
    @connyaaaa5555 2 месяца назад +3

    SPOILER
    As soon as it was revealed about the women in the “stables” and that they were all pregnant I immediately broke into tears. The fact that things like this actually happen to women is so heart breaking…. I’m still crying about it, and I’m at work. Thankfully my office is just me but god… it’s so heart breaking…

  • @stumblin_bummblin9774
    @stumblin_bummblin9774 9 месяцев назад +2

    “Best short story”
    *first sentence*
    “This is a Long Story”
    WELL GREAT WHICH ONE IS IT!?

  • @xanate_9106
    @xanate_9106 11 месяцев назад +13

    I love CK Walker, the nosleep podcast covers some of their writing and it's so nice to see more people talking about this story

  • @gotcha4688
    @gotcha4688 11 месяцев назад +17

    I read Borrasca the first time on a Sunday morning. Today, years later, I saw the title and an "oh shit" came out from so deep within

  • @AAllen-br8it
    @AAllen-br8it 11 месяцев назад +32

    What's stopping the protagonist from coming back with a camera and gun? It didnt seem very secure and tbh once your life is that screwed, what is there to lose in exposing and punishing them? Idk, it was a good story. Pretty memorable but it always takes me out of stories when protagonists are so driven to do brave things but then turn out to be such pushovers once the threat is in their face. If you dig up a truth that abhorrent and it affects your life that badly, why not do SOMETHING?
    Edit: nvm i guess they do that in the sequel. Took him too freaking long tho. Should have been pulling eyes out of sockets as soon he discovered Jimmy.

    • @Tammy-js7be
      @Tammy-js7be 10 месяцев назад +4

      right?? Prescot left him alone WITH A GUN, how couldn't he just kill him right on the spot??

  • @deityskill5435
    @deityskill5435 2 месяца назад

    finally got to watch this video after it sat in my watch later and I’m speechless. Everything just ends up making sense at the end in the most sickening way possible. I really hope the second one brings closure because I literally shed a tear listening to your reading of Kimber’s mom’s letter. I need to acknowledge how impactful stories are when they don’t always end happily

  • @kahnxo
    @kahnxo 8 месяцев назад +4

    You're an amazing storyteller (or reteller?). I was hooked the entire way, and not just bc the story is excellent but the way you told it had me so engaged. Youve earned a subscriber in me!

  • @cloudsaysthings
    @cloudsaysthings 11 месяцев назад +6

    You are a phenomenal storyteller. I am hanging on every word you say. Your delivery is perfect. Please, keep up the great work.

  • @DEAC0N-SAINT
    @DEAC0N-SAINT 10 месяцев назад +7

    I listened to this story a long while back when I used to listen to the NoSleep Podcast when I was younger and god, man. I realized halfway through that this was the same story and I dreaded it lol. I just found it crazy how after all this time I stumbled across this short story years later while browsing youtube. Truly a horrifying listen which you brilliantly captured in this video, glad to have such a well crafted story back on my radar after all this time.

  • @albertn.9123
    @albertn.9123 11 месяцев назад +5

    This story has been one of my favourite stories I've come across, running on 5 years now. This Borrasca V, thing from the vault, stories from a search and rescue officer, and the tales from the gas station series all are tremendous stories I've gone back to countless times. Great video and I recommend you covering one of those stories next.
    Ps I watched it.

  • @owenmccullor5063
    @owenmccullor5063 8 месяцев назад +5

    Man I had never heard of this story before and it immediately became my favorite creepypasta ever which to many is obvious why when you hear it. However Borrasca V was also the single most infuriating read I have ever experienced. This story of depth, low key tension and mystery became an OTTP and just against everything that made the original so fantastic. I can never get over the ending villain monologue and the contrivance in how the climax wraps up. The line the main villain(leaving it vague for those who haven’t read it) says at the end “you don’t get it Sam, I’m an alpha” will always make me want to put my fist through the wall

  • @shmeeden
    @shmeeden 8 месяцев назад +1

    The podcast version of this is INCREDIBLE. People should absolutely check it out if they haven't already.

  • @ravennovaaa
    @ravennovaaa 10 месяцев назад +14

    stories that are so horrific that they seem supernatural at first only to end up being entirely compromised of evil humans always hit the hardest. You figure only something unexplainable could bring this level of terror only for it to end up being a few greedy humans subjecting innocent people to the worst fates imaginable solely so they can make a quick buck. I know this story isn't real, but it does capture how vile some people in the real world are and that never fails to shake me. I guess i'm naive but I just don't understand how or why anybody would ever do something like this.

  • @sathies2486
    @sathies2486 10 месяцев назад +4

    Absolutely horrifying!! Great job with the video. This was insane and I found myself audibly gasping so many times, especially towards the end when I realized all the little hints.
    Bone chilling.

  • @MakNae03
    @MakNae03 10 месяцев назад +4

    You are a master storyteller. I was immediately invested and drawn in by the tone and the proper emotion of your voice. You have a new fan.

  • @RobinPower-ui1ov
    @RobinPower-ui1ov Месяц назад +1

    Thank you so much!!!!! You're amazing! Your narration. was incredible.....a story as creepy as hell, and when it comes to the amount of subscribers you have, a world wide hit!
    When you narrate Borrasca V, I'd love to see it!!! How will we know?????? Again, you're great,!!!! Keep up the good work!!!!!❤