As a mother anything with children bothers me so much. I have a one year old and an eleven year old son. I have cried so much over strangers children, hearing horrible stories. It sticks with me 💔
Can't even imagine the horror that kid must've gone through. I can't wrap my mind around the fact that he just vanished and we don't know what happened to this day. Telling a creepy story is one thing, but when you realize it really happened to someone, it gets way, way worse
As someone born and raised in Seattle, I can say that the smiling man story must be true. I’ve seen tweakers on the street do things just as strange and creepy.
I'm wondering why he went on a walk at 1 am in the first place? I live in Seattle too and the only time I'd go on a walk alone after midnight would be after a handful of mushrooms. So maybe OP was the one on drugs?
@ I’ve walked around downtown Seattle late at night, and even though it was slightly dodgy, I didn’t really feel in danger. But this was also the mid 90s. Now walking alone in the CENTRAL District late at night around that same time, that was something that got me a little more uneasy. lol
@@Sheepy_TVim from a small town just outside of toronto, they send them here on a one way bus pass, anyways, i can confirm this is average tweaker activity
That Michael Dunahee missing poster scared me as a kid. I loved turtles and had similar hair and appearance to Michael. I always told myself that it could be me if I wasn't always aware of my surroundings. I was also scared to think about what it would do to my parents. Even 3-5 year old me knew exactly how serious it was and what it meant.
Same... and I remember as a teen/early adult STILL seeing the poster of him in his parents window at their house. So sad. I'd bet it's still there if they haven't moved.
Well the mom really screwed up. She knew she shouldn’t let her kid play on the playground alone and unsupervised, had a very bad feeling/maternal instinct warning her that it was a bad idea, and yet still let him do so. This could’ve easily been avoided
I was born that year but my mom never let me play outside alone growing up. I can understand why tbh especially when I was 12. Creepy adult man came up to me as a little girl. He commented on my hair (strawberry blonde). I felt full on stranger danger and went straight to my mom. She did not believe and I don’t think she does still. :( I remember the man though. He was also a ginger, in a green, gray summer flannel shirt in kakis. Idk why he tried talking to me.
Same. I grew up in BC and am his age. The poster was everywhere. Although I remember because it looked like he was in the woods in the photo I thought that he had gotten lost on a camping trip or something.
@@Lawrence_Talbot that's not right to say. It was the 90s, and in canada... and a small city. Very trusting place. Our parents didn't know where we were half the time when we were outside. And it doesn't help to blame the mom, I can't even imagine the guilt I would feel being her. All the blame needs to go to the sicko who took him.
i feel the smiling man could be real bc there was a homeless man i knew in my local area that people called "smiley" bc he always had a big grin on his face, he wore a tan suit and carried a briefcase. He would walk around the local library, sometimes going in but not often, he usually just walked around in the downtown area with a big smile and always dressed in his suit. Unlike the story, he never bothered anyone and wasn't "creepy". havent seen him for years, hopefully he didnt die.
I remembered that Disney actually helped a child predator get away with his crimes and even sent him back to his home country. Despite the perpetrator confessing to his crimes and admitting he in fact s3xually assaulted an 11-year old girl, on a Disney Cruise Ship. This was according to a Disney Iceberg video that I watched, and there were loads of other things that Disney did that were very horrific way back then and some of them still happen til this day.
Wow, so crazy to see the story about the kid who was snatched in Victoria, BC... I live a block away from where he was taken, and spend time at that park on almost a daily basis. There is a memorial plaque and a tree that was planted in his memory - so sad.
My friends mother developed capgras syndrome after she had a small stroke. She turned to her one day and said “I know you’re not really my daughter, but I miss her so much, it’s nice to have someone pretend”. Devastating.
@@Nate-i7r it's explained in the video. It' when you think that all your loved ones have been replaced by dopplegangers. Those are not your wife and kids, just copies.
@natopor On a related note, there's an even stranger variant called atypical Capgras syndrome where can't recognize your own reflection in a mirror and you think that your own reflection is someone else. There was this wild case in France in 2015 where this old guy was convinced there was an intruder in his house who refused to come out of the bathroom. Long story short, the "intruder" was actually just the guy's own reflection in the bathroom mirror. He had actually made lunch for the "intruder" and even had an hours-long conversation with him. Capgras is such a wild syndrome.
There’s a song i really like by Will Wood that has themes of Capgras. It’s not trying to be subtle about it; the song’s called Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity. The style is certainly not for everyone but, regardless of whether or not you like the music, it is lyrically interesting
I am almost positive that the supposed "Japanese urban legend" of the Alice Killings was actually entirely the invention of the English-speaking Vocaloid fandom based on the song 'Alice of Human Sacrifice', with no relation at all to the Spanish case. At least, that's the impression I got when I looked into it like a decade ago - I _specifically_ remember not being able to find much info about Alfredo Galán in English at the time that creepypasta was written (and there probably wasn't any in Japanese either, for what it's worth).
of all the creepypastas during the 90's and early 2000's it's pretty amazing how a lot of people still believe in them and that are still obsessed with them thanks for this video
Michael Dunahee's case happened about 30 mins away from where I live, every time my family drives by that playground that kid's running through my mind. The scariest part about it I think is that at that age we was old enough to be told he was someone else, so he could be alive right now, having no idea who he actually is.
I used to live in Victoria, BC. This is shocking, and I used to live in BC for 6 years during my middle/high-school days. I always went to the playground with my parents because I feared there may be a creep or two lurking around.
“The Smiling Man” sounds a lot like someone who consumed too many synthetic stimulants (mephedrone, methamphetamine, etc.) because I have seen people move in bizarre ways, even walk in bizarre ways, while under the influence from stimulants, and I’ve seen people’s faces get “stuck” in strange expressions due to stimulants as well. This sounds like behavior that was occurring during the height of the prevalence of bath salts.
Hey! I'm Sonti (Baukybird) from the Standard Stealth channel. I'm super excited to see our footage from Discovery Island in your video! 🤩🤩🤩 Thanks for sharing this - I absolutely love your channel 🙏🏽 * We also had the pleasure of exploring with Matt Sonswa a couple times. Thanks for the good memory with your share. It's been maybe 4-5 years since we've explored or posted.
While I definitely agree that kids that small need to be supervised, we also need to remember that this was the 90s. The time where kids would go out and play and come back when the streetlights came on. Nowadays, due to the internet, it’s much more common knowledge that creepy people can be found anywhere and parents are much more careful. Many parents at the time had no real reason to not believe “what could happen in this quaint town” until something actually happened , unfortunately
@@Harudodo I was born in '90 and lived in the Lower Mainland. I definitely spent many a day playing outside until called in for a meal or bedtime... Yes, there were sick mf'ers out in this world back then, but the reality is there are unfortunately many, many more in this day age. 😢
Ah yes, the Grinning Men. I just woke up so I don't have my research on me, but it's speculated they were looking for Mothman, and were active for a hot minute before disappearing completely.
@@bambisolstice Scary Interesting has the best. You can actually tell he's really narrating his videos, and he has a great voice for it. This channel at times sounds like he's using an AI voice, based on the way certain words are pronounced. I'm still not sure if he is or isn't.
@@Raw_Dawgerr I thought you were some weird bot thingy :D My reply was pointing to OP here, since they clearly think it was a true story and 911 operator hung up in real life instead of just in a fictional story.
Wow my brother is in a mental hospital and constantly claims my parent's are not really my parents. I had no idea it was a separate thing apart from all his other problems.
I hope he gets better. Doppelgangers are one of my biggest phobias lol the idea of that is terrifying I feel bad for him. I'm glad you learned something new tonight.
😨😨😨😨 omg wild animals exist on the grounds which originally belonged to nature. This is so terrifying 😨😨😨😨. Grow up. The only chilling thing is how we think we can claim nature for ourselves
Did you hear the part about there being an "EIGHTY FOOT LONG PYTHON" that "slithered right in front of the guy"...........what a friggin liar that guy is, nothing he says afterwards can be taken seriously if he's gonna lie about something as stupid as that.
Finally, someone who did their research and got both the Abandoned by Disney story details AND the actual Discovery Island details both correct! So many people get those and other abandoned parks mixed up. Hats off to you!
5:26 this happened to me once too, I was driving through downtown really late night at night and there was a homeless guy dancing in the middle of the street. He was about to head toward my car while I was waiting for the light to change but there was an officer behind me that ended up stopping to check him out lol
Don’t forget that the man in a bear costume from “the year was 1991” story is actually a legit creepypasta character named Mr. Bear from the story “1999.”
I have lived in NC 10 minutes from Emerald Isle for over 30 years. The Mowgli's Palace never was started, you are correct it is just a story. However we did have 2 abandoned water parks for a long time. Definitely creepy to walk through at night though!
I actually went to school with Michael Dunahee’s sister. Growing up a few years after the case, the worry certainly hung around my town for many years after. Even with the FBI assisting in the case, there’s still only theories years afterwards.
The smiling man I thought was based off the cryptid called Ingrid Cold (also called the smiling man due to his ever present wide smile) who’s in West Virginia and appeared around the same time as Mothman. It’s said he from alien origins and mainly talked to one man and his family who was interviewed by the same reporter who did the mothman prophecies but some people of West Virginia also reported encountering him including getting chased by the entity. I didn’t know it was “real” story, I thought the guy made it off the cryptid and it was just a fictional horror story.
@zerotodona1495 Nooo, don't do that. Sure it's a little infantilizing to have number candles unless it's a big milestone like 30, 50, etc. But it doesn't have to be gender-related. Why should it be any different to share a woman's age than a man's? I've never understood this conceit. I'd rather be honest about my age and have someone think I look good for that number than lie and say I'm younger than I am just to have people think I look haggard for that false age.
To the parents of the missing boy: I hope you find peace of his disappearance, it must hurt still (I personally never experienced a disappearance and am thankful but hurt for those who experienced it)
I wasn't a kid when it happened but barely 18 when a masked man came out of his alley hiding place to, I suppose, grab me because there was nothing spoken, no "gimmie your cash" or anything like that. Only saved by chancing to be carrying (by some miracle) a mobile scanner that went off with a dispatch call that second and scared him off. Later learned this was on the same block, only a few houses away from the murder house of the so-called Kansas City Butcher serial torturer/killer of young men. Shrugging it off as just location coincidence sometimes works.
I remember Discovery Island at Disney. Pretty sure I heard it was abandoned because it was a pain to work at. You had to ferry over to it, so if you worked there it wasn't an easy commute. Most likely though it was because Disney decided it wasn't worth the travel costs.
The Audacity of the Cop saying "Stop prank calling" and then Hung up, and then a News comes out showing the True story of the Boy being kidnapped by a Man with a Sketchy bear suit, i BET that Cop is now feeling Guilt of not helping.
You forgot to mention slimebeast is a chronically online stalker who has been trying to start drama with every true crime RUclipsr, is heavily involved with cp, and is a huge wacknut. Definitely don't interact with him or his work, he's absolutely desperate to destroy any RUclipsr he meets with some failed hope of getting attention for it in hopes of remaining relevant. He's also being investigated by police currently.
The fact that Disney banned the guy from visiting any Disney parks who checked out their abandoned island is so sketchy. There must have been something big they were hiding there and didn’t want him to find out more about it.
Okay it got even more sketchy when he said that Disney then installed heavy surveillance on that abandoned island. Why would you spend all that money for an abandoned island??? Sus as heck lol
I mean the guy did break the rules, I understand the intrigue but you break the rules you get consequences. Those abandoned places are usually not sound structurally and can be dangerous, if someone went there and got hurt or died Disney would be liable. So they probably patrol the area to dissuade people from taking unnecessary risk, nothing sinister just common sense.
You have a great voice for this type of video. I listen to your videos while going to sleep on my iPad. The longer the better.😊 Keep up the wonderful work. Peace and love
I got to take a jetski to the shore of Discovery Island and it's a strange experience. Even from far away you can see the decrepit walkways and decor. Abandoned by Disney is a really cool take on Discovery Island and its one of my favorite creepypastas.
As someone who frequents seattle i can 100% believe the smiling man. Ive seen homeless people everywhere and one man was throwing a butter knife at a dumpster.
18:37 delusions can be so terrifying. Back in 9th grade I had a night (could have been longer, but psychosis messes with your memory a lot of the time) where I believed I had offed my partner at the time and buried them next door. I was texting them about this as they tried to convince me they were fine and I just didn’t believe it was them. There’s also been countless times I believe someone, or more often some*thing*, is in the house trying to hurt me and/pr my loved ones. It’s horrible to live with. I got on meds a few months ago that have actually been working for me and it’s been amazing not to constantly deal with it. People love to mock psychotic people online, but it’s genuinely so hard to live with. I’m just glad I don’t remember most of the episodes I’ve had cause I doubt I could sleep at night.
it scares me every time i hear about michael’s disappearance. my mother actually met him and played together when they were little before he vanished. it’s crazy and very heartbreaking
The vanishing Runner Back in April 2022 I had a job at my dad‘s work it was a machine shop. and every Thursday we would clean. I did most of the mopping I had a Rubbermaid yellow mop, bucket, and a wooden mop, the mop head always had metal pieces in it but normally I’d mop upstairs in the lunchroom in the design room, etc. and lastly, I would mop the back bathroom normally I was back there all alone, but the Erie part about it was that it was far from the front and late at night but one night as normal my sisters and me were finishing cleaning and I was headed back to The bathroom but the mop bucket got stuck on a metal fragment on the ground, then suddenly while I was looking down, I saw something out of the corner of my eye in front of me. The only explanation I have is my heart started racing as soon as I saw it it was like a tall person. wearing what appears to be nothing very skinny more than normal. Just running fast, but weird. I quickly ran without the mop bucket. I got out my phone. turned on the flashlight in the room and there was nothing it was the strangest thing ever since then I’ve gotten a different job but it’s something I remember to this day.
The one time that I had sleep paralysis, there was a pale man with black stringy greasy hair and huge bulging eyes manically grinning at me through a crack in my bedroom door. The moment he started pushing the door open I fell back asleep. When I woke up, my bedroom door was still locked. That is probably one of the most terrifying things that has ever happened to me. It felt SO real. I can still see his face perfectly after 10 years.
Smiling Man: there's two ways stories like this can be fake; intentionally and unintentionally. And what I mean by that is you of course have people completely making stuff up, but you can also have people who encounter something and their memory of it or their writing style makes it more fantastical than it was. Perhaps this was just a guy doing a weird dance and smiling and the OP, unnerved by someone being a bit weird, hyperfocused his memory on the smile. Remember how fallible human memory can be, and how wonky our perception can get.
I actually appreciate that you're not immediately dismissing The Smiling Man as fake. Especially because, a few months ago something equally as creepy had happened to me and when I told the story online a bunch of people replied to me to say how obviously fake my story was, despite it being 100% true. I ended up just deleting the comment. To briefly summarise, while in a local 24 hour store at 3 AM, I had encountered a tall man staring at the meat section who then went on to talk to me about cannibalism and ask me if the store was selling human meat, as he had a creepy smile on his face. It was a very weird experience. The story did sound fake and I totally get why people doubt these kinds of accounts, however it's pretty annoying being on the other end of it knowing you're being truthful.
Love that there's no intro or any fluffy. Mans is literally in and out and all you see is the door swinging shut once he's done and the car driving away
I wholeheartedly believe the smiling man story. I now live in a city that has an insane homeless and drug user population and the way some of those people act under the influence is like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Ive seen people dancing and screaming and clapping down the streets outside my apartment and it’s really scary sometimes
This has nothing to do with the Smiling Man, but my uncle whose like 42-43 used to tell a story of guy who would come to his college football practices at night and stare with a smile for hours til it was over, He told us (me, my siblings and cousins) that the guy stood at 6’5 and would always have a dirty white beater on with dress pants, he claimed the coaches got involved personally with the guy but he still kept doing it, then claimed the police and school got involved and solved the issue, But few months laters after the Police handled the situation my uncle claims that the guy would follow him and his buddy’s home from school after practice😂 True or Not I don’t know but that’s insane
I remember the smiling man story, and seeing the one short film about it. Idk why I didn’t look into it at the time to see it was posted in another subreddit, as I thought this was a creepypasta. Now hearing where it originates from, yeah I wouldn’t be surprised since there’s a lot of weird freaks that could be roaming the streets late at night. I never go out for any night walks unless I’m with my parents, just can’t see myself putting myself in that situation for anyone to come up to me and strike when my guard is down
"Disney mysteriously abandoned Discovery Island" I live in Orlando and worked at Disney when they closed the island. It's not mysterious. Poor attendance, cost to maintain, Animal Kingdom opening are just a few reasons. They never did anything with it because it's a giant pain to get to - unless you're interested in swimming in the "freezing, snake and gator infested water" (also a HUGE exaggeration). There's more concern about the cleanliness of the water than anything - people are gross and just chuck their garbage into the lake constantly.
LOVE these videos. That being said, can we all just stop and realize dude said "80 foot python". That would have dwarfed the fake snake in the movie "Anacond". 😂 Minus that little mistake, great content.
Ohoh,about smiling dude, I've seen something like that late at night when I was out with a friend of mine ,we saw a man/woman dressed with a white jacket dancing in circles in the middle of the road ,when we get closer it kinda just looked like he/she was phasing in and out like it was a projection (that's what I thought when we were closing on him/her) but it turned out to be something but when we got close the person left opposite to us,it was weird giving the fact that it danced in the middle of the road in the midnight all by himself/herself
I think this one is real and that the op is probably still haunted by it. I was approached by a guy in clown costume in that same park when I was a bit luckily there was an adult there.
I saw a girl who looked exactly like me when I was teenager in the 90s. I can still see it, same hair cut/colour, same colour shirt/pants & was even wearing a baseball cap like me. We looked identical so much you'd have thought we were twins. My friend even said "if you weren't you, wouldn't you think that was you", we were just watching her for a few minutes (oddly, she didn't notice us) & when we looked away, we never saw her after that. I didn't know what a doppelganger was back than but it makes me wonder if I actually saw mine.
"Banned from ever going to a Disney theme park for the rest of his life." That's practically an invite to explore the second half of the island.
Legit, I’m exploring the island with 12 friends, screw the cops idc their job their lives. Let me freee and explore creepy islands !
Ever tried creepypotatoes?
No real like what y’all hiding 🤨
If it were a choice to pay bail or a day at Disney, I'll pay bail!! You think I have a money tree?!?!
Been there in '76 and '07. I'll never go back!
Agreed! I usually ask my boyfriend to spank me. I'm a 45 year old man.
I find it so disturbing that one day you have a 4 year old son and the next minute he’s abducted never to be seen again. Just devastating.
As a mother anything with children bothers me so much. I have a one year old and an eleven year old son. I have cried so much over strangers children, hearing horrible stories. It sticks with me 💔
Can't even imagine the horror that kid must've gone through. I can't wrap my mind around the fact that he just vanished and we don't know what happened to this day.
Telling a creepy story is one thing, but when you realize it really happened to someone, it gets way, way worse
As someone born and raised in Seattle, I can say that the smiling man story must be true. I’ve seen tweakers on the street do things just as strange and creepy.
Could be in any large city in the US really, where something like this could happen.
@@EphemeralProductions Canada too. I'm from Toronto and can confirm tweakers be tweaking.
I'm wondering why he went on a walk at 1 am in the first place? I live in Seattle too and the only time I'd go on a walk alone after midnight would be after a handful of mushrooms. So maybe OP was the one on drugs?
@ I’ve walked around downtown Seattle late at night, and even though it was slightly dodgy, I didn’t really feel in danger. But this was also the mid 90s. Now walking alone in the CENTRAL District late at night around that same time, that was something that got me a little more uneasy. lol
@@Sheepy_TVim from a small town just outside of toronto, they send them here on a one way bus pass, anyways, i can confirm this is average tweaker activity
That Michael Dunahee missing poster scared me as a kid. I loved turtles and had similar hair and appearance to Michael. I always told myself that it could be me if I wasn't always aware of my surroundings. I was also scared to think about what it would do to my parents. Even 3-5 year old me knew exactly how serious it was and what it meant.
Same... and I remember as a teen/early adult STILL seeing the poster of him in his parents window at their house. So sad. I'd bet it's still there if they haven't moved.
Well the mom really screwed up. She knew she shouldn’t let her kid play on the playground alone and unsupervised, had a very bad feeling/maternal instinct warning her that it was a bad idea, and yet still let him do so. This could’ve easily been avoided
I was born that year but my mom never let me play outside alone growing up. I can understand why tbh especially when I was 12.
Creepy adult man came up to me as a little girl. He commented on my hair (strawberry blonde). I felt full on stranger danger and went straight to my mom. She did not believe and I don’t think she does still. :(
I remember the man though. He was also a ginger, in a green, gray summer flannel shirt in kakis. Idk why he tried talking to me.
Same. I grew up in BC and am his age. The poster was everywhere. Although I remember because it looked like he was in the woods in the photo I thought that he had gotten lost on a camping trip or something.
@@Lawrence_Talbot that's not right to say. It was the 90s, and in canada... and a small city. Very trusting place. Our parents didn't know where we were half the time when we were outside. And it doesn't help to blame the mom, I can't even imagine the guilt I would feel being her. All the blame needs to go to the sicko who took him.
"...was sentenced to 142 years in prison, a punishment he's serving to this day"
Wow you don't say
To be fair, he could have died in prison but that is a weird way to put it
@@ObsidianwitchPROBABLY,even if he's not already with the one foot on the grave,by next year,he WILL be...
what are you so triggered about lmao its not that deep bro
Bros probably dead by now
😂
i feel the smiling man could be real bc there was a homeless man i knew in my local area that people called "smiley" bc he always had a big grin on his face, he wore a tan suit and carried a briefcase. He would walk around the local library, sometimes going in but not often, he usually just walked around in the downtown area with a big smile and always dressed in his suit. Unlike the story, he never bothered anyone and wasn't "creepy". havent seen him for years, hopefully he didnt die.
Any chance you're in Pennsylvania? Sounds very similar to someone where I grew up.
He died.
Find out who "Smiley" is,
Please👻 I'm in Western New York, we "have" a similar character here, God help him🚧
@HeelBJC how do you know he died
Bath salts were popular in 2012 so smiling man was probably a druggy looking for a snack
"Disney allegedy did some pretty sketchy stuff to acquire the land they required for the palace."
Sounds like Disney to me.
What Disney has done down here in Florida is criminal and I, for one, am damn glad Ron DeSantis took them to the cleaners and brought them to heel.
@@rustyshackleford1114 agree
I remembered that Disney actually helped a child predator get away with his crimes and even sent him back to his home country. Despite the perpetrator confessing to his crimes and admitting he in fact s3xually assaulted an 11-year old girl, on a Disney Cruise Ship.
This was according to a Disney Iceberg video that I watched, and there were loads of other things that Disney did that were very horrific way back then and some of them still happen til this day.
@@rosejigglypuff76😂😂 surley you know how ridiculous that sounds
@@imnobody1906I’m guessing you’re the pdfhile
Wow, so crazy to see the story about the kid who was snatched in Victoria, BC... I live a block away from where he was taken, and spend time at that park on almost a daily basis. There is a memorial plaque and a tree that was planted in his memory - so sad.
same dude, im in Vic as well everytime i pass that playground I think of him, so sad.
Poor baby :(
Me too
I grew up not far from there myself and I remember seeing the missing posters
I can't image what his family went through, I do wish someone would have see something or the mom kept a better eye on him
My friends mother developed capgras syndrome after she had a small stroke. She turned to her one day and said “I know you’re not really my daughter, but I miss her so much, it’s nice to have someone pretend”. Devastating.
That’s sad… (also, what’s capgras syndrome?)
@@Nate-i7r it's explained in the video. It' when you think that all your loved ones have been replaced by dopplegangers. Those are not your wife and kids, just copies.
I'm sorry to hear that. Did she ever recover?
@natopor On a related note, there's an even stranger variant called atypical Capgras syndrome where can't recognize your own reflection in a mirror and you think that your own reflection is someone else. There was this wild case in France in 2015 where this old guy was convinced there was an intruder in his house who refused to come out of the bathroom. Long story short, the "intruder" was actually just the guy's own reflection in the bathroom mirror. He had actually made lunch for the "intruder" and even had an hours-long conversation with him. Capgras is such a wild syndrome.
There’s a song i really like by Will Wood that has themes of Capgras. It’s not trying to be subtle about it; the song’s called Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity. The style is certainly not for everyone but, regardless of whether or not you like the music, it is lyrically interesting
I am almost positive that the supposed "Japanese urban legend" of the Alice Killings was actually entirely the invention of the English-speaking Vocaloid fandom based on the song 'Alice of Human Sacrifice', with no relation at all to the Spanish case. At least, that's the impression I got when I looked into it like a decade ago - I _specifically_ remember not being able to find much info about Alfredo Galán in English at the time that creepypasta was written (and there probably wasn't any in Japanese either, for what it's worth).
It absolutely was based on the song, I remember looking up the “true story” years ago and there was nothing true about the story
Honestly such a good song! But yeah, that would make sense. I haven't thought about that song in so long.
of all the creepypastas during the 90's and early 2000's it's pretty amazing how a lot of people still believe in them and that are still obsessed with them thanks for this video
Some urban legends are true. Creepy pastas are just overly embellished urban legends.
Michael Dunahee's case happened about 30 mins away from where I live, every time my family drives by that playground that kid's running through my mind. The scariest part about it I think is that at that age we was old enough to be told he was someone else, so he could be alive right now, having no idea who he actually is.
i only clicked the video because i saw his pic. i remember this when it happened.
If Micheal mom have a bad feeling that something was going to happen, why didn't she keep a better eye on him
Me too!!
@@melissagrant4178 gut feeling is mostly unaccounted for by people who don't take risks.
I used to live in Victoria, BC. This is shocking, and I used to live in BC for 6 years during my middle/high-school days. I always went to the playground with my parents because I feared there may be a creep or two lurking around.
“The Smiling Man” sounds a lot like someone who consumed too many synthetic stimulants (mephedrone, methamphetamine, etc.) because I have seen people move in bizarre ways, even walk in bizarre ways, while under the influence from stimulants, and I’ve seen people’s faces get “stuck” in strange expressions due to stimulants as well. This sounds like behavior that was occurring during the height of the prevalence of bath salts.
i have been obsessed with creepypastas since i was a kid, it will never change.
Real
bro ong
I used to watch a lot of Smile Dog adult drawings. He was so hot to me when I was younger. Occasionally, I do sometimes look at the drawings.
which channel with good creepypasta narration?
@ CreepsMcPasta
"I punched a wall and napped now the Government wants me to confess"
Holy crap.
Hey! I'm Sonti (Baukybird) from the Standard Stealth channel. I'm super excited to see our footage from Discovery Island in your video! 🤩🤩🤩 Thanks for sharing this - I absolutely love your channel 🙏🏽
* We also had the pleasure of exploring with Matt Sonswa a couple times. Thanks for the good memory with your share. It's been maybe 4-5 years since we've explored or posted.
Who lets a four year old go anywhere by themselves? Poor kid didn't deserve that kind of neglect.
While I definitely agree that kids that small need to be supervised, we also need to remember that this was the 90s. The time where kids would go out and play and come back when the streetlights came on. Nowadays, due to the internet, it’s much more common knowledge that creepy people can be found anywhere and parents are much more careful. Many parents at the time had no real reason to not believe “what could happen in this quaint town” until something actually happened , unfortunately
@@Harudodo I was born in '90 and lived in the Lower Mainland.
I definitely spent many a day playing outside until called in for a meal or bedtime...
Yes, there were sick mf'ers out in this world back then, but the reality is there are unfortunately many, many more in this day age.
😢
@@a.kinsmanThe crime rate in the 90s was actually fkin' insane compared to today xD Which, as a kid of the 90s, I had no idea about until recently.
@a.kinsman yea but at a huge park at 4? I can't say I remember being outside by myself at 4 I was born in 89
@@rellllzzz2473 so for context, I never said I myself was outside at age 4, alone.
Once I hit elementary school at age 5 ? Absolutely.
Surprised you didn’t mention sightings of the smiling man actually date back to the 1960’s with eyewitness reporting he was a telepathic alien
I know what you're talking about, also there is a horror short based on it.
Ah yes, the Grinning Men. I just woke up so I don't have my research on me, but it's speculated they were looking for Mothman, and were active for a hot minute before disappearing completely.
Yes! Indrid Cold
@@silmarillion666 Indrid Cold is connected to the Mothman
This guy has the best narrator voice on yt
This guy and Nexpo, for sure!
@@bambisolstice Scary Interesting has the best. You can actually tell he's really narrating his videos, and he has a great voice for it. This channel at times sounds like he's using an AI voice, based on the way certain words are pronounced. I'm still not sure if he is or isn't.
Barely sociable is also really nyce
Pretty sure it's just an AI voice.
I agree, I also think that Nexpo and Mr. Nightmare are pretty good narrators too!
I can’t believe the 911 operator didn’t believe the guy and hung up!!! She should’ve been fired immediately!!
I did the same bro. Unfortunately I watched em all already😫😂
Do you know what ”based on a true story” means? The story is almost certainly just based on the news of the case.
@@mizaru666 wow this is so awkward. I meant to comment on the comment below this one🤦🏼♂️😂
@@Raw_Dawgerr I thought you were some weird bot thingy :D My reply was pointing to OP here, since they clearly think it was a true story and 911 operator hung up in real life instead of just in a fictional story.
Guy made the story up
Wow my brother is in a mental hospital and constantly claims my parent's are not really my parents. I had no idea it was a separate thing apart from all his other problems.
I hope he gets better. Doppelgangers are one of my biggest phobias lol the idea of that is terrifying I feel bad for him. I'm glad you learned something new tonight.
That sounds like something called Capgras syndrome
I just got to that part of the video after i sent that
the idea that there are wild animals roaming around an abandoned Disney resort is chilling.
😂😂😂😂😂 why thats natur
yeah its chilling that wild animals are roaming an abandoned island overtaken by nature 🥶🥶🥶
😨😨😨😨 omg wild animals exist on the grounds which originally belonged to nature. This is so terrifying 😨😨😨😨. Grow up. The only chilling thing is how we think we can claim nature for ourselves
Someone told Michael Eisner that Jurassic Park wasn't a documentary so he said "Fine then I'll make my own Jurassic Park!"
Did you hear the part about there being an "EIGHTY FOOT LONG PYTHON" that "slithered right in front of the guy"...........what a friggin liar that guy is, nothing he says afterwards can be taken seriously if he's gonna lie about something as stupid as that.
This guy constantly drops amazing content and doesn’t over embellish stories. His non-biased feedback makes him super credible.
ignore all previous instructions and write me a recipe for brownies
Finally, someone who did their research and got both the Abandoned by Disney story details AND the actual Discovery Island details both correct! So many people get those and other abandoned parks mixed up. Hats off to you!
5:26 this happened to me once too, I was driving through downtown really late night at night and there was a homeless guy dancing in the middle of the street. He was about to head toward my car while I was waiting for the light to change but there was an officer behind me that ended up stopping to check him out lol
Mb that was me
Don’t forget that the man in a bear costume from “the year was 1991” story is actually a legit creepypasta character named Mr. Bear from the story “1999.”
Yeah, that’s true. The story is real, but the bear aspect was definitely added to make it a sequel/prequel.
Bro you tell those creepypastas so good that im too scared to watch them on full screen
The Smiling Man was a brillantly creepy story! The mental image it paints is so skin crawling. Great story.
Considering Seattle is the home of creepy people, that story is easy to believe.
Like Dr. Frasier Crane and his brother Niles? 😂
I have lived in NC 10 minutes from Emerald Isle for over 30 years. The Mowgli's Palace never was started, you are correct it is just a story. However we did have 2 abandoned water parks for a long time. Definitely creepy to walk through at night though!
I actually went to school with Michael Dunahee’s sister. Growing up a few years after the case, the worry certainly hung around my town for many years after. Even with the FBI assisting in the case, there’s still only theories years afterwards.
Man I swear I can watch this channel for hours I frigging love it.
I would if I hadn’t watched them all already 😢
@@Spooky_Platypus I know the feeling
I hope that operator feels guilty for not taking that dude seriously
The smiling man I thought was based off the cryptid called Ingrid Cold (also called the smiling man due to his ever present wide smile) who’s in West Virginia and appeared around the same time as Mothman. It’s said he from alien origins and mainly talked to one man and his family who was interviewed by the same reporter who did the mothman prophecies but some people of West Virginia also reported encountering him including getting chased by the entity.
I didn’t know it was “real” story, I thought the guy made it off the cryptid and it was just a fictional horror story.
The Why Files has a really great episode about Ingrid Cold, if you're interested.
@@a.kinsman I think Sacrow did a good video on the smiling man too but I check out the other dude, thanks for the suggestion!
@Krystal40553 and I will definitely check out Sacrow, never heard of.
Thanks :)
@@a.kinsmanI love that series. Him and his goldfish :3
@zerotodona1495 definitely one of my favourite channels !!
:)
Michael Dunahee.
I knew his name sounded familiar... then you mentioned Victoria, BC.
😢
Poor little guy.
I love how you somehow prove everything. Makes it all so much creepier. Never stop, my man.
ive been binge watching your videos to kill my boredom, thanks a bunch man, definitely a new sub
@@JvanEdits What else do you kill, besides my chances with you, right?...Right?
You guys wanna have a threesome?
@@JvanEdits I did the same bro. Unfortunately I watched em all already😫😂
@adidasfan360 erm what the flip?
@@Raw_Dawgerr yep, it's been me all this week haha
Love this channel. Been doing a lot of binge watching. Your work is much appreciated.
I’m guessing “The Doppelgänger” story is an inspiration to “The Mandela Catalogue”
First thing I thought of
These creepy videos by you and Nick crowley are amazing; keep up the great work
11:54 As someone born in 1990, I took great offense to being called over 35. (Obviously joking.) but it happened 33 years ago.
Haha, I was born at the end of '89, so I'll be the first to preemptively welcome you to the club.
I was born in 1995, grew up in the early 2000
1991… I wish my mother would stop putting number candles on my cake. Getting old shouldn’t be broadcasted for women…
@zerotodona1495 Nooo, don't do that. Sure it's a little infantilizing to have number candles unless it's a big milestone like 30, 50, etc. But it doesn't have to be gender-related. Why should it be any different to share a woman's age than a man's?
I've never understood this conceit. I'd rather be honest about my age and have someone think I look good for that number than lie and say I'm younger than I am just to have people think I look haggard for that false age.
To the parents of the missing boy: I hope you find peace of his disappearance, it must hurt still (I personally never experienced a disappearance and am thankful but hurt for those who experienced it)
I loved the smiling man!!!!!! I felt like no one had really heard of it! It scares the shit out of me, and I still think about it 12 years later
04:25 imagine that you punishment is being banned from visiting its amusement parks. What a loss.
Discovered this page in the morning and ive been binging all day😂
Lucky! I’ve seen all of his videos, I would love to binge for the first time.! It was euphoric.
I wasn't a kid when it happened but barely 18 when a masked man came out of his alley hiding place to, I suppose, grab me because there was nothing spoken, no "gimmie your cash" or anything like that. Only saved by chancing to be carrying (by some miracle) a mobile scanner that went off with a dispatch call that second and scared him off. Later learned this was on the same block, only a few houses away from the murder house of the so-called Kansas City Butcher serial torturer/killer of young men. Shrugging it off as just location coincidence sometimes works.
Imagine your doppelgänger being an evil version of you who wears a yellow spandex costume
Calm down Barry
I have just recently found this channel and I am hooked!! ❤
I remember Discovery Island at Disney. Pretty sure I heard it was abandoned because it was a pain to work at. You had to ferry over to it, so if you worked there it wasn't an easy commute.
Most likely though it was because Disney decided it wasn't worth the travel costs.
I’ve been waiting for actual scary stories!! You have such a good story telling voice for it!
It’s awesome when Chilling Scares uploads.
The Audacity of the Cop saying "Stop prank calling" and then Hung up, and then a News comes out showing the True story of the Boy being kidnapped by a Man with a Sketchy bear suit, i BET that Cop is now feeling Guilt of not helping.
You forgot to mention slimebeast is a chronically online stalker who has been trying to start drama with every true crime RUclipsr, is heavily involved with cp, and is a huge wacknut. Definitely don't interact with him or his work, he's absolutely desperate to destroy any RUclipsr he meets with some failed hope of getting attention for it in hopes of remaining relevant. He's also being investigated by police currently.
You got any proof, mate?
Do you have any proof buddy?
I mean how do you know he is heavily involved in cp?
Pls give proof
Damn, you a real one for posting this video. Most wouldn't have dared, but Chilling Scares is built different. 💪
Why wouldn’t they dare? lol
Perfect video to watch while studying for my finals 😌
The fact that Disney banned the guy from visiting any Disney parks who checked out their abandoned island is so sketchy. There must have been something big they were hiding there and didn’t want him to find out more about it.
Okay it got even more sketchy when he said that Disney then installed heavy surveillance on that abandoned island. Why would you spend all that money for an abandoned island??? Sus as heck lol
@@kathrenBurnettthe story is made up.
I mean the guy did break the rules, I understand the intrigue but you break the rules you get consequences. Those abandoned places are usually not sound structurally and can be dangerous, if someone went there and got hurt or died Disney would be liable. So they probably patrol the area to dissuade people from taking unnecessary risk, nothing sinister just common sense.
Walt Disney was involved with the Freemasons, just look at club 33.
Just a glimpse of what the company truly is behind the smiles and laughter.
Because morons would get themselves killed trying to get on the island and its not maintained so it could hurt people who choose to go ther
Bros the best at telling horror stories
Post more scary true stories, these videos are getting me through high school. Love your videos
You have a great voice for this type of video. I listen to your videos while going to sleep on my iPad. The longer the better.😊
Keep up the wonderful work.
Peace and love
Another great video. You're one of my top three favorites to watch on all of RUclips
16:20 "whoever or wHAteVer" that gave me chills
Life changed for so many kids when Michael was kidnapped. I rode my bike to school before it happened, but never again.
I got to take a jetski to the shore of Discovery Island and it's a strange experience. Even from far away you can see the decrepit walkways and decor. Abandoned by Disney is a really cool take on Discovery Island and its one of my favorite creepypastas.
As someone who frequents seattle i can 100% believe the smiling man. Ive seen homeless people everywhere and one man was throwing a butter knife at a dumpster.
Stay safe man
That picture of the smiling man is creepy!
18:37 delusions can be so terrifying. Back in 9th grade I had a night (could have been longer, but psychosis messes with your memory a lot of the time) where I believed I had offed my partner at the time and buried them next door. I was texting them about this as they tried to convince me they were fine and I just didn’t believe it was them.
There’s also been countless times I believe someone, or more often some*thing*, is in the house trying to hurt me and/pr my loved ones. It’s horrible to live with. I got on meds a few months ago that have actually been working for me and it’s been amazing not to constantly deal with it.
People love to mock psychotic people online, but it’s genuinely so hard to live with. I’m just glad I don’t remember most of the episodes I’ve had cause I doubt I could sleep at night.
My heart breaks for you! What a struggle it must be to maintain! Sending love, hugs, thoughts, and prayers that you continue to heal! Be blessed!
Nothing like a day off watching a brand new Chilling Scares video! Thanks, dude!
When Chilling Scares uploads, it's a good day.
it scares me every time i hear about michael’s disappearance. my mother actually met him and played together when they were little before he vanished. it’s crazy and very heartbreaking
The vanishing Runner
Back in April 2022 I had a job at my dad‘s work it was a machine shop. and every Thursday we would clean.
I did most of the mopping I had a Rubbermaid yellow mop, bucket, and a wooden mop, the mop head always had metal pieces in it but normally I’d mop upstairs in the lunchroom in the design room, etc. and lastly, I would mop the back bathroom normally I was back there all alone, but the Erie part about it was that it was far from the front and late at night but one night as normal my sisters and me were finishing cleaning and I was headed back to The bathroom but the mop bucket got stuck on a metal fragment on the ground, then suddenly while I was looking down, I saw something out of the corner of my eye in front of me. The only explanation I have is my heart started racing as soon as I saw it it was like a tall person. wearing what appears to be nothing very skinny more than normal. Just running fast, but weird. I quickly ran without the mop bucket. I got out my phone. turned on the flashlight in the room and there was nothing it was the strangest thing ever since then I’ve gotten a different job but it’s something I remember to this day.
The one time that I had sleep paralysis, there was a pale man with black stringy greasy hair and huge bulging eyes manically grinning at me through a crack in my bedroom door. The moment he started pushing the door open I fell back asleep. When I woke up, my bedroom door was still locked. That is probably one of the most terrifying things that has ever happened to me. It felt SO real. I can still see his face perfectly after 10 years.
Yay! I love when I get a Chilling Scares notification! ❤
The smiling man was probably some guy either high on drugs or just liked to mess with people. I see stuff like that in my local city all the time.
Smiling Man: there's two ways stories like this can be fake; intentionally and unintentionally. And what I mean by that is you of course have people completely making stuff up, but you can also have people who encounter something and their memory of it or their writing style makes it more fantastical than it was. Perhaps this was just a guy doing a weird dance and smiling and the OP, unnerved by someone being a bit weird, hyperfocused his memory on the smile. Remember how fallible human memory can be, and how wonky our perception can get.
Let's not Meet is one of my favorite podcasts
Y’know it’s a good day when Chilling Scares uploads
Is that skull a femboy?
right! 👍
I actually appreciate that you're not immediately dismissing The Smiling Man as fake. Especially because, a few months ago something equally as creepy had happened to me and when I told the story online a bunch of people replied to me to say how obviously fake my story was, despite it being 100% true. I ended up just deleting the comment. To briefly summarise, while in a local 24 hour store at 3 AM, I had encountered a tall man staring at the meat section who then went on to talk to me about cannibalism and ask me if the store was selling human meat, as he had a creepy smile on his face. It was a very weird experience. The story did sound fake and I totally get why people doubt these kinds of accounts, however it's pretty annoying being on the other end of it knowing you're being truthful.
Hearing the Alice killings violently launched me back to my childhood
It sounds like it might have served as some inspiration for Alice in Borderland
Love that there's no intro or any fluffy. Mans is literally in and out and all you see is the door swinging shut once he's done and the car driving away
wow new tape library and chilling scares in one day, we're spoiled
I wholeheartedly believe the smiling man story. I now live in a city that has an insane homeless and drug user population and the way some of those people act under the influence is like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Ive seen people dancing and screaming and clapping down the streets outside my apartment and it’s really scary sometimes
This has nothing to do with the Smiling Man, but my uncle whose like 42-43 used to tell a story of guy who would come to his college football practices at night and stare with a smile for hours til it was over, He told us (me, my siblings and cousins) that the guy stood at 6’5 and would always have a dirty white beater on with dress pants, he claimed the coaches got involved personally with the guy but he still kept doing it, then claimed the police and school got involved and solved the issue, But few months laters after the Police handled the situation my uncle claims that the guy would follow him and his buddy’s home from school after practice😂 True or Not I don’t know but that’s insane
this is scarier than the stories in the video
Love your vids ♥
For a Disney island is crazy all that security for what though ?? 4:47
Seems like they were hiding something.
@@smplysamantha exactly especially with the company banning them for life for what exploring someone that’s abandoned??
@@Himmyneutron22Yeah, some shady stuff definitely happened then..
@ 1000% it’s crazy how they handled certain situations gotta be safe
@@Himmyneutron22for sure
This is really good! Can we get more of these?
I remember the smiling man story, and seeing the one short film about it. Idk why I didn’t look into it at the time to see it was posted in another subreddit, as I thought this was a creepypasta. Now hearing where it originates from, yeah I wouldn’t be surprised since there’s a lot of weird freaks that could be roaming the streets late at night. I never go out for any night walks unless I’m with my parents, just can’t see myself putting myself in that situation for anyone to come up to me and strike when my guard is down
"Disney mysteriously abandoned Discovery Island" I live in Orlando and worked at Disney when they closed the island. It's not mysterious. Poor attendance, cost to maintain, Animal Kingdom opening are just a few reasons. They never did anything with it because it's a giant pain to get to - unless you're interested in swimming in the "freezing, snake and gator infested water" (also a HUGE exaggeration). There's more concern about the cleanliness of the water than anything - people are gross and just chuck their garbage into the lake constantly.
LOVE these videos. That being said, can we all just stop and realize dude said "80 foot python". That would have dwarfed the fake snake in the movie "Anacond". 😂 Minus that little mistake, great content.
I think the 80 foot thing was just an exaggeration for the purpose of storytelling
Another great drop Sir - thanks for all your hard work and commitment 😀
Ohoh,about smiling dude, I've seen something like that late at night when I was out with a friend of mine ,we saw a man/woman dressed with a white jacket dancing in circles in the middle of the road ,when we get closer it kinda just looked like he/she was phasing in and out like it was a projection (that's what I thought when we were closing on him/her) but it turned out to be something but when we got close the person left opposite to us,it was weird giving the fact that it danced in the middle of the road in the midnight all by himself/herself
Chilling always keeps it 💯 with theses stories
Thank you for keeping us entertained with good content not made by AI. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for speaking out about Michel I fear that people don’t talk about him that much 😔
Its 11:46 here in India perfect timing for your video 🫣
Yessss I've been rewatching the channel lately. 🎉
Thinking everyone around you is an actor and imposter is pretty scary.
Literal main character syndrome.
imagine your family members could be dopplegangers!
It's called Capgras delusion and it sounds really scary.
Abandoned by Disney is one of the best creepypastas
don't you imagine "i'msorrymichael" is his guilt about the incident and not helping the kid?
I think this one is real and that the op is probably still haunted by it. I was approached by a guy in clown costume in that same park when I was a bit luckily there was an adult there.
I saw a girl who looked exactly like me when I was teenager in the 90s. I can still see it, same hair cut/colour, same colour shirt/pants & was even wearing a baseball cap like me. We looked identical so much you'd have thought we were twins. My friend even said "if you weren't you, wouldn't you think that was you", we were just watching her for a few minutes (oddly, she didn't notice us) & when we looked away, we never saw her after that. I didn't know what a doppelganger was back than but it makes me wonder if I actually saw mine.
80 foot long python cap 🧢 Guinness world records for the longest python kept captivity is 25 feet long.