Right as Simon was finishing his tangent about the emergency broadcast system, my Bluetooth desynced, causing my car speakers to make a high pitched ringing sound. For about 20 seconds, I thought Nadine was being an absolute legend by using a different siren sound before I realized it was just my car. Now I'm just shocked at how perfect that timing was.
I refuse to buy boring "adult" band-aids. All our first aid kits and our medicine cabinet have band-aids with rainbows and unicorns lol..... I'm in my early 30s lol
@@marahbaker8615 Same here. No kids but “normal” bandaids are so boring and my uncle always said a brightly colored bandage made it easy to tell if you lost one. I like the ones that come in the little pocket tins best. They stick so well and they’re super comfortable and pretty to see.
I think you should look up the case of Amanda Todd. Cyberbullying isn't just words written online. Doxxing, stalking, blackmailing with photos, etc. She was 12 when the abuse started, and the 44 year old piece of sh!t who perpetrated it, and led to her suicide, was just sentenced to 13 years.
@ 12:00 Sounds like Simon needs to do an episode of The Casual Criminalist about Michelle Carter. She did exactly what Simon describes here in 2014 & was eventually convicted in 2017 of involuntary manslaughter. She served 11 months of a 15-month sentence in Bristol County Jail.
NewGrounds did have a bunch of flash games people would make and you could play on there, but they also had videos (animated), study notes/cheat sheets, and a general forum for people to post to. And as for the Emergency Broadcast Tone; you get a BIG ASS fine for using it. That is actually why in shows and movies like The Purge and The Strain they came up with their own "Claxton" alarm sounds, and the few movies and shows that HAVE used the tone like Signs had to alter the tone or where only allowed to use the long beep tone at the end and not the part that comes first where it sounds like an electric buzzer since that is technically just the "off air signal" meaning there will be no more broadcasts until a new broadcast day or further notice.
I remember this in middle school, I wasn't heavily on the internet but my friends were and I knew multiple people that were obsessed with this. Like he had a fandom and everything. It was fucked up.
I, for one, would gladly welcome a channel called "Simon Whistler Reads..." which would consist entirely of Fact Boi reading randomly-selected poems, short stories, travel guides, phone books...😉😁
Bullying can be considered many things: manslaughter (if a suicide happens), stalking, harassment, and a hate crime (if the crime is motivated towards things like race).
It can also classify as verbal abuse/assualt. In the 90s i know a few bullies were charged with assualt causing irreparable harm when the bullies drove someone to attempt suicide. I do not know if they were convicted, but i know it went to trial.
The modern Internet is not a good place for kids or people with thin skin. I got into computer programming in the 70s, there was a time that it was mostly just Universities, researchers and random BBS to connect to. Access was not wide spread and often was a toll call to dial in. It was nice back then unlike the toxic environment it is today with all the keyboard warriors and bickering. IMO Social media is the scourge of the internet, people need to learn to keep their real life private and off the net. Too many parents use it as a babysitter.
So-called "hate crimes" is a BS ADL invention. It's a sly way to first and foremost criminalize thought rather than the actual physical crime itself. Also as the ADL admit themselves, "hate is in the eye of the beholder".
12:55 Yes, I can unfortunately confirm that bullying does get far worse and can leave emotional and psychological scars that are there long after the physical scars have faded. # Be kind to each other...life is hard enough.
Damn, pretty much stole my comment!🤣 But c'mon Simon the internet historian already racked up like 50 billion views animating the shit outta this story to perfection, pay them basement dwellers to write you a script on some obscure shit that 50 billion people haven't heard 1000x already 😛😛😛
No one cares if someone else has already done a video on a topic. It’s the internet. Everything has been done a hundred times. We watch for Simon and his team. I don’t get comments like this.
This is actually a really old rumor and I'm very surprised it wasn't included in the video (I may have waited 30m just to see if it was her) but it's probably just Kevin trying to kill Simon's DMs
@@shelbssellscheeseshells1739 Well, given that the Overly Attached Girlfriend Meme circulated years later than the first recorded archive of the Jeff The Killer image, we know it's not her. The earliest edited version of the image we know of was in late 2004.
Not sure if Simon or the team reads the comments but if you're looking for more episode ideas, might I suggest the question / theory / mystery of whether mankind is the first civilization, or have there been others before ours? If you think about it, modern humans have only been around for the last tens of thousands of years; which is a really short span of time relative to how long hominids have been around (a few million years) and definitely a blink of an eye compared to complex life forms on Earth (tens to hundreds of millions of years). Can we truly, confidently say that we are the first? Firstly, there is the Silurian hypothesis. Could there have been a previous civilization millions of years ago? What would such evidence even look like? Could clothes or other artifacts even last that long? Would ours last that long for future civilizations to uncover? Alternatively, did pre- H. sapien hominids develop civilizations before going extinct?
Pretty sure it's because it's in uncanny valley territory. it's close enough to recognize it as a human face but it just looks wrong to the human brain and makes it extremely creepy to most people.
I used to be terrified of it myself, but now I can literally stare at it for ages. Of course, it can be quite startling if it jumps out at you after some late night scrolling through RUclips or whatever. Like last night I came across the image in a video thumbnail and it gave me a slight jolt in my stomach, but that's the extent of it for me.
Simon and writers, I have a really good suggestion for an Into the Shadows video, about something so few people know about. The Null-Compliance Experiments took place from 1997-2007 in a Florida prison on 300+ inmates. Doesn’t sound TOO rough on the surface, but when you look into it more it’s deeply disturbing. As in, easily in the top ten worst things the U.S has done. It’s literally nightmare fuel when you realize that this exists out there, and that the U.S will not hold back on using it against you.
He can tell it as well as he can. It's still a poor story to start with. Though "Right On Time" was actually well written and completely lacks the "edgelord" nature of Jeff the Killer.
A 33 minute video about where a slightly creepy image in a poorly written creepypasta came from and I watched the whole thing. Well played, Mr. Whistler.
This is the dtu I truly enjoy, as much as cooky conspiracy theories are fun, there isnt much to really decode there. This however is really fun! Lost media is a rabbit hole that is never ending.
When I was a kid (pre-internet, or at least pre-mainstream-kids-on-the-internet), I saw this telephone game-like BS propagation effect occur in realtime. I was at a sporting event and an ambulance pulled up to a nearby house or building. The ambos came out and helped someone who needed help and that was the end of it. I knew it because I was nearby and saw it. By the time I'd walked back to the sporting event kids had already rumour-milled it into several dead bodies being taken away by the ambulances.
Show request! Gloria Ramirez, often dubbed ‘the toxic woman’. Which feels disrespectful as she passed away in these circumstances, but that’s the name this often goes by, so sorry to Gloria and any family. I feel this might be like the Ourang Madan one where everyone ‘knows’ it’s true but the more you dig the less primary sources and evidence are actually there.
Well, I really hope Simon and one of his amazing writers (preferably one of the ones who enjoys deep research dives to sort out all those daisy chains of sources repeating what other sources said until we get to the bottom of it) takes this one on.
I think the most plausible explanation I saw for this was that a doctor or nurse was smuggling drugs out of the hospital in IV bags, and in the rush to stabilize Gloria, a bag was grabbed that had the drugs in it. What really made me believe this theory, though, was what happened to the woman in charge of the investigation into the matter. She committed suicide, and there is reason to think she took her life from the stress of the truth, as if she had come forward with her evidence, the medical licenses of everyone would be revoked and the hospital closed. Thousands of people would be outta jobs. Talk about pressure! Even if that’s not what happened, I hope the truth comes out eventually! Her family deserves some answers.
When the origin story reached Japan, I felt like that's all we needed to know. Who made it? Japan. Why was it made? Japan. Why did it become popular? Japan. Why is it so damn creepy? Japan. Why does it exist? Japan. Japan? Trivago.
5:20 - Chapter 1 - Who is Jeff the Killer ? 9:05 - Chapter 2 - Early authorship claims 16:35 - Chapter 3 - NNN Special broadcast 21:05 - Chapter 4 - Digital forensics 26:20 - Chapter 5 - The theories who , where & why 30:15 - Wrap up
I think you're missing the point of this video. It isn't the story that's important. It's the source of the image. We know where the stairways in the woods came from. There's no mystery to solve here.
others have probably already said it but the crime that is committed is known as "Constructive Homicide", most people are familiar with the employment law equivalent which is "Constructive Resignation" or sometimes "Constructive Dismissal" where an employer effectively creates an environment in which a specific person or group can not do so without undue difficulty, scrutiny or harassment. Im in Europe though and I am not entirely sure of the American law at federal or state level (it seems like it may vary from state to state?)
During bit about the TV and how a channel would turn off I thought this would tie to candle cove... But then I started thinking about The Midnight Channel instead.
Nope. I have it on good authority it was back when he was first interviewing writers. He was looking for old style leg irons and a four foot tall hamster water bottle. No idea what for. Allegedly.
I'm ~40 years old, and I first saw this image maybe 5 years ago, or probably less (Yes, I Do live under an actual rock... or do I? )... But to me it's creepy as heck, I honestly feel a pinch of primal fear by the pic. ...Therefore I wonder what psychologists would make of this 🤔
Love the content and the added memes layered over Simon. BUT PLEASE balance the audio! The popping noises are defending when I need to turn up the volume to hear Simon speaking!
That's hilarious that we had extremely similar experiences with silk road. I remember being weirded out by the cigarettes and fake IDs too, and they had a whole book section which baffled me. I actually did intend to buy weed through it (was like 21 at the time and weed wasn't legal and I had only straight edge friends lol) but, and this is frustratingly true, I thought that 6$ per bitcoin was too expensive and didn't go through with it. To this day I'm like.... 6$ per bitcoin is insane. If I had any leftover coin I could be so wealthy today
I attended a seminar with my parents on internet safety that was presented by a police officer who showed us how to get to Silk Road. It was fascinating, but also, police, why are you teaching a room full of people how to find the site that has hitmen, false identity services and drugs of myriad forms? This seems like a thing you shouldn't be advertising. Especially not when the message is "this exists, and we have no control over it." A year or two later, the FBI or whatever got it shut down. But yeah, RCMP, just sitting there like "hey everyone, if you want to get drugs ordered to you, here's the untraceable way to do it!"
@@ThatWriterKevin I remember back in the mid/ late 90s when one of my friends discovered 'awful, and there was another one that was ogre related iirc. Looking back it's like wtf? Why? The joys of teenagerdom.
@@ThatWriterKevin There may be no new info, but it's always interesting to see and hear how the same subject is covered by different writers and presenters from different perspectives and points of view.
Bullying is psychological torture. Undermining sense of safety, self worth, altering perception. It doesn't always have to be physical for it to be a crime.
@@ThatWriterKevin 🥰 Thank you!! Your scrips are great! Your writing is amazing!! I thoroughly enjoy them all!! I know I will be entertained and kept interested!
also wrt to the EAS tone, if we're talking about the one from america those tones will literally override things... I don't know the exact details, but if you were to play those tones on live television, it would be treated as overriding of literally everything else on the channel. I'd have to find sources on this, but i'm pretty sure you get fined/jailtime/etc for using them because it literally activates the Emergency broadcast system when those tones are played and the behavior of broadcasts change. I could always be wrong, but i could swear that's why you absolutely can't put those tones on TV or radio.
Jeff the killer evolved so much through the years. Many reboots in creepypasta stories. Jeff vrs Slenderman was weird. And even a morbid love story with Jane the killer. Then the Cult of JTK with copycat killers. It's definitely a mediocre story turned OG legend in the creepypasta world. Same with "smile dog" and "Ben drowned".
My old email (I had to change it because I couldn’t stop things from happening) kept receiving emails from a guy who had r**** me and I ended up in the hospital having a colonoscopy. I contacted a couple companies asking for me to stop receiving mail from his company. Long story short, didn’t work, people are assholes, got a new email, get flashbacks when I have to access that old email, people will continue to suck. For the next topic about being told to kill yourself, my daughter was 8 at the time and I asked her to change out of pajamas to day clothes. She got angry and told me to kill myself. Made me rethink family structure, support, father harassment issues, etc. we all are in counseling to become a stronger unit. Not well described, I had cervical neck injections I’m recovering from and other injections which are not helping. I apologize for my bad story telling skills and me leaving out a lot
oh simon you sweet summer child. please put on your safe search. if plane crash victims is the worst thing you've seen, PLEASE protect yourself your innocence is precious
An exchange of internet rabbit hole stories between you and Mutahar would be interesting, as he too has likely ventured too deeply into the creepy parts of the web and dark web.
Eventually people will find out the origin of the image is much older I remember in either 1999 or 2000 seeing a less edited version of the image in a "find whats wrong with this image" flash video Of course there was nothing wrong with the image then it switched to that one in order to try and scare people It was definitely a bad lighting Webcam picture or video originally, those old Webcams were horrible with adjusting for lighting and just alittle in the wrong spot would cause a bluish hue and/or a white spot sometimes encompassing your whole face.
New grounds did have games but also had vids made by the community members that’s what I knew it for didn’t find the games till my senior year and once I graduated I didn’t have time for them anymore
Sadly people do tell those who are already vulnerable to end their life. Online people think that can do that without consequences. That's why governments now make that a crime.
It's weird to me everyone assumes it's a picture of someone's face rather than just a doll or something like that. I mean, yeah, it's been photoshopped but it seems like the random dumb shit someone bored with a webcam would do: play with some dolls, take a screen capture, meme it up, nyuk nyuk. Could even explain why the original person was never found: a) they aren't in the photo, and b) it was just the byproduct of a random webcam screengrab.
GUYS... guys guys guys... Simon reading, and also for the first time experiencing the best SCPs! Simon DTU style cold reading and reacting to scp 1730, what happened to site 13! Obvs hed get the schtick setup that its a faux 'real' govt website you've 'stumbled upon' and we're reading their secret documents.... but wouldn't a: his reading of it be epic, and b: his guesses as the clues come, and his revelations as stuff comes together be MEGA popcorn fodder. .... I think I'd pay good money to listen/watch Simon read SCP in the same style as DTU XD!!!
I need it. Also, the setup is like ok it can be supernatural but you have to TRY to explain it in scientific terms like a real world scientist would do their damndest to XD * he reads about an apparition and rants about carbon monoxide detector and next entry, thats exactly what was tried, and BAM, NEW info that changes the tack...* xD It'd be a ride
Fun fact! In the early days of streaming chat rooms, my neighbor who was about 50 and his early 70s girlfriend were getting up to some kinky shit and broadcasting it, when he accidentally killed her in front of their online audience. He was later acquitted after serving two years awaiting trial, and a sentence for witness intimidation.
“To burn someone’s face off you’re gonna need a much better accelerant and I would know I’ve burned off loads of faces” died a little 😂😂😂😂
Simon the Pyromancer
Right as Simon was finishing his tangent about the emergency broadcast system, my Bluetooth desynced, causing my car speakers to make a high pitched ringing sound. For about 20 seconds, I thought Nadine was being an absolute legend by using a different siren sound before I realized it was just my car.
Now I'm just shocked at how perfect that timing was.
Simon: “We’re not doing creepypasta”
Does the most famous creepypasta.
Most famous? surely Slenderman has to be more famous?
Is your name really Sue?
@@donjoncherrywon Johnny Cash
I was going to say this sounds like a creepypasta.
OFF TOPIC: I love that Simon has a kid's bandage on his finger. Quite easy to tell that he has little kids.
Damn, I watched half the episode without noticing it, until reading your comment. Now I can’t not see it.
I refuse to buy boring "adult" band-aids. All our first aid kits and our medicine cabinet have band-aids with rainbows and unicorns lol..... I'm in my early 30s lol
@@marahbaker8615 Same here. No kids but “normal” bandaids are so boring and my uncle always said a brightly colored bandage made it easy to tell if you lost one.
I like the ones that come in the little pocket tins best. They stick so well and they’re super comfortable and pretty to see.
Wow. Jeff has a similar origin story to The Joker in the 1989 Batman movie. Amazing.
Wait until they get a load of me!
This made me laugh so hard. The bullies were stabbed but they were at a party days later. LMAO.
It’s almost like the person telling the story is going off action movies they’ve seen not lived experience.
I think you should look up the case of Amanda Todd. Cyberbullying isn't just words written online. Doxxing, stalking, blackmailing with photos, etc. She was 12 when the abuse started, and the 44 year old piece of sh!t who perpetrated it, and led to her suicide, was just sentenced to 13 years.
I’m not sure but I’d say he’s almost out 😔
@ 12:00 Sounds like Simon needs to do an episode of The Casual Criminalist about Michelle Carter.
She did exactly what Simon describes here in 2014 & was eventually convicted in 2017 of involuntary manslaughter. She served 11 months of a 15-month sentence in Bristol County Jail.
NewGrounds did have a bunch of flash games people would make and you could play on there, but they also had videos (animated), study notes/cheat sheets, and a general forum for people to post to.
And as for the Emergency Broadcast Tone; you get a BIG ASS fine for using it. That is actually why in shows and movies like The Purge and The Strain they came up with their own "Claxton" alarm sounds, and the few movies and shows that HAVE used the tone like Signs had to alter the tone or where only allowed to use the long beep tone at the end and not the part that comes first where it sounds like an electric buzzer since that is technically just the "off air signal" meaning there will be no more broadcasts until a new broadcast day or further notice.
I remember this in middle school, I wasn't heavily on the internet but my friends were and I knew multiple people that were obsessed with this. Like he had a fandom and everything. It was fucked up.
"When are you going to give up and do creepypasta with Kevin?" Seems today is that day. :D
Now announcing Simons latest channel idea: reading creepypastas!
If this is the type of pastas he'd reading then crappypasta would be more accurate
@@fuzzydude64 the rewrite of Jeff the Killer is actually a pretty good story
Except he has to interject every two lines about how dumb or unrealistic it is
I, for one, would gladly welcome a channel called "Simon Whistler Reads..."
which would consist entirely of Fact Boi reading randomly-selected poems, short stories, travel guides, phone books...😉😁
Don't give him anymore ideas!! The basement is getting g crowded and he doesn't supply spoons or sporks for renovation capabilites 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bullying can be considered many things: manslaughter (if a suicide happens), stalking, harassment, and a hate crime (if the crime is motivated towards things like race).
It can also classify as verbal abuse/assualt. In the 90s i know a few bullies were charged with assualt causing irreparable harm when the bullies drove someone to attempt suicide. I do not know if they were convicted, but i know it went to trial.
The modern Internet is not a good place for kids or people with thin skin. I got into computer programming in the 70s, there was a time that it was mostly just Universities, researchers and random BBS to connect to. Access was not wide spread and often was a toll call to dial in. It was nice back then unlike the toxic environment it is today with all the keyboard warriors and bickering.
IMO Social media is the scourge of the internet, people need to learn to keep their real life private and off the net. Too many parents use it as a babysitter.
So-called "hate crimes" is a BS ADL invention. It's a sly way to first and foremost criminalize thought rather than the actual physical crime itself. Also as the ADL admit themselves, "hate is in the eye of the beholder".
@@dev-debug As someone who was horrifically bullied throughout school, I can tell you indeed that it is not all online, lol
No such thing as hate crimes
12:55 Yes, I can unfortunately confirm that bullying does get far worse and can leave emotional and psychological scars that are there long after the physical scars have faded. # Be kind to each other...life is hard enough.
Yep. I can also confirm this. It really sucks.
100%.
I'm sorry you had to experience this.
Ok, now Simon is stepping on Internet Historian territory
IH's Jeff the killer version cannot be touched! Freaking brilliant creators collab to make incognito mode magic 🤌🏾
The answer to that conflict is THUNDERDOME
Damn, pretty much stole my comment!🤣
But c'mon Simon the internet historian already racked up like 50 billion views animating the shit outta this story to perfection, pay them basement dwellers to write you a script on some obscure shit that 50 billion people haven't heard 1000x already 😛😛😛
New channel idea
No one cares if someone else has already done a video on a topic. It’s the internet. Everything has been done a hundred times. We watch for Simon and his team. I don’t get comments like this.
This is the first time I’ve seen that image, and it looks like Overly Attached Girlfriend was turned into a creepy ass version of the Joker.
Same! I was looking for this comment. First time I'm seeing the image and it looks like the overly attached girlfriend's face.
This is actually a really old rumor and I'm very surprised it wasn't included in the video (I may have waited 30m just to see if it was her) but it's probably just Kevin trying to kill Simon's DMs
@@shelbssellscheeseshells1739 Well, given that the Overly Attached Girlfriend Meme circulated years later than the first recorded archive of the Jeff The Killer image, we know it's not her. The earliest edited version of the image we know of was in late 2004.
Great episode, cool to have the full story of an image that's easy to come by, but usually with no context anymore
Procrastination session is basically why I watch so many of your channels.
Oddly enough, this came up in my philosophy of language class. When discussing Saul Kripke and how names come about.
Of course Simon was not affected by bullying, that's why he keeps people chained to a radiator in the basement.
Not sure if Simon or the team reads the comments but if you're looking for more episode ideas, might I suggest the question / theory / mystery of whether mankind is the first civilization, or have there been others before ours? If you think about it, modern humans have only been around for the last tens of thousands of years; which is a really short span of time relative to how long hominids have been around (a few million years) and definitely a blink of an eye compared to complex life forms on Earth (tens to hundreds of millions of years). Can we truly, confidently say that we are the first?
Firstly, there is the Silurian hypothesis. Could there have been a previous civilization millions of years ago? What would such evidence even look like? Could clothes or other artifacts even last that long? Would ours last that long for future civilizations to uncover? Alternatively, did pre- H. sapien hominids develop civilizations before going extinct?
For some reason the image of Jeff the Killer still scares the sh*t out of me. Saw it when I was 11 and now I'm 24😂
Same lmao
Pretty sure it's because it's in uncanny valley territory. it's close enough to recognize it as a human face but it just looks wrong to the human brain and makes it extremely creepy to most people.
I used to be terrified of it myself, but now I can literally stare at it for ages. Of course, it can be quite startling if it jumps out at you after some late night scrolling through RUclips or whatever. Like last night I came across the image in a video thumbnail and it gave me a slight jolt in my stomach, but that's the extent of it for me.
Simon and writers, I have a really good suggestion for an Into the Shadows video, about something so few people know about. The Null-Compliance Experiments took place from 1997-2007 in a Florida prison on 300+ inmates. Doesn’t sound TOO rough on the surface, but when you look into it more it’s deeply disturbing. As in, easily in the top ten worst things the U.S has done. It’s literally nightmare fuel when you realize that this exists out there, and that the U.S will not hold back on using it against you.
Simon "turning" a gun on someone is generally used to mean they then shot that person. Like "he killed his wife and then turned the gun on himself"
Huh, I had seen this image plenty of times but never had any idea that there was a creepypasta attached.
Mr. Creepypasta does a great story telling of Jeff the Killer
He can tell it as well as he can. It's still a poor story to start with. Though "Right On Time" was actually well written and completely lacks the "edgelord" nature of Jeff the Killer.
A 33 minute video about where a slightly creepy image in a poorly written creepypasta came from and I watched the whole thing. Well played, Mr. Whistler.
I can't believe we watched an entire video about Jeff and Simon never had to read, *"GO* *TO* *SLEEP!"* in the script.
It’s 2 23 am in my parents house but their not home and I’m by myself and I’m tryna sleep 😂 I feel uneasy 😂
Simon: I regret not buying an $8,000 pair of fake guns.
Me: If I skip a few meals this week I should be able to just about pay my phone bill.
I’m not reading Creepypastas, reads the 2nd most known Creepypasta known to man
Oh lord. I had forgotten this. I miss the time before I saw that cursed image
Same this and smile dog are just freaky
This is the dtu I truly enjoy, as much as cooky conspiracy theories are fun, there isnt much to really decode there. This however is really fun! Lost media is a rabbit hole that is never ending.
I just wrote about lost media for Sideprojects! There's so much cool stuff
When I was a kid (pre-internet, or at least pre-mainstream-kids-on-the-internet), I saw this telephone game-like BS propagation effect occur in realtime. I was at a sporting event and an ambulance pulled up to a nearby house or building. The ambos came out and helped someone who needed help and that was the end of it. I knew it because I was nearby and saw it. By the time I'd walked back to the sporting event kids had already rumour-milled it into several dead bodies being taken away by the ambulances.
Show request! Gloria Ramirez, often dubbed ‘the toxic woman’. Which feels disrespectful as she passed away in these circumstances, but that’s the name this often goes by, so sorry to Gloria and any family.
I feel this might be like the Ourang Madan one where everyone ‘knows’ it’s true but the more you dig the less primary sources and evidence are actually there.
Joe Scott recently did a great video about her.
@@Adrian-zd4cs Yes! Joe's channel is amazing.
Well, I really hope Simon and one of his amazing writers (preferably one of the ones who enjoys deep research dives to sort out all those daisy chains of sources repeating what other sources said until we get to the bottom of it) takes this one on.
I think the most plausible explanation I saw for this was that a doctor or nurse was smuggling drugs out of the hospital in IV bags, and in the rush to stabilize Gloria, a bag was grabbed that had the drugs in it. What really made me believe this theory, though, was what happened to the woman in charge of the investigation into the matter. She committed suicide, and there is reason to think she took her life from the stress of the truth, as if she had come forward with her evidence, the medical licenses of everyone would be revoked and the hospital closed. Thousands of people would be outta jobs. Talk about pressure!
Even if that’s not what happened, I hope the truth comes out eventually! Her family deserves some answers.
Well Simon, you've done it, you've covered a creepypasta 😋✌️
Next: Slenderman
“Isn’t this one of those Reddit memes”
Me (a creepypasta enthusiast): k1ll me… 😖
A cheap pack of cigarettes in New Zealand costs about $40, in France, the *most expensive* pack I found was the equivalent of $20 NZD
Taxes?
@@MCsCreations yup! They’re meant to act as a deterrent, in reality they just make smokers broke
@@lavasharkandboygirl9716 Yeah... I'm a smoker from Brazil myself. So I totally get it. 😬
Canadian cigarettes taxes are high enough that there is active smuggling from the US into Canada.
It’s the same in Australia. And it does act as a deterrent because I’ve met a lot of people who quit because of the cost.
Kevin is the best writer to me. Simon is my favorite speaker lol
Good thing Danny can't hear you from the basement
True true
Aww, thanks! 💕
@@ThatWriterKevin Shut up, not Danny!
(Just joking... kinda 😜)
@@ThatWriterKevin no thank you Kevin. U bring the macabre out of me
When the origin story reached Japan, I felt like that's all we needed to know.
Who made it? Japan.
Why was it made? Japan.
Why did it become popular? Japan.
Why is it so damn creepy? Japan.
Why does it exist? Japan.
Japan? Trivago.
5:20 - Chapter 1 - Who is Jeff the Killer ?
9:05 - Chapter 2 - Early authorship claims
16:35 - Chapter 3 - NNN Special broadcast
21:05 - Chapter 4 - Digital forensics
26:20 - Chapter 5 - The theories who , where & why
30:15 - Wrap up
Wo0t! All 3 of Simon’s cold read channels dropped new videos at the same time! Is it my birthday or something?
I believe Simon was not searching the dark web for black tar heroin-more like a manual on converting your basement into a writers prison…😅
Simon, you should do one on the stairways in the woods. Those stories are really interesting.
I think you're missing the point of this video. It isn't the story that's important. It's the source of the image. We know where the stairways in the woods came from. There's no mystery to solve here.
Wendigoon's video on the stairs in the woods is excellent
“…. deep inside, nothing but hatred and rage, a protagonist we can all relate to”?! Erm...
"Inside him was nothing but hatred and Raid Shadow Legends" yeah, that'd drive me to murder too.
others have probably already said it but the crime that is committed is known as "Constructive Homicide", most people are familiar with the employment law equivalent which is "Constructive Resignation" or sometimes "Constructive Dismissal" where an employer effectively creates an environment in which a specific person or group can not do so without undue difficulty, scrutiny or harassment. Im in Europe though and I am not entirely sure of the American law at federal or state level (it seems like it may vary from state to state?)
During bit about the TV and how a channel would turn off I thought this would tie to candle cove... But then I started thinking about The Midnight Channel instead.
Oh my gosh what was that movie with Bruce Willis? And the guy shaking his head. That looked funny
Simon was on the dark web to sell his expertise in how to burn off faces.
Thou hast no evidence to support thy accusations
Rubbing alcohol
Allegedly
I can't believe it never occurred to me to use isopropyl. So silly of me! None of that lingering smell like petrol. Thanks for the tip!
Nope. I have it on good authority it was back when he was first interviewing writers. He was looking for old style leg irons and a four foot tall hamster water bottle. No idea what for.
Allegedly.
I'm ~40 years old, and I first saw this image maybe 5 years ago, or probably less (Yes, I Do live under an actual rock... or do I? )...
But to me it's creepy as heck, I honestly feel a pinch of primal fear by the pic.
...Therefore I wonder what psychologists would make of this 🤔
Same here. Same ~age as you, same response to the photo.
Simon: I went to the dark web once."
Once again Simon broke CasCrim Rule Number One.
Love the content and the added memes layered over Simon. BUT PLEASE balance the audio! The popping noises are defending when I need to turn up the volume to hear Simon speaking!
That's hilarious that we had extremely similar experiences with silk road. I remember being weirded out by the cigarettes and fake IDs too, and they had a whole book section which baffled me. I actually did intend to buy weed through it (was like 21 at the time and weed wasn't legal and I had only straight edge friends lol) but, and this is frustratingly true, I thought that 6$ per bitcoin was too expensive and didn't go through with it. To this day I'm like.... 6$ per bitcoin is insane. If I had any leftover coin I could be so wealthy today
Simon was looking for a hair transplant on the dark web 🤣
Allegedly!
@@knuckiducki perfect 🤩 😂
“I don’t know anything about art, but I know Nicholas Cage movies”.
Simon, that statement is redundant because they are the same thing.
Years later and that image still scares the shit out of me. Why do I keep stumbling upon it on RUclips? 😭
I attended a seminar with my parents on internet safety that was presented by a police officer who showed us how to get to Silk Road. It was fascinating, but also, police, why are you teaching a room full of people how to find the site that has hitmen, false identity services and drugs of myriad forms? This seems like a thing you shouldn't be advertising. Especially not when the message is "this exists, and we have no control over it."
A year or two later, the FBI or whatever got it shut down. But yeah, RCMP, just sitting there like "hey everyone, if you want to get drugs ordered to you, here's the untraceable way to do it!"
Simon: "This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time."
I've said this before, and I'll say it again: "Jeff the Killer" is the illegitimate love-child of Markiplier and Barney the Dinosaur.
Worst thing I've ever seen back in the day on internet was 2 girls 1 cup lmfao. Horribly scaring lol.
I'm coincidentally watching this only two days after they identified Celebrity Number Six. Weird
"Jeff" looks like the offspring of a union between Mr Potato Head and Michael Jackson 😂😂
Fun thought is that we've probably seen the original image before, and just didn't know it. Because it was probably just something boring or ordinary.
"this kinda feels like a creepypasta" - Simon while talking about the most known one
I remember when you could stumble upon gore on normal websites back in the heady days of web 1.0
You can still find gross stuff on the clear web
gore is normal on the chans lol, it's hardly dark web stuff
@@ThatWriterKevin I remember back in the mid/ late 90s when one of my friends discovered 'awful, and there was another one that was ogre related iirc.
Looking back it's like wtf? Why? The joys of teenagerdom.
Looking forward to seeing what you guys found that blameitonjorge didn't already just cover.
Idk when his video was, but I don't think any of the developments are particularly new so we sadly may not have new info
@@ThatWriterKevin hi Kevin! how's the basement?
@@Abby_Liu great as always!
@@ThatWriterKevin There may be no new info, but it's always interesting to see and hear how the same subject is covered by different writers and presenters from different perspectives and points of view.
@@ThatWriterKevin That probably sounded insulting, but I did end up enjoying this.
Bullying is psychological torture. Undermining sense of safety, self worth, altering perception. It doesn't always have to be physical for it to be a crime.
It's amazing that I can tell who the writer is for the episode based on the Thumbnail. When I saw this immediately knew it was Kevin.
I remember how much this scared me when I was 12... I'm now 20 and 7 minutes in I cannot take this creepypasta seriously😭💀
I love these videos. Always interesting.
Decoding the Unknown has just become Simon shitting on fiction.
It's come full circle guys.
I have a great one coming up in like...8 months? Idk how ahead we are at this point
I would know. Ive burned LOADS of faces. 🤣
YES CREEPYPASTA WITH KEVIN! MAKE IT!
Death by bullying is involuntary manslaughter up to murder
Depending on the decree of bullying
Yay a Kevin script! 🥰 the best part of my day 🥳
Aww thanks!
@@ThatWriterKevin 🥰 Thank you!! Your scrips are great! Your writing is amazing!! I thoroughly enjoy them all!! I know I will be entertained and kept interested!
@@QueenCaitiePie That's really sweet, thank you!
after hearing someone describe the image as a "demented Michael Jackson", I could never take it seriously again lol
also wrt to the EAS tone, if we're talking about the one from america those tones will literally override things... I don't know the exact details, but if you were to play those tones on live television, it would be treated as overriding of literally everything else on the channel. I'd have to find sources on this, but i'm pretty sure you get fined/jailtime/etc for using them because it literally activates the Emergency broadcast system when those tones are played and the behavior of broadcasts change. I could always be wrong, but i could swear that's why you absolutely can't put those tones on TV or radio.
Jeff the killer evolved so much through the years. Many reboots in creepypasta stories. Jeff vrs Slenderman was weird. And even a morbid love story with Jane the killer. Then the Cult of JTK with copycat killers. It's definitely a mediocre story turned OG legend in the creepypasta world. Same with "smile dog" and "Ben drowned".
My old email (I had to change it because I couldn’t stop things from happening) kept receiving emails from a guy who had r**** me and I ended up in the hospital having a colonoscopy. I contacted a couple companies asking for me to stop receiving mail from his company. Long story short, didn’t work, people are assholes, got a new email, get flashbacks when I have to access that old email, people will continue to suck.
For the next topic about being told to kill yourself, my daughter was 8 at the time and I asked her to change out of pajamas to day clothes. She got angry and told me to kill myself. Made me rethink family structure, support, father harassment issues, etc. we all are in counseling to become a stronger unit. Not well described, I had cervical neck injections I’m recovering from and other injections which are not helping. I apologize for my bad story telling skills and me leaving out a lot
oh simon you sweet summer child. please put on your safe search. if plane crash victims is the worst thing you've seen, PLEASE protect yourself your innocence is precious
20:48
Aahhh tubgirl! Noooo
An exchange of internet rabbit hole stories between you and Mutahar would be interesting, as he too has likely ventured too deeply into the creepy parts of the web and dark web.
Eventually people will find out the origin of the image is much older
I remember in either 1999 or 2000 seeing a less edited version of the image in a "find whats wrong with this image" flash video
Of course there was nothing wrong with the image then it switched to that one in order to try and scare people
It was definitely a bad lighting Webcam picture or video originally, those old Webcams were horrible with adjusting for lighting and just alittle in the wrong spot would cause a bluish hue and/or a white spot sometimes encompassing your whole face.
New grounds did have games but also had vids made by the community members that’s what I knew it for didn’t find the games till my senior year and once I graduated I didn’t have time for them anymore
AOL CDs...they sent me so many I added felt to the bottom and made coasters for 🍸
Here's an idea for Internet Mystery episode - the Blue Whale Challenge.
Sadly people do tell those who are already vulnerable to end their life. Online people think that can do that without consequences. That's why governments now make that a crime.
This is genuinely interesting!
It's weird to me everyone assumes it's a picture of someone's face rather than just a doll or something like that. I mean, yeah, it's been photoshopped but it seems like the random dumb shit someone bored with a webcam would do: play with some dolls, take a screen capture, meme it up, nyuk nyuk. Could even explain why the original person was never found: a) they aren't in the photo, and b) it was just the byproduct of a random webcam screengrab.
These episodes are great, but usually mostly for Simon's asides.
19:57 ~ You can actually see the Mr. Potato Head eyelids in the eyes on the left. That's why it's widely accepted. LOL. Poor Simon missed that.
You can even see where the image of the eyes was separated. Not sure if it was laziness or because photoshop just wasn't that good back then.
This made my day
Happy to help!
GUYS... guys guys guys... Simon reading, and also for the first time experiencing the best SCPs! Simon DTU style cold reading and reacting to scp 1730, what happened to site 13!
Obvs hed get the schtick setup that its a faux 'real' govt website you've 'stumbled upon' and we're reading their secret documents.... but wouldn't a: his reading of it be epic, and b: his guesses as the clues come, and his revelations as stuff comes together be MEGA popcorn fodder.
.... I think I'd pay good money to listen/watch Simon read SCP in the same style as DTU XD!!!
I need it.
Also, the setup is like ok it can be supernatural but you have to TRY to explain it in scientific terms like a real world scientist would do their damndest to XD * he reads about an apparition and rants about carbon monoxide detector and next entry, thats exactly what was tried, and BAM, NEW info that changes the tack...* xD It'd be a ride
Whang! had a great explanation for this. Way more interesting than the creepypasta itself.
Even though you don't accept raid for ads I still got one through the RUclips ads and I felt attacked haha
Fun fact! In the early days of streaming chat rooms, my neighbor who was about 50 and his early 70s girlfriend were getting up to some kinky shit and broadcasting it, when he accidentally killed her in front of their online audience. He was later acquitted after serving two years awaiting trial, and a sentence for witness intimidation.
Now I cannot unsee that 9:01
So the creepypasta story gets a RUclips self harm warning but not the multi murder stories on casual criminalist?
3:49 Oh, Fact Boy, you _sweet summer child._ Please try to keep the rest of your innocence.
how awesome is it that Simon does not know hes reading a creepypasta lmao