Are You Scared of Mannequins?
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2022
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Join, if you dare, as Ryan reads the internet's scariest imagined stories to his pal Shane.
CONTENT WARNING: This video contains content that some might find disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised.
Possible triggers: mentions of emotional/physical distress, blood, physical harm, disappearance, nightmares
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Thanks for using a real author for this one! The last few stories were pretty terrible but this one was really creepy (in a good way!)
it's exciting to see this author has a book! loved the way he described the creepy feelings his characters got
ALRIGHT BIYS I GOT AN IDEA FOR THIER GHOST HUNTING. THEY NEED TO GO TO ZAK BAGANS HAUNTED MUSEUM AND MAKE A VIDEO TOURING THE PLACE . THE VID AT LEAST AN HOUR AND A HALF LONG. GET THIS TO TOP FOR THEM TO SEE IT.
@@snakyYT they already have hun
@@littleshell2748 Shane and Ryan need to
“I’m not a violent serial killer” -Shane (unconvincingly)
It's the specificity that worries me...
Sounds like someone who’s a serial killer would say
I'm gonna open up Tumblr in a moment and see a GIF of this one being passed around, I just know it.
@@00muinamir oh, 100%
No bc he’s a polite serial killer
Shane: "I'm not a violent serial killer"
Goes on to describe in detail beating a mannequin and how great it feels.
So I'd he a gentle serial killer? It seems very demon Shane to point out the nonviolent but not the non-murder.
I mean, a mannequin would be the closest thing to a human being so kinda understandable. Imagine being an unhinged lunatic who takes his anger & pain out on mannequins instead of humans. It's sort of wholesome in the way that they're not hurting anyone but it's also kind of fucked up because it's sort of like they're imagining doing it to humans. Idk man, maybe i read too much into it or maybe my ass is too high, but thats sort of what i thought about when Shane started saying this lol.
Ryan: o_o
So, what? A guy punching the sh!t out of a punching bag at the gym with a push dagger is a sociopath now? Wow, people are so judgmental nowadays.
Followed by an ad for mental help.
Can we give a shout out to the artist who makes the charcoal sketches??? Their drawings make the show 1000 times more scarier
SO TRUE!
EXACTLYYYY
Its in the description
RAE
The one at 25:15 ??? GOOD LORD
Shane describing “the bulge” while Ryan casually drinks from his cup and knods is the whole spirit of this channel
Can someone give a timestamp?
@@husseinabdallah2912 8:13
“Knods” is my favorite thing ever
Why is it that "the bulge," especially while in quotes, sounds creepy as hell when related to this series.
It's too many spirits
I appreciate that Shane has won Ryan over on the “I hope they smooch” theory that he’s always hoping will happen
I know I was surprised when Ryan was the one who first brought it up this time 😂
even shane was delightfully surprised with that little hum of his
I, too, read horror stories for the romance
@@MyceliumNebula Nothing creates a romantic atmosphere like fearing for your life
I need someone to write a good horror -> romance story for them!
The wife: you’re gaslighting me!
The wife 24 hours later: You didn’t take the mannequins outside weirdo, you’re crazy.
the wife was going through her Willem Dafoe in the Lighthouse phase
yeah sounds like my ex
Ryan : so lock your doors, turn off those lights and let’s if we can make it till the end of the night
Me : opens the balcony door and curtains, turns on the lights and sits down for breakfast
You have a balcony?! Maaaan living the life
@@nickiito5201 wait hold on, balconies are uncommon?!
@@t.ris_ depends on where you live, in most big cities balconies are rare because the higher the buildings the least likely it is for floors to have balconies
@@t.ris_ where I live all houses have balconies since it's a small town
@@t.ris_ I think it's not a thing in America nor is it really a thing in Ireland unless you live in an apartment building
Ryan: I don't think anyone should own a mannequin head.
Hairdressers and cosplayers: *sweats nervously*
Literally sitting next to my cosmetology mannequin rn lol
I literally just own 2 mannequins from my mum
Same, I sell hats hahaha. If someone broke in while dark, they’d have quite the jumpscare lol
I was terrified of mannequins before I started hair school lmao. I used to set mine up facing the window (which, in and of itself, is crazy💀) and my heart would drop whenever I’d see it in my peripheral vision 😭😭
ASMRtists: *tapping nervously*
this was one of the most gripping ones in a while. loved it tbh. didnt know if it was supernatural or just fucked up reality. still i want answersss
This one was jarring for me bc most of them are usually stranger danger, however this is watching a loved one absolutely lose it and become something terrifying.
Same. This and the intruder that hid under the bed are exceptionally unnerving
I'm kinda bummed the story confirmed the supernatural at the end, there was enough there for a pretty good ambiguous ending.
Also husbands killing their wives is depressingly something that’s pretty common
Yeah, this was definetly the best so far this season. The previous few have had really lackluster endings, but this ep creeped me out quite a bit and I've never found mannequins to be scary.
i think this is objectively one of the best written stories of the series, but i'm finding difficulty in getting past how novelesque this man is recounting this traumatic event 😭 so eloquent for a man who JUST witnessed his wife walking inside a mannequin.
Right? His vivid descriptions are what makes the story so gripping and good, but at the same time my brain's just like "has this dude been scripting and rehearsing what he's gonna say since the cops arrested his ass?" lmaooooo
Yeah it's one of those suspension of disbelief things. Some people can look past it and some can't! I now can't look past it thanks to you lol! Still, absolutely amazing story.
Maybe he's a novelist 🤷♀️
It would've helped if it only got picturesque deep into the story, and broke when he was just talking to the detective. When he was saying things like a bond villain during their semi-casual conversation, it really took me out of it.
@@stephenc909 i was actually wondering if they'd established early in the story that he was a novelist and i just missed it LOL
It’s funny how I knew or at least suspected this was the same author as ‘are you scared of the ocean bleeding’ simply by his description of sweat. They’ve clearly got a handle on their own descriptive writing style
lmao i heard the tongue licking down the spine thing and immediately thought of him
The growing intensity of Shane and Ryan wanting the characters of everyone story to make out is where the real suspense comes from
My husband and I never argue but if we did it would 100% be because I kept bringing mannequins into our house against his will.
I actually think I saw something like that on an episode of My Crazy Obsession
@@GippyHappyyour pfp is so cute
@@onion256 thamksxxs is my dog buddy he is fat
@@GippyHappy If I remember correctly, guy on that show did have 100 Real Dolls. Maybe different people but nevertheless.
Are you scared? Nope.
I'm terrified. 🤔😳😄
@@CallmeA_B , as someone with unmedicated ADHD, it is hard to moderate my obsession of the moment and not let it overrun my home.
Thankfully my obsessions have been things like rock collecting or paper crafts. Not so much the human replicas.
For those wondering, Bikram Mann wrote last season's story "Hell Water" featured in the episode "Are You Scared of the Ocean Bleeding?"
Oh wow - that was one was so well written!
Ooo that was actually one of my favorite stories that have been covered! I love the scary ocean theme so much
Thanks. That was actually the first episode I watched and loved it
he actually wrote The Hat Man one this season too!! the ending for it is a bit lack-luster for me, but i thought the build-up and writing was still awesome!
I knew the name sounded familiar, from the prose I guessed that's the same author too. Thanks for confirming!
For the viewpoint of a writer, I just gotta say goddamn this is a gripping, fantastic, and creepy story. I absolutely love it. It's perhaps my favorite so far. I plan to submit a story of my own soon, and I hope it captures the audience as well as this one has
Good luck!!☺
hiii :3
did u submit it? and if you did, what's it's name?
@@FelixIIsHere no I actually haven't submitted it yet. I have an idea drafted out but not finished. Life really gets in the way lol. Hopefully it'll be good to go sometime this summer!
So these aren't supposed to be true stories?
@@laurenlejeune6534 they started out with a "could be true, could be not" format (they would have to guess if it was "experienced" or "imagined" at the end of the episode) but now they stick to explicitly fictional stories, submitted as such.
Love how Steven's version of trying to sound scary is letting his voice randomly spike in volume.
It's so weird 😁😁
Well it did make me anxious, so... mission accomplished?
Kind of creepy.
I think I always kind of assumed Ryan and Shane’s friendship was pretty put on in the early Unsolved days to make it more watchable like a lot of acting and media duos do. But its always kind of endearing when there are moments like Ryan trying to give Shane ASMR 100% seriously which reminds me how close they are
why did u think that 😭 i have never gotten that impression. more the impression that they were assigned to this show and became closer than work buddies lol. I didn't think their relationship was fake tho lol
Ryan mentioning how he 1) went to Disneyland with Shane 2) bought two corn dogs for the two of them 3) looked down and went "sweet, two corn dogs!" and, high out of his mind, ate them both - *confirmed* that their friendship is nothing if not 100% real lmao
@@cindyh.6011 He said he was stoned lol
Honestly quite a few of the UA-camr duos are pretty genuine. Don't know where you got the impression they wouldn't be.
shane was with ryan for his bachelor party/trip! for sure the best of buds, I think they definitely started out as work friends but grew close pretty naturally
I’ve had to dress up mannequins before. They put up more of a fight than you’d expect.
Yes. Yes they do! I had to dress them in right windows with hanging displays which would pop off the metal hangers if you nudged them and collapse to the floor and you couldn't move round the bloody things. One of the mannequins was a sitting position. It was an absolute BASTARD of a job at times!
@@teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425 #relatable that was always a struggle when I was working in retail.
@@ronnieeilert8491 still preferable to working with the public, though!
@@teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425 do you mean the customers?
@@ronnieeilert8491 yip. Worst part of retail!
One of my neighbors has mannequins all over his yard. Like over thirty mannequins, all in different outfits and positions. He moves them around and changes their clothes occasionally. Needless to say, it's horrifying. This story has managed to make me even more scared of that house, didn't know that was possible.
Hate to be judgemental, but I also had a neighbour who would not only collect mannequins in her yard but also hundreds of those little rainbow wind wheels. They creaked at night and it was unsettling. She probably was a nice lady but I never got to know her bc I stayed far, far away from her property at all times 😅
have they broken into your house and placed mannequins in it yet
People like to complain about HOAs until this shit starts happening lol
The fact no one mentioned the Autons from Doctor Who makes me feel like such a nerd. They're like faceless mannequins with guns hidden in their hands.
You're not alone @Kris T! When I saw that this episode had maniquins I immediately thought of the first episode with the 9th Docter and Rose. It's been a while since I watched them but, it sticks with you.
Thank you someone said it!!
Found this comment checking if anyone else immediately thought of the Autons haha
SAME! When Shane was asking how could it attack you all I could think of was the Autons, who we literally see murder a guy, in the 9th Doctor's first episode. Did forget what they were called, though. All I remembered was that they were living plastic.
S1E1 of the reboot, Rose, did an amazing job with the Autons. It does a great job building tension and it really did feel like an actual, admittedly low budget, horror movie, at least in the beginning.
Ryan: “How do you lie?”
Shane: “Quite comfortably, in a hammock.”
This repartee is a cultural reset. It’s a cultural reset.
(Edit: Thank you for the likes)
"It's unpleasantly like being drunk" vibes
So iconic I had to replay it twice 😂
this like combined with “i’m not a violent serial killer” is especially concerning
The scariest part of the story was her peeking around a tree. Someone or something peeking around a tree or corner is very creep haha
Cara Delevinge
That was very creepy but what especially got to me was the image of her eye peeking through the mannequin she was wearing like NOPE
"I can see you."
This reminded me of the time when 17 year old me and my friend were in an empty street dead in the night waiting for her dad to pick us up, we were standing next to some clothing store with a lot of mannequins staring at us, we were a lil scared and nervous as it was so late, through the glass I saw a mannequin moving and I screamed, so she screamed then we realised some guy in the store was moving it away to close, we noticed when he started laughing.
*the wife inside the mannequin suit*
Ryan : You know how long it takes to squeeze inside a mannequin ?
Shane : it’s impossible
Fnaf fandom : first time ?
HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA *wheezing*
this comment absolutely cracked me up, love it 😂
My best friend has a mannequin. Her name is Clarice. She's usually dressed up like a witch. In college she stood by the door of his apartment. Scared the shit out of me plenty of times, but she guarded the door well.
Honestly that seems like a solid burglary alarm? Like if I were a burglar and I entered your house and saw a figure? I’d bolt.
Oh God i think this episode indeed got to me cause at first i read my best friend was a mannequin
@@carolawada4978
Same
My friend kept a Legolas cut-out right behind her door.
the claire witch project
I like to imagine each story as their own little part in a vast world labeled “Are You Scared,” and boy that is a world I do not want to live in
are you scared-verse
The AYSU
Very Twilight Zone-esque
Omg this series is just a whole AU
if these kind of stories interest you, you should check out The Magnus Archives. it's a podcast whith scary supernatural stories that are all connected (all fake of course)
Man the protagonist must've been a theater kid with that kind of theatrical recounting of events
That aside, this was a very good story. I didn't get super spooked surprisingly but that's cause Ryan and Shane always come it at the best times to assuage the fears. Ryan's "would I fight my wife?" paired with Shane's reaction really got me
when i was a kid my sister told me that the mannequins were her friends (or just anyone) that were caught shoplifting so they had to wear the clothes they tried to steal (and if they were missing a head or their hands.... well that was part of the punishment)
thats a really good older sibling lie
Mine told me blood orange juice was made from the blood of grasshoppers
@@iaminpainauchocolat9300what the actual fxxk
I was starting to lose faith this in season of the series after the last few stories haven't been the best, but imo this is at least in the top 3 episodes of the show. Massive props to the author, I was legitimately unnerved and invested in this story.
Same to be honest, the reveal of the wife wearing the Mannequin was pretty unnerving
Absolutely agreed! This season has been crap and not scary terrible endings. This has a great story and super creepy and that ending terrifying
Same the cat story, movie theatre, and hat man were pretty bad. Nothing to do with the watcher crew! the stories were not interesting and just bad, especially hat man. I felt I wasted my time watching the hat man episode!
glad i’m not the only one who thinks this seasons been pretty boring
maybe i’m wrong but didn’t they used to read non-fiction stories? i feel like all the content we’ve gotten lately have been obvious creepy pastas.
@@mckenzie5509 I don't mind creepy pasta stories but Stephan should 100% look over who picking out the stories now. Like clearly no one is if they produce 3 uninteresting episodes in one season ooffff.
Shoutout to Bikram Mann for writing a brilliant story that’s going to haunt me. Congratulations on your new book!
"Are you scared of mannequins?"
Well, yes. I've watched Doctor Who, of course I'm scared of mannequins. Also shadows, statues, gas masks, scarecrows, rags, spiders, maggots, talking with myself when I'm alone, and many other things... it's my favourite tv show, I love it.
also water (fuck Waters of Mars man xD), cars and GPS systems, libraries at night (we have a night system in ours, convenient but fucking scary), garbage bins, Christmas trees, the list goes on and on xD Great show
Don't forget snowmen, dressed up Santas, body fat, the internet....
rags????
@@hotsexyangel yeah gotta admit was wondering about that one as well 🤔🤔
damn, i haven't watched dr who in a while though drwhotardis1 is still my password for everything.
Ryan’s “I guess” after Shane saying how much he wanted to beat the mannequin had me rolling
If a mannequin was walking towards me, I’d treat it like Brenda treated that skeleton in ‘Scary Movie 2’: Just don’t be scared.
That was my thought exactly!
"This is a mannequin, Cindy, this is plastic!"
Then rearrange it the same way Brenda rearranged the skeleton from the movie too xD
@@connachristie5320 *takes mannequin head* "I'm sorry mr. Mannequin here you go psych."
“THIS IS A SKELETON, THIS IS BONES!!”
I actually had a mannequin head as a tween, bc I wanted to try out wig styling (lol that went well) and an internet tutorial told me to just go to like, Party City or something and ask for one (which they actually did give to me, for free). I didn't have that thing yr supposed to stick up its neckhole to keep it from moving around though, and eventually my dad got tired of watching me and superglued it to the underside of an old baking sheet. I never tried wig styling again but it felt weird to throw it out, so I just kept her on top of a cabinet in my basement for years. Tho, since we used the basement to hang out a lot, my sibling and I saw her pretty often, along with anyone we brought over. Her name was Mauve.
good name for a mannequin honestly
@@3bugsinatrenchcoat at a later point my sibling actually had one too for awhile for some reason (might've been on loan from someone bc I don't remember her sticking around as long?) that they named Rycharde (or Rhyshard? Don't remember precise spelling)
We named our characters in Rock Band after them
We had one that we would prank my friend with, leaving it in different places in the house. She took it from us after we put it in the mail box to prank the mail carrier.
@@olivia7782 you guys have such beautiful names for mannequins!! i use one for wig styling and i just call it wig dude
How are they doing?
When they said the husband and wife both be going crazy I immediately though “folie a deux” and was so happy to hear them boys repeat it back to me
As someone who is deeply afraid of mannequins, i can’t even walk in a store anymore because I’m too scared of the mannequins. I purposely avoid the mannequins by going to a different section or just looking down while I pass them. I have no clue what sparked this fear but it is truly horrible.
I work with mannequins and I must tell you they are not scary. I call them miss. Manny quinns and they kind of grow on you.
Maybe you need to work with mannequins
@@iaminpainauchocolat9300 maybe, I mean I’ve never worked with them so I wouldn’t know lol
@@iaminpainauchocolat9300fr
Not even close to scary 😂
Bro I’ve been scared of mannequins my whole life, my way of coping or trying to face my fear was walking around pretending to be a model in order to insert my dominance that I wasn’t scared of them. I was a weird kid.
Did it work? Did you get past your fear? (Did this story bring it back?)
As a gay person, it’s nice to see Ryan and Shane wanting Queer Angles in stories. I want to send a story and then I hesitate. Pray I send a story.
(Edit: Thank you for the likes and the encouragement in the replies)
omg send it!! a gay love story is literally the only thing this series is missing
@@jonathansoko1085 groom deez nuts
There was that story about an intruder who broke into a boy's house and got arrested
SEND A STORY QUEEN! GIVE US THE GAY HORROR
YEs!!!! i need the queer angle too!!!
I seriously thought it was going to end like: "yes your wife was banging on the door...as a plea for help because she got herself stuck in the mannequin...she's dead we found her in the woods still inside of it.
Gotta admit the actual ending was way better than what was going on in my brain 😄
Ohhh, I like this version a lot!
can you explain the ending bc i’m lost 😭 lmao
@@1musketeer311 Suuuper late, but one of the mannequins followed the man to the police station and was standing behind the detective all throughout the story, which is why the husband was described as 'never breaking his stare'. The mannequins possibly only move when they're not being looked at, which explains why the husband never looks away from it
@@oxo1thank you!
But i still dont get what happened with the wife…or why she was inside of the thing but eh
Ryan being surprised at how good he is at making plans to trap people feels like a Ricky Goldsworth bleedthrough
I can not get past Shane letting his lips falll “naturally”😂😂 He is PUCKERING!!!
And Ryan saying “let’s see those thin lips” made me spit out my drink
@@adv4287 I definitely hollered back, girl.
Shane: "Is anyone scared of mannequins?"
Markiplier: "Hello everybody my name-"
OMG I WAS ABOUT TO COMMENT ABOUT MARKIMOO TOO! LOVE THAT GUY 😭💗
i was just abt to say this!!!! 😁😁
Someone needs to tell him to react to this lol
I was about to say--
Lol I made a comment abt mark too
This story is one whole big bucket of, "Ew." 😂
If he killed her, it's scary, and if the mannequins are supernatural, it's scary. We don't win.
MC: "I thought it was Maya, but it was the 2 policemen who brought me here"
Investigator: "Oooookay now I understand, so you dont know where your wife is?"
Mc: "No"
Investigator: "Okay well you're free to go then, we will continue to search for your wife, don't leave town now if we need to find you"
Mc: "... this guy didn't even listen to my story."
Potential Theory: what if the protagonist is actually a serial killer? The existing mannequins are his previous victims, left in the secluded woods. The protagonist describing dragging his wife back to the cabin is not actually to drag her from a seemingly possessed-like trance away from her new fascination, but the result of knocking her out in a tussle after he led her to the spot of his previous victims and them having a physical altercation where she tried to escape him and, sadly, failed. Maybe the mannequins being back in the cabin (via the wife dragging the mannequins back to the cabin) represents that she has joined them in being dead (as her husband killed her). The wife wearing the mannequin as a skin suit might represent that she is firmly in the realm of the dead with the passing of time overnight, where her body has become rigid (like a mannequin) with rigor mortis. The protagonist claiming his wife was fascinated with the mannequins (we can, at the very least, *consider* him as an unreliable narrator) may not be a true reflection of that moment - perhaps *he* is fascinated with his previous kills. Maybe the protagonist had spent time camping in the woods and had killed random hikers in increasingly violent ways (as many serial killers increase their level of violence with each kill).
In the bathroom, rather than fear, he feels guilt when his wife bangs on the door to enter the room; each slam of the door is his own heart actually pounding as he half realises the gravity of what he has done, breaking a whole new barrier in having killed his own wife.
This might explain the appearance of the mannequin at the end of the story too - the return (and perhaps ever-presence) of his own guilt for his actions, which he nonetheless can’t, or won’t, stop. Or, perhaps, the fact that the figure behind the cop is wearing a suit reveals the protagonist’s truly homicidal thoughts - he is envisaging his next victim - the police officer.
At the beginning of the story, the tires being slashed may have been done by the protagonist to stop his wife escaping and/or to make his own story seem plausible - that he was a trapped victim. The opening also mentions he’d been working from home - maybe he was cooped up too long and suffered a break from reality of some sort.
The protagonist also claims the couple went to sleep that fateful day without saying a word to each other after arguing - this is an awfully convenient way of ensuring he won’t have to explain any supposed final conversation with his wife to the police - especially if she was already dead (killed in the woods). (Though, he does later recall another fight after his wife allegedly brought the mannequins back to the cabin - so that’s not necessarily a solid interpretation of that part of the story.)
Making a point of emphasising that his wife supposedly said she wanted to *be* with the mannequins (not play with them) may also be an attempt at easing his own guilt - imagining that somehow being one of his victims is what his wife wanted on some level, thereby also absolving him on some level.
I LOVED this story and this episode so much! I actually watched it twice to see if my theory holds up and I honestly think it does, but would love to hear others’ interpretations too! Masterful writing from Bikram Mann.
Thank you so much, Shane and Ryan, for sharing this wonderful writer’s work with us!
Wow! After reading this it makes more sense.
SUCH a good analysis. 10/10
SUCH a good analysis. 10/10
Damn this is good
but how did the officer see mannequin too behind him?
Watching Ryan and Shane’s decent into madness over the last 6 years has been a pleasure
*descent :]
@@thirza.111 I hate to be the grammar police here but they used 'decent' correctly in this context
@@king_spoon_toons935 Wait, really? But I thought decent meant something that is of pretty good quality, and descent (going down) is normally used in the phrase "descending into madness". I'm not a native, but if you Google the phrase, it says it's spelled as "descent".
@@king_spoon_toons935 wait now I'm really confused
@@thirza.111 you were correct, don't worry lol
The introduction reminds me of The Stranger, I've been waiting for an episode about Mannequins (Now to wait for a "Are You Scared of Being Watched?") The fact that the starting line is asking what the most terrifying thing that you've ever seen reminds me of how James Wright hired Elias lol and how this whole thing is like a Section 31 interview. Holy crap I didn't expect the wife wearing the mannequin like a skin-suit! I expected the opposite. This just gives me the magnus archives vibes, I love the writing too and the fact that it's written by the same dude who wrote the ocean bleeding!
definitely the best story of the season so far.
the way it was told through a third party was pretty effective, almost as if it were a campfire story, and the way it was written with very strong visuals in mind definitely helped make it very impressionable.
I was urban exploring at an old abandoned amusement park once, and there were mannequins EVERYWHERE. It was quite disturbing cause someone who had explored before me had placed them in really creepy positions, like torsos floating in the pool and stuff. Loved it.
When that lady’s eyeball was rolling around in her head, I frickin lost it 😂😂
terrifying
i think this is the best story out of the past 2 seasons by far, i had full body chills at the end and actually said "yes" out loud when ryan asked "are you scared?" oh my god dude. and the editing was insane. spooky as hell (but amazing) drawings like always, but the sound design too. the music/sound effects that started playing when the mannequin walked into the bedroom actually made my stomach queasy. amazing amazing amazing.
This series is the closest I've found to something that can fulfill my "The Magnus Archives"- fix
you should check out camp here and there, havent listened to tma but I hear it's very similar
I love this story!! Tbh the recent stories weren’t that scary and I only watched them for the Shane Ryan dynamic but this story actually kinda creeped me out!!
The rest of this season have had really unsatisfactory endings but this is genuinely terrifying
forgot about this dropping and am on the way to being very drunk so watching this might be a mistake
TWT OOMF
Keep us posted, we are pulling for you g
good luck bestie
Just got baked as fuck and watching this now. So we are basically in the same boat😂
have fun and stay safe lmao
This is the first time I've been scared by an AYS in a while. Of course I always enjoy the stories and the commentary, but I don't think one of them has actually scared me since Kisaragi Station.
Personally, I thought the husband was lying, it sounds very much like he wrote it out or remember his story to the cops so he sounds believable. I love the twist at the end, I like to think Maya was just trying to ask him to help her out of the mannequin because she struck.
i was absolutely terrified of mannequins as a child let's hope this doesn't awaken that fear in me again 👍
Oh dear...
So... how did it go?
RIP, friend, cause this ep is a fuckinh nightmare
Ryan trying to give Shane ASMR is something I never thought I’d see
The guy’s fear in the last sentence as he realizes he’s not crazy and seeing things but is actually sane and his wife, in the mannequin, is standing there waiting for him is the scariest thing I’ve ever listened to
Imagine having an argument that ruins your entire day over not wanting to take home 5 broken mannequins
loved how you guys got the perfect sponsor for this video, the scariest thing ever: therapy. i shudder just thinking about facing my inner demons
I know this is a joke and I laughed 😂😂 but as someone who struggles with therapy l myself, I hope one day you can face those demons!! 💪
A wise man once told me " your inner demons may be scary but they are your demons meaning you control them not them controlling you, you are scarier than your demons"
They're more afraid of you than you think.
@@jda7667 i love that. It's so true on so many levels. As someone who has been through severe trauma & mental illness, they are my demons. People laugh at me when i say this & have the audacity to say shit like "paranormal stuff aint real" im also a believer, having had my own experiences but i dont see demons as paranormal. They plant themselves in the deepest, darkest parts of our minds where they feed off our pain & vulnerability, slowly destroying our will. That is a demon, they may not be real in the way we've seen on movies & such but they're definitely real. It's scary because when stuff like this happens, we feel ourselves losing control & that's just what our demons want. But we can control them, we can bring ourselves out of the darkness, only we can do this. I hope everyone out there who is battling with their demons, will come through it like a champ, keep pushing through & keep your head up. It's scary but always remember who is in control. You.
Also, sorry for the long ass paragraph lol, i just thought it was so cool what you said & wanted to share my opinion on it. Have a great day!
@@jda7667 nah. The brain is scarier. It's Mental illness ,we can't control it. It's just like any other physical illnesses. The only problem is ,it get ignored coz of People's misconceptions about Mental health.
As a kid I used to imagine the mannequins in the mall coming to life at night... I wasn’t scared of them but this thought would spook me sometimes
There was a kids show in the 80’s (I’m not sure if it was only in Canada) called “Today’s Special” that was about a store mannequin coming to life. Nightmare fuel.
There's a music video by Girl's Generation for the song, Gee, that this comment reminds me of. The group members are mannequins that come to life, but it's not a spooky video or anything like that.
A la Doctor Who would be terrifying
The Twilight Zone
Check out the twilight zone episode called “after hours”
SUCH a step up from the last story. It went from "uh... i guess i'll put something scary here idk" to downright terrifying. Bikram if you're reading this i gotta give praises to you since most horror stories nowadays for me are just background noise, but this one had me captivated. good on ya dude
my fear of mannequins come from that one Doctor Who episode
I actually have a creepy story involving a mannequin:
So one summer when I was home from uni I was out for a walk. There were a lot of um, ladies of the night, going missing in the nearest city and people thought it might be a serial killer. But anyways I decided to go for a walk by myself because, idk, I am am the type of person who's in the cold opening of a horror movie - like yah there may be a serial killer but it'll probably be fine, right? And then I find this plastic bag with a heel and part of a foot sticking out of it, black hair coming out the top, that smells of rotting meat (and by that point I'd smelled large animals rotting before so I knew that smell). And so I'm like, wondering if I just found a body and if I should call the cops (only this is like the 90s so I'd have to walk back home to do that). But then I was like, well, I don't want to bother the cops if it's not a dead person, so me, in my utter brilliance, decides the best plan of action is to poke the heel with a stick and open the bag. And it was a mannequin and chunks of pig. I don't know if someone saw the missing posters from the city and was trying to play a prank, or if someone just needed to get rid of a mannequin and some spoiled pig chunks at the same time, but that's what I found. Which is lucky, because a) I don't really want to find a body 2) I can't imagine Shane and Ryan covering the true crime that is like "and then this 18-year-old asshole decided to poke the body with a stick"
Man, I'd have done the same thing. I mean, somebody has to be the first victim in the horror movie right?
@@GippyHappy lort
i loved this being presented through a police interrogation like that’s such a great method for storytelling
losing it over "nobody should own a mannequin head" because I got out of cosmetology school with no less than five of them and now they all just live in the trunk of my car, where they've given two separate grocery store employees heart attacks. I don't know if it's better or worse that they all have names (Marie Antoinette, Naruto, Mannequin Skywalker, Rufio, and Brian).
Shane: "Imagine just beating that thing in the head, that's got to be satisfying"
*Ryan witnessing a birth of a serial killer*👁️👄👁️
ryan thinking that the mannequin challenge was as recent as 2019 is hilarious
Ok, I must say that the protagonist in handcuffs is actually quite a savage and I’m here for it.
When Shane made a kissing gesture when pretending to talk to a mannequin was hilarious... I laughed out loud many times during this video. The story is truly frightening as well. An excellent Are You Scared episode! Kudos to Watcher and the writer of the story.
Couple encounters contemporary artist's weird installation in the woods, can't withstand the sheer power of the sight, goes crazy
Ryan leans in Shane's ear: you should really renew your car's extended warranty...
Are you scared of Mannequins?
Markiplier: yes
Ironically Ryan has what I consider to be a very soothing voice well suited for ASMR, which is part of the reason I love listening to these! I could probably fall asleep to them but the creepiness usually wins out lol. I’m really enjoying the series and hope they make more!
this one is SO GOOD huge shout outs to the author, absolutely incredible work. excellent pacing, really keeps you engaged the whole time. and major props to the production team for the sound design!!! totally works and makes shit SO chilling. just love this series
Pretty good story! I will say, it made me realize I'd be a terrible husband. Ain't no way I'm not out the door when I come down and see my wife dragged the mannequins into the house. Tires already slashed? I guess I'm running the whole way. Honestly, I feel like that's a fair deal in a relationship.
I think this story is actually the best one yet. The imagery was amazing and the frame narrative made it intriguing because we don’t even now if the narrator (the cop giving the interrogation) was telling the truth or not. The story was really captivating and I loved it. I actually did get pretty scared during this one so it was very enjoyable
This has got to be one of the scariest stories on this show in a while, I got so many chills. The drawings make it so much scarier too!
"Didn't want to think of the alternative". My first thought was "either my wife is crazy....or I am".
One of my favorite stories so far. Fucking amazing. That ending caused chills to cover my whole body. The ending was perfect. Why would anyone want to know what happened next? The whole point is that it leaves you uncomfortable and thrilled at the same time! That's some good horror writing right there god damn.
“Lock your spouse in a room.” You mean, the major plot point in ‘Jane Eyre’?
I love that they didn't even discuss potential supernatural causes, just that 'yeah they both might have gone insane lol'
This just makes me miss the mannequin from Unsolved 😢 and yes I miss it, it never scared me lol. Guess I'm a Shaniac who fears nothing! Jk, I do get scared at plenty of things 🙃
I swear to god i thought the title said "are you scared of Minneapolis"
got real confused by the notification 💀💀💀
John Mulaney: “I didn’t kill MY WIFE”
Ryan/Shane: “…I bet he did kill his wife.”
I used to work in a clothing store and when you lock up at night and the lights are off, those creepy bastards are terrifying
“Be with them” - I GOT CHILLS AAA!! Such subtle but terrifying writing!!
These air right about when I get home on Fridays and I can’t express how nice it is to start my weekend like this
SAME! just got home and i'm all cozy and ready
Right! I had some lemonade and came home to my dogs and watched this :)
I’ve started a tradition of making a fire every Friday night, eating dinner in my hammock, and watching these
Ayyy I'm glad you all have similar experiences with this series!
what is worse though, having the detective look over and confirm that she/it is real or having him not see anything and have to face you might have done something to your wife?
ALSO was i the only one that thought there was more than 1 missing person? I was expecting several missing people to account for the number of mannequins.
I’m so happy you switched the intro to “end of the night” instead of just “end.” It would drive me crazy that it didn’t rhyme for some reason!!
Also, are you guys going to finish reading the “Are you afraid of your family” one? I know it said 2- parter, but the full story has been read now as a 6-part podcast and it’s totally bonkers! Either way, LOVE you guys soooooo much! Can’t wait for Ghost Files- Ghoul Boys in action!!!
I just remembered my grandparents met while working at a mannequin factory. How can someone fall in love whilst surrounded by, of all things, mannequins I don’t understand??? This story is like what should have actually happened when they met
but for real tho, great story
the art in this show is always killer (haha)
Sometimes, Ryan says the weirdest things on his baritone but it sounds cool so you think it’s legitimate.
honestly steven lim trying to do ryan’s spooky voice is therapy enough
"I want what that guy's having." Is actually a badass way of buying clothes. If I'm the worker, I'd be like "whoa, who's he? What did he do?"
Ryan saying the mannequin challenge was in 2019 has confirmed my thoughts of him being completely off on his notion of time
it's this or he was just doing the mannequin challenge years after everyone else had stopped. both theories i'd believe
bikram mann absolutely kills it every time man, love that he’s a regular writer for the series!
I'm zero percent scared of mannequins but I fully love you, guys.