Ive been watching jorge since like elementary school n now im basically in 11th for some reason hes the only youtuber that will actually make me scared of a topic that i would normally not find creepy idk why
I was in a 1987 child abuse PSA. It was produced by WGBH and it aired during an episode of Nova. This is extremely unusual, because WGBH is a PBS affiliate, which doesn't air commercials. The PSA showed a young child crying (the toddler was played by me), then it cuts to a punching bag being hit, then it cuts back to an image of me with a bloody nose and a black eye, it ends with a black screen with the WGBH logo and the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families logo. There was a shorter version that ended after the punching bag scene, without the WGBH logo. I remember seeing it as late as 1996. I can't find a single mention of the PSA anywhere. Edit: From reports in the replies, it seems to have aired all around the east coast. Edit 2: I think I have a lead, I was looking at the Paley Center For Media's archive, they have a full, uncut version of "NOVA: Why do Planes Crash?". This episode aired on February 2nd, 1987, which lines up perfectly with the time that the PSA began airing! I'm going to go to NYC when I get the time, so this search might be over after 20 years of searching! Edit 3: PCM only archives the episodes without any bumpers/PSAs. That's it, I give up. you can stop replying now. It'll just have to stay lost forever. Edit 4: The final airing was on October 7, 1996. Specifically during the premier of "Arthur".
Bro I remember watching a PSA about child abuse for child abuse awareness day and it was a cartoon that showed a guy abusing a little girl in the shower. I remember this Amy Winehouse one that showed her image getting more and more disfigured, which was terrifying, I'm still afraid of Amy Winehouse to the point I can't even write her name
i think the reason the peewee herman psa (and others like it) is so unsettling is perhaps because of how unnatural it is to see such an iconic character all of a sudden serious and talking about subject matter completely different from the show. it’s just such a strange full 180 from this over-the-top character to one that is eerily realistic and stern. that’s probably why they chose him- it would affect kids more to see peewee herman say it rather than some random actor they’ve never heard of, a former drug addict, a scientist/doctor, etc. anyway great video! a part two would be cool as well
I also think it has to do with how TV was back then, you know how you could hear the static sound or whatever you call it, the quality of the sound and how the colors sometimes were fainter... Let's not forget some people also watched these ads when they were young and at night which makes them even more eerie, to top it all these ads were about sensitive topics and have the possibility of being as dark as people claim, somehow watching TV in the old days has a different effect than today.
I don't know if it's just me but I saw the commercial out of context and I laughed because of how unusually scary but ridiculous it was so I just laughed and then later I sat down and just thought about it in silence
Agreed, with ^everyone^ who wrote! It’s the total atmosphere of it. The fact that Peewee’s character is normally silly & fun but suddenly becomes creepy in that atmosphere is the cherry on top. That PSA instantly changed me from *loving* my Peewee pull-string talking-doll to fearing for my life when lil young me was around it 😂
Considering the longer version of “Hate Hurts You” was discovered on 16mm film, and that it “needed some wrangling” the finder could’ve accidentally destroyed it. Unfortunate, but these things happen. Considering there haven’t been any updates, the fear of public outrage could very easily be the reason.
Looking it up, the 16mm reel was found last March, and the amount of people specializing in scans and restoration is relatively low, which means that they're likely clogged with prior requests and discoveries, so there's also the chance that this person simply didn't find anyone with an available spot in their schedule.
The guy responded to someone on reddit speaking on behalf of a lost commercials group the other day - looks like they still have it and are talking in private
For me it's a video we were shown in school about a woman who lost her jaw to cancer, and in this raspy voice, she said "I CANNOT DRINK FROM A WATER FOUNTAIN. I HAVE NO SUCTIONNNNN" I'm sure I am remembering her voice as scarier than it was, but the memory still gives me chills.
It's Terrie Hall, she starred in a bunch of horrifying anti-smoking PSAs like that. A couple of them show how she was during her last days, shortly before passing away from throat cancer, those are the worst ones.
I have nowhere else to post this where you can find it, but I have a theory about the Que Sera Sera ad. I think it is misremembered, since the description of a person playing in a field with the Pink Martini version of Que Sera Sera playing in the background matches pretty closely with a teaser for the second season of American Horror Story (link - ua-cam.com/video/SMG-w_2VmyM/v-deo.html, it should lead you directly to the part with the teaser in question, but if not skip to 4:26 in that video.) The old footage aspect of it is explained since the season is set in the 1960s. My theory is maybe it's a memory mixup of that teaser with a drug addiction PSA. The only thing that really busts the theory is that the teaser was released around 2011, meaning it doesn't fit the timeframe of the described PSA.
Hate hurts you sounds like a genuinely really good ad. It communicates how bigotry comes from people who are deeply damaged. When you hurt others you hurt yourself, mostly mentally but physical altercations can always go south. Bigotry is loathing another human, or group of humans, at the end of the day. That's you right there.
If I saw Hate Hurts You for the first time today, as an adult, I would go "wow, that's a really great statement." The one time I saw the long version, when I was about 8 (1981), it scared the bejeezus out of me, and the one time I saw the short version, when I saw the dude and heard "When you hate ..." I jumped to the TV and shut it off before it got any further. That and Mr. Yuk PSAs (which I _have_ seen on YT, not lost) scared me virtually to death.
@@shawnomancy Mr Yuk! "Mr Yuk is mean, Mr Yuk is green. If you see him stay away, & you'll have a better day". 🤢 I remember them! We even had green Mr Yuk face stickers, which my parents put on all bottles of poison in our house. They didn't scare me, though. I'm sorry they terrified you. 😔
To play devil's advocate, lots of people can hate to their heart's content and be very psychologically sound. I understand that it's best to "be a good person," but there's plenty of bigoted racists out there that are very pleased and happy with how things are in their lives - even if their hearts are full of hate. Not everyone who hates is doing damage to themselves.
The child abuse remind me about those commercials about alcoholic parents and how kids see them as scary monsters. There was a child in a park looking over at their parent calling them to go home and then from the child's POV the parent is a grim reaper like hooded creature, another was getting his seatbelt put by his father but through the kid's eyes he is shown as a kidnapper with a plastic face mask on. However those are definitely 00s/10s commercials and not 90s
For anyone scrolling through the comments and wondering what the OC is talking about, it's "Monsters" by the Finnish organization Fragile Childhood. It's well known in the PSA/PIF community, and for good reason.
The que sera sera lady pictures came from a 2004 drug awareness program out of Multnomah County Oregon called “Faces of Meth”. She had the most striking mugshots and arrests in the system when the program began. I believe there were seven mugshots starting in 1980, and ending in 1989. Her progression into destruction was remarkable over the course of only 9 years. The first picture 7:01 she was only 28. The last picture, (not shown in the que sera sera commercial probably because it was too scary), she was only 37. She died at 38 and looks 70. I unfortunately, can’t find a single article with her name but there are plenty of web pages with her pictures when you search for “Faces of Meth” and go to images.
@@Ashtray503i hope your neighbors are alright with you mate. If one of my neighbors yelled "Faces of meth!" Out of the blue I'd be pretty concerned lol
I'm Filipino and I have an interest in lost media, in general, but this video was the very first time where I encountered the PSAs that you just mentioned. What's more chilling is that this is just the tip of the iceberg knowing how many other disturbing Filipino PSAs still exist but could've been forgotten, and not a lot of people know that Philippine television is an underrated source of international lost media, be it commercials or episodes. It's refreshing to see a channel actually discuss about it especially since a lot of channels here on UA-cam that talk about English language-centric lost media don't often feature content from English-speaking countries in Africa and Asia.
I believe almost every sea region nation beside singapore, each psa shown into public almost got removed quickly since getting complain from people since its too scary or disturbing. Even for just normal commercial with little horror/shock value too.. In my country indonesia theres 2 insta banned commercial, the ban from television only need 2 day after airing and it got removed.. Its from grab & telkomsel provider (joko anwar).
The "Key to Heaven" PSA sounds a lot like an advert I saw once. I think it was called Fragile Childhood-Monsters or something like that. It featured shots of kids looking really uncomfortable and scared, like one holding a womans hand and walking down the street but the mother was out of frame. Eventually the camera switches to show the adult that the children are afraid of and the adults seem like monsters. Grotesque and disfigured, like one having a giant rabbit head. Only difference was, it was a PSA for something like alcohol use and how children see us when we drink
yess this one!! i know exactly what ur talking abt! i saw it for the 1st time in 2016 of disturbing PSA’s ^\^ i believe it’s still on yt since its well known!
i think i saw this on tv in the uk. the only channels i would watch would be Channel 4 & it’s affiliate channels (E4, Film 4 etc) so i would guess it would’ve been shown there?
i also remember one about the disgusting aftermath of animal abuse. basically the screen is black but the audio was nuts. you hear a family talking and laughing followed by footage of them bringing a bunch of animals into their house then the screen goes black again as you hear the animals howling in anguish as they get boiling water dumped on them, drowned, burned, tazed, cut up and so on. then the sounds stop and the message "animals have lives" appears. that one wasnt as nightmarish as the anti-gun ones but still chilling as a kid.
@@chainsawvulture you would be absolutley correct. that was the one i was thinking of but some of the details were a bit sketchy as i saw it a lng time ago so i may have included things that were not in there but they may have been. maybe im just remembering wrong?
I remember the "shabu" PSA. I think the title of it is "ASIDO" which means acid and was aired by a group called "citizen's drug watch" with a logo of an eye (like illuminati). The recreation doesn't look like that. It is an actual styrofoam or paper humanoid and someone pours actual acid on it. It is aired alongside another PSA about trash. A person throws trash at the river and then one day when he opened his door, tons of trash came in. Aired at the same station IBC-13.
I don't know how accurate the recreation is but I remember someone created a picture where it shows the woman's transformation throughout the years. Also it makes you wonder who this woman is but from the pictures I'm pretty sure she died from being on drugs for so long. PSAs may be creepy but some like that one will never leave my mind.
@@YourMusic-JoshuaWilliams The creepiness of PSAs is good. Sugarcoating things won't help the cause the organizations behind the PSAs are trying to battle against or support. I've seen people say that "creepy PSAs are poor execution" when it's actually the contrary
@@Ekraelum Just right now I did look the woman up, her name was Roseanne Holland. I found an article from 2004 discussing the PSA. It featured two other women also, but it says they didn't know where she ended up after her last arrest. Most likely she did die after her last arrest. The first picture in the PSA was her at 29, the last is her nine years later. I agree with you, sugarcoating things won't make it stick in your mind. The one I feel is most disturbing and scary to me is the Terry the smoking lady PSA. Especially the last one where she is dying in the hospital, honestly, I don't know how people can't be affected by these PSAs.
@@YourMusic-JoshuaWilliamsthank you! i just read the guardian article you were talking about, it was really interesting and raised some intriguing questions in that the met police used images of american convicts in order to get past needing their permission
It was, I remember it too. It freaked me out because I don't like that song and the image at the end was so jarring after the sweet video of the little girl.
These old and lost PSAs always intrigue me. I grew up watching a lot of tv but I just can’t recall any PSAs other than the anti-vaping ones I still see occasionally. It makes me wonder just how many of those PSAs I’ve forgotten about are lost today.
I remember a duck one that’d play Nickelodeon occasionally. I think it was either an anti crack or anti smoking psa. Something like tobbaco or crack is quack yo. Maybe late 2000s to early 2010s.
I don't remember PSAs on TV but I remember stuff in magazines with weird characters that would say tobacco is wacko. But this was also during the D.A.R.E. crap.
I know that the Pink Martini version of Que Sera Sera is used in the early 2000s tv show Dead Like Me. It might even originate from there, as the scene where it starts playing involves a little girl in the woods - the main character is a Grim Reaper who was supposed to reap her and is reluctant to because the girl is a child. She then reaps her and the music begins. Another element of the PSA that might have been misremembered from the show is that the main character has two different faces. One of them is her real face - blond, young, and pretty. The other is the sort of glamor that people see her as since she is a walking dead person - that face is a strung out vagrant that only sorta looks like the real her.
A billion people have probably pointed this out already, but the "Key to heaven" PSA sounds beat for beat like a short posted here on youtube called "Number to heaven", created by Jason Eisener (yes, the same man behind the movie "Hobo with a Shotgun"). In the short we see a big monster with a deep voice on a rowing boat with a small boy. They are father and son, and they talk about how much they miss mom (which might have confused that reddit poster, making them think the creature was the kid's mom instead of the father). They hug it out, when the boy asks if they could call her, to which the father replies "Do you know the number to heaven?", and proceeds to dumb a cinder block that is tied to the boy's neck into the water, sending him plumeting into the bottom of the lake. Of course, it's not a PSA, just a wacky spooky short movie, but again, in a lot of these lost media cases people seem to misremember some details. Maybe that fella's brain filled in the blanks of this bizarre little video into thinking it was a PSA about child abuse, or maybe they saw a reupload. The original however was posted 13 years ago, so I think the time frame matches. No one in that thread seems to have mentioned this video in question, so there's no confirmation if this is indeed the video in question or if whatever they saw is just very similar.
i think i remember seeing the ads with the parents with monster heads. i saw something similar on another video someone did where they were covering 'The Strangest PSA's to air on TV'. it was a PSA about Child Abuse and the parents were drunk or on drugs, and they signified that by giving them monster like features. one had a pig head, one looked like a depressed clown, one was a zombie and another was some kind of demon. the kids were clearly scared but couldent say anything due to their fear, and the Commercial ends with a Pig Headed father buckling his son into the back of the car, clearly drunk, and starting to head home. the ending has text that overlays the scene, saying 'If They Cant Speak, Speak for them' or something like that involving the Children being scared in abuse situations. i could be 100% wrong and thinking of another ad, but it sounded similar to this one
i remember this too! i used to watch compilation videos here on youtube of these creepy/disturbing PSAs (just a weird rabbit hole i found myself down haha) and i distinctly remember the same premise of the parents being monsters and the kids being unable to speak.
That's a pretty well-known PSA. The text at the end says "How do our children see us when we've been drinking?" It was a PSA about alcoholism, using the viewer's family/children as a heartstrings tactic to get the message across. That's the PSA I thought of too. It's called "Monsters" by Fragile Childhood.
The specificity of the “mother turning into a monster and drowning her child” one was the only one in this video to hit me! Though I don’t remember seeing any sort of PSA title shown for really ANY of them I remember from childhood. Wish I could remember more details, even so much as my exact age these memories were formed
The ones that scared me as a kid was a one telling you not to put water on an oil fire, with a women with a disfigured face, and one about not using eletronics during a thunderstorm? I thought the electronics in my room were going to kill me when I was in bed.
I mean, if a window is open it could happen. In the news, once, a woman was filming a thunderstorm that was happening in the distance through her window and a thunder stroke her. She survived, thankfully.
I remember when i was in high school, we were learning about the red war, and during that, we got to watch PSAs from that era about how to be safe during a nuclear fallout from different countries. Since we know that nuclear radiation is a thing, seeing those PSAs just say to stay low and in place is a bit chillin, since we know so much more on the devistation those explosions would do. One especially was a PSA where a lil girl was picking flowers in a field, singing to herself, when a soft whistle slowly becomes louder over her own voice, till in becomes near-deafening, then it cuts to a mushroom cloud explosion, with text reading “do you know what to do when you hear the whistle?” It was something like that, and it stuck with me for a bit with how well done it was made for it’s time. Those PSAs are somethin else.
the second one you’re talking about might be “daisy” which was an ad for lyndon b. johnson’s presidential campaign in 1964: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_(advertisement)
I don't think I saw that one, but Daisy used to scare the crap out of me with that mechanical voice, loud eruption, and just the scared look in the little girl's eyes. 😔 I actually think that the clip used for the Que Sera ad (Black and White girl picking flowers) is from Daisy, just before the countdown begins and a bomb goes off.
hmm, I could be misremembering things, when we were at the point where television was invented, we would watch many videos of propaganda ads during the time we were learning, so it's possible I'm getting it all mixed up, it's been years since.
I think the “Key to Heaven” post is referring to a video called “The Number to Heaven” which is a 30sec horror short by Jason Eisener (director of Hobo with a Shotgun). It’s not a PSA but does feature a monster on a rowboat with a boy, before the monster suddenly throws a cinder block overboard. The cinder block is chained to the boy’s neck and so it pulls him into the water. It’s not a PSA though, but sounds like they might have mixed that up.
@@arrowsplit8659 it is done in a very goofy low budget way that I think emphasises the dark humour of it. It’s a disturbing concept but too silly and absurd to take it seriously. However, I can imagine coming across that at a young age and being horrified lol
I think so too! I saw some users on Reddit saying it had too many differences, like the monster was not the mother. But the child was asking about their mom in the video, and I think that's where the confusion came from. Everything else lines up too well.
Not to mention that there's no mother that shifted into a monster in that video, but it's only the monster appeared entirely and looks like it came straight out of Power Rangers.
The "Key to Heaven" bit reminds me of that Finnish PSA where kids are walking around with their "parents" who are really, really creepy dolls and figuresvand is supposedly about how alcohol abuse by parents can wreak havoc on the childhood of children. Also that final message is pretty similar to a lot of NSPCC adverts against child abuse in the UK.
I have one for you. In the NYC viewing area, around early to mid 1970’s, an anti-drug PSA ran that was frightening as all get out. Two people are holding up a third person between them. They are attempting to get this person to move and walk. They are in a run down NYC tenement building. They are attempting to revive a buddy who has obviously overdosed. There was no music. There was panic in their voices, and it looked like the real deal. I can’t remember what the announcement said, but it was so startling, I was frozen looking at the screen watching it. I doubt I was older than 6 or 7 when I saw it one afternoon, but I swore I would never, never use drugs after seeing it. Never have.
Have you found it yet? Cuz I know exactly what you're talking about. This youtuber I like covered it in one of his videos. I can try to find it if you haven't found it yet!
You sure found a lot of lost psa's Jorge. It makes me think of a commercial I once saw on Comedy Central as a kid (I'm not sure if it was a psa btw), which featured 3 teenage girls at a slumber party. One girl introduces a new skin moisturizer cream she claims was made by rainforest flowers. The girls put the cream on their faces, and another girl starts complaining that the cream is burning her skin. The other 2 girls laugh it off thinking the sensation will go away, but the girl's agony worsens, and then she falls to the floor, and combusts into flames, leaving the other girls horrified. Does that commercial sound familiar to anyone here? If Jorge or anyone can find it, that'd be great.
It’s a Truth PSA against smoking, part of a campaign where all of the PSAs replicated commercials, except something always went wrong in the end to the third person to use the product, the point being that cigarettes are the only product to kill 1/3 of its users. I had trouble sharing the link but if you look up Truth: Rid a Zit it should come up
@@nxgan1088I think I saw another one from this campaign! it was in a lord of the rings dvd if I remember correctly and it may have been for an energy drink. I think the people were bungee jumping or something when suddenly one of them just explodes. I do remember seeing the truth logo at the end too so it seems to check out. for the longest time I thought it was just some weird dream I had but I guess not
I've noticed this is quite the shared interest among people on the spectrum. Legit curious if there's some kind of explanation on why people like us find these sorts of topics fascinating. Other "weirdly common shared interests" I've noticed among autistic people like myself are a heavy interest in things like Sonic the Hedgehog, Five Nights at Freddy's, and don't forget a decade ago it seemed as if nearly every brony was a person on the spectrum.
@BloodRedFox2008 NAH this is wild because my friend had a huge interest in sonic as a child and she's neurodivergent and her sister has the same intense interest in FNAF. I never even put it together until you said that.
I think this video would be a good place to share my own "lost" PSA: It starts with a group of teenagers hanging out at night, and one boy walks away to smoke a cigarette. He walks over to a pool to find a girl with black hair and heavy eyeliner swimming alone. I think she was supposed to look "dead" or like a zombie, but to me, she just looked like a typical goth girl. She looks up at him and says, "Come on in. The water's just fine." and the guy is kinda freaked out. I believe there was a short and long version, with what I just described being the short version. It was a little creepy to me as a child, but more confusing, because I was never sure what the PSA was about. There was no voice-over or message at the end of the commercial. I'm pretty sure it had something to do with teenagers smoking and drinking. It aired in the early-mid 2000s. I don't know how difficult it would be to find the video, but it's something that crossed my mind while watching this.
was it a cigarette or pot? I know they had anti cigarette psas but the whole goth girl saying to come in makes me thinking of drowning and the whole don't let peers pressure you into drugs type thing.
@littlesongbird1 - Yes! I think you're exactly right about peer pressure and her being drowned. @mariawhite7337 - I'm pretty sure it was a personal pool, and they were all over at someone's house. I'm not certain about that, though. My memory is slowly coming back to me, and I might have made a mistake. Instead of going to smoke, the guy got a text asking him to come to the pool. When he went over, it turned out to be the girl asking him to join her. I do remember all of the teenagers having alcohol at their "gathering", and I'm guessing this was an underage drinking PSA rather than an anti-smoking PSA.
Now this one I can remember. Not well. But I remember seeing a commercial like this one and it kinda stuck with me because I couldn’t swim so if I fell into a pool like that I would simply drown
HI, I'm Filipino and have parents who have lived their childhoods in that specific timeframe of the "Shabu" PSA. From what my father recalls, there was one where it essentially describes 'shabu' as being able to dissolve 'Baka' (cow) and other things. He was so specific about the way he described it, that I believe it might be a counterpart or variation of the same PSA from the same time.
Piggybacking. Minor correction: At 18:50, the acid in the Shabu PSA is dropped (pinapatakan), not stepped on (tinatapakan). Source: I was part of the mod team for the Facebook group in 16:10 and a close friend of the OOP in 18:50. She told me that the video made the translation mistake.
@@soyamigofuente Filipino here, yeah lol can confirm. The translation error is probably due to the words (pinapatakan, tinatapakan) sounding similar to each other. An improved rough translation of that sentence would be something like: In a plain black background, there's a styrofoam figure in the shape of a person slowly melting due to acid being dropped on it.
I remember watching a PSA in my early years of secondary school. It was about a boy staring into the camera sitting in his room as he told you the story of how he drowned. Slowly the room fills with water and once he finished telling his story he floated up out of his chair, dead. Now I was already terrified of open water at this point but this solidified it for me. Job well done I guess? We’d had a few kids drown in a nearby canal beforehand, one boy jumped into the water to save two little girls who couldn't get out. They got out, he didn't. I didn't know him, but a lot of people in my year did. It hit hard.
Oh my god... the “Key To Heaven” segment instantly triggered a memory. It’s the only one that really hit me here. I think reddit OP did a great job of recalling it aside from the title of the PSA which I don’t even remember being shown in any of those ads anyway (I was only 11 or 12 so maybe a title _was_ shown)
Glad that two Lost Filipino PSA's have been featured in this video! There are tons of Filipino lost media out there with some of them famous for it's creepines. Love the video itself as well!
The PSA I remember as a kid is of a woman getting locked out of her car on some train tracks, with her daughter still in the car...while a train is coming toward them. It was in black and white and came out around the late '90s. I'm almost 30 and it has haunted me ever since.
Whoa I think this one was still aired around the early 2000s as well. I remember this one being aired on PBS and it freaked me out as a kid. This one and the Goldfish asthma one.
@@yussmarnawbri9415 Given that the child was alone in the car, perhaps it was made to warn caregivers about the dangers of leaving children unattended.
regarding the Hate Hurts You PSA, the OP posted an update yesterday: "Here's the holdup : 1. It's 16mm film, needs to be converted 2. The location that has is will not convert it anytime soon 3. Legal issues that are being wrangled with. You would think it's easy to get a PSA but it's not. 4. Trying to not burn bridges with the location that has it, as there is a wealth of things that can be had but if you piss them off you can get a door slammed in your face quickly. 5. I would do it myself but I am disabled, can't get to the location, and it's a PITA negotiating. Have faith."
These are some interesting PSA’s, we haven’t seen these types of PSA’s from long ago, but seeing your explanations on these PSA’s really gave some interests in seeing these actual PSA’s. But let’s just skip that, we loved the explanations and the way the video is created. We hope you continue doing videos like these and always have a wonderful day. Keep up the good work as well 👍 Thank you, From: Lost Media Archives Inc.
Jorge, I found your channel like five years ago when I was in a very, very abusive relationship. And I would listen to your videos to help me sleep at night, keep me sane. I have since left that relationship and been in a very healthy, one of my own right now I’m back to watch your videos and your voice is just super calming and I’ve always appreciated all the hard work you put into your videos and I want you to know that I appreciate you so much more than I think you’ll ever know. Thank you so much for these videos. They literally had changed my life at one point
I am glad you are in a better space right now. My mom has been through the same thing before I was born and always warns me to try not to enter those situations. I hope you never go through such pain ever again. You didn’t deserve what happened to you. And I wish you the best of comfort and well-being ❤️
Rest in Peace Pee Wee Herman. It was a shock to hear the loss of your battle against cancer. But you fought it for a long time until the very end. We will never forget the laughter you brought to American TV. 🥺😥
I was so surprised to see Hate Hurts You in this video, my mom remembers it quite vividly from her childhood but we were only able to find the 10-second version, so we didn't know there was a longer version and chalked it up to misremembering. Both of us would love to see the original PSA found.
I'm fairly certain the Que Sera Sera "PSA ad" you're looking for was from a TV trailer for a documentary show about women's prisons because I remember seeing one which perfectly matches the description for such a show on the National Geographic channel back in 2010 where it shows the girl in the field and right after the line "Will I be pretty, will I be rich? And here's what she said to me" it abruptly cuts to a mugshot before the name of the show is read out (which I unfortunately don't remember).
It's funny, because you're pretty much correct. It was an advertisement for the tv show 'Snapped.' Everything you said happens in the actual commercial.
As a kid growing up in the 80’s, I don’t remember seeing even ONE PSA warning kids to be kind to animals. SHAMEFUL!….. the biggest scars of my childhood that play over and over are seeing bullies, torture/kill animals in front of my eyes helplessly and not doing anything about it and wishing I HAD done something about it. And the thing that makes me cry about that is if I experience that that I know other people experienced it to. All I ever heard about was drugs, drugs, this drugs that don’t do drugs just say no blah blah, blah, blah blah“ I’m not afraid of drugs. I’m afraid of people. I always hate when people say “well people that hurt animals are known to go on to kill people”As if hurting and killing,the animal isn’t bad enough. That being said? It would’ve been a great thing to say on a PSA like “if I hurt an animal will I go on to be a serial killer?“ 😮
One PSA I'm glad I've never been able to find again is one you can find on a Madagascar 2 dvd. It was an anti- smoking PSA with a talking camel. It ended with a guy who you could see was suffering from cancer and like, that scarred me for life. Like, I refuse to watch DVDs in dvd players thanks to it. I'm almost 20 and I'm still afraid of it
I’m 99% sure you mixed up memories and are thinking it was on the DVD when it was likely on another one. If it’s a camel that turns into a man with cancer, it was a play on Joe the Camel who was the mascot for Camel cigarettes until 1997. I remember loving his design as a kid. So I totally think you saw a PSA like this, and honestly the timing works. I believe it was around 2008 (when Madagascar 2 came out) when tobacco companies had to chip in to fund no smoking PSAs. And PSAs don’t hold back. I’ve seen ones where they show an employee dumping hot oil on themselves by accident. I just don’t think it could’ve been included on the DVD. That’s more graphic than the movie and the DVD can’t be rated PG if there’s PG-13 or higher features on there. What’s more likely is it was a recording you watched that had that PSA on it, or you were up late and accidentally saw the PSA on TV but mentally blamed the DVD, or… I’m not sure. I’d just be amazed if it was truly on a copy of the legit DVD.
@@surnis9043 Well obviously I knew to never smoke. I was told time and time again when I was younger to never smoke. My dad smokes and I don't want to end up like him
I remember some freaky seatbelt commercial here in Canada from the 70s. It was wickedly gruesome, I remember an actual photo of someone with glass in their face from the windshield. It wasn't on often thankfully. Identikit images from back then used to freak me out big time too.
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I remember the lady in the thumbnail photo in a PSA for the Southern Oregon Meth Project, a campaign against meth abuse in Southern Oregon. It would show a Timelapse of the woman and her mugshots and she would slowly get more and more horrid looking over time, while horrible overwhelming horror movie type music would play as she got worse and worse. My younger sister would call her the “Meth Lady” and have a panic attack when the PSA would play on our tv, and we’d have to change the channel because she would be so terrified. I still to this day cannot find that old PSA anywhere
I remember there being Montana meth project PSAs that are off the charts when it comes to disturbing content from the stories told by those related to the meth users in some way to two different versions of the same person interacting with each other in some weird way
There was an old defunct channel in the Philippines called RPN. Many 90s kids like me know it as the home of Price Is Right, Family Feud, and Wheel of Fortune on TV-- but it also has a particularly startling non-commercial bumper that played between shows: it's a close up of a statue of The Virgin Mary, while music and a voice over says "Please pray the rosary" I'm sure religious adults liked it, but it would creep me out especially if it was late at night. (The Philippines is a highly Catholic country) I also mention this because I remember RPN having a Fireworks Safety PSA that was just a video of a dark alleyway with pained screams as the voice over, and the tagline was something like "Don't get visited by the Ghost of New Year's Past" and it was about not causing people harm on New Years with unsafe fireworks use. This would've been early 2000s, and aired at night, around the time of Price is Right.
This channel always reminds me of the 8 hour drive from phoenix to Santa Barbara CA. When I first moved to AZ I did that drive over 20 times in 2017 and every time I’d watch spooky stuff like this or Chills to pass the time
Although this PSA is probably not the Que Sera Sera one, there is an ad by Barnados called "Repeating itself" and was played around 2008-2010 and it was about a woman who, due to abuse at home and struggles at school, turns to drugs and ends in prison. Again it's probably not what the redditor was looking for, but a few details are similar.
I feel like I’ve seen the child abuse ones in a creepy PSA compilation from years ago. The kids’ parents were doing normal parent activities with despondent children, like pushing them on a swing and riding the bus with them, except they appeared as monsters. I remember one of them being a boar/pig, and another being some kind of bug, like an ant.
@@adrielsebastian5216 I figured as much, but I thought it was at least worth mentioning, since I'm not entirely convinced that's not what the second person was thinking of. It's easy to confuse things, after all.
Of the earliest PSAs I remember, and one of the only ones come to think of it, was one for parents more than kids. It was a reminder to keep an eye on your kids, it would show a first person perspective of someone stalking a child in their yard before they come up and kidnap them. It would cut to some phrase like 'Do you know where your child is?' Or 'Do you know who is watching your kids when you are away?' Or something to that effect. I remember me asking my mom if the babysitter was playing a game, not understanding the implication of the PSA.
I'm too young, but my older sister remembers a commercial that said, "Do you know where your child is?" and left the text for about three minutes on screen in complete silence. It was common in the 90s.
In the 70s in northern Virginia, Maryland, DC and Pennsylvania there was a PSA Reddit has been looking for. It was about lead paint. The video showed a bedroom with peeling paint with an empty crib in it. The song was R&B and started “ Paint chips peeling/from the ceiling/and my baby’s dead…” we know the songwriter and singer but no one seems to be able to find a copy.
I heavily doubt on a thing like "I saw once when I was a kid" that time is when we mostly produce false memories. Myself remember some strange and ominous or at least peculiar situations that my parents cant remember, if they were together
It's so common to misremember things in general, but remembering something that scared you in childhood can cause a lot of outside influences to seep in. For example: the search for an evil farming game that turned out to be just a clip from a vinesauce stream the original poster fell asleep to. People hunted down this game for what felt like years, and it turned out to have never existed.
Legit I remember the "Daisy" advert, the second the Doris Day song was mentioned I knew exactly what it was on about, I got chills like childhood memory unlocked, it was definitely real but I can't remember exact details, like looking at a blurry picture that you remember taking but not what was in it
I remember one that aired on Nickelodeon in late 1997. Pregnant lady and her husband are in the new nursery and she takes a drag of a cigarette. The music gets all scary and we hear echoey coughing from inside her womb. I haven’t been able to find it anywhere and I haven’t seen it since around Christmas 1997.
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It's so sad we lost Gabbytheclown's channel, they had ALL the psas I'd seen on UA-cam and I haven't been able to find them all Thank you for working to archive these! They're scary, but can be important
I remember this creepy PSA that I think was exclusive to Florida since It was for skin cancer and suncreen. I don’t remember most of it only that it was in the early 90s television 3D animation, there words on everything along the lines of “skin cancer can occur even on cloudy days”, and the ending involved a kid getting fried by the sun and his skin ended up transparent so you could bones and organs and another kid was shaking his head.
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Hate Hurts You’s 30 second version was found, however there’s more versions of this. One with the man shorter, the one with “HATE” being spoken repeatedly, and one with a slightly different line. Also, I just found out that the Que Sera Sera “PSA” was found and is actually a promo for a true crime show. And it’s less scary than people remembered.
Regarding the Que sera sera one: That woman has been used in multiple PSAs. In Oregon, she was used in an anti-meth PSA. It also found a way to make the pictures morph into each other, and at the end, showed a before and afrer photo. The slogan was, "Dont do meth. Not now, not ever."
Just for the record we don't believe it was Roseanne Holland herself in Que Sera Sera; I just picked it to use in the recreation because it's probably the most similar (known) PSA to the original description.
As a Pink Martini fan, if we really think it's them, we should reach out and see if they know! Super cool group, probably would be more than happy to respond. If not, Ari Shapiro has been kind of part of Pink Martini for a long time. He's a journalist who you might have heard of if you've listened to NPR. I can imagine that he'd be interested in joining in the search or might know who to contact.
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I have such a morbid fascination with how our reality is used to instill the serious nature of certain aspects - such as with PSA’s, it’s insanely cool to see history behind them as well as finding lost media. Not to mention it’s also extremely saddening to know that, well, it had to exist for a PSA to be made about it. :((
I remember as a young teen they had that PSA about the pokemon ball within the burger-king meal. For whatever reason that scared the living S***T out of me.
an interesting note is that the version of Que Sera Sera used for the PSA was used in an Aussie film called Mary and Max that released after the PSA it is possible the creator saw it and chose to use it in the scene, as it depicts Mary attempting to kill herself via overdosing, and has herself broken, making the PSA being from Australia more likely
There are two PSAs I can clearly remember as a kid/teen that always scared me. The first was in the late 90s, very early 2000s in New Zealand. A group of teens are driving along a dirt road at night, drinking and laughing among themselves. Something forces them off the road (either an animal, or something happening inside the car), and the car crashes into a ditch. A second later, the car bursts into flames, and audio of the screaming teenagers is played over the image of the burning vehicle. I don't remember if there was any ending text or voiceover, but it must have been a drink-driving PSA. The second one was when I was a teenager in Australia, mid to late 2000s. A young boy is sitting alone in his room. An old man (possibly a family member) goes upstairs to the boy's room, but can't open the door. Cut to inside the room where the boy is holding the door shut with just his pointer finger despite the man's best attempts to get, while the song playing in the background, Johnny Cash's legendary cover of "Hurt" swells and the chorus plays during this struggle. I only remember a voice over at the end, and the whole message seemed to be an anti abuse (putting it mildly) PSA about kids can't protect themselves alone, and we should all be vigilant to signs of abuse. While not "scary" in the "made me hide behind the couch" sense of the word, the way it plays out and the use of "Hurt" always haunted me, and it's something I've never forgotten. I first heard this version of "Hurt" from this PSA, and it took me years to be able to enjoy the song on its own merits, rather than remembering this PSA.
I know this isn’t a PSA but I want to talk about it regardless. Around the early-to-mid 90s there was a commercial about a chiromancy, or palm reading, book in Peru, South America. Testimonies describe it as having eerie audiovisuals, with the head of a mannequin with bulging eyes and a wide, creepy smile scaring young viewers the most. There are reportedly multiple versions of the commercial, all of them being lost to this day. If anybody has more details they could share, it’d be welcome
One PSA I remember from when I was a Kid in the 90s was an antidrug PSA. It showed a man running until a hand grabs him and pulls him down, and the hand is shown to be that of a policeman, grabbing the man to arrest him. Then the eponymous " Just say no to drugs". I wouldn't call it creepy, more like eerie.
I remember an anti-smoking PSA that aired when I was a young kid- in the early 1990's. I don't really remember the beginning but I think there was a mother in a house smoking a cigarette and the smoke seemed to have a life of its own and went down a hallway and into the keyhole of a closed bedroom door to where a baby was sleeping in a nursery. It terrified me as a kid. I'm in Canada but it may have been shown elsewhere.
There are two PSA’s that have really stuck with me, though not as disturbing as these ones. I remember watching a fire safety PSA in 5th grade that scarred my whole grade. It was about a little boy who would play with matches in his room. Eventually, when showing his friend his little hobby, he put a dead match in a trashcan where it reignited and caught the house on fire! The boys escape, but the match boy runs back inside the burning house in an attempt to save his little sister. We cut to a fireman speaking to a class of children, where he then welcomes in a little girl. The girl is covered in burns holding a charred teddy bear. (On the nose) She then tells us that her brother died due to running back into the burning house to save her! It was traumatizing, nobody had ever died in the PSA’s we watched the years before! Wild! I already knew this stuff from being a fireman’s kid but that PSA made me never want to touch matches! Another one that still sticks with me is when I took a boating class over the summer when I was a middle schooler. It was a group of adults out on a yacht drinking and partying. The goal was to show the negative effects of drinking while boating, and how the effects of alcohol take much quicker on boats out in the sun. It was also discouraging drunk boating and boy howdy it worked! How you may ask? Well the captain of the boat gets drunk and is unable to stop his speeding boat in time to avoid crashing into a row boat. A ROW BOAT WITH AN OLD MAN AND LITTLE GIRL! They don’t show the crash, just the moments right before it, but it’s to be presumed that the grandpa and young girl were killed! Yep, I’m staying sober forever!
I remember those weird anti meth psas in elementary/middle school. I couldn’t handle it bc they made them look so nasty and scary. I almost passed out while watching one lmao
When I was in elementary school we didn’t have crazy PSAs. We just had speakers. One time we had a famous football player ( J.J. Watt) speak to us about why smoking and doing drugs is bad.
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for some reason hes the only youtuber that will actually make me scared of a topic that i would normally not find creepy idk why
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Jesus, I was a freshman in college when he first got into the lost media stuff lol.
Yall make me old
same! i’m glad he’s stuck around so long
I was in a 1987 child abuse PSA. It was produced by WGBH and it aired during an episode of Nova. This is extremely unusual, because WGBH is a PBS affiliate, which doesn't air commercials. The PSA showed a young child crying (the toddler was played by me), then it cuts to a punching bag being hit, then it cuts back to an image of me with a bloody nose and a black eye, it ends with a black screen with the WGBH logo and the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families logo. There was a shorter version that ended after the punching bag scene, without the WGBH logo. I remember seeing it as late as 1996. I can't find a single mention of the PSA anywhere.
Edit: From reports in the replies, it seems to have aired all around the east coast.
Edit 2: I think I have a lead, I was looking at the Paley Center For Media's archive, they have a full, uncut version of "NOVA: Why do Planes Crash?". This episode aired on February 2nd, 1987, which lines up perfectly with the time that the PSA began airing! I'm going to go to NYC when I get the time, so this search might be over after 20 years of searching!
Edit 3: PCM only archives the episodes without any bumpers/PSAs. That's it, I give up. you can stop replying now. It'll just have to stay lost forever.
Edit 4: The final airing was on October 7, 1996. Specifically during the premier of "Arthur".
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ask your family if they have or can get a copy. maybe you, the star (?) of the video, could be the one retrieving it from being Lost Media.
Bro I remember watching a PSA about child abuse for child abuse awareness day and it was a cartoon that showed a guy abusing a little girl in the shower. I remember this Amy Winehouse one that showed her image getting more and more disfigured, which was terrifying, I'm still afraid of Amy Winehouse to the point I can't even write her name
@@putazinhaquepariuzinho but ya did, lol
@asuicuneontheobx823 It was local to Massachusetts, so you lived in Massachusetts in the 80s or 90s, you could've seen it.
i think the reason the peewee herman psa (and others like it) is so unsettling is perhaps because of how unnatural it is to see such an iconic character all of a sudden serious and talking about subject matter completely different from the show. it’s just such a strange full 180 from this over-the-top character to one that is eerily realistic and stern. that’s probably why they chose him- it would affect kids more to see peewee herman say it rather than some random actor they’ve never heard of, a former drug addict, a scientist/doctor, etc. anyway great video! a part two would be cool as well
I also think it has to do with how TV was back then, you know how you could hear the static sound or whatever you call it, the quality of the sound and how the colors sometimes were fainter...
Let's not forget some people also watched these ads when they were young and at night which makes them even more eerie, to top it all these ads were about sensitive topics and have the possibility of being as dark as people claim, somehow watching TV in the old days has a different effect than today.
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I don't know if it's just me but I saw the commercial out of context and I laughed because of how unusually scary but ridiculous it was
so I just laughed and then later I sat down and just thought about it in silence
Agreed, with ^everyone^ who wrote! It’s the total atmosphere of it. The fact that Peewee’s character is normally silly & fun but suddenly becomes creepy in that atmosphere is the cherry on top.
That PSA instantly changed me from *loving* my Peewee pull-string talking-doll to fearing for my life when lil young me was around it 😂
@@raywolf08 ty!!!
Considering the longer version of “Hate Hurts You” was discovered on 16mm film, and that it “needed some wrangling” the finder could’ve accidentally destroyed it. Unfortunate, but these things happen. Considering there haven’t been any updates, the fear of public outrage could very easily be the reason.
Looking it up, the 16mm reel was found last March, and the amount of people specializing in scans and restoration is relatively low, which means that they're likely clogged with prior requests and discoveries, so there's also the chance that this person simply didn't find anyone with an available spot in their schedule.
@@VinchVoltnot to mention it would probably be quite pricey. Who knows, someday we might see the footage after all
he updated that he is disabled so its taking a while and its still happening, this update was 2 days ago
I think the person claiming to have found it was lying.
The guy responded to someone on reddit speaking on behalf of a lost commercials group the other day - looks like they still have it and are talking in private
For me it's a video we were shown in school about a woman who lost her jaw to cancer, and in this raspy voice, she said "I CANNOT DRINK FROM A WATER FOUNTAIN. I HAVE NO SUCTIONNNNN"
I'm sure I am remembering her voice as scarier than it was, but the memory still gives me chills.
Oh yeah, the Tips From Former Smokers
Sounds like a joke I'd make
It's Terrie Hall, she starred in a bunch of horrifying anti-smoking PSAs like that. A couple of them show how she was during her last days, shortly before passing away from throat cancer, those are the worst ones.
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@@olserknamThose are the ones I remember most. Honestly did so much to scare me from any kind of smoking as a kid
Thanks for featuring Hate Hurts You and Que Sera Sera! Here’s hoping they get found soon! ✨🎬 -Chance
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any news on that person who found original Hate Hurts You?
I have nowhere else to post this where you can find it, but I have a theory about the Que Sera Sera ad. I think it is misremembered, since the description of a person playing in a field with the Pink Martini version of Que Sera Sera playing in the background matches pretty closely with a teaser for the second season of American Horror Story (link - ua-cam.com/video/SMG-w_2VmyM/v-deo.html, it should lead you directly to the part with the teaser in question, but if not skip to 4:26 in that video.) The old footage aspect of it is explained since the season is set in the 1960s. My theory is maybe it's a memory mixup of that teaser with a drug addiction PSA. The only thing that really busts the theory is that the teaser was released around 2011, meaning it doesn't fit the timeframe of the described PSA.
*Side note: Key to Heaven is NOT "Fragile Childhood - Monsters"*
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Hate hurts you sounds like a genuinely really good ad. It communicates how bigotry comes from people who are deeply damaged. When you hurt others you hurt yourself, mostly mentally but physical altercations can always go south. Bigotry is loathing another human, or group of humans, at the end of the day. That's you right there.
If I saw Hate Hurts You for the first time today, as an adult, I would go "wow, that's a really great statement." The one time I saw the long version, when I was about 8 (1981), it scared the bejeezus out of me, and the one time I saw the short version, when I saw the dude and heard "When you hate ..." I jumped to the TV and shut it off before it got any further. That and Mr. Yuk PSAs (which I _have_ seen on YT, not lost) scared me virtually to death.
@@shawnomancy
Mr Yuk!
"Mr Yuk is mean,
Mr Yuk is green.
If you see him stay away,
& you'll have a better day". 🤢
I remember them!
We even had green Mr Yuk face stickers, which my parents put on all bottles of poison in our house.
They didn't scare me, though.
I'm sorry they terrified you. 😔
@@shawnomancydo you have any details on it what do you remember can you qoute some things that were in the long version or something?
To play devil's advocate, lots of people can hate to their heart's content and be very psychologically sound. I understand that it's best to "be a good person," but there's plenty of bigoted racists out there that are very pleased and happy with how things are in their lives - even if their hearts are full of hate. Not everyone who hates is doing damage to themselves.
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The child abuse remind me about those commercials about alcoholic parents and how kids see them as scary monsters. There was a child in a park looking over at their parent calling them to go home and then from the child's POV the parent is a grim reaper like hooded creature, another was getting his seatbelt put by his father but through the kid's eyes he is shown as a kidnapper with a plastic face mask on. However those are definitely 00s/10s commercials and not 90s
I remember these! The pig-head one rang a bell but I am not Brazilian so this is probably what I’m thinking of
For anyone scrolling through the comments and wondering what the OC is talking about, it's "Monsters" by the Finnish organization Fragile Childhood. It's well known in the PSA/PIF community, and for good reason.
I remember that, I had a nightmare not too soon after then and it had those people in the commercials.
OOOOO do you remember the one where the dad is a scary bunny rabbit?
Exactly where my mind went to when I heard that one, but that was way later than the 90's.
The que sera sera lady pictures came from a 2004 drug awareness program out of Multnomah County Oregon called “Faces of Meth”. She had the most striking mugshots and arrests in the system when the program began. I believe there were seven mugshots starting in 1980, and ending in 1989. Her progression into destruction was remarkable over the course of only 9 years. The first picture 7:01 she was only 28. The last picture, (not shown in the que sera sera commercial probably because it was too scary), she was only 37. She died at 38 and looks 70. I unfortunately, can’t find a single article with her name but there are plenty of web pages with her pictures when you search for “Faces of Meth” and go to images.
Her name was Roseanne Holland and there are 10 images of her
@@popcornloot9719 Thank you!
Yes!! Soon as I seen the first adult shot I yelled "Faces Of Meth!!"
*Multnomah
@@Ashtray503i hope your neighbors are alright with you mate. If one of my neighbors yelled "Faces of meth!" Out of the blue I'd be pretty concerned lol
I'm Filipino and I have an interest in lost media, in general, but this video was the very first time where I encountered the PSAs that you just mentioned. What's more chilling is that this is just the tip of the iceberg knowing how many other disturbing Filipino PSAs still exist but could've been forgotten, and not a lot of people know that Philippine television is an underrated source of international lost media, be it commercials or episodes. It's refreshing to see a channel actually discuss about it especially since a lot of channels here on UA-cam that talk about English language-centric lost media don't often feature content from English-speaking countries in Africa and Asia.
I believe almost every sea region nation beside singapore, each psa shown into public almost got removed quickly since getting complain from people since its too scary or disturbing. Even for just normal commercial with little horror/shock value too.. In my country indonesia theres 2 insta banned commercial, the ban from television only need 2 day after airing and it got removed.. Its from grab & telkomsel provider (joko anwar).
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The "Key to Heaven" PSA sounds a lot like an advert I saw once. I think it was called Fragile Childhood-Monsters or something like that. It featured shots of kids looking really uncomfortable and scared, like one holding a womans hand and walking down the street but the mother was out of frame. Eventually the camera switches to show the adult that the children are afraid of and the adults seem like monsters. Grotesque and disfigured, like one having a giant rabbit head. Only difference was, it was a PSA for something like alcohol use and how children see us when we drink
yess this one!! i know exactly what ur talking abt! i saw it for the 1st time in 2016 of disturbing PSA’s ^\^ i believe it’s still on yt since its well known!
i think i saw this on tv in the uk. the only channels i would watch would be Channel 4 & it’s affiliate channels (E4, Film 4 etc) so i would guess it would’ve been shown there?
I remember that ad but I watched it in a scary adverts compilation on UA-cam
That's what I thought, but its so new it might be a newer version
I remember seeing Russell Howard talking about this: "My dad liked a drink, but not once did he ever turn into a f***ing rabbit!"
i also remember one about the disgusting aftermath of animal abuse. basically the screen is black but the audio was nuts. you hear a family talking and laughing followed by footage of them bringing a bunch of animals into their house then the screen goes black again as you hear the animals howling in anguish as they get boiling water dumped on them, drowned, burned, tazed, cut up and so on. then the sounds stop and the message "animals have lives" appears. that one wasnt as nightmarish as the anti-gun ones but still chilling as a kid.
This likely isn't it, but the description reminds of the "Boiled Bear Recipe" PSA.
@@chainsawvultureI was gonna say the same thing. Maybe it’s the same company?
@@acornheart465 Perhaps, although it also sounds like something PETA would make due to how over the top it sounds.
What anti-gun one?
@@chainsawvulture you would be absolutley correct. that was the one i was thinking of but some of the details were a bit sketchy as i saw it a lng time ago so i may have included things that were not in there but they may have been. maybe im just remembering wrong?
PSAs around the world always intrigued me, so it’s sad whenever they get lost.
I remember the "shabu" PSA. I think the title of it is "ASIDO" which means acid and was aired by a group called "citizen's drug watch" with a logo of an eye (like illuminati).
The recreation doesn't look like that. It is an actual styrofoam or paper humanoid and someone pours actual acid on it.
It is aired alongside another PSA about trash. A person throws trash at the river and then one day when he opened his door, tons of trash came in. Aired at the same station IBC-13.
i think the recreations are just made to show the concept of the ad.
Update: the original hate hurts you has been found
Link?
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The Qué Será Será one seems to be *very* disturbing, considering the recreation made. I hope it shows up soon
I don't know how accurate the recreation is but I remember someone created a picture where it shows the woman's transformation throughout the years. Also it makes you wonder who this woman is but from the pictures I'm pretty sure she died from being on drugs for so long. PSAs may be creepy but some like that one will never leave my mind.
@@YourMusic-JoshuaWilliams The creepiness of PSAs is good. Sugarcoating things won't help the cause the organizations behind the PSAs are trying to battle against or support. I've seen people say that "creepy PSAs are poor execution" when it's actually the contrary
@@Ekraelum Just right now I did look the woman up, her name was Roseanne Holland. I found an article from 2004 discussing the PSA. It featured two other women also, but it says they didn't know where she ended up after her last arrest. Most likely she did die after her last arrest. The first picture in the PSA was her at 29, the last is her nine years later. I agree with you, sugarcoating things won't make it stick in your mind. The one I feel is most disturbing and scary to me is the Terry the smoking lady PSA. Especially the last one where she is dying in the hospital, honestly, I don't know how people can't be affected by these PSAs.
@@YourMusic-JoshuaWilliamsthank you! i just read the guardian article you were talking about, it was really interesting and raised some intriguing questions in that the met police used images of american convicts in order to get past needing their permission
It was, I remember it too. It freaked me out because I don't like that song and the image at the end was so jarring after the sweet video of the little girl.
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If I get nightmares because of this, I'm going to blame it on jorge.
Lol nice joke
Blame it on these nuts
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UPDATE: "Que sera sera" advert was found, it wasnt a PSA or a PIF but a trailer, it was a trailer for the series named "Snipped"
damn, even the recreation of Que Sera Sera gave me chills.
Yeah, the recreation was pretty good!!
it really just made me deeply sad tbh. not creepy just depressing
It made me want to cry thinking she was once that happy innocent girl to a hardcore miserable drug addict 😢
do you know the song Jorge used? I can’t find it…
@@inaciodearaujo Did you know Que Que Sada Sada was scariest and made your dreams into your nightmares.
These old and lost PSAs always intrigue me. I grew up watching a lot of tv but I just can’t recall any PSAs other than the anti-vaping ones I still see occasionally. It makes me wonder just how many of those PSAs I’ve forgotten about are lost today.
I remember a duck one that’d play Nickelodeon occasionally. I think it was either an anti crack or anti smoking psa. Something like tobbaco or crack is quack yo. Maybe late 2000s to early 2010s.
I don't remember PSAs on TV but I remember stuff in magazines with weird characters that would say tobacco is wacko. But this was also during the D.A.R.E. crap.
Yeah the only PSAs I saw as a kid (early 2000s) were anti smoking ones. Now I only see anti vaping ones.
@@coolnormalandwelladjusted yeah I found it. Apparently it was a regional psa for Texas called DUCK.
PSAs are always freaky, lost or not
Or just whimsical
I know that the Pink Martini version of Que Sera Sera is used in the early 2000s tv show Dead Like Me. It might even originate from there, as the scene where it starts playing involves a little girl in the woods - the main character is a Grim Reaper who was supposed to reap her and is reluctant to because the girl is a child. She then reaps her and the music begins.
Another element of the PSA that might have been misremembered from the show is that the main character has two different faces. One of them is her real face - blond, young, and pretty. The other is the sort of glamor that people see her as since she is a walking dead person - that face is a strung out vagrant that only sorta looks like the real her.
A billion people have probably pointed this out already, but the "Key to heaven" PSA sounds beat for beat like a short posted here on youtube called "Number to heaven", created by Jason Eisener (yes, the same man behind the movie "Hobo with a Shotgun").
In the short we see a big monster with a deep voice on a rowing boat with a small boy. They are father and son, and they talk about how much they miss mom (which might have confused that reddit poster, making them think the creature was the kid's mom instead of the father). They hug it out, when the boy asks if they could call her, to which the father replies "Do you know the number to heaven?", and proceeds to dumb a cinder block that is tied to the boy's neck into the water, sending him plumeting into the bottom of the lake.
Of course, it's not a PSA, just a wacky spooky short movie, but again, in a lot of these lost media cases people seem to misremember some details. Maybe that fella's brain filled in the blanks of this bizarre little video into thinking it was a PSA about child abuse, or maybe they saw a reupload. The original however was posted 13 years ago, so I think the time frame matches.
No one in that thread seems to have mentioned this video in question, so there's no confirmation if this is indeed the video in question or if whatever they saw is just very similar.
i think i remember seeing the ads with the parents with monster heads. i saw something similar on another video someone did where they were covering 'The Strangest PSA's to air on TV'. it was a PSA about Child Abuse and the parents were drunk or on drugs, and they signified that by giving them monster like features. one had a pig head, one looked like a depressed clown, one was a zombie and another was some kind of demon. the kids were clearly scared but couldent say anything due to their fear, and the Commercial ends with a Pig Headed father buckling his son into the back of the car, clearly drunk, and starting to head home. the ending has text that overlays the scene, saying 'If They Cant Speak, Speak for them' or something like that involving the Children being scared in abuse situations. i could be 100% wrong and thinking of another ad, but it sounded similar to this one
I was thinking the same thing! Maybe the ads were created by the same people.
I think your thinking of the finnish psa "Monsters" and its pretty similar but not that one
i remember this too! i used to watch compilation videos here on youtube of these creepy/disturbing PSAs (just a weird rabbit hole i found myself down haha) and i distinctly remember the same premise of the parents being monsters and the kids being unable to speak.
That's a pretty well-known PSA. The text at the end says "How do our children see us when we've been drinking?" It was a PSA about alcoholism, using the viewer's family/children as a heartstrings tactic to get the message across. That's the PSA I thought of too. It's called "Monsters" by Fragile Childhood.
The specificity of the “mother turning into a monster and drowning her child” one was the only one in this video to hit me! Though I don’t remember seeing any sort of PSA title shown for really ANY of them I remember from childhood.
Wish I could remember more details, even so much as my exact age these memories were formed
The ones that scared me as a kid was a one telling you not to put water on an oil fire, with a women with a disfigured face, and one about not using eletronics during a thunderstorm? I thought the electronics in my room were going to kill me when I was in bed.
Ooh I remember the pan fire one! They're not *that* scary now but seeing it for the first time (with the crash zoom and all) was absolutely terrifying
I mean, if a window is open it could happen. In the news, once, a woman was filming a thunderstorm that was happening in the distance through her window and a thunder stroke her. She survived, thankfully.
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I remember when i was in high school, we were learning about the red war, and during that, we got to watch PSAs from that era about how to be safe during a nuclear fallout from different countries. Since we know that nuclear radiation is a thing, seeing those PSAs just say to stay low and in place is a bit chillin, since we know so much more on the devistation those explosions would do.
One especially was a PSA where a lil girl was picking flowers in a field, singing to herself, when a soft whistle slowly becomes louder over her own voice, till in becomes near-deafening, then it cuts to a mushroom cloud explosion, with text reading “do you know what to do when you hear the whistle?” It was something like that, and it stuck with me for a bit with how well done it was made for it’s time.
Those PSAs are somethin else.
"Duck and Cover"!
the second one you’re talking about might be “daisy” which was an ad for lyndon b. johnson’s presidential campaign in 1964: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_(advertisement)
I don't think I saw that one, but Daisy used to scare the crap out of me with that mechanical voice, loud eruption, and just the scared look in the little girl's eyes. 😔
I actually think that the clip used for the Que Sera ad (Black and White girl picking flowers) is from Daisy, just before the countdown begins and a bomb goes off.
hmm, I could be misremembering things, when we were at the point where television was invented, we would watch many videos of propaganda ads during the time we were learning, so it's possible I'm getting it all mixed up, it's been years since.
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I think the “Key to Heaven” post is referring to a video called “The Number to Heaven” which is a 30sec horror short by Jason Eisener (director of Hobo with a Shotgun). It’s not a PSA but does feature a monster on a rowboat with a boy, before the monster suddenly throws a cinder block overboard. The cinder block is chained to the boy’s neck and so it pulls him into the water. It’s not a PSA though, but sounds like they might have mixed that up.
After just seeing it definitely.
I can get how it could be seen as a psa
It’s incredibly disturbing and unsettling tho😂
@@arrowsplit8659 it is done in a very goofy low budget way that I think emphasises the dark humour of it. It’s a disturbing concept but too silly and absurd to take it seriously. However, I can imagine coming across that at a young age and being horrified lol
I think so too! I saw some users on Reddit saying it had too many differences, like the monster was not the mother. But the child was asking about their mom in the video, and I think that's where the confusion came from. Everything else lines up too well.
Not to mention that there's no mother that shifted into a monster in that video, but it's only the monster appeared entirely and looks like it came straight out of Power Rangers.
The "Key to Heaven" bit reminds me of that Finnish PSA where kids are walking around with their "parents" who are really, really creepy dolls and figuresvand is supposedly about how alcohol abuse by parents can wreak havoc on the childhood of children.
Also that final message is pretty similar to a lot of NSPCC adverts against child abuse in the UK.
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Momma, I found the comment.
I have one for you. In the NYC viewing area, around early to mid 1970’s, an anti-drug PSA ran that was frightening as all get out. Two people are holding up a third person between them. They are attempting to get this person to move and walk. They are in a run down NYC tenement building. They are attempting to revive a buddy who has obviously overdosed. There was no music. There was panic in their voices, and it looked like the real deal. I can’t remember what the announcement said, but it was so startling, I was frozen looking at the screen watching it. I doubt I was older than 6 or 7 when I saw it one afternoon, but I swore I would never, never use drugs after seeing it. Never have.
PSA worked
Have you found it yet? Cuz I know exactly what you're talking about. This youtuber I like covered it in one of his videos. I can try to find it if you haven't found it yet!
Washington Heights
@@marikatsukibrito932 Please, if possible, I would love to see anything about this PSA. I can still it in my mind and it still frightens me. Thanks.
@@sreyasdesai4865 - What about Washington Heights? Curious.
"Hate hurts you" is now found
You sure found a lot of lost psa's Jorge. It makes me think of a commercial I once saw on Comedy Central as a kid (I'm not sure if it was a psa btw), which featured 3 teenage girls at a slumber party. One girl introduces a new skin moisturizer cream she claims was made by rainforest flowers. The girls put the cream on their faces, and another girl starts complaining that the cream is burning her skin. The other 2 girls laugh it off thinking the sensation will go away, but the girl's agony worsens, and then she falls to the floor, and combusts into flames, leaving the other girls horrified. Does that commercial sound familiar to anyone here? If Jorge or anyone can find it, that'd be great.
It’s a Truth PSA against smoking, part of a campaign where all of the PSAs replicated commercials, except something always went wrong in the end to the third person to use the product, the point being that cigarettes are the only product to kill 1/3 of its users.
I had trouble sharing the link but if you look up Truth: Rid a Zit it should come up
@@nxgan1088yeah I found it thanks! I didn't realize the Rid a Zit was a metaphor for tobacco.
@@nxgan1088 perhaps next time Jorge could do a video on the top 10 or 20 Truth Orange PSAs.
@@nxgan1088I think I saw another one from this campaign! it was in a lord of the rings dvd if I remember correctly and it may have been for an energy drink. I think the people were bungee jumping or something when suddenly one of them just explodes. I do remember seeing the truth logo at the end too so it seems to check out. for the longest time I thought it was just some weird dream I had but I guess not
I have autism and i love lost media and other morbid or esoteric interests. You are one of my favorite channels for this. Blameitonjorge
I've noticed this is quite the shared interest among people on the spectrum. Legit curious if there's some kind of explanation on why people like us find these sorts of topics fascinating. Other "weirdly common shared interests" I've noticed among autistic people like myself are a heavy interest in things like Sonic the Hedgehog, Five Nights at Freddy's, and don't forget a decade ago it seemed as if nearly every brony was a person on the spectrum.
@BloodRedFox2008 NAH this is wild because my friend had a huge interest in sonic as a child and she's neurodivergent and her sister has the same intense interest in FNAF. I never even put it together until you said that.
Hey me too
@@BloodRedFox2008as someone on the spectrum, I can confirm, I do like sonic and fnaf
I’m the same, I have adhd as well as high functioning autism and this sort of thing puts me into a hyperfocus. Literally helps me sleep
I think this video would be a good place to share my own "lost" PSA:
It starts with a group of teenagers hanging out at night, and one boy walks away to smoke a cigarette. He walks over to a pool to find a girl with black hair and heavy eyeliner swimming alone. I think she was supposed to look "dead" or like a zombie, but to me, she just looked like a typical goth girl. She looks up at him and says, "Come on in. The water's just fine." and the guy is kinda freaked out.
I believe there was a short and long version, with what I just described being the short version. It was a little creepy to me as a child, but more confusing, because I was never sure what the PSA was about. There was no voice-over or message at the end of the commercial. I'm pretty sure it had something to do with teenagers smoking and drinking. It aired in the early-mid 2000s.
I don't know how difficult it would be to find the video, but it's something that crossed my mind while watching this.
was it a cigarette or pot? I know they had anti cigarette psas but the whole goth girl saying to come in makes me thinking of drowning and the whole don't let peers pressure you into drugs type thing.
@@littlesongbird1 or a psa about swimming without lifeguards? But it's probably more about smoking or something.
i swear to god i remember this.
@littlesongbird1 - Yes! I think you're exactly right about peer pressure and her being drowned.
@mariawhite7337 - I'm pretty sure it was a personal pool, and they were all over at someone's house. I'm not certain about that, though.
My memory is slowly coming back to me, and I might have made a mistake. Instead of going to smoke, the guy got a text asking him to come to the pool. When he went over, it turned out to be the girl asking him to join her. I do remember all of the teenagers having alcohol at their "gathering", and I'm guessing this was an underage drinking PSA rather than an anti-smoking PSA.
Now this one I can remember. Not well. But I remember seeing a commercial like this one and it kinda stuck with me because I couldn’t swim so if I fell into a pool like that I would simply drown
HI, I'm Filipino and have parents who have lived their childhoods in that specific timeframe of the "Shabu" PSA.
From what my father recalls, there was one where it essentially describes 'shabu' as being able to dissolve 'Baka' (cow) and other things. He was so specific about the way he described it, that I believe it might be a counterpart or variation of the same PSA from the same time.
Was it an anti drug PSA about meth? Shabu is a Japanese slang term for meth, but idk if it's the same in the Philippines
@@murisbukvic2496yes it refers to meth here as well
Piggybacking. Minor correction: At 18:50, the acid in the Shabu PSA is dropped (pinapatakan), not stepped on (tinatapakan).
Source: I was part of the mod team for the Facebook group in 16:10 and a close friend of the OOP in 18:50. She told me that the video made the translation mistake.
@@soyamigofuente Filipino here, yeah lol can confirm. The translation error is probably due to the words (pinapatakan, tinatapakan) sounding similar to each other. An improved rough translation of that sentence would be something like:
In a plain black background, there's a styrofoam figure in the shape of a person slowly melting due to acid being dropped on it.
I remember watching a PSA in my early years of secondary school. It was about a boy staring into the camera sitting in his room as he told you the story of how he drowned. Slowly the room fills with water and once he finished telling his story he floated up out of his chair, dead. Now I was already terrified of open water at this point but this solidified it for me. Job well done I guess? We’d had a few kids drown in a nearby canal beforehand, one boy jumped into the water to save two little girls who couldn't get out. They got out, he didn't. I didn't know him, but a lot of people in my year did. It hit hard.
I remember exactly this PSA. It terrified me. I'm on the hunt for it now lol
@@noxauracille I’m glad I’m not alone in remembering this! Please, let me know if you find it!!
@@HaHa-gz1dl I absolutely will!
seems disturbing....from what country you are from?
Oh my god... the “Key To Heaven” segment instantly triggered a memory. It’s the only one that really hit me here. I think reddit OP did a great job of recalling it aside from the title of the PSA which I don’t even remember being shown in any of those ads anyway (I was only 11 or 12 so maybe a title _was_ shown)
ua-cam.com/video/yCU9Z-4yDkE/v-deo.html it's not a psa
Have we ever seen Jorge's face before? It surprised me when he popped up during the sponser
Glad that two Lost Filipino PSA's have been featured in this video! There are tons of Filipino lost media out there with some of them famous for it's creepines. Love the video itself as well!
Hoping we could see more lost media or iceberg contents from Philippines.
@@JeyVGaming Agreed!
The PSA I remember as a kid is of a woman getting locked out of her car on some train tracks, with her daughter still in the car...while a train is coming toward them. It was in black and white and came out around the late '90s. I'm almost 30 and it has haunted me ever since.
Ooooh WHAT ? Yoo I'm so glad I never lived in these that had these gnarly psa's. Good LORD
Whoa I think this one was still aired around the early 2000s as well. I remember this one being aired on PBS and it freaked me out as a kid. This one and the Goldfish asthma one.
Oh god, I remember this too! It would have been the early 2000s for me but I can see it so clearly.
Sound extremely dark. It is about road safety or drugs?
@@yussmarnawbri9415 Given that the child was alone in the car, perhaps it was made to warn caregivers about the dangers of leaving children unattended.
awesome to see so many people talking about watching you when they were younger, literally 5th grade for me it’s great to see you’re still so relevant
Update on Hate Hurts You: the full version has been found and is on youtube
regarding the Hate Hurts You PSA, the OP posted an update yesterday:
"Here's the holdup :
1. It's 16mm film, needs to be converted
2. The location that has is will not convert it anytime soon
3. Legal issues that are being wrangled with. You would think it's easy to get a PSA but it's not.
4. Trying to not burn bridges with the location that has it, as there is a wealth of things that can be had but if you piss them off you can get a door slammed in your face quickly.
5. I would do it myself but I am disabled, can't get to the location, and it's a PITA negotiating.
Have faith."
I feel like most people's Manscaped ads are super gimmicky and loud but I like that yours is super chill and to the point haha
These are some interesting PSA’s, we haven’t seen these types of PSA’s from long ago, but seeing your explanations on these PSA’s really gave some interests in seeing these actual PSA’s. But let’s just skip that, we loved the explanations and the way the video is created. We hope you continue doing videos like these and always have a wonderful day. Keep up the good work as well 👍
Thank you,
From: Lost Media Archives Inc.
OMG so happy you are talking about Hate Hurts You, finally!! I remember this commercial too, I did not dream it!
Jorge, I found your channel like five years ago when I was in a very, very abusive relationship. And I would listen to your videos to help me sleep at night, keep me sane. I have since left that relationship and been in a very healthy, one of my own right now I’m back to watch your videos and your voice is just super calming and I’ve always appreciated all the hard work you put into your videos and I want you to know that I appreciate you so much more than I think you’ll ever know. Thank you so much for these videos. They literally had changed my life at one point
I am glad you are in a better space right now. My mom has been through the same thing before I was born and always warns me to try not to enter those situations. I hope you never go through such pain ever again. You didn’t deserve what happened to you. And I wish you the best of comfort and well-being ❤️
Rest in Peace Pee Wee Herman. It was a shock to hear the loss of your battle against cancer. But you fought it for a long time until the very end. We will never forget the laughter you brought to American TV. 🥺😥
If only he used crack
Watching you since the beggining, you introduced me to lost and scary media. Huge props from Portugal keep it going
I was so surprised to see Hate Hurts You in this video, my mom remembers it quite vividly from her childhood but we were only able to find the 10-second version, so we didn't know there was a longer version and chalked it up to misremembering. Both of us would love to see the original PSA found.
The full version has been uploaded online now.
Love the work Jorge, you are the very first to get me into the creepy side of the internet and I love you for that. Keep up the fantastic work ❤
I'm fairly certain the Que Sera Sera "PSA ad" you're looking for was from a TV trailer for a documentary show about women's prisons because I remember seeing one which perfectly matches the description for such a show on the National Geographic channel back in 2010 where it shows the girl in the field and right after the line "Will I be pretty, will I be rich? And here's what she said to me" it abruptly cuts to a mugshot before the name of the show is read out (which I unfortunately don't remember).
It's funny, because you're pretty much correct. It was an advertisement for the tv show 'Snapped.' Everything you said happens in the actual commercial.
@@LemonnNote Does this mean we both get a credit for solving the case?
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As a kid growing up in the 80’s, I don’t remember seeing even ONE PSA warning kids to be kind to animals. SHAMEFUL!….. the biggest scars of my childhood that play over and over are seeing bullies, torture/kill animals in front of my eyes helplessly and not doing anything about it and wishing I HAD done something about it. And the thing that makes me cry about that is if I experience that that I know other people experienced it to. All I ever heard about was drugs, drugs, this drugs that don’t do drugs just say no blah blah, blah, blah blah“ I’m not afraid of drugs. I’m afraid of people. I always hate when people say “well people that hurt animals are known to go on to kill people”As if hurting and killing,the animal isn’t bad enough. That being said? It would’ve been a great thing to say on a PSA like “if I hurt an animal will I go on to be a serial killer?“ 😮
One PSA I'm glad I've never been able to find again is one you can find on a Madagascar 2 dvd. It was an anti- smoking PSA with a talking camel. It ended with a guy who you could see was suffering from cancer and like, that scarred me for life. Like, I refuse to watch DVDs in dvd players thanks to it. I'm almost 20 and I'm still afraid of it
Me but with smoking PSA countdowns
So it scared you aways from DVDs, but not away from smoking?
I’m 99% sure you mixed up memories and are thinking it was on the DVD when it was likely on another one. If it’s a camel that turns into a man with cancer, it was a play on Joe the Camel who was the mascot for Camel cigarettes until 1997. I remember loving his design as a kid. So I totally think you saw a PSA like this, and honestly the timing works. I believe it was around 2008 (when Madagascar 2 came out) when tobacco companies had to chip in to fund no smoking PSAs. And PSAs don’t hold back. I’ve seen ones where they show an employee dumping hot oil on themselves by accident.
I just don’t think it could’ve been included on the DVD. That’s more graphic than the movie and the DVD can’t be rated PG if there’s PG-13 or higher features on there. What’s more likely is it was a recording you watched that had that PSA on it, or you were up late and accidentally saw the PSA on TV but mentally blamed the DVD, or… I’m not sure. I’d just be amazed if it was truly on a copy of the legit DVD.
I don’t remember if it was Madagascar 2 but I definitely remember seeing that on a DVD
@@surnis9043 Well obviously I knew to never smoke. I was told time and time again when I was younger to never smoke. My dad smokes and I don't want to end up like him
I remember some freaky seatbelt commercial here in Canada from the 70s. It was wickedly gruesome, I remember an actual photo of someone with glass in their face from the windshield. It wasn't on often thankfully. Identikit images from back then used to freak me out big time too.
Was it in Quebec? I've seen some of the Quebec ads about road safety and man are they scary
@@adrielsebastian5216 This was in Ontario but maybe it was CBC and played nationally? It was a rough one!
That isn’t the first time I’ve heard of scary PSAs from Canada!! It seems they very often go really dark and right to the point!!
Sounds extremely unsettling😮
Ah, what a day- it started of not good, but now I got the graphic novel version of my fav movie AND I get to watch another awesome Lost Media video by one of my fav UA-camrs ❤ I always feel better after watching one of your videos, keep up the amazing work ❤
You carried from me middle school, all the way to marriage. my wife & i have both been watching you for years long before we met, and now watching your videos is one of our favorite things to do. (i'm 19, she's 20)
I remember the lady in the thumbnail photo in a PSA for the Southern Oregon Meth Project, a campaign against meth abuse in Southern Oregon. It would show a Timelapse of the woman and her mugshots and she would slowly get more and more horrid looking over time, while horrible overwhelming horror movie type music would play as she got worse and worse. My younger sister would call her the “Meth Lady” and have a panic attack when the PSA would play on our tv, and we’d have to change the channel because she would be so terrified. I still to this day cannot find that old PSA anywhere
I remember there being Montana meth project PSAs that are off the charts when it comes to disturbing content from the stories told by those related to the meth users in some way to two different versions of the same person interacting with each other in some weird way
There was an old defunct channel in the Philippines called RPN. Many 90s kids like me know it as the home of Price Is Right, Family Feud, and Wheel of Fortune on TV-- but it also has a particularly startling non-commercial bumper that played between shows: it's a close up of a statue of The Virgin Mary, while music and a voice over says "Please pray the rosary"
I'm sure religious adults liked it, but it would creep me out especially if it was late at night. (The Philippines is a highly Catholic country)
I also mention this because I remember RPN having a Fireworks Safety PSA that was just a video of a dark alleyway with pained screams as the voice over, and the tagline was something like "Don't get visited by the Ghost of New Year's Past"
and it was about not causing people harm on New Years with unsafe fireworks use. This would've been early 2000s, and aired at night, around the time of Price is Right.
That was ABC-5, not RPN-9.
Jorge is the only youtuber I watch where I drop anything I’m doing when I see him post a new vid
This channel always reminds me of the 8 hour drive from phoenix to Santa Barbara CA. When I first moved to AZ I did that drive over 20 times in 2017 and every time
I’d watch spooky stuff like this or Chills to pass the time
HATE HURTS YOU 1974 IS HERE, AND THE SONG IS FIRE
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO🗣🗣💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥
Although this PSA is probably not the Que Sera Sera one, there is an ad by Barnados called "Repeating itself" and was played around 2008-2010 and it was about a woman who, due to abuse at home and struggles at school, turns to drugs and ends in prison. Again it's probably not what the redditor was looking for, but a few details are similar.
I think that's "Break the Cycle" you're talking about, I've seen that one before, it's pretty brutal.
I feel like I’ve seen the child abuse ones in a creepy PSA compilation from years ago. The kids’ parents were doing normal parent activities with despondent children, like pushing them on a swing and riding the bus with them, except they appeared as monsters. I remember one of them being a boar/pig, and another being some kind of bug, like an ant.
That's the Finnish Monsters ad and while it is very similar I don't think it's the same, considering Monsters aired rather recently (in 2011)
@@adrielsebastian5216 I figured as much, but I thought it was at least worth mentioning, since I'm not entirely convinced that's not what the second person was thinking of. It's easy to confuse things, after all.
Of the earliest PSAs I remember, and one of the only ones come to think of it, was one for parents more than kids. It was a reminder to keep an eye on your kids, it would show a first person perspective of someone stalking a child in their yard before they come up and kidnap them. It would cut to some phrase like 'Do you know where your child is?' Or 'Do you know who is watching your kids when you are away?' Or something to that effect. I remember me asking my mom if the babysitter was playing a game, not understanding the implication of the PSA.
I'm too young, but my older sister remembers a commercial that said, "Do you know where your child is?" and left the text for about three minutes on screen in complete silence. It was common in the 90s.
In the 70s in northern Virginia, Maryland, DC and Pennsylvania there was a PSA Reddit has been looking for. It was about lead paint. The video showed a bedroom with peeling paint with an empty crib in it. The song was R&B and started “ Paint chips peeling/from the ceiling/and my baby’s dead…” we know the songwriter and singer but no one seems to be able to find a copy.
who is the singer?
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I heavily doubt on a thing like "I saw once when I was a kid" that time is when we mostly produce false memories. Myself remember some strange and ominous or at least peculiar situations that my parents cant remember, if they were together
It's so common to misremember things in general, but remembering something that scared you in childhood can cause a lot of outside influences to seep in.
For example: the search for an evil farming game that turned out to be just a clip from a vinesauce stream the original poster fell asleep to. People hunted down this game for what felt like years, and it turned out to have never existed.
blameitonjorge always has good music taste wish it were uploaded to youtube more
Legit I remember the "Daisy" advert, the second the Doris Day song was mentioned I knew exactly what it was on about, I got chills like childhood memory unlocked, it was definitely real but I can't remember exact details, like looking at a blurry picture that you remember taking but not what was in it
I remember one that aired on Nickelodeon in late 1997. Pregnant lady and her husband are in the new nursery and she takes a drag of a cigarette. The music gets all scary and we hear echoey coughing from inside her womb. I haven’t been able to find it anywhere and I haven’t seen it since around Christmas 1997.
Reminds me a lot of the Smoking Fetus psa
Thank you for shouting out Australia Jorge, it’s nice to see you supporting smaller creators.
Blameitonjorge is one of those channels i’ll never get tired of watching.
Same here, I'm even subscribed to him
i love your videos, there so entertaining. :) me and my friend are making a video about weird websites and i had no clue how hard it would be to write the script, find the websites and then edit it all together. respect to you dude.
hate hurts you has been found!!
HATE HURTS YOU is found. The tone is very catchy and i vibe on their music 😅
It's so sad we lost Gabbytheclown's channel, they had ALL the psas I'd seen on UA-cam and I haven't been able to find them all
Thank you for working to archive these! They're scary, but can be important
SOMEONE WHO REMEMBERS! She had ALL the great psa's
I remember seeing the "Faces of Meth" poster in middle school. Seeing people ruin themselves for their addictions after a long period is haunting.
I remember this creepy PSA that I think was exclusive to Florida since It was for skin cancer and suncreen. I don’t remember most of it only that it was in the early 90s television 3D animation, there words on everything along the lines of “skin cancer can occur even on cloudy days”, and the ending involved a kid getting fried by the sun and his skin ended up transparent so you could bones and organs and another kid was shaking his head.
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When BlameItOnJorge uploads I always smile because I know it's going to be a good day
Guy from the Lost Commercials Foundation is a legend. Dude went and made a psa about a psa lol
I’ve been watching you since elementary and I have one year to finish High school and your videos are still great. Please never stop uploading your channel brings me comfort 🤧🥲🥹
Cling to the things that bring you comfort. You'll need it. The future looks bleak.
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Hate Hurts You’s 30 second version was found, however there’s more versions of this. One with the man shorter, the one with “HATE” being spoken repeatedly, and one with a slightly different line.
Also, I just found out that the Que Sera Sera “PSA” was found and is actually a promo for a true crime show. And it’s less scary than people remembered.
Regarding the Que sera sera one:
That woman has been used in multiple PSAs.
In Oregon, she was used in an anti-meth PSA.
It also found a way to make the pictures morph into each other, and at the end, showed a before and afrer photo.
The slogan was, "Dont do meth. Not now, not ever."
Just for the record we don't believe it was Roseanne Holland herself in Que Sera Sera; I just picked it to use in the recreation because it's probably the most similar (known) PSA to the original description.
Before watching this video, I wouldn’t be surprised if any British PSA’s are on this list. Some of the older ones I’ve seen are crazy
The one I remember most is the Real Kids Can't Bounce from the NSPCC. God was that depressing
British PSAs are goddamn horror movies in commercial form
As a Pink Martini fan, if we really think it's them, we should reach out and see if they know! Super cool group, probably would be more than happy to respond. If not, Ari Shapiro has been kind of part of Pink Martini for a long time. He's a journalist who you might have heard of if you've listened to NPR. I can imagine that he'd be interested in joining in the search or might know who to contact.
Your videos are so good! I can watch them over and over and not get bored. Thank you for all that you do and the amount of research that you put into each video is amazing! ❤❤
I have such a morbid fascination with how our reality is used to instill the serious nature of certain aspects - such as with PSA’s, it’s insanely cool to see history behind them as well as finding lost media. Not to mention it’s also extremely saddening to know that, well, it had to exist for a PSA to be made about it. :((
whenever jorge uploads the day gets instantly better
I remember as a young teen they had that PSA about the pokemon ball within the burger-king meal. For whatever reason that scared the living S***T out of me.
an interesting note is that the version of Que Sera Sera used for the PSA was used in an Aussie film called Mary and Max that released after the PSA
it is possible the creator saw it and chose to use it in the scene, as it depicts Mary attempting to kill herself via overdosing, and has herself broken, making the PSA being from Australia more likely
And Max has autism
There are two PSAs I can clearly remember as a kid/teen that always scared me.
The first was in the late 90s, very early 2000s in New Zealand. A group of teens are driving along a dirt road at night, drinking and laughing among themselves. Something forces them off the road (either an animal, or something happening inside the car), and the car crashes into a ditch. A second later, the car bursts into flames, and audio of the screaming teenagers is played over the image of the burning vehicle. I don't remember if there was any ending text or voiceover, but it must have been a drink-driving PSA.
The second one was when I was a teenager in Australia, mid to late 2000s. A young boy is sitting alone in his room. An old man (possibly a family member) goes upstairs to the boy's room, but can't open the door. Cut to inside the room where the boy is holding the door shut with just his pointer finger despite the man's best attempts to get, while the song playing in the background, Johnny Cash's legendary cover of "Hurt" swells and the chorus plays during this struggle. I only remember a voice over at the end, and the whole message seemed to be an anti abuse (putting it mildly) PSA about kids can't protect themselves alone, and we should all be vigilant to signs of abuse. While not "scary" in the "made me hide behind the couch" sense of the word, the way it plays out and the use of "Hurt" always haunted me, and it's something I've never forgotten. I first heard this version of "Hurt" from this PSA, and it took me years to be able to enjoy the song on its own merits, rather than remembering this PSA.
I know this isn’t a PSA but I want to talk about it regardless. Around the early-to-mid 90s there was a commercial about a chiromancy, or palm reading, book in Peru, South America. Testimonies describe it as having eerie audiovisuals, with the head of a mannequin with bulging eyes and a wide, creepy smile scaring young viewers the most. There are reportedly multiple versions of the commercial, all of them being lost to this day.
If anybody has more details they could share, it’d be welcome
One PSA I remember from when I was a Kid in the 90s was an antidrug PSA. It showed a man running until a hand grabs him and pulls him down, and the hand is shown to be that of a policeman, grabbing the man to arrest him. Then the eponymous " Just say no to drugs". I wouldn't call it creepy, more like eerie.
I remember an anti-smoking PSA that aired when I was a young kid- in the early 1990's. I don't really remember the beginning but I think there was a mother in a house smoking a cigarette and the smoke seemed to have a life of its own and went down a hallway and into the keyhole of a closed bedroom door to where a baby was sleeping in a nursery. It terrified me as a kid. I'm in Canada but it may have been shown elsewhere.
There are two PSA’s that have really stuck with me, though not as disturbing as these ones.
I remember watching a fire safety PSA in 5th grade that scarred my whole grade. It was about a little boy who would play with matches in his room. Eventually, when showing his friend his little hobby, he put a dead match in a trashcan where it reignited and caught the house on fire! The boys escape, but the match boy runs back inside the burning house in an attempt to save his little sister. We cut to a fireman speaking to a class of children, where he then welcomes in a little girl. The girl is covered in burns holding a charred teddy bear. (On the nose) She then tells us that her brother died due to running back into the burning house to save her! It was traumatizing, nobody had ever died in the PSA’s we watched the years before! Wild! I already knew this stuff from being a fireman’s kid but that PSA made me never want to touch matches!
Another one that still sticks with me is when I took a boating class over the summer when I was a middle schooler. It was a group of adults out on a yacht drinking and partying. The goal was to show the negative effects of drinking while boating, and how the effects of alcohol take much quicker on boats out in the sun. It was also discouraging drunk boating and boy howdy it worked! How you may ask? Well the captain of the boat gets drunk and is unable to stop his speeding boat in time to avoid crashing into a row boat. A ROW BOAT WITH AN OLD MAN AND LITTLE GIRL! They don’t show the crash, just the moments right before it, but it’s to be presumed that the grandpa and young girl were killed! Yep, I’m staying sober forever!
In tv tropes it listed under the infamous British Fire Kills campaign. It is the same psa too?
I remember those weird anti meth psas in elementary/middle school. I couldn’t handle it bc they made them look so nasty and scary. I almost passed out while watching one lmao
When I was in elementary school we didn’t have crazy PSAs. We just had speakers. One time we had a famous football player ( J.J. Watt) speak to us about why smoking and doing drugs is bad.
Hate Hurts You has been found shortly after this video was released!