The Missing Woman Who Doesn't Exist
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- Опубліковано 17 гру 2021
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A non music related true crime video, it’s been a looong time 😛 Happy to say that next year I’ll be doing a mix of general true crime content and Morbid Musicians, I’ll talk more about it in an update video I’ll be making sometime next month but for now, just know that I’m planning on making a lot more content in 2022 🤘 See you soon!
@@-xirx- Thanks for watching! And yeah I got it off Pexels which is a free stock footage website so not sure where the recording is actually done
Really dope channel . UA-cam just decided to recommend this to me now even tho I have been following many similar channels in your genre for years. Have a good holiday I am bout to binge watch your channels
@@bkkillafromda6170 Thanks Jason really appreciate it, Happy holidays to you too!
After you video on Satan I have to subscribe! It looks like your channel keeps getting more and more interesting, thank you!
Sorry to say this, but why I feel that image is like a 100% badly edited image. I can see the ears look like folded and thick, I see like 2 pair of glasses, and like blurred eyes.
I can bet that there are 2 over imposed images. One gives me strong vibes of Ralph Macchio when he was a teen.
That is one eerie photo. If Joanna was/is real, I hope she's alright.
Its almost as scary as the Erratas image. I think her Eyes are the result of very wide glasses as shown in the video
Edit: the image i mean is a Hawaiian photo of a rapist using computer generated images. Its not of a real person but comprised to make a suggested image of the rapist. Im scared of a lot but the subject matter and the fact its RIGHT in the middle of the uncanny valley
I dunno the odds of going missing and barley having any freaking record of even existing and went missing in the 80’s or 90’s idk but she is probably dead the odds are almost impossible
She died
@Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart it’s a creepy pasta it’s not real
he made a whoolleee video.. shes not real.
That's some grade A police work there. "Lets upload a photo of someone who looks like a fly".
Im wheezing trying not to wake up my friends please save me I literally cannot breathe 😭😭
All I can imagine is
"Its a bird!!" "Its a plane!!" *Its Joanna Lopez.*
**intense buzzing**
this video is so tragic but this comment made me laugh out loud 💀
Lmmfao this is good
@@katherinemacvicar7725 Jennifer Lopez insect cousin🙆🏽♀️😀
😆 🤣
Imagine if Joanna is still alive and just sees people talking about her on the internet, calling her disappearance a mystery while she’s just chilling. That would honestly be really funny.
Aye we got the same name lol
@@Isabel-sr8ep Yo that’s pretty cool.
Fr
Hey sisters
this made me way less scared thanks😭
If Joanna is real, I certainly hope she’s ok because they did her so dirty with the picture and putting no information.
She wasn't already ok if her only photo available was in such a poor quality. Still many people in this digital age (where even a common citizen have a life better documented than a powerful emperor hundreds of years ago could only dream of) aren't in any system or have any kind of proof of their identity or even existence. In the 80's it was even worse as digital media was nowhere as widespread nowadays, and physical media is subject to all kind of damages that can occur even when you try to replicate them.
They didn't put any information because they don't have anything on her geeze you people on youtube are so dumb
@@midnightblackheart1821 so then why make a poster for her if they don't know ANYTHING? Why not gather information first? These things should be focused on in order to find a missing person.
@@microwave8931 Exactly!
@@midnightblackheart1821 istg
Boy this would've freaked me out as a kid to see at 2 am💀😭
Real life analog horror
@@mrsuns10 closest thing honestly lol
im 21 and if this suddenly popped up on my tv screen i would shit myself
Ong shit scary asf😂
@@mrsuns10 the real life analog horror but with music would be "the dawn is your enemy"
I appreciate you zooming in on it. Made falling asleep easier 🙄 whoever added color to it and all that made it actually creepier
I agree.
I WATCH THESE VIDEOS BEFORE BED TOO AND I WOKE THE FUCK UP
this made it not so scary ty 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
I want to see this in my dream
@@DodongoManoof what...the f u c k lmao
Im honestly convinced. Someone who was working the night shift from that tv station wanted to troll the world with this missing photo.
If not. I hope Joana is ok. Or if not. May she rest in peace.
I was thinking the same... someone might be bored and thought could be "funny" .
Especially since it was aired eerily TWICE! I feel like they got the reaction they wanted the first time and thought it would be funny to go that one step further 2 years later and make it just a bit more creepy
I wondered if it got aired a throes time?
@@mrsuns10 It has only been aired twice in a 2 year span.
🙏🙏🙏🙏
It is very hard to unnerve me, but Jesus FUCK that picture of Joanna is fucking terrifying. I actually considered looking away and just listening to this video because the picture is making me unusually uncomfortable.
It doesn’t help that it’s two AM, but alas, it’s still fucking horrifying.
I know it’s creepy as hell.
fr watching this and i feel eyes on me haven't felt this paranoid in a while
I was hiding in the comment section and avoiding the picture because I had a feeling it would freak me out...
@@mamooer What’s even worse, is when color is added.
Thank god I wasn’t the only one who felt so uneasy looking at the picture. Looks like something out of a analog horror
I was in my dark bedroom then i moved to the living room when he zooms the photo :((
@@materialgirl1585 felt that
That happens so much to me I hate it
I still believe this is some abandoned analog horror arg
Have you guys seen Selena Delgado?
@@jamesseth4710 dude are you trying to freak us out more?
My dad remembers seeing that missing persons photo and he was 19 and no joke he cried. It was soo eerie it scared him. On top of that, he was alone and it was at night so it made it even worse.
I would’ve done the same thing. Especially if I lived alone. I would want to leave the house but it’s in the middle of the night so there would be nowhere to go.
@@Nottyastro Same. His house was in the woods and it would be trees that would separate his house from his neighbors house so if he did leave the house he would just be in the middle of nowhere basically.
girl i would’ve cried too. i should ask my dad if he saw it too, he had just arrived to chicago in the 80’s
@@Xitl4ly LMAOO 😭😭
@Pmcjay yup lol
I am inclined to believe that “Joanna Lopez” is an example slide for those who make missing persons slides. Despite the fact that it looks so different to other examples, I think the fact that it was left on screen all night that first time and then run for 10 seconds the second time shows the possibility of an accidental broadcast.
oh maybe one of the first few trollers in the world trying to scare people.
Why the name feel so familiar but no
I'm just gonna tell myself this so I sleep easier tonight T_T
@@linaxgamez4636 Jennifer Lopez is probably what you’re thinking of
what she doing
I worked as a dispatcher and they had a small, metal file for index cards filled with missing people. I don’t think they ever digitized them because “it’s not like they’ll find them”.
That's terrible.
That's so sad :(
Joshua?!
That’s so disturbing to hear.
Damn that's fucked up
One of the most interesting mysteries lately, excited to see you cover it man (I was completely unaware about the glasses part).
Crazy to see you here! I first heard about this from you and I've been fascinated for a while by it due due the mystery and how mysterious and dark it is. Clicked this as soon as I saw, since this is so interesting.
I've been a fan of you for years now and kind of grew up watching you in my preteen to teen years. Thanks for all of the content over the years, you're the man!
Thanks man once I saw your video I was hooked on the case it's really intriguing, hope we get some answers soon!
Jorge and Deburke in the same comment section! What is this a crossover!!
Love your content jorge!
Sup George
The problem with black and white missing photos is that 90% of the time the details are not defined enough to recognize or they are very easily photoshopped or doctored photos. The eyes just don't look natural that is something that I noticed instantly when the photo was shown
Same very strange 🕵
Photoshop was invented in 1990 though, the first showing of this photo was in ‘89 just one year before.
@@israelluceromusic victorians edited their photos.
I believe they used an ai photo enhancing app, they all look horrifying
Wow so then am I the only one that noticed the glasses almost immediately? 😮
That missing pic is creepy as hell. Looking at the poster up close, it almost looks like a face overlapping another face. It's so distorted I don't know how a single person can make anything significant out of it. Why someone would post a missing person's photo up just out of the blue in the middle of a broadcast with no information whatsoever is baffling and maybe a sick joke to whomever did this. I would go so far as to say "Joanna Lopez" doesn't exist. But maybe, just maybe, if somehow Joanna does exist, this was never supposed to be made public. My final theory is that maybe this was some sort of weird test run from the station to cause some kind of reaction to the viewers that night. I'm not sure what the purpose behind that would have been, but truth is stranger than fiction.
EXACTLY
all that enhancing stuff makes my stomach turn
@@ybz4dappl late comment but I haven’t been on this acc in a year bc I looked this up and I was terrified of it. Not a day that went by I wasn’t scared of this but my classmates helped me through it and now it’s just a thing we talk about. I even make a presentation about her. They liked it.
That is just outright DISTURBING. Just peacefully watching your favorite show, and at the end of the episode, this spine tingling, bone chilling, and just plain DISTURBING missing poster shows up. No. Just NO.
i feel like the most disturbing fact is that it shows up so suddenly. it wasn't a jumpscare by any means, but everything in this missing poster is unnerving. i literally FROZE when that missing poster pops up
@@dre_k0 when you think about it, this is an absolute MASTERCLASS in horror.
1. no warning. just a sudden pop up.
2. the harsh contrast from the previously and colorful footage to pitch black, and from the jovial national anthem to deafening silence
3. no information, no whereabouts,...triggering the fear of the unknown
4. and holy shit, that face. how can something look so non human and human at the same time. it fits perfectly into the uncanny valley.
Or even worse.. you wake up to that all over your tv.
Him:Let’s look at this picture in closer detail
Me: can we….. can we not
Lmao, Fr. I keep looking away from it.💀
Same bro i got chills down my back
I really don't want to keep looking at it
Ong my heart make speedruns on every enhancement
This isn’t related but your guinea pig is so cute!! I have 2
That's so weird...why would they just end with a random, poor quality, probably out of date photo of someone with no music, no sounds, no commentary, and no information other than a number? Seeing that at 3 am would've been creepy and it's already creepy for me watching it now.
This is why it is important to have clear pictures of ourselves because we never know
@@Dolcebella1989 yup!! I know so many people who have NO pictures of themselves and it's so scary to think about
@@adrianna9458 guarantee their families or partners have pics of them
@@adrianna9458 it's scary just thinking about the idea of going missing and nobody finding you. And yet it happens so much somehow.
@@thickimi "and yet it happens so much somehow" is especially mind boggling in this day and age too! considering there is a camera like fuckin everywhere!
The creepiest part for me was the national anthem playing and it having this happy vibe. And then it just drops dead silent to the missing woman. That’s what creeped me out a lot.
My 2 cents:
1. Joanna Lopez could have been an alias name for an unidentified missing person or victim ie Jane Doe, John Smith, but tailored to reference a particular demographic.
2. Not having height, weight, etc. as well as being wildly different from usual PSAs could mean they weren't looking for a missing "person" per se...they were looking for a body. She was already dead and due to decomposition or potential dismemberment height and weight wouldn't matter.
That actually makes alot of sense
I agree and this certainly seems like the type of case where a badly mutilated body was found and given an alias name. My only question is that assuming the last name Lopez is of spanish origin, why use it to identify a body found in chicago?
@@michaelz8640 mexican/spanish people can live anywhere, what’s ur argument?
@@elluvzzu Idk, I would have just assumed they would use something more common in the area
@@michaelz8640 All unidentified bodies (regardless of mutilation) are given place holder names. If a body's ethnicity is fairly obvious, they may be given a place holder name that matches their ethnicity.
this reminds me of a very similar situation that occurred in mexico in the late 90s and early 2000s where they would do a similar psa about missing people but at earlier times, like the afternoon. what happened there is that for several years, every week a woman by the name of selene delgado lopez would appear on the psa, yet the photo that was used was very vague and seemed very generic. people who looked closely into the case say that they tried looking at the missing persons registries and that no woman with that name or description was found even in dates before the psa’s. a very interesting case to look at if you have time, but i did find similarities in these two cases.
I am not sure if it was either Lazy masquerade , Nick Crowley or Disturban that covered this . But , I do remember hearing about Selene Delgado López
That’s fun
There's a couple of theories about that PSA, like the supposed uncanny valley vibes some of the photos gave. It's kind of an interesting rabbit hole to go down
@@ricardohernandez1685 it really is, something i did find interesting is that both had the same last name, “lopez”, and both were aired on a channel 5, although chicago’s channel 5 is local and mexico’s canal 5 is a national channel. still though, very unique situations
@@maydle9825 i found out as a little kid in mexico, it scared the shit outta me
It's crazy to think that we have photos from 1840s that are 1000 times better in terms of quality than photos from 1980s - 1990s.
@Van Hellsing’s Digital Drive-in Yeah but still that "photo" doesn't even deserve to be called a photo.
There's a reason why. They didn't use film in the mid 1800s.
@Van Hellsing’s Digital Drive-in thats not what they were talking about
Most people from that era don't even have any surviving pic. Millions lost in time, forgotten by history, not even a trace of them left. Victims of a damnatio memoriae demanded by the gods.
Istg💀
You know what still happens today? People posting wanted photos of criminals and missing people with unclear photos. How do you expect people to recognize a missing person or criminal if the picture is unclear?
Good example is a missing girl's case from 1-2 years ago in Germany, they used a heavily filtered photo of her everywhere. Like straight up the beautifying filter from snapchat
It’s what they have
If you don't have anything better, you just use what you got
Nah cus this is fr
@@zakazany1945 Exactly
It's strange to me people don't seem to understand that. I think it's because they're all used to having high quality cameras in their pockets
I went to high school with a Joanna Lopez in the 90s. She just showed up out of the blue. The Joanna I went to school with looks like the enhanced picture of the missing Joanna Lopez you show in this video. If the same person, she’s in southern CA now.
OMG, really?! 😲
I don't know if you still talk with her...but maybe ask her if she has a similar picture. I don't know why but my theory is someone , for some reason, wanted to do this "joke" and took the photo of someone he/she knew like a relative or a friend and didn't want to show her real face because that person could have ended in jail.
you might be able to ask her about it?
If you still talk to her you should ask her about this
You should probably ask her about this
The picture of "Joanna Lopez" looks like something you'd probably see in the walten files
That’s what I was thinking
any analog horror series tbh
@@radladsoph true
@@radladsoph fr
Big Mandela collection vibes
70s and 80s has this… creepy ass vibe going on in their quiet moments .. know what I mean? I think it’s because how easy it is to get lost etc
There were so many brutal murders and popular serial killers still on their spree at that time 😭
@@katiaboardman6794 fax and we still got kids out here like
“I WiSh I liVed iN tHe 80s😫”
“I WiSh I wAs bOrn iN tHe 70s I wAs bOrn iN tHe wRoNg gEnEraTion!!”
Like of course i love the music and the movies and the crazy fashion and even the cool gadgets but i sure as hell don’t wanna go back to that time with all the creepy shit happening at the time the only reason people say that is cuz they watch movies or shows like stranger things and think “omg I WANT that” everything from the 80s and 70s are still available today in thrift stores and online stores people wanna live in the 70s and 80s so bad but if they did they would be crying lmao
@Van Hellsing’s Digital Drive-in exactly! if I was born in the 70s and grew up in the 80s I would be scared to leave my damn house I would lock all the windows and doors and stay inside 24/7 💀
@@Isabel-sr8ep Those times were both good and bad
Good is:What you said the music were actually good and fashion too
Bad:Wars exist,Economy was plummeting,high crime rates
@@Isabel-sr8ep my mom was born in the 70s and said there was serial killers everywhere
Why can't we just ask who was working at WMAQ Chicago at that time what that was all about? Ask them who sent in that picture, or how did they gather that she was missing?
I went on one of the reddit threads talking about this a while back. Someone on there did say that they got in touch with the station, and that they said an anonymous source sent the photo in
@@zenaidamoreno1824 An anonymous source... hmm? We'll never get an answer.
@@melaninpoppin it appears so
Zenaida Moreno
that's..odd & eerie.
@@Noel_Wood yup
If she is of Mexican heritage, Lopez might be her mother's paternal last name and not her father's. Might be helpful for family tree searches
Yep, more traditional families do the “long name” the mother’s maiden name then the father’s etc.
ChNces are she might have another last name
Thought about thay as well
Doesn't matter whose last name it is lol they still don't know who she is or what she really looks like
Well damn. Lopez is such a common last name so it will not help much
4:17 That enhanced image is creepy AF
Right, fcked up my entire Christmas eve 🤣😭
Lmfaooo
I found the black & white version to be more creepy
At least you can see the eyes
😭 that's fcking creepy
Why does this disturb me so much? It's just a simple picture but it makes the hair on my neck stand up.
it’s called uncanny valley, we evolved to be scared of things that are not human but almost, meaning that once in history we had a reason to evolve fearing these almost humanoids
@@OP-lj5gd I'd assume back during caveman and neanderthal days, tribe wars that we had to fight in
Same here! that picture is honestly terrifying, and the one with more color added both comforted me and also made me even more scared at the same time. eerie
you're not alone, this whole mystery is one of the few that has actually scared me to the point that I almost couldn't sleep after first hearing about it
I watch the worst horror movies and sleep peacfully at night but this actually terrifies me idk why
There's something so intriguing about Joanna Lopez.
It's like you want to know more about a person who barely has any information about them, other than their name and face.
a face that barely show any recognizable feature.
@@mellopollo she doesn't really look like much of anything.
Imagine being someone who was scarred from the first incident in 1989, then just so happened to be on the dame channel in 1991 the second time it happened. That would be terrifying.
Imagine if your brain had suppressed it and then seeing it again in 91 just triggers everything?
I feel like the higher quality photo is scarier, like what exactly am I looking at? 😭
For me the black & white version is creepier. The high quality looks like a random DeviantArt drawing
The photo of her looks lifeless, I’m almost starting to create a theory that her killer made the anonymous tip or something it’s just creepy
@hotaru Not sure how to reply to that, there’s been disturbing cases, was just trying to make a theory. Not sure where calling it disturbing is appropriate, again it was just a theory. I wasn’t saying it was indeed a body or anyone was currently looking for one, but again- just theorizing. Thanks for the input though, have a good day :).
It's crazy how we would never know about stuff like this if the internet never existed
It would be like an urban legend
Whether or not Joanna may be real or not, let's hope they're okay to this day and nothing worse has happened to them. And of course, yeah the picture is very unsettling to look at, personally missing person photos like these do freak me out, not because it's the last known photo of that missing person, but it's when these photos are so low quality or very shotty, it just gives off a weird vibe.
The vibe like they're not supposed to be noticed or found
@@nicholaslindsey1696 oh god, yes. It's a scary feeling.
They?
@@serbstuff2155 disgusting feminist language
@@filigall4124 that was totally unnecessary and offensive. Now shut up 😐
"It's eerie to look at"
*zooms in closer*
this literally reminds me of the whole selene delgado situation
Me too
Even they share a surname
And on that note, both were featured on a channel 5, which I find very weird, but it most likely is a coincidence
That’s so fun
Who was selene delgado?
This shit is scary, alot of creepy shit happen 30 years ago they don't talk about today.
Imagine what happened 307 years ago
@@infern1491 ???
@@theheadlessstickman There's alot of unsolved cases from the 80s and 90s
@@robertjoseph5206 That's not what they were questioning
@@LageUA-cam
Perhaps they meant from the 1890’s and 1880’s?
I live here in Chicago, and to this day cook county keeps quote on quote losing people within the system. It’s unfortunate and scary, we need a better system in place over here for all kinds of situations. Jail, missing persons, crime, etc. thank you for the video if I find more info on this case I will post it on here.
It's so creepy because it has that element of being unrecognizable as a person's face. The uncanny valley effect causes what should be a human face to be unrecognizable. It's eerier the more you look at it because you're trying to make the blotchy contrasts into a face but it's impossible.
I, like many others here, have no idea why seeing this out of the blue in the middle of the night on TV is so creepy. Like. Very unsettling... Something is just very off and uncanny. I can't really explain it tbh. Just the long pause that makes you stop what you're doing and just watch.
Edit: yeah I just remembered the Doe Network from another video and if you want nightmares and paranoia that something creepy is watching you, the pics on that site are unsettling. It's pretty much computer generated faces from corpses found without any known DNA traces. Something of the sort
I wanna visit the site now, you got a link?
Me too 😂😂🤣🤣
Nice pfp 😳
@@lol3342 Thank you! I love yours too!
@@kekyointheshitpostingfool7959 thanks :> and tequila Joseph is one of the best things about part 2 lol
It's such a little thing but holy hell that picture alone just added at least a couple more hours to my internal clock.
Lmaooooo
It looks like something from the walten files lol
@@liviwaslost oh no
I like the pfp.. ALL HAIL THE SLAYER
My uncle told me about this when he lived in Chicago, he told me that there were other images like that (I can't find any other.) that would play late at night. This one specifically creeped him out so badly that he actually pissed himself. He was 13 at the time
We need to find the archives of this
You know what? After reading many comments covering a wide range of possibilities, motives, and backstories... as well as the many, many comments stating how "Joanna Lopez's" picture creeps them out, I'm prepared to assume that this whole thing was really a social experiment to encourage people to be more alert and take more care of one another. I don't know.
my guess is that if this really was just a social experiment, they wanted something that was sure to stick with people so this was their photo of choice
I just means that today's internet users are a bunch of wussies that don't watch enough horror movies.
Lol sure, a social experiment that hardly anybody would have ever even seen.
Yeah I was thinking the same like a soft psyop of some sort. It's bizarre all around like a fever dream. Sometimes things are so absurd as to cause disbelief & confusion.
I've always been fascinated by this. This has always been perplexing and unsettling, which always peaks my interest. This is so weird.
Nice pfp
Sick pfp tho
All the femboys hit the comments to compliment that pfp
@@GolfWang48 u too
Nice pfp
I'm so happy I'm not the only one who's deeply terrified of that photo
this genuinely scared me so much, but it made me wonder whether this person was ever found or not and if there was bad fate involved, what happened? I hope one day this would be cracked but its doubtful. I also heard that it was an anonymous tip that sent it to the news show which could explain the lack of detail in a way
I think the worst part is that the 80s were recent enough that there is very likely someone alive who KNOWS who she is/was and if she's still missing and they just can't be bothered to clarify anything.
There needs to be an 80s iceberg chart, and this needs to be in it
Nah there needs to be a missing persons iceberg like this and selene delgado😭
An 80s iceberg would be way to overcomplicated, as the Soviets were a growing problem in america and there's tons of secret files about what they did that would just overcrowd an iceberg
I didn't find the pic scary or creepy because I could tell it was just a horrendously awful picture of someone in glasses, but I thought she was gonna be like an old lady or something
I’m fully aware of the fact that I cannot handle stuff like this but yet my curiosity always manages to get the better of me. Everything about the situation is terrifying, especially the picture! It’s like 2 in the afternoon so why am I so scared 😓?
I couldn’t have said it any better
My first thought was that she's an alien. Like, if you were an alien looking for a lost member of your fleet with your communications tech down, how would you try to find them? It makes the most sense to my funky ass mind.
Thats an Alien....call MIB
Is she closing her eyes in the picture?
@@lolhi3981 No, I think it’s just the glasses turning white or something, like blocking her eyes from showing, if that makes sense? Her eyes do look incredibly creepy though. It’s what makes the picture so eery.
I THIUGHT THE SAME OMG ALIEN WAS THE FIRST THOUGHT
Why are the troubled home and jane doe considered seperate theories? my bet was on her having a troubled upbringing then becoming a street walker.
sadly, that’s very possible.
This is so eerie to me because I was born and raised in Chicago and I was 16 in 1989, so probably about the same age as this girl. Joanna was a common name back then, and I grew up with several Joanne's and Joanna's , although none of their last names were Lopez. The oversized glasses that she appears to be wearing were very popular then too. Wherever you are now Joanna, I hope you're safe and at peace 🙏
What really gets me is that this aired right as most people would shut their TV’s off for the night (at least theoretically).
Like, wouldn’t you put something like this up when most people would be watching TV that day?
This is kinda creepy tbh
That picture is messed up fr
That creepy picture would’ve absolutely terrified me as I was 9 at the time and so full of crippling fear and anxiety I already had an ulcer (I also have had severe, painful Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis since age 3, with weekly painful injections they had to literally strap me down to a table to be able to administer; thus my chronic pain, timidity, and the scary treatments all contributing to my high anxiety thanks to years of medical trauma.) Just hearing the Unsolved Mysteries theme music wafting from the den when my parents watched it after I’d gone to bed would send me into panicked hysterics and tummy agony. I’m so glad I didn’t see that all-night broadcast of that pic while visiting my Chicago cousins.
Now as an adult I’m actually into creepy mysteries and true crime. Still have medical PTSD and crippling anxiety as well as of course physically permanent disability from JRA. But at least I can look at that picture and not have to spend the next day in an emergency being seen by a whole team of poking, prodding medical doctors and mental health professionals. Progress!
I hope you find healing and strength! Sending you love 💕
@@therealestdrea Thank you so much; you are a dear, compassionate soul. ❤️🌟 Happy New Year! 🎉🍾🥂
@@MegCazalet Same to you miss 😊!
Girl just dumped her entire life story and her diagnosises for attention and pity 💀
I aint reading all that! BUT WE UP THO🔥🔥🔥🔥
That photo makes me extremely uncomfortable. It’s looks very creepy and like something that you’d see in some horror movie. I hope that if she exists, she’s okay
Always been baffled by this case. Love your content man!
Thanks for watching man really appreciate it!
Love that you are covering this topic I’ve been fascinated with the “Joanna Lopez” case it started
my mom actually lived in chicago around the 90's, so im gonna ask her about this case once she gets back from work. wish me luck, guys
ye
Update?
Updates?
Any updates op?
updates???
Wtching this video had me looking over my shoulders every 10 secs. I just had left over pizza and was sitting alone in the kitchen and the room next to the kitchen was dark , the door wide open and only the kitchen light on. I said nope and went straight to my room and turned the lights on and continued watching this. I’m 18 years but shit watching things like this alone makes is like waiting for a jump scare. I can’t imagine the people seeing this live, on the TV late at night.
Dude same I was in my room and I made the awful mistake of watching it, and I immediately started hallucinating (I have a mental disorder that causes me to hallucinate) and now I’m in the living room with my dad just chilling looking at comments to try to find something that will make it less creepy so I don’t keep seeing that face in the corner of my eye/ reflection of my windows but I’m failing. If I saw this at the time it aired I think it would have sent me into a straight up manic episode.
lmaoo i thought i was a pxssy for not being able to look at the missing persons face
@@aliyahflores6131 no😂 I ended up looking at it in the morning and was okay but just looking up to my tv in my dark ass room and seeing that, then the guy was like “this is so eerie” *zooms in* I couldn’t 😂
@@abby5542 bruh i thought it wasnt scary during the day, but it got to me during the night right as i was going to bed. i was actually terrified 😭
keep in mind, the enhanced photo is an AI reconstruction based on other peoples' faces so we can't actually gain any additional information from it
This mystery freaks me out. It's one of my favorite mysteries
I just happened to stumble upon your channel and I would love to thank you for your empathy in bringing up Joanna Lopez case to the forefront!! They has been too many incidents in the past, and current times unfortunately, that WOC on POC, Native Americans and other ethnicities are ignored. Not due to them performing the very basic requirements of listing those who are marginalized but the utter blatant disregard that LE placed on the value of these victims! We need more to apply immeasurable pressure and demand immediate action on groups that are ignored or automatically classified as a runaway, when the exact opposite is the case in 98% of the time. Hopefully, you featuring Joanna Lopez will one day bring answers and closure that Joanna Lopez and every one those that are ignored due to systemic racism will become a memory and NOT the actions that continue everyday in America! Everyone’s lives are precious and deserve the utmost care and consideration from LE, news agencies, social workers/services and our own complacency in not demanding change. Joanne Lopez is everyone’s daughter, a daughter and minor that deserves protection and proper actions from LE!!
this isn’t even about race lol
psychiatrist: eerie Joanna Lopez doesn't exist, she can't hurt you.
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From looking at the pic, it’s badly taken but from what I can guess; she has those Thick 80’s glasses, I know my dad had a pair when he was a kid. And it looks like her hair is short
It looks to me like this wasn't a case in which authorities were optimistic or details were forthcoming- that this was a lukewarm effort to put something out there, in the case of a possibly-missing person who may be named similarly or appeared somewhat like this at the time of her disappearance. An attempt to nail down further details might have only committed what was actually nebulous or unknown to a version which was less accurate.
This looks like something out of a terrifying analog horror piece. One of the most unsettling things I’ve ever seen.
Wherever Joanna is, whether she’s alive or in heaven, I just hope she’s doing ok.
Provavelmente morta e enterrada em algum lugar da Antártida
@@ericrafaellivi2495 *CÀLLATE-*
@@Doodles1265 but i speak brazilian-portuguese not Spanish...but i got it
@@ericrafaellivi2495 Ah, lo veo...
@@ericrafaellivi2495 brasileiro em todo lugar da Internet
Ive already watched Nexpo cover this but I'll still watch this.
Man you guys need to post more you always have the best content other channels always talk about the same true crime cases or what not I always get something unexpected from you guys keep em coming
Thanks Marlon really appreciate it!
This image seems a little different, but I remember a picture like this from back then because my mother always watched "The Tonight Show" because she loved Johnny Carson, and I think she kept watching after he left. Anyway, she kept the TV on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year! She only ever turned it off when she was mad about something, so I had to sleep with the TV on in the living room with her (I have 5 other siblings and I never had my own room until I was about 20).
I remember waking up at like 2 or 3 in the morning and seeing those *MISSING* pictures on the screen and feeling a bit creeped out because of the way the word "missing" was plastered above the picture in all caps... But one night there was this picture of this person, a woman whose eyes couldn't be seen and it just looked evil and strange. A few times I would get up and change the channel just so that picture wouldn't be on the screen!
One time my mother woke up on the couch (I was sleeping on the floor) and asked what I was doing *(we weren't supposed to touch her food or her TV's)* and she just shrugged her shoulders and said, "The person must be wearing glasses..." which is wild, now that I think about it because SHE needed glasses and never wore them, so how could she see that detail and I couldn't...
I did think that putting up "missing persons" info overnight was a good way to use the airtime, but this picture (if this IS what I saw) SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME!
damn.
Lol the way your mom was unfazed. The glasses theory makes sense though.
Honestly all ibcould think of is her being a child immigrant which means there would be no paperwork of her ever existing. And why parents wouldn't file a police report
Here's the thing, if she had been an immigrant how did they file a police report due to the missing posters number being part of the youth department of the local police?
What I think occurred was that Joanna is an American citizen, her parents filed a report but the police didn't care as much and just took the picture in order to get the parents off their hands since according to them they probably needed to find true criminals in the streets
@@sunberry1894 they said in the video that either the parents never made a report or they're sealed bc she was a minor. Its mentioned twice. But then again its common for police to not really look fir missing children
They used the same picture. They didn't find her. Her family had only one picture so they werent close.
How u know
@Van Hellsing’s Digital Drive-in I think it's just a guess. Not a bad guess, either. It makes sense that they only had the one picture so they couldn't use any others.
The photo genuinely gave me chills. Actually kept me up for a few nights. Its just so eerie and indistinguishable, like she’s an alien or something. Just imagine that blaring on the TV all night.
Considering she was underage and it was late 80s I can see why it was nearly impossible to find any information on her. Damn shame too
First heard about this on BlameitonJorge's channel. Interesting how Chicago saw a number of weird TV mysteries around this time, from the unsolved Max Headroom hack on Channel 11 to this. I live in Chicago (now the burbs ) but all these incidents happened years before I was born.
In 2008 or '9 I had a rerun of Arthur with DW's fear of octopuses at the beach on in the background while I was drawing some shitty fanart on my bed, and looked up only to see the TV had switched to a recording of a stuff dinosaur with teeth like dentures stuffed in its mouth. Scared the SHIT out of me. I was used to screamer videos like a lot of kids, so I fully expected to be hit with a screamer on fucking live TV, or someone rushing to the camera to say "boo" so I flipped the channel button to the news for a good minute or so before turning it back. When I put WTTW back on the rerun of Arthur was back. I watched Arthur reruns at exactly 5:30 PM every weekday around that time because it was a comfort To this day I can't say I didn't dream it up, but if I believe what saw, I witnessed another live TV hack ala Max Headroom and I've never seen mention of it anywhere. Granted I don't browse places like reddit in depth.
Has it been ruled out that this wasn't a placeholder or test image that was accidentally used instead of a real missing persons report?
no i dont think so. But tbh thats the most likely since joanna was a very common name in the 80s in Chicago and the picture looks like a highschool yearbook photo fucked with to make it look bad and you cant make out who it is and made black and white and thats what i think it was probably somebodys first day he couldve been told that they air a missing person when they go off the air and they fucked up and put the missing person thing on instead of the regular off the air screen thinking thats what they should do and the placeholder came up and the guy working went home not realizing and the second one someone might have called in saying they sent a picture and name to go on the system and when the worker tried to air it the placeholder came up again so he switched back off after 10 seconds bc nothing came up
3:32 Juanita Estevez was found alive in 1986 according to a newspaper article about missing kids on milk cartons. It states that she escaped her captors, and was one of the first missing persons to be put on milk cartons (along with johnny gosch whose case is still open).
If I lived in the US/Chicago and saw that while in my living room at night, with blank static, I would freeze, burst into tears and run to the neighbour (welcome to paranoia and anxiety.) But this is some more banger work, absolutely epic Deburke
I have a really good theory. Maybe they were looking for a body. Meaning they weren’t looking for an actual person, just their lifeless body. This would explain why they didn’t give us a height, weight, or age. It’s very unusual for a psa to just give no information without having a reason for it.
It still is nightmare fuel like god damn
Legit it gives me the shivers just by listening to the audio of it.
Just some weird happy music and then bam, pitch black silence coupled with a high contrast picture and the hum from the broadcast.
*THE "WEIRD-HAPPY MUSIC" IS ACTUALLY THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OF AMERICA, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!*
@@Doodles1265 damn chill
It's sad that troubled youth arent looked after as well as other youth. Like they didnt even bother putting in a clear photo of her or nothing.
This image gives me extreme chills. Thanks for this video, man! New sub
I never thought a strange photo of a person in sunglasses could be so terrifying
Wtf there’s a similar case on a Mexican channel called canal 5 of some lady that people don’t think exist either how fuckin weird that it’s happened on multiple occasions
Imagine watching Spongebob and then Selena Delgado shows up
@@mrsuns10 lmaooo
@@mrsuns10 yesss i’ve seen a meme of this 😭
Yeah it was just a mistake from the broadcaster, the editor accidentally used the negative image and broadcasted it by mistake, the second time was because they got the second names mixed up Lopez is a pretty common second name, my dad used to work for the NBC as a junior at the time. The more you know
that picture genuinely creeps me out a bunch
This may be the only photo the people who reported her missing had. Maybe it wasn't a clear photo to begin with and the bad photocopying made it worse.
I remember the missing children mailers that you'd get in the 80s and 90s. It was like a long post card with or or two missing children on it. Sent by The National Center For Missing & Exploited Children. Walmart also had a wall of posters with missing child photos. I'm not sure if they still do. Sometimes the photos were not good quality. Sadly there seems to be a lot of missing people in my area and the posters can have these types of fuzzy photos. But most at least have some info pertaining to the last place the person was seen or some vital statistics.
It's possible there just wasn't much info on Joanna Lopez at the time. While I don't want to 100% assume she was from a troubled home I feel like if she was from a stable one we'd hear more about her even to this day if she was still missing. The possibility that she was a foster runaway is very strong. In which case her birth parents may not have been alive or in any position to advocate for her due to jail, substance abuse or just not caring about her anymore because of abuse ect...
I just hope it wasn't one of those cases where she was done away with and then reported missing so the parents or guardians don't look guilty. I hope Joanna is still alive and just fine.
Did no one think to talk to the people running the broadcasting station? That way we could have known that it may have been a test.
honestly, because the picture looks nothing like the ones they've been posting around this time, without any information on height, age, any features what so ever, etc. it doesn't feel like it should've aired at all, at least around that time. That and there is color on those other missing persons photos as well as the program itself, the fact that the photo is in black and white along with the entire missing persons segment in general makes no sense. either it was indeed poorly put together in a short amount of time, or it wan't supposed to be aired in the first place.
the first thing I thought of when I saw this was that this is an older case, like as if an old case that they still had the picture of in their database that had accidentally got put on the air. though it doesn't make much sense considering the phone number :/
but seriously the fact that this image doesn't line up WHAT SO EVER with the other missing persons files that they were airing makes no sense to me. No information, no voice over, black and white picture and segment in general, the way it was presented in general makes NO SENSE and is honestly making me lose my mind. (I just realized that the other missing persons segments that were shown in the video were from other states excuse my ramblings-)
this was obviously not supposed to air in my eyes, the fact that it was apparently on air for the entire night and once again a couple years later only flashed on screen for a couple of seconds?? i think it was just a mistake but id still like to know who she is :/
I have never heard of this mystery until now so if everything I've said has already been dismissed then my bad, I would love for this to be solved though
Unrelated, but your icon makes me nauseous.
@@antifagoat6591 I'm glad :]
I can’t imagine falling asleep on the couch and waking up to that on tv in the middle of the night😭😭
Oh boy, it's 6 am and this would definitely haunt my mind later when I go to sleep. It just gives me so much unsettling vibes, the more I look at the photo, the more I never wanna see it ever again.
I think it was a template that was aired on accident
it's so scary how the image just... appears...I hope that, if she is real, she's okay.
unrelated but i love ur hero pfp and it calmed me down
@@sunny6280 hero is nice :)
if that picture was of a real person, i feel really bad for her. the thought that something might have happened to her but no one was able to help because the quality of the alert was so shitty is terrible.
I can scarcely believe anything but that the photograph is a clumsily-executed hoax, and that it was aired as a prank. The “practice slide” hypothesis has merit, as far as being the source of the photo, but another part of me suspects that the picture was deliberately obscured to look creepy.
In either case, the bizarre airing of the bulletin reeks of deliberate scariness, and in the same broadcast culture where a fake Max Headroom took over a station for a few minutes, this kind of a prank seems like child’s play to conceive.