PSA: Don’t climb out of the emergency hatch unless you are a trained technician. My friends dad was killed because while he was on top of it, the elevator continued its ascent and he was partially decapitated. Please just wait for help; at the worst, you’ll just be a bit bored.
Holy shit that's more terrifying than any part of this story, I'm so sorry for your friend to have the knowledge of her dad passing that way. And for him, that's wild.
I think the most brilliant thing about this story is the moment she switches to present tense. At that point you realize she didn't make it, because she's still in the elevator when narrating the story
The narrator switched to present tense near the beginning too, talking about how she "rides the elevator everyday" as if she still does it. Idk, came of as bad writing and I immediately felt like it was made up. Some of these stories have been pretty convincing, but not this one.
I like the detail that the body had been decomposing for **two years** because it tells you how absolutely hopeless her situation was in the end. You've been rooting for her to make it out and then it just hits you how she never had a sliver of a chance.
Yeah, it really makes you wonder… where did the elevator go for those two years? If it were some kind of twisted supernatural human trap, then you’d assume it would return the moment she died…. But it just kept going for TWO YEARS.
Also the 2 years detail... It said the phone was found 3 inches from her body, which- when a body decomposes for even a few weeks it basically turns into a puddle of goo, so the phone would have been completely covered in it and unusable
@@Anne-fn4po you don’t turn into a puddle that would happen maybe after her body had been distended and then it’s longer at a good time so everything gets expelled.
@@AzureTheAvian you still have some moisture in your body. Blood, mucus, maidt brain matter. You don't shrivel up like a raisin and obviously you don't have enough moisture to live, but it would still be gooey and moist, the moisture in the air at least as she decomposed woukd make her gooey
In reality you would start being dehydrated well before starvation. If you had nothing to drink; by the time you were starving you'd just be dead. You can go an easy week without eating and not even really be showing visual signs of starvation but in 3 days you'd be dead from dehydration. You can go 1-2 months without eating before dying (because your body will eat itself) but in 3 days without water, you're dead.
I just had to look up the idea of a person being left that long in an elevator and I found that although this story is made up there is a real world account of an Asian woman getting trapped in an elevator and being left alone to die of starvation. Her body was left in that elevator undiscovered for a whole month till it was found. It happened in her apartment complex in Xi'an, China and the news time stamp was 2016.
The maintenance people forgot to check if anyone was inside before shutting off the power. I don’t think you could use the call buttons if the power was off either. Once the power went off at my building, all the elevators grounded and opened doors. Not all would have these failsafes.
this story is more sad than anything. i think the way to look at this would be she got stuck in some sort of hole in space and time and didn’t make it. i felt genuine sorrow for the girl. such a horrible way to die; imagine sitting there and going through all of that alone. very good story:) i applaud the author
I dont think she was stuck in a time loop or anything. I think that time actually slowed down in the elevator. If you noticed, the autopsy report said that the decomposition happened in the span of 2 years, and considering she was stuck betwern 9:21 and 9:23 am, this would mean that 1 year wouldve been 1 minute in real time. That is a teriffying thought.
@@safespace4680 >time actually slowed down< sped up, rather. and specifically for her. i'm just imagining a third person view from outside the elevator shaft, using xray vision, and as the elevator goes down, the girl suddenly moves, dies, and decays in hyperspeed
Idk ive been having fun Riots have all the PD in the cities so the only ones around are our chill sheriff's office who live here and we know so we can go to the unofficial range and shoot guns without the A-hole state troopers showing up and have parties without em getting broken up by out of town cops aiming to fill a quota for "lives saved" from rona
@@jaushuagrahamthefloridaman1124 I mean if y’all are being careful/you know everyone at the party, no reason to break it up because COVID ( Y’all are basically one large “pod”). Sucks that State Troopers are jerks tho. Glad you’re able to still enjoy things!
@@jaushuagrahamthefloridaman1124 dope to hear that you're having a good time in 2020, Jaushua Graham the Florida Man. As the rest of the US knows, rural Florida is a great metric for which to gauge sanity and reason, so your standard for a good time is surely aspirational to us all.
Honestly, not so bad a year FOR ME. Of course it is for everyone whos driends and family died of covid and the ones who were really social and now cant go out, but Im just chilling at home. Only thing that sucks is that I cant go play basketball with the boys
being stuck in an elevator is definitely a very scary concept. this one time i was standing in the elevator in my apartment for like 15 minutes before i started to panick when i realized it wasnt moving anywhere, but then i looked up and realized the floor i was going too wasnt lit up. i forgot to press the fricken button and when i did, it worked just fine. so i just stood still in the elevator on the bottom floor for 15 minutes just zoned out thinking it was going up when i forget to press the floor button xD i guess it was just one of those days.
Honestly, it would have been more scary if she got off at some point. She gets out, with the first visible signs of starvation and dehydration showing, but everyone says she's only been gone for a couple of minutes. That would be terrifying.
Yes, but at least she got out of the elevator. If I were her, sure, I would be terrified that it happened- but I think I would be more glad I still lived at the end. I probably wouldn't care that much if people looked at me weirdly after I narrowly escaped death's company.
Yeah but it makes it even less realistic. She considered that she was imagining it, but she hadn’t. It wasn’t just her mind playing tricks as she hoped. It was real and she could do nothing but wish it was not.
@@whenbrainstopwork240 that happening is terrifying yes, but the story didn't scare us much. But Shane's facial expressions. Imagine walking and seeing that in the dark
I know the "Oh it had only been a minute but her body looked like it had been decomposing for two years" is meant to make it sound more supernatural and confusing. But imagine if two years had actually passed, like she was missing for two years, there was a whole investigation, the police could not find anything, and her family gave up. Then, one day, some poor freshman presses the button to get on the elevator on the first floor and there's just a decomposing body laying there on the ground with the notes she left on her phone.
The great irony is, traditionally speaking Shane would lose his mind before Ryan. Ryan would get scared sooner absolutely, but in terms of the onset of a psychotic break my money is on Shane cracking first simply because his mind is not flexible enough to handle the violation of the 'laws' of reality as well as Ryan's.
@@ulrichweiss9912 it does Shane would be probably so stuned by existence of something that doesn't make sense that he would go crazy first but I don't really think so he said that he would love to belive in ghosts if he had a proof so yeah
@@ulrichweiss9912 Well what doesn’t make sense to you maybe I can try and explain. Basically what I think they’re saying is Shane would basically lose his mind first since he wouldn’t be able to comprehend what’s happening and wouldn’t be able to come up with a logical explanation meanwhile Ryan would probably still be scared but since he already believes in this stuff he would probably know or think he knows what’s going on therefore he wouldn’t go crazy as fast. Sorry if you still don’t understand - tried to explain it the best I could though!
I met a good chunk of the girls on my floor in our elevator at the start of our first semester when one of our floor mates kept passing out on the elevator and we were trying to carry her out, put her in the recovery position and call the wardens. She was okay and we all bonded over the terror of thinking she was dead because her breathing was so shallow (looking back on it I think she couldn't gone to hospital but the buildings wardens said she'd be fine, she was just a bit too drunk. Seemed like they rolled the dice on her and I'm glad rest of us set up a rota to come and check on her breathing throughout the night just in case).
If the narrator had set a timer on her phone, what do you think would've happened? It probably would've saved alot of time. If it ticked normally, then she could tell that she was in the elevator for an impossible amount of time. If it stayed still. she she'd know that she was frozen in time.
The scariest thing that ever happened to me that involved an elevator was almost stepping into one and not noticing that it didn't have a floor. I'm super happy that my friend behind me saw it in time to yank me backwards before I fell through (we were exploring an abandoned part of a building).
Wow, honestly that would've been one of the scariest deaths. I fell through a rotten floor in an abando, luckily I landed on the dusty couch on the floor beneath, but I honestly thought I wasn't gunna walk out of the place then
@@whoville1064 Oh, no, we definitely didn't trust it enough to use it. It was more a surprise to us that the door would open at all. But as it did, I was curious to see the inside of the lift. However, as it was pretty dark inside, I attempted to walk in for a better look until my friend yanked me back.
The story should’ve been called “Descent.” She’s constantly descending down multiple floors, but she’s also descending a bit into madness as she loses track of time being trapped. That’s a no-brainer. HOLY SH💩, MAMA I'M FAMOUS! THANK YOUU 🥰
Fun facts about dying of dehydration 1. Some people will die three or four days without water, for others it may take over a week 2. Shane is correct about how you can drink your own urine several times before it becomes poisonous 3. Extreme dehydration will cause kidney failure 4. Without any water your body will start taking water from other parts of your body like blood, bone, and organs 5. Without the water your blood will become very thick and have trouble moving through your body 6. You can lose up to half of your body weight before you die 7. Your eyes will recede into your skull 8. Your tongue will become extremely swollen, you will not be able to talk and breathing will become a challenge 9. Without water your brain will start to shrink and pull away from your skull, this can cause ruptures Dying of thirst is a horrible way to go
"I don't know how long I'm going to survive without water and-" *Doors open* "G'day mate!" "Oh thank heavens! Please let me-" "Darn, ye sure do look bad" "Sir, please, I've been stuck in this elevator for a week-" "Say, are ya goin out for a party or somethin'?" "Sir pLEASE-" What
"This episode is about someone being trapped in an elevator." Oh fantastic. One of my greatest fears. I was trapped in an elevator for several hours on the Queen Mary and no one knew we were in there. We were pounding all the walls and doors while yelling, knowing the day was getting later and later. Finally the doors opened when some construction workers reported hearing screaming from the elevator. Thank god they didn't assume it was ghosts...
i've been trapped in an elevator for almost two hours before. the building i work at has an elevator that goes only from floors 1 to any from 8 to 13, with a different elevator going to the other floors. this means between floors 2-7 there is nothing but solid cement and steel. mine got stuck somewhere on floor 6, where the floor wasn't accessible. now these elevators are known for breaking down, but usually its just for a few minutes when it happens. its never been like this. the building is relatively old and they were just about to start replacing them when this happened. the elevator, as most do, an alarm button, which i pressed, but given the time of night and distance from my office (on the 12th and 9th floors) where anyone still was, no one heard it, or if they had, they didn't react as, like i said, these elevators are sort of janky. luckily there was also an emergency line. many elevators have emergency phones. this one went straight to the security desk in the lobby, which has someone there at all hours. i also had my cell phone, luckily charged. the security person told me to wait and not try anything while they contacted emergency services. firefighters came and tried to hit the reset code on the elevator, which would send it back down to the entrance. it didn't work. they kept in contact with me via cell phone, letting me know what to do and telling me to stay calm, which i was, the whole time. i'm not claustrophobic luckily and i was also the only person in the elevator due to the late hour. frankly, the only main thought was "boy i'm glad i went to the bathroom before leaving. i'm going to be in here a while". i did tweet about the event though. i also googled about what to do in that situation and elevator safety regulations. turns out, elevators rarely ever fall. if there's a problem, it's usually software, not hardware. also they are not air tight and you won't run out of air. hatches at the top are also inaccessible from the inside, or at least locked. anyway the reset code didn't work, so they said they had to call the maintenance person who knew the codes to get the elevator to move up or down floors manually as firefighters only know the reset code. the maintenance guy was an hour out so i was stuck waiting. they also said that if they couldn't get the elevator to shift, they would have to go down to open the hatch and lift me out of the shaft, which WAS a scary thought, as i'm pretty heavyset, and i really hoped that didn't happen. fortunately, it didn't. the maintenance guy was able to bring the elevator up to floor 9 and open up the doors by hand. I got out perfectly fine, with a actually kind of boring story to tell. so for anyone afraid of being stuck in an elevator, keep in mind, its best to contact emergency services if you can, either via phone or the elevator alarm, and let professionals do their job to help you. and most importantly stay calm. tweet about it lmao. get help, then wait for help to arrive is the best. do not try anything yourself.
"hatches at the top are also inaccessible from the inside, or at least locked." Not really true, most often they are just hidden under a ceiling tile. I still wouldnt recommend trying to climb out but you can definitely open some of them. It makes sense you'd see that if you google what to do though because worst case scenario is you start climbing and the elevator starts moving again or you fall off the elevator down the shaft.
The thirst, the hunger, the feeling of motion even when you're still, and one minute lasting an eternity. I really thought this was gonna turn out to be a true story about a bad weed trip.
happened to me once! honestly not as bad as you'd think! Although it was still hanging on by the very base under my skin, and the day after it happened I got into a fight with my sister and she pushed me and I caught myself on the wall and it pushed the entire ripped off nail into my finger! That was the worst pain I've ever felt!
@@amshazow one of the worst parts is the skin thats normally under your nail being exposed after, while it's healing it's like crusty and squishy and really sensitive to pain,,, its funny to watch the ugly little nub grow back tho
One of the elevators in freshman year dorm always got stuck and one of my friends and I got stuck in there and just started eating because we were so used to it haha
Hellevator was my nickname for the elevator in my college dorm, it was an old one that had an up button and down button and you had to hold them until you got to your floor and hopefully stopped around where the floors met. There were no walls, just metal grates so you could see into the elevator shaft which despite being scary did help tell what floor you were on as the shaft was covered in graffiti that you could memorize to know where you were. Worst part is that the doors to the elevator could be locked from the outside (they were just normal doors, not the sliding ones) so there was always that fear that someone could lock you in if they really wanted. It was lit though, as long as you had the elevator grate/door shut, shutting it triggered a sensor that would turn on the electricity to the light and elevator. Honestly surprised it passed inspection, especially as the door to the elevator in the basement has one of those tiny handles you’d see on a medicine cabinet or something. Wouldn’t recommend if you fear anything about elevators
I'm always staring at the numbers, since most are digital, cause I have to know when I've passed the threshold of each floor and I have to give myself anxiety when it FEELS too long. Or when the floor shifts too much under me. It's so weird, I'm not afraid of heights, and I'm only claustrophobic around people, but even an empty elevator kinda puts me on edge a little. I like the ones with the views though, at least someone could see you trapped/maybe break the glass as a last ditch effort for safety lmao, idk- Although stairs are freakier. I am a bug of a human with spindly legs and arms that I rarely control well, and although I rarely fall, stumbling is not an uncommon occurrence, and I have slipped down the same set of stairs in the house we've lived in for like a year or two at least twice, once while holding a cat (I immediately went into protective cat dad mode and held her close to my body to keep her from hurting me or herself and keeping her supported over my own weight, lol, and it's not a long fall either, it's one story), because it's carpeted and I trip over my own feet too often- Also dw, I mostly just slid down the stairs on my ass for the second time, first time I was only a step or two up from the bottom and just bruised myself up a little from falling hard, but the second time I was at the top going down instead of at the bottom going down, and that was the time with the cat. She doesn't allow me to carry her up and down stairs anymore lol- (She doesn't get mad, just wriggly.) I'm very bony though, as I'm just a thin person with kinda jutting bones and so it tends to more often lead to like a bruised tailbone or skinning an elbow/rug burn, and my head's really tough. I've hit it on walls by accident or furniture so hard it rang out in the room and didn't even feel it really. (idk, I can get hit hard enough to make me a little lightheaded/dizzy and that barely hurts) So when I did fall down the stairs both times, I laughed it off cause I'm a klutz, but it definitely influenced me to be more aware of how easily I slip. I clutch railings a lot, especially on non-carpeted flooring, since if I'm not consciously careful, I slip and stumble due to the uneven surface, while I can be less focused on it if I hold railings. And I still clutch railings in elevators, albeit likely even more so due to the free-falling feeling, but I've definitely had less (aka no) incidences with elevators besides it being shaky or really seeming to struggle to function/slow/chug-a-chugging on, and it just giving me a major panic attack. In general, I prefer elevators for long distances, but like, a floor or two, if I know the place or if the place has carpeted stairs or whatever, I'll usually do stairs. I'm kinda weird about it, cause as a child I LOVED stairs, and I still do, but I'm very specific about them. Although I like carpeted stairs, I hate the ones with open backs because my OCD loves to prey on that, and give me anxiety around them, but like, at the same time, similar to an uninflated balloon, I am very easily entertained with them. (Only child, so that might explain why lmfao)
This is one of my faves. The author really nailed college student writing style, then completely switched to csi report with complete accuracy - “just the facts ma’am.”
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I have had a fear of elevators ever since I was little. Not really the elevator itself, but the idea of being trapped in an elevator. Every time I use an elevator I get really anxious and I try to avoid them as much as possible. I can't get in an elevator without thinking about it stopping, and getting trapped in there. And I can't help it, it just happens. It doesn't help that most elevators have this weirdly eerie atmosphere. This story is like the worst possible situation.
I agree, elevators themselves do have an eerie feel to them. They smell strange and you can hear the metal and gears going. Especially for how far we've come in engineering and technology, elevators are still built so archaiclly that they routinely break down... I'll just take the stairs
This is literally my EXACT experience! I'm scared of being trapped in general but elevators have always been the worst, especially since they're such a common/normal thing. The way they jerk sometimes puts a feeling in my chest that makes the anxiety even worse, too.
Same. I have been in a VERY similar experience as the narrator. I was at my grandpa's, his elevator is terribly bad looking, with screeching and groaning and the doors wouldn't close, horrible quality, in other words, not "fucking solid". Anyway, I realised how bad it looked so I decided to take the stairs, being afraid of being stuck in a small place, a loop. I started going down the stairs, down, and down, and down. The stairs themselves are very bad looking with sometimes missing chunks of hand grip. Anyway, I go down... And down... And down.. and I realise .. I never hit the bottom??? I started getting confused, I counted all the stairs down and I should have been down already. I look back and forth and decide to go down 3 more stair cases and look down, no lights from anywhere. (It was pretty dark) I got a bit panicked, asking if I should go back up to my grandpa or continue going down. My mind told me to go down, that's where the exits are usually, right? But this is the kind of building with an exit at 1st floor or 2nd floor. I remembered that only then. I was wondering if I had passed the exit already, perhaps it looked like an ordinary door to an apartment... I only knew that the elevator would take me outside, since it took me inside at the begining and this was the first time at my grandpa's, but I didn't want to take the elevator. The thing that made my blood boil was that I knew some buildings just like this one go further down in some kinds of basements. I kept thinking, what if I keep going down and eventually I hit a dead end, not the exit I was seeking? And ofc, being a kid influenced by religion a bit, I imagined bad things at that ''dead end" ( the red light at the corridors didn't help with the situation) ( low-key I imagined the lights were getting more and more red the further I got down and the more time I was stuck), I was 10 when this happened I believe. And I go up a bit, wondering if I could get back to my grandpa's and then I realise.... I never took a good look at my grandpa's door and the doors didn't have numbers. Everything looked the exact same. So I couldn't go back to my grandpa's unless I wanted to knock on everybody's door.. knocking on someone's door.... That wasn't such a bad idea.. So , imagine me, a preteen kid, putting my ear against this door apartment, trying to hear for children ( the only way to know a place is safe is if ther is children yesyes, big brain :) ) and I knocked and this lady opened the door and I asked ''which way is the exit'' XD She looked at me with such anger and I got scared, felt real bad. I must have interrupted her taking care of those children perhaps. She closed the door on me, alright. Her disgusted look, wondering if I was retarded or high, made me think I needed to think simpler, the exit is down, like normal places, I told myself, building confidence. I go down 3 staircases I just climbed up to the ladies apartment and another one and I get out. I was relieved, but I realised how stupid I was. I was so close, if I hadn't panicked and would have went down a bit more I would have gotten there. So, u heard it from me kids, exits are usually on the last floor.
Funny thing is elevators are VERY safe. You‘d probably have a higher chance from dying tripping on stairs than falling in elevators or being trapped in one long enough to kill you.
Rod Serling walks into frame Rod: "A mundane chore turns into a nightmare, as we observe one Kore Litcana. An ordinary college student, of ordinary habits, learning the consequences of not taking notice of the little moments in the in between. Discrepancies that might alert us to an opening of a doorway. Perhaps even between our reality, and a realm and dimension that we would consider one step beyond. Where the little moments enact their revenge on our unconscious ambivalence. A dimension we would call, The Twilight Zone." DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO
this makes me realize how much creepypastas realy do read just like a twilight zone episode. It would be cool if there was an anthology series like that, where the episodes are all based on well known creepypastas like candle cove or russian sleep experiment
This has a Backrooms vibe to it. She entered an elevator, and in the process of riding it down, she (or the elevator with her in it) no-clipped out of reality. She never made it back, and eventually starved/dehydrated to death. As time passes for her, she most likely dies somewhere around 3 days, but the elevator continues to descend. Roughly two years after the no-clip occured, the elevator with her corpse in it (or just her corpse) no-clipped back into reality, where no more than a minute had passed. Putting my take aside, this is still one of the scariest stories I've seen on this show so far. I read somewhere a fictional story about someone that gains the ability to teleport kind of like Nightcrawler, but they end up blindly teleporting into an underground room that has no doors, windows, or exits of any sort. It's just a large cement block buried underground, and for some reason the person can't teleport anymore, so they're trapped in that room for the rest of their days. It also reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode where the dude stops time but one of the instances he does it, time never resumes, so he's stuck in a frozen world. The idea of being trapped in a room until you die and being trapped outside the laws of reality are some of the most frightening things to me. Even more so if the two are combined.
@@ommmmara You're not dumb! In my experience of being a 24-year old, it's common to feel "stuck" or "trapped" based upon your college/ work experience. In the first half, it was a little humorous. Wearing your PJ's, etc. (which is more applicable in your early college experience) but, imo, it becomes more disjointed and "out there" the longer you stay.
i've been bingewatching the show and this is my favorite so far, twilight zone-ish stuff really gets me as i don't believe in ghosts/demons/supernatural stuff in this sense but time and space being messed on such mundane occurences is the type of ominuous thing that makes you think. the idea of an elevator going down and never stoping puts you in this odd situation - i constantly wondered if her perception was being affected by her anxiety until i realized something strange was going on. really cool that the report was added at the end. i hope more stories like this gets featured!
>time and space being messed on< honestly the first time i watched this video, i think it actually affected me more than if it were smth supernatural. the idea that physics might just break randomly and turn your life upside down is... upsetting
@@heatweve understandable- at that point you can't tell if something really happened or if you're just losing it. like, the only evidence she had that she wasn't just going mad was the fact that she was literally dying and decaying
My scariest elevator story was on a cruise ship: The elevator was nice but it was also sort of old-fashioned and had a haunted feel to it. When I clicked the button for my floor it passed my floor and wouldn’t let me out...it took me all the way down to what I would assume was some sort of basement on the ship. The doors opened and there was absolute silence and what looked like building supplies or something. I kept clicking the button to close the doors and it wouldn’t close lol...luckily after half a minute the doors suddenly closed and it took me back to my floor. Not that scary but I was younger so I was creeped out lol
Yeah something similar happened to me. I was about 9 years old, and I was on holiday in Spain. Our hotel had a glass lift (elevator for you Americans) on the outside of the building. We could see the street outside, and the outside could see us. My mother and I left the room, and entered the lift, before clicking the button for the ground floor. We started going down, and down, and down a few more floors, past ground. I remember being really freaked out because I could see the outside as we descended, and then suddenly it was pitch black. The lift opened and it was just a basement. We stayed in the lift and the doors closed and we ascended back up to the ground floor. I was a bit confused as to what happened, and a little scared. On later reflection, it was probably just a technical error, but I was quite apprehensive at the time. I had completely forgotten about this until I watched this episode lmao
My scariest lift/elevator story happened like 2 years ago at the student dorm near my uni campus. My friends and I (about 7 people) were going down to the basement level using the creepy lift. When we were halfway down at about the 8th floor, the lift suddenly jolted and made a metal banging noise while the lights flickered. Everyone on that lift had a mini heart attack. Luckily nothing happened and we made it to the basement in one piece.
idk about y'all but i think this was a really _really_ good story. i love it when a story is thought to be just a story but then you realize the whole thing is a "found text" type thing. and i _REALLY_ love it when the story ends on an uncertain note, and then there's just a police report or news footage or something like that. really, this author could write full horror novels
i think the spontaneous supernatural/unexplainable phenomena element also adds a really nice kick to it. the idea that physics just broke randomly is shockingly unsettling. like, thinking of the backrooms, where you can supposedly just phase beyond reality into an alien space is... an interesting take on horror that i don't really see much of
the most unrealistic thing about this story is that the person didn't immediately think to start livetweeting the whole ordeal as soon as the elevator jammed
I remember once I was at the hospital, visiting my sister. She was on the sixth floor. I got in, pressed the button and waited. Just as the doors was about to close, they suddenly opened again for nothing, then the button for another floor was pressed and I went up. All alone in the elevator, that was going to stop on a floor I didn't press Except it didn't stop. I just stood still, it felt like someone was behind me even though I was alone, when we reached that floor, the feeling of someone behind me disappeared and the elevator kept moving up to the 6th floor. I told my mom about it later, and she was like "Oh, that's the floor they keep the cancer patients." I'm not scared of elevators, but that was one of the weirdest experience of my life
I’m disabled and in a wheelchair, so when there is a building where there is more than one floor, I have no choice but to take a lift. I do sometimes get nervous using them, but luckily every place with lifts I’ve been to, they’ve luckily worked and I’ve not got stuck so far. I am quite a claustrophobic person, like in a room, there has to be at least one door open for me to feel safe. It’s not like a horror scary, it’s just a fear sort of scary, like spiders or thunder/loud noises, they induce panic. I know this story is fake, but still.
Well part of the fun and mass appeal of this series in particular is that these stories are not particularly scary. They're pretty tame and I enjoy them. Having built this expectation, if Shane comes in one day and makes us collectively sh*t our pants, we probably won't come back for another episode for a good while. That's just how it is. It would cut the audience by a lot. Idk if I speak for most, but I don't open an Are You Scared video expecting to actually get scared. Then again, I do skip some of them based on the content suggested by the title and what I know to be perhaps a more sensitive topic for me. I don't actually want insomnia; I want to be entertained by the spoopy and Ryan's gifted narration.
I'd love that, especially as a season finale. It's called "Are You Scared?" for a reason, lol. They'd definitely preface the story by warning their audience that Shane picked the story (and he'd probably cackle) to warn the more sensitive viewers, but I think it would be amazing overall. Especially if he spooked Ryan while reading it.
As someone who's been stuck in an elevator more times than I'd like to: Emergency buttons don't do anything half the time, they make noise but you'll be lucky if someone actually picks up and calls maintenance to get you out.
@@alliewinkler4689 It depends on which floor you get stuck on. I know the elevator in my main university building doesn't have service until you're at the 2nd floor...but I would still try it just in case
you also gotta think about the implications of after this story as well. If I lived in that dorm no way in hell am I ever using that elevator or any elevator ever again. This would also mean that some people would have to come to terms with the absurdity of all of this in someway to prove strange and paranormal events.
The story idea was very creative and the details were thoughtful. I would love to hear more from this author some day. I would suggest that this writing group or a beta reader might be helpful as the vocabulary was occasionally repetitive and some of the recap sentences were unnecessary, but that is something that’s hard to catch without feedback. Really solid story though
this one is actually very creative, i like it. nothing super paranormal going on. instead, it taps into a very specific, primal and lovecraftian fear that has no definitive shape or form. i think the story can be interpreted in different ways; maybe that truely was a hellevator that trapped her in a time-space continuum until she died of thirst/starvation. Or maybe she actually died in that elevator (from whatever cause) at exactly 9:23 and everything that happens after is her in purgatory or experiencing the "world in between", so everything physical around her is reflecting that very moment of death, everything is frozen and unchanging except her, as she's feeling her own body wither and decompose. this latter interpretation is a lot scarier to me.
why is the creepy "this video is sponsored by skillshare" so funny to me
Ikkkk I was DEAD
*ooOooOoooO paid conteeeeent*
Oh I thought all demons were sellouts
And Ryan's Intense Narrator Voice continuing throughout the promo! 😆
the fact that it’s in the same tone as the viewer discretion section-
PSA: Don’t climb out of the emergency hatch unless you are a trained technician. My friends dad was killed because while he was on top of it, the elevator continued its ascent and he was partially decapitated. Please just wait for help; at the worst, you’ll just be a bit bored.
Yeah,you never know when the elevator could start working again. Just wait it out.
Good to know honestly.
Holy shit that's more terrifying than any part of this story, I'm so sorry for your friend to have the knowledge of her dad passing that way. And for him, that's wild.
jeez that's horrible. hope your friend is ok
They're locked from the outside of the car
I think the most brilliant thing about this story is the moment she switches to present tense. At that point you realize she didn't make it, because she's still in the elevator when narrating the story
Which doesnt make any Sense
“I nodded off again.” - the last thing before she switches
Why did you have to tell me this
The narrator switched to present tense near the beginning too, talking about how she "rides the elevator everyday" as if she still does it. Idk, came of as bad writing and I immediately felt like it was made up. Some of these stories have been pretty convincing, but not this one.
@@emilyzaitz2687 Honestly how do you make going down in an elevator forever sound convincing? Lol
I like the detail that the body had been decomposing for **two years** because it tells you how absolutely hopeless her situation was in the end. You've been rooting for her to make it out and then it just hits you how she never had a sliver of a chance.
Yeah, it really makes you wonder… where did the elevator go for those two years? If it were some kind of twisted supernatural human trap, then you’d assume it would return the moment she died…. But it just kept going for TWO YEARS.
Also the 2 years detail... It said the phone was found 3 inches from her body, which- when a body decomposes for even a few weeks it basically turns into a puddle of goo, so the phone would have been completely covered in it and unusable
@@Anne-fn4po I don’t think that happens when you die from dehydration. Given how dry you are, there’s not enough wetness to make a puddle.
@@Anne-fn4po you don’t turn into a puddle that would happen maybe after her body had been distended and then it’s longer at a good time so everything gets expelled.
@@AzureTheAvian you still have some moisture in your body. Blood, mucus, maidt brain matter. You don't shrivel up like a raisin and obviously you don't have enough moisture to live, but it would still be gooey and moist, the moisture in the air at least as she decomposed woukd make her gooey
i am EXTREMELY distracted by the goose on shane's shirt pocket
AHHHH!!! The hjönkening!!! 😳
Same
Right
@@queenb1119 this is the best reply that ive ever received
Why'd you have to point that out?
I couldn't listennn...I had to keep going back 10 secs lol
Plot twist: this story is the POV of the Sim you trapped in a room without doors
I’m Joy Despret and god is Juno Birch
@@avela2324 Yes, this is happening.
Fucking GreyStillPlays
Steven?
You talking about when Ryan &. Shane trapped Steven in the sims?
The art slowly showing the effects of dehydration and starvation is really cool
a very good detail. i often pause to admire the artwork
@@merianamartinez1982
I love the art showcased on the series
@dada_ deestructx I checked the description. Mollie Ong does it. Their name is listed with the credits portions as the illustrator.
You can see more of her work on instagram @mollieong
In reality you would start being dehydrated well before starvation. If you had nothing to drink; by the time you were starving you'd just be dead.
You can go an easy week without eating and not even really be showing visual signs of starvation but in 3 days you'd be dead from dehydration. You can go 1-2 months without eating before dying (because your body will eat itself) but in 3 days without water, you're dead.
I just had to look up the idea of a person being left that long in an elevator and I found that although this story is made up there is a real world account of an Asian woman getting trapped in an elevator and being left alone to die of starvation. Her body was left in that elevator undiscovered for a whole month till it was found. It happened in her apartment complex in Xi'an, China and the news time stamp was 2016.
this is-
terrifyingly calming actually.
knowing that these things could happen but it's not common enough that i've heard of it.
May she rest in peace, that's absolutely horrible.
Omg that’s horrible
The maintenance people forgot to check if anyone was inside before shutting off the power. I don’t think you could use the call buttons if the power was off either. Once the power went off at my building, all the elevators grounded and opened doors. Not all would have these failsafes.
That's horrifying
It’s hard to become completely enveloped with fear when you realize Shane’s got a little duck on his shirt pocket.
hehe
*every time you feel scared just look at the duck on Shane’s shirt pocket*
"Are You Scared of the Little Duck On Your Shirt Pocket?"
Dangit, man! XD
yes definetly
Shane's elevator jump is scarier than the story
For real
Agreed XD
it just made me loose my shit...I can imagine ryan seeing shane's face in his dream
😂 it was too much
Shane's faces are on point these videos
With every episode, Shane looks more and more like a science professor.
Because he IS the professor on puppet history
Dont you mean history 😼😼😼
Fr
History is a social science though
he is obivously following after his idol, The Professor
this story is more sad than anything. i think the way to look at this would be she got stuck in some sort of hole in space and time and didn’t make it. i felt genuine sorrow for the girl. such a horrible way to die; imagine sitting there and going through all of that alone. very good story:) i applaud the author
I dont think she was stuck in a time loop or anything. I think that time actually slowed down in the elevator. If you noticed, the autopsy report said that the decomposition happened in the span of 2 years, and considering she was stuck betwern 9:21 and 9:23 am, this would mean that 1 year wouldve been 1 minute in real time. That is a teriffying thought.
very well written indeed!
@@safespace4680 ohhhhh that's interesting! MY idea was that it took two years for the time loop to finally 'end'
@@safespace4680 >time actually slowed down<
sped up, rather. and specifically for her. i'm just imagining a third person view from outside the elevator shaft, using xray vision, and as the elevator goes down, the girl suddenly moves, dies, and decays in hyperspeed
*Me, who has claustrophobia and is scared of elevators:* Yeah this is a good idea.
that’s literally me. the only way i can get over my fears is if i push myself enough to go into uncomfortable situations
I always take stairs lol unless I have someone with me
I have a fear of elevators and being stuck in them, that's why I always avoid elevators if I can.
Me tf too
sameeeee i hate elevators. worse fear beside toilets ..
me: oh yay new are you scared
shane: **AGGRESSIVE KISSY NOISES**
I thought it said "aggressive kinky noises" and I was just about to accept it
@@hannahmoses5736 both could be true at the same time my friend
Being stuck on an elevator that continues to descend beyond what should be possible is a great metaphor for what it is like living through 2020.
Idk ive been having fun
Riots have all the PD in the cities so the only ones around are our chill sheriff's office who live here and we know so we can go to the unofficial range and shoot guns without the A-hole state troopers showing up and have parties without em getting broken up by out of town cops aiming to fill a quota for "lives saved" from rona
@@jaushuagrahamthefloridaman1124 I mean if y’all are being careful/you know everyone at the party, no reason to break it up because COVID ( Y’all are basically one large “pod”). Sucks that State Troopers are jerks tho.
Glad you’re able to still enjoy things!
@@jaushuagrahamthefloridaman1124 dope to hear that you're having a good time in 2020, Jaushua Graham the Florida Man. As the rest of the US knows, rural Florida is a great metric for which to gauge sanity and reason, so your standard for a good time is surely aspirational to us all.
Honestly, not so bad a year FOR ME. Of course it is for everyone whos driends and family died of covid and the ones who were really social and now cant go out, but Im just chilling at home. Only thing that sucks is that I cant go play basketball with the boys
A minute feeling like 2 years is pretty spot on, too.
being stuck in an elevator is definitely a very scary concept. this one time i was standing in the elevator in my apartment for like 15 minutes before i started to panick when i realized it wasnt moving anywhere, but then i looked up and realized the floor i was going too wasnt lit up. i forgot to press the fricken button and when i did, it worked just fine. so i just stood still in the elevator on the bottom floor for 15 minutes just zoned out thinking it was going up when i forget to press the floor button xD
i guess it was just one of those days.
That same exact thing happened to me and my sister
How high were you to not realize you weren’t moving for 15 minutes???
As someone with a phobia of elevators, this story was actually horrifying
So glad I'm not the only one
Yes! This the first episode of this show that ACTUALLY scared me!!! Just imagining myself in that situation? Terrifying!!
Same! I thought I was the only one!
Been there too, i don't use elevator anymore unless i had no other choice. This story just terrify me...
I hate being trapped
Honestly, it would have been more scary if she got off at some point. She gets out, with the first visible signs of starvation and dehydration showing, but everyone says she's only been gone for a couple of minutes. That would be terrifying.
Yes, but at least she got out of the elevator. If I were her, sure, I would be terrified that it happened- but I think I would be more glad I still lived at the end. I probably wouldn't care that much if people looked at me weirdly after I narrowly escaped death's company.
It should have been that she saw the doors opening as she died
There is this real life case of a body being found on the ocean that looked completely mummified but the person had only been dead for 2 months
Yeah but it makes it even less realistic. She considered that she was imagining it, but she hadn’t. It wasn’t just her mind playing tricks as she hoped. It was real and she could do nothing but wish it was not.
@@jennifervan75 That could actually have to do with the salt in the oceans water. Mummies were actually coated in salt to preserve them
Story: not so scary. Shane's facial expressions: horrifying
Lizzie C that would be horrifying. Literally. Just imagine being in her situation...
@@whenbrainstopwork240 its a joke
@@whenbrainstopwork240 that happening is terrifying yes, but the story didn't scare us much. But Shane's facial expressions. Imagine walking and seeing that in the dark
Sorry, your likes are at 666, I cannot break that.
@@bethebelle2810 You can like it now
I know the "Oh it had only been a minute but her body looked like it had been decomposing for two years" is meant to make it sound more supernatural and confusing. But imagine if two years had actually passed, like she was missing for two years, there was a whole investigation, the police could not find anything, and her family gave up. Then, one day, some poor freshman presses the button to get on the elevator on the first floor and there's just a decomposing body laying there on the ground with the notes she left on her phone.
Imagine being the person at the bottom floor waiting for this elevator this whole time.
it's only been for a minute tho
@@marygracecastolo2454 oh. I forgot about that. O o p s
Person: Oh I can't wait to see my cousin or something
*Elevator arrives*
Person: yay
*Elevator opens*
Person: WHAT IN THE FUCK.
legit who does the art for this series like wow-
Mollie ong I think
Mollie ong I think
I’ve wondered the same thing!
It's in the description
@@shayuh1244 IM GONNA CRY I KEEP READING THAT AS MOLLIE ON GOD LMAO🤣🤣
Nobody:
Shane in college: HEY!........😘
I can’t tell if that was a bit or something he actually did
that is actually scarier than the entire unsolved episodes.
@@evankun27 honestly 🤣🤣
The great irony is, traditionally speaking Shane would lose his mind before Ryan. Ryan would get scared sooner absolutely, but in terms of the onset of a psychotic break my money is on Shane cracking first simply because his mind is not flexible enough to handle the violation of the 'laws' of reality as well as Ryan's.
That makes no sense.
@@ulrichweiss9912 it does Shane would be probably so stuned by existence of something that doesn't make sense that he would go crazy first but I don't really think so he said that he would love to belive in ghosts if he had a proof so yeah
@@ulrichweiss9912 yes it does
@@jshdgs169 No. Not it doesn't.
Was that as convincing for you as it was for me?
@@ulrichweiss9912 Well what doesn’t make sense to you maybe I can try and explain. Basically what I think they’re saying is Shane would basically lose his mind first since he wouldn’t be able to comprehend what’s happening and wouldn’t be able to come up with a logical explanation meanwhile Ryan would probably still be scared but since he already believes in this stuff he would probably know or think he knows what’s going on therefore he wouldn’t go crazy as fast. Sorry if you still don’t understand - tried to explain it the best I could though!
5 minutes in and i had to pause because shane making kissy lips combined with him aggressively yelling “HEY” tore my soul from my body.
I KNOW RIGHT it's almost like being catcalled but too confusing
@@solitarelee6200 but just as violating
Once I avoided taking my dorm's elevator cause there was an unwrapped condom in it. I ended up falling down the stairs and getting a minor concussion.
now that's a horror story
that sounds like college alright
Better written than what the author of the story was trying to convey.
I met a good chunk of the girls on my floor in our elevator at the start of our first semester when one of our floor mates kept passing out on the elevator and we were trying to carry her out, put her in the recovery position and call the wardens. She was okay and we all bonded over the terror of thinking she was dead because her breathing was so shallow (looking back on it I think she couldn't gone to hospital but the buildings wardens said she'd be fine, she was just a bit too drunk. Seemed like they rolled the dice on her and I'm glad rest of us set up a rota to come and check on her breathing throughout the night just in case).
Oop-
I knew it was fake when her iPhone lasted at least 3 days without charging.
May I ask, how long does an iPhone's battery last?
Two hours at most if you constantly use it and it’s on low power mode. At least for me 😂
@@DesdemonaRose Oh I see
Thanks for the info buddy :3
@@DesdemonaRose There is a reason battery banks exist.
Yeah, they keep making phones smaller but I want them to last longer.
Well time wasn’t really moving for her, like how the time on her phone always displayed 2:23 so maybe her battery also doesn’t drain?
If the narrator had set a timer on her phone, what do you think would've happened? It probably would've saved alot of time. If it ticked normally, then she could tell that she was in the elevator for an impossible amount of time. If it stayed still. she she'd know that she was frozen in time.
If her clock wasn’t working her timer probably wouldn’t be either
I was thinking that the whole time... I mean her notes app worked so her timer probably would have aswell...
@@steelsaber54 Well she said she wasn't sure if it was or wasn't... Thats the way she would find out for sure.
i was thinking the same exact thing!! maybe it would stay stuck on 00:00
She could have counted in her head
....when you realize, after years of viewing, that Shane looks like the love child of Vincent van Gogh and your uncle.
Wait literally tho-
Woah hold up bro you're onto something
So is Edgar Allan Poe the godfather who helped shape his personality then
Wait holy shit-
Shush
thats how long doing a plank for a minute feels like
Agreed, if you ever want to experience time slowed down, do a minute plank or a minute talk/presentation that you thought you could just wing it.
Honestly, I can second that. It's like "I must have been holding this for at least three minutes!... fuck, only three seconds?!"
Imagining Shane on the next investigation, whenever that is. "Hey, Demon!" *aggressive kissy lips*
~it's me, ya kissy boi!
oh gawd😂
When will they do investigations again??!
@@MrYogo1 Maybe when the global pandemic's over?
The scariest thing that ever happened to me that involved an elevator was almost stepping into one and not noticing that it didn't have a floor. I'm super happy that my friend behind me saw it in time to yank me backwards before I fell through (we were exploring an abandoned part of a building).
Wow, honestly that would've been one of the scariest deaths. I fell through a rotten floor in an abando, luckily I landed on the dusty couch on the floor beneath, but I honestly thought I wasn't gunna walk out of the place then
Dumb people dying stupid deaths.
That's absolutely terrifying, I personally would never explore anything abandoned again after that lol
I'm just asking, but why would you even try to use an elevator that was in an abandoned part of a building?
@@whoville1064 Oh, no, we definitely didn't trust it enough to use it. It was more a surprise to us that the door would open at all. But as it did, I was curious to see the inside of the lift. However, as it was pretty dark inside, I attempted to walk in for a better look until my friend yanked me back.
"going down the shaft, impossibly deep"
Me: snorts
omg i WAsN'T THE ONLY ONEE
THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID
??
@@_Red_Panda_ oh the innocence
why is my mind like this
Okay but instead of white T-shirts you guys wear white pj tops it’s like you’re telling scary stories during a sleepover 🥺
With a little sleepy-time cap :3
or onesies
YES YES YES
i always fall asleep or get sleepy when i watch them, this is so perfect
The story should’ve been called “Descent.” She’s constantly descending down multiple floors, but she’s also descending a bit into madness as she loses track of time being trapped. That’s a no-brainer.
HOLY SH💩, MAMA I'M FAMOUS! THANK YOUU 🥰
You know that's a movie already. I thought it was a good movie to.
@@maxwineberg3956 what it is
Shut up
It should! That’s pretty neat!
ooooooo that's pretty cool
Fun facts about dying of dehydration
1. Some people will die three or four days without water, for others it may take over a week
2. Shane is correct about how you can drink your own urine several times before it becomes poisonous
3. Extreme dehydration will cause kidney failure
4. Without any water your body will start taking water from other parts of your body like blood, bone, and organs
5. Without the water your blood will become very thick and have trouble moving through your body
6. You can lose up to half of your body weight before you die
7. Your eyes will recede into your skull
8. Your tongue will become extremely swollen, you will not be able to talk and breathing will become a challenge
9. Without water your brain will start to shrink and pull away from your skull, this can cause ruptures
Dying of thirst is a horrible way to go
Plot twist:
The elevator door finally opens in an unfamiliar lobby.
There's a guy, who says:
"G'day mate!"
"I don't know how long I'm going to survive without water and-"
*Doors open*
"G'day mate!"
"Oh thank heavens! Please let me-"
"Darn, ye sure do look bad"
"Sir, please, I've been stuck in this elevator for a week-"
"Say, are ya goin out for a party or somethin'?"
"Sir pLEASE-"
What
Oh cool Australia. Looks like I live here now.
Lmaoo why did I thought about yongbok?😭😂
Plot twist, the door opens, and the guy in the lobby says “welcome to the hotel California”
@@jhuizhang I was thinking Chan 🤣🤣
last time i was this early, shane didn't look like knock off edgar allan poe
ASJFAJFSH
KNOCK OFF EDGAR ALLAN POE IM-
What year was that?
BRUHHH- 💀💀💀💀
ruby nice pfp
@@emmae2520 2012, the year the world's hellish dimension collapsed in on itself
"This episode is about someone being trapped in an elevator."
Oh fantastic. One of my greatest fears. I was trapped in an elevator for several hours on the Queen Mary and no one knew we were in there. We were pounding all the walls and doors while yelling, knowing the day was getting later and later. Finally the doors opened when some construction workers reported hearing screaming from the elevator. Thank god they didn't assume it was ghosts...
My mom and her sister went to the queen Mary when they were younger and they got stuck in the elevator for hours too....that doesn’t sit well
i've been trapped in an elevator for almost two hours before.
the building i work at has an elevator that goes only from floors 1 to any from 8 to 13, with a different elevator going to the other floors. this means between floors 2-7 there is nothing but solid cement and steel. mine got stuck somewhere on floor 6, where the floor wasn't accessible. now these elevators are known for breaking down, but usually its just for a few minutes when it happens. its never been like this. the building is relatively old and they were just about to start replacing them when this happened.
the elevator, as most do, an alarm button, which i pressed, but given the time of night and distance from my office (on the 12th and 9th floors) where anyone still was, no one heard it, or if they had, they didn't react as, like i said, these elevators are sort of janky. luckily there was also an emergency line. many elevators have emergency phones. this one went straight to the security desk in the lobby, which has someone there at all hours. i also had my cell phone, luckily charged. the security person told me to wait and not try anything while they contacted emergency services.
firefighters came and tried to hit the reset code on the elevator, which would send it back down to the entrance. it didn't work. they kept in contact with me via cell phone, letting me know what to do and telling me to stay calm, which i was, the whole time. i'm not claustrophobic luckily and i was also the only person in the elevator due to the late hour. frankly, the only main thought was "boy i'm glad i went to the bathroom before leaving. i'm going to be in here a while". i did tweet about the event though. i also googled about what to do in that situation and elevator safety regulations. turns out, elevators rarely ever fall. if there's a problem, it's usually software, not hardware. also they are not air tight and you won't run out of air. hatches at the top are also inaccessible from the inside, or at least locked.
anyway the reset code didn't work, so they said they had to call the maintenance person who knew the codes to get the elevator to move up or down floors manually as firefighters only know the reset code. the maintenance guy was an hour out so i was stuck waiting. they also said that if they couldn't get the elevator to shift, they would have to go down to open the hatch and lift me out of the shaft, which WAS a scary thought, as i'm pretty heavyset, and i really hoped that didn't happen. fortunately, it didn't. the maintenance guy was able to bring the elevator up to floor 9 and open up the doors by hand. I got out perfectly fine, with a actually kind of boring story to tell.
so for anyone afraid of being stuck in an elevator, keep in mind, its best to contact emergency services if you can, either via phone or the elevator alarm, and let professionals do their job to help you. and most importantly stay calm. tweet about it lmao. get help, then wait for help to arrive is the best. do not try anything yourself.
"hatches at the top are also inaccessible from the inside, or at least locked."
Not really true, most often they are just hidden under a ceiling tile. I still wouldnt recommend trying to climb out but you can definitely open some of them.
It makes sense you'd see that if you google what to do though because worst case scenario is you start climbing and the elevator starts moving again or you fall off the elevator down the shaft.
I honestly would hv died by the time firemen arrived....2hrs?!! Just reading ur story gave me the creeps and now my heart is racing.
The thirst, the hunger, the feeling of motion even when you're still, and one minute lasting an eternity. I really thought this was gonna turn out to be a true story about a bad weed trip.
lowkey this story's just what edibles are like lmfao
lmao i was literally gonna say, like damn bet someone's probably had a trip like this
oof i’ve had a bad trip like that. it was awful
After all these years, I don't think Shane is a real human being. I think he's an alien trying to pass a human
Which is why he believes in aliens, but tries to tell us "They wouldn't be here." You're a genius
Demon*
I hope he either passes it to me or wipes after
***satan
That's most of the "faceless" BuzzFeed employees really
(by faceless I mean the ones that don't appear in videos, their articles are so weird)
I lost it at Ryan's physics teacher impression and Shane's aggressive kisses
Nobody:
Ryan: says in the most creepy way, “this episode is sponsored by skillshare.” Like he’s about to murder someone.
That's Ricky Goldsworth speaking. He is about to murder someone at every given time
That's the skill being shared
The thing that scared me the most about this story is her ripping off a nail.
HAHAHA yeah
happened to me once! honestly not as bad as you'd think! Although it was still hanging on by the very base under my skin, and the day after it happened I got into a fight with my sister and she pushed me and I caught myself on the wall and it pushed the entire ripped off nail into my finger! That was the worst pain I've ever felt!
As someone who has lost almost her entire nail it is positively horrific
bro i ascend to different dimensions when i accidentally bend my nails. i don’t want to imagine how painful ripping one of would be.
@@amshazow one of the worst parts is the skin thats normally under your nail being exposed after, while it's healing it's like crusty and squishy and really sensitive to pain,,, its funny to watch the ugly little nub grow back tho
Ryan using his ominious voice to advertise skillshare is so funny.
I knew this one was fake just by the fact that there's a dorm with a fully functional elevator.
Well technically it wasn’t
@@suzedevilus6824 ?
omg I just got that ajskakadjajdlajs
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
One of the elevators in freshman year dorm always got stuck and one of my friends and I got stuck in there and just started eating because we were so used to it haha
Hellevator was my nickname for the elevator in my college dorm, it was an old one that had an up button and down button and you had to hold them until you got to your floor and hopefully stopped around where the floors met. There were no walls, just metal grates so you could see into the elevator shaft which despite being scary did help tell what floor you were on as the shaft was covered in graffiti that you could memorize to know where you were. Worst part is that the doors to the elevator could be locked from the outside (they were just normal doors, not the sliding ones) so there was always that fear that someone could lock you in if they really wanted. It was lit though, as long as you had the elevator grate/door shut, shutting it triggered a sensor that would turn on the electricity to the light and elevator. Honestly surprised it passed inspection, especially as the door to the elevator in the basement has one of those tiny handles you’d see on a medicine cabinet or something. Wouldn’t recommend if you fear anything about elevators
Ryan: "This episode is sponsored by Skillshare"
Me: *shivers in fear*
Shane doing kissy lips to his pretend physics professor, Ryan, through a video call sums up college in 2020.
"A process you don't pay much attention to"
Me, a claustrophobic: *anxiously staring at doors the entire one-floor ride up*
I'm always staring at the numbers, since most are digital, cause I have to know when I've passed the threshold of each floor and I have to give myself anxiety when it FEELS too long. Or when the floor shifts too much under me. It's so weird, I'm not afraid of heights, and I'm only claustrophobic around people, but even an empty elevator kinda puts me on edge a little. I like the ones with the views though, at least someone could see you trapped/maybe break the glass as a last ditch effort for safety lmao, idk-
Although stairs are freakier. I am a bug of a human with spindly legs and arms that I rarely control well, and although I rarely fall, stumbling is not an uncommon occurrence, and I have slipped down the same set of stairs in the house we've lived in for like a year or two at least twice, once while holding a cat (I immediately went into protective cat dad mode and held her close to my body to keep her from hurting me or herself and keeping her supported over my own weight, lol, and it's not a long fall either, it's one story), because it's carpeted and I trip over my own feet too often-
Also dw, I mostly just slid down the stairs on my ass for the second time, first time I was only a step or two up from the bottom and just bruised myself up a little from falling hard, but the second time I was at the top going down instead of at the bottom going down, and that was the time with the cat. She doesn't allow me to carry her up and down stairs anymore lol- (She doesn't get mad, just wriggly.)
I'm very bony though, as I'm just a thin person with kinda jutting bones and so it tends to more often lead to like a bruised tailbone or skinning an elbow/rug burn, and my head's really tough. I've hit it on walls by accident or furniture so hard it rang out in the room and didn't even feel it really. (idk, I can get hit hard enough to make me a little lightheaded/dizzy and that barely hurts) So when I did fall down the stairs both times, I laughed it off cause I'm a klutz, but it definitely influenced me to be more aware of how easily I slip.
I clutch railings a lot, especially on non-carpeted flooring, since if I'm not consciously careful, I slip and stumble due to the uneven surface, while I can be less focused on it if I hold railings. And I still clutch railings in elevators, albeit likely even more so due to the free-falling feeling, but I've definitely had less (aka no) incidences with elevators besides it being shaky or really seeming to struggle to function/slow/chug-a-chugging on, and it just giving me a major panic attack.
In general, I prefer elevators for long distances, but like, a floor or two, if I know the place or if the place has carpeted stairs or whatever, I'll usually do stairs. I'm kinda weird about it, cause as a child I LOVED stairs, and I still do, but I'm very specific about them. Although I like carpeted stairs, I hate the ones with open backs because my OCD loves to prey on that, and give me anxiety around them, but like, at the same time, similar to an uninflated balloon, I am very easily entertained with them. (Only child, so that might explain why lmfao)
@@kiralonely the numbers mason, what do they mean?
@@incredibilisman2909 I don't know.
@@incredibilisman2909 the numbers above the input panel that tell you what floor the elevator is at and the direction it's going
love your profile pic :) inquisition is one of my favorite games
This is one of my faves. The author really nailed college student writing style, then completely switched to csi report with complete accuracy - “just the facts ma’am.”
shane in college : 👁️💋👁️
Hahahahahhaa 🤣
Do you enjoy watching scary story channels on UA-cam often? Jw cuz I'm an aspiring voice actor that also makes horror narrations and I'd love to help provide you with more content during quarantine if you're down for some new material to get into during these hard times! 😊
kissy kissy
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I don’t know if this counts but Devil is a “horror” movie about an elevator lmao
Hi I’ve seen your vids before, not really a fan no offense but your really pretty!
Omg that movie is so good and the plot twist is brilliant 🤗
i actually have watched that and it wad not very good but still enjoyable if you get me
@@kee0613 yeah I wouldn’t say it’s an amazing movie but it is pretty good
@@englishatheart Damn I made a mistake 😐 I’m sorry I’m running on 3 hours of sleep, I don’t care enough about my grammer. I know the difference
Whenever I got creeped out, I looked at Shane’s shirt. Seriously it’s just a duck on the pocket! It’s so wonderful!
They need to add it to the merch.
this is such a wholesome comment
This video's title: "Are You Scared of Being Trapped?"
Me, clicking on the video: "Horrifically and paralyzingly. Bring on the pain and regret."
I have had a fear of elevators ever since I was little. Not really the elevator itself, but the idea of being trapped in an elevator. Every time I use an elevator I get really anxious and I try to avoid them as much as possible. I can't get in an elevator without thinking about it stopping, and getting trapped in there. And I can't help it, it just happens. It doesn't help that most elevators have this weirdly eerie atmosphere. This story is like the worst possible situation.
I agree, elevators themselves do have an eerie feel to them. They smell strange and you can hear the metal and gears going.
Especially for how far we've come in engineering and technology, elevators are still built so archaiclly that they routinely break down...
I'll just take the stairs
This is literally my EXACT experience! I'm scared of being trapped in general but elevators have always been the worst, especially since they're such a common/normal thing. The way they jerk sometimes puts a feeling in my chest that makes the anxiety even worse, too.
Same.
I have been in a VERY similar experience as the narrator. I was at my grandpa's, his elevator is terribly bad looking, with screeching and groaning and the doors wouldn't close, horrible quality, in other words, not "fucking solid".
Anyway, I realised how bad it looked so I decided to take the stairs, being afraid of being stuck in a small place, a loop.
I started going down the stairs, down, and down, and down. The stairs themselves are very bad looking with sometimes missing chunks of hand grip.
Anyway, I go down... And down... And down.. and I realise .. I never hit the bottom??? I started getting confused, I counted all the stairs down and I should have been down already. I look back and forth and decide to go down 3 more stair cases and look down, no lights from anywhere. (It was pretty dark)
I got a bit panicked, asking if I should go back up to my grandpa or continue going down. My mind told me to go down, that's where the exits are usually, right? But this is the
kind of building with an exit at 1st floor or 2nd floor. I remembered that only then.
I was wondering if I had passed the exit already, perhaps it looked like an ordinary door to an apartment... I only knew that the elevator would take me outside, since it took me inside at the begining and this was the first time at my grandpa's, but I didn't want to take the elevator.
The thing that made my blood boil was that I knew some buildings just like this one go further down in some kinds of basements. I kept thinking, what if I keep going down and eventually I hit a dead end, not the exit I was seeking? And ofc, being a kid influenced by religion a bit, I imagined bad things at that ''dead end" ( the red light at the corridors didn't help with the situation) ( low-key I imagined the lights were getting more and more red the further I got down and the more time I was stuck), I was 10 when this happened I believe.
And I go up a bit, wondering if I could get back to my grandpa's and then I realise.... I never took a good look at my grandpa's door and the doors didn't have numbers. Everything looked the exact same. So I couldn't go back to my grandpa's unless I wanted to knock on everybody's door.. knocking on someone's door.... That wasn't such a bad idea..
So , imagine me, a preteen kid, putting my ear against this door apartment, trying to hear for children ( the only way to know a place is safe is if ther is children yesyes, big brain :) ) and I knocked and this lady opened the door and I asked ''which way is the exit''
XD
She looked at me with such anger and I got scared, felt real bad. I must have interrupted her taking care of those children perhaps.
She closed the door on me, alright.
Her disgusted look, wondering if I was retarded or high, made me think I needed to think simpler, the exit is down, like normal places, I told myself, building confidence.
I go down 3 staircases I just climbed up to the ladies apartment and another one and I get out.
I was relieved, but I realised how stupid I was. I was so close, if I hadn't panicked and would have went down a bit more I would have gotten there.
So, u heard it from me kids, exits are usually on the last floor.
Funny thing is elevators are VERY safe. You‘d probably have a higher chance from dying tripping on stairs than falling in elevators or being trapped in one long enough to kill you.
@@CptSeighter123 oh XD
Rod Serling walks into frame
Rod: "A mundane chore turns into a nightmare, as we observe one Kore Litcana. An ordinary college student, of ordinary habits, learning the consequences of not taking notice of the little moments in the in between. Discrepancies that might alert us to an opening of a doorway. Perhaps even between our reality, and a realm and dimension that we would consider one step beyond. Where the little moments enact their revenge on our unconscious ambivalence. A dimension we would call,
The Twilight Zone."
DOO DOO DOO DOO
DOO DOO DOO DOO
This is so good omg
fucking brilliant! i’m gonna watch twilight zone now!
this makes me realize how much creepypastas realy do read just like a twilight zone episode. It would be cool if there was an anthology series like that, where the episodes are all based on well known creepypastas like candle cove or russian sleep experiment
This comment was written better than the actual story.
this deserves more likes
“the clock wouldn’t lie to me”
*are you sure about that*
**cries in Unus Annus**
@@m4ttd0tc0m aayyyyyyy memento mori
@@m4ttd0tc0m Unus Annus Unus Annus!
Memento Mori my friends!
@@notme_matt000 ayeeeeeeee
This has a Backrooms vibe to it. She entered an elevator, and in the process of riding it down, she (or the elevator with her in it) no-clipped out of reality. She never made it back, and eventually starved/dehydrated to death. As time passes for her, she most likely dies somewhere around 3 days, but the elevator continues to descend. Roughly two years after the no-clip occured, the elevator with her corpse in it (or just her corpse) no-clipped back into reality, where no more than a minute had passed.
Putting my take aside, this is still one of the scariest stories I've seen on this show so far. I read somewhere a fictional story about someone that gains the ability to teleport kind of like Nightcrawler, but they end up blindly teleporting into an underground room that has no doors, windows, or exits of any sort. It's just a large cement block buried underground, and for some reason the person can't teleport anymore, so they're trapped in that room for the rest of their days. It also reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode where the dude stops time but one of the instances he does it, time never resumes, so he's stuck in a frozen world.
The idea of being trapped in a room until you die and being trapped outside the laws of reality are some of the most frightening things to me. Even more so if the two are combined.
That sounds like what happens in Fallout 3 when you use cheats to teleport. It kicks you to an empty, tight room and you can’t teleport out
I should be studying for my midterm but i drop everything for this show
Bruh literally me rn
Quite literally same
Finished my last exam today!!
Yup same
SAMEEEE!!!!!
*Reading the Title* : Um... yeah.
*Actually listening* : Ooohhh, yeah... but not in that way.
wdym? i'm very dumb
@@ommmmara You're not dumb!
In my experience of being a 24-year old, it's common to feel "stuck" or "trapped" based upon your college/ work experience. In the first half, it was a little humorous. Wearing your PJ's, etc. (which is more applicable in your early college experience) but, imo, it becomes more disjointed and "out there" the longer you stay.
@@casuallyceltic ohhh!! thanks for explaining
@@ommmmara NP! Make sure you make college work for you and be the best you can (also, take a break if you can!)
Shane, talking about college: we’ve all been there
People who haven’t been to college: 👁👄👁
don't forget about puppet history online university my friend
@@kinrateia oh that counts?
@@zjthegameryt5388 yes.
@@zjthegameryt5388 since I got a degree from there Elon Mask has been really quiet so figure it out foe yourself
I've been there
never made kissy lips at a prof, though
i've been bingewatching the show and this is my favorite so far, twilight zone-ish stuff really gets me as i don't believe in ghosts/demons/supernatural stuff in this sense but time and space being messed on such mundane occurences is the type of ominuous thing that makes you think. the idea of an elevator going down and never stoping puts you in this odd situation - i constantly wondered if her perception was being affected by her anxiety until i realized something strange was going on. really cool that the report was added at the end. i hope more stories like this gets featured!
>time and space being messed on<
honestly the first time i watched this video, i think it actually affected me more than if it were smth supernatural. the idea that physics might just break randomly and turn your life upside down is... upsetting
@@hiddendrifts and worse -- being the only person to witness it! it's extra despairing for me
@@heatweve understandable- at that point you can't tell if something really happened or if you're just losing it. like, the only evidence she had that she wasn't just going mad was the fact that she was literally dying and decaying
Narrator: absolutely terrified about being trapped forever in an elevator.
Shane: YOU CAN DRINK YOUR OWN PEE!
My first thought was "How? Sounds like a girl who doesn't have anything with her."
@@faureamour she's got a laundry basket
@@jazzymania333 That's true. I forgot that detail. Ok, I could see that.
Shane: *makes kissy lips at professors to annoy them*
Ryan, thinking about the next season of puppet history: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
shane: stop looking at your phones losers
me, looking at my phone while watching this video: 👁👄👁
Guess I can’t watch the show now may as well unsubscribe
not gonna lie her whole nail coming off was the thing that scared me the most
Licensed professor science man: Bill Nye
Unlicensed professor science man: Shane
Ryan: "I walked to the elevator and hit-"
Some random ass ad: "b i p o l a r d e p r e s s i o n"
getting ready t to be spooked.
"This video is sponsored by skillshare"
well..
i’m not gonna lie the entire time i was listening to this story i was resisting the urge to go “I’M ON A HELLEVATORRRRR”
HELL YEAH. ANOTHER STAY. I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT
@@alisarajha443 the brainrot doesn’t stop in stayville
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Literally imagine how horrifying that would be... Jesus Christ
@Dylan not just being trapped, also not being able to ask for help while you slowly die of starvation and thirst
Omg jesus christ scary
Zane Ellison you good?
Dylan did you not watch the story?
Are you scared of being trapped?
*Claustrophobia has entered the chat*
Are you scared of rats
Slovakia has joined the chat
I almost didn't watch this one because I have such bad claustrophobia.
@@englishatheart being trapped in an elevator is scary af, but i think I'll be fine if I'm trapped in a mall 😂
@@englishatheart the fear of being trapped is called Cleithrophobia, and I was very hesitant of watching this since I have it.
when he opened with "i'm ryan bergara and..." my brain just went "... you're watching the disney channel"
Now that's scary
This is honestly still my favourite story they've read I still think about it years later
In Ryan's elevator story, when he said "before we begin, does anyone want to get out?" do you think he did it in his classic "unsolved voice"
I assumed this was the only possible way for him to say it.
This story took a year to get to the "scary" part. It felt like whoever wrote this was trying to sell me an elevator.
LMAO
I liked it :(
Lol
Exactly!
Well... Are you going to buy one???
My scariest elevator story was on a cruise ship:
The elevator was nice but it was also sort of old-fashioned and had a haunted feel to it. When I clicked the button for my floor it passed my floor and wouldn’t let me out...it took me all the way down to what I would assume was some sort of basement on the ship. The doors opened and there was absolute silence and what looked like building supplies or something. I kept clicking the button to close the doors and it wouldn’t close lol...luckily after half a minute the doors suddenly closed and it took me back to my floor. Not that scary but I was younger so I was creeped out lol
Sound like a "Man of Medan" dlc lol
That reminds me of the movie anabelle where the woman is stuck on the basement level of the apartment complex
Yeah something similar happened to me. I was about 9 years old, and I was on holiday in Spain. Our hotel had a glass lift (elevator for you Americans) on the outside of the building. We could see the street outside, and the outside could see us. My mother and I left the room, and entered the lift, before clicking the button for the ground floor. We started going down, and down, and down a few more floors, past ground. I remember being really freaked out because I could see the outside as we descended, and then suddenly it was pitch black. The lift opened and it was just a basement. We stayed in the lift and the doors closed and we ascended back up to the ground floor. I was a bit confused as to what happened, and a little scared. On later reflection, it was probably just a technical error, but I was quite apprehensive at the time. I had completely forgotten about this until I watched this episode lmao
My scariest lift/elevator story happened like 2 years ago at the student dorm near my uni campus. My friends and I (about 7 people) were going down to the basement level using the creepy lift. When we were halfway down at about the 8th floor, the lift suddenly jolted and made a metal banging noise while the lights flickered. Everyone on that lift had a mini heart attack. Luckily nothing happened and we made it to the basement in one piece.
Imagine if there was just something running towards the elevator right before it closed.
The writing wasn't perfect, but god, the concept is terrifying
I genuinely really liked the writing! Different strokes for different folks
Nah it’s pretty good
I felt like the writing was really cool because it's written like a diary entry of a college girl and that's exactly what it's supposed to be
idk about y'all but i think this was a really _really_ good story. i love it when a story is thought to be just a story but then you realize the whole thing is a "found text" type thing. and i _REALLY_ love it when the story ends on an uncertain note, and then there's just a police report or news footage or something like that. really, this author could write full horror novels
i think the spontaneous supernatural/unexplainable phenomena element also adds a really nice kick to it. the idea that physics just broke randomly is shockingly unsettling. like, thinking of the backrooms, where you can supposedly just phase beyond reality into an alien space is... an interesting take on horror that i don't really see much of
shane: HELLEVATOR
skz: i’m on a hellevator *starts dancing*
YAAAZ
OMG HI CO STAYY
oohhh finally the comment i've been searching for! 😆😆
I was looking for this comment! 😂
I was wondering how come I hadn't seen any comments about skz😂
shane: hellevator
stray kids: you called?
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE
It’s also a former game show on GSN
THAT WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT TOO!
Hahaha hello STAYS!!
IM ON A HELLEVATORRRRRR
the most unrealistic thing about this story is that the person didn't immediately think to start livetweeting the whole ordeal as soon as the elevator jammed
She said there wasn't any signal
"Are you scared?"
"This episode brought to you by Skillshare."
"Are you scared *now*?"
Shane doing kissy lips aggressively is just... something else
I remember once I was at the hospital, visiting my sister. She was on the sixth floor. I got in, pressed the button and waited. Just as the doors was about to close, they suddenly opened again for nothing, then the button for another floor was pressed and I went up. All alone in the elevator, that was going to stop on a floor I didn't press
Except it didn't stop. I just stood still, it felt like someone was behind me even though I was alone, when we reached that floor, the feeling of someone behind me disappeared and the elevator kept moving up to the 6th floor.
I told my mom about it later, and she was like "Oh, that's the floor they keep the cancer patients."
I'm not scared of elevators, but that was one of the weirdest experience of my life
I’m disabled and in a wheelchair, so when there is a building where there is more than one floor, I have no choice but to take a lift. I do sometimes get nervous using them, but luckily every place with lifts I’ve been to, they’ve luckily worked and I’ve not got stuck so far. I am quite a claustrophobic person, like in a room, there has to be at least one door open for me to feel safe. It’s not like a horror scary, it’s just a fear sort of scary, like spiders or thunder/loud noises, they induce panic. I know this story is fake, but still.
I think Shane should pick a story that he actually finds scary and share that.
Well part of the fun and mass appeal of this series in particular is that these stories are not particularly scary. They're pretty tame and I enjoy them. Having built this expectation, if Shane comes in one day and makes us collectively sh*t our pants, we probably won't come back for another episode for a good while. That's just how it is. It would cut the audience by a lot.
Idk if I speak for most, but I don't open an Are You Scared video expecting to actually get scared. Then again, I do skip some of them based on the content suggested by the title and what I know to be perhaps a more sensitive topic for me. I don't actually want insomnia; I want to be entertained by the spoopy and Ryan's gifted narration.
I'd love that, especially as a season finale. It's called "Are You Scared?" for a reason, lol. They'd definitely preface the story by warning their audience that Shane picked the story (and he'd probably cackle) to warn the more sensitive viewers, but I think it would be amazing overall. Especially if he spooked Ryan while reading it.
It would probably include getting tricked into doing drugs.
Moral of the story: Always take the stairs if you are physically able to do so
And the plot twist is you keep going down the stairs and the floor number remain unchanged and the door leading to the hall is locked
As someone who's been stuck in an elevator more times than I'd like to:
Emergency buttons don't do anything half the time, they make noise but you'll be lucky if someone actually picks up and calls maintenance to get you out.
Thanks, I'll be sure to never go in another elevator ever again
that’s terrifying
You should call 911 at that point. The fire department can help in that situation
@@sarahs3305 but most of the time you don’t really have cell reception in an elevator (at least in my experience)
@@alliewinkler4689 It depends on which floor you get stuck on. I know the elevator in my main university building doesn't have service until you're at the 2nd floor...but I would still try it just in case
It was Shane shouting "HEY" and making kissy faces for me
This story sounds like a nightmare-- like a literal reoccurring nightmare that somebody would have. Major props to the person who wrote this
Or a pretty normal Story
you also gotta think about the implications of after this story as well. If I lived in that dorm no way in hell am I ever using that elevator or any elevator ever again. This would also mean that some people would have to come to terms with the absurdity of all of this in someway to prove strange and paranormal events.
“This episode... is sponsored............by SkillShare.” I got chills from that opening, so spooky.
when shane mentioned “hellevator”
my mind went straight to “I’M ON A HELLEVATOR~”
thanks skz 😭
SAME
MY HELLEVATOOOORR~~~
YES I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT
I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT 😂
The story idea was very creative and the details were thoughtful. I would love to hear more from this author some day. I would suggest that this writing group or a beta reader might be helpful as the vocabulary was occasionally repetitive and some of the recap sentences were unnecessary, but that is something that’s hard to catch without feedback. Really solid story though
don't you mean.. *pushes up glasses* pretty fuckin' solid?
I think it makes sense because it’s told from the perspective of a person going insane in an elevator writing about their experience in the notes app
Shane: says hellevator
me: *immediately starts thinking about Stray Kids*
Dude same
yeaaaaaaa stray kids 🔥
YEHSHSHE YESSS
Stay 😭
SAME
*Shane saying Hellevator
My mind: *plays Hellevator by Stray Kids
Story Title: "Going Down"
Me: I'm yelling timberrrrr
(I genuinely regret 80% of my life and 100% percent of my brain's meme storage)
You better move, you better dance
Let's make the night, you won't remember.... I'll be the one, you won't forget😂😂😂
OoooOooOo
OoOoOo
ooOooOoOoOOoO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO(x2)
SWING YOUR PARTENER ROUND AND ROUND
this one is actually very creative, i like it. nothing super paranormal going on. instead, it taps into a very specific, primal and lovecraftian fear that has no definitive shape or form. i think the story can be interpreted in different ways; maybe that truely was a hellevator that trapped her in a time-space continuum until she died of thirst/starvation. Or maybe she actually died in that elevator (from whatever cause) at exactly 9:23 and everything that happens after is her in purgatory or experiencing the "world in between", so everything physical around her is reflecting that very moment of death, everything is frozen and unchanging except her, as she's feeling her own body wither and decompose. this latter interpretation is a lot scarier to me.