9:29 I was in 5th grade when a bomb threat was called in, some crazy lady called the Oklahoma police department about a bomb in the backpacks of children, they shut down all of the schools in the town I lived in at the time to search the bags. Being little drama queens 5th graders are, someone asked the teachers what was happening, they refused to say, some kid then started a rumor that a man was holding the office staff at gunpoint, and instead of teachers saying that wasn't it when asked, they just said they can't say anything. Now our elementary school was a decent size, but if a bomb were to go off, it would incinerate us because they had put us in the gym which is in the middle of the school.
@Caponezheater Actually happened around 2000. Dude was THE supplier in the US and from then until about 2008 or so it was impossible to find in our region. A lot of what was called LSD for a while was X or psilocybin extract or even just LSA (which I prefer, honestly). The shit you get from Eastern Europe has usually degraded significantly by the time it gets here, And if you know where to get a vial of clean liquid even now I'd love to know about it.
Was this the guy that was making LSD in the bomb shelter? He and his stripper girlfriend had kidnapped and tortured a high school student? The girlfriend was a prominent UA-camr until the story finally came out. I think Vice even did a story on it.
No one in Gainesville talks about the serial killer. Its the darkest secret buried under the rug. It shook up the town so bad, but no one dares speak of it. It's eerie AF.
@@benm5913 It's eerie because I've lived in that area all of my life and grew up passing a handful of palm trees with name placards by them. Those names were the victims. Normal situation, sure, not a common thing people will talk about. Growing up and people deliberately tip toeing around a serial killer even happening in the small college town of Gainesville, the only place you can actually get groceries in a 30 miles radius for every town nearby, is now the boogeyman no one wants to discuss. It's a hushed thing, and these parts have an uncomfortably close community. It becomes another town "secret" no one will talk about. If you grow up in a small town where a truly disturbing serial killer struck, it's intimate. And never knowing the story behind those palm trees your whole life, not until YOU look and find the old news footage, that's unnerving. I'm saying this because how this whole part of Florida in 30 miles of Gainesville does not tell their kids what happened in the town they have to get groceries from every week even though their kids see those palms every single time. When you grow up a few years after the Ripper hit and into your adulthood always wondering what happened, that's an eerie thing, friend.
That's not really true... The victims names are on a giant graffiti wall on 34th street. My mom was actually a student at the time and my grandparents made her come back home to live with them so she wasn't on campus at nighttime.
My Grandma grew up in a small village, and told me that her sister got pregnant at like 15 or 16. She didn't eat to hide the bump, and did everything she could to lose the baby. One night, she felt contractions, ran to the outhouse, and had the baby, but she didn't come back with one. I asked my Grandma, and she said she miscarried, and left the baby in the families waste. That story made me sad ): My Aunts husband turned to coke after 9 years of marriage and became violent and erratic, so they kicked him out. My Grandma (from the story above) lived with them and looked after their 2 kids in the same village, but different house. One night, my Uncle comes to the house, punching the door, then the glass and got into the house. He proceeded to punch my Grandma in the eye and jaw for shouting at him to leave ):< They lived out of the city, so it took about 30 minutes for police to arrive, but by then, he was long gone. My other Aunt found out, and spread the message to the rest of the villagers. The men in the village arrived at my Aunts house in a frenzy and were ready to kill my Uncle, and they'd bury him in one of their many farms. For a month after there were always 2 men watching my Aunts house in the evenings in case my Uncle ever came back. My family is one of the founding families of the village, and we're practically related to everyone somewhere down the line, so yeah, love that sense of community :)
My Nana grew up in Tennessee, and on a farm.. Like I'm pretty sure she didn't even know what rice was and if she did they never had it, like ate the same fried pork chops every day, this was so back woods she would have to damn near fight off some of her uncles tryna get with her.... Guess one of her uncles borrowed a 12 gauge shotgun one day just walked some ways down the property got out of view behind a shed and blew his stomach out the other side.. Crazy shit
33:25 is the Kara kopetsy murder. It was a huge thing back in 2007, so happy they finally found her remains. There was so much speculation on if she ran away, was kidnapped, murdered etc. her family finally has a little bit of closure. Sucks that kyler hasn’t been held accountable for it yet tho :(
God, the locker room broomstick thing... I remember watching on the news how some of those guys were forced to insert broom handles with Icy Hot on them. As if the broom handle shit itself wasn't bad enough. Hell to the No.
I hope those guys that did that got fucking shot or got locked up for life, because when you scar someone for life like that you don’t deserve to have a life. I call what they did rape, and I am of the firm belief rapists are to be locked up for damn near life, or executed. I see it as one of the worst crimes in the world.
I must say it irks me a little bit when people refer to it as an ‘affair’ when an older person grooms a minor into a sexual relationship. she was 17 dude! and even though that’s probably old enough to know better in a way, she was still a minor and a teenager! Your sense of morality is formed by the relationships that you have with those guiding you and grooming can easily distort/manipulate their idea of what is ok. Idk, I just feel It’s not an affair if they can’t consent. Call it what it is. But I’ll consider that Perhaps I am misinterpreting the word, it’s just a little peeve of mine.
@Dean Vargas no she quite literally wasn’t old enough to know better. she was likely going through puberty still at 17. hormonal changes are strongly implicated in the intense feelings of sexual attraction and falling in love. during puberty, the volume of these circulating sex hormones in the body rises dramatically. you are flat out wrong.
Honestly, as an adult, it isn't "a girl I know had an affair with her friends dad, she was 17, he was 45"....It's more "dad took advantage of daughter's friend, she was underaged and he was 45"
There’s a ghost story in my home town about a woman and a baby falling into a well out in the middle of the woods. And supposedly if you are anywhere near the well on any rainy evening in the month of April you can hear the baby crying. And even more supposedly if you find the well with the baby crying in it and look down inside, the mother will be ready to grab you and pull you in. And even the most supposedly of them all, the woman committed suicide a long time ago with baby in arm. She worked for a man who was married, (of course) and fired her when she told him. She had the baby, but she was homeless and he wouldn’t help her so she jumped into a dried up well with her newborn baby. Apparently she went out there one afternoon in April and waited until the evening, which happened to be raining. Another instance of suppodedness is that she was last seen wearing a yellow raincoat and had a baby blue umbrella. If you hear the baby crying, and/or see either of those items around, go back the way you came. Don’t go to the well or the woman will get you.
A tale from the village I grew up in, as told to me by a local pensioner a couple years back ... My village has a primary school, and back in the early 60s it had this janitor - he owned a small patch of land off a backwoods footpath, and he built his own off-grid wood cabin to live in. Technically it was an illegal dwelling, but nobody cared so he got left alone... ... except it came out that he had an 'interest' in small children, mainly young girls under 10. Several children had complained that he had been inappropriate with them, and the village formed a 100-strong lynch mob to go deal with him. They beat the absolute living shit out of him before handing him over to the police - and whilst he was serving his 8 years in prison, his cabin got 'mysteriously' destroyed by an 'unknown' force. (Somebody came and tore it down). All that remains now is a slab of concrete foundation buried under some undergrowth, if you know where to look Tl.dr, pedophile gets found out and beat up, his hermit cabin gets destroyed whilst he's in prison.
@@crossaholicluv8171 The one about the town full of sports player wives addicted to opioids. I'll edit in the timestamp when I find it again. EDIT: 7:18 I've been in a handful of these reddit videos, and it's always the stories I tell that talk about my homelessness...... I guess that makes sense, people don't know much about homeless people/homelessness, and my situation was odd in general, so people are very curious when I talk about it lol
Hanging tree in my town for runaway slaves that were caught and punished accordingly. It was a grim reminder of our city's racist past and stood right in the middle of a blueberry patch the high school kids would smoke and fool around in. Eventually it became a point of contention to keep the tree or remove it. Because the tree itself was beautiful but what it represents is ugly.
Not that dark, but my town has an old swan know by everyone who lives there. One day, they thought he was too lonely, so they bringed him a female swan. It was all nice and stuff until when they were breeding, there is this thing where the male grabs the female's neck/head with their beak and dunk it a bit in the water, idk it's maybe a playful thing? Well, our swan held the female's head too long underwater and drowned her. So there's that.
Oh man, opiate addiction is sad. A small town that I lived in, had an awful addition there. They opened a clinic and it can no longer be prescribed there. It has less than 5,000 people. In face I think it’s closer to under 3k. They cracked down on drug related offenses and of course the jails became full pretty quickly and they didn’t and still don’t have enough funds to expand said cells. And the county is one of the poorest in the state. Hate that town so much. But with that said I hope they can rebound and get help.
Grew up in a small town up North when popping pills became the cool thing to do for reasons I've never truly understood. A lot of friends I had are still there, skin, bones, and missing teeth. Breaks my heart.
I recently moved back in with my parents to help take care of them, and they live about 2 miles away from the heart of our small town, but we’re still within “limits”. The town has a pretty large graveyard, but around 75% of the gravestones have no bodies beneath them. Right down the road from me is the start of a sizable forest and buried in the forest are hundreds of bodies. Our town took the headstones from what used to be the official graveyard and put them near the center of the town, and the area where the bodies are is posted despite nobody being able to buy the land/owning it. I don’t believe in ghosts, but plenty of people who live on the edge of the woods (a 5 minute walk down the road from me) claim they see/hear things, their names being called from the forest. Most of our houses are also atop Native grounds, so the calling from the forest could easily be a wendigo (which I don’t believe in either haha). Either way, the houses closest to the forest are always being put up for sale as quickly as they’re bought.
Great, nightmare fuels, I'm about to go to sleep and I find this. And I am such a scaredy cat that litterally freezes or jumps when she hears a slight tap or a sudden sound. Frick now I'm scared and my imagination is going wild.
@@mishaespiritu4828 Eh, I wouldn’t worry. What we should be worried about up here are the bears, wolves, coyotes and the potential for rabid beasties. And the hawks/eagles, which are the sole reason that nobody has small dogs up here. Outdoor cats fare relatively well (all mine are indoor though).
"There may or may not be this passageway that was used for Jews to flee from the Nazis. Not sure this qualifies as dark." I'd say it qualifies. I can't imagine that having to flee from the Nazis would've been a walk in the park.
The broomstick one happened in Dixon IL. I have multiple siblings that live in Dixon but I live w my dad one town over. One student finally came forward about it and his mother just happened to be a lawyer. She is now currently in the process of suing the school, the coach, and the football player who had done it to her son. (I am not giving names out though)
My home town of Clydebank was hit horrifically by the Luftwaffe in what was known as the Clydebank Blitz. During interviews with survivors about 10 or so years ago for a documentary one of them mentioned a basement room where the entire family of one of their neighbours hid but didn't survive. Apparently there were several basements like this as more than 80% of the town was leveled and so dealing with the dead in an orderly way was basically impossible with so many injured refugees with nowhere to go. A few of those basements, due to the lack of resources, were just sealed over as is. So basically my home town is allegedly full of random emergency makeshift tombs full of dead children and some of them might not be rediscovered for centuries. But until then, they're right under other buildings. Waiting for the lost souls inside to finally be put to proper rest. Also, the lift/elevator in the multi storey car parking area for the local shopping centre/mall was where a guy lit a trolley/shopping cart on fire while messing around and caused it to lock for safety reasons. Killing himself in a very slow, painful, claustrophobic way. Locked inside with nowhere to escape.
I didn't know about the Clydebank blitz. I learnt about the London blitz, of course, here in Australia, and my grandfather was working in Glasgow during the shipyards blitz there so I heard about that. What a sad past for your town to have.
@@felicitybywater8012 Yeah. Only 7 buildings survived in the whole town. And that's not even taking into account that the death toll was highly underexaggerated in order to not destroy British troop morale. The official toll reported then was about 200, but now its recorded at 528. Considering it was a town with a population of 30000 at the time, many homes packed tight with families and the bombings were over 2 consecutive nights and only 7 buildings survived as well as the reports from people on the ground about the sealed over basements, lower ground floors and shelters, a lot of people in and from Clydebank also doubt the 528 figure.
That one about the wife deciding that the best way to avoid drug scandal fallout is murdering her husband is real fucking gold. Just... thanks, humanity.
My small homevillage in finland near the russian border had a problem with pyromaniac that burned down trash-collectin stations. It was always blamed on us young kids until one night my childhood friend and his mother woke up to sounds and smell of casoline being poured on their living room by his father. Turns out he was behind all the burnings and was planning to go out with his family while they were sleeping. Scary stuff....
I don't technically live in Vail, AZ but I can walk to it from my house in about 10 minutes (Officially I live in Tucson) so I guess this counts. A few years ago, maybe 2017, a high schooler was found in chunks at the railroad tracks somewhat near Old Vail Middle School, signs of foul play suspected. A friend of mine supposedly knew this kid, who was a twin I guess, the goodie two shoes out of the two brothers, and he suspected the gangbanger brother had something to do with it. I'm not sure if it was ever solved. As soon as 3-7 days later, a boy and a girl were walking along the same train line, but on a train bridge above Cienega Creek. They were in the middle of the bridge when the train came. The boy pushed the girl out of the way and he was minced in an instant and the girl was sent to the hospital in critical condition. Pretty sure she survived, but I still pay my respects to the boy when I visit the creek, as it is a sort of religious spiritual connection site for me. Call me crazy but while I've never seen him, sometimes I hear things and something inside of me knows he enjoys the company. Maybe a year later I was driving home from school when I saw a cluster of cop cars near the same railroad tracks, just outside Cienega HS, where I was attending my senior year at the time. I didn't think anything of it but my mom asked about school lockdowns or road closures and I had no idea what she was talking about until she mentioned the cops. Turns out a young girl, between 7 and 11, was found bound and strangled in the desert just there. I believe her step father was convicted of the crime and investigations revealed he had repeatedly beaten and abused her and her mom just tolerated it. Tucson has its fair share but it isn't a small town. Lil Peep died in the Continental Hotel after a fentanyl overdose and years prior, one of the first massively publicized mass shootings took place at a wealthy shopping center, when Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head by some nut with a Glock 19 (I don't remember his name but don't tell me, they do this so people will remember them). What is less talked about is how the citizens doing a meet and greet took him to the floor and held him before police arrived. Heroic, although when one picked up his gun another one said to drop it and step on it, which, in my mind, was a stupid idea, but they managed to keep him contained so it all worked out. Oh and my senior year, a security guard at my high school who everyone thought was cool was arrested and fired for having a... Bed arrangement with someone who I think was 15, which it was consensual, but eventually the girl felt bad and grossed out by it and came clean to her parents. I knew the guy well, we all loved him. Too bad he was a pedophile. Scary to think he got away with it for like nearly a year and was allowed to work with teenage girls who regularly wore less than appropriate clothing to school. Makes me wonder if he slept with anyone else.
@@fantasiesbyjuls Yeah, it happened just outside my high school. I remember driving home from school seeing Sheriff guys all over the train tracks (Cienega High School) and my mom asking if I had heard when I got home. I love the Tucson area, but we have a huge drug and human trafficking and murder problem. Lots of shit rolling in from down south sadly. (Not ALL Mexicans mind you, I'm just referring to Mexico's problems.)
About a hundred years ago in my hometown there was a woman who would write ads in the classifieds for a husband. When they came to visit her she'd murder them and throw their bodies into a sinkhole, a natural really deep pit. I'm not sure how many men there were, but it was a lot. Like around a dozen. The house where all this happened was on my bus route to school. And when a book came out about it (tragedy at tin can holler) I found out that that family was friends of my family in that time period. So my grandmother was able to tell me quite a bit more about it than other people knew.
Those wolves were there to do much more than keep people away. If I had to guess they were used to keep something or someone in. Also the possibility they were used to get rid of remains like how the guy with the farm did with his pigs.
There was a pe student teacher at my middle school caught watching girls in the locker rooms. I was one of the students in a class with him and he was creepy as fuck. Im a Junior in high school now and he’s a permanent substitute at our school. Theres also tons of allegations about different teachers and principals in our (relatively small) school system being sexually creepy. Admin doesn’t do shit. Its more than a little suspicious but almost nobody talks about it.
My town's founder, Ace Borger, was murdered in a post office. That post office is now a greenhouse, and I once went there for a kindergarten field trip, and I unknowingly stood at the very spot he got shot to death.
The elementary school band teacher was found with CP on his laptop, and was taking naked pics of students in front of green screens. It’s been like 10 years since then and I think he’s out of jail now :/ I didn’t go to that school My brother did. Didn’t get to go to “a special lunch” with him bc he was caught before it happened but it was pretty big news.
The one about the guy that killed the 2 ex's, that isn't necessarily a failure of the police. They can arrest someone sure but its the judicial system that is actually the failure there. The police can only do what the law requires of them and its lawyers and politicians that decide what the laws are and what constitutes punishment for crimes or potential crimes. Worse case the police "wrongfully", and I mean a defense lawyer can argue this, arrest him because they didn't follow to the letter some BS bureaucratic red tape and he gets off Scott free and does more damage. But if they follow the letter of the law that most people don't completely understand, then they are blamed for "not doing their jobs". Police get a lot of shit, some warranted, some not, but a lot of it is actually caused by the other branch of government that is able to hide face as the police get all the flak for laws they can't control.
My Mother’s friend was killed in the Gainesville murders....Yikes. Apparently the dude was looking specifically for people with police connections, and that just happened to be my Mother’s friend. Might edit later to tell the whole story
I think some will know which town I'm talking about. I don't live there any more. Here's the story: the mayor of this town had a big house and husband and daughter. The father I believe had chemotherapy treatment but still, sadly passed away. The treatments had left the family in debt. Eventually, the bank tried a few times to foreclose on the house. The mother ran for mayor and won (uncontested, I think). Unfortunately - and this makes no sense, being an upper middle class town - the position is honorary, i.e. UNpaid. She had tried for a while to maintain the same kind of lifestyle for her daughter, who was much loved by many in town and had graduated from high school. One day, she sneaked up on her and shot her, then turned the gun on herself. Because it was the mayor, the police moved slowly on the investigation, making sure they could gather as much evidence as possible and a lot of people were questioned. It turns out she was deeply in debt and had covered up a lot of it and kept it hidden from her daughter. The daughter possibly never knew how financially in the red they were but it must have been bad enough that her mother would resort to murder/suicide. I never met them but it still chills me to this day. I used to live only a block or two from their house.
I'm really late but I've got one I grew up in Simi Valley CA, and in the Town Center is a tree commonly known as The Hanging Tree back when the town was first set up the Sheriff would hang criminals from its branches, however there is a darker story to this tree as well. At some point, there was a lynching, and anywhere from 5 to 12 African Americans hung from its branches. Story has become folklore and I have heard it from a couple of people, but it's never really been a story talked about much and I don't know if that's because people don't know exactly when it happened most people think it happens somewhere around the Civil War as the story is rather vague on details
The town I grew up in was the same as the Craigslist killer's apprentice. Also the suicide rate in that town is really high, especially for teenagers. Something is seriously wrong there and I got out as soon as I graduated high school
Todd Kolhepp, a dude that killed a girls bf and then locked her in a storage container until the cops found her days away from death, only to then find he also left Amazon reviews that ratted on himself, also he committed 3 unsolved murders in a motorbike shop. Our town isn't very small but this shocked us, my bf is a floor sander and sanded the floors of his house after it was sold. (He got a life sentence)
So, not my story just a warning because I dont have every detail. So this is my fathers story about how he nearly died at age 8 in southern Texas. Im not sure of what town but I know if I asked he would know, but it was a small town nonetheless. He had just moved to Texas from Iowa about a year before this all happened. So because it was a small town it only had 1 elementary school and everyone walked because it was the late 70's rural Texas. So a lot of kids would walk to school in groups by neighborhood. He became pretty close with a few of these neighborhood kids because of that, including one that lived 3 blocks away. He became quite close with his new friend hanging out quite often, it also helped his moms liked each other and would hang out after church. So after a long day of school on no particular Friday my dad and his friend where walking home together. His friend ask's if he wants to come over after school which wasn't odd because they hung out after school all the time. However my dad usually tried to stay out of the friends house because he said his friends dad was just creepy and gave him bad vibes, he said the friends mom was pleasant though. My grandmother has also told me about the friends mother and father and said the father was very off-putting. But nonetheless my dad goes and hangs out at his friends house because the friends dad was off at work and it gets late and the father returns home and my dad still hasn't left. The friends mom then starts making dinner and my dad ends up calling his mom and staying for dinner. They finish dinner up pretty quick and his friend asks if he wants to spend the night, so my dad phones up his mom and try's to persuade her and she's not having it because theres a church function going on tomorrow. My dads mom also told him later she didn't like his friends dad and that was also part of the reason for not allowing him to spend the night. But the next morning they get ready for there Saturday church function and my dads not the least bit happy about it. That is until they go to leave and there are police cars, fire trucks and ambulances and an abundance of them, lining his friends street. He gets to his church function and word had already spread. In the middle of the night his friends father had taken a gun killed his wife then proceeded to go kill his son, then he finished his night by killing the family dog and walked out back and shot himself in the head. If anyones interested I can ask my dad and get some info like the exact town they lived in the families names and exact time period I know theres articles out there too.
34:18 I KNOW THIS ONE. After he beat up one of his gfs and she reported saying that he admitted to it, they wired her up and she put a hidden camera in her car, and he literally confessed to killing his first girlfriend, ON CAMERA, and still nothing was done til years later. Also the killer's brother was involved and was super shady and ended up dying (i think suicide) and while he was in court for the murders, he tried to blame his brother for the murders and it was just all bad
Every school here have their own urban legends about ghosts (which are of course just made up stories) but one specific school have a real case of a girl student who actually hanged herself in the classroom.. I was a high school student in nearby school when that happened.. I think it happened in 2011 or something.. Some if not most of new students now think that it's just another urban legend but it's 100% true..
Mine isn't a secret or dark but it's a little fact:in ww2 after the german attack on London, they had a load of spare bombs, so they decided to drop the spares on us
Wow. I've lived in Northern Illinois my whole life (even went to northern Illinois University 😑) and I've never heard that broomstick story. I was in HS in 2002 too. I wish I knew what town.
The last court date was last year. A teacher in my school system faced 36 counts of sexual imposition against 28 first graders. He was the gym teacher in one of the elementary schools and was the temporary sub gym teacher in my middle school. He was my gym teacher. He would always say “Little kids just like me. We get along very well” irks me looking back. He is now in prison for 8 years.
the football team/broomsticks up the wazoo is also Helena Montana in 2009. entire season cancelled for that high school.. school bus trips rules established statewide as a result
Just a tourist attraction tactic. Oklahoma now has a legit hunting season for them. Governments will stop at nothing to make a quick buck lol. Real or not, Sasquatch is being exploited.
op: „My school is really really old it’s from 1902“ Me a European: •_• that’s not old... my grand uncle lives in a Appartement building that used to be a school in the old part of town . It’s from 1780~ I think. We literally have so many buildings and structures older than that and like older than 1700 is not unusual. We have a thing called curved roads and no grid system because the cities didn’t start off planned instead it’s a kind of there was a house then someone built one next to it and for hundreds of years it kept going out like a circle. The city centers and villages can be really really old. Unless they got destroyed in WW2. I just love how because of cultural differences things that are like: „omg so old and classical and sh*t“ is like just normal for us But stuff that is normal for you guys... like what...? Edit:this makes me sound kinda dumb and mean. Sorry.
We had 3 girls jump in our town water supply like those above ground one's well yeah it took 3yrs before cctv footage saw them all talking 30 mins later they climbed up which is like nearly a 5-minute climb and they all held hands and tied there shoe laces together and jumped it gives me chills every time I hear about it
I’m my home town, three little girls were murdered by their father so he could get back at his recently divorced wife. There’s a whole park made in memorial to those three girls and their graves are all alone in the graveyard. It’s haunting every time I go to that park.
38:20 Middletown, Ohio. On our way home from a fishing trip, my dad and I saw it with our own eyes. Early 2000s, some dude in a cow suit went around throwing bottles at people, chasing dogs, and passing on people's front porches. Your move Hamilton.
In the 1990's A high school science teacher was arrested in the shooting death of an assistant principal whose body was found in a burning school building. ( the school building was purposefully set on fire using candles) Also that caused $150,000, in damage which was confined to books and materials. That school is in my town. Everyone hides this but only few students and teachers know about this. Some think that the school is haunted because of this incident. (There isn't any proof that the school is actually haunted though some believe it is).. The school is still up and running. Many students go to that same school now. That is my small town dark secret story...
Teen bullies beat up disable teen in my hometown. The bullies happened to be the sons of the cops. They didn't get in trouble. The police covered the entitled brats. When your dad is a police officer you get away with crimes. That's Wisconsin for you.
@@Shaggytokes420 ik this is very late reply but one night I woke up to coyotes howling and looked into my woods and saw red eyes and an orange glow. The next morning I woke up and into to woods and there was a dead coyote in what looked like a very quickly built fire place, blood, and human foot prints around and a knife with blood on it
I don't think the Gainesville Ripper is being forgotten. That guy is still one of the more commonly discussed serial killers, even many years after his execution 2006.
I can just picture the dude who put the powder in the wood staring out his window with a cup of coffee in his hand watching the other guy pulling out the fireplace going "Well... that's what you get for stealing my wood."
The middle school I went to, one of the students killed the much-beloved science teacher. A mile away from my childhood home, a classmate of mine was killed when the kid's uncle went apeshit and massacred the entire family. The mom of this kid managed to get as far as the street before he "got" her. The house still exists. It's behind a Walgreens.
The catholic highschool in the town a group of kids can't remember how many, but around 5 decided to committ self sleep forever in the school. A few were in the boys locker room, and 1 of the others decided to walk over to the train tracks. Rather not go into detail on all of their deaths, was a few years before I went to highschool. The only good thing to come from it was that public school system never got any shit from anyone again.
I live in a town next to the largest Hasidic community outside of Israel and it’s really commonly known that they commit mass fraud in the form of tax evasion, insurance fraud and more and they use the funds to build overpopulated neighborhoods to bring more of their people in from Brooklyn and Israel. It causes a lot of animosity between them and pretty much everyone else as people are being chased out if their own homes and neighborhoods so that they can make it a fully Hasidic community. It’s sort of all an open secret but nobody ever knows about it before moving here. They sort of move in and then learn in their own about everything. It really sucks bc they’ve perfected the art of suing for religious intolerance so no ones can really do anything bc as soon as that come up in court It’s sort of an open and shut case bc no judge is willing to rule against them
More sad than dark, but still creepy. Me and my mom moved into a new neighborhood a year ago, and about two houses away from us is this big abandoned house. When we asked around we were told that a man and his wife once lived there a long time ago. Somehow the wife died in the house (cause was inconsistent) and the man couldn't live in it anymore. He moved out of state and never came back, but he still owns the home. Now it is overgrown with weeds and was a massive problem because of the rats and snakes that lived in it. No one has been able to get the man to sell the house, and to be honest I don't even know if he is alive. No one has ever gone inside the house or anything so it has been undisturbed for years. People use the driveway for their cars since no lives there and sometimes packages or letters are dropped off there by mistake. But other than that, the house is still the way it was when the man left
3:56 “house fire ... suspicious there was nothing valuable inside” ... I immediately pictured all of the homeowners televisions, electronics, computers/laptops, any other technology items, printers, artwork, a safe with all of their jewelry, cash, other small valuables, passports, etc. all lined up on the lawn as they said “whew, that was crazy, huh? What a coincidence I was just moving all of these things out right now!”
My HS varsity soccer coach was rumored to having relations with an underage girl on his girls club soccer team. He beat the charges in my hometown and ended up moving to NC with his wife. But ended up getting arrested very shortly after moving there because he was caught soliciting an underage girl on his new girls club soccer team. He went to jail for a long time due to his previous history and had to register as a sex offender. I always had a feeling something was off with the guy because he just seemed like he was trying too hard to be an upstanding person
I live in a town known as Maineville. It has this story that is not talked about much around the town, and a lot, if not most, of the people that I know who live there haven't heard of it, but the neighborhood that I live in is the place where the story originated from. You see, there is this ravine by my house, and it cuts straight through the neighborhood, and there are stories of a dog that was abandoned by their owner way back in the 1950's, and it survived for a couple of months before it passed away in the winter time. It is said that while it was still alive, you could hear it howling for help and for food l, as it ended up starving to death. The next year, the howling could be heard again in the winter, and this has been happening ever since. Some say it is just coyotes howling, but this certain "awoo" echoes, and it has a metallic sound to it, and it is very deep and lasts for around a minute, slowly getting softer and softer until you can't hear it anymore, and then it howls again. This continues every night of every winter. If you go down into the ravine in any other time besides the winter, sometimes you will see a ghostly image of a large dog wandering the woods. In the winter, if you go down there, you see nothing. All there is is the howling of the dog. We call it the Haunted Hound, and I myself have seen it quite a few times. It still remains a mystery of why it only howls in the winter, but I - and a few others - think it is because the poor dog is reminded of that horrible winter. It is only a Maineville legend, but a true one nonetheless.
250 native Americans were found buried under a residential school in my home town after having gone missing while the school was in operation, some people blamed the queen since the disappearances started after she made a visit but now that we've found them we know it was almost certainly the teachers at the school
I don’t live in a /small/ town per say, but where I live hasn’t had any murders or anything for over 20 years. The last murder was a triple homicide in what is essentially a small mansion. In this house was a mom, dad, and two sons. One of the two sons killed all three of the others and went to jail. Upon being released, he moved somewhere down south (either to Louisiana or Florida) and a few years later was arrested for having child pornography. The guy who now lives in that house is a birdwatcher and a professor at the nearby college.
There was an elderly woman who died in a house and ended up being eaten by her pets. My mom actually lived in that house when she was a little girl and told me that on hot days it still smelled like death and there was a stain on the floor where her body had been.
For some reason people seem to not understand the difference between -knowing or thinking someone killed someone -being able to prove they killed someone
There's a coffin in the roof of our local bank and someone stole the body. We don't know who or how they did it, but one day someone went to look inside and found a horse skull instead of a skeleton.
@@lokiwiseyt8608 a local grocer in the 1700s didn't want his body being buried in the churchyard, because, ironically, he thought it would get stolen. He had it put in the roof of what was then his house, but is now a bank.
7:16 You'd think if he went through the effort of cutting the hatch open, he could have brought diving gear and gone while the tide was in, then he'd be fine when it went out.
Not exactly a small town, But my high school got attention when I was a freshman. A girl went missing and later on confirmed was murdered. They didn't find her body but they found her murderer a few years later because they found her DNA in his car along with a bunch of other things that he could have used to do away with her. They found her bookbag and phone in a field, and her investigation was covered nationwide when she went missing. They searched everywhere and I mean Everywhere to find this girl. If I remember correctly, Her murderer was sentenced to life in prison a few years after she went missing.
That one about the ‘bomb’ in every school, MAN that guy is smart
Pre-occupy the police and rob a *bank*
Until they tried doing it a second time in the same town and the cops sent someone to the bank too, lmao
Smart asf
Smart maneuver on his part
9:29 I was in 5th grade when a bomb threat was called in, some crazy lady called the Oklahoma police department about a bomb in the backpacks of children, they shut down all of the schools in the town I lived in at the time to search the bags. Being little drama queens 5th graders are, someone asked the teachers what was happening, they refused to say, some kid then started a rumor that a man was holding the office staff at gunpoint, and instead of teachers saying that wasn't it when asked, they just said they can't say anything. Now our elementary school was a decent size, but if a bomb were to go off, it would incinerate us because they had put us in the gym which is in the middle of the school.
That's the plot to Die Hard 3
3:28
“This is more comical than dark. A house burned down...”
Uh ok
HAHAHAHAHA LOLOL XD XD
My town had an LSD lab that, when busted, dropped the world's supply by 70 percent.
Edit: it also dropped by 99.5% in the USA.
That's crazy... I love acid ☮️
@Caponezheater Actually happened around 2000. Dude was THE supplier in the US and from then until about 2008 or so it was impossible to find in our region. A lot of what was called LSD for a while was X or psilocybin extract or even just LSA (which I prefer, honestly). The shit you get from Eastern Europe has usually degraded significantly by the time it gets here, And if you know where to get a vial of clean liquid even now I'd love to know about it.
Brazil or American midwest
Was this the guy that was making LSD in the bomb shelter? He and his stripper girlfriend had kidnapped and tortured a high school student? The girlfriend was a prominent UA-camr until the story finally came out. I think Vice even did a story on it.
@@jacobs1447 He was making in in an old missile silo.
No one in Gainesville talks about the serial killer. Its the darkest secret buried under the rug. It shook up the town so bad, but no one dares speak of it. It's eerie AF.
Why is it eerie that no one talks about a serial killer? Who just randomly talks about serial killers in everyday situations?
@@benm5913 It's eerie because I've lived in that area all of my life and grew up passing a handful of palm trees with name placards by them. Those names were the victims. Normal situation, sure, not a common thing people will talk about. Growing up and people deliberately tip toeing around a serial killer even happening in the small college town of Gainesville, the only place you can actually get groceries in a 30 miles radius for every town nearby, is now the boogeyman no one wants to discuss. It's a hushed thing, and these parts have an uncomfortably close community. It becomes another town "secret" no one will talk about. If you grow up in a small town where a truly disturbing serial killer struck, it's intimate. And never knowing the story behind those palm trees your whole life, not until YOU look and find the old news footage, that's unnerving. I'm saying this because how this whole part of Florida in 30 miles of Gainesville does not tell their kids what happened in the town they have to get groceries from every week even though their kids see those palms every single time. When you grow up a few years after the Ripper hit and into your adulthood always wondering what happened, that's an eerie thing, friend.
Can you really blame anyone in Gainesville for not wanting to talk about someone like Danny Rolling, though?
That's not really true... The victims names are on a giant graffiti wall on 34th street. My mom was actually a student at the time and my grandparents made her come back home to live with them so she wasn't on campus at nighttime.
Gainesville GEORGIA?!?!?
My Grandma grew up in a small village, and told me that her sister got pregnant at like 15 or 16. She didn't eat to hide the bump, and did everything she could to lose the baby.
One night, she felt contractions, ran to the outhouse, and had the baby, but she didn't come back with one.
I asked my Grandma, and she said she miscarried, and left the baby in the families waste.
That story made me sad ):
My Aunts husband turned to coke after 9 years of marriage and became violent and erratic, so they kicked him out. My Grandma (from the story above) lived with them and looked after their 2 kids in the same village, but different house.
One night, my Uncle comes to the house, punching the door, then the glass and got into the house. He proceeded to punch my Grandma in the eye and jaw for shouting at him to leave ):< They lived out of the city, so it took about 30 minutes for police to arrive, but by then, he was long gone.
My other Aunt found out, and spread the message to the rest of the villagers. The men in the village arrived at my Aunts house in a frenzy and were ready to kill my Uncle, and they'd bury him in one of their many farms. For a month after there were always 2 men watching my Aunts house in the evenings in case my Uncle ever came back. My family is one of the founding families of the village, and we're practically related to everyone somewhere down the line, so yeah, love that sense of community :)
I’m like 👍
My Nana is from rural Tennessee, grew up poor and on the farm. Didn't know what rice was
My Nana grew up in Tennessee, and on a farm.. Like I'm pretty sure she didn't even know what rice was and if she did they never had it, like ate the same fried pork chops every day, this was so back woods she would have to damn near fight off some of her uncles tryna get with her.... Guess one of her uncles borrowed a 12 gauge shotgun one day just walked some ways down the property got out of view behind a shed and blew his stomach out the other side.. Crazy shit
33:25 is the Kara kopetsy murder. It was a huge thing back in 2007, so happy they finally found her remains. There was so much speculation on if she ran away, was kidnapped, murdered etc. her family finally has a little bit of closure. Sucks that kyler hasn’t been held accountable for it yet tho :(
I was about to comment that this was about Jessica Runion and Kara Kopetsky. I hope they get justice. Kylr needs to be held accountable.
Kylr Yust has been held accountable now!!!!!! And so strange to hear stories so close to home read in robot voice lol
@@HazelsMomFurever right?! Lol. I’m so happy he’s finally being held responsible. Those poor girls had so much more of their lifes to live🥺
God, the locker room broomstick thing... I remember watching on the news how some of those guys were forced to insert broom handles with Icy Hot on them. As if the broom handle shit itself wasn't bad enough. Hell to the No.
Would this be considered rape ? Either way it’s wrong
I live around the area but I still don’t know the name and it’s killing me lol
Was legit gonna ask if it was Donna texas cuz same shot happened
Reminds me of that scene in "13 Reasons Why"
I hope those guys that did that got fucking shot or got locked up for life, because when you scar someone for life like that you don’t deserve to have a life. I call what they did rape, and I am of the firm belief rapists are to be locked up for damn near life, or executed. I see it as one of the worst crimes in the world.
A boy in my town was reported as missing by his stepmother and was later found dead
This happened in late 2019/early 2020
Wow-
Your town secret unidentical to any other case, truly wow
I must say it irks me a little bit when people refer to it as an ‘affair’ when an older person grooms a minor into a sexual relationship.
she was 17 dude! and even though that’s probably old enough to know better in a way, she was still a minor and a teenager!
Your sense of morality is formed by the relationships that you have with those guiding you and grooming can easily distort/manipulate their idea of what is ok.
Idk, I just feel It’s not an affair if they can’t consent. Call it what it is. But I’ll consider that Perhaps I am misinterpreting the word, it’s just a little peeve of mine.
Thing about 17 year olds... Your brain doesn't stop developing until age 25. It was most certainly grooming.
@@theblackcatgirl7013 of course it varies but typically around 23 for women and 25 for meb
@Dean Vargas no she quite literally wasn’t old enough to know better. she was likely going through puberty still at 17. hormonal changes are strongly implicated in the intense feelings of sexual attraction and falling in love. during puberty, the volume of these circulating sex hormones in the body rises dramatically. you are flat out wrong.
Honestly, as an adult, it isn't "a girl I know had an affair with her friends dad, she was 17, he was 45"....It's more "dad took advantage of daughter's friend, she was underaged and he was 45"
There’s a ghost story in my home town about a woman and a baby falling into a well out in the middle of the woods. And supposedly if you are anywhere near the well on any rainy evening in the month of April you can hear the baby crying. And even more supposedly if you find the well with the baby crying in it and look down inside, the mother will be ready to grab you and pull you in. And even the most supposedly of them all, the woman committed suicide a long time ago with baby in arm. She worked for a man who was married, (of course) and fired her when she told him. She had the baby, but she was homeless and he wouldn’t help her so she jumped into a dried up well with her newborn baby. Apparently she went out there one afternoon in April and waited until the evening, which happened to be raining. Another instance of suppodedness is that she was last seen wearing a yellow raincoat and had a baby blue umbrella. If you hear the baby crying, and/or see either of those items around, go back the way you came. Don’t go to the well or the woman will get you.
When it gets dark... We cant see the outside without street lights
What?
Can you explain I am confused
Spoopy
Whoa...
ah yes I think the floor here is made up of floor.
Unless?
A tale from the village I grew up in, as told to me by a local pensioner a couple years back ...
My village has a primary school, and back in the early 60s it had this janitor - he owned a small patch of land off a backwoods footpath, and he built his own off-grid wood cabin to live in. Technically it was an illegal dwelling, but nobody cared so he got left alone...
... except it came out that he had an 'interest' in small children, mainly young girls under 10. Several children had complained that he had been inappropriate with them, and the village formed a 100-strong lynch mob to go deal with him. They beat the absolute living shit out of him before handing him over to the police - and whilst he was serving his 8 years in prison, his cabin got 'mysteriously' destroyed by an 'unknown' force. (Somebody came and tore it down).
All that remains now is a slab of concrete foundation buried under some undergrowth, if you know where to look
Tl.dr, pedophile gets found out and beat up, his hermit cabin gets destroyed whilst he's in prison.
Don’t go into the basement officer, there’s a water leak down there...and that worked?
Cops are people and people can be really, REALLY stupid.
And I thought pigs were intelligent.
Welcome to th U.S where apparently we have the intelligence lower the rocks
I really hope that in the future not every dumbass can join police forces or the U.S will end like a wasteland
Special needs teacher at my high school got arrested for m*lesting the students. I was a TA for her class
For what, sorry?
@@gothamstevens9253 I’m not typing it out I don’t want my account locked
whats the ta mean
@@name-lr9te teaching assistant
@@gothamstevens9253 molesting.
Always surreal to see my own posts/replies appear in these videos lol
What ones were yours?
@@crossaholicluv8171 The one about the town full of sports player wives addicted to opioids. I'll edit in the timestamp when I find it again. EDIT: 7:18
I've been in a handful of these reddit videos, and it's always the stories I tell that talk about my homelessness...... I guess that makes sense, people don't know much about homeless people/homelessness, and my situation was odd in general, so people are very curious when I talk about it lol
@@sinceritynature202 interesting. That was one of my favorite ones. Hope your situation isn’t bad.
@@crossaholicluv8171 Thank you! I am thankfully not homeless anymore, so I'm doing much better!
For real. I’ve heard my own comments twice and it baffles me
Hanging tree in my town for runaway slaves that were caught and punished accordingly. It was a grim reminder of our city's racist past and stood right in the middle of a blueberry patch the high school kids would smoke and fool around in. Eventually it became a point of contention to keep the tree or remove it. Because the tree itself was beautiful but what it represents is ugly.
Not that dark, but my town has an old swan know by everyone who lives there. One day, they thought he was too lonely, so they bringed him a female swan. It was all nice and stuff until when they were breeding, there is this thing where the male grabs the female's neck/head with their beak and dunk it a bit in the water, idk it's maybe a playful thing? Well, our swan held the female's head too long underwater and drowned her. So there's that.
Kinky swan
Oh man, opiate addiction is sad. A small town that I lived in, had an awful addition there. They opened a clinic and it can no longer be prescribed there. It has less than 5,000 people. In face I think it’s closer to under 3k. They cracked down on drug related offenses and of course the jails became full pretty quickly and they didn’t and still don’t have enough funds to expand said cells. And the county is one of the poorest in the state. Hate that town so much. But with that said I hope they can rebound and get help.
Grew up in a small town up North when popping pills became the cool thing to do for reasons I've never truly understood. A lot of friends I had are still there, skin, bones, and missing teeth.
Breaks my heart.
God I hope you don't say South East Iowa. Please don't be in South East iowa.
I recently moved back in with my parents to help take care of them, and they live about 2 miles away from the heart of our small town, but we’re still within “limits”. The town has a pretty large graveyard, but around 75% of the gravestones have no bodies beneath them. Right down the road from me is the start of a sizable forest and buried in the forest are hundreds of bodies. Our town took the headstones from what used to be the official graveyard and put them near the center of the town, and the area where the bodies are is posted despite nobody being able to buy the land/owning it.
I don’t believe in ghosts, but plenty of people who live on the edge of the woods (a 5 minute walk down the road from me) claim they see/hear things, their names being called from the forest. Most of our houses are also atop Native grounds, so the calling from the forest could easily be a wendigo (which I don’t believe in either haha). Either way, the houses closest to the forest are always being put up for sale as quickly as they’re bought.
Great, nightmare fuels, I'm about to go to sleep and I find this.
And I am such a scaredy cat that litterally freezes or jumps when she hears a slight tap or a sudden sound.
Frick now I'm scared and my imagination is going wild.
@@mishaespiritu4828 Eh, I wouldn’t worry.
What we should be worried about up here are the bears, wolves, coyotes and the potential for rabid beasties. And the hawks/eagles, which are the sole reason that nobody has small dogs up here. Outdoor cats fare relatively well (all mine are indoor though).
TLDR: New England is scary
Why do you think Stephen King writes every one of his stories set in New England?
@@csvega I didn’t know that he did, but now I’m scared, because I live here.
I agree. lots of creepy places here.
@@csvega don't forget Lovecraft!
In New England. Can confirm.
"There may or may not be this passageway that was used for Jews to flee from the Nazis. Not sure this qualifies as dark." I'd say it qualifies. I can't imagine that having to flee from the Nazis would've been a walk in the park.
The broomstick one happened in Dixon IL. I have multiple siblings that live in Dixon but I live w my dad one town over. One student finally came forward about it and his mother just happened to be a lawyer. She is now currently in the process of suing the school, the coach, and the football player who had done it to her son. (I am not giving names out though)
You mean the place with the p.enis church?
@@pikachusucks5151 indeed
@@the_albino_rhino6125 Wow
Man, I don't know how these towns managed to keep dark secrets for so long with how loose lipped people from those towns are with dark secrets.
Credit to the old lumberjack who got tired of people stealing his firewood.
My home town of Clydebank was hit horrifically by the Luftwaffe in what was known as the Clydebank Blitz. During interviews with survivors about 10 or so years ago for a documentary one of them mentioned a basement room where the entire family of one of their neighbours hid but didn't survive.
Apparently there were several basements like this as more than 80% of the town was leveled and so dealing with the dead in an orderly way was basically impossible with so many injured refugees with nowhere to go.
A few of those basements, due to the lack of resources, were just sealed over as is.
So basically my home town is allegedly full of random emergency makeshift tombs full of dead children and some of them might not be rediscovered for centuries. But until then, they're right under other buildings. Waiting for the lost souls inside to finally be put to proper rest.
Also, the lift/elevator in the multi storey car parking area for the local shopping centre/mall was where a guy lit a trolley/shopping cart on fire while messing around and caused it to lock for safety reasons. Killing himself in a very slow, painful, claustrophobic way. Locked inside with nowhere to escape.
I didn't know about the Clydebank blitz. I learnt about the London blitz, of course, here in Australia, and my grandfather was working in Glasgow during the shipyards blitz there so I heard about that.
What a sad past for your town to have.
@@felicitybywater8012 Yeah. Only 7 buildings survived in the whole town. And that's not even taking into account that the death toll was highly underexaggerated in order to not destroy British troop morale.
The official toll reported then was about 200, but now its recorded at 528.
Considering it was a town with a population of 30000 at the time, many homes packed tight with families and the bombings were over 2 consecutive nights and only 7 buildings survived as well as the reports from people on the ground about the sealed over basements, lower ground floors and shelters, a lot of people in and from Clydebank also doubt the 528 figure.
That one about the wife deciding that the best way to avoid drug scandal fallout is murdering her husband is real fucking gold. Just... thanks, humanity.
As horrible as it is, I'm honestly super impressed by the engineering skills of the suicidal guillotine builder.
My small homevillage in finland near the russian border had a problem with pyromaniac that burned down trash-collectin stations. It was always blamed on us young kids until one night my childhood friend and his mother woke up to sounds and smell of casoline being poured on their living room by his father. Turns out he was behind all the burnings and was planning to go out with his family while they were sleeping. Scary stuff....
I don't technically live in Vail, AZ but I can walk to it from my house in about 10 minutes (Officially I live in Tucson) so I guess this counts.
A few years ago, maybe 2017, a high schooler was found in chunks at the railroad tracks somewhat near Old Vail Middle School, signs of foul play suspected. A friend of mine supposedly knew this kid, who was a twin I guess, the goodie two shoes out of the two brothers, and he suspected the gangbanger brother had something to do with it. I'm not sure if it was ever solved.
As soon as 3-7 days later, a boy and a girl were walking along the same train line, but on a train bridge above Cienega Creek. They were in the middle of the bridge when the train came. The boy pushed the girl out of the way and he was minced in an instant and the girl was sent to the hospital in critical condition. Pretty sure she survived, but I still pay my respects to the boy when I visit the creek, as it is a sort of religious spiritual connection site for me. Call me crazy but while I've never seen him, sometimes I hear things and something inside of me knows he enjoys the company.
Maybe a year later I was driving home from school when I saw a cluster of cop cars near the same railroad tracks, just outside Cienega HS, where I was attending my senior year at the time. I didn't think anything of it but my mom asked about school lockdowns or road closures and I had no idea what she was talking about until she mentioned the cops. Turns out a young girl, between 7 and 11, was found bound and strangled in the desert just there. I believe her step father was convicted of the crime and investigations revealed he had repeatedly beaten and abused her and her mom just tolerated it.
Tucson has its fair share but it isn't a small town. Lil Peep died in the Continental Hotel after a fentanyl overdose and years prior, one of the first massively publicized mass shootings took place at a wealthy shopping center, when Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head by some nut with a Glock 19 (I don't remember his name but don't tell me, they do this so people will remember them). What is less talked about is how the citizens doing a meet and greet took him to the floor and held him before police arrived. Heroic, although when one picked up his gun another one said to drop it and step on it, which, in my mind, was a stupid idea, but they managed to keep him contained so it all worked out.
Oh and my senior year, a security guard at my high school who everyone thought was cool was arrested and fired for having a... Bed arrangement with someone who I think was 15, which it was consensual, but eventually the girl felt bad and grossed out by it and came clean to her parents. I knew the guy well, we all loved him. Too bad he was a pedophile. Scary to think he got away with it for like nearly a year and was allowed to work with teenage girls who regularly wore less than appropriate clothing to school. Makes me wonder if he slept with anyone else.
I also live in Tucson. I remember all this happening and the speculations behind Isabel’s disappearance. This town is such a riot
@@fantasiesbyjuls Yeah, it happened just outside my high school. I remember driving home from school seeing Sheriff guys all over the train tracks (Cienega High School) and my mom asking if I had heard when I got home.
I love the Tucson area, but we have a huge drug and human trafficking and murder problem. Lots of shit rolling in from down south sadly. (Not ALL Mexicans mind you, I'm just referring to Mexico's problems.)
About a hundred years ago in my hometown there was a woman who would write ads in the classifieds for a husband. When they came to visit her she'd murder them and throw their bodies into a sinkhole, a natural really deep pit.
I'm not sure how many men there were, but it was a lot. Like around a dozen.
The house where all this happened was on my bus route to school. And when a book came out about it (tragedy at tin can holler) I found out that that family was friends of my family in that time period. So my grandmother was able to tell me quite a bit more about it than other people knew.
Those wolves were there to do much more than keep people away. If I had to guess they were used to keep something or someone in. Also the possibility they were used to get rid of remains like how the guy with the farm did with his pigs.
There was a pe student teacher at my middle school caught watching girls in the locker rooms. I was one of the students in a class with him and he was creepy as fuck. Im a Junior in high school now and he’s a permanent substitute at our school. Theres also tons of allegations about different teachers and principals in our (relatively small) school system being sexually creepy. Admin doesn’t do shit. Its more than a little suspicious but almost nobody talks about it.
Man fuck that school.
Not dark, but in my cousin's hometown, there's rumoured to be absurdly difficult clues to a scavenger hunt scattered all over town.
My town's founder, Ace Borger, was murdered in a post office. That post office is now a greenhouse, and I once went there for a kindergarten field trip, and I unknowingly stood at the very spot he got shot to death.
I'm fairly certain the last post is about Tulsa, Oklahoma, if anyone was interested.
I'm more than certain it is
Not Rosewood? That was 1923. Could be either, I guess.
The elementary school band teacher was found with CP on his laptop, and was taking naked pics of students in front of green screens. It’s been like 10 years since then and I think he’s out of jail now :/
I didn’t go to that school
My brother did. Didn’t get to go to “a special lunch” with him bc he was caught before it happened but it was pretty big news.
Well now i wanna cry. That vineyard story is depression incarnate
The one about the guy that killed the 2 ex's, that isn't necessarily a failure of the police. They can arrest someone sure but its the judicial system that is actually the failure there. The police can only do what the law requires of them and its lawyers and politicians that decide what the laws are and what constitutes punishment for crimes or potential crimes. Worse case the police "wrongfully", and I mean a defense lawyer can argue this, arrest him because they didn't follow to the letter some BS bureaucratic red tape and he gets off Scott free and does more damage. But if they follow the letter of the law that most people don't completely understand, then they are blamed for "not doing their jobs".
Police get a lot of shit, some warranted, some not, but a lot of it is actually caused by the other branch of government that is able to hide face as the police get all the flak for laws they can't control.
My Mother’s friend was killed in the Gainesville murders....Yikes. Apparently the dude was looking specifically for people with police connections, and that just happened to be my Mother’s friend. Might edit later to tell the whole story
I think some will know which town I'm talking about. I don't live there any more. Here's the story: the mayor of this town had a big house and husband and daughter. The father I believe had chemotherapy treatment but still, sadly passed away. The treatments had left the family in debt. Eventually, the bank tried a few times to foreclose on the house. The mother ran for mayor and won (uncontested, I think). Unfortunately - and this makes no sense, being an upper middle class town - the position is honorary, i.e. UNpaid. She had tried for a while to maintain the same kind of lifestyle for her daughter, who was much loved by many in town and had graduated from high school. One day, she sneaked up on her and shot her, then turned the gun on herself. Because it was the mayor, the police moved slowly on the investigation, making sure they could gather as much evidence as possible and a lot of people were questioned. It turns out she was deeply in debt and had covered up a lot of it and kept it hidden from her daughter. The daughter possibly never knew how financially in the red they were but it must have been bad enough that her mother would resort to murder/suicide. I never met them but it still chills me to this day. I used to live only a block or two from their house.
I'm really late but I've got one
I grew up in Simi Valley CA, and in the Town Center is a tree commonly known as The Hanging Tree back when the town was first set up the Sheriff would hang criminals from its branches, however there is a darker story to this tree as well. At some point, there was a lynching, and anywhere from 5 to 12 African Americans hung from its branches.
Story has become folklore and I have heard it from a couple of people, but it's never really been a story talked about much and I don't know if that's because people don't know exactly when it happened most people think it happens somewhere around the Civil War as the story is rather vague on details
The town I grew up in was the same as the Craigslist killer's apprentice. Also the suicide rate in that town is really high, especially for teenagers. Something is seriously wrong there and I got out as soon as I graduated high school
Todd Kolhepp, a dude that killed a girls bf and then locked her in a storage container until the cops found her days away from death, only to then find he also left Amazon reviews that ratted on himself, also he committed 3 unsolved murders in a motorbike shop. Our town isn't very small but this shocked us, my bf is a floor sander and sanded the floors of his house after it was sold. (He got a life sentence)
“has a new step mom that is the same age as he is” hmmmm i might sound a little legally blonde but i’m pretty sure i’ve heard that story somewhere
A kid a few houses down from mine was apparently in an online relationship with a married 18 year old army dude and knew about this.
Not really a secret but my uncle left his jeep in a bar parking lot for 6 months. He lived down the street.
So, not my story just a warning because I dont have every detail. So this is my fathers story about how he nearly died at age 8 in southern Texas. Im not sure of what town but I know if I asked he would know, but it was a small town nonetheless. He had just moved to Texas from Iowa about a year before this all happened. So because it was a small town it only had 1 elementary school and everyone walked because it was the late 70's rural Texas. So a lot of kids would walk to school in groups by neighborhood. He became pretty close with a few of these neighborhood kids because of that, including one that lived 3 blocks away. He became quite close with his new friend hanging out quite often, it also helped his moms liked each other and would hang out after church. So after a long day of school on no particular Friday my dad and his friend where walking home together. His friend ask's if he wants to come over after school which wasn't odd because they hung out after school all the time. However my dad usually tried to stay out of the friends house because he said his friends dad was just creepy and gave him bad vibes, he said the friends mom was pleasant though. My grandmother has also told me about the friends mother and father and said the father was very off-putting. But nonetheless my dad goes and hangs out at his friends house because the friends dad was off at work and it gets late and the father returns home and my dad still hasn't left. The friends mom then starts making dinner and my dad ends up calling his mom and staying for dinner. They finish dinner up pretty quick and his friend asks if he wants to spend the night, so my dad phones up his mom and try's to persuade her and she's not having it because theres a church function going on tomorrow. My dads mom also told him later she didn't like his friends dad and that was also part of the reason for not allowing him to spend the night. But the next morning they get ready for there Saturday church function and my dads not the least bit happy about it. That is until they go to leave and there are police cars, fire trucks and ambulances and an abundance of them, lining his friends street. He gets to his church function and word had already spread. In the middle of the night his friends father had taken a gun killed his wife then proceeded to go kill his son, then he finished his night by killing the family dog and walked out back and shot himself in the head.
If anyones interested I can ask my dad and get some info like the exact town they lived in the families names and exact time period I know theres articles out there too.
@Caponezheater sorry I wrote that at like 4am and was just too tired to punctuate it
@Mal G. I just retyped and punctuated it because its not 4 in the morning and I actually have the effort now
30:47 HE BUILT A FUCKING *GUILOTINE?!* ARE YOU SHITTING ME?
2:45 this happened at Damascus High School in MD. The players who did it were charged with sexual assault.
The particular hazing that the video is talking about happened at Glenbrook North H.S. in Northbrook, IL. I think...
@@vcvcf1896 Yeah I didnt mean this was the particular incident they were talking about in the video, just that this happened there as well
Also happened in Southern Indiana a few counties over from me, i was in hs at the time. Weird how common it is lmao
Glad they were charged.
34:18 I KNOW THIS ONE. After he beat up one of his gfs and she reported saying that he admitted to it, they wired her up and she put a hidden camera in her car, and he literally confessed to killing his first girlfriend, ON CAMERA, and still nothing was done til years later. Also the killer's brother was involved and was super shady and ended up dying (i think suicide) and while he was in court for the murders, he tried to blame his brother for the murders and it was just all bad
'I was homeless in my senior year of HS' - just american things...
We had a similar assault happen, but instead of broomsticks the seniors used safety cones >> shit was dark
Every school here have their own urban legends about ghosts (which are of course just made up stories) but one specific school have a real case of a girl student who actually hanged herself in the classroom.. I was a high school student in nearby school when that happened.. I think it happened in 2011 or something.. Some if not most of new students now think that it's just another urban legend but it's 100% true..
I was born in Tracy, CA. One of the most bizarre and unexplainable towns in this country. There are A LOT of news articles about that place.
Mine isn't a secret or dark but it's a little fact:in ww2 after the german attack on London, they had a load of spare bombs, so they decided to drop the spares on us
i didnt even make it past the second story and my blood was boiling, I had to leave
Wow. I've lived in Northern Illinois my whole life (even went to northern Illinois University 😑) and I've never heard that broomstick story. I was in HS in 2002 too. I wish I knew what town.
The last court date was last year. A teacher in my school system faced 36 counts of sexual imposition against 28 first graders. He was the gym teacher in one of the elementary schools and was the temporary sub gym teacher in my middle school. He was my gym teacher. He would always say “Little kids just like me. We get along very well” irks me looking back. He is now in prison for 8 years.
Only 8 years?
@@joshuakuehn yea :/ he should’ve gotten more time.
He should have gotten at least 10 years per child.
the football team/broomsticks up the wazoo is also Helena Montana in 2009. entire season cancelled for that high school.. school bus trips rules established statewide as a result
In Washington state, [where I live], It's been said that there are laws against harming Sasquatches. Probably fake, but it really makes you think...
It's real. Actually a law.
Just a tourist attraction tactic. Oklahoma now has a legit hunting season for them. Governments will stop at nothing to make a quick buck lol. Real or not, Sasquatch is being exploited.
Anyone else get chills thinking the brain still may have been awake during the later alarms
My towns really shitty and everybody hates each other and being here, yet nobody is ever able to leave for very long when they try to
op: „My school is really really old it’s from 1902“
Me a European: •_• that’s not old... my grand uncle lives in a Appartement building that used to be a school in the old part of town . It’s from 1780~ I think.
We literally have so many buildings and structures older than that and like older than 1700 is not unusual.
We have a thing called curved roads and no grid system because the cities didn’t start off planned instead it’s a kind of there was a house then someone built one next to it and for hundreds of years it kept going out like a circle. The city centers and villages can be really really old. Unless they got destroyed in WW2.
I just love how because of cultural differences things that are like: „omg so old and classical and sh*t“ is like just normal for us
But stuff that is normal for you guys... like what...?
Edit:this makes me sound kinda dumb and mean. Sorry.
I get it. I'm Australian but my grandparents were Scots and to them everything white in Australia was practically brand new.
3:10 I was in my AP class, last year, and my teacher, who was a football coach told us about this
We had 3 girls jump in our town water supply like those above ground one's well yeah it took 3yrs before cctv footage saw them all talking 30 mins later they climbed up which is like nearly a 5-minute climb and they all held hands and tied there shoe laces together and jumped it gives me chills every time I hear about it
I’m my home town, three little girls were murdered by their father so he could get back at his recently divorced wife. There’s a whole park made in memorial to those three girls and their graves are all alone in the graveyard. It’s haunting every time I go to that park.
38:20
Middletown, Ohio.
On our way home from a fishing trip, my dad and I saw it with our own eyes. Early 2000s, some dude in a cow suit went around throwing bottles at people, chasing dogs, and passing on people's front porches.
Your move Hamilton.
In the 1990's A high school science teacher was arrested in the shooting death of an assistant principal whose body was found in a burning school building. ( the school building was purposefully set on fire using candles)
Also that caused $150,000, in damage which was confined to books and materials.
That school is in my town.
Everyone hides this but only few students and teachers know about this.
Some think that the school is haunted because of this incident.
(There isn't any proof that the school is actually haunted though some believe it is)..
The school is still up and running. Many students go to that same school now.
That is my small town dark secret story...
Teen bullies beat up disable teen in my hometown. The bullies happened to be the sons of the cops. They didn't get in trouble. The police covered the entitled brats. When your dad is a police officer you get away with crimes. That's Wisconsin for you.
"This is more comical than dark. "A house burned down......"
The beginning started off pretty dark though
Bruh I live like 500 yard away from the forest at 34:20
Bruh for real tell me about that shit if you can
That's an OOF
@@Shaggytokes420 ik this is very late reply but one night I woke up to coyotes howling and looked into my woods and saw red eyes and an orange glow. The next morning I woke up and into to woods and there was a dead coyote in what looked like a very quickly built fire place, blood, and human foot prints around and a knife with blood on it
@@mjproductions8696 wtfff thats crazy, is there really a cult? You think they sacrificed the coyote or some tweaker was just hungry
@@Shaggytokes420 Idk there where multiple sets of footprints but I also have definitely have of druggies around me
Until the late 1900’s Idaho Falls had bootlegging tunnels webbing through the city, but they were also used for much more nefarious things
9:32 same thing happened in my hometown. Gotta give them props for being smart
I don't think the Gainesville Ripper is being forgotten. That guy is still one of the more commonly discussed serial killers, even many years after his execution 2006.
Yeah, he's widely talked about in a lot of true crime stuff. Total creep. He had murdered people in Louisiana as well.
44:15 Tulsa 😔
That old man with the explosive firewood, brilliant!
Why am I not surprised that happened in Illinois? Also hockey has some crazy “hazing” stories. 😳
Pffffft. Everyone knows Illinois doesn’t exist. What’s next? You’re gonna tell me Narnia exists? Atlantis?
Ah yes. As someone from Illinois, I may or may not exist. You never know.
@@lucyicanel yes we may just be aliens or something....
As someone from iowa. I can confirm that in the modwest, the boredom of watching corn grow will make you do some fucked up shit.
I can just picture the dude who put the powder in the wood staring out his window with a cup of coffee in his hand watching the other guy pulling out the fireplace going "Well... that's what you get for stealing my wood."
The middle school I went to, one of the students killed the much-beloved science teacher. A mile away from my childhood home, a classmate of mine was killed when the kid's uncle went apeshit and massacred the entire family. The mom of this kid managed to get as far as the street before he "got" her. The house still exists. It's behind a Walgreens.
The catholic highschool in the town a group of kids can't remember how many, but around 5 decided to committ self sleep forever in the school. A few were in the boys locker room, and 1 of the others decided to walk over to the train tracks. Rather not go into detail on all of their deaths, was a few years before I went to highschool. The only good thing to come from it was that public school system never got any shit from anyone again.
I live in a town next to the largest Hasidic community outside of Israel and it’s really commonly known that they commit mass fraud in the form of tax evasion, insurance fraud and more and they use the funds to build overpopulated neighborhoods to bring more of their people in from Brooklyn and Israel. It causes a lot of animosity between them and pretty much everyone else as people are being chased out if their own homes and neighborhoods so that they can make it a fully Hasidic community. It’s sort of all an open secret but nobody ever knows about it before moving here. They sort of move in and then learn in their own about everything. It really sucks bc they’ve perfected the art of suing for religious intolerance so no ones can really do anything bc as soon as that come up in court It’s sort of an open and shut case bc no judge is willing to rule against them
More sad than dark, but still creepy.
Me and my mom moved into a new neighborhood a year ago, and about two houses away from us is this big abandoned house. When we asked around we were told that a man and his wife once lived there a long time ago. Somehow the wife died in the house (cause was inconsistent) and the man couldn't live in it anymore. He moved out of state and never came back, but he still owns the home. Now it is overgrown with weeds and was a massive problem because of the rats and snakes that lived in it. No one has been able to get the man to sell the house, and to be honest I don't even know if he is alive. No one has ever gone inside the house or anything so it has been undisturbed for years. People use the driveway for their cars since no lives there and sometimes packages or letters are dropped off there by mistake. But other than that, the house is still the way it was when the man left
Our town had a serial killer that kidnapped children killed them and ate them. Also fed them to church potlucks.
That’s disturbing
3:56 “house fire ... suspicious there was nothing valuable inside” ... I immediately pictured all of the homeowners televisions, electronics, computers/laptops, any other technology items, printers, artwork, a safe with all of their jewelry, cash, other small valuables, passports, etc. all lined up on the lawn as they said “whew, that was crazy, huh? What a coincidence I was just moving all of these things out right now!”
My HS varsity soccer coach was rumored to having relations with an underage girl on his girls club soccer team. He beat the charges in my hometown and ended up moving to NC with his wife. But ended up getting arrested very shortly after moving there because he was caught soliciting an underage girl on his new girls club soccer team. He went to jail for a long time due to his previous history and had to register as a sex offender. I always had a feeling something was off with the guy because he just seemed like he was trying too hard to be an upstanding person
I live in a town known as Maineville. It has this story that is not talked about much around the town, and a lot, if not most, of the people that I know who live there haven't heard of it, but the neighborhood that I live in is the place where the story originated from. You see, there is this ravine by my house, and it cuts straight through the neighborhood, and there are stories of a dog that was abandoned by their owner way back in the 1950's, and it survived for a couple of months before it passed away in the winter time. It is said that while it was still alive, you could hear it howling for help and for food l, as it ended up starving to death. The next year, the howling could be heard again in the winter, and this has been happening ever since. Some say it is just coyotes howling, but this certain "awoo" echoes, and it has a metallic sound to it, and it is very deep and lasts for around a minute, slowly getting softer and softer until you can't hear it anymore, and then it howls again. This continues every night of every winter. If you go down into the ravine in any other time besides the winter, sometimes you will see a ghostly image of a large dog wandering the woods. In the winter, if you go down there, you see nothing. All there is is the howling of the dog. We call it the Haunted Hound, and I myself have seen it quite a few times. It still remains a mystery of why it only howls in the winter, but I - and a few others - think it is because the poor dog is reminded of that horrible winter. It is only a Maineville legend, but a true one nonetheless.
250 native Americans were found buried under a residential school in my home town after having gone missing while the school was in operation, some people blamed the queen since the disappearances started after she made a visit but now that we've found them we know it was almost certainly the teachers at the school
I don’t live in a /small/ town per say, but where I live hasn’t had any murders or anything for over 20 years.
The last murder was a triple homicide in what is essentially a small mansion. In this house was a mom, dad, and two sons. One of the two sons killed all three of the others and went to jail.
Upon being released, he moved somewhere down south (either to Louisiana or Florida) and a few years later was arrested for having child pornography.
The guy who now lives in that house is a birdwatcher and a professor at the nearby college.
There was an elderly woman who died in a house and ended up being eaten by her pets. My mom actually lived in that house when she was a little girl and told me that on hot days it still smelled like death and there was a stain on the floor where her body had been.
"This one is more comical than dark. *A house burned down.* "
For some reason people seem to not understand the difference between
-knowing or thinking someone killed someone
-being able to prove they killed someone
There's a coffin in the roof of our local bank and someone stole the body. We don't know who or how they did it, but one day someone went to look inside and found a horse skull instead of a skeleton.
Why was there a coffin there in the first place
@@lokiwiseyt8608 a local grocer in the 1700s didn't want his body being buried in the churchyard, because, ironically, he thought it would get stolen. He had it put in the roof of what was then his house, but is now a bank.
42:32 ive seen the other side of this story before! there was even a picture to go with it lol. small world aint it?
Holy hell, I wasnt sure if I was just mixing stories up, but glad to see im not alone in remembering that one! It's legendary
@@Itzhotli indeed friend
Yeah, it was on rslash's prorevenge. Probably the old man or some relative of his posted it. I think I can find it easily. Bravo six going dark.
So it's this one, literally only took a search ua-cam.com/video/tEDTRLNGCJI/v-deo.html
7:16 You'd think if he went through the effort of cutting the hatch open, he could have brought diving gear and gone while the tide was in, then he'd be fine when it went out.
Ok but 2:50 I almost fucking laughed so loud and it’s like 2:00 am and my mom would’ve killed me
Small towns tend to be much more crooked than cities. One psychopath in a small town can ruin many more lives, because the power is so concentrated.
The bomb threat to rob a bank is hella smart. Lol 😂
Not exactly a small town, But my high school got attention when I was a freshman. A girl went missing and later on confirmed was murdered. They didn't find her body but they found her murderer a few years later because they found her DNA in his car along with a bunch of other things that he could have used to do away with her. They found her bookbag and phone in a field, and her investigation was covered nationwide when she went missing. They searched everywhere and I mean Everywhere to find this girl. If I remember correctly, Her murderer was sentenced to life in prison a few years after she went missing.
i remember my grandma told me some boys drowned one of her brother friends when she was in her teens
@Mal G. so quirky