Enter the shadows of the internet and uncover the darkest corners of forgotten media. In this chilling episode of Dark Files: Midnight Tales, we explore 7 of the most disturbing pieces of lost media ever rumored to exist — from vanished TV broadcasts and cursed cartoons to mysterious films that disappeared without a trace.
Are these stories real… or just the nightmares of the digital age? Watch till the end to find out.
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00:00Why You Never Became a Dancer is an unofficial music video that has long been considered a classic from the darker corners of YouTube.
00:14It has gained over 4 million views and is infamous for its disturbing visuals and unsettling atmosphere.
00:19The video features a heavily distorted image of a woman, animated with random snippets of conversation.
00:25All of this plays against the backdrop of a song by the band, White House.
00:30The track was inspired by the 1995 film of the same name, in which Tracy Emin shared her personal account of sexual assault.
00:40However, the song controversially casts doubt on her story.
00:44With that context, one central mystery remains.
00:48Who is the woman in the footage? And where did the image come from?
00:52For years, people attempted reverse image searches with no success.
00:57Even the Japanese website Zetuburo.com, which catalogues internet mysteries, failed to uncover the photo's origin.
01:05The breakthrough came when a viewer sent the site an edited photo of the woman by email.
01:10It turned out to have been taken from a book about Japanese serial killer, Kyoshu Kubo.
01:19The woman was identified as Reiko Tokimura, one of his eight victims.
01:24To this day, no one knows exactly which book the picture was published in.
01:29But it's very likely that this image was the direct source for the creepy music video.
01:33The discovery didn't solve the mystery. It only deepened it, opening new avenues of speculation.
01:40What started as a bizarre and eerie YouTube upload has since evolved into one of the internet's darkest puzzles, where true crime, rumor, and horror collide.
01:58In 2007, the previously unknown Sombrini twins suddenly appeared on a small radio station in San Juan Province, Argentina.
02:08Their fame flared up almost overnight, and just as quickly faded away.
02:13What drew attention to them wasn't a soap opera scandal, but a dark and unsettling story that today is regarded as one of the most chilling legends of lost media.
02:22The brothers, Vicente and Paul, were raised solely by their mother.
02:27Their father, Fernando, had always dreamed of a family, but years of unsuccessful attempts to have children pushed him into despair.
02:34When Luciana finally gave birth to twins, he was overjoyed, yet his happiness was short-lived.
02:40Only months later, he died in a tragic accident during a trip to Chile.
02:44Fifteen years later, the sons returned to his old home and stumbled upon a box of videotapes.
02:50On those recordings, their father, broken by the weight of childlessness, could be seen building a replacement for the son he thought he would never have.
02:58A grotesque doll made of rags, wires, scraps of wood, and even animal remains.
03:05He dressed it in children's clothes, spoke to it as though it were alive, and with each tape his tone shifted,
03:11from gentle and paternal to disturbingly cruel, and at times, frighteningly intimate.
03:17The brothers could not bring themselves to finish watching.
03:20They left the house forever, abandoning many of the tapes.
03:23The full recordings were never made public.
03:26Only a single still frame has surfaced online, fueling endless speculation and obsessive searches.
03:32What Fernando's archive truly contained remains a mystery, and a haunting example of lost media.
03:39Anatoly Slivko was active in the Soviet Union between 1964 and 1985.
03:49During these two decades, he became obsessed with recreating an incident he had witnessed as a young man.
03:55In his early twenties, he once saw a driver plow into a group of pedestrians, taking the life of a teenage boy who happened to be wearing a young pioneer's uniform.
04:05That single event left a lasting mark on him.
04:09From then on, he sought out boys in order to reenact the scene.
04:13It was disturbingly easy for him, as he ran a children's club.
04:17After befriending boys who were usually on the smaller side, he would convince them to wear the young pioneer's uniform and participate in what he described as a controlled hanging experiment,
04:29supposedly designed to stretch their spines.
04:32Slivko reassured them that he would revive them afterward, but tragically, that wasn't always the case.
04:38Over the years, his actions resulted in the deaths of seven boys, although he carried out these so-called experiments on 43 in total.
04:58Incredibly, 36 of them were revived.
05:02Throughout this time, he obsessively filmed and photographed his disturbing sessions,
05:06developing the footage himself in a home laboratory.
05:09The recordings and photos later served as chilling evidence of the extent of his actions.
05:14Some of this disturbing material was even broadcast on television and featured in various documentary programs,
05:21shocking the public and revealing just how far his obsession had gone.
05:25In 1989, Slivko was finally arrested.
05:29Soon after, he was sentenced and executed for his crimes, bringing a grim end to one of the Soviet Union's most unsettling cases.
05:39For many, his death was seen as the only fitting conclusion for someone who had caused so much tragedy.
05:45In the early 1990s, Estonian children were introduced to a colorful new friend, Odo Trinn.
05:53The woolen dinosaur from the imaginary land of Misumasu quickly became a household name.
05:59He hosted events, visited schools, appeared on milk cartons and chocolate bars, and even released music cassettes.
06:07For a while, Odo Trinn seemed like the perfect symbol of childhood joy.
06:12But behind the bright smile of the mascot, something darker was unfolding.
06:17By the late 1990s, every trace of Odo Trinn's show was erased.
06:22The episodes weren't just shelved, they were deliberately destroyed, as if someone wanted the series to disappear from existence.
06:30The character had been created for Estonia's TV3 channel by performer Leno Lusar, who also wore the costume.
06:38With Odo Trinn's growing popularity, it seemed nothing could stop the franchise.
06:43Until tragedy struck.
06:45In 1998, the show's producer, Tanu Pavu, caused a car accident that claimed the lives of a woman and her young daughter.
06:54His family was also injured.
06:56The highly publicized trial that followed tainted the reputation of everyone tied to the show.
07:03Soon after, TV3 abruptly cancelled Odo Trinn, scrubbing it entirely from its archives.
07:10But the question remains.
07:12Why erase every single episode?
07:15Lusar tried to move on, launching another children's program called Yala Siapya.
07:20Unlike Odo Trinn, its episodes survive online to this day.
07:25For a while, he was celebrated as one of Estonia's most recognizable children's entertainers.
07:30But in 2021, everything changed.
07:34Lusar was accused of serious offenses involving a minor, and of owning prohibited digital material.
07:40During a police raid, officers also uncovered an unregistered weapon.
07:45Lusar insisted he was innocent, claiming he had no inappropriate interests, and that his soul was clean.
07:54But in December 2021, he was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison.
08:00Today, Odo Trinn is remembered not as a joyful children's mascot, but as one of the most disturbing cases of lost media in Eastern Europe.
08:11Almost nothing survives, just two short clips, a pair of recipe segments, and rumors of a single high-quality episode that resurfaced during TV3's 20th anniversary in 2016, only to vanish again soon after.
08:39What was once seen as harmless fun for Estonian children has now become a ghost of television history.
08:46A reminder that sometimes, the brightest smiles can hide the darkest secrets.
08:54This is an old lost media video from Japan, of unknown origin, that appears to showcase a new military development.
09:01Camouflage clothing has long existed in armies around the world, but what's shown here is something entirely different.
09:07The footage looks like a top secret promotional reel that somehow leaked online many years later.
09:12It has been taken down multiple times, yet it continues to resurface, allowing people to catch a glimpse.
09:18What it depicts is the sale of specialized military equipment designed to make a soldier literally disappear.
09:24At this point, we see a Japanese soldier covered in a reflective material engineered to bend light around the body, rendering him almost completely invisible.
09:32The video describes the materials used to construct this reflective suit, as well as the principles behind its function.
09:39After the explanation, the soldier demonstrates the suit in action.
09:47When he moves, you can still faintly see him, but when he stands perfectly still, he vanishes entirely.
09:53It's hard to tell whether this is clever editing or a genuine piece of military technology.
09:58If it's real, one can only assume the technology has advanced far beyond what is shown in this old promotional film.
10:04Perhaps to the point where even a moving soldier could disappear without a trace.
10:08Who this promotional video was made for, and why it ever surfaced online, remains a mystery.
10:15Noah's Ark is a 1928 feature film based on the famous biblical story.
10:23The film is most notorious for a scene during which, as reported, three actors drowned and another was seriously injured.
10:30That same sequence nearly claimed the life of a 19-year-old John Wayne, who was working as an extra at the time.
10:37You can clearly see the performers struggling against the raging torrent, fighting not for the camera, but for their lives.
10:44It's important to note that this tragedy directly led to the introduction of stricter safety regulations for stunt work in Hollywood.
10:51In the footage you see here, the actors aren't pretending. They are genuinely terrified.
10:56When the film premiered in New York, it ran for 135 minutes.
11:01The movie was sharply criticized for its poor sound quality, as well as the infamous flood sequence.
11:07In response, about 35 minutes of footage were cut for the wide release.
11:12The longer version of the flood scene was reportedly even more disturbing, and is said to have included shots of actors drowning on screen.
11:19Today, only the 100 minute release version survives.
11:23The original New York premiere cut has not been seen since its debut, and the missing 35 minutes are considered lost.
11:31If that footage still exists, it is most likely locked away in the New York Film Archives, and unlikely ever to be released due to the on-screen deaths it contains.
11:42Meetur Chai Bancha was an actor from Thailand who was often referred to as an icon of the nation's golden age of cinema.
11:51While his name remains virtually unknown outside the country, at home he was a true superstar,
11:56appearing in leading roles in nearly half of the roughly 100 films produced each year during the peak of the Thai film industry.
12:03In 1970, work began on a film that would ultimately become the last of his career.
12:08This project was especially significant, as it marked the first time Meetur both produced and directed a film himself.
12:14On October 8, 1970, the final day of shooting, the crew prepared to film the climactic scene.
12:21The hero, climbing a rope ladder lowered from a helicopter, and flying off into the sunset like a true action star.
12:28But during filming, a tragic mistake occurred.
12:31The helicopter hovered too high above the ground, and Meetur could grasp only the very bottom rung of the ladder.
12:38As the aircraft began to ascend, Meetur was left dangling helplessly with nothing else to hold onto.
12:44The pilot, unaware of the danger, continued to climb higher.
12:49After struggling for a short while, Meetur lost his grip and fell to the ground, dying instantly on impact.
12:56His death delivered a devastating blow to Thai cinema, coming only a few months after the sudden passing of pioneering filmmaker,
13:03Ratana Pestanji, who had died of a heart attack.
13:06The tragedy was compounded by the fact that cameras were rolling and captured Meetur's fatal fall in full.
13:13When the film was first released in theaters in 1970, a controversial decision was made to include the footage of his death in the final cut.
13:22However, for the later DVD release, those scenes were entirely removed.
13:27The sequence ended as the helicopter began its ascent.
13:31In their place, the film showed alternate helicopter shots, followed by a title card dedicating the picture to Meetur's memory.
13:38Since then, the footage of Meetur's fall has never again been shown to the public, and it is unlikely ever to be released.
13:45Both out of moral considerations, and as a gesture of respect for the actor's legacy.
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