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00:00On October 26, 2020, Reddit user Hartigan99 made a post in the Internet Mysteries subreddit titled
00:06I believe this popular meme is an image from a snuff film. Hopefully you guys can prove me wrong.
00:11The post read
00:12Hello there. Please let me know if this isn't the right place to post it.
00:16I've seen this meme being posted around for quite a long time, usually with drinking-related titles,
00:21as if the person lying on the grass is just blacked out drunk.
00:24Now, I will never forget a video I saw in the deep web about 8 years ago
00:28that showed two Russian guys messing around with the body of a woman,
00:31using a knife on her face and other terribly atrocious things, all while talking and laughing.
00:35Whenever I see this meme, I think of that video, and after taking a good look at the picture,
00:40I believe it can actually be a frame from it.
00:42The video takes place in a very similar setting, the concrete well and the grass surrounding it.
00:47However, it could very well be that I'm misremembering it.
00:50The questions I'm left with are, does anyone know about the origin of the picture?
00:54Is there anyone here who's familiar with the clip I've talked about?
00:56If so, could it be from it?
00:58I definitely don't remember well enough to be sure whether it is the same or not.
01:02I know I could just check it out myself, but I am committed to never searching for this kind of
01:05content again.
01:07I hope some of you guys can help with this.
01:08The image they were talking about had been circulating online for years.
01:12It showed a woman lying face down in a field with some kind of concrete structure beside her.
01:17By it, online the photograph had taken a completely different meaning.
01:20It was commonly used as a drinking meme, with captions joking that the woman had simply passed
01:25out after drinking too much.
01:27The photograph had no known source.
01:29And without wine, there was no way to know if what people had been sharing as a joke for
01:33years was actually an image of a woman who had been killed.
01:36Several commenters immediately connected the description to the Napropovosk maniacs,
01:40Viktor Sienko and Igor Supruniuk.
01:43So, I've actually never watched the video mentioned in your post as I am easily terrified
01:47by things like that, but I do like to have a good read.
01:50After reading almost the entire wiki page about the Napropovosk maniacs, the image you
01:54see in the memes is most likely an image from the video of that guy they killed, Sergei Yatsenko.
01:59The pair went on a killing spree around Napropovosk, Ukraine in the summer of 2007.
02:04In less than a month, they killed 21 people, often choosing their victims seemingly at random
02:09and recorded several of the attacks on their phones.
02:11On the surface, the connection made sense.
02:14The video the OP remembered involved two men attacking someone near a concrete structure
02:18surrounded by grass, a setting that sounded strangely similar to the photograph.
02:22And because of that, several commenters thought the OP might have simply remembered a frame
02:26from one of their videos.
02:27This does look like it could be related to those three guys and a hammer killers.
02:31For context, three guys, one hammer is one of the most notorious pieces of gore content
02:36from the early internet.
02:37The recording showed one of the victims lying in a wooded area as the killer
02:41attacked him with a hammer.
02:42At one point, they were also seen using some kind of sharp object.
02:46That detail made the comparison even more disturbing.
02:49The OP had specifically remembered seeing what appeared to be a knife near a woman's face,
02:54so it's possible they may have mistaken the object in the recording for a knife.
02:57But beyond that one similarity, there was almost nothing that matched.
03:01For starters, the victim in three guys' one hammer was a man, while the person in the photograph
03:06appears to be a woman.
03:07Second, the video was filmed in a wooded area beside a road.
03:10In the OP's photograph, the woman in the picture is lying in an open patch of grass.
03:15More importantly, the attack in the video was extremely violent.
03:19By the time it was over, the victim had sustained serious injuries, while the person in the OP's
03:23photograph showed no obvious signs of experiencing anything similar.
03:26So even if OP had mistaken the sharp object for a knife, the rest of their memory simply didn't
03:31line up.
03:32And eventually, OP themselves confirmed they were two completely different videos.
03:36When someone brought up three guys' one hammer in the comments, the OP said they had already
03:40seen it before and knew it wasn't the video they remembered.
03:42Oh, I know that one too.
03:44That is surely not the video I am talking about.
03:46But that only left the more disturbing question unanswered.
03:49If that wasn't the video the OP remembered, then what was?
03:53The question went unanswered for about three years, until someone came back to the thread with
03:57an equally chilling explanation.
03:58This person suggested that the video the OP remembered could have been connected to Artyom
04:03Anufriyev and Nikita Litkin, better known as the Academy Maniacs.
04:07You are definitely talking about the video from Artyom A. Anufriyev and Nikita V. Litkin,
04:13the Academy Killers.
04:14Their video is very similar to what you are saying.
04:16And this time, there were several details that actually matched.
04:19The Academy Maniacs had carried out a series of attacks in Irkutsk, Russia between late 2010
04:24and early 2011, killing six people and injuring nine others.
04:29The pair had also been influenced by the Napropovosk Maniacs after reading about their
04:33murders online.
04:34But it was their final victim that made this theory much harder to dismiss.
04:37She was a 63-year-old homeless woman named Alevtina Koidina.
04:41The entire thing was recorded and later distributed online.
04:45And when compared to what the OP remembered, several disturbing details lined up.
04:49The victim was a woman, just like the person the OP remembered seeing in the video.
04:53The killers were two Russian men, which was another detail the OP had specifically mentioned
04:57in their original post.
04:58More importantly, the recording included a knife, closely matching the OP's specific
05:03memory of seeing one used against the woman.
05:05But what made this even more disturbing was that the timeline matched too.
05:08The OP said they had seen the video roughly eight years before making their post, which
05:12would place it around 2012.
05:14The Academy Maniacs recorded their murder in 2011, and the footage was distributed online
05:18afterward.
05:19However, the comment identifying the Academy Maniacs was posted nearly three years after
05:23the original thread, by which point the OP had stopped responding.
05:26So, there was no confirmation that this was actually the video they remembered.
05:30And even if it was, that still wouldn't prove the woman in the photograph was the same victim.
05:35The photo showed no visible blood or facial injuries, while the Academy Maniacs' footage
05:39did.
05:39The image could theoretically have been taken beforehand, but there was nothing concrete connecting
05:44the photo itself to the Academy Maniacs or their victim.
05:46Which led many to another possibility.
05:49The photograph might not have come from a snuff video at all.
05:52One commenter looked into the image itself and came back with an actual trace of where
05:55the meme had appeared online.
05:57They reverse searched the photograph on TinEye and found 26 results, with the earliest dating
06:01back to September 2016.
06:03They said,
06:19By it, they noticed something else that was arguably more useful.
06:22The text from the original meme read,
06:25Shout out to the days when you would tell your parents you were at a sleepover, but you were
06:28actually dying in a field from alcohol poisoning.
06:31By it, they noted that this text had already appeared online in 2015, before the photograph
06:35first appeared.
06:36So, the caption clearly wasn't the photograph's original context.
06:40At some point, the two had simply been brought together.
06:42This led many to believe that perhaps the image really was taken in an innocent context.
06:47Someone may have photographed a person simply passed out in a field.
06:51Perhaps the picture then circulated privately, and years later was paired with a drinking
06:54joke.
06:55But, it's also still possible that the image is from somewhere else entirely, and that
06:59its original context really was far more disturbing.
07:02Unfortunately, without knowing where the photograph originally came from, there is no way to determine
07:07whether it was simply an innocent image that became a meme, or whether it really was
07:11connected to something much darker.
07:16On December 17th, 2013, a Reddit user made a post titled,
07:21Came Across This At Work Today, describing an encounter involving one of their contractors.
07:25The post read,
07:27I work for a property securing company.
07:29We send contractors to vacant homes to change the locks and do winterizations.
07:33The other day, one of my contractors was doing an initial secure and routine inspection
07:37on a home.
07:38He'd been in the house for about an hour, and headed to the basement for the required
07:41photo.
07:42It was very dark down there, but he trusted his camera flash to get a decent picture.
07:46He stayed on the stairs and took a photo before entering the basement to check for trip hazards
07:50or giant spiders.
07:51When he looked at his camera, this is what he saw.
07:54He left after that.
07:56Alongside the post, OP linked a photograph of the cluttered basement, showing a person
08:00sitting in a plastic chair in the back of the room, with their back turned toward the
08:03camera.
08:04Naturally, the post quickly caught people's attention, and many of them were just as freaked
08:07out by the image.
08:08I can't imagine being in that situation.
08:11Imagine he took the picture, looked at the photo, saw the person, began to run upstairs,
08:16but he heard the person shuffling and getting up.
08:18He runs through the house and hears footsteps getting closer and closer.
08:22This is horrifying.
08:23Beyond the eerie nature of the image, OP's post left a disturbing question.
08:27Who was this woman, and what was she doing alone in a vacant house?
08:30Once the initial shock wore off, people began noticing something suspicious about the photograph
08:35itself.
08:36The photograph carried a 7-8-2011 timestamp, almost two and a half years before the reddit
08:41post, despite OP describing the discovery as something that had happened the other day.
08:46Some people immediately took this as evidence that the story was fabricated, while others
08:50pointed out another strange detail.
08:51While the image itself appeared to be a screenshot, OP had an explanation for both concerns.
08:57In a reply to a comment, they explained,
09:17By it, that still left the most unsettling part of the photograph unexplained.
09:20Who was this person, and what were they doing down in a basement of a vacant home?
09:25Most people had a fairly straightforward answer.
09:28It just looks like a homeless person took shelter to me.
09:30Yep, definitely a squatter.
09:32That doesn't make these circumstances any less terrifying though.
09:35OP's own guess was the same.
09:37They suspected the person was a squatter who had heard the contractor inside the house and
09:41stayed completely silent, hoping no one would realize they were there.
09:44And looking at the photograph, that explanation made sense.
09:47The person appeared disheveled, but more strangely, they remained
09:50completely still, even as the contractor came down the stairs behind them and his camera
09:54flashed lit up the room.
09:56The question now was, how had they gotten inside a supposedly empty home, and how long
10:00had they been sitting down there?
10:02Fortunately, under another comment, OP had also promised an update as soon as the contractor
10:06submitted a follow-up report.
10:08And on December 19th, OP returned with an update.
10:11So, a couple days ago I posted this story that I had come across at work.
10:15If you would like to maintain the mystery, don't read any further.
10:17I decided to comply with requests and provide an update.
10:21Please keep in mind that I work with people's personal information, and it is unlawful for
10:25me to provide too much detail.
10:26Our contractor's follow-up report was due today.
10:28I received it early this afternoon.
10:30After finding our freaky basement dweller, the contractor left the property for his own
10:34safety.
10:35His initial report did not give much insight as to what happened, which is why we ordered
10:39a follow-up.
10:40It read as follows.
10:41As I went down the basement stairs, as I normally do, I use the flash of my camera to guide
10:45me.
10:45I have several photos of my feet because I aimed my camera straight down while walking
10:49down dark steps.
10:50When I got to the bottom step, I took a photo to make sure there was nothing blocking my
10:54path and no flooding that could get my boots wet.
10:56I saw the woman there for a second when the flash went off, but I didn't really believe
11:00anyone was there.
11:01I looked at my camera to be sure, and there she was, just sitting there.
11:04I left immediately.
11:06I went home and submitted my photos to you, and I really tried not to think about it anymore.
11:10It scared me more than anything has since I started doing this job.
11:13After I got the email to go back and do a follow-up report, I called the police and gave
11:17them
11:17the address, and told them I'd meet them there in about an hour to let them in, since I got
11:20the locks changed and I was the only one with keys.
11:23I really didn't like the thought of going back there.
11:25The police said I couldn't take any more pictures than absolutely necessary, so I only
11:29got about 12.
11:30They would not allow me to photograph their cars or the occupant.
11:33They did say I could give you the information that she was passing through the night before
11:36and came in through the back window to stay warm.
11:38The officers told me they'll be taking her to the station, and that any future work orders
11:42of this property should be safe to complete.
11:44Although it was not stated to do so in that email I got, the officer suggested I board
11:48up that back window, so I did.
11:50I have photos of that as well.
11:52Alongside the update, OP included several new photographs from the property, including
11:56the one showing the window now covered with a sheet of plywood.
11:59And with that, what actually happened inside the house finally became clear.
12:03The woman had simply entered the vacant house looking for somewhere warm to spend the
12:06night.
12:06By it, knowing the explanation doesn't make the photograph itself any less disturbing.
12:11Because, imagine yourself in that position.
12:13You walk down a flight of stairs into a pitch black basement, and the only way you can see
12:17what's ahead of you is through the flash on your camera.
12:20You reach the bottom, take a photo, and for a split second the room lights up, revealing
12:25someone sitting silently just a few feet in front of you.
12:28Then, everything goes dark again, and you're standing there desperately trying to pull up the
12:31photo to see for sure.
12:32And, even though the update confirmed she was just passing through and looking for warmth,
12:37the contractor didn't know any of that in the moment.
12:39People who break into vacant properties aren't always harmless.
12:42There are plenty of cases where squatters have turned violent when someone walked in on them,
12:45and the contractor had no way of knowing who this person was or what they were willing
12:49to do.
12:50In hindsight, the encounter could have ended very differently.
12:53The contractor was alone in a dark basement with a complete stranger, and in the short seconds
12:57after the flash faded, they could have easily closed the distance between them.
13:05On October 25th, 2019, a Reddit user by the name M. Grego shared a bizarre experience to
13:11the subreddit Non-Murder Mysteries with the title, Giant Clamshell Mystery.
13:15The post read,
13:16About ten years ago, I was a facilitator at a nature center.
13:20At one end of our exhibit hall, there was a giant clamshell that measured about four feet across.
13:25I was guiding a group of kindergartners through the exhibit area when a little boy pointed to the
13:29clamshell and said casually,
13:31God died in there.
13:32It was a weird comment, but I didn't think much of it until another child made the exact same comment
13:37about six months later.
13:38Within the three years that I held the job, five different kids looked at the clamshell and
13:42stated, God died in there, always worded the exact same way.
13:46The kids were all four to six years old.
13:48They did not go to the same school or the same church.
13:51As far as I can tell, they didn't know one another at all.
13:54I think it might be a reference to a book or cartoon, but I can't find the source.
13:58Any thoughts?
13:59At first, a lot of people in the comments treated the incident as strange but explainable,
14:03with some suggesting the children might have said something else and the opiate simply
14:06misheard them.
14:07For example, one user suggested that the kids may have said,
14:10Cod, as in the fish, instead of God.
14:13Another person believed the children might have been saying,
14:16Go hide in there, rather than God died in there.
14:18Because the two phrases sound similar, it was possible the opiate simply misheard them.
14:22And for a moment, this explanation sounded reasonable.
14:26To a four to six year old, a giant clamshell could easily look like the perfect hiding spot.
14:31By it, the idea that five children said the same thing and opiate misheard all of them
14:35doesn't sound very convincing.
14:37Which raises an unsettling question.
14:39How did these five unrelated children all end up saying the exact same thing
14:43without anyone ever teaching it to them?
14:45For some people, this was reason enough to doubt whether the opiate was telling the truth at all.
14:49Because, God dying inside a clamshell was already a strange claim on its own.
14:53By it, the fact that it happened five times and the opiate never once asked the children
14:57what they meant didn't sit well with people.
14:59And many were quick to point it out.
15:01I think if this happened to me, I may have let that comment fly as a bizarre and
15:05humorous remark from a child.
15:06The second time, I'm sure I would have asked the child what he or she meant by that.
15:10And also mentioned to one of the chaperones of the outing that this is the second time
15:13you have been asked this.
15:14On the third, fourth, and fifth instances, well, I would think anyone would want to satisfy
15:19their curiosity.
15:21This makes me doubt the claim, though I still appreciate it.
15:23It's a very unusual and intriguing story.
15:26Although the opiate never responded to the criticism, the comments did offer several other
15:30theories that attempted to explain where the strange phrase might have come from.
15:33One theory was that it came from a religious children's book series called God's Lessons,
15:38which featured a character named Chatty Clam.
15:40At first, this seems exactly what OP was looking for, a children's book involving both God and
15:45the clam, two things at the center of the phrase the children kept repeating.
15:49And because OP had already suspected the children might have been referencing a book or cartoon,
15:53the theory initially seems even more convincing.
15:55But the closer you look, the more it begins to fall apart.
15:59Chatty Clam is simply a story about a clam who learns not to gossip.
16:02While God is mentioned throughout the book, there's no scene where God dies, let alone
16:06inside a giant clamshell.
16:08So, there was nothing in the actual story that could have explained what the children had said.
16:12But the bigger problem with this theory is the timeline.
16:15The God's Lessons series wasn't published until 2016, but the OP made their post in 2019,
16:20saying these encounters started about 10 years ago, placing them roughly between 2009 and 2012
16:25during their three years at the job.
16:27So, even allowing some room for the OP's dates to be approximate, the books appeared several
16:32years too late to explain what those children were referencing.
16:35The next theory came from a similar direction, but this time it made much more sense.
16:39A user pointed out that the phrase could be a reference to a movie character from Ice Age
16:43and provided an example that for once seemed to cover every aspect around the mystery.
16:47Could be saying,
16:52For context, Gut is a villain character in the animated film Ice Age Continental Drift.
16:57Near the end of the movie, Gut is lured towards a siren disguised as a female ape.
17:01But as he gets closer, it reveals its true form and pulls him inside a giant clam-like shell
17:06before snapping shut.
17:07So, it's possible that seeing the giant clamshell at the nature center reminded the children
17:11of what happened to Gut in the movie.
17:13Gut died in there, and God died in there, sound extremely similar, especially coming
17:18from a four or five year old.
17:19But, just like the chatty clam theory, the timing doesn't quite add up.
17:23Ice Age Continental Drift came out in July 2012, which would put it right at the tail end
17:27of the OP's three years at the nature center.
17:29So, at best, it could only explain the last one or two children saying the phrase.
17:34Now, it is possible the OP was off by a year or two.
17:37They say this happened about ten years ago, which is clearly a rough estimate,
17:40and even being slightly off could mean the encounters happened closer to the movie's
17:44release.
17:45But, since they never came back to clarify, we can't know for sure.
17:48There was, however, another explanation that had nothing to do with books or movies.
17:52Some people noticed that vintage religious displays existed showing crucifixes placed
17:57inside shells.
17:58I'm finding a lot of vintage displays of crucifixions in shells.
18:01Maybe there was such a thing in a prominent place nearby or at some other spot multiple
18:05young children would have visited.
18:07The comment even included an eBay listing showing exactly what they meant.
18:10So, it's possible that the children had seen something like this before, maybe inside
18:14a church or as a decorative piece in their own homes.
18:17If they then saw the giant clamshell at the nature center and associated it with one of
18:21those displays, a child describing it as God died in there suddenly makes a lot more sense.
18:26But, there's still nothing connecting any of the children to these displays, and it doesn't
18:30explain why five of them supposedly use the exact same phrase.
18:33So, ultimately, none of these theories can be confirmed.
18:37Regardless of the answer, there's still something unsettling about the whole thing.
18:40Out of all the things a child could say when looking at a clamshell, five children from different
18:45schools said the exact same sentence, and all five happened to say it in front of the same
18:49person.
18:53On September 9th, 2014, Reddit user Lamentita made a post in Spanish in the Argentina subreddit
19:00with the title translating to, Entering Villa 31.
19:03The translated post read,
19:04I want to go into Villa 31 and be able to talk to the residents, discuss certain things
19:09about the place, and see what it's like inside.
19:11Does anyone know how to get in?
19:13Villa 31 was one of Buenos Aires' oldest informal settlements.
19:17It had existed since the 1930s when workers and immigrants began settling near the city's
19:21port and railway lines.
19:23By 2014, it was one of the city's most dangerous areas.
19:26Drug trafficking had taken hold in parts of the settlement, with criminal groups fighting
19:30for control of territory and using intimidation and extreme violence to maintain it.
19:34So, for someone coming from outside, trying to understand what was happening inside Villa
19:3831 was a dangerous goal to have.
19:41Four years earlier, a local journalist and community leader named Adams Ledesma had been
19:45found killed just meters from his home in Villa 31.
19:48Adams lived in the neighborhood and ran a local newspaper and television station covering life
19:52inside the settlement.
19:53Much of his work focused on the poor conditions residents were living in, including problems
19:57with sanitation and infrastructure.
19:59By it, shortly before his death, Adams had spoken out about investigating people who entered
20:03Villa 31 to buy drugs.
20:04Which is why when OP expressed their desire to visit and explore what life inside Villa 31
20:09looks like, people immediately started warning them about going alone.
20:12I will make it short.
20:13Don't be an idiot.
20:15Go with someone.
20:16At the very least, temporarily join some left-wing university group and go with them the next
20:20time they organize a health field trip or whatever it is they're doing.
20:23After that, do whatever you want.
20:24The last time it passed by the entrance to Villa 31, there were three guys locked in
20:28a knife fight, right next to the Retio bus terminal.
20:31Another person gave OP an even more direct warning about what could happen if they simply
20:35walked in alone.
20:36If you go alone, you'll take five steps and they'll stop you, not in a nice way, and ask
20:41what you want there, meaning if you want to buy drugs.
20:43Most likely, they'll rob you and kick you out.
20:45They barely let in some television groups who have to pay to be able to enter and film inside.
20:49And there was another reason simply walking into Villa 31 wasn't an option.
20:53The settlement was a dense maze of narrow alleys and winding paths while deeper areas could
20:58be controlled by different criminal groups.
21:00Without knowing the layout or having someone local to vouch for you, wandering in as a stranger
21:04could quickly draw attention or put you in the wrong place at the wrong time.
21:08Unfortunately, despite their warnings, OP still seemed determined to find a way inside,
21:12with their next update suggesting they were getting closer to actually going.
21:15I'm still waiting for a friend's approval.
21:17He's going to put me in touch with a contact.
21:19It'll be a sort of tour of cafeterias and a school, and I can get a glimpse inside
21:23a bit.
21:24I went to check out the entrance, and when I saw a path leading nowhere, I was terrified.
21:28However, the OP never explained who this contact was or how their friend knew someone who could
21:32safely take them inside Villa 31.
21:34And despite seemingly getting closer to carrying out their plan, OP suddenly stopped posting
21:39on Reddit altogether, which left behind one chilling question.
21:43What happened to the OP?
21:45Of course, them suddenly going quiet didn't necessarily mean something had happened to them.
21:49They may have never entered Villa 31 at all.
21:51They could have lost interest, forgotten about the account, or simply decided the trip wasn't
21:55worth the risk.
21:56But in OP's case, there was no evidence to suggest a gradual loss of interest.
22:01They had been active for years before this post, regularly posting and commenting in r slash
22:05Argentina, sometimes about provocative topics, and had developed a reputation as a curious,
22:10somewhat reckless user who liked edgy subjects.
22:13Which made their sudden silence around the Villa 31 thread much harder to brush off.
22:17And there was one comment in particular that made the timing feel much more disturbing in
22:21hindsight.
22:22When someone said they were looking forward to OP's report, OP jokingly replied,
22:26I'll write a good post about it if I make it out alive.
22:29Unfortunately, that post never came.
22:31And as the years passed, without another word from OP, some people began taking that final
22:36joke much more seriously.
22:37The obvious fear was that OP had actually followed through with the plan of entering Villa
22:4131 and never made it back out.
22:43Eventually, people even began leaving what were essentially farewell messages underneath
22:47the original post.
22:49But at this point, all of this was still speculation.
22:52There was no real evidence that OP had ever entered Villa 31.
22:55For starters, OP never confirmed that the visit actually happened.
22:59Nobody even knew who the contact was or whether that person ever took OP inside.
23:04And despite the mystery being discussed for years afterward and becoming a local legend,
23:07nobody ever connected OP to a known death or disappearance from Villa 31, which left a much
23:13simpler possibility.
23:15That there was never a disappearance to begin with, and that OP had deliberately created the
23:19story to see how far people would take it.
23:21It was a conclusion other people had naturally arrived at as well.
23:24My theory is that this was planned from the beginning to become the legend it is today.
23:28Well played, OP.
23:29Maybe this is true.
23:31Maybe they never even attempted to enter Villa 31.
23:34It's also possible they did go, and made it out just fine, but realized that posting
23:38about what they saw could draw the wrong kind of attention from people inside who wouldn't
23:41want an outsider writing about their community online.
23:44But if neither of those theories are true, then OP really did go to Villa 31, and really
23:49did never make it out.
23:54On December 22nd, 2012, a user named Zombie Gaddafi posted a chilling story under a post in
24:00r slash ask reddit titled, What is an extremely dark slash creepy true story most people don't
24:06know about?
24:06In response to the question, they told a story about an old photograph belonging to their uncle
24:10that read, This is about my uncle.
24:12I think it was the late 70s or 80s.
24:15I can't remember which, but my uncle is old.
24:17He's like 50 now.
24:18Anyway, he took a trip to the Grand Canyon with his friends.
24:21They were driving along the Grand Canyon and stopped near this area with hedges slash brush
24:25on the side of the canyon and decided to take one of your standard funny Grand Canyon
24:28pictures.
24:29They had a really funny idea.
24:31My uncle was to stand on the side of the canyon with a fishing rod and pretend to fish off
24:35the
24:35side of the canyon.
24:36So they ended up taking the picture and shortly after packed up and drove off.
24:40So they took the role to be developed and when they saw the picture, they noticed something
24:44very strange.
24:45In the picture, not far behind my uncle was a man dressed in all black with pale white skin
24:50standing there in the brush just staring at the camera with a knowing smirk on his face.
24:54He said he and his two friends were in that spot for about 15 minutes.
24:57My uncle and his friends claimed that they did not know this man, that they were the
25:01only ones in the spot, and that the Grand Canyon was vacant of tourists at this time of year.
25:05They still know nothing about the man and the picture still exists.
25:08I will post it here if there is enough demand.
25:10I have to find it first and I think it's on his Facebook or something.
25:13The story wasn't settling enough on its own, but the claim that the photograph still existed
25:17immediately caught people's attention and many began asking the OP to post it.
25:21And just a few hours later, the OP came back with an edit.
25:24They had found the photograph, but after seeing it again, they realized some of the details
25:28they remembered weren't actually there.
25:29It is not exactly how I remembered.
25:31He is not fishing off the side of the canyon and the guy does not have a knowing smirk on
25:35his face.
25:36Or maybe he did in the original and it doesn't show up clearly on the scan.
25:39I saw the original when I was like 14 and apparently my memory of it is a bit hazy.
25:43The image they attached shows the OP's uncle standing near the edge of the canyon posing for
25:47a photo.
25:48At first, nothing seems unusual.
25:50By it, upon taking a closer look, there's someone else in the picture.
25:54Partially hidden behind the trees is a man dressed almost entirely in black and looking
25:58directly towards the camera.
25:59By it, not everyone was convinced the OP was telling the truth.
26:02And considering the entire story came from a Reddit comment, the possibility of a hoax was
26:07difficult to ignore.
26:08Some believe the explanation was much simpler.
26:10The man had been photoshopped into the picture.
26:13At first, that seems like the most obvious explanation.
26:15By it, there were a few details that made it harder to dismiss the photograph that easily.
26:19For one, the OP claimed the picture was taken sometime in the late 70s or 80s, but Photoshop
26:24wasn't even released until 1990.
26:27And more importantly, some users actually analyzed the image for signs of digital manipulation.
26:31And their conclusion was that the image was very unlikely to have been digitally manipulated.
26:36Which meant the more unsettling possibility was still on the table.
26:39The man might actually have been standing there.
26:41According to the OP, their uncle and his two friends claimed they had spent around 15 minutes
26:45at the spot, and none of them remember seeing him.
26:48Which raises a much more disturbing question.
26:50What was he doing so close to the OP's uncle in the first place?
26:54I think the hooded fellow might have thought your uncle was alone and was approaching to
26:57maybe push him or something, but noticed the camera.
27:00One user pointed out that something disturbingly similar had happened at the Grand Canyon before.
27:04The Grand Canyon has its share of creepiness.
27:06I recall hiking on Grandview Trail and a member of our group stopped and pointed out one particular
27:11part of the trail where a man had once killed his entire family by pushing them to death.
27:15The story they remembered wasn't quite accurate.
27:18But there was a real case that came disturbingly close.
27:21Robert Spangler was a serial killer who in 1993 took his third wife Donna Sunling hiking
27:26in the Grand Canyon and pushed her from a 160 foot cliff.
27:29And this wasn't the first time Spangler had killed someone.
27:32Fifteen years earlier, in 1978, he murdered his first wife Nancy and their two children
27:37inside their Colorado home.
27:38More importantly, Robert had a deep attachment to the Grand Canyon.
27:41He had been hiking there for years, and even after Donna died there, he continued returning
27:45several times a year.
27:47Which is where a much darker theory begins to make at least some sense.
27:50If the photograph really was taken sometime in the late 70s or 80s, then Robert was already
27:55an active killer during at least part of that period.
27:57And years later, we know he would use the Grand Canyon itself to murder his third wife.
28:02What's even more disturbing is when their photographs are placed side by side, there's
28:06enough of a resemblance to make the comparison uncomfortable.
28:09Though there's still the possibility that the entire thing could have been a prank.
28:12And the OP themselves gave people a reason to suspect this.
28:15In the same edit where they admitted that parts of their memory were wrong, they also mentioned
28:19that their uncle had pulled their leg in the past.
28:21That possibility came up several times in the comments as well.
28:24Some believed the figure was simply one of the uncle's friends, and that the entire
28:28photograph had been staged.
28:29It would explain why OP's uncle failed to notice a stranger standing just a few feet
28:33in front of him despite looking in his direction.
28:36By it, because the OP never broke character or retracted his story, there is no certain way
28:40to tell which theory is actually true.