Most creepy/frightening news story

Deus Ex Machina

I think the ongoing case of the MI6 agent found dead in a sports bag in the bath of his London apartment has a very sinister feel to it. The fact that he was found in a padlocked bag two weeks after his death is creepy, as is the lack of any clear cause of death. The shortage of details at this stage is probably the reason why it creeps me out, allows my over active imagination to run loose.

What is the most frightening/creepy news story you've heard?

Doyler92

Deus Ex Machina wrote: »

I think the ongoing case of the MI6 agent found dead in a sports bag in the bath of his London apartment has a very sinister feel to it. The fact that he was found in a padlocked bag two weeks after his death is creepy, as is the lack of any clear cause of death. The shortage of details at this stage is probably the reason why it creeps me out, allows my over active imagination to run loose.

What is the most frightening/creepy news story you've heard seen?

This would possibly be people jumping from the twin towers when the planes were about to crash into it.

MagicMarker

He was found in a sports bag? I don't remember hearing that?

peanuthead

MagicMarker wrote: »

He was found in a sports bag? I don't remember hearing that?

+1, link?

JohnK

MagicMarker wrote: »

He was found in a sports bag? I don't remember hearing that?

peanuthead wrote: »

+1, link?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/01/mi6-officer-body-sports-holdall

flower tattoo

http://www.examiner.ie/world/crime/murdered-british-spy-found-stuffed-into-sports-bag-128892.html

dunleakelleher

Deus Ex Machina wrote: »

I think the ongoing case of the MI6 agent found dead in a sports bag in the bath of his London apartment has a very sinister feel to it.

No.
I think it all seems quite normal.

laugh

And it gets leaked to the press that he is gay and into kinky stuff . . .

OutlawPete

Rwanda and a teacher from a school explaining how she was sitting in class teaching kids and seen a group of men running through a field towards the school with machetes, burst in and hack the all children to death, bar one or two who survived.

It was on the BBC and they interviewed some of the surviving kids and even one of the men who did it, was very strange eerie.

Seen a cannibal tribe interviewed also where they laughed and joked about how they kill and eat rival tribe members when they catch them near their villages.

Donkey Oaty

OutlawPete wrote: »

Seen a cannibal tribe interviewed also where they laughed and joked about how they kill and eat rival tribe members when they catch them near their villages.

They're less likely to try and eat you if you act tough.

Susannahmia

This: Decapitated bus passenger

Wiki article

UrbanSea

I remember that case about the spy,only recently. Seemed strange indeed.

Donkey Oaty

Despite all the scaremongering sensationalist stories we have today, nothing comes close to the sheer horror of the post-nuclear holocaust scenarios we were presented with on a daily basis in the late 1970s and early 1980s, reinforced by dramas like Threads.

For a young kid like myself they were truly terrifying.

JONJO THE MISER

If Killkenny win 5 in a row that will be both Creepy and very Frightening:eek:

Abelloid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs

Sea Sharp

Susannahmia wrote: »

This: Decapitated bus passenger

That story freaked the shit out of me!!

Mr. Manager

JustinOval wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs

That's just not right....

"They discuss the murder calmly, expressing mild surprise that the victim was still breathing after a screwdriver was plunged into his exposed brain. The suspects then wash their hands and the hammer with a water bottle, and begin to laugh"

Black Swan

Shock and Awe Baghdad: http://johngaltfla.com/blog3/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/shock_and_awe_2.jpg Blowing people up for peace, yes, RIP kind of peace.

Sunnyisland

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

If Killkenny win 5 in a row that will be both Creepy and very Frightening:eek:

:D:D

Yakult

JustinOval wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs

ugh.. I saw one of those videos and it messed me up for a week. Got over it tho and now Im pretty immune to gore etc. after watching it.

Sick sick sick stuff all the same. Wouldnt watch it again.

winston82

I heard a shocking story there last year, something along the lines of Katherine Lynch getting her own show on RTE. Made me sick to my stomach. Haven't been right since.

LavaLamp

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Despite all the scaremongering sensationalist stories we have today, nothing comes close to the sheer horror of the post-nuclear holocaust scenarios we were presented with on a daily basis in the late 1970s and early 1980s, reinforced by dramas like Threads.

For a young kid like myself they were truly terrifying.

OMG agree with you about Threads, we were shown that in school and it really freaked me out, can still remember certain scenes quite vividly!

up for anything

JustinOval wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs

Thanks, I could have lived quite happily without ever knowing about that.

Donkey Oaty

LavaLamp wrote: »

OMG agree with you about Threads, we were shown that in school and it really freaked me out, can still remember certain scenes quite vividly!

It's interesting that it hasn't been shown on TV for a long time - at least as far as I know.

I don't have kids, but if I did I wouldn't let them watch it.

MultiUmm

Susannahmia wrote: »

This: Decapitated bus passenger

Wiki article

Most disturbing one yet, by far.

Nodin

Susannahmia wrote: »

This: Decapitated bus passenger

Wiki article

'hey, theres Mr Arvanitis...he doesn't seem too happy...'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7539944.stm

deereidy

That news story about the doctor that tried to get into her boyfreind's house through the chimmney creeped me out.

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/dead-doctor-found-in-mans-chimney-2320371.html

Nolanger

The front page of a British newspaper in the '70s where they discuss the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. Another article on the same page had a photograph of a truck driver. Guess who he turned out to be?

ChunkyLover_53

This story freaked me out years ago the dude impaled the donkey on a iron fench post through the eye IIRC

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/donkey-pepper-is-scared-of-men-519937.html

on a side note I found this while googling the other story & it only happened last year

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/city-news/terrible-sight-as-donkey-found-hanged-in-park-1731501.html

Jeboa Safari

Before the Toy Show the news reader came on and said there was a u.f.o hovering over Dublin :O

then another time on the radio, they broke in with a serious report of 'unconfirmed reports of explosians at Sellafield'. Then just went on to say something like 'this is how the news would be broke if there was an explosion

Faith+1

Susannahmia wrote: »

This: Decapitated bus passenger

Wiki article

Totally Agree. Sent a shiver down my spine when I heard it.:eek:

Mr Benevolent

Not again. The 'worst thing you've ever seen' thread has only just died and some fucker decides to freak us all out again. AH is just awful sometimes.

Yakult

up for anything wrote: »

Thanks, I could have lived quite happily without ever knowing about that.

Watch the video, will make you feel better! Trust me.

Superwhy

This story really freaked me out for some reason. Its the first time I had ever heard anything like it.

http://mosnews.com/weird/2009/06/18/blackwidow/

up for anything

Superwhy wrote: »

This story really freaked me out for some reason. Its the first time I had ever heard anything like it.

http://mosnews.com/weird/2009/06/18/blackwidow/

At present, the police know about ten of Valeria’s victims, although one of them refused to file a complaint against her.

“It was great,” the unnamed man said.

“I like hot women. I only wish she hadn't use the clonidine on me.”

I'm sure he posts on AH though.

Kimia

Have to say, the worst news story I have ever read is the one about Fritzl. It literally nearly made me cry, I just couldn't believe that someone could be that horrifically evil. Words can't even begin to describe the horror, I can't even think about it tbh.

Dudess

I couldn't possibly pick just one - there are countless ones. In recent years, Baby P and Fritzl froze my blood. Lately, a case involving a domestic servant in Saudi Arabia being tortured by her employer, who heated up nails and drove them into her flesh, left me reeling. There was actually an investigative documentary on TV recently about the issue of abuse of those in domestic servitude. It's a topic that deserves exposure because it seems to be hidden, but I could only watch a small bit - ****ing hell...
There are children in domestic slavery even in Britain.

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Despite all the scaremongering sensationalist stories we have today, nothing comes close to the sheer horror of the post-nuclear holocaust scenarios we were presented with on a daily basis in the late 1970s and early 1980s, reinforced by dramas like Threads.

For a young kid like myself they were truly terrifying.

Threads is definitely the most terrifying piece of fictional film I have ever seen.

Joshua5

Anyone for Fred West on this?:D

Deus Ex Machina

Confab wrote: »

Not again. The 'worst thing you've ever seen' thread has only just died and some fucker decides to freak us all out again. AH is just awful sometimes.

Ironic, Confab not fond of confabulation?

Jev/N

That Westmeath Murder/Cold Case that came about earlier in the year was pretty fcuked up!

A 61-year-old woman and a 47-year-old man have gone on trial charged with the murder of the woman's husband 23 years ago.

Vera McGrath and Colin Pinder deny the murder of Bernard Brian McGrath between 10 March and 18 April 1987.

Mr Pinder pleaded guilty to manslaughter this morning, but that plea has not been accepted by the prosecution.
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The Central Criminal Court heard the main prosecution witness will be Ms McGrath's daughter, Veronica, who was married to Mr Pinder.

She will say that some time at the end of March or beginning of April 1987 she saw a sustained assault on her father, Mr McGrath, by her mother and Mr Pinder.

She will say he was beaten to death by the two accused with a number of different weapons at the family home at Lr Coole, Coole, Westmeath.

Her father was then buried in a shallow grave in the garden of the family home, the court was told.

But around two months later, her mother and Mr Pinder dug up the body and burned it before smashing up the charred remains and reburying the bones.

Mr McGrath's remains were exhumed in 2008, as part of a cold case investigation by gardaí.

The court was told that there will be evidence that Vera McGrath encouraged Mr Pinder to carry out the vicious attack on her husband and that she also took an active part in it.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0618/mcgrathb.html

Ann22

Anything involving child murders. The Robert Black case springs to mind with his victims - Susan Maxwell, Sarah Harper and Caroline Hogg (RIP)..and of course the more recent Holly and Jessica.
A particularly disturbing and upsetting one for me was the abduction and murder of little James Bulger. I cried my eyes out over that:(.
An old man - Cecil Black, in my hometown was beaten to death in the flat over his pub. It was really frightening that such a thing could happen to such a nice old man so close to home. The b*stards who did it were free in less than 10yrs.

Naikon

The Fritzil thing.

martyboy48

Nolanger wrote: »

The front page of a British newspaper in the '70s where they discuss the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. Another article on the same page had a photograph of a truck driver. Guess who he turned out to be?

The guy from the yorkie bar ad... No??

jill_valentine

This is a wiki article rather than a news story, but it rather unsettled me for quite some time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

Investigators at the time determined that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot in heavy snow. Though the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue.[1] According to sources, four of the victims' clothing contained high levels of radiation. There is no mention of this in contemporary documentation; it only appears in later documents.[1] Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths. Access to the area was barred for three years after the incident.[1] The chronology of the incident remains unclear due to the lack of survivors.

To dispel the theory of an attack by the indigenous Mansi people, one doctor indicated that the fatal injuries of the three bodies could not have been caused by another human being, "because the force of the blows had been too strong and no soft tissue had been damaged"

UnknownSpecies

The story of the Dnepropetrovsk murders was awful and the video is the sickest thing anybody could possibly see, no joke, still get images from the video from time to time, its disgusting. Would not advise ever watching it.

raveni

One story that sticks out to me was a story I read in god knows what magazine about a baby that died when she was left in a car for a day in boiling heat. The mother said she had genuniely forgot the baby was in the car. She had assumed she'd dropped the baby off at the creche, went to work and had been stressed and busy and actually forgot. Worst thing was reading the mother said when she found the baby with her skin melted off. Absolutely horrible. Just now looking this up on the net trying to find a link, found several other stories of babies dying after being left in cars:(

Couldn't find the article I'd read but here's an article about these type of deaths: http://pediatrics.about.com/od/safety/a/05_hot_cars.htm

Da Shins Kelly

jill_valentine wrote: »

This is a wiki article rather than a news story, but it rather unsettled me for quite some time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

Just read all of this article. Very, very strange.

jill_valentine

Some other Wiki cases in that vein.

The Lead Masks case.

The bodies were next to each other, slightly covered by grass. They were wearing suits, lead masks and water-proof coats. There was no sign of violence to the bodies or to the surrounding area. Next to the bodies, the police found an empty bottle of water and a packet containing two towels. The masks were a type typically used for protection from radiation, and it is these masks that have given the case its name. Police found a small notebook stating: "16:30 estar no local determinado. 18:30 ingerir cápsulas, após efeito proteger metais aguardar sinal máscara", which translates to "16:30 be at the agreed place. 18:30 swallow capsules, after effect protect metals wait for sign mask [or 'mask sign']"

And then there's the Taman Shud case -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud

- which frankly, weirds me out far more than I can rationalise. I mean, I know it wasn't easy to identify somebody back in ye olden days, but there's something about all the weird little details that add up to a very unnerving Twilight Zoney yarn that I just can't shake.

worded

MagicMarker wrote: »

He was found in a sports bag? I don't remember hearing that?

It was a really nice sports bag too, what a waste.

Bookworm85

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scissor_Sisters_%28convicted_killers%29

The murder of Farah Swaleh Noor.

Deus Ex Machina

jill_valentine wrote: »

Some other Wiki cases in that vein.

The Lead Masks case.



And then there's the Taman Shud case -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud

- which frankly, weirds me out far more than I can rationalise. I mean, I know it wasn't easy to identify somebody back in ye olden days, but there's something about all the weird little details that add up to a very unnerving Twilight Zoney yarn that I just can't shake.

I heard about the Taman Shud case before, couldn't believe what I was hearing. I checked it up everywhere and began to realise it was all true. Genuine mystery.