How’s it going YouTube?
I’m your host Landon Dowlatsingh and welcome back to another most amazing video.
Before we get into today’s video I want to know, what is the scariest room in your
house and why?
Leave your answers in the comment section below.
I’m pretty sure my entire condo is haunted by a ghost who likes to turn on TVs and open
doors.
Basements are dark, cold and scary.
No one really likes to go in them, especially if there are creepy noises and strange things
that have happened there.
So, prepare to lock your basement doors because here are the top 10 scary basement stories.
Let’s get things started in at number 10 with Ghost children in the basement.
A lot of people claim that their basements are haunted by evil spirits or ghosts that
have unfinished business.
Either way, it is extremely scary when you hear footsteps, screaming or loud abrupt noises
from the basement without any reasonable explanations.
That is why when this happens, people install cameras with motion detection so that they
are able to get a notification when these mysterious and scary things happen in their
basement.
I stumbled across a really scary video of ghost children playing in someone’s basement.
Take a look for yourself
This is giving me the creeps so let’s move on.
Pet alligator bites into number 9.
I’ve heard that a lot of people like to keep their pets in their homes and sometimes
they are kept in the basement.
But this family isn’t normal.
In January of 2016, a repairman discovered a 6-foot, 200-pound alligator in the basement
of a suburban home in Chicago.
The alligator was their secret pet who was sometimes taken out of his cage and put in
the backyard.
They had this alligator for 26 years without anyone ever knowing.
The repairman was obviously stunned when he saw this monster alligator in a basement so
he called the police.
They were able to remove the alligator and the homeowners were charged with unlawful
possession of an endangered species.
Is this real-life right now?
If I had an alligator living in my basement, I would be fearing for my life everyday.
I don’t care that he was in a cage, they have insanely strong jaws that can easily
break through a little fencing.
I think I would rather have a dog or rabbit as a pet, not a man-eating machine.
Giant torpedo fires into number 8.
It’s normal for a lot of people to store their belongings in the basement, right.
Well apparently, the previous homeowner was really into weapons of mass destruction because
a family discovered that they had a torpedo in their basement.
How did their realtor miss that one?
They were skeptical that it was an authentic torpedo, so they had a consultation with an
army veteran who told them that it was used with either a mortar or lightweight anti-tank
weapon and that it was live.
Wow, grab your kids, grab your wife and get out of there.
Eventually an explosive ordnance disposal unit came in to remove the deadly bomb.
This is why you should get your house inspected before you buy it.
Number 7 takes us over to Creepy skeletons in the basement.
The internet broke when a story about creepy looking skeletons were found in a basement
under an orphanage in London.
These scary looking creatures looked like dead fairies, werewolves and aliens that were
preserved in glass jars.
Their flesh had been rotting away and some of their wings were nailed to display boards.
To makes things even scarier, there were also sketches of Jack the Ripper victims next to
real human hears and other organs that were well preserved.
These nightmare objects were discovered by a bunch of construction workers who were doing
some repairs on the home.
They found several thousand small wooden boxes that were tightly sealed.
So, imagine how shocked they were when they opened up the first box.
These extremely creepy corpses belonged to Thomas Theodore Merrylin who was known as
a prominent biologist in the 1800s.
If I was working that day, I would run out of there so fast and I would definitely ask
to change assignments.
A secret room makes its way into number 6.
In 2015, a man bought a house for a really good bargain because the previous house owners
had passed away and the house was slightly run down.
After two weeks since he moved in, he decided to do some cleaning in the basement.
There was a lot of junk left over from the previous owners and when he went to move a
piece of plywood, he discovered that there was a secret room.
At this point, he was a little bit scared to go in this room but he decided to take
a look around.
He immediately saw a bunch of gun boxes that had been emptied and a safe that he wasn’t
able to open.
On the next day of exploring, he found a lot of ammunition and other military-related items.
During his search in this creepy secret room, he posted updates on his blog and shared pictures.
He told the internet that he hired a locksmith who would be coming in the next day to open
the safe and that he would update his blog with whatever he discovers.
However, he never did update them.
He disappeared for a couple of years and just recently posted an update saying that he experienced
some strange events and he no longer lives in the house and has no intentions of telling
anyone what he found in that safe.
Locked in at number 5 is an Underground prison.
This story shocked the world when Ariel Castro was arrested for keeping three women imprisoned
as sex slaves for over a decade in his basement.
Each of these women were kidnapped after they accepted a ride from him.
He drove them to his house, lured them inside, took them to the basement and restrained them.
They were forced to use plastic toilets that weren’t emptied often, they were fed only
one meal a day and they could only shower twice a week.
The girls kept diaries of their horrific experience and they would talk about the abuse, being
locked in a dark room, chained to a wall and someday returning to their families.
On May 8, 2013 he was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape.
He pleaded guilty and took a plea bargain so he was sentenced to life plus 1,000 years
in prison without the possibility of parole.
But one month into his sentence, he committed suicide by hanging himself with bedsheets
in his prison cell.
Teenage boy held captive in a basement sadly comes onto this list in at number 4.
Armando de Andrade disappeared when he was only 16 years old but he was discovered by
police 20 years later.
He was being held captive for 20 years in the basement of his father and step-mother.
There were no windows or light fixtures and when police found him, he had a beard that
had grown to his knees, very long fingernails, severely malnourished and was extremely traumatized.
Can you imagine living in pitch black darkness for about 20 years?
I would definitely go insane.
I think this is worse than solitary confinement.
The police chief said that when they entered the basement, they were initially searching
for drug gang members, but they stumbled upon Armando.
The basement floor was covered in human feces and the poor boy was very impaired and wasn’t
able to speak.
It is believed that his parents decided to lock him up in the basement because they started
to heavily drink alcohol and they told his friends that he moved to another part in Brazil
and that he is doing good.
After he was rescued he was taken to a psychiatric hospital in hopes that he can recover from
this traumatizing event.
Number 3 brings us to the Basement murderer.
Gary Michael Heidnik kidnapped, tortured and raped six women, killing two of them while
holding them prisoner in his basement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Going back to November 25, 1986, he abducted a woman and by January 1987, he had kidnapped
four other women.
He held them all captive in the pit of his basement where they underwent extremely violent
forms of torture.
One of the women died from a combination of starvation, torture and an untreated fever.
He dismembered her body and put her arms and legs in his freezer and labelled them as dog
food.
According to some rumors, he would ground up his first victims flesh, mix it with dog
food and feed it to the other girls.
His favourite form of torture was using electrical shocks and he used to duct tape their mouths
and stab them in their ears with a screwdriver.
Once he was finally arrested, he tried to take an insanity plea but thankfully he was
sentenced to death by lethal injection.
The house of horror terrifies us in at number 2.
Josef Fritzl appeared to be a well-respected family man and successful engineer.
But what a lot of people didn’t know was that he began abusing his 11-year-old daughter
and decided to keep her locked up in his basement, away from the outside world.
He made his own large cellar basement underneath his home that had a reinforced door and soundproofing.
That’s where his daughter lived, without any daylight for the next 24 years.
During her imprisonment, she was raped by her father over 3,000 times and she gave birth
to seven children.
Who I guess are both her siblings and children.
Three of those kids lived upstairs with him and his wife while the other three lived in
the basement cellar.
The last child died shortly after childbirth.
But in April 2008, one of the daughters became seriously ill so he was persuaded to take
her to the hospital where she managed to call the police.
Josef Fritzl was jailed for life and his house of horrors has now been turned into 10 bungalow
homes with the basement filled in with concrete.
And in at number 1 we have a Shadow person.
A security guard was petrified when he heard loud banging noises coming from the basement
of a deserted football stadium.
He decided to go down the dark staircase in order to investigate the suspicious noises
and he recorded the whole thing.
When he panned his camera around, he saw a dark, shadowy figure quickly pass along some
benches and then disappeared through a wall.
Take a look for yourself.
The security guard didn’t see this ghostly figure until after he reviewed the tapes.
He said that the basement changing room door was being violently opened and closed by an
unknown force inside of the room.
The man was so terrified and stressed, so on the next day, he handed in his letter of
resignation and found a different security job.
Smart man, I’d do the same thing if I
were him.