I love songs, I love music, I think its one of the best things that humans have ever created
- we all have a favourite song or two that makes us feel amazing - however, theres always
a creepy side to things - today Im going through songs that some people say have led to nothing
but misery, suffering and even death.
Do you agree with them and do you dare hear these songs?
Lets find out …
Starting off at number 10 we have The Hungarian Suicide Song[a].
Another name for this one is Gloomy Sunday.
Its a popular song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezso Seress.
It was released in 1933 as a song about the tragedy of war.
Over the years, a number of urban legends began to form around the song, mostly involving
it being connected to suicides.
Press reports in the 1930s drew links between the song and 19 suicides, both in Hungary
and the US.
After the war, the legend died down for a while only to be picked up again in 1968 when
the songs composer did in fact commit suicide.
During the war, the BBC even banned a version of the song so as not to affect Britains wartime
morale.
A song about war that could lose a country a war - sounds pretty powerful.
Moving on to number 9 we have the Lavender Town Song.[b] In Pokemon Red and Green for
the Game Boy, players would visit Lavender Town, a village that serves as a graveyard
for Pokemon, full of their ghosts and spirits.
I remember being creeped out by the song itself but there was an even darker side to it.
According to legend, the song was responsible for the deaths of about 100 Japanese children
between the age of 10 and 15 who jumped to their deaths, hanged or mutilated themselves
a few days after the release of the games.
Officials blamed it on the Lavender Town song, stating that the original contained high pitched
tones that made the children lose their minds.
The story goes that the music was altered for the North American release and the original
has been swept under the rug, never intended to be heard again …
Next up at number 8 we have Crossroads[c].
This was name of a song by Robert Johnson, an iconic Blues musician.
He's remembered today for his great music and fantastic songs - but one of them is referenced
by people for all the wrong reasons.
The story goes that Johnson met the devil on the outskirts of some unknown town.
They got talking and eventually, the devil made him an offer.
He told Johnson that in exchange for his soul, he would make him the greatest blues musician
the world had ever known.
Im sure youve all heard these devil stories though, they never end well and Johnsons was
no different.
Johnson gained a lot of success, especially with his song Crossroads, but he died tragically
at the age of 27 at - you guessed it - some crossroads.
Ever since then, people have said the song is cursed.
People have attributed covers down by Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers and Eric Clapton
as the reason for tragedies in their lives.
Coming in at number 7 now we have I Feel Fantastic.
This is a video first uploaded by a channel called Creepyblog in 2009.
In the years since then, the video has racked up 14 million views and the channel has uploaded
nothing else.
It features a female mannequin singing a song about being fantastic while trippy electronic
music plays in the background.
Then the singing stops and we see the mannequin lying on the floor in a different outfit before
returning to the original position.
The description box contains a few paragraphs that talk about Greek mythology and a sculptor
who created a perfect statue bride for himself.
There are a number of theories about what the meaning and origin of this video is but
here is perhaps the darkest: some people think that the maker of the video killed a woman,
put her clothes on the mannequin and then zoomed in on the ground outside to show where
she was buried.
They point to some of the lyrics towards the end of the song that go -Please leave.
Run, run, run, run …- … all of this led people to believe that he had killed a woman
named Tara who had failed to live up to his standard of perfection.
He had then constructed this strange robot mannequin in her image, dressed it in her
clothes and programmed it to sing to him - perhaps as a first step to bringing her back from
the dead ...
Next up at number 6 we have Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima.[d] This is a classical
piece written by Polish composer Krzystof Penderecki.
He dedicated this song to the residents of Hiroshima killed and injured by the first
ever wartime use of an atomic weapon.
Many critics praised it when it was released in 1961 and its since been used in a number
of movies.
In certain corners of the internet though, you can find people swearing this song does
something to them - that it sends chills down their spine - that they can only listen to
it for a few seconds before the soaring strings and the thoughts of nuclear war leave them
reaching for the pause button.
Of course, this isnt everyones reaction, but its had enough of an impact on people that
it regularly comes up in conversations about disturbing compositions …
Moving on to number 5 we have Ghost Tape Number 10[e].
During the Vietnam War, its claimed that the US came up with a creepy new tactic in their
fight against the Vietcong.
With the help of the South Vietnamese, the US army created scary messages that sounded
like voices of the dead.
Along with shrieks, screams and moans, a dead Viet Cong soldier pleads with his comrades,
saying things like -My friends, I have come back to let you know that I am dead … I
am dead!- and -Don't end up like me.
Go home friends, before its too late!- … American helicopters blasted the Ghost Tapes over the
jungle to make it sound like the voices were coming from everywhere.
This was intended to do more than just scare them - the US army was playing on the strongly
held Vietnamese belief that the spirits of the dead are doomed to walk the earth in their
own personal hell if their bodies are not found and properly buried.
It was hoped that this fear could be instilled in the Viet Cong and convince them to give
up the fight or meet the same fate as the ghostly voices …
Moving on to number 4 we have Better By You, Better Than Me[f].
This is a song by Judas Priest that is said to be responsible for a suicide.
In 1985, 18 year old Raymond Belknap and 20 year old James Vance shot themselves in a
park after listening to Stained Glass, an album by Judas Priest.
Raymond died but James lived on disfigured for another 3 years.
The parents of the boys became convinced that the album they were listening to was to blame
- and not just the whole album, one song in particular Better By You, Better Better than
me.
They said that not only were the lyrics to the song disturbing, but they contained subliminal
message - subliminal messages that told James and Raymond to kill themselves.
They believed this so much that they tried to sue Judas Priest to the tune of 6.2 million
dollars.
The court case failed but James himself backed his parents up, after surviving the suicide
attempt, he said -all of a sudden we got a suicide message and we got tired of a life,
I believe that alcohol and heavy metal music such as Judas Priest led us to be mesmerized-
… this naturally sparked a huge debate - where do you stand?
Next up at number 3 we have My Way[g].
This is a famous song by Frank Sinatra, released by Frank Sinatra in 1969.
In the years since then, the song has become famous all over the world.
One of those places is the Philippines, where it was adopted into karaoke repertoires across
the country.
Then, deaths began to happen.
In the early 2000s, 6 incidents were linked to people singing that song in Karaoke bars.
In May 2007, a 29 year old karaoke singer of My Way was shot dead at a bar as he was
singing.
The murderer was the bars security guard who - and I cant believe Im saying this - had
complained that the mans rendition was off key.
When he refused to stop singing, the guard pulled out his gun and shot him dead.
This was clearly an extreme reaction but the mentality has spread through the Philippines.
The song has been removed from many karaoke machines after complaints about out of tune
renditions resulted in fights and deaths.
A number of songs have resulted in fights, but only My Way seems to bring about deaths.
One analyst says its because the lyrics evoke feelings of pride and arrogance in the singer,
as if youre somebody when youre really nobody, it covers up failures and thats why it leads
to fights …-
Moving on to number 2 we have Disaster Piece.
This is a song by Slipknot that was blamed for the murder of Terry Ray Taylor.
16 year old Amber Rose Riley and 22 year old Jason Lamar Harris brutally murdered him by
slitting his throat and stabbing him more than 20 times.
They lured Terry to Perris Hill in San Bernardino.
They sat beneath a tree while listening to a Slipknot album.
While they were listening, Riley signalled for her boyfriend to stab Taylor.
After the murder they kept listening to the album.
Police investigators interrogated the pair about the murder.
Both of them quoted lyrics from the song -Disasterpiece- by Slipknight which contains the lyrics -I
wanna slit your throat and fuck the wound, I wanna push my face in and feel the swoon-
… investigators made a link between the reference to throat slitting on the gruesome
murder that actually took place …
And finally at number 1 we have Stairway To Heaven[h].
This is the famous song by Led Zeppelin - I love it and Im not saying it should have stayed
a secret - but some people believe the song is cursed.
Some conspiracy theorists say that a satanic message is hidden in the song.
The lyrics for one of the verses go -If theres a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed
now.
Its just a spring clean for the may Queen.
Yes there are two paths you can go down, but in the long run.
Theres still time to change the road youre on- but backwards, oh backwards its a different
story, take a listen.
Someone first shared this with me years ago and I remember it giving me chills - its pretty
creepy stuff.
There are a lot of songs where people claim you hear something different when its played
backwards but for some reason, this one has captured peoples imaginations more than others
and convinced them that the band was affected by the devil, intentionally or otherwise …
But I say that no song should stay secret - if you don't like it, just don't listen
to it!
Unless its a really bad song that incites violence or hatred, then maybe you should
keep that to yourself.
Im not even sure if anyone is still watching this video and my little rant - guess Ill
go - thanks for watching guys, my name is still Danny Burke and Ill see you all in the
next video!
Alright quick outfit change now for some quick comments, Im taking these from my scary images
NASA sent to aliens video - Joaniah Smithia said -I hope that NASA arent being cruel to
those aliens- … well, I hope so too but Im also not sure if theyve actually found
any yet - thats kinda the whole point with them sending out these images into space,
theyre hoping the aliens will find them.
Theres no real way to even be mean to aliens yet, unless one of the images we send them
is teasing them, like a picture of their mums covered in cow dung … what the hell am I
talking about.
Aquatic said -this is literally asking for independence day lmaooo- … yeah for those
of you that havent seen independence day, its the one where all the aliens come to take
Earth but Will Smith saves the day - great movie but I think the point Aquatic is making
is that we can avoid an alien invasion by doing one simple thing: shutting up.
This is a genuine concern that some people have - we keep setting out probes and rovers
and images and radio waves way out into deep space - were trying to let aliens know were
here in the hopes that they are friendly, but what if theyre not.
Weve basically invited the galactic neighborhood bully to come and beat us up - well done NASA.
Marazmowa says -Well maybe their eyes work in a different way.
Maybe they cant read anything from these pictures- thats a very good point - these are images
but right now, thats the only way we know how to communicate.
Weve also sent audio recordings out into space but humans are kind of constrained by how
we communicate, yknow?
If aliens communicate by, I dunno, making hyrdogen particles vibrate with their mind,
well then we cant do that so theres no hope of us communicating in that way.
We use our eyes, our ears, our mouths and our bodies to communicate, we just have to
hope these aliens understand us!
ADD Queen says -If they are anything like us we might have to be worried that they'll
come and invade us, but on the other hand: what would we do if we found life on other
planet that would be less advenced then us?﻿- … Im so glad you aksed that because thats
something Ive always thought about - why are the aliens always portrayed as more advanced
than us - well there are a lot of theories about this you can find online - discussed
by people a lot smarter than me.
I did hear one though which talks about how young our solar system and galaxy is compared
to some others in the universe and that if aliens came from these older ones, they would
have had more time to advance!
Thats a decent theory!
Whats yours?
Thanks for watching guys, my name is Danny Burke and ill see you all in the next video!