I'm sure like most people you have some really happy childhood memories you look
back on but the facts in this video will turn those memories upside down it turns
out a lot of things in your childhood were very messed up and you didn't even
realize from sad backstories to terrible things which happen to your favorite
child stars and also the real versions of the stories you were told as kids I'm
Charlie and today we're going to look at things that will ruin your childhood but
before we wave goodbye to all those great memories why not subscribe and
press at the notification bell - coming up first we have Big Bird's near-miss if
you're a 70s 80s or 90s kid I'm sure your favorite show growing up was Sesame
Street there were great characters and every kid would love to watch this TV
show many kids favorite character on the show was Big Bird the gigantic yellow
bird NASA realized this and wanted to get more kids interested in space so
that's why in 1986 NASA invited Big Bird onto the Challenger mission the
Challenger mission was part of NASA's Space Shuttle program and quote to
encourage kids to get into space they wanted Big Bird on the mission had this
actually gone ahead millions of kids would have watched Big Bird perish in a
spacecraft live on TV that's because the NASA rocket exploded after it took off
taking all seven lives onboard it was still a terrible thing for kids to see
but imagine how much worse it would be if they knew Big Bird was inside next up
is creepy Elmo this is another Sesame Street one with the show's main
character Elmo according to Daily Mail co dot uk'
several men have accused Kevin Clash the actor who provided the voice for Elmo
for 28 years of abusing them apparently Kevin would use his unique position in
the industry to target children after these claims came to light he resigned
in 2012 the claims were later dismissed by a judge because they were out of the
statue of limitations but it poses the question was Elmo really a creep I don't
know about you but I will never watch that TV show the same way again next up
is Pocahontas we all know the story of Pocahontas it's
about a Native American woman named Pocahontas who falls in love with an
English man named John Smith but did he know that in reality John Smith was 28
when Pocahontas was only ten years old that's right Pocahontas was a real
person and so was John Smith in real life Pocahontas never saved the life of
John Smith and thankfully she was not romantically involved with John Smith
who would have been 17 years her senior the real story is actually very sad
though she was held hostage and eventually taken to England when she was
seventeen and it was there four years later where she passed away at the age
of 21 this really makes this film kind of creepy and sad at the same time next
up is Peter Pan I'm sure we've all seen the Disney classic film Peter Pan from
1953 it's about a little boy who never grows
up but sadly the young boy who provided the voice for Peter Pan did throw up
Bobby Driscoll was a famous voice actor in the 1950s he was given a juvenile
Academy Award for his voice work including the work he did on Disney's
Peter Pan and when he was just a kid he was making over $50,000 a year which was
a lot of money back then but sadly he spent most of that on illegal substances
in 1968 he passed away in New York he was buried in an unmarked grave because
no one claimed his body and it was over a year later that his mother discovered
what happened to him thanks to a fingerprint match from the
police so sadly the actor for the boy who never grows up did grow up and
passed away penniless unclaimed and unidentified this happened when he was
31 and he passed away in an abandoned apartment building next up is minions
look around and you'll see minions are everywhere they became popular in the
film Despicable Me and then in their own spin-off minions but these funny yellow
creatures may have a very very dark past many theorize these creatures were
actually created by Nazis during ww2 thousands of children were taken by the
Nazis and thousands had bizarre experiments done to them
for example Josef Mengele did various experiments including trying to change
people's eye color and using twins together according to rumors
the surviving children is what the minions are based on this will explain
them having one eye and an odd pattern of speech they also seem to be childlike
and never grow up there's also this ww2 image of many children wearing a hat
that looks similar to the minion head what do you think about this scary film
theory next up is Little Red Riding Hood I'm sure your mom or dad read this to
you when you were young but the real story is much more dark than what's read
to children in the original text Red Riding Hood eats her own grandmother
that's what happened in the original story by Charles Perrault the big bad
wolf forces Red Riding Hood to eat her own grandmother he also makes her take
off her clothing and get into bed with him maybe Charles was making a deep
point or maybe he's just totally crazy either way you won't catch mothers and
fathers reading this story to their kids next up is dr. Seuss dr. Seuss is the
lovable children's writer he's made some of the best Rhymes and poems you can
ever think of but he had a dark side to him as well dr. Seuss actually cheated
on his wife Helen Palmer and he did it while she was ill with cancer as a
result of this Helen took her own life by swallowing at many bar bitch awaits
her final note read I am too old and enmeshed in everything you do and are
because of this I cannot conceive of life without you my going will leave
quite a rumor but you can say I was overworked and overwrought your
reputation with your friends and fans will not be harmed but her note got out
and his reputation was harmed his stories may still be great to read but
what he did is pretty terrible next up we have Sleeping Beauty did he know the
original tale of Sleeping Beauty was much darker than we know the original
story was written by Giambattista passaglia in the story a king walks by
Sleeping Beauty's castle and knocks on the door when no one answers he climbs
up a ladder through a window when she doesn't wake up he does terrible things
to her and then leaves and she only wakes up after she gives birth then
despite what the king did he returns and they fall in love but then the king's
wife finds out about what happened she then tries to burn Sleeping Beauty at
the stake and tries to get Sleeping Beauty's sisters cooked and then fed to
the king I don't think that story would go down too well with kids or their
parents next up is Cinderella the original Cinderella story is much more
dark than you'd expect the Brothers Grimm wrote Cinderella in 1857 in this
version the evil stepsisters cut off Cinderella stones the other also cuts
off a heel so that they can both fit into the tiny glass slippers
that's right they wanted the prince so much they cut off their own sister's
foot but when the stepsisters attend Cinderella's wedding birds Peck their
eyes out you can see why they called that the Brothers Grimm but now it's
time to make your voice heard vote in the poll in the top right corner which
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