Well I seriously don’t know how I am going to be able to sleep tonight.
Seriously guys, the people on this list have survived some pretty terrifying and awful
things.
As always, I’m your host Landon Dowlatsingh ADD INTRO.
People all over the world have endured some pretty terrifying things.
From escaping a cannibalistic serial killer to mysterious disappearances, this list has
it all.
But first I want to know.
What is the scariest thing that has ever happened to you in your life?
Let me know in the comments section down below.
Alright, let’s jump right into this list of the Top 10 Real Life Horror Stories That
Will Haunt You
Hitchhiking gone seriously wrong drives onto this list in at number 10.
One of the most common things that we learn at a young age is to never get into a car
with strangers.
I know in certain countries hitchhiking can be completely safe but America is definitely
not one of those countries.
Back on May 19, 1977, Colleen Stan decided to hitchhike 400 miles from Oregon to California
so that she could surprise her friend for her birthday.
Colleen was less than 100 miles away from her final destination when she was picked
up by Cameron Hooker.
He was a 23-year-old guy who was travelling with his wife and baby when he picked her
up.
But underneath that family man disguise was a very evil man.
He forced Colleen to be his personal sex slave for seven years.
During that time, she slept in a coffin-like wooden box underneath their waterbed for 23
hours a day and was repeatedly tortured and abused.
Colleen wasn’t freed until 1984 when the mans wife helped her escape.
Cameron Hooker was sentenced to 104 years in prison and thankfully, he won’t be out
there ready to pick up other victims.
The girl next door takes us to number 9.
Sylvia Likens was only 16 years old when she was abused, tortured and brutally murdered
by her caregiver Gertrude Baniszewski and some of the other neighborhood kids.
Gertrude and these other kids, some as young as 10, tortured Sylvia for fun.
Wow, these kids sound like future serial killers.
The kids would take turns beating her, hitting her against the wall and choke her until she
passed out.
Gertrude even put out her cigarettes on her skin and soon the others joined in too.
The abuse gets even more intense but I won’t scar you with the details.
Just know that these kids are literally so messed up and I’m sure they are locked behind
bars by now.
Ultimately Sylvia died due to brain swelling, internal hemorrhaging of the brain and shock.
This is a really sad and depressing story so let’s move on.
Real life Slenderman stabs into number 8.
Slenderman is a tall, faceless man who lurks in the shadows.
He preys on young children and he even convinces some of them to kill for him.
Now that we are familiar with Slenderman, let me introduce you to some deranged 12-year
old’s.
In 2014 Morgan had a sleepover so she invited some of her friends from school.
But that night, her plan didn’t include her eating birthday cake and blowing out candles.
Morgan and her friend had plans on honouring Slenderman but murdering their friend.
The next morning, they took their unsuspecting friend to the woods and stabbed the poor girl
19 times all over her body.
They thought they brutally murdered her but thankfully she was discovered by a cyclist
who immediately called 911.
She had to have a lot of surgeries but the doctors managed to save her.
The girls admitted that they have been planning the attacks for months so the judge sentenced
them to spend a minimum 25 years in a mental hospital.
Stranger living in the walls breaks onto this list in at number 7.
Do you sometimes get that weird feeling like you’re being watched or someone is behind
you?
What if I told you that someone could be living in your home.
Okay, okay that’s not the case for everybody but for this family, they got a lot more than
they bargained for when they did some exploring in their home.
A family just moved into their new home and everything seemed normal.
However, they made a shocking discovery that will send chills down your spine.
When the two young boys were playing around, they discovered a secret door behind a bookshelf
in the parent’s bedroom.
They went down the secret staircase that led to a creepy crawlspace and inside they found
evidence that someone was living inside of their walls.
They found food wrappers, statues, a key and some creepy dolls.
Oh and the candy wrappers were from the candy that one of the boys had stashed in his room.
So this creepy crawler stranger was wandering around their home as they slept.
Yeah…good luck sleeping tonight.
And I don’t know about you guys, but I’m going to check every wall in my place to make
sure there aren’t and secret rooms.
Flesh eating bacteria attacks us in at number 6.
Aimee Copeland contracted a flesh-eating bacteria when she fell from a homemade zip line.
Note to self, never go zip lining on a sketchy, homemade course.
She went to the hospital where doctors treated her leg with 22 staples and then sent her
on her way.
But three days later she was rushed to an emergency room in pain and that’s when doctors
saw that she had necrotizing fasciitis.
Surgeons had to amputate her hands, part of her abdomen, one leg and one foot.
She was also placed on a ventilator because she had kidney failure and other organ damage.
Wow, imagine going on vacation and wanting to be adventurous but you end up getting a
flesh-eating disease.
That might be the worst vacation ever.
Mommy dead and dearest creep onto this list in at number 5.
This is a story about a mother and daughter who appeared to be living in a fairy tale
life but in reality, they were living in a nightmare.
So back in July 2016, Gypsy Rose Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in prison after
pleading guilty to second degree murder in the brutal slaying of her mother.
But let me explain, all of her life, Gypsy’s mother told her that she was seriously sick
and that she won’t live to see her 18th birthday.
Her mother shaved Gypsy’s hair to fake cancer, she made her get a painful feeding tube, she
lied to her daughter about how old she was, Gypsy’s teeth rotted out, she was forced
to take harmful prescription drugs and she was forced to use a wheelchair and pretend
that she was paralyzed from the waist down.
This is a serious from of child abuse.
A horrible hiking accident climbs this list in at number 4.
This scary story is about the Dyatlov Pass incident which is probably one of the creepiest
mysteries in Russian history.
Back in 1959 nine students went hiking in the wilderness and they never came out.
A search party was sent to find them but they weren’t expecting to see this.
They found their campsite but the tents were cut open from the INSIDE and all of their
stuff was untouched.
They followed the snowy footprints and over the course of 2 months, they were able to
find all of the bodies…despite the very cold temperatures, all of the bodies have
little clothing on.
Some of the bodies had major internal injuries that would be similar to being hit by a car.
And what makes things even weirder is that there were no external wounds.
One of the bodies has brain damage but zero physical damage to their skull.
One woman was missing her tongue, eye, part of her lips and some of her facial tissue.
No one knows what happened on that mountain and even to this day, this case is unsolved.
The underground bunker brings us to number 3.
Elizabeth Shoaf was approached by a person claiming to be a police officer.
She was 14 years old when the man handcuffed her and walked her into the woods.
He held her captive in an underground bunker that he dug by hand and he kept her there
for ten days.
During that time he abused her many, many times but the young girl managed to come up
with a plan.
She tried to earn his trust and make him believe that she was okay with the situation.
She actually convinced him to let her use his cellphone to “play games” on it but
she was actually texting her parents and friends to help her.
The police were able to find her location and rescue her from
the underground bunker.
Digging into number 2 we have a woman who was buried alive.
Is anyone else starting to panic?
I think being buried alive would be one of the worst ways to die.
But for Michelina, she knew she had to keep on fighting.
Let’s rewind and go to the beginning of the story.
Michelina was in a very unhealthy and unstable relationship with her fiancé Marcin.
One day, Marcin hired an accomplice and attacked his fiancée with a stun gun.
He tied up her limbs, put her in a cardboard box and drove out into the wilderness where
he wanted to bury the mother of his child alive.
So he dug a shallow grave and put a 90 pound tree branch so that she would suffocate.
Once she wake up, she could only think about her son and how she needed to survive so that
she could protect him so she cut through the rope with her engagement ring…well I guess
it was good for one thing…and then she clawed herself out of her grave.
Even though she managed to escape from this horrifying experience, she is still haunted
till this day with severe paranoia and insomnia.
Escaping Jeffrey Dahmer takes us to number 1.
Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most terrifying and infamous serial killers of all time.
He killed and dismembered 17 young men in the late 70s and early 90s.
He converted his apartment in Milwaukee into his own person torture chamber where he would
lure innocent victims and use them for medical experiments, necrophilia and sometimes he
would eat them.
One day he invited Tracy Edwards over to drink beer and watch The Exorcist 3 but when Tracy
Edwards arrived, he quickly discovered that Jeffrey Dahmer was nothing more than an evil
and scary predator.
Jeffrey Dahmer used a butcher knife to scare Tracy and he even said that he was going to
eat his heart.
Tracy just kept trying to keep him calm and once he was able to distract the killer, he
hit him with a blunt object and ran onto the streets.
He was able to flag down a police car which led them to the apartment where they found
a ton of body parts including four human heads in the fridge.
Well there you guys have it…