The word ‘creepy’ can be used to describe many things that make our skin crawl.
From having an unexplained paranormal experience to brushing shoulders with a dangerous criminal,
there are countless creepy moments that could shock and scare even the bravest people.
And sometimes, these disturbing moments are captured on video for all to see.
Today, we’ll be looking at seven of the creepiest moments ever caught on camera.
Paranormal Playground
In June 2016, a simple trip to the playground became an unforgettable day for one family.
When Scotty Denton took his three children to play at a park in Warwick, Rhode Island,
he never imagined seeing something that would keep them all in the car, afraid to approach
the empty playground.
Eager to document what was happening, Scotty began filming himself and explained the situation:
‘Alright, we’re at the playground…
and the kids don’t want to go anymore because
look at this…
This is real, look at this.
There’s no wind out here right now.
Look, there’s nobody on it.
There’s no wind, look at the other swings and look at this…’
When Scotty turns the camera toward the playground’s swing set, it’s clear why the kids are hesitant.
Despite the relatively calm air that day, one of the swings moves erratically back and
forth, seemingly being influenced by some unseen force.
Scotty reports that the wind isn’t strong enough to move the swing so violently - and
the other swings on the set, which are barely moving in the breeze, appear to back him up.
Scotty’s kids are too scared to get out of the car.
They’re convinced something paranormal is responsible for the swing’s strange movement.
Could something be out there on the playground?
‘There’s nobody out there’
‘Ghosts aren’t real, are they?
Wouldn’t the other swings be moving?’
‘Look, there ain’t nobody here dude,
this ain’t a joke’
'Nobody.'
While YouTube skeptics were quick to dismiss the video and blame a strong wind or simply
a staged event, others weren’t so sure.
A Facebook comment from a Warwick local claims to have seen the swing ‘going crazy’ before
and that the park is haunted.
Ghost or not, when children are reluctant to have a playground all to themselves, something
strange is definitely going on.
Out of Nowhere
Have you ever suspected a stranger in the street meant you harm?
On May 5, 2017, a 33-year-old woman in London crossed paths with sudden, unbelievable violence
as she crossed the Putney Bridge in London.
Her terrifying encounter was captured on CCTV.
As she crosses the bridge, busy with both pedestrians and vehicles, the woman passes
a jogger who appears to shove her into traffic, and directly into the path of an oncoming bus.
Miraculously, the bus driver is able to swerve out of the way to avoid hitting, and possibly
killing, the woman.
The bus stopped and passengers poured out to help the woman, who had escaped the ordeal
with only minor injuries.
The jogger had gotten away, but in a shocking twist, he ran back across the bridge in the
other direction about 15 minutes after his vicious shove.
The woman attempted to speak to him, but he reportedly ignored her and ran away from the
scene yet again.
The jogger was a white male, estimated to be in his 30s, with brown eyes and short brown hair.
There was no apparent explanation as to why he had suddenly pushed a woman into such incredible danger.
After an exhaustive investigation, with photos circulating of the unidentified man, the London
Metropolitan Police closed the case.
They had investigated more than 50 suspects and even arrested three men, but had not found
the mystery jogger.
No one was ever charged with this sudden and extreme act of violence, made all the more
frightening by its complete lack of explanation.
Unseen Terror
Sometimes, the line between fun and fear is paper thin.
The two young girls in this viral video learned that lesson the hard way.
On October 30, 2012, Youtube user Angel Ruiz uploaded this video featuring two young girls
sitting together at a small table.
As they both eat dinner, everything appears normal.
Until, one of the girls sees something that frightens her in the next room, a darkened kitchen.
'Yeah.'
‘What?’
‘That scares me’
‘What?’
‘I’m scared’
‘It’s okay’
‘I just turned off the lights, that’s all’
‘I’m scared’
‘Look at me, what are you scared of?'
'The fish?'
'Aw.'
'The fish died’
‘What?’
‘Angel…’
‘Angel’s sleeping already.'
'It’s raining girls’
The girl can’t quite explain what’s causing her distress, but she’s obviously very scared.
As the girl gets more and more upset, even beginning to cry, the other girl reacts the
opposite way, laughing at the scene.
Until…
‘Look at me.'
'Turn around, you’ve got to listen to me’
'Turn around, look at me’
'What's the matter?'
Whatever was frightening the first little girl, the second girl now sees it.
She screams and runs away from the kitchen as well.
Though an adult tries to comfort the two girls, they are certain they’ve come face to face
with something terrifying.
This mysterious video gained attention for the intensity of the girls’ reactions, as
well as the fact that what scared the girls is never shown.
Was it just a trick of light or wind, or could an apparition have appeared to them?
Perhaps it’s true what they say: that children can see things adults can’t.
Stranger Danger
Home surveillance is meant to make us feel safe, but sometimes, security cameras capture
truly frightening footage that puts us even more on edge.
Kathleen Frascarelli of Bristol, Connecticut used a Ring doorbell security system for peace of mind.
But in May 2019, the camera showed her something outside her front door that terrified her.
At 8:45 pm, an individual emerges from the darkness and tries to open Kathleen’s front door.
They carry a bag of some kind strapped across their shoulders and have a heavy-looking object
in the pocket of their hoodie.
But in a skin-crawling twist, the person is wearing a plastic mask, with a permanent smile
plastered on their face.
They even look directly into the camera, seemingly unafraid of being recorded.
After knocking and standing at the door for 15 seconds, the person walks away from Kathleen’s
house, but not before wiping their fingerprints off of the doorknob.
It’s unclear whether the masked stranger expected Kathleen to be at home, but she was,
and she bravely went downstairs to her door.
By the time she got there, the stranger was in a car parked across the street from her home.
She yelled from an open window, “Can I help you?”
then repeated her question a second time, but the stranger sped off before she could
do anything else.
Kathleen was sure the visitor came to her home with bad intentions, since they had taken
the extra step to remove identifying fingerprints from the door.
The incident inspired other neighbors to lock their doors and get security cameras of their own.
Bristol police looked into the frightening incident, but the masked stranger was never
found, and resident of Kathline’s neighborhood surely had trouble sleeping following this
unsettling visit.
Neighbor Nightmare
In another creepy moment caught on a home surveillance camera, in 2019, one Stockton,
California family was targeted by a disturbed neighbor and caught his terrifying behavior on video.
38-year-old Cuong Pham is captured on a Ring security video, under cover of night, doing
the unthinkable: dousing his neighbor’s home in gasoline, then attempting to light
what would have been a devastating blaze.
Fortunately, Pham had used diesel gas, which is less flammable than petrol.
When his attempt to set the fire doesn’t work, Pham appears to give up and walk away
from the gasoline-soaked front door and porch.
Had he used petrol, he could easily have killed himself and those asleep inside the home,
which included a three-year-old and ten-year-old child.
Pham was arrested after being identified on the security footage, and charged with attempted
homicide and arson.
The creepiest part of Pham’s inexplicable behavior was the reasoning he gave for it:
he told police he had seen a ghost in his neighbors’ home and was trying to kill it
in his attempt to burn the house down.
Additionally, He had been recorded on the same security camera prior to this incident,
pacing around the front of the home and repeatedly ringing the doorbell.
The incredibly lucky family survived a horrifying attempt on their lives, but this footage serves
as a shocking reminder of what a dangerously disturbed neighbor had in mind for them.
A Dangerous Ride
Predators can lurk anywhere, even in a crowd of witnesses.
One young woman came face to face with one such predator on a Bronx subway car in December 2019.
A fellow passenger’s cell phone captured the moment that took everyone by surprise that night.
Just before 3:00 am, a man dressed in red winter gear tries to get the attention of
a young woman sleeping across from him on the train.
After speaking to her a few times, he waits until the train doors open and suddenly grabs
her, carrying her off the train in an attempted abduction.
The woman is shocked, as are her fellow passengers, and she quickly frees herself from the man
and gets back on the train.
A young man traveling with her barely has time to react to the sudden grab, and the
would-be abductor manages to walk away from the scene, as the train pulls away from the station.
Fortunately, the man, later identified as 48-year-old Sonny Alloway, did not evade justice for long.
Just hours after the video was taken and posted on social media, he was found in the street
by a group of vigilantes.
After this incident, Alloway was arrested and charged with unlawful imprisonment, though
Bronx district attorneys deferred prosecution to build a case.
Alloway has claimed the video was a misunderstanding, and that he was only trying to rescue the
woman from an apparent abusive situation.
Whether or not there’s any truth to this explanation - the footage is truly disturbing.
Caught in the Act
It takes a truly wicked person to harm some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
In February 2017, Police in Las Vegas set an unusual trap to catch a deranged criminal.
46-year-old Daniel Aldape and 60-year-old David Dunn, two homeless men from Las Vegas
were found murdered in their sleep.
The causes of death were determined to be blunt force trauma to the head, and the murder
weapon in both cases was a hammer.
Law enforcement tried to draw the perpetrator to strike a third time by placing a decoy
dummy in the area.
Their idea worked, and what they captured on video was truly shocking.
The footage shows 30-year-old Shane A. Schindler attacking the dummy, which he believes to
be a sleeping homeless person.
He violently strikes it in the head with a hammer, and tries to walk away casually after
realizing he’s hit a mannequin, not a human being.
Since the two other victims had been attacked the same way, police knew they had their man.
Schindler was promptly arrested before he had a chance to leave the area.
Schindler pleaded guilty to attempted murder in court, but because there was no physical
evidence linking him to the two bludgeoning deaths, or another nighttime attack that injured
a third man, he was technically charged with the attack of the mannequin.
He admitted that he believed the dummy was a real person when he struck the head with
the hammer.
Police did not know his motivation for the killings, nor did they have much background
information on Schindler.
Despite the unusual circumstances of the plea, a judge sentenced Schindler to eight to twenty
years in prison, for his unthinkable violence.
Which one of these stories did you find the creepiest?
Have you ever captured anything creepy on camera, yourself?
Let us know in the comments below.
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