CRIPT - TOP 5 SCARY STATUES YOU SHOULD NEVER TURN YOUR BACK ON
Have you ever looked at a statue and wondered if it looked just a little bit too real?
Maybe its eyes are a teeny bit too alive, or its limbs look poised to move.
You wouldn’t be the only one!
For ages, people have told stories of statues coming to life, moving as they please throughout
the waking world.
There’s something unnerving about something that is supposed to be totally fixed in time
and space suddenly springing to life.
I know I wouldn’t want a statue to blink while I was taking in the artistry.
And I sure wouldn’t want one springing to life and throttling me.
Imagine the obituary: man strangled by unmoving human-shaped rock.
Oh boy.
Hello horror heads, and welcome back to the scariest channel on YouTube, Top5Scary Videos.
I’m your horror host, Keegan Hughes.
Today we’re taking a look at some of the most dangerous and terrifying of fictional
fabricated forms: sentient statues.
I hope your eyes are feeling real hydrated, because we’re about to count down the Top
5 Scary Statues You Should Never Turn Your Back On.
Drop a comment down below if you’ve ever had a spooky statue experience.
Let's get started!
NUMBER FIVE: SPOOKY CLOWN STATUE Roll the clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdkvVIHrdWU 0:39-0:49
For those who are interested, that comes from the 2008 horror anthology, “Amusement.”
Doesn’t that awaken a sort of primal fear deep within your stomach?
We’ve probably all heard a version of this story somewhere:
There’s a new babysitter taking care of a couple of kids while the parents are out
on the town one dark and stormy night.
She puts the kids to sleep, and calls the parents with an update to make sure everything
is to their liking.
The teenaged childminder says everything is alright, but wants to know if it’s alright
to put a sheet over the clown statue, as it’s creeping her out.
That last detail stun the parents for a moment before they tell her to take the kids and
go to the neighbors, and they’ll call the police.
This confuses the babysitter, until the parents leave her with a terrifying detail: They don’t
have a clown statue.
Later that night the police find a man in a clown costume sneaking through the neighborhood,
knife in hand.
That’s no laughing matter.
The fact that almost everyone claims to have heard a version of this is a testament to
how truly upsetting it is.
It also lends credence to the possibility that this may have actually happened at some
point.
It’s a damn good thing she didn’t throw a blanket over the clown, who knows how he
would have reacted?
There are many different versions of this story, sometimes a murder actually occurs,
sometimes it’s implied that the clown was interacting with the children without anyone
knowing.
Thankfully the story almost always ends with the clown being caught.
Although real life can often be scarier than fiction, so I would still keep an eye out
for any clown-shaped structures.
NUMBER FOUR: GREAT STONE KNIGHT Anyone who has played Dark Souls can attest
to the amazing enemy design.
Pretty much any one of the foes you fight in Lordran could take a spot on a Top5Scary
list.
There’s a fear for each and every person, from snakes to ghouls to skeletons on wheels.
But today, we’re talking about statues.
And these are some statues you do not want to underestimate.
These Great Stone Knights will mess you up for real.
Towering over a person of average stature, it’s highly unlikely someone would survive
an encounter with these aggressive statues without an estus flask to call their own.
Likely weighing hundreds of pounds, and consisting of solid stone, they can pack a serious punch.
If that wasn’t enough already, remember that they wield giant weapons made of stone
too.
Your bones will be dust before you even have a chance to run.
Oh!
And if you try to run, they’ll cast Tranquil Walk of Peace, which is not as peaceful as
it’s name implies.
You’ll be slowed down to a crawl, making it easier for these goliaths to smash your
skull into smithereens.
Do yourself a favour, and stay very far away from any statues you see lying among the moss
and lichens upon the forest floor.
Unless, of course, you’re the Chosen Undead.
Git Gud.
NUMBER THREE: FLESHY MEDICAL STATUES If you weren’t convinced by the name of
these guys, just take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cpWIeTM_Y
10:43-10:50 Ewwwww, did you see the exposed muscles on
that thing?
Did it just move?
Aren’t medical dummies supposed to stay still for examination?
Imagine exploring an abandoned hospital and running into one of these.
I might just jump out of my skin.
If you didn’t know, these folks come from the indie horror game: Statues.
Creative title, right?
In the game, you must stay one step ahead of, you guessed it, moving statues.
They can only move when you aren’t observing them, kinda like how some classic horror villains
who seem to move at light-speed when off-camera.
There’s also a blinking-limiting mechanic to ensure you don’t just stare down these
creepy crags of rock until the end of time.
This game actually seems to take inspiration from a very famous statuesque monster from
Britain, but we’ll get to that later.
In the game, you have to complete all sorts of objectives while avoiding the statues at
all costs.
If you fall behind, or take too long before looking at one, only bad things can happen.
This can lead to some very intense movements in which it’s quite difficult to stay one
step ahead.
One wrong move can lead to being caught.
And you do NOT want to get caught.
NUMBER TWO: GARGOYLES From the ramparts of the Notre Dame, all the
way to the now-streaming 90’s cartoon, these stone creatures have captured the imagination
of people for a very long time.
If you’ve ever seen one adorning an antique building, you’ll understand why:
Grimacing, snarling rock beasts baring their teeth at you.
Sheesh.
Enough to turn me to stone.
Gargoyles were originally an architectural element, meant to divert water from the rooftops
of old buildings.
I know, not so scary when you consider the fact that they’re just fancy water spouts.
The gargoyles would prevent the roof from being damaged in the event of heavy rain or
similar weather events.
Water flows through a trough cut into the back, and pours out their open mouth.
Imagine not knowing this, and looking up to a monster vomiting water on your head.
That’s probably where a lot of stores of Gargoyles coming to life originated.
Plus, longer gargoyles meant better drainage, so the more effective ones would be more visible.
Scarier too.
Of the many legends surrounding Gargoyles, the most prolific involve the sprouting of
bat-like wings and a hunger for flesh, sometimes human.
There’s one in particular known as the Styrga, or sometimes the Strix, that sits atop Notre
Dame, watching carefully, waiting to descend upon some unlucky Parisian.
It resembles a bat or owl, with a large head, voracious beak, wings, and horns.
The artist Charles Meyron wrote that this monster does indeed exist, and is no figment
of the imagination.
Better watch out!
These iconic monsters have inspired and appeared in many forms of media, always as beasts of
supernatural strength, speed, and power.
Simon Belmont and his relatives have fought them off in the Castlevania series, treasure
hunters have been eaten in the movie “Rise of the Gargoyles,” and they even fight crime
in New York City in the animated series “Gargoyles.”
All I’m saying is that there’s a possibility that these beastly sculptures come awake at
night and stalk in the darkness.
Keep your eyes on the skies.
NUMBER ONE: WEEPING ANGELS Don’t blink.
Keep your eye drops ready.
Be prepared to jump into the nearest telephone booth or police box.
Now I’ve already referenced these creatures while discussing the Statues videogame, and
it’s pretty obvious where that took its inspiration from.
Weeping Angels.
First appearing in the Doctor Who episode titled “Blink,” these statues have made
their way into the hallowed halls of horror legend.
They are one of the most popular and terrifying Doctor Who monsters.
Possessing a natural and unique defence mechanism, the Angels are quantum locked.
This means that they can only move when no other living creature, including their own
kind, is looking at them.
As soon as they are observed, they instantly turn to stone and cannot be killed.
Imagine running from one of these.
No blinking, no turning away.
Every time you break line of sight, they creep closer at terrifying speeds.
They have the ability to send others into the past to a point before their birth, which
allows the Angels to feed on the potential life energy of what would have been the rest
of their victim’s lives.
Paradoxical and petrifying.
They don’t usually kill their victims, because they want to feast on their potential.
I wonder if someone could ever figure it out, Groundhog Day style?
Or maybe they’re just doomed to live life over and over, meeting the Angels at the end
of each identical run.
These time-travelling terrors tend to appear as humanoid angel statues, with unremarkable
features.
That is, until they get close.
If within feeding range, they open their mouths wide and bare their vampiric fangs.
It’s implied that any statue you’ve ever seen could be a Weeping Angel in disguise.
As quantum beings, they are extremely difficult to kill.
This is thanks to extreme physical strength, and the fact that the statues are impossible
to destroy.
Plus, who would want to get that close to one of these anways?
The only way to stop a Weeping Angel is to keep them under 100% constant surveillance,
and the only reliable way to do this is to have two of them look at eachother.
If that happens, they will be stuck until someone moves one out of sight of the other.
Hopefully nobody is stupid enough to do that.
Weeping Angels combat this possibility by moving with their hands over their eyes, giving
them the appearance of crying.
Thus, Weeping Angels.
So if you ever see a statue that looks a little too sad, get the hell out of there.
Well, that’s it for today!
If you weren’t already unsettled by statues, now you have some very good reasons to be.
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