7 Unbelievable Moments Caught on Camera
In the times we live in, everyone now has their own high-speed computers and HD cameras
in their pocket.
This has changed our world in some pretty unforeseen ways, one of which is that now
everyone can become a documentary filmmaker or a news crew, if they get out their phone
at the right place at the right time.
Today we will explore some examples of perfectly timed footage that put the viewer right into
the action.
These point of view shots are of the kind that you have to see to believe!
Demolition Dodgers
Demolitions are a routine part of life working as a construction crew or engineering team
and yet they still attract spectators willing to stand from a safe distance to catch the
destructive spectacle.
The main event of this video was the scheduled demolition in late June of 2014 of an OP Prostejov
textile factory in the Czech Republic.
As onlookers react to the amazing symmetry of the buildings’ collapse, a chunk of rock
the size of a large grapefruit hurtles from the dust of the debris.
As the large piece of stone comes flying toward them, one can only imagine the shock the spectators
must've feltin that split second.
The two civilians and the cameraman a short
distance behind them, all narrowly miss the debris, despite having very little time to react.
They did, however, leave the scene with one startling piece of footage.
Inside a Tornado
If you grew up in the American Mid-West, one of the most terrifying sounds you’ll ever
hear is a tornado siren.
Hearing that haunting siren sound is a cue to grab your loved ones, stay indoors, and
get into a basement or shelter as soon as possible.
One Washington, Illinois man, however, took the devastating warning as his cue to capture
what is perhaps one of the most horrifying pieces of tornado destruction footage ever
filmed.
Kris Lancaster, a sound engineer, had been living with his wife Mandy and their three
children in their dream home for less than two years when a massive tornado and storm
system ravaged the Mid-West in November of 2013.
As the footage begins, you can see the storm in the distance and hear Kris and his family
urging their younger children and dogs to get inside.
“Get in the house now.
Get in the house”
As the storm barrels closer, the eerie sound of the wind spiraling dominates the footage
until Kris announces he can see pieces of his neighbors houses flying through the air.
Most safety officials will tell you, by the time you see individual debris in the air,
it may be far past the time you should have sought shelter.
Mesmerized by the massive storm heading for his home and family, Kris backs into his screened
in porch just in time for the life-threatening wind and debris to surge through the yard.
At this point the footage is indecipherable as Kris scrambles for safety - until the video
goes black.
With no power and their home ripped off the foundation above them, his family recounts
their injuries and tries to decide what to do next.
Kris would later tell reporters how he managed to make it safely inside.
“I don't know how I did it but I got to the stairs and fell down them and my 19-year-old
son pulled me down and pulled me into the safety, into the backroom in the basement."
Kris and his family were later treated in a hospital for injuries sustained from the
flying debris - but all members of his household, including his dogs, survived the killer storm.
Handcuffed Car Heist
On March 30th, 2018, police arrest Angie Frost at a Village Inn in Tulsa after she is found
in possession of a stolen vehicle.
The handcuffed woman is quick to provide a story to officers that she had borrowed the
car from a friend and was unaware that it was stolen.
“you asked him to borrow your car, apparently?”
“Well because I had to move some stuff and I didn’t want…
He’s annoying.
I can’t believe this, please, can I work with you?”
Officers place Frost in the front passenger seat of the cruiser while they search the
stolen vehicle.
As officers deliberate the details of her
story, Frost moves her cuffed hands in front of her and jumps over the centre console into
the driver’s seat, locking the doors before speeding off.
“What is she doing?
She trying to steal your car.
Stop!
David 136 – Suspect just stole my vehicle”
Officers waste no time in pursuing her, but the highspeed chase eventually comes to an
abrupt end, as she crashes into a park at the Studio Six Motel.
“where did she go?
Is that her right there?
There she is.”
As the woman is placed under arrest a second time, she starts to plead with officers proclaiming
that she told them she didn’t steal that car, the officer who apprehended her replied
“You stole a police car in front of three police officers!”
Frost ended up pleading guilty to not only the theft of the car she was found in, but
the police cruiser aswell.
Train Tunnel Escape
If you’ve ever seen the classic film Stand By Me, there’s no doubt you remember the
harrowing scene where the boys are forced to try and outrun an oncoming train.
Two cyclists experienced this suspenseful scene for themselves while trying to find
a new cycling route on May 12, 2018.
The two men on the bikes were avid cyclists from Rio De Janiero, Brazil.
They needed to find a new route in Floriana, Barra Mansa that did not cause them to cross
over a major highway.
The new path they tried to create turned out to be just as dangerous, if not more so, than
crossing the busy road would have been.
Miraculously, as they venture back into the cave, the bike is unscathed, and the two cyclists
don’t waste any time on continuing on their dangerous shortcut.
Trouble in Paradise
Most Christians are familiar with the scripture in Psalms 23:4 that reads:
“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil."
Most devout followers recite this prayer when they are in the midst of extreme crisis.
A couple in California found themselves in such an extreme crisis as to turn a place
named “Paradise” into something that might look like the ‘valley of death’ from the passage.
And as if it couldn’t get more biblical than that, the entire road ahead of them was
engulfed in hellish flames.
In November of 2018, thousands of families were forced to evacuate from a blazing forest
fire known as the Camp Fire, as it devastated more than 31 square miles and burned the town
of Paradise to the ground.
The fire began on November 8th due to an electrical malfunction with Pacific Gas & Electric equipment
and quickly became an out of control blaze that resulted in 85 civilian fatalities, making
it the deadliest wildfire in California history.
In this POV footage, a couple and a hitchhiker they rescued along the way, take the treacherous
journey up the Skyway driving against the normal flow of traffic to escape.
“That sucks, people are going to lose their houses.”
“Heavenly father, please help us.
Please help us to be safe.
I’m thankful for Jeremy, and his willingness to be brave”
Just as it looks like they’ll never make it out the sky clears to a reassuring blue,
and helicopters fighting the blaze can be seen up ahead.
Unintentional Taser Takedown
On November 24th, 2017, two Ohio officers were apprehending a suspect identified in
violence incident.
The suspect, Chris McClinton, was smoking in the car with his girlfriend when officers
approached the vehicle.
After several attempts to get the man to show his ID, officers then try to remove Chris
from the car.
“Get out of the car now, you’re under arrest”
As the man begins resisting arrest, one officer pulls out his taser to neutralize him.
As he pulls the trigger one prong hits the suspect and the other hits the officer’s
partner, tasing them both.
Over the shouts of the very distraught girlfriend, the tased officer can be heard saying -
“Let go!
You got me!”
The other officer can later be heard sheepishly saying “Sorry, Nick”- as if it were just
another day on the job.
The tased officer was later treated for a head injury at the Ohio hospital and the man
Bear-ly Escaping
“Mama Bear” is a figure of speech used to describe someone who fiercely protects
their children at all costs.
Crossing a real one in the wild will show you just why that expression is so accurate.
While walking a trail in Katmai National Park, Alaska, a hiker encounters a large mother
bear and her two cubs.
“I am walking backwards on the trail, back to the camp.
I’m walking on the trail and mom and two cubs.
So I am continuing to walk backwards”
Walking backward in part to keep his eye on the bears, and in part to appear non-threatening,
this hiker remains incredibly calm under pressure, narrating the events as they unfold.
“And this is the first walk from camp, that I’ve had since getting here on Friday, July 14th.
And what I don’t want to do, as I’m walking backwards… is stumble”
The narrow trail leaves little room for the hiker to evade the family of bears, with trees
and dense forest on either side of him.
"Oh come on guys, give me a break"
Cubs just keep coming.
Oh, come on.
Alright, that was a stumble!
I’m hoping they go off the trail at some point.
Or somebody else comes along from camp”
The grizzly bear family eventually reach a clearing and taper off by a body of water
at the campsite, and what started as a video of a "predator" stalking its "prey", turns into
a serene image of the mother and cubs playing by the water.
“This is mom and the two cubs now.
This is by the camp site and they’re at the water’s edge”
Which of these point of view videos do you think is most shocking?
Which one would you be most terrified of, if it happened to you?
Let us know in the comments below... Thanks for watching!