Its been almost two years since I did the part 1 to this video - heres what I looked
like doing it two years ago.
This might be the longest Ive ever gone between doing doing parts in a series - why did I
wait this long?
Well, it just didnt feel right yknow.
Every few months Id try and feel if it was right for a part 2, and it just wasnt.
Today I woke up though, and it just felt right.
Here we go then, its been a long time coming - my name is Danny Burke and this is the Top
10 Scary Stories That Are Real Part 2.
Starting off at number 10 we have The Watcher.[a] This is a very disturbing story from 2015
that will scare anyone who fears being watched by someone you cant see.
A New Jersey family were terrorized after receiving 3 letters from someone who said
they were watching the house.
The Watcher said they were -put in charge of watching and waiting for its second coming-
… another referenced the familys children, saying -I am pleased to know your names now,
and the name of the young blood you have brought to me- … another letter asked -Have they
found out whats in the walls yet?- … the family filed a lawsuit against the previous
owners, who they claim failed to inform them about the watcher before the sale, despite
being aware of the individual.
The family tried to sell the million dollar home but found that rumours had spread of
the watcher and nobody wanted anything to do with it.
In the end they applied for a permit to tear down the house and replace it with two neew
ones.
Im not sure if the watcher would be too happy with that …
Moving on to number 9 we have The Reality Show Killer[b].
Thats the nickname given to Rodney Alcala - a serial killer estimated to have murdered
upwards of 130 victims.
He earned his nickname because of his 1978 appearance on The Dating Gamer TV show - heres
a clip from that and while you watch it, bare in mind that he was half way through his murder
spree and nobody suspected a thing.
The knowledge about him makes that very uncomfortable to watch.
Prosecutors said that Alcala toyed with his victims, strangling them until they passed
out, waiting until they revived and then repeating the process.
Over the years, its thought he took more than 1000 sexually explicit photos of women and
teenage boys, at least one of who he murdered.
On the dating show, he was paired up with a woman to go on a date but luckily, she never
went on the date because she got strange vibes for him.
Sometimes you really should trust your instincts about a person …
Next up at number 8 we have The Toxic Lady[c].
This is the story of Gloria Ramirez, an ordinary woman from California.
On February 19th 1994, she was rushed to hospital with a rapid heart beat and a drop in blood
pressure.
Upon arrival, she could hardly breathe and was answering questions in incoherent sentences.
Doctors knew that she had late stage cervical cancer but these symptoms didnt make sense
for the 31 year old.
No drugs seem to stabilise her.
Nurses noticed a strange oily sheen over her body.
They took a blood sample - her blood smelled like ammonia and there were manila colored
particles floating in it.
Then it got really strange.
Nurses started fainting around her.
One of them woke up and found that she couldn't move her arms or legs.
Six people were unable to treat Gloria because they were becoming nausaus, fainting or experiencing
temporary paralysis.
Gloria died that night.
A special team in hazmat suits found nothing to suggest why people were being affected
by her body.
The official explanation for her cause of death was kidney failure brought on by late
stage cervical cancer.
The explanation for the staff fainting was given as mass hysteria.
Many people didnt buy these explanations though and feel there are some very creepy unexplained
factors involved with the story of the toxic lady.
Next up at number 7 now we have The Spooky House.
This one comes from 2006.
Two girls from Worthington Ohio decided to visit a local home known simply as the spooky
house.
It was run down down, covered in overgrowth and situated right over the road from a cemetery.
Youll notice I didnt say it was abandoned though - thats what the girls thought - but
they were very wrong.
41 year old Allen S Davis lived there with his elderly mother.
He was a recluse who had thwarted off intruders before.
He had a rifle as protection and when he heard the girls outside, he fired a few warning
shots because that usually worked.
This time though, one of the shots struck 17 year old Rachel Barezinsky in the head.
Somehow, Rachel survived.
The story spread everywhere.
Some people were outraged and thought Allen was mentally ill, others said he was well
within his rights to protect his own property.
He was sentenced to 19 years in prison and the girl made a full recovery.
What do you guys think of this story, can you even believe it happened?
Weve got a lot more scary true stories to come …
Moving on to number 6 we have Mercy Brown[d] the Vampire.
This story comes from New England in the late 1800s.
People back then believed that people were dying from consumption, we now know it to
be tuberculosis.
Its cause was unknown at the time so there was a lot of mysticism around it.
It was thought that the first infected member of a family was draining life force from their
relatives, functioning as a sort of living dead.
Those who died from consumption were exhumed from their grave and examined.
If their body seemed -too fresh-, they were deemed to be vampire who were draining the
life force of the living.
Mercy Brown was a girl who was the first of her family to die.
Her family didnt believe in consumption and did not want her body exhumed.
The villagers insisted though, scared that they would have their life energy drained
next.
When they went to dig her body up, they found signs of fresh blood.
It had also turned over in its grave by itself.
The villagers panicked and burned her corpse.
They then took the ashe from burning her heart and mixed them with water.
They took Mercys brother who was suffering from consumption and made him drink the ashe
water, he died 2 months later.
A gruesome end to a creepy story …
Next up at number 5 we have The Cowchilla School Bus Kidnapping[e].
When parents put their kids on a school bus, they expect it to be a safe place.
Thats what the parents in this story thought too.
In 1976, 26 children were heading home from their 2nd to last day of summer school in
Chowchilla California.
They were all aged from 5 to 14, returning from field trip to a swimming pool.
On the way, the driver stopped to see if a car that had broken down needed help.
Suddenly, 3 masked men stormed onto bus with guns.
They drove the children and bus driver around for 11 hours before eventually stopping at
a Quarry.
They then loaded them into a buried van with a bit of food, water and some mattresses.
The kidnappers went off to make their ransom demands but the phone lines were too full
from media calls and families looking for their children.
In that time, the bus driver stacked up the mattresses, allowing them to climb up to the
top of the Quarry and escape.
Amazingly, all of them were fine and lived to tell this terrifying tale ...
Moving on to number 4 we have Open Water.[f] Thats the name of a 2003 horror movie - but
not everyone knows it was based on a true story.
In 1998, Louisiana couple Tom and Eileen Lonergan went on vacation to Australia after completing
a two year tour of duty with the Peace Corps.
They went for a scuba dive through the Great Barrier Reef.
They joined 18 other divers at the St Crispins Reef.
After a while, the time to came to return to the surface.
The diving instructor counter everyone and then they returned to the boat.
Somehow though, he miscounted - as the boat left, Tom and Eileen were still underwater.
Nobody even realized they were missing until their belongigs were found on the boat 2 days
later.
A 3 day search began.
Eventually, they found a divers slate inscribed with a message.
It read -Monday January 26th: 1998, 8 AM.
To anyone who can helps us: we have been abandoned on Agincourt Reef by MV Outer Edge 25 Jan
98 3 pm.
Please help to rescue us before we die.
Help!- … that message was all that was found though.
Its thought they were eaten by sharks in the open water.
Their story inspired a horror movie but perhaps the original is an even scarier tale …
Moving on to number 3 now we have The Russian Grave Robber[g].
In 2012, a suspected grave robber in Russia was said by police to have made 29 life size
dolls from mummified female corpses.
Local historian and cemetery explorer Anatoly Moskvin was arrested by police who were invesgativing
the grave desecrations that had been going on.
In his house, they found brightly dressed dolls, their faces and limbs covered in cloth.
At the time, they couldn't determine if every doll contained human remains.
They did confirm that the remains belonged mainly to girls or young women and they had
been dressed in clothes taken from the corpses.
Police also found photographs and nameplates taken from headstones as well as instructions
for making dolls and maps of cemeteries in the region.
It was almost like he was preparing a manual for others to follow in his footsteps ....
Next up at number 2 we have The Bandit[h].
This is the tale of Elmer McCurdy.
He was a troubled man born in 1880 who had a love for nitroglycerin, a very explosive
chemical.
He would used it to break into peoples homes and steal from them, he even used it to rob
trains.
One day though, his dangerous obsession caught up with him.
In 1911, he and two friends tried to rob a train carrying 400,000 dollars.
The men discovered it was actually just a passenger train.
They only got 46 dollars out of the people on board and two bottles of whiskey.
The police were on their way so Elmer holed up in a barn with the whiskey.
He was ill and drunk when police showed up to claim the 2000 dollar reward on his head
- he was shot and killed.
Now it gets weird.
His body was taken to a funeral home where the owner embalmed his body with a preservative
that kept his features intact.
Months went by and the embalmer received no payment from Elmers family for his work so
he put the body on display to try and make back his costs.
The body became known as -The Bandit Who Wouldnt Give Up- … people came from all over to
see it.
Carnival owners offered money for Elmers body but he refused.
5 years later, two men claiming to be Elmers brothers showed up - the ebalmer handed over
the body.
They werent actually his brothers, they were carnival owners.
They took Elmers body on tour for seven years before the carnival was sold to a man called
Louis Sonney.
When Louis died, the body was placed in storage.
The body didnt crop up again until the 1960s and 70s, at one point it was left hanging
inside an amusement park - can you imagine that.
The body was rediscovered by a film crew in 1976 and the following year he was buried
- 66 years after he died.
And finally at number 1 we have The Porthole Murder[i].
This is the story of English actress Eileen Gibson.
In 1947, the 21 year old was on baord the Durban Castle, a ship heading to England from
South Africa.
She he recently appeared in a production of the play Golden Boy.
Tragically, she never made it back.
When the ship was ninety miles off the coast of Portugese Guinea, the young actress was
pushed through a porthole into the ocean after being sexually assaulted by the James Camb,
the ships steward.
Afterwards, he had shoved her through the porthole and out into the ocean - an act which
he did not deny to investigators.
During the investigations, several women came forward to say how Camb had sexually attacked
them on two previous voyages.
He was sentenced to death but managed to get life in prison due to a loophole.
After being paroled, he went on to assault 4 more females including a 13 year old girl,
he was then put in prison for life.
He was released in 1978 and died a year later.
Well guys, I hope that was worth waiting almost 2 years for, if it wasnt, then I can do a
part 3 a lot sooner.
Maybe in like, 2 weeks - if I feel like the time is right - if it doesnt, well Ill see
you in part 3 in about 2 years.
Let me know either way, thanks for watching as always, my name is Danny Burke and Ill
see you all in the next video!