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So i think ive probably seen one scarecrow in my life and it was exactly what i thought
it would be based off of what i had seen in cartoons and stuff.
But i feel like if i saw one at night in some abandoned field id probably be like what is
that floating person over there.
But there have been a lot of scary scarecrow encounters over the years as predicted so
lets hear about them.
This is the top 10 Scary Scarecrow Stories.
Starting us off with number 10 is Albert Engel.
This ones pretty messed up but we like to start these lists with a bang dont we.
Back in 1916 in Wisconsin Albert Engel impressed everyone in town with his very realistic looking
scarecrow.
So much show his neighbours went to his house to ask how he made it.
But when his family answered the door they said that Albert hadnt been home for days.
The next day another neighbour heard about the scarecrow and decided to check it out.
But the closer he got the more he realised that something was just off.
It wore a wide brimmed hat so you couldnt really see the face but up close the neighbour
realised to his horror that the scarecrow was Albert Engel itself.
Police were immediately called and his Alberts death was ruled a suicide.
His hat was still on when he hung himself so maybe people just assumed he was a scarecrow
when perhaps that wasnt the intention at all.
Either way, how did people think he was a scarecrow when he clearly had skin on his
arms and not straw.
But maybe that neighbour was the first to see him up close.
Coming in at number 9 is The Friendly Neighbourly War.
I mean i dont know how friendly you guysll think it was after hearing about it but yeah.
Mary Haman a California resident used to hate the sight of her neighbour Luigi Lugo. you
know when you dont like someone for no reason but everything they do just pisses you off?
Them breathing, the way they eat literally anything?
Well that was how Mary felt about Luigi.
So in 1911 when he put up a scarecrow that looked exactly like him she went crazy.
She went over to his yard, grabbed the scarecrow and ‘brained it, beheaded it and tore it
limb from limb’.
Mary was then arrested for battery but was set free during trial because it was a bloodless
murder.
But honestly if she did all that to a scarecrow version of him i wouldnt be surprised if she
ended up going for him in real life after that too.
At number 8 we have is the House of Scarecrows.
That sounds like a really shabby 90s horror movie but thankfully its not.
This one comes from redditor KillerOrangeCat.
Some people live in small towns but this guy lived in a trailer in the hills.
A small town wouldve been the dream for him, his words not mine.
But anyway the users friend had a 13 year old brother called Brodie and they all thought
it was high time for him to learn how to drive.
They took the users car, put Brodie in the front seat, cracked open some beers and went
on their way.
The roads they were driving on had no street lights and the roads themselves were poorly
maintained and old.
The boys were shooting mailboxes with a bb gun for fun and they found a gated house that
seemed long abandoned and the boys started shooting the gate as you do.
The gate was locked with a padlock that they managed to break with a bolt cutter.
The car drove in and illuminated a very old looking house and a bunch of shadowy figures
in the yard.
Somehow the car got stuck behind something and everyone got out to try and unstick it.
When the user finally looked at the yard with a flashlight he was horrified.
He saw dozens and dozens of scarecrows.
Different sizes different outfits different genders and it wasnt just a shirt and hat
they were properly dressed in recognizable outfits.
Some were in dresses or suits, there were even children scarecrows which were the creepiest.
It seemed to be depicting a party of sorts.
Either way just as he was taking this in his friend shot one of them in between the eyes
or buttons.
Filling our number 7 slot is the Floating Hat.
In Beaufort Australia a couple of kids thought they could pass their afternoon by throwing
stones into a nearby reservoir.
This was 1908 before you say why didnt they just play with their iPads or whatever.
This is when people still went outside.
Whilst throwing the stones they saw a coat and cat floating in the water and just assumed
it was a discarded scarecrow and then proceeded to use them as target practice for 2 hours.
After some time the boys decided it would also be a good idea to check out the coat
and hat so they did.
They found the body of John Cuthbertson a retired engineer who had previously said he
was done with his life.
Police guessed he drowned himself and the stone throwers were never questioned.
But i love how the first thing they thought to do when they saw something human shaped
in the water was throw rocks at it lol.
At least check first kids.
Now at number 6 is the Scarecrow In The Corn Field.
This ones also from KillerOrangeCat apparently living in a trailer in the middle of nowhere
lends itself to a lot of scarecrow stories which i appreciate.
This one took place before computers and mobiles, he used to visit his grandparents who lived
on a farm and that farm and a lot of cornfields.
Occasionally him and his cousin Carl would sit on the roof and look at the stars.
One day his grandad needed help with the scarecrows in the field and when he walked by one he
swore it moved.
He didnt think anything of it and that night him and Carl went on the roof to watch the
meteor shower happening that night.
The night was obviously stunning but when he looked at the field the same scarecrow
looked like it moved again.
As he looked away the scarecrow apparently jumped down from its post into the field.
He screamed and told Carl and he also confirmed the post was empty.
Carl figured it must've just fallen and they left it.
A while later the user saw the scarecrow emerge from the field and then it ran back into the
field.
The next morning the scarecrow was on the porch with no stuffing.
Right remind me to never visit a cornfield for this reason.
Coming in at number 5 is Mr. Rogers.
This one is slightly funnier than it is scary but I thought number 5 may be a good halfway
point for some comic relief.
In 1903 B.C Rogers and his wife were on their way home via horse and buggy and they were
riding along a river.
They were looking at the riverbank and saw a woman and a little boy standing there, but
then all of a sudden the boy lifted the woman and threw her into the water.
Mr Rogers the nobleman he was stopped his horses and tried to find the woman but couldnt
see her anywhere.
The boy had also disappeared so he had no idea hat to do.
He ran to the nearest village and asked 2 men to help him find the womans body.
Again they came up emptyhanded.
He went back to the buggy and went to the nearest farm and spoke to the farmer there
about the incident.
The farmer ended up telling him that his grandson had gone to the river and disposed of an old
scarecrow by throwing it in the river.
Essentially making his whole days effort good for nothing.
At number 4 is the Baden Regiment.
Its common knowledge that troops fighting for any side had to think of creative ways
to stay alive during the war.
So in 1914 towards the start of World War I French troops were on the move but so were
the German Baden Regiment.
To survive another day the French decided they had to do something drastic.
Using the fog to their advantage they went and go ta bunch of debris and sticks from
a nearby field and made scarecrows out of them.
After putting their own hats on the scarecrows, in the thick mist they looked like helpless
soliders.
Some troops were sent to lure the Germans to the field and when they saw the scarecrows
they charged.
They fell into the trap hard and they were surrounded from all sides by the French and
100 of them were killed.
After that using scarecrows and dummies became a lot more common.
If that was me i wouldve been so pissed that i got myself lured into this trap and it was
just a scarescrow.
Like i wouldve been shooting myself in the foot but i wouldnt have to because the French
wouldve been shooting me all over anyway so theres that.
Filling our number 3 slot is The Missing Corpse.
In Wales back in December of 1953 a group of workmen we’re clearing some fields, which
meant basically finding and throwing a bunch of debris into a bonfire.
At one point they found an old scarecrow stuck in some undergrowth and decided to toss it
into the fire too.
But as the clothes started burning away the men started seeing bones being left behind.
Confused as hell as anyone would be the men went back to where they found the scarecrow
and did a little more exploring and came upon a set of false teeth and a skull.
Obviously it was too late to save anything from the bonfire but the police did manage
to identify the body based on the dentures.
They belonged to 66 year old Ethel Winifred Collins who had been missing since August
of that year.
Now at number 2 is The Surprise.
This one happened way back in 1909 in Pennslyvania.
Maud Heufnagle was walking through a cornfield with her friend on the way to church when
she saw something lying on the ground.
She assumed someone had knocked over her dads scarecrow but when she walked over, she screamed
and full on fainted.
To her horror she found the mutilated body of her father.
Her dad was walking home on the same path and was attacked by a bunch of men, he failed
to overpower them and he was hacked to pieces.
His money was taken, anything valuable he had on him, everything.
A robbery that took a very twisted turn, the story ended up being printed in newspapers
all over the country.
And finally at number 1 are The Wives Turned Crows.
Female scarecrows are usually rarer than male ones but they do exist.
In 1906 there was a Hungarian farmer called Eugene Plozy who was slightly stingy lets
just say.
When his wife passed away he used her body as a scarecrow in his orchard to scare birds
away from his fruit trees.
And if that wasnt weird already the same thing happened with another farmer 4 years later
in Amsterdam.
Although the marriage was seemingly a happy one the man still loved his crops more than
his wife and also dressed her corpse up in one of his old suits and made her a scarecrow.
Neighbours freaked out at the sight of their once alive neighbour now a dead scarecrow
and called the police on him but thankfully he found out about it and removed his wife
scarecrow before the police got to his house.
He didnt kill her for this purpose by the way she died naturally.
And thats it for todays video guys!
I hope this had made you think twice when passing a scarecrow now, yknow just gotta
make sure they arent real bodies or anything.
Lemme know story was your favourite in the comments below and as always I’m your host
Ayman Hasan and ill see you next time.
Byee.