- I think we've had a few too many rainbow
and sunshine videos.
Time for some creepy. (evil laugh)
Welcome, everyone, to a brand-new top 10.
My name is Matthew Santoro and today, oh yeah,
it's a creepy one.
You might think torture sounds a bit old fashioned
given the modern world that we live in,
but believe it or not, it still exists and in more places
than you'd like to believe.
In fact, innovations in technology has modernized
some age-old techniques and have made them,
well, even more effective.
So, in this video we're going to discuss the most
disturbing torture techniques that still exist in the world
today and where they exist so you know, you can have
a better idea of where not to break the law.
So, here they are.
(electrical sounds) (screaming)
10 disturbing modern torture methods.
Number one is the tiger bench.
Oh you know it's gonna be bad when they attach
the word tiger to it.
This method of torture is found in China and inflicted
most often on practitioners of falun gong,
a spiritual discipline first taught publicly in 1992.
They begin by placing the prisoner on a long bench
with a board against their back and head.
The prisoner's back, feet, and legs are secured to
the bench and bricks are added under their feet until
either the straps break or their feet break.
In 2002, this torture method was used on a woman
who was walking home after practicing falun gong
when the police abducted her.
The tiger bench's effects were so bad on the woman
that the bones in her ankles were made visible
by the end of it.
Sorry, prutroding bune,
protruding bones makes me yack.
Number two is the tucker telephone.
During the time of peace and love in the '60s,
doctors at the Tucker State prison farm in Arkansas
began using a torture device on some of their prisoners
that became known as the tucker telephone.
The device operated by placing a ground wire around
the big toe of the prisoner while fastening another
wire, the hot wire, to the prisoner's genitals.
The telephone, which had been modified to send
electric shocks, was then cranked so it sends electricity
to the prisoner's beef thermometer.
Now, the average offense just called for a local call,
you know, not too much cranking, but a long-distance
call was for worse offenders which meant repeated shocks.
The device was ultimately banned in the 1970s but there
are many from Arkansas who will never touch a phone again.
You may contact them through carrier pigeon.
Number three is the cold cell.
The CIA is officially limited to only six techniques
of humane interrogation that they're allowed to use
but one of which is basically a method of torture.
The cold cell is known as an enhanced interrogation
technique where the prisoner's placed in front of an
air conditioner for hours, days, and even years at a time.
The practice began in 1961 by the guards at
Parchman, Mississippi State Penitentiary.
Those guards would douse detained civil rights activists
with fire hoses and then turn on the air conditioning
system on full blast for three days, but that's nothing
compared to the person that probably got it the worst
which was Vhuen Van Tai, the highest ranking Viet Cong
officer captured during the Vietnam War.
The CIA placed him in a tiny, white, windowless room
and cranked the a/c to full and left it on for, get this,
four straight years.
But luckily this one doesn't scare me as much, I mean,
I'm Canadian.
Why, you merely adopted the cold.
I was born in it, molded by it.
Number four is the Syrian torture method.
Our next method of torture has yet to be officially named
so let's just call it the Syrian torture method,
that sounds lovely.
Often used by the Syrian government, this method of torture
has prisoners taken to a hidden room containing a box
far too small for a person to lie in.
The prisoner is then put in the box with their hands and
feet bound and forced to lie in uncomfortable positions
for long periods of time.
To add to the horror, the box is then tilted on it's side
and also elevated so that every time food is dropped
into the box, which is often just something like a
hard-boiled egg, it rolls to the bottom out of their reach.
And on top of it all, prisoners are also electrocuted
several times a day to keep them awake through it all.
But hey, since it doesn't have a name, I'd like to suggest
super-awful-tiny-box-electro-torture.
Have your own?
Leave it in the comments.
Let's get creative.
Number five is white torture.
White torture is a form of emotional and psychological
torture that relies on sensory deprivation and isolation
instead of physical harm.
This method was described by Amir Abbas Fakhravar,
who was said to be the first person to be tortured
in this way by the Iranian government.
According to Amnesty International, he reported that
his cell had no windows and everything
was entirely colored in white.
Even his meal was white rice on a white paper plate.
On top of that, even if you wanted to use the toilet,
he had to put a white slip of paper under the cell door
to alert the guards who also would wear footwear
designed to muffle sound.
Sensory deprivation is no joke, it'll make you go nuts.
You'll start talking to yourself, being alone
all the time like that.
It's like being a Youtuber.
It's okay, Matt, you'll be alright.
Friends are coming, just keep making videos.
(scared laughing) (creepy music)
Next, number six is waterboarding.
Waterboarding is an infamous torture technique that has
been in use since pre-colonial times.
It involves tying a prisoner down on a board or table,
then covering their face with a cloth while water is
poured over the victim's face and nasal passages.
This terrifying experience recreates the sensation
of drowning and the physical effects are severe.
It can cause extreme pain, dry drowning, damage to lungs,
and brain damage from oxygen deprivation.
It was considered such a serious torture method,
that the Americans would hang Japanese prisoners
who practiced waterboarding on World War II POWs
and then years later it was discovered that the CIA
was using it on members of Al Qaeda.
A government being hypocritical and lying?
That never happens.
I'm just shocked.
That never happens, no, never.
(fart sound)
Number seven is cat o' nine tails.
Still used today as judicial punishment in some countries,
this type of whip comes in all kinds of varieties to
choose from for, you know, the picky torturer.
There's everything from the simple nine-tailed whip
all the way up to the barbed-wire whip which is capable of
some pretty serious damage.
Extended use of this device on a prisoner
can easily result in death.
Countries that still use it today include Antigua
and Barbuda as well as Barbados, all of whom reinstated
its use in the early '90s.
Disturbingly, Trinidad and Tobago never outlawed its use
and Tobago has even been accused of torture and cruel
treatment by way of this device.
And for those of you who may have gotten excited while
I was discussing this, you should probably stop reading
"Fifty Shades of Grey" 'cause this is not your average whip
and it is no way pleasurable so, yeah, you should probably
get your head right but, that's okay, you keep being
bad with your kinky self.
Number eight is the picana.
Back in the 1930s, the picana was a notorious innovation
first introduced by police chief Polo Lugones in Argentina
and remained only in that country until the 1970s.
It consists of a wand or prod that gives a high-voltage,
low-electric shock to the victim.
Because of the low electrical current, the picana can be
used for extended periods at a time without killing the
subject, enabling for longer torture sessions.
To add to the electricity part, the victims of this
torture method would also get water thrown on them
to make their skin more sensitive to the shocks.
It's a device manufactured specifically for torture
and those who sell it keep the details quite sparse.
So yeah, you won't exactly be finding this item on Amazon
or Ebay, you know, so, yeah, sorry for the let down.
Number nine is the strappado.
The strappado is a form of torture where a subject's
hands are tied behind their back before they are hung
from their wrists.
It is incredibly painful and has been used throughout
the 20th and 21st centuries.
The suspension often causes dislocated shoulders
and is extremely painful.
The north Vietnamese army and the Khmer Rouge have both
used this torture technique in the past as well as
Turkey and America who have both done it in modern times.
According to the Human Rights Watch, Turkey has even
gotten inventive and added some enhancements to the
strappado including high-pressure water,
more electric shocks, and beatings.
I'm sorry, I'm noticing a pattern here.
Why does everything have to involve electric shocks?
Who's developing these methods, Pikachu?
Pika, ahhhh.
And number 10, the flying carpet.
The flying carpet starts with strapping the victim
face up on a piece of wood shaped like the human body.
They are then accosted with beatings, cigarette burns,
and electrical shocks, big surprise.
As that's happening, the boards are moved around
stretching and compressing the spine and causing
unimaginable pain and discomfort.
In 2014, a Syrian detainee report claimed that more than
11,000 detainees were killed during the Syrian civil war
using techniques just like this.
This technique, along with the German chair and the tire,
have become the torture method of choice among
members of ISIS.
That's too bad, 'cause the flying carpet is such a fun name.
Too bad it has less to do with Aladdin showing you
♫ a whole new world ♫
and more to do with your spine getting snapped up.
And those were 10 disturbing modern torture techniques.
You're welcome for the nightmares.
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