Internet is a scary place; be it the amount or the nature of content, everything about it is staggering. You can use your 3G data to become a better person and make this world a cheerful place, or you can terrorize an entire populace; the choice is yours. You can rob an indie filmmaker or contribute towards kick starting a person’s start-up. This probably is the scariest thing about the Internet. [highlight ]Anybody can do anything, without even proper training.[/highlight]
Some people though have made it their objective it seems, to gift you fits of paranoia, sleeplessness and delusions. These virtual “Mentalists” are different from your average mouse potatoes. They aren’t some creeps playing sick online games. These people, through education or experience have found their ways to the underside of an average human’s skin. Without even shock stunts, gore or violence, these people can scar your life. This article is a chronicle of their evil gifts to the cyber world.
So, here are the 5 creepiest websites on the face of God’s, I mean the Devil’s good earth.
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Birth and Death Monitor
Let’s start off with something mild, shall we? This website or rather I don’t know what to call it, is a simulation hosted on Google Drive which looks a hell of a lot like the Ookla Speedtest homepage, and displays random blinking dots across the world map. The dots may be green, which signify a birth at that particular geographical location, or red which signifies death. So in all, [highlight ]it is a real-time “life traffic” feed; depicting the arrival and departure of every life on earth.[/highlight] Most people like to focus on the “departure” depictions; as it is pretty saddening that so many kick the bucket in such a little time.
Hold up though! You missed a very important piece of information when you thought you were witnessing deaths in God Mode. It is a SIMULATION. So, the births and deaths it is depicting are simply probabilities of the same at any given point of time. [highlight ]It is based on the latest World Birth/Death Rates, classified right down to the district level.[/highlight] I personally find the amount of motivation that went into this creepier than the actual simulation.
Another website reporting deaths, this one is a little less vigilant in reporting them as it focuses on a specific kind of death: suicide, by jumping off the Skyway Bridge. With a scope so narrowed down, you would think that the website would be lying around idle for months on an end, and sometimes it does, but still the body count is alarmingly high. The last “jump” was reported on 8th June 2015, and the last update that was made on 8th August 2015 reports that the same person who had jumped, has died of his injuries.
If you ask me, that is REALLY MESSED UP! A website that is chronicling the suicide attempts of desperate people and not for once saying anything cautionary or consoling. There is a deep dark craving inside us all to feed off people’s misery. That is the reason why websites like these are thriving. We are all Lou Bloom inside. [highlight ]Most of the “jumps” are reported by random people through twitter or a direct submission to the website.[/highlight] I find this really more disturbing than the suicides themselves.
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Last Communications of Crashed Planes
This website is a conspiracy seeker’s holy grail. What they have here is a catalog of plane crashes since 1962, accompanied by the last words that were recorded by the Cockpit Voice Recorders, both in audio and transcript form. The data has been collected with cooperation from NTSB of USA and compiled on this blog. [highlight ]By the way, YES, the 9/11 tapes are there too[/highlight]
I think again that the amount of effort somebody has put into this is unnerving. In spirit, this website is as morbid as the previous entries, because besides John Green, I don’t think digging up last words is a very healthy practice. Some people may want to relive the horror, but except that, I don’t think anything productive comes out of this venture. I believe Grand Maester Pycelle, “Last words are often as significant as the first”.
After exploring the horrors of the real world, now is the time to get down to the world of fiction; the true creative genius behind creepiness. Do you remember “The Blair Witch Project“? That first-person horror thriller was just too realistic to put off from your mind? You see, it was an innovation in many regards. That movie represents the beginning of supernatural horror in the form of found footage, and a very immersive promotional strategy. Before the release, “Missing” posters describing the main-cast members were put up all over the places where the movie was going to be premiered. The actors even spent some time hiding off to make it look like they have honestly disappeared. The production even set up a hoax website describing the entire story of the movie as the subject of a real-life ongoing investigation.
Now, coming to the point, since the original movie left off at such a cruel and abrupt conclusion, people wanted closure. In other words, a sequel. The production decided to do just that, for providing a little background story on the Blair Witch myth. [highlight ]As a first step to promote it, they put up this sick website, which has a point-and-click flash game that takes place inside a mental asylum.[/highlight] Among other creepy things that you can expect from a mental asylum to contain, this one houses Kyle Brody, the only surviving child abducted by James Parr, the serial killer from Blair. Pretty intense huh?
For your daily horror fetish needs, we present this website. It is basically a straightforward blog, publishing creepy stories of various genres and lengths. [highlight ]The owner of this blog doesn’t write anything himself. The stories are submitted by users, moderated and edited by a team of freelance editors and published on the site.[/highlight] It is basically a perpetually active night-time campfire (now a little less active than before). There are 1-2 new stories everyday, which carry with them an air of pseudo-authenticity. None of them are too graphic or violent, but they ARE disturbing.
[highlight ]This very website is the breeding ground for the most scary and enduring urban legends of all time, like “Slenderman”, and “Jeff the Killer”, whose images have become the most iconic horror meme of our time.[/highlight] It houses some literary geniuses like Micheal Whitehouse right alongside amateur horror junkies. [highlight ]You can rate the stories (called pastas), and participate in monthly book club discussions.[/highlight] This website enjoys as much fame as notoriety, especially after the Wisconsin Stabbings. Supposedly, you can go crazy if you spend too much on this website; and that is what makes it the creepiest website that ever was or will be.