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The mental image of child Wendigoon covering his eyes while his father screams in excitement “THE SHARK TURNED THE OVEN ON” is just way too funny to me
I paused the vid immediately to see if anyone else reacted to that LOL I was genuinely taken aback when he said 10k when this video was only 3 years ago
@@cyruss6536I swear I did too and their was like a train track going around my house were diesel 10 was just destroying my house and I was hiding in a bush
The worst shit for me is things with silence before an incoming noise. I'm not talking about jumpscares. I'm talking about the emergency alert system, weather alerts, fbi anti piracy screens. I hate the incoming dread, the feeling of being alone.
@@luiscordova4582 Yeah, but again it’s different instead of jumpscares. The noise isn’t sudden, and yet you know damn well it’s going to happen and you’ve got to contemplate that.
This is how my night terrors are. Its like "oh haha I'm just flying through the sky nice" and suddenly it goes quiet and I just KNOW its about to start and my mind immediately creates the first thing that'll make me scream myself awake.
I’m watching this video 2 years later and hearing him be so appreciative of his 10 thousand subs while now having 3.28 million is crazy. I love a good come up
@@heehoohehehe1267 if it affects you daily and you can’t do normal things that others can do and it harms your quality of life, it is trauma not just a scare.
3:50 I was watching a documentary in my hotel room w my dad about black holes. I couldn’t sleep that night. I thought I was going to be spaghettified any moment
I'm surprised nobody ever mentions "Monsters Inside Me" on Animal Planet. It was all about these different insects and parasites and what they did to someone's body anatomically which was pure nightmare fuel
omfg that traumatused me i remember an episode of someone having maggots inside their knees or something and another one of a women with a bug in her eye
@@tata-my6jw I remember the one about the lady with the bug in her eyes, for years afterwards I freaked out anytime a bug flew into my face because i thought it would eat my eyes lol
I think as children we tend to overthink things because our brains are designed to learn and internalize new information. When we're introduced to something unsettling or uncomfortable we keep thinking about it, probably more than we should, because that's how we think of all new information.
Agreee, however I think that, on top of discerning levels of "unsettling", it's probably also going past a certain amount of information that a kid's mind can take. If there's too much happening at once yet there's next to no context given as to why it's happening, it hits a nerve and it makes us uncomfortable while watching.
@@giboi03 Oh totally. I think a lot of the things we found unintentionally creepy as children were just too unusual or unexpected for our minds to comprehend. Kids take comfort in things staying the same; when something completely unexpected comes along it removes that sense of comfort.
As a child I had a very vivid, anxiety-ridden imagination and had a lot of nightmares. It’s human nature to fear what you don’t understand, so I think that kind of explains why so many things in the world, even the smallest things, can easily become terrifying.
It's partially also a survival mechanism, when we're small and something is weird and we can't explain it we'll usually be scared until an adult comes along and explains it to us and reassures us that it's okay, or we gauge how frightened we should be (or just how we should feel about it in general) based on how the adult reacts, so if we watch a movie where something creepy happens and our parent fast forwards it? That is something bad that we aren't supposed to know, its unsettling because we know it exists and that its bad but not why.
Knowing that Wendigoon shared the same fear of the Jak & Daxter fish almost helped me get over that childhood fear. But that fish is still out there. Waiting.
This just made me remember a childhood trauma. I don't remember how young I was, but my older sister showed me the song "sympathy for slenderman." For years the last lines couldn't get out of my head where it says: "but don't let the song get stuck in your head, or he'll show up tonight at the end of your bed. And no one meets slender without ending up" *insert loud horrifying screams* "dead." I remember this keeping me up at night, the song replaying in my head, thinking that he would show up and kill me. Ironically he's now one of my favorite creepypastas
If you like psychology, start getting into behavioral psychology. It's insane how little anything can alternate how the brain develops. Such as yelling at your child can cause mutism and stuttering or simply not being there enough can damage how relationships develop.
trauma in the context of tv/movies/video games scaring you is not the same context of being traumatized by abuse/horrific accident. ppl who woke up to creepy adult swim bumpers aren’t traumatized like abuse victims are
For me, the only thing that scared me on this level was the Emergency Alert System tests they'd play on TV at 1 in the morning, and error messages you'd get on gaming consoles lol
i remember the mouse soup episode, i had a curious george dvd and it came with curious george mini episodes, the mouse soup episode, a couple episodes about some frog and a toad, a episode about germs and animals, and a episode about rocks on a hill
Thank you so much for mentioning that moment from Cry of the Cat. I rewatched tapes of Goosebumps over and over but would always close my eyes when that part came on. Good to hear somebody else shared that experience
The episode of lost tapes where the owlman takes the old lady was such a pivotal moment in my life because I really thought they captured and old lady getting abducted and nobody did anything about it
Oh my god. That thing with the mouse and the weasel! I had been looking for that for so long. It was on a Curious George DVD, I think and it scared me so much when I was a kid
Lost Tapes was the absolute best. The one about kids skating and a Thunderbird snatching one of them up scared me. It's the fear that one of your friends is gone, you can hear him calling for help, but he's so far away and you can't help him.
I still love how grateful he is about his 10k supps. 2 Years later he is literally the face of weird mystery/conspiracy/analog horror content on youtube. Yet he is as grounded as someone who just started with videos. Much love to you sir, you enlightened many of my evenings with great content.
i used to be terrified of tv static, the automated voice on landlines that was all like “the person you are trying to call is unavailable”, and the red screen with blue text that showed up after my favourite childhood show had ended and the channel was no longer available for the rest of the evening after 7 pm
god, yeah, ive always been scared of jarring sounds, especially robotic ones, like the pause where the audio repeats itself during a computer bluescreen or a cd track stopping or the emergency broadcast
Ugh, tv static scared me so much as kid, it would always show up in my nightmares and it would be really loud with no way of turning it off. The worst 😩
This always happened to me at during sleep overs at my grandparents house . They would go to sleep at like 9pm and put a movie on for me to fall asleep. The vibe that the room had when the ending screen came on was so scary for me for some reason.
the thing that scared me was the fucking spongebob ending credits. something about the odd distorted guitar music, the plain visuals, and the empty feeling
Yes omg, I watched spongebob with my sister once in a dark room And she for some reason thought it would be funny to lock me in the room So I was in a pitch black locked room with spongebob playing in the back It was weirdly terrifying
I have good news for you: I learned that was actually a close up of a horsefly, and actual close ups of butterflies are kinda cute. They look like the really fuzzy cutesy moths if you’ve seen those 😅
The Goosebumps episode The Werewolf of Fever Swamp really messed with me as a youngling. Just the dark shots of the kids running through the swampy woods while hearing the howling and monstrous sounds while having absolutely no idea what was going on suuuuper got to me
Anyone used to get scared of the warning screens on DVDs? (Edit) (OmG GuYs THaNk yOU sO mUcH fOr ThE lIkeS. In all seriousness thank you, and I would appreciate if you guys checked out my channel.)
Yes omg yes. I have no idea why but they are always so freaking unsettling. Like why would a regular movie have big red warning letters before it. It's so ominous.
When my family went to pick up our first dog from the breeder, the breeder's husband had a movie on the TV. I can't remember what it was, but I remember turning to look at it and seeing someone get their tongue cut out. I was only 5/6 years old and was terrified for weeks thinking my tongue was going to randomly get cut out.
Sorta Related: Parents really need to monitor what their children do online cause I saw some things at 10-12 that I really shouldn’t have that warped me a bit and scared me.
I definitely fucked my self up starting at age 12, I had a girl friend I think three years older than me and showed me apps and I traumatized myself through the span of a few years. Yay.
Good luck with that. Me and my friends all grew up Mormon and we still snuck around it and saw whatever we wanted somehow. This is in the early 2000s as well. Much easier now.
When I was a kid, we had a vhs tape with, at the time my favourite movie, "Dinosaur" (2000). The problem is there was also "Tarzan" (1999) on it, and the scene where the baby gugu-gaga Tarzan is being hunted by the jaguar/puma/whatever this giant cat was, absolutely terrified me, and I would always cover my eyes, and i didn't know how to skip it so I would have to play it every time I wanted to watch the "Dinosaur".
I watched _Tarzan_ as a kid and I never remember that part at all from that time due to skipping it that when I rewatched the movie when I got older, it was like there was an added scene. It was kind of weird.
Some episodes of the Twilight Zone really kept me up at night when I was a kid. Most notably "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," with the weird gremlin thing walking around on the wing of the plane as a passenger watches it out the window.
I was scared of my basement. I thought ghosts and evil demons lived under there like the exorcist girl. So every time I went downstairs I would give an evil laugh and talk about how I'm planning to take over the world to trick them into thinking I was with them.
DUDE the ONLY thing that scares me nowadays is the girl's face from the Exorcist. I've seen more horror movies than I can count, I've been to haunted houses, had real life instances of fear, and the only thing that scares the living shit out of me is that bitch and I can't figure out why. I used to think it was from the scary maze game, but the game uses other faces too and those don't affect me. Only the exorcist
Just imaging your parents/guardians hearing you evil laugh every time you go down to the basement and just looking at each other like "what in the world is that child doing?"
@@kyrencin3030 She's literally the reason I wasn't able to sleep in my own room until I was in 6th grade. Every once in a while, she'll pop up in my dreams in my room and stalk me from my closet and then lunge at me and attack. Not fun. ): (The nun from the conjuring will also once in a blue moon enter into my dreams, stalking me in my closest as I'm in my bed.)
OH MY GOD, SOMEONE ELSE KNOWS. There's a running joke in my family that all my problems stim from my dad showing me that video when I was like four. I was inconsolable for WEEKS. Fond memories lol
omg the second u said about the ocean I was thinking of the lurker sharks and I was so excited that u brought it up I have so much anxiety about water in video games in general because of that game as well as just being afraid irl
Mentioning that he had 10k subs at the time and being so thankful to his subs makes me smile considering how far he’s come since. At the time I’m writing this he’s got around 3.4 million subs. I wish you all the best Wendigoon, your content rocks!!
@@thenekoromancer7024 "The Slab," was NOT scary. I found it funny. The REAL scary episode was the episode called, "Naughty." *Shivers.* That episode creeped me the fuck out.
I have mouse soup on dvd. It has like three or four other animations with it too, including a curious george claymation. I used to watch them when I was younger and they all freaked me out except the curious george one
as a child i was, and still is, afraid of tv static, amber alerts, and/or the random alarms for certain events (if that makes sense, like on the tv and phone) The second i hear it bottled up and turn into a completely different person. it terrifies me for some reason, don’t know why.
testing alerts on the tv/radio are by far one of the worst sounds i have ever heard, whenever i hear them i feel my chest tighten and my stomach drop, it’s terrible
As children we are conditioned to feel safe with our parents. Whenever we are sad or hurt they are there to comfort us with reassuring words. So when something happens that makes them afraid it is terrifying to us when we are young. Perhaps there was a time when you were young when there was a series of weather alerts that worried your parents and that memory is being accessed when you hear similar sounds.
@@haleigh6089 I'm so glad I'm not the only one. The emergency test alarm noise and voice scare the shit out of me still and I'm 27. Everytime I hear it my body goes into fight or flight mode
There are two childhood things that still scare me as an adult: skull cave and centipede jumpscares. Skull cave is basically "the skull" from the whine the pooh grand adventure movie and more specifically when it is revealed to the characters with the very intense orchestra and the dramatic zoom of the scary rock formation. Centipede jumpscares is basically when I'm lifting or moving rocks or chunks of wood and suddenly a big fast centipede comes running out. The way they move I find very freaky.
You are not alone on being afraid of Diesel 10 and his imfamous claw. I was around 3 or 4 and I always cried when he was on the screen when watching that movie.
I have a theory about the uncanny valley. I don't think we necessarily encountered something in our past that was trying to intentionally look human, but there were two threats to prehistoric humans that may have caused this response: A.) Neanderthals looked a bit like people but weren't quite there. They posed potential competition to prehistoric humans. B.) Corpses, because not only could corpses carry disease and attract predators, but they also may represent an area where danger was present. Just some food for thought.
I dont think it was Neanderthals because they were direct competion and they were basically larger with bigger limbs we all have a distinct fear of things that look so much like humans but have a slight "error" like no pores or just certain distinct slight differences. Corpses are more likely but still a reach since we dont get he uncanny valley feeling when seeing a corpse what we get is just general fear.
@@theinquisitor2682 It’s proven that humans have mated with Neanderthals though, so it’s not like they were just competition and some scary human like creature, they were competition, but not in all cases where they only considered that.
I think that’s an interesting concept, but the way I see it, I think it makes more sense that the uncanny valley is just creepy because it’s a bit off. It’s so close to being human, but there’s something wrong with the face.
like someone perfectly described above, i always thought the uncanny valley results from not exactly a biological response (though your comment is definitely interesting), but a fear of seeing something that nearly resembles us. Part of your brain sees it looks human yet you're fully aware that they're not, and i think it's that confusion that really messes with us. We fear over how "human" it seems, and that makes us fear over what it's capable of. After all, if something can look like us, does that mean it's capable of feeling emotions and being equally volatile? And if so, how would we be able to know? It isn't human after all, so it could very well hold malicious intent, yet we wouldn't be able to properly know, since it isn't fully human. I think it's that lack of/and equally enough knowledge that causes the valley--but idk, that's just how i see it.
@@anon599 i literally was about to mention monsters inside me lol, it’s part of what sparked my interest in parasitology and mind altering diseases, and now i’m studying to become an animal disease biologist so i partially have it to thank for my (hopefully) future career 🤙
same here, the episodes of i shouldn’t be alive that stuck with me the most are the guy hallucinating from brain swelling after getting stuck on mt everest. also the one where the guy gets stuck in the amazon and has to eat his dog....... also monsters inside me and 1000 ways to die. my parents and i used to watch all those shows together.
We have many childhood fears in common. Grew up watching crazy shows but the things that got to me were mascots, most claymations and this one episode of goosebumps where this dog grew really large (from what i remember).. I WAS LITTLE OKAY?
My grandmother used to live in the mountains as a kid next to a group of native Americans in Delta, Alabama and they’d swap stories about giant eagles taking local kids. Im sure that was fun times.
Uncle Elephant is what traumatized me as a child. Mouse Soup is still one of my favorites to this day I'm not sure what draws me to it but it's such a unique piece of art, with silly stories, sure. But good morals woven into it. It stuck with me, and I'll always remember it.
Their was a level on Nintendo 64’s Spider-Man game where you run from carnage in these giant air vents . I can’t really explain what was scary about it but I used too get extremely frightened from that level , granted I was very young. That level did make me a huge carnage fan tho
The episode of spongebob where he couldn't write the essay used to scare me. Partly because it was so stressful and partly because of the weird hallucincations spongebob has for some reason
As a kid some of the stuff that truly horrified me in video games was similar to yours. I remember the first time I fell off of a map in a game only for it to not show me where I landed seriously freaked me out. Same thing with the infinity of driving somewhere out of bounds. That and finding my dads copy of the original tomb raider but not knowing how to leave Lara crofts mansion and always having that creepy old man just follow her around really stuck with me because I knew there had to be more to the game but never could figure out how to access it so I would spend hours trying to escape but never could.
The fear of that broken and tilted movement youre talking about got to me too as a kid. For some reason I was really afraid of some of the puppets on Mr. Rogers neighborhood because of how uncanny they looked and behaved. I was afraid of Lady Elaine Fairchilde and Daniel Tiger. Another movie I was pretty creeped out by was the puppet master. That Jak and Daxter fish got me too!! Well it was more of the Ratchet and Clank one that got me too. There was also this game called Gex 64 and there was a part in the game where a killer doll named Hucky starts chasing you. Just the way he ran was really violent and unsettling and he looked hella creepy with a knife.
I used to always go to movie theaters with my family and I absolutely HATED that sound. It made me jump every time and it did not help that I have sensitive hearing and ASD.
I’ve been subbed for awhile but I binged the conspiracy iceberg over the past two days and it was actually super emotional watching his rise through that!
seriously its insane!!! i started on his first episode of the conspiracy theory ice burg...he's been my favorite youtuber since. i like to watch youtube for entertainment often and his content topics are the best. I wish he had more content cause iv'e watched every upload, but unfortunately you cant rush perfection...
hearing you talk about jak and daxter and war of the monsters brought me back to my childhood, would play these games with my brothers a lot… man!!!! i love your videos wendigoon. thank you.
You unlocked a childhood memory man with war of the monsters because I played that so much with a friend of mine and could not remeber the name of it until your video, love the vidoes man keep it up
My mom used to have one of the classic alarm tones and it always bothered me because the first thing youd hear is "ring ding ding... Good morning!" And it scared the shit outta me
That happened to me once. My mom used to have a ringtone, that it wasn't that scary, but one day someone called on her phone and i was alone on the livingroom, sitting on the couch. For some reason i though something/someone was going to pull my feet if i stepped out of it, so i stayed quiet and didn't got out to bring the phone to her
The diesel character was the villain from Thomas and the Magic Railroad, his name was Diesel 10. At one point he does threaten to drop Alec Baldwin off a bridge to his death during an interrogation. Basically Diesel wanted to kill train Jesus so all the steam engines would die and the island would fall apart.
yeah that terrified me too, but because this other old channel called "chiller" also played relaxing nature clips followed by a screamer, so i was always scared of quiet peaceful videos.
I remember this one commercial Nickelodeon played, for Rabbids (that weird one with the rabbits), where they had a nature scene and the narrator told us to look closer to find the rabbid, and the camera kept zooming in, and then there was a jumpscare of the rabbid, that shit terrified me
I used to be scared of the thing at the end of robot chicken episodes where it's like the skull. It's called William Street or something like that but a cartoonish skull would pop up and a guy would yell
@@zachh.9065 oh my gosh I remember those videos my older brother would always show it me to get me off the computer when he wanted to have a turn but I remember the videos he would show me was called kff pronounced kayfee and whenever I see clips similar to thst I just get scared
A few I can remember -The vacuum cleaner from Teletubbies -The Brave Little Toaster, like the whole movie (oddly enough I love that movie today) -And there was this movie I saw playing on a TV at HHGregg where this alien species of plants landed on earth and started taking over, I can’t even remember it’s name but yeah. -And the anesthetic masks they put on you before surgery TERRIFIED me. I had multiple mouth surgeries as a kid so that explains that.😂 Great vid man!
Did you watch that History channel miniseries? That shit also freaked me out. That, Monsters and Mysteries in America, and the Nostradamus miniseries freaked me the fuck out as a 10 year old
@@loganfisher3431 BRO. The Nostradamus series made me so paranoid. It spiked my anxiety so high. The damn “the Mayans, Nostradamus, and scientist predict the world will end” bit really destroyed me
Saaame. I remember on December 20th (?) going on my Wii, onto the browser, and searching up the end of the world theory. I remember the next day, we were in class, and the time hit 12:05, and this one girl was like “Huh, the world was supposed to end 5 minutes ago”
Me too! For me it started when I watched Indian Jones and the kindom of the crystal skull lol Then I remeber sleeping on the couch and my mom playung a documentary of 2012 and the world ending. And how the crystal skulls may hold the key to stoping it. Thats what started me staying up at night thinking who im going to be in 2012 and what I would do if the world ended. And hoped all the skulls would be found lol. I still have nightmares of the world ending tbh mostly nuclear bombs now
Here's mine! So when I was little, like 7 or so, I watched the 2000-something Amityville Horror, and overall I was unimpressed, but I loved the movie anyway. However, there was one scene that stuck with me for several years, and that was the bathtub scene. Basically when the main character lays back in the tub to relax, a plethora of hands come up to grab at him. Theres a lot of bloody stuff and it's a great scene, but as an 8 year old kid it scared the living hell out of me. My other biggest trauma incident that carried through for many years was the Lost Tapes episode on Vampires. I dont think it was the same one as this video, but I remember that the camera crew was showing a hole in a wall and it was an entrance point for the Vampire to get in. Then there was another scene that was like a night cam over a child sleeping in bed, and the cryptid came out of the closet and took the kid. I dont remember much about it, but I slept with my closet doors closed and on my back with the hall light on for many years after that. As i got older i convinced myself that if a vampire was going to grab me in the night, it already would have. Anyway, those are the biggest things I remember from childhood, aside from the actual abuse going on at home at the time. Thanks for reading!
I can't remember what it was called, but back in kindergarten, the librarian at my school read us a book about a farmer who was starving, so he went to hunt, and he found a creature, but it was too dark for him to see so he just shot at it. He didn't kill it and it ran away, but he managed to shoot its tail off. I remember the tail was really long and it looked like a really bushy fox tail or something, and it was pitch black. After eating it, he goes to bed, but wakes up because he hears scratching and a weird voice from outside his house. It breaks in and it's implied that the farmer was killed because it had its tail again and was singing about it. The illustrations of the creature looked like a void in a vaguely animalistic shape. Why she would read that to us, I have no idea.
@@eilir_adron My girlfriend and I were just talking about this story the other day! I wish I could remember where we read it from, but we both remembered it. It seems like a story that would be found in Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, but I can't be sure.
Just watched the first few seconds, and video aside, to hear him mention that when this was made he was only at 10k subs, to grow and reach 3.06M over a 2 year span is amazing. Much support man!
17:40 I was actually the opposite when I was little, Diesel 10 was my favorite character from Thomas and I had literally like every toy of him possible lmao.
For me it was the hash slinging slasher episode of SpongeBob, at the very end. Max Schrek was pretty creepy as Nosferatu to start with, but the sudden transition from cute cartoon to creepy old photo was really jarring for me as a kid.
For me I had absolutely no problem with the transition but what got me was the slasher just standing there on the other side of the road lmao. I almost pissed my pants
Yes same! I used to have joint night terrors about Jeff the killer and Bloody Mary I literally had them for 2 years straight and it would take me HOURS to go to sleep and I had to have a light on
really weird but i use to get so scared when i was alone in a room and in the other room people were laughing. i’d always run out the room. not to see what they were laughing at, but because if i stayed in the room where i was alone, i’d get to scared. weird i know.
