The first game really sounds like an attempt at a creepy pasta, but it could also have been a low budget indie with a small release. It's hard to tell how many newgrounds and itch io games have come and gone and been forgotten.
Should consider that many, many Flash Game websites butchered the games' original titles. Getting found elsewhere with WRONG TITLE is also totally possible.
To me it sounds like a game made in RPG Maker. It's pretty easy to make your own games in RPG Maker and that's why there are thousands of them, many of which are completely unpopular and forgotten
I'm thinking how it could possibly work as a game beyond the most abstract concept art thing, so there might be other game mechanics the poster is forgetting, or has inflated the story of one NPC in their dreams/imagination? It's happened before!
The events aren't the same and the release date is later but it reminds me a lot of a game that came out late 2016-17 where you talked to some ghost girl online and the best ending had you finding her body and burying her as canon in d played. Every big typical gaming youtuber played it.
16:35 I remember this ad! I'm pretty sure it wasn't a milk ad, but a search engine commercial. The joke was that some kids looked up 'can you milk a hamster', so some people at the search engine's lab decided to find out. They approached a hamster in a cage with a vacuum tube while the hamster squeaked something like "Noooo!" and then they cut back to the kids' kitchen where it's implied the kids got a sample of hamster milk either from the scientists or by doing it themselves after milking their pet hamster. Their dad took the milk while they weren't looking and I THINK used it in his coffee and he commented "Huh. Sweet." or something like that. Like, he just reacted like the milk tasted off, but better than usual, then the kids exchanged a weird glance like 'Uh oh. Dad drank the rodent milk.' Update: Yes! It was the KGB - Milk A Hamster commercial!
My favorite type of lost media is “really weird stuff that people saw ages ago and can’t find.” There are a few channels I can think of that research those in particular, really obscure and interesting ones, and I thank you for being one of those channels. :)
I once had something like this that was thankfully known enough to be remembered by others. It was a surreal steam game called Off-Peak. I had played it once back in like 2010 and quickly lost track of it, but the weird and vaguely creepy nature of it stayed with me for years. I'm really thankful that its creator seems to have a niche cult following, because if I never again found out what that game was I feel like I would have gone crazy.
@@grrbarking Can’t think of any right now aside from Kylie and this one. Sometimes Blameitonjorge, the big one, but.. give me some time to think hold on
i was noticing random comments on my blue chin video out of nowhere and just realized it was because you featured blue chin guy! awesome man, thank you and your channel is great :) here's to finding the video haha
@@rotarydude9737 yes i got banned because i had deleted a duplicate post of a song i was trying to find. had no idea it was against the rules to delete reposts. when i explained how i didn't know that wasn't allowed, the mod wouldn't stop being an asshole to me lmao then deleted all of my blue chin guy posts :(
The girl with no name is real but probably either a sketch on a cartoon, a commercial, or a very hard to find game. It had sorta choppy animation and probably was up from 2008 - 2011. The catchy jingle is what I can barely remember as it was like an Animaniacs joke.
To me the "8-bit" description is a red flag. Even if the poster actually meant 16-bit, it seems like it would be pretty hard to see stuff like eyebags from that. I don't think that necessarily debunks the post (maybe they're misremembering the graphical style or something, using "8-bit" to mean "not 3D", or it could be that the game actually managed to convey this information visually in a way I'm just not able to imagine). But to me it seems like "8-bit" is a really easy term to just throw in there to pad out a description of a made-up game.
What made it more like a "creepypasta" story rather than an actual game is the 'ending part' of the game where no one will remember the girl except for the player. Fits the narrative of somebody asking in Reddit about a game that no one even knows, making it ironic in a sense. It's not difficult to find such games but if its only the OP that knows about it, sounds like he/she is still at the 'ending' of that game. Combined with the fact that not much is described about it will make this a very difficult search, if it is even real at all.
6:26 has anyone contacted the Hopkins? They likely received the animated shorts on some sort of home media format or would have at least made an effort to tape it if this wasn't the case.
The girl with no name one seems extremely plausible as an RPG maker game, especially given the time period it was supposedly released in. Making short experimental horror/story based games like that was a huge thing in that community.
sounds like a fake game tbh, no way the artstyle is in 8 bit and still have recognizable eye bags or tatterdness. 16/32 bit, sure. If it was a quick RPG maker game it would also use the default assets, which further puts doubt in its existance.
@@NutyRiver Very true, but also the posibility of a close up shot like when talking to Pikachu in Pokemon Yellow and getting that detailed reaction and sprite in a seperate window. The way the original post is describing it makes me think it's made up and a desperate attempt at creating a hoax, creepypasta like. That sentence with helplessness strikes me as very weird and out of place for a post searching for the game.
This reminds me of a lost media case I have myself. For a bit of context, I grew up in Estonia, so finding anything from the late 2000's from there is already hellish, but in my case, it was disc. My mom told me that I used to watch a infomercial about traffick safety called "Liiklus koer Värdi" all the time, and that I was basically glued to the screen, replaying it all the time. So eventually, she got tired of it and just broke it. But when now, years later, I tried finding it, there's barely any mention of it all, if any. Most likely you'll find the new Jänku Juss, but barely anything about that at all.
You really got me googling that as well. As an Estonian, I really had no clue that this existed, I didn't explore around lastekas enough apparently pfhaha. This seems to be very tough case indeed, considering this is educational material, mostly got given to kindergartens and primary schools perhaps to educate kids on traffic safety. And in Estonia's case - unless it's not uploaded to youtube, educational material, like videos, are impossible to find. Or just...any sort of educational material tbh (it was pain in the arse to search for educational helpful material in estonian when i needed help with something in school.) Yeah, only place you could get that would be lastekas, but it got taken down as soon as tv3 bought rights to jänku juss. (shame) and adobe flash died too so the site would've gotten shut down either way i think. Perhaps its not too obscure and you could ask from r/eesti if someone has dvd of it personally or not? On very rare occasions there is topics around 2000's childhood, like someone recently asked about meieoma site :D. Or, you could message to maanteeamet for any information on it. Surely they would have useful information, since they were the ones sharing it to kindergartens :) Hope your search gets somewhere, cuz based on that one picture of the liikluskoer värdi I saw on internet archive (just a thumbnail on lastekas, nothing much, that didn't get archived.) the animation looks so nostalgic, such classic 2000s estonian animation style, love it.
I found a guardian article from 2002 that seems to be connected to the big brother incident. It mentions that during a late-night broadcast a contestant made an extremely offensive joke about Pakistanis, and everyone around reacted with disgust. That could be why everyone seemed somber. It also says on-air apologies were issued for two of the three censorship errors that aired that season. Could this be it?
The Tim Culley racist remark incident has been suggested to me quite a few times. I can't rule it out, but it doesn't seem to fit my memory of what the incident was like. There didn't seem to be any kind of tension or anger, everyone looked really chilled but in deep discussion about something.
@@97channel I'm pretty sure one of them was talking about a friend who died and the name might have been audible. I watched much of the first few series through the night.
@@LostwaveObsession Oh wow, that's an interesting reply. How well does your memory of this incident match what I described? I've so far only spoken to one other person who said that their mum vaguely remembered something like I described happening.
I remember the Milk a mouse commercial, but I think it is actually the KGB commercial "can you milk a hamster." KGB was a text service where you'd ask questions and it would reply back for 99 cents a pop, they would have commercials that had goofy questions like that to show off that you could ask it anything. Obviously it's no longer around because google and smart phones became a thing, but the commercial itself is a cute little relic of a bygone era.
I'm gonna be completely honest, you may be one of THE best at shedding light on lesser known topics out of all the lost media youtubers I've seen. Hopefully we get another 30/40 piece video soon lol, your content is fantastic.
"The Girl with No Name" sounds like it could be one of those indie games that you'd see on a random corner of Itch io along with tons of other short artistic games that aren't big enough to be put on Steam.
The first game sounds vaguely similar to One Chance, which is also a pixelated PC game with depressing themes, repeating gameplay, and was released in the timeframe suggested in the Reddit post. I really think this could be either a memory of this game getting mixed up with something else, like a kind of dream that led to the lost farming game post, or a parody game that was created off the success of One Chance that's unfortunately been lost to time.
This was my first thought hearing about it, too. There are definite differences between the description given and "One Chance", but *most* rediscovered lost media have turned out to differ in significant ways from pre-discovery recollections. Human memory is extremely fickle, and people trying to remember a videogame from over half a decade ago are going to make mistakes, especially if they were young at the time. If "One Chance" isn't the game, then there's a good chance it was the inspiration. For anyone not aware, "One Chance" is about a man who cures cancer only to discover that his cure will kill every living cell on Earth in 6 days. Most relevant here, it's a pixel art game where the only thing the player can do is walk around, make simple decisions (like working or spending time with his family), and come back home to sleep. Color gradually drains from the landscape as it becomes more drab thanks to the illness' progress, and the player character's daughter becomes visibly sicker as the days go by. Depending on how someone plays the game, it's possible for the player character's daughter to be murdered near the end. Again, it doesn't fit the description, but it's close enough if your only experience with the game was watching a single playthrough on RU-vid 8 years ago, when you were a preteen.
I was pretty involved in the RPG Maker scene in that time period for the first game, and it definitely seems like the kind of short, experimental, "horror" game that was popular then. Everyone wanted a piece of the Misao/Mad Father/Ib/Wadanohara pie. Definitely seems like something I might have seen a thumbnail of- could even have been a Gamejolt game. I'd have to see when Imscared released, but that game also sparked interest in a "horror" scene outside of RPGMaker. I think I might go a-hunting, see if I can find what we're looking for. If nothing else, I'll probably come back with a bag full of weird old indie games, so it'll be a win-win regardless!
Things gets more interesting with Japanese RPG maker games and personal Flash, Game maker games(most of them are no longer available though) I kinda miss those obscure, incomplete stuff. Even though a large number of those have no hope of getting completed...
They won't find anything because it's fake. They cab remember conflicting amount of details (can remember the eye bags/her somehow getting worse every day but not her hair color or clothes). Not to mention this wasn't in the 80s or anything in 2012 browsers had search history....... if he wanted to find something they had visited it was literally 3 clicks away........
My thought about the Big Brother UK thing is that one of the contestants was a creep and the other 2 housemates were discussing it. In Gran Hermano, which was just a spanish version of Big Brother, one of the contestants sexually abused another contestant. I wouldn't be surprised if something similar happened in Big Brother, which might explain the somber look on those people's faces and the station profusely apologizing while not actually stating what happened.
@@newsgoose9629 I didn't know that! OP did say that the show was at the height of it's popularity so perhaps Channel 4 wanted to prevent a similar embarrassing incident from happening
From how I remember the incident, it didn't seem like any kind of event had occurred in the house which lead to the scene. It's difficult to guess what it may actually have been about, so I wouldn't rule anything out. But the vibe seemed chilled, nobody appeared upset or angry, although the conversation had apparently gotten unusually deep. The next edition of the highlights show completely jumped that part. I can't remember exactly what was shown, but I vaguely recall that the tone of the footage was kept very light hearted.
@@TheDevilishangel123if you google a bit there are articles from 2002 about Tim Culley telling a racist joke during the late night part of the show. Looks like there’s just multiple racist incidents associated with big brother 😬
@@fairyscience Wow, thank you!! I was also really interested in this one. I googled 'Tim Culley racist joke' and found a Guardian article from 2002 titled "C4 cleared over racist joke in Big Brother" that definitely describes the scene OP saw. There is also a Mirror article that describes the actual content of the joke for anyone interested ("Big Brother is Beyond a Joke")
Since this is a recent lost media video, I figure I'll put this out there: back in the mid to late 2000s my dad kept a bunch of weird and cool website links bookmarked in his browser. One was of a weird yellow dinosaur thing that just said "hello... hi... hello... hello..." looped ad infinitum. Another was this animation of these two scientists who create a shrink ray but one of the scientists shrinks down and gets lost in the other scientist's hair. Another was someone getting their finger stuck in a toaster (animated also). Have never been able to find these since 2007.
I have one I've been looking for. It was a 90's era vhs depicting what I believe to be a native american folktale in which a boy becomes a wolf. I remember it was a watercolor based art style with very low framerate animation, like 1 or 2 frames per second, more like a canvas in motion than standard animation. I believe the story involved the boy chasing after these wolves, there may have been a storm scene in the middle, and by the end the boy transforms to become a wolf and either joins the pack or joins another solo wolf. I specifically remember the artstyle and its somber moody soundtrack with traditional native american tones. I dont believe any of the characters talked but there may have been a narrator.
I remember seeing the mouse milking commercial. I don't remember most of the context but I remember that scene. I remember that part was in POV of the mouse. In the scene it showed a milking device closing in on the mouse as it made a cartoony squeal-scream type of noise. IIRC it was the man who asked about milking the mouse who was bringing the device closer to the "mouse" (really just the camera). I am 90% sure I saw it on cartoon network or fox. I feel like I saw it much later though (mid 2010s. specifically around 2015-2016) Seen from Oregon. Edit: It was a hamster and I misremembered
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lmULq4dgQvY.html This is about a hamster, and not a mouse, but it seems to fit the description? Perhaps OP remembered it as a mouse when it was actually another small rodent. It might not be this, but it's worth a try :) [Edit: I should have clarified, but user @sewwfffyhjijui722 commented this idea first! So credit is due to them for this find :) I didn't think anyone outside of the user I replied to would see this, so I wanted to make it clear to everyone that this wasn't my discovery!]
@@gspellsI'm not sure if OP has been updated, but hopefully someone who's seen this can pass on the info (I couldn't find the thread myself lol)- also, l'm not the first commenter to point this link out, so l definitely don't want to claim credit for someone else's find! :)
@@PEACEOUTPATI'd never actually seen it myself as it didn't air where I live, though I remember a friend telling me about something similar funnily enough! And I should have clarified, I saw another commenter here (@sewwfffyhjijui722) bring this video up, so credit to them for the discovery! :)
This is kinda out there but I'm wondering if anyone remembers this promo video for the first diary of a wimpy kid book that I've been trying to find. It was shown to my class around 2007 when the very first book was just about to release so I think they were trying to get us to excited about new books coming out. What I distinctly remember was that there were excerpts from the book read by a voice actor doing a cartoonish kids voice along with some very limited animation. That probably makes it the very first depiction of Greg in an audio/visual format since the movies were still years away and like I said I don't think the book was even out by that point. It's crazy cause for a series that became this huge you can definitely tell the publishers from the start had a lot of faith in it since I remember the promo really hyping up this series as the next big thing and everyone in my class left excited to read it when it came out. I've had no luck finding it myself but even if one other person knows what I'm talking about I'd be so happy
Was it a schoolastic promo thing? When I was in school I remember being shown schoolastic promos of new books right before the book fair, that might expand your search
@ShaiiValley I know I've commented on your previous video before but here's my explanation again: I can remember watching two episodes of 'The Hopkins'. One is about everyone trying to fight for the best seat at the dining table and the other is about the youngest child forced to get a bath at the most ridiculous way possible (there's a fire engine involved). They're both decent and not much structure compared to the rest of the programmes inbetween.
Nice to know that there is now a subreddit for lost commercials. I remember one strange but funny ad from my teen years that I really would like to see again so maybe that subreddit could help. 😊
as much as i love tronji along with the fact all 30 episodes have been found now, i'll never forget when i first saw this show on your top 40 lost media video. you have singlehandedly changed my life, thank you.
Oh that's cool to hear Tronji is found. That's the only one of these I've come across so far that I'm actually familiar with, which was pretty weird to encounter since I'd totally forgotten about it until that video. Is the game archived too?
I have my own little mystery that's been bugging me for a while now: There was some PC game I used to watch my brother play in the mid-to-late 2000's. From what I recall, the game used 3D models, but had an angled top-down perspective. Each level was flat (no jumping/platforming) and there were enemies that had set paths. It was a pretty vibrant game, color-wise, taking place outside. There were these orbs you had to pick up. They came in different colors and sometimes they were in small bundles. I think the main character was green and inhuman, possibly a dinosaur? Some levels had different colors of enemies, that I believe acted a bit different. My brother says he remembers one of them had a large fork as a weapon. I also remember there being power-ups. One was a pocket watch, and I believe a top hat and cloak was also another one? I'm pretty sure it also had a simple name. My memory of this game is pretty fuzzy since it's been over 10 years since I last saw it. Someone once suggested "Croc Legend of the Gobbos" as a possibility. I looked at pictures of the game, and I don't think it's the one I'm looking for.
No that definitely isn't either Croc game, those are pure 3D platformers. Isometric... sounds like a dungeon crawler of some sort, definitely something obscure though.
I feel like I remember hearing about the second one, at least someone else on RU-vid talking about it, I remember the muffled audio having something to do with a dog being killed? And it was particularly weird because there weren’t any dogs shown before or something.
I don't get why so many people are 100% convinced the first game is made up. Yeah, it sounds generic as hell, but simple games that tried to be creepy or deep (with varying degrees of success) were all the rage back in the early to mid 2010s. I wouldn't be surprised if OP DID accidentally mix up the plot of two or more games as a single thing, and I wouldn't blame them because my gog there were so many games that followed the same awful formula, but I don't think they're purposefully spreading misinformation online.
Spoke to my mum about 2002 big brother, she seems to vaguely remember something like that but she wasn't watching at the time. The series had Jade Goody on it who a few years later became hated because she did some racist things on a different series. Unsure if that could have anything to do with what they failed to censor
The Big Brother incident is a mystery, unless I just haven't looked hard enough for an article. There was at least once incident where Ofcom responded to complaints about racism on the show, so something similar might have happened in the 2002 series (Channel 4's political leanings might have caused them to apologise excessively for what may be a minor incident). I also read that this particular series had issues with contestants wanting to leave, which could explain the 'sombre facial expressions'. Hopefully someone with more knowledge of Big Brother can look into this (I'm more of a Fishtank guy myself :P ) First one sounds like it could be fake though. The description closely matches at least one real 'game' but is different enough that OP couldn't be accused of misremembering.
i was amazed at myself for being able to perfectly picture everything about the first game using just my imagination. while i was obsorbed in my thoughts, what completely caught me off guard was how i automatically saw it as an 8-bit game, even before our narrirator said it was. in my head, i saw it as a game where we could walk either left or right only, much like those classic mario games, and in the middle of our travels from [place "A"] to our home, she just so happens to be sitting there, on a bench. not bothered at all by our presence, much like how you wouldn't care if someone walks passed you. i would love to play that game.
I swear I saw the King of The Hill lost "pigmalion" ending and even described it to my cousin not knowing it was "lost". I hate that the creepy pasta exaggerates it so people often scrutinize me but I was shocked as was my cousin when we saw it was considered lost
@Hauntaku no that's not the ending I saw. I know what you're talking about. It's not it. Every ending he dies due to the processing but my memory was before the closing card, hooks in the background carrying sliced pigs suddenly rollout sliced person. It's not bloody, not scary, just more Tree House of Horror simpsons level that KoTH never goes to
@Hauntaku also this is what I mean lol. There's always a "that's not what you saw" or a "it's actually this. I'm right" comments in lost media searches lol
Idk why everyone is immediately writing off the first one as a creepypasta attempt. Like... it very well would be just low-effort bait, but there were a million games (or sometimes "games") with those vibes back in the early '10s. Edgy, "really makes you think" things in mock-8bit styles. Things like "One Chance" and "Hope: The Other Side of the Adventure" come to mind. So I 100% believe it *could* exist. Just a thought.
For those curious about the cases of Philippine Lost Media in the VHS Age, I have a theory about this as I have lived here for years. VHS recorders are a rarity here even in the 80s and 90s. Most of those who had them were in a much higher wealth bracket than the average viewer. Also didn't help that we had a political and economic shift after our Dictator got peaceful taken off his position. Even when they became most common by the late 90s to early 2000s, VCDs and DVDs became more popular as a way to consume media, either officially sold or pirated. This left old VCRs in the dust, leaving whatever they recorded anyway to be abandoned.
I had a CD-ROM of game demos for either Windows 95 or 98, back when I was a kid in the late 90s/early 00s. The first game reminds me of one game that was on that disc: a sort of point-and-click rpg, where you play as a man just moving around the town he lived in. I faintly remember thinking that there were some more adult elements in it that my parents wouldn't like if they knew were there, and that the game creeped me out a little, even though I don't think it was supposed to be scary. (Then again, something about the style of 8-bit games as always unnerved me.) There may have been ancient Greek or Roman elements to it. I don't know if The Girl With No Name had anything to do with it at all - probably not - but it reminded me of it somewhat. The ROM also had the first level of Doom, and some sort of Star Trek demo as well. EDIT:: Going through some old game footage, the closest game I could compare it to in theme and general visuals is Maniac Mansion, though I'm fairly certain that this isn't my mystery game.
This doesn't match my experience, but I had those weird demo PC game compilation discs a lot as well. Some were given away from my school's computer lab gift, some were given for weird advertisement campaigns- that have no connection with computer stuff(I know it sounds weird but this actually was _common here in Korea_ ) Most games were existing game demos or Emulated arcade game stuff- On the other hand, there were clearly indie weirdness(or unfinished personal works), and they were weird and scary as #$@!# especially point and click games. They usually had no restraints and had really nasty or shocking stuff in them.
The encarnacion bechaves mock up commercial ending scared the hell out of me. I was so terrified I didn’t realize how short it was as I skipped 10 seconds IMMEDIATELY I was already on guard the whole video, not just the mock I only want that to surface for OP and others who want to see it if it’s worse than that. Usually RU-vid mock-ups are far scarier than the real thing so I don’t have anything to worry about. *Hopefully.*
Just reading your comment gave me goosebumps all over I didn't actually rewatch the scene in this video, I certainly never will watch that again, but I'm glad someone else talked about this
Yo I got a tip that could help in finding the recalled Ultimate Toy Box copies if you find an ebay listing- a few years ago, before the US Blu Ray release, I noticed new DVD copies of End of Evangelion popping up for real cheap, a movie that was notoriously pretty hard to find on DVD. I ordered a copy, opened it, and bragged on the Evangelion Reddit how I got a new copy for so cheap. Then someone noticed something- the paper insert in the DVD case was different. Mine advertised a different anime than the one in others' DVD copies of the movie. We eventually pieced together that this was a second print run of the movie that was supposed to go out, but for whatever reason just never shipped [the other, far less awesome Evangelion Death and Rebirth was dubbed and distributed by the same company and had always been much easier to find], so then like 20 years later someone found these copies and put em up on ebay. SO TL;DR, check the inserts in the pictures of the box set. Compare between listings or if you already have a copy compare to that. Go for the odd one out and you're more likely to find it.
Ok that lost commercial about milking a mouse is familiar. I saw one almost identical to the description, but it was a hamster and not a mouse. all i remember is some people sitting around a table(?), and one asks "can you milk a hamster". one person says something to the effect of "one way to find out", and they cut to a hamster being machine milked while squealing loudly like it's screaming. i vaguely remember a scene after that, but i don't know the contents. edit: i found it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lmULq4dgQvY.html
I've been searching for a game called Dude 2000, it was a very basic and amateur Macintosh game released around that time. It was based on a rabbit looking creature you found in a "rubbish can". It was a multiple choice game where the goal was to raise your rabbit creature, who initially just starts off as a head, and grows a body as you progress. His catch phrase was a stoner like "duuuuudddeee". I know some of that sounds creepy but its a pretty funny game and can find no trace of it to this day.
Waking up in the middle of the night with RU-vid autoplay on to the sight of the Encarnacion Chavez woman was probably the most traumatizing thing I’ve ever experienced, and I’ve seen some shit in my life before.
You know I have something to share. When watching this video I flashbacked to my childhood to think of anything that could be “lost” and well I think found something. I remember distinctively a mid roll commercial or PSA idk where a mother is with her toddler child, and then something happens and the mother is terrified to find that her child is now a doll. That’s all I remember. I don’t remember the context, but I do know it scared me several times as a child This was back from 2010-14 not exactly sure. Who knows this might be a fun search or just a moment of hysteria for me.
I remember seeing this 30-60s black and white movie from tv at my grandparents house when i was very young, ( i am 15) i think it was somewhere 2011-2016. In this movie a young man 20-30 buries a radio playing baby crying to a grave, then woman 20-30 comes to in front of the grave and goes down on her knees and starts crying and i think she said no no no. I also remember a close up of a baby being show on the screen. By grandparents explained something about the movie but i dont remember what they were saying other than explaining about the man and the woman. This can't be something i just made up since even my sibling remembers this.
I think another interesting piece of lost media is tap ranch 2, snowy ranch, and dream ranch. they're all basically the same thing and I used to play it religiously. it's been delisted from the app store but it had daily events, and reeked of 90s -2000s cg. it was like smurfs village kinda, you grew plants, harvested them in time or they withered, and fed them to animals. there was a winter event as well
First game's concept reminds me of "The Graveyard" by Tale of Tales. Short, more of an art statement& not really game, focus on a single female character who dies in the end.
Lost media: Shaman Tales VII: The Return of Billy Smiles. This was a music video/animation/cartoon that was done in the style of like a 1990s point and click adventure game, of a Hippy Shaman called Billy Smiles going around trying to get magic items or something, going to burning man and other hippy events. It was really goddamn good so it's surprised it's not saved anywhere. I know this one exists I used to watch it quite a bit like 15 years ago, and there is a reddit thread about it, but I've never ever been able to find it again after all these years.
Hello, CLASSMC here, leader/founder of Everything MediaPH and Philippine Television Archives, one of the group that jumpstarted the hunt for Encarnacion Bechaves. First of all, that recreation is kinda inaccurate. An eyewitness I know stated that the girl isn't really creepy to her, but there are some unsettling vibes. According to her, the girl in that recreation is too "overreacting" on its smile. I hope this clears some of it. Philippine TV VHS tapes are so obscure, though we have confirmed that one archivist over here might have the tape, but according to him he still doesn't know how or when to release it.
In regards to the Peppa Pig death surgery, I wonder of it's a case of the kid in the video getting older and no longer wanting an embarrassing childhood video of himself circulating the internet 😕 Which is fair, tbh! I love these videos and how they dive into the lesser known and more personal cases, rather than the same old prolific cases we're all accustomed to! I got into lost media as a by-product of trying to locate some of my own obscure childhood memories!
Hey person scrolling through the comments, if your curious about a 2000s/2010s 3d animated cartoon I can faintly remember and grasp onto, keep reading, if not, hope you find some other comments that make you smile. So, as I had recalled, it is 3D animated. From the specific episode that I can slightly remember, the characters were called on some sort of quest. The place they were in was a bright-ish green baseplate with a grassy texture, the sky was blue with puffy clouds and there was a maze made of shrubs. I can recall the characters not knowing how to finish the quest when one has an idea. I can't remember what the characters look like, I can just remember one transforming into a bulldozer? Or perhaps they made the bulldozer? Was it a bulldozer at all or just some sort of big heavy machinery? Idk, I can remember, despite being 3D, the animation was very flat, much like any early 3D animated cartoon was. Anyways, I remember gears and robotics, sounds of machinery, and then the victory at the end of the episode, much like any normal kids show for small children would be like. I can't remember if it was on live TV or not, most likely not as the TV I remember watching it on didn't have live programs.
I have a VHS of Bible Buddies. A short movie about a puppet going to school, and dealing with a "friend" that was a bad influence on him. I haven't seen it on RU-vid or the internet. It's actually well-done and I liked it when I was a kid.
I swear I remember watching a RU-vid video about the first game. I feel like it was probably around 2013-2014 but it was a video showing a full walkthrough of the game. I can’t remember who made the video but they played a lot of creepy/obscure/mysterious games.
Regarding the Big Brother one, I think the reason that one became lost was because of the time it happened. Most people who watched Big Brother usually watched the hour long episodes instead of the full live feed, as the episodes usually cut down to the most exciting moments of the day instead of focusing on watching them all sleep, chat etc. Many people would be asleep during that time and not many people would be willing to spend about 4 or 5 hours watching the entire thing when it aired on Channel 4 either. I'd imagine a lot of people would've clicked off once they muted the audio too, since they'd usually last about 10 or 20 minutes and viewers probably won't want to watch muted footage for about 20 minutes either.
I think you've hit the nail on the head, as to why it never gained any attention. After I watched the incident I described, I was keen to see how it was dealt with in the following highlights show. I don't remember any specific detail about that edition, which is a massive shame as it would pinpoint the exact date, but I do remember that they entirely edited the incident out and made it appear as though the entire night and early hours was all light-hearted and fun. They skipped at least two hours, possible three to five, and it made it even more mysterious to me as to what they were avoiding showing.
Anyone remember the legendary game about a girl in a ghost costume, a mad scientist, a pet robot, and all the chaos that unfolds as you solve the point & click puzzles? It was on YTV. I'm not sure if the game is still playable. Another few games on YTV were the Di-Gata Defenders MMO and the claylike MMO with house customization.
I think I remember that! I remember it being halloween themed. Was there a sequel about them being in a north pole, all Christmasy? I didn't speak English as a kid and played it on a site that ripped from miniclip and newgrounds a lot, to the point I thought these were studios. So I can't remember much of this game at all. I do remember one puzzle involving putting a piece of coal into a machine to get a diamond? Something like that. I
OMG I KNOW THIS! it's called Sidekick. i don't remember playing it because I'm not Canadian nor have i ever played Flash games before 2020 but i know it because of a person called Neonriser had an entire page dedicated to it on their website. Sidekick has been shut down for a while though but there's a revival project going on called Sidekick Reloaded. hope this helps!!
Really random , but for the first one. I’ve found a game called ‘ Hazuki dies : She has no name ‘ Of course I have not seen a playthrough of it , so I can’t say if it is the same , but it could be a lead? Idk I’m not good at finding things.
Not sure if it counts as "Lost Media" but I remember watching television during a trip to the U.S as a kid during the early 2000's and seeing a weird commercial (I'm pretty sure it was a commercial and not a show) about a dark city filled with sheep people being hunted by wolves. The wolves would do things like attack the sheep in alleyways, wear sheep skin to lead them into ambushes and use fake dance clubs that were actually butcher shops. I've tried to find it again for years now and haven't had any luck. Bit of a shot in the dark but does this ring a bell to anyone?
The Bongcheon-Dong Ghost comes to mind for the first one purely based on "girl" and "city" hehe, it's not at all what was described but it's certainly from the timeframe and it was briefly popular. Figured I'd mention it in case it jogged anyone else's memory to save them the trouble of finding it.
8:07 this reminded me of the Brazilian Big Brother occurrence that happened in its first edition! By what my uncle claims, it was discovered that a girl in the house had a severe case of bulimia and would constantly use the bathroom to throw up. But later the recording team discovered that and implanted cameras in the bathroom (they still stand to this day). It absolutely creeped me out the first time I heard of it!
The "Can you milk a Mouse" commercial sounds familiar, but I don't think it was a mouse. I think it was a hamster, and after the question was asked it showed two scientists watching the conversation from a computer screen before putting milk pumps up to an unwilling test subject, before cutting to the two teens and their father at a breakfast table, with the Dad asking "is this soy?" before drinking said milk. I don't know if that this is the commercial the OP watched, but the description reminded me of that.
The big brother uk thing would happen all the time. The housemates were more than likely swearing which is a big no no on uk tv before a certain time of day and when the housemates would start the swear they would play noise from the outside area, but if the housemates were sitting outside you could still sort of hear it. Nothin much to say there, they probably had to air an apology because swearing on tv would have landed them a big fine at the time.
It was more likely something related to discussion of a celebrity or public figure, or even one of the housemates friends or family, as swearing would have been OK at that time of night. They muted the audio when they talked about anyone not on the show in case anything libelous was said. As an avid watcher of the live feed in the early days I am sure I remember them putting up apologies quite often in the early days when they thought something had slipped through.
That’s crazy I’m only 17 but I SWEAR I remember the blue chin guy. As soon as you mentioned it, I had a rough picture in my head of what he looked like and knew it was either a commercial or music video. I also live in the Uk.
I vaguely recall that possible conversation on Big Brother. I watched the first five or six series obsessively. I believe the chat was between two or three of them and one mentioned a friend who had ended themselves, and their name might have been audible. But it would be on through much of the night and possibly only 20 people were watching haha, so no press types to get wind of it.
10:00 My grandmother lived in the Philippines up until around 2017 (I think), and only left because my grandfather had travelled there and met her maybe a year before. I asked her about the commercial and she said she definitely saw the commercial and remembered it vividly. I showed her the remake of it and she said it was pretty accurate. Weird stuff.
i did play the first game when i was little and i remember it clearly, i also remember that i looked for it for a long time and that it leaved a sense of anguish in me, i'm pretty sure it was a flash game, there also was something related with a flower/plant if i'm not mistaken
I was addicted to MTV & VH1 in the 90s & that doesn't ring a bell at all, but if it was early CGI, then he might want to be looking for obscure EDM music videos.
I might be able to locate the blue chin guy. I've seen him. I'm nearly positive this was a music video, one that's been aired on MTV and would've been produced between 1985 - 1999. One of those really out there music videos. I have to mull this over but I might be able to find it.
HOLY SHIT, I remember the "can you milk a mouse" commercial! I remembered it being a hamster, though. ...And turns out I was right, eb7407 here in the comments found it!
There were a lot of weird 'Got Milk' commercials since the 90s, I'm not sure how long that campaign lasted but is it possible to have aired into 2009? Or perhaps it was a 'rerun' of an older commercial? I know that Betty crocker cake commercial aired into early 2010. So that's possible too. But then it could be a specific brand? I know there's a milk brand with a cow as a mascot so maybe they wanted to emphasize them having that cow mascot?
I've been diving way too hard into these lost media videos as of the past couple years and I've been watching regularly Kylie's channel: to realize I'm only 5 years younger than her mom hit me like a truck... time to get off these mystery videos on internet and start living life (aside from working) :(
My guess got the blue guy is that it was an advertisement for a new blue man group performance. The blue man group started in 1987 and they do plenty of weird stuff. I can imagine them advertising a tour or new tropical music release with a video like that. Also each location has different ads, so it could have been specific to a particular location that was in a beach area.
For years I have been trying to find what I believe to be a commercial from the early 90s. It was a parody of psycho, but instead of blood going down the drain it was a pile of nuts, possibly walnuts.
I am obsessed with a lost media song, it was called Just Another Boy by an extremely obscure old 60s band named Danny & The Sessions, the song used to be up on RU-vid but it got privated by the channel that uploaded it, now i can't find it online. I still remember the melody and the chords for it, kind of, but it sucks it disappeared. Help.
I have been searching a bit for something myself. It’s not as old as most of these, but when My Chemical Romance announced their reunion tour in 2021-22, they put this cool looking statue on a bunch of their merch, I have a shirt with the statue and their logo on it, and I’ve even seen pictures of people getting mcr tattoos with this statue. But I’ve tried a bunch and can find very little information on what the statue is called or where it is. A lot of obscure websites I’ve found with info is just the same article, translated from Italian. So yeah that’s been my mystery.
15:29 The commercial isn’t about milking a mouse it’s about milking a HAMSTER. For some weird reason my memory is up there and remember sometimes useless shit. Anyway, the commercial was to promote a service called KGB (due to RU-vid’s new policies I cannot provide links). It was essentially a way of finding the most correct answer and doing it faster and better than the internet. You would text a number (I think it was 542542 or kgbkgb) to some number with your question and you would receive answers. Yes there were advertisements and one of the adverts prompted the question, “can you milk a hamster?” The answer reveals that you can milk any mammal and this is all while they are eating cereal. For some reason they look at their pet hamster and the advert ends. My guess as to why it was mouse instead of hamster is how the brain works and/or where you live (in the UK it is more common to have a pet mouse than in the USA whereas a hamster is more common in the USA rather than a mouse).
where did you get the info abt the UK preferring mice as pets to hamsters? not attacking just curious. i’ve had three hamsters as a child but never a mouse lol. hamsters are extremely common pets especially for children. whereas mice are usually seen as pests here tbh
I remember the mouse commercial, it was actually a hamster lmao. I always thought it was a funny commercial. It was an advertisement for a text number that would supposedly answer all your weird questions and the people in the commercial wondered if you could milk a hamster.
That one about Big Brother just brought back memories. I remember sitting in the living room, my mam used to watch it religiously, and I'd be wondering why the noise went. She used to tell me their tongues got cut out for cursing lol.
9:40 I f***ing remember the Encarnacion Bechaves commercial. I was around 9-5 years old when I watched it in the 90's. I think I saw this on ABC 5 (now TV5) during the commercial break of WWE. I think WWE was shown every Wednesday or Saturday. I do remember the woman, the black background, and the red rose. However, I don't remember how creepy the woman is. Again, I was five so I only remember the partial part of the commercial.
Holy shit, Australian here and I remember that search for the Nick Toon family competition, I remember them revealing the winner! I think I even remember maybe watching the show but its all a blur. If I did watch it my gut reaction makes me think it was pretty underwhelming. I'm always watching lost media stuff but never actually relate so this is super surreal to me.
The only two peices of lost media i miss dearly are: Pocket Potions, and some gummi ship esque machine/vehicle/tank building game in which you place blocks like thrusters, cannons, etc to build whatever tf you want. Pocket potions is easily searchable, but no IPA or APK is actually available. Studio shifted focus away from mobile and game development in general so id be shocked if they had any builds left.
Not sure if it counts as lost media but I found a small cutout from a tin orange juice label from about the middle of the 1900s or perhaps earlier, used to patch a hole in the floor of a very old house. I don't think I have a picture of it anymore but I tried to find that label or brand online to no success whatsoever.
