There's not only that there's a lot of other details pointing towards it... age, use of substances before may or may not have make it come out, thinking that people use "influencing machines" on them etc. Not something fun to deal with...
@@myrmesuwu607 I've seen people say 'drugs don't cause it' and that it's some excuse to stop people doing something 'harmless'. I can confirm from very personal, very real experiences that yes, it certainly can trigger it. It caused it in me 25 years ago and I've been suffering with extreme paranoia and schizophrenia ever since. Shit happens though and you just have to get by. Even having it though, imo, isn't a reason to just give up. It's hard and some times you 'do' need support from family, so you have to literally force yourself to let people in, but when you get there you can live a perfectly normal life. You just have to get to a point where you can accept that you have issues and recognise your triggers.
The prank explanation is really likely for the shadow man. With a bit of prep time and knowing where the camera is and that it takes a photo exactly every hour it shouldn't be a hard stunt to pull off. My theory is that it's a cardboard standee of some sort. It's not uncommon for Japanese people to do pranks like this. There's some like that around Google Maps in general, like people wearing masks in a circle etc.
true, my other thought was are there other photos from the camera w pedestrians in them? is it possible the weird figure is the automatic censor of randoms for privacy etc?
The pixels of the shadow man are much smoother/stand out more than the other pixels around it which makes me believe the same thing. Or simple Photoshop. Or something stranger.
Nah, if you go through the trouble to prank it, you're capable of doing something creepy and much more visually convincing than a photoshopped-looking black doodle man, without much additional effort. In fact, irl faking a photoshopped-looking black doodle man will take more effort since you need to craft an oversized vanta black full body suit and do a few trial takes on site to ensure that you're facing the camera directly without deviation to eliminate showing any perspective or dimensionality, trying to make it look as fake-ass as in this picture. Or you could just take 1 minute in photoshop to do the same thing.
My brother is schizophrenic and he would put newspapers over the vents in the house because there were ghosts in the walls. He would also see faces in piles of leaves, and on tree bark. It’s sad more than anything.
@@satanbells666 I didn't really have the words, but this is part of why some AI generated images are really scary to me. When they occasionally generate like faces in a noisy part of an image, it's like it's training your brain to be schizophrenic and see scary faces in randomness.
I went through a psychosis from drugs took me a couple years to mentally recover from it’s horrible I wouldn’t wish that on any living being. Never went to get diagnosed as I do not really believe in the modern mental health system and the ways they “treat” people by putting anyone with any mental issue on drugs. I’ve seen the system break more people than help with my own two eyes and in my own life when I was 12 my mother forced me into that system and as a result of that they put me on meds even tho none of them did me any good . take care peace
Ryan was me basically. Went to a festival in 2013 and ate way too much nbome laced acid. I went through psychosis on and off for years and it was absolutely terrifying. I hope he’s doing better.
I blame nbome for ongoing physical health problems, when I took it my arms went completely numb and tingly and years later I still have some recurring issues. Since heard horror stories of amputations and all sorts. That stuff is the devil
its best you dont know. what i will tell you is all drugs nowadays are BUNK. i might advise you get better friends if you are around drugs. no cap@@tracyklein3588
A good creepypasta would be someone going to a "vintage" arcade place, like those arcade bars and such, and seeing his/her own face on one of the machines. Then going into why their face with a different name appeared, not trusting who they thought were their parents, etc
There have been some irl cases of kidnapped kids finding their missing poster on the NCMEC website. It's very plausible and works well as a creepypasta.
20:59 That animation is called "Francka" by Ana Čigon, originating from Slovenia It's based on one of the most famous and important slovenian novels, Na klancu by Ivan Cankar and the scene that is animated is one of the key moments from the novel, where Francka, a little girl from a very poor family, is trying to catch a wagon thats going to a church fair, but the people on the wagon refuse to stop to pick her up as they find her struggling and running behind them amusing. This event scars Francka for life and symbolizes her struggles to find a better life with no avail throughout the novel. (we just had this in school so I immediately recognised it lmao)
@@mzaklanc4371 Oh, that's weird. Could have sworn this was one I watched as a kid! We had lots of Czech and Yugoslav cartoons/puppet shows on Swedish TV at that time, and I very much recognize this style.
If you have a predisposition for psychosis unfortunately psychedelics can trigger a full blown psychotic break. It feels very real to them and they usually display main character syndrome. I really hope he gets the help he needs and that he can get his life back on track
It's a delicate balance and a controversial subject. Like I wrote in my post I had different but somewhat similar delusions and it was through careful therapeutic use of psys in combination with therapy and self reflection that I escaped that hell. Set and setting make a big difference but so do genetics. I had NLPed myself into the delusions I suffered and they were not caused by genetic predisposition. Using them 5 times a year and consulting with doctors and therapists before and after has shown them to be very effective at improving my mental health, stability and overall wellbeing. I don't want to advocate for their use nor say they should not be taken. It's such a complicated subject. I recently got a neuropsychology textbook from my dad which was originally gifted to Dr. Brenda Milner but was regifted to me that goes over a lot of how substances affect the brain which has been truly interesting. It's also great to be able to use my dad as a resource to get papers from the Neurological Institute on the subject and having friends who either are now PHDs or are working on their PHDs in chemistry making psys for therapy legally. I truly believe in them but how they should be best used and how to know who should and should not take them I don't know. Same goes for most things... I for example cannot take SSRIs they give me terrible restless leg syndrome! ADHD meds were a much more effective antidepressant for me. We're all so individual in our biochemistry. I hope in the future we have those Star Trek tricorders that can just be pointed at a person and tell you everything about what they need and what they can't take etc XD
I'm not in the correct state of mind to watch this, so I'll watch later but wanted to comment on your comment. For the life of me I do not understand why anyone would want to them if they have a predilection to psychosis. I have to an over active imagination and you wont see me anywhere near them!
@@ir9567 Exactly, I'm kind of annoyed when people try to push psychedelics into mental healh help alternatives. Yes for some people they can be beneficial and there is anecdotal proof for it, but they can be devastating to other people. Yeah there arguments that it's similar with antidepressants and other meds but I don't know it just feels way too experimental for me. If actual doctors regulate the doses and make sure to monitor the patient's reaction then I guess it can work but way too many people try to self-medicate with psychedelics. Sadly I lost a very dear friend to this.
I don't even know why you included Ryan's story. He opens with I'm a diagnosed schizophrenic with bipolar disorder and recently took drugs. Anything said after that sort of becomes a moot point. Playing into his delusion is kind of in poor taste. Where's the rabbit hole? There's a ton of other actually strange posts on Reddit. I enjoyed the video overall just kind of lost me a bit towards the end with the paranoid ramblings of a mentally ill man
It seems to be getting a good response from people but I tend to agree. If you go on the right subs, you can find dozens of people like this so there's no real mystery there and not much of a rabbit hole unless it's someone like Chip Chan that has a long history of posting media related to their mental illness.
Perhaps that is exactly why his story should have been featured. It is precisely the type of people that watch videos like this that need to see all these comments to understand they aren't alone and need to seek help. Mental health outcomes always end to be better when out in the open and discussed. Many times these individuals don't have the community, friends, or family to express their concerns and experiences with. He obviously needs help and I hope that he and anyone else seeing comments like these can realize they need to seek help immediately.
I agree, besides of it not being really a rabbit hole it's just kind of in poor taste. People with schizophrenia just exist. We are made scary by horror movies etc but there's nothing really "scary" about us. And even if some of us can act a bit scary we're still people, man. Not a fan of putting mental illness stories into horror/creepy kind of channels in general, especially if it's just a random guy online rather than an actual televised case (and even those are often oversensantionalised. Besides, a lot of people fake schizophrenia to plead insanity in court but that's besides the point)
@@jeremysmith4620 As a person with schizophrenia, we aren't stupid, we know when we need help. We really do. But just "seeking help" is really not as straightforward as it might seem. People throw this phrase around but seriously. Do you know how much treatment costs? Do you know how mistreated schizophrenic people are by the institutions? Have you heard how common abuse against schizophrenic people is, ESPECIALLY in places that are supposed to "help" us? Unfortunately we don't live in some kind of utopia where we can just go and "get help" and then everything is sunshine and rainbows. It just does not look like that.
I worked as a call director at a mental health facility. Ryan is 100% have a schizophrenic episode. And it’s very real to the person experiencing and very terrifying. I hope he got the help he needs
I’m gonna look into that shadow man image more. Plan to translate more sites and blogs discussing it. Japanese is my college minor, so I hope to find more information
Hello...it's been around 2 months...have you found anything relevant concerning this eerie case? I have search the web for information on it Beacuse I was really intrigued about it but nothing..not even in Reddit or some forum which you know they love things like this
Buddy the female dancing in the hallway with the strange slowed down and sped up “edits” got me bro. I was just coming out of the bathroom and then I saw that. I almost threw my laptop out the window my guy.
I literally have seen that video before, but the viewer discretion warning followed by that immediately spooked me. Skipped that section of the vid immediately LMAO
The "neurological harassment" guy sounds exactly like my cousin, he developed schizophrenia after highschool, same story with the drugs. The first time I remember someone saying something incredibly bizarre was my mom. She said he had deeply scared her one day. She was driving him somewhere, just the two of them, and he started mumbling towards the backseat. He was twisting the way he was sitting and trying to adjust the mirrors. Getting increasingly agitated. Then he turned in his seat and started yelling and freaking out at the empty backseat. She asked him, "Who are you talking to???" And he snapped his head to look at her suspiciously and said something along the lines of, "So. You're in on it too, are you??? I can't believe this!! I trusted you!!" And she was like "WHAT??" And he lost it on her, screaming at her to stop pretending like the people in the backseat weren't there, saying everyone else was pretending they weren't there too, he couldn't believe she was in on it though, everyone is in on it. She said he was so scary. Like she was his favorite auntie. He had never been anything but kind and polite to her. She asked him what "it" was and he launched into this whole conspiracy. It was muddled but basically, there was this plot to make him look crazy, so everyone would think he's crazy, and the plot was to have these people constantly in the same room or car, any space, and they would taunt him and torture him and say he's crazy, and that everyone in his life had been made a part of the plot and so their part was to pretend those people weren't even there. It was such a dangerous delusion because the more you said there's no one there and he needs to see a doctor, the more he bought into the delusion and it like reaffirmed that the conspiracy was real. Unfortunately he passed away. My mom at the time did get him on meds and he actually went back to school and met a girl and they had a baby. But his delusions were very strong and he started to think the meds were swapped with pills to make him crazy and he stopped taking them. Got into drugs really bad and overdosed in his late 20s. Really tragic. That's not even the whole story, that was a rough time for my family, because his brother died that same summer. Schizophrenia is such a tough illness because one of the symptoms can be delusions about meds being fake or poison or mind control pills and the more you talk to them about schizophrenia the more they believe in their delusions.
in some ways, I'm glad there was more than one schizophrenic in my family, not that I'm happy they had it, but that I was taught about the symptoms, knew what they looked like, and knew what I was going through from the beginning of the episodes happening. unfortunately, the other schizophrenics in my family still haven't made a recovery in the ways I have.
@@cdogthehedgehog6923 You're just making an assumption based upon the only part of the story you heard though. That girl is a beautiful person and has been a fantastic mother to his kid. You're way off. It's obviously the drugs and the shady people who populate that cesspool. He was abusing drugs and went into psychosis and shattered some sort of glass pipe, like for crack or meth idk, and did his best to stab a guy in the throat with it. The guy was a dealer and no one phoned the police and he was telling everyone that he was going to "take care of it" himself. And then like two weeks later my cousin was dead. The toxicology report showed all kinds of drugs and stuff in his system but a lot of people believe that because the guy had control of the drugs my cousin was buying, he just sold him something laced to guarantee he didn't come back from that nod, but there's no actually evidence for that. Officially he died from a drug overdose. That girl you're blaming for literally no reason other than the fact that she's the only other person I mentioned was the best part of his life hands down and my aunt loves her and she has done a great job as a mother. Her story is tragic. She just fell in love with someone whose mental illness and addiction issues were extremely profound. You have to understand she met him at the best point in his life and he was successful and desirable and he was a good father. It's not like she knew what was going to happen. If you met someone and they had their life in order and they said they have a mental illness they medicate and treat you wouldn't be like, "But you might try to stab a drug dealer in the throat some day".
@@jademoon7938 Ah. Nice conspiracy theory. It makes sense now. He was surrounded by crazy women, tried to escape with substances but couldnt take it any more.
Great video! Several years ago at my job we had this one repeat caller who I talked to 3-4 times. She was convinced she was being gang-stalked. As rude as she was, it was heartbreaking to know she'd been going through this for so long. I hope she's sought out therapy or mental health assistance since. I'll never forget her quizzing me to make sure I had notated the license plates of everyone she thought was part of it, saying it would be on us if she got murdered. Never figured out why she thought that, but man. Again. I just hope she's on the road to recovery.
On TH-cam there's quiet a few channels who upload videos documenting their gang stalking. It's quiet insane watching these videos of people recording the voices they hear. Even children are stalking them.
@@Neucher I'm glad someone else has seen these. Somebody should really do a video on it. There's a whole network of these people feeding into each other's delusions, TH-cam should do something about it.
I truly felt for Ryan's story. As someone who struggles with mental health and has also been hospitalized for it, I've been pretty low as a result... I truly hope he finds a community to support him. Edit: thank you for the kind words. I'm in a much better place. I wish the same for you all ❤
I was two times in. After 15 years of abuse (any you can imagine.) and about 15 years of recovery. I can tell you, there IS light on the other side. There is. Keep going. You know how you can see that light? Look in the mirror. You are the light. Guide yourself out of the dark places. You have the power. I believe in you.
This channel deserves way more subs. Literally all other internet mystery channels cover the same reddit post. Your choice of topics is spot on pls don't stop uploading
As is schizophrenic and has had similar delusions to Ryan’s, I think covering stories like his and presenting them in this context is dangerous. To the general public, it’s clear what he is experiencing is not actually happening, but when you talk about what he says as “so what is *actually* happening to Ryan? Is this psychosis brought upon by substance use?” that is way more than enough to trigger someone who has similar delusions to say “Aha, I knew there was more to these voices than what the doctors say!” etc. Delusions are incredibly serious and shouldn’t be used as “mysterious” content for videos like this. I know that a lot of psychotic symptoms are very interesting to people who do not suffer from them. But I urge TH-cam creators to either take much more care when talking about delusional people or just respectfully not cover them at all. It keeps viewers who are watching who are also predisposed to psychosis much safer. All said, I do really love your channel, I’ve been subbed for quite a while and love to watch your videos as soon as I see them in my feed. I just wanted to offer this perspective to you as I think the message you sent when covering Ryan’s case comes across differently to people who have genuine delusions.
I’m sure this has probably been addressed, but sadly Ryan sounds as if he’s exhibiting all of the textbook behaviors of someone having a psychotic break and subsequently learning that they are schizophrenic with paranoia. I’m no psychiatrist, but worked many years as an ER nurse. The communities I worked in had an “over-abundance” (at least, according to our physicians, there were more than average) of clientele with psychiatric complaints. My older brother was/is a difficult to treat paranoid schizophrenic, as well, so I spent 12+ years inundated with a multitude of his incredibly scary behaviors when I was little. Because of this, I have heard first hand, helped to treat, and dealt directly with similar issues to Ryan’s several times over the years. The age Ryan is during his initial breakdown is pretty typical, from what I understand: usually late teens to young adulthood. A primary source of anxiety is often a perceived campaign of information gathering and/or telepathic communication (or sometimes subliminal targeting) aimed at the client. These stories also seem to follow common themes - the big three being religion, politics, and paranormally related elements. Since absolutely nobody would ever want the real life nightmare of being forever intertwined with delusions of running from a ruthless cabal of personalized antagonists, hell bent on spying on (or generally fucking with) your mind, you would think that more people would try to push our elected officials toward bringing back desperately needed funds for mental health care treatment - but: I digress... (clearly I’m an American, btw, so I have no ‘delusions’ about that ever happening soon) Schizophrenics can not be convinced that their hallucinatory experience isn’t real. To them, it is absolutely real. You won’t ever “talk them out of it”. However, it’s also not a good idea to pretend to be able to see, hear, or innately understand any hallucination or delusion that they experience. The best I was ever able to do for them was to be emotionally supportive and provide a safe living environment for them. I hope someday soon science is better able to decipher the pathophysiology of schizophrenia (my apologies if referring to it as a pathology is not PC, I’m not sure how else to phrase that) and provide effective, affordable treatment options. It’s fascinating and terrifying all at once: it has the ability to take creative, articulate, goal-driven, and intelligent people and leave them trapped inside a crippling maze of delusion and anxiety. Hopefully this young man has resources and a strong support system, because he will likely need both. Sorry this was so rambling, I’m way overtired and over-caffeinated. Great video! Thanks
I think Pathology is fine. Schizophrenia isn’t in the same category as ADHD and ASD where you just have a different way of perceiving the world. With those, the “pathology” all comes from interactions with a world not built for neurodivergent people. So…saying “pathology”, “condition,” “disease” can be harmful, because these (we) are just people trying to live their (our) lives. Paranoid schizophrenia is a pathological condition that is harmful to the person experiencing it, outside of just making having a “normal life”….finishing school/college, succeeding in a job, getting married, etc…..it definitely makes those things harder, but my point is that the way it leads to isolation and often violence makes pathology apt in my personal, albeit uneducated, opinion.
There is genuine physical pathology to psychotic disorders; our brains go through something called cerebral atrophy during an acute psychotic or manic state, in some severe cases losing up to 20% of its total mass until the episode ends. We don't yet know _why_ this happens (i.e. if the episodes cause the atrophy, or if the atrophy causes the episodes), but we do know it _does_ happen. People forget that the brain is a physical organ and that mental health issues are caused by physical changes happening to the brain. It's my hope that someday the study and treatment of psychotic disorders like bipolar and schizophrenia will shift from the wheelhouse of psychotherapy to that of neurology the way epilepsy and Alzheimer's has, especially since there's significant evidence they're all connected. ADHD and ASD also have physical pathology because, again, the brain is a physical organ. Our different ways of perceiving the world are caused by significant physical differences in brain development and structure compared to neurotypical brains. In some cases you can even see it on an MRI - language processing, sight processing, etc can appear differently and sometimes certain parts of the brain are measurably different masses than typical (if you're autistic and ever get the chance to see your own MRI, I highly recommend it, it's very cool). And of course the ADHD brain even reacts differently to drugs like caffeine compared to non-ADHD brains. I don't think it should be offensive to say this, it's just a statement of fact. My autism is exactly as much of a condition that affects the physical composition of my brain as my schizophrenia. The issue comes from the idea some hold that all pathology is bad and dirty and should or even can be "cured". Not all can, and not all should. Just like how not all bacteria is bad and dirty and some is even required for us to live. Some mushrooms are poisonous, and some are delicious. Some mold will kill you, some can save your life. Some diseases are detrimental, some are neutral, and some are beneficial. The world comes in many shades; open your eyes to all of them.
@@titaniumvulpesI have nothing of value to contribute to the discussion, but I feel compelled to mention upon reading your comment; that was very well said.
Can we stop taking people's mental health struggles and be like "oOoOOh so spooky!!"? I get into these mystery videos for a good old spook and just end up feeling bad for these people and how their struggles are treated. There's ways to bring awareness to this kind of issues, this just ain't it.
This. Ive been seeing this trend more often than usual lately and it just makes me...disappointed and hurt as someone with some of the more "scary" mental illnesses.
Word, I remember seeing a different video a while back when a man just recently lost his wife during her sleep and being a blogger he simply said his wife has been asleep longer than usual. The guy who put it in his "creepy TH-cam videos" post made it try to seem like something bad when in reality it was just sad that a husband lost his wife of several years and was very much in denial.
@@bheesechurger8340 you know it is possible to view things in a variety of ways. It's amazing what can be seen when you look at something with a different perspective. That's how art is created.🙂 I saw the video you're referring to, and while yes it's only "creepy" in the sense that it was an actual dead body, it was also a semi-mobid yet sweet rememberence to the man's late wife.
@@bheesechurger8340 I remember that video, it was absolutely heartbreaking because he was filming her before he was even aware that she had passed away... I don't think it was denial at all though. Still very sad because you could tell he loved her very much
Found this vid randomly and I'm really impressed! It's all stuff I've never heard abt and the editing and narration was good and detailed ^^ I'll def be checkin out some of your other stuff later :D
Washintonian here, Lacy isn't on the outskirts of Seattle. It's actually about an hour south of Seattle on the outskirts of Olympia, the state capital. Minor thing but something that jumped out at me.
for the shadow man,, is it possible it’s a VERY underweight sun bear standing up? the fact that the “shadow person” clearly doesn’t have shoulders and has a very small head and is objectively long and lanky looking. That part of japan is rural as hell and obviously we know there’s no cars around or people walking, so it could have just kinda came into frame and stood there a little bit lmao
The Japan Shadow man really reminds me of the mysterious figures in Super Mario Galaxy without the eyes though, the Mysterious figures were given the name 'Hell Valley Sky Trees' but it's definitely an intriguing mystery! Who knows if he's real or fake and honestly that's the fun of it
Even though I'm 99% sure the shadow figure one was just photoshoped (other 1% being faked or staged in some other way) it still sorta freaks me out for some reason. Something about shadow figures creeps me out for some reason.
Same, 'cept I'm not even usually scared by shadow figures in particular because I'm desensitized to them. But that one really gets to me and I can't explain why.
@@aelahn yea exactly,there doesn't seem to be any information about it in the web,I even searched in Reddit,which you know Reddit loves a good internet mystery to figure out,but even in Reddit.....NOTHING about it,it's really strange,I thought I could figure more about it or get an explanation when searching but a lot of different searches in Google all under different prompts brought out no valuable information,I guess this mystery never really developed out of the twitter post and this video....
it’s only the ones that look like stick figures that creep me out. like, anything that looks like a guy in a black body suit… is just a guy in a black body suit to me. however, black stick figures always look so unnatural and unnerving in the real world.
I really couldn't tell you why 16:24 scares me so much. Well I mean I guess I can try. When I was like 6 years old I had a dream where I woke up at night to see a lot of my family members were in my room. The only thing illuminating my room was a nightlight, because I was a massive scaredy cat as a kid. I don't remember if my family spoke, but if they did I couldn't understand or perceive it, but it looked like they were communicating. But it was them going from looking at me to them looking at the other and repeatedly nodding their head five times as if conversing like normal with typical gestures and then suddenly looking at me, all the while stone faced, expressionless. Looking back at it now, I think this might have been some sort of sleep paralysis because after a while this weird behavior turned into my family acting normal and I could actually understand them, and despite it being the middle of the night my mom got me up to watch a movie, the Tom and Jerry one where they talk. It had to be real because I remember these cartoons talking was more impressionable to me at the time as a dumb kid than the peculiar mannerisms my family had just displayed, yet I can't think of one without remembering the other. So perhaps I was still semi-asleep and reality bleed into my mind. Like I could see the waking world but my brain was still doing the unconscious stuff. And like I said, I was a massive coward, yet this occurrence didn't scare me. Sure, I was confused, but I think because it was my family I wasn't spooked. Regardless if it was or it wasn't, I've never experienced sleep paralysis again. tl;dr I had a dream with a rapid, repeating motion and the timestamped part just triggered the memory of it.
Had to stop the video to say that to say Lacey is on the "outskirts" of Seattle is ABSURD. Lacey is on the outskirts of the capitol which is Olympia and it a good hour to two hours from Seattle depending on the traffic. People who aren't from Washington always amaze me with their proximity comparisons to Seattle when most of the time, unless it's actually in the Seattle area, it's nowhere near Seattle
As soon as you started doing your own verifications, I hit like and subscribe. Too many channels only regurgitate the same stories and style. Thanks for respecting the audience and putting in that effort!
this was so well made was the first rabbit hole that scared me especially the User9472 section starting at 16:10 and because its the most replayed part I'm guessing everyone else found it creepy to
Virtual: I’m sure this is a dark period for him and his family that, hopefully, will pass by and be just a small dot in the dark corners of the internet. Me: Right, a small dot you’re enlarging by providing a platform that ensures more people see it than saw his original posts. Not sure how I feel about that…
8:14 anyone who has traveled around the US has seen billboards long forgotten featuring everything from breakfast cereals to hair products to missing children. When companies become defunct or sell it is (regrettably) standard practice to abandon costly tear-downs unless they are forced to comply by authorities who have purview over said issues /regions/ad spaces. Don’t kill the messenger but I don’t see any mystery here.
that japan shadow man really solved itself, we cant find the set of photos taken that day by the pref, the only one archived is in the tweet by whoever first tweeted it, guy has no shadow, is 7 feet tall, obviously just a silly photoshop joke.
just stumbled across this account and i’m loving it so far! you actually post unique content that i haven’t seen on other channels, immediately subscribed
Ryan is clearly schizophrenic as diagnosed and it is incredibly sad that he isnt receiving the treatment he needs to be well. I have a close friend who is schizophrenic and have also known a few others with the disorder throughout my life and while all have had slightly different delusions, they still have the same hallmarks. Ryan's story seems to be a textbook case and it shouldn't be included as a rabbit hole mystery for people to gawk at.
11:15 If I knew how the cameras worked I would 100% buy a black morph suit and some cheap LEDs to mess with the people who watch the cameras. 30 bucks to start some local rumors, and legends? You bet.I’m short though, I’d need some MEAN platform boots or stilts.
The "Shadow man" actually seems like it would be very easy to pull off. The camera is public, so they know the exact schedule of when it takes pictures. Drive up and down the road at that time and look at where you were in the pic and you have the timing nearly to the second. Get a roll of foam flooring, the industrial stuff for standing on in work boots for 10+ hours. We had them in about 10 foot rolls, and when brand new, are pitch black except for yellow edging. Cut the edging off, and cut the rest into a humanoid shape. Roll back up. Show up a few minutes before the camera snaps. Someone drops you off and drives down the road for a few minutes. If they have a functional clock, they know exactly when they can come back. About a minute before, run out, and unroll the foam and duck into the trees. Right after, run out, roll it up, and hop in your ride. With it as just foam on the ground you have less concern for drivers, who would likely see and stop for a cutout standing up. At 6am, most people wouldn't notice a foam cutout. It would also look better on the camera if you cut it right. Look at sidewalk art to see what I mean. It looks deformed unless you're looking at it from a specific angle. Got a second story window overlooking a street or sidewalk, you can try multiple times to get it right before putting it in front of the camera to make it look perfect. TL;DR, I think it's an easy hoax. If webcams existed when I was a kid, I'd have likely done it.
As for user9472, that's not his/her actual TH-cam ID; if you look close, it's "user-zs6ht". "ZS6HT" is the amateur radio call sign of a person who lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. Being a ham radio operator myself, it was easy for me to obtain the name and address of that person, but I'm not going to post that information here, because only a "lid" (as we hams say) would do that. Leave the person alone; they just like to yak on the radio and make funky videos (probably inspired by Kane Pixels), neither of which harms anyone. Besides, this person is very old (80s or 90s) because they got their license in 1946.
My dude you probably dont realize how weird the internet is because you grew up in Web 2.0. Back in Web 1.0 a random pizza cafe in new brunswick could get famous. Now we are corraled.
User-9472 is my favorite channel now lol. Ylenia in the hallway made me a little uneasy at first, call me a psyco but i love things that make me feel uneasy like that lol
The Ryan guy is one of two scenarios: either a very elaborate prankster / someone trying to create a weird ARG, or a guy who is experiencing very intense schizophrenia. Just a related side note: schizophrenia can develop in people who were otherwise showing no signs of mental illness in their childhood and young adolescence. It can also be potentiated by usage of certain drugs like psychidelics and other substances; in other words, individuals can develop schizophrenia or schizophrenia-like disorders from usage of drugs, even limited usage of these substances.
7:58 That would haunt me for life. Just knowing that these children are missing, likely declared legally dead, and they were never found, that would stay with me forever...
Great video. Struggling to find the tune that begins at 22.25, tried looking ror slowed&reverb and not getting anything for those last 2 tracklists mentioned. Thanks for listing thr music too. Subbed.
10:00 I'd like to point out that it *does* seem to me that the shadow man has a shadow. Of course, the image was very low-quality to begin with and was then AI upscaled on top of that, meaning it might just be artifacting, as other things in the image do seem to have some form of artifact "aura" around them as well. And, hell, it may just be that the low quality of the image is the only reason it has "no shadow" to begin with. The yellow street sign doesn't have one either.
15:42 just thinking out loud, I think it's one of those optical illusions. It's actually flat and 2 dimensional. Drawn on the road in a way to make it look like it's stood up when viewed from a certain angle. Why it was done though, I have no idea.
@@chester7687Cardboard cutouts at dawn also don't have shadows. As for why? Prank. 6 AM on a back road? Then point it out on Twitter if nobody bites in the first few days?
That Izuskyline pic, cant it be one of those optical illusion sticker plastered on the road? I mean, whoever did this had 1 hour time to plaster it on a remote road, go behind the cam and take it off within the next hour. Their car could also just be parked behind the cam so its possible. The setting would make it super easy to pull this of.
Hit the nail on the head with the diagnosis of Ryan, as someone that also developed a drug induced psychosis that lasted many months from LCD. Unlike Ryan, the information I believed I was introduced to under the influence of psychedelics was toxic and viral, I believed it was something true but to tell other people and have them believe it also was detrimental, so I didn’t share it with anyone, like a virus that was a cognitive hazard. Strange to think about now, that some concept that you’re introduced to can take an absolute strangle hold on your thoughts and life. Eventuality after stopping taking psychedelics for a prolonged period of time it faded away, hopefully the same will be true for Ryan.
I don't easily get scared by these types of videos any more, but the black figure stood on that road in Japan sent chills down my spine for some reason, even though he do just be standin tho
It's a cardboard cutout. To paraphrase someone else: Art school + COVID + dawn on a back road on a school day + A 'hey look at this' twitter post = Blatantly a prank.
Part of the issue with trying to calculate height from a camera still is you have to incorporate angle and distance from the camera and worry about lens distortion. All of those things change the perception of the relative size of objects.
The first frame of the Ylenia video made me laugh, because it looks exactly like a photo you might take of your friend while playing the hallway cryptid game. You know, the one where you stand with your back to the hallway while your friend tries to sneak toward you from the other end, and your objective is to spin around and grab a photo of them being a cryptid before they get to you?
The last one reminds me of an interaction I had on Reddit about a year ago. This guy was posting his “Ghost” Photos on r/Ghosts. There was absolutely nothing in his photos. I went to his profile and he had been frequenting a Meth subreddit. It was quite scary tbh.
Same here. Maybe has something to do with the uncanny valley? Our brains recognize her as human but her movements are so unnatural and strange that it freaks us out
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“Yes I am diagnosed with schizophrenia but that’s not why I’m hearing voices.”
Yeah Ryan that’s exactly what a schizophrenic person would say lmao.
But like why laugh tho 🤔
There's not only that there's a lot of other details pointing towards it... age, use of substances before may or may not have make it come out, thinking that people use "influencing machines" on them etc. Not something fun to deal with...
No self-control, no self-discipline, no wonder he's an addict.
@@myrmesuwu607 I've seen people say 'drugs don't cause it' and that it's some excuse to stop people doing something 'harmless'. I can confirm from very personal, very real experiences that yes, it certainly can trigger it. It caused it in me 25 years ago and I've been suffering with extreme paranoia and schizophrenia ever since. Shit happens though and you just have to get by.
Even having it though, imo, isn't a reason to just give up. It's hard and some times you 'do' need support from family, so you have to literally force yourself to let people in, but when you get there you can live a perfectly normal life. You just have to get to a point where you can accept that you have issues and recognise your triggers.
@@Grigeralyou talking about weed? 😂
The prank explanation is really likely for the shadow man. With a bit of prep time and knowing where the camera is and that it takes a photo exactly every hour it shouldn't be a hard stunt to pull off. My theory is that it's a cardboard standee of some sort.
It's not uncommon for Japanese people to do pranks like this. There's some like that around Google Maps in general, like people wearing masks in a circle etc.
true, my other thought was are there other photos from the camera w pedestrians in them? is it possible the weird figure is the automatic censor of randoms for privacy etc?
And they 100% have a shadow. It's just really faint, like it would be on what appears to be an overcast day.
The pixels of the shadow man are much smoother/stand out more than the other pixels around it which makes me believe the same thing. Or simple Photoshop. Or something stranger.
Nah, if you go through the trouble to prank it, you're capable of doing something creepy and much more visually convincing than a photoshopped-looking black doodle man, without much additional effort. In fact, irl faking a photoshopped-looking black doodle man will take more effort since you need to craft an oversized vanta black full body suit and do a few trial takes on site to ensure that you're facing the camera directly without deviation to eliminate showing any perspective or dimensionality, trying to make it look as fake-ass as in this picture. Or you could just take 1 minute in photoshop to do the same thing.
Am I insane or does that photo just look like AI. I mean either it's a really shitty filter or it's AI generated.
My brother is schizophrenic and he would put newspapers over the vents in the house because there were ghosts in the walls. He would also see faces in piles of leaves, and on tree bark. It’s sad more than anything.
Pareidolia (pronounced "par-i-DOH-lee-a") is a brain phenomenon in which a person sees or hears something significant in a random image or pattern.
@@satanbells666 okay?
@@satanbells666 it’s not uncommon that people who suffer from schizophrenia also suffer from pareidolia
@@satanbells666 I didn't really have the words, but this is part of why some AI generated images are really scary to me. When they occasionally generate like faces in a noisy part of an image, it's like it's training your brain to be schizophrenic and see scary faces in randomness.
@@boondoggle_3yeah its about intensity, a little pareidolia is normal but actually thinking leaves are people is not
Textbook psychosis. I’ve experienced everything he described, been a diagnosed schizophrenic for a number of years now.
I hope brighter days have found you, man.
I went through a psychosis from drugs took me a couple years to mentally recover from it’s horrible I wouldn’t wish that on any living being. Never went to get diagnosed as I do not really believe in the modern mental health system and the ways they “treat” people by putting anyone with any mental issue on drugs. I’ve seen the system break more people than help with my own two eyes and in my own life when I was 12 my mother forced me into that system and as a result of that they put me on meds even tho none of them did me any good . take care peace
Ryan was me basically. Went to a festival in 2013 and ate way too much nbome laced acid. I went through psychosis on and off for years and it was absolutely terrifying. I hope he’s doing better.
Are you doing better now? I hope you are.
I blame nbome for ongoing physical health problems, when I took it my arms went completely numb and tingly and years later I still have some recurring issues. Since heard horror stories of amputations and all sorts. That stuff is the devil
ok
What is Nbome?
its best you dont know. what i will tell you is all drugs nowadays are BUNK. i might advise you get better friends if you are around drugs. no cap@@tracyklein3588
A good creepypasta would be someone going to a "vintage" arcade place, like those arcade bars and such, and seeing his/her own face on one of the machines. Then going into why their face with a different name appeared, not trusting who they thought were their parents, etc
Get to writing, bro, you got something there
Would be a good modern take on the "Face on the Milk Carton" story
@@Junierox what's the face on the milk carton story?
@@ewetn1It's a YA book from the 80s where a girl learns she was kidnapped because she sees her picture on a milk carton.
There have been some irl cases of kidnapped kids finding their missing poster on the NCMEC website. It's very plausible and works well as a creepypasta.
20:59
That animation is called "Francka" by Ana Čigon, originating from Slovenia
It's based on one of the most famous and important slovenian novels, Na klancu by Ivan Cankar and the scene that is animated is one of the key moments from the novel, where Francka, a little girl from a very poor family, is trying to catch a wagon thats going to a church fair, but the people on the wagon refuse to stop to pick her up as they find her struggling and running behind them amusing. This event scars Francka for life and symbolizes her struggles to find a better life with no avail throughout the novel. (we just had this in school so I immediately recognised it lmao)
I recognized it too, we had this on Swedish TV early 1980's. Did not remember the story though!
@@avgeek-and-fashionnah man impossible this is a fairly recent art animation from the 2010s you must have mistaken it with some other one
@@mzaklanc4371 Oh, that's weird. Could have sworn this was one I watched as a kid! We had lots of Czech and Yugoslav cartoons/puppet shows on Swedish TV at that time, and I very much recognize this style.
Molim? Ovaj amerikanac to spominje
If you have a predisposition for psychosis unfortunately psychedelics can trigger a full blown psychotic break. It feels very real to them and they usually display main character syndrome. I really hope he gets the help he needs and that he can get his life back on track
It's a delicate balance and a controversial subject. Like I wrote in my post I had different but somewhat similar delusions and it was through careful therapeutic use of psys in combination with therapy and self reflection that I escaped that hell. Set and setting make a big difference but so do genetics. I had NLPed myself into the delusions I suffered and they were not caused by genetic predisposition. Using them 5 times a year and consulting with doctors and therapists before and after has shown them to be very effective at improving my mental health, stability and overall wellbeing. I don't want to advocate for their use nor say they should not be taken. It's such a complicated subject. I recently got a neuropsychology textbook from my dad which was originally gifted to Dr. Brenda Milner but was regifted to me that goes over a lot of how substances affect the brain which has been truly interesting. It's also great to be able to use my dad as a resource to get papers from the Neurological Institute on the subject and having friends who either are now PHDs or are working on their PHDs in chemistry making psys for therapy legally. I truly believe in them but how they should be best used and how to know who should and should not take them I don't know. Same goes for most things... I for example cannot take SSRIs they give me terrible restless leg syndrome! ADHD meds were a much more effective antidepressant for me. We're all so individual in our biochemistry. I hope in the future we have those Star Trek tricorders that can just be pointed at a person and tell you everything about what they need and what they can't take etc XD
I'm not in the correct state of mind to watch this, so I'll watch later but wanted to comment on your comment. For the life of me I do not understand why anyone would want to them if they have a predilection to psychosis. I have to an over active imagination and you wont see me anywhere near them!
@@ir9567 Exactly, I'm kind of annoyed when people try to push psychedelics into mental healh help alternatives. Yes for some people they can be beneficial and there is anecdotal proof for it, but they can be devastating to other people. Yeah there arguments that it's similar with antidepressants and other meds but I don't know it just feels way too experimental for me. If actual doctors regulate the doses and make sure to monitor the patient's reaction then I guess it can work but way too many people try to self-medicate with psychedelics. Sadly I lost a very dear friend to this.
Main character syndrome wonder where that came from??? I mean it had to be really recent. When was the 1st case documented?
@@lancemcclure6017I cannot tell if you’re being sarcastic, but if not, main character syndrome is not a real diagnosis.
I don't even know why you included Ryan's story. He opens with I'm a diagnosed schizophrenic with bipolar disorder and recently took drugs. Anything said after that sort of becomes a moot point. Playing into his delusion is kind of in poor taste. Where's the rabbit hole? There's a ton of other actually strange posts on Reddit.
I enjoyed the video overall just kind of lost me a bit towards the end with the paranoid ramblings of a mentally ill man
It seems to be getting a good response from people but I tend to agree. If you go on the right subs, you can find dozens of people like this so there's no real mystery there and not much of a rabbit hole unless it's someone like Chip Chan that has a long history of posting media related to their mental illness.
Agreed. Out of all possible strange Reddit stories and rabbit holes, this one was chosen. Why?
Perhaps that is exactly why his story should have been featured. It is precisely the type of people that watch videos like this that need to see all these comments to understand they aren't alone and need to seek help. Mental health outcomes always end to be better when out in the open and discussed. Many times these individuals don't have the community, friends, or family to express their concerns and experiences with. He obviously needs help and I hope that he and anyone else seeing comments like these can realize they need to seek help immediately.
I agree, besides of it not being really a rabbit hole it's just kind of in poor taste. People with schizophrenia just exist. We are made scary by horror movies etc but there's nothing really "scary" about us. And even if some of us can act a bit scary we're still people, man. Not a fan of putting mental illness stories into horror/creepy kind of channels in general, especially if it's just a random guy online rather than an actual televised case (and even those are often oversensantionalised. Besides, a lot of people fake schizophrenia to plead insanity in court but that's besides the point)
@@jeremysmith4620 As a person with schizophrenia, we aren't stupid, we know when we need help. We really do. But just "seeking help" is really not as straightforward as it might seem. People throw this phrase around but seriously. Do you know how much treatment costs? Do you know how mistreated schizophrenic people are by the institutions? Have you heard how common abuse against schizophrenic people is, ESPECIALLY in places that are supposed to "help" us? Unfortunately we don't live in some kind of utopia where we can just go and "get help" and then everything is sunshine and rainbows. It just does not look like that.
I recognize the shot from 21:43.
It’s from a short indie horror film on TH-cam called 'No Through Road'.
Hope this helps!
Just a background vid, but like the enthusiasm
I remember seeing that when I was younger! Seeing no through road signs always made me creeped out after that.
I think it's considered like the first TH-cam horror series
There is no conspiracy theory with Ryan’s case, he needs mental health treatment and to log off reddit.
This actually shows how slow you are and how closed minded you are
Ok
@@iAmNothingness okay
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Yeah that’s unfortunately just schizophrenia
I worked as a call director at a mental health facility. Ryan is 100% have a schizophrenic episode. And it’s very real to the person experiencing and very terrifying. I hope he got the help he needs
I’m gonna look into that shadow man image more. Plan to translate more sites and blogs discussing it. Japanese is my college minor, so I hope to find more information
Great! thanks for the help!
Hello...it's been around 2 months...have you found anything relevant concerning this eerie case? I have search the web for information on it Beacuse I was really intrigued about it but nothing..not even in Reddit or some forum which you know they love things like this
Where have you gone??
Any news?
Buddy the female dancing in the hallway with the strange slowed down and sped up “edits” got me bro. I was just coming out of the bathroom and then I saw that. I almost threw my laptop out the window my guy.
That shits awesome haha. I love getting chills & feeling uneasy like that idk why 😂
I was not ready for that either
I had to pause for a second and regather my thoughts mid sentence.
I literally have seen that video before, but the viewer discretion warning followed by that immediately spooked me. Skipped that section of the vid immediately LMAO
shit terrified the living hell out of me. had to switch to a new video and watch this again next morning
Virtual editing style is such a vibe 🧙♀️ please make these a series!
Yes, and thank you man for not using stock footage. This way I actually want to watch, not just listen.
100% @@deirdrejones5974
@@deirdrejones5974yeah I hate stock footage
The "neurological harassment" guy sounds exactly like my cousin, he developed schizophrenia after highschool, same story with the drugs.
The first time I remember someone saying something incredibly bizarre was my mom. She said he had deeply scared her one day. She was driving him somewhere, just the two of them, and he started mumbling towards the backseat.
He was twisting the way he was sitting and trying to adjust the mirrors. Getting increasingly agitated. Then he turned in his seat and started yelling and freaking out at the empty backseat.
She asked him, "Who are you talking to???" And he snapped his head to look at her suspiciously and said something along the lines of, "So. You're in on it too, are you??? I can't believe this!! I trusted you!!"
And she was like "WHAT??" And he lost it on her, screaming at her to stop pretending like the people in the backseat weren't there, saying everyone else was pretending they weren't there too, he couldn't believe she was in on it though, everyone is in on it.
She said he was so scary. Like she was his favorite auntie. He had never been anything but kind and polite to her. She asked him what "it" was and he launched into this whole conspiracy.
It was muddled but basically, there was this plot to make him look crazy, so everyone would think he's crazy, and the plot was to have these people constantly in the same room or car, any space, and they would taunt him and torture him and say he's crazy, and that everyone in his life had been made a part of the plot and so their part was to pretend those people weren't even there.
It was such a dangerous delusion because the more you said there's no one there and he needs to see a doctor, the more he bought into the delusion and it like reaffirmed that the conspiracy was real.
Unfortunately he passed away. My mom at the time did get him on meds and he actually went back to school and met a girl and they had a baby. But his delusions were very strong and he started to think the meds were swapped with pills to make him crazy and he stopped taking them.
Got into drugs really bad and overdosed in his late 20s. Really tragic. That's not even the whole story, that was a rough time for my family, because his brother died that same summer.
Schizophrenia is such a tough illness because one of the symptoms can be delusions about meds being fake or poison or mind control pills and the more you talk to them about schizophrenia the more they believe in their delusions.
in some ways, I'm glad there was more than one schizophrenic in my family, not that I'm happy they had it, but that I was taught about the symptoms, knew what they looked like, and knew what I was going through from the beginning of the episodes happening. unfortunately, the other schizophrenics in my family still haven't made a recovery in the ways I have.
I blame the girl. He went from bonkers to dead after meeting the girl.
Thank you for sharing
@@cdogthehedgehog6923 You're just making an assumption based upon the only part of the story you heard though. That girl is a beautiful person and has been a fantastic mother to his kid.
You're way off. It's obviously the drugs and the shady people who populate that cesspool. He was abusing drugs and went into psychosis and shattered some sort of glass pipe, like for crack or meth idk, and did his best to stab a guy in the throat with it.
The guy was a dealer and no one phoned the police and he was telling everyone that he was going to "take care of it" himself. And then like two weeks later my cousin was dead.
The toxicology report showed all kinds of drugs and stuff in his system but a lot of people believe that because the guy had control of the drugs my cousin was buying, he just sold him something laced to guarantee he didn't come back from that nod, but there's no actually evidence for that.
Officially he died from a drug overdose. That girl you're blaming for literally no reason other than the fact that she's the only other person I mentioned was the best part of his life hands down and my aunt loves her and she has done a great job as a mother. Her story is tragic.
She just fell in love with someone whose mental illness and addiction issues were extremely profound. You have to understand she met him at the best point in his life and he was successful and desirable and he was a good father. It's not like she knew what was going to happen. If you met someone and they had their life in order and they said they have a mental illness they medicate and treat you wouldn't be like, "But you might try to stab a drug dealer in the throat some day".
@@jademoon7938 Ah. Nice conspiracy theory. It makes sense now. He was surrounded by crazy women, tried to escape with substances but couldnt take it any more.
Great video! Several years ago at my job we had this one repeat caller who I talked to 3-4 times. She was convinced she was being gang-stalked. As rude as she was, it was heartbreaking to know she'd been going through this for so long. I hope she's sought out therapy or mental health assistance since. I'll never forget her quizzing me to make sure I had notated the license plates of everyone she thought was part of it, saying it would be on us if she got murdered. Never figured out why she thought that, but man. Again. I just hope she's on the road to recovery.
On TH-cam there's quiet a few channels who upload videos documenting their gang stalking. It's quiet insane watching these videos of people recording the voices they hear. Even children are stalking them.
@@Neucher what are those videos like?
@@Neucher I'm glad someone else has seen these. Somebody should really do a video on it. There's a whole network of these people feeding into each other's delusions, TH-cam should do something about it.
I truly felt for Ryan's story. As someone who struggles with mental health and has also been hospitalized for it, I've been pretty low as a result... I truly hope he finds a community to support him.
Edit: thank you for the kind words. I'm in a much better place. I wish the same for you all ❤
Much love my friend, I know how hard life can be when suffering with mental health, I do hope Ur in a better place now.❤
Yeah, Ryan's claim was pretty classic paranoid schizophrenia stuff
Nuh huh
I was two times in. After 15 years of abuse (any you can imagine.) and about 15 years of recovery.
I can tell you, there IS light on the other side. There is. Keep going. You know how you can see that light? Look in the mirror. You are the light. Guide yourself out of the dark places. You have the power.
I believe in you.
@@Panchoproductions2069mhm hmm.
Good, I was afraid the first one was going to be another Polybius video.
same 💀
same lool was rolling my eyes ngl
We all did
Me too lmao
Yep
I DO NOT LIKE that chick in the hallway. The way she jumps about....scares the hell outta me. Just so disturbing 16:16
That terrified me to the core jesus
I feel a little better knowing I wasn't the only one lol
Anyone knows the origin? It got me a little bit and now I'm interested lol.
Ngl I had to skip that section give me the fucking creeps in way I cannot describe
@@Dephlated what? Its funny
This channel deserves way more subs. Literally all other internet mystery channels cover the same reddit post. Your choice of topics is spot on pls don't stop uploading
As is schizophrenic and has had similar delusions to Ryan’s, I think covering stories like his and presenting them in this context is dangerous. To the general public, it’s clear what he is experiencing is not actually happening, but when you talk about what he says as “so what is *actually* happening to Ryan? Is this psychosis brought upon by substance use?” that is way more than enough to trigger someone who has similar delusions to say “Aha, I knew there was more to these voices than what the doctors say!” etc. Delusions are incredibly serious and shouldn’t be used as “mysterious” content for videos like this.
I know that a lot of psychotic symptoms are very interesting to people who do not suffer from them. But I urge TH-cam creators to either take much more care when talking about delusional people or just respectfully not cover them at all. It keeps viewers who are watching who are also predisposed to psychosis much safer.
All said, I do really love your channel, I’ve been subbed for quite a while and love to watch your videos as soon as I see them in my feed. I just wanted to offer this perspective to you as I think the message you sent when covering Ryan’s case comes across differently to people who have genuine delusions.
Oh, you had 4k sub when I subbed As I remember. Time is fast... Finally, you got the hype you deserved!
Same
Another great vid, love the ambience and the way you present your videos! You're getting huge soon 👀
thank u!!
I agree, soothing voice. Not over the top. Not trying to be utterly „dark“.
Very nice to listen to!
I’m sure this has probably been addressed, but sadly Ryan sounds as if he’s exhibiting all of the textbook behaviors of someone having a psychotic break and subsequently learning that they are schizophrenic with paranoia. I’m no psychiatrist, but worked many years as an ER nurse. The communities I worked in had an “over-abundance” (at least, according to our physicians, there were more than average) of clientele with psychiatric complaints. My older brother was/is a difficult to treat paranoid schizophrenic, as well, so I spent 12+ years inundated with a multitude of his incredibly scary behaviors when I was little. Because of this, I have heard first hand, helped to treat, and dealt directly with similar issues to Ryan’s several times over the years.
The age Ryan is during his initial breakdown is pretty typical, from what I understand: usually late teens to young adulthood. A primary source of anxiety is often a perceived campaign of information gathering and/or telepathic communication (or sometimes subliminal targeting) aimed at the client. These stories also seem to follow common themes - the big three being religion, politics, and paranormally related elements.
Since absolutely nobody would ever want the real life nightmare of being forever intertwined with delusions of running from a ruthless cabal of personalized antagonists, hell bent on spying on (or generally fucking with) your mind, you would think that more people would try to push our elected officials toward bringing back desperately needed funds for mental health care treatment - but: I digress... (clearly I’m an American, btw, so I have no ‘delusions’ about that ever happening soon)
Schizophrenics can not be convinced that their hallucinatory experience isn’t real. To them, it is absolutely real. You won’t ever “talk them out of it”. However, it’s also not a good idea to pretend to be able to see, hear, or innately understand any hallucination or delusion that they experience. The best I was ever able to do for them was to be emotionally supportive and provide a safe living environment for them.
I hope someday soon science is better able to decipher the pathophysiology of schizophrenia (my apologies if referring to it as a pathology is not PC, I’m not sure how else to phrase that) and provide effective, affordable treatment options. It’s fascinating and terrifying all at once: it has the ability to take creative, articulate, goal-driven, and intelligent people and leave them trapped inside a crippling maze of delusion and anxiety. Hopefully this young man has resources and a strong support system, because he will likely need both.
Sorry this was so rambling, I’m way overtired and over-caffeinated. Great video! Thanks
I think Pathology is fine. Schizophrenia isn’t in the same category as ADHD and ASD where you just have a different way of perceiving the world. With those, the “pathology” all comes from interactions with a world not built for neurodivergent people. So…saying “pathology”, “condition,” “disease” can be harmful, because these (we) are just people trying to live their (our) lives.
Paranoid schizophrenia is a pathological condition that is harmful to the person experiencing it, outside of just making having a “normal life”….finishing school/college, succeeding in a job, getting married, etc…..it definitely makes those things harder, but my point is that the way it leads to isolation and often violence makes pathology apt in my personal, albeit uneducated, opinion.
There is genuine physical pathology to psychotic disorders; our brains go through something called cerebral atrophy during an acute psychotic or manic state, in some severe cases losing up to 20% of its total mass until the episode ends. We don't yet know _why_ this happens (i.e. if the episodes cause the atrophy, or if the atrophy causes the episodes), but we do know it _does_ happen. People forget that the brain is a physical organ and that mental health issues are caused by physical changes happening to the brain. It's my hope that someday the study and treatment of psychotic disorders like bipolar and schizophrenia will shift from the wheelhouse of psychotherapy to that of neurology the way epilepsy and Alzheimer's has, especially since there's significant evidence they're all connected.
ADHD and ASD also have physical pathology because, again, the brain is a physical organ. Our different ways of perceiving the world are caused by significant physical differences in brain development and structure compared to neurotypical brains. In some cases you can even see it on an MRI - language processing, sight processing, etc can appear differently and sometimes certain parts of the brain are measurably different masses than typical (if you're autistic and ever get the chance to see your own MRI, I highly recommend it, it's very cool). And of course the ADHD brain even reacts differently to drugs like caffeine compared to non-ADHD brains. I don't think it should be offensive to say this, it's just a statement of fact. My autism is exactly as much of a condition that affects the physical composition of my brain as my schizophrenia. The issue comes from the idea some hold that all pathology is bad and dirty and should or even can be "cured". Not all can, and not all should. Just like how not all bacteria is bad and dirty and some is even required for us to live. Some mushrooms are poisonous, and some are delicious. Some mold will kill you, some can save your life. Some diseases are detrimental, some are neutral, and some are beneficial. The world comes in many shades; open your eyes to all of them.
@@titaniumvulpesI have nothing of value to contribute to the discussion, but I feel compelled to mention upon reading your comment; that was very well said.
Happy to see a channel covering stories I haven't heard of before :)
Can we stop taking people's mental health struggles and be like "oOoOOh so spooky!!"? I get into these mystery videos for a good old spook and just end up feeling bad for these people and how their struggles are treated. There's ways to bring awareness to this kind of issues, this just ain't it.
This. Ive been seeing this trend more often than usual lately and it just makes me...disappointed and hurt as someone with some of the more "scary" mental illnesses.
Word, I remember seeing a different video a while back when a man just recently lost his wife during her sleep and being a blogger he simply said his wife has been asleep longer than usual. The guy who put it in his "creepy TH-cam videos" post made it try to seem like something bad when in reality it was just sad that a husband lost his wife of several years and was very much in denial.
@@bheesechurger8340 you know it is possible to view things in a variety of ways. It's amazing what can be seen when you look at something with a different perspective. That's how art is created.🙂 I saw the video you're referring to, and while yes it's only "creepy" in the sense that it was an actual dead body, it was also a semi-mobid yet sweet rememberence to the man's late wife.
@@bheesechurger8340 I remember that video, it was absolutely heartbreaking because he was filming her before he was even aware that she had passed away... I don't think it was denial at all though. Still very sad because you could tell he loved her very much
Coward
Well written script to this, which is unusual for YT Horror videos. Great work.
Idk I feel the youtube horror Ive watched has better scripts than your average content
@@jamesknapp64it does
Great video! Seems like you never fail to provide with great content
Ryan's delusion (people controlling your mind, seeing through your eyes, controlling your thoughts etc.) is, in reality, pretty common.
17:48 I appreciate you using this clip, that video was and still is hilarious. What a spooky guy!
What is the clip from?
@@straight-up479 th-cam.com/video/laQY0ECov_k/w-d-xo.htmlsi=uEHCjIz09Ektr7e8
@@straight-up479 Robert Helpmann.
Found this vid randomly and I'm really impressed! It's all stuff I've never heard abt and the editing and narration was good and detailed ^^ I'll def be checkin out some of your other stuff later :D
"I will see you very soon" might not be the best outro for talking about paranoid people... 🤣
Washintonian here, Lacy isn't on the outskirts of Seattle. It's actually about an hour south of Seattle on the outskirts of Olympia, the state capital. Minor thing but something that jumped out at me.
something about 16:19 terrified me so much. idek why
I think it's just the uncanny feeling of it lol. That one weirded me out to lol
@@Nathen.. yeah that is one of the worst fear out there, vsauce did a video on the subject along time ago and I get the same fear watching it.
for the shadow man,, is it possible it’s a VERY underweight sun bear standing up? the fact that the “shadow person” clearly doesn’t have shoulders and has a very small head and is objectively long and lanky looking. That part of japan is rural as hell and obviously we know there’s no cars around or people walking, so it could have just kinda came into frame and stood there a little bit lmao
Holy shit lol you got it
No idea bout that but the shadow man pic has me cracking up
@@dddddddddddddddadddddddddddddd it’s very goofy looking lmao
@@69hikikomori I actually don’t think I do because sun bears are way shorter than 7 feet!!!!!!!!!!
@@svinjamaria I honestly think it’s fake to draw up tourism but I just love the idea that it’s a sun bear
The Japan Shadow man really reminds me of the mysterious figures in Super Mario Galaxy without the eyes though, the Mysterious figures were given the name 'Hell Valley Sky Trees' but it's definitely an intriguing mystery! Who knows if he's real or fake and honestly that's the fun of it
I loved going to that level of Super Mario Galaxy just to stare at them lol
18:24 is from Escape Game: Inn by Goro Sato. It’s a cellphone game.
Always a pleasure to have a hand in your journey to the top my boy. Insane work as always 😤
Even though I'm 99% sure the shadow figure one was just photoshoped (other 1% being faked or staged in some other way) it still sorta freaks me out for some reason. Something about shadow figures creeps me out for some reason.
Same, 'cept I'm not even usually scared by shadow figures in particular because I'm desensitized to them. But that one really gets to me and I can't explain why.
@@oof313 "He's just standing there! MENACINGLY!!"
I can't find anything about it in the internet..
@@aelahn yea exactly,there doesn't seem to be any information about it in the web,I even searched in Reddit,which you know Reddit loves a good internet mystery to figure out,but even in Reddit.....NOTHING about it,it's really strange,I thought I could figure more about it or get an explanation when searching but a lot of different searches in Google all under different prompts brought out no valuable information,I guess this mystery never really developed out of the twitter post and this video....
it’s only the ones that look like stick figures that creep me out. like, anything that looks like a guy in a black body suit… is just a guy in a black body suit to me. however, black stick figures always look so unnatural and unnerving in the real world.
I really couldn't tell you why 16:24 scares me so much.
Well I mean I guess I can try. When I was like 6 years old I had a dream where I woke up at night to see a lot of my family members were in my room. The only thing illuminating my room was a nightlight, because I was a massive scaredy cat as a kid. I don't remember if my family spoke, but if they did I couldn't understand or perceive it, but it looked like they were communicating. But it was them going from looking at me to them looking at the other and repeatedly nodding their head five times as if conversing like normal with typical gestures and then suddenly looking at me, all the while stone faced, expressionless. Looking back at it now, I think this might have been some sort of sleep paralysis because after a while this weird behavior turned into my family acting normal and I could actually understand them, and despite it being the middle of the night my mom got me up to watch a movie, the Tom and Jerry one where they talk. It had to be real because I remember these cartoons talking was more impressionable to me at the time as a dumb kid than the peculiar mannerisms my family had just displayed, yet I can't think of one without remembering the other. So perhaps I was still semi-asleep and reality bleed into my mind. Like I could see the waking world but my brain was still doing the unconscious stuff. And like I said, I was a massive coward, yet this occurrence didn't scare me. Sure, I was confused, but I think because it was my family I wasn't spooked. Regardless if it was or it wasn't, I've never experienced sleep paralysis again.
tl;dr I had a dream with a rapid, repeating motion and the timestamped part just triggered the memory of it.
Maybe you had a fever?
Your videos are legit. You always seem to have content others don't and are not afraid to get into details. Cheers.
Had to stop the video to say that to say Lacey is on the "outskirts" of Seattle is ABSURD. Lacey is on the outskirts of the capitol which is Olympia and it a good hour to two hours from Seattle depending on the traffic. People who aren't from Washington always amaze me with their proximity comparisons to Seattle when most of the time, unless it's actually in the Seattle area, it's nowhere near Seattle
Amazing video as always! No doubts when it comes to your stuff.
...Also, your voice is serenading. Love it 😭
No way in hell am I NOT subscribed after this video. You're awesome bro, hope you're well.
As soon as you started doing your own verifications, I hit like and subscribe. Too many channels only regurgitate the same stories and style. Thanks for respecting the audience and putting in that effort!
this was so well made was the first rabbit hole that scared me especially the User9472 section starting at 16:10 and because its the most replayed part I'm guessing everyone else found it creepy to
Virtual: I’m sure this is a dark period for him and his family that, hopefully, will pass by and be just a small dot in the dark corners of the internet.
Me: Right, a small dot you’re enlarging by providing a platform that ensures more people see it than saw his original posts. Not sure how I feel about that…
Very well edited !
Dudee your narration and video editing quality is insane!! Keep going 💯🔥
And I can’t forget about the music as well!
Appreciate it bro
8:14 anyone who has traveled around the US has seen billboards long forgotten featuring everything from breakfast cereals to hair products to missing children. When companies become defunct or sell it is (regrettably) standard practice to abandon costly tear-downs unless they are forced to comply by authorities who have purview over said issues /regions/ad spaces. Don’t kill the messenger but I don’t see any mystery here.
Yo this dude is really boutta blow!Love your videos pls keep it up!
that japan shadow man really solved itself, we cant find the set of photos taken that day by the pref, the only one archived is in the tweet by whoever first tweeted it, guy has no shadow, is 7 feet tall, obviously just a silly photoshop joke.
Nice detective work on the Japan photo!
Good video as always
just stumbled across this account and i’m loving it so far! you actually post unique content that i haven’t seen on other channels, immediately subscribed
Ryan is clearly schizophrenic as diagnosed and it is incredibly sad that he isnt receiving the treatment he needs to be well. I have a close friend who is schizophrenic and have also known a few others with the disorder throughout my life and while all have had slightly different delusions, they still have the same hallmarks. Ryan's story seems to be a textbook case and it shouldn't be included as a rabbit hole mystery for people to gawk at.
*Love your work, Virtual Carbon!*
11:15 If I knew how the cameras worked I would 100% buy a black morph suit and some cheap LEDs to mess with the people who watch the cameras. 30 bucks to start some local rumors, and legends? You bet.I’m short though, I’d need some MEAN platform boots or stilts.
The "Shadow man" actually seems like it would be very easy to pull off. The camera is public, so they know the exact schedule of when it takes pictures. Drive up and down the road at that time and look at where you were in the pic and you have the timing nearly to the second.
Get a roll of foam flooring, the industrial stuff for standing on in work boots for 10+ hours. We had them in about 10 foot rolls, and when brand new, are pitch black except for yellow edging. Cut the edging off, and cut the rest into a humanoid shape. Roll back up.
Show up a few minutes before the camera snaps. Someone drops you off and drives down the road for a few minutes. If they have a functional clock, they know exactly when they can come back. About a minute before, run out, and unroll the foam and duck into the trees. Right after, run out, roll it up, and hop in your ride.
With it as just foam on the ground you have less concern for drivers, who would likely see and stop for a cutout standing up. At 6am, most people wouldn't notice a foam cutout.
It would also look better on the camera if you cut it right. Look at sidewalk art to see what I mean. It looks deformed unless you're looking at it from a specific angle. Got a second story window overlooking a street or sidewalk, you can try multiple times to get it right before putting it in front of the camera to make it look perfect.
TL;DR, I think it's an easy hoax. If webcams existed when I was a kid, I'd have likely done it.
As for user9472, that's not his/her actual TH-cam ID; if you look close, it's "user-zs6ht". "ZS6HT" is the amateur radio call sign of a person who lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. Being a ham radio operator myself, it was easy for me to obtain the name and address of that person, but I'm not going to post that information here, because only a "lid" (as we hams say) would do that. Leave the person alone; they just like to yak on the radio and make funky videos (probably inspired by Kane Pixels), neither of which harms anyone. Besides, this person is very old (80s or 90s) because they got their license in 1946.
this channel is so underrated
My dude you probably dont realize how weird the internet is because you grew up in Web 2.0. Back in Web 1.0 a random pizza cafe in new brunswick could get famous. Now we are corraled.
I guess it made an impact you’re called virtualholocaust
bro how do u not have like a million subscribers yet??
User-9472 is my favorite channel now lol. Ylenia in the hallway made me a little uneasy at first, call me a psyco but i love things that make me feel uneasy like that lol
everytime i see your channel in my recommended i think that im getting recomended videos from "virtual cobson" this is becoming a isssue
The Ryan guy is one of two scenarios: either a very elaborate prankster / someone trying to create a weird ARG, or a guy who is experiencing very intense schizophrenia.
Just a related side note: schizophrenia can develop in people who were otherwise showing no signs of mental illness in their childhood and young adolescence. It can also be potentiated by usage of certain drugs like psychidelics and other substances; in other words, individuals can develop schizophrenia or schizophrenia-like disorders from usage of drugs, even limited usage of these substances.
I mean the guy literally said he has schizophrenia so like, yeah, it's probably that he's experiencing schizophrenia.
7:58 That would haunt me for life. Just knowing that these children are missing, likely declared legally dead, and they were never found, that would stay with me forever...
Literally FNAF
@FrostySnow1000 True-
I feel like Ryan needs more support. I realize he has to participate in his own care but someone in his life needs to step in
id argue that the shadow man does leave a cast shadow. Its just super subtle because of the lighting.
That last story doesn't sound like a bad acid or DMT trip. It sounds more like a damaging datura or salvia trip.
Great Video!
ok the guard one made me get up and close my door, it sent chills down my spine. I hate intruder like beings
Great channel brother.
Already know it's a great video (it's Mega late, and i should sleep, but i thought i might aswell boost the algorithm for ya)
16:37 this is horrifying to me
I almost clicked off the video
Great video. Struggling to find the tune that begins at 22.25, tried looking ror slowed&reverb and not getting anything for those last 2 tracklists mentioned. Thanks for listing thr music too.
Subbed.
here you go :) th-cam.com/video/_ZZyaJFxJZ8/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared&t=1211
@@VirtualCarbon thank you so so much!! Really appreciated
10:00 I'd like to point out that it *does* seem to me that the shadow man has a shadow. Of course, the image was very low-quality to begin with and was then AI upscaled on top of that, meaning it might just be artifacting, as other things in the image do seem to have some form of artifact "aura" around them as well. And, hell, it may just be that the low quality of the image is the only reason it has "no shadow" to begin with. The yellow street sign doesn't have one either.
Its interesting that the creator of the golf game wasnt 100% sure
"I decided to calculate it myself" we have a hero among us
amongus.
That Psychic Connections dude is definitely developing schizophrenia that was super duper exacerbated by drug use.
10:15 After living in Japan so long you already know this is a prank.
Cardboard+ black non reflective paint+ COVID = free time for prank
Yeah, this guy should do debunking.
I guess woowoo moron bait is better eyeballs.
15:42 just thinking out loud, I think it's one of those optical illusions. It's actually flat and 2 dimensional. Drawn on the road in a way to make it look like it's stood up when viewed from a certain angle. Why it was done though, I have no idea.
Didn't think of that... definitely possible
Yeah but
It appeared within one hour and disappeared again within one hour so
Yeah
Why would someone do that?
@@chester7687shits and giggles
because people like doing weird stuff for fun @@chester7687
@@chester7687Cardboard cutouts at dawn also don't have shadows.
As for why? Prank. 6 AM on a back road? Then point it out on Twitter if nobody bites in the first few days?
Excellent video!
Japans shadow man one is kinda funny. It looks like a dude in one of those full body morph suits
Baby wake up, Virtual Carbon just posted 🖤 amazing video as allways
That Izuskyline pic, cant it be one of those optical illusion sticker plastered on the road? I mean, whoever did this had 1 hour time to plaster it on a remote road, go behind the cam and take it off within the next hour. Their car could also just be parked behind the cam so its possible. The setting would make it super easy to pull this of.
Hit the nail on the head with the diagnosis of Ryan, as someone that also developed a drug induced psychosis that lasted many months from LCD.
Unlike Ryan, the information I believed I was introduced to under the influence of psychedelics was toxic and viral, I believed it was something true but to tell other people and have them believe it also was detrimental, so I didn’t share it with anyone, like a virus that was a cognitive hazard.
Strange to think about now, that some concept that you’re introduced to can take an absolute strangle hold on your thoughts and life. Eventuality after stopping taking psychedelics for a prolonged period of time it faded away, hopefully the same will be true for Ryan.
My eyes are so bad, I could have sworn this was a video of Shrouded Hand until I heard the voice lol.
Your videos are really well made dude keep it up!🔥
I don't easily get scared by these types of videos any more, but the black figure stood on that road in Japan sent chills down my spine for some reason, even though he do just be standin tho
It's a cardboard cutout. To paraphrase someone else:
Art school + COVID + dawn on a back road on a school day + A 'hey look at this' twitter post = Blatantly a prank.
Part of the issue with trying to calculate height from a camera still is you have to incorporate angle and distance from the camera and worry about lens distortion. All of those things change the perception of the relative size of objects.
All they forgot was a hockey mask on the dark dude in Japan
All this stuff is hilarious.
The first frame of the Ylenia video made me laugh, because it looks exactly like a photo you might take of your friend while playing the hallway cryptid game. You know, the one where you stand with your back to the hallway while your friend tries to sneak toward you from the other end, and your objective is to spin around and grab a photo of them being a cryptid before they get to you?
Nice game.
Where can I learn more about the japanese shadow man?
The last one reminds me of an interaction I had on Reddit about a year ago.
This guy was posting his “Ghost” Photos on r/Ghosts. There was absolutely nothing in his photos.
I went to his profile and he had been frequenting a Meth subreddit. It was quite scary tbh.
Ylenia in the hallway made me panic for some reason. Does anyone have an explanation for this?
Yeah I was caught off guard by that one, creeped me the hell out.
@@79Bobola I’ve been watching this type of content for so long and this was the first time I was genuinely scared
Same here. Maybe has something to do with the uncanny valley? Our brains recognize her as human but her movements are so unnatural and strange that it freaks us out
@@Pixey003 Maybe you're right but I'm usually not that freaked out by this
had the same reaction when i first watched this vid. i unironically started yelling at that point 😅
i love the shadow person mystery....... i myself would cut out an awkward silhouette and place it in front of a camera just to prank internet ppl lmao
Ryan obviously has schizophrenia that was kicked loose by psychadelic drug use. He's the correct age range for spontaneous onset and everything.
please, i need to know what song is playing at 22:11 it's so beautiful