5:59 that run back to the car is the most insane feeling i can relate to. Its fucking ruthless being that unsure of whats around you, all while running through the darkness with your hearing up by 200 points
That first story is 100% fiction. Its not bad fiction but thats what it is. Far too much detail about inconsequential things, just about every cult cliche under the sun, the usual Also, every time I listen to a story "from the US" and the author uses meters, I'm immediately pulled out. The narrator is from the US, is never stated to be from elsewhere and people in the US use Yards or Feet for that sort of measurement. And this sort of thing pops up way too often for it to not be someone from outside the US writing the story
Regardless, I agree. it's tiring. This is why people like green text stories: every sentence continues the narrative and adds an emotion. This is just a slog to listen to.
A majority of things on reddit are pure cap. They very often have common misconceptions about technical details that if you are an expert in whichever field you'd know that it was 100% false. I'm a supervisor in law enforcement for 12 years now and a very, very often find technical errors in stories involving law enforcement, and often the technical details that are incorrect are crucial to the story, invalidating the entire thing and proving it false.
Thanks for these. I definitely prefer the ones that sounds plausible over the ones that sound like a creative writing student try to make something spooky.
Last story made me chuckle because Happy birthday has always been super awkward for me, so i started a trend in my friend group where we just chant , monotone, with dead eyes staring at the birthday boy/girl/whatever in total darkness besides the candles. Going on 7 years strong of not being sung too
The first story on here was so dumb I literally had to stop it and do something else for a hour it made my head hurt so badly if anyone can believe that story besides she went into wayyyyy to much detail on the stupidest things and the fact she can know all these details so well sounds super fake I'm still watching the rest of the video but oh my god the first story was absolutely stupid I can't belive that's the first story you put up man wow I know I should watch the rest the video and I am going to but my god
God that story was dog shit. Already knew it was fake when op said they’re 2 females going into deep Forrest’s alone. That usually does not happen, men do it woman don’t. Also isn’t the general rule that cult activities only happen at night? 2 females going hiking at night while also somehow sightseeing? Yeah no. I doubt cults do it at daytime often or at all especially since those mfs need to work as well and night time is a different feeling which cultists are attracted to like a moth to a lamp
@@OnurKRBI thought the exact same thing. I’m still not sure how hair and eye color has anything to do with “weird things and dangerous situations while hiking”. I understand being a female and hiking can unfortunately be dangerous but I didn’t realize that being blonde and blue eyed factored into it
As someone who lives quite literally down the road from a cult I don't really have any scary stories, the members I met were somewhat nice as well. The most terrifying thing about them was how much they sold produce at their little market lol
Great video as always, but I'd like to suggest giving your thoughts or ideas about the stories after you read them. I like hearing creator's take on the stories.
This channel is no doubt a hidden gem! Im surprised i never came across it befor. I guess whoever/whatever does youtubes recommendations needs too step their game up😂
Yknow what i hate avout most of these stories? The fact that theyre all written by people who seem to have just learned how to write a comprehensive story, amd thus are very likely to be made up. Especially the first one. Soinds like a script for a short. Not like a story from someone who experienced such a thing
I had met a master mason doing his driveway for work. I had told him i was interested in joining, to 'better myself and stabilize my community" Anyways, he refers me to a Mason, even higher up the ladder than himself. Fast foward a month, i finish work and drink drive home. Wastedly .
The first story is so painfully bad and obviously fake. An investigation isn't closed just because a few people they have as suspects are not able to be connected to it, especially if the investigation is about a group of people that attempted to attack another group. You definitely wouldn't close it if the victims received a letter threatening violence against them. This next bit is also just a personal issue of mine but if you are going to write a story with wildlife and comment on their behavior make sure you know what you are talking about. A wolf or group of wolves will 100% attack a person or group of people if they are hungry enough or you are in their territory and the wolves perceive them as a threat. This author clearly has no actual knowledge of the woods apart from a few basic things about the more common animals you would encounter and they just extrapolated from that.
When I was in my early 20s, a new church started being built not too far for where I lived. The construction of this building was astonishing as in 3 or 4 days it was finished and it was massive. It looked like a pole building type warehouse with a cross nailed to it. I didn't check it out right away, but eventually, I did. One of my friends got married there and I was in attendance. Inside this "wearhouse looking" church had elaborate hallways and rooms inside. It looked more like an office space than a church, of course until you entered the chapel. That looked pretty normal. At the wedding, my friend "the husband" told me that I should attend the church with them one week. Yes! One week. I explained I could visit a Sunday or Wednesday service with them to see what the church was all about. Fast forward a couple months later. We met up and I attend a church service. Immediately upon my arrival, everyone that I saw acted like I was the most important person in the entire building. It wasn't flattering. It was creepy as hell. I didn't know a single soul in there except my friend and his wife. In the service, the pastor came out, music started and the congregation stood up and went nuts. Like he was Jesus himself. The pastor knew I was in the crowd. He knew my name. He then called me by name up to the stage and sat me in a chair. Mind you, i was the onlyone. No one else in the probably over 150 people in the room accompanied me. That's when I noticed something off. The pastor told me "OVER A MICROPHONE" that I will now witness the power of God. He screamed into the mic some Bible verses and people started getting up and jogging to the stage. As they got to the stage the pastor touched them each one by one and they would fall on the floor. Not just fall on the floor. This was followed by the most poorly acted display of ridiculous flopping around I have ever witnessed. There was like 40 people on the floor just fake flopping like fish. I was dumbfounded, until I looked past the clownshow in front of me to the rest of the congregation. Everyone was dancing contortedly. I don't even have any other words to explain it except spasticity awkward. The pastor turns to me while barking into his microphone to let me and the entire spectical of a congregation know that the power of God could be mine if "l but join them and bask in the glory of God's elite deciples" or some such nonsense. I looked through the insanity to try and find my friends but couldn't see them. They, no dout, were partaking in the complete lunacy taking place in every square inch of the chapel. The entire event seemed put on just for me. It was completely horrifying. I promptly bolted off the stage, out of the chapel and almost damaged the nearest exit I saw. I couldn't delete myself from the situation fast enough. As I peeled out of the parking area I frantically looked around expecting these people to chase me down and restrain me but they didn't, thank God. Needless to say my friend and I now have a different friendship to say the lest. They have since removed themselves from this church of horrors thankfully. Later on during a maybe once in a year phone call I had with him, I finally asked just what in the F was that insane asylum that he invited me to. He denied and brushed off the very subject entirely. We don't speak much anymore and I'm not brainwashed into any fantastical colts. You truly don't think things like this could ever happen to you until your up on a stage being yelled at by a preaching lunatic with Christian rock blasting at full volume and what looks like the cast of thriller dancing fantasticaly over people who clearly just fell on the floor for show. I shiver any time I think of it. How do some people see something like that and truly say "yep, that's for me"
i was literally doing my homework while listening to this but then 17:11 part came and i panicked a bit. bro ALMOST described me but i got dark brown hair- ;-;
I've only been listening here long enough to only catch the first story and boy I just gotta say it, that's fuckin cap if I ever heard it. Somebody really enjoys creative writing prompts eh? Needs a lil more work in the convincing department. The writer made it too much like a story which took away from the immersion and believability. Who knows though maybe next time they'll make it more convincing
Hey, I’ve noticed that your thumbnails are VERY similar to this other youtuber, snooks. Like, nearly the same. His first video with that thumbnail, as far as I can see, was two weeks before yours. I don’t know what I’m really trying to make happen by saying this, but I wanted to make it known,
Can ppl realize that cults are not going to do sacrifices out in the open? They do it in places where people will 100% not find 😭😂 if they did it would be documented WAY more
Da fuck TH-cam 4 ads and the first story is even half way through. And I bet your going too stiff Poi on the adrev too. Unless Poi is pulling a dick move and has his adcence for high.
tried to search for a time stamp for the second story bc the first story is fake N cringy and they just keep going. you can literally tell bc of the way they wrote it. boring ass "read and answer the following questions" ahh story 13:47 for the second story yall
I might be misremembering but Im not sure you can fool/mislead experts in analysing hand writing(I dont know what they are called) or make your writing unusable to them with little methods like trying to use multiple fictitious writing styles or using the hand you dont write with .They can identify these things and will probably also include them to the data they use building suspect authors profiles(dont know what their called either) and ajust their analysis accordingly .If they have enough writing sample to analyse ,maybe it could work if all they had was a very short like 2 or 3 words note and if we were still in 1980 cause today with our computing power and using AI tools plus the advancement and refinement of their techniques,Im not sure its doable anymore at all,dont quote me on this tho.
"as a blonde girl with blue eyes, ive had my fair share or experiencing weird things and dangerous situations while hiking" was this AI generated how do those things correlate lmao do you even screen stories for quality or you just expect to feed your subscribers slop?
The first ons is crazy. "As a blonde girl with blue eyes" is wild
Right, what did that have to do with anything? 😂
@@svmmyb0i220 Maybe it was because she hiked in Asia before where having blond hair and blue eyes is rare so she was spotted?
@@svmmyb0i220 "home country in Europe" is a clue lol
I've heard some things that never happened before, but this one didn't happen so much it made the other ones happen.
@@scottbrydle8758 😂😂
holy shit the level of yapping in the first story was insane, the writer wouldnt stop talking
almost 14 minutes of straight yapping
“As a blond girl with blue eyes”
Me patiently waiting how that would relate to the story 🙂
5:59 that run back to the car is the most insane feeling i can relate to. Its fucking ruthless being that unsure of whats around you, all while running through the darkness with your hearing up by 200 points
That first story is 100% fiction. Its not bad fiction but thats what it is. Far too much detail about inconsequential things, just about every cult cliche under the sun, the usual
Also, every time I listen to a story "from the US" and the author uses meters, I'm immediately pulled out. The narrator is from the US, is never stated to be from elsewhere and people in the US use Yards or Feet for that sort of measurement. And this sort of thing pops up way too often for it to not be someone from outside the US writing the story
0:56 op says they moved from europe, so that may be where their use of the metric system comes in
@@endtrapta3393 So it does. Must have missed that when I was in the shower listening.
Regardless, I agree. it's tiring. This is why people like green text stories: every sentence continues the narrative and adds an emotion. This is just a slog to listen to.
A majority of things on reddit are pure cap. They very often have common misconceptions about technical details that if you are an expert in whichever field you'd know that it was 100% false. I'm a supervisor in law enforcement for 12 years now and a very, very often find technical errors in stories involving law enforcement, and often the technical details that are incorrect are crucial to the story, invalidating the entire thing and proving it false.
It reads like something that's written by someone who just learned the basics of story telling
Reddit itself is a cult
Real
real
depends on the community tbh, but 90% yes for sure
Yeah, fair point.
True
The fact that people managed to get here before me even after I clicked the immediate second the notification told me is insane. 😅
uhhhh well
sometimes notifications don't arrive that fast. It depends on your connection speed really.
@@babymetalenjoyeri get notifications 3 days late😅
@@kingkye5201 same here sometimes
@PairedDuck what the actual fuck
It's okay you're here before me enjoy your victory 😂
I watch these almost everyday for my 10 hour shifts it’s crazy you can upload so often !!
Thanks for these. I definitely prefer the ones that sounds plausible over the ones that sound like a creative writing student try to make something spooky.
Another video from the goat poi 🙏🙏🙏
Dear God.. that first story was more bland than Jeff the killer..
Do not use the lords name in vein
@@beeboi5881Might not be his religion and it's his chocir
Ong
Don’t disrespect Jeff like that man
yea why is it even there ,it can barely be called a story
That first story sounds like the fakest shit I've ever heard
Last story made me chuckle because
Happy birthday has always been super awkward for me, so i started a trend in my friend group where we just chant , monotone, with dead eyes staring at the birthday boy/girl/whatever in total darkness besides the candles. Going on 7 years strong of not being sung too
New Poi video, that means I finally have something to watch while drawing/eating
redditors trying not to lie (impossible)
The first story on here was so dumb I literally had to stop it and do something else for a hour it made my head hurt so badly if anyone can believe that story besides she went into wayyyyy to much detail on the stupidest things and the fact she can know all these details so well sounds super fake I'm still watching the rest of the video but oh my god the first story was absolutely stupid I can't belive that's the first story you put up man wow I know I should watch the rest the video and I am going to but my god
God that story was dog shit. Already knew it was fake when op said they’re 2 females going into deep Forrest’s alone. That usually does not happen, men do it woman don’t. Also isn’t the general rule that cult activities only happen at night? 2 females going hiking at night while also somehow sightseeing? Yeah no. I doubt cults do it at daytime often or at all especially since those mfs need to work as well and night time is a different feeling which cultists are attracted to like a moth to a lamp
Now that I heard the other stories they weren't as bad but still honestly sound ether fake or the people overreacted
@@OnurKRBI thought the exact same thing. I’m still not sure how hair and eye color has anything to do with “weird things and dangerous situations while hiking”. I understand being a female and hiking can unfortunately be dangerous but I didn’t realize that being blonde and blue eyed factored into it
tbh bro… that was cringy asf
I like the more frequent narration videos in between the well researched iceberg videos. You've been doing good man
As someone who lives quite literally down the road from a cult I don't really have any scary stories, the members I met were somewhat nice as well. The most terrifying thing about them was how much they sold produce at their little market lol
Nice pfp
So, what they sold?
Honey wake up poi just uploaded
Honey wake up I have used that tried AF meme again
@@danielktdoranie honey, wake up, the meme police are at the door.
First one is fiction, and rather bland fiction at that.
More Redditors making up stories about going outside, these are so fake
Great video as always, but I'd like to suggest giving your thoughts or ideas about the stories after you read them. I like hearing creator's take on the stories.
Agreed
As someone who plays, makes loves and dances to psytrance the fact that there's a psy cult is hilarious
This channel is no doubt a hidden gem! Im surprised i never came across it befor. I guess whoever/whatever does youtubes recommendations needs too step their game up😂
What do we want!!??
More original cult stories!!!!
And when do we want them!!??
Eh, anytime you feel like making another video about cults will do.
Yeah!!!!!
The music in the background is so calming and i love it
lol who wrote the first story, Natasha Preston? 🤣🤣
2:00 song name?
Yknow what i hate avout most of these stories?
The fact that theyre all written by people who seem to have just learned how to write a comprehensive story, amd thus are very likely to be made up. Especially the first one. Soinds like a script for a short. Not like a story from someone who experienced such a thing
I can’t right now, baby, poi just posted.
1:11 what does your eye and hair color have to do with your hiking experiences💀
It’s giving my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way
@@edgarallanpoeisthiccaf6615 ngl unlike the first story my immortal was a real masterpiece 😍
First story is cap af 🧢
Agreed, I live near like two cults and I can promise you they're nothing like that
@@VDotBlank bro just dropped a metric ton of lore
lol i was watching the paranormal encounters episode when this got posted
love this channel and i can sleep to it but if i pay attention too hard i start freaking out and have to turn a night light on ;(
I had met a master mason doing his driveway for work.
I had told him i was interested in joining, to 'better myself and stabilize my community"
Anyways, he refers me to a Mason, even higher up the ladder than himself.
Fast foward a month, i finish work and drink drive home. Wastedly .
The first story is so painfully bad and obviously fake. An investigation isn't closed just because a few people they have as suspects are not able to be connected to it, especially if the investigation is about a group of people that attempted to attack another group. You definitely wouldn't close it if the victims received a letter threatening violence against them.
This next bit is also just a personal issue of mine but if you are going to write a story with wildlife and comment on their behavior make sure you know what you are talking about. A wolf or group of wolves will 100% attack a person or group of people if they are hungry enough or you are in their territory and the wolves perceive them as a threat. This author clearly has no actual knowledge of the woods apart from a few basic things about the more common animals you would encounter and they just extrapolated from that.
PLEASEEE I LOVE THESE SCARY STORY COMPS DO MORE ILYYYY
Ayyyyyy more poi c’mon, bouta smoke and make myself food
when i was in middle school me and my friends would make random "cults" to worship things, like we had a cheese cult, a cult for all our pets, etc.
The second story is my fave
When I was in my early 20s, a new church started being built not too far for where I lived.
The construction of this building was astonishing as in 3 or 4 days it was finished and it was massive. It looked like a pole building type warehouse with a cross nailed to it. I didn't check it out right away, but eventually, I did.
One of my friends got married there and I was in attendance. Inside this "wearhouse looking" church had elaborate hallways and rooms inside. It looked more like an office space than a church, of course until you entered the chapel. That looked pretty normal.
At the wedding, my friend "the husband" told me that I should attend the church with them one week. Yes! One week. I explained I could visit a Sunday or Wednesday service with them to see what the church was all about.
Fast forward a couple months later. We met up and I attend a church service. Immediately upon my arrival, everyone that I saw acted like I was the most important person in the entire building. It wasn't flattering. It was creepy as hell. I didn't know a single soul in there except my friend and his wife.
In the service, the pastor came out, music started and the congregation stood up and went nuts. Like he was Jesus himself. The pastor knew I was in the crowd. He knew my name. He then called me by name up to the stage and sat me in a chair. Mind you, i was the onlyone. No one else in the probably over 150 people in the room accompanied me. That's when I noticed something off.
The pastor told me "OVER A MICROPHONE" that I will now witness the power of God. He screamed into the mic some Bible verses and people started getting up and jogging to the stage. As they got to the stage the pastor touched them each one by one and they would fall on the floor. Not just fall on the floor. This was followed by the most poorly acted display of ridiculous flopping around I have ever witnessed. There was like 40 people on the floor just fake flopping like fish.
I was dumbfounded, until I looked past the clownshow in front of me to the rest of the congregation. Everyone was dancing contortedly. I don't even have any other words to explain it except spasticity awkward.
The pastor turns to me while barking into his microphone to let me and the entire spectical of a congregation know that the power of God could be mine if "l but join them and bask in the glory of God's elite deciples" or some such nonsense.
I looked through the insanity to try and find my friends but couldn't see them. They, no dout, were partaking in the complete lunacy taking place in every square inch of the chapel. The entire event seemed put on just for me. It was completely horrifying. I promptly bolted off the stage, out of the chapel and almost damaged the nearest exit I saw. I couldn't delete myself from the situation fast enough. As I peeled out of the parking area I frantically looked around expecting these people to chase me down and restrain me but they didn't, thank God.
Needless to say my friend and I now have a different friendship to say the lest.
They have since removed themselves from this church of horrors thankfully. Later on during a maybe once in a year phone call I had with him, I finally asked just what in the F was that insane asylum that he invited me to. He denied and brushed off the very subject entirely. We don't speak much anymore and I'm not brainwashed into any fantastical colts.
You truly don't think things like this could ever happen to you until your up on a stage being yelled at by a preaching lunatic with Christian rock blasting at full volume and what looks like the cast of thriller dancing fantasticaly over people who clearly just fell on the floor for show. I shiver any time I think of it. How do some people see something like that and truly say "yep, that's for me"
Maybe we need a poi cult
We already do
I'm in
The stories about cults are always so interesting! Would love to hear more about this topic
i was literally doing my homework while listening to this but then 17:11 part came and i panicked a bit. bro ALMOST described me but i got dark brown hair- ;-;
its you isnt it
@@WEIRDpoi damnit you caught me🤭, I absolutely go around with 6 foot tall guys and hunt down people to scarify them 🫶🏻
It’s just a silly hobby tho
If you get told by someone to join a church in a unholy way in a store and also pretend like they know you ALOT then its a sex trafficking lure
I hope we get an update on that last story, I'm hella intrigued
Just about to do some landscaping. Thank you!
I've only been listening here long enough to only catch the first story and boy I just gotta say it, that's fuckin cap if I ever heard it. Somebody really enjoys creative writing prompts eh? Needs a lil more work in the convincing department. The writer made it too much like a story which took away from the immersion and believability. Who knows though maybe next time they'll make it more convincing
whats the music you use in your videos? i personally love some of it and would love it in my playlist
the second guy sorta sounds like the leader of the Ant Hill Kids but like he was French-Canadian and operated in Canada
The second story was probably based on the ant hill kids since the dude said he was from Canada lol
Hey, I’ve noticed that your thumbnails are VERY similar to this other youtuber, snooks. Like, nearly the same. His first video with that thumbnail, as far as I can see, was two weeks before yours. I don’t know what I’m really trying to make happen by saying this, but I wanted to make it known,
We are friends. He gave me the idea for the thumbnail type in DMs.
@@WEIRDpoi Okay! Sorry for butting in, I just wanted to make sure no one was copying him. I love your and his videos btw!
@@Sheabebe no worries pal
15:16 my man met Joseph Seed,
Cull the Heard!
The discord notification sound is litteraly cancer inducing and i hate it. Just had to say it :p
Under 1 hour gang->
13:49 Anyone else thought about the mothman cultist after hearing this
33:22 this sounds like they took up doing hard drugs in the cult.
Can ppl realize that cults are not going to do sacrifices out in the open? They do it in places where people will 100% not find 😭😂 if they did it would be documented WAY more
USAF, Security Police, Law Enforcement, have seen robed figures around a fire one night.
The figures disappeared along with the fire.
Oh okay I watched the whole thing. Not one of these stories was real smh what a shame
Bro why is there an ad every two friggin minutes (good for you getting that money but 😩)
Just get premium bruh
the west Virginia one was a literal cult of the lamb (goat or sheep whatever)
not me watching this while doing my math hw
I’ve accidentally joined the cult in the 3rd story I had almost the same experience
I like watching these videos to see if the cult i'm in gets a cameo
Where can I find the footage?
Da fuck TH-cam 4 ads and the first story is even half way through. And I bet your going too stiff Poi on the adrev too.
Unless Poi is pulling a dick move and has his adcence for high.
It’s probably TH-cam putting adds through because i think poi has enough empathy not to make us suffer
I've been in several cults myself; MLMs, Catholic Church, Crypto, and MAGA. FYI!
😬😬
if your calling maga a cult you dont even know the first things abt cults lmao
@@Brian-ph6cx first step to recovery is to admit you were in a cult, sweetie 😘
@@marcob2137 wtf lmao
@@marcob2137 never said i supported maga, just said youre wrong!!
Whats the song played during the first story I heard it before
I'm happy I'm not the only one who recognized it
Love being early to those videos thank you poi for the amazing content that you make 🧍🏼🤙🏼
tried to search for a time stamp for the second story bc the first story is fake N cringy and they just keep going. you can literally tell bc of the way they wrote it. boring ass "read and answer the following questions" ahh story
13:47 for the second story yall
First story me and the bois on an average Saturday night
A 100k before the end of the year
Waiting for part 2 of psychedelic iceberg.
Story #1 was cap as fuck, just sounded like bullshit all the way thru.
are you from new york
I might be misremembering but Im not sure you can fool/mislead experts in analysing hand writing(I dont know what they are called) or make your writing unusable to them with little methods like trying to use multiple fictitious writing styles or using the hand you dont write with .They can identify these things and will probably also include them to the data they use building suspect authors profiles(dont know what their called either) and ajust their analysis accordingly .If they have enough writing sample to analyse ,maybe it could work if all they had was a very short like 2 or 3 words note and if we were still in 1980 cause today with our computing power and using AI tools plus the advancement and refinement of their techniques,Im not sure its doable anymore at all,dont quote me on this tho.
That first one is way way too wordy.
you gotta have a scary sound bro im sorry but i like snook more cus of the background sound😊
You called?
I wanna pray to GOD for videos like this
There’s no fuckin way the 2nd story is real. It’s part Wrong Turn and part Alan Wake 2.
"as a blonde girl with blue eyes, ive had my fair share or experiencing weird things and dangerous situations while hiking" was this AI generated how do those things correlate lmao do you even screen stories for quality or you just expect to feed your subscribers slop?
First story: Trail marks?
im pretty sure they were just fucking in the 6th story
Some people just can’t handle a prank. SMH some people truly are snowflakes
What do you mean?
67k veiws, 2.1 likes, and only 163 comments. Someone is deleting comments, oooooo
U should do different music its throwing me off listening to it with calm music
is very true?
Every time we touch I get this feeeelin
Nice
ts did not happen 😭🙏
have a nice day
Mf said “Sweet dreams”
AY NEW POI VIDEO
Wtf, can’t watch when not even a min in we’re begged for subscriptions and likes…….
nice
das scary yk
Most of these sound fake
ya love to see it
hii
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