Because of the popularity of the top 10 bizarre videos post, I have put together a second list of bizarre videos. Warning: two of these videos contain images or sounds that may induce feelings of sickness (they are intended to). You have been warned – so on to the list!
1. An Homage to Antonin Artaud [Wikipedia | Encyclopaedia Britannica] – WARNING
Born in 1896 (died 1948), Artaud is one of the most unusual artists of the 20th century. He wrote poetry that was banned by the French government, assisted in some of the most bizarre films in history, and even wrote music. He had a small part in the film The Passion of Joan of Arc (hailed as the film with the most emotional performance ever captured on film by Maria Falconetti).
This video is an homage to Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty, “a primitive ceremonial experience intended to liberate the human subconscious and reveal man to himself”. In the original show people threw up and had to leave because of the sounds and behaviour on the stage. The video is by Alice from morgu3.com.
2. Sickness Inducing Unnamed Video [Wikipedia] – WARNING
From youtube: “This is a weird scene that was floating about a bbs and apparently causing phsychotic reactions in some people who watched it with high quality headphones. There seems to be a variety of audio frequencies in use, primarily 17 and 19hz and the garbled speech could be from anywhere someone mentioned a reference to Hitler somewhere they thought.” There were also mentions of the brown note but it is unlikely that a computer could produce the sound required and it is not even likely that the brown note is anything more than a myth.
This is definitely a very odd video (suggested by Matt on the previous list of videos) and I have not been able to locate its origin. I did not listen with headphones so I am not sure about the quote on youtube. If anyone tries it and does feel sick, please mention it in the comments.
3. David Lynch Advert [Wikipedia]
David Lynch is a famous avant-garde film director who was born in Montana. After a very successful television series (Twin Peaks) Lynch wrote and directed Mulholland Drive which is probably his best known film after Blue Velvet. His latest film, Inland Empire, was recently released to theatres and should be out on DVD soon.
Many people are not aware that David Lynch has written and directed a large number of adverts for television. This video is an advert he made for Parisienne Cigarettes. It is typically lynch (in that it doesn’t really make any sense) and the entire thing runs backwards.
4. Gilbert and George [Wikipedia]
Gilbert Prousch (Italy born) and George Passmore (UK born) are artists who work exclusively as a pair. They started out as performance artists in the 1970s but are more well known for their large scale photo montages. In 1995 the title of their latest work “Naked Shit Pictures” caused a media stir. They have frequently used images of faeces, urine, and sperm in their artwork, as well as nudity.
This video clip is of one of their performance pieces in which they demonstrate the dance they invented called the bend-it. The colours in the background are very typical of Gilbert and George who like to work with bold colours. The pair own one of the most powerful graphic workstations in the UK as it is needed to manipulate the huge file sizes needed in their work.
5. Marcel Duchamp [Wikipedia | Encyclopaedia Britannica]
Duchamp was a French born artist who became an American Citizen in 1955. He is generally associated with Dadaism and Surrealism though he tended to work behind the scenes in those areas. After his experiments in American Dada he barely participated in Paris Dada. A playful man, Duchamp prodded thought about artistic processes and art marketing, not so much with words, but with actions such as dubbing a urinal “art” and naming it Fountain, and by “giving up” art to play chess. He produced relatively few artworks as he quickly moved through the avant-garde rhythms of his time.
This is a small short by Duchamp accompanied by the music of American pioneering composer John Cage. Both artists believed that the art was not just created by the artist, but also by the spectator. The piece of music is “Music for Marcel Duchamp” and it is performed on a prepared piano, in which one piece of rubber, 7 pieces of weather stripping, and one bolt have been added to the strings.
6. Russian Exorcism [Cogitz | Encyclopaedia Britannica | Catholic Encylopedia]
Exorcism is the ritual used by the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches to case evil spirits (demons) out of a possessed person. The subject is a very popular one and has been the basis for at least two major motion pictures (The Exorcist, and the Exorcism of Emily Rose).
The exorcism in this video is being performed by a Russian Orthodox Priest. It is in Russian but you can get the gist of what is happening without needing to understand the language. You can also go here to find videos, audio, and images of exorcisms.
7. Der Struwwelpeter [Wikipedia | Encyclopaedia Britannica]
Der Struwwelpeter is a collection of 10 tales mostly about children written by Heinrich Hoffmann a German author. Each story has a clear moral that demonstrates the disastrous consequences of misbehaviour in an exaggerated way. The book was written in 1855.
In this video we see the sixth story Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher – little suck-a-thumb. In this story, a mother warns her son not to suck his thumbs. However, when she goes out of the house he resumes his thumb sucking, until a roving tailor appears and cuts off his thumbs with giant scissors.
8. Bill and Tony [Wikipedia | Encyclopaedia Britannica | IMDB]
William Burroughs, the author of this film, was an American writer of experimental novels that evoke, in deliberately erratic prose, a nightmarish, sometimes wildly humorous world. His sexual explicitness (he was an avowed and outspoken homosexual) and the frankness with which he dealt with his experiences as a drug addict won him a following among writers of the Beat movement.
Burroughs and Antony Balch are seated next to each other, looking directly at the camera. Their simple dialogue is roughly: “I’m Tony, who are you? I’m Bill. Where are you Tony? I’m in London, where are you? I’m in a 1920s movie.” First Bill speaks Tony’s lines, then later the entire dialogue is repeated with the correct people speaking the lines. It is repeated again later with Bill’s dialogue playing while Tony’s lips move and vice versa. There are other permutations as well.
9. Creepy Kids Television Program
There is nothing to cite for this one as I am not sure of its origins. It is a very strange kids programme that features an “angel” called Satan. It is very weird. If anyone can shed any light on it for me, please do so in the comments and I will update this description.
10. Speech Radios [Wikipedia | Encyclopaedia Britannica]
John Cage was an American avant-garde composer whose inventive compositions and unorthodox ideas profoundly influenced mid-20th-century music. He is most well known for his piece 4’33″ which is roughly 4 minutes and 33 seconds of non-performance in which the audience become the creators.
In this strange video you get to see John Cage directing the performance of his piece of music called Speech Radios. In this piece, the performers walk around with radios and turn them on and off, change stations, and basically make it all up as they go along. The funny thing is to see the seriousness with which this is all done. Some people actually cheer at the end.
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I’m afraid to watch these videos now (after watching so many videos that turned out to be screamers and listening to the sounds of hell) i was just wondering about the sickness inducing video is anything like a screamer or has creepy sounds. so could someone please tell me, i am at the end of my line with these screamers and i want a reason to stay home from school! =D
I watchen the Sickness Inducing Video without headphones (sadly I don’t own a pair) and absolutely nothing happened. I first watched it with the lights on and then with the lights off. It didn’t even feel creepy. Maybe I should get a pair of headphones from somewhere.
its cool but the truth is the “2. Sickness Inducing Unnamed Video” ia nothing AT LEAST TO ME!!!! hahah jk
if you close your eyes and have good eyes you can somewhat pick it apart, i beleive that its just a trippy carpet in the back and the guy is wearing a mask and if you listen real heard you can hear what sounds like the president (not his actually voice its been played with of course) or someones voive talking about the war on terror, its nothing people just think that something is going to happen bc of what they read, but its nothing more than a bored kid with some computer skills
I remember reading Der Struwwelpeter as a kid, which is probably a bit unusual for an Aussie kid to read a German folktale.
When I first read the article here it didn’t ring any bells, but looking at the still pic bought back a flood of memories – the giant afro, the overgrown fingernails… it still creeps me out, even though I never sucked my thumb (but I did, and still do, bite my nails)
Oh, and a oh yeah… I’ve been enjoying this site so much since I found it last week that I registered today.
I watched the second video (no headphones yet) and it definitly raised my heart rate by at least 10-20 beats per minute. I’ll try it again later when I’m at my room at school (home from college for the weekend) because my room at school can be made ultra dark, plus I have a sound system set up for my laptop there (combine all that with any of the ways you can alter yourself at college, I’ll let you know the effects)
wow i totally lost it watching the mysterious stranger video
“i am an angel!!”
“what’s your name?”
“SATAN!”
don’t know why i find that so hilarious
i watched the second video, and i got a craving for a whopper w/cheese….was that the king they would flash on there occasionally? if so, i think that explains it……
Ok the video with the sounds deffinatly made me feel weird.. I got really light headed and felt like I was about to have a panic attack.. my ears are still ringing… and I wasnt even wearing headphones…
Better videos than original list. Creepy kids video – I thought that was Mark Twain. I watched the sick inducing videos and I did get a little queasy. I do have a little acid reflux though.
On to the next group.
when i started to watch #2 I had chills through out my entire body, this was without headphones, lights on through my laptop. then i started to watch it again and the feeling returned. when you stop the frames on the flashed images you see people drowning or underwater, weird faces and other *****. this is an amazingly strange video. could these images be causing you violent dreams and/or will they for me…. remains to be seen
I made it about halfway hrough the sickness video and paused it. I felt the feeling in my stomach that you get whenever you’re about to take the really big drop on a roller-coaster. I got that feeling where the hairs on the back of your neck rise and broke out in a cold sweat.
xD And here I was telling myself everyone was overreacting.
My friend and I watched the sickness inducing video and we don’t necessarily feel sick but strange. We both experienced a weird headache and it made our heads really hot. It may be because we psyched each other out before, but now I feel a sort of paranoid, like somethings behind me. The fight-or-flight response is definitely accurate.
We think the reason why some people got sick is because of the colors. They change rapidly and messes with your eyesight the most.
As for the Sickness Inducing Unnamed Video I did get a sick feeling but I just think it is your mind looking at the photo’s that randomly show up.
And I also got some sort of message from the video that it is a sub message about the thin thin thin line of life and death and over coming your fear.
But again the sick feeling I think is just the video playing a trick on you.
I watched the sickness inducing video and heard the number ’600,000′ a few times. I also heard things about Americans, the Patriot Act…I think it’s a way to freak the sh*t out of Republicans for electing Bush….twice.
I watched the number 2 video in my room alone with the lights on and volume low… for about 7 seconds. I am studying heart rate in school, and mine was atleast 10 beats per minute faster than after running stairs for 2 minutes. My heart beat stayed around this rate for atleast 5 minutes, and then slowly started to slow down, but even 30 minutes later i could still feel it beating fast. I am also extremely paranoid now. I would not be suprised if this effect was psycho-somatic, because I already suffer from paranoia… probably wasnt a good idea to watch lol
I watched the Sickness vid with the lights off and my headphones all the way up and and had no reaction whatsover, but I heard the Patriot Act mentioned. I figured all of you were just very suggestible, but I read marcusfoto’s comment about the creepy stills and went back to look for those. Second time I could NOT finish it, I got very paranoid and anxious, and kept checking behind me. And I had the lights on and the sound very low! Very creepy, but I think the first one is just as bad, it made me sick to my stomach for some reason.
Honestly I think that Jonestown recording elsewhere on the site is the worst…I just listened to the part where the woman tells everyone to have the older kids “help out” with the little ones and I had nightmares.
#2 made me feel pretty sick after watching it. My head is still spinning and I have a high pitched buzzing in my ears. I don’t have epilepsy so its not that. I kn ow one of the things I head was “war on terror’ and ‘kill them all’. I don’t think I’ll watch it again. I’m thoroughly shaken by it.
That creepy children’s television show clip was from an old movie called “The Adventures of Mark Twain”.
There should be more movies like that.
the sickness inducing video reminds me of a piece of software called the “brainwave generator”
http://www.bwgen.com/
try it. some of the audio frequencies can generate almost LSD like visual effects – entirely from sound. other frequencies can induce nausea, sickness and other side effects , so be very careful with it.
Honestly..I didn’t find the sickness inducing video weird in any way, but then when it was over I felt really sick.
I’ve watch the first one with the headphones and the only thing I eacted to were the very high pitched sound at the end and it only made me jumped and squinted my eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuOXaav7qZU&feature=related take a look to these i dont have words to explain what i feel when i saw this, incredible.
Bend It – the music comes from Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch!
Saludos
The claymation one with “Satan” is from a 1985 movie called “The Adventures of Mark Twain” and that segment is known as “The Mysterious Stranger”.Some think it has an underlying moral towards the power of men.
I watched the 2nd sickness inducing video with headphones and it made me feel like how your tummy goes when you go down a hill fast in a car – that’s a rubbish description, sorry! But I didn’t feel sick
I could distinctly hear in the sickness video, about “A war on terror unnecessary.” When was this movie made? Because if it was made post- 9/11 I could defiantly understand that. And I also heard something about something subliminal. IDK, its a weird adrenaline-rush feeling when you watch that video.
I can understand how people could become temporarily psychotic from watching that second video. I watched it and had an extreme fight-or-flight response, I’m glad it warned you to look past the images because the entire time I heard a little voice in the back of my head repeating “this is a harmless video on the internet” over and over until it was finally done (a conscious effort on my part).
The first video isn’t nearly as bad, it only makes the top of my throat clench a tiny little bit.
i saw a gilbert and george exhibit iin england…. it was…. UGH……. i was like…. 9…. i DID NOT NEED the images…
hmmm, maybe reading the comments wasnt a good idea… for the sickness inducing video, i turned the volume down quite a bit and couldnt get the image of darth maul out of my mind so it didnt do much to me, cept make me breath a bit faster and get the whole “fight or flight” feeling that people talked about
I know the book Struwwelpeter – it is absolutely great.
In Denmark it is called Den store Bastian (the great bastian) and we read it in sixth grade I think. Still, really disturbing. A recomandation to all who loves eeriness!
i wattched the sickness inducing video, its stupid.i bet someone posted it as a joke.
Although the stereo spatial effects on the soundtrack help, the real element that I think freaks viewers out about the “sickness” video is the psychedelic color/contrast changes and the brief face appearance. This rapid color/contrast change can affect anyone, and is particularly effective in darkened environments. Motion picture theaters use this same effect when projecting movies at 24 or 30 frames per second, or any other frame rate, to give the illusion of fluent uninterrupted movement in the projected image. When the color/contrast changes so abruptly from frame to frame it can become dazzling and quite upsetting to the viewer, like getting stoned if done acutely well enough. The human mind in many instances, for many viewers, can’t correct or interpret the image fast enough. The soundtrack just helps to disorient the viewer even more, adding to the whole chaos inducing effect that many viewers experience. The soundtrack also seems to shift the stereo center quite deliberately for the benefit of the overall effect of the video. The brief face image and the character mask all introduce added shock for the viewers mind to interpret while it is busy absorbing everything else about the video it is constantly attempting to focus on, as does the minds constant attempt to interpret the apparent voices in the soundtrack. This all keeps the mind very busy and very induced.
Sickness-Inducing video made me feel like I was going to pass out within the first few seconds…… o_O
i just finished watching the self-induced illness video playing on very loud speakers and i got to tell you i really dont feel so great. throughout the whole clip i could feel my throat tightening up and having a bit of difficulty breathing. however it wasnt until the video was over, once those low frequency notes faded and were gone that the sickness overcame me…… i think i might actually need to go throw up… or i might watch it again! then throw up
No ArtemisiaSogJod Mechwimper?
or anything John Bock for that matter
my stomach actually feels really mest up after watching that video, i didn’t use headphones though.
The “Bend It” video makes me smile! It’s bizarre… but NOT nightmare fuel! Gilbert and George are sooo cuuuute!
The creepy kid’s program is actually The Adventures of Mark Twain and that specific segment is from an unfinished story of his I believe called “The Stranger”
Man that sick inducing video made me feel very very ill
It is funny that two of these video are ones that are vivid images from my childhood…The Mark Twain was on of my favorite things to watch when I was young…and Struwwelpeter I was given that horrible book when I was a little girl and it gave me such bad nightmares my mother had to throw it out…Years later in university I was creating a theatre piece
(interestingly enough while studying theatre of cruelty and theatre of the absurd) and remembered how that book made me feel…my german roommate got a copy of it and when I saw it a again it gave me the shivers and I could barely be in the room with it…my project based on it was awesome though….weird that the two are on the same list
the Alphabet video was strange. My brother and I watched it. Either im the biggest girl or my brother has the biggest balls. I was watching it like 12 feet away a little scared while brother waas right in front not even fazed. My brother just dismisssed it as a guy on too much prescription drugs; not scary at all. After I thought the german thumb sucker one was the wierdest and most scary
I didn’t feel sick at all watching #2. I used a very nice set of Bose headphones and I tried to “look through the image” as was suggested in the video. Nothing. I felt cheated.
Here’s a suggestion if you are making another list. It’s a music video from the mid-80′s by Renaldo & the Loaf (label mates with and associates of the Residents). It’s called “Songs for Swinging Larvae”, and I think it meets the standards for out-and-out creepiness that have been set in this list and it’s predecessors.
good lord. within about half a second of watching that sickness inducing video, my skin actually crawled. i couldn’t even last that long. ughhhhh i feel disgusting!
Did feel slightly nauseous by about the middle of the 2nd video (without actually watching the images), but as I was already feeling a bit queasy it might be coincidence
this is bad, im too scared to watched the sickness inducing vid, Ill try, but i normally get scared pretty easily, house of a thousand corpses I had to turn it off during the video menu, and the ring video, freaky.
ok i watched it and it wasnt much, I kinda cheated, I kept reminding myself this is just for effect, and tried to concentrate on the intent of the producer. I had headphones.
I did get a slighty elevated reaction when the first face seemed to rush foward.
For the sake of those two scared to watch without a better description all try to give an idea what to expect.
theres instructions in red block letters for the first 12 seconds, cut to a grainy filtered shot of a guy with obviously a mask on, puffy face…immediately at second 12 are those bianrual beats, the effective tempo rises and lowers through out, its kinda weird like the humming of a guitar amp, only it moves up and down on tone.
Darth maul voice resembles a warbly, backwards jumbly mess of a voice. I cant make anything out. through out although not loud and over bearing is the sound of possibly children crying or yelling IDK.
There are no loud scary sounds that come together with a freaky face or ghost. You know like when someone jumps out suddenly and scares you.
what you can expect are about 15-20 pics, black and white, some look like faded washed out photocopied papers that Flash momentarily between the main dudes “TALKing”,one every few seconds. Some resemble bloated babies, shot of a dude just standing, extremely washed out face, one is the word “DEAD” boldly written in red with a very simple drawing of a head behind it, one looks like an artist stone statue of a figure.
The first “Face” flashes at sec 16, it seems to move out or approach the screen a bit, looks like how a person would look if the fell and the face squashed on the ground, the eyes are open in a wide empty way, with fear in it too.
another pic flashes later, and through out
at sec 33, after a second previous flash, the guy “moves out” fast toward the screen, this would be a video editing trick, that scared me more than any of the pics…and more random pics. The pics are presented to appear to momentarily jump foward visually, I think this is meant to up the feeling of being threatened by something alien or disturbed to you.
All the while the hue of the man, and its circular backdrop changes color. kinda the way it you cursored a color wheel in custom font color wheel. shfting from red, to yellow, aquamarine, blue, orange…ect
so the tome of hum changes, the voice warbles and is changes in cadence of speech, the hue of color overly changes, the pics are grainy washed out but definately have a disfigured or non human quality to them, but not super horrific in that sense, like of inhuman intense torture, there is some sounds overly resembling the cracking of an old radio at a couple points,an you will hear a beepy R2d2 sound, if it was played backwards and distorted(this is probably the loudest sound on the recording, maybe 10-15 decibels over the “voice”, idk, its reedy and a little whiny)
It ends quite quickly without any surprises by fading out to blackness….thats it.
I hope this helps ease those people into seeing it, sometimes you just got to do it anyways to satisfy the curiosity. just remember the guy is weaering a mask, the pics are wierd for effect, and the intent…well that anyones guess i suppose.
to Implosive Fire:
Lucifer’s story is not in the Bible. It’s from the poem ‘Paradise Lost’, written by Milton. The fight between Satan’s fallen and the angels is set on Milton’s poem alone and not in the scriptures.
There is absolutely no mention of the devil being an angel named Lucifer in the Bible. Satan is mentioned rarely in the Old Testament, appearing first as the one who passes judgement on souls, and only later as a representation of God’s Adversary and consequentially, Evil. In the New Testament Satan is mentioned often, but not as Lucifer, the fallen favorite of God’s.
i watched the psychgosisinducing video
I’ve been feeling a little emotional about something I read elsewhere on this site today and then I decided to watch the sickness-inducing video. I felt a bit queasy and my heart rate went through the roof. I assume this has to have a psychosomatic aspect to it, given that I’ve read every comment. But the reason I mentioned feeling emotional is that, before watching the video, I felt a little sad about the thing I’d read, whereas, after about a minute, I burst into tears about it. I’m 24 and haven’t cried since I was 13 and my grandad died…
Yea i distinctly heard the words “six million jews on the second video.
i knew they’d have that bit from “the adventures of mark twain” on one of these lists!!! its called “the mysterious stranger” and it was written by mark twain, mainly of his beliefs…it was banned off television…it scared little kids to death. personally after watching this film (its on youtube) i think mark twain is a nut job…and he scares the living daylights outta me…you should check out the whole film..its very odd and kinda trippy. =]
i heard at one point in video #2 the word “Americans” and the phrase “unanimous passage of the patriot act” so i googled it. and GO ME!! haha i found EXACTLY what is being said and what it’s from. it’s an excerpt from a novel by journalist Barrie Zwicker about the reichstag fire and how it relates to 9/11.
listen to the video while you read this. it matches up perfectly, word for word. at the end it kinda loops back a bit and i cant quite make out what he’s saying, but this is the majority of it.
“In the ensuing
election Hitler does not get the majority he needs to rule,
but soon after, he essentially seizes power. He then is free
to launch pre-emptive strikes against other countries and
wage a world war sold as patriotic. The ultimate result for
Germans is calamitous: 600,000 civilians dead, seven and a
half-million homeless – their country broke and in ruins. The
Reichstag fire was a major turning point.
Within hours of the planes crashing into the World Trade Center, the Bush White House designates the alleged villains.
Within 30 days the US Constitution and the civil liberties of
Americans are weakened by near unanimous passage of the
Patriot Act. A war on terror is announced.”
You know Caitlin, I’m both happy and sad you found that. Its awesome you were able to catch that, google it, and thus come up with the essence of the vid. But, on the other hand, its a shame that you found it as I was intrigued so much by that vid. I guess it’s childish, but it was sooo mysterious to me. Didn’t make me sick or frighten me so much as just grabbed me and my imagination.
Thanks nonetheless!
Interesting list, I didn’t watch all of them but definitely an interesting list.
The sickness-inducing video was interesting as well… though it didn’t really affect me. The only way it did was because I was anticipating. I watched it once without headphones, and then with, and when I did have my headphones it was a bit creepier, but it didn’t make me feel anything. Not even the ‘gut’ feeling some people here mention..
That sick-inducing video was really creepy, but I’m fine. My cat, on the other hand, was scared *****less.
not going to watch that sick inducing video. just by reading the tags and comments make me feel paranoid already! lol
I watched the sick inducing video on low volume and I did not focus on the images very hard…still made me ill!
I wonder how they discovered that sounds can trigger nausesa?
Sickness Inducing Unnamed Video – i swear i can hear someone with an american accent talking “the terrorist has been identified” and something about civil liberties and americans toward the end of the clip. i admit i have been watching it fragmented as i couldnt handle more then 30sec. more a sence of dread then nausesa. i shall try to tough it out because its all kinda facinating
ok i watched the clip from begining to end and my forehead got sweaty haha. how creepy.
I watched the sickness-inducing video right after finishing lunch. I thought that if I want to test its effect, I might as well provide good parameters.
Results? Well, I feel just a little spacey after concentrating on the pulsing backgrounds, and a little curious about what was actually being said, but no nausea whatever. However, I am not easily sickened by images/videos, so others may get more of a reaction, less, or something entirely different, depending on you.