“Unveiled Secrets: 51 Chilling Online Encounters That Still Haunt Those Who Lived Them”
There was a comment that somebody left on one of those “what’s something you’ve done that still haunts you” type threads that I read back in 2015 and I still think about it today. A guy admitted that when he was 8 years old, he was playing with the fire in the fireplace while his family was sleeping (just now occurring to me that they definitely should have put out the fire before going to bed though so it’s really not all his fault) but he was like poking it and a piece of log jumped out and before he could process what was happening the fire got bigger and most of his family died, but he survived. Not sure if it’s true or not, but I just think about the guilt he must feel in his everyday life.
There is a redditor, u/imflukeskywalker – who was very well known in the Cincinnati area for his charity work. He looked remarkably similar to Mark Hamill, and would dress up as Luke Skywalker and go around children’s hospitals visiting them and bringing them toys. He was eventually caught with CP and k**led himself before he could be properly sentenced, it was a huge shock to the community but we all probably should’ve seen it coming.
That one about the guy and his wife who had a kid and that kid turned out to be crazy and one day he caught the kid holding a knife over their new born baby. The wife beat the absolute dog s**t out of the kid and left him for dead basically. After a day or two they never saw him again.
I could be remembering some details wrong but that’s the jist of it.
Many of the things mentioned here are Reddit staples, so here’s one I never see anyone talk about. It’s more creepy/obsessive than dark, but I keep thinking about it even so.
IIRC a few years back there was an askreddit thread about peculiar behaviors people were willing to admit to or something of the sort.
This one guy said he keeps a detailed wiki of his own life. The wiki contains entries on every person that made an impact on his life, and he updates it daily. He even posted a screenshot of one of the wiki pages about some other guy that details where they met, their interactions, relations to other people who had entries in the wiki etc.
The OP is likely on the spectrum or has some kind of OCD, as he said he updated the wiki religiously and spent a minimum of two hours each day on doing so.
Honestly, I’d really like to find that thread again. Hell, I’d like to reach out to the OP – maybe they’d include me in the wiki xD.
It’s not as dark as some of these but
The girl who worked with this guy that was basically obsessed with her. Documenting what she wore, how she had her hair. Apparently she got transferred and he flipped out, threatened s*icide or something. Had a stand off with the cops.
But he also mailed her all his diaries, which laid out his undying love for her and his plans of their future, but it also had all his writings about her appearance and even his opinions on her personal life that he pieced together by eavesdropping
Wish I could find it.
ebolapudding:
I think this might be what you’re looking for. I read it ages ago and think I found it again with some google-fu.
A story where OP and his friends were big bullies as teenagers to this one disabled kid in a wheel chair, so much so to where they killed him eventually. I don’t remember the full story, but something they ended up on top of a mountain or hill and they pushed him off thinking it was funny. Apparently they never found the kid, they never got caught, but OP feels immense guilt for his actions but from my understanding, OP really wasn’t the bully, he was just hanging out with his friends.
Might not be considered the “darkest” but the guy who lived an entire second life while in a coma… that story still sticks with me.
lostinthecapes:
I still think about that story, it gives me the chills, then I sometimes wonder if this is all a dream, and I’m in a coma?
Carl H programming. There was a guy who ran a comprehensive sub with tutorials, YouTube videos on how to program. It was incredibly popular. At some point the user went quiet and someone by chance came across an article that explained why. Carl H had been committing heinous s*x offenses against boys with his male partner. I don’t think the details were ever released but the words “depraved” were used by the judge.
EDIT: I’ve just googled this guy and apparently he was found hanged in his cell in 2014.
