5 Creepiest Internet Stories, and What Actually Happened

A masked intruder takes over live TV. A singing robot becomes a horror story. An online puzzle sends people into the streets. Five internet rabbit holes: the Max Headroom broadcast intrusion, Tara from I Feel Fantastic, the first Slender Man images, Cicada 3301, and the face behind “Ever Dream This Man?” Chapters 00:00 The Max Headroom TV hijacking 05:52 I Feel Fantastic and Tara 11:46 The first Slender Man images 17:39 Cicada 3301 23:56 Ever Dream This Man? Sources and original creators WTTW: station staff revisit the intrusion https://news.wttw.com/2017/11/21/30-y... WBUR Endless Thread: the surviving mystery https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/20... Museum recordings and contemporary references https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea... WGN intrusion recording — Museum of Classic Chicago Television    • WGN Channel 9 - The Nine O'Clock News - "T...   John Bergeron: preserved Android Music Videos site https://www.geocities.ws/johnbergeron/ Tara: standing photograph https://www.geocities.ws/johnbergeron... Tara: alternate outfit photograph https://www.geocities.ws/johnbergeron... I Feel Fantastic — historical re-upload of the original Tara footage    • Видео   Know Your Meme: origin and Victor Surge interview https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/slende... Eric Knudsen / Victor Surge: creator gallery https://www.deviantart.com/victor-surge Slender Man: source-linked history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender... CicadaSolvers: research community archive https://www.cicadasolvers.com/ CicadaSolvers: Liber Primus briefing https://www.cicadasolvers.com/quickst... Preserved Cicada artifacts and signed messages https://github.com/krisyotam/cicada3301 Cicada historical overview and references https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_... Andrea Natella: Ever Dream This Man? https://www.andreanatella.eu/ever-dre... The This Man website https://www.thisman.org/ Creator-hosted This Man poster https://www.andreanatella.eu/wp-conte... WTTW original Max Headroom intrusion    • Max Headroom WTTW Pirating Incident  11228...   WFLD 1987 on-location news and engineer interview    • WFLD Channel 32 - "Pirate Report" (1987)   WMAQ contemporary reporting on the interruption    • WMAQ-TV - Channel 5 News - "Max Headroom S...   WTTW staff retrospective with actual broadcast/control-room footage    • Max Headroom WTTW Pirating Incident 11 22 ...   CBS contemporary 1987 television-piracy report    • News reports on 1987 Max Headroom tv broad...   The actual fictional Max Headroom character being imitated    • Matt Frewer -  Max Headroomified interview...   Tara performing I Feel Fantastic, original moving footage https://archive.org/details/youtube-r... Android Music Videos volume 1: performances on the original DVD    • Android Music Videos volume 1: VHS   Tara Electricity performance in the goth outfit    • Electricity (Goth Version) - Android Music...   Tara Electricity performance in the blonde outfit    • Electricity (Blonde Version) - Android Mus...   A different original Tara performance: Summer    • Tara Scheyer Summer Music Camps (Created w...   Original photos and creator statements in Slender Man origin coverage    • Victor Surge Talks About Creating The Orig...   Original Something Awful Slender Man thread and photos on screen    • Slender Man: The Monster That Was Born on ...   Eric Knudsen / Victor Surge interviews and creation history    • What is Slender Man, who’s Eric ‘Victor Su...   Marble Hornets original early entries, fictional works    • Entry #28   Slender: The Eight Pages original game as an example of fan expansion    • Slender: The Eight Pages - Walkthrough 8/8...   Different early Marble Hornets fictional scenes    • Entry #30 - FR   Cicada 3301 original 2012 puzzle solved on screen    • 2012 Cicada 3301 Solutions Part 3: What Ha...   Additional original-clue walkthrough from Cicada solvers    • 2012 Cicada 3301 Solutions Part 2   Original Liber Primus pages and researcher walkthrough    • Cicada 3301: Cracking The Liber Primus Aft...   Andrea Natella speaking about his work    • Andrea Natella Sociologo - INTERVISTE TDW 22   Contemporary interviews and reports about the This Man campaign    • do1 TV » Newsflash EVER DREAM THIS MAN 02....   Creator presentations of Guerriglia Marketing and This Man    • Conferenza di Andrea Natella – 21 Febbraio...   #InternetMysteries #InternetHistory