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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net to c/creepy@hexbear.net

tl;dr a small youtube channel finds a metal tube in the desert that's sus, he takes it home and starts getting sick from it, claiming it's radioactive. Fast forward a few months and the guy has the idea to drill it open, then he has what sounds like a stroke during the live stream of it. Internet calls it fake, some people (including me) worry about the guy's well-being, and ofc people make youtube videos about it rather than trying to geolocate his home and do a wellness check.

It's PROBABLY fake and fuck this guy for making the internet worry about him.

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[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Radiation destroys cameras, like literally just punches holes in the sensors they use and quickly creates permanent damage. If it was passively radioactive enough to be damaging he'd have fucked his camera up getting close to it to begin with, and a spike in radiation (from poking the end with a battery powered hand drill for a few seconds? He doesn't punch through it, probably didn't even get to the depth of the engravings) intense enough to just kill a guy outright would fry the camera in a very recognizable way. The really dangerous shit that gets stored in (smaller and made of lead) capsules is on the order of "makes you very sick and guarantees eventual death over the following days or weeks", there's nothing that's going to be contained by a thin layer of steel but immediately released in immediately deadly doses with a slightly thinner layer that's not even as thin as where its already engraved. Also that stuff makes the news when it shows up and kills people after someone scavenges it, because everyone likes making a big show of this scary dangerous stuff for ratings and clout.

Then there's the fact that he immediately turns the camera away when he stops drilling (note there's no sound change before he stops, it never pushes in at all, and it doesn't jerk like it punched through into a cavity) to show a blue light that's the same color as the one mounted on the drill and seems to be mounted on top of an object that's hidden by the lighting but looks like a rack or stepladder or the like (seeing the before/after screenshots, it's a flashlight someone set on the corner of the whatever that is, which has further been turned and propped up by a tub), and then is very careful to fall in a way that covers the camera completely and despite then making sounds that vaguely imply thrashing around at no point lets even a little bit of light touch the camera. As soon as it goes black like that it would be trivial to have the video feed switched to an already recorded piece for the rest, or even just have whoever placed and turned on the flashlight for him switch what the audio feed is using the streaming software or an audio manager like voicemeeter, enabling him to simply move and set up the rest with the lens covered without giving away audio tells. If that switchover happened during a noise or was additive by introducing a loud noise as the original stream got muted, it would be very hard to pick up on even with close analysis.

Conclusion: high effort low budget performance art project.

[-] Aradino@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

I'm not so sure the light is that far back though. To me it seems to be right in front of him and not that far back. I swear it seems to be moving toward the camera too.

Also people have noted that the sounds sound like electrical arcing. I've heard a good amount of electricity arcing and it does sound about right to me.

I haven't done a deep listen but apparently in half ish hour of the stream after he falls people are saying you can hear what sounds like someone shitting themselves.

[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

To me it seems to be right in front of him and not that far back.

You can see the distance and height from the angle of its reflection when it flicks on, and past that all that changes is the lens flare moving as the camera changes its angle. It's further back in the room, around and at the same height as the top of the object sitting by the door.

Prepared audio is trivial to play when you don't have to visually sync it to something. The only bit that we can sort of assume was set up to be live (and even that could be faked by just responding in advance to things he or an assistant ask while the footage is being streamed) was the initial bit of him talking to people in chat, after that it would be trivial to just kill the audio and leave a prearranged track playing until the stream cuts off.

So we know how this could be faked easily, and we know that there just aren't things that do that and certainly not things that leave cameras miraculously untouched while doing that, a big steel cylinder that's light enough for him to move and set on some thin pieces of styrofoam isn't going to be shielding anything, he clearly doesn't actually get through the steel with his drill, and the seeming "threat" is a blue light that happens to be on top of a thing he had sitting behind him that just sort of turns on but is apparently not threatening or injurious enough for him to drop the drill instead of carefully placing it beside the apparently menacing object before turning to look at the blue light and fall just so so that the camera is covered and he'd be free to do whatever once it was muted.

We're left with two possibilities then: either he faked it, or he was killed by a magic blue light that was polite enough for him to turn around first and which then simply ended him without any sort of radiation or electrical discharge that would interfere with the camera. Or he set out to fake it but then just randomly had an aneurysm and collapsed by sheer coincidence right at the spooky setup moment.

[-] Aradino@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

It's pretty impressive to pull off live(he interacts with chat so I don't think it'd be prerecorded. Could check the accounts that interact with him and see if they were made recently) if it's fake. Its an instant internet horror classic tbh

I do hope it's fake since otherwise that dude is dead as shit. Even without suspending disbelief enough to say it's a UFO power core or some shit, if it isn't staged something extremely bad happened.

The poor quality of the engravings leads me toward "probably obvious bullshit" though. You can see the tool marks and I'd hope aliens would have a better hand BUT the engravings being poor quality doesn't mean it can't be a housing thingy for something incredibly radioactive. That doesn't explain the floating blue light though. I think visible radiation light typically comes from the radioactivity source

I imagine if it was radiation the incident would be known about since it'd be gushing radiation into some dudes house

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

Pretty much sums up how I feel too, my gut reaction was "oh shit this thing is probably a demon core".

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