“It’s Chilling”: 47 Disturbing Found Footage Stories That Still Haunt The Internet

Officer Kent McGowan kicked in the door on a felony warrant and shot 41 year old Susan White claiming she'd pulled a gun on him. At first, everything seems kosher, but later on that night, the officers investigating the shooting found that she was on the phone with 911 at the time and isn't the aggressor, she's scared out of her mind.

It appears that McGowan had been stalking her and had basically fabricated the circumstances that led to her having a warrant out against her. He then broke into her house, ran up to her bedroom and shot her. She's frantic, telling the operator that he's trying to break into her house. One of the last things she says is "HELLLLLLP!!!!" It's chilling.

I'm going to go with the man they found alive in a sunken tugboat 3 days after it capsized.

>As a rescue diver probed the wreckage of an overturned tugboat, it was assumed that all he'd be doing would be recovering the bodies of those who perished.
However, as he was swimming through the murky water inside the capsized boat, a hand suddenly reached toward him.
It was the ship's cook, Harrison Okene, who had somehow survived for approximately 60 hours in only his underwear in the freezing cold water by breathing from a small air pocket and taking sips of Coca-Cola.
Okene was the only one of 12 crew members who survived when the Jacon-4 tugboat capsized.

Recently there was a guy in Chicago who was breaking into houses. He was caught on security cameras slowly creeping down some stairs and just watching the homeowners sleeping on the couch. Not as violent as some of these other posts, but super creepy.

That chimp owner's 911 call while her escaped ape was eating her friend, Charla Nash; coupled with her recovery photos this was pretty disturbing.
Not as bad as some of the others on this thread but a fair contribution, I think.

19 year-old Russian girl and her stepfather are camping. He gets attacked and dies. His stepdaughter calls her mom on a cell phone in-between attacks by a brown bear and her cubs.

"Mum, the bears are back. She came back and brought her three babies. They’re... eating me."

then...

“Mum, it’s not hurting anymore. I don’t feel the pain. Forgive me for everything. I love you so much”.

A call from the weepy voiced k****r fits the bill although it's audio only. Basically if you don't know this guy would k**l almost involuntarily, and then usually call the police expressing remorse for what he had done while crying.
He eventually got caught because his final victim injured him in self defense. Knowing the k****r was injured the police were on the look out for anyone checking into hospitals with injuries like his.

The recording of the 9/11 call where the guy is calling 911 and then you hear his terrified bloodcurling scream as the tower collapses...and then silence as the line goes dead.

F****d me up for a while.

I saw a road rage video on Reddit that was absolutely terrifying. This m*thd out lady was trying to run some girls off the road and was impersonating a police officer so they would open the car door.

The sinking of a ferry filled with Korean students that were told to put on their life preservers and stay seated in a ship the captain knew was sinking. The part that makes it all seem real is when a kid jokingly sings a song from the titanic thinking it'll all be fine.

I don't remember her name but the lady in a hotel was wigging out in the elevator like someone was there (she was alone) and then later her body was found in the water tank.

The video diaries of Bjork stalker Ricardo López. His descent into madness is fascinating to me. There's an hour and a half video on YouTube that shows him progressively getting worse. It doesn't end well.

Not found footage exactly, but the one where a family a driving and a brick from the truck in front of them goes through the windshield k*****g the mother. Their panicked shrieks are f*****g heartwrenchingly terrifying.

I'm not going to link to it because I don't want to accidentally see it again.

Yuri Lipski.

A diver that got disoriented in an underwater tunnel in the Red Sea and went down and down until he died.

In 1984, a Cessna L-19 Bird Dog crashed in the Tabernash, Co. The wreckage wasn't found until 3 years later by a couple backpackers. The local law enforcement found this heavily damaged VHS tape and were able to figure out what happened. From Wikipedia:

> On August 10, 1984, a Cessna L-19 Bird Dog (registration number N4584A), piloted by James Jeb Caddell, 38, crashed in a forest near Tabernash. The aircraft was en route from Granby, Colorado to Jeffco, Colorado. The wreck was found by a pair of backpackers three years later on August 23, 1987. A 6½ minute video shot from a VHS camcorder mounted on the instrument panel was found at the site. The heavily damaged tape, some of it hanging from tree branches, was recovered and repaired by Colorado deputy sheriff Dale Wood. Subsequent analysis of the footage revealed that the pilot had not taken into account the density altitude conditions that existed on the day of the flight. The aircraft was unable to climb away from steadily rising terrain due to the fact that it was essentially at or above its service ceiling, and in an attempt to remedy the situation, the pilot stalled the airplane three times during a steep bank to the right. The pilot could be heard yelling, "D**n, hang on Ronnie!" to his one backseat passenger, Ronald Hugh Wilmond, 36, three seconds before impacting the terrain.

It's the "D**n, hang on Ronnie!" that gets me.

There's a documentary on YouTube that details the m****r of a farm family in Texas. The survivor was Robin, the 10 year old daughter. She was watching from her bedroom door, she ran back into bed and they shot at her as she laid in bed and missed. The most disturbing part is probably how she'd hang her robe up on a hook on her door every night, and after she "got shot" she lay on the bed, pretending to be dead for hours, because she thought the robe was the man who did it watching her. And the most heartbreaking part is when all the police arrived, and she just cried about needing to feed her animals. One of the saddest stories I've ever heard.

There was a clip of an elderly woman calling 911 about a suspicious looking man outside, you hear the door creek open, then she screams bloody m****r and the call ends. There was no resolution. It's on YouTube somewhere.

The video of the 9/11 attacks filmed by a NYU student from her dorm. It captures the feelings of confusion, shock, and hopelessness when they realize s**t just got completely real.

Timothy Treadwell aka Grizzly Man. He went up close to the bears on multiple occasions. The most horrifying footage is the audio captured of his screams as a grizzly mauls him to death.

Stephen McDaniel peeping Tom video before he breaks into Lauren Gidding's apartment and k*lls her.

Edit: Bonus: McDaniel being interviewed several days later by local news as a "concerned friend.

The WTTW pirated broadcast that happened in Chicago 1987.