Which Disturbing Lost Media Creeps You Out the Most?

There exist stills of what seem to be early costume tests for a pilot of In the Night Garden & they look terrifying.

I mean, I guess? I'm getting around to hearing the music now and its kind of neat. Oddly catchy, too. But disturbing? I don't personally see it.

Where to start...

Apologies to shoe-horn in my work, but I did write the Al Lucas article on the wiki. While writing that article I went down a rabbit hole of links, news articles, etc. For context, Al Lucas was an Arena Football League player who died on the field after a play gone horribly wrong. His death was televised on Fox Sports West but footage of the game has not publicly resurfaced since 2005. Every account of that play states it looked like your average football play - a bunch of guys make a tackle and everyone gets up, maybe someone gets hurt. But the thing is the awkward collisions of that particular play alongside all the other bodies colliding just perfectly came together to cut this player's spinal cord/vertebrae from his brain, meaning he likely died almost immediately after. I felt compelled to write the article because it had always been on the back of my mind and I was surprised at the relative lack of discussion online about it. This happened back in 2005 when the internet was mainstream and for many of us was relatively recent living memory.

Footage of that game exists - VHS recorders were common by then, and Robert Weintraub saw the footage (he wrote an article in 2013 on Grantland about Al Lucas' death titled "Football's Worst Nightmare", which is weird to read post-Damar Hamlin). He says the play looks average - and of course he describes the aftermath of the play with the frantic response and medical attention being given. That's what makes it so disturbing. Something so banal and average like an arena football game being attended by kids and enthusiasts turning into a tragedy in a matter of seconds, because everything that could go wrong in that play did go wrong. It was also broadcast on Fox Sports West in the Los Angeles area, so there were sports bars, casual TV viewers, etc showing this man die. I have no intention of "searching" for this especially given the $h*tshow that was the Christine Chubbuck "search". I wouldn't feel comfortable asking for footage of a man dying on a football field during a live broadcast. I'm sure it exists and is likely used by the NFL and other football organizations when educating physios for health and safety. However I do find the topic morbidly fascinating and it was interesting rabbit hole to explore. Rest easy, Al.

There are other sports-related lost footage deaths. Chuck Hughes on the field death remains the only instance in which an NFL player has died on the field, and as far as I know the NFL does not want that ever resurfacing (although I do plan on writing an article about that subject which is its own rabbit hole). Though to be clear, Chuck did not die from football directly, and a hit did not "trigger" his condition - rather, Chuck Hughes' medical condition was poorly screened by the time he entered the NFL, so the physical strain of sport in general killed him. There's a broadcast of The NFL Today on CBS announcing his passing that afternoon, and a few photos, but nothing more than that. Again, nothing that I'm really interested in seeing or seeking, but a topic that's fascinating.

One that has partially resurfaced is the death of volleyball star Flo Hyman, who like Chuck Hughes died of a medical condition that was poorly screened. She collapsed during a club volleyball game in Japan. Partial footage of her passing is available on the MarketwiredNewsVideo YouTube channel titled "National Marfan Foundation Urges Recognition of Risk for Aortic Dissection in Athletes". It's very condensed footage but not easy to watch, and as far as I know she also passed shortly after her episode.

Another one that "partially" exists and has been on the internet is footage of the death of female amateur boxer Becky Zerlentes. It's on YouTube and it's been on there since 2006, super easy to find. The only surviving footage is a 240p clip from SportsCenter showing her collapse though not the aftermath of her injury. While she never regained consciousness, unlike the others above mentioned she was "alive" until the next day. Her injury was from a punch that was so strong it caused her brain to bleed uncontrollably. Again, everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. I assume "full" footage exists as there are even stock photos before the incident.

All of these are disturbing because these are relatively banal things that suddenly result in tragedy and being broadcast live in front of viewers. There are so many other live sporting deaths that still exist on the internet today that I didn't dive into.

Including NSFL Media

Any 911 call: I hate 911 calls they freak me out

Arwin Meiwes Tapes: Cannibalism always makes me squarm

Anything involving childrens death or children being harmed: No one benefits from any lost media connected to serial killers or mass murders killing or harming literal children.

GOD IS BEING R*****: I'm not a religious person, but even typing that sentence makes me feel very uncomfortable

SFL

Orignal Cut of Monster Trucks Movie: Holy shit that looks creepy

Attack of the Killer Rabbids from Outer Space: Once again what the fuck

Disturbing & bizarre all at the same time:
forums.lostmediawiki.com/thread/15122/clown-weird-1993-dos-platformer

1. We have no idea on who made it
2. No music, just PC speaker sound effects
3. A completely pitch black background
4. The art style is like this messed up combination of Adventure Time & Revenge of the Sunfish


Personally, stuff that isn't MEANT to be disturbing/creepy tends to have much higher chances of making me feel uneasy than horror media a lot of the time & really a lot of horror media I've seen has made me go "meh" instead of being scared, well, aside from the occasional GOOD analog horror & digital horror media, but those are few & far between.