I’m really into unusual/insane/unhinged. I find them fascinating. I’ve followed conspiracy theorists, alien abductees, otherkin, therians, people who eat cat fur of their sofa, etc etc.
I’m looking for good weirdness to watch during downtime. Any suggestions.
Really nasty people will do.
Camping With Steve.
I think he started out documenting his homelessness and where he camped, but after becoming homeful, he kept going out and stealth coming in really weird places. Abandoned buildings, caves, mines, roundabouts, highway median strips, under bridges. Sometimes he camps in regular camp grounds, just in whacky shelters like cardboard boxes or blanket forts. Sometimes he secretly sleeps in his car.
Just…be careful for those of you who have lost loved ones. Steve is a wholesome guy whose wife passed next to him in the middle of the night. So he may bring her up in his videos. Credit to the man for still going. I honestly wasn’t sure he would.
I don’t really think camping with steve falls into the same group as ‘really nasty people’, he’s not crazy in that way
He is no longer with us, but lookup videos of Terry Davis. There’s lots of documentaries about him but it should be easy to find his stream clips, if you just want to watch him.
Paranoid schizophrenic who spent 10 years creating his own operating system from scratch because God told him to.
There’s a good number of videos cataloguing templeOS, and it’s an interesting dive for sure.
I was a postmortem scientist for a decade, and have a show called After Death, which focuses on SFX makeup and embalming, based on gruesome ways people have died! It’s on a page called Bad Day HQ which focuses on the worst days in history… crime, death, natural disasters, conspiracies, cryptuds, etc. Honestly best side gig ever. I love being teach people about really morbid stuff.
My work. This was shot at the Anatomy of Death Museum in Michigan… And the channel itself. They won Emmy awards back in the 90s/2000s
It has:
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Mine disasters, where companies shut off oxygen, sacrificing people, so they wouldn’t lose profits
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Deadliest human stampedes, where people were so concerned with getting to events that they trampled, crushed, and suffocated hundreds of people
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Famines that wiped out large percentages of entire countries, that mirror what’s happening right now
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History behind the Bermuda Triangle and the stories of planes and ships that have vanished there
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Stories of some of the darkest crimes in history… from serial killers to gruesome, morbid deaths
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Disasters and crimes that happened On This Day!
I’m really proud and have a plethora of knowledge, so please ask away. Actually ran the Wayne State Funeral History Museum for 3 years 🥰
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There’s a tv show titled “my strange addiction “; probably what you’re looking for, as it has people eating cat fur, someone married to a carnival ride, a shower drain hair collector, eating dryer sheets, chewing dirty diapers, eating a loved ones ashes, eating toilet paper, drinking paint… here’s an example:
If you’re into it, there are many ‘science’ channels you could watch.
‘Michael Reeves’ and ‘I did a thing’ both build stupid things. Stuff like a cursing Elmo puppet or a giant sawblade Bayblade.
If you want some actual science, Nile Red. You get stuff like ‘Making grape soda out of plastic gloves’.
Along the actual science line there’s also Explosions & Fire, an Aussie making explosives in his garden shed. He’s got a sister channel called Extractions & Ire as well where he makes other chemicals with more detail.
In a similar vein William Ossman 2, its includes a lot of those people in ridiculous science shenanigans.
Davie504
Watched him for a while. It all gets a bit samey after a few videos IMO.
Not sure this is quite what you’re looking for by CYRIAK makes some pretty weird animations that I would call unhinged.
Also, Don Herzfeldt’s animations are pretty weird. Oh, and Day Job Orchestra
Bald and Bankrupt. British guy with maxed out social skills goes to random places around the world (like Bangladesh) and talks to locals.
Yeah the things I read about him are quite controversial. But whenever I’ve seen him on video (even filmed unknowingly by others) he’s always seemed like a very genuine man.
Well, sh…
I often watch urban explorers, abandoned places stuff and tuned in to his channel a few times, too. There were signs. I thought he just knew the right behavior code and talk to brush by those nationalist wannabes and drug militias. Now I know. Shocked.
His recent series where he crossed the Darien Gap was fascinating
Rusty Cage He built a guillotine in his back yard while rambling about about crazy ideologies and living in a tent. He called it a lemon slicer
Aside from ones I’ve already mentioned:
- The Thought Emporium (purposefully infected himself with a self-made genetically engineered virus, to fix his lactose intolerance, as well as (CW: Gore) made a tutorial on how to give yourself magnet implants, now trying to teach living rat neurons to play DOOM)
I am really frustrated that I don’t remember the names of these:
- someone who made a tutorial on how to make an illegally encrypted radio transmitter
- some guy making seemingly illegal chemicals (NOT nilered)
Jon Drinks Water is a YouTube channel centered 100% around short videos of a guy drinking water.
Stay hydrated, people ;)
The vegan scene on YouTube is full of crazy. Not to put shade on vegans but it seems every vegan youtuber is severely mentally ill.
I’d counter that with Earthling Ed, who’s entirely rational and reasonable, while some of the people debating him are pretty scary characters https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCVRrGAcUc7cblUzOhI1KfFg
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