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why is the creepy "this video is sponsored by skillshare" so funny to me
Ikkkk I was DEAD
*ooOooOoooO paid conteeeeent*
Oh I thought all demons were sellouts
And Ryan's Intense Narrator Voice continuing throughout the promo! 😆
the fact that it’s in the same tone as the viewer discretion section-
I think the most brilliant thing about this story is the moment she switches to present tense. At that point you realize she didn't make it, because she's still in the elevator when narrating the story
Which doesnt make any Sense
“I nodded off again.” - the last thing before she switches
Why did you have to tell me this
The narrator switched to present tense near the beginning too, talking about how she "rides the elevator everyday" as if she still does it. Idk, came of as bad writing and I immediately felt like it was made up. Some of these stories have been pretty convincing, but not this one.
@@emilyzaitz2687 Honestly how do you make going down in an elevator forever sound convincing? Lol
I like the detail that the body had been decomposing for **two years** because it tells you how absolutely hopeless her situation was in the end. You've been rooting for her to make it out and then it just hits you how she never had a sliver of a chance.
Yeah, it really makes you wonder… where did the elevator go for those two years? If it were some kind of twisted supernatural human trap, then you’d assume it would return the moment she died…. But it just kept going for TWO YEARS.
Also the 2 years detail... It said the phone was found 3 inches from her body, which- when a body decomposes for even a few weeks it basically turns into a puddle of goo, so the phone would have been completely covered in it and unusable
@@Anne-fn4po I don’t think that happens when you die from dehydration. Given how dry you are, there’s not enough wetness to make a puddle.
@@Anne-fn4po you don’t turn into a puddle that would happen maybe after her body had been distended and then it’s longer at a good time so everything gets expelled.
@@AzureTheAvian you still have some moisture in your body. Blood, mucus, maidt brain matter. You don't shrivel up like a raisin and obviously you don't have enough moisture to live, but it would still be gooey and moist, the moisture in the air at least as she decomposed woukd make her gooey
I just had to look up the idea of a person being left that long in an elevator and I found that although this story is made up there is a real world account of an Asian woman getting trapped in an elevator and being left alone to die of starvation. Her body was left in that elevator undiscovered for a whole month till it was found. It happened in her apartment complex in Xi'an, China and the news time stamp was 2016.
this is- terrifyingly calming actually. knowing that these things could happen but it's not common enough that i've heard of it.
May she rest in peace, that's absolutely horrible.
Omg that’s horrible
The maintenance people forgot to check if anyone was inside before shutting off the power. I don’t think you could use the call buttons if the power was off either. Once the power went off at my building, all the elevators grounded and opened doors. Not all would have these failsafes.
That's horrifying
PSA: Don’t climb out of the emergency hatch unless you are a trained technician. My friends dad was killed because while he was on top of it, the elevator continued its ascent and he was partially decapitated. Please just wait for help; at the worst, you’ll just be a bit bored.
Yeah,you never know when the elevator could start working again. Just wait it out.
Good to know honestly.
Holy shit that's more terrifying than any part of this story, I'm so sorry for your friend to have the knowledge of her dad passing that way. And for him, that's wild.
jeez that's horrible. hope your friend is ok
They're locked from the outside of the car
The art slowly showing the effects of dehydration and starvation is really cool
a very good detail. i often pause to admire the artwork
@@merianamartinez1982 I love the art showcased on the series
@dada_ deestructx I checked the description. Mollie Ong does it. Their name is listed with the credits portions as the illustrator.
You can see more of her work on instagram @mollieong
In reality you would start being dehydrated well before starvation. If you had nothing to drink; by the time you were starving you'd just be dead. You can go an easy week without eating and not even really be showing visual signs of starvation but in 3 days you'd be dead from dehydration. You can go 1-2 months without eating before dying (because your body will eat itself) but in 3 days without water, you're dead.
The great irony is, traditionally speaking Shane would lose his mind before Ryan. Ryan would get scared sooner absolutely, but in terms of the onset of a psychotic break my money is on Shane cracking first simply because his mind is not flexible enough to handle the violation of the 'laws' of reality as well as Ryan's.
That makes no sense.
@@ulrichweiss9912 it does Shane would be probably so stuned by existence of something that doesn't make sense that he would go crazy first but I don't really think so he said that he would love to belive in ghosts if he had a proof so yeah
@@ulrichweiss9912 yes it does
@@jshdgs169 No. Not it doesn't. Was that as convincing for you as it was for me?
@@ulrichweiss9912 Well what doesn’t make sense to you maybe I can try and explain. Basically what I think they’re saying is Shane would basically lose his mind first since he wouldn’t be able to comprehend what’s happening and wouldn’t be able to come up with a logical explanation meanwhile Ryan would probably still be scared but since he already believes in this stuff he would probably know or think he knows what’s going on therefore he wouldn’t go crazy as fast. Sorry if you still don’t understand - tried to explain it the best I could though!
this story is more sad than anything. i think the way to look at this would be she got stuck in some sort of hole in space and time and didn’t make it. i felt genuine sorrow for the girl. such a horrible way to die; imagine sitting there and going through all of that alone. very good story:) i applaud the author
I dont think she was stuck in a time loop or anything. I think that time actually slowed down in the elevator. If you noticed, the autopsy report said that the decomposition happened in the span of 2 years, and considering she was stuck betwern 9:21 and 9:23 am, this would mean that 1 year wouldve been 1 minute in real time. That is a teriffying thought.
very well written indeed!
@@safespace4680 ohhhhh that's interesting! MY idea was that it took two years for the time loop to finally 'end'
@@safespace4680 >time actually slowed down< sped up, rather. and specifically for her. i'm just imagining a third person view from outside the elevator shaft, using xray vision, and as the elevator goes down, the girl suddenly moves, dies, and decays in hyperspeed
Once I avoided taking my dorm's elevator cause there was an unwrapped condom in it. I ended up falling down the stairs and getting a minor concussion.
now that's a horror story
that sounds like college alright
Better written than what the author of the story was trying to convey.
I met a good chunk of the girls on my floor in our elevator at the start of our first semester when one of our floor mates kept passing out on the elevator and we were trying to carry her out, put her in the recovery position and call the wardens. She was okay and we all bonded over the terror of thinking she was dead because her breathing was so shallow (looking back on it I think she couldn't gone to hospital but the buildings wardens said she'd be fine, she was just a bit too drunk. Seemed like they rolled the dice on her and I'm glad rest of us set up a rota to come and check on her breathing throughout the night just in case).
Oop-
Plot twist: this story is the POV of the Sim you trapped in a room without doors
I’m Joy Despret and god is Juno Birch
@@avela2324 Yes, this is happening.
Fucking GreyStillPlays
Steven?
You talking about when Ryan &. Shane trapped Steven in the sims?
I know the "Oh it had only been a minute but her body looked like it had been decomposing for two years" is meant to make it sound more supernatural and confusing. But imagine if two years had actually passed, like she was missing for two years, there was a whole investigation, the police could not find anything, and her family gave up. Then, one day, some poor freshman presses the button to get on the elevator on the first floor and there's just a decomposing body laying there on the ground with the notes she left on her phone.
being stuck in an elevator is definitely a very scary concept. this one time i was standing in the elevator in my apartment for like 15 minutes before i started to panick when i realized it wasnt moving anywhere, but then i looked up and realized the floor i was going too wasnt lit up. i forgot to press the fricken button and when i did, it worked just fine. so i just stood still in the elevator on the bottom floor for 15 minutes just zoned out thinking it was going up when i forget to press the floor button xD i guess it was just one of those days.
That same exact thing happened to me and my sister
How high were you to not realize you weren’t moving for 15 minutes???
i am EXTREMELY distracted by the goose on shane's shirt pocket
AHHHH!!! The hjönkening!!! 😳
Same
Right
@@queenb1119 this is the best reply that ive ever received
Why'd you have to point that out? I couldn't listennn...I had to keep going back 10 secs lol
*Me, who has claustrophobia and is scared of elevators:* Yeah this is a good idea.
that’s literally me. the only way i can get over my fears is if i push myself enough to go into uncomfortable situations
I always take stairs lol unless I have someone with me
I have a fear of elevators and being stuck in them, that's why I always avoid elevators if I can.
Me tf too
sameeeee i hate elevators. worse fear beside toilets ..
If the narrator had set a timer on her phone, what do you think would've happened? It probably would've saved alot of time. If it ticked normally, then she could tell that she was in the elevator for an impossible amount of time. If it stayed still. she she'd know that she was frozen in time.
If her clock wasn’t working her timer probably wouldn’t be either
I was thinking that the whole time... I mean her notes app worked so her timer probably would have aswell...
@@steelsaber5431 Well she said she wasn't sure if it was or wasn't... Thats the way she would find out for sure.
i was thinking the same exact thing!! maybe it would stay stuck on 00:00
She could have counted in her head
Nobody: Ryan: says in the most creepy way, “this episode is sponsored by skillshare.” Like he’s about to murder someone.
That's Ricky Goldsworth speaking. He is about to murder someone at every given time
That's the skill being shared
I knew it was fake when her iPhone lasted at least 3 days without charging.
May I ask, how long does an iPhone's battery last?
Two hours at most if you constantly use it and it’s on low power mode. At least for me 😂
@@yes2allponies126 Oh I see Thanks for the info buddy :3
@@yes2allponies126 There is a reason battery banks exist. Yeah, they keep making phones smaller but I want them to last longer.
Well time wasn’t really moving for her, like how the time on her phone always displayed 2:23 so maybe her battery also doesn’t drain?
"going down the shaft, impossibly deep" Me: snorts
omg i WAsN'T THE ONLY ONEE
THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID
??
@@_Red_Panda_ oh the innocence
why is my mind like this
The scariest thing that ever happened to me that involved an elevator was almost stepping into one and not noticing that it didn't have a floor. I'm super happy that my friend behind me saw it in time to yank me backwards before I fell through (we were exploring an abandoned part of a building).
Wow, honestly that would've been one of the scariest deaths. I fell through a rotten floor in an abando, luckily I landed on the dusty couch on the floor beneath, but I honestly thought I wasn't gunna walk out of the place then
Dumb people dying stupid deaths.
That's absolutely terrifying, I personally would never explore anything abandoned again after that lol
I'm just asking, but why would you even try to use an elevator that was in an abandoned part of a building?
@@whoville1064 Oh, no, we definitely didn't trust it enough to use it. It was more a surprise to us that the door would open at all. But as it did, I was curious to see the inside of the lift. However, as it was pretty dark inside, I attempted to walk in for a better look until my friend yanked me back.
i've been trapped in an elevator for almost two hours before. the building i work at has an elevator that goes only from floors 1 to any from 8 to 13, with a different elevator going to the other floors. this means between floors 2-7 there is nothing but solid cement and steel. mine got stuck somewhere on floor 6, where the floor wasn't accessible. now these elevators are known for breaking down, but usually its just for a few minutes when it happens. its never been like this. the building is relatively old and they were just about to start replacing them when this happened. the elevator, as most do, an alarm button, which i pressed, but given the time of night and distance from my office (on the 12th and 9th floors) where anyone still was, no one heard it, or if they had, they didn't react as, like i said, these elevators are sort of janky. luckily there was also an emergency line. many elevators have emergency phones. this one went straight to the security desk in the lobby, which has someone there at all hours. i also had my cell phone, luckily charged. the security person told me to wait and not try anything while they contacted emergency services. firefighters came and tried to hit the reset code on the elevator, which would send it back down to the entrance. it didn't work. they kept in contact with me via cell phone, letting me know what to do and telling me to stay calm, which i was, the whole time. i'm not claustrophobic luckily and i was also the only person in the elevator due to the late hour. frankly, the only main thought was "boy i'm glad i went to the bathroom before leaving. i'm going to be in here a while". i did tweet about the event though. i also googled about what to do in that situation and elevator safety regulations. turns out, elevators rarely ever fall. if there's a problem, it's usually software, not hardware. also they are not air tight and you won't run out of air. hatches at the top are also inaccessible from the inside, or at least locked. anyway the reset code didn't work, so they said they had to call the maintenance person who knew the codes to get the elevator to move up or down floors manually as firefighters only know the reset code. the maintenance guy was an hour out so i was stuck waiting. they also said that if they couldn't get the elevator to shift, they would have to go down to open the hatch and lift me out of the shaft, which WAS a scary thought, as i'm pretty heavyset, and i really hoped that didn't happen. fortunately, it didn't. the maintenance guy was able to bring the elevator up to floor 9 and open up the doors by hand. I got out perfectly fine, with a actually kind of boring story to tell. so for anyone afraid of being stuck in an elevator, keep in mind, its best to contact emergency services if you can, either via phone or the elevator alarm, and let professionals do their job to help you. and most importantly stay calm. tweet about it lmao. get help, then wait for help to arrive is the best. do not try anything yourself.
"hatches at the top are also inaccessible from the inside, or at least locked." Not really true, most often they are just hidden under a ceiling tile. I still wouldnt recommend trying to climb out but you can definitely open some of them. It makes sense you'd see that if you google what to do though because worst case scenario is you start climbing and the elevator starts moving again or you fall off the elevator down the shaft.
I honestly would hv died by the time firemen arrived....2hrs?!! Just reading ur story gave me the creeps and now my heart is racing.
shane in college : 👁️💋👁️
Hahahahahhaa 🤣
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It’s hard to become completely enveloped with fear when you realize Shane’s got a little duck on his shirt pocket.
hehe
*every time you feel scared just look at the duck on Shane’s shirt pocket*
"Are You Scared of the Little Duck On Your Shirt Pocket?"
Dangit, man! XD
yes definetly
This video's title: "Are You Scared of Being Trapped?" Me, clicking on the video: "Horrifically and paralyzingly. Bring on the pain and regret."
Hellevator was my nickname for the elevator in my college dorm, it was an old one that had an up button and down button and you had to hold them until you got to your floor and hopefully stopped around where the floors met. There were no walls, just metal grates so you could see into the elevator shaft which despite being scary did help tell what floor you were on as the shaft was covered in graffiti that you could memorize to know where you were. Worst part is that the doors to the elevator could be locked from the outside (they were just normal doors, not the sliding ones) so there was always that fear that someone could lock you in if they really wanted. It was lit though, as long as you had the elevator grate/door shut, shutting it triggered a sensor that would turn on the electricity to the light and elevator. Honestly surprised it passed inspection, especially as the door to the elevator in the basement has one of those tiny handles you’d see on a medicine cabinet or something. Wouldn’t recommend if you fear anything about elevators
Being stuck on an elevator that continues to descend beyond what should be possible is a great metaphor for what it is like living through 2020.
Idk ive been having fun Riots have all the PD in the cities so the only ones around are our chill sheriff's office who live here and we know so we can go to the unofficial range and shoot guns without the A-hole state troopers showing up and have parties without em getting broken up by out of town cops aiming to fill a quota for "lives saved" from rona
@@jaushuagrahamthefloridaman1124 I mean if y’all are being careful/you know everyone at the party, no reason to break it up because COVID ( Y’all are basically one large “pod”). Sucks that State Troopers are jerks tho. Glad you’re able to still enjoy things!
@@jaushuagrahamthefloridaman1124 dope to hear that you're having a good time in 2020, Jaushua Graham the Florida Man. As the rest of the US knows, rural Florida is a great metric for which to gauge sanity and reason, so your standard for a good time is surely aspirational to us all.
Honestly, not so bad a year FOR ME. Of course it is for everyone whos driends and family died of covid and the ones who were really social and now cant go out, but Im just chilling at home. Only thing that sucks is that I cant go play basketball with the boys
A minute feeling like 2 years is pretty spot on, too.
With every episode, Shane looks more and more like a science professor.
Because he IS the professor on puppet history
Dont you mean history 😼😼😼
Fr
History is a social science though
he is obivously following after his idol, The Professor
This has a Backrooms vibe to it. She entered an elevator, and in the process of riding it down, she (or the elevator with her in it) no-clipped out of reality. She never made it back, and eventually starved/dehydrated to death. As time passes for her, she most likely dies somewhere around 3 days, but the elevator continues to descend. Roughly two years after the no-clip occured, the elevator with her corpse in it (or just her corpse) no-clipped back into reality, where no more than a minute had passed. Putting my take aside, this is still one of the scariest stories I've seen on this show so far. I read somewhere a fictional story about someone that gains the ability to teleport kind of like Nightcrawler, but they end up blindly teleporting into an underground room that has no doors, windows, or exits of any sort. It's just a large cement block buried underground, and for some reason the person can't teleport anymore, so they're trapped in that room for the rest of their days. It also reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode where the dude stops time but one of the instances he does it, time never resumes, so he's stuck in a frozen world. The idea of being trapped in a room until you die and being trapped outside the laws of reality are some of the most frightening things to me. Even more so if the two are combined.
That sounds like what happens in Fallout 3 when you use cheats to teleport. It kicks you to an empty, tight room and you can’t teleport out
the most unrealistic thing about this story is that the person didn't immediately think to start livetweeting the whole ordeal as soon as the elevator jammed
She said there wasn't any signal
Shane's elevator jump is scarier than the story
For real
Agreed XD
it just made me loose my shit...I can imagine ryan seeing shane's face in his dream
😂 it was too much
Shane's faces are on point these videos
me: oh yay new are you scared shane: **AGGRESSIVE KISSY NOISES**
I thought it said "aggressive kinky noises" and I was just about to accept it
@@hannahmoses5736 both could be true at the same time my friend
not gonna lie her whole nail coming off was the thing that scared me the most
Fun facts about dying of dehydration 1. Some people will die three or four days without water, for others it may take over a week 2. Shane is correct about how you can drink your own urine several times before it becomes poisonous 3. Extreme dehydration will cause kidney failure 4. Without any water your body will start taking water from other parts of your body like blood, bone, and organs 5. Without the water your blood will become very thick and have trouble moving through your body 6. You can lose up to half of your body weight before you die 7. Your eyes will recede into your skull 8. Your tongue will become extremely swollen, you will not be able to talk and breathing will become a challenge 9. Without water your brain will start to shrink and pull away from your skull, this can cause ruptures Dying of thirst is a horrible way to go
Nobody: Shane in college: HEY!........😘
I can’t tell if that was a bit or something he actually did
that is actually scarier than the entire unsolved episodes.
@@evankun27 honestly 🤣🤣
Okay but instead of white T-shirts you guys wear white pj tops it’s like you’re telling scary stories during a sleepover 🥺
With a little sleepy-time cap :3
or onesies
YES YES YES
i always fall asleep or get sleepy when i watch them, this is so perfect
i’m not gonna lie the entire time i was listening to this story i was resisting the urge to go “I’M ON A HELLEVATORRRRR”
HELL YEAH. ANOTHER STAY. I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT
@@alisarajha443 the brainrot doesn’t stop in stayville
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The writing wasn't perfect, but god, the concept is terrifying
I genuinely really liked the writing! Different strokes for different folks
Nah it’s pretty good
I felt like the writing was really cool because it's written like a diary entry of a college girl and that's exactly what it's supposed to be
5 minutes in and i had to pause because shane making kissy lips combined with him aggressively yelling “HEY” tore my soul from my body.
I KNOW RIGHT it's almost like being catcalled but too confusing
@@solitarelee6200 but just as violating
Story: not so scary. Shane's facial expressions: horrifying
Lizzie C that would be horrifying. Literally. Just imagine being in her situation...
@@whenbrainstopwork240 its a joke
@@whenbrainstopwork240 that happening is terrifying yes, but the story didn't scare us much. But Shane's facial expressions. Imagine walking and seeing that in the dark
Sorry, your likes are at 666, I cannot break that.
@@bethebelle2810 You can like it now
It was Shane shouting "HEY" and making kissy faces for me
i've been bingewatching the show and this is my favorite so far, twilight zone-ish stuff really gets me as i don't believe in ghosts/demons/supernatural stuff in this sense but time and space being messed on such mundane occurences is the type of ominuous thing that makes you think. the idea of an elevator going down and never stoping puts you in this odd situation - i constantly wondered if her perception was being affected by her anxiety until i realized something strange was going on. really cool that the report was added at the end. i hope more stories like this gets featured!
>time and space being messed on< honestly the first time i watched this video, i think it actually affected me more than if it were smth supernatural. the idea that physics might just break randomly and turn your life upside down is... upsetting
@@hiddendrifts and worse -- being the only person to witness it! it's extra despairing for me
@@heatweve understandable- at that point you can't tell if something really happened or if you're just losing it. like, the only evidence she had that she wasn't just going mad was the fact that she was literally dying and decaying
Honestly, it would have been more scary if she got off at some point. She gets out, with the first visible signs of starvation and dehydration showing, but everyone says she's only been gone for a couple of minutes. That would be terrifying.
Yes, but at least she got out of the elevator. If I were her, sure, I would be terrified that it happened- but I think I would be more glad I still lived at the end. I probably wouldn't care that much if people looked at me weirdly after I narrowly escaped death's company.
It should have been that she saw the doors opening as she died
There is this real life case of a body being found on the ocean that looked completely mummified but the person had only been dead for 2 months
Yeah but it makes it even less realistic. She considered that she was imagining it, but she hadn’t. It wasn’t just her mind playing tricks as she hoped. It was real and she could do nothing but wish it was not.
@@jennifervan75 That could actually have to do with the salt in the oceans water. Mummies were actually coated in salt to preserve them
last time i was this early, shane didn't look like knock off edgar allan poe
ASJFAJFSH KNOCK OFF EDGAR ALLAN POE IM-
What year was that?
BRUHHH- 💀💀💀💀
ruby nice pfp
@@emmae2520 2012, the year the world's hellish dimension collapsed in on itself
The story idea was very creative and the details were thoughtful. I would love to hear more from this author some day. I would suggest that this writing group or a beta reader might be helpful as the vocabulary was occasionally repetitive and some of the recap sentences were unnecessary, but that is something that’s hard to catch without feedback. Really solid story though
don't you mean.. *pushes up glasses* pretty fuckin' solid?
I think it makes sense because it’s told from the perspective of a person going insane in an elevator writing about their experience in the notes app
This is honestly still my favourite story they've read I still think about it years later
Imagining Shane on the next investigation, whenever that is. "Hey, Demon!" *aggressive kissy lips*
~it's me, ya kissy boi!
oh gawd😂
When will they do investigations again??!
@@MrYogo1 Maybe when the global pandemic's over?
Imagine being the person at the bottom floor waiting for this elevator this whole time.
it's only been for a minute tho
@@marygracecastolo2454 oh. I forgot about that. O o p s
Person: Oh I can't wait to see my cousin or something *Elevator arrives* Person: yay *Elevator opens* Person: WHAT IN THE FUCK.
I’m disabled and in a wheelchair, so when there is a building where there is more than one floor, I have no choice but to take a lift. I do sometimes get nervous using them, but luckily every place with lifts I’ve been to, they’ve luckily worked and I’ve not got stuck so far. I am quite a claustrophobic person, like in a room, there has to be at least one door open for me to feel safe. It’s not like a horror scary, it’s just a fear sort of scary, like spiders or thunder/loud noises, they induce panic. I know this story is fake, but still.
This one felt like a fake story right off the get go do to the over complicated descriptors and building up the familiarity of the elevator. Like if you live in the building we get it you know the elevator and carpet etc. Over adding detail made me fell it was a cover up for being a fake story to give it more credence.
That and the fact that she didn't notify anybody it seemed like she had enough internet and power to text somebody to help her. But i mean in the end its all fictional
Lol can you imagine starving and then writting your own words, only to start with how you know the building "very well"...
@@AJ-it6jt she says in the story that she didn't have any signal in the lift. Sad times, couldn't even spend her final hours scrolling twitter
I gotta say I feel like the whole reveal of it being her notes found after her death kind of retroactively weakens the story. It feels too detailed, like the person was too calm while writing. I understand that maybe she accepted that she was gonna die, but even then the initial description seems way too long and not really appropriate. I mean these are your last words who tf cares what the elevator looked like and whatever. On the other hand it is a piece of fiction and I understand the writer wanting to set it up and shit. So overall good job, I liked everything that happened in the elevator, it really makes you feel claustrophobic, but everything else was a bit weird. Not a professional just mg opinion.
You guys dont rlly go into these thinking any of them are gonna be real, do you
thats how long doing a plank for a minute feels like
Agreed, if you ever want to experience time slowed down, do a minute plank or a minute talk/presentation that you thought you could just wing it.
Honestly, I can second that. It's like "I must have been holding this for at least three minutes!... fuck, only three seconds?!"
As someone with a phobia of elevators, this story was actually horrifying
So glad I'm not the only one
Yes! This the first episode of this show that ACTUALLY scared me!!! Just imagining myself in that situation? Terrifying!!
Same! I thought I was the only one!
Been there too, i don't use elevator anymore unless i had no other choice. This story just terrify me...
I hate being trapped
" We don't need to turn this into a video about whether or not pee is sterile or drinkable or any Bear Grill's shit " *Unus Annus fans* *sweats nervously*
I've been stuck in an elevator with my mom on our way to her creepy psychiatrist's office. The elevator was stuck right in the middle of two floors and then the door malfunctioned and opened but we couldn't actually climb out (not that we would have if we could, we didn't want to be cut in half) and nobody could hear us. The emergency button was completely useless and nobody could hear us from where we were because that office didn't work that day. Someone tried to call the elevator from the psychiatrist's office and realized something was wrong and that's how we managed to get out. I was absolutely hysterical (I was 6-7) and I still avoid elevators like the plague despite my health issues that prevent me from walking longer than three minutes uphill without fainting :) i was convinced that the creepy psychiatrist planned that lol
Plot twist: The elevator door finally opens in an unfamiliar lobby. There's a guy, who says: "G'day mate!"
"I don't know how long I'm going to survive without water and-" *Doors open* "G'day mate!" "Oh thank heavens! Please let me-" "Darn, ye sure do look bad" "Sir, please, I've been stuck in this elevator for a week-" "Say, are ya goin out for a party or somethin'?" "Sir pLEASE-" What
Oh cool Australia. Looks like I live here now.
Lmaoo why did I thought about yongbok?😭😂
Plot twist, the door opens, and the guy in the lobby says “welcome to the hotel California”
@@jinhui7886 I was thinking Chan 🤣🤣
legit who does the art for this series like wow-
Mollie ong I think
Mollie ong I think
I’ve wondered the same thing!
It's in the description
@@shayuh1244 IM GONNA CRY I KEEP READING THAT AS MOLLIE ON GOD LMAO🤣🤣
*is trapped in an elevator for like 12 hours* “I can see my ribs. I’m starving” lmao that’s what took me out of the story. Obvi time keeps going for her but she can see her ribs pretty quickly in the story which is presumable less than a day
If she's thin, then the dehydration will make her ribs show more, her hands look slimmer, etc. Not weight loss, just a side effect of dehydration.
Didn't the story also say she hadn't drank anything for three or four days prior?
it says 3-4 days; you would've noticed it if you'd payed attention to the video
She lost track of time. It's also a story and writers like to stretch the limits of reality to improve the scene.
Did you listen to the story? She had pretty much no way to tell time
this one is actually very creative, i like it. nothing super paranormal going on. instead, it taps into a very specific, primal and lovecraftian fear that has no definitive shape or form. i think the story can be interpreted in different ways; maybe that truely was a hellevator that trapped her in a time-space continuum until she died of thirst/starvation. Or maybe she actually died in that elevator (from whatever cause) at exactly 9:23 and everything that happens after is her in purgatory or experiencing the "world in between", so everything physical around her is reflecting that very moment of death, everything is frozen and unchanging except her, as she's feeling her own body wither and decompose. this latter interpretation is a lot scarier to me.
....when you realize, after years of viewing, that Shane looks like the love child of Vincent van Gogh and your uncle.
Wait literally tho-
Woah hold up bro you're onto something
So is Edgar Allan Poe the godfather who helped shape his personality then
Wait holy shit-
Shush
The story should’ve been called “Descent.” She’s constantly descending down multiple floors, but she’s also descending a bit into madness as she loses track of time being trapped. That’s a no-brainer. HOLY SH💩, MAMA I'M FAMOUS! THANK YOUU 🥰
You know that's a movie already. I thought it was a good movie to.
@@maxwineberg3956 what it is
Shut up
It should! That’s pretty neat!
ooooooo that's pretty cool
Shane, you are a nut 😂. I was eating ice cream as you arrested with the kissy lips. I was laughing so hard the melted ice cream started going up my nose LOL
I've come back to this one in particular a couple of time because I love it when people take ordinary, mondaine things and look at them at a strange and horrifying angle. and the concept is basic enough; a woman gets stuck in an elevator for a prolonged period of time, but it's the way she gets stuck and everything that follows that shows a real knack for creativity that's right up there with junji ito. I especially love it when no explanation for why the scary things happen. it's a complete mystery making the reader/listener fill in the blanks using their own imagination and often that's scary then knowing what's going on. really great stuff. I also really like the waterslide one they covered recently. it had a few of the things that makes this stand out to me, particularly the part where no explanation is given in the end and the reader/listener is left with only questions, no answers
After all these years, I don't think Shane is a real human being. I think he's an alien trying to pass a human
Which is why he believes in aliens, but tries to tell us "They wouldn't be here." You're a genius
Demon*
I hope he either passes it to me or wipes after
***satan
That's most of the "faceless" BuzzFeed employees really (by faceless I mean the ones that don't appear in videos, their articles are so weird)
Shane, talking about college: we’ve all been there People who haven’t been to college: 👁👄👁
don't forget about puppet history online university my friend
@@kindateia oh that counts?
@@zjthegameryt5388 yes.
@@zjthegameryt5388 since I got a degree from there Elon Mask has been really quiet so figure it out foe yourself
I've been there never made kissy lips at a prof, though
Wow! That was written and read really well! I found myself suffering anxiety... I thought the doors were going to open and she was going to be in hell, or that the descending elevator she was stuck in descending perpetually forever... WAS her hell. I love listening to Ryan read, and how he and Shane have witty banter throughout.
this story made me genuinely so sad rather than scared. when she described how her family would cope with her death and how she wished she got to pet her dog one last time :( like i know it’s fake but i literally wanted to cry
Narrator: absolutely terrified about being trapped forever in an elevator. Shane: YOU CAN DRINK YOUR OWN PEE!
My first thought was "How? Sounds like a girl who doesn't have anything with her."
@@faureamour she's got a laundry basket
@@jazzymania333 That's true. I forgot that detail. Ok, I could see that.
"This episode is about someone being trapped in an elevator." Oh fantastic. One of my greatest fears. I was trapped in an elevator for several hours on the Queen Mary and no one knew we were in there. We were pounding all the walls and doors while yelling, knowing the day was getting later and later. Finally the doors opened when some construction workers reported hearing screaming from the elevator. Thank god they didn't assume it was ghosts...
My mom and her sister went to the queen Mary when they were younger and they got stuck in the elevator for hours too....that doesn’t sit well
"A process that you don't pay much attention to." Me, who is scared anytime I get on a lift: *are you sure about that?*
I remember one time I was locked in an elevator, but the elevator didn’t even move the door shut and it didn’t open and I was in there for about maybe a minute or two, and the worst thing is I press the emergency call button and the button didn’t even push down, it was such a bad elevator that the help button didn’t even work
Shane doing kissy lips to his pretend physics professor, Ryan, through a video call sums up college in 2020.
I knew this one was fake just by the fact that there's a dorm with a fully functional elevator.
Well technically it wasn’t
@@suzedevilus6824 ?
omg I just got that ajskakadjajdlajs
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
One of the elevators in freshman year dorm always got stuck and one of my friends and I got stuck in there and just started eating because we were so used to it haha
this story was extremely well written and i loved the “investigators supplementary” note at the bottom. adds a twist and i would have never thought to add that. really well done.
I used to be (and possibly still am) absolutely terrified of going down those tunnel slides in the playgrounds. I was afraid of reaching the end and finding that it had been closed off or something. And then trying to climb back up but realizing that the top part has been closed as well. This story, even though it's not about getting trapped in a slide, freaked me out pretty quickly lol.
Are you scared of being trapped? *Claustrophobia has entered the chat*
Are you scared of rats Slovakia has joined the chat
I almost didn't watch this one because I have such bad claustrophobia.
@@englishatheart being trapped in an elevator is scary af, but i think I'll be fine if I'm trapped in a mall 😂
@@englishatheart the fear of being trapped is called Cleithrophobia, and I was very hesitant of watching this since I have it.
The thirst, the hunger, the feeling of motion even when you're still, and one minute lasting an eternity. I really thought this was gonna turn out to be a true story about a bad weed trip.
lowkey this story's just what edibles are like lmfao
lmao i was literally gonna say, like damn bet someone's probably had a trip like this
oof i’ve had a bad trip like that. it was awful
My favorite part is when Ryan acts as a teacher doing a lecture and Shane just shouts "HEY" and Ryan stops and Shane just starts making huge kisses to Ryan it's just... perfect
I've just found this series and watched all of them in one sitting. I need Ryan narrating all the scary stories from here on out!! I'd sub to that so fast
“the clock wouldn’t lie to me” *are you sure about that*
**cries in Unus Annus**
@@m4ttd0tc0m aayyyyyyy memento mori
@@m4ttd0tc0m Unus Annus Unus Annus!
Memento Mori my friends!
@@notme_matt000 ayeeeeeeee
The only thing I was thinking of throughout this episode was the scene of Loki in Ragnarok, 'I have been falling.... FOR THIRTY MINUTES!!!!'
Actually makes sense
Found this amazing channel just a few hours ago and I'm already in love, it's funny creepy and all that great shit not to mention the awesome personalities of you guys, thank you for making content it's amazing
my little stray kids heart leaping when shane says "hellevator". it's a good track.
*Reading the Title* : Um... yeah. *Actually listening* : Ooohhh, yeah... but not in that way.
wdym? i'm very dumb
@@ommmmara You're not dumb! In my experience of being a 24-year old, it's common to feel "stuck" or "trapped" based upon your college/ work experience. In the first half, it was a little humorous. Wearing your PJ's, etc. (which is more applicable in your early college experience) but, imo, it becomes more disjointed and "out there" the longer you stay.
@@casuallyceltic ohhh!! thanks for explaining
@@ommmmara NP! Make sure you make college work for you and be the best you can (also, take a break if you can!)
"A process you don't pay much attention to" Me, a claustrophobic: *anxiously staring at doors the entire one-floor ride up*
I'm always staring at the numbers, since most are digital, cause I have to know when I've passed the threshold of each floor and I have to give myself anxiety when it FEELS too long. Or when the floor shifts too much under me. It's so weird, I'm not afraid of heights, and I'm only claustrophobic around people, but even an empty elevator kinda puts me on edge a little. I like the ones with the views though, at least someone could see you trapped/maybe break the glass as a last ditch effort for safety lmao, idk- Although stairs are freakier. I am a bug of a human with spindly legs and arms that I rarely control well, and although I rarely fall, stumbling is not an uncommon occurrence, and I have slipped down the same set of stairs in the house we've lived in for like a year or two at least twice, once while holding a cat (I immediately went into protective cat dad mode and held her close to my body to keep her from hurting me or herself and keeping her supported over my own weight, lol, and it's not a long fall either, it's one story), because it's carpeted and I trip over my own feet too often- Also dw, I mostly just slid down the stairs on my ass for the second time, first time I was only a step or two up from the bottom and just bruised myself up a little from falling hard, but the second time I was at the top going down instead of at the bottom going down, and that was the time with the cat. She doesn't allow me to carry her up and down stairs anymore lol- (She doesn't get mad, just wriggly.) I'm very bony though, as I'm just a thin person with kinda jutting bones and so it tends to more often lead to like a bruised tailbone or skinning an elbow/rug burn, and my head's really tough. I've hit it on walls by accident or furniture so hard it rang out in the room and didn't even feel it really. (idk, I can get hit hard enough to make me a little lightheaded/dizzy and that barely hurts) So when I did fall down the stairs both times, I laughed it off cause I'm a klutz, but it definitely influenced me to be more aware of how easily I slip. I clutch railings a lot, especially on non-carpeted flooring, since if I'm not consciously careful, I slip and stumble due to the uneven surface, while I can be less focused on it if I hold railings. And I still clutch railings in elevators, albeit likely even more so due to the free-falling feeling, but I've definitely had less (aka no) incidences with elevators besides it being shaky or really seeming to struggle to function/slow/chug-a-chugging on, and it just giving me a major panic attack. In general, I prefer elevators for long distances, but like, a floor or two, if I know the place or if the place has carpeted stairs or whatever, I'll usually do stairs. I'm kinda weird about it, cause as a child I LOVED stairs, and I still do, but I'm very specific about them. Although I like carpeted stairs, I hate the ones with open backs because my OCD loves to prey on that, and give me anxiety around them, but like, at the same time, similar to an uninflated balloon, I am very easily entertained with them. (Only child, so that might explain why lmfao)
@@kiralonely1307 the numbers mason, what do they mean?
@@incredibilisman2909 I don't know.
@@incredibilisman2909 the numbers above the input panel that tell you what floor the elevator is at and the direction it's going
love your profile pic :) inquisition is one of my favorite games
Shane: "Hellevator! That's what this story should be called." Me with skz brainrot: I'm on a Hellevatorrrr
The idea of time having stopped for everything in the world but you truly is terrifying.
Ryan using his ominious voice to advertise skillshare is so funny.
shane: stop looking at your phones losers me, looking at my phone while watching this video: 👁👄👁
Guess I can’t watch the show now may as well unsubscribe
This one is so good. I love its finality such an insane mystery.
can i just say this story portrays the feeling of incoming dread and panic while trying to convince yourself there’s nothing wrong so well
Ryan: "I walked to the elevator and hit-" Some random ass ad: "b i p o l a r d e p r e s s i o n"
This story took a year to get to the "scary" part. It felt like whoever wrote this was trying to sell me an elevator.
LMAO
I liked it :(
Lol
Exactly!
Well... Are you going to buy one???
I’m am loving these story’s while I’m packing to move 🥰 I love you guys so much! I got merch but long ago and I really want to show it off I just have to pack and focus on moving atm 😭 long time fan here xxx
10:19 There's a really cool detail in the art. The number 13 on the elevator button is skipped, referencing the same thing being done in many buildings by the owners, by superstition of 13 being an unlucky number.
Shane: *makes kissy lips at professors to annoy them* Ryan, thinking about the next season of puppet history: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
I don’t know if this counts but Devil is a “horror” movie about an elevator lmao
Hi I’ve seen your vids before, not really a fan no offense but your really pretty!
Omg that movie is so good and the plot twist is brilliant 🤗
i actually have watched that and it wad not very good but still enjoyable if you get me
@@kee0613 yeah I wouldn’t say it’s an amazing movie but it is pretty good
@@englishatheart Damn I made a mistake 😐 I’m sorry I’m running on 3 hours of sleep, I don’t care enough about my grammer. I know the difference
So this is about my cousins. I was in my uncle's town that time, and I went to my cousins' apartment. They had this grilled elevator, not the automatic opaque-doored one. So they had to go to the neighbor's house for some reason, and while going up, I took the stairs and they took the elevator. Suddenly there was a power cut, and the elevator stopped just before reaching their floor, fortunately lol. I walked up the stairs and was beside the grills, talking to them and passing the time until the current came back, and they could finally open the grills. Dw I tried calling for help (also called the security guard) to let em out but no one could do anything, neither me..... so they had to wait for a couple of mins. Thnx for wasting ur time in reading my story.
This hit a bit close to home for me considering I've been trapped in an elevator at least 3 times. The first was in a hotel in Thailand when there was a blackout and me and my parents had to be rescued by the fire department. The other two times were in a university, the elevators were operated by key card, they would let you in but not let you out until you scanned your card. My card was hella buggy (because of course it was, bad things always happens to me of all people) and I got trapped twice until another student rescued me. I wasn't the only one who got trapped by that demon elevator.
The thing that scared me the most about this story is her ripping off a nail.
HAHAHA yeah
happened to me once! honestly not as bad as you'd think! Although it was still hanging on by the very base under my skin, and the day after it happened I got into a fight with my sister and she pushed me and I caught myself on the wall and it pushed the entire ripped off nail into my finger! That was the worst pain I've ever felt!
As someone who has lost almost her entire nail it is positively horrific
bro i ascend to different dimensions when i accidentally bend my nails. i don’t want to imagine how painful ripping one of would be.
@@amshazow one of the worst parts is the skin thats normally under your nail being exposed after, while it's healing it's like crusty and squishy and really sensitive to pain,,, its funny to watch the ugly little nub grow back tho
Ryan: "This episode is sponsored by Skillshare" Me: *shivers in fear*
This one was really good!
What a very horribly terrifying elevator story..even if it's just imagined. I remember the saying that goes; "Knowledge can take you places, imagination can take you anywhere."