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  • Uncover Viral - Deadliest Internet Legends with Ava Grey!
    2025/12/01
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    1 分
  • Viral - Deadliest Internet Legends - The YouTube Exorcism Death
    2025/12/01
    A family restrains their daughter for over thirty hours, denying food and water while performing violent exorcism techniques learned from YouTube videos with millions of views. She dies from dehydration and trauma—her family believed they were saving her soul from demons, not torturing her to death. This episode examines how YouTube's algorithm created radicalization pipelines from spiritual content to deadly deliverance practices, how charismatic online exorcists taught families to interpret mental illness as demon possession, and how viral religious content convinced ordinary people that schizophrenia required exorcism instead of treatment. From underground deliverance channels monetizing spiritual warfare to families choosing YouTube tutorials over psychiatric care, the episode reveals how algorithmic amplification of extremist religious content transforms sincere faith into fatal fanaticism, leaving mentally ill victims dead and believing families prosecuted for murder they committed in God's name.
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    34 分
  • Viral - Deadliest Internet Legends - The Slender Man Stabbing
    2025/12/01
    Two twelve-year-old girls lured their best friend into the woods and stabbed her nineteen times, believing they had to sacrifice her to Slender Man—a fictional internet character created on a Photoshop forum. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier became so immersed in creepypasta mythology that fantasy became indistinguishable from reality. This episode traces Slender Man's origins on Something Awful forums through his viral spread across YouTube and wiki sites, examining how collaborative internet fiction can create belief powerful enough to justify murder. From Morgan's undiagnosed schizophrenia to the girls' shared psychotic disorder, from their months of detailed planning to interrogation tapes where they matter-of-factly explained killing for an entity that never existed, the episode reveals how internet-native psychology, parasocial relationships with fictional characters, and algorithmic amplification transformed creepypasta into religious delusion that nearly killed Payton Leutner.

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    33 分