3 Disturbing Children's Drawings with Backstories — Transcript
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- 0:00years ago i did a somewhat lighthearted
- 0:02video about the creepiest children's
- 0:03drawings
- 0:04i made jokes about a lot of them but a
- 0:06few on that list did seem like they
- 0:07might have had some sinister backstories
- 0:10over the years i've gotten a handful of
- 0:12kids drawings with backstories emailed
- 0:14to me
- 0:14today i'm going to be compiling a few of
- 0:16those into this video
- 0:19this was the drawing made by a
- 0:21six-year-old boy in 2012.
- 0:23the picture was found in his room by his
- 0:25older sister tracy who sent this to me
- 0:27who was 14 at the time
- 0:28and she showed it to her parents in the
- 0:31picture is the family around the dinner
- 0:32table
- 0:33drawn in a typical six-year-old skill
- 0:34level the reason tracy showed it to her
- 0:37family
- 0:37is because she could recognize all the
- 0:39family members at the dinner table
- 0:41even the family dog and cat who she
- 0:43couldn't recognize
- 0:44was the man sitting on the floor kind of
- 0:46behind the table
- 0:48tracy said in her emails to me that when
- 0:49she was asking her little brother who
- 0:51that man was
- 0:52he kept shrugging his shoulders and
- 0:53saying he's not allowed to tell
- 0:55the man was drawn to be dressed in all
- 0:57black and has reddish brown curly hair
- 0:59as you can see
- 1:00because of her little brother's refusal
- 1:02to explain who that fifth person in the
- 1:04picture was
- 1:05she showed it to her parents explaining
- 1:06that he likely had an imaginary friend
- 1:08or was pretending to be seeing ghosts
- 1:11after the parents confronted the child
- 1:12at dinner asking who the man in the
- 1:14picture was
- 1:15the boy made a pouty face and shrugged
- 1:17his shoulders
- 1:18he did this anytime they asked with the
- 1:20most detailed answer from his mouth
- 1:21being
- 1:22i'm not allowed to tell the parents
- 1:24specifically the dad
- 1:26weren't fazed by it as really a
- 1:27six-year-old could draw anything and
- 1:29create some kind of crazy story in their
- 1:30head behind it
- 1:32tracy would be responsible for watching
- 1:34her brother often when their parents
- 1:35weren't home
- 1:36and one day when she was left in charge
- 1:38of watching him she heard her brother
- 1:40talking to someone in his room
- 1:42upon getting to his room she learned he
- 1:44was just playing with his toy car set on
- 1:46the floor
- 1:46talking to most likely himself as he
- 1:48played
- 1:50tracy asked if he was talking to anyone
- 1:52he looked at her and shrugged his
- 1:53shoulders again
- 1:54pouting his face tracy then noticed some
- 1:57candies on the floor of her brother's
- 1:58room
- 1:59a specific kind of green apple flavored
- 2:01candy that she'd never seen her mother
- 2:03buy before
- 2:04she asked him where he got this and he
- 2:06ignored her going back to
- 2:08playing tracy took the candies and that
- 2:10angered her brother
- 2:11yell and give them back she waited until
- 2:14her parents returned home to ask if
- 2:16either of them had bought the unusual
- 2:17candy
- 2:18since the boy was only six and it was
- 2:20summer break aka receiving the candies
- 2:22at school wasn't even a possibility
- 2:24the random candies appearing in the boys
- 2:26room became a concern
- 2:27even as the boy was scolded and pressed
- 2:29by his parents as to where he got the
- 2:31candies from
- 2:32he still just made his pouty angry face
- 2:34and ignored them
- 2:36the boy was grounded by his father until
- 2:38he would answer the question
- 2:39so he wasn't allowed to leave his room
- 2:42the family checked the closets in his
- 2:43room under the bed even the closets
- 2:45outside of the room
- 2:47the idea that someone was inside of the
- 2:48house was out the window
- 2:50on that same night that he was grounded
- 2:52tracy sat close to her bedroom door
- 2:54instead of on her bed
- 2:55so that she would easily hear if and
- 2:57when her brother in the next room would
- 2:58start talking
- 3:00and sure enough when he did which to
- 3:02note was way past her brother's bedtime
- 3:04she jumped up and ran to his room opened
- 3:06the door and saw her little six-year-old
- 3:08brother standing at his open window
- 3:10talking to a man who looked as though he
- 3:11were about to climb into the room
- 3:13tracy screamed for her mom and dad
- 3:15causing the man at the window to flee
- 3:17and her brother began to cry once tracy
- 3:20told her parents that a man was talking
- 3:21to her brother through his window
- 3:23the police were called the boy still
- 3:25refused to talk at first
- 3:27but with the police there he eventually
- 3:29said that his friend told him not to
- 3:30tell anyone about him or that he
- 3:32couldn't come and play anymore
- 3:34when asked his friend's name and age he
- 3:36said he didn't know
- 3:38when asked what the two of them would do
- 3:39the boy said he would come with snacks
- 3:41and candies for him and just play with
- 3:42toys
- 3:44when asked how they met he said they met
- 3:46in front of the house one day when the
- 3:47man stopped on his bike
- 3:48and gave him some candy after offering
- 3:51to come back with more candies and
- 3:52snacks
- 3:53tracy's brother told him which bedroom
- 3:55window was his
- 3:56and that's when this started
- 4:01submitted to me all the way back in 2015
- 4:04this was sent by a mother of two
- 4:05children
- 4:06a six-year-old boy and an eight-year-old
- 4:08girl almost every night between the
- 4:10hours of 12 and 5 a.m the boy would come
- 4:12to the parents bedroom crying that he
- 4:14scared because someone or something was
- 4:15in his room at the edge of his bed
- 4:18the boy would claim that every night the
- 4:19person or thing would come out from his
- 4:21closet and move to the same spot at the
- 4:22foot of his bed and just stand there not
- 4:24moving
- 4:25the first few times the parents would
- 4:27check the boy's bedroom just to make him
- 4:28feel better
- 4:29the closet door would always be opened
- 4:31when questioned why the closet door was
- 4:33always open when it was supposed to be
- 4:34shut
- 4:34he would claim that it was because he
- 4:36was telling the truth about the thing in
- 4:37his closet
- 4:38every time the parents would show their
- 4:40son that the closet was empty
- 4:42he would go back to sleep their
- 4:44eight-year-old daughter never had any
- 4:45similar issues to this
- 4:47for a few nights the parents would let
- 4:48him start sleeping in their room on the
- 4:50floor with a blanket
- 4:52eventually though after this had been
- 4:53going on for too long the parents
- 4:55decided to humor him one more time
- 4:56and asked him to draw what the thing at
- 4:58the foot of his bed looked like
- 5:01his drawing sent chills down his parents
- 5:03spines
- 5:04in the drawing was some grudge-like
- 5:06figure that seems like it would be
- 5:07enough to give a grown man nightmares
- 5:09let alone a six-year-old boy there also
- 5:12appears to be something at the window
- 5:14and when questioned about this the boy
- 5:16said that he sees it at the window
- 5:17sometimes too when it's not at the foot
- 5:19of his bed
- 5:20the parent's solution to this was moving
- 5:22their son's bed to the spare bedroom
- 5:23across the hall that didn't have any big
- 5:25closets
- 5:26the mom who submitted this couldn't help
- 5:27but get a little creeped out herself at
- 5:29the drawing
- 5:30and every time he would come crying to
- 5:31their room in the middle of the night
- 5:35this third and last one is little
- 5:37different in that it's a mix of drawings
- 5:39and writing and there's three different
- 5:40pages of it
- 5:42this was found by the new babysitter of
- 5:44an 11 year old boy named
- 5:45rocco in ottawa canada the babysitter
- 5:48who i'll refer to as alyssa
- 5:50was needed while the parents of rocco
- 5:51were away for a week
- 5:53according to alyssa rocco was very quiet
- 5:56and kept to himself most of the time
- 5:58he would stay in his room for a majority
- 6:00of the day and would only come out to
- 6:01get food from the fridge or to go
- 6:03downstairs to play video games
- 6:05alyssa tried to befriend the child the
- 6:07first day but eventually gave up
- 6:08after realizing rocco either didn't like
- 6:10her or was just a very unfriendly creepy
- 6:13kid in general
- 6:14alyssa would spend the majority of her
- 6:16shifts doing schoolwork and watching
- 6:18movies
- 6:19she knew rocco had an obsession with
- 6:21guns because of the amount of toy guns
- 6:22he had
- 6:23they would lay across the house in
- 6:25varying rooms ranging from nerf guns to
- 6:28airsoft guns to varying types of toy
- 6:30guns
- 6:31alyssa had never been in rocko's room
- 6:33yet though but one night when alyssa was
- 6:35having trouble sleeping
- 6:36she heard rocco sneak into her
- 6:38designated bedroom and was just standing
- 6:40by the doorway
- 6:42she sat up in her bed and asked rocco
- 6:43something wrong then she just closed the
- 6:46door quickly and she heard him running
- 6:47back to his room
- 6:48the next day alyssa went into rocco's
- 6:50room for the first time
- 6:52rocco wasn't in there and the light was
- 6:54off this meant he was in the basement
- 6:56playing video games
- 6:57as those were the only two rooms he'd
- 6:59ever be in according to alyssa
- 7:00he didn't even seem to seek hanging out
- 7:02with friends
- 7:04sprawled out on rocco's floor where a
- 7:06bunch of papers
- 7:08the first piece of paper that caught her
- 7:09attention was this drawing of a handgun
- 7:12it wasn't anything really alarming it
- 7:14just further demonstrated his fixation
- 7:16on guns
- 7:17alyssa dug through the papers though and
- 7:19found four pieces of paper stapled
- 7:21together with three different staples
- 7:24they formed what could best be described
- 7:26as a little storybook
- 7:28the first page looked to be the cover
- 7:29page titled the babysitter
- 7:31immediately alyssa assumed this little
- 7:33book was about her
- 7:34but not wanting to get caught reading it
- 7:36she took pictures of each page of the
- 7:38little booklet
- 7:39as well as a picture of the handgun
- 7:40drawing and left the room to go read it
- 7:42on her phone elsewhere
- 7:44these were the pictures she had taken
- 7:46this was the second page
- 7:48rocco wrote on it it was a regular day
- 7:50in the house
- 7:51when mom and dad brought over the
- 7:52babysitter for the first time
- 7:55there's something about her that i hate
- 7:57i think it's how ugly she is
- 7:59she's a huge nerd i don't want her in
- 8:00the house not sure why my mom and dad
- 8:03hired her
- 8:04i think i'm gonna have to kill her the
- 8:07drawing on the page is what's supposed
- 8:08to be alyssa sitting on the couch on her
- 8:10phone
- 8:11and rocco spying on her through the
- 8:13doorway
- 8:15this was the next page it's day three
- 8:17and she's still here
- 8:19parents think i'm a baby or something
- 8:20that needs an annoying ugly babysitter
- 8:22that eats all our food and drinks
- 8:25in this drawing rocco appears to be
- 8:26grabbing a kitchen knife while alyssa's
- 8:28in the fridge
- 8:29the child's disdain for his babysitter
- 8:31becomes increasingly apparent in a
- 8:33disturbing manner
- 8:35but the next and last page is by far the
- 8:37worst
- 8:38it says she caught me sneaking into her
- 8:40room i have to be quieter next time
- 8:43the picture is quite obviously rocco
- 8:44holding a knife behind his back while
- 8:46alyssa lay asleep in her bed
- 8:48the implications of this picture are
- 8:50beyond transparent
- 8:51alyssa returned to rocco's room while he
- 8:53was still in the basement
- 8:55and lo and behold found a small kitchen
- 8:56knife on his bedside nightstand
- 8:59alyssa sent the pictures of the drawings
- 9:01and knifed to rocco's parents and then
- 9:02called them
- 9:04at first the parents tried to convince
- 9:05her he must be joking around
- 9:07but they were apparently easily
- 9:08convinced that rocco could have
- 9:10monstrous intentions
- 9:11they had rocco's grandmother take over
- 9:13that same day
- 9:15alyssa left the house never informing
- 9:16the police or any other authorities
- 9:19she accepted her payment for the two
- 9:20weeks that night and she accepted the
- 9:22parents apologies
- 9:23but not without recommending that they
- 9:25take their son to get some serious help
- 9:43[Music]
- 9:51you
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