(bright music) - [Narrator] From abundances of junk to filthy old socks that look as if they may be breathing, there are plenty of interesting things to be found under people's beds. But in this video, we're delving beneath beds that have hidden truly
extraordinary things. From treasures worth millions to monsters in every sense of the word, stay tuned to see what lies
beneath the treasure troves we call beds. (bright music) Bedtime beasts. People often think that
monsters under your bed is merely a thing of
childhood imagination. But the truth is, when the lights go out, you can never be certain of
what phantoms creep below. Someone who knows this all too well is former Zimbabwean International
cricketer, Guy Whittall. In 2013, Guy checked into
the Humani Lodge in Zimbabwe. As he tucked into breakfast one morning, he was alarmed by the
shriek of a housemaid coming from his room. He burst in, and found the
source of the maid's terror: a beastly 330-pound crocodile
prowling beneath the bed. Amazingly, this croc had gone
undetected the whole night, as it's thought to have climbed
under there seeking warmth as Guy slept. Guy even recalled how he'd perched on the edge
of his bed when he awoke, and dangled his feet, unaware of the bitey beast below. And I know what you're thinking, "How could you not notice
a 330-pound crocodile under your bed?" Well, you'd be surprised at just how sneaky these creatures can be; after all, it's how they hunt. With the croc found, it wasn't long before hotel
staff wrangled it back outside from whence it came. Hopefully, the reptile
will have the courtesy to book a room in advance next time. Not so itsy-bitsy spider. If you're anything like me and the other 100 million
people in the U.S. who suffer from arachnophobia, aka the fear of spiders, then you might wanna watch this next part with your hands over your eyes. Close encounters with
these eight-legged critters can be intimidating, and no one knows this better
than photographer, Gil Wizen, who crossed paths with the world's most
venomous spider in 2021. Staying at a nature
reserve in Napo, Ecuador, he began to notice tiny spiders
scuttling around his bed. As he peered beneath it, the root of the problem made itself known: a huge mama spider with
a seven-inch leg-span and her skin-crawling offspring. The spider was identified as the infamous Brazilian
Wandering spider, which if you didn't know, a single bite from this
brute can result in nausea, vertigo, blurred vision, severe burning, and sometimes, death. Luckily for Gil, he
lived to tell the tale. In fact, his portrait of this spidy family ended up bagging him the Urban Wildlife photographer of the year award in 2021. If that happened to me, I probably would've fled the room at the first sight of
the baby spiders alone, never mind taking snaps of big momma. Billionaire bed. In 2019, a financial survey found that 5.4% of American
households were unbanked, meaning they didn't possess bank accounts. Which begs the question, where do they keep their money? Well, as it turns out, some people keep their
hard-earned bread under the bed. Yep, in 2017, U.S. prosecutors revealed they'd
seized $20 million in cash found stashed under a
bed in Massachusetts. How did so much cheddar
end up in one place? Well, strap in, 'cause we're about to
untangle a whole web of fraud. Okay, so the year is 2012 and James Merrill and Carlos Wanzeler hatch a cunning plan to pose
as an internet telecom company under the name of TelexFree. Their start-up would allegedly sell voice-over-internet telephone services, allowing people to make phone calls over an internet connection. However, the truth would come
to reveal a pyramid scheme that swindled almost 1 million people out of a collective $1.76 billion. Charging their victims joining
fees to become promoters and getting them to post
ads for their product online proved to be the crux of
this fraudulent scheme. By April 2014, the company had filed for bankruptcy, shifting its losses onto
the unlucky promoters. Soon after, Merrill
was sent to the slammer on fraud charges, while Wanzeler fled to Brazil. It wasn't until 2017 that Cleber Rene Rizerio
Rocha entered the picture. He was sent to the U.S.
on behalf of Wanzeler to transport $2.2 million in cash. However, while Rocha
carried out his operations, federal agents tailed him back to an apartment complex in Massachusetts, where they came to discover $20 million stacked and stashed beneath a bed. The money was seized and the U.S. Department of Justice website claimed that the proceeds
would be returned to the identified TelexFree victims. So, I guess the moral of the story is, if you're gonna defraud 1 million people out of $1.76 billion, you'd better find somewhere
better to stash the cash than under your bed. Fancy fiddle. Ah, the violin. Fluent in the language of
prestige and high-society, this instrument has been
around for over 500 years. With the world's most expensive
valued at $20 million, it's no wonder these instruments exude the very essence of la-di-da. The Vieuxtemps Guarneri is the world's second
most valuable violin, valued at an astonishing $16 million. It was conceived in 1741 by the renowned Italian
instrument craftsman, Giuseppe Guarneri. During the 19th century, the famed fiddle fell into the hands of Belgian composer, Henri Vieuxtemps, who, as you can guess, is responsible for the nickname. In fact, Henri's love
affair with the instrument was so profound that he allegedly wanted
to be buried with it, though for whatever reason, this never happened. Some years later, this
Italian-stallion violin trotted into the hands
of British financier and philanthropist, Ian Stoutzker. Though the sad truth is
that Ian kept the old girl hidden beneath a bed, where it did nothing
more than collect dust for 50 years. However, in 2010, Ian remembered about his insanely
significant under-bed item and decided it was time to auction it off. It was soon snapped up by a mystery buyer for 16 million big ones. Whoever the buyer was, they were extremely generous, as they donated the violin to world-class player, Anne Akiko Meyers. So you're telling me someone
can literally give away a $16 million violin, but the McDonald's employee can't give me more than one sweet and sour sauce? For shame. Greek chic. From philosophy to astrology, to the Olympics and feta cheese, we have a lot to thank
the ancient Greeks for. They pioneered the modern-world and remnants of it can
still be found today, under people's beds? That was proven in 2016
when an elderly British man, who remains anonymous, was decluttering his house. And part of the clutter was actually a 2,300
year-old Greek artifact that had haphazardly
been bunched in newspaper and tossed under a bed. If you listen carefully you can hear the cries of
archeologists far and wide. This gold wreath crown was authenticated and expected to value
anywhere in the region of $130,000 to $262,000. But how does an old British guy come to casually own a
millennia-old Greek artifact? Well, the exact story of its
acquisition remains unclear, though the owner believes he inherited it from his late grandfather. His grandfather was a collector who was fascinated by archeology
and the ancient world, and likely obtained it during his frequent travels in the 1940s. The crown depicts the branches of laurel, myrtle, oak, and olive trees, and experts revere the great condition of this exceptionally rare find. Due to their extreme fragility, these wreaths would be worn
only on special occasions and they were often placed
in the graves of aristocrats, which was likely the story of this crown, as bits of dirt can be
seen embedded into it. This historically-rich crown likely made the old man very rich too, when it sold in June 2016, though the exact sum remains unknown. Whatever the case, I'm sure it fetched a hell of a lot more than the old pieces of headwear,
namely old baseball caps, lurking under my bed. Foot loose. It's easy to imagine
the questionable items that populate hotel
lost-property boxes far and wide. Though hotel employee, Jim Angelton, discovered something particularly bizarre that overstepped the mark. People often say, "I had forget my head if
it wasn't screwed on," and apparently, that
can also apply to feet. Yep, one person actually
left a foot under their bed, a prosthetic one, that is. Nevertheless, someone managed
to hobble out of the hotel with one less foot than when they arrived. Now I'm just speculating; maybe it was a spare one, or maybe it even belonged to a door-to-door
prosthetic foot salesman. Who knows? Either way, Jim explained how he quickly had a security person remove the miscellaneous
foot in a garbage bag as he didn't wanna touch it himself. Safe to say if someone
standing slightly askew shows up at the lost and found, Jim can probably assume
what they're there for. And I know what you're here for, amazing, factual, and even
a little funny content. And your wish is my command. So, why not show some appreciation down in the comment section, or drop a like and subscribe? Great, now, let's get back
to some under bed diving. The Case of Josh Dinning. Every year, around 8 million children are reported missing around the world. For parents, this is
likely their ultimate fear. I once went missing as a child. My parents accidentally left
me at the side of a highway and drove off. Luckily for them I found my way home. (narrator laughs) Ah, anyway. In 2017, British mom, Michelle Dinning, reported her 9-year-old
son, Josh, as missing at 9:15 in the morning. Having not seen him since
bedtime the night before, she feared the worst for
her son's whereabouts. It wasn't long until the police
were searching the house, nearby rivers, scouring the
local area by helicopter search. Dozens of neighbors
pitched in with the search, as they handed out images of Josh, but he was nowhere to be found. Three hours passed and the
reality was looking bleak. In a last-ditch effort, Michelle asked the police to
search the family home again, which is when they made
the shocking discovery, Josh's body under a bed. As you can imagine, the family were shocked to the core, especially considering he was alive. Oh, yeah, didn't I mention? Josh was completely fine. He just really didn't wanna go to school. Yep, three hours of heartache and grief all because this guy wasn't
in the mood for learning. Fearing his cunning plan
had gotten out of hand, Josh explained how he could
hear people searching for him, but was afraid of getting in trouble, so decided to stay put under the bed. And sure, 9-year-olds
aren't generally known for planning ahead, but I'd be interested to know when exactly he planned to come out. All things considered, his plan to bunk off
school technically worked. All I can say is well played, Josh. Well played. Clutter sucker. Are you tired of useless
junk filling up your house? Endless amounts of under
bed clutter gotcha down? Well, with a simple relocation to Guatemala city in Guatemala, you can kick back, relax, and wait while the sinkholes
declutter your house for you. Sinkholes may result in
falling, hitting the ground, major fractures, a sense of
impending doom, and death, which Clutter-Sucker is not
legally responsible for. Sinkhole responsibly. Alright, jokes aside, sinkhole
are no laughing matter, as I'm sure 65-year-old
Guatemala resident, Inocenta Hernandez, would tell you. On an ordinary day back in 2011, Inocenta was watching her grandchildren playing on her patio, when a huge boom suddenly
rumbled through her home. Assuming it to be a car crash
or an exploding gas canister, she rushed out to the
street to investigate, yet she saw nothing. It was then that a passerby approached her to inform her that the noise had actually come from her own house. Shocked, she headed back in, only to discover a 31-inch-wide, 39-foot-deep sinkhole had appeared beneath her bed
in her downstairs bedroom. These treacherous sinkholes
are common in Guatemala and other areas of the world that typically have rock below the surface that is naturally
dissolved by groundwater. As water from rainfall
travels through the soil, these rocks begin to dissolve, which results in underground
cavities being formed. Everything above the ground
appears completely normal while this process is happening, until one day, boom. And trust me, they can be catastrophic. In fact, in 2007, another Guatemalan sinkhole
that was 492-feet-deep swallowed up several homes and a truck, claiming three lives in total. So, it seems Inocenta
got off easy this time. Just imagine being in bed, while a gaping void to the
abyss emerges below you, talk about waking up on
the wrong side of the bed. Gross ghost. Gather around, my friends, because it's time for
a ghost story of sorts. This spooky tale takes us back to 2014, when a Seattle couple,
Brian and Bridgett O'Neill, returned to their apartment, only to discover things weren't
quite as they'd left them. Lotion had been smeared
on their doorknobs, junk mail shredded open, paint poured down the toilet, and perhaps the strangest of all, soles prized out of 20 pairs of shoes. Their world had literally
been turned upside-down, which they initially suspected
at the hands of burglar. However, a police inquisition would prove nothing had been stolen, which, the couple concluded,
could only mean one thing: a poltergeist. (audience gasps). After the cops left, the O'Neills began to hear
strange, spooky noises, noises they could only
liken to a dying possum. The sounds of the quote,
unquote poltergeist seemed to be coming from
under the couple's bed, but for their peace of mind, the O'Neills had the police come and take a look under there
for them, just in case. That's when the chilling
truth was revealed. There was no ghost under there, nor even a dying animal. It was a woman, a heavily intoxicated woman. Yep, lurking beneath their bed, armed with a kitchen knife
and a hypodermic needle, was a 27-year-old lanky
and wild-eyed woman, who, for demonstrative purposes, we'll call Ms. Crystal Methany. Our pal Crystal had been
there at least 2 hours and later admitted to the police how she'd been on a
substance-addled rampage for several days. In her intoxicated haze, the police suspected she'd
climbed into the house via the bedroom window and unleashed sheer chaos, before eventually retiring
to safety under the bed. Yet, even with paint down
the john and soleless shoes, the O 'Neills didn't feel
contempt towards this woman so much as they did sympathy. Bridgett even said she
felt bad for the woman, though I' sure her attitude changed later, when she was nursing her sore feet on account of her soleless shoes. But if you want an even creepier story, then just check out this Reddit post from Taymhaston in 2016. As all good horror films start, her parents had just
moved into a new house. As the redditor checked the place out, they flopped onto their back
on the bed in one of the rooms, only to discover something truly chilling. That is, a faint, ghostly
message on the ceiling, that read I'm under the bed. While presumably a prank
left by a previous resident, the redditor was able to share the post, so we can assume there
weren't actually any killers or ghouls under the bed. But I'd still probably recommend burning the house down anyway, just to be sure. Stranger danger. While it's no secret that
finding a person under your bed is a thoroughly frightening idea, that concept reaches its terrifying peak in this next encounter, shared online by redditor, Myhra. When Myhra was around 20, she'd just moved into her first apartment and was on the phone to her boyfriend while collecting her mail
from the building's entrance. As she returned to her room, she perched on the edge of the bed, only to lose grip of her phone. It slid beneath her bed, leading her to a terrifying discovery. As she bent down to pick it up, her heart stopped as she discovered a man lying under her bed with his back to her. Thinking fast, she picked up the phone, loudly stating to her boyfriend how she was going to get in the shower. She immediately fled to the bathroom and discretely locked the door. With her room being on the bottom floor, she was able to escape to
safety out the bathroom window. The police were alerted, and what they discovered was
a thin, tired looking man waiting outside her bathroom door, armed with a kitchen knife. Had the girl not been
so calm and collected, we may not have been hearing
her version of events today. Now, considering this story's only been shared anonymously online makes its credibility problematic. That being said, unfortunately, things like this aren't unheard of in the world of verified news. In 2014, for example, British 18-year-old, Kyle Ravenscroft decided he would send a series
of sinister text messages to a 16-year-old girl
he'd become obsessed with. The poor girl was so afraid that she decided to sleep in
her mother's room that night. But, as her head hit the pillow, her phone lit up again, "I'm watching you. I am in your house," the texts read. It seemed like an
impossible, baseless threat, but nonetheless incredibly unnerving. But here's the worst part: when she returned to her
room the next morning, things weren't quite as she'd left them. Something in the air
felt wrong, very wrong. Peering beneath her bed, the girl found Kyle Ravenscroft, seemingly lying in wait. The girl's mom yelled at Kyle and immediately alerted the police, while he ran like the wind, stealing the girl's phone while fleeing. Later inspection would find that the handle to the
girl's bedroom window had been completely snapped off, concluding that the creepy Kyle had broken his way into
her room in the night. It's pretty horrifying to
think what might've happened had the girl not slept in
her mother's room that night, but unbelievably, in the
end, Kyle got off light. He was merely being fined 100 pounds and made to undergo a behavioral
rehabilitation course, with the court defense labeling him a bright young man capable of change. Yeah, change, and god knows what else. So, check under your beds, folks. There's a creature on the loose who answers to the name Kyle. Mattress mania. Picture a scene: a single ray of sun shimmers
through your curtains. The primal melodies of
birdsong that have sung to man ever since his first dawn
enter your consciousness, as you depart from the realm of dreams and awaken to yet another
beautiful morning. As your feet touch the ground, you stretch and release a yawn, all while a stranger slowly emerges from inside your mattress. Wait, what? Well, this bizarre scene
could well have come true, if a strange plan that went badly wrong had a different, equally strange outcome. In 2018, on the border
of the Spanish enclave of Melilla on the African landmass, Spanish border officers decided
to inspect two mattresses that were being transported into Melilla. Sensing something was
odd about the mattresses, the officers peeled back
the layers of plastic, cut into the fabric, and were soon confronted
with a shocking discovery. Two men were hiding inside the mattresses. It appeared that they'd
excavated the mattresses and fashioned what
almost resembled coffins. And coffins they might've ended up being, considering the mattresses
were also wrapped in a thick layer of plastic, which would've been insanely hot, not to mention
less-than-ideal for breathing. Dazed, speechless, and barefoot, it's assumed they were attempting
to sneak through customs to migrate to Europe for a better life. Though on this occasion, commuting via mattress of
course proved unsuccessful for these two gents. But a grown man isn't the only mystery people have found hidden
in their mattresses. Nope, in 2015, a Mexican family decided
to buy a new mattress, and they soon caught a
whiff of something foul coming from within, which compelled them to dissect and inspect the new purchase. What they found proved that sellers claiming
an item is brand new isn't always reliable, to say the least. Just take a look at the
filth they uncovered. (people speaking in foreign language) You can almost smell the
stench through the screen. While it's unconfirmed what exactly their new
mattress was encrusted with, one can only assume years
of sweat, dirt, dead skin, and general bodily grime
had caused the stink. In the same way that a
polished turd is still a turd, encasing a filthy old mattress in the outer casing of a new one isn't quite going to cut it. Promiscuous pensioner. Old people were once young. And just because they're
old doesn't always mean they don't still like some
horizontal refreshment, you know, doing the old bedroom shuffle. You get the idea. And while I'm sure we all would rather not think
about granny and grandpa playing hide the cannoli, one pensioner in
Philadelphia made the news, due to his fondness of, shall we say, women of the night. The saucy 70-year-old, who was living in an old people's home, was stripped of his housing subsidy after the staff found a
woman hiding beneath his bed. Specifically, the kinda woman that can show you a real good time, and I don't mean a
rollercoaster attendant. Though this tale only
gets more unbelievable, it turned out the old-timer managed to fund his love of the ladies by profiting off other residents, as he peddled alcohol to them. He was described as one of
the more mobile residents, and capitalized on this by going on booze runs for neighbors. Though as you can guess, this wasn't the only way he was active. This man is everything I aspire
to be in old age, and more. Have you ever found anything
incredible beneath your bed? Drop me a comment below, and like and subscribe
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