Old man makes a SHOCKING confession | Halloween Scare-A-Thon (part 8)

in 2019 a 70 year old man posted a lengthy confession to reddit that quickly went viral and if you make it to the end of today's video you'll see why but before we get into today's story if you're a fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format and you've come to the right channel because that's all we do and we upload three four even five times every week so if that's of interest to you please deliver a strange dark or mysterious story to the like button but in pdf format also please subscribe to this channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads alright let's get into today's story on the advice of his longtime therapist a 70 year old man named art began writing about what happened to him and his family 30 years earlier in 1989. his therapist only knew art had lost a child and felt very guilty about it but the conditions under which the child was lost was always very gray even though art had been his patient for years and the therapist had repeatedly tried to get more information you know was this a child that was lost in pregnancy was it a child that was born and died or ran away those details never emerged and every time the therapist tried to dig in art would back off close up and he would not talk about it and so finally his therapist said art you just need to find a way to talk about this stuff if you're not going to talk about it with me then perhaps you should write it all down in a private journal it'll be a very cathartic experience and it might help you get over that guilt you're feeling so art reluctantly agrees he goes home he gets out a piece of paper and he begins writing all the details of everything that happened leading up to that day in 1989 and what actually happened on that day in 1989 and when he was done and he had a chance to look at what he had written he didn't feel better he felt worse he felt more guilty but that's because art had a secret that the therapist didn't know about and now that it was out on paper art suddenly felt like you know what before i die i have to tell the world what me and my wife did so in 2019 he took all of those notes that he had written down about what had happened and he posted it to reddit this is his confession story [Music] art's son was very very troubled art would say if you've seen the movie we need to talk about kevin where a couple's son turns out to be a total psychopath art says that's a pretty good representation of what home life was like with our son from the day art's son was born in 1971 it was like something was off about him art and his wife lisa had planned this pregnancy and they were ecstatic when their baby boy was welcomed to the world and they showered him with affection and love and did everything they possibly could to give him a warm loving environment but no matter what they did it just seemed like he was always miserable their son cried constantly for the first 13 months of his life now art and lisa understood that when you bring a baby home there's a good chance they're going to cry but his crying was so constant and he could not be calmed down that they grew concerned that this was more than just a colicky baby there could be some underlying issue and so they brought their son to doctors and specialists and they tried every treatment under the sun they changed his diet they changed his room they sang in songs they changed everything they could but it never stopped and so 13 months of grinding grading notion finally in the 14th month of his life he seemed to get over the incessant crying stage and art and lisa were so relieved it seemed like finally they could just be loving parents and not be so frustrated with their child all the time but it seemed like now that he wasn't crying he still was just totally unhappy his body language and everything about him said i'm not happy always art said that he never saw his son ever have a genuine joyous smile the only time he saw something resembling a smile was when his son would grin after causing someone pain or breaking a rule or in some way being bad and then once his son started walking all he wanted to do was just destroy everything in front of him but again art and lisa they realized that this is all pretty typical child behavior albeit maybe on the more extreme end of bad behavior but it's still in the realm of normal child and they're thinking that they are the reason this is happening and so they're not blaming their son at this point they're still doing everything they can to take care of him and love him to the best of their ability when their son was about two years old he learned how to take off his diaper and he began sneaking around the house and emptying the contents of his diaper into corners of the house underneath carpets grinding it into the carpet smearing it on the walls but again art and lisa are looking inward and saying our child is only two years old it can't be his fault he's acting this way it's our fault for not finding a way to correct this behavior but art and lisa started to drift away from that opinion when their son got a little bit older got potty trained and wasn't using diapers anymore and still was going around the house and squatting down and going to the bathroom all over the house making a mess at every possible chance he could and not just when he was four five six years old all the way up until he was 15 years old he was doing this and he stopped doing it in random corners and he began only going into his parents bedroom every chance he got opening up the sheets going inside going to the bathroom shutting it back up and leaving it got to the point where art and lisa literally could not stop their son from doing this he was absolutely determined to do this so anytime they were away he would even sneak in the windows to do this i mean he was totally hell-bent on going to the bathroom in their bed and so they had to start putting locks on the windows and the doors of their bedroom but when they had finally secured that room to where he really couldn't get in anymore he began going to the bathroom right outside their door and in the other beds in the house and so they began investing in locks on all of the doors they even replaced the doors themselves because they were too flimsy and they thought there's a good chance he might kick these doors in to try to get them open so they put these big thick doors up all through their house and put these big locks with key locks all over the house to keep their son from going in and going to the bathroom all over their bed sheets as their son grew older he became more and more unmanageable well beyond just going to the bathroom in different places he became violent and he would bite and kick and scratch and spit on anybody that came near him he was a wild animal before he was nine years old he had been kicked out of school two separate times when they let him back in a third time he apparently did something that was so bad that they effectively expelled him a nine-year-old is getting expelled from school so they had to enroll him at this other special school that would accept him with his history but part of the deal with this school is you don't have any interaction with other students he was considered too dangerous to be around other kids so he was totally isolated at school and it ultimately made him a lot worse once he was enrolled in the school he became really violent at home he would come home from school and he would go right to the kitchen and get a knife out and he would start threatening his parents to the point where they had to lock all the drawers in the kitchen once all of the knives were under lock and key in art's house his son began stealing knives from the neighbor's house smuggling them back into the house and at night he would pull them out and try to stab art and on two different occasions he was successful and art still has scars on his leg from it and art's son was not just attacking his parents he was also turning on local animals that were helpless he blinded one of the local dogs that was running around the area by just stabbing it in the eye one day he went after one of the stray cats and he lit its tail on fire and honestly art doesn't even know the other damages he had done to other animals or even other people even though art and lisa massively resented their son for how badly he treated them and how difficult he was making their lives they recognized that this was a child that needed help and so they tried everything they could to help him by enrolling him in that special school that ultimately was isolating but it was an attempt to try to help him or bringing him to different therapists and psychologists and doctors putting him on different medications and bringing him to meditation consultants i mean you name it they tried everything they could to try to help this kid but nothing worked he only got angrier and angrier and got bigger and stronger and more aggressive and violent and eventually art and lisa are like what do we do about this what ultimately started happening over the following years is art and lisa became prisoners of their own home that every time their son was around they felt unsafe around him he was such a wild card and he had these crazy angry outbursts and he was clearly prone to extreme violence and so they began using those heavy doors and locks to lock themselves away from their son it was the only way they felt safe and so with that in mind fast forward to 1988 when art's son is now 16 years old and art and lisa find out they're pregnant again it was a surprise and they were not happy about it in fact because of how badly it had gone with their son they were really scared that another child was going to be just as bad and they couldn't possibly go through this again and so they decided that they weren't going to terminate but if they noticed early on this child was a huge problem child as horrible as they felt about it they knew they would give it up for adoption they simply couldn't do this again this time they had a daughter and she was normal she was nothing like their son she didn't come home and cried constantly she smiled and laughed and after a few months she was sleeping through the night and she was hitting her milestones and she just seemed happy and she was easy and it was around this time that art and lisa began to realize just how bad their son was seeing how wonderful their daughter was just amplified all of their son's atrocious behavior over the first 16 years of his life and so art and lisa really began to look at their son as more of a lost cause and they were less invested in going through the motions to try to find some way to help him when they knew it wasn't going to work it had never worked and he's only a couple years away from being 18 and he can go out on his own and figure it out for himself and now since they didn't really care as much about him suddenly his behavior was intolerable and any time he acted up they would never lay a hand on him but they were not afraid to tell him to basically get the f out of here we are not putting up with this leave and so regularly art and lisa would have these horrific screaming matches with their son until their son would basically run away in a rage and then come back hours later or even a couple days later and art said he began to look forward to fighting with his son because every time they fought it meant his son would be gone for a little while afterwards and there would be a little bit of peace and calm inside the house but at the same time art and lisa were concerned one of these days he's gonna come back in after one of these fights and he's gonna kill us so it went on like this for about a year until a rainy day in 1989 when their son was almost 18 and their daughter was almost 1 years old now the house they lived in was a single story bungalow and their daughter's room was against a side wall where there was a window leading to the outside that morning art and lisa had got into one of the worst screaming matches with their son they had ever had and he left in a rage and they slammed and locked the door behind him after a couple of hours their son is still gone and they don't expect to see him any time soon and their daughter is starting to get fussy she seems tired and so they walk into her bedroom they put her in her crib for a nap and then art and lisa leave her room shut the door behind them and go sit down in the kitchen a couple minutes later they hear their daughter screaming at the top of her lungs and art and lisa immediately recognize this is not an ordinary cry this sounds like something is terribly wrong they get up and sprint down the hall to a room and they try the door handle but it's locked they run back out to the kitchen they get the keys they go back they're fumbling with the keys they finally open it up and they're in the back of the room standing next to the crib is their son and he's holding a knife and he's poking it into her face and art said he looked at his daughter and he could see blood on her stomach and blood on her arm and she's screaming and so he thinks to himself thank god she's still alive and instinctively art starts running to try to put himself between his son and his daughter but before he could even get there his wife had moved much faster and she charged over and smashes her son's hand the knife falls to the ground she pushes him as hard as she possibly can and he goes slamming into the wall and falls on the ground art immediately reaches into the crib picks his daughter up and runs to the other side of the room and he kind of looks her over she's crying she's in pain she's scared but he can see the cuts on her are superficial he turns back around and you can see his wife is standing there with her fists bald standing in front of her son her son stands up and he's looking at her no emotion on his face art would even say that it was like he was looking at an alien this person wasn't human how could they do this to their own sister to a baby and he stared at him and then he noticed his wife was moving towards her son like she was going to attack him and this is where art says he knew he was supposed to go over there and stop whatever was about to happen but he didn't and this is the part of the story where art reveals his wife she's this amazing boxer and he knew that she could beat the living crap out of just about anybody the son is so stunned by how quickly this has happened that he's not doing anything he's not positioning himself to fight back or to even preemptively attack his mother he's just kind of standing there looking at his mother with no expression on his face and that's when art's wife winds up and blasts him across the face knocking his head back and art said immediately he could tell his nose was broken blood squirts all over his face and he falls to the ground until this moment neither lisa nor art had ever laid a hand on their son even when he stabbed art twice in the legs they never physically struck their son but this was different their son had crossed the line and he could never come back and so even though art knew if he doesn't step in his wife is going to beat their son to death even though he knew that was going to happen he remembers thinking good he turns around and he leaves the room with his daughter as art cleans up his daughter and puts band-aids on each of the cuts that were inflicted on her he hears in the other room his son is yelling and screaming at their mother saying i'm gonna kill you and she is just ruthlessly punching kicking and smashing him it is not slowing down at all and art remembers by the time he picked his daughter back up after putting all her band-aids on and she'd kind of calm down he still heard his wife punching kicking and smashing their son who's now unconscious again art knows if i don't go in there now my unconscious son is getting his head kicked in by his mother if i don't go in there now he's gonna die for sure but art wants that to happen so he doesn't go in there instead he just rocks his daughter until she falls asleep and by the time she's snoring in his arms his wife is still punching kicking and smashing their son who hasn't made a sound in a long time art just sits down at the kitchen table hoists his daughter onto his shoulder and just listens for his wife to finish what she's doing and finally it does go quiet in there and his wife emerges from the room and she's covered in blood her hands are swollen and red and her chest is heaving like she's been running a race she comes into the kitchen and sits down at the table next to art and looks at him and he looks back at her and he just says is he dead she says i hope so and he just goes yeah me too art and lisa sat at the kitchen table for a long time there was no sound coming from the room where their son was and eventually lisa starts crying and goes and takes a shower at which point art stands up and he goes into the bedroom where his son was and this is when he can tell his son is actually still alive he walks in and he can see his son still breathing but he's covered in blood he's got vomit on him he's clearly wet his pants his teeth have been knocked out his whole face is bloodied and bruised and swollen and he goes up to him and he thinks there's no way he's going to live through this but art has kind of an internal crisis because he wants him to die he doesn't want him to live and so that decision of should i call an ambulance or should i call police was a really difficult one to make because really neither served the purpose that he or his wife wanted and so as he's standing there wondering what to do he hears his wife come out of the shower and so he leaves the room and he confers with his wife and they decide we're not going to call the police we're not going to call any ambulance we're going to do nothing and so right then and there they walked around their house they gathered up a couple things and they headed downstairs into the basement where they had an in-law suite which basically was a little apartment that they didn't really use but it had everything they needed and they moved down there and they locked the one door that led down there and they locked the side door as well they figured if he lived there would be enough food to get him through a few weeks upstairs there's water up there bedrooms bathrooms he had all of that and at some point he would run out of food and he would have to leave or he would die upstairs and in a couple weeks they would go up and they would deal with it over the next week they began to hear movement upstairs which signaled to them he was alive but he wasn't moving around much it was just enough to to know somebody was up there they figured that okay he's probably laying down most of the time recovering and so art began going back to work he would go out the side door and every time he went outside he was on the driveway he was expecting his son to come out and attack him but he never did and his wife lisa she stayed with their daughter 24 7 stayed in the house and at no point did the son ever try to come downstairs and try to attack her or them at any point probably because he was afraid of his mother about three weeks after the attack they were in bed in the basement and they heard him going absolutely ballistic upstairs screaming punching walls breaking things and they decided you know what whatever he does up there it's not worth going up there and confronting him let him do whatever he wants and then the next day it was totally quiet and for the next couple of days art and lisa would listen really intently to see if they could hear him moving around upstairs but they couldn't and so finally art and lisa decide to go up into the main floor and see if he's up there when they open the door they find their entire upstairs has been absolutely wrecked every piece of furniture is ruined every window's broken there's glass all over the place there's brown smears all over the walls but their son isn't there and so they figured that night when they heard him going crazy upstairs he already knew he was gonna leave he just wanted to ruin their house before he did even though their son was gone they had no idea if he was gonna come back or not and so for days and weeks and months they lived in fear that their son was just going to show up one day and kill them but he never did and then three years after the incident they moved and they weren't in contact with their son they hadn't seen him and so he had no idea where they were going and they have no way to contact him so that was it they just restarted somewhere else fast forward to 2019 when art is making this reddit post and he says i haven't seen my son since 1989 and i don't want to see him again and art goes on to say that while he hopes his son was able to overcome his demons and live a normal life he said if he wasn't able to do that if he was out there still causing pain and misery to other people art says he hopes that whoever was on the receiving end of that finished the job and killed him so that's gonna do it guys i hope you enjoyed today's story if you found the secret let us know in the comments what it is and where you found it what's the timestamp and if you're the first one to do that accurately we will pin you at the top of the comments section if you enjoyed today's video and you haven't done this already please deliver a strange dark or mysterious story to the like button but in pdf format also please subscribe to this channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads if you want to get in touch with me you can direct message me on instagram or on twitter my username for both platforms is the same it's just johnballen416 i also have a ton of content over on 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Length: 20min 25sec (1225 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 27 2020