15. HAARP is Responsible for Hurricanes
When renowned physicist, Dr. Michio Kaku, appeared on TV to discuss the recurring hurricanes
that destroy coastal towns every single year, what he said surprised everyone. Dr. Kaku confessed on live TV that the hurricanes
were not natural; they were man-made. He claimed that HAARP was behind the hurricanes. The physicist stated in an interview with
CBS that nano particles had been disseminated into the air by a government weather modification
program, which “activated” the storms using “lasers.” Um….say that again? Gakona, Alaska is the base from which HAARP
transmits using an 180-antenna network. The antennas are directed toward the sky,
and they deliver 10 megawatts of power, acting as a strong high-frequency radio transmitter. They alter the ionosphere’s composition
layer, which exists 50 kilometers above the Earth. In fact, Dr. Kaku isn't alone in his belief. A 1999 European Parliament resolution stated
that the environment had been altered by the HAARP Project to serve the military’s aims. And a 2002 Russian Parliament report with
signatures from ninety International and Defense Relations committee MPs called the HAARP Project
a “geophysical weapon” that was created to alter the atmosphere here on Earth. Could this deep dark secret be true? Are our most recent destructive hurricanes
the result of some dark government conspiracy? Some seem to think so. Including this renowned physicist. 14. The Car-jacking
During a siege in Queensland, Australia, Channel 7 News cameraman, Peter Steer, was assigned
to film the reports on his very first day on the job. And what a first day that was. A gunman in flight flagged him down and admitted
to a terrible crime. The biker had bloody hands, no shoes, and
was weeping. He confessed that he'd done something “extremely
bad,” and said, “I hope she's alright. I think she's dead.” He confessed on video to having attacked his
partner, but when the cameraman was on the phone with police, the biker decided to continue
his crime spree and draw a gun, hijacking the cameraman’s van, and fleeing the site. His flight was short, however, as he crashed
into first a road sign and next a fuel tank at a gas station close at hand. Still, the suspect wasn’t done in attempting
destruction. He tried to find a cigarette lighter, assumedly
to light the place up as the gas tank leaked. The suspect was taken and charged with armed
robbery and attempted murder, among other charges. 13. Murder She Wrote
The last thing you expect to hear on a reality TV show is about murder. But that’s what Baby Kala confessed to on
a reality TV show in India called 'Solvathelam Unmai'. She was married for fifteen years but had
already begun fighting with her husband a year into the relationship. Then, in 2010, Baby Kala met Gowri Shankar. The pair began having an affair, and when
the husband found out, they schemed to take his life. And they did just that when her husband was
only 39 years old. Using a polytene bag, they smothered him on
July 17th, 2010. They told people he’d had a heart attack. Some speculate that Baby Kala announced this
so publicly on national television, because her former lover planned to marry another
woman. She and Shankar were both arrested. 12. Lance Armstrong's Confession
When Lance Armstrong appeared on Oprah in 2013, it wasn’t to celebrate his seventh
Tour de France victory. It was to confess his use of performance-enhancing
substances to cheat in the international bike race. Armstrong had been denying this use for over
ten years, but when Oprah got him in her sights, he finally came clean. In her first 90-minute interview on the OWN
cable channel, no longer did we see the joyful smiling Oprah we all know and love; she shot
straight and asked Armstrong the tough questions: Regarding Armstrong’s alleged pressuring
of his cycling teammates to accompany him in using the substances, she asked him, “Were
you a bully?" The exclusive interview dove into the details
of his usage and his blood transfusion usage. He answered yes to all of Oprah's questions
and elaborated on his cheating streak throughout the interview. This wasn’t the only deep dark secret that
Oprah pulled out of celebrities and others during her 25 year term as a daytime talk
show host. 11. Off-Road Attempt
On the show, The Bachelorette, based in New Zealand, the 21-year-old bachelorette, Claudia
Hoskins, revealed a dark secret. She had suffered a terrible accident that
left her with 19 broken bones. Most thought it was an accident. But it wasn’t. She’d driven off-road on purpose, after
she’d caught her then-boyfriend having multiple affairs. She had been with this boyfriend for eighteen
months, when she discovered a phone conversation between him and a friend that revealed he’d
been cheating all over town. After confronting him about it, she didn’t
know what to do, and she just wanted it to end. She told Women’s Day, "I wasn't thinking
about the consequences it would have on my family, my friends and my boyfriend - I just
made a split decision in the moment. I didn't think I could ever be happy again
and I didn't want to deal with the fall-out of the relationship.” Luckily, she survived. But she suffered punctured lungs, six broken
ribs, a broken collarbone, foot and arm, a fractured spine, and liver and spleen damage. After spending a couple weeks in the hospital,
she recovered and no longer ties her happiness to the man she’s dating. 10. "It Didn't Come Out"
When 2-year-old James Patrick Bulger from Kirkby, England, was taken from the New Strand
Shopping Centre while his mother took her eyes off him for a brief moment, she was relieved
to find surveillance footage that he’d been taken by two young boys. He’d be safe with them, she thought. But she was wrong. Ten-year-old Jon Venables and Robert Thompson
took James from the shopping center and treated him horrifically. They took his young life and left him on a
railroad track, where he was found two days later. The two ten-year-olds were charged with abduction
and murder. The public thought they knew every gruesome
detail of the cold-blooded actions. But when James’ father Ralph appeared on
GOOD MORNING BRITAIN on the 25th anniversary of his son’s passing, he hinted that there
were even more horrible details of the incident that weren’t revealed to the public. Ralph insisted in the interview that Jon Venables,
now 35 years old, should be monitored at all times if released. He also said the killer should not remain
anonymous. The host of the show said the public might
then “take the law into their own hands.” This is when Ralph implied that the two boys
had done much more destruction than what the public knows…which is both dark and disturbing. “You’ve got to look at it to see how sick
they really are. It didn’t come out exactly what they did
to him, it’s a little bit of a lot of damage of what they done,” he said. The “little bit” that we know these two
did is enough to make one sick to one’s stomach. So maybe it’s best that the rest remains
a dark secret. 9. Murder Attempt
A 61-year-old woman was stabbed and had been hospitalized. The victim’s 31-year-old daughter, Katie
Nichols, was the primary suspect. She fled the scene, taking her daughter with
her. The police didn't have to look far to find
her, however. While reporters were interviewing the victim’s
close friend, who lived a few houses away, Katie emerged at the apartment and approached
the news crew to confess. She said she had tried to kill her mother,
because she thought she was the antichrist. She claimed her mother was the head of a satanic
cult that was “casting spells” in an attempt to take the life of her daughter. “I had no idea that my mother was that powerful,”
Katie said. She felt no guilt about the attempted murder,
admitting, “I stabbed her three times and she should have died." Katie likely believed that the fact her mother
was still alive only validated her claims that this woman was the antichrist. The victim was rushed to the hospital, after
a neighbor heard the commotion, where she was able to inform police about her daughter’s
attack, which happened at 3:40AM, while she was sleeping. Katie tied her mother up, put a sock in her
mouth, and threatened her. That’s when she did the deed with a small
kitchen knife, a larger knife, and a pair of scissors. She hid in a rural area, and only returned
to tell her tale to reporters. One of the reporters said she was frightened
of Katie, as she interviewed her, and she phoned police. Katie was charged with aggravated kidnapping
and attempted first-degree murder. 8. Swedish Rights Activist Confession
This dark secret told on live state TV in China may not be what it seems. Swedish human rights advocate, Peter Jesper
Dahlin, had been detained by the Chinese government when he made his confession. He worked for an organization in China called
Chinese Urgent Action Working Group, which is said on its website to undertake “rapid
response assistance for rights defenders in need.” Doesn’t seem like anything to apologize
for… However, Dahlin appeared on national television
to confess to violating Chinese laws while the Chinese state-run news agency, Xinhua
[sheen-wa], claimed the organization Dahlin worked for was illegal, and the activities
he was involved in were designed to corrupt the country’s national security. They also claimed that China Action "trained
others to gather, fabricate and distort information" about China to use in human rights’ reports
for overseas organizations and that they took huge amounts of money into the country from
overseas, undeclared. Xinhua said China Action had been “smashed”
by Chinese authorities. In his apology that aired on CCTV, Dahlin
admitted to harming the Chinese government and its people and said he was sorry for having
done so. Whether these statements were a dark secret,
in and of themselves, or whether the dark secret is that of the Chinese government forcing
the people they've detained to make these statements is for the viewer to decide. 7. A Million Little Pieces
When James Frey wrote the incredible memoir, A Million Little Pieces, Oprah had him on
her show to celebrate this book about substance abuse and living by the twelve-step program. But not long after the book became a best
seller, The Smoking Gun posted an article, entitled, “A Million Little Lies: Exposing
James Frey's Fiction Addiction.” The article claimed Frey had made up portions
of his memoir - the extent of his criminal record, for instance, as well as a train-car
accident that Frey had alleged to have happened in Michigan in 1986. One of his biggest tall tales was about colliding
with a cop while high and subsequently fighting with a number of cops, which resulted in an
87-day stint in jail. However, The Smoking Gun found that Frey had
been cooperative in his arrest, had nothing but minor offenses, and was let go after five
hours. Frey’s publishers initially backed him,
but after hard evidence came to light, they included disclaimers in subsequent publications,
incorporating an author’s note and a publisher’s note. Frey admitted that he’d “altered small
details” in the book for literary effect, but that his addiction was real - and was
the backbone of his memoirs. Oprah also voiced her opinion that her viewers
had been inspired by the book, and that it was the publisher’s job to confirm the authenticity
of the story. However, when Frey appeared on Oprah’s show
in 2006, her tone was less sympathetic. She wanted a direct answer from Frey: Did
he lie? Or had he truly just “altered minor details”? This is when James Frey finally admitted on
live TV that The Smoking Gun’s report had been true. He’d spent a few hours in jail, rather than
87 days. And with such exaggerated inaccuracies, who
knows how much of the memoir was fabricated? 6. Israeli Spy
China state television is not the only one to air alleged confessions from foreigners
in their midst. Iranian state television aired the so-called
confession of an Iranian academic who also had residency in Sweden and who supposedly
served as an agent for Israel in order to pass on important information to them. The aim was to assassinate senior Iranian
nuclear scientists. Israel, they said, was trying to throw their
nuclear energy program off the rails. What did this man get in return? Iran claims he received payment and European
residency. He was arrested on charges of espionage in
April 2016. The report given by Iranian state television
alleged that he had been involved in the assassinations of the scientists, which spanned three years
from 2010 to 2013. He wasn’t the only one arrested for the
assassinations of the nuclear scientists. An Iranian athlete was also found guilty and
had his life taken in 2012. In his televised confession, he said: "They
were showing me pictures of some people or satellite photos of nuclear facilities and
were asking me to give them information about that." The wife of this man, who lectured in Stockholm,
claimed that the confession had been forced by Iran, whose Supreme Court then gave him
the harshest sentence. “After three months in solitary confinement,”
she said, “his interrogators told him that he would be released only if he reads from
a text in front of the camera.” She continued, saying that if he strayed from
the text in the slightest, they would shout at him and cut the film. According to Iran, a sabotage and terrorist
network bent on assassinations and bombings was discovered in Shiraz, a city to the south. Iran claims the network had ties to the CIA,
Israel, and additional nations neighboring their country. So, is there any truth to this confession? Or is it entirely coerced? 5. Survivor Tie Breaker
For fans of Survivor, one part of the show remained a mystery up until the Game Changers
Reunion show: what happens if there’s a tie? The show’s host, Jeff Probst, revealed the
secret. The champion of that season, Sarah Lacina,
could have easily been thwarted by Brad Culpepper. Brad had chosen to take Sarah to the finals,
but had he chosen Tai Trang, the jury vote would have resulted in a 5-5 tie. This was figured out when Probst polled the
jury to consider how they would have voted. “Everybody asks, ‘What would you do in
the case of a tie at final Tribal?’ We would have had one had you said, ‘You
know what? I’m going to keep Tai and get rid of Sarah,’”
Probst said. Then came the reveal by Probst of one of the
deepest secrets of Survivor, which has survived for many years: if there’s a tie in the
final Trial Council, the final vote is decided by the contestant that is not in the tie. In this case, Troyzan would have decided the
final vote. And, according to Troyzan, the tie-breaking
vote would have gone to Brad. So….choosing Sarah cost him a million dollars. 4. Live Confession
When 45-year-old Brian Hawkins appeared on KRCR-TV in Redding, California, he planned
to unburden himself of the guilt he felt for something he had done in 1993. He’d participated in the murder of 19-year-old
Frank McCalister and, in his confession, he also implicated his ex-girlfriend and her
brother in the ordeal. Hawkins claimed that the trio had taken McCalister
into a hidden wooded area, where they took his life and afterwards left his car in a
Costco parking lot. The confession was not spontaneous. Hawkins called KRCR-TV in advance and explained
that he wanted to confess his role in the killing on television. He claimed that his guilt and his faith pressured
him to reveal the horror within. The station said they would not air the footage
unless he confessed to police, as well, and could confirm that Hawkins’ tale was true. “God and Christ and these things that have
happened over the course of 25 years have pushed me and pushed me to do the right thing,”
Hawkins said in the interview. “I know the wrong can't be changed but this
is the closest I can come to doing the right thing.” Hawkins was visibly shaken and lowered his
head in the interview, expressing the guilt he felt since that fateful day, calling every
moment since “horrible” and “a nightmare.” The case had gone cold, and investigators
said this admittance of guilt was their very first “big break.” Following the confession, Hawkins gave himself
up to police, along with his accomplices. On top of murder charges, they have been charged
with robbery and burglary. 3. China Confesses
This is a follow-up to the Swedish human right’s activist who “confessed” on China’s
national broadcaster, CCTV. Another confession video was broadcast live,
which revealed “confessions” from a lawyer who worked for Beijing Fengrui, as well as
two of his firm’s employees. These confessions were shown prior to court
proceedings, as China allows police to detain suspects for up to 40 days without releasing
or arresting them. This gives police time to coerce a confession. When individuals are shown to confess. These confessions are not unlike the “shame
parades” that occurred during China’s cultural revolution, in which intellectual
people were mocked and tortured in the streets. As one Weibo-user put it, now it’s happening
on CCTV. Chinese Human Rights Defenders Researcher,
Frances Eve, told Quartz that: “By broadcasting these so-called ‘confessions,’ state media
and Chinese authorities are rejecting the basic norms of a rule-of-law system, including
the presumption of innocence and due process rights. Trial by state media is not the kind of trial
held in a country ruled by law.” The title below the lawyer and employees read
“criminal suspects.” In their confessions, they explained how they
created rumors online that manipulated court cases, in which they represented ordinary
citizens against government officials or authorities. They also described how they paid people to
protest in order to sway the public in their favor. The lawyer in question, Huang Liqun, pointed
the finger at the firm’s director, who he said was driven by “unspeakable political
purposes.” This trend of broadcasting confessions is
not new; however, the high-profile nature of the confessors is. Five years ago, these confessions would be
given by low-profile criminals. But now activists, journalists, lawyers, and
others are getting shafted. Some in the public are blasting what they
see as the government “shame parades.” And some hope that the rest of the public
will follow closely behind and start seeing these “confessions” as an outrageous joke. Here’s hoping… 2. Nixon's Apology
What’s bigger than a government secret? The confession of that secret on national
television. When the Watergate scandal was underway, President
Richard Nixon did an interview with British television host, David Frost. Some called the interview “the closest we
will get to a trial” and, although Nixon was careful to not confess to criminal guilt
in the interview, his admittance of regret was, to some, tantamount to a confession. In his own words, he “let down the American
people,” a weight of guilt he’d have to come to terms with for the remainder of his
life. This confession was seen by some as humiliating,
even more so than admitting guilt to the obstruction of justice charges that he faced. Some mocked Nixon for what they saw as a cheap
confession, sarcastically noting what a “kind heart” he certainly must have to admit such
guilt. But others were sympathetic and believed his
confession to be genuine - that he really did feel as though he’d let the American
people down. The thing is, Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon,
so he would never be put under the microscope by judge and jury. This on-air confession was the most the public
would ever get out of him. Some accused Frost of baiting Nixon, while
those who were directly involved on Capitol Hill in the impeachment process said he was
still trying to cover his tail, and that the Frost/Nixon interview revealed “clearly,
conclusively and finally that Richard Nixon... abused the powers of his high office as President.” And this seems to be true, as Nixon admitted
to Frost at least three things that differed from the record. These three differences include:
Admitting that he knew Gordon Liddy was part of the Watergate burglary prior to June 22,
1972. He never admitted this to authorities. Suggesting that he didn’t intend to buy
Howard Hunt’s silence by paying him exorbitant amounts of money - he paid him $276,000, while
he paid other defendants only $20,000. Howard Hunt knew about the White House’s
involvement in Watergate. This is in opposition to what was found in
the tapes. And, lastly, he claimed he’d directed John
Dean to create a report on the scandal. But that, too, never came to pass, according
to the transcripts. Unfortunately, having been pardoned, Nixon
never faced a trial. The only return viewers got on their investment
was his admittance of some remorse. Before we get to number 1, my name is Chills
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we upload every Tuesday and Saturday. 1. The Discovery
In 2011, Stephen McDaniel was giving an interview about the girl next door, Lauren Giddings,
who had disappeared and was feared dead. The two were classmates at Mercer University
law school. As Stephen calmly gave the interview live
on air, he was informed that the girl’s body had been discovered by police. No one suspected Stephen during his interview,
but when he was told of the police’s findings, his tone changed and he appeared panicked. He repeated that he didn’t “know anyone
who would want to hurt her” and was in full-blown panic mode, which made viewers and police
suspect him. And their suspicions were validated when McDaniel
confessed to spying on Lauren Giddings of several months through her webcam. He then broke into her room, masked and gloved,
and strangled her in June 2011. After disposing of her body, he participated
in the search for her, feigning surprise. McDaniel, rightly, was sentenced
to life in prison.
