15. Morning Broadcast unidentified flying object
A morning broadcast in Newcastle appeared to capture a unidentified flying object whizzing
through the background. As reporter, Colin Briggs, went through the
morning’s news, the live on air footage captured some unidentifiable flying object
speeding from the lower left corner of the screen and beneath the Millennium Bridge’s
arch, as a webcam filmed the River Tyne. The news network later capitalized on the
bizarre footage, calling on viewers to guess at what the unidentified flying object could
possibly be. Needless to say, the video was uploaded to
YouTube and watched thousands of times, with many viewers offering up their own theories. In the end, most seem to agree that the image
was, quite frankly, an unexplained enigma. One of those people is former Ministry of
Defense unidentified flying object investigator, Nick Pope, who spoke on the matter: “At
first I thought it was a bird, but the slowed down footage seems to rule this out. It's an intriguing film and a genuine mystery.” 14. Poker Tournament Heist
When you’re watching a poker tournament, the most drama you’re expecting is an upset
– a rookie beating out a world champ. But in 2010, viewers were in for an even more
dramatic and frightening treat. The European Poker Tour tournament in Berlin
was hijacked by armed men live on air. Not only did they pull off their heist, but
they took home €242,000. Although no one was seriously hurt, panic
ensued and the crowd went berserk before the cameras were cut. Don’t worry, the robbers were taken into
custody and convicted shortly after. Their sentence? A mere three years locked up. 13. The Sunderland Ghost
You expect to be entertained by Monday Night Football, not frightened. But some people were when they saw a groundskeeper
vanish into thin air in the background of the newsfeed. In the footage, Jamie Carragher and Phil Neville
discuss the events of the night, while presenting at Sky Sports studio. Live on air behind them, the TV sets show
a groundskeeper at the Stadium of Light seemingly preparing the grounds for the upcoming event
(or repairing, after the game). As he crosses the field in Sunderland, suddenly,
he simply vanishes. Those who spotted the figure were aghast. Was this a ghost caught in action on live
TV? Some say it may just be overlapping feeds. But others believe what they saw was real
paranormal activity. 12. Whalers in the Antarctic
A reality show that can take a dark turn, Whale Wars follows the Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society as they confront whaling fleets over environmental issues. The Society has often faced off with a Japanese
whaling fleet, year-in and year-out. By season three, in the episode titled “Sliced
in Two,” the two parties decide enough is enough; it’s time to have it out. Up until this point, the battle has been confrontational,
but not terrifying. The Sea Shepherds’ arms of choice? Paint, spud shooters, and noise disruptors. The whalers’? Strong and effective water cannons. This time, however, the whalers go all in,
heading straight into the Shepherds’ small ship. The Ady Gill is then – as the episode is
so aptly titled – sliced in two. The ship lies in shatters on the open sea. The crew can’t contact anyone via radio. It’s one of the scariest moments in reality
TV history. Even worse, the whalers start to lower an
inflatable boat into the sea, likely to capture the crew and take them on board. The open sea is scary enough. Imagine being surrounded out there on the
waters by your worst enemy. Luckily, the Shepherds are able to save their
crew in time. Everyone survives, and no one is captured. A happy ending to another scary event caught
live. 11. Dramatic Rooftop Capture
This more recent scary event caught on live TV happened in Kiev, Ukraine on December 5th
of this year, 2017, when Ukrainian security forces captured the former Georgian President,
Mikheil Saakashvili, as he tried to escape from a rooftop. He was arrested for allegedly promoting a
criminal organization. Confrontations between police and Mikheil’s
supporters after his capture followed the release of this dramatic footage. More will likely be revealed about these allegations
as the weeks unfold. Stay tuned. 10. Emergency Landing
What happens when a flight goes haywire, midair? Passengers of JetBlue Flight 292 found out
firsthand on their flight from California to New York – a flight that ended in flames,
smoke, and sparks. After the flight took off from Burbank’s
Bob Hope Airport, an indicator light came on noting that there was an issue with the
landing gear. The front tires of the airplane had swiveled
sideways and were frozen there, as the retraction gear hadn’t fully retracted. With 146 passengers on board, the airliner
swung laps in the California sky for three hours to burn off fuel, so that their emergency
landing wouldn’t be so fiery. They were told to land at LAX, as it was supplied
with more emergency equipment and a longer runway on which to land. The pilot would land it using primarily the
back wheels of the airliner. All the while, people were watching this scary
event live at home on TV, passengers were watching it on their tiny TV monitors on the
backside of each seat. Loads of emergency equipment sat ready on
the runway, while more than 100 firefighters awaited the landing. Time stood still, with thousands stopping
on highways and watching from nearby buildings, as the jetliner made its final approach. Passengers were told to get in the brace position,
as they prepared for landing. Needless to say, many feared for their lives
in this moment. But the pilot managed to land softly on the
runway on the plane’s back wheels. “It was the smoothest landing I ever had,”
one passenger said. As its front end touched down, friction sent
up plenty of sparks and blaze, but the fire subdued quickly. The passengers – and everyone watching – were
relieved that this scary and tense event didn’t end up much worse. Applause broke out on board for the pilots
and crew. The pilot’s cool-headed grit has since been
praised the world over, as it should be. 9. The World Series Quake
On October 17th, 1989, nature struck its fear into the lives of loads of baseball fans. Game 3 was to start at 5:35 at the Candlestick
Park stadium in San Francisco. The stadium was filled with thousands of baseball
fans. But before they could sing, “Take me out
to the ballgame,” at 5:04, the quake started to shake the earth, the first ever to be broadcast
on live TV. According to Wikipedia, “Experts credit
the timing of the Series as a lucky break that prevented massive loss of life in the
region; key in reducing the loss of life was the fact that many people on both sides of
the bay had left work early or were staying late to participate in after-work group viewings
and parties, reducing the traffic that would otherwise have been on the collapsed freeways
at 5:04 on a Tuesday.” The ABC news crew was live on air at the event
and their feed was temporarily knocked out when the quake struck. The audio was restored before the video, and
one of the anchors is heard saying the quake was “the greatest opening in the history
of television, bar none.” The Goodyear Blimp actually helped coordinate
emergency assistance and, of course, Game 3 was postponed – the delay is the longest
in the history of the World Series. When the game actually played out ten days
later, emergency responders were honored with throwing out the ceremonial first pitch. Pretty terrifying to watch, lives were lost,
but heroes come out of the woodwork. And that’s a beautiful thing. 8. The Captive
These situations usually end badly. This one, although extremely frightening,
ended as well as it could have. It was February 8th, 1977. Tony Kiritsis, a 44-year-old man from Indianapolis,
was set to meet about his mortgage with Richard O. Hall, a mortgage broker. Kiritsis wasn’t making his payments and
a request for an extension was denied. Kiritsis was afraid that Hall would sell his
property for the equity. After they’d gone in for the meeting as
normal, Kiritsis led Hall out of his office with a barrel held to the base of Hall’s
neck. This wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment plan in
action. Kiritsis had thought this through. The barrel was wired to Hall’s neck, while
the trigger was wired to a ring he wore on his index finger. This meant that Hall would parish if he tried
to run away, and he would parish as well if someone tried to retrieve the gun from Kiritsis. Before leaving the office, Kiritsis had also
phoned the cops to tell them that if they attempted to intervene, Hall’s life would
end. He then led Hall through the streets of Indianapolis
to Kiritsis’ apartment, where he held Hall captive for three days. Kiritsis’ demands? That his debt be eliminated, that he wouldn’t
be prosecuted for his actions, and that the mortgage company admit fault. This is the scary part that was caught on
camera: Kiritsis alerted the news media that Richard Hall would be reading a statement
that he – Kiritsis – had written. Hall could barely speak, due to the strain
from the wire against his neck, so Kiritsis ended up reading the piece himself live on
air. His delivery lasted for 23 minutes. When Kiritsis got what he wanted, Hall was
released, unharmed. Police, of course, prosecuted Kiritsis, despite
promising otherwise, and he was found “not guilty by reason of insanity.” He was thrown in a mental institution for
eleven years. Later, he apologized for what he had done
and said he had never wanted to hurt anyone. Thankfully, he didn’t. 7. Most Haunted Ghost
Watch any episode of the reality TV series, Most Haunted, and you’re likely to see some
paranormal events occur. After all, haunting is in the title. But one episode, in particular, seems to show
the first ghost caught on camera in the 15-year history of the show, in which paranormal investigators
pick over haunted sites. The episode in question was filmed at South
Yorkshire’s Wentworth Woodhouse. Built in 1725, the private country house was
forgotten in the 20th century and is often called the “greatest historic house that
nobody has ever heard of.” The ghost appears in the form of a man strolling
through a dark corridor. The show’s host, Yvette Fielding, called
it “the most ground-breaking footage we have ever recorded, but rather than giving
us the answer we were looking for, it just gave us more questions.” Many claimed the footage was faked, while
other said it supported the hypothesis that ghosts walk among us. But the cameraman, Karl Beattie, reaffirms
that this was, in fact, real. “We've never seen anything like this before
and we really don't have an explanation for what we saw,” he said, “but the replay
of the filming clearly shows the vision in detail.” Spooky stuff, caught on live TV. 6. Japanese Tsunami
Live TV caught the earth-trembling tsunami that smashed into Japan after a magnitude-9
quake on March 11, 2011. The images that followed are terrifying. The earthquake was so powerful that it was
felt everywhere – from the fjords in Norway to the ice sheet of Antarctica. It was so powerful that it redistributed the
Earth’s mass and shifted it on its axis. Our day’s length has been cut short by a
microsecond. It was so powerful that Honshu, Japan’s
main island, was moved about 8 feet east, and as the tsunami traversed the Pacific,
110,000 nesting seabirds were taken out by the 5-foot wave. It was so powerful that aftershocks continued
to hit Japan during the year that followed. 5,000, to be exact. It was so powerful that six years later, and
the tsunami’s devastation is still being dealt with in Japan, where of the 150,000
evacuees still left whose homes were lost to the quake, a third are still in temporary
housing. As for the cost of damage in USD, it rang
in at about 199 billion. But because the earthquake was followed up
by the tsunami – and both were unexpected – the two-in-one had devastating results. It got worse. A cooling system failure resulted from the
tsunami at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, releasing radioactive materials. A horrible event, in and of itself. Told you: nature can be terrifying. 5. A Bear in Alligator River
No, this is not about a Grizzly Bear wading into a river. This is about a human, named Bear, taking
his show Man vs. Wild to the extreme and venturing out into Alligator River which is full of
– you guessed it – alligators. If you’re familiar with Man vs. Wild, you
know that Bear Gryllis’ thing is to take a dive into situations where he might not
come out alive on the other side. Instead of cracking under pressure, he uses
his survival experience and his sense of humor to walk viewers through the experience with
him, often with some educational bits thrown in here and there. Although the show’s premise is founded on
situations like this, this scary moment when Bear enters an alligator-ridden river is probably
one of the most grating and fearsome ever on television. As Bear wades in, he nonchalantly tells viewers
that alligators likely see humans as turtles or other prey, and they’ll take you down
like it’s nothing. He would be a snapped twig if the huge reptile
was to get him…which it could at any moment. Bear looks frightened as dives in, knife in
hand. Viewers watch, holding their breath, as Bear
crosses the murky waters but, thankfully, he makes it across without incident. Breathe freely. Sometimes fear is all in the build-up. 4. The Shadow
If you wander with ghost hunters, you’re gonna get scared. That’s what happened on The Past Hunters,
a show in which ghost hunters investigate spooky haunted grounds and delve into the
past. They also try to determine whether or not
a location is really haunted. In the episode in question, they believe they’ve
caught the infamous ghost of Staffordshire’s Tutbury Castle – known as “The Keeper”
– on camera for the first time. Tutbury Castle holds a number of ghosts – including
Mary Queen of Scots, who was held in the castle a number of times by Queen Elizabeth I – but
the Keeper seems to be the angriest, as he screams at guests from his suit of armor. The castle’s staff acknowledged to the co-director
of The Past Hunters, Bex Palmer, that the shadow ghost was often spotted in the castle. Watching the footage, you’ll see him creep
into view, stand still for nearly twenty seconds, and then head through the room and disappear. Palmer spots the ghostly figure, before grabbing
onto Derek, the show’s psychic medium, as he was determining the castle’s energy levels. According to the show’s hosts, the crew
had paused filming just moments before they’d captured this footage, as bangs, footsteps,
and taps were sounding throughout the home. This shouldn’t have come as a surprise,
as Derek felt a spirit following the crew around the venue during their first walk-through. Palmer said that though she’s pretty stoic
during investigations, this one terrified her, because the shadow seemed to be approaching
them. “The curator Lesley Smith mentioned a shadowy
figure later on and when we told her what we’d seen, it completely matched up,”
Palmer said. “She was just as excited as us that we’d
captured it on camera – we couldn’t stop talking about it for weeks afterwards.” I don’t know if I’d go with the word,
“excited”…after watching that footage, I’m feeling rather terrified, myself. 3. The Toppled Statue
Another momentous visual history caught on live TV. The powerful image of the toppling of the
Saddam statue in Firdos Square was broadcast all over the world, signaling what the Bush
administration hoped would appear to be the end of what he started. Mission accomplished. Only, the their involvement went on until
December 18, 2011. So…not quite accomplished at that point. The moment was one of the scariest and most
powerful caught on live TV. Iraqi civilians (some of whom theorists believe
were paid) and US troops came together to tackle the imperialistic statue, marking what
was supposed to be a symbolic moment in the lives of many Iraqi citizens. On international TV, it looked to be a moment
of spontaneity. As it turns out, it wasn’t as it seemed. According to investigations on the matter,
tight-focused shots used by the media suggested that the square was packed, when it wasn’t. Most in the crowd were also not Iraqi but,
rather, marines and journalists. Moreover, the flag and sledgehammer were supplied
by the US. The act was not as spontaneous as it was reported. The footage suggested that all of Baghdad
was enthusiastic of the toppling of Saddam…but this suggestion was inaccurate. According to Peter Maass, a journalist who
was at Firdos Square on the day, “They were ready to latch onto a symbol of what they
believed would be a joyous finale ... It was an unfortunate fusion: a preconception of
what would happen, of what victory would look like, connected at Firdos Square with an aesthetically
perfect representation of that preconception.” Despite the illusionary nature of this event,
this scary and iconoclastic visual is one of the most impactful caught on live TV. 2. The Fall of the Wall
In 1945, the territories in Germany were divided into four “allied occupation zones,” as
decided by the leaders of the Allied powers. The Soviet Union took the eastern half of
Germany, while Great Britain, the US, and France took the western half. Berlin was about 100 miles from the western
border – smack dab in the eastern (or Soviet) side of the country. Despite this, the city was also divided into
sectors in June 1945, with the Allies, again, taking the western half of the city, itself,
and the Soviets the eastern half. The Soviets did not like this capitalist city
of West Berlin, located in Eastern Germany. So, they started taking steps to drive out
West Berlin and its capitalist agenda from the region. First, they tried to starve them out of the
city by setting up a blockade of West Berlin. However, the Allies airdropped in supplies
to the residents – over 2.3 million tons of food and other supplies, to be exact, delivered
for over a year during Operation Berlin Airlift. In 1949, the Soviet blockade was finally stopped. The waters were calm again until 1958. Over the previous decade, around 3 million
refugees and defectors – including skilled workers, such as engineers, teachers, and
doctors – crossed over to West Berlin from the East. This humiliated the Soviets. On August 13th, 1961, the Soviet Premier decided
it was best to close the border by constructing a concrete block wall with barbed wire, officially
dividing East and West. In this way, East Germany could keep out the
“fascists” from the West and maintain their socialist state. In order to get around the wall, you had to
go through one of three checkpoints, at which East German soldiers screened travelers, diplomats,
or other officials. The wall was later fortified, made much higher
and sturdier and, on the East German side, a gauntlet-type area served to prevent any
more defectors from crossing via floodlights, trip-wire traps and dogs. This wall stood from 1961 to 1989. 28 years. On November 9th of 1989, the border was opened. People were now free to cross again from East
to West and vice versa. The live coverage of those crowds that swarmed
the wall with hammers and picks to “tear down this wall,” as President Ronald Reagan
so famously put it, was scary and exhilarating, at once. Cranes and bulldozers did the rest. All of this fascinating footage was caught
on live TV. The ensuing celebration that occurred as the
floodgates were open was called “the greatest street party in the history of the world”
by one journalist. Though the event was celebratory, it was also
scary, as no one knew what the future held in Germany. As it turns out, a united Germany would be
a leader in the 21st century and one of the strongest economies in Europe. Before we get to number 1, my name is Chills
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we upload every Tuesday and Saturday. 1. Shawn Nelson Goes Crazy with a Tank
It was May 17, 1995. What San Diego was about to witness would
be one for the record books. Shawn Nelson thought he’d go on a joyride
that day…in a M-60 tank. He broke into the National Guard armory, rambled
behind the wheel, and headed down Mesa College Drive into neighborhoods, crushing cars, busting
open fire hydrants, and eventually leading police cruisers on a lowspeed chase down Route
163. The crazy rampage lasted 23 minutes, all caught
by TV news crews and police helicopters. The episode lasted until police subdued Nelson,
and he was lifted out of the tank. Although there are many questions to be asked
about this event, the biggest question is why? Why did he do it? Nelson had enlisted in the army after high
school and served in West Germany in a tank battalion. His service record includes disciplinary problems
and led to his honorable discharge in 1980. When he got home, he had a nice enough life
for half a decade. Got married, bought a home, made a decent
living as a plumber. But then his parents passed away within four
years of each other, and he couldn’t cope with what happened. His wife filed for divorce. Five years later, his life was in shambles. He had no money, his tools had been taken,
his girlfriend left him, his house was in foreclosure. This is when Nelson went off the deep-end. Literally. He started digging a hole 17-feet deep in
his backyard. He told his friends there was gold down there. Nelson’s breaking point made for a frightening
reality on this day in 1995.
