The Most DISTURBING Music Video of All Time | Runaway Train

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Soul Asylum
2:37 - Stamps
4:08 - The Runaway Train Files
29:53 - Outro

[LazyMasquerade]

Something a little different this week. Let me know if there are any video topics you'd like me to cover this October

[kris]

Hearing Chris’ dad describe what he dreams his son is doing had me tearing up 😭

[eburel]

I remember being creeped out by the music video as a kid. But as and adult I think it was really noble of them to raise awareness for missing kids. I don’t think it was them that ruined that one run aways life but the cops and people that forced her to go back and maybe didn’t listen when she said it’s a bad home.

[LostHorizons]

Yeah that video was always super sad / depressing but it was nice of the band to give a voice to missing children.

[hrknesslovesu]

So Larry
-Looks like a psychopath
-Likes to shoot cats
-Insisted that searchers give up looking for his missing baby
-Is found guilty of murdering said child
-Serves 12 months total

What a swell guy. I definitely hope he has a GOOD long life and I DEFINITELY don't hope he suffers a horrible, painful fate.

[foxracing]

Polly's story gives me chills bc when I was 7 something similar almost happened to me. I was at a friend's house for a slumber party for her birthday with a couple of other girls. We all had our sleeping bags in the living room which had a big window that looked into the room. Next to the window was the front door. Myself and 1 other girl hadn't fallen asleep yet and were softly talking when we saw the outline of a guy slowly walking up to the front door. We went quiet and saw him get to the door and heard him twisting the handle back and forth. Thank God it was locked and the second we saw him leave we yelled at the other girls to get up and raced into my friends' mom's room and told her. My heart goes out to all the parents who have lost their kids in some way.

[EddieM]

It has to be rough for Soul Asylum knowing that some of the kids were returned to abusive homes. I can't imagine trying to do something so positive and having it backfire so badly.

[PtolemyAtheling]

Anyone who would kill cats for fun is already a disgusting person to begin with

[tekbarrier]

I was reading about Tommy's case on Wikipedia recently. Apparently the dad shot and killed the cat and Tommy walked over to the cat out of curiosity. The dad got angry and hit him numerous times either in the garage or before taking him to the garage, and after that he left to dispose of the body. I believe he was hitting his son and accidentally killed him and then tried to cover it up.

I remember the story of Polly Klaas, because she was from the same part of California I was, and that story was all over the news when I was a kid. The guy who killed her was a disgusting piece of trash, who not only showed no remorse, but during the trial he implied that Polly was SA'd by her dad, which isn't supported by any evidence.

[SakuraAsranArt]

I was a teenager when Runaway Train came out in 1993 but I had absolutely no idea about the story behind the video or that those were real missing kids. Ironically, I ran away from home myself in 1994 and ended up homeless on and off for about a year. Thankfully I got off the streets and didn't fall into substance abuse or worse but I know many runaway teens weren't as fortunate as I was. Thanks for bringing attention to these cases.

[cyclone]

Cool that they localized it. Especially since no one could help much in a completely different country.

[Trollgernautt]

Missing people cases are so fucked up. Not knowing what happened to them is awful, can't even imagine what it feels like for a family to go through that.

[dazzz]

It's heartbreaking to think that some parents of missing children out there can only visualize their missing baby as a corpse in the woods somewhere... 💔 that's just gutting to think about and I'm not even a parent myself.

[aseifca]

These stories are heartbreaking. My close personal friend was featured in one of the versions of Runaway Train. Thankfully he was found and is doing well today. Thank you very much for bringing these up as so many poor children were not as lucky as my friend.

[mazzymae]

My SIL has been missing for over 10 years. You experience nearly every conceivable emotion in dealing with it. It can be put on a shelf, because there are kids to raise and bills to pay, but it is always in the periphery, nagging at you. You feel guilty living your life, sad for what you miss, angry that no one cares, and they don't. To say you are overly protective of your loved ones would be a gross understatement. I *have* to check on my family several times every night. And then there's the task of holding my husbands heart together enough so he doesn't completely fall apart. Searching databases of Jane Does found dead, private detectives, going over and over the same ground, looking for something you missed, it does your head in. It's maddening and consuming and all just very awful. Thanks for letting me vent.
God help the missing and comfort their families.

[elvisneedsboatsbennett]

That girl from ft Walton beach, Florida, I am not in the least bit surprised the police didn’t take her disappearance seriously. My cousin went missing from the same county only 4 years earlier and even though there were signs of a struggle, a missing comforter, screams heard by neighbors, a car heard racing down the road right after, an ugly divorce and a custody battle looming with her junkie husband, the sheriff’s department claimed she just took off, too. The sheriff was corrupt and lazy. They didn’t even start an investigation into a murder that happened in 1991 until an election was coming up. An informant was involved in the murder on top of that, they framed the woman’s husband and it was 30 years later when the real murderer confessed because he was already in prison in Alabama for murder that they stopped trying him for the case. They still say they are reserving the right to press charges because they can’t admit they sent an innocent man to prison for years over an undercover informant.

[tedn]

100% the cat killer guy accidently killed his son.

[JadeLeaf]

I was in my early teens when that song hit the music vid stations. It got played at least once an hour and I feel that was more to do with them promoting the awareness of the missing kids than how popular the song was.

When the news about Peter Tobin hit after Anjelika Kluk’s body was found and Vicky Hamilton’s name was mentioned in the following investigation, my mind went RIGHT back to this song. I knew about her BECAUSE of that song…that video. Her name had stuck with me decades later because of that music video.


Even to this day, that music video still haunts me because of the scene depicting the young girl who is lured into the van by the old men only to end up murdered, and the scene of the baby being stolen and the mother running after the kidnapper.

That video was so effective on so many different levels and to this day, 43 years on this earth, I can’t name a single music video that has ever haunted me so much as that one.

[nicolerm]

I was around 16 when that Soul Asylum video came out. I despised my home life and had thought about running away numerous times, but, ironically, the pictures of the missing kids in the video made me think twice.
Like a lot of people - I had no idea the video was updated every time one of the cases was solved. That had to have taken a lot of work! But I commend Soul Asylum for doing the video. It made an impact on a lot of people!!!

[NatureLover-]

I am thankful that the band had took an opportunity in highlighting missing children. They provided a vital service to the parents who live with in hell in not knowing what happened to their child. I am grateful that they expanded their music to other countries as well as we should all be protecting children at every opportunity if we have that chance. Thanks Lazy for another fantastic video!!