Out With A Bang • This will sadly be my most soul crushing video of 2024 (No bait. HSD&MNY🎉)

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#3 -- "Street View" -- 00:40 -- A tool on the internet helps solve a bizarre case
#2 -- "Escalation" -- 7:28 -- You'll never feel safe on an escalator again
#1 -- "The Helping Hand" -- 12:31 -- After a hand washes up on a shore in Florida, a mysterious case begins to unravel

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[MrBallen]

You folks took me and my team to new places this year. 🙏 I would love to hear one new thing you tried this year and how you felt after. W or L, doesn't matter. Bonus points if you were scared the entire time.

[deshovel]

Ok what the actual fuc is the deal with the second story?!? They "failed to communicate" that she'd get crushed to death if she stepped on the metal part at the end of the escalator?!? THEY WERE LITERALLY RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER! THEY COULD BOTH SPEAK!! HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?!? I legit cannot comprehend this

[kanedafx]

Those employees just nonchalantly letting that woman die. Wow. Straight to jail.

[revenge]

The second story is crazy... how can a somebody so casually NOT tell a person they're about to step onto a death trap

[abbeyboeckman]

She was one brave fast thinking momma. May her son always feel her love.

[Sonsetsweettooth]

A mother’s love for her child is something to be admired. What awaited her once she had fallen… but her son’s safety was her only priority

[bigdaddy]

So they could easily and quickly communicate effectively with a man, but couldn't be bothered to do the same for a mother and young child???? Why weren't they at the bottom preventing anyone from getting on it? Omg that story is infuriating.

[snowman]

How did the K9 units not find Paulette? That should be a cake walk for them especially since she wasn't far from her home at all

[amylouwho]

They stopped dad from going very far on the escalator but not mom and son? That's ridiculous. This was a tragedy that 100% could've been avoided.

[Delicate_Disaster]

Those employees should have faced major charges. Literally all they had to do was yell "do not get on the escalator!" Before she got on. What the hell were they thinking!?

[heatherrodgers]

I really appreciate that you caption each photo to let us know if it's a dramatization or an actual photo of the people and places from the stories. Not every YouTube story teller does that.

[bazzle.dazzle]

The way those employees were just standing there with their arms by their sides shows they either really didnt understand the issue at all or that they really didnt care about her life. Thats so heartbreaking

[hulaharvest]

Scariest thing: I drove 10 hrs to rescue a dog from euthanasia. All I had was a video-> description read a terrier mix. I'm a cat person ( never had a dog, afraid of big dogs). I arrived at shelter- she is a 80 lb pitbull/ border collie mix. I couldn't back out. She had her last meal. Now 6 months later, she and my 2 cats hang out together, I'm learning how to train a reactive pup, and I'm falling in love with her and I'm overcoming my fear of big dogs. Happy New Year! Thanks for getting me thru that long road trip!

[sabrinarene_]

The 2nd story is unforgettable because it was so avoidable. They could’ve done ANYTHING to save her. Blocked the escalator, yelled at her to run off, pressed the emergency stop, had her try to leap over it, anything.

[abcdeedcba]

My mother in law went missing once on our hilltop. We searched for her for a long time before she just appeared back at the house. She had leaves and grass in her hair, and we really have no idea what truly happened to her. Alzheimer's is a cruel disease. Thankfully, she got to pass peacefully less than 24 hours after being placed on hospice at 86.

[yeyeye]

the second story actually pissed me off, how careless can you be

[Gabriella]

I remember watching that video of the second story. It was circulating in the mid 2010’s. It brought me to tears, seeing her brain make that decision in a split second and using her last free movement and upper strength to throw her son as her feet were eaten. I’ll never forget it. She died displaying a last beautiful, selfless act of love. May she live on in paradise 🕊️🤍

[oldakela]

I was afraid of escalators when I was a kid because I thought it would be possible to somehow get caught and dragged in and eaten. My parents assured me no such thing could ever happen, escalators were totally safe and there was no way they could eat people anyway. I would never step on that platform part even so but hop over it. Think I might take that habit up again…

[mariamt]

The last story is what my mother always told me: don't wish ill to others because it will comeback to you.

[ibewatchinu]

That first story reminded me of an old lady going missing from our village years ago. She had dementia. She'd gone walkabout in the middle of the night and her husband only realised when he'd woken up to use the toilet. They found her body about a mile away at a place she used to feed chickens when she was a girl. She'd died from hypothermia, only wearing her nightie & slippers on a foul November night. RIP Betty.