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“Do not Google until I elaborate” Man. You REALLY know your audience.

"I demand to be RESPECTED for my work." - Man posting HD remasters of gore and execution videos

interesting/sad fact: this clip aired on prime time Bulgarian TV in 2000 without any warning... I was 9 back then and still remember seeing it...

The problem with enforcing copyright on a snuff film is having to acknowledge that you copyrighted a snuff film.

First gore video I ever saw was one where a dude falls off a bridge and splits his face open on a metal beam. Weirdest part is my mom showed it to me. Literally no reason why she was just watching gore videos and called me over to look at it.

Even ignoring the sheer brutality of the content in that video, I cannot even begin to comprehend how terrified that young soldier must have been. Imagine you, newly eighteen and conscripted into your mandatory service, get sent somewhere with little training, little experience, and that place is where you will undergo one of the most brutal deaths imaginable all while people laugh at your suffering. Terrifying.

am i the only one who finds it insane that you can copyright a video of a real person getting brutally killed?? the victim in that video had a family, friends, a life, and this company just thinks of him as some money they might loose if the video of him being killed gets reposted. idk, maybe im crazy or something, it just sounds like a strange thing to do in my opinion.

I grew up back when the internet wasn't heavily moderated. So as teenagers we looked up those things. Chechclear is one of those that I'll never forget. Must have been nearly 20 years ago when I watched that. Also I would not recommend watching those kind of videos. I think it did something to me in a not so positive way.

"Fun"-fact: I was introduced to this video because the band Cattle Decapitation sampled it in their song "Testicular Manslaughter". For years I was innocently listening to it with only the occasional fleeting thought about the gurgling at the beginning until I read about its apparent origins somewhere. Because I am a dangerously curious person I looked it up and the resulting mix of emotions (familiarity because I've heard it so often and abject horror at what was happening) was a surreal experience to say the least.

I love internet history 'cause you always end up with very serious informations being posted online by someone named Hugh G. Rection and it's kinda glorious.

Whang is the only person I know who can say "I'm trying to find a beheading video" and not have it sound creepy

i would like to extend some appreciation to justin for both warning us not to look it up before he elaborated, and for giving a warning before the wheezing audio. absolutely based of him.

I saw the footage on TV in a documentary on the wars that Russia was fighting in the nineties. It wasn't censored or anything, it's the first time I'd seen a violent death. I still remember the noises he made while choking on his own blood. I remember it showing the guys who did it, they had big beards an mix and match military clothing. It was definitely more than fifteen seconds.

My tolerance for these things seemed to have dropped significantly. Perhaps it's because when I first saw gory stuff is when I was only a kid and didn't really think "wow this guy was once a member of society, had family and friends" so I wasn't traumatized.

Literally was about to close the app to look it up when you said “DONT LOOK IT UP TIL I EXPLAIN” and holy fuck I’m glad I listened. I do NOT need to see that when I’m baked af

Poor boy. The horrible sounds of his last breath are just so heart-breaking. It just goes towards the mounting evidence that there is nothing in existence more evil than humans.

The beheading of Nick Berg is also copyrighted. I got a warning on my channel for the tiny snippet I played lol

Liveleak and lost media at first doesn’t seem to fit, yet Whang makes the idea work wonderfully!

I saw it and it is pure and short horror, the beheading, the boy drowning on his own blood, it is terrifying to think about the things that we as humans can do to our own species

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Whang I both respect the balls to include the sound clip and at the same time really appreciate you warning us when it is coming. I was able to skip over it, so thank you so much

I think we should just let the man rest in peace. What a horrible way to be remembered by the world.

When Whang tells you not to Google something, you listen.

Having seen plenty of gore videos, the video that stuck with me the most was one of two guys in Syria that after questioning a 8 year old street kid, accusing him of being a spy for Al-Assad government, proceed to be_head him like it was nothing. It was a small kid, you need to be a complete soulless animal to be able do do that sh*t.

Poor guy may he rest in peace. I'm just glad I was never into stuff like that and never saw it . All the gore I'll watch is in horror movies and that's it

so I had a friend that was really, really into Chechen snuff films back in 2002-2008. I'm almost sure he had it back in the day. As in, he played it in class and he got put on probation. I wasn't in the room, but people described a dude being beheaded with a big knife, slowly. He also had a 120GB hard drive, completely filled with nothing but these kinds of videos. I know I saw more of the video than the 15 second clip, too. I think I remember him dying, and not just the gurgling. BTW he loved shocking people with those kinds of videos for "laughs." Dude was really screwed up, and became a skinhead. I just stopped talking to him not long after 2003, when I left the school he was in. I had mutuals that kept track of him until he joined some militant group in the midwest. Not many people have actually scared me in my life. I've known many terrible people. But this guy was just one bad day away from being a killer in one of the snuff videos he loved so much.

I remember being 13 and swapping stories with my dad about different gore videos. 2007 was a wild time hahaha

I’m not sure why anyone who is mentally stable would want to look for gore, much less digitize and restore it. Some things are better left to be forgotten about.

I'm seriously impressed that the comments are being civil and not full of people who think that watching LiveLeak makes them edgy and different. Also, yes, people don't really understand just HOW wild the Internet was in the early 2000's 💀

This was the first gore video i ever saw, shown to me by the only kid in the school at the time with a full colour flip phone (while everyone else still had the old brick Nokias), and that shit stayed with me for yeeeears

Appreciated the sound warning at 2:30

The 1st and 2nd wars in Chechnya really blew my mind when I looked into them.. And its so very underreported and unknown... Its so wild on so many levels. How it's not a movie or netflix series is beyond me.

So, I saw my first beheading video at age 15 in 2004. My uncle was in the military and was stationed in Iraq. . He made friends with a man named Eugene Armstrong. Mr. Armstrong was a private citizen, doing contracting work in Iraq. As in, construction. My uncle ended up drinking coffee with Eugene on base nearly every morning for nearly a year. Unless he was out on patrol, he’d have coffee with Mr. Armstrong. In 2004, Eugene was abducted by jihadists. Not long after he was beheaded and the video was spread all over the internet. My mom was told about this by my uncle, who was obviously pretty devastated by losing his new friend in such a horrific way. My mom ended up looking around for info regarding the incident and she came across the video. I was sitting right beside her. She clicked on the video, I guess not knowing what she was about to watch (neither did I). Well, it’s them putting Eugene on his side, and subsequently starting to literally saw his head off with a dull knife, starting at the front of the neck. The sounds of him trying to scream, while he’s now drowning on his own blood which is pouring down his windpipe were….horrific. Just the whole thing was SO horrific and terrible that it imprinted itself into my brain. I’m now 33 years old and I can still play the video back in my mind, in its entirety. It *literally* changed my whole life. Everything was now viewed through the lens of knowledge that humans can do some incredibly barbaric and savage shit to each other. I’m sure the video is still out there. But you can read about Eugene if you google. It’s an old cliche about the war veteran who “won’t talk about it,” but literally my uncle just will not speak about Eugene or his time with him. At all.

So the longer "Chechlear" video DID exist, this was wayyy back in the day like 2001. It was on a video site that had a bunch of other death videos (like a woman set on fire, people being ran over, etc). The version I saw was longer, but I think it was in black and white maybe and was titled "Unknown Russian Soldier".

I can confirm there was a longer video of this. A person from my job brought it in on a laptop and was showing it to people in my department. So much that it made a woman cry and had to leave work. It is one of those videos you can never forget. At my job we weren’t allowed to use the internet(security) so there wasn’t a web connection. It was something he got off a site and saved.

The sound is always what creeped me out in beheading videos. That gurgling wind sound is way worse then the visual most of the time. Video that really 1st disturbed be was the prisoner with spaghetti arms 🤢

God, the Chechen wars were so insanely fucked up. People (mostly in the west) erroneously remember the 90s as a relatively stable time in history, owing to the end of the cold war, but in reality it was an insanely violent and bloody decade in human history. Two major genocides (Bosnia and Rwanda) the first wave of the chechen wars, the Somali civil war, Iraq and Kuwait, the various conflicts in the former Yugoslavia as a whole, the seizure of control by the Taliban in Afghanistan (the FIRST one, I guess we have to say that now...), etc. So many insanely fucked up geo-political events took place, most of them as a result of power vacuums left from the dissolution of the soviet union and its satellite states. It seems like many people in the west are not too familiar with these conflicts or their major ramifications, both domestically and internationally. Below is a very abbreviated retelling of one of the worst instances in the the Chechen conflict: The Chechen wars, despite being a smaller scale in raw numbers than other major conflicts of the 20th century, was one of the most brutal examples of modern warfare imaginable-- both sides committed horrendous war crimes throughout, as this video readily attests. During the second wave of conflicts (99-2009) in 2004, a group of militant Chechen rebels took violent control of a school in Beslan while children were still attending classes and while parents and staff had convened to celebrate the opening of a new school year. These were grade school children, some as young as five years old. They hurdled the 1000 hostages into the school's gym and rigged the entrance ways with IEDs to prevent Local police forces or Russian military from entering. They kept them there for days without food or water. Some resorted to drinking urine in an attempt to stave off dehydration. On the third day an explosion was heard from the interior of the building, no one is sure what/who set it off or why exactly, but the result was it prompted the terrorists to open fire on the Russian forces and for the Russians to begin an attack on the hostage takers. Intense fire and shelling took place between the two sides. Despite the hostages being in the same building as the terrorists who took them captive, Russian forces began to shell the building. This included firing anti-tank missiles, flamethrowers and incendiary missiles at key locations. Eventually the roof of the gymnasium caught fire and collapsed, creating an inescapable furnace. 160 men, women, and children were burnt to death or died from smoke inhalation. After clearing the rubble and evacuating all that they reasonably could, it was found that out of the over 1,000 hostages, 302 had died, more than half of them from the collapse ceiling/fire. All of the hostage takers save for one seemed to be killed in the fighting, and the one who escaped was found shortly after. It is widely considered to be the deadliest school shooting in human history. The event prompted a series of federal reforms in Russia under then (and now) president Vladimir Putin, to strengthen Russian federal forces and to centralize the power of the presidential office within the country. The tragedy proved to be one of the single most consequential events in modern Russian history and can be compared to a degree to the American congress passing the patriot act in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks (though the impact of the latter obviously far outweighed the former in terms of scale and overall impact internationally). The even also effected to health of the press in Russia. The official account given by the Russian state contradicts many elements of the accounts given by survivors, eye witness account, and journalistic reports from field reporters who were at the scene and has been criticized as a "white wash" to downplay actions taken by local and federal forces in response to the crisis. Some survivors even went as far to sue the Russian government in international court. The prompt response of the government to censor journalistic accounts of that day's events were a prelude to the wave of censorship that continues to this day in Russia on sensitive topics. Because of this, and the government's reluctance to share key intel and documents relating to the crisis, many aspects and finer details about the even remain shrouded in uncertainty.

Christ almighty, that sound clip is haunting. I can see why Whang said it stuck with him.

I really wish I didn't have morbid curiosity

You know what would be a true lost media finding come true and a real challenge. Try finding the footage of the death of Guero de Ticuman. An extremely famous and loved Mexican bullrider who died back in April of 2002 while riding. I had family at that event and cameras were present but to this day no one has released a single copy of the ride.

I have seen the full video dozens of times in the 2000's trying to download movies off Limewire. People used to change the title of the video to movie names for shock factor. The first few times it was horrifying, then after a while I was just like "dammit, its that execution video again" and was just annoyed.

Growing up in the 2000’s I really dodged a lot of bullets as I was lucky enough to never see such horrific videos. The only memory I have is seeing someone getting shot. And I intend to let it stay that way. I can only hope it wasn’t as bad as it looked. Honestly just hearing/reading about stuff like this is almost too much for me.

Man held his faith close to his heart even in death and didn’t crack under the pressure RIP

Oh man I absolutely remember this video. It stays with you.

I can confirm I saw the video when I was about 13 years old. Iam 31 years old now and I watched it with my older brothers friends. I saw the whole video. I still remember it to this day. I still have nightmares about it... The knife gets pushed in through the guys neck, they then pop it out where his Adam's apple is. They then continue to saw through the rest of his head and hold it up to the camera. When they pop it out of the front of his neck, so much blood explodes out... It shows how evil humanity can be.

I usually believe everything Hugh G. Rection tells me.

That same video, with the boot and the sound. Was the exact same first video that really to this day I still remember some 15+ years later

Great video. I remember the first time I watched this video... I'll never forget it. First gore video, first beheading, first for many things. I was about 8 years old messing around on my dad's laptop and found this video buried in some files. It was one of the scariest and worst experiences I had as a kid and it really bothered me for years later. I never talked about it and to this day I never talked to my dad about that video.

whang : *does a sponser about reducing bluelight* also whang : *has his led lights set to blue*

I don't understand how people can genuinely enjoy snuff films, i can barely look at deeper SH without feeling like im gonna pass out, champs for standing through that shit though.

I remember this video being on file sharing platforms in 2002 .I was in the marines stationed over seas. This stuff was passed around all the time in the military

I actually came across that clip when I was about 14 or 15. I shut it off as the knife went into the neck and I remember my blood running cold. I cleared my history and took my dog for a walk. Seeing that still image gave me that feeing again. Because I actually kind of forgot it existed.

I remember a friend showing me this video on his phone in the mid 2000s. At the time, I dismissed it as fake because I couldn't fathom why anyone would make a video of something like this (also, there was no sound). I wish I hadn't lost that innocence.

The worst one I've seen is the 14-15 yr old boy that got caught by a cartel. The cartels chopped his neck with a almost dull machete (a slow, painful process), and before they did you could see the fear in the kid's eyes. Fucking terrible.

I’ll give you guys a rundown from the full, original video. Don’t ask for a source, this is a 20 year old gore video that has been wiped from the internet. The granddaddy of all internet gore, if you will. It actually started out with an older man standing in what looked to be a vineyard. He’s being interrogated, they then blindfold him and have him bend over onto a tree stump. They then proceed to chop his head off with an axe. It takes a few swings, the executioner wasn’t great at his job. It then cuts to the infamous young Russian soldier. He’s being interrogated/antagonized by his Chechen captors. Fuck if I know what was being said. You can tell the soldier is very nervous but at the same time is hopeful that the Chechens will show him mercy. After a bit of time they suddenly toss him on his stomach, knee to the back and knife to the throat. After the decapitation they present his severed head to the camera while laughing and shouting. It wasn’t quite 5 minutes but was indeed longer than what exists today. I watched it many, many times on Ogrish between 1999-2001. Back then, a video like chech.clear was unheard of. A holy grail for gore hounds, hence its legendary status as the OG internet gore clip. It was the first truly shocking gore clip since the JFK Zapruder film which is why it left such an impact on the early internet.

Thank you for warning us about this video and letting us curate our own experience/ level of intake in a way that’s not insulting.

"I'm not getting respect uploading videos of awful, human atrocities!" I mean, like, as someone who was on the internet in the early days, I saw my share of gore... But that's a special kind of fucked

I can talk and watch a lot of nasty or gross stuff, but when you played the audio i felt really bad. I guess I appreciate too much my life and the life of the people that surrounds me. I can’t handle snuff films or similar, humanity can be horrible so many times, and sadly some people enjoy seeing people killing people in the most horrible ways.

Can confirm the long version of Chechclear existed. I had copies of the black and white short 15 sec version titled "unknown Russian Soldier" which my friends and I watched over and over. Then one day in 2003 my friend whilst downloading gore vids on my pc somehow found the long version. It was clearer better sound and in full colour. We all sat there and watched it and could not believe what we were seeing. Was truly horrific

Your use of FF6 snes music to fit the themes of the stories you are telling are a+ as usual.

I love you! I muted the sound clip. Thank you so much for the warning! Didn't interfere with the flow of the video. Just a red screen and a warning. Perfect! 😃❤️

What's disgusting is that the potential consequences for not complying with a false DMCA claim are greater than making a false DMCA claim.

6:08 what a lovely wholesome name

The longer cut is in fact 100% real, it was on Limewire when I was a kid. I'm unsure about it ever ending up on Ogrish or Liveleak, I do recall people discussing it in detail on probably Ogrish and trying to translate the words being said to the kid in the extended cut. The downside to it is that its not exactly memorable, the most graphic part is the part you see in the original short video, even the part where he beheads him and holds it up is a blurry off-screen mess, a portion of the video is them conversing back and forth with the victim after showing other captured members of his unit. Back in the day on Ogrish claimed they were demanding each of the people in the video convert to Islam or die but I never saw any confirmation of that because nobody translated it in the comments and also post 9/11 xenophobia. The decapitation is the most graphic part of the video. I am being non sequential because it's hard to recall the order of the video because parts of it are vivid but it was so uneventful compared to the lead up to the eventual decapitation that you don't even bother rewatching the other parts of the video. Its a continuous shot video containing riveting scenes of them setting things up, standing around or making speeches with a super blurry ass camera that only focuses on shots when it is completely 100% still.

Of all the gore and shit I used to watch as a kid, there was one type of video I could not watch- executions and beheadings. Something about looking at accidental or health related deaths felt like, sterile and like I was looking at the medical encyclopedias. But beheadings, I can't. To this day, haven't done it.

But we mustn't forget that killing unarmed prisoners is a war crime, making these rebels as criminal as any other person who commits acts like this outside of war. (Oh and also we must remember that these were conscripts which means there is a chance they didn't even want to be fighting in the war)

This video has been imprinted into my head for decades, ever since I first saw it back in the early 2000's. Brutal.

I will always and forever love that Whang! Puts the little watermark in the corner of the "Respect the Silence" guy 😆😂

I've never seen a single execution/beheading or torture video in my life (and i wish i never see one) but once i had a conversation with a group of people in discord about the worst thing we had seen on the internet, and i remember one dude said that the worst thing he saw was a video of some chechen rebels cutting the throats of a bunch of russian kids in an act of ethnic cleansing. Idk if the video he described exists or not, but only the tought of a video like that existing left me feeling sick for days.

I've always wondered what attracted people to view this sort of material. I've been in healthcare now for 15 years and I've seen some pretty horrific shit. And maybe because of that I have absolutely zero desire to get any more images like that into my brain. I wonder sometimes if we lead such a sterile existence here in the US and in the Western world in general; that videos like this don't even seem real too many people. I think once you're more familiar with death, and have seen it up close, the desire to see more of it is largely gone.

i fumbled and dropped my phone when the sound warning came up so i didn’t get to skip it in time, literally almost threw up 😭

I remember that video of the soldier being stepped on while his neck is cut... I can still see it in my head all these years later. You definitely can't unsee that one! 😒

I remember I was a 12 yo kid when my edgy friend showed me the jihadi beheading and I could only watch around 5 secs of it, but he was like "I've watched this 10 times by now".

Well, shit. I never thought you'd ever talk about this one. I don't remember seeing this through Liveleak, Bloodshows, or Ogrish back in the day, but rather a sketchy Limewire torrent back when I was a little shit kid looking for mondo films and shockumentaries. It's been more than 15 years since I've seen it, but with the jump cut, I remember something being lifted up and smashed down on the ground before there's a few seconds of silence (not muted, just quiet). As a kid, I thought it was a large rock, but now I wouldn't be surprised if it was his head.

It's been close to 20 years and I never thought I'd hear from this again. The long version is real, never seen the 15-second one. I thought I was desensitized to gore back in the day, having hunted, crawled Rotten and being an avid horror fan, but this one... It hit different and I'll never forget it. Found this either on Limewire or Kazaa. Most other comments got it all right: the berating, the beating, struggling to break the spine and sever the head completely, holding the head up while laughing, etc. I also remember the camera panning down at one point to the twitching body and we could see the neck still squirting blood and thinking "this shit is real, this was an actual beheading".

Dude really threatened to not release more videos of teenagers being murdered. What a guy.

"it's a sound that haunts me to this day" WELL I GUESS IT'S GOING TO HAUNT ME TOO THEN

I love how you threw in "DO NOT GOOGLE CHECHCLEAR" until I explain bc we already know a ton of people would do just that.

Gotta love whang doing an ad for glasses that eliminate blue light with his room literally glowing bright blue

That sound of wind escaping is horrific. Have you considered covering it up with Doom music?

I hate people that try to act cool by watching gore, “ahaha it’s not even that bad!!” Bro it’s a man being beheaded, I hope that the kids of the future don’t have to deal with the right of passage of having to see gore, I really hope the times change

You should be really proud of this video Justin - you've managed to make something informative and entertaining yet also being respectful over the fact that a person lost their life in one of the most horrible ways imaginable. Keep up the excellent work.

First time I saw the long version, or just a version which all those massacres including chechclear was on Napster 21 years ago. I wont describe anything gory but I remember some people were interrogated before they were 'deleted' way back in some bushes and I can remember the fear in their faces with one guy so nervous he pulled out his own pockets and was twisting them and squeezing them. When it got to the chechclear part, I turned it off and it stuck with me every since. I video I wish I never saw

I watched this when i was super young. ~9-10 years old. I watched the full clip on the bus when I was going to school. It still terrifies me to this day when i remember it.

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Whang never fails to traumatise the shit out of me

Fun fact: Cattle Decapitation's album To Serve Man opens up with the chechclear sound clip in the opening track Testicular Manslaughter. Still vividly remember coming across this video in high school during the mid 2000s lol

I remember this one. I was very young when I watched it. A neighbor lend me and my brother a CD with various random videos, but from what I remember this was the only gore one. I was shocked and convinced myself that it was fake. I watched it only one time but that was all I needed. Didn't know it was quite this popular. Interesting video, thanks Whang.

I remember watching the full version when I was 12 or 13, it has remained one of the most memorable execution videos just because it gave such a personal and brutal point of view in an event that I hadn't even known had happened.

I always love hearing the music from Illusion of Gaia kicking in.

Bro I watched that beheading when I was like 14, STILL remember it as worse than 3 Guys 1 Hammer

My parents seem to (sometimes) think I'm kinda sick I'm for watching bloody Horror movies, but I see it as harmless entertainment. Yet I can relate to how my parent feel since I can't fathom why someone would seek out these IRL gore videos. I'm staying away from this shit as much as I can. What little I did see involuntarily effed me up enough as it is.

I’m glad I managed to avoid gore as a kid. Twitter has some really messed up stuff nowadays.

Holy shit I'm in this video at 11:36. I was asking Warlord in the LL forums if he would send me the video. He didn't. It still makes me think to this day it doesn't exist.

I indeed vividly recall this video. My first time was at a friends house, we didn't know what we were about to view. I felt like "my first time" was heading somewhere else, but nope just murder.

I lived through that early era of the internet growing up and somehow missed every gore video. (Except Jar man, hilariously enough. Accidentally ran into a gif of it.) I plan on keeping it that way. Can't do it. I can't do horror flicks either. That stuff haunts me and makes my anxiety go off the charts. (Ironically, most horror video games don't bother me AS much though?) Thanks for the warning on the audio, Whang.

Idk man... The older I get the more this stuff gets to me. I just can't watch people die IRL anymore. But all in all I'd say that it's a good thing. I never was big on watching those kind of videos in the first place but they didn't haunt me and I didn't feel much watching them but now that I'm almost in my 30s it really turns my stomache.

"It's a sound that haunts me to this day" Thanks for cursing us with this curse too, J.

Oh wow. I saw this around '98 or '99 and it definitely stuck with me. Pretty sure it would have been a short version, though. A 5 minute video would have taken ages to download back then. Didn't know it had a name.