17 Creepy Documentaries That Will Haunt You Forever

Horror movies scare us and are with us for some hours after it ends.

Then it loses its novelty. That is why the filmmakers slyly insert the line before the movie –

“Based on a true story.”

That gives us the scares, to realize that it somehow may be true, that the ghost may have actually existed.

And that is why scary documentaries are even scarier.

Please watch them at your own risk. Viewer discretion is advised. You might find some of them very disturbing.

 

1. Cropsey – a documentary about an unknown man who kidnapped children and tortured them

Many of the kidnappings are still not solved, and a serial killer was arrested later. But even he did not accept all the responsibility of the kidnapped children.

Then who was it? Is the Cropsey still alive?

 

2. Devil In The Room – a film about people who are assaulted by ghosts and cannot do anything about it

It is a small 8-minute clip about people who fall asleep, wake up in the middle of the night and cannot move at all.

You can watch this documentary here.

 

3. Interview With A Cannibal – literally an interview with a person who loved eating humans

The central character of the documentary – Issei Sagawa became a celebrity in Japan after he cut up and ate a Dutch woman while studying in France.

You can watch this documentary here.

 

4. The Bridge – a documentary on people committing suicide by jumping off of the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco.

The filmmaker filmed the bridge for 365 days of the year and captured 23 suicides that took place on the bridge. It also features interviews with people who survived their attempts.

 

5. The Cove – a film about the yearly Japanese ritual of slaughtering hundreds of dolphins in a remote village

Over 23,000 dolphins are killed by the Japanese whaling industry every year, and this film goes undercover to document the horrors of this industry.

 

6. The Imposter – a film about a person who pretended to be a kid who was kidnapped several years ago

Frederic Bourdin impersonated a Texan boy who was reportedly kidnapped years ago, and successfully fooled even the US and Spanish officials. The fooled people included even the boy’s relatives.

 

7. Child of Rage – a film about a girl who has no empathy, conscience or emotion and wants to kill her own relatives

That includes killing her mother and father and torturing her younger brother. She does this because she was abused horribly as a child.

You can watch the full documentary here.

 

8. Children Of Darkness – a film about the pathetic systems in place that cannot take care of the children who suffer from common mental problems

It shows how badly equipped even the developed nations are in handling patients with psychiatric problems. Their problems get out of hand when idiots take charge. It leaves you haunted.

You can watch this documentary here.

 

9. The Nightmare – a film about the horrible condition of sleep paralysis where a person cannot move, while lying down and things happen

Sleep paralysis affects you in a horrible way – you are completely conscious but you cannot move. And people who suffer from this condition speak about the horrors that happen – watching ghosts violate them as they cannot do anything to aliens abducting them.

 

10. The Demon House – a film about the house that purportedly has a gateway to hell.

This is basically Exorcism – but in a documentary style. It seemed so authentic, the real house was destroyed and razed to the ground.

 

11. Farm to Fridge – a scarring film about the horrible practices of animal industry

Pig testicles removed without anesthesia, large scale culling of male chicks and brutal assault of calves – DO NOT WATCH IT IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH.

You can watch this documentary here.

 

12. Legend Of The Shoe Man – a story about a man who haunts the forest in Missouri and kills people

The shoe man had a fence of over 1500 shoes – taken from the people he killed. He eventually dies, but his spirit is still roaming the forest of Ozark, Missouri.

 

13. My Amityville Horror – the story of the man who actually lived in the haunted house

We have already seen many movies about this haunted house, but Daniel Lutz gives a first-person record of the chilling events that he went through as a child when he lived in the house.

 

14. The Act of Killing – a film about tyrants and murderers who brag about the thousands they have killed

And they have no regrets whatsoever.

 

15. Children Underground – a haunting film about 10-12-year-old kids who engage in prostitution and drugs in the country of Romania

Little girls of 10 are raped by the people passing by and most of them prefer sniffing paint to get high rather than eating food.

Harrowing.

 

16. Jesus Camp – a disturbing view of the brainwashing Evangelical churches do to young children.

The children cry and throw their arms in the air as they listen to the preacher. It leaves you in wonder and disgust at the same time.

You can watch the full documentary here.

 

17. The Look Of Silence – a chilling film about the people who killed over a million men during the purging when Indonesia went Communist.

The murderers speak without remorse or pain. The sufferers – relatives of the murdered also live without any emotion – which is something to be worried about, because a nation should have mourned after a million deaths.

Watch them at your own risk.

We did warn you.

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