The Creepiest Video On Youtube

It’s Friday and the first beer has cracked. The sun is going down, the air is cooling and the weekend lies ahead, all shiny and sparkling beyond the setting sun.

Here’s the creepiest video on Youtube.

The background story: Rodney Alcala is currently sitting on death row in San Quentin State Prison, California, for the brutal murder of four women and one twelve year old girl in the 70s. As if that weren’t enough, the cheeky bugger is also under indictment in New York for a handful more homicides. Not enough? To date, he has confessed to thirty more, and is suspected of being responsible for approximately 130 murders in total!

This guy got up REALLY early in the morning

Now, if you don’t know what The Dating Game was, I’m not going to bother spelling it out for you, as it is unlikely that your cognitive abilities have evolved to the point where you are able to distinguish these criss-cross, semiotic scratches we refer to as ‘text’ from, I don’t know, a handful of twigs and scattered leaves or you own poop. If you haven’t figured it out from the name, then give up now. On everything.

Start running a warm bath

What makes this video so frigging creepy is that, at its time of filming, this six-foot tall, walking perm was on a vicious killing spree across America. As he suavely ear-bangs this grade-school teacher from behind a stage screen, he is, in all probability, trying to imagine what her insides look like, or whether her big toe would make an attractive broach.

He is introduced as a photographer, which was true. Over a thousand photographs of his victims and suspected victims were discovered after his arrest. Women and children.

The creepiest part? The lovely Cheryl asks what his favourite time is.

His response? Nighttime. 

Why? Because “[…] night time is when it really gets good”.

Shudder

Did I mention that he was a convicted rapist and registered sex offender before he made it onto the show? And did I mention he won? There are a lot of words one could use to describe the 70s, but ‘thorough’ is obviously not one of them.