Shadowing Practice: ROBLOX GAMES Based on SERIAL KILLERS.. - Learn English Speaking with Video
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There are Roblox games based on real criminals, and there's a good chance that you've played some of them without ever realizing it,
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because behind what looks like a normal horror game can be a much darker story.
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You see, some of these games were inspired by real crimes, others recreate locations connected to disturbing cases,
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and a few of these games have connections that are honestly hard to believe but are very true.
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So today, we're going through Roblox games that are based off of real-life serial killers to find out what actually happened, and we're starting with one you've definitely seen before, Piggy.
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Now, if you've played Roblox for basically any amount of time, there is obviously a good chance that you have played Piggy.
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And on the surface, Piggy looks pretty simple.
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You're trapped inside different locations with a creepy pig-like character hunting you down.
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And your only way out is to explore the map, find different items, unlock doors, solve puzzles, and escape before Piggy catches you.
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But as the game continues, it becomes way bigger than just escaping a creepy pig.
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You see, there's an entire storyline involving an infection spreading between characters.
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And because Piggy became absolutely massive on Roblox, it ended up spawning in multiple chapters, lots of different characters and skins,
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and an entire community dedicated to figuring out its lore.
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But it's also very easy to forget where the original idea actually came from for this game.
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Because Piggy wasn't completely original.
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One of its biggest inspirations was actually a horror game called Granny.
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And once you compare the two games, it becomes pretty obvious.
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And this is where we get to the serial killer connection.
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You see, in Granny, you wake up trapped inside a house with an elderly woman hunting you.
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You have to quietly search through rooms, collect objects, solve puzzles, and unlock a bunch of different areas to eventually find a way to escape.
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Does that sound familiar to you?
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Because Piggy essentially took that style of gameplay and combined it with characters inspired by Peppa Pig, and then it eventually developed into something much larger with its own story and universe.
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But like I said, this is where we get to the real-life serial killer connection.
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Because when you actually start looking into Granny itself, the game Piggy is based off of,
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you'll find claims online that the terrifying woman chasing you around that house is actually inspired by something much darker.
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A real killer.
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See, according to one of the biggest gaming theories online, people believe that the real person that Granny is based off of is named Tamara Samsonova.
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And trust me, once you hear her story, you'll understand why people have made the connection all the way to Piggy.
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Now, Tamara Samsonova was an elderly woman from St. Petersburg, Russia, who became infamous after police began investigating an extremely disturbing murder in 2015.
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Now, at the time, Samsonova was already in her late 60s, and from the outside, she probably wasn't the type of person most people would immediately consider dangerous.
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I mean, this lady lived in an apartment and had spent decades living a relatively ordinary-looking life.
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But all that normal and innocent-looking appearance completely changed when a woman named Valentina Ullanova disappeared.
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You see, Valentina was just another ordinary elderly woman who Samsonova actually knew and had reportedly been staying with at the time.
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And according to multiple reports surrounding the case, the two women eventually began having problems with each other.
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And by problems, I mean just tons and tons of arguments.
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But this is where the case becomes even more disturbing than everything we've already heard.
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You see, the investigators that were looking into the case actually ended up obtaining surveillance footage
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that appeared to show Samsonova leaving her apartment carrying bags and other items.
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And inside those bags were Yulanova's remains.
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And once they figured this out, police ended up searching her home.
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And what they discovered inside would turn what could have been just a single murder investigation into something a lot bigger.
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Because apparently, Samsonova, the granny lady, is what I'm going to be calling her now because her last name is very hard to say, had apparently been keeping diaries.
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And these weren't just normal journals and diaries about what she did every day.
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According to reports about the investigation, some of the Granny Lady's writings appeared to describe violent acts and deaths in an extremely real way.
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And that immediately raised a terrifying question.
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Was this other elderly woman, Yulanova, actually her first victim?
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And since that question arose, investigators began examining the Granny Lady's past.
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And authorities reportedly looked at whether she could potentially be connected to other deaths or disappearances.
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And because they kept looking into disappearances of people relating to the Granny Lady, the Granny Lady's own husband, who disappeared years earlier, actually received new attention.
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And as details of the investigation spread throughout social media and the internet,
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the Granny Lady, Samsonova, was then given the nickname that would eventually help create the theory that we're talking about today.
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The Granny Ripper.
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And at this point, after everything had spread online, the Granny Ripper was known around the world.
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So when players actually learned about the Granny Ripper, the similarities seemed literally perfect.
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And soon after this, videos began appearing online claiming that the Granny Ripper was the real Granny from the game.
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And this is where everything links back to Piggy.
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Piggy is based off of the popular game Granny, and Granny is based off of the serial killer Tamara Samsonova, otherwise known as the Granny Ripper.
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So obviously, Piggy is based off of a real serial killer.
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But somehow, this isn't even the strangest Roblox game with a supposed connection to a real serial killer.
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You see, this next Roblox game has even more of a disturbing past to a serial killer, and it's called Burgers.
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Now, if you've seen this game on Roblox before, it honestly looks pretty innocent.
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I mean, you're running a small burger restaurant where customers constantly come in wanting food.
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You take their orders, prepare burgers, serve them, make money, and slowly upgrade your restaurant.
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Basically, it just looks like another Roblox restaurant simulator on the outside.
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Except, there's one problem if you actually look at it from the inside.
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You see, if you actually play the game, you will know that you will start running out of meat to make burgers.
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And once you start running out of meat to make burgers, you don't actually just call someone and order more supplies like a normal restaurant.
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Burgers gives you a much darker solution.
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You use the literal customers themselves to make the burgers.
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Yeah, like the game literally allows you to take customers from your restaurant and turn them into meat, which can then be used to make more food that you serve to everyone else.
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There's a literal meat grinder in the back of the restaurant with a human skeleton next to it.
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But the dark story doesn't even end there.
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Because somehow, the darker your restaurant becomes, the more money you can continue making.
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And that's actually how the official Roblox description explains the game.
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You make burgers and serve customers.
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But when your supplies get low, you can grind customers into more meat.
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And honestly, it sounds like something somebody came up with purely because it would just make an awesome horror game.
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But that is not the case.
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It is based off of a real serial killer.
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Because over 160 years ago, there was a real criminal case with an extremely similar idea to what this game has.
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And trust me, this one gets disturbing.
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And the case that I'm talking about became known as the Crimes of Rua do Arvarito.
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Or the Rua do Arvarito murders.
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And these murders happened around 1863 and 1864 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
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And at the center of this horrifying story was a man named Jose Ramos.
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Now here's some info on Jose.
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Jose lived with a woman named Katrina Pulse.
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And according to historical accounts of the case, the two would actually work together to search for potential victims around the city.
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And Katrina, the woman Jose lived with, allegedly played a major role in getting these people to trust them both.
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What she would do is she would meet potential victims in public areas and lure them back toward the couple's home.
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And once somebody had followed her there, they had absolutely no idea what they were walking into.
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You see, once they walked into their house, victims would be robbed and murdered inside the home.
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But it didn't end after that.
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You see, Ramos and Katrina had another problem on their hands.
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Once they actually robbed and murdered these victims, they actually need to figure out how to dispose of the evidence.
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And that's where the third person actually enters the story.
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A butcher named Carlos Klossner.
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Now, Carlos operated a butcher shop in Porto Alegre.
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And according to the story that eventually becomes famous throughout the city, portions of the victim's remains were allegedly taken into the butcher shop and then turned into sausages.
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And those sausages were then supposedly sold to completely unsuspecting people around the city.
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Just imagine that for a second.
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I'm sure you can make the connection between burgers and this case already, but just imagine that for a second.
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Imagine you're living in Brazil in the 1860s, you walk into your local butcher shop, you buy some sausages, you take them home,
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and you have absolutely no idea where the meat you're eating supposedly came from.
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You're probably thinking, oh, this is just from a cow
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or pig or chicken that was just on a farm a few days ago.
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But it's not.
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And that's why this case became so famous.
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But thankfully, Jose Ramos, the guy who pretty much was the leader that orchestrated all this, was eventually arrested and prosecuted for multiple murders.
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And he was actually originally sentenced to death before his punishment was changed.
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And as a matter of fact, the entire case became so horrifying that the story actually continues to be passed down in Porto Alegre for generations.
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And somehow, the next Roblox game we're looking at gets even closer to an actual crime scene than this one did.
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You see, this next Roblox game, instead of it having one disturbing mechanic that resembles a real crime, the game has an entire roster of killers.
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And some of them have connections to real criminals as well.
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And the game I'm talking about is called Violence District.
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Now, if you don't know what Violence District is, it's basically a survival horror game where one player takes the role of a killer while everyone else has to survive.
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The survivors then have to work together, complete objectives, and avoid being hunted down before they can escape.
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And depending on who gets selected as the killer, the entire match can feel completely different.
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Now at first, most of the characters seem like the type of killers you'd expect to find in a horror game.
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A lot of the killers take inspiration from fictional slashers, horror movies, and other creepy characters.
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But when you actually start looking deeper into some of those inspirations, things get a lot darker.
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Because not every idea behind these characters ends with a movie.
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Some of them can actually be traced to real killers.
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And one of the biggest examples comes from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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Now, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a movie.
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And even if you've never watched the movie, you've probably seen Leatherface before.
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This guy right here.
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He's the massive masked killer carrying around a chainsaw.
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And obviously, Leatherface isn't a real person.
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There wasn't actually a chainsaw-wielding man named Leatherface running around Texas exactly like you see in the movie
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but parts of the Leatherface character were very inspired by a very real criminal named Ed Gein.
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But let me tell you why.
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So, Ed Gein became famous in Wisconsin during the 1950s after authorities investigating a disappearance searched his isolated farmhouse
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and discovered evidence of grave robbing and horrifying objects he had created using human remains.
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And one detail in particular would later become extremely important to horror movies.
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You see, Ed Gein made a bunch of masks from human skin.
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And that's one of the similarities commonly associated with Leatherface, who famously wears masks made from the faces of his victims.
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But obviously, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie wasn't a recreation of Ed Gein's crimes.
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The movie obviously had its own story, its own characters, but it did borrow a lot of disturbing concepts from cases like Ed Gein's.
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Which means, while Violence District might look like just another Roblox survival horror game on the surface,
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on the inside, you eventually leave Roblox completely and end up investigating some of the darkest crimes in history.
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But this next Roblox game takes pieces of real-life tragedy and turns them into an entire story.
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And that game is called Mother's Care.
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Now, I'm not going to actually play through the entire game because a full run can take around an hour, but it is a very fun game though.
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Anyways, let me explain what happens in Mother's Care.
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So, Mother's Care starts off like a normal Roblox story game.
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You play as Rynette, one of five siblings living together with their mother during an absolutely brutal winter, and their father is gone.
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He's nowhere in the picture.
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Food is also becoming extremely difficult to find, and the entire family is slowly beginning to starve.
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Now, at first, their mother seems like she's genuinely trying to keep everybody alive.
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She prepares meals, she looks after the children, and constantly reassures them that she's doing everything she can to keep everybody fed and happy.
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But while you're playing, something immediately feels wrong.
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Because every day that passes, the situation inside the house gets worse and worse.
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The portions of the food you receive become smaller, the mother herself starts acting very strange, and then the siblings begin disappearing one by one.
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Now at first, the remaining children don't completely understand what's happening.
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Their mother always seems to have some kind of explanation, but eventually, Bryonette actually ends up realizing the truth.
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Their mother isn't simply struggling to find enough food, she's killing her own children.
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And even worse, the game doesn't just revolve around killing, it also revolves around cannibalism.
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But what's honestly very interesting about Mother's Care is that the developers themselves say the game was inspired by a real-life case.
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And according to the official walkthrough from the developers, that case was Andrea Yates.
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Now, Andrea Yates was a mother from Texas who, in 2001, killed her five young children during an extremely severe mental health crisis.
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Now, the circumstances surrounding that case are obviously very different from what happens in the actual Mother's Care game, because there wasn't a freezing winter forcing the family to survive,
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there wasn't a famine, and cannibalism wasn't part of the Yates case.
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So Mother's Care isn't literally recreating what happened.
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It instead appears to take just the basic horror of a mother killing her own children
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and build an entire story around that.
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So that's the connection to the real-life serial killer.
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But there's another connection that people have made that gets even more interesting that does actually relate to cannibalism, and it's definitely worth mentioning.
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And that connection is the Great Chinese Famine.
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Now, the Great Chinese Famine occurred between 1959 and 1961.
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And what essentially happened was food production just collapsed across huge parts of the country of China
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and millions of people ended up dying.
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Entire communities were literally pushed into extreme starvation and survivors were sometimes forced into absolutely unimaginable situations just to stay alive.
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And there are official documents and reports of cannibalism during the famine.
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And eventually, both the reality of the Great Famine and the story of Mother's Care arrive at that same horrifying idea.
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When people are deprived of something as basic as food for long enough, survival can push human beings toward things that normally would seem completely unimaginable.
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And that idea makes playing through Mother's Care feel just completely unsettling.
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So Mother's Care is not just only based off of a real serial killer, but is also based off of a very real terrifying event.
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But Mother's Care isn't the only Roblox game where the story
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gets a lot more disturbing once you start researching what inspired it.
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Because this next game might look like a regular Roblox horror game at first, but its inspiration leads us down an entire rabbit hole involving missing people,
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park rangers, mysterious fires, and a group of cultists hiding inside a forest.
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And the name of this game is literally called Cultists.
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Now when you first join Cultists, you're placed in the role of a 24-year-old park ranger working his first shift at the Ironbark Watchtower.
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And your job sounds pretty simple.
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Watch the forest, help any hikers who need assistance, keep an eye out for suspicious fires, and survive your night shift.
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Except, there's already something wrong with this forest.
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Hikers have apparently been going missing.
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Strange things have been happening around the park, and your boss conveniently forgot to mention one extremely important detail.
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There are cultists somewhere in the woods.
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And as the night continues, you slowly realize that whatever is happening in this forest is much bigger than a couple of missing hikers.
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But here's where this game becomes really interesting, because cultists is vaguely similar to another horror game.
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The Roblox developers themselves actually specifically credit this horror game, which is called Fears to Fathom Ironbark Lookout.
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And if you've played the Ironbark Lookout before, you will immediately understand why these games are very similar.
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I mean, the setup of both games is almost identical.
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In Ironbark Lookout, you play as Jack Nelson, another 24-year-old fire lookout who has recently transferred to a new watchtower.
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And Jack thinks he's going to be spending his time doing what any normal fire lookout would do.
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I mean, he's basically just sitting alone in a tower in the middle of nowhere.
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But almost immediately, things start feeling wrong.
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You begin receiving strange reports.
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You encounter suspicious people around the park, and you also hear things in the forest.
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And then eventually, Jack discovers that he's not nearly as alone as he thought he was.
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Because hidden inside somewhere of Ironbark State Park appears to be an entire group of people performing some kind of ritual, a cult.
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But now you're probably wondering something.
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Why are we suddenly talking about a different game?
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Well, it's because Fierce the Fathom is different from most horror games.
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You see, the whole entire Fierce the Fathom series presents its episodes as stories narrated by people who supposedly survive the real events.
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And rather than creating one giant fictional universe with monsters and ghosts, each episode is designed to feel like something that could have genuinely happened to somebody.
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There's home invasions, creepy motels, being followed, house sitting alone, working in the middle of nowhere, and more recently, in the most recent fears of Adam, Scratch Creek.
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And I actually played that one before in a video with Kay.
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And that creates an even bigger mystery surrounding this entire story with the Roblox game and the Ironbark Lookout game.
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Because both these games aren't just about some random monster chasing you through a forest.
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The threat is literally a human.
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You're dealing with people.
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And apparently, those people are part of some kind of group operating deep inside the woods.
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Which means, if the story submitted to Fears to Fathom really did originate from someone's actual experience, then there's a much bigger question.
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Who were these people supposed to be?
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Because that's the part that people have actually been trying to figure out since Ironbark Lookout released.
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People have supposedly searched for the real Ironbark Park.
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They've compared locations.
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They've looked through missing persons cases.
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They've searched for reports of strange groups operating around forests and national parks.
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And they've tried to figure out whether there was an actual incident that could have inspired what we see in both games, the Roblox game Cultus and the Fierce of Adam game Ironbark Lookout.
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And so far, I did my research.
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There hasn't been any confirmation of what these games are based off of in real life
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but i did end up finding one
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and there's an entire video called i found the real story behind ironbark lookout
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and instead of me sitting here explaining every single theory surrounding this video i think it's actually better
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if we just look at what they found all right here we go i'm gonna skip through all the info
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that we already know about this game
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and kind of just skip to the part of the cultist
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being introduced with the help of the coordinates given to me by
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so soon oh i don't know how to pronounce
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that we get the coordinates to a fire lookout called gobblers knob fire lookout look familiar
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that looks exactly like it because it is the exact same design as
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that of iron bark lookout wow and you
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if you look in its surroundings you can also find a
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lake there this could be the lake where jack goes to
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investigate the abandoned site at the beginning of the game and both of these locations are found in mount rainier national park
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now there are multiple stories online talking about missing people in mount rainier as well as some supranational phenomena's occurring there.
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Okay.
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But then again, it is a place covered by dense trees, so there's bound to be such occurrences. Of course.
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According to Memzilla, there is a Kurt-like group located about an hour away from Mount Rainier,
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which I believe is the Ramtha's School of Enlightenment established by Jay-Z Knight.
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Wow, so there is a real cult- A spiritual sect group that believe in a 35,000 year old being called Ramtha.
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Now maybe the ritual in the end of the game were members of this sect group
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or cult trying to call upon this Ramtha guy
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and once discovered by Jack deemed him unworthy of being in this being's presence.
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Wow.
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The members of the group also sometimes dress like the members shown in game.
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And as for why they try to attack Jack,
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most probably relates to their teachings being limited to only their students.
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The members of the real life cult also have been accused of using intimidation
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and fear techniques to keep the students in the school, which the members in game use to drive Jack out of the park.
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Now whether...
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Okay, so clearly there is a real cult
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and there is a real park where all of this went down and I guess the story is pretty much true.
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So cultists is based off of a real story
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that does have real people that tried to kill somebody and so is Ironbark Lookout, which is what Cultus is based off of.
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Anyways, those are some Roblox games based off of real serial killers.
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Let me know which one you thought was the most shocking.
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And if you guys enjoyed this video, make sure you click another video on screen, subscribe if you want more, and I'll see you in the next one.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 262 sentences and 3946 words to shadow. The speech runs for 21:29. The speaker talks fast, about 184 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| killer noun | /ˈkɪlɚ/ | One who or that which kills. |
| granny noun | /ˈɡɹæni/ | A grandmother. |
| horror noun | /ˈhɒɹ.ə/ | An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance. |
| lookout noun | /ˈlʊkaʊt/ | A vantage point with a view of the surrounding area. |
| serial adjective | /ˈsɪɹ.i.əl/ | Having to do with or arranged in a series. |
| burger noun | /ˈbɝ.ɡɚ/ | A hamburger. |
| disturb verb | /dɪˈstɜːb/ | to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids. |
| famine noun | /ˈfæm.ɪn/ | Extreme shortage of food in a region. |
| investigate verb | /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/ | To inquire into or study in order to ascertain facts or information. |
| elderly adjective | /ˈɛldɚli/ | old; having lived for relatively many years. |
| creepy adjective | /ˈkɹipi/ | Moving by creeping along. |
| supposedly adverb | /səˈpoʊ̯.zɪd.li/ | As a matter of supposition; in the beliefs or according to the claims of some people. |
| surround verb | /səˈɹaʊnd/ | To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions. |
| butcher noun | /ˈbʊt͡ʃə/ | A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals). |
| mount verb | /maʊnt/ | To get upon; to ascend; to climb. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. |
| play through verb | To overtake a slower group of players ahead of one's own group, rather than waiting for them to finish the hole before proceeding. |
| come up with verb | To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it. |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
| look through verb | To take a view of the contents of; search in, either with the eyes or by hand. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if you want more, and I'll see |
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | have been happening · have actually been trying |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | you've played · you've definitely seen · have made |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | were inspired · are based · is based |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 58 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, wasn't, you've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, fictional /ˈfɪkʃənəl/, shock /ʃɔk/
- Long words — get the stress right: investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, supposedly /səˈpoʊ̯.zɪd.li/, developer /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, ordinary /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like killer, granny, horror.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.