To wake people up to the reality, (the site) was created,” the site says. They seem to look at the world through the rose tinted sunglasses which makes them weak, vulnerable and often-times dangerous. On the website, the founder calls it a “reality news website” and maintains that people have a duty and responsibility to know the truth about what humans do to others. The site’s owner, based in Edmonton, Canada, was charged last summer with corrupting morals after he hosted a video of a man stabbing and dismembering a 33-year-old man.
The site’s audience is mostly male and about one-third American. One shock site, which the Star Tribune is choosing not to name, recently ranked as the 6,181st most popular website in the United States, according to, a website that measures Internet traffic. She’d already seen one year earlier when older kids were watching a different beheading. “Look at this one,” she remembers hearing them say.Īshley Wobschall, 21, said one of her Waseca friends posted a link to a Taliban beheading on Facebook once. A group of boys were trying outdo each other by watching videos of increasingly violent deaths and showing them to classmates. His daughter, 18-year-old Valerie LaDue, first saw students watching gory videos on cellphones in the back of a classroom a few years ago, she said. But he was surprised to learn that, he said, “not only is it out there, but it’s been consolidated (on websites devoted to it) and popularized.” “I think people would like to think that this is really an aberration, and in most ways it is,” David LaDue said. They said they want other parents to be aware of what their children might be watching on smartphones and laptops, away from the watchful eyes of parents and teachers. LaDue told his parents that he had become obsessed with the videos and started to like them, his father said.ĭavid and Stephanie LaDue say they aren’t blaming the videos, but they can’t help but believe they were a factor in the darkness that crept into their son’s consciousness. In Waseca, 17-year-old John LaDue’s parents say their son told them recently how he repeatedly watched the graphic videos as he also consumed himself with making secret, unfulfilled plans to kill his family and set off bombs at the local school. “They said, ‘Hey, check this out, it’s gross.’ “īeese and others said they watched only a few and that was enough to sear their memories.
Zach Beese, 21, watched a few of the videos - one of an execution shooting, another of a group of boys murdering another boy with a hammer. The videos are shared on social media or surreptitiously shown in school, in the back of a classroom on somebody’s phone or on a school computer when a teacher isn’t looking, they said.
“It’s worse than it should be but you can’t stop it,” said another. “It’s, like, what kids get a kick out of nowadays,” said one skater in a white T-shirt and baseball cap, who didn’t want to give his name. Most said they’d seen a video of an execution, brutal fight or bad accident. “We probably haven’t paid enough attention,” she said.įifteen miles from Waseca, in Owatonna, tattooed young men ran their painted skateboards over ramps and pipes at a skate park one recent evening. The effects of true gore videos in particular may not be getting enough consideration from researchers, said Abigail Gewirtz, associate professor in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. While violence on screen and in video games might not necessarily provoke inappropriate behaviour, mental health experts say, it can affect those who are vulnerable or prone to violence. The Canadian government is charging the producer of one of the grisliest sites for corrupting morals. The videos have raised worry among parents and caught the attention of some public safety officials. They are memory-searing, nightmare-inducing scenes for most people, but they are an Internet destination for some teens and young adults - including the Waseca (in the US) teen accused of plotting a school massacre, according to his parents. Under “execution,” a video shows the shooting of an alleged infidel in Iraq. Click on “beheading,” for instance, and after agreeing to continue through a warning about explicit content, viewers can watch masked men in a purported Mexican drug cartel pull out a machete as they surround their kneeling victim. The website boasts a long menu of horrors captured on video: impalements, hangings, suicides.
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