Horrifying found footage YouTube series can cause ‘psychological damage’

I stumbled upon something pretty weird on YouTube this week. I was mindlessly scrolling through Twitter when I came across several clips of a really gross found footage horror. I had to know what it was. I think I’m something of a found footage fan. I’m not as well-informed as Dreads Editor-in-Chief Mary Beth McAndrews, but I try. The cool stuff I kept seeing wasn’t from a movie or streaming show. Instead, I was watching snippets of the J-horror series Fake Documentation Q.

The YouTube series created by Daichi Minaguchi is difficult to describe. Consider it the most terrifying and frightening parts of Kōji Shiraishi’s Noroi: The Curse compressed into bite-sized episodes. The latest, titled TAKE 100was released just two days ago. The cryptic opening text reads: “An unreleased Japanese film has been discovered in a warehouse owned by a wealthy person.”

I don’t want to know what’s on it, but you can watch the episode of Fake Documentation Q for yourself here.

A full episode of the terrifying YouTube series Fake Documentary Q

Fake Documentation Q is a rabbit hole of terrifying live streams, episodic beats, and horrors I can’t even begin to describe. If you develop a new obsession, please let it be this one. It’s the coolest thing I’ve found online since Eternal Family. It is episodic in nature and you can easily immerse yourself for ten to thirty minutes and experience some really disturbing things. Check out what people are saying about the sensational Fake Documentation Q online below:

I haven’t seen the fake documentary “Q” yet. And then?
WHAT
What the hell are you doing?

IT IS THE MOST SUBLIME, TERRIFYING FOUND FOOTAGE/MOCKUMENTARY I HAVE EVER SEEN. I WILL NOT EXCEED IT.

IT’S A WORK OF ART AND YOU CAN WATCH IT FOR FREE!!!!!!! https://t.co/VSnkFEYJCO

— Saf. (@gluetrap69) 23 June 2024

I’m so glad people are interested in the fake documentary Q, it’s a beautiful little thing that has been on my mind for a few years now.

– benis (@big_oopsie9191) 23 June 2024

Also, I forgot that a new Fake Documentary Q episode came out today, lessgooo ^0/

— Rotten ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (@jannik_mihay) 22 June 2024

Please, please, please, if you love Found Footage/Mocumentary Horror, especially Japanese Found
Footage Horror, please watch Fake Documentary Q. They have some really scary stuff and I
I highly recommend it to all horror fans. https://t.co/uRULhVj2y4

— Kinglier (@_Kinglier_) 22 June 2024

TXQ FICTION!!!! Fake Documentary Q teams up with Tokio Omori and bombards the broadcast world with their brand of mystery, media humiliation, and our hunger for misery.

I can’t believe you can just turn on the TV and see this pic.twitter.com/3VSiVUnmr9

— Baxter (cosmicspooks.bsky.social) (@cosmicspooks) May 20, 2024

Come on. Even Hideo Kojima gets it. What do you think? Is Fake Documentation Q not the scariest thing ever on YouTube? Let me know if you like it as much as I do on Twitter @Chadiscollins. Tell me your favorite episodes, your best stories – anything. I’m ready to lose myself in it.

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