(dramatic music) - [Ryan] This video contains content that some might find disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised. Previously on "Are You Scared?" - [Adam] He just crashes the car killing them both. - [Tommy] Hey, now we're on to... (tires skidding) (car crashing) - [Adam] Jesus. A car just slammed into the building. - [Tommy] Why are the things you're pitching actually happening? - [Adam] I don't know. There was a body there 10 seconds ago, now he's completely gone. What's happening? - I don't know. Why is everything you say coming true? - [Adam] I don't know. I don't want it to be. Oh, I'm gonna black out. (door closes) - [Tommy] Adam? I think we're trapped. - Hi, I'm Ryan Bergara and this is "Are You Scared?" A show where I tell my friend Shane Madej the Internet's scariest stories. We are doing things a little bit different here for "Are You Scared?" Normally we have a story submitted by you guys, and this time we had a story submitted to us via mail. - By complete strangers. Our friends over at Rusty Quill. (Ryan laughs) - Contained within this envelope were three cassette tapes. - Very scary. - So if you don't know what we're talking about, go back and watch episode one where we did tape one. This is episode two. We're doing tape two. We're gonna find out what happened to the boys in that building. So lock your doors- - Yeah. - Turn off the lights- - Yeah. - And let's see if we could make it till the end of the night. (eerie music) - [Adam] And the new tape is rolling. - [Tommy] The one electronic still working, a tape recorder. We're saved. - [Adam] It has a battery. - [Tommy] I know why it's working. - [Adam] Well, you've gotta admit, it's feeling pretty horror-ish right now. (chuckles) Maybe we don't even need a podcast idea. Maybe we just get these tapes transcribed and then recorded. - [Tommy] Why did you have to say blackout? - [Adam] Because I was going to blackout. - [Tommy] Stop talking. We just need to sit and wait for this to stop. - [Adam] What, you think this is a dream? - [Tommy] We just watched people explode into piles of bugs. - [Adam] So I'm dreaming. - [Tommy] I'm not in your dream. I have agency. - [Adam] So a hallucination, then? A shared hallucination? - [Tommy] Yeah, something like that. (banging on door) Hello? Someone? Let us out of here. - [Adam] It's past 11. No one else is here. The window. - [Tommy] The window. - [Both] Help. - [Adam] Help! - [Tommy] Hello? - Hello down there. - Hello down there. - Hello! - Hello? Help! - So they're about four stories up in an office building. - Mentally though they could be way up. - They could be, yes. - We don't know if any of this is happening, remember? - Right, it could all be a, well, as they said, a shared hallucination. Have you ever hallucinated? - One time I went to Coachella and I had one of those chocolate bars that was special and then the heat melted it, and then I had no choice- - You eat it all at once? - Well, I couldn't portion it. - And you full on hallucinated? - I did hallucinate quite a bit. - What did you see? Did you see people turning into bugs? - No, but my girlfriend at the time, her face was like a skull and that was crazy. And I was like, "Whoa. Back to the tent." And I went to sleep. - Is this what goes on at Coachella? Sounds fun. - It is pretty fun. - Yeah. - [Tommy] Hello down there. - [Adam] Hello? - [Tommy] Hello? Help! I don't think you can hear through our window four floors up. - [Adam] I can't even see if there's anyone down there. - [Tommy] I never noticed how dark it gets when the lampposts go out. - [Adam] We have to get out of here. - [Tommy] We have to wait for the electricity to come back on. - [Adam] Or... - [Tommy] Or what? - [Adam] The London electric grid comes back on. - [Tommy] Be careful. - [Adam] Why didn't that work? Or every locked door is suddenly opened. (Tommy sighs) I formally pitch a podcast where every locked door is suddenly opened. Didn't work. - Okay, well now there we go. You want to be screaming the thing at a horror film and then that thing happens and then it doesn't work, so that's exactly what you just, I'm satisfied now. - Yeah. - [Adam] You try. - [Tommy] Try what? - [Adam] Pitch the idea that the door is unlocked. - [Tommy] You're pitching that I pitch that the door is unlocked? - [Adam] Yeah, exactly. - [Tommy] But the fact that I haven't done it yet, hasn't that already determined that this isn't working anymore? - [Adam] What? - [Tommy] Because you pitched that I pitch something, but I haven't. If you have these powers to make anything happen, then I would've pitched something after you pitched that that was the case. - If this was me and you in this situation and you were doing what he was doing to me. - Yeah? - I'd stab you in the throat with a big pen. - Why? You're such a really terrible guy. - And I'd watch the blood come out. - You're such a- - I'd laugh. - You're such a piece of shit. - I'd laugh like this. - You're such a nasty guy. - [Tommy] Also, the doors would've already unlocked, so this isn't my fault. - [Adam] Oh, god, even when it doesn't make sense, getting you to pitch ideas is an exercise in futility. - [Tommy] Back to insulting me. - [Adam] God, do you think maybe that's what happened? Because I was being mean to you and now the gods wanted to punish me? - [Tommy] Maybe. And since when are you suddenly religious? - [Adam] I'm reevaluating a lot right now, okay? Please pitch that the door is unlocked. - [Adam] Fine. How about a podcast where the primary conceit is that the door to this room suddenly unlocks. (door knob jangling) - [Adam] Why do only some things happen when we say them? Why would the electricity go out but the doors won't open? Is it only bad ideas? - [Tommy] It's, I mean, I think... I don't know. But please, please stop talking. - [Adam] I have an idea. - [Tommy] Don't. - [Adam] A bird attacks that window. (banging on window) - Holy shit. - [Tommy] Oh my god. - Is it when he says, "I have an idea?" - Maybe. I thought for a second their genie powers were over. Maybe it only happens when it's horrible things. So maybe if I did something like, you know, my big popcorn pit or your big pecs. - My big pecs. - That actually probably would happen. - My pecs would be so big, they would be horrible. I'd be so top heavy, I'd just keep falling over. - How many days a week are you thinking about big pecs and yet doing no lifting? - I can't think about 'em. - You know, you could have big pecs if you wanted. - No, no, no. I can't have big pecs. They'd be too powerful. - [Adam] You see a crack? Is the window breaking? - [Tommy] I can't really tell. Maybe? - [Adam] Another bird attacks that window in the same spot as the first. (banging on window) - [Tommy] Jesus, stop it. - [Adam] We have to get out of here. We can't go through the door, so do you have any other ideas? - [Tommy] Stop asking me to pitch ideas. Stop pitching ideas yourself. - [Adam] Another bird attacks that window. - Oh my god! - Oh, Jesus Christ. - This guy is a mass murderer of birds. - Yeah- - Stop it. - This is not cool. - Yeah, once you kill the first bird, sure. You didn't know that was gonna happen. The second bird, maybe I give you a pass. The third bird? - But also, are these even real birds? If they're being conjured by some unknown force, maybe they're just, you know. - Well, I mean, to put it in a context that you would understand, would those be real pecs? - Yeah, they'd be real as hell. You could touch 'em for days. - I wouldn't. - Oil 'em up. - [Tommy] Stop exploding birds. - [Adam] I'm trying to figure this out. - [Tommy] Have you tried asking it to stop? - [Adam] Asking who? How would I even do that? - [Tommy] Frame it as a podcast. - [Adam] A podcast where a podcast host has some mysterious ability to make horror ideas come to life but then he pitches an idea describing his situation, and then that stops it. - [Tommy] Is it over? - [Adam] I don't know. - [Tommy] How do we find out? Don't. - [Adam] I'm just going to do another bird. (Ryan laughs) - What the fu... (laughs) - It's pretty good. - He can't get enough. He's seen one bird explode, he's addicted to birds exploding. - He could make it like, you know, a little fly or something, or a... - Yeah, I know, but now he's got the pill. He's bird pilled. - I had a little bird. I had three birds growing up. - How were they? - There was Paco and there was Abby and Sugar. - Oh, I didn't even know you ate two other birds. - They were cockatiels. - Is this what it was like for you? You got addicted to the first one and then- - I'll have another. - You ate the second one and then the third one? (Shane laughs) - I'll have another bird, please. (Ryan laughs) - [Adam] Does that mean it's over? - [Tommy] You were too vague. - [Adam] Another bird hits the window. (banging on window) - [Tommy] Stop it! - Jesus Christ. Come on, man. - [Tommy] Stop talking. Even if you do break the window, then what? We jump from the fourth floor? - The only reason why he's making the birds hit the window is to break the window. Why doesn't he just throw something at the window? - Oh yeah, I guess that's an option. - Why does he just keep making these birds headbutt this window? They should throw an office chair through this window. - Is this just gonna turn into "Die Hard?" - "Welcome to the party, pal." - They get a phone call and it's like, "Hello, cowboy." (Ryan laughs) - [Tommy] Even if you do break the window, then what? We jump from the fourth floor? (exhales) (helicopter blades whirring in the distance) - [Adam] Helicopter. We can wave for help. - Help. - Help? - [Tommy] Help! Help us! Help. - Did they see us? - [Tommy] Help. Maybe they're coming around again. - [Adam] Help, help. Help, please. - Wave your arms. Wave your arms more. They'll see movement. Help. - [Both] Help! - This is pathetic. (Shane laughs) Come on now. After you said help 20 times in a row, I think maybe switch to a different strategy, no? - They're pounding on the window it sounds like, you know. - These guys have conjured the idea of crashing 800 birds into this window and then pounding on their fists like a child. - Crash it. Here's what you do. Send a bird into the helicopter rotors, then it crashes into the building. Firemen show up. - Yeah. Like Dr. Henry Jones in "The Last Crusade." - With his umbrella. - Help, please. - Wave your arms. Wave your arms more. They'll see movement. Help. - [Both] Help! - [Adam] No, no, no, no, no. - [Tommy] Ugh, no. Come back. Adam, tell it to come back. - [Adam] Come back. Come back, helicopter. A podcast where a helicopter comes back. (Ryan and Shane laughing) - [Tommy] No, no, no, no, no, no. - No! - Where is it going? - [Adam] Oh, go to hell, you stupid helicopter. (helicopter blades whirring) - [Tommy] Oh, no. - [Adam] Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. Fly, helicopter. Land gently. (Shane laughs) - They're gonna make the helicopter crash. (Ryan laughs) - Also, "Come back, helicopter," like a dog. - Come back. (laughs) Here, helicopter. - It's really funny. - Do you think a hole is gonna open up and it's actually gonna go to hell? - That would be sick. - [Adam] No, no, no. Fly, helicopter. Land gently. Do... (helicopter crashing) - [Tommy] What did you do? - Oh, shit, okay. Well, we immediately got our answer. And it was not a nice, gentle landing. - No. - It was in fact the opposite. They rocketed into the earth. (laughs) - Maybe it's a thing where only bad things can happen. - You know what's kind of funny is they started out this podcast talking about maybe if you talk to someone long enough, they'll become the serial killer. They've now killed, what, a dozen birds and whoever was in that helicopter. - That's true. Yeah. - [Tommy] What did you do? - [Adam] I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking. - [Tommy] Please, let's both just shut up and wait for whatever this is to wear off. - [Adam] What makes you think this will wear off? - [Tommy] What makes you think it won't? (rummaging in the distance) - [Adam] Looters. - [Tommy] Why did you say that? Now you've summoned a bunch of looters. - [Adam] There were already looters. - [Tommy] Yeah. Is this the sound that was always coming from down there? - [Adam] God, I'm so sorry. - [Tommy] Just stop talking. (glass shattering in the distance) - [Adam] Where are the police? - [Tommy] I don't know. - [Adam] Do we have a radio in here? - [Tommy] Why would we have a police radio? (people shouting in the distance) - [Adam] No police are coming. (Tommy laughs) - [Tommy] That might be true. The police probably have their hands full right now. Plus, you just said that no police are coming. - [Adam] No I did, didn't I? - [Tommy] I'm begging you. Please just stay quiet until... - [Adam] Until what? - You have to admit, he does have a point. You should just shut up at this point. - He's gotta get better at that, yeah. - Just duct tape his mouth shut. - Yeah. Oh, that's a good idea. Has a single good thing happened? - Nothing really good has come from this guy opening his mouth. It's like the worst version of, like, when you're in a conversation, you just keep digging yourself a deeper hole. - Yeah. - Except in the scenario there's a trail of bodies, but you know. - Now I'm actually feeling pretty good if I'm in that building and there's a bunch of rioters down there. You just chill. Unless they set the building on fire, then that's bad. (Ryan laughs) Then you'd die - [Tommy] Until... - [Adam] Until what? - [Tommy] I don't know. I'm just scared. The more we talk, the more likely it is they discover it's because of us. - [Adam] Uh, Tommy? - [Tommy] God, what's going on down there? - [Adam] Well, I can't really see as the ones with the flashlights all seem to be pointing them up here. - [Tommy] Oh, no. - I can't imagine how scary it would be if there was like a riot going on down below and everyone had flashlights and they all in unison turned them up to my window. - It's like an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" situation. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They all realize it's you. What do you do in that situation? - I mean, I guess I'd just hide in a closet or something. It sounds like I'm gonna die, so I'd probably just be real scared and curl up in a ball and wait for death. - I think I would just try and appear as nuts as I possibly could. I'd take my shirt off, press my nipples against the glass, start licking it up and down. Doing crazy things. I'd probably, like, start going like that or something and then they would never come up. - Some of them might. - [Tommy] Stop them. Stop them. - [Adam] Okay. The looters get distracted from looking at us. (explosion booming) Oh my god. - [Tommy] What the hell? - [Adam] Ambulance is on fire. - [Tommy] Look. (people screaming) - [Adam] Oh, I forgot about the bugs. We have to help. - [Tommy] Who? The rioters? The bug corpses? Who's going to help us? - This is such a scene. Such a scene. - It's a lot. - We got big riots, we got ambulances on fire, everybody's turning into bugs. - We got like a small, neat pile of dead birds at the base of this building. A helicopter somewhere in the distance with like the blades slowly spinning. - Yeah. - As it's stuck in the side. - It's apocalyptic out there. - [Ryan] That's crazy. - They're bringing about the end of days. - Anytime they try to undo anything, it doesn't work, so they have to wish for something else. - What's like the opposite thing you could do that sounds like a bad wish that would come true but would in fact be beneficial to you? - I got it. - What? - I would wish for really big hail. - Oh. - Because then all the looters would be like, "Ah! Ah!" - [Shane] Yeah. - But it just knocks everyone out, calms everyone down, gets them out of the streets. - Or food poisoning. Everyone gets food poisoning. - I think my idea was better. - I don't like it when you don't read the stories. You're talking too much. (Ryan laughs) - [Tommy] Who's going to help us? - [Adam] Nothing has happened to us. - [Tommy] Except for the blackout. - [Adam] Well, that happened to everyone. - [Tommy] The best way you can help them is by shutting up. - [Adam] We just need to be careful. We need to understand the rules of this. - [Tommy] The rule is you say something horrible and it comes true. How has that not been made clear? - [Adam] There's too much we don't know. What if it's never going to stop? - [Tommy] What if they remember it's because of us and come after us? You can't just keep exploding ambulances. - A poor choice of words as well. - These guys gotta watch their mouths. Watch your mouth. - How hard is it to just sit down and just silently observe the destruction? - Pretty funny, though. - If you and I were up there and we realized we could conjure, here's what we would do. We'd look out the window, we'd go... - Because we're smart. - Because we're smart. We got the detective brain- - We got huge brains. - Now birds are dying, helicopters are exploding, ambulances. - They can't help themselves. They're trying to outsmart it. Guess what? You can't. You've gotta remain mute for the rest of your life. - That's right. - That's what I would do. - A vow of silence. - Mm-hm. - [Adam] Tommy, I think they remember. They're coming. - Gotta be careful with that one. - Why? - He said, "They're coming." (Ryan laughs) - Just a bunch of people- - You gotta watch your mouth! - Just a bunch of people like in the middle of a sprint going up there- - [Shane] Let's get 'me! (laughs) - [Adam] They're coming. (Shane and Ryan laughing) - [Tommy] It's fine. The lifts are out. - [Adam] But the stairs still work. - [Tommy] If we can't get out of this room, they can't get in. Electronic locks, remember? - [Adam] We're two people. An angry mob pursuing the man who shattered their reality might be a bit more successful. - [Tommy] We'll be okay. They're on their way here, but when they get here, we're safe inside. (footsteps thudding) (people yelling) - [Adam] Here they come. (banging on door) - [Tommy] Jesus. Get back. (banging on door) God, what's wrong with them? - [Adam] Tommy, I don't think that lock is gonna hold. - [Tommy] Stop saying things. - [Adam] But it's true. - Well now it is. - [Tommy] Now it's true. We have to do something, quick. - [Adam] Another explosion outside distracts everyone. (explosion booming in the distance) - Nice. (dramatic music) (people yelling) (banging on door) - [Adam] Shit. - Shit. - [Tommy] Not working. - [Adam] Well what do we do now? - [Tommy] We have to pitch something else to stop them. - [Adam] W-what? What do we... - [Tommy] We have to. It's them or us. - [Adam] Uh, uh... Um... - [Tommy] Now, Adam. - You gotta knock one of them out. I'd give you a clean clock, you'd be out, and then that way I could figure out what to do on my own and I could just stop talking. 'Cause you can't talk if you're by yourself. - That's true. I talk to myself a lot, though. - That's why I'd knock you out. - You're a mutterer. - I do. - You're always like... (mumbling) (Ryan laughs) You have little Gollum/Smeagol conversations all over the office. - That's true. I do do that. - Yeah. - [Tommy] Now, Adam. - [Adam] Oh, god, wh... Okay, then, the rioters all die. Okay? (bodies thudding) (insects buzzing) - [Tommy] Bugs. - Oh. (Ryan laughs) I forgot about the bugs. That's how you know, that's effective writing. If a writer's gotten you to a point where just one word, bugs, makes you go, "Oh!" - And it makes you say, "I forgot about the bugs." (Shane laughs) Could you imagine if every human, instead of just defecating when they die, they just combust into bugs? - I guess it depends- - How much more interesting our world would be. - What kind of bugs? Do you know, there's so many bugs. - Like a flock of locusts. - Do you know how many bugs there are? - I'm sure you know this, weirdo. (Shane exhales) - It's a lot. It's like so many bugs, relative to people. - You gotta stop talking about bugs to people, man. - Why? There's so many bugs. Why is it bad for me to talk about bugs? And sometimes- - I'm not saying it's bad, it's just the frequency of the talks. - You're not telling me bugs are fascinating? - They're fascinating. I'll say whatever I have to say to make this conversation stop. - You don't want me to talk to you about bugs anymore? - Yeah, just drop it, bug boy. (laughs) - Don't call me bug boy. Nobody calls me bug boy. Nobody calls me bug boy. And nobody ever has. - [Tommy] Bugs. - [Adam] Oh my god. Oh my god. - [Tommy] They can't get the door open enough. We are still safe in here. - [Adam] Safe? What part of this feels safe? You think because we're locked in a room, we won't explode into a cloud of bugs the second our hearts stop? We need to get out of here. - [Tommy] We need to wait for it to stop. - [Adam] What if it never stops? - It has to. - Does it? - [Tommy] It'll stop if you just stop talking, so I'm warning you, shut up. (Adam laughs) - [Adam] You're warning me? - [Tommy] Adam, look me in the eyes. Look, Adam. Look at me. - [Adam] What? - [Tommy] You need to stop talking now. You are making me feel very unsafe and putting me in a bad spot. - [Adam] Tommy, we need... - [Tommy] Why? Why can't you just shut up? - He's about to kill him. He's about to knock his ass out. Detective brain. - More of a sicko brain. - No, you gotta knock him out. - No, you're- - I'm not saying kill him. He's about to kill him. - A detective isn't like, you know what would be good? To murder someone. - You know what I would do, though? If I clocked you and was like, "Pew!" I would catch you with the other hand. - Now I wanna be, before we get into that, when (laughs) when you knocked me out, would you say, "Pew!" (Ryan laughs) - Yeah, I would. - You'd do that whenever you punch someone? Pew! - I'd be like, "What's that over there?" "Pew!" I'd catch you with a left hand like this. - That's sweet, to avoid any concussion. - And I'd lay you down onto a pillow that's on the ground. - That's, why is it so tender? - Because I don't want you to concuss yourself. - After you've- - Further. - After you've punched me so hard that I black out. - Exactly. - Yeah, okay. - [Tommy] Why? Why can't you just shut up? - [Adam] What are you holding? - [Tommy] Why can't you just wait for it to wear off? - [Adam] Wait for what to wear... Stop, stop. Get back. - [Tommy] It needs to stop. - [Adam] Get away from me. - [Tommy] I'm sorry. (Adam grunting) - [Adam] Get off me. What are you doing? Get... - [Tommy] I'm sorry. (hit thuds) (Adam grunts) - Oh! - [Tommy] Adam? Adam? I'm sorry, Adam. - Well, I'm very intrigued now as to what's going to happen now. - Um... - Is it gonna become sort of a one man play? A descent into darkness? - Well, I don't think he killed him. - He just knocked him out. Maybe the next one starts with him waking up. - "Wake up." - What world is he gonna wake up into? That's the question. - I'm on the edge of my seat here. I wanna see what happens to these boys. Obviously nothing good because we have their tapes. Unless they sent them to us and they're like, "Cool story, right?" - [Shane] Yeah. - I guess we'll just have to see next week when we play the last tape. Stay in your house, stay exactly where you are for one week and do not move until we play the last tape. What do you do... Oh, you're on the edge of your seat. - Yeah. - Nice. That's really good. - I'm excited. - [Ryan] Next time on, "Are You Scared?" The final tape. - [Tommy] All I wanted was for us to have some fun and come up with some ideas. - [Adam] So you drugged me? - [Tommy] I didn't think it would be this real. - [Adam] How long were the hallucinations supposed to last? - [Tommy] The guy who sold it to me said it would be less than a minute. - [Adam] Less than a minute? It's been almost an hour. (dramatic music) (disembodied laughing)