Terrifying True Urban Legends: A Haunted Forest, The Elevator Game, Britain’s Hannibal Lecter
When villagers in a remote Thai forest heard screams echoing from the woods every hour for three straight days, they were convinced the legends of ancient spirits haunting those trees had come to life. In Taiwan, a woman and her young daughter walked into an elevator, rode to the top floor of an 11-story building, and seemingly vanished, feeding into the internet's most haunting urban legends, “The Elevator Game”. And in England, a prisoner they call "Hannibal the Cannibal" has been locked in a glass cell underground for over 40 years, but how much of his legend is actually true?
TW: Suicide
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SOURCES
The Haunted Well
https://www.latintimes.com/screaming-man-mistaken-ghost-terrified-villagers-stuck-well-days-568964
The Disappearance of Mrs. Liu
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The Elevator Game
https://www.korea.net/Events/Overseas/view?articleId=18358
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/7vfmxb/do_not_play_the_elevator_game_words_of_a_big_time/
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Killer Behind Bars
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maudsley
TRANSCRIPT
Welcome one and all to another installment of heart starts pounding. I’m your morbid tour guide today, Kaelyn Moore
What happens when a terrifying legend you’ve grown up with ends up being true? What happens when you follow a cry you hear in the woods and find something you weren’t prepared for? Or what about when a silly internet challenge leads to one of the strangest missing person cases?
Today, we’re dissecting some of those legends and the dark stories that inspired them.
In thailand, spirits are everywhere. They’re called Pops, and their stories and legends have circulated throughout the country for centuries
But to some, that is what the spirits are supposed to be: legends. However, just last year, deep within the forest on the border of thailand and Myanmar, there was a haunting so visceral that the locals knew the legends they had grown up with were true….
The screams started on Friday, November 22, 2024.
That night, Villagers were lying in their beds when they heard desperate, panicked cries echoing from the woods. A few wanted to go check them out, but when they stepped out of their homes, the screams stopped. They picked up briefly an hour later, but once again, stopped before anyone went to go look.
What they quickly learned, was that the screaming happened briefly, every hour on the hour– there would be a piercing wail from deep within the woods, and then nothing. The voice seemed to have a curious echo to it, and none of its words were familiar to them. they started to wonder if it wasn’t a ghost or a demon .
And the pattern continued. Night after night, and every time, the villagers became more and more frightened.
They thought of all of the spirits that haunt those forests, the stories they were raised on. Like Phi Pop, a cannibalistic thai spirit that feeds on human intestines. A person can become infected by the spirit of a phi pop, like one local woman who walked out into the woods one day and started deteriorating after she came back. Her lips became pale, and she started losing weight, withering away. She had recurring nightmares of being eaten alive, and insects like mosquitoes would no longer touch her. All symptoms of being infected by a Phi Pop.
This meant that the spirit was slowly eating her life force at night and would continue until she died. A Medium was called to her home to make offerings to the spirit and negotiate with them, but it was too late. The woman died, just like many of the Phi Pops other victims.
With this evil lurking in the woods, you can imagine the villagers were hesitant to investigate. The screams were like a siren call, perhaps meant to lure them to their death., But after one 72 hour stretch where the screams happened every hour on the hour, the villagers became so frightened, that word reached the local police. There was only one thing to do: someone had to go into the woods and find this specter, whatever it was.
That evening, Sunday the 24th, police dispatched a patrol to search the surrounding woods. As they were walking through the trees, a strange sound came again. This time, it sounded like someone crying. Perhaps a starving Phi Pong, waiting for it’s next victim
They didn’t know where it was coming from – there was no one around them as far as the eye could see. The lead officer called out, and suddenly the crying stopped. But then, A moment later, it called back.
Following the sound, the officers came to an old, cracked well amongst the trees, almost buried in vegetation. It had no guardrail, no sign or anything. It was just a wide open pit, and the screams were coming from deep inside
Cautiously, the officers approached… They peered into the hole half expecting the cannibal spirit to jump from it and possess them.
But instead, At the very bottom of the pit was a man. A living, breathing man.
His face and body were covered in bruises and he held his left arm protectively against his chest. It was clear that he’d been unable to climb up the smooth sides of the well.
The officers called a rescue team. Within 30 minutes, they were lifting the man back to the surface and spiriting him to the nearest hospital. He’d suffered a concussion and a fractured wrist, but he was no evil spirit.
It turned out, he was a 22-year-old Chinese tourist named Liu Chuanyi. He’d gotten lost in the woods while hiking, and fell into the well in the dark. Injured and unable to climb out, he’d only been able to call helplessly and hope that someone heard him. In order to save his strength, he’d called every hour for 3 days and nights.
Authorities, after hearing Chuanyi’s story, decided to close the well up, and prevent this kind of accident from ever happening again.
The residents could sleep soundly that night, knowing they were safe from the malicious spirits in the area. But this story represents the kind of tale I want to tell you today. I want to find the truth behind some terrifying legends. But just a heads up, this story is the happiest one we’ll discuss. From here on, things only get darker.
This is heart starts pounding, and I’m your host Kaelyn Moore. Today, we’re exploring legends that you guys, our community have sent me. This show has listeners from all over the world and you guys have some seriously terrifying legends. So a very special shoutout to our listeners from Thailand and Taiwan today, who clued me into these stories. but I see you guys!!
But I want to get into our next legend, and the very mysterious disappearance associated with it that I still can’t wrap my head around.
Back in 2008, a post popped up on the occult section of the Japanese website 2 chan, an anonymous forum site that would eventually go on to inspire the creation of 4chan.
The post asked if there was a way to turn back time, and for the next few months, people commented all kinds of different occult ways that they had traveled through time. One anonymous poster wrote “Just between you and me, I know a way to go back in time. It's called the Kurokamida (koo-roh-kah-mee-dah) Technique, but of course there are risks. I've been through high school six times.
To do this technique, you must light a candle in a small rectangular room. The room must be at an altitude of 261 meters or higher, and there can be no other light in the room than that of the candle.
On a piece of paper, write the month and year you wish to return to, and then sit in front of the candle in a cross legged position. At exactly midnight, close your eyes and DO NOT BREATHE
Other people shared techniques on how to astral project, others warned of the risks of trying to go back in time. Like wearing out your soul.
But buried deep in the thread, over 700 comments down, was a comment that would go on to launch one of the most haunting internet urban legends of all time. Known as The Elevator Game
The comment started “How To Go To Another World”, and laid out a set of instructions on how to leave this mortal plane and travel to another. The instructions were as follows
Step one: Find a building that has at least 10 floors. This part is crucial.
Step Two: Go to the elevator. You have to be the only one inside for this to work. Once the doors close, you must visit the floors in the following order:
Floor 4…Floor 2… 6… 2… 10… and then, 5.
According to the original forum post, a woman might enter the elevator on the fifth floor. Do not speak to her. Don’t look at her. She is, to quote a translation of the original posts, “not a person.”
Standing in the elevator with this entity by your side, this is your final chance to back out. But if you still want to proceed… press the button for the first floor.
Instead of down, the elevator will go up to the 10th floor. When the doors open, you’ll be in another world.
What happens when you’re there? Well, no one really knows for sure. All they say is that you arrive in a world that is not your own, and you are the sole inhabitant. No one has ever made it back from this dimension.
Like many urban legends, its origin is difficult to fully trace, but this post seems to be the first time that the “elevator game” was posted about on the internet. However, after this, it started popping up more and more. First on 2chan, then the next year it showed up on more Japanese websites, before spreading to Korea.
As the story grew in popularity, more details were added to the initial myth. A Korean retelling says that once you reach the 10th floor, the not-woman in the elevator with you will ask “Where are you going?”
As before, you must not answer.
When the door opens, you’ll know at once whether you’ve reached the otherworld. It looks exactly like the world you came from, only all the lights are off. In the distance, there is a glowing red cross. You’re the only living being there. Though the blogs didn’t say, it’s implied that even the mysterious woman from the 5th floor is gone. Some even say that technology doesn’t work there.
A strange sense of disorientation might settle over your mind, making going back especially difficult. In order to return, all you have to do is get back in the elevator and repeat the sequence: 4, 2, 6, 2, 10, 5, 1. As before, the final button will take you to the tenth floor .
At that point, pressing any other button ends the ritual and brings you back to the world of the living.
The elevator game eventually spread all the way to the United States, as the original blogs were translated into English, and it became somewhat of an internet challenge. There are posts and videos of people trying the elevator game themselves, from Seoul to Florida.
And while the teens who dared each other to complete this challenge were scared of what might happen, they still did it. Because, after all this was just an urban legend. It wasn’t based on anything… No one had ever actually disappeared from doing the elevator game.
Right?
Well, In early 2008, ten months before the first recorded blog post, the elevator game became terrifyingly real for one woman and her four year old daughter.
On the night of January 20th, 2008, in the Taiwanese city of Yuanlin, a building manager was going about his rounds. He managed the Yuanlin Finance and Economics Building, a mixed-use building 11 stories high. Suddenly, the door flew open and a woman in a red coat stumbled in. She was 37 years old, and looked confused. With her was a young girl in pink.
The manager, alarmed at the sudden intrusion, blocked the strange woman’s way and asked where she was going. She said she was looking for a friend. Without saying anything else, she rushed past the manager and went straight for the elevator.
He didn’t think much of it, but a few hours passed, and the woman hadn’t come back down. Eventually, his shift ended and he went home.
But the following day, he couldn’t stop thinking about his interaction with the woman. He asked the security guard from the graveyard shift if he had seen the woman leave that night, but he hadn’t. Something about the whole situation just seemed strange, why was she in such a hurry? He decided he should just check the building's CCTV from last night to be sure. But what he saw was stranger than anything he had been expecting…
The security cameras showed the woman in the red coat rush past him and enter the elevator with the child. Then, the camera inside of the elevator showedwhere She pressed the button for the 11th floor. The door slid closed behind them. As the elevator rose, she took off her red coat, placing it on the elevator floor. Then, she knelt by the little girl and removed her coat as well. She slipped off her shoes, as if she was doing some sort of strange ritual.
The elevator arrived on the 11th floor, and both of them exited, leaving her shoes and both their coats behind.
A camera in the hallway showed the woman running toward a stairwell leading toward the roof, her daughter in her arms. After she left this camera’s field of view, she was gone. None of the security cameras throughout the building showed what she did next, and none showed her leaving.
The building manager and a security guard checked the elevator she’d taken. Both coats were still lying on the floor, next to the shoes. No one had touched them overnight
Following the woman’s path, they walked through the stairwell, out onto the roof of the building, where there were no security cameras…
… and they found nothing.
But the building manager could assume what had happened
See, In many east Asian countries, such as Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, it is a common practice to remove your shoes before jumping to your death. This practice is supposed to keep you from tracking dirt into the afterlife.
And so the building manager held his breath and walked over to the ledge of the building, afraid of what he would see if he peered over. But once again, there was nothing. her body had not fallen to the streets below. Looking around, he could tell that She couldn’t have jumped to any of the adjacent buildings, because this building was the tallest on its block. The building next to it was only three or four stories high. Any jump would have been fatal. But if the woman Hadn’t been seen exiting the building, and hadn’t jumped off, then where did she go?
Police were eventually called and searched the whole building, but found no sign that the woman and her child were still there, alive or dead. The only evidence they had ever been there was the clothing left in the elevator, and the footage of them inside, hitting the button for the top floor.
The police still continued their investigation. The 11th floor was sparsely populated. It had four apartments, only two of which were occupied. There was also a buddhist shrine and an HR Agency, which had been closed that night. Without a search warrant, the police could only go door by door, asking if any of the occupants had seen anything strange. None of the residents had seen anything, and they didn’t recognize the pictures of the woman from the security camera.
Her claim that she was there “to see a friend” didn’t seem likely.
Police searched the other floors as well. Floors 3 through 10 were all residential, and didn’t have security cameras in their stairwells. The second was a commercial space, also without security cameras. Articles refer to the basement as a “billiards room”, which was supposedly in operation at the time of the woman’s disappearance.
The only part of the building that remained a possible exit was the garage, which did have a back door. However, the door had been locked, and was covered with dust. If she’d fled through there, she would have left evidence.
The only other thing she left behind was a moped, parked on the side of the building. A security guard found this a week after the disappearance, accidentally, but it ended up providing one of the most important clues.
Because it had license plate that traced back to a name.
This was a crucial development in the investigation, because finally the police knew who they were looking for.
The woman’s name was Liu Huijun. She was from the small town of Shetou. 8 kilometers away. She’d been reported missing the very same day that she’d showed up in Yuanlin. The 4 year old with her was her youngest daughter, Xueying.
The press immediately started reporting on other details about her life. They said She was unhappily married to a man referred to as “Chen”. They had three children together – a boy and two girls. It had been an arranged marriage, and Huijun struggled to live with Chen. He was an alcoholic and frequently abusive.
On the evening of January 19th, they had a long fight which carried into the night. The next day, in the mid-afternoon, Huijun took their youngest daughter and left. Chen thought that she’d gone to her mother’s place and would be back. But When she didn’t return, he called her mother, who had not seen her all day. Chen filed a missing person’s report that evening.
According to her family, she knew no one in the city, meaning she most likely did not have a friend in the building, but also they couldn’t understand why she had taken her daughter there.
The legends started not long after she’d disappeared, fueled by rumors and speculation. Some said that she’d been murdered by a secret lover in the Yuanlin building, her body taken out with the trash once the investigation died down. Others said that the floor was cursed, and cited other paranormal activity that had happened in the building. Word started spreading about the woman who went into an elevator with her daughter, in a building with more than 10 floors, and then seemingly vanished into another dimension at the top. And within a few months, the elevator game legend was born on the internet.
But eventually, Liu's story started to fade into the background as the legend took off. I mean, after all, she didn’t hit a bunch of different buttons on the elevator like the game suggests you needed to do. And so the legend started to take on a life of its own, void of any real world connection. Perhaps it was just an internet legend.
However, in 2013 something happened on the other side of the world that brought new attention to the case.
In early 2013, a Canadian tourist named Elisa Lam was staying at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles.
The day before she was supposed to check out, she vanished without a trace. Her last known appearance was on a security camera feed in one of the elevators. You can still see the video online, though it is very unnerving.
It shows her on January 31st, getting into the elevator. She backs up against the corner of the elevator… and the door doesn’t close. After a beat, she peeks anxiously out into the hallway, as if afraid of something, then ducks back into the elevator, now pressing herself up against the wall as if to make herself invisible from the outside.
After about thirty seconds, she sidles out of the elevator and appears to stand to the side of the door for a prolonged period of time, before going back in. She pressed a bunch of other buttons, but didn't wait for them. She steps back out of the elevator, doing a series of strange gestures. One odd detail in all of this, is even though she pressed all of those buttons, the elevator doors don't ever close. After standing by the door for another few seconds, she steps fully out of view and a few moments later, the doors finally close, as if they had been waiting for her to make her final exit.
That was the last verifiable appearance of Elisa Lam. Nineteen days later, her body was found in a water tank on the roof, contaminating the hotel’s water supply.
Today, we know that Elisa suffered from bipolar disorder and was not taking her medication properly, which could very much have affected her behavior in the elevator. Though there are still questions about how she got into the water tank, which would have been nearly impossible for a woman of her size to do on her own.
But The strangeness of the Elisa Lam case prompted Taiwanese police to re-open the Liu Huijun case. Even though this case was five years earlier, the press began referring to her as “Taiwan’s Elisa Lam” and her story started circulating again.
Police ended up searching the building’s water tanks which had not been previously searched, to see if they’d find Huijun or her daughter. But they did not find any corpses in the water supply. As recently as 2021, Taiwanese police have been attempting to match Huijun’s DNA with that of Jane Doe’s in the area. So far, this too has been unsuccessful.
So, what happened to Mrs. Liu Huijun?
The first theory, as I mentioned earlier, is that she had a secret lover in Yuanlin, who she went to for a better life. She went into the building where he worked, and hid inside until the investigation was done. This theory suggests that she and her daughter are alive, living with him somewhere, and honestly it’s the one I hope is true…
But other theories say that her secret lover killed her when she went to visit him, and that’s why she hasn’t resurfaced since.
Another theory says that she did jump to her death. This one is difficult to prove, as it wouldn’t explain where the bodies went. They’d have to have died in a corner so secret it hasn’t been discovered for 16 years.
There’s also the chance that she just wanted people to think she’d jumped so that she could make a clean escape and start a new life. By leaving the jackets and shoes behind, she would leave evidence that she intended to die, before fleeing to somewhere where no one knew her, taking a new name. Some articles say the Yuanlin building had a fire escape that wasn’t covered by the cameras, and maybe she took that way out, and slipped away into the night.
In Taiwan, people started calling Liu Huijun “the woman who played the elevator game for real.” Not because she actually followed that exact combination of floors—we know she just pressed 11—but because the story felt like the ritual, the legend- brought to life. A woman arrives at a building with more than ten floors. She steps into an elevator with her child. She leaves her shoes and coat behind like offerings. She rides to the top, walks toward the roof… and then, as far as any camera or witness is concerned, she’s gone.
And that’s the real horror underneath the elevator game: not that a ritual might open a door to another dimension… but that, sometimes, people disappear from the most ordinary places in the world, and no amount of button-pressing will ever bring them back.
Our next legend takes us to the UK, and also deals with someone who may be permanently trapped in a liminal space. He’s one of the most dangerous prisoners alive, and he’s been kept from human contact for almost 50 years.
There’s a prison in England that has been standing since the Victorian era. Its walls are imposing brick and mortar, and inside it holds hundreds of the most dangerous criminals England has ever seen.
And because of the nature of this prison, legends have always circulated. But if you were to go visit today, there’s one you’d hear in particular.
Locals may tell you that In the basement of this building, beneath the cells holding murderers, there is a cell made of bulletproof glass. It was built to hold a single prisoner, one who is too dangerous to be kept with the general population.
He’s been there in solitary confinement for 40 years because he will kill anyone he comes into contact with.
The British Press have even dubbed this man “Hannibal The Cannibal because they say he ate a man’s brains with a cafeteria spoon after killing him. Other prisoners called him “The Brain Eater”.
Now, that sounds… pretty extreme. When I first heard this tale, of a brain eating maniac living in a glass box in this prison, I knew I had to investigate further.
And what I found is that there is a lot of truth to this story, this man is real. But the actual reason he’s been the longest living prisoner in solitary confinement, was pretty surprising.
The man’s name is Robert Maudsley, and as of last year, he is 72 years old, and it’s true, he’s spent the last 42 years in solitary confinement at Wakefield Prison in Yorkshire. He was on 24 hour watch, and was only allowed to leave his specially designed glass cell for a single hour of exercise every day. And even then, he’d have to be accompanied by four guards.
He is called Hannibal the Cannibal. But that wasn’t his first nickname.
In the early 1970s, Maudsley was a runaway from Liverpool, living in a big city for the first time. He’d just run away from a foster home and he found life on the street to be even rougher than the foster care system. He fell into a horrible cycle of getting addicted to drugs and then needing to find ways to pay for those drugs, and that often got him in trouble.
And then, On March 14th, 1974 Maudsley lured a 30 year old man named Farrell into a public restroom, where he strangled the older man to death. He then turned himself into the police, claiming that he needed psychiatric help.
Though he confessed there was a reason behind this killing. He said that John had confessed that he was a child predator, which in Maudsley’s eyes was the worst thing a human being could be. The rage he felt after learning this drove him to kill John.
This landed Maudlsey in a maximum security mental hospital called Broadmoor, to be detained indefinitely alongside other troubled men. The press called him ‘Blue’ because of the color of John’s face when he was strangled to death.
Maudsley claimed that he couldn’t stand being around other patients at Broadmoor. Because of the nature of the institution, he found himself surrounded by more child predators, and this psychologically tormented him worse than being on the street.
One day in 1977, Maudlsey and a fellow patient named David Cheeseman cornered a man named David Francis in one of the cells. David was a convicted child predator, and Maudsley felt like he wasn’t receiving the appropriate punishment for his crimes, but he had a way to fix that. When the guards weren’t looking, he and David barricaded the doors so no one else could get in and proceeded to torture Francis for 9 hours.
Guards tried desperately to break down the doors. They were too late. Francis was dead. Maudsley had sharpened a spoon and stabbed him in the brain through the ear canal. This is actually the origin of the cannibalism claims. There’s no evidence that he ate any of the brains, but that didn’t stop the legend from spreading.
Maudsley was subsequently convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of release. He was moved from Broadmoor to Wakefield Prison, an infamous dumping ground for the worst criminals in England.
If you’re not familiar with Wakefield, I honestly don’t even advise you to google it. It’s the worst of the worst people that get sent there. Most recently, it was in the news this past October when Ian Watkins, lead singer of the band the LostProphets was killed by fellow inmates. And watkins was a child predator, which is a common theme amongst a lot of the inmates, so if Maudlsey was looking to get away from those kinds of people, Wakefield was not the place to do it.
Wakefield has also held famous prisoners like Harold Shipman, regarded as being one of the worst modern serial killers with as many as 250 victims, there’s family annihilators like Damien Bendall and Jeremy Bamber, hitmen like Mark Fellows. The list goes on and on
By this point, Maudsley had killed two men, both of them child predators. Now He was surrounded by men he hated, and sentenced to life. he had nothing to lose.
On July 29th, 1978, Robert Maudsley calmly walked into the security office at Wakefield prison. He set a bloody homemade knife on the officer’s desk and told him calmly that the roll call would be two people short today.
The officer was in total shock. What happened, he asked?
Maudsley wanted to explain- He was proud of his work. At just 25 years old, he’d apparently decided to kill 7 people that day. Earlier, he’d started by luring a man named Salney Darwood into his cell. Darwood is unique among Maudsley’s victims as he was the only one not convicted or accused of child abuse. He was in prison for murdering his wife.
Once Darwood was in the cell, Maudsley cut his throat and hid him under his cot. He then went prowling about the prison, trying to bring more men to his cell for the same treatment. Things didn’t go like Maudsley hoped. The other prisoners were terrified of him, so none of them went with him to his cell. Frustrated, Maudsley went to the cell of William Roberts, another convicted predator. Maudsley viciously attacked Roberts, cutting him about the head, before killing him by slamming his head into the wall.
This is where Maudsley’s murders became a thing of legend. To the media, he’d gone from a psychotic, unstoppable killer to…I mean Kind of a vigilante. Someone who killed child predators behind bars. And let me tell you, no one was trying to stop him…
But how do you sentence this sort of crime? How do you punish a man who has already been locked up in the worst prison in the country?
The answer: you build a prison inside a prison.
In 1983, his solitary confinement began, in a specially designed cell in the Wakefield basement, made of bulletproof glass and steel, described as a “cement coffin”. And that’s where he sat alone, for over four decades.
Solitary confinement is incredibly hard on your psychology. Dr. Stuart Grassian found that solitary confinement typically made preexisting mental health issues WORSE for inmates, and even contributed to the sudden onset of mental illness. Your mood deteriorates, you develop insomnia, start hallucinating and your brain functioning starts to deteriorate. And because it was glass, it was very visible as he deteriorated over time. Reporters described him growing pale from lack of sunlight, his hair thinning and losing its color prematurely.
Several years into his confinement, despair caught up to him. He asked for a pet bird to keep himself company, he even added the caveat that he wouldn’t eat it. This request was denied. Maudsley also requested a cyanide capsule to end his own life. This was also denied.
Over the decades, the prison became less awful for him. He was allowed to have music, games, and books to read. He received visitations from his family, wrote correspondence to friends. His nephew described him as a man frozen in time in the 1970s.
There’s a lot of writing about Robert Maudsley over the years. Various media outlets have been covering him off and on for the last four decades. While researching him, I noticed it was a lot like looking at the rings in a tree stump – each new piece on Maudsley shows the man in the same place, just older.
Throughout the decades, he comes up with every renewed debate about how inhumane solitary confinement is.
However, his time in a glass box underground seems to have come to an end. In early 2025, he was relocated to a different prison, this one at Whitemoor. We have few other details to go on. Some close to him say this is a punishment for a recent hunger strike, though it could also represent a positive step toward rehabilitation for a man who is too old to be a serious threat to society. For now, we just don’t really know.
But even though he’s not in the prison anymore, His legend still lingers around the area. The legend of a cannibal killer who eats the brains of child predators and has been confined to a glass box for 45 years.