Your first exposure(s) to real gore media - When, what, where?

[Ludwigsfeld]

My first exposure was in school around 2004/2005ish. I was about 12 years old. A classmate showed the Chechclear beheading video around on his iPod or mobile phone.
He was older than me and wanted to show me the video to scare the shit out of me, in which he probably succeeded. Later i found out about ogrish.com and this was the beginning of an addiction on gore that i have until today.

It was a time where there were no restrictions or filters on the school computers, so accessing gory websites was not a problem back then. There was also the famous german website "fremdgehentutweh.de" on which a story was told on how a guy got his dick bitten of by his wife after learning he cheated on her, with pictures, which we watched in computer class. It was a good time in school back then.

 

[Amata]

My first acquaintance with a shock site was at Best Gore - a couple of traffic accidents formed the overture to "3 Guys 1 Hammer". Although I have never needed any training to see blood and all the mess that usually comes with it, without blinking (perhaps because of my upbringing in the wilds - cows dying in labor, beheading chickens and finding dead neighbours, already decomposing, were everyday goings-on), that footage was gut wrenching. Even many of Best Gore's most seasoned gore watchers drew the line there. And it wasn't in fact the gore, it was the sheer depravity of the three perpetrators.

 

[Cheeseluver]

I was actually introduced by a friend on this very site! We were like 13 and looking for some fucked up shit and stumbled on here. I’ve been watching this shit for a couple years now and honestly I fucking love it! Greatest hang out ever.

 

[Amalgamation]

I was actually introduced by a friend on this very site! We were like 13 and looking for some fucked up shit and stumbled on here. I’ve been watching this shit for a couple years now and honestly I fucking love it! Greatest hang out ever.

13 in 2023?

Byee

Whoever the friend is, feel free to use the "Contact Us" if you think there's been a mistake.

 

[Sue69]

Anyone remember this set?

Didn’t that female and another guy party together with this dead guy and ended up killing this dude? It was in a true crime book I think.

 

[D.O.A.]

Shoutout to everyone who watched faces of death and the killing of America on VCR in the early 90's

 

[DriedOrigin]

Upon searching I found this thread from 2012, but it has not been updated for more than two years, and the forum informed me that it's grown a beard.. So I took the liberty of creating a new one. I hope that's OK and that I haven't missed a newer thread with a similar topic.

The title should be self-explanatory.

Although I am a new member on the forum, I've been around for some time. I'm currently in my late 30's. Like most, if not all of you, I liked gore flicks as a kid and have always had a fascination for the extreme. In the late 80's and early 90's I was watching the Faces of Death series on VHS. As you probably know, the violent content was mostly re-enacted, with some real news footage, etc. thrown in. It was pretty shocking at the time.

I was doing the dial-up BBS thing for a couple of years before the Internet became available to the public. I remember seeing pics of bestiality and child abuse (it's fucked up how many "underground" BBS'es has their own child porn section, albeit with few and low quality pics). I might have seen gore, but if so, it can't have been very bad. Because I very clearly remember discovering Rotten.com rather early in my Internet career.

On Rotten I was exposed to pics of victims of suicide, murder and accidents. I'm not sure what I saw first, but I can remember my first HOLY FUCK!!! experience. It was a post on Rotten containing two (I think) pictures of the aftermath of an automobile accident on a parking lot. A man had been run over, his head split open, and his brains smeared out over the asphalt. I've been trying to find it again, but Rotten is not very search friendly. This photo (bestgore.com) is pretty close, although I remember the Rotten one to be of higher quality, different angle, etc.

I'm not entirely sure when I saw my first gore video, or which one was the very first, but I believe it was in the early days of Stile Project. I know for sure that the first suicide video I saw was the infamous Budd Dwyer suicide that was broadcasted live on TV. The first murder/torture videos I saw were the ones recorded by Chechnyan Jihadis, the worst one of which was the infamous "Cechclear" video (often renamed to "Russian Soldier"), showing a Russian soldier getting his throat slit. The first version I saw was in B/W, but a better version with color soon surfaced. There's been an article on the main page (comments thread here) about it, but it appears to have been deleted. Any info on this, and why it was removed? I'd like to read it.

Anyway, it was rumored to be a part of a longer video, with lots of people claiming to have seen the full version, and others mocking them for mixing up old memories. This thread went on for a while until someone uncovered this 13 minute video, confirming the rumor to be true. Upon seeing it, I can actually remember having downloaded and watched it some time in the early 2000's. Here's another classic from that era with similar contents, this one from Dagestan. I seem to remember the violent scenes from this one circulating as short clips around the same time.


After Stile sold out and his site became a porn portal, or perhaps before, I started frequenting Ogrish, among a couple of other sites that I believe went under pretty fast. As far as I know/remember, Ogrish was the first site dedicated exclusively to gore that also hosted videos (feel free to correct me on this). After Ogrish sold out to LiveLeak, I haven't really been an active gorehound, except to find photos and videos reported on in mainstream media (if it's described somewhere, and reported to be shocking, I gotta see it.. You know). That is, not until IS / ISIS went berserk with their propaganda war. But now we're way beyond first exposure, so I'll end this here.

I was banging this fat chick when all of a sudden…

 

[Tinkle_Star]

2003, my dad had just died from a ruptured AAA, and having worked in acute care, sub-acute, and LTC, I first discovered Rotten, Ogrish, and GG, I was a long time lurker, before I became a member, honestly, after my Mom died last year, I have been much more vocal, I really think GG helped me deal with it…