Explaining Creepiest Medical Conditions in Roblox

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]In this video, I will tell 11 stories based on real medical conditions. And the last one made me rethink my life.

[00:00:05]>> Your favorite streamer just told you she loves you. She says it to the camera every stream. But tonight, you're certain she means you. You started donating small amounts. She read your name on stream and smiled. You feel your heart pounding. The next week, you see it everywhere. She wore your favorite color. Then she hung a poster from your favorite anime. Then she said your name again in a video even though you weren't watching live. You think she's been watching you too and decide to tell your friends. They look at you like you're crazy. One day while watching her old streams, you see her street sign. You drive 9 hours and run to her house when you get there. You knock on the door.

[00:00:32]She opens it and you try to hug her. Her face goes white and she backs into the doorway. Her boyfriend steps in front of her asking who you are. She tells him she's never seen you before and for a second you don't understand. Then you realize it's a test. She's pretending in front of him. So you stand at the door for hours watching the curtains. When the police come, you don't resist. You already know she's just waiting for them to leave. This is erottomania where the brain becomes convinced that a stranger is secretly in love with you and sending coded messages. And somewhere right now in the streamer's chat, someone is already on the way. Imagine walking downstairs and seeing your mother making breakfast exactly like every other morning. Then she turns to greet you.

[00:01:04]You see it in her eyes. Something is wrong. You know for certain that this woman is not your mother. She's a perfect copy down to how she cooks your eggs. You realize she's been spying on your family for years and you don't know when they took the real one. You stop eating the food she makes. You don't look her in the eyes, but you feel her watching your every move. She tried coming into your room, so you lock your door at night. You start writing down things only your real mother would know, waiting for the imposttor to slip up.

[00:01:25]She never does. And that scares you more than anything. Your dad says you need help and that's when you realize they got him too. You just never noticed. One night she sits on the edge of your bed crying, asking what happened to her son.

[00:01:34]And for just a second, she sounds exactly like your mother. Then the feeling is gone. This is Capgross delusion where the brain still recognizes a face perfectly, but the feeling of knowing that person vanishes.

[00:01:44]They look right. They sound right, but you will swear until the very end that a stranger is wearing their face. Imagine waking up in a cold concrete cell and you don't remember how you got there.

[00:01:52]You look to your right and there's another boy sitting against the wall. He looks at you and whispers, "Don't trust the guards. They're not human." You laugh. He doesn't. Days pass. By the second week, his voice is the only thing that makes sense. He tells you he's been here for months. He tells you the guard's hands are too long, that their eyes have slit pupils. They're waiting to harvest the ones who don't see it in time. You start watching the guards. One night, you see it, an arm bending the wrong way, a jitter when they turn their head. Then he tells you, "Tonight is the night. There's a loose vent above his bunk. You help him pry it open. You crawl through. You run for hours through the woods. When the police find you alone, half starved, you scream that the guards weren't human. They look at you the way you used to look at him. They take you back to the cell. His bunk is empty. They tell you he was moved days ago, but you still believe him. This is fi adu, a condition where one mind's delusion spreads into another through isolation. And the worst part, sometimes you never find out whose delusion it was. Imagine riding the bus to school and the bus driver winks at you like he knows something you don't. You get to class and your teacher smiles at you the exact same way. At lunch, the cashier.

[00:02:45]On the walk home, a stranger across the street. Every single one of them is the same person. They've changed their face, their voice, their clothes, but it's him. He's been following you for weeks, maybe months, hiding inside everyone you meet. You try to tell your mom. She laughs and says you're being paranoid.

[00:02:58]Then she tilts her head and smiles the exact same way. You back out of the kitchen slowly. You don't sleep that night. You start avoiding mirrors because what if he's learned to wear your face, too? You stop eating food anyone hands you. So, you do the only thing that makes sense. You go up into the mountains with nothing but a tent, and no one ever sees you again because everyone you have ever loved is already gone and replaced. This is the fragulli delusion. A rare condition where the brain becomes convinced that one single person is disguising themselves as everyone around you. And the worst part to the person experiencing it, the proof is everywhere. You have just been struck by a truck thrown onto a metal pole.

[00:03:28]Your joints bend backwards. Your hands, legs, eight ribs all shattered. You can't move. You can't speak. You can barely open your eyes. You barely feel the shock of the defibrillator. You hear your mother scream. You see her tears stream down her face as you are carried into an ambulance. They try to save you with blood transfusions, surgeries.

[00:03:43]Nothing works. You slowly drift away as your family sits besides your bed.

[00:03:47]Doctors pronounce you dead. Then you are awake. You are screaming inside your own skull, but no sound comes out. Your eyelids won't open. You can't move.

[00:03:54]Everyone thinks you're dead. Days pass.

[00:03:55]You hear the funeral. You hear your little brother say goodbye. You hear the coffin lid shut. Then the dirt. Handful after handful until the sound dulls and there is only your own heartbeat. Faint, slow, alive. This is catalpsy mistaken for death. A real condition where the body shuts down so completely that even doctors can't tell you're still alive.

[00:04:11]That's why in Victorian England, they tied strings to the bodies connected to a bell on the surface. And somewhere in a cemetery older than your grandparents, someone is still ringing. You're at lunch when your friends dare you to do a creepy challenge. They say you won't regret it. You agree, go home, and wait until the night. You turn off every light, sit in front of a mirror, and stare at your own face. For a while, it's just your face. Then slowly, your face shifts. Your eyes don't sit right.

[00:04:32]Your mouth looks too long. You blink, and it snaps back. You tell your friends, and they say to keep going.

[00:04:36]It's night, too, and this time it's different. Your face melts and rebuilds, but it's not yours. It's older and staring into your soul. He looks familiar. You look away and don't tell your friends the next day. Night three, you can't help it. You move toward the mirror like it's pulling you and the stranger is already there waiting. And when you finally look away, it doesn't.

[00:04:51]You sleep on the couch that night. The next morning, you see it again. Not in the mirror, but on the black screen of your phone. This is the Caputo effect. A real documented illusion where staring at your own reflection in dim light makes your brain stop recognizing your face and start creating a new one. You can try it tonight, maybe with a friend.

[00:05:06]Just don't be surprised by who's looking back. Imagine sitting at the dinner table with your family, laughing at your dad's joke. Then your left hand picks up the steak knife. You didn't tell it to, and you certainly didn't notice it until it was pointed at your brother. You grab it with your right hand and force it down into your lap. Your mom asks if you're okay. You nod. Under the table, your left hand is still trying. The next morning, you wake up, and it's around your throat, nearly choking you to death. At school, it knocks your books off the desk. It writes words you didn't think of. It reaches for the girl next to you, and you slam it against the desk until it stops. You start sitting on it, tying it down, but every time you forget, it remembers. One night you sit in front of the bathroom mirror and just stare at it. This thing attached to you.

[00:05:40]Then you grab the knife you've prepared and swing it down. This is alien hand syndrome, a real neurological condition where one of your hands acts completely outside your control. Doctors call it the anarctic hand. Patients call it something with a will of its own and it lives on the end of your arm. Your blind mom is describing flowers on a mountain.

[00:05:56]She tells you the trail was beautiful and that she made it to the top. She doesn't know what went wrong because every morning she makes breakfast by pouring coffee into bowls, cracking eggs onto the counter. She tells you you look good today. describing your haircut, the shirt you're wearing. It's all wrong.

[00:06:08]You stopped correcting her years ago.

[00:06:10]When you went to the doctor, he told you her brain refuses to admit she's blind, so it invents what's in front of her. He said there's no cure, so you live with it. Then everything changed last month.

[00:06:17]She wanted to hike that mountain again.

[00:06:19]She just said she missed the view. Your dad said no, but she went anyway early in the morning and you followed. She walked like she knew every step and climbed for hours without falling once.

[00:06:27]And when she stopped at the ledge of the peak, she was a few feet ahead of you.

[00:06:30]She looked down and said it was beautiful. Then she stepped forward.

[00:06:34]This is Anton syndrome. The brain refuses to admit you're blind, so it shows you a world that isn't there and erases the moment you went blind, so you never have to know. Your father died when you were nine. He just stopped sleeping. The doctors never figured out why. 20 years later, you wake up at 3:00 a.m. and you can't fall back asleep. You think it's stress, but it's not. The next night's the same. Your eyes are bloodshot. You go out for a walk. Maybe this will work. It doesn't. So, you sit on your bed until morning comes. By the end of the week, you haven't slept once.

[00:06:56]The sleeping pills do nothing. The image of your father starts surfacing. You start to remember things he said in his final weeks. about the figures at the foot of his bed, about the room shifting, objects stretching, changing into something else. Now you see them, too. After three sleepless months, you've lost 40 lbs. You can barely lift your arms. The days blend, your memory fades. What day is it?

[00:07:13]>> It doesn't matter.

[00:07:14]>> You haven't slept since spring, but you feel it coming. So, you stare at your ceiling because it's the only thing you can do now. This is fatal familial insomnia, a genetic pryion disease that destroys the part of your brain that lets you fall asleep. There is no cure.

[00:07:25]Your father died 8 months after his first sleepless night. You don't know how long you have. Your son is asking you a question, thinking you're ignoring him, but your mouth won't open and you can't write down the answer because something happened 6 months ago that completely changed your life. First, you noticed your fingers were stiff. You worked long hours, so you blamed your job. Then 3 months ago, you started tripping. You blamed your shoes. Then your words started slurring and you fell down trying to put on your shirt. Then you couldn't walk up your own stairs.

[00:07:49]Eventually, your family helped you to the doctor and he told you the devastating news. The motor neurons that carry signals from your brain to your muscles are slowly dying. Your mind stays intact, but your body slowly becomes your prison. There is no cure, and it only gets worse. Your wife feeds you now, and every day your son sits at the foot of your bed telling you what happened in school. What's worse is that you can hear every word, but you can't tell him you're listening. He thinks you've lost it, but still comes every day hoping it will get better, but it won't. This is ALS. Doctors still don't know what causes most cases, and by the time anyone figures it out, you will no longer be there to hear the answer.

[00:08:20]Imagine waking up, looking in the mirror, seeing your face, touching your skin, hearing your own heartbeat, but your brain tells you >> none of it is real. You are dead, or so you think, but can still move around, jump, and hug your loved ones. You claim that you remember being killed by a speeding truck, mauled by sharks, somehow brought back to life the very next day. How is this possible? A few days later, you do something insane. You head straight to the mortuary and run right into the furnace, not because someone is forcing you to, but your gut is telling you this is the right thing to do. Everybody around you thinks you're crazy, but no one understands what it feels like to belong in a coffin buried underground. You are just a walking corpse. This is the Kotard delusion, and it is one of the creepiest glitches the human brain can