Hello everyone and welcome back to scary interesting and to another collection of horrible fates.

In this video we're going to go over two extremely disturbing incidents of people being found in nightmarish conditions.

And although the events in this video are fleeting and nondescriptive, they are still highly disturbing, so viewer discretion is strongly advised.

In 1943, Great Britain was already several years into World War II, which had reshaped daily life into a constant battle for survival for the country's citizens.

Air raid sirens blared through the nights, forcing families to huddle in shelters as planes flew overhead and rain fire onto cities, towns and villages alike.

Streets were darkened by blackouts and food rationing meant meager meals, and so families had to rely on ingenuity and sometimes desperation to stretch supplies.

Communities pulled together, but the strain of war left little room for anything beyond survival.

It was this climate of fear and scarcity that sent four young boys into Hagueley Wood near Witchbury Hill one spring day

in search of birds and nests full of eggs to steal for food.

While searching the woods

on April 18th of that year, the boys came across a large witch elm, and thinking it might be a

promising place for a bird's nest, one of the boys climbed up to investigate. Peering down into

the hollow trunk, he didn't find the nest he was looking for. Instead, it was something that made

his stomach drop. Just below him was a human skull.

At first, he thought it might belong to an animal, but then the crooked teeth, tufts of hair,

and a patch of forehead skin told him otherwise. Upon making this realization, he grabbed

the skull and quickly climbed out of the tree to show the others. The four boys then stood there in shock the discovery and knew they had found something

they weren't meant to see.

However, since this part of Hagueleywood was on Lord Cobham's estate, thus making it private

property, the boys were afraid that if they came forward about what they'd found, they'd

get in trouble.

So, after placing the skull back into the hollow part of the witch elm, the four made a pact

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