Seriously Strange deals with practically every type of horror in the book, which is made even more horrific considering it all happened in real life. How could there not be Nightmare Fuel to go around?
- The whole show deals with stuff that just brims with this trope. There's a reason why Dyke constantly starts each episode with a disclaimer warning the viewers.
- "10 Real Creatures That Belong In Nightmares" gets a special warning from Dyke, as it contains extremely graphic images relating to parasitic organisms. You know the video is about to get particularly gruesome when Rob congratulates anyone willing to go ahead with watching the episode in its disclaimer before it begins. The comments are filled with viewers, even long-time fans, who were too disgusted to finish the video.
- The art, which can at times get quite detailed, doesn't help the matter. In fact, quite the inverse. What kind of Nightmare Fetishist do you have to be to draw some of this stuff?
- In the disease episode, Dyke mentions a disease that makes its patients mentally unstable to the point of gouging out their own eyes. Cut to a drawing of this exact thing, with a man yanking his eye out of its socket with his hand, complete with optic nerve.
- The various types of Cold-Blooded Torture Dyke discussed.
- White torture, in which the victim is locked away in a completely white room, and is even served white rice on a white plate. Then Dyke starts delving into the hallucinations that eventually occur, and the video and audio starts glitching and distorting...
- Tucker telephone torture. You thought an electric chair was bad? Imagine getting electric shocks administered to your genitals. Not only this, but Dyke mentions how the victims of this torture can only communicate in begs and screams, and just as he says the latter a bloodcurdling scream is heard in the background.
- Junko Furuta's torture at the hands of a group of teenagers. Seriously, this case made the most gruesome Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode look like a goddamn Disney film in comparison.
- The sheer presentation of scaphism in the execution video. Not just Dyke's recital, but the pictures shown alongside, from both online and from Joopis. There's a particularly disquieting picture of what looks like someone stripped to bone and buried in insects, but Joopis' contribution has a close-up of a human eye with bugs and larvae boring through it.
- Sawing. Two guys hold a giant saw on opposite sides and rock it back and forth through your body. If the people doing it are especially mean, they won't start at the head, meaning it goes through your brain and the death is quicker. They'll hold you upside down, saw through your genitals, and the constant blood flow to your head will make you conscious through it all.
- In the "walking corpse syndrome" segment of the "weirdest mental disorders" video, we see an average man who seemingly has the syndrome. As Dyke starts discussing the syndrome, the man suddenly turns into a zombie, completely with sagging, rotting flesh and skin. It might even be a Jump Scare to some.
- Hisashi Ouchi's drawn out and agonising death after being dosed by over 17 Sv of Radiation. He survived for a further 3 months after the accident, but was kept alive against his wishes, and could only watch as his skin sloughed off, his fingers turned black, his muscles fell from his bones, each and every one of his organs slowly fail, and have his ''chromosomes and DNA completely destroyed''. Mercifully, he was put into a medical coma after he stopped talking. His last words before his vocal cords rotted and atrophied were "Mother...help me." Also keep in mind that whenever he flatlined, doctors simply resuscitated him again and again until he finally died for real. Granted, the doctors claimed they did this to study the complete effects of radiation exposure, but it sounds like something Imperial Japanese Army Unit 731 would have done.
- It turns out the truth is even more disturbing, and equally heartbreaking; Japan has extremely strong consent laws, and as Ouchi's family had power of attorney, they kept insisting doctors do everything they could to save him, out of the hope that Ouchi might be cured. Even as his condition descended into a living hell, they held on to their hope, and only relented a short time before the end, when it was clear death was his only prognosis
- In the Byford Dolphin segment of the Worst Deaths episode, Dyke tells the story of an accident aboard a diving bell belonging to the British Oil Rig named the Byford Dolphin, and exactly what happened when one unlucky diver was blown apart by Explosive Decompression as a result of a mishap with the hatch and pressurisation system. Once again, Joopis' artwork pays a major role in explaining what happened, in gruesome detail.
- You could be in for a shock the first time you see the thumbnail for his "Demonic Possessions" video. You're just browsing the related videos bar and suddenly see a horrifying woman's eyes staring back at you!
- The Serial Killer Files episode on Peter Kürten is pretty much all nightmare fuel, but one particular part is especially disturbing. From 5:50 we're treated to almost two minutes of Rob describing Peter's "final rampage". That would be bad enough by itself, but throughout those two minutes, we see an illustration of Peter. While Rob describes Peter's actions, both he and his knife are slowly being covered in more and more blood, and Peter's face, which starts as a blank frown, becomes a sickening smirk as he stares directly at us.
- The Anatomy of Murder profile on Albert Fish is even more horrifying and grotesque, as everything from Fish's twisted fetishes to his graphic account of the murder of Grace Budd is covered in detail.
- The long-awaited Serial Killer Files episode covering Jeffrey Dahmer arguably puts even Kürten and Fish's episodes to shame, since they show Dahmer's (barely) redacted Polaroids of the bodies in his apartment.
- The entirety of the "Horrific Experiments" video.
- The Deep Web Video. While Rob removed it due to factual errors, the fact some of these websites exist make things more horrifying.
- Rob's disclaimer for the video is especially jarring - whereas the disclaimer for the parasites video has Rob commend you for sticking around, here he states in no uncertain terms the risks visiting the sites discussed might bring, and in a striking example of Creepy Monotone utters the phrase "If you feel that you cannot handle what is ahead, I advise you to leave this video NOW."
- The plastic surgery video is just all levels of Body Horror incarnate.
- The poor trans woman who tried to get facial surgery, only to have her plastic surgeon lie about being experienced despite not being medically certified and inject her face with a mix of cement and tire sealant, giving her a nasty face infection. The only good thing in this situation is that the plastic surgeon was arrested, especially with other patients coming forward with their own horrible experiences, which only begs the question of what she did to them...
- Beshine, the woman with the biggest augmented breasts in the world. Are they attractive? Well, imagine having two hairless scrotums attached to your chest that together could probably take up the space in a kiddie pool. Yeah. It's that bad.
- The guy that wanted to look like Red Skull so badly that he had implants in his head, tattoos (even on his eyeballs), and cut off part of his nose.
- The real-life Barbie doll. It's as horribly skinny as it sounds.
- Hang Mioku, the Korean woman who injected cooking oil into her face for years to look pretty, with the results being as good as you'd expect, with her skin getting horribly swollen to the point of being unrecognizable compared to her original self.
- The "10 Horrible Birth Defects" video. Dear god! Seriously, don't watch it unless you're very hard to scare. You know those birth defects listed on the Nightmare Face page and warn you not to look them up? They're all shown in this video.
- The "3 Bizarre Crime Scenes" video. The first two concerned women (one of them being the infamous Black Dhalia) who were gruesomely murdered and mutilated. The crime scene photos are pixelated to hide the worst of the gore, both the faces of both victims are not obscured and are horrifying to look at.
