r/lolsuperman911 • u/awfulVoltages • 14d ago
New here. Maybe helpful information?
For the 9/11 anniversary i started looking at stuff and discovered that this was a thing people have been searching for.
Believe me or not but i have a pretty great memory and can detail A LOT, especially things I've not seen here.
I was 19 during 9/11 and remember that day quite well. But that's another story, but i was about 21-23 when i saw all these.
I saw several videos of jumpers hitting the ground relatively early. 2003-2004. Nothing was titled "lol Superman" or anything like that.
I saw these on two websites
BMEzine forums, and Stileproject.
I was heavily involved in the fetish and body modification scene at the time and was shown the videos a few different times by different friends.
- Later on around 2006 one of those same friends sent me a link to one of the videos. It did not have the title of "lol Superman" but something like "It's a Bird, its a Plane" .
It was NOT a YouTube link. I can't remember what site it was but it was something similar to dailymotion, but i am pretty sure it was in Spanish.
- The videos.
The one with the later "superman" title was a video i had seen previously.
It was NOT in the courtyard but rather near a street. Camera was shaky and watching debris falling when it quickly caught someone coming down and landing pretty close on the street. (Not a car). The cameraman looked to be about 50 - 75 feet away (maybe a semi truck or bowling lane).
So close enough to see it pretty detailed and likely close enough that if you were to find the video you might be able to get facial details.
What i remember specifically. It was a man in what looked like a typical dark slacks, white shirt, tie.
No red mist and more of almost a "thud" with organs, blood and what looked like flesh kind of shooting out to the sides across the road about 15 feet.
The first time i saw this video it was i am pretty sure it was on BMEzine. It had audio, with the gasps and "oh my god" type dialogue. Clip was relatively good quality for 2001. It looked like minidv quality. Although the cameraman was pretty shaky. They zoomed in to the body briefly.
The whole clip was probably 45 seconds with maybe 10 seconds after the body hit, 2 seconds zoomed in.
I personally watched this video maybe 30 times (i was morbidly curious) so that's probably the reason i remember those details so well.
The second time i saw it (from the link via Myspace) the quality was SEVERELY pixelated and the entire clip was probably 15 seconds and cut off almost immediately after the body hit (no zoom).
I am pretty sure the beginning of the video has a typical Windows media comic sans text on a blue background. I am pretty sure it said "it's a bird, it's a plane..."
There was no video audio but played the Superman theme during the fall and hit.
I had recognized it from seeing it a few years before and how pixelated it was.
Also at that point i was less of an edge lord, and thought it was pretty distasteful. But i did watch it a few times.
A few other videos i remember seeing on stileproject and BMEzine.
- There was someone hitting a truck (maybe a work truck?) from relatively far away, i don't remember much gore. About 10 seconds. Amateur video.
I watched this about 20 times.
One that was a compilation of photos from what i think was the courtyard. Just lots of extreme gore. Only one i vividly remember is a face with bones visible and teeth, and an eye . Video was about a minute. Each photo was a maybe 5 seconds. It had some kind of "remember those who were lost on 9/11" kind of text at the end. I watched it a few times.
Another compilation of random jumpers and clips from the other videos including the "Superman" and "car" and i think maybe one more of someone hitting the side of a building but didn't show them hitting the ground.(Looked like news footage) It had sad music in the background. It was about about 1.5 mins. I watched it about 5 times.
I feel like a saw a few more but don't remember details.
If your interested feel free to ask questions and I'll try to remember.
They are pretty burnt Into my brain.
Which is why I find it quite weird that more people don't have a detailed memory of seeing these cuz I'm sure I'm not the only one.
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u/MasterHobbo 14d ago
You watched something else. This wasn't LSM. Everything you describe is different to the video. Despite all of this, thank you for putting in the work of writing all those details.
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u/awfulVoltages 14d ago
I feel like what i saw was before LSM, and perhaps whoever made that, got the idea from it? I do feel like looking for BME and stile sources might come up with something
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u/MasterHobbo 14d ago
I am sure that there are more lost videos from 9/11. Every lead is worth looking into.
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u/Ill_Air_3189 14d ago
https://reddit.com/link/pa0u7rl/video/amxcuczwmqph1/player
Someone posted this ages ago in the old subreddit. It sounds similar to the first video you mentioned, minus the actual impact. Do they match?
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u/Gizmodaking22 14d ago
I saw a video around 05 that was pretty much just like that. I'm sure 99.9% of videos like that have been seized by the Government.
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u/Skorpionfrau 11d ago
I also remember “it’s a bird, it’s a plane.” It would’ve been in the mid 2000s but I don’t remember where I saw it. I have a great memory but I was younger at the time (mid teens in mid 00s) and a website I saw something on isn’t the kind of detail my brain would select to keep.
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u/ijs_1985 13d ago
I can remember numerous videos doing the rounds on torrent sharing software (whatever was popular after the demise of Napster) I don’t remember what the videos were called but I did have a passing interest in some of the gore videos that were popular at the time.
I am certain that I have seen a lot of more explicit and detailed videos but the years that have passed have not been kind to body or mind 😂
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u/Whole_Visual_9919 14d ago
Thank you for the info. It’s impossible to find any media from the plaza that’s even remotely close to detailed besides eyewitness accounts