| “ | Thank you for watching, and I will see you on the flip side. | ” |
―ScareTheater's Outro | ||
Eric Christopher Wise (born: March 17, 1999), better known online as ScareTheater, is an American YouTuber who discusses various popular horror topics, from mysterious videos on the Internet to real-life urban legends.
YouTube[]
Eric created his channel on 29 May 2012. He also created a gaming channel called ECWGaming on 30 June 2012. In 2015, Eric refreshed his YouTube channel by deleting his old videos and began anew starting to Obey the Walrus Explained. His video "Blue Whale Suicide Game" is the most viewed video on his channel with over 8 million views. On his channel, he records many types of videos: urban legends, debunking videos, cryptids, Top 10s. Eric has collaborated with other YouTubers who focus on creepy and horror-related topics such as Nexpo, ReignBot, Blameitonjorge, and Barely Sociable. Eric's second channel ScareTheater2 (formerly Owlerr, ECWGaming and ScareTheaterExtra) is used for his gameplay of horror games and clips of his livestreams from Patreon.
On November 2020, Eric's channel became dormant due to him focusing on college. He has not stated that he has retired, and is expected to return at some point. He returned on March 12, 2022 and uploaded a video about him exploring a building in an abandoned city by the name of Concrete City. He has since uploaded 2 more videos of a cryptic nature, one of a supposedly cursed SpongeBob tape and the other of "liminal spaces". Eric has since returned to a regular upload schedule and also streams occasionally.
Biography[]
He was born and raised in Pennsylvania and still lives there to this day.
Controversies[]
WorldCorp incident[]
In a video named "Strange YouTube Videos - Episode 7", he had included a video by the name of "Dreamer Heaven Levels 1 Rains Demise Reptile". This video depicting two grown men yelling at a child within a shower cubicle.
Shortly after it's upload, SomeOrdinaryGamers would later investigate this same video and discover the origins to be traced to a child pornography website.[2] Upon receiving Eric's attention, the "Dreamer Heaven" portion would be cut from his original video.
He would also make a, currently deleted, follow up video to this discussing the "Dreamer Heaven" video, as well as the original uploader of the video named "WorldCorp Enterprises".
Trivia[]
- Eric suffers from arachnophobia, a fear of spiders, and entomophobia, a fear of insects.[3]
- A portion of videos created by Wise are currently privated or age restricted.
- Eric claimed to have made over 1,000,000 dollars from day trading as a joke[6].
- In the video, 5 Things That Might Prove Life After Death, Eric states that he's agnostic[7].
- He hosts a live stream every Friday, as accessed from his Patreon.[8]
- Eric once participated in the hunt for the original unedited image of Jeff the Killer.[9][10]
- He is responsible for adding 1,000 USD to the original image bounty, which stemmed from him being unable to find the image himself.[11]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy_5D1KzPDk
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-p5cxIkUko
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLHALcf1l8I
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4zi8t0-xsE
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqO4453PB8g
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdi9fUrkP04
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY-2VnnNS-8
- ↑ https://www.patreon.com/ScareTheater
- ↑ https://twitter.com/ScareTheater/status/1641863593871171600
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27gCBjtB5Y8
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27gCBjtB5Y8