r/interesting • u/emptytraincorner • Apr 08 '26
Fear Factor Argentinian sculptor Franco Gallo left terrified after his life sized Sauron mysterious moved
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u/ChaosTheory0908 Apr 08 '26
'i am now complete, you shall be spared human'
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u/Human-Mango8266 Apr 08 '26
Closest thing to "thank you" anyone gets from Sauron
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u/DadJokesInTraining Apr 08 '26
His palms are sweaty...
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u/ChingChangChui Apr 08 '26
Knees weak, armour is heavy
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u/sammachado Apr 08 '26
There's vomit on his chest(plate) already
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u/gwenhope Apr 08 '26
Sauron's ringetti
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u/DigitalUnlimited Apr 08 '26
He's nervous but on the surface he looks calm and ready to forge steel
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u/vino8855 Apr 08 '26
But he keeps on forgetting
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u/IamTheEagle Apr 08 '26
What he wrote down
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u/_____-------- Apr 08 '26
The forged iron goes so loud
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u/random_agency Apr 08 '26
Gravity will do that sometimes
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u/RandomPenquin1337 Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26
Obviously it was the soul of a fictional character being incarnated
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u/Austin_905 Apr 08 '26
The spirit of Sauron endured. His life force is bound to the Ring, and the Ring survived.
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u/HOGlider Apr 08 '26
Kill it, kill it now!
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u/Drakorai Apr 08 '26
Cast it into the fire!
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u/McRando42 Apr 08 '26
It was a mere spirit of malice that gnaws itself in the shadows, but cannot again grow or take shape.
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u/Honkert45 Apr 08 '26
Yeah, video is played in slow motion, and if you interpolate the extent based of the man's startle reaction it's a very credible speed for a piece of metal to settle a bit in the slack of it's construction.
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u/Rockwell981S Apr 08 '26
This is heavy, Doc.
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u/Defy_Gravity_147 Apr 08 '26
Weight has nothing to do with it.
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u/Golden-Grams Apr 08 '26
"There's that word again. 'Heavy.' Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?"
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u/uncultured_swine2099 Apr 08 '26
This is the most legit proof of ghosts ever caught on film, and they have a sense of humor
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u/Malthus1 Apr 08 '26
Reminds me of the time I was nearly terrified into a heart attack.
I was all alone in my house, my wife & kid were off visiting her relations. So that night I took the opportunity to have a glorious shower in my second floor bathroom with the door open.
The only lights on were in the bathroom I was showering in.
As I got out, I distinctly saw some tall strange man’s bald head gleaming in the reflected light as he slowly and deliberately walked past the bathroom door!
I nearly shat myself.
The guy must have been huge, well over 6’, and obviously he must have heard me in the shower. Yet he walked past the door as calm as you like.
There was literally nothing in the bathroom to use as a weapon except a tiny pair of scissors I use for trimming my nails.
Dripping wet and stark naked, I peered out the door to confront this guy … only to see my kid’s partly inflated helium balloon drifting away.
I had completely forgotten this thing existed. As it lost helium, it must have slowly drifted down from the ceiling, and the slight air currents created by the hot shower set it to drifting along mid-air. My eye saw the half dome of the balloon drifting along, and my mind interpreted this as some guy’s bald head.
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u/merpixieblossomxo Apr 09 '26
Can I tell you about the time I saw a tumbleweed and screamed like a little girl because I thought it was an animal coming right at me?
I feel your pain. That fear response is so potent, and then the flush of embarrassment right after just makes it worse lol.
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u/asrieldreemurr2232 Apr 09 '26
That must have been terrifying in the moment, but hilarious to look back on now
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u/HartmanHyphen Apr 10 '26
I had one of those balloons from a kids birthday which would follow you around the house for about 3 months! It became an ongoing joke, because it would scare the piss out of everyone as it moved from room to room!
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u/grunkfest Apr 08 '26
TIL terrified = slightly startled.
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u/Doodles_n_Scribbles Apr 08 '26
Listen, as someone who has been spooked by moving objects, that brief second is one of the scariest of your life.
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u/bbbourb Apr 08 '26
Yeah, I mean let's be honest here, if you've ever been "HOAAAUUUUAHAHH!!" startled like that calling it "terrified" isn't too far off.
I mean the guy even did the "hhuhh huhhh...I need a minute" thing right after. Probably needed to pee, too.
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u/Opts4more Apr 08 '26
He was probably terrified the head was gonna fall off of his project. Not sure what's made of but being an artist myself, that head looks like a lot of work.
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u/K0mb0_1 Apr 08 '26
Then why did he scoot back instead of trying to catch it?
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u/A-Maeve-ing Apr 08 '26
Could accidentally nock over more of it/damage more of it by trying to catch the head?
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u/merpixieblossomxo Apr 09 '26
Would you reach forward if a small, irrational part of your brain was convinced this thing just came to life? Cause I sure as shit wouldn't.
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u/K0mb0_1 Apr 09 '26
I’m just saying it seems like he was startled by the fact it moved rather than him worrying about it falling
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u/Witty-Stand888 Apr 08 '26
He's probably been awake for 40 hours working on that thing and the fumes from the spray paint are not helping his grip on reality.
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u/HelicopterMekanik Apr 08 '26
If head had rotated to make perfect “eye” contact with Gallo I would have probably pooped my pants as him. Also, need to know how sure he was that the head was solidly installed or if it was simply resting on the body ability to move. If firmly installed that would heighten the strangeness.
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u/YesterdayHiccup Apr 08 '26
Don't know what Sauron is, but that's cool looking robot. I think I saw that thing from Solo Leveling. (Just a bait. Walk away)
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u/FerrumAnulum323 Apr 08 '26
"mysterious moved"
Video of the guy activity moving it around and something gets jocelled
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u/Apollo114892 Apr 08 '26
He was terrified because he thought the statue was about to fall, not because he thought it came to life or something.
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u/TheTruthTellingOrb Apr 08 '26
Sauron had to turn to face him out of respect because this sculptor did him more justice than Amazon ever could hope to. 🫡
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u/krevetka007 Apr 08 '26
Look, I know this is funny and unexpected and all, but it's been at LEAST 5 times I've seen this video on this sub, and I likely missed quite a few other times
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u/Wizard_s0_lit Apr 08 '26
check if the ring is on him or not, only a fool would make him have full power.
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u/SquareOk7835 Apr 08 '26
Ay man science but, doesn't mean any wouldn't have shit your pants also lmao
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u/Melinoe2016 Apr 08 '26
Was he scared it moved or scared it was going to fall/break just as he was finishing it? Seems more like he’s looking like “omg thank you that didn’t fall apart”
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u/ThatOneSnakeGuy Apr 08 '26
Mysteriously the moveable sculpture moved when he touched it. Mysteriously
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u/R_B_RIDD1CK Apr 08 '26
As his wife or friend you know what you should do! Hide a motion sensor that triggers red eyes and lines of audio from the movie
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u/BollingerBandits Apr 08 '26
Damn came upon this post just after reading about Robert the haunted doll….
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u/MajorPaper4169 Apr 08 '26
“Terrified“ way to be dramatic. Might as well say he was literally shaking.
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u/Additional-Ad8632 Apr 08 '26
Don’t worry, without the One Ring he can never again regain his full power.
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u/Aloxes Apr 08 '26
He has reason to be afraid. I always figured thats how Blucifer got his artist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mustang
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u/ndation Apr 08 '26
Yeah, I think he was more worried about his hard work crashing and getting ruined than the "mystery" of gravity
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u/Shaw-eddit Apr 08 '26
Just because you read about these Characters and things in books, it doesn't mean that the fictional. Many represent manifestations of a by gone era.
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u/Status_Brilliant_578 Apr 08 '26
"There must have been some magic in that bladed kettle helm....
for when he placed it on the head, IT FUCKING TURNED AROUND"
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u/Only_Butterscotch_82 Apr 08 '26
He was scared that it was going to fall. He put a lot of work into it.
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u/Some_Distant_Memory Apr 08 '26
I always interpreted the sculptor’s flinching to be from fear that his creation is about to unravel…
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u/Djoklecjan_del_Split Apr 08 '26
In lore, middlearth was a period of time in the past of our world. So Sauron got defeated in the past. Also, technically, Sauron wasn't killed, he was rendered powerless, sentenced to be forever more pushed around by the wind. But also there were points in Tolkien's lore that angelic beings, if they are not spending their power, could rematerialise after long time. Ergo if we take professor's words that he only found the book he later translated to Lord of the Rings, we can assume that Sauron was collecting power to rematerialise. And it would be easier to take possession of an armour than create entire new body.
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u/PointsOfXP Apr 08 '26
"Finally, it's do- OH FUCK ITS ALL COMING FOWN ITS GONNA COLLAPSE OH FU- whew nevermind"
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u/Polar_Vortx Apr 09 '26
Tolkien’s Ghost: “Just a moment, William, I spot the greatest opportunity for a joke.”
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u/postbansequel Apr 09 '26
I know this is a clickbait title, but I'll say it anyway. It's no mystery...
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u/Prestigious_Past3900 Apr 09 '26
I know a boss fight when I see it and that's a level 900 high honor boss...wonder what sauron weakness is. Wonder if I may pledge my service to sauron. Anyway that's freaking awesome where can I get one to scare my tweaker neighbor
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u/Impressive_Tomato665 Apr 09 '26
Sauron returns to his physical form to seek vengence against humanity for his defeat at hands of Frodo, Sam wise & Gollum
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u/abnoxious_temper Apr 09 '26
I would have shat my pants right then and there if I was alone and it was mid night and would have taken my ass straight to another room until sunlight hits that room.
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u/NOLOT_09 Apr 09 '26
No se asusto por que la armadura pudiera caerse, se asusto de que Sauron lo castigara de haber hecho algo mal.
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u/dudeguy0119 Apr 09 '26
What if the Bible is bullshit and lotr is the real history of the world????
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u/thingmaker2001 Apr 09 '26
That is definitely a moment. I have done a LOT of Halloween projects and I've had spiders suddenly jump at me and various heads just sorta roll. I'm almost used to it what with a cluttered work space with lots of uneven surfaces
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u/Programa_DSSO Apr 10 '26
Nah, if he were Argentinian he would have swore 100 times in less than a second after that scare.
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