Hidden-camera show unleashes world’s most terrifying prank on Brazil for your amusement

National Post Staff | Nov 27, 2012 8:27 PM ET | Last Updated: Nov 27, 2012 10:51 PM ET
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YouTube One of the participants meets the "Ghost in the Elevator."

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A Brazilian TV show has taken candid camera pranks to a new, horrifying level.

Programa Silvio Santo‘s “Ghost in the Elevator” sketch begins as the seemingly random participants walk in through a building’s lobby and go into an elevator.

When the doors close, the lights start to flicker before the power seems to go out entirely. In the darkness, a pale girl holding a doll slips in through a side panel.

YouTube    The girl gets into place after the elevator lights go out.

YouTube   Letting them know what she thinks.

 

When the lights come back on a variety of things happen: jumping, screaming, crying, sputtering and scrambling to hit big red “in case of emergency” button — all typical reactions for people who meet the girl from “The Ring.”

And then the girl screams.

YouTube     Reactions varied

 

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Once the lights go out again she quietly slips back out, leaving the participants looking a mixture of terrified and confused.

In one shot in the short segment, the camera cuts back to the other side of the elevator — which hasn’t actually moved — to show a Programa Silvio Santo staffer laughing in the building’s lobby.

YouTubeAt least someone there thought it was funny.