05-12-2017, 06:42 AM
The band Nine Inch Nails found themselves in the middle of an FBI investigation right at the start of their career in 1989.
In recording their first music video "Down In It", they had attached a camera to helium balloons to try to get an overhead shot of a scene that was meant to look like lead man Trent Reznor was being sacrificed. However, it worked a little better than planned, and the camera just kind of... flew away before they got a hold of it again.
What was more impressive was the camera was found in working condition over 200 miles away from where they recorded the video in a corn field by a farmer. He assumed the footage was of a real murder/sacrifice, and promptly turned over the footage to police, who in turn opened an investigation with the FBI trying to find this new and deadly cult (they figured it had to be a religious killing). It was eventually discovered that it was simply the lost video camera for shooting a music video of a then unknown heavy metal band.
In recording their first music video "Down In It", they had attached a camera to helium balloons to try to get an overhead shot of a scene that was meant to look like lead man Trent Reznor was being sacrificed. However, it worked a little better than planned, and the camera just kind of... flew away before they got a hold of it again.
What was more impressive was the camera was found in working condition over 200 miles away from where they recorded the video in a corn field by a farmer. He assumed the footage was of a real murder/sacrifice, and promptly turned over the footage to police, who in turn opened an investigation with the FBI trying to find this new and deadly cult (they figured it had to be a religious killing). It was eventually discovered that it was simply the lost video camera for shooting a music video of a then unknown heavy metal band.