A horrifying YouTube video showing a fat man talking to the camera about his new girlfriend – then showing a female, apparently bound, in a small bathroom crying – attracted a lot of attention this week.

Authorities in Wisconsin were alerted – after people feared it showed missing girl, Kayla Berg, 15, of Antigo, who vanished a couple of months before the video was posted in 2009.

But the sinister video has turned out to be a fake, Antigo police department believe – and unrelated to the Kayla Berg case.


It’s still not clear who made it, or why.

The Antigo Police Department has been investigating the Hi Walter, its Patrick, I have a new girlfriend video that was… Posted by Antigo Police Department on Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Kayla Berg vanished in 2009 after she had been dropped off by an acquaintance in Wausau.

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Kayla Berg

The video about 940,000 views on YouTube before it was taken down on Tuesday.