Watch a terrifying documentary about the lethal "world's tallest" waterslide

Last year, a Kansas state grand jury issued a 20-count indictment against the management of Schlitterbahn water park for the horrific death of a child while riding Verrückt, a much-hyped, Guinness World Record-breaking water slide in 2016. Caleb Schwab, the ten-year-old son of Kansas state representative, Scott Schwab, was decapitated after a raft on the 168-foot-tall slide went airborne over its main ramp, striking the guard railing which anchored the ride’s safety net.
The story took on a cinematically terrifying air as more and more details came to light about Verrückt’s haphazard design, coupled with the park management’s downright sinister cover-ups and intimidations of potential employee whistleblowers. Yesterday, an excellent 10-minute documentary released by The Atlantic highlights just how batshit insane the entire Verrückt story really was, giving viewers possibly this summer’s most terrifying daytime horror film outside Midsommar. The curious can check out the video below, but be forewarned there are some pretty haunting images of the accident’s aftermath around the 5:50 minute mark.
I mean, where to start? There’s park owner, Jeff Henry, mugging for a news crew before the ride’s release that he “always set out to break all the records. I want to be the first at a bar to buy a drink, and I want to be the first to meet a pretty girl, and I want to be the first at everything.” There’s watching footage of test rafts literally careening off the slide’s ramp to the guffaws and backslaps of its designers on the scene.