Mysteries

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Never Seen Again, in Ontario?

The words “never seen again” are the creepiest phrase I’ve ever heard. They show up in childhood fantasy tales, as well as horror stories. So any story, fiction or fact, with those words haunts me. They are creepy and fascinating and a mystery usually not solved.

I’ve heard stories, reports and tall tales about people never seen again. Often they don’t say where the story started from. A lot of these stories are based on at least one ages old urban legend. But, they’re still creepy.

I turned on Tubi and watched a few episodes of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction last night. One of the episodes, ‘The Kid in the Closet’, was about a boy with a monster in his closet. His older brother teased him about it and then, to prove there was no monster, he went into the closet and shut the door. They heard him making a ruckus, yelling and banging at the door, then it went quiet. The Mother came in to see what was going on. She opened the closet, no one was inside. No older brother. But, his shoes and a pile of the clothes he had been wearing were there, without him.

Police were called, inspected the closet and found no way for him to get out. At the end of the episode they said he was never seen again and claimed this story is based on a true event.

Any time someone is never seen again is creepy. The police thought the boy had run away. On the show they left that sort of hanging, but doubtful. Also, the police had not found any way he would have gotten out of the closet, other than the door. His clothes and shoes were left in the closet. Those two things seem a bit odd, even after I found out more.

It turns out, according to the source I found after a bit of a search, that the boy did run away. So, how did he get out of the closet? The police didn’t notice the ceiling panel when they looked? I guess he was at least wearing his underwear, the show didn’t say all his clothes were left in the closet. So, it is still a little puzzle. It is possible the whole thing really is a hoax, in spite of the show saying it was fact, not fiction.

A bit of digging turns up at least one comment on the show’s IMDB message board, posted on February 12, 2008, in which the commenter shared her correspondence with someone who had worked on Beyond Belief and knew the actual truth:

“The Beyond Belief: fact or fiction story about the monster in the kid’s closet was based on an actual event that I personally investigated,” she was told. “At the time it happened there was no explanation for the boy’s disappearance— until two weeks later when it was learned that he had climbed out of the closet through a ceiling panel and ran away from home. He stayed at a friend’s house surreptitiously until the friend’s mother discovered him hiding in the attic of their home and exposed the ruse.”

The show’s producer wouldn’t discover this very important detail until it was far too late.

Source: Stranger Dimensions – Beyond Belief: The Kid in the Closet

Is Your Television Alive? – Ghost Geeks : Ghost Geeks

 

Is Your Television Alive?

 Posted by on Friday, March 21, 2014

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White noise and phantom images are just the beginning.  The electronic aethyr is still the great unexplored country.

There is a whole new study developing around the electro-aethyr, or EA as it is sometimes known.  Like all new areas of study, the interest in the electronic aethyr, has been developing for some time.

In the early days of radio, telephony and phonography, the very nature of the new communication medium may have hit a nerve.  For the first time, disembodied voices were appearing like magic.  Imagine, if you will, sitting on a sofa in front of the fireplace listening to a haunting melody sung by a favorite crooner who was, unfortunately dead for many months.  Today we are well accustomed to such things, but what a potent brew of nostalgia  it must have cased, mixed uncomfortably with the disquieting fear of hearing the dead speak from a music box.

I imagine there was a cold shiver that shook that listener when the thought crossed his or her mind that maybe what was causing the music box to play was actually alive.  Perhaps the realization that only the same music played over and over again calmed that listener’s nerves.  But I remember an old woman once telling me that her mother swore her phonograph occasionally played songs that were not on the album.  It would happen to her just after midnight.  The lyrics were German, and half way through the song would just fade away.

Are there really ghosts in our machines?

 

 


 

 

Is Your Television Alive? – Ghost Geeks : Ghost Geeks.

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More Ghosts in the Machine

 Posted by on Thursday, March 6, 2014

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Now that people are more emotionally attached and in tune with their electronics than their houses, is it any wonder more and more people report that their computers are haunted?  That there really are ghosts in our machines?

Years ago I came across a report concerning a suicide, where the suicide note claimed “I can no longer stand it.  Every night, night after night it tells me to kill myself.  It talks to me from my TV.  It lectures me, humiliates me and mocks me.”  What disturbed me most about this was what I found out with a few brief phone interviews.  A neighbor told me that the victim told him that this happened even when the television was off.

“I thought he was crazy,” the neighbor said.  “Hell, I knew he was crazy, but I’m telling you one night I snuck up to his living room window to listen.  It was last fall.  Warm enough for the window to be open but not so hot the air conditioning was on.  I listened for ten, maybe fifteen minutes and all I heard was the program he was listening to- CNN or something.  So I was feeling pretty stupid by then and I was about to turn around and get out of there when I hear someone say, ‘Cut your wrists.  Get the steak knife and do it now.’”

For a minute the phone line was dead between us.  I didn’t know what to say, so I just waited it out from him to get going again.

“Now I know you think this is crazy, but his TV was right near the window I was outside of and I’d swear that’s where the voice came from.”

 

 

 

 


 

 

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