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Growing up, we lived next door to an older couple who were raising their grandchildren. The
Being a reader, I kept a lot of the books. Most of the movies we had already—animated films from Disney, and random comedies. This was before
Thinking it was probably a blank tape that
I was in the living room, and watching TV when I saw that the next movie coming on was going to be
The reel inside the cassette showed that it had been partially played, and I rewound it so the movie would be at the very beginning of the tape. I had a few minutes before my movie started, so I decided
I pressed
There was no opening intro or credits, but the show itself started up right away. With one eye on the clock to see when the movie would start, I just wanted to know which episode this was; I had seen them all.
From the beginning, the episode
The actors
The show quickly became what I, even back then, recognized as inappropriate. It was night, and Kimmy tiptoed out of the
I jumped when the screen suddenly went black, as it had been at the beginning of the tape. The movie I wanted to tape would have been about fifteen minutes in, but I was no longer interested in watching that—or anything. I reached over to eject the tape, but as I did the picture came back on.
Now the entire family was in the Tanner
Kimmy was standing up, her arms in front of her—her wrists were taped together, and even more tape secured a large, shiny knife to her hands. She was looking into the camera again:
Panning back to where Kimmy was, the camera went to a close-up of her shaking hands as she went up to first DJ, then Stephanie, and Joey and Danny, and shoved the knife deep into their throats, one by one. They thrashed and struggled, but the only sound was
Only the twins were left now, and they were staring wide-eyed and silent as Kimmy came closer to them. She screamed one last thing:
Feeling sick, I pressed the fast-forward button, wanting to see if that was the end. It must have been a joke, or a prank of some sort—maybe a scary Halloween episode that
Grateful that there was nothing else on the tape—and that my younger brother and sister
I
My mom had me sit on the couch, and gently told me the story about the videotape. The man responsible had been our
It
One day, he snapped and held the cast and some of the crew hostage to make the episode that I had just watched. Everything had sure looked real to me, but my mom reiterated that all the blood and violence had been special effects. I guess it must have been… the show went on afterward, right?
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The network suppressed the entire incident, and paid to have the man sent to a private psychiatric hospital where he could recover (if possible) in peace and secrecy. His wife went to visit him on a day when he was feeling low, and he killed her and then himself. That was how his kids came to live with his parents, who were mortified by the whole thing.
More than anything else, my mother made me promise to never mention the tape to the neighbor kids. They believed that the dad had died in a medical hospital with a contagious illness, and that the mom had been killed on the drive over to visit him. I would have slept a lot better the next few months if
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