Haunted Television
What I am about to tell you is a story about something I experienced not too long ago. But first, a little about myself; I work as a dishwasher/waiter at an O'Leary's downtown from where I live. It was a Saturday night, and we had an oddly high amount of guests this day, so I had to work over for a few hours.
Things like this happen sometimes in the restaurant business, however, when the last guest had finally left, I finished up the last glasses and plates, and then went straight home. It was a pretty crazy evening, and not only our place had more guests than usually this day.
However, I put on my headphones on and went straight for my bus stop and waited for my bus. When I finally arrived home, the clock was 2:32 a.m. I lay on my bed and breathed out thinking; "Oh, man! What a day!"
Before I decided to get ready for bed, I decided to turn my TV on, so I reached out for my remote and pressed the standby button, but nothing happened.
My first thought was that the battery might be dead so I flipped the remote over and at the same time I said,
"Aww! What the hell? Why today of all days!?"
When I opened the battery hatch and took out the batteries my TV started up by itself and showed black and white static.
At first I thought; "What the???" but then I denied the tingle in my spine and thought that there had to be a logical explanation behind it, like I didn't hear the TV turn on and it was a delay in the infrared receiver, because I am a skeptic by nature.
I went out of my bedroom to get a new pair of batteries and threw away the old ones. When I returned into my bedroom I sat on my bed, attempting to shut it off. Nothing happened this time either, so I went towards the TV to shut it off manually, but that reminded me, it had been shut off all the time, so I pulled out the cord and saw a weird, distorted shadow-like shape in the reflection of my TV, exactly by the same spot I had sat earlier.
Even though I sat there in front of the TV, trying to figure out a plausible explanation, I never came to a solution. I turned around to see if it was there, but that very spot was empty, like nothing else was with me in the room I was inside of - but the reflection said otherwise, because that was still there in the TV.
It felt like it was looking at me, even though I really didn't see a face, but something was certain; it must had been mad at me for sitting on it, I shouted out,
"I'm so sorry!" and ran out of my bedroom and slammed the door shut behind me. I decided to sleep on my couch in the living-room this night, but that wasn't enough, because there's a TV in there too, not any shape in it, though.
So I repeated what I did in my bedroom, pulled out all the cords, but this time I also turned the TV with the display towards the wall... I barely got any sleep this night, but the first thing I did when I woke up was to take the TV in the bedroom to the dump in hope of never seeing it again. From that day and on, everything actually got better, but I could never look at any reflection again without seeing a glimpse of that, exactly that same shade in the corner of my eye.
Credited to FelixB91
Originally uploaded on September 11, 2012
| Comments • 0 |
Loading comments...
|
