The Weirdest Night of My Life
I can't help but feel that this has been one of the weirdest nights of my life. For silly reasons, but still- it was persistently bizarre.
We started the evening by watching The Black Hole, a 1979 forgotten live-action Disney film about a team of space scientists finding a forgotten ship perched at the edge of a black hole. It's parts 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, parts Event Horizon, all bizarre, with Anthony Perkins getting a hole plowed into his chest by a murderbot. And then the ending, which I can only describe as ROBOT HELL...we thought we might have glimpsed another dimension.
Then my friend Janelle found an unlabeled DVD near her DVD player, and wanted to find out what it was. Against mine and Toby's warning, she put in the DVD and MADNESS.
You know those silly idosing videos with the horrific sounds and binaural tones? Imagine that, set to creepy 3D spirals, and images of nuclear explosions and later on, images of genocide victims and civilian casualties. I was basically screaming the entire time. Eventually Toby mashed all of the buttons on the DVD player to make it stop.
We regrouped, even though we were pretty sure SATAN HIMSELF HAD FOUND GATEWAY TO OUR WORLD THROUGH THIS VIDEO, and eventually put it back on, fastforwarding through it. It turns out to be a shoddy documentary about Jesus and the Zodiac, and then about how 9/11 was a conspiracy. Yeah. The DVD, as it turns out, was acquired by Janelle's super intelligent roommate from a random solider off the street. Because you should definitely watch something on a writable DVD, which didn't come in a case, which could have anything in the world on it.
I think the thing that was so scary about it, which was only exacerbated by my frequent readings of creepypasta this week, was that, when you're versed in stories about videos that make you kill yourself, you know them by description. Horrible noises, terrible imagery, etc. It was like IRL creepypasta.
We went to 7-11 to by junk food (eat our horror away.) Nothing out of the ordinary. Janelle paid for her food, looked at her total and went 'OH MAN' .
She showed me her receipt. Her total?
$6.66.
So at that point, we were pretty sure our existence was just a big David Lynch movie, and at any moment, we were about to be sucked into the endless darkness of the void. I found a brand spanking new penny on the sidewalk and it became my best friend.
We spent the rest of the evening watching youtube poop and drinking. Nothing happened after that. Although, I still say that DVD should be burned and its ashes buried in the 4 corners of the earth.
(By the way, I'm not making any of this up, because that would just be silly.)
(Also, I know those aren't the "real" idosing videos/mp3s, but thats basically what the video sounded like.)