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The Cursed Video
Tape
The Cursed Videotape The
idea of a cursed videotape has been in existence for a very long
time at my home in New Orleans, LA. It is a different version from
both movies, The Ring, and it's Japanese predecessor, Ringu... I
heard the legend of a videotape that will kill you within
forty-eight hours after watching it at a bonfire when I was younger.
The story behind the
legend is that these college girls are having a slumber party and go
to rent a video at a local dealer. The girls cannot agree on a film,
so one of them asks for help. The clerk states that she has just the
thing and disappears into the back room.
Meanwhile, one girl sees
a box-less tape laying on the counter and reaches toward it. Just
then, the clerk comes out from the back and tells her not to touch
it and hands her an older film. The girl asks about the first tape,
and the woman tells her that it is just a home movie. The girls
agree to rent the tape that the woman suggests. While they are
checking out, the girl who asked for help swipes the "home movie"
tape.
Back at their house, the
girl tells the others about the tape she swiped and they laugh,
telling her that she is dumb for stealing some woman's home movies.
Still, they ask her to play the tape. She puts the tape in and then
the power goes out -- but the television stays on. The video starts
playing and shows a black woman being burned for practicing
witchcraft and hoodoo. She utters a curse that all who witness her
death will face the same fate in two-days time.
The VCR begins to make
skipping sounds and then cuts off. As promised, the girls died
forty-eight hours after watching the tape. They all met their demise
in unrealistic places such as the pool or ice rink. |
