This story has been
circulated for many years. It was told before the films, The Ring and its Japanese predecessor, Ringu were released. It is often told on college campuses.
Have you heard about the
videotape * that will kill you within 48 hours of watching it? Last year several
college girls spent Friday night partying together. One was sent to the local
rental store to pick up a scary movie. She asked the store clerk for a recommendation.
While this woman was in the back the girl noticed a tape sitting on the front
counter that had a strange title. Just as she was picking it up the clerk
returned and requested she not touch it.
When she asks about the title the clerk shrugged and told her it is just a “home
movie.” She then rented one of the films the woman brought from the back.
But as the clerk retrieves her change she slips the other tape into her bag.
Once back at the party her peers chastise her for swiping the tape but then
they request she play it for them.
But when she puts the tape in the
machine and pushes play the lights flicker and the power goes out but the
television stays on. The video is of a woman being burned because
she practices witchcraft and hoodoo. As the girls watch this she eerily looks
out at them and utters a curse. She states that whomever witnesses her death
will die within two days.
Unnerved, the girls watch as
the videotape starts to make skipping sounds and then it just cuts off. The
girls at first laugh at it but as one by one they start to die panic overtakes
the remaining girls. As promised they all die by Monday. The graphic descriptions
of the accidents that cause their deaths vary with each telling.
* This story was told before DVDs.
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