The idea of a cursed videotape has existed for a very long time in New Orleans, LA. It is a different version from both movies, The Ring, and its Japanese predecessor, Ringu... I heard the legend of a videotape that will kill you within forty-eight hours after watching it at a bonfire.
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 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 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.
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100 Urban Legends
Horrorurban legend [ˈərbən ˈlejənd] NOUN urban legends (plural noun) a humorous or horrific story or piece of information circulated as though true, especially one purporting to involve someone vaguely related or known to the teller.
