The Video Tape Monsters

The Smile, and the Monsters

  So today at 9/14/16, I'm pretty sure I've had the most terrifying and vivid dream ever. It's not like "The Fish Chef" dream I've had where I was chased through a prison by an executioner with a fish-like body. Despite that being terrifying as well, I think this one tops it by a long shot. Enjoy.

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  So it was a normal weekend for me, I was just lounging around in my room doing whatever as usual. Until at a certain point, my sister Shanelle wanted to show me this "cool" YouTube video she found. It wasn't a popular video, but I just assumed it was probably a hidden gem or something.

  Now when I entered, I immediately watched. I don't remember what the name of the video is, but it seemed like it was just a short little funny animation about a brother and a sister. There were some funny bits here and there of them arguing and showing each other cool little things, but things got weird when the sister said:

  "Hey bro, you should check out the basement, got something real special down their!" The sister said. The brother seemed mildly excited, so he went down with her since he's actually never been down there before for unknown reasons.

  As they walked down the flight of stairs in the middle of the darkness, they got to the bottom. Then when the camera changed, it showed a real picture of a green, metal basement with splashed of blood and guts spread across the ground and wall.

  The video went back to looking at the two siblings, and all I saw was...

  An irregularly large smile plastered on to both of their faces with incredibly sharp teeth. Their eyes were missing also, it was just pitch-black eye sockets, but I for some reason had a feeling they were still looking directly at me. It was nearly silent, as all you can hear from that point was the sound of the chill wind from the basement going by.

  The video suddenly transitioned into a picture of these alien-like monsters with a bright, red background behind them. Except you couldn't really see the monsters, it was only their shadows, and most of them had a huge hole in the middle of their head. All it was at that point was just that picture, then the video ended.

  Of course though, I decided to re-watch, and it was the same thing so far, the little humorous points, the smile that still haunts me currently, and the picture of the potential torture room. Except something was different this time.

  When it cut to the picture of the shadow figures, the monsters were different that time around, except they still had the large gaping hole in their heads. They were also a lot closer to the screen that time around.

  If my alarm didn't wake me up then, I swear I felt my character about to replay it endlessly without end until the monsters from the video crawled out and grabbed me.

  When I woke up, I couldn't look at any of my family pictures, or else I'd see the haunting smile on the faces I love.