BASED ON TRUE STORY: Gloomy Sunday is an urban legend about an old song written by Hungarian composer, Rezso Seress. They say that many people have committed suicide after listening to this song and it is often called "The Hungarian Suicide Song". A...
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[If you want to hear the Gloomy Sunday songI posted a link on the media corner. Just a few reminder from your Mr. Author, don't listen to the song if you are in a deep sorrow. Because some people said that you will hear a mysterious voice in your ears whispering and encouraging you to commit suicide.]
[Huwag din po kayo mag alala sa simula lang po kayo makakabasa ng english. Alam ko naman ang iba sa inyo mas komportable na magbasa sa salitang Filipino. Kapag nagsimula na ang sarili kong plot para sa story kong Gloomy Sunday makakabasa na po kayo ng mga chapters na fil-lish. Though sa bansang Hungary nanggaling ang urban legend na ito lalagyan ko na lang po ng sarili kong twist at touch natin mga Filipino. Sana po ay magustuhan ninyo.]
The original story behind the hungarian suicide song, Gloomy Sunday.
Gloomy Sunday is an urban legend about an old song written by Hungarian composer, Rezso Seress. They say that many people have committed suicide after listening to this song and it is often called "The Hungarian Suicide Song".
Rezso Seress was born in Hungary. In 1933, he was a struggling composer who had never written a hit song. After his girlfriend left him, he was so depressed that he wrote the song that made him famous. The song was "Gloomy Sunday".
At first, music publishers would have nothing to do with the song, saying it was too depressing. Eventually, it was released and became a huge success.
Delighted that he had finally written a hit song by that time, Seress contacted the ex-girlfriend who inspired the song and attempted to get back together with her. The next day, the ex-girlfriend committed suicide by swallowing poison after hearing the song, leaving behind a note with just two words written on it: "Gloomy Sunday".
As time went on, Gloomy Sunday was connected to a rash of suicides in Hungary. In all, seventeen people died. Two people shot themselves while listening to a band playing the tune. Several others drowned themselves in a river while clutching the sheet music of "Gloomy Sunday".
People began to refer to it as "The Suicide Song" and there were rumors that it was cursed. The Hungarian authorities banned the song from being played in public. However, this did not stop the rash of suicides.
One man reportedly walked into a nightclub, asked the band to play "The Suicide Song", then took out a gun and blew his brain's out. An 82-year old man put "Gloomy Sunday" on his record player, then jumped to his death from his seventh story window. In Rome, an errand boy was cycling down the street when he heard a beggar humming the tune. The boy parked his bicycle, walked over to the beggar and gave him all his money. Then, he jumped off a nearby bridge and drowned in the icy waters.
In the early 1940s, the song was banned in England because it was deemed "too upsetting" for the public. The ban was only recently lifted, in 2002.
Even the song's composer could not escape the curse. Rezso Seress was haunted by the all the death and destruction his music had caused, saying, "I stand in the midst of this deadly success as an accused man. This fatal fame hurts me. I cried all of the disappointments of my heart into this song, and it seems that others with feelings like mine have found their own hurt in it." In 1968, he committed suicide by jumping out the window of his Budapest apartment building and falling to his death. Fortunately he survived. He was rushed to the hospital. But then when he was in the hospital, inside his room he hanged himself on the roof and soon died after.
*** Ito po nga pala yung ilang parts ng lyrics na tumatalakay ng pagpapatiwakalsa kantang Gloomy Sunday:
Gloomy is Sunday, With shadows I spend it all. My heart and I, have Decided to end it all.
Soon there'll be candles And prayers that are said, I know. Let them not weep, Let them know that I'm glad to go.
Death is no dream, For in death I'm caressing you. With the last breath of my soul, I'll be blessin' you.
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