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The Camcorder

My name is Henry Goodman. Yes, I am related to John Goodman, the blogger that had a rather unpleasant experience with a file called "1dollar.wav". I am his brother. I am the father of 3 kids and I have a wife whos name is Jenny Goodman. I live in Cincinnati, Ohio. I'm here to tell you about a rather disturbing experience I had involving a used camcorder I got off of eBay. It's strange; both me and John's problems happened when we bought something off of eBay. Anywho, on with my story.

So, me and my family were planning a vacation, and we wanted to capture our trip on tape, as well as taking some photos. Unfortunately, our video camera was broken, so we would have to either get a new one or just take photos instead. So, I went on eBay to see if anybody was selling a camcorder. Well, long story short, I found one, I bid on it, and I won it. A few days later I received a small package which had the camcorder in it. I opened it up and took the camcorder out.

It was your typical camcorder, with the little small screen on it and such. I had some blank Sony camcorder tapes, so I opened up the camcorder to put one inside. To my surprise, however, there was already a tape inside. I assumed it was one that the previous owner forgot to take out (it was a used camcorder). I hoped nothing important was on it, otherwise they'd be pretty upset about losing it. I took the tape out and looked at it. There was a piece of yellow masking tape stuck on the front, labeled with black sharpie: "2006," Just "2006" and nothing else. I decided to play the tape, just to see what was on it. So I put the tape back inside the camcorder and hooked the camcorder up to my TV to watch the tape on the TV. I rewound the tape, but it was already at the beginning. So I did the usual crud to play a tape from your camcorder on the TV.

The tape started with 10 seconds of a blank blue screen. Then it cut to someone filming a school playground on a cloudy day. Kids ran around and played, but whoever was filming seemed to just be interested in one of them; a little girl, probably around 5 years old, with pale skin, brown hair, brown eyes and wearing a yellow coat. Whoever was filming seemed to be following her and watching her play. Sometimes the person filming would talk to the girl, and it was a man's voice. He called the girl, "Alice", and I assumed the person filming was the girl's father. I assumed it must have been some recording of her last day of school or something. So if that was a recording of the camera man's daughter's last day of school, it must have been important to him. I felt bad for him, losing something this precious. But I had little time to ponder that, because suddenly a very loud droning buzzing sound burst from the speakers, scaring the living crud out of me. The scenery had changed: it was now night time, and the school was deserted, except for the girl. All the while that ear-piercing buzz continued to sound from the TV speakers, as I plugged my ears. The girl was turned away from the camera, so I couldn't see her face. She just stood there, motionless. Then she turned to face the camera, and what I saw...well, I didn't see that one coming.

The girl's eyeballs were gone. Just dark, empty sockets where they should have been. There wasn't blood or anything, the eyeballs were literally just gone. Her mouth was drooling some kind of disgusting green slime, and her nose was gone. Not like it was cut off, but just not there. Just plain skin where it should have been. Think of Patrick from Spongebob. You get the idea.

The scene then burst into static. The buzzing noise stopped, but you could hear the sound of knives slicing against flesh, and blood curdling screams. Then the scene returned, and the girl was hung by a swing in a swingset, with several nasty wounds around her body and a bloody knife laying on the ground below her. Her eyeballs were still gone, and her mouth still dripped the weird green slime, and she still had no nose. The tape was silent. No loud buzzing or anything. Just silence as the girl dangled around. Heart pounding so hard it threatened to burst, scared out of my mind because of the sudden buzzing sound and (to a lesser degree) the disturbing footage that accompanied it, I sprinted over to the TV and shut it off. I ejected the tape from the camcorder, shut the camcorder off, and unhooked it from the TV. I took a hammer and smashed the tape to tiny pieces. Breathing heavily, still not sure what the heck just happened, I sat back down on the couch. I just stayed there for a while, staring at the blank TV screen. After I had finally calmed down, Jenny came home from the grocery store. I helped her bring the groceries in. I didn't tell her about the tape, because she'd think I was going insane.

The dream I had that night was not pleasant. I was in a dark hallway. My throat... it felt like someone was repeatedly flicking my Adam's Apple. That loud buzzing from the tape played non-stop. It wasn't coming from any direction. It was just there, in my ears, as if I was wearing headphones and the sound was playing on them. I was scared out of my mind. I wanted desperately to get out, to go home, to be in the comfort of my bed. I tried crying for help, but no matter how hard I tried, no sound would come out. Suddenly I felt the urge to vomit. Not having a bucket or a toilet nearby, I puked on the floor. But instead of puke, I hurled up a small Sony video tape, with masking tape on the front labeled "2006" in black sharpie. Then the tape morphed into a girl - no, not just any girl. It was the girl in the tape. Her eyeballs were gone, her mouth oozed green slime, and she had no nose. She slowly walked down the hallway, and for some reason I followed. All the while that awful buzzing noise kept playing.

She lead me down the hallway, and I realized where I was: I was in an elementary school. Kid's drawings and other art lined the walls. Posters saying "Vote Josh for School President" were everywhere. You get the idea.

She lead me out an open door, and into the playground. It was the very same playground from the tape. And a man was there, holding a camcorder, recording us. But not just any camcorder - it was the very same camcorder that I had gotten off of eBay.

He just stood there, recording us. The girl lead me over to a swingset. She pulled a knife out of her pocket. My body then became frozen in place. I couldn't move my eyes. I couldn't move my head. I was forced to watch in horror as the girl sliced herself up with the knife, giving herself the same wounds as in the video, and the buzzing sound stopped, being replaced with the girl's blood curdling screams of agony. Then she put her neck into one of the swings, as if it was a noose. Then the swing pulled up on its own accord, killing the girl.

The girl dangled from the "noose", just like in the video. After a few moments I could move my body again. I sprinted over to the man holding the camcorder. He just looked at me, and smiled.

"That's my girl," he said. "I'm so proud,"

I jolted awake. My heart pounded, my forehead was sweaty, and I was breathing heavily.

Jenny lay next to me, apparently still asleep.

I sat there for a while, and finally calmed down. I lay back down in bed and closed my eyes.

I couldn't fall back to sleep. My tossing and turning finally woke Jenny up, and she got mad and went to sleep on the sofa. She opened the door, but then she froze.

She just stood there, and I could see her hands trembling. I asked her what the matter was.

She just pointed a trembling finger out the door.

I got out of bed and looked where she was pointing. My blood ran cold.

There was a hallway outside the door, going out to the living room, where the TV was. From down the hall, I could see the TV. It was on, and on it was the little girl's face, missing eyeballs and all.

But then I realized that the TV was in a corner of the room I could not see from where I was. My sleep-deprived brain mistook what I saw as the TV. But it wasn't the TV.

It was the window.

Garr8 wrote:

samid11 wrote:

The Camcorder.

nicely done!

Could u post the one about 1dollar.wav

I haven't read it yet.

Creepy. Glad it didn't have much gore, that's how I like it.

Return to Botany Bay by NeilWest

I used to watch an innocent children's show called Botany Bay. It was charming, and had an interesting moral at the end. Usually it was something like, 'treat others as how you treat yourself' or, 'always forgive others'. It was nice, but soon ended when I was 5 in 2005. There was around five years were there was no mention of the show, until late 2010 when I was 10.

I was flicking through the channels when an advert on a kids channel caught my eye, it was for a remake called Return to Botany Bay. The advert had all the original voices, props and characters. But before I tell you more, I think I'd better give you some background information about the original Botany Bay:

It was a show where a group of wannabe pirates build a little ship in their home village, Botany Bay. It had an animation style, similar to Coraline. The leader was a fearless girl named Elisa Smith, who was a real girl inside. Then her buddies were accident-prone boys named Gary, who was tall and thin, Jacob, who was short and fat and then there was Mark, who was in the middle.

It had a magical element in it where at the title-sequence, it's the ship, called the Jack o' Nine Tales, is sailing towards the children, who are coming out of their home. They look happy to see the boat coming towards them, and when it arrives, it knocks the antagonist of the show, Bigbeard, into the sea. It was very memorable, and here is a list of the voices:

Elisa - Samantha Blu
Gary - Harry Blu
Jacob - Larry Suckle
Mark - Winston King
Bigbeard - Thomas Blu

Back to the point, I watched the advert and it said the program would air on Saturdays at 5.00pm. I told my mum and she seemed glad, but told me I was a little too old for films. Then I told her it was for nostalgia's sake, and she said ok in the end. So, there we were, my mum and dad with me to watch the progam. It then started with the following message:

When the wind has finally stopped, we thought the sun would still shine...

The last words of the parents of the Blu twins, may we pray for them. Forever.

It started, and it still had the same grainy sephia effect as was in the title sequence. I embraced for it to go to full colour, and it did so. But the Jack o' Nine Tales travelled to Botany Bay in a sad, lonesome way, as if it felt solemn and subtle. When it zoomed in on the gang's house, they didn't come out. I felt a little nervous about watching on, the gang wasn't there yet and the ship looked suicidal.

Then it came to the end of the title sequence where the ship would accidently bump Bigbeard into the sea as the children came onto the ship. The ship bumped a skeleton, which had a pirate hat similar to Bigbeard's. Then came the logo and episode name. It was Return to Botany Bay in a font that was like horror film's. Underneath was the episode number and name, in a classical font. It was; E01: How Ar Ye?

It seemed normal, and I liked how it was in a pirate accent too. Then the logo and text faded and the show started with the Jack o' Nine Tales waiting patiently for the children at the port. The skeleton stared into the ship's cold eyes and screamed, "I need peace and rest after these five years! I thought it would last for eternity, whoever awoke me..." the skeleton stared into the screen with red eyes, "could be with me."

I was frightened until the children came out, they were happy and playful, even Elisa. They chanted a little song in a tinny harmony, like ghosts. It was the message at the start, and they made it into a rhythm-less song.

When the wind had finally stopped,
The Blus...
We thought the sun would shine.
The Blus...

I thought about what this song meant and I paid no attention to the rest of the episode. That night I researched the Blu family on Wikipedia and apparently, all of them died on the same year, date and time. December 20th 2005 at 6.00am. When Botany Bay's last episode ended. So, how did they get the origanal voices? Either they had really good voice actors, or the Blus didn't die after all.

The next day, I watched the news. Return to Botany Bay was cancelled, after viewers who watched a certain part of the episode died. I must've daydreamed! But my parents hadn't. But they were still alive, then the news said that it only effected young viewers, aged 5 or under. So I hadn't daydreamed, and my parents were alive. Months later, this month in 2012, there was a glitch on the channel's episode timetable and Return to Botany Bay aired.

It had a different message at the start,

May they rest in peace with Bigbeard and Jack o' Nine Tales:

The voice actors of Botany Bay.

So it was offical, the Blus had died, along with the others. After Bigbeard's disturbing message and the song, piercing screams could be heard from the children. They covered their eyes and screamed as they rolled on the floor, and they had pale skin and pure black eyes. They had rags for clothes and small cuts could be seen if you looked carefully. They screamed until the moral was shown, "Yar better sail with the others now."

I was scared ****less, I didn't know what to do. Then the channel showed a message apologising for the glitch and ensuring it never happened again. Have any of you seen it yet? Because you better sail with the others now. With the Blus and Bigbeard. The following day, I was shopping at my local mall. I had a quick look in the DVD store, and I saw a season boxset for Botany Bay.

I wasn't bootleg, and it even included a preview of Return to Botany Bay. I was intrigued, so I brought it and came home. I thought I might tell you a list of the episodes:

Dream of Botany Bay
Night of Botany Bay
Jack of Botany Bay
Love of Botany Bay
Heroes of Botany Bay
Adventure of Botany Bay
Ocean of Botany Bay
Curse of Botany Bay
Return to Botany Bay (Preview)
How Ar Ye? (Return)

A short list, but this was the final season. Don't worry, Curse of Botany Bay isn't scary at all. None of them were. I watched them for hours, it was like being a kid again. My mum came in and asked me why I was staring at a blank screen. It was odd, it looked like I was watching a programme, not a blank screen. I asked her if she was crazy, and she said no. Something strange was going on.

The next day, I got my camcorder and let it record the TV screen as it played the episodes. After it had finished, I looked at the footage. It wasn't the show, it was a dark screen with some text on it, it read (from what I could make out):

Botany Bay, it has a curse.
Unlisted for years.
You may hear Jack's chuckle,
Or the death of jolly Bigbeard.

We are simply your fellow pals
We really mean no harm.
But if you deny,
Or even cry,
Then my Neptune have mercy on you...

It sounded like an old sea shanty, but what did the first verse mean. A static sound accompanied the episodes and I put the noise in a de-coder I downloaded on my laptop. Because it was a very long sound, it took a while but soon enough, It showed me what the static was. It was a picture of Elisa crying, with the pale skin and black eyes she had in the Return to Botany Bay episode. Then it occurred to me, if I found the static from the episodes and de-coded them, I could see the large image they made. After all, it looked like there was a message above Elisa.

I managed to find the other boxsets off eBay, and started decoding right away. They formed a picture, it was a picture of the whole cast and they said in a speech bubble, "We are waiting for you at Lowes Cemetary." I lived right near there, so it would be pretty easy to get there.

I arrived as soon as possilble, and started searching for where I needed to go. I came across the memorial for the Blu family, and there was a pirate ship behind their graves. It was Jack o' Nine Tales. I looked at it, it was the orignal ship, the one used for the TV show. I asked the manager of the site if I could keep it, and he said I could, but it had no value. It was just a normal model ship.

I put it in a cabinet at my living room, and then fell asleep that night. When I woke up and checked the ship, it was joined by the origanal dolls used in the show as well, Elisa, Bigbeard, Jacob, Gary and Mark. It was a little creepy how they got there, but I knew that I had to stop investigating this mystery about Botany Bay. I asked my mum to burn down everything that I had about Botany Bay. Even Jack o' Nine Tales.

So there, the origanal puppets used in the show, gone. The image I decoded, I deleted the file. The boxset with the final season of the episodes, burned down too. I'm glad it's all gone, I don't ever want to hear the mention of Botany Bay again.

A boy aged 10 was found dead in his house last night. It has been confirmed he committed suicide. His diary has been found, apparently saying he was investigating the banned kids show Botany Bay and it's remake Return to Botany Bay. He mother said that the show took over his life as he tried to find out what happened to it. At the end of his diary, he says he never wants to hear the mention of Botany Bay. The creator and cast of the show have long gone, so police continue the investigation on what happened to the show.

Finished, it took a long time to write!

Last edited by NeilWest (2012-04-06 05:54:59)

samid11 wrote:

NeilWest wrote:

Creepy. Glad it didn't have much gore, that's how I like it.

Return to Botany Bay by NeilWest

I used to watch an innocent children's show called Botany Bay. It was charming, and had an interesting moral at the end. Usually it was something like, 'treat others as how you treat yourself' or, 'always forgive others'. It was nice, but soon ended when I was 5 in 2005. There was around five years were there was no mention of the show, until late 2010 when I was 10.

I was flicking through the channels when an advert on a kids channel caught my eye, it was for a remake called Return to Botany Bay. The advert had all the original voices, props and characters. But before I tell you more, I think I'd better give you some background information about the original Botany Bay:

It was a show where a group of wannabe pirates build a little ship in their home village, Botany Bay. It had an animation style, similar to Coraline. The leader was a fearless girl named Elisa Smith, who was a real girl inside. Then her buddies were accident-prone boys named Gary, who was tall and thin, Jacob, who was short and fat and then there was Mark, who was in the middle.

It had a magical element in it where at the title-sequence, it's the ship, called the Jack o' Nine Tales, is sailing towards the children, who are coming out of their home. They look happy to see the boat coming towards them, and when it arrives, it knocks the antagonist of the show, Bigbeard, into the sea. It was very memorable, and here is a list of the voices:

Elisa - Samantha Blu
Gary - Harry Blu
Jacob - Larry Suckle
Mark - Winston King
Bigbeard - Thomas Blu

Back to the point, I watched the advert and it said the program would air on Saturdays at 5.00pm. I told my mum and she seemed glad, but told me I was a little too old for films. Then I told her it was for nostalgia's sake, and she said ok in the end. So, there we were, my mum and dad with me to watch the progam. It then started with the following message:

When the wind has finally stopped, we thought the sun would still shine...

The last words of the parents of the Blu twins, may we pray for them. Forever.

It started, and it still had the same grainy sephia effect as was in the title sequence. I embraced for it to go to full colour, and it did so. But the Jack o' Nine Tales travelled to Botany Bay in a sad, lonesome way, as if it felt solemn and subtle. When it zoomed in on the gang's house, they didn't come out. I felt a little nervous about watching on, the gang wasn't there yet and the ship looked suicidal.

Then it came to the end of the title sequence where the ship would accidently bump Bigbeard into the sea as the children came onto the ship. The ship bumped a skeleton, which had a pirate hat similar to Bigbeard's. Then came the logo and episode name. It was Return to Botany Bay in a font that was like horror film's. Underneath was the episode number and name, in a classical font. It was; E01: How Ar Ye?

It seemed normal, and I liked how it was in a pirate accent too. Then the logo and text faded and the show started with the Jack o' Nine Tales waiting patiently for the children at the port. The skeleton stared into the ship's cold eyes and screamed, "I need peace and rest after these five years! I thought it would last for eternity, whoever awoke me..." the skeleton stared into the screen with red eyes, "could be with me."

I was frightened until the children came out, they were happy and playful, even Elisa. They chanted a little song in a tinny harmony, like ghosts. It was the message at the start, and they made it into a rhythm-less song.

When the wind had finally stopped,
The Blus...
We thought the sun would shine.
The Blus...

I thought about what this song meant and I paid no attention to the rest of the episode. That night I researched the Blu family on Wikipedia and apparently, all of them died on the same year, date and time. December 20th 2005 at 6.00am. When Botany Bay's last episode ended. So, how did they get the origanal voices? Either they had really good voice actors, or the Blus didn't die after all.

The next day, I watched the news. Return to Botany Bay was cancelled, after viewers who watched a certain part of the episode died. I must've daydreamed! But my parents hadn't. But they were still alive, then the news said that it only effected young viewers, aged 5 or under. So I hadn't daydreamed, and my parents were alive. Months later, this month in 2012, there was a glitch on the channel's episode timetable and Return to Botany Bay aired.

It had a different message at the start,

May they rest in peace with Bigbeard and Jack o' Nine Tales:

The voice actors of Botany Bay.

So it was offical, the Blus had died, along with the others. After Bigbeard's disturbing message and the song, piercing screams could be heard from the children. They covered their eyes and screamed as they rolled on the floor, and they had pale skin and pure black eyes. They had rags for clothes and small cuts could be seen if you looked carefully. They screamed until the moral was shown, "Yar better sail with the others now."

I was scared ****less, I didn't know what to do. Then the channel showed a message apologising for the glitch and ensuring it never happened again. Have any of you seen it yet? Because you better sail with the others now. With the Blus and Bigbeard. The following day, I was shopping at my local mall. I had a quick look in the DVD store, and I saw a season boxset for Botany Bay.

I wasn't bootleg, and it even included a preview of Return to Botany Bay. I was intrigued, so I brought it and came home. I thought I might tell you a list of the episodes:

Dream of Botany Bay
Night of Botany Bay
Jack of Botany Bay
Love of Botany Bay
Heroes of Botany Bay
Adventure of Botany Bay
Ocean of Botany Bay
Curse of Botany Bay
Return to Botany Bay (Preview)
How Ar Ye? (Return)

A short list, but this was the final season. Don't worry, Curse of Botany Bay isn't scary at all. None of them were. I watched them for hours, it was like being a kid again. My mum came in and asked me why I was staring at a blank screen. It was odd, it looked like I was watching a programme, not a blank screen. I asked her if she was crazy, and she said no. Something strange was going on.

The next day, I got my camcorder and let it record the TV screen as it played the episodes. After it had finished, I looked at the footage. It wasn't the show, it was a dark screen with some text on it, it read (from what I could make out):

Botany Bay, it has a curse.
Unlisted for years.
You may hear Jack's chuckle,
Or the death of jolly Bigbeard.

We are simply your fellow pals
We really mean no harm.
But if you deny,
Or even cry,
Then my Neptune have mercy on you...

It sounded like an old sea shanty, but what did the first verse mean. A static sound accompanied the episodes and I put the noise in a de-coder I downloaded on my laptop. Because it was a very long sound, it took a while but soon enough, It showed me what the static was. It was a picture of Elisa crying, with the pale skin and black eyes she had in the Return to Botany Bay episode. Then it occurred to me, if I found the static from the episodes and de-coded them, I could see the large image they made. After all, it looked like there was a message above Elisa.

I managed to find the other boxsets off eBay, and started decoding right away. They formed a picture, it was a picture of the whole cast and they said in a speech bubble, "We are waiting for you at Lowes Cemetary." I lived right near there, so it would be pretty easy to get there.

I arrived as soon as possilble, and started searching for where I needed to go. I came across the memorial for the Blu family, and there was a pirate ship behind their graves. It was Jack o' Nine Tales. I looked at it, it was the orignal ship, the one used for the TV show. I asked the manager of the site if I could keep it, and he said I could, but it had no value. It was just a normal model ship.

I put it in a cabinet at my living room, and then fell asleep that night. When I woke up and checked the ship, it was joined by the origanal dolls used in the show as well, Elisa, Bigbeard, Jacob, Gary and Mark. It was a little creepy how they got there, but I knew that I had to stop investigating this mystery about Botany Bay. I asked my mum to burn down everything that I had about Botany Bay. Even Jack o' Nine Tales.

So there, the origanal puppets used in the show, gone. The image I decoded, I deleted the file. The boxset with the final season of the episodes, burned down too. I'm glad it's all gone, I don't ever want to hear the mention of Botany Bay again.

A boy aged 10 was found dead in his house last night. It has been confirmed he committed suicide. His diary has been found, apparently saying he was investigating the banned kids show Botany Bay and it's remake Return to Botany Bay. He mother said that the show took over his life as he tried to find out what happened to it. At the end of his diary, he says he never wants to hear the mention of Botany Bay. The creator and cast of the show have long gone, so police continue the investigation on what happened to the show.

Finished, it took a long time to write!

Reminds me of Candle Cove.

I was inspired by it, but I thought I'd have a darker ending.

Return to Botany Bay: Extended Alternate Ending
Before the diary mentions the boy burning his collection, we never get to see the story from his mum's point of view. This is important as the boy burns his collection.

I watched my son set fire to the collection. He looked solemn and uneasy, as of he had done something wrong. He took a blowtorch and set fire to all his memorabilia, even the rare figures he collected. He watched as the flames took over, and blackened the things he must've hated so much.

A single ember flickered onto his shoe, then came a small flame. He didn't notice, he was too busy making sure that the collection was burned to ashes. The flame spread, and once he noticed, it was too late. He screamed in horror as his body was engulfed in an inferno, and I cried as I watched him roll on the floor. Call me a bad mother, but I thought I'd keep a safe distance from the heavy fire.

He passed out, and I didn't know what to do. The flames had burned out, and what was left was a pile of ashes, next to my once-beautiful boy. The following week, we had a funeral, all of his family and friends were there and because I knew he had once liked Botany Bay so much, I decided to bury him at Lowe Cemetary near where the voice cast lay. I felt he'd be happy now. I was wrong.

That night, he came to me in my sleep. He told how he was uncomfortable near the voice actors, and why he burned his collection. I felt moved by this, but I didn't know what to do. I couldn't go grave robbing, so I should visit him. It was a very dark and stormy day when I visited my son, and I laid some flowers out for him, and then said a prayer or two to help God make sure he is safe in Heaven.

As I went home, I could see a figure laying next to a grave crying. I thought I might help him, it was the best I could do. As I came closer to him, I regretted what I did. The figure must've noticed me, and sprinted quickly towards me. He threw me to the ground and I saw the figure was a skeleton with piercing red eyes. I was scared, and even more as he said some blood-curdling words,

"No rest makes Bigbeard murderous!"

I can't remember the rest, I was so scared. Maybe I should ask my son. Son? Who is Bigbeard? Okay. See, I know now, and please, I'm not mad. I'm with my son now, he's with the doctor. Hello doctor, hello son. I feel like coming outside and playing with my son again. Now the doctor has a singe. Goodbye.

NeilWest wrote:

Creepy. Glad it didn't have much gore, that's how I like it.

Return to Botany Bay by NeilWest

I used to watch an innocent children's show called Botany Bay. It was charming, and had an interesting moral at the end. Usually it was something like, 'treat others as how you treat yourself' or, 'always forgive others'. It was nice, but soon ended when I was 5 in 2005. There was around five years were there was no mention of the show, until late 2010 when I was 10.

I was flicking through the channels when an advert on a kids channel caught my eye, it was for a remake called Return to Botany Bay. The advert had all the original voices, props and characters. But before I tell you more, I think I'd better give you some background information about the original Botany Bay:

It was a show where a group of wannabe pirates build a little ship in their home village, Botany Bay. It had an animation style, similar to Coraline. The leader was a fearless girl named Elisa Smith, who was a real girl inside. Then her buddies were accident-prone boys named Gary, who was tall and thin, Jacob, who was short and fat and then there was Mark, who was in the middle.

It had a magical element in it where at the title-sequence, it's the ship, called the Jack o' Nine Tales, is sailing towards the children, who are coming out of their home. They look happy to see the boat coming towards them, and when it arrives, it knocks the antagonist of the show, Bigbeard, into the sea. It was very memorable, and here is a list of the voices:

Elisa - Samantha Blu
Gary - Harry Blu
Jacob - Larry Suckle
Mark - Winston King
Bigbeard - Thomas Blu

Back to the point, I watched the advert and it said the program would air on Saturdays at 5.00pm. I told my mum and she seemed glad, but told me I was a little too old for films. Then I told her it was for nostalgia's sake, and she said ok in the end. So, there we were, my mum and dad with me to watch the progam. It then started with the following message:

When the wind has finally stopped, we thought the sun would still shine...

The last words of the parents of the Blu twins, may we pray for them. Forever.

It started, and it still had the same grainy sephia effect as was in the title sequence. I embraced for it to go to full colour, and it did so. But the Jack o' Nine Tales travelled to Botany Bay in a sad, lonesome way, as if it felt solemn and subtle. When it zoomed in on the gang's house, they didn't come out. I felt a little nervous about watching on, the gang wasn't there yet and the ship looked suicidal.

Then it came to the end of the title sequence where the ship would accidently bump Bigbeard into the sea as the children came onto the ship. The ship bumped a skeleton, which had a pirate hat similar to Bigbeard's. Then came the logo and episode name. It was Return to Botany Bay in a font that was like horror film's. Underneath was the episode number and name, in a classical font. It was; E01: How Ar Ye?

It seemed normal, and I liked how it was in a pirate accent too. Then the logo and text faded and the show started with the Jack o' Nine Tales waiting patiently for the children at the port. The skeleton stared into the ship's cold eyes and screamed, "I need peace and rest after these five years! I thought it would last for eternity, whoever awoke me..." the skeleton stared into the screen with red eyes, "could be with me."

I was frightened until the children came out, they were happy and playful, even Elisa. They chanted a little song in a tinny harmony, like ghosts. It was the message at the start, and they made it into a rhythm-less song.

When the wind had finally stopped,
The Blus...
We thought the sun would shine.
The Blus...

I thought about what this song meant and I paid no attention to the rest of the episode. That night I researched the Blu family on Wikipedia and apparently, all of them died on the same year, date and time. December 20th 2005 at 6.00am. When Botany Bay's last episode ended. So, how did they get the origanal voices? Either they had really good voice actors, or the Blus didn't die after all.

The next day, I watched the news. Return to Botany Bay was cancelled, after viewers who watched a certain part of the episode died. I must've daydreamed! But my parents hadn't. But they were still alive, then the news said that it only effected young viewers, aged 5 or under. So I hadn't daydreamed, and my parents were alive. Months later, this month in 2012, there was a glitch on the channel's episode timetable and Return to Botany Bay aired.

It had a different message at the start,

May they rest in peace with Bigbeard and Jack o' Nine Tales:

The voice actors of Botany Bay.

So it was offical, the Blus had died, along with the others. After Bigbeard's disturbing message and the song, piercing screams could be heard from the children. They covered their eyes and screamed as they rolled on the floor, and they had pale skin and pure black eyes. They had rags for clothes and small cuts could be seen if you looked carefully. They screamed until the moral was shown, "Yar better sail with the others now."

I was scared ****less, I didn't know what to do. Then the channel showed a message apologising for the glitch and ensuring it never happened again. Have any of you seen it yet? Because you better sail with the others now. With the Blus and Bigbeard. The following day, I was shopping at my local mall. I had a quick look in the DVD store, and I saw a season boxset for Botany Bay.

I wasn't bootleg, and it even included a preview of Return to Botany Bay. I was intrigued, so I brought it and came home. I thought I might tell you a list of the episodes:

Dream of Botany Bay
Night of Botany Bay
Jack of Botany Bay
Love of Botany Bay
Heroes of Botany Bay
Adventure of Botany Bay
Ocean of Botany Bay
Curse of Botany Bay
Return to Botany Bay (Preview)
How Ar Ye? (Return)

A short list, but this was the final season. Don't worry, Curse of Botany Bay isn't scary at all. None of them were. I watched them for hours, it was like being a kid again. My mum came in and asked me why I was staring at a blank screen. It was odd, it looked like I was watching a programme, not a blank screen. I asked her if she was crazy, and she said no. Something strange was going on.

The next day, I got my camcorder and let it record the TV screen as it played the episodes. After it had finished, I looked at the footage. It wasn't the show, it was a dark screen with some text on it, it read (from what I could make out):

Botany Bay, it has a curse.
Unlisted for years.
You may hear Jack's chuckle,
Or the death of jolly Bigbeard.

We are simply your fellow pals
We really mean no harm.
But if you deny,
Or even cry,
Then my Neptune have mercy on you...

It sounded like an old sea shanty, but what did the first verse mean. A static sound accompanied the episodes and I put the noise in a de-coder I downloaded on my laptop. Because it was a very long sound, it took a while but soon enough, It showed me what the static was. It was a picture of Elisa crying, with the pale skin and black eyes she had in the Return to Botany Bay episode. Then it occurred to me, if I found the static from the episodes and de-coded them, I could see the large image they made. After all, it looked like there was a message above Elisa.

I managed to find the other boxsets off eBay, and started decoding right away. They formed a picture, it was a picture of the whole cast and they said in a speech bubble, "We are waiting for you at Lowes Cemetary." I lived right near there, so it would be pretty easy to get there.

I arrived as soon as possilble, and started searching for where I needed to go. I came across the memorial for the Blu family, and there was a pirate ship behind their graves. It was Jack o' Nine Tales. I looked at it, it was the orignal ship, the one used for the TV show. I asked the manager of the site if I could keep it, and he said I could, but it had no value. It was just a normal model ship.

I put it in a cabinet at my living room, and then fell asleep that night. When I woke up and checked the ship, it was joined by the origanal dolls used in the show as well, Elisa, Bigbeard, Jacob, Gary and Mark. It was a little creepy how they got there, but I knew that I had to stop investigating this mystery about Botany Bay. I asked my mum to burn down everything that I had about Botany Bay. Even Jack o' Nine Tales.

So there, the origanal puppets used in the show, gone. The image I decoded, I deleted the file. The boxset with the final season of the episodes, burned down too. I'm glad it's all gone, I don't ever want to hear the mention of Botany Bay again.

A boy aged 10 was found dead in his house last night. It has been confirmed he committed suicide. His diary has been found, apparently saying he was investigating the banned kids show Botany Bay and it's remake Return to Botany Bay. He mother said that the show took over his life as he tried to find out what happened to it. At the end of his diary, he says he never wants to hear the mention of Botany Bay. The creator and cast of the show have long gone, so police continue the investigation on what happened to the show.

Finished, it took a long time to write!

That was fantastic, one of the only creepypastas to scare me.

samid11 wrote:

Has anyone read "The man at the fork"?

No, sounds cool though

Wow.

Not sleeping.

NeilWest wrote:

samid11 wrote:

NeilWest wrote:

Return to Botany Bay: Extended Alternate Ending
Before the diary mentions the boy burning his collection, we never get to see the story from his mum's point of view. This is important as the boy burns his collection.

I watched my son set fire to the collection. He looked solemn and uneasy, as of he had done something wrong. He took a blowtorch and set fire to all his memorabilia, even the rare figures he collected. He watched as the flames took over, and blackened the things he must've hated so much.

A single ember flickered onto his shoe, then came a small flame. He didn't notice, he was too busy making sure that the collection was burned to ashes. The flame spread, and once he noticed, it was too late. He screamed in horror as his body was engulfed in an inferno, and I cried as I watched him roll on the floor. Call me a bad mother, but I thought I'd keep a safe distance from the heavy fire.

He passed out, and I didn't know what to do. The flames had burned out, and what was left was a pile of ashes, next to my once-beautiful boy. The following week, we had a funeral, all of his family and friends were there and because I knew he had once liked Botany Bay so much, I decided to bury him at Lowe Cemetary near where the voice cast lay. I felt he'd be happy now. I was wrong.

That night, he came to me in my sleep. He told how he was uncomfortable near the voice actors, and why he burned his collection. I felt moved by this, but I didn't know what to do. I couldn't go grave robbing, so I should visit him. It was a very dark and stormy day when I visited my son, and I laid some flowers out for him, and then said a prayer or two to help God make sure he is safe in Heaven.

As I went home, I could see a figure laying next to a grave crying. I thought I might help him, it was the best I could do. As I came closer to him, I regretted what I did. The figure must've noticed me, and sprinted quickly towards me. He threw me to the ground and I saw the figure was a skeleton with piercing red eyes. I was scared, and even more as he said some blood-curdling words,

"No rest makes Bigbeard murderous!"

I can't remember the rest, I was so scared. Maybe I should ask my son. Son? Who is Bigbeard? Okay. See, I know now, and please, I'm not mad. I'm with my son now, he's with the doctor. Hello doctor, hello son. I feel like coming outside and playing with my son again. Now the doctor has a singe. Goodbye.

SWEET MOTHER OF CREEPYPASTA. THAT WAS MESSED UP.

That's why it wasn't the final ending.

can someone post "The man at the fork"?

Garr8 wrote:

samid11 wrote:

NeilWest wrote:

That's why it wasn't the final ending.

can someone post "The man at the fork"?

I browsed for Jeff the Killer in your galleries but i did not see him unless he is the cover of your Tim Burton Gallery.

He's on "Samid11's favorite projects". He's the gallery icon. There's also a stupid version of him as MY icon.

NeilWest wrote:

Had a quick read of Smile Dog, had to skip  a third of the story thanks to a edited version where the dog has no skin.

On a related note, (true) I was playing Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness and I fell to my death, and when it came to the game over screen, Lara's scream was looped. Creepy.

You mean the red smiledog? He's just called "Smile". The husky picture is 'Smiledog".

Less non-creepypasta, more creepypasta.

Edit: I just saw the irony in that post. XD

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Garr8 wrote:

My name is Oliver (not my real name). I live in South Carolina (I don't really live in S.C.). South Carolina has lots of haunted places and I've been to a few. There was one man who lived in a old broken down house in a poor neighborhood. "It's been 'round since the Civil War" the old man would say. "The former owner of the home was a Confederate soldier who died in that war." I was 21 and was looking for a house to buy when I saw the old man move out. "Why are you moving out?" I asked. "He appeared to me and told me to get out" the old man looked as if he saw a ghost. 'Who did?" I asked. The man put a finger to his lips "I cannot speak his name." I asked the man if I could move in and he said I could for free. I know I should not live in a cruddy ol' house, but I needed a home and it was better than nothing. I immediately decorated the home with a rocking chair, an old picture my mom gave me of her and dad, and an old table.

I went to sleep that night but was awoken by an eerie creaking sound. It sounded like it was from downstairs. Someone has broken into my home and is on my rocking chair I thought.

I armed myself with a pistol and tip toed downstairs to investigate. No one was in the house and the rocking chair was not moving. I went back to bed and heard the creaking noise again.

Oh crud. I thought. The rocking chair was rocking all by itself. it was haunted!
As i put my feet on the floor , the rocking immediately ceased. I went downstairs getting ready to take the chair apart until I almost passed out when I saw the picture frame. The picture of mom and dad was replaced by Smile. jpg. Its blank eyes would follow wherever i went. I also saw the Rebel Flag which wasn't there before.

"Get out of my house!" I heard a ghostly voice with a typical Southern accent.

I will work on the rest later.

Tell me what did you think of it?

AND THEN A COWBOY POPPED OUT