I just want to start off by saying if you want an answer at the end, prepare to be disappointed. There just isn't one.
I was an intern at Nickelodeon Studios for a year in 2005 for my degree in animation. It wasn't paid of course, most internships aren't, but it did have some perks beyond education. To adults it might not seem like a big one, but most kids at the time would go crazy over it.
Now, since I worked directly with the editors and animators, I got to view the new episodes days before they aired. I'll get right to it without giving too many unnecessary details. They had very recently made the SpongeBob movie and the entire staff was somewhat sapped of creativity so it took them longer to start up the season. But the delay lasted longer for more upsetting reasons. There was a problem with the series 4 premiere that set everyone and everything back for several months.
Me and two other interns were in the editing room along with the lead animators and sound editors for the final cut. We received the copy that was supposed to be "Fear of a Krabby Patty" and gathered around the screen to watch. Now, given that it isn't final yet animators often put up a mock title card, sort of an inside joke for us, with phony, often times lewd titles, such as "How sex doesn't work" instead of "Rock-a-bye-Bivalve" when SpongeBob and Patrick adopt a sea scallop. Nothing particularly funny but work related chuckles. So when we saw the title card "Squidward's Suicide" we didn't think it more than a morbid joke.
One of the interns did a small throat laugh at it. The happy-go-lucky music plays as is normal. The story began with Squidward practicing his clarinet, hitting a few sour notes like normal. We hear SpongeBob laughing outside and Squidward stops, yelling at him to keep it down as he has a concert that night and needs to practice. SpongeBob says okay and goes to see Sandy with Patrick. The bubbles splash screen comes up and we see the ending of Squidward's concert. This is when things began to seem off.
While playing, a few frames repeat themselves, but the sound doesn't (at this point sound is synced up with animation, so, yes, that's not common) but when he stops playing, the sound finishes as if the skip never happened. There is slight murmuring in the crowd before they begin to boo him. Not normal cartoon booing that is common in the show, but you could very clearly hear malice in it. Squidward's in full frame and looks visibly afraid. The shot goes to the crowd, with SpongeBob in center frame, and he too is booing, very much unlike him. That isn't the oddest thing, though. What is odd is everyone had hyper realistic eyes. Very detailed. Clearly not shots of real people's eyes, but something a bit more real than CGI. The pupils were red. Some of us looked at each other, obviously confused, but since we weren't the writers, we didn't question its appeal to children yet.
The shot goes to Squidward sitting on the edge of his bed, looking very forlorn. The view out of his porthole window is of a night sky so it isn't very long after the concert. The unsettling part is at this point there is no sound. Literally no sound. Not even the feedback from the speakers in the room. It's as if the speakers were turned off, though their status showed them working perfectly. He just sat there, blinking, in this silence for about 30 seconds, then he started to sob softly. He put his hands (tentacles) over his eyes and cried quietly for a full minute more, all the while a sound in the background very slowly growing from nothing to barely audible. It sounded like a slight breeze through a forest.
The screen slowly begins to zoom in on his face. By slow I mean it's only noticeable if you look at shots 10 seconds apart side by side. His sobbing gets louder, more full of hurt and anger. The screen then twitches a bit, as if it twists in on itself, for a split second then back to normal. The wind-through-the-trees sound gets slowly louder and more severe, as if a storm is brewing somewhere. The eerie part is this sound, and Squidward's sobbing, sounded real, as if the sound wasn't coming from the speakers but as if the speakers were holes the sound was coming through from the other side. As good as sound as the studio likes to have, they don't purchase the equipment to be that good to produce sound of that quality.
Below the sound of the wind and sobbing, very faint, something sounded like laughing. It came at odd intervals and never lasted more than a second so you had a hard time pinning it (we watched this show twice, so pardon me if things sound too specific but I've had time to think about them). After 30 seconds of this, the screen blurred and twitched violently and something flashed over the screen, as if a single frame was replaced.
The lead animation editor paused and rewound frame by frame. What we saw was horrible. It was a still photo of a dead child. He couldn't have been more than 6. The face was mangled and bloodied, one eye dangling over his upturned face, popped. He was naked down to his underwear, his stomach crudely cut open and his entrails laying beside him. He was laying on some pavement that was probably a road.
The most upsetting part was that there was a shadow of the photographer. There was no crime tape, no evidence tags or markers, and the angle was completely off for a shot designed to be evidence. It would seem the photographer was the person responsible for the child's death. We were of course mortified, but pressed on, hoping that it was just a sick joke.
The screen flipped back to Squidward, still sobbing, louder than before, and half body in frame. There was now what appeard to be blood running down his face from his eyes. The blood was also done in a hyper realistic style, looking as if you touched it you'd get blood on your fingers. The wind sounded now as if it were that of a gale blowing through the forest; there were even snapping sounds of branches. The laughing, a deep baritone, lasting at longer intervals and coming more frequently. After about 20 seconds, the screen again twisted and showed a single frame photo.
The editor was reluctant to go back, we all were, but he knew he had to. This time the photo was that of what appeared to be a little girl, no older than the first child. She was laying on her stomach, her barrettes in a pool of blood next to her. Her left eye was too popped out and popped, naked except for underpants. Her entrails were piled on top of her above another crude cut along her back. Again the body was on the street and the photographer's shadow was visible, very similar in size and shape to the first. I had to choke back vomit and one intern, the only female in the room, ran out. The show resumed.
About 5 seconds after this second photo played, Squidward went silent, as did all sound, like it was when this scene started. He put his tentacles down and his eyes were now done in hyper realism like the others were in the beginning of this episode. They were bleeding, bloodshot, and pulsating. He just stared at the screen, as if watching the viewer. After about 10 seconds, he started sobbing, this time not covering his eyes. The sound was piercing and loud, and most fear inducing of all is his sobbing was mixed with screams.
Tears and blood were dripping down his face at a heavy rate. The wind sound came back, and so did the deep voiced laughing, and this time the still photo lasted for a good 5 frames.
The animator was able to stop it on the 4th and backed up. This time the photo was of a boy, about the same age, but this time the scene was different. The entrails were just being pulled out from a stomach wound by a large hand, the right eye popped and dangling, blood trickling down it. The animator proceeded. It was hard to believe, but the next one was different but we couldn't tell what. He went on to the next, same thing. He want back to the first and played them quicker and I lost it. I vomited on the floor, the animating and sound editors gasping at the screen. The 5 frames were not as if they were 5 different photos, they were played out as if they were frames from a video. We saw the hand slowly lift out the guts, we saw the kid's eyes focus on it, we even saw two frames of the kid beginning to blink.
The lead sound editor told us to stop, he had to call in the creator to see this. Mr. Hillenburg arrived within about 15 minutes. He was confused as to why he was called down there, so the editor just continued the episode. Once the few frames were shown, all screaming, all sound again stopped. Squidward was just staring at the viewer, full frame of the face, for about 3 seconds. The shot quickly panned out and that deep voice said "DO IT" and we see in Squidward's hands a shotgun. He immediately puts the gun in his mouth and pulls the trigger. Realistic blood and brain matter splatters the wall behind him, and his bed, and he flies back with the force. The last 5 seconds of this episode show his body on the bed, on his side, one eye dangling on what's left of his head above the floor, staring blankly at it. Then the episode ends.
Mr. Hillenburg is obviously angry at this. He demanded to know what the heck was going on. Most people left the room at this point, so it was just a handful of us to watch it again. Viewing the episode twice only served to imprint the entirety of it in my mind and cause me horrible nightmares. I'm sorry I stayed.
The only theory we could think of was the file was edited by someone in the chain from the drawing studio to here. The CTO was called in to analyze when it happened. The analysis of the file did show it was edited over by new material. However, the timestamp of it was a mere 24 seconds before we began viewing it. All equipment involved was examined for foreign software and hardware as well as glitches, as if the time stamp may have glitched and showed the wrong time, but everything checked out fine. We don't know what happened and to this day nobody does.
There was an investigation due to the nature of the photos, but nothing came of it. No child seen was identified and no clues were gathered from the data involved nor physical clues in the photos. I never believed in unexplainable phenomena before, but now that I have something happen and can't prove anything about it beyond anecdotal evidence, I think twice about things.
Do check this out, its called ''Scariest things TAG'' , a tag where you will be telling your scariest story according to the asked question.Its really scary especially her's. [/B]
Developed a morbid obsession for a young Cuban-American tuberculosis patient, Elena Milagro "Helen" de Hoyos (July 31, 1909 - October 25, 1931), that carried on well after the disease had caused her death.
In 1933, almost two years after her death, Tanzler removed Hoyos's body from its tomb, and lived with the corpse at his home for seven years until its discovery by Hoyos's relatives and authorities in 1940.
Hoyos was eventually diagnosed with tuberculosis, a typically fatal disease at the time, that eventually claimed the lives of almost her entire immediate family. Tanzler, with his self-professed medical knowledge, attempted to treat and cure Hoyos with a variety of medicines, as well as x-ray and electrical equipment, that were brought to the Hoyoses' home. Tanzler showered Hoyos with gifts of jewelry and clothing, and allegedly professed his love to her, but no evidence has surfaced to show that any of his affection was reciprocated by Hoyos.
Following Hoyos's funeral, which Tanzler paid for, and with the permission of her family, Tanzler commissioned the construction of an above ground mausoleum in the Key West Cemetery that he visited almost every night.
One evening in April, 1933, Tanzler crept through the cemetery where Hoyos was buried and removed her body from the mausoleum, carting it through the cemetery after dark on a toy wagon, and transporting it to his home.
He reportedly said that Elena's spirit would come to him when he would sit by her grave and serenade her corpse with a favorite Spanish song. He also said that she would often tell him to take her from the grave.Tanzler attached the corpse's bones together with wire and coat hangers, and fitted the face with glass eyes. As the skin of the corpse decompose
Tanzler replaced it with silk cloth soaked in wax and plaster of paris
As the hair fell out of the decomposing scalp, Tanzler fashioned a wig from Hoyos's hair that had been collected by her mother and given to Tanzler not long after her burial in 1931
Tanzler filled the corpse's abdominal and chest cavity with rags to keep the original form, dressed Hoyos's remains in stockings, jewelry, and gloves, and kept the body in his bed. Tanzler also used copious amounts of perfume, disinfectants, and preserving agents, to mask the odor and forestall the effects of the corpse's decomposition.
The public mood was generally sympathetic to Tanzler, whom many viewed as an eccentric "romantic
a paper tube had been inserted in the vaginal area of the corpse that allowed for intercourse.
Separated from his obsession, Tanzler used a death mask to create a life-sized effigy of Hoyos, and lived with it until his death on July 3, 1952.His body was discovered on the floor of his home three weeks after his death. He died under the name "Carl Tanzler".
It has been recounted that Tanzler was found in the arms of the Hoyos effigy(doll) upon discovery of his corpse
but his obituary reported that he died on the floor behind one of his organs. The obituary recounted: "a metal cylinder on a shelf above a table in it wrapped in silken cloth and a robe was a waxen image
It has also been written (most notably by Swicegood) that Tanzler had the bodies switched (or that Hoyos's remains were secretly returned to him), and that he died with the real body of Elena. There is no evidence that the waxen effigy found in his house at the time of his death contained bones, or any other human material
I wonder, how tormented her body being kept like that?
Ed Gein was born in Wisconsin in 1906. He is commonly known as The "Plainfield" Ghoul" and "The Mad Butcher". In 1944 Gein's brother was found dead from head trauma and smoke asphyxiation. Gein had lead police to the body, but claimed that he had passed away due to a botched burning of a marsh. The police ruled out fowl play and Gein was never charged with the murder. Gein had a very close relationship with his mother, and upon her death in 1945 he had lost the one friend in his life. Gein's began to become more and more withdrawn after his mother's death.
Gein began to make nocturnal visits to a local cemetery and exhume bodies. Police did not become aware of his actions until 1957, when a local hardware store owner went missing. Police eventually suspected Gein and got a search warrant for his home.
When Gein was finally arrested police walked into a horrifying scene. Inside Gein's house they found: Nine masks made of human skin, human skin covering several chair seats, a belt made of female nipples, two decapitated heads, and several female heads with the tops sawed off. These freakish discoveries shocked police and
Gein was found guilty of first degree murder and eventually died in prison 1984
Thx God , he is dead.Please no more people like him
You guys know about Robert the Doll?Incredibly surprising but its a true event.
Robert the Doll
This was the house that doll lived in
Family origin
Museum Exhibition
This is the scrap from internet,summarized.
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A doll that was once owned by Key West painter and author Robert Eugene Otto.Eugene was given the doll in 1906 (This doll is old)by a Bahamian servant who was skilled in black magic and voodoo and was displeased with the family.Eugene's parents said they often heard him talking to the doll and that the doll appeared to be talking back .Although at first they assumed that Eugene was simply answering himself in a changed voice, they later believed that the doll was actually speaking.Neighbors claimed to see the doll moving from window to window when the family was out. The Otto family swore that sometimes the doll would emit a terrifying giggle and that they caught glimpses of it running from room to room. In the night Eugene would scream, and when his parents ran to the room, they would find furniture knocked over and Eugene in bed, looking incredibly scared, telling them that "Robert did it!". In addition, guests swore that they saw Robert's expression change before their eyes.
When Eugene died in 1974, the doll was left in the attic until the house was bought again.The new family included a ten-year old girl, who became Robert's new owner. It was not long before the girl began screaming out in the night, claiming that Robert moved about the room and even attempted to attack her on multiple occasions. More than thirty years later, she still tells interviewers that the doll was alive and wanted to kill her.
The doll is annually rotated to the Old Post Office and Customhouse in October, with the museum staff claiming that strange activity in the museum increases during such times
The doll made an appearance at Taps CON,[8] a paranormal convention held in Clearwater, Florida in May 2008. This was the first time that it had left Key West, Florida in the 104 (at the time) years of its existence.
For individuals who visit Robert in the Fort East Martello Museum and wish to take a picture of him, according to legend, the person must ask the doll politely. If he does not agree (by tipping his head to one side), and the individual takes a picture anyway, the doll will curse the person and their family.
The doll served as an inspiration for the Chucky doll in the Child's Play film franchise.
This is the story came from back baaack in the history of Robert the Doll.
This coming from my research on some of the yahoo answers that knows about the doll.
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It has been the object of many television shows, the most powerful story in both island ghost tours and ghost books, and is known to be one of the most active entities on the island. I do believe this calls for a history lesson
Early 1900's, a rich man by the name of Dr. Otto lived in Key West, and took several 'servants' (actually they were slaves) from the Bahamas. In what many speculate was actually an act of revenge, a Bahamian servant gave his son, Robert Eugene Otto a doll made of a wire frame, cloth, straw, and most likely, a soulstone. This type of enchantment in some voodoo practices involves a small crystal being placed into an object,thus imbuing it with power by taking a soul of its own. At the time the doll was given to the boy, his sister had recently died, and he was very impressionable. Eugene immediately took to Robert, and gave him his first name and demanded that he be called Eugene from that day forth. Throughout his childhood, whenever something bad would happen or something would be blamed on Eugene, he would say, "I didn't do it. I don't know anything about it. It must have been Robert." ...some question whether this may have happened.
The Artist's Life - Eugene continued to have a close relationship with Robert until he left to study art in Paris. In Paris, he met his future wife, Anne, and they soon were married and moved into his former home in Key West, which is now known as "The Artist House". It was when they returned that Anne finally learned about Robert. Eugene had craftsmen construct a room scaled to Robert's size built in the third floor turret of his victorian style home, and even had furniture built, and the ceilings lowered. Anne thought that Robert was strange, but never said much of anything. Eugene refused to allow people inside the house to visit them, and for good reason. [B]Children on their way home from school (and many have been interviewed--always with the same results) claim that they would see Robert move around in the upstairs windows even when no one was home, and on some occasions[/B], he would jump from one window, move to the other side, and go into the window on the opposite side of the room. As Eugene aged, he became increasingly abusive to Anne, and it was discovered that on many occassions, he would lock her in a slanted closet beneath Robert's room under the stairs for several days at a time. After Eugene's death and burial in the Key West Cemetery, Anne left for her family's home in Boston, and allowed the house to be rented out.
The Tale is Far From Over... - When Anne left, she left Robert locked in his upstairs room, and put in a lease agreement that 'Robert must at all times remain the sole occupant of the attic room', or the contract was void. This remained true up until her death in 1976. The first new reports were from a plumber working after Anne left. The plumber reported:
"I was doing some work in the larger part of the attic of the house. The people there wanted to make it an additional room so I was running the lines for a new toilet. The doll looked pretty creepy sitting there on the little chair holding its stuffed animal, but I had work to do so I didn't think much about it at first. As my work continued I had to make a few trips to get some parts from the van. Each time I returned I could swear the doll had moved a little bit. Like I said, I had work to do so I ignored it as much as I could, but when I was just about finished with the job and started decending the stairs, I heard a little kid giggling behind me. When I turned around the doll was on the opposite side of the room. The first thing I did was look to see where the kid was, but no one was there. I wasn't really frightened, but it was weird so I just continued down stairs and left. Some of my tools are probably still up there."
Future occupants reported hearing noises upstairs including footsteps, laughter, and crashes, and upon inspection, found that Robert had moved position from where they left him.At this time, usually he would only cross his arms, move or cross his legs, or move from chair to chair. The occupants were so disturbed by this that they locked him in a sea chest in his room -- thus staying true to the lease agreement.
After many years, Robert was finally rediscovered in storage at the East Martello Museum, and due to popular demand, was put on display. Many people have speculated that Robert was losing energy when he was locked in the chest for those many years, however, now that he once again has human contact, he is draining energy. Perhaps this accounts for the three pacemakers that have stopped in front of him, the many, many reports of new camera batteries dying in front of him, the many cameras that have stopped working in front of him (the leading authority on Robert spent 6 rolls of the film and got only a handful of shots to develop), and the increased activity of the doll.Museum curators report that Robert often changes position overnight even though he is locked behind glass in a case inside a brick museum with locked three inch wooden doors and bars on every window.
I know its too long but I bolded some parts to help you understand and for you guys information , this doll is still on Earth,its live waaay to long.
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Some scrap from wikipedia,yahoo answers,others website that I forgot its name.
This thread need some promotion, because all these stories are intriguing and some of them and my posts were/are a true stories that happened and still happening.
This is the movieThis is not Audrey ,the singer. I try to find the picture, but all I see is other ''Audrey Rose"
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Audrey Rose (1977)
This is one of the horror movies based on true ghost stories here that is very loosely based on an allegedly true event, but more on that later. The movie is the tale of a girl named Ivy whose family is being stalked by a mysterious man. However, he's no child predator; he believes that Ivy is a reincarnation of his daughter, Audrey Rose, who died in a fiery car accident just minutes before Ivy was born (he bases his claims on information from two psychics).
What follows are a series of strange events (some quite similar to those in 'The Exorcist'), including Ivy having horrible nightmares and burning her hands on a window (as if she was suddenly transformed into Audrey Rose in the burning car in which she died). After Audrey's father abducts Ivy, he goes to trial to prove that his dead daughter has been reincarnated as Ivy. But when Ivy's father has her hypnotized to prove that she is not Audrey Rose, the result is deadly. Sounds like one of the horror movies based on true ghost stories here that's too strange to be the real deal, right? Well, the truth here isn't stranger than fiction, but it's still quite odd.
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Before it was a movie, 'Audrey Rose' was based on a book by author Frank De Felitta, and the whole story was actually spawned from a very strange occurrence with one of his own children, as referenced in this People magazine article. Evidently he and his wife were relaxing outside their home one evening when they heard music in the style of Fats Waller (a jazz pianist popular during the 20's and 30's) coming from inside the house. To their amazement, they found their son Raymond banging away on the ivories, informing his parents that his fingers were moving by themselves. He was six years old and had never displayed any kind of musical talent before that moment. De Felitta later consulted an occultist who said Raymond was a soul who had lived many past lives and had experienced a "reincarnation leak", temporarily picking up where he left off in a past life.Raymond De Felitta today actually is a jazz pianist (maybe he was just naturally talented?) and a director, his most recent film being 'City Island'.
So this is definitely one of the horror movies here that is only loosely tied to the true story on which it is based, but you've got to appreciate it for exploring a whole different kind of haunting: one that starts in the womb and stays with you until the bitter and violent end.
According to the book, "The Case for Reincarnation" by Joe Fisher, the screenplay for "Audrey Rose" was inspired by an actual incident in author De Felitta's life
Do you think its a reincarnation ?Have you ever feels something was somewhat controlling you tho?
Do check this out, its called ''Scariest things TAG'' , a tag where you will be telling your scariest story according to the asked question.Its really scary especially her's. [/B]
Don't you guys think ^ is scary ? Even listening to it on my bed gives me thousand creeps.She is Marzia just so you know, she is a really nice person,she seems really into horror stuff, so is her boyfriend, Pewdiepie.I'm really into horror tag lately.
I can tell you this. This is 100% true and my experience.
I have a two story house and a hallway that separates my room from my parent's room. At the end of the hallway there's a mirror. If you open my parents room, there's a bathroom with a large mirror as well.
I used to be best friends with a guy named Anthony. We were hanging out in the hallway playing with action figures (we were young at the time). At one point he dropped his action figure and froze. He told me to get downstairs. We both get downstairs and I ask what happened. He said there was a ghost in the hallway mirror. I thought that was ridiculous so I asked him to draw a picture. It was a figure with red eyes in a dark grim-reaper-like cloak. I kept that picture.
A week later I had another friend over. Alexa and I were also hanging out in the hallway when she screamed (I think) and ran downstairs. I followed and she said the same thing Anthony said about a ghost and stuff but this time in the mirror in my parent's bathroom. I asked her to draw a picture.
I can tell you this. This is 100% true and my experience.
I have a two story house and a hallway that separates my room from my parent's room. At the end of the hallway there's a mirror. If you open my parents room, there's a bathroom with a large mirror as well.
I used to be best friends with a guy named Anthony. We were hanging out in the hallway playing with action figures (we were young at the time). At one point he dropped his action figure and froze. He told me to get downstairs. We both get downstairs and I ask what happened. He said there was a ghost in the hallway mirror. I thought that was ridiculous so I asked him to draw a picture. It was a figure with red eyes in a dark grim-reaper-like cloak. I kept that picture.
A week later I had another friend over. Alexa and I were also hanging out in the hallway when she screamed (I think) and ran downstairs. I followed and she said the same thing Anthony said about a ghost and stuff but this time in the mirror in my parent's bathroom. I asked her to draw a picture.
We were at my house, it was only like 6pm but it was winter so it was super dark. We went to get some food and when we returned to my room, we saw someone standing outside my window in the garden, the person was just standing there. After a while, the figure started to take a flashlight and just put it into our direction and it was blinding us. We were so ****ing scared and left the room and we told my mom. She then told us that it was probably my dad, who comes home from work at around the same time.
Then we recieved a phone call from my dad that he was stuck in traffic and he came home an HOUR later.
If this isn't scary enough, a week after that, we were eating at a restaurant and when we returned home, some stuff was missing, SOMEONE got into our ****ing house.
The police never got him and I'm still scared shitless.
A young girl is left home alone with only her dog to protect her. When night approaches, she locks all the doors and tries to lock all the windows but one won't close.
She decides to leave it unlocked and goes to bed. Her dog takes its customary place under her bed.
In the deep of night she awakens to a dripping sound coming from the bathroom. The girl is too scared to go check so she reaches her hand under the bed. She feels a reassuring lick from her dog and falls back to sleep. She reawakens to the dripping sound, reaches her hand down to the dog where she feels the reassuring lick and falls back to sleep. Once more she awakens to the dripping sound. She reaches her hand down and feels the lick of her dog.
Now curious about the dripping sound, she gets up and slowly walks towards the bathroom, the dripping sound getting louder as she approaches. She reaches the bathroom and turns on the light. She is greeted by a horrific sight; hanging from the shower nozzle is her dog with its throat slit open and its blood dripping into the bathtub.
Something on the bathroom mirror catches her eye she turns around. Written on the bathroom mirror in her dog's blood are the words "HUMANS CAN LICK TOO".
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A man went to a hotel and walked up to the front desk to check in. The woman at the desk gave him his key and told him that on the way to his room, there was a door with no number that was locked and no one was allowed in there. Especially no one should look inside the room, under any circumstances. So he followed the instructions of the woman at the front desk, going straight to his room, and going to bed. The next night his curiosity would not leave him alone about the room with no number on the door. He walked down the hall to the door and tried the handle. Sure enough it was locked. He bent down and looked through the wide keyhole. Cold air passed through it, chilling his eye. What he saw was a hotel bedroom, like his, and in the corner was a woman whose skin was completely white. She was leaning her head against the wall, facing away from the door. He stared in confusion for a while. He almost knocked on the door, out of curiosity, but decided not to. This disinclination saved his life. He crept away from the door and walked back to his room. The next day, he returned to the door and looked through the wide keyhole. This time, all he saw was redness. He couldn't make anything out besides a distinct red color, unmoving. Perhaps the inhabitants of the room knew he was spying the night before, and had blocked the keyhole with something red.
At this point he decided to consult the woman at the front desk for more information. She sighed and said, "Did you look through the keyhole?" The man told her that he had and she said, "Well, I might as well tell you the story. A long time ago, a man murdered his wife in that room, and her ghost haunts it. But these people were not ordinary. They were white all over, except for their eyes, which were red."
Summary: The story concerns the people of a small Japanese town who become obsessed by the occurrences of natural and artificial spirals around them. The result of this obsession is a slow transformation into something other than human, leading to a gruesome, realistically-depicted death.