It was a cold evening one night. I was playing some Ultra Street Fighter IV on my Xbox 360 until I got a bit bored. So I decided that I should do something like get something to eat to fill my stomach for dinner because my parents were out at a christmas party. It was the night of December 6th, just a few days in till the actual day.
As I went into the kitchen, I spotted what looked like a jar filled with my money. I thought that I should spend it on something awesome, but before I did that, I called my mom to see if I can use my money to buy something sweet. She said yes and I went to Ebay to buy a Nickelodeon VHS. While scrolling to see what I wanted to get, I managed to come across something. It was a VHS titled Spongebob Squarepants: Episodes 1 - 5. I thought i'd be in the mood to watch some Spongebob while I made a TV dinner.
I bought the tape and for some reason, it managed to arrive within 10 minutes. "Who delivers packages within 10 minutes?" I asked myself. I got my TV dinner, inserted the tape and sat back ready to watch some Spongebob. But that's when things took a quite dark turn. There was blood covered text that read, "Now Available On Videocasette." I knew this was going to be a haunted video tape. I was correct. The screen cut to black and it went to another text screen that said, "You can't escape this!" and, "Meet your worst nightmare!"
I was so not ready for this. When the text went away, it showed what looked like a crimson red hotel floor with disturbing ambience noises. It managed to stay on screen for about 2 minutes until I saw something that barely made me drop my dinner dish.
Out of nowhere, I heard the sound of footsteps getting faster and faster, presuming that something invisible was walking to the screen, after that, a jumpscare appeared depicting what looked like an evil furby with bloodshot eyes and it went to static for about 20 seconds as the jumpscare kept playing.
Once it cleared, the screen went to black for 10 seconds and came back on with a bloody wall as text appeared in a bloody font that said, "And Now The Scary Presentation." But I noticed that the text was in complete blood. There were sounds of people screaming as the text kept looping with blood splatter sounds. This all happened for about 3 minutes until the background faded to show a nightmare-ish PBS head with the eye of a human.
Then it cut to what looked like a pentagram zooming in slowly to the screen. This was super disturbing. While this was on screen, I got out my heart pressure meter to make sure I don't get too scared. Then loud static appeared for 9 seconds and it cut to the most disturbing picture i've ever seen. It looked like a demonic version of Barney The Dinosaur with bloodshot eyes and dripping teeth. The sound that was heard was a super low pitched version of the Kefka laugh. The text on top of the screen said, "You will die in the next few minutes!"
Then it went to black again for 25 seconds this time. Next it went to the feature presentation logo with the same sound effects from the stay tuned screen. It just showed the first half of the logo for about 3 whole minutes! Then you could hear a sound of the door creaking open indicating that it was going to show the feature presentation sign. And when it fully zoomed in, it cut to a black screen for a minute until the no signal screen came on.
It stayed for about 3 minutes when another jumpscare came on. It depicted what looked like a Wendigo. The sounds you could hear came from other JW Marriott videos and GoAnimate Error videos.
The screen cut to black as the sound effects stayed for about a minute or so. Then it went to the copyright screen which was also in a bloody font. I could see what looked like PlayStationFan404 being chased by an evil furby, and also Roku Kun the Vyonder being chased by an endoskeleton. While this went on, There were more screams of torture going on. After 2 minutes, PlayStationFan404 got a shotgun and killed the evil furby. Then it all just stopped. Looking at the copyright screen, the screams stopped as well. That's when I completely dropped my dinner at that point.
I saw what looked like a FNAF 4 animatronic rising up to the screen in a silhouette form. Then it jumpscared me giving me a heart attack. Then it showed the modified screen that was in a Nosifer text font. Next it showed the 2003 Keynote logo that lasted 3 minutes. And then the nickelodeon fish for a minute, and after that, along came logos in a horror remake including, Warner Home Video, PBS, Screen Gems, A Morongo Presentation, Universal, Dreamworks, CBS, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros Pictures and something more terrible. This time, it showed the Jerry Bruckheimer Films logo but once thunder flashed, there was another jumpscare. This time, it displayed a terrifying image of Mona Lisa.
My heart rate was at 70. If I reached 100, I would die by then. After what seemed like 45 seconds, it cut to a dark image of what looked like a news. I heard the hidden level music from Sonic.EXE playing in the background.
That's when another jumpscare happened. This image displayed a really horrifying version of the Teletubbies while it rapidly kept flashing. I covered my eyes to avoid epilepsy. Then it went to another black screen. After a minute or so, I was greeted to another scene. This scene depicted a woman doing yoga in front of a statue. I think I know where this is going, it was one of those K Fee jumpscare commercials.
But instead of the normal screamer, it showed that terrifying Barney once again with the sounds of jumpscares and a super loud bell ringing. I ran out of the room to forget about those scary sounds. It managed to last about 15 seconds.
I came back to see that I was greeted to 100+ Years of Eternal Nightmares. I never believed those darn truths of me having nightmares. Another minute passed with a black screen. Now here's when things started to get out of control. The next scene cut to what looked like a kitchen perhaps. It was much like one of those other videos by me I have seen where an on screen jumpscare happens.
While the door was opening, I heard the sound of the Cedars-Sinai DVD logo playing meaning that this was the cut off suspense sound happening. And then, a text screen showed up again and it said, "You will die now!" and "There's no escape!" Another jumpscare appeared and this time, it was a satanic version of the Tails Doll. It stayed on screen for a minute until it went to a blue screen of death. I knew my TV was playing tricks on me.
After that, it cut to an image of Nightmare Bonnie but in a blood red font and there was japanese text displayed over it. The hidden level music played again as the message stayed on screen for more than a minute and 25 seconds. Now was my time to eject the tape before more stuff happened.
I had suffered from nightmares ever since this video tape came in the mail. I stopped watching JW Marriott videos after all this.
The End.