buckyballbearing:

Okay story time:

So back when the American version of The Ring came out, I had this roommate who was kind of high strung, yet she was convinced that she was ‘low maintenance’

A classic example was her reaction to this movie – before we all went to see it, she’d been bragging how much she ‘loved horror films’ and all the rest of us were wusses 

Then she sees the movie and fucking flips out

See, in case you haven’t seen this flick, basic concept is this: 1) random person watches a Mysterious Video 2) person receives a phone call claiming they’ll die in seven days 3) if they don’t show the video to someone else, they will in fact die horribly in seven days

And the last thing you see before you die is the ring (tw: a bunch of horror shit)

Anyway, she spends the next several days trying to get everyone to cut class and go see this movie with her just in case the ghost was real 

Naturally, this quickly got damn ridiculous

So I think, why not, I’m going to prank her – cause oh hey, she happens to own a tv

Now remember, this was fucking forever ago so we didn’t have Chromecast or AppleTV or whatever

But my boarding work service was A/V for a couple years so!  I had exactly the right equipment to run a secret wire from my computer to her TV

And I bootlegged a video of the creepy shit in question and set it to play on endless repeat so that the next time she turned on the tv, guess what she’d see

Well, this backfired spectacularly because uh

Exactly seven days after I had first seen the movie, there I am, alone in the room

And the tv suddenly snaps on

I assumed my roommate was watching, so I didn’t do anything at first – then I remembered the prank and turned around to see her face

Except…she’s not there

So I shut the tv off

Almost immediately it clicks back on again, and of course the video has advanced – but um, still, there’s nobody here, the remote is sitting right here

And this tv is switching itself on

I turn it off again, it pops back on immediately – RIGHT TO THE PART WHERE THE GHOST SHOULD COME OUT

And that’s where I was like HELL NO and left screaming, because there was no way I was dying from goddamn ghosts

I ran all the way to my friends freaking the fuck out until we all eventually decided to go back together

We ripped the cords out of the wall, praised Jesus and renounced our sins that we may continue to enjoy life on this mortal coil

The next day we learned the people next door had just bought a universal remote cause they too were trying to get a tv, and they’d been mystified why ‘the remote didn’t work’

Turns out it was set to the same damn frequency, and they were the reason my roommate’s fucking TV was on

So in conclusion: ghosts: BUSTED