The Old TV



Haunted TV

We got it from the second-hand store for a cheap price. I was about ten years old at the time. I remember I was so excited to have my own TV set in my room. Its was one of those 70’s TVs. My Dad brought it upstairs and hook it up on my desk. That spent that whole afternoon I lying on my bed watching local TV; not knowing what was ahead.

That night I shut off the TV and drifted to sleep. I was standing at front my house suddenly. It was daytime, the sun was brighter then usually. A shadow like figure was in the distant. It looked a man but I couldn’t tell. It seemed to be smiling. It starting running towards me and fast. I took off trying to get away. Shadow got closer and closer. It was about to … I woke up the TV was on full blast. That wasn’t right the TV was hard to turn on. You needed to pull a lever. And it wasn’t easy to pull. I shut off the TV to not wake up my brother and baby sister in the room. I drifted back to sleep.

That past week’s things got creeper. Each time I enter the room, I felt like someone was watching me, so I avoided my room. The nightmares became darker and felt more real. The shadow became more aggressive in the dreams. I don’t entirely remember, but it always had that haunting smile. The TV will be always be on every time I woke up from a nightmare, even if I remembered I shut it off before I went to bed.

An incident that my baby sister about 2 years old (who can bearly walk) was able to escape the curb. And went to my parent’s room. Stared at them with an expressionless face (like in Paranormal Actively) for an unknown amount of time. My dad kept telling me that the TV would always turn on at full blast in the middle of the night and how it drive him crazy.

The nightmares became worse, up to the point that the shadow started hurting me in the dreams. The nightmares became more of a blur. But I remember once that the shadow had me trapped in a room. The room was small and pitch black. The only thing I saw was that smile. I saw it takes out a knife and he jams it in my chest. The pain felt so real, so intense. I instantly woke up and check if I was alive.

One morning I was in my room playing my gameboy happily until. The Shadow was standing at my doorway. But this time I saw him clearly. His decomposing face, flesh dripping off his face and especially that horrific smile. It stood there for two seconds until it disappeared. I was frozen. Unable to move or think. I was scared out of my mind. From there I knew it had to be TV responsible for the strange actively.

That same week my family and me had it and decided to throw that piece of shit in the trash. All the nightmares stopped, the heavy air lighten up. Up to this day I have no idea who was that man or his intentions. I guess the previous owner was attached to that TV and never let it go. The last time I saw that man was 2 days later after we threw away the TV. It was night and dark. I was staring out of my window cause I had else to do. He was standing in an ally aside of my house waving goodbye.