Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-30891328-20170205153734

Trust me when I tell you that I have no clue if this happened, or if me, and some other people, are going crazy. My parents, my uncle, and my aunt all work for the same company and they had a staff meeting to go to one night. My cousin, Jane, needed a babysitter, so, of course, my parents had volunteered me.   My girlfriend and I were planning to have a Skype chat so I went on Netflix to find a show for her to watch. I wanted to find a new show for her but most of the shows in the "kids shows" section were ones that she already saw. I was about to give up until I saw a slightly creepy looking show called Candle Cove. I read the Netflix description and It said, "A little girl goes on adventures with her pirate friends." I thought this sounded pretty innocent at the time so I told her about it and Jane seemed excited to watch this new show. Had I watched it first I wouldn't have ruined our lives. I started the show and we went our separate ways.   About thirty minutes later I was chatting with my girlfriend when Jane came into the room breathing heavily. I asked her if she was ok and she said, "Why did you show me something that creepy?"   <span class="TextRun SCX56250619" lang="EN-US" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:18px;" lang="EN-US">I felt my heart sink into my stomach and I asked my girlfriend if we could stop here and she said that that was fine. I sent Jane to bed and got curious about what she saw. I decided to watch the show and see for myself. Luckily it was still there, but when I clicked Episode One all it showed was static. I scrolled through the bar but that whole thing was static. I clicked the Back to Browse button and tried to prosses how this could be scary. <span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCX56250619" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;"><span class="SCX56250619" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;white-space:pre!important;"> <span class="EOP SCX56250619" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCX56250619" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCX56250619" lang="EN-US" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:18px;" lang="EN-US">Ten minutes later my folks walked through the front door and I told them about the show. They asked me to show them "Candle Cove" but when I searched it Netflix said that the file was not found. I looked at my parents and they were looking back at me, not as if I was crazy, but they looked concerned. <span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCX56250619" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;"><span class="SCX56250619" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;white-space:pre!important;"> <span class="EOP SCX56250619" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCX56250619" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCX56250619" lang="EN-US" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:18px;" lang="EN-US">A few days passed I couldn't get Candle Cove out of my mind so I did some research on the show. It turns out other people saw it as kids when it aired in the '70s. This interviewer asked their parents if they remember it. They told the person that every time they'd leave dinner to watch Candle Cove, they would catch him watch thirty minutes of static. I sat in my chair and thought, "How can a scary show have a weird history like that?" Maybe I'll never know. <ac_metadata title="Candle Cove on Netflix"> </ac_metadata>