Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-24965033-20140902055656

I can remember an event from my childhood that now that I think about it was just flat out disturbing.

I used to live with my parents in a large house, and owned this very small television, which was the only one we had at the time.

Since my parents did not watch a lot of television, I mostly had it all to myself. I watched a lot of cartoon shows back then, like The Simpsons, Family Guy, Courage The Cowardly Dog etc etc etc.

Upon Returning home one day from a school conference which painfully enough lasted for a very long time, I fortunately had the distinct pleasure of expecting a new episode of Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends.

The episode started up at 7:00 PM. I luckily enough arrived home an hour early to watch what was on before the episode started, though karma reared it's ugly head. On the way home, I noticed black clouds in the sky, and soon enough, it was raining. I honestly though did not mind the terrible weather, and proceeded inside to turn on the television.

Entering inside the house, I quickly went into the living room, grabbed the remote, and turned on the TV.

I flipped the channel all the way to Nickelodeon to see what they had on, and I noticed Sponge bob was on. I decided to watch that in the meantime. After a couple of minutes I started to hear thunder outside, and soon enough, all the power in the house went out. Enraged, I demanded to know what hell happened. My parents later found out that the storm had knocked out all the power in the house along with the cable transmissions. I was incredibly anxious, and thinking to myself, "What if miss my program?" Several minutes had passed, and still no power. My anxiety just got worse as I noticed, it was already 6:47 PM.

I desperately went up to the TV, and started mashing the power button in hopes that it would turn on, but to no avail, it would not come on.

I pressed my head against the TV screen, and closed my eyes. In one last attempt to turn on the television, I pressed my finger to the power button, and heard a noise coming from the TV. As soon as I opened my eye lids, I noticed the TV had just mysteriously turned on. I was immensely surprised at the occurrence, and assumed that the power was back on, but the strange thing was that when I went to turn on the living room light switch, it would not turn on, nor did any of the other power switches in the house. I ignored the strange event and proceeded to continue watching my program since it was the only thing that mattered to me the at the moment.

Upon Returning to the living room, I noticed the TV screen was static. Frustrated, I violently shook the television, and fortunate enough for me, the program came back on, still static, but still visible.

Now as I re-called, I remember I was on Nickelodeon, watching Spongebob, but it seemed that it was already over, and by the looks of it, Rugrats was on.

How could Rugrats be on? I haven't seen that in ages! I was surprised yet very interested in the nostalgia of seeing this old cartoon again. From the looks of it, the show was almost over, but  I decided in staying to watch for the duration of the time, before Foster's came on.

As I got into viewing the episode, I saw one of the characters, Dill, who is the little baby, in his crib, crying.

This crying just kept up, and kept up, and kept up, and it wouldn't stop. This excessive sobbing just went on for minutes until the credits came up. Baffled at this, I eventually just came up with the conclusion, that I had started viewing too late, though still a tad bit odd. After that it was time for the new episode of Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends to start up on Cartoonetwork. I flipped down one channel to where Cartoonetwork is, and instead of looking at the expected new episode, I looked at something completely different. My eyes were staring at view of a real live action scene of a man, butchering what looked to be a doberman pincher repeatedly, over and over again. I was terrified. The squeals of the doberman pincher were ear piercing. I could clearly see the blood splattered everywhere. The scene was overall Morbid. Discusted by this, I quickly pressed the power button on the remote controll, and shut off the television.

I took a moment to digest what the hell just happened. Whatever I just saw was definitely out of the ordinary, and absolutely would not be shown on a kid's cartoon programming network.

I hesitated to turn the television back on, having images in my mind of that horrendous scene. I decided to turn it back on an hour later after I finished dinner.

After dinner, I went back into the living room, and turned the television back on. Upon turning it on, the scene was replaced with a scene of a young teen girl who I'd estimate would be around the ages of 13-17. cutting herself repeatedly. By the looks of it, she had already sustained cuts on her face, her cheek bone, on her arms, and upper lip.

I couldn't believe what I was witnessing. What happened next I could never forget. The girl took the knife she had, and...swallowed it whole. Choking on her own blood, and eventually going limp. I couldn't take it anymore, I flipped to Boomerang, and rid my eyes from viewing this abomination any longer.

Things only took a turn for the worse. As soon as I flipped onto Boomerang, what I saw, sent chills down my spine.

A face of this horrific looking creature, just giving me the most sinister smile, stared at me. I swear this was the most scared I've ever been. I could then hear thunder roaring outside. The loudest I've ever heard. Soon enough the TV... just shut itself off on it's own without any need of me using the remote.

After that, all the power  turned back on in the house. I  ran as fast as I could to inform my parents of what just happened.

They  went down stairs, and checked the television set, to take a closer inspection, but as soon as it turned on, there seemed to nothing wrong. No static, no dog, no girl, and no face. I tried to tell them what happened, and even flipped to Cartoonetwork, and Boomerang, where I saw the dog getting butchered, the girl cutting herself, and the sinister face.

Nothing. Absolutely nothing showed up. Just Johnny Bravo, and Chowder being the  thing on those channels.

My parents brushed it off as a joke, and no matter how much I pleaded with them to believe me, there would be absolutely nothing I could show them to prove otherwise.

To this day I don't know what exactly happened, whether it was a glitch, or just some hackers pulling off a cruel joke. but either way, this experience will be something that I'll never forget. 