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This experience may have happened to me many years ago, but it still haunts me to this day.

I was eight years old at the time. I was quite an energetic child, nothing particularly bad or at least, horrifying happened to me at that time. The only bad thing that happened to me from memory was when I fell off the monkey bars at a playground. I remember all of the details of the incident ever since it happened.

It was nearing the end of november and thanksgiving was already over. My parents were sitting on the couch watching the news when a commercial came on. It seemed to be advertising some sort of new television. Once I heard the word “television” I instantly dashed out of the room. our current television at the time was absolute crap, It didn’t work that well and sometimes malfunctions and turns off by itself. I wanted a new TV for as long as I can remember.

The commercial depicted a tall man wearing a business suit talking about the new television while showing a lot of images of it. It looked nice to say the least. The music was kind of odd though, it sounded like a piano being played slowly which obviously didn’t fit the tone of the commercial at all, but I didn't really care back then.

As the commercial was playing, I blurted out how i wanted a new television so badly.

Here’s something about my parents, my parents were always so sensitive about keeping things the way they are and never replacing stuff, so they instantly declined. I had a little bit of a tantrum but then I calmed down and went to my room.

A year later, on my birthday. I ran downstairs to open my presents. I got a lot of good stuff, one of them being the new television. My parents were confused because they don’t remember them or any of their relatives even mentioning buying me the new television. But since the television was now in our possession, they just placed it up anyway since my parents didn’t want it to go to waste. It worked a lot better than our old one. We kept it for a while until that incident happened.

One night I was watching a cartoon, which one I couldn't remember. During the commercial, it glitched and the channel turned to static. The static slowly faded to a black screen with white text reading “A SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL OF YOU” I was confused.

It faded to that same man standing against a baby blue background. He was talking about how thankful he was for buying his television. During his speech, music was playing that sounded like a children’s nursery rhyme instrumental. A few minutes later, yes, this commercial lasted so much longer than the normal runtime of the original commercial, I noticed that the joyful music started to deepen in pitch. The baby blue background continued to darken into a very dark blue. The man than finished talking and then started smiling. The music became more distorted and loud, and the man’s smile continued to widen. Later, screams could be heard getting louder. The man’s grin at this point was stretching up to his ears, his eyes widening unnaturally wide. The music and screaming was ear-piercingly loud now.

I started to cry in fear. I mean, no nine year old would ever want to see that. My parents eventually heard the commotion and ran in to turn the TV off but they couldn’t find the remote anywhere. The channel cut to bars and tones, and that was that.

A few days later, it was 9pm. We were all in bed. When we all heard this demonic cackling from our window. We all came out of our rooms. Then i saw something in the window. A tall man, with a wide unnatural grin, with widened, crazy looking eyes, and was wearing a business suit. I would have told my parents, but I was too scared to do so. He hid back into the bushes. This caught my parents attention. My mom walked outside with a bat. A few seconds later, we heard my mom scream, we never saw her again after that. We then got rid of the television and bought a new one. But we still couldn’t find our mother.

Years later, I'm still terrified to this day, and still missing my mother. I’m still looking into what happened but I don't think this mystery will be solved anytime soon.

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