I promised a very freaky Freaky Friday post today, so sit back, grab your coffee, relax, and get ready for some freaky reading.
What's freaky?
This: I mentioned that last weekend, my teenage daughter, her friend, and my 11 year old daughter and I all stumbled upon some strange, creepy, ritual games. We had fun reading the alleged "true" stories of people who have actually played the different games, and got sufficiently creeped out by them.
The Elevator Ritual: This is what started our madness. You must play this "game" alone. You will need to find a building with at least 10 stories and an elevator. Enter the building you chose at any time, but preferably at a time when not a lot of people are moving around and using the elevator. You must be alone in the elevator to start. You will go to these floors in this order: 4, 2, 6, 2, 10, 5. Do not get out on these floors and if someone gets in the elevator with you on any of these floors (except for the 5th floor), you need to start over. On the 5th floor, a woman may enter the elevator. Do not look at her as she is not human, even though she may appear to be. Also, do not attempt to speak to her.
At this point you need to push the button for the 1st floor. If the elevator begins ascending to the 10th floor instead of the 1st, you have succeeded. However, if the elevator goes to the 1st floor, you should exit as soon as the doors open without looking back or speaking.
If you reach the 10th floor, you may either choose to get off the elevator or to stay on it. If you get off, and the woman is on the elevator, she will ask you where you are going. You are not supposed to look at her or answer her. You are now apparently in a different world/dimension. You will be alone there and you are free to explore if you dare. Apparently you will see a large red cross somewhere suspended in the air. Other than that, it will be dark and you will be alone.
If you decided not to get off the elevator, push the button for the 1st floor. If it doesn't work, keeping pushing it until it does. When the elevator reaches the first floor, exit as soon as the doors open without looking back or speaking.
If you did leave the elevator, you must use the same one to return. When you enter the elevator, press the buttons in the same order as you did at the beginning. You should finish at the 5th floor. When you reach the 5th floor, the elevator will once again begin to go to the 10th. Push any other floor's button to cancel that. You must push the button to cancel it before you reach the 10th floor. When you reach the 1st floor, check your surroundings carefully. If anything seems off, even a little, do not exit the elevator. If you think something is wrong, go back and repeat the same floor combination as before, once again cancelling the ascension to the 10th floor. Do this until you are confident you have returned to your own world, then you may safely exit the elevator.
Are you brave enough to try this? I see some people have tried to do it and record it with their phones and it doesn't work. I don't think it will work if you are recording it. Personally, I absolutely will not try this. Reading stories of people who have, whether they are true or not, is creepy enough. If you do try this, please report back and tell us what happened.
The Hooded Man Ritual: This one is a bit more difficult to do as you will need some materials. Again, you must play this alone. You will need two black cords or ropes each measuring a half meter in length. You will also need an old style rotary telephone. A modern touch tone phone will also work, but it is recommended that it be of the corded variety. Cordless or cellular phones may present some difficulties and are not recommended. I have not seen where it says the phone actually has to be plugged in, though. This might be difficult considering hardly anyone uses a land line anymore. You will also need matches or a lighter, a watch, and salt.
Before you begin the ritual, you need to perform some sort of cleansing in the location in which you plan to perform the ritual. Burning a sage stick and/or spreading salt or ash before the front door are recommended. You can look up other spiritual cleansing rituals to follow if you like.
Shut all the doors, close all the windows, and close all the curtains. Turn off the lights and electronic devices. Set the two black cords and matches or lighter near the phone. Empty your pockets of any power or protection items, but keep the watch with you. Begin this "game" at night. Sit down before the telephone and count to the number 13. Then, leaving the phone on the hook, dial the following number 20496888. Tie one black cord securely to the telephone's handset. Lift the handset by holding the cord only; then dial the following number: 25515823. Count to 13 and set the handset down, but not back on the cradle. Say into the receiver: "Hello? I need a cab." Untie the first black cord from the handset and replace it with the second one, making sure to secure it tightly. Burn the first cord immediately if possible; if it is not possible to do it right away, burn it as soon as you have completed the ritual.
Open the curtains and look out. If you have completed the first steps correctly, you will see a black taxi cab parked outside. Leave the building, locking the door behind you, and climb into the cab's empty back seat. Lock the cab door and go to sleep.
When you wake up, use your watch to check the time. If your watch read any time other than 3;30 am, exit the cab and enter your home within two minutes. Then go directly to the ending. If your watch reads 3;30 am, go back to sleep. When you wake up for the second time, you will find the cab to be driving on a highway with a man wearing a hood at the wheel. Do not panic, attempt to get out of the cab while it is moving, or speak to any other passengers the cab may pick up. Now you just ride for as long as you wish, taking in the scenery.
When you are ready to end the ride, lean close to the hooded man's ear and say "I have reached my destination." You will fall asleep one more time. When you wake up, you will have returned to your starting location.
The Ending: Once you have returned to your starting location, seat yourself before the telephone again and dial the following number: 200082. Use the black cord to lift the handset, set it down, and say into the receiver, "Thank you for the ride." Untie the black cord from the handset. Burn it; then bury the ashes of both it and the first cord in the ground. Scatter salt over the top of the burial site. Perform another cleansing ritual.
It is said that the longer you allow the ride to go on, the more difficult it will be to return, so you shouldn't just let it go on for a really long time.
Again, I would never do this. Never ever. I believe, even if these are just urban legends, that it is messing with things one shouldn't mess with. However, maybe you are really brave and adventurous and it wouldn't bother you to try these. If you do, please tell us your story!! The stories, whether real or not, are a lot of fun to read and provide a good scare. You can find them online, especially on reddit. Freaky stuff!
This: I also discovered something this week called the Mandela effect. I will ask you a few questions regarding this before I explain what it is. Do you remember "Berenstein Bears" or "Berenstain Bears"? Do you remember when Nelson Mandela died? Is it "Looney Toons" or "Looney Tunes"? What did the evil queen say to summon the mirror in "Snow White"? Do you remember Jiff peanut butter ever being called Jiffy peanut butter? Do you have any other memories which you are absolutely without a doubt certain of, but which you have discovered are not the way things happened? I remember "Berenstein", not "Berenstain", which I am fairly certain of because I read these books to Angelle when she was a child and I always debated over whether to pronounce it "stine" or "steen", which I would not have done if it was spelled "stain". Well, it has always been "Berenstain". Always. You can't find evidence of it ever being any other way. The authors of the books had the same last name spelled "stain". Nelson Mandela died just a couple years ago. There are many, many people (not me, because in the 80's I wouldn't have been interested) who remember him dying in the 80's. I clearly remembered "Looney Toons", but it is and has always been "Looney Tunes". I remembered the evil queen saying "Mirror, mirror on the wall....", but she really says "Magic mirror on the wall....". I can remember Jiffy peanut butter, but it has always been Jiff. A few others: Do you remember Darth Vader saying "Luke, I am your father" or "No, I am your father"? In "Field of Dreams", was it "If you build it, THEY will come" or "If you build it, HE will come"? There are several theories about why we may have these false memories, but I'm not going to conjecture as to why this phenomenon happens. Theories range from our reality being slowly altered (by what or whom?) to us slipping in and out of parallel universes where things are slightly different. I'd love to hear what you remember and what your thoughts are regarding this. Honestly, when I first started reading about this, I found it to be incredibly freaky. I am in the camp that remembers most things differently. How about you? Freaky stuff.
So, are you sufficiently freaked out now? There are several more "games" I could have written about, but I figured those two were plenty. There is the "Stairway Game", the classic "Bloody Mary", the "Fortune Teller", among many, many others. If you are interested and have time to kill, look them up. My advice is to not try them, but I also kind of want somebody to so I can hear about it! So if you do, PLEASE let me know what happened!
Be freaky today, my friends, but have fun, too! Check back on Monday for my beginning of the week musings.
Enjoy your day off! Would never mess with negative energy! Tried the Bloody Mary when I was very young. All I remember was being incredibly frightened and looking over my shoulder for the longest time after. Always felt something uneasy around me. Don't remember when that went away, but it did.
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