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The Tape

During the summer of 1983, in a quiet town near Minneapolis, Minnesota, the charred body of a woman was found inside the kitchen stove of a small farmhouse. A video camera was also found in the kitchen, standing on a tripod and pointing at the oven. No tape was found inside the camera at the time.

Although the scene was originally labeled as a homicide by police, an unmarked VHS tape was later discovered at the bottom of the farm’s well (which had apparently dried up earlier that year).

Despite its worn condition, and the fact that it contained no audio, police were still able to view the contents of the tape. It depicted a woman recording herself in front of a video camera (seemingly using the same camera the police found in the kitchen). After positioning the camera to include both her and her kitchen stove in the image, the tape then showed her turning on the oven, opening the door, crawling inside, and then closing the door behind her. Eight minutes into the video, the oven could be seen shaking violently, after which point thick black smoke could be seen emanating from it. For the remaining 45 minutes of video, until the batteries in the camera died, it remained in its stationary position.

To avoid disturbing the local community, police never released any information about the tape, or even the fact that it was found. Police were also not able to determine who put the tape in the well, or why the height and stature of the woman in the video didn’t come close to matching the body they’d found in the oven.

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amaranth49
7 years ago

[spoiler]“It depicted a woman recording herself in front of a video camera (seemingly using the same camera the police found in the kitchen).” “Police were also not able to determine who put the tape in the well, or why the height and stature of the woman in the video didn’t come close to matching the body they’d found in the oven.” It’s not the TAPE that’s haunted/cursed…It’s the HOUSE ITSELF![/spoiler]

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Omfi
7 years ago

Probably a haunted object.

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tristanmpasta
7 years ago

liked it and read it on YouTube, here’s a
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWeBxKV7kvc&feature=youtu.be
hope you all like it

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SarahChambers
7 years ago

Good, but slightly confused. Maybe the police weren’t great in Minnesota circa ’83.

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TheJokersTears
8 years ago

Chilling

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Silver. Xp
8 years ago

When the author mentioned a video tape and a well and the farm house, my mind came up with the idea of The Ring… that movie scared the shit out of me for 3 months… just watch it and see the resemblance. Except for the woman in the oven part…

Iamthedeathbringer
Iamthedeathbringer
8 years ago

I live about 100 miles away from Minneapolis…

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KryssiPasta
8 years ago

Very creepy. Tasty little pasta!

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nana
8 years ago

Aside from the mysterious effect, the specific image of someone burning herself in an oven seen through tape makes this creepy for me.

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Jrhend84
9 years ago

Very disturbing. I could picture the violent shaking.

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LostGirl
9 years ago

That’s disturbing

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PunkKawaii
9 years ago

Quite creepy

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mileymiacyrus2
9 years ago

Ew. That’s gross Nick Suarez.

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Goawayplease
9 years ago

Interesting. Well done

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creepypastacanuk
9 years ago

Nicely done!

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Mitth
9 years ago

Fairly creepy, mostly due to us (me?) not knowing the whole story, leaving our/my imagination to wander.

To me, this sounds a lot like one of those [spoiler]haunted object[/spoiler] stories. I can see… [spoiler]The lady finds a tape (the one that ended up in the well) somewhere, maybe mixed in with some stuff she bought at a garage sale or something, and decided to watch it. It then compels/urges her to reenact the same thing, which she tries to resist (probably tossing the tape down the well in the process) but is unable to in the end. I can see *her* tape now ending up in some other poor sap’s hands, to perpetuate the horror.[/spoiler]

Just my interpretation. 🙂

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Alduin
10 years ago

I read about that in the news, uh, I think they thought that it was a different house. But it is scary shit.

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m0lly
11 years ago

WOAH. Way to go, 🙂

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PISCIS31
11 years ago

Ooooh good story. Short but very effective. People fear what hey don’t know or understand. 8/10

vanillaTHUNDAR
vanillaTHUNDAR
11 years ago

This story is scary. Not in the sense that it is bloody and “Scary”, but because it is the unknown, something you can’t explain. That is the only thing to fear.