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Since Halloween is coming up, and I saw a similar thread on Reddit, I thought it would be fun for us to share our creepy true stories. I'm going to post the same thing I put on the Reddit thread.
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It was the early 2000s and I had had my first PC for just a few months by then. It was an old thing made mostly from spare parts my dad had laying around. I had installed Warcraft III even though I could barely run it. One day, I was playing as the Scourge and decided I was done for the night, so I exited the program. Even though the game was no longer running, the music was. 'Okay,' I thought, 'probably just some glitch.' But the music kept playing through the entire shutdown and boot up sequence and didn't stop when I logged back in. I knew that was weird, but I didn't know just how weird that was yet. I decided to do a complete system shutdown. Nothing. The music kept playing with the system off. At this point I knew something was wrong so I unplugged the speakers from the computer. And they kept playing. Then I unplugged their power cord. And they kept playing. Then I disconnected the speakers from each other. And they both kept playing independently. I checked the battery compartments on both and they were empty. I was pretty unnerved, but everyone else was asleep so I went to bed, hoping they would stop playing at some point.
When I woke up, both speakers were still playing and they were still in sync. I also realized that they weren't just playing one song or a few looping seconds, it was the entire undead playlist. I decided to go into the living room and watch TV until someone got up. When my dad got up, I told him about the speakers. He didn't believe me and said it was impossible. I brought him the speakers, still completely unplugged from everything and still playing. He got a freaked out expression, but calmly tossed them in the garbage and went to the store to buy me some new speakers. When he got back, they were still playing in the garbage can, so he threw the trash bag into the dumpster. The new speakers worked fine and I have never seen anything like that again, but for all I know, those speakers are still playing that freaking music in a landfill somewhere.
In case you're wondering how bad it was to fall asleep to, here's the Scourge playlist.
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It was the early 2000s and I had had my first PC for just a few months by then. It was an old thing made mostly from spare parts my dad had laying around. I had installed Warcraft III even though I could barely run it. One day, I was playing as the Scourge and decided I was done for the night, so I exited the program. Even though the game was no longer running, the music was. 'Okay,' I thought, 'probably just some glitch.' But the music kept playing through the entire shutdown and boot up sequence and didn't stop when I logged back in. I knew that was weird, but I didn't know just how weird that was yet. I decided to do a complete system shutdown. Nothing. The music kept playing with the system off. At this point I knew something was wrong so I unplugged the speakers from the computer. And they kept playing. Then I unplugged their power cord. And they kept playing. Then I disconnected the speakers from each other. And they both kept playing independently. I checked the battery compartments on both and they were empty. I was pretty unnerved, but everyone else was asleep so I went to bed, hoping they would stop playing at some point.
When I woke up, both speakers were still playing and they were still in sync. I also realized that they weren't just playing one song or a few looping seconds, it was the entire undead playlist. I decided to go into the living room and watch TV until someone got up. When my dad got up, I told him about the speakers. He didn't believe me and said it was impossible. I brought him the speakers, still completely unplugged from everything and still playing. He got a freaked out expression, but calmly tossed them in the garbage and went to the store to buy me some new speakers. When he got back, they were still playing in the garbage can, so he threw the trash bag into the dumpster. The new speakers worked fine and I have never seen anything like that again, but for all I know, those speakers are still playing that freaking music in a landfill somewhere.
In case you're wondering how bad it was to fall asleep to, here's the Scourge playlist.
