The whole thing turned out to be a big mistake, but that last part made it clear just how big. Varying reports estimate that the BBC received anywhere between 20,000 and 1,000,000 phone calls from terrified viewers who thought they really did just witness the ghost murder of the British Shari Lewis. Pregnant women went into labor, people suffered from symptoms of PTSD for months after the broadcast, and one teenage boy, having become obsessed with ghosts, was found five days later hanging from a tree with the note, “If there is ghosts, I will now be one, and I will always be with you as one.” His parents were particularly unhappy with the BBC, and their complaints (along with dozens of others) led the BBC to ban the broadcast of the movie ever again.
A Dead Man Kept Ribbing His Friends Via Email
In 2011, a 32-year-old Pennsylvania man named Jack Froese died of a heart arrhythmia. It was totally unexpected, and his friends and family were shocked and devastated. Then, about five months later, they were freaked out — because Jack had started emailing them.
First, his best friend, Tim Hart, was sitting on the couch doing the big scroll when an email popped up, from Jack’s address, with the subject line “I’m watching.” Having somehow not perished from his own cardiovascular nope-out, Hart opened the email to find not the wrathful wailings that you’d expect from that kind of subject line by a ghost but a joke about Hart’s dirty house. Specifically, it said, “Did you hear me? I’m at your house. Clean your f**king attic!!!” It wasn’t a meaningless jibe: Just before Froese died, Hart took him up to his attic to ponder future renovations, as bearded Pennsylvanians are wont to do, and Froese had made fun of the attic’s dusty floor. There was no one else with them; it was a joke only Hart and Froese would have understood.
Maybe Froese had meant to send the email earlier, and it accidentally got scheduled instead? It’s possible, but there’s more: Froese’s cousin, Jimmy McGraw, also received an email around the same time. This one said, “Hey Jim, how ya doing? I knew you were gonna break your ankle, tried to warn you, gotta be careful.” This one, Froese couldn’t have composed in advance because McGraw didn’t break his ankle until a week before he received the email, which also relayed a message to another person whose email address apparently “didn’t work.” Almost as if Froese had no other way of talking to that person.
Okay, so Froese’s email was hacked, right? Could be. None of his loved ones admitted to having his password, no one else knew about the conservation between Froese and Hart in the attic, and it would be a really morbid prank to play on people grieving a sudden and heartbreaking loss, but it’s possible. It’s also possible that the Internet has given us the power to roast our friends from beyond the grave, so get your zingers ready. You never know when you’ll be exiled from the group chat of life.
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