User:Another n00b/Grifter
“The first time I unrar'ed the three compressed files, I got a video. I saw a few seconds, felt sick, deleted it. It was some screwed-up dude walking with his hands out in front of him, zombie style, no noise but the sound of his breath and what sounded like a heartbeat... then I saw a baby laying down, realized this green-armed fucker was going towards it, thought of my own kid, and closed it.”
The Grifter is the name given to a .wmv file which has been circulating around the InterNet since 2008. Believed to have been propagated by the_solipsist!wYl0Ob/Jlo on the x.datachan.org transfer server, the video has become notorious since then. People who have watched it have reported nausea, trauma, night terrors and even clinical depression days, weeks or even months after watching it. The film depicts the Human Sacrifice of babies and multiple shots of Satanic Ritual Abuse. Though several inquires have been made due to the nature of the video, no trace of who the original author may be was found. The 3 still images that were posted on the original 4chan thread originate from a trailer for the 2000 short horror film ‘little otik’. The user also later states that, the video was indeed fabricated, however this is only true assuming that this was the first mention of the video.
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“It was real grainy, from what I remember it showed strange images, like a bathtub full of writhing maggots, haunting paintings from old times melting, random forests, flashing colours, text in a different language (from what I remember) all while a strange voice played which sounded like a strange murmrer, if you've seen the 'there is nothing' expressionist film, it was like that voice but even more indistinguishable. Then the graininess lifted a little, and there was a scene of a small puppy being held up by it's neck, it was moving like it was in pain but it's cries where like a human child's, it then cut to a nursery with lots of cradles. All the children where still in the cots, presumed dead. it [Presumably the man in the last scene] walked over to one of the cots, and one of the newborns raised up a little, began to cry, and bled from the eyes and mouth. then another shot of a basement (like the original picture) with a malformed hand disapearing into it blood stained. Lastly it showed more text (someone 'stated' it said 'you're race is one that is dying') with an image of a plant rotting very quickly, close ups of corpses. and what I can only describe as 'real' cases of exorcism and demonic posession, which clearly have never been seen outside the said country of origin. while this seen plays, the voice that was talking fairly calmly, breaks out into screams of intense pain and suffering, which is just as deeply chilling as the initial shock.”