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We've all heard the dreaded schoolyard joke. Every now and then, we receive a letter with a spooky story or a terrifying fact that no one can verify. At the conclusion of the letter, there will be a message or rather a threat, that you must deliver to your five pals or face some awful fate. This is a method that you and I are both familiar with for assisting information to get viral.
When you received a letter like this, how did you react? Did you rush to send it to five other people at any cost out of fear of the threat in the letter or did you laugh it off and think it was just a kid's joke?
I'm not sure which method you picked, but I went with the second option because it's definitely some type of dumb joke. I received a few letters like this, but they all ended up in the garbage.
Because of my father's work transfer, I had to transfer to a new school this autumn. Handwritten letters like these appear to be fairly popular and taken seriously at this institution.
When I initially arrived, I heard a bit of what my tablemate was saying. I don't mind this either and consider it part of the school culture; after all, every institution has unwritten norms that everyone observes. When I was in the second month of school, I suddenly received a handwritten letter like that, out of habit I was going to throw it in the trash, but Aki, a friend I just knew, panicked. She said I had to do what the letter said or else she would tell the class president that I ignored the letter. Fearing trouble, I read and copied five similar letters and put them in other people's desks. The letter's substance was nothing, but it looked rather frightening; it was a photograph of a few bloodied fingernails wrapped in a piece of fabric. Gradually, I began to suspect that handwriting at my school was more than a joke, but rather a fanatical community. They carefully followed the instructions in the handwritten note. I believe that a large part of it is due to the crowd impact, which is so unpleasant and immature. Perhaps their pals have been in this location for too long to see their folly. Like a person who has to breathe in filthy air for an extended period of time, they will eventually become oblivious to the odor and believe it is totally normal. This is absurd to me. I asked Aki.:"But if a person sends it to five friends, and those five friends share it to five more people, will there come a point when there will be no one left to send?" . "You don't have to worry about where it comes from or how it ends; you simply have to do it correctly," Aki responded. But those letters still appear from time to time, and I have no idea who sent them or who they are.
But that's not all; the letter Aki got revealed a dreadful fact that I had overlooked. Aki received a handwritten letter in the mail that day. Simply type, " Send this to five friends, okay?" I instantly felt uncomfortable; the letter's substance is irrelevant; it's the attachment that counts. Attached to the letter is a blood-stained finger. Aki's face became pale, she hurried out like a lamb prepared to be sacrificed then returned with a bloodied and ray-covered bandaged hand. Small splatters of blood spread all over her body.
At that moment, I realized I had underestimated the impact of the letters coming from the people in this place Not only the letter, but the content of the letter also needed to be done. They see the letter as an order and they are like blindfolded lunatics, ready to do anything to fulfill the request in the letter.
Something was going on silently that gave me a sense of danger. When I woke up that morning, I had a horrible feeling that it would spread throughout my body. When I got at school, the entire campus was deafeningly quiet, with no laughing or people. In the eerie silence, there was a distinct smell of blood in the air. I had a letter waiting in the classroom below the desk, and within it was a sharp knife that had previously been left. Blood spilled from the roof onto the letter, drop by drop, scarlet drips making a long track.
"Will you send this letter to five friends?"
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