The Smile Dog Phenomenon

Hello. I am officer John Smith. I work in Michigan. Recently, we have had many suicides in the town of REDACTED. The suicides have all been teenagers between the age of 14 and 17. There have been 19 deaths already in the last 3 months. But yesterday, there was one teen who was stopped in the middle of cutting himself with a kitchen knife by his mother. He managed to get pretty deep into his flesh, but was taken to the hospital before he killed himself.
The teen, (Who will not be named) was struggling the entire way to the hospital saying he needed to go back or “He” would get him. He had to be put in a home until I could get there. When I got there, he was thrashing and screaming all over the place. I calmed him down and me and the boy had a talk.
I asked him why he wanted to kill himself. The story he told me was odd and interesting. He told me one day he was on his computer looking at his emails to see if his girlfriend messaged him. But, he found a weird email. It was from an address by the name of “Smile.jpg@gmail.com” The email went something like this:
“Hello. My name is Steven. I want to show you this funny picture that I found on Ifunny. Enjoy!”
He opened the file attached to the email and a file downloaded onto his computer. It was a Jpg file. He opened it and the image instantly went into full screen. It was an image of a dog looking creature in a dark room with a window in the background. The thing that scared him though was the dog itself. It had a big creepy smile with human teeth. 
He said that he’s seen other creepy images on the internet before, but this one was different to him. He said it made his stomach feel uneasy and gave him a headache. He closed the file and tried to go to sleep, but couldn’t. He was too scared. He is 15 and said this was one of the scariest things he has ever experienced. 
When he woke up, he got on his computer, but all his files were changed to the name, “Smile.Jpg.” When he opened them, they were all that image of the dog. This scared the shit out of this boy. He tried to play doom, but it just redirected him to the image. He then got a notification from email.
It was an email from the same guy who sent him the original image: Smile.jpg@gmail.com.
The email’s subject was “Lets play a game :)” This is that email:
“Hey kid. It seems you opened the file. Good job! Now, I want to play a game. I’m going to give you 7 days to send this file to 10 people. If you do not do this in the time limit, the image will change over time. Your computer will change too. 
You probobly noticed that all of the files you had on your computer are changed to the jpg. Over the next 7 days, your computer will start to change. Your wallpaper will change to the image, all your applications will become links to the file, and even your profile on all of your accounts on websites will change to the name Smile.Jpg and your profile picture will change to the image.
And finally, if you do not send it to 10 people in the time limit, you will be sent to hell. Good luck and may God have mercy on you.”
The kid deleted the email and went on with his day. But, he started to get voices in his head telling him to do horrible things after this email. He would go to school and hear voices that would tell him to kill himself and others. Every time he closed his eyes, he would see the image in his head. 
The kid said that after 6 days of this, the voices and hallucinations would not stop and just be constant. He said he would see the thing in the corner of his eyes and when he would look directly at where it was at, it would disappear.
So, on the 7th day, he realized that he only sent 9 emails to people. So, he did what the voices told him to do: he tried to kill himself. He started to cry and repeat the phrase, “I just want to smile” over and over and over again.
I told him that he had to stay in the home for a while. He was ok with that. I left and went to the kids house to look at the computer. I made it there and looked at the computer. He was telling the truth. The entire computer was just that image. It was much creepier than I could ever imagine.
While I was there, I got a call from the hospital that while the inmates were eating, the kid started to bite off the flesh of the kid next to him. I got there as fast I could and found the kid restrained by a couple of doctors. Right next to him was the mutilated body of a young man. He looked about 17. We put the kid in a padded cell while one of the doctors told me what happened.
While the kids were eating, the kid got up randomly, looked straight at the kid next to him, and attacked him. He started to bite the skin of his face off and rip his eyes out. It took them 5 minutes to get the kid off of him, but by then, the other boy was already gone. He managed to even rip out the kids organs. He was gone. The boy has now been diagnosed with schizophrenia and has been sent to a professional mental institution.
After this incident, the deaths continued to grow. It’s been three months since that kid killed that other boy, and the suicides have went up. There have been 36 more deaths in the last three months. Lets just hope that this all stops soon.
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