Channel 1

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So it was a Monday, I still remember it perfectly. Like it was yesterday. Anyways, it was Monday, and I was in my own business, playing video games. And someone knocks on my door. I attend the door, and got a surprise. It was my best friend's sister on the door. She had this blank face, like no facial expression whatsoever, just a blank stare.
Then I noticed that she had something in her hands. She was carrying a VHS. And the VHS had a sign on it:
For Fred. "For me?!" I thought to myself.
But why me though? Then she looked at me with the same face expression:
"Jake wanted you to have this."
I asked her, confused, "Couldn't he have come and given me this personally?" Me being all innocent.
She just turned her back and said, "He's dead, Fred."
Then she started walking. I just stood there for a couple of seconds, processing what I just heard.
My best friend dead? How? What happened? Did he kill himself? What the fuck is going on here?
A lot of questions started to pop up on my head. But then I saw the tape Jake left for me. Closed the door and went back inside. The curiosity got the best of me, and wanted to know what Jake left for me in this tape.
"Was it his last will?" I thought. Well, that's what I wish it was. But I was wrong...
I grabbed my parent's old VCR, set it up on the TV and set the tape in. Placed my finger on Play. I still wish I didn't press that fucking button. As I pressed it, the tape started running. And this image of my best friend came on. He had no expression on his face whatsoever...
"Just like his sister!" I thought.
He had bags on his eyes like if he didn't sleep for weeks.
He looked weak and inconsolable. In his cries of fear, he started talking. "Fred, I honestly don't know what's going on," he said. It was hard to understand because in his cries of suffering, his voice was breaking from time to time.
"But I caught myself into this. If you're watching this, then I'm definitely already dead. And my sister followed my instructions to give you this VHS. Fred, what you are about to see is real, it's no urban legend shit. It's fucking real." he said.
The curiosity got the best of me. I wish I should've stopped playing the tape at that moment. God, I had so much time at that moment..
Then he continued, "Ever heard of the urban legend, the Channel 1?"
Then I asked to myself, "Channel 1?"
Then he continued:
"Yes, you heard me. Channel 1. you know that when you watch TV, the programming always starts on Channel 2 but not in Channel 1? That's weird isn't it? Why would you start off from Channel 2 and not from Channel 1? You see... I heard this story, from this old crazy guy sitting in the park. He told me this story of this urban legend... According to the old man, there is this figure.. or demon.. or ghost.. nobody knows what it exactly is. When you realize about the Channel 1 thing, you already get caught by 'him'."
Then I asked, "Him? Who's him?"
Then Jake started to break into tears for about 5 minutes. I started to cry a little myself, even though I consider myself a tough person. I felt the pain he was going through. "Oh Jake, what happened to you?" Kept asking that question in curiosity. Then Jake took a breath and kept going.
"There is a ghost or demon or whatever in this Channel 1, Fred. Once you are aware of the Channel 1 situation, in exactly one month, you are going to die. That's what the crazy old man told me. At first, I thought it was just a fucking joke and laughed at it for days. Never saw the old man ever again. Weird things have been happening along the days.. I've been seeing weird things, Fred. I have nightmares as well of this.. disfigured man trying to catch me, fucking don't know why. He told me that he wanted something from me.. I don't know what it is.. But I'm scared for my life, Fred."
He started breaking into tears once again for a few minutes.
I just stared at the TV, crying as well. I felt his terrible pain he was going through. The horror in his eyes knowing he can't sleep or go out somewhere else. It was so horrible to see. Then he said something that I will remember for the rest of my life.
"Fred, it's been one month since the old man's crazy story..." I gasped to myself.
I thought, "Is this that got you killed, man?"
It couldn't have been it, right..? I'm not a very superstitious person, but at this moment I believed everything I heard:
"This is all I have to tell you, Fred. Goodbye."
He reached his hand, apparently to stop the video from recording. But the video didn't stop there. It's like if I 'needed' to see the 'rest of it'. The video kept going, as Jake removed his presence from the camera, he sat in front of his TV, breaking into tears once more.
Once again, my curiosity got the best of me, but the following images that went through the rest of this video, will be forever imprinted in my memories until I die. I noticed his watch, it was 12:59 AM. When it got into 1:00 AM in his watch, his TV turned on by itself. At this moment, I didn't know what was going on. He started to panic a little bit, like if Jake heard something really scary. I grabbed my remote control, set the volume up to the highest.
That's when I heard it.. I heard weird moans coming from Jake's TV. And that's when I heard it:
"Where's my face... my face.. I need my face.. I need a face.. I need YOUR face..."
I started screaming in fear, "RUN JAKE, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!"
Jake didn't seem to move, it looked like he was seeing something on the TV, something I couldn't see with my eyes. My heart started to burst in fear. I could feel Jake's suffering. Jake started to scream in agony and pain. The look on his face when he was screaming...
So horrible... I can't get it out of my head now.. I saw this shadow coming out from the TV, reaching out for Jake. When it reached onto him, the room started to brighten up, brightening everything up and not letting me see what exactly happened to Jake. It got bright for a few seconds, after that, it was 'over'. The TV got shut, Jake's body just ending up there, lifeless. I just felt at that moment, that I could get inside of this tape, and help my best friend.
But at this point, I knew he was already gone.. I looked down on the floor in sadness for a few seconds. That's when I heard it, I heard this whisper coming from the tape. Saying, your turn. I looked up at the TV screen in shock, and the video stopped in static. I stood up in fear as I saw how my VCR completely burned off Jake's tape inside it, and with that, destroying everything I saw.
The next day, I was reading the newspaper and saw Jake's "freak accident," according to the newspaper. I saw the picture of his lifeless body on the newspaper, his face didn't look normal.. He had no face anymore, but it was replaced from someone else's.. It's like if someone grabbed him and bashed his face many times and left it disfigured. It was so horrible.. I don't know how much time I have left.. It's been a month since that video.. I've been having all sorts of nightmares, I've been seeing weird things.
Things that you can only can see in your dreams. Unimaginable things. At this point, I just can't sleep anymore. I can't even type properly, been having typing mistakes when I re-read everything I typed so far.
I've been experiencing everything that Jake went through. But if you're out there and have read this story, let me tell you that it's not entirely over. I've been doing a lot of research and people have encountered this thing and have escaped it. They say that the ghost or demon attacks their victims once you're alone in the room with the TV. Once you've heard about the story, you have exactly one month left.
And this is some thing people have done to escape it. The ghost or demon attacks his victim once he's close to the TV, right? So what you have to do, is bring some random 'friend' of yours, it can be anyone. Invite him into your place, exactly one month after getting aware of the Channel 1 story and leave him there at exactly 1:00 AM. Lock him or her inside if needed.
The ghost or demon will take the first person already in front of the TV. It's like if you and your 'friend' exchanged lives. You take his and he take yours, suffering the most horrible death. It's cruel, but it works. Using him or her as a scapegoat.
Even though you sacrifice someone to live, he will still come after you. There is no way escaping it. While you sacrifice someone, it's still gonna be you on the upcoming month. You're still cursed, but if you really wish to live, you must sacrifice people every month. I think this is what 'he' wants me to do.. Give 'him' fresh souls to take.. Give 'him' all the faces he needs.. 'He' wants us all..