Baby Einstein - Blah.EXE

I, really don't know what to say anymore. There really hasn't been much out of me over the past three days because of that horrible experience. Has anyone heard of Baby Einstein?  I've been a big fan of it ever since I got my first DVD which was Baby Shakespeare. The show was really good in my eyes because of the children, puppets, music, and humor. However, I have outgrown the show because I've gotten older. I still have a bunch of DVDs and even some old VHS tapes.

I've watched all of them except one. Its name was "Baby Mozart"

I've actually had it before but after got it and was about to watch it I couldn't find it. So I decided to go to my old buddy Amazon to look for not a re-release, not a remaster, but the original. I searched for it but couldn't find a copy until I got to the bottom of the results.

The title of the item said:

Baby Einstein 1998 BABY MOZART VHS TAPE GOOD AS NEW!

I couldn't wait to get it in the mail.

About a week later my Aunt and Uncle (who I was living with at the time) were going on a trip.

They said if I ever needed them to call them. At least I can watch the tape without being disturbed because my sister is also gone to a friends house as well.

Right after they left the mailman came and put something in the mailbox, most likely a package from the yellow wrapping I could see around it. So after he left I checked the mailbox and sure enough, it was my package. I grabbed it went into the house into my room, shut the door behind me and started opening it up.

After I opened it up I started to look at the tape‘s condition because you know Amazon you could get something that looks brand new on the picture of the item, but then you wind up getting a sand-filled Gamecube. The tape’s box art looked like it was copied off of Google Images and the actual tape didn't have a label. "Jeez Amazon, thank you very much," I said in a kind of in a sarcastic way even though I was really happy to get the tape.

Since I have an old VCR (thanks to the '80s) that I barely use anymore that I got from my uncle, I put in the VHS tape and pressed play.

For some reason, it took 9 minutes to get working (I'm guessing because of the bad condition.)

After the 9 minutes of waiting (which felt longer because I was excited to watch it), the tape finally began.

It seemed like everything was normal at first for the first 15 minutes of the tape.

It was a great episode that had a great composer: Mozart, followed by a funny dragon called, 'Bard the Dragom.'

As I was going to finish the other 15 minutes after the Bard segment, it seemed like the tape got preempted because it showed a black screen for about 3 minutes. Not only was I upset because I thought the tape didn't work after 15 minutes or was recorded over the actual show I was also mad that it seemed like I was scammed out of 10 bucks.

But after a little complaining, the show seemed to restart because it showed the intro again.

I was a little curious because the show normally doesn't restart unless it's over and you hear the tape rewinding inside the VCR, but it didn't, and I didn't hear the tape rewind inside. When the actual show started it showed the children featured from Baby Mozart standing on a floor, but for some reason, the atmosphere felt........ different, almost depressing.

I mean Chloe and Toby were smiling and the background was bright and colorful, but for some reason, it felt depressing. Everything was about normal until they started reading a letter.

Toby read the letter out loud, and it said:

*Dear Chole and Toby,*

*I am a mother of two children and my youngest son died in a car accident last night. His dad fell asleep on the wheel and crashed into a tree. He was fine but my son was killed. I don't know what to do anymore, I just hope you understand what I've been going through.*

*Michelle*

Chole looked really upset with the letter and Toby didn't say anything clever or funny which was kinda out of character for him. The show interrupted Chole and Toby before they could say anything.

The show started up with Bard walking in the black background (similar to Bard the Dragon) but there was a director offscreen saying "Bard, time for bed"

With Bard saying "Just four more minutes" but he decided to walk off and go to his room. He hopped up the stairs and into his room. However, he was extremely crazy, even more then he was when walking in. He thought "Yeesh, that show was horrible cuz I was scaring kids and babies, but it isn't real........is it?" Bard went to sleep and we get treated to his dreams/nightmares. There was a lot of flashing colors and shapes with Bard in the dream world. After about 30 seconds, I heard a loud booming voice that sounded like my TV speakers were at 100 volume/percent. However, my volume was only at to 10 percent. The voice said, "YOU ARE WEAK.....HUMBLE.......DISGRACEFUL........NO ONE!!!!!".

This part shocked me the most, I was jump scared by Bard saying “BLAH!!!!” except it looked a lot more.............demented.

Bard woke up with not a scream, not a cry, but instead a shocked face.

It cut to two days later. The Caterpillar was with The Director of Bard’s segment the director said "Bard hasn't come out of his room in two days. Is he sick? Is he coming down with something? Is he injured? I don't know because he never told us!" They entered his room.

Bard looked a lot worse than from the last time we saw him. He was laying straight on his bed staring straight up with red, bloodshot eyes and was drooling out of a gaping mouth.

The Caterpillar mascot closed his eyes and said, "Bard looks like he's in really bad condition". This was the first time I had seen The Caterpillar this serious. They cut to Bard again but he was shaking rapidly and started foaming out of the mouth, he seemed like he was crying as well.

It cut to a hospital building where a doctor that looked like Neptune "Bard hasn't slept in three days. He looks like he's shocked, almost in a coma state". Bard’s Director said to Bard “I didn't know you were scared, Bard, You should've told us". This was getting really disturbing and getting uncomfortable to watch.

After his director saw that the beeper (the thing that tells you if the heart is still beating in beeps) went flat, Neptune then said to them "I'm sorry everyone but.......Bard is.......dead". It was really sad, I felt like I was going to cry because Bard was one of my favorite characters in the show.

It cuts to a picture of Bard with his director crying in the background while mixed in with the words "He's gone......I can't bring him back I can't live like this anymore!".

Then it showed The Director in the kitchen, reaching in a medicine cabinet, pulling out a bottle of pills. She finishes with the following words "When you lose someone, you will always feel pain until you can't feel at all". She opens up the bottle, pours all the pills in her mouth, then passes out. The final image is another image of Bard

It cuts back to the counter top, where Chole and Toby are even sadder from when they read the letter then Chole said in a sad voice "It's time to talk to Compute about what we.. learned today". Compute didn't work though and Chole was getting angry at Compute for not working. She starts punching Compute getting angrier every time.

Toby even told Chole to stop or she might get hurt. Chole charged at the computer and when she hit it she fell over and got a scrape, Toby ran off crying he then went to the edge of the Grand Canyon and said to the audience while staring at the camera in a sad voice "Remember kids, God made you special and he loves you very much. Goodbye" Toby then jumped off the Grand Canyon and when he hits the bottom, he smashes into pieces. Then the episode ended with no credits just....nothing.

This was a very shocking experience for me I didn't know who made the episode I don't even know if I was dreaming or not. I couldn't sleep for two days I kept on getting nightmares about the following episode.

The next day I decided to email Baby Einstein (the company that made the Baby Mozart video) about this strange and disturbing episode. I didn't get a response until two weeks later and the e-mail said

*To: Whom it Concerns*

*From: Baby Einstein*

*Subject: Disturbing Baby Einstein 1998 Baby Mozart Reply*

*We are sorry, we have never made anything as disturbing or demented as you have described for us. But we understand your worry, so we think you should get rid of it and anything else that might worry you.*

*And Remember, God Made You Special And Loves You Very Much.*

*Baby Einstein.*

I took their word for it and threw the tape, and threw it in the garbage.

I tried to tell other people about it, even my closest friends and my Aunt and Uncle but they didn't believe me. I was watching the news on TV and there was a new story about a father and son who was driving last night and crashed into a tree. The father survived with few injuries but the son died and the mother was named Michelle. That's strange because there was something similar to the letter that Chole and Toby read.

So the next day I decided to take a drive around my home state Arizona.

After a few hours of driving, I found myself at The Grand Canyon so I parked my car there and went to the edge. I looked down into the rocky floor at the bottom of the canyon.

*Say to those with fearful hearts, “Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you.” - Isaiah 35:4*

The End