Caillou: Darkness

Made on September 13, 2020

Hi, my name is Jimmy. I'm 17 years old and go to the doctor twice a month for therapy. You might be wondering,"Why are you telling me that you have therapy?" Well, I'll tell you why. I guess I should begin by explaining how one weekend I was home alone. I was 16 when this happened, so it was pretty normal to be home alone at that age. No one was home except for me and my dog, Fanny. I was going through some boxes in my attic. I had searched every box except one. I went over to the box and looked inside.

It was full of Caillou DVDs I hadn't viewed since I was 8. I loved the show as a kid, but started to hate it when I was 10. I decided to search through it anyway, due to curiosity. All of the DVDs I had watched, except for two of them. One of them was an Christmas special of Caillou and another which looked rather weird to me. Yes, it was a Caillou DVD. But, it was a really bizzare one. The cover was just white with some writing on it that said CAILLOU- 3 EPISODE SPECIAL. I was confused. So, I took the DVD case downstairs and opened it. The DVD had some writing on it as well. It said "CAILLOU" in black marker. There was more writing underneath it that said "3 EPISODE SPECIAL" in red sharpie. I placed the disc into my DVD player only to realize that it didn't include 3 episodes, only one. The episode was called: "Darkness". That was an unusual title for an episode of a children's show. I clicked on the episode. After watching it, I was almost scared to death.

To be honest, that's why I now go to therapy.

The episode began with the theme song, but there was no sound. The last image from the opening showed a drawing of Caillou standing in the middle of nowhere. The background was nothing more than a black void. Caillou was staring at me with large hollowed-out eyes and a creepy smile. The image stayed on the screen for what seemed like two minutes straight.

Then, the screen faded to black. Finally, it went to the actual episode. Caillou was sitting on his bed with a somber look on his face. He was crying for what seemed like a minute and a half. Then, Caillou started to look at me. In the voice of a twelve-year old boy, he said:

"Please, help me! I can't live like this anymore."

Soon, Caillou walked out of his room and towards the front door. Caillou was walking for about five minutes, when he stopped. He then looked at me again. Caillou turned his head away. He then turned around and walked back into his house. Caillou sat down on the stairs, crying. I had never seen him this depressed. Soon, Rosie went up to Caillou. Caillou simply said "GO AWAY!" in an angry voice. Rosie didn't go away. Now, Caillou was mad. He grabbed Rosie's doll and smashed it into pieces on the floor. Rosie started bawling and ran downstairs. Caillou then went to his room. He walked in, looked at me, and said: "The reason I'm sad... is because... I... was... adopted!" Caillou then started to cry. But this wasn't the way he usually cry. His crying sounded almost realistic. Caillou grabbed a rope from his closet and hung himself with it.

Ever since then, I have suffered from many frightening hallucinations about this non-particular episode. Eventually, I smashed the DVD into bits. Now, I was curious. Why was the episode called "Darkness"? This episode had nothing to do with darkness whatsoever (except for the black screens). I reported this to the police, but they were obviously no help.

If you ever find this DVD, please contact me.