The Cursed Baby Mozart Tape

When I was a kid, I enjoyed watching a lot of Baby Einstein. It had lots of great colors, music and characters. However, one episode that traumatized me was Baby Mozart.

Why did it traumatize me you might be asking? Well, there's one scene where there's a puppet of a dog in a black background, and that dog's barking always scared me.

I was always scared of it until some point in 2011. However, this isn't what I mean exactly. This is a story of how that dog got more insane.

It was a Saturday for me and I was in my room playing some PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale when I saw my mom come into the room. She said that there's a store down in Puyallup, Washington that still sells videotapes.

I asked if we can go there and she said that it was on her mind today. We got to this store called Habitat For Humanity which was very much like a thrift store. I was lucky to find the VHS section near one of the windows.

I picked up some interesting tapes like Thomas & The Magic Railroad, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Dora The Explorer: Move To The Music and others. And then I noticed that there was a Baby Mozart VHS. The tape was a Family Home Entertainment release.

Before going back to my mother, I went to the cash register and paid for the stuff I got. My mom was later on impressed by what I found.

When I got home later that afternoon, I took the tapes to the shed and inserted the Baby Mozart VHS into my TV with a built in VCR. Everything was going absolutely normal.

Up until, the scene with the dog.

The change I noticed was that there were no maracas heard in the background. The maracas (I think) were the sounds the dog makes while moving around.

This scene lasted for about 13 seconds before the dog automatically jumped out in front of the screen doing his usual bark. I jumped at that point because it was seriously unexpected.

He didn't even walk away before getting whistled at like he did. Instead he jumped down for 1 second and grabbed what looked like a sign with writing on it. The sign said, "The Clarks must die!"

Seeing that sent a chill down my spine. I questioned, "What ever did Julie do to that dog puppet that makes him want to kill her?"

As soon as the dog walked away from the screen, it showed what appeared to be a house at night instead of the animal faces that were originally seen.

The house looked like it was a 2 story place and the patio lights had a red glow to it. I couldn't really tell if it was Julie Aigner-Clark's house or maybe it was someone else's.

Some sinister music that sounded almost way too close to the Five Nights At Freddy's 4 title screen began to play which was making me confused.

The camera then panned to show the road where the dog puppet was seen on the body of a motion control toy robot. The dog then walked over to the door of the house as the camera person followed it along.

It seemed that the door was left half open as if Julie or her daughter Aspen didn't even bother closing it fully.

The dog looked from left to right multiple times while I could hear a conversation involving the 2 women I just mentioned.

Here's how the conversation went.

Julie: Okay sweetie, mommy's gonna go to bed since I've got quite a busy day at work tomorrow. Do you think you can handle taking a bath all by yourself without my help?

Aspen: Yes mommy, I love you.

Julie: Love you too. Don't spend too long in the bath. Good night!

Aspen: Good night mommy.

The hand of the cameraman told the dog in sign language that he will take him up the stairs. He then grabbed him and they went up. It was unclear if Aspen was already in the bathroom at the time.

Suddenly, they saw that the door to the bathroom was also half open, so they snuck in there before Aspen went in.

The cameraman then put the camera on the floor and the dog remained there. At this point, I knew that this scene was supposed to represent the dog and the cameraperson staring at Aspen taking her clothes off which was giving me a disgusted feeling.

Aspen then walked into the bathroom, turned on the tap and proceeded to take off her clothes.

This scene lasted for about 4 minutes which felt boring. It slowly reminded me of the opening scene to Seed of Chucky where Glen kills Claudia's parents.

By the time Aspen got into the tub, the cameraman stood up making Aspen look at him.

"Hey mister. Would you help me clean myself?" Aspen asked.

He didn't say anything. The dog then let out the same bark from earlier and Aspen then said, "Oh, I know this dog, Mommy used it for Baby Mozart. But, why is it on the body of a toy robot?"

Julie for some reason was able to hear this and walked into the bathroom while saying, "Aspen, can you keep your voice down a bit? You know I have work to-"

She then saw the cameraman and asked, "Um, I'm sorry, but who are you?"

The dog then barked again making Julie jump. She looked behind her and saw that the dog was carrying a knife, making her scream.

"Aspen, what is going on?" Julie asked in a scared manner.

"I have no idea!" Aspen replied.

Suddenly, the dog used the knife on Julie and stabbed her on the heel, which made her fall the ground. The cameraman then grabbed Julie by the hair and slammed her head back and forth on the tub, making Aspen scream in a blood curdling tone.

In fact, the scream was so loud that I felt the urge to cover my ears. As soon as the scream ended, Julie was already dead. Aspen then began crying. Seeing her crying made me feel really sorry for the loss of her mother, unless of course this was just scripted.

"Why did you murder my mother?" Aspen asked in a sad tone.

The cameraman then finally said his first words by saying, "Stand up, you're in a lot of trouble."

As he did this, he dropped the camera, landing on a folded towel that was there in some funny and odd way.

"But I didn't do anything wrong!" Aspen said.

Before doing anything to Aspen, the cameraman went to adjust the camera. At that moment, I knew I'd be seeing Aspen's death live on camera. The dog then gave the cameraperson the knife from earlier as Aspen let out another blood curdling scream.

The knife ended up going through her mouth which startled me very hard. Aspen and Julie were dead. The screen then faded to black. It was like this for about 3 seconds before red text appeared saying, "You shouldn't have been afraid of me at all. Otherwise, we wouldn't have done this. - The Dog".

I was rather terrified and confused at the same time, cause was it mentioning me? Or was it also a message for those who were also afraid of the dog?

The text faded out and stayed black for about 10 seconds.

Seeing this black screen was giving me the feeling that a jumpscare would appear. And I was so right.

After 10 seconds, it showed what appeared to be a doll's face. The doll was very much similar to the one from Language Nursery. The changes were that the doll's eyes were black with no pupils and it was crying blood, as she was also vomiting blood.

In the background was a very loud scream of a female which sent another chill down my spine and almost made me fall out of my seat. As soon as the jumpscare ended, the VHS ended for real.

I was scared shitless. I immediately took out the VHS and began smashing it.

Later on, I decided to watch some Horseland episodes on YouTube to calm down over that tape. I kinda wanted to get in touch with Julie Aigner-Clark about it, but she would probably have no idea what I was talking about.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure if I can see Baby Mozart the same way again.