ok so this is REAL and it happened to me and my cousin jared who is 19 and very smart with computers (he got expelled for hacking but it totally wasnt his fault)
It started when my mom bought a USED laptop from a garage sale because it was marked with a piece of tape and black marker writing that said “barely haunted” which should have been a bit of a red flag but whatever. The laptop was named DELLL with an extra L but my mom told me it “the extra L must stand for LUCK”.
when you turned it on it made a noise like a sigh, not the normal boot sound but like someone tired of being alive and bored with existing in this fucked up world
Anyway! 1 night at 3:12 AM (it was a scary time still even if it was 12 minutes after the hour) I was trying to download free music very legally from a legal resource and a website popped up.
the website address of the website was www dot captcha dot you and it said…
PLEASE PROVE YOU ARE HUMAN
It was a normal antibot test but the pictures were wrong. Instead of bridges or motorcycles it said…
“select all images that scare you”
there were 9 blurry pictures and some of them looked like my IRL house that i live inside of but from angles that shouldn’t be possible, like the images were reversed with the doors and windows photoshopped to the wrong sode. One picture was just my face looking real dumb and drooling but I was sure i never made that face!
I clicked none of them because I was honestly very mad.
The captcha failed and it said:
YOU MUST TRY AGAIN LATER
After that my laptop started autonomously typing on its very own even though my hands were folded on the desk like a good boy I swear.
It self-typed:
“don’t worry you’re going to make that face soon”
I slammed the screen and keyboard shut together and went to bed… but I couldnt sleep! Because I kept hearing the windows notification sound in the dark room around me.
Like… Ding…! Ding…! Ding…! It was suspiciously perfect in sound.
The next week my cousin jared came over and I told him everything and he laughed and said “my n-word its probably malware” but he said the actual word and i was honestly really, really shocked. i never thought jared was racist but there it is
besides the bigotry, jared’s response made me feel dumb because i had never even considered all of this ghostly madness was simply a malicious bit of code.
That was… until his phone BUZZED and he went pale like a slice of plain cheesecake.
His phone notification just said:
YOU WILL BE CAPTCHA’D
He never did anything that had needed a captcha so this made zero sense
That night we turned the laptop back on to delete everything and reinstall the windows operating system. but when we walked into my room the screen was already on. It showed yet another fuckin’ captcha but it wasnt squares of images… it was WORDS!
– breathing
– blinking
– bleeding
– rotting
At the bottom it said SELECT ALL THAT APPLY
Jared jokingly clicked breathing and blinking as we both laughed at the ludicrousness of the stupid captcha! HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Then the laptop froze for a second and then the cursor moved by itself and checked the other two options (bleeding and rotting) too.
Jared screamed “wait dont!” and then he stopped moving.
Like this dude did not even move a micro-inch. He was just staring without blinking and I could tell that he wasn’t breathing in the LEAST.
I ran to get my mom from the detached garage but when I came back with her Jared was gone and the laptop screen just said:
THANK YOU FOR ENTERING THE SITE
I was so confused i just stood there looking dumb and drooling in utter unbelief.
Alright, so the only creepy part is this… Ever since then… websites don’t ask me if I’m human anymore… They just turn me away and refuse service. No captcha. No pictures. No motorcycles. No bridges. No busses. No traffic lights. nothing.
And! Sometimes when I’m tired… I swear I can hear the DELLL laptop sighing from its drawer, but this time it’s like it’s relieved.
Like a fat man who got fed.
Like I’m the one who fed the fat man without even knowing what he ordered.
If this type of silly captcha shows up online, and you read it, and the images appear blurry for a second… well that’s normal dont worry about it.
Just keep reading though.
ALSO if a website ever asks you to select all images that that scare you, pick carefully.
It might just save your cousin Jared
THE END
