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Y& #39;ever watch travel videos and look at the background the whole time to see if you spot someone you know but then get irrationally afraid that you WILL spot someone you know just staring straight into the camera from a window or a café seat even though you know they weren& #39;t there
But you can& #39;t stop watching at that point because you& #39;ve come this far and what are they doing in the video when you know they were home when it was made? Who is that? It can& #39;t be them! Why are they just motionless and staring into the camera in a way that looks unnatural?
The voice of the host fades out, the music edited in fades to nothing as you stare back, the only sound now like the chirp of a cricket but it never ends and it sounds like it& #39;s coming closer moment by moment as you lock eyes with the doppelganger in the video.
The scene seems to slowly zoom away from it original focus, the figure gradually pulling in the camera. Pulling YOU in.
Closer and closer until they& #39;re all that fills the frame, a slightly blurred background feature now the main focus, familiar but wrong in a way you can& #39;t place.
Closer and closer until they& #39;re all that fills the frame, a slightly blurred background feature now the main focus, familiar but wrong in a way you can& #39;t place.
Suddenly the scene cuts to a landscape. The shrill tone stops abruptly. The camera pans over a beautiful waterfall and you sigh, the tension releasing.
Until you see it.
Standing by the river at the top of the waterfall, just close enough to recognise.
It& #39;s here too.
Until you see it.
Standing by the river at the top of the waterfall, just close enough to recognise.
It& #39;s here too.
The trilling sound returns, louder than before, and despite it& #39;s distance you can clearly see it staring through the camera right at you, intent on you.
As the ear splitting sound becomes unbearable you struggle to grab the remote and hit the off button.
The picture fades.
As the ear splitting sound becomes unbearable you struggle to grab the remote and hit the off button.
The picture fades.
After a few moments you regain composure, still shaken but able to move you put down the remote.
A shrill sound catches you off guard. You glance at your ringing phone. Incoming call, from the very person who& #39;s double just haunted you.
Hesitantly you pick up.
"Hello." You hear.
A shrill sound catches you off guard. You glance at your ringing phone. Incoming call, from the very person who& #39;s double just haunted you.
Hesitantly you pick up.
"Hello." You hear.
For a moment you say nothing.
Then;
"Hey man, I just saw you on TV!"
Then;
"Hey man, I just saw you on TV!"
What the fuck am I even talking about?
I should go outside or something.
I should go outside or something.
Note: I really hate how Twitter formats threads sometimes, by hiding the intervening tweets and showing the first, the penultimate and the last it ruins any sense of timing, destroying payoff tweets be they resolutions or punchlines.
As was the case here until I added this one.
As was the case here until I added this one.
