Saw this on Kotaku:
Everyone knows that Ms. Pac Man is filled with ghosts, four of them to be specific. But a fifth ghost?
That's what a Boston-area Craigslister claimed when he was contacted to ask why he was giving away a Ms. Pac Man cabinet for free.
Someone on ArcadeControls.com contacted the cabinet owner for the explanation, which involves poltergeist, a crying 3-year-old and a "dark figure."
I sent a message to see if anyone had claimed it and if they had any pics. I got a response back saying that it was available but no pictures. I emailed back asking why they where getting rid of it for free. Here is the response I got.
"When I bought this machine the previous owner told me it was haunted. I laughed, didn't believe him, because I didn't believe in that sort of thing.
Got a bad feeling the day it was delivered. Game started on its own in the middle of the night several times, had a tech service the machine three times (very pricy housecalls), but he couldn't find the problem.
Three-year old daughter started talking about the "man in the video machine", didn't think much of it, then my wife saw a dark figure move across the basement and into the machine. She ran out of the house, would not return until the machine was out of the house. I moved it to my business garage (two miles away), and several times I have opened the garage to find tools missing or scattered, things tipped over.
This is why I am giving away a $1000 machine for free."
Now mock me if you will, but I'm not fucking with this. I mean, I live near Boston so if I wanted this cabinet I'd take it. But hey, The first person to die in a horror movie is the retard that doesn't believe the stories and rushes into the haunted house to look cool. I'm not going to be that guy, rather be a safe pansy thank you very much.
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5 comments:
Zoey:
Just don't let your blog become a dumping ground for stuff like Kotaku posts. We come here to, well, read about the life and times of David L. Kenney :P not ms. pacman machines.
Zoey:
If I wanted to read Kotaku posts I'd go to Kotaku :) Now if David had went and got the machine, and posted his experiences with it then that'd be appropriate.
Of course he can post whatever he wants, it's his blog, but if it becomes Kotaku 2, then I'll have to pass on reading it.
P.S. You're supposed to write out your name when you post anonymously, but I'm guessing you're Erdrick? =p
Zoey:
Geez back off will you? and he has a friend named Erdrick who posted here before so I assumed. If you're not him you could simply correct me by telling me who you really are?
I wouldn't not read it because it resembled kotaku, but because he took the story directly from kotaku. If he was just going to use this blog to comment on kotaku posts all the time it would be boring, because I could just go to kotaku for that.
I want to read things like all the rest of his posts before this one ( stuff that's happening in his life) not comments on some silly kotaku article.
You've gone too far now. I've deleted those posts. Don't comment again if you're going to insult.
I saw the haunted machine on CL tonight - in the Boston area still. It had been dumped behind Belmont High School. Poster said to come get it and that it was haunted and to only take the machine if you could handle it - all e-mails would be ignored. That was about 3 and a half hours ago and the post has since been deleted so I'm not sure if someone picked it up or if it was flagged. I just moved to the area recently and when I told my roommate about it he said "It's back??" It's baaaaaaaaack.
He wanted to go get it but then I explained how you don't invite the paranormal into your house. It's one thing to go TO the paranormal or if the paranormal comes to YOU - but to bring it home is only asking for trouble.
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