Ready or not, here I come...

October 28, 2004 6:59 PM

My son, Peter has always loved to play hide and seek. In fact, he loves it so much that he will wake me up in the middle of the night to play. The only problem is that Peter has been dead for eight years. This website documents the hell I've lived and continue to live every night.
posted by FunkyHelix (29 comments total)

Peters stuff for sale on Ebay?
posted by stbalbach at 7:05 PM on October 28, 2004

Self link or quote?
posted by bonaldi at 7:08 PM on October 28, 2004

groan...
posted by dig_duggler at 7:08 PM on October 28, 2004

that was the most depressing fpp paragraph ever. it's Max Payne: The Website.
posted by graventy at 7:15 PM on October 28, 2004

Quote. Forgot to add the ".
posted by FunkyHelix at 7:21 PM on October 28, 2004

If it's real, it's creepy but depressing. If it's a hoax, it's even creepier and still depressing. So, um, thanks.
posted by soyjoy at 7:29 PM on October 28, 2004

(By "real," I mean sincerely posted by someone who believes what they're saying, not passing judgment on the metaphysical reality or unreality of it)
posted by soyjoy at 7:30 PM on October 28, 2004

i have goosebumps...is it for real?
posted by amberglow at 7:30 PM on October 28, 2004

That video is soooo fake.

No, I'm not going to back that up with anything. It just looks fake to me.
posted by neckro23 at 7:34 PM on October 28, 2004

I have no idea. I just found it looking for Halloween type links.
posted by FunkyHelix at 7:34 PM on October 28, 2004

Holy moly, that's creepy. Check out the video listed under the link "documenting peter."

I think it's a hoax, but it's pretty effective. Happy Halloween, y'all.
posted by elwoodwiles at 7:38 PM on October 28, 2004

Wow, I have never seen this before in my entire life. Never, not even in 98, Or 99. Or 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003.
posted by Keyser Soze at 7:44 PM on October 28, 2004

I haven't seen it, and it didn't come up in search.
posted by FunkyHelix at 7:50 PM on October 28, 2004

Keyser: Well, at least you now have a complete set.
posted by ColdChef at 7:52 PM on October 28, 2004

If you wrote a site documenting a tragedy and supernatural events, would you include a prominent link to creepysites.com?

Fails the laugh test, but it's a good idea.
posted by dash_slot- at 8:00 PM on October 28, 2004

I don't get it. I like to play hide and seek with my peter.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:15 PM on October 28, 2004

Dude. There I was feeling all bad for the guy, only to do a quick search and find out it's a Yarnbird site. I feel silly now.
posted by Ruki at 8:15 PM on October 28, 2004

And I managed to screw up the link. That's Yarnbird
posted by Ruki at 8:17 PM on October 28, 2004

crash_davis wins!
posted by dabitch at 8:22 PM on October 28, 2004

Did the "Back to CreepySites.com" button send up a red flag for anyone else?

If the guy was understandably going through the anguish of watching his family die and created a website in their memory, would he consciously characterize his site as "creepy"?

This detail, and a few others, make the site seem iffy.

On preview: dash_slot beat me to it!
posted by dhoyt at 8:32 PM on October 28, 2004

you guys have no Halloween spirit at all...jeez.
posted by amberglow at 8:34 PM on October 28, 2004

Yeah, the guy's email contact is a creepysites.com address. I, for one, welcome the not-overly-scary Halloween fun.

I also want to comment on something a little strange and stupid. I was pretty freaked out by commercials for The Grudge. After reading about the Japanese original, the general plot, etc., I kept expecting to find strange ghostly figures in my apartment (I moved in three weeks ago). But once Rotten Tomatoes tabulated the reviews at 43%, it stopped being scary.
posted by hammurderer at 8:38 PM on October 28, 2004

I think icanstilltellyourwifebill.com wins the award for best eight-word domain name.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 8:41 PM on October 28, 2004

I was pretty freaked out by commercials for The Grudge.

Haven't seen the american remake, but I can attest to fact that the japanese one scared the poop outta me, and both versions are by the same director.
posted by GeekAnimator at 9:54 PM on October 28, 2004

But...there _is_ no boat ride at Epcot!


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHhhhhhhh!!!!!!
posted by Poagao at 12:14 AM on October 29, 2004

hahahahahahaha poagao
posted by Satapher at 12:50 AM on October 29, 2004

Those commercials freak me out too. Stupid kitten boy.
posted by Hildegarde at 6:37 AM on October 29, 2004

Sounds like a movie teaser site. It seems decidedly spare, and leaves me feeling that this isn't really what a person facing this situation would write.

I mean -- wouldn't you detail the experience completely? Look at sites around the web where people talk about their problems. They go into excruciating detail. They don't shut up. You want them to, but they don't.

This seems so flat and affectless, that it simply makes me go -- FAKE.

Would be a creepy movie though.
posted by mooncrow at 6:50 AM on October 29, 2004

BOOOOOOOOOOO.

And not in a Halloween way...
posted by BobFrapples at 2:07 PM on October 29, 2004