A killer video, allegedly.
Summary
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The first time i unrar’ed the three compressed files, i got a video. i saw a few seconds, felt sick, deleted it. It was some fucked-up dude walking with his hands out in front of him, zombie style, no noise but the sound of his breath and what sounded like a heartbeat… then i saw a baby laying down, realized this green armed fucker was going towards it, thought of my own kid, and closed it.
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it was posted back in 2007-8 under some foreign link, the OP basically posted the link stating how fucked up it was. It was real grainy, from what i remember it showed strange images, like a bathtub full of writhing maggots, haunting paintings from old times melting, random forests,flashing colours, text in a different language (from what i remember) all while a strange voice played which sounded like a strange murmrer, if you've seen the 'there is nothing' video, it was like that voice but more indistinguishable. Then the graininess lifted a little, and there was a video of a small puppy being held up by it's neck, it was moving like in pain but it's cries where like a human childs, it then cut to a nursery with lots of craddles all the children where still in the cots, presumed dead, it walked over to one of the cots, and one of the newborns raised up a little, began to cry, and bled from the eyes and mouth. then another shot of a basement (like the original picture) with a malformed hand disapearing into it blood stained. Lastly it showed more text (someone 'stated' it said 'you're race is one that is dying') with an image of a plant rotting very quickly, close ups of corpses. and what i can only describe as 'real' cases of exorcism and demonic posession, which clearly have never been seen outside the said country of origin. while this seen plays, the voice that was talking fairly calmly, breaks out into screams of intense pain and suffering, which is just as deeply chilling as the initial shock. The creepy, radio like murmering voice is talking throughout the whole video
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Posts like these were the hooks used to spread the Grifter meme, which were quickly followed with "OMG THIS IS FAKE STOP POSTING THIS GARBAGE" and "STFU, troll". Debate raged regarding the existence of the video, and a week after the original thread, Encyclopedia Dramatica's /x/ article was updated with instructions on how to troll them by spamming the site with Grifter threads. By the end of the day, Grifter threads were filling up the first few pages of the board, which probably spurred /x/'s denizens further to find the source of the screencaps.
Origins
"the_solipist" posted a thread about the video on 4chans /x/ board, claiming that it caused anyone who watched it "to experience symptoms of nausea, nightmares, and even suicide". Readers wanted to see the video, and several 'fake' versions popped up before the 'real' one surfaced.
Current status
Eventually, the troll was exposed as people stumbled onto "Little Otik", an obscure Czech art film, which was used in the Grifter footage.
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"the grifter is, indeed, my work of fiction. i started a thread about it after remembering the name from that "tales from the darkside" episode about a creature called "the grither" that i saw when i was little. i samef***ed in the original thread a few times, but it really caught on like wildfire; piquing the curiosity of those who wanted to see it. along with the hive-minded trolls (from /b/?) that acting in the interest of my efforts by making their own claims to having had seen it. yes, i hate to lie, so i'll admit... i made the edited screencaps ripped from little otik. i was surprised it took you guys as long as it did to identify them. i was actually talking to a film major student from my school about shooting a video for the grifter this weekend, but i had intended to splice in the scenes from little otik.. kinda ruined my plans when you guys caught on, though"
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Facts
- Fakety fake fake. Got that? NOT REAL.
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