About ten years ago I turned on the TV around 2:30 am. Sure enough , all I saw on the screen were colour bars and there was no sign of anything coming up soon. I was about to give up and go to bed when suddenly the colour bars disappeared from the screen, and some place that looked like a landfill appeared instead.Together with the image, the words "The NNN News Bulletin" popped up at the top. For a while the screen continued to show the same landfill, viewed from a distance.
I carried on watching it, wondering what it was. Soon a lot of names started appearing, moving slowly up from the bottom of the screen, like end credits of a movie; and a monotonous voice read out these names one by one.
So it went on for the next five minutes or so, against a quiet, gloomy music in the background.
Finally when all the names had been said, the voice announced; "They are tomorrow's victims. Goodnight."
Ever since then I'm too scared to watch anything on TV past midnight.
And no one has ever believed my story either.
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NB:
The picture is just an image and has nothing to do with the story.
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2012:
I found this video on Youtube, showing how "The NNN News Bulletin" might have looked like.
Comments
At first I thought the story wasn't very creepy, but then I read it again and thought about it. Maybe the people named on the screen weren't supposed to die...maybe something else happened to them...to me, thinking about that was the most creepy part.
This story is a sort of urban legend, I think (I should put it under "urban legend" category too) and no one knows whether it's true or not. But never mind about its truthfulness, as long as it is interesting!
And also thousands of people die everyday and not all of them are going to be on news. It could have been news from Hell!:) Or as debbie said, something else other than dying happened to them!
Thanks alot for your comments.
Love the blog! Always great for when I need a good scare!
I liked this story.Interesting, and maybe a bit creepy.
But that is a creepy sort of story. A channel that predicts who will die in the next day. Very creepy.
Keep up the good work, Ms. Saya. =3
IDK what it really means.
NNN = Netherworld News Network?
It stopped around when I was still in elementary school, so I've experienced the tele just stopping out of nowhere only once. The white noise freaked me out so I jumped off the couch, turned it off, and hid under the blanket until I passed out! XD
If I heard this legend, which I had several times (though it used an American news station), back then... I wonder if I'd have had the courage to try this.
Watch some cheerful stuff, chat with your friends, and read nice books to take your mind off!
NNN= Namazu Ningyo Nue?
maybe idk
And you have knowledge of Japanese words too? Wonderful! Thank you for the interesting comment!
It does very much remind me of Death note...
Ahh I remember reading this!
Now there is a video how exciting, it was very well made but oh that video scared me! I didn't like the image that was slipped in... what a fright! Plus the names and ages made me a bit teary even though they were fake (I sure hope they were fake)
I believe so too the NNN might be Japanese words. I would think creepy words...or in english it could be the
"Names Names Names" Network.
Though i'm not sure this particular story is real, I think the concept sounds interesting. Even if the victims named do not die I think something very bad might happen to them. Though the video was not real, it showed a lot of elderly ages. If not all victims die, it could mean a bad illness of some sort possibly or something that lessens life years.
Other references include Marysan and the doppelgänger rule where allegedly you die 3 days later after seeing your double. Every time I listen to it I think of this blog.
Awww Marysan! That urban legend's probably been translated many times already, I don think I'll bother doing it myself! I think I want to translate stuff that nobody else hasn't, that'd be more interesting!
子取り箱 is a story I'm interested in. I did a search on it (perhaps too boldly), and I found mostly very abridged summaries of it along with "don't search this it's bad luck." Bit of a late warning, don't you think?
I wish there was a better video of NNN out there somewhere, though. There are three and they seem to have gotten details wrong. None of them seem to have any voiceover either :c Apparently NNN is the name of a real news company though? So I do wonder about that. Perhaps the OP was dreaming?
Still my favourite urban legend by far. It's good to tell at parties.
Apparently at approximately 3:00am every night, this program will appear, listing the names of those who will see "duplicates" of themselves the coming morning, and eventually the duplicate takes over their body as a different being all together.
I'm not sure what a landfill has to do with the broadcast, I hadn't heard that part of it. I'm eager to find out now!