Mysterious Notes

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(This is a thread from 2chan)


287 name：Reserve Army Posting Day：03/05/10 11:28
I can't tell anyone about this for fear they'll think I'm mental, but...
Sometimes I get messages from (what I'm guessing as) "the other me," and they're getting creepier.

The first time it happened was 5 years ago.
I had been glued to TV when I noticed there was a note lying in front of me on the table.
"This is a test," it said.
It was written in my own handwriting, no doubt about it, but I couldn't remember writing it at all.
The same sort of thing happens once every half a year.

The next note said:
"What does this mean? I want to record the state I am in.
If I see what I've written it might help jog my memory, so I'll write it down."

The next:
"When was the last time I was here? Strange, it seems the time freezes while I am not here."

The next:
"I have no memory of what happened before coming here, so I haven't got a clue. I guess the only thing I can do is to make the other me notice."

The next:
"Oi, you! Don't you dare ignore me! I'm going to drag you to this side no matter what it takes."

And this is the one that arrived today:
"Is it possible you have no memory of this side? In that case.....try writing a reply for a start."

This is how it goes with these strange notes. They arrive at the most unexpected moments.
Actually I have more notes like this, but they are mostly meaningless. What I've written above are the most coherent ones.

It's not like I have memory lapses or people around me notice me saying or doing things out of my character.
Is this the onset of some mental illness?
I'm debating whether I should respond to it or not.

Anyway, I can't predict when the next note will appear, so I don't know where to put my reply....
Do you have any ideas?


288 name：Anonymous behind you...：03/05/10 11:34*1
Why don't you take an empty box or something, label it "REPLY" and put a note in it?


289 name：287：03/05/10 11:39
>>288
Great idea....well, actually, no.
If someone in my family saw me doing that they'd think I'd gone crazy....
These notes appear when I'm not looking, mostly after I've been wrapped up in doing some activity; I snap out it, and there it is, in front of me.
Freaks me out a bit.


290 name：287：03/05/10 11:42
Of course it'd freak me out more if we started a conversation by exchanging notes though
Seriously lol


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293 name:Anonymous behind you...: 03/05/10 12:02
Dear 287

Today, you will have a visit from Six-Black*2
He will ask you many questions, and make sure you answer "yes" to every one of those questions except to the last one.

While he chats about everyday mundane things, he will subtly and cleverly weave questions into them, so be careful and do not end up saying "no" by mistake.
You can correct your answer, but it would make him suspicious.

To the last question, you will need to answer "Shige-chan."*3
You will do well to remember that "Shige" is written "重" in Chinese character, in case he asks for it.

If you were too uptight you would make things worse, so please relax and take it easy.
But you MUST follow all the instructions given above.

If you have a question I will answer you only once. You have 30 minutes starting from now.


294 name：287：03/05/10 12:06
Alright, then. I'll ask you only one thing.
What is the meaning of the last question?


296 name：Anonymous behind you...：03/05/10 12:18
Dear 287

Before the last question, he will say "now I will come to the last question," so you will know it.
I cannot tell you the exact contents of the question, but as you can easily deduce from "the answer," it is going to be something related to a person's name.

Well, then. Take care and goodbye.

P.S. If you really are 287 himself, you are more intelligent than I predicted, in my humble opinion. I am sure you will be fine.


365 name：Anonymous behind you...：03/05/12 07:27
I'm 287 but WTF??


374 name：287：03/05/13 09:19
OMG he came.
A weird person really did come to my place.

Yesterday, about half past six in the morning, I heard the front doorbell ring. I opened the door thinking it must be my neighbour, but instead I was greeted by a tiny old man carrying a large red bag.
For some reason he was standing with downcast eyes so I couldn't see his face properly, but because of his white goatee and voice I guessed that he was an old guy.

I thought he was just a random beggar and was about to shut the door in his face, when he suddenly asked me, "do you live here, sir?"
I was caught off guard and didn't answer straight away. Then he started to lift his head up ever so slowly.  
I felt something inexplicably creepy about it and answered, "yes." Just then I remembered what >>293 posted.
As soon as I answered, he put his head back to its original position. Then he fell silent....
 
I started to feel uncomfortable and tried to shut the door, but he asked me again:
" ************? " (I couldn't make out what he said)
He silently started to lift his head up.... I got freaked out and quickly answered, "yes." The old guy bowed his head down.
"Is this side the west....."  Bang!! I shut the door.

It seemed like he hang around in front of my house for a while but after some minutes he was gone.

This is all that happened but it was creepy as hell.
I was going to post about this immediately after it happened and that's why I posted >>365, but there was something wrong with my computer and the connection got cut off.
I couldn't reconnect it until it was time for work.
Really, what was that all about?



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*1 Anonymous behind you: On 2chan if you don't enter your name in the name field it automatically comes out as "Anonymous." Each board uses a distinctive variation on the standard "Anonymous," and as you can see this particular board uses "Anonymous behind you."
*2 Six-Black : "六黒" in the original text, where 六 means six, and 黒 means black. I have no idea how this word is supposed to be pronounced or what it means. I read someone's speculation that it might be a homonym of 喪黒, where 喪 means "mourning." If the word is pronounced as "mukuro", then  it could be  a homonym of 躯 (body) or 骸 (dead body).

*3 Shige-chan :  しげ (重) ちゃん in the origianl text.  "Shige" is a person's name, and "chan" is a suffix you put after a name as an indication of endearment towards that person.

(I accidentally deleted this post once, and had to rewrite the whole thing. It took me ages. (T T) )