Status: First-person accounts
Reports of BEK phenomena are becoming increasingly widespread on the net.
Stories about these creepy adolescents with entirely black eyes and a threatening manner have been cropping up in first-person reports ever more frequently since 1998, when journalist Brian Bethel
first wrote about his experience with BEKs.
These accounts follow a regular pattern:
Most accounts occur at the individual's home. There is a knock on the door and on the other side, waiting patiently, is a kid of roughly 12 to 17 years of age. Their dress is usually common for the time and they seem rather normal. But then the sudden fear and the sense of wrongness sinks in. And then of course, there are the eyes.
Seemingly, they repeatedly ask to be let in, and often mention that they must be invited. None of the reports I have found deal with what happens if someone is persuaded...
So who (or what) are they? Providing you believe the stories, current theories span everything from ghosts and vampires to aliens or pranksters.
Comments
First post in alt.folklore.ghost-stories was 28Aug1997 - http://groups.google.com/group/alt.folklore.ghost-stories/browse_thread/thread/1c55e42177aaf5e7/dab3cfab14c70ba4?lnk=st&q=#dab3cfab14c70ba4
_PRIOR_ to this post, the author was posting on several groups about memes, including this in this thread on alt.magick in July of 1997: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.magick/msg/ab98ee224ad5c804
Quoting from a much longer post:
" The will, in this case, is the belief, especially among those who
were brave/foolish enough to try the ritual itself. The method by which
the necessary reality shift would be accomplished is the fear the story
and the (imagined?) entity produced.
Can such a thing happen? I don't mean necessarily that thanks to me
and my pals there's some ancient hag that can zap in through mirrors and
grab children running around. But I know lots of magi who work with
archetypical spirits and such, and it occurs to me that such an entity
would have considerable potential for such workings. (Although I'd
consider it ill-advised to use her.)
So, can we create something like Mary just by collective force of
will? If not just childhood legends why not gods and goddesses as well?
Are they all just expressions of enough collective reality shifts? Or
can they somehow exist on their own?"
The only mystery here to me is whether Brian Bethel was attempting to create an urban legend, or bring about the existance of these creatures.
Yes, except you know, indigo children aren't evil.
Or even real. 😉
Man, this thread is old, lol it's amazing you still received an update.
If Dale's aunt told you she sprouted wings and flew, would you believe her?
Sorry, you'll have to do better than hearsay to sell this cock and bull story.
"why does everyone keep saying contacts????? if you actually read the stories, the people all say the ENTIRE eye was black, not just the iris and pupil."
I have no idea if special contact lenses have ever figured into any alleged sighting of BEK's, but for the record, there ARE special effects contact lenses which will make the entire eye look black.
Also, is Cranky Media Guy an estonian? o.o