The latest craze
sweeping through LiveJournal, Xanga, and other blogging communities involves people posting this message on their blogs:
A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the ground when she was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded.
It obviously seems to be inspired by the movie
The Ring. Other than that I don't know much about this (such as who started it, etc.), though I do know that I'm now safe.
Comments
But all of this is different from the legends I had heard about officials who just arbitrarily changed names from "Giannopoulos" to "Smith" or from "Kozlowski" to "Brown."
Also, many names were eventually changed either by the immigrants (or their descendants) themselves or by employers or others, and in later generations those changes have tended to be attributed to "Ellis Island."
I don't think admitting that names were changed would reduce tourism to Ellis Island, and this would help, rather than hinder, people tracing their geneologies, so long as they knew what the name had been changed to (which would most often be their own current family name).
>>>OR...we kick the shit out of that little girl when she comes visiting....(careful not to mistake any cooky selling girlscouts for her. <<<
It ought to be easy to tell the difference, since girl scouts rarely stick to the ceiling, as far as I know. 😊
Has it occured to anyone that you are in fact posting on a blog right now, and if you were really worried about the 'curse', you could just copy n' paste the message and put it in a post on this very thread, and that would technically suffice? Just sayin'....
"I think it's that Alex guy. Get me the broom."
"No, let's catch him in a jar and let him out in the backyard. If you squash a blogger it's bad luck, makes it rain or something...."
This occurs when you are just awake (either going to sleep or waking up), and your body is still paralysed (as it is every time you are asleep).
Interesting article here about a program on the subject from the observer, no buried girls selling cookies I'm afraid, you'll have to make do with a giant demonic bat:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/life/story/0%2C6903%2C596608%2C00.html
is a good anagram from these words!
TOMA SOTA BALCU
Thank you. I think I will sleep better now.
If you caught the ghost of Blogger Alex in a jar, think how much you could get for that jar on eBay!
And you'd let him out again?!?
Et cum spiritu two oh
Don't you eat my sleazy pancakes
Just for Saintly Alphonzo
That's the counter chant.
Sorry, but I've been having enough trouble sleeping as it is. ;_;
TOMA SOTA BALCU
Thank you. I think I will sleep better now.>>>
Ditto
O.K., I ot freaked out, sorry.
I feel really stupid doing this. Really stupid.
Better safe than sorry.
"TO A CAUSAL TOMB"
Is that creepy or lame... I haven't decided yet...
I think anything with the word tomb is creepy anywhoo...
ARG, Why'd I even read it in the first place?
Scared the shit outta me :( I didn't send it and I'm still breathing, I feel cool saying that 😊.
Keep saying this over and over, faster and faster. Good things will happen. 😛
Died, did she?
By a homicidal murderer?
Y'know, it'd be the grammatical mistakes that'd bug me about this, not some girl on the ceiling.
phew, I'm safe too now.
Toma Sota Balcu!
Posted by Gigi on Mon Jan 10, 2005 at 11:28 PM
look, it says 11:28pm... still another 32 minutes lol
fuckin people preyin' on m'OCD
Which makes me think that I'm going to be killed by a well-dressed baby who 'runs a restaurant, and that's all'. Which is only slightly more disturbing than the original version.
But I guess I'm safe; I posted this on my livejournal. Mleh! Mleh, I say!
tom sabo at UCLA
Tom Baso at UCLA
etc.
think it over, or she will kill you.
It doesn't seem any OH MY GOD: Dios Mio
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH :ahhh: