Sunday, September 6, 2009

The exchange student to America

The names used in this story are fictional. Even though the representations may be real, for privacy reasons we have decided to use fictional names.
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I left Japan back in 2005 to go study in an University in Missouri. I was feeling quite home sick after a few months, and the language barrier didnt help at all. I found my self spending many afternoons in the computer lab owned by my University.

Sitting in front of the cold screen of my computer, I entered my student ID before I proceed.
I spent my time chatting with people back in Japan, or checking my emails. All the excitement I had when living in Osaka seemed like a dream right now.

I got used to using the computer near the windows in the corner of the room. One day, I arrived and realized that someone forgot to log out from the computer.
I didnt feel like logging out for whom ever was on the computer, so I decided to use the persons account.
As I did my usually web-surfing, I got curious to find out what kind of web sites the person before me have surfed.
I expected a few porn, but there was only one html listed in the search history.
I opened the html, and I got a black screen with a streaming video.
In the video, there was a women sitting down on a chair.

Weird.....

Thats all I thought at first, but I realize the writings on the bottom on the video.

"This is Susan Garrison, she will die in 30 minutes.

I felt disguested. Even if it seemed like a hoxs, I didnt care.
Some jokes are not funny.

I surfed some more, and I realized the video I saw earlier was getting the best of me.
I wanted to know what a blank home page with a video really had in store....
So, after awhile, I went on my history and found the website. The woman was still here, but she looked exhasted.
No, she wasnt exhasted, she was dead.

For some reason, I kept on going back to the website. I didn't want to go to the police since I was not certain that it wasn't fake.
After a while, I notice that there is a prediction on the bottom left corner of the page.

"Next Target: Karl Gates. Address: 326 Rose Street, MO."

After I came back 2 days later, I found a man in the video.

"This must be karl Gates...." I told my self.
This is when I realized that it might be a good idea to the tell the police.
Before I did, I decided to look at the name of the next target........

"Next Target: Yuri Katayama. Address: 615 Rockhill road, MO."

It was me.
Without going home, I went to the police and told them what I saw. They told me that my apartment was broken into, but they were not able to catch the person who broke in the apartment.

While having a police officer stick by me, I packed and left the country as soon as possible. After I went back to Japan, I never attempted to go to that website again.

2 comments:

  1. Karl Gates was probably the student that forgot to log out and he possibly was the last person who watched the video, hence he became the next target.

    However, came back 2 days after and the account still hasn't been logged out from the computer? really?

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  2. Karl Gates was probably the student that forgot to log out and he possibly was the last person who watched the video, hence he became the next target.

    However, came back 2 days after and the account still hasn't been logged out from the computer? really?

    ReplyDelete