Urban Legends Reference Pages: Horrors (Bed Reckoning) E-mail collected on the Internet: "This photo was taken in a hospital after the patient was in an accident where he was responsible for a young woman's death. It is said that when you receive this image and do not send it to at least five people, the woman will look for you during the night to collect your soul. People in Laredo, Texas, received this image and did not send it and were killed outside a bar; it looked as if this woman killed them. Send it to five people or the woman will look for you."
The truth has far less to do with murdering ghosts than it does with movies: the picture came from a 2003 Thai horror film variously titled 'The Mother' or 'The Unborn' or 'Bangkok Haunted 2: The Unborn'. The spooky image was used as the DVD artwork for the film. The sleeping person in the photo is not, as the e-mail would have it, a man but rather Thai actress Aranya Namwong.
If any of my friends sent this to me, I don't know what I'd think. The woman in the photo doesn't look like she's capable of looking for anyone. And the photo even looks like a movie photo, not like a snapshot someone took with some mysterious unexplained exposure anomolies. And people getting killed outside bars is not exactly something bizarre that makes one suspect the paranormal.
I have, however received 2 other bogus forwards this week from friends... The virus warning hoax "a virtual card for you", and the rumour of Starbucks refusing free coffee to soldiers in Iraq.
If everyone had Snopes.com bookmarked, it would probably save a heap in e-mail bandwidth usage.
posted by Chloe | Thursday 18 November 2004 12:38 AM
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E-mail collected on the Internet: "This photo was taken in a hospital after the patient was in an accident where he was responsible for a young woman's death. It is said that when you receive this image and do not send it to at least five people, the woman will look for you during the night to collect your soul. People in Laredo, Texas, received this image and did not send it and were killed outside a bar; it looked as if this woman killed them. Send it to five people or the woman will look for you."
