Leslie's Diary
Watched Tape: Winter of 2005

hi im Leslie and i was 14 years old when i watched the tape. when i heard about the tape i just knew i had to watch it so i called up the representative of my state's tape ring and they hooked me up with a copy. i was really scared at first because after i watched it i felt really dirty and sick for some reason and i was just like...shit what have i gotten myself into here!! so i made a copy right away but i figured i'd hold on a little longer before i passed it on to a tail. i figured since im cursed already i might as well take it as far as i can right? anyway not much actually happened on my day one other than feeling really freakin nasty the whole time. i dont know what caused that but it was really annoying.

on day two i woke up and i was sweaty all over even though it was winter. i think i had some pretty bad nightmares but i can't remember them really. when i went to take my shower that morning before school i felt really strange when the water hit me. for some reason i still had that weird dirty feeling even though i was like covered in soap and stuff in the shower! how can you feel dirty when your showering?? anyway the water smelled really rusty although it looked normal. i asked my brother if he could smell it too but he couldn't. on my way to school on the bus that morning, i saw the ladder. it was leaning up against the side of my house near my window as the bus pulled away. i was like...wtf we don't have any ladders that tall and why is there a ladder there? and then i remember that a ladder is the first thing you see. that's when i really started to honestly 100% believe everything. i was like shit man what's next?? anyway all through school that day i was on edge and really distracted you know. i kept absentmindedly scribbling spirals all over my worksheets and my teacher was getting pissed because everything i was passing in was covered with all this creepy scribbly shit. i was just like...im really sorry im not feeling well today and i'm kind of distracted and she got a little less pissed but told me i'd better stop. but it wasn't my fault i couldn't help it!!! so every time i started to scribble i forced myself to do it in my own notebook. when i went home after school the ladder was gone.

one day three i woke up and found a freakin maggot in my hair! i was totally freaking out cause that's so nasty and i have long hair so it was all like...tangled up and i was trying to get it out and it was sooo gross. it got freakin maggot goo all over my hair! i was sooo disgusting. i shampooed like 4 times in the shower that morning with like extra-strength cleaner for people with oily hair. freakin nasty man! anyway the whole rest of the day i could smell like...old rusty stale water like the old water you find in clogged up gutters right? i sprayed all sorts of febreeze crap all over the house and i could still smell it and my mom got pissed at me for making the house smell like febreeze flowers and makin her nose run. i was like...sorry but the house smells like a swamp! but of course she couldn't smell it. anyway i doodled more at school that day but i managed to keep it all in my notebook. my teacher looked pissed but she didn't say nothin.

i had a terrible nightmare on the fourth morning where samara was standin over me in my bed and she touched my chest and i woke up freaking out and there was a tiny little burn right where she touched me in the dream. i still have a fading scar to this day from it. i started getting really terrified and i called up my friend H and i was like you know The Ring and all that shit well its real and i need you to watch a copy for me...and H was like you're stupid! but she agreed to watch it anyway cause i was practicially crying into the phone and she came over after school and watched it. she looked nervous but said she still didnt believe.

on day 5, 6, and 7 my symptoms all went away except for the burning horrible smell of wellwater. it was so bad i couldnt get to sleep some nights. when day seven hit, my TV in my room flashed on for a second scaring the shit outta me but it turned off and that was the end of everything. in the following days H finally was like I BELIEVE YOU NOW! cause she was experiencing the same stuff...i even saw her drawing a burning tree at school. eventully H made a copy and passed it to one of her exes at another school. i don't know what happened to him, but i know he lived so he must have passed it on too. who knows who's cursed now. but im happy i watched the tape. it was frakin scary but it was really thrilling.