Daily Bizarre

15/07/2025

The Red Room is a very creepy Japanese legend, as it is also known as “The Red Room Curse,” and nothing scares people like curses, right? The Red Room was originally a video that one could find by simply searching for it on a web browser, but it was very quickly removed.
However, when it was removed, people naturally became curious and began to try to find information or a re-upload of the video.

By researching too much on the topic, a pop-up ad would appear on the user’s screen that could not be removed and would repeatedly play a child’s voice asking, “Do you like…?” eventually finishing the sentence with “The Red Room?” This would end up with the viewer feeling something behind them and then being found dead with the walls of their room painted red with their own blood. It is, however, uncertain whether the curse drives the viewers to take their own lives or something does it for them. I’m not sure what I find scarier about this legend: the fact that I researched it a lot for this article, the legend itself, or the fact that it’s a pop-up ad.

The Red Room Curse is a widely known part of the Sasebo Slashing where a child, referred to as “Girl A” in the investigation reports, sliced open the neck of her classmate in elementary school in June 2004. The victim, Satomi, had her arms and throat cut open with a box cutter. After killing Satomi, “Girl A” left Satomi to bleed out on the empty classroom floor. Then, in blood-splattered clothing and still holding the knife, she approached the teacher and said monotonously, “I have done a very bad deed.”

“Girl A” had been exhibiting strange behavior for a while before the event and frequently spent more time on the internet alone.
Reports state that, after examining her browser history, the video of the Red Room was found recently opened before the incident and thus added to the urban legend as a horrifying tie to reality.

14/07/2025

Despite the name, the Dog Boy isn’t a cryptid; Gerald Bettis was a regular human child born in 1954. He earned his nickname through his habit of collecting stray animals to torture. Years later, his neighbors would describe the yowls coming from the Bettis home with a shudder.

Gerald was cruel and selfish from an early age. By the time he became a teenager, he was both easily angered and incredibly large, looming over his elderly father at 6’4″ (1.93m) and 300 pounds (136kg). Gerald’s parents were his victims, and he continued to abuse them until his father died under mysterious circumstances and his mother broke her hip in a fall. That was when Alline Bettis was removed from the family home by adult protective services, and Gerald was sent to prison.

Today, the Bettis home is reportedly a hive of paranormal activity, all thought to be tied to Gerald’s cruelty and fueled by the suffering of his human and animal victims. It’s passed through the hands of multiple owners who have reported objects floating down the stairs, lights turning on and off unprompted, and sightings of a strange, large man inside the house carrying a cat in his arms.

13/07/2025

Legend tells of shadowy figures that stalk the Santa Lucia Mountains of Monterey County, California. Spanish conquistadores, who first explored the region in 1602, referred to these otherworldly creatures as the Dark Watchers (Los Vigilantes Oscuros).

The late Thomas Steinbeck, son of the famous writer John Steinbeck, spoke about the Dark Watchers at length. He eventually confided in his friend, artist Benjamin Brode. “The particulars of the account had been told to [Thomas] as a child and authenticated by such credible sources as his grandmother, Olive Hamilton, and Billy Post, descendant of El Sur Grande ranchers,” Brode claimed.

Thomas’ fascination with Dark Watchers ran in the family. John Steinbeck mentioned the mysterious entities in “The Long Valley” – a collection of short stories published in 1938. “Flight” tells the tale of Pepé, a young teen who goes on the run after stabbing a local townsman. Pepé encounters the Watchers while fleeing to the mountains. From the tale: “No one knew who the watchers were, nor where they lived, but it was better to ignore them and never show interest in them. They did not bother one who stayed on the trail and minded his own business.”

John Steinbeck raised Thomas while working as a ranch hand in the mountain region of Big Sur. The writer’s understanding of the Dark Watchers mirrored that of local tales. The humanoid figures usually surface either in the mornings or evenings. And they immediately “disappear like fog” when somebody looks directly at them.

Thomas made contact with local residents Billy and Luci Post, descendants of El Sur Grande ranchers. Post claims the ranchers exhumed the remains of a young girl in the 1920s. After the grave’s desecration, the Dark Watchers disappeared, and the locals were struck by misfortune. According to the Post family, luck was only restored after the ranchers returned the girl to her original resting place

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