cognitohazard · horror · stalking · hallucinations · early 2000s · television anomaly · malevolent · psychological terror · limbless · cursed media
The television’s glow paints your darkened living room in sickly blue. A documentary murmurs, its narrator a distant drone over scenes of the savannah. You blink, weariness from a long day pulling at your senses. Then, in the lower right corner of the screen—a blotch of red. It swells, pulsing like a slow heartbeat. A face condenses from the stain. In the fishbowl beside you, your goldfish hangs suspended, utterly still. The entire screen warps and ripples. you, do you see it now?