The Welcome to another edition of I'm Dan Cummins, and I'll be sharing another original short story of the fictional horror variety.

I can't wait to hear what some of you think of this one. I highly recommend noise cancellation headphones for the best experience.

Hope you enjoy this new nightmare. Time now for the tale of he'll make you whole.

Shaky footage from a slightly used Panasonic Omni Movie VHS PV420 camcorder.

Shot only a few weeks before, in early October of 1989,

filled the small TV screen in the back office of Yusuf Baroudi's double diamond pawn shop.

Yusuf, the owner-propriator, had given a teenager 50 bucks for it about a half an hour earlier.

This kid and his friend had come in just before he closed for the night.

This model cost $499 new, and it had only come out about six months earlier.

Yusuf figured he could easily sell it for $200, maybe even $250, once he added a charger

in a case.

The teen had neither, nor any of the other accessories that came with it, because he probably

stole it.

Whether or not he did wasn't any of Yusuf's business. If he refused to buy anything that might be stolen, he would have never lasted

over two decades in counting in the pawn business. The battery was dead, but he had a compatible

charger. He also had a power cord and an AV cable to hook it up to his TV

for playback. He'd made sure that it had worked before he paid for it, using the tape that was already in it

to record 10 or so seconds of new footage. And when he'd rewound that footage to watch it and test the

playback feature, he'd went back past the point of where

he had began recording, and he saw what looked like the inside of some abandoned building

that had become a party spot for teenagers based on the graffiti on the walls, and the empty

beer bottles and candy wrappers on the floor. The recording was strange, eerie even. The camera was

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