Hello again R. L. Stein story club members. I'm Ivy, your ghostly host, and keeper of those

weird and sometimes scary tales from the hidden vault of R.L. Stein. Today is another chilling tale.

So get ready, story club members, this otherworldly yarn I'm dialing up might be a seriously

wrong number, and it's a tale I call Insta Famous.

Bella Rose was born beautiful.

When she was only two years old, her mother had entered her photo into a beautiful baby contest.

Baby Bella not only won the contest, she was on a television commercial for baby food that lasted several years.

After Bella grew up, she decided that she might go into modeling or acting.

Everyone thought she was beautiful and looked like a movie star anyway.

She was always posting pictures of herself on her social media accounts.

The more she posted, the more like she got, and she had amassed nearly 100,000 followers on Instagram alone.

Companies were reaching out to her to promote their products.

Bella had thought that life had come full

circle, from Baby Star to Influencer. And then, disaster happened. One morning, when she woke up,

she was quickly checking how many likes she got from the picture she posted the night before.

She was a little sleepy, so when she pulled her phone off the charger and went to

look, it slipped from her hand and dropped right into the toilet. It wasn't immersed in the water

for more than a few seconds, but the phone wouldn't work. She hooked it back up to the charger to

see if that would do anything. Unfortunately, it shorted the phone out. It

was dead. All of her gorgeous pictures were on that phone. And a beauty product that reached out

to her wanted her to post a photo with it today. They were going to pay her a bunch of money

and send her a lot of free samples. She needed a new phone right away.

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