 This is a picture I took from a corrupted SpongeBob SquarePants bootleg tape. The tape itself contained around four episodes, albeit in the wrong order, from the second season and had quite possibly the worst quality I've ever seen in any VHS, with extremely coarse video and audio that sounded like it was muffled by a pillow. None of that is important compared to the part I took this picture from though. I found this tape in a library section at Goodwill, as I like to look around for various treasures every once in a while. I don't normally buy VHS tapes, but this one in particular cocked my eye with how mysterious it came off to me. On the side was a label written with pen, and it read, to Georgia Jeffries. It made me wonder. Was this a personal belonging that someone brought here either out of anger or on accident? I have heard cases of people taking their wedding videos or family photos to this place, so it was no different. I thought that maybe I could return it to its owner, so I bought it with my debit and headed over to my dad's place. After all, he was the only guy I knew who had a cassette player. I'm sure as hell not buying one. After a rough setup process, I injected the tape in and pressed the play button. Imagine my surprise when the SpongeBob intro showed up. The damn video slid so much that I could barely make out the first few frames, but it eventually stopped and played as normal. One small thing I noticed was that the Nickelodeon screen bug wasn't in the corner of the screen, as if this was recorded from an actual copy from the company themselves. Then after the first three episodes were done and dusted, dumped played. It went on as normal, with Gary staying with Patrick at his rock, SpongeBob getting jealous, and so forth. It was fine, up until it reached the scene with Patrick showing up to SpongeBob's house to get soap for Gary. Remember that one scene where SpongeBob asks if Gary wants fresh scent or heavy duty, but then he stutters halfway through duty due to his sad state? Well, the part where he stutters three times rewinds twice in the video, and the audio spiked, to the point where he sounded like he was saying too. After the stuttering bug, SpongeBob's eyes suddenly distend to a swollen degree, and his mouth shrinks to where it can't be seen. He then drops the soap from his hands and turns to his left. Patrick and Gary have now disappeared, leaving behind what seems to be an actual transparent image of something on SpongeBob's sandy floor. A pair of black gloves. SpongeBob delves, and is now heavily breathing, but at this point, he doesn't sound like how he usually would. He sounded like someone from a slasher film trying to escape from the killer, if that's a good enough way to describe it. A few seconds later, his puffs would slow down, and he'd die upon his door. Looking behind him, and to his right, he'd make his way over to the door, and turn the knob, taking a peek outside. What followed was actual footage of a specific area suddenly showing up, with the time and date of it being recorded on the bottom left. It looked like a grassy field, blowing away in the windy setting, with a road in the front, and many many trees in the back. The video was completely still, with no sign of the holder in front of camera. No hands, no body, nothing. This went on for a few seconds before jittering and cutting back to SpongeBob peeking out of his door. His eyes weren't circular anymore. They were structurally correct, from the eyelash to the pupil. He would make his way back inside, positioning himself back to where he was when his strange scene started. He'd shake in place, his fists clenching until they widened, and then it happened. SpongeBob had no holes in his face, nor did he have a nose, but along with the natural-looking eyes, he had a human mouth with misaligned teeth. The shot looked heavily posterized, and a specific line from SpongeBob during the original scene would repeat. Just with the line war sounds of SpongeBob loudly sobbing. Various random words would flash on screen, spaced out between sets of ellipses. Words such as television and Yulbert. This continued on for a few seconds before the tape ejected from the slot. On seeing what I had just seen, and all the bizarre shit that came from it, I had to know who this Georgia Jeffries woman was and why this was being sent to her. I just had to. I needed all the answers I could get. I tried a good few methods. Making a Facebook page, asking friends in my area if they know someone by that name, encouraging them to spread the find, and even checking online phone books. By sheer luck, I managed to find one person. A 47-year-old woman, living in the same town as me. Her phone number, address and previous information were listed. I ultimately decided to visit her house to hand over the tape, as I felt like calling her over the phone and not knowing what I looked like seemed less friendly. To put it simply, yes, it was the right person. For reasons I honestly didn't expect at all. She asked me what was on the tape, and I informed her of everything that I saw. When I got to the part involving the grassy area and the random words, she looked like she was panicking out of her mind, while trying to be quiet. I asked her what's wrong, and she told me to repeat what I mentioned to her. I told her about the exact details I saw, and just for added measure, what words I remembered seeing. Here's what she said to me. On February 2, 2012, a finger belonging to her 6-year-old son was found near a field about 3 miles from her home. Shortly after, a DNA test was made and the results were given back to her. The location was similar to what I had described. Her husband didn't take him to school at the time he went missing. He was sick with an upper respiratory infection at the time, so his son had to take the bus, or at least, they thought he had taken the bus. A missing person's report was filed when he ended up not coming home. Elf, elephant, yogurt, red and yoyo were some of the words I saw on screen. She told me that he dressed as an elf for Halloween a year before the case. Yogurt was one of his favorite snacks to eat. Red was his favorite color, the elephant was his favorite animal, and his favorite toy was a yoyo that he'd carry to recess when he got bored. She still had that yoyo. When her son was found, it was a revolting sight. In the woods, he was found dead in an underground cellar by a few teenagers, drenched in rubbing alcohol. His limbs were bound with duct tape, and so was his mouth. They also found a small safe against the steel wall. Not only was everything touching the safe covered with rubbing alcohol, including the money inside, but a lone pair of rubber gloves were also found on top of it. When locals that lived near the area were asked by police if they had witnessed anyone go near the woods, many replied saying that they didn't remember seeing anyone go near there, let alone see anyone outside. The ones that did see someone reclaimed witnessing a person in winter attire. The case went cold. Disgusted and hugging her tightly, I asked her if she wanted me to take this tape to the police. She begged me to do it, and rightfully so. What else would she ask for? I found a tape linking to her son's murder, in a Goodwill library of all places. Then I took the tape to the police, and they brought it over to the interrogation room to watch. They asked me the usual questions, like how she knew this was linked to the death of her child, for starters. We paused at certain frames, manually rewound a few times, and I pointed out the things I brought up. That's when I noticed something odd. The words that were shown on screen weren't just this poor kid's favorite things. Upon taking a closer look, the first letter of each word formed something when put together. It was a hidden message of some sort, with only two words. They are lying.