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The Curious Case of Smile.jpg l fist met in penon with Mary E.in the summer of 2007. 1 had arranged wih her hushand of fifteen years, Terence, so see her foran interview Mary had initially agreed smee1 not a newsmen b s few early eallege according to plan, some piecos of fiction We scheduled the intervine for a particlar weekend when was in Chicago a unrelated luaness. but at that last mittl Mary da ged h# mitd aid nckrd hervelf in the cosple's hedroom, mfusing to meet wih me For half an hour I sat wih Terence as we camped outside the bedroom door 1 listening and taking notes whiõle he attpte fruitlnalytocahn his wife ne thing, Mary said made little smse but fit with the pattern l that she ws erying ofen than nor her objectices to speaking with me centered around an incoherent diatribe on he he esereiie, and I did my it in srides recall that I waan't a reporter in seaech of astory, but merely a a imilar cane if Tpat mind and resurces to it.Mary En the sysop for a smal Chicag-bed ulletin Bard Sytem in 1992 when she first encounieied male ipa and her lde clanged forever She and Tresse had been marnind for only five mohs, Mary was one of an estimated 400 people who saw thr irnage when it was posted asョhrper link on the BBs, though uht i, the only onc who has spoken opemly about the experience The rest have remained noymous, or ane In 2005, when I was only in tenth grade, smile.ipg was first beought to my atestion by my burgeoning interest in web-based phenomma; Mary was the most ohen cined victim of what i intesest (other thas the obvious macabre elements of the eyber legend and proclivity toward uch tlings) waa the shear lack of informution, uwally to the point that people dim't beheve it even pacthure Fi, that file is nowhere to be found an the internet: certainly many photomanpulated simulacn litter the web, shown4 with the most frequency on sin urh the imageboard chan, particuarly br -focused paranonal ubboard in sopectod these are fakes because thry do not have the effect the troe mile ipeg is be lieved so have, namely sudden onset temponal lobe mile jipe is regarded with such disdain, sisce i is petently absurd bough depending os whon sk the refoctance to acknow ledge smile ipa's existence might be gast as mmch out of fear as it the webele fees artcles on uch other, perhips more wandalous shockades an goatse (helojp) he meyelopedis's many admins Encousters with e ps re the shf of intermet legend Mary PE n the tary days of Uvenet and evm one penistent tale that in 2002hacke flooded the foms of humor and satire webeie Somethi AndiaT with a delage of Senile dog pictures, rendert g ahnout half the forum's users at the time epleptic. It is slso said hat in the mid-to-lahe 9s that sile ipg circulated on usenet . d as an attachment of & chain email wi血1be subject line "SMILE !! 00D LOVES YOU!" Yet despite the hoge expowire these stants would generate, there are very fewr people who adme to having esperienced any od them and oo trace of the file or any hek has ever bees discovered. Those wbo claim bo have seen smile ipg oftes weaklh joke that they were far too busy to save a copy of he pictue to theit hard deive Howeves, all alleged victims oftee the same deseription of dhe photo A dog-lkc creatum ewu lly described appearing "milar Siberian hunki ilhmmmated by the flash of de eameta, t-- dim room the only bek Found detail that is visible bemga banan hand etending from the darkness sear the left side of the frame. The hand is empty,b is auay ictims re mon cetain than other about what they claim to have seen) The muzale of the beti reputedly split in a wide grm.evealing two row, of very whitnntayht·verv "harp, very picture, but rather a recolleetion of the vicims, who claim to have seen the pieture esdlessly rpested in tdheir mind's oe daing he tine tley am, in reality, iving epideptic fits. These fits ae reported to sontinue indetenminably offen while the victins sleep, rouhing in very sivid and "fketive than others Mary E、1assumed, was not on effective medication That was why after my websines, and maling lists, hoping to find the name of a supposed victim of smiüejps and was busy Marv eontacted tie via email, bowevet seat e bepmazg ed March 2008. 1 a 1 incredibly orry about my behavior 1RSt unner when you cane to intervie e. I hope you underatand that Lt asba Eault ot yourn, but rather my own problem" that ied me t act out a 1 did. Ya ae. At the tine, traid You see. for fifteen years I have been haunted by mile dpg Balle.dog comea to a in y sleep evey night. know that sounds silly, but it is true. There i inettsble qual ity about my dreams, n nightnares, that nakes them completely unlike any real look shead, and the only thin书憔head of me is the cone from that hotrible picture. I see the beckoning hand, and I see Snile.dog ks to me thought for a long time about ny optena. I eould show it to stranger, 瘗coworker- 夏 could even show it t Terence, aa much the idea disgusted me. And what would happen then? №11, if salle.dog ep its word eould sleep. ret ir It ied, what woud do? And tte waa to say Bomething worse would not oone for ne if years hidden unangne my things. Every night for fiftaen yeara雛11e.dng For fifteen years I have stood stronG though thore have been hard tines Many at ny tellow vletsa on the ha board where I tirat ting: I hesrd conmitted suicide. othe re nained empletely silent· simply disappearing off the face of the web·They are ones I worry bout the oat 2 sincezely hope you wiil foiglweebat give you the fioppy diakette. I aid not eare it anile.dog was lying or not, I wanted it to end. You were "tranger, "mene had no connection with, and I thought I would not feel orrow 'ten you took the diskette a part of your research and sealed your tate. before you azelved I zealized wht I was doing: was plotting to ruin your life I could not stand the thought. and in fact I till cannot. I an ashanedeL., and I hope that this warning will dissuade you from further investigation of nǐJe.jpg. Vou nay in tine encount oneone who is, if not weaker than 1- then wholly more depraved. soneone wh will not hesitate to toi lou 의 11e.dog. ǔraer1. Stop while you are Terence costarted nelater that mon岳with the new.that his wifr had kiled henelf while cleanmg up the varioue things she'd lef behind, closing email acconts and the Ske, he happened opon the above mewage He was a man in slumibles; he wept as fr fold me to isten to his wife's advis He'd found the diskette, he revealed·ard bumed it until it way tohra but a stinking pile of blackemed plastic. The part that most dishrbed him, evera h--- the kette bod sed a i melted Like some sort of animal, he said. 1 will admit dat t was a litle uncertain about how respand to this. At tist I thought perhags it was a joks wah the cougle belatedly playang with the eline get a rise out of me A quick check of several obbuaries, however proved hat Mary windeed dead The was, of enmest, so mention a uieide in the aricle. I decited that, foe a tie at least, I would sot further pursue the sabjest of mile js pecially sce I had rals coming up at the end of May. But the world has odd ways of testhg us Almost a full year after I'd retumed from my disastroos isvw with Mary E. He11o found your 숍-mail adreas thru a mailing list your profile said you ar 1nterested in ,miledog, I have saw it it i not 88 bad as every one says I bave sent it to you here. Just spreadL a) Aceord izg to IIN etmil elient dere was ase file attachment called, naturalh, ile·pg. I considered ouloading it for some time. It was moatly bkely a fake, limagined, and even if it went1a never whilly convinced of smilejpg, peculiar power. Mary E·'s account had shaken me, yes, tut he wa* probably mentally unbalanced arym Afer all, how could 괘 umple imagr da, what mile jpe wgs ssid to ccomplinh? What sort of creabure was it that could break one's mind with power of the eye? And if such things were then why did the legend esist at al t, and if Mary humed out to be coerest, if Smile dog eame I spread the Mary had, fighring ag ie in until I died? C prend the word, eager to be put to ret? And if1 chose the laer ute,he coul do it Who would I bunden in toen ntention to write a short antiele about mile.jps. 1 decided. 1 could smach i evidence. And anvone uho read the artiele nyome who took interest, would be affeeted Andasn emine, would l be to save myself in that maer

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