The Dark Tapes Page #7

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person that I care about

knowing that I'm

not crazy is you.

Not Ashley, not my grandparents.

But for right now,

this is just between you

and me right now, okay?

- Okay.

You gonna show me card tricks?

- Not exactly.

I just needed something

that was small and light.

I'm still figuring this out.

Just watch.

- That's a good trick.

How are you doing that?

- It's not a trick.

- Come on, tell me how.

- I told you it's not a trick.

- Alright, so you are saying

you have telekinetic

psychic powers, then?

- If you wanna call them that.

- You can move things

with your mind?

- Yeah.

- You being serious?

- Ryan, have I ever lied to you?

Ever?

- Okay.

So, this is still related

to what happened to

you at the party?

Those two guys attacked you.

You suppressed all memory of it,

and somehow your brain

has rewired itself

to give you this ability?

- No.

I'm not gonna tell you

what's been happening to me.

Cause westernized medicine

would just say that I'm

suppressing traumatic

memories of an event.

- Just like I've been saying.

- And I promise you that is not

what's been happening to me.

But it's real.

And it was happening to my mom.

- Oh, come on.

- And I want it to stop

more than anything.

And I wanna be able to

tell you what it is,

but first I have to be able

to prove to you what it is.

Just like I was able to

prove that I could move

that card with my mind.

- Just.

You can stay here.

I'll take care of you,

we'll get you a good

therapist, and you'll...

- I'm gonna go.

- Go where?

- I'm gonna pack up and leave.

- Don't be silly.

- I need to go,

so I can find a

way to prove to you

what's been happening to me.

Don't worry, okay?

I'll be fine.

They're not as smart

as they think they are.

- Amanda who is they?

Amanda!

- Hey.

Well let's get to it.

What's so important

you needed to show me?

- Play the video

file in your Inbox.

I have three other angles,

but this one should

explain everything.

- What the?

What the hell is that thing?

- Can you come up

here as soon as you can?

Ryan!

Can you come up and help me?

- Yeah, yeah, of course.

- Okay I'll call you tomorrow.

- Okay, talk to ya then.

Dang, when'd you get this good?

Could we just record

it once, please?

- I'm not your circus monkey.

- You know we need

it for the tape.

- Alright.

Just give me a second.

- That's amazing!

- Are you happy now?

- I'm very happy.

I can't believe you've

been living in this place

for two months with

no electricity.

Okay, it's on.

Go ahead.

- My name is Amanda Cortney.

I'm of sound mind and

relatively good health.

For the past few months,

I've been,

for a lack of a better term,

kidnapped.

Taken against my will at night,

over and over, by

these entities.

These beings.

That are,

well they're

certainly not human,

I could tell ya that much.

- Tell us how

it usually happens.

- Something wakes me up

in my bed, late at night.

But, I can't move.

It's like I'm paralyzed.

And then all the electronics,

the phone, TV, clock, computer,

anything that's on goes dead.

So, there I am just

laying in bed, awake.

But paralyzed in this silence.

This dead silence

of nothingness.

And then,

the light comes.

This bright, massive light

fills the entire room.

And I wanna scream,

I wanna cry,

I want them to leave me alone.

But they don't.

They never do.

And then my body starts to

slowly float above the bed.

And they take me.

They take me away.

- Where do they take you?

- To a room in some,

look, I know all of

this sounds crazy,

but I have proof.

- You definitely have proof.

I'm a believer.

That's why I'm here.

- So they take me.

These, well,

there's three different types.

Three species, I guess.

And they do things to me.

Experiments.

They do things that,

I don't wanna talk about it.

And trust me if they

did them to you,

you wouldn't wanna

talk about them either.

I remember.

I remember flashes

here and there.

And I don't think they

know that I can remember.

Cause they speak to

me, inside my head.

You'll be okay, you won't

remember any of this.

But I do remember.

The physical stuff, I can take.

As messed up as that is.

But my mind, my memories,

my emotions, my being,

that they can't have.

- What have you

done to try and stop them?

- Everything.

Anything you could think of.

I moved out into the

middle of nowhere.

I stayed at people's houses.

I tried to get a friend to

stay up all night with me once.

I've tried to get three friends

to stay up all night with me.

- I was one of those three.

That was a crazy night.

- It didn't work.

They took me anyway.

I found this crazy guy online,

and I rented out his

underground bunker.

That was stupid.

I nailed the door shut,

I nailed the window shut.

I tied myself to the bed.

Doesn't work.

I tried to record

them taking me.

I used a hidden camera,

a hidden spy camera,

a hidden infrared spy camera.

Nothing.

Just all comes out

garbled static.

I hooked up a hair trigger

shotgun, three times.

I woke up the next morning,

each time, to a bent shotgun.

But I realized something.

They can recognize threats like

the gun and neutralize them.

They can mess with

anything electronic.

They can play with

our minds and memories

because our brains function

via electrical impulses.

But there are ways

to record things

without any electronics,

any batteries,

no electricity.

Over here,

these are eight millimeter

1950s film cameras.

They run on wind up Springs,

and shoot on film.

All chemical.

No electronics, no

batteries, no electricity.

Over here, this is

a fully functional

1920s replica Victor talking

machine record player

that can also record

sound onto a wax record.

No batteries, no electricity,

thank you very much.

- And what did you do

with these two ancient

relics of technology?

- I set them in my

room a few weeks ago,

and I recorded them taking me.

And now I know I can beat

these mother f***ers.

I had the four eight

millimeter cameras

and Victor phones

set up on a kind of

reverse electrical switch.

Now I'm recording film and sound

entirely free of electricity.

Obviously they create some

vortex or field or something

that no one sees

what's going on.

I'll make sure the cameras

are strapped down

better this time.

It won't be so easy

for them next time.

- The film's impressive.

- I'm gonna have the four

eight millimeter cameras

set up all over the room.

As well as the Victor

talking machine.

And I have water balloons,

but they're not

filled with water.

They're filled

with sulfuric acid.

And I have a trip catapult wire,

ready to set off on anything

that walks through that door.

And if that doesn't work,

next stop is a U.S. army

directional land mine.

- First thing's first.

- My name is Amanda Cortney.

I'm 24 years old, and

I'm a multiple abductee.

But I won't be anymore.

- I'll be recording all night.

- Until they mess

up your camera,

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