Is anyone else genuinely scared of VHS tapes like me? It's

I don't watch tapes anymore, but I used to get nervous if I watched a tape that was a recording, as opposed to a purchased video. I was scared for some reason that if I watched it twice, it would be different the second time. Not completely different, just with little things changed about it. Lines spoken differently, or things like that. I don't know why it scared me, but I wouldn't watch them alone. My childhood reasoning was that if someone else was there, then I would have someone to back me up if it was different.

OP here, the main reason for me being scarred for life when it comes to VHS tapes, is that back when i was like 7, I had this weird "demo" tape that came with the player. The tape was from the early 90s, but it was extreamly distorted, and watching it for the first time at night left me in tears and shock. I don't really remember it too much but I honestly have never felt that terrified in my life.

>>17005884
There's a lot of people who are creeped out by old logos production companies used on vhs tapes. It's a special kind of spooky. Analog spooky.

Blank ones at garage sales kinda scare me because i don't know what i may be buying

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>>17005884
there is something speciall about the quality of VHS that makes it spooky. I love home movies on VHS creepy as hell for some reason

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>>17005949
Do you still have it?

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I get scared of VHS that are found in abandoned places, it's more or less a fun kind of scare though.

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>>17006575
I think you would like this channel on youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/Foundmedia23/videos

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BOO!

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>>17006560
I've been wanting to get a VHS player again and go and buy them too see if there are anything interesting on them. Maybe even start a youtube channel uploading random tapes I find. I think it could work

>>17006578

Nice, Thanks mate.

http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1981

SCP-1981 is a standard Betamax tape. "RONALD REGAN CUT UP WHILE TALKING"(sic) has been handwritten on the adhesive sticker in felt tip pen. Laboratory analysis indicates that SCP-1981 is made of ordinary material, and serial numbers correspond with home cassette tapes produced in September of 1980. SCP-1981 was initially encountered by a filing clerk in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in 1991, who upon watching it alerted the police, with the intent to find the tape's creator to press "obscenity charges".

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>>17006585
I've never been a fan of scp

>>17006581
It sounds like an interesting idea anon

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btw about VHS being scary did that all get started with The Ring?

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>>17006594
If I can find a VHS player in my area for cheap I'll do it.

>>17006602
Try a thrift store hell you could probably find blank tapes along with a player there

>>17006585
First time seeing this site.
Interesting spin on creepypasta

>>17005884

Does anyone else think that old technology is a recurring theme in horror, and is generally something scary to a lot of younger people because we're used to being in complete control while interfacing with it? Stuff like old vhs tapes, 'haunted' retro video games, numbers stations, even more modern stuff like hackers and cyber terrorists. I feel like these are more modern kinds of horror you see in a lot of creepypastas and newer movies but not in older stuff.

I didn't like the way the ones that you could record stuff from tv on would sort of distort and fade into something else recorded previously. Can't say I was super scared of it but I didn't like it much

So for those anons who want to buy some old weird VHS tapes: A good resource is thrift store outlet stores. Yes they exist. I know goodwill has them, and the local thrift store in my state has a few outlet stores.

What separates the outlet thrift store from the normal ones is that things are sold by the pound (with individual pricing on certain things).

The reason these places are a good resource is because this is where VHS tapes with home movies, or old TV recordings end up. I'm sure most of the old commercials one can find are youtube are only there thanks largely to this.

As for my own experience, I once bought a VHS tape that had "TAKE ME" written on the side. It ended up being some random peoples home footage featuring their naked toddler daughter playing in their yard. It wasn't shot in a pervy way at all, but whoever wrote "take me" on it was obvs a pedo. As soon as my curiosity was sated I destroyed the tape and trashed it.

I want to find more though, especially after typing this out.

>>17006877
> As soon as my curiosity was sated I destroyed the tape and trashed it

It's okay anon. You can be honest here.

>>17006909
Eh, as far as CP goes, normal home video stuff like that isn't very compelling. Saw no reason to keep it.

>>17005884
Look up "Memory Hole".
You'll know why you don't like VHS tapes then.

>>17005884
VHS was made "spoopy" thanks to faggot bullshit "horro" found footage movies

back then, vhs was cheesy and even today it holds nostalgia and comfiness

just watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLIJ6xlNSEU

>>17006581
You just described what Everything is Terrible has been doing, top kek

>>17006578
That is garbage
the white noise is an added effect by modern computers. those are not real super 8 nor vhs
fuck you

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>>17006933
Well alright

>>17006939
>nostalgia and comfiness
you can make anything feel a certain way in the right context.

Several years ago I was starting out as an assistant editor for Afv, back when Bob Saget was still the host. It was an awesome experience getting a start in the industry back then, but seeing this thread reminded me of something that had happened once.
We would receive videos from all over the nation by the thousands (obviously), sometimes they were crude, sometimes they were down right obscene. One October we were having a contest for a Halloween themed video show. We received all kinds of videos trying to scare the viewers, mostly jump scares and the occasional fake gore, and a few were actually pretty creepy.
But one video was sent in that was fairly unsettling. At first glance it was harmless. Some person was filming the outside of their two story house at night. Well manicured yard. Trimmed squared hedges, a few other family members could be seen inside through the window with a few pumpkins sitting on the porch. We all gathered around the editor and someone finally asked, "so when's the scare or gore or funny moment happen?"
The editor said "that's my house. I have no idea who filmed this..."
There was no return address on the package. We keep in touch still, to this day she still has no idea who was filming her and her family that night, or how they knew to send it to the studio.

>>17006579
Jesus fucking Christ. I just shat my fucking pants because of that pic.

>>17005884
Yes, I am also afraid of VHS tapes. Whenever my dad was mad, he used to beat with them. He especially liked using a copy of Gone With The Wind because he had an excuse to use two tapes instead of one.

>>17007097
Kek

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>>17007076
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>>17007076
fugg

I mean do you really consider vhs old? I was still buying movies for it new ten years ago.

>>17006939
Found footage movies and ARG fags.

I find vhs comfy too. I sort of miss those vhs days when you only had tv, antenna and vhs.

Which is creepier: analog VHS distortion, or crappy digital Youtube/mp3 compression? The VHS "aesthetic" has been totally strip-mined by creepypastas written by kids born after VHS had already been replaced by DVD, but I'll always associate bad digital compression and low bitrates with the pre-Facebook, pre-Twitter internet, when everything was more spread out among billions of random web pages. You never really knew what you'd run into.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQrxxIcFJlQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxPcLq-xelA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfiT8Z-TmzU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSCeBBUhSJo

Something about videos like these weird me out because we're right at the point in time where there's still all these weird-ass people out in rural areas with really old computers making obscure videos that no one will ever watch.

>>17006953
This. Extremely obvious shitty fake VHS adobe effects.

People fetishize the VHS look but are too fucking lazy to actually record anything to a tape.

Posting that pic #OP keeps me thinking of "the ring"

>>17007774
Those 2 jurassic park tribute videos are hilarious though

>>17005884
I digitized loads of tapes for people as a hobby. And old video tapes are indeed creepy. Digitizing is realtime and although I had good hardware at the time, I would sometimes check the footage for tracking and/or dropped frames. And when you're half asleep, checking the footage and it switches to totally different footage because somebody taped over it can be very scary. Family holiday footage where an interview was taped over and the interviewee stares right at you... Or even worse, holiday footage recorded over a horror movie... Holiday footage ends, BOOM, horror movie.

>>17007097
Reminded me of this whack kid back in the day with a giant head so everyone called him Dome.

Someone paid him 20 bucks to let them smash a VHS tape over his head. Forget the guys name but he bashed it to pieces over Domes bigass head.

Just a whacky memory this thread made me remember. Cya

>>17007097
Kek

>>17007076
That's pretty spoopy sis

>>17007774
That beat in the first vid tho

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LOL. How old are you kids? You want to know TRUE fear. Try renting a VHS porno and have the magnetic tape break off.

I knew the video store would charge me about $80 to pay for it. That's what they paid per VHS tape back in the day. They couldn't just go to Walmart and buy a shitload of VHS tapes to rent out. That was illegal. They had to pay mom & pop video store prices.

I had a porn tape break on me once. I actually took the VHS tape apart & with some Scotch tape and ingenuity, fixed it. I Be Kinded and Rewinded and never heard from the video store since :)

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>>17006602
>>17006581

tfw I have about 800 VHS tapes in my attic about 60% are recordings
tfw I have 3 VHS players/recorders around me right now
tfw I had 5 but had to throw out 2 because they broke
tfw I can Rip VHS tapes to PC
tfw I can transfer modern vids to from PC to VHS

So far have only gone trough about 40 tapes. Never even once been spooked. Not that much weird stuff (yet). Some of them have significant quality loss.
The most ''weird'' shit I found was public acces porn from the 80s.
Anyway its some great entertainment for when I am alone and got nothing better to do.

>>17011705
>>17011705
Do video stores still exist?

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>>17011732
Of course they do. Remember this Jimmy Kimmel clip from not too long ago? https://youtu.be/kefrdEqytOI

everyone in this thread

>ITS CALLED A VCR

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>>17005884
>afraid of VHS tapes

least of your concern, you're going to wake up with hair all over your chest. I know this because I live in your home.

>>17011789
I don't care... what if I call it a MEMECR? does that bother you further... ?

>>17005884
I really get annoyed at the whole "it's before my time, it's spooooooopy" stuff. Pictures of people from the 1800s are not scary. VHS tapes are not scary. Unless it's Howard the Duck maybe. Are pocketwatches scary? Do you get weirded out by those buckets ice cream used to get made in?

Old ass magnetic tape gets distortions. Big whoop. Vinyl albums get scratches. Has nothing to do with ghosts or anything, it's just shitty old mediums. I know you grew up all digital but it may shock you to know a lot of us didn't. There's nothing scary about fucking rotary phones either. Or a Tandy computer.

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Betamax was creepier with only one eye. Illuminati comfirned.

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>>17011826
Old shit is spooky you idiot. Why the fuck do you think people dick around in old houses? Or go ghosthunting at historic sites? Or go antiquing? The older something is the more times it's had to exist and accumulate a creepy backstory.

>>17011993
What a fucking pussy...

>>17005884
OP is such a youngfag it hurts. I wonder when people will start becoming afraid of DVDs.

>>17011789
That's often used in the English language yes. In most other language it's called a video recorder or it's translated.

>>17012021
Probably another 20 years. I enjoy looking at people interact with and react to old and new technology.

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>>17005884
Watch CLEAR LAKES 44

It's a weberies that's developing on YouTube by the THAC team (or what's left of them), who also made Marble Hornets. Uses VHS distortion really well and is a gripingly vague story so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkZDs8CBDkk

>>17005884
Don't read anything about it beforehand, but watch Ringu at midnight by yourself - bonus points if you have a tv in your bedroom.

>>17012097
I doubt it. VHS tapes are considered "creepy" because people are starting to become unfamiliar with the kind of distortion old degraded tapes give. But DVDs won't ever give that level of distortion - if the damage to the disc exceeds the protection given by the FEC then decoding just fails completely.

It's only a matter of time before 240p YouTube videos from the mid-2000s are widely viewed in a similar light.
>inb4 they already are

>watching hoke videos as a kid a lot
>always cut away randomly to shots of the video camera zooming in on my mom's butt as she laid out tanning
>mom would always yell and get up and stand in front of the TV till it was over

My dad was a vanilla perv

>>17014689
My dad liked to take pictures of my mom in a bath towel. I guess our parents were pretty discreet.

I have a cardboard box in my closet that contains mostly childhood photos but also a number of cassette tapes from what I suppose was an old camcorder of my parents. At least one of them is labelled with something to the effect of "Anon w/sister running around naked blah blah blah..." The others are mostly birthday parties I think. Not really spooky, just kind of a neat little time capsule of sorts.

>>17014689
sounds hot tbqh
Reminds me of when I was at my friends house and we were watching videos of when he was a kid, he left the video on while took a shit and I saw his young smoking hot mom stripped naked in front of the camera several times walking around casually in the house in the old videos

I hope he never decides to watch those videos again because I never told him what I saw

>>17006560
>>17006581
Wasn't there just a creepypasta-tier thread of a guy who bought a box of tapes at a garage sale along with a clay doll? What came of it?

Never really thought about it before but looking back I was always creeper out watching VHS

>>17014744

That's awesome, yo. Usually I don't reply to shit like this, but that is awesome.

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>>17005884

Obligatory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mES3CHEnVyI

>>17007076
Spooky

>>17011826
>photos from the 1800s are not scary

i agree, but photos from the early 1900s are. its a combination of them being recent enough to be somewhat familiar, yet the people in them are long dead. possiblly recent relatives that were burried before you were born. spoop.

>yfw some kid 10 years from now makes a creepy pasta about 240p remove kebab

>>17015736
No need for a creepypasta.
Remove kebab actually did remove kebabs and then got charged with war crimes for it

>>17007076
>be a friend of an editor who works for afv
>being his friend i could probably find out where he lives
>videotape his house at night
>hack into the FBI to find out friend's address and workplace
>sent spooky video to the studio he works at
>several years later a group of autists gather on a chinese imageboard making up conspiracy theories over a simple , innocent prank

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There is a vhs of a pijama party in my school when i was 6 years old. In the morning we went to the bakery, and watching the video I noticed my Self doing a devilish face and the simbol (image related) but with my hands down. This scared me, because I don't know if I did this on purpose or was something else.
If in the next hour this thread stills up, i can record the tv with my camera and post here If you want.

>>17015762

You'd think a dumb little kid would have the thought, let alone the attention span to research that little piece of information? I know it since I'm a fan but you know. We're lazy as it is. What more the new generation?

8 tracks scare the shit out of me. So big n ckunky... with that dingey manilla tinge to them. Just eewww

>>17007097

Ah hell, my dad would beat me with the Ken Burns Civil War boxed set.

>>17011826
Indeed.