The story of Smile.JPG

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thread starter AaronDaBaron Jul 22 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

so how many of you basilers have heard this story? i just read it and saw the pic and freaked tha **** out.

Dhaos 07/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

syaoran123 said: "Whats the story? Is the pic scary?" lol no, its funnay.

Argent 07/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Klaziki said: "I've heard of the smiledog.jpg... or whatever it was." It's like dead or something.

Playstation Jul 22 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

I googled the story, saw some yahoo answers post of it, and I skimmed it. I saw the word paranormal and closed that friggen window. That stuff freaks me out, I live across the street from a grave yard, so . AH! I google imaged that, now I almost crapped my pants ;~;

AaronDaBaron 07/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

so how many of you basilers have heard this story? i just read it and saw the pic and freaked tha **** out. The Curious Case of Smile.jpg JML I first met in person with Mary E. in the summer of 2007. I had arranged with her husband of fifteen years, Terence, to see her for an interview. Mary had initially agreed, since I was not a newsman but rather an amateur writer gathering information for a few early college assignments and, if all went according to plan, some pieces of fiction. We scheduled the interview for a particular weekend when I was in Chicago on unrelated business, but at the last moment Mary changed her mind and locked herself in the couple�s bedroom, refusing to meet with me. For half an hour I sat with Terence as we camped outside the bedroom door, I listening and taking notes while he attempted fruitlessly to calm his wife. The things Mary said made little sense but fit with the pattern I was expecting: though I could not see her, I could tell from her voice that she was crying, and more often than not her objections to speaking with me centered around an incoherent diatribe on her dreams -- her nightmares. Terence apologized profusely when we ceased the exercise, and I did my best to take it in stride; recall that I wasn�t a reporter in search of a story, but merely a curious young man in search of information. Besides, I thought at the time, I could perhaps find another, similar case if I put my mind and resources to it. Mary E. was the sysop for a small Chicago-based Bulletin Board System in 1992 when she first encountered smile.jpg and her life changed forever. She and Terence had been married for only five months. Mary was one of an estimated 400 people who saw the image when it was posted as a hyperlink on the BBS, though she is the only one who has spoken openly about the experience. The rest have remained anonymous, or are perhaps dead. In 2005, when I was only in tenth grade, smile.jpg was first brought to my attention by my burgeoning interest in web-based phenomena; Mary was the most often cited victim of what is sometimes referred to as �Smile.dog,� the being smile.jpg is reputed to display. What caught my interest (other than the obvious macabre elements of the cyber-legend and my proclivity toward such things) was the sheer lack of information, usually to the point that people don�t believe it even exists other than as a rumor or hoax. It is unique because, though the entire phenomenon centers on a picture file, that file is nowhere to be found on the internet; certainly many photomanipulated simulacra litter the web, showing up with the most frequency on sites such as the imageboard 4****, particularly the /x/-focused paranormal subboard. It is suspected these are fakes because they do not have the effect the true smile.jpg is believed to have, namely sudden onset temporal lobe epilepsy and acute anxiety. This purported reaction in the viewer is one of the reasons the phantom-like smile.jpg is regarded with such di

Argent 07/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Playstation said: "I googled the story, saw some yahoo answers post of it, and I skimmed it. I saw the word paranormal and closed that friggen window. That stuff freaks me out, I live across the street from a grave yard, so . AH! I google imaged that, now I almost crapped my pants ;~;" The "apparently real" smiledog was just a evil-ish smiling husky. Surprised me a bit.

Gleamer 07/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

The story is boring and unbelievable. Waste of time.

FlameBurst00 07/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

The story is that if you see the picture, you go insane.

Playstation 07/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Argent said: " The "apparently real" smiledog was just a evil-ish smiling husky. Surprised me a bit." Oh, Igoogle imaged smile.jpg and found some creepy picture as the first result... take safesearch off and google it, theres a creepy girl smileing. I'm not reading it until my friend either calls, or comes over.

agentxelmo 07/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

the dog got braces

Immortal666 07/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

and i was thinking about this

theory 07/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

if you want the story so much, then here you go. Gosh.

ari141 07/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Smile.jpg? I have it up in my Profil3 under "Haunting pic, don't click," I think. Weird picture, but I never paid it much mind.

LMGG 07/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

So... do you really become epileptic if you see it?

agentxelmo 07/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

LMGG said: "So... do you really become epileptic if you see it?" considering how much of basil has already seen it i dontthink so

AaronDaBaron 07/22/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

LMGG said: "So... do you really become epileptic if you see it?" no, just get freaked cuz you think you willl. its psychological stuff that makes it so scurry