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Black Eyed Kids, Elevator Creeps and Insidious Invitations
The bone-chilling lore of the ‘black eyed kids’ (BEKs) has been knocking on the door of internet forums and popular culture over the past several years, so much so that the lines of its credible origins have been blurred with that of fictional ‘creepy pasta’ stories. But what are the allegedly true encounters, and how does this demonically prepubescent phenomena relate to historic, cultural folklore around the world? Well, turn the volume up and the porch light on, because tonight we recount the harrowing nocturnal tales of eye witnesses and discuss the potential reality of yet another type of nefarious traveler requiring invitation and seeking the the darkest of outcomes.. Don’t let them in!
Also.. grocery store weirdos, Fright Night seduction, and Pauly Shore validates Chris
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:03:20 | Black Eyed Kids Introduction
00:07:50 | Black Eyed Kids Scenario
00:13:09 | Hitchhiker Lore
00:15:38 | More Brian Bethel Backstory
00:22:17 | Bethel story background
00:25:09 | Brian Bethel Account
00:34:44 | Demonic Muppets and Gremlin Stories
00:38:28 | Jon Encounters Grocery Store Demons
00:43:58 | New Orleans Elevator Warlock
00:52:10 | Black Eyed Person – Office Elevator
00:54:55 | The Chilling, True Terror of the Black-Eyed Kids by G. Michael Vasey
00:58:09 | Indiana Fishing Encounter – Black Eyed Demon
01:02:40 | Taken by child-like entities to other world
01:02:08 | Iroquois Myth and other potential BEK origins
01:20:20 | Chris’ BEK encounter – Silver Creek Park
MOVIE RECOMMENDATIONS
Encino Man
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/donnie_darko
Event Horizon
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/event_horizon
Fright Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGQ1yMnKjUY
Children of the Corn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHPYu2rrYhk
Mortal Kombat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHIfHL5UgFs
RESEARCH SOURCES
Brian Bethel’s original Black Eyed kids post:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.folklore.ghost-stories/HFXkIXeq9ec
Archive of “Brian Bethel (reporter) recounts his possible paranormal encounter with BEKs,” from the Abilene-Reporter News website, posted 4-13-2013:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140818190003/http://www.reporternews.com/lifestyle/columnists/brian-bethel/brian-bethel-recounts-his-paranormal-encounter
Google Group post from 97 – commenter suggested Changeling as a possible explanation:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.folklore.ghost-stories/HFXkIXeq9ec
Silver Creek Connection? Window Area:
http://weekinweird.com/2014/12/08/exclusive-ohio-silver-creek-werewolf-investigation/
Austraila Elevator Encounter | MessageToEagle:
http://www.messagetoeagle.com/mystery-of-the-black-eyed-people-why-are-they-so-different-from-the-rest-of-us/
The Black Eyed Kids of The Iroquois Legends
Andrew Cross – Macabre Mysteries of the Mohawk Valley:
http://ineversausageaplace.com/2013/03/the-black-eyed-kids-of-the-iroquois-legends/
Scandinavian folklore – the Mylingar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myling
Kappa | Japanese folklore – Black Eyed Kid?
https://www.britannica.com/topic/kappa-Japanese-mythology
Fairies/ Changeling – European folklore:
https://www.britannica.com/art/changeling-folklore
Changeling Poem:
https://www.libraryireland.com/articles/FairyChildrenDPJ1-29/index.php
Captives in Fairyland | Katharine Mary Briggs | An Encyclopedia of Fairies – p77:
https://www.scribd.com/document/367007616/Briggs-Katharine-Mary-An-Encyclopedia-of-Fairies
Mesmerizing Eyes of Fairies – realfairies.net:
https://www.realfairies.net/common-types-of-fairies.html
Ankou – The fairy embodiment of death in Celtic folklore:
http://www.mythicalcreaturesguide.com/page/Ankouhttp://www.mythicalcreaturesguide.com/page/Ankou
BOOKS
The Black Eyed Children | David Weatherly
Strange Inturders | David Weatherly
The Chilling, True Terror of the Black Eyed Kids | G. Micheal Vasey
You have probably already heard this especially since this is an older episode but those guys in Whole Foods in Austin sounded like they were just on LSD or something. Would explain why they seemed off and why their eyes looked black – being their very dilated pupils. If they were on LSD or some other similar hallucinogen at that time at least they didn’t really fit with the rest of the people in that grocery store which they knew and you could pick up on. They also were really in another place in different ways mentally, spiritually etc.