DON'T MEDDLE WITH THE DARK

Don’t Meddle With The Dark is a public information film made in the early 1970s but only shown once. This film was meant to warn children about the dangers of meddling with the occult, and to stay away from ouija boards and seances and hunting ghosts in out of the way places. It was filmed in typical public information film style, with child actors unknowingly heading towards horrors, and a stern voice warning about the dire things that could happen to them, and for the characters in the film, certainly would.

Unfortunately the occult symbols that a set designer painted on the wall were inspired by those he had seen in the most vivid dream that he had ever experienced, although he did not know that he was not the dreamer. When the first broadcast was transmitted to millions of homes in the north-west region it amplified the power of the symbols and opened a gate through which something came.

In the houses of the viewers televisions fuzzed and growled something that wasn’t speech, lightbulbs fizzed and flickered, doors that were open shut and doors that were shut came open, and the air felt thick with a charge, as if lightning were just about to strike, and although the picture on the TV had frozen, there seemed to be a cloud of smoke moving across it.

A particular government department spent much of the next week and the lives of four people returning what had come through the gate to where it came from, and it ensured that the tape was destroyed. There are rumours though, that a copy of the tape was made, and that it was passed on from hand to hand, and eventually digitised, and that now there’s a video with a nondescript title made up of numbers and letters sitting on Youtube, waiting to be discovered. It’s only had seven views, which isn’t enough to open the gate again. It is not known how many would be.

But best not share it. Just in case.