We’re still drawn to the mysterious and scary, it just takes a little more work - and crowdsourcing - to get there. It has the capacity to bring us, as adults, back to those sleepovers where we thought we crossed over to the netherworld at midnight, just before Andrea passed out and we drew dicks all over her face.
Last year we bought into all kinds of since-debunked nonsense, but you can’t eradicate lies on the Internet, because a large part of its infrastructure and appeal is that it’s a territory located between fantasyland and realityville. Earlier this week, the story of a Chinese man stuck in South Korea after his 4-year-old had doodled all over his passport made web headlines despite its inherent fishiness. You may not have shot out your eye, but you could break your glasses (or so the comments under this post would lead you to believe). Maybe you even learn a lesson about failing to heed warnings in general, like Ralphie Parker with the air rifle. You don’t attempt to prove these myths without knowing what will happen you’ve been warned that the results will creep you out the door, but you do it anyway, because you’re 12.
You really saw what you remember seeing, but it was a trick of the mind: Enough people flexing their two strongest digits can lift a body, and if you stare at yourself long enough in the mirror, you might see your own deformed features, or even those of a stranger or deceased relative. When you heft your buddy’s 100-pound body into the air using only your fingertips (and any other fingertips attending the slumber party that night), or when you see the reflection of a corpse replace your own in a darkened powder room, it affirms everything you already knew to be true: There are inexplicable things in the world - scary things. For a few years between the death of Santa and the age of critical thinking, you become an amateur occultist, and you play Bloody Mary or Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board to try to prove the existence of a world that adults stubbornly deny. Early adolescence is a purgatorial period when it comes to magic.
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