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“He Fell From Airplane” Is the Scariest Four-Word Horror Story
Real life is terrifying.
Idon’t remember liking Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Facebook page, but when he popped up on my feed, I stopped anyway. There’s a Facebook trend going around where fan pages ask their followers to write a scary story. Rules are you can only four words. Mr. Levitt had jumped on board.
I’m not sure why I stopped to read the answers, which reached over 583,000, either. None of them were particularly remarkable even if some did make me snort-laugh. I spent a good hour sifting through pretty much all of them.
Top comment with sixty-five thousand reacts went to “Biden is still president”.
“Donald Trump’s Second Term” came in second with 18k thumbs-ups, laughs and hearts.
That wasn’t my voice.
I didn’t pull out.
The painting’s eyes moved.
And then I saw the one that actually terrified me with only two likes:
He fell from airplane.
The comment was buried amongst the others but I kept going back — It scared the shit out of me. Immediately, the image of Zaki Anwari came to mind. If you hadn’t heard about the tragedy, Zaki was a gifted Afghan teenage soccer player on the National youth…
