02/03/2023
STORY TIME
Alright, some of this is gonna sound dumb, just bear with me and remember I made due with what I had.
I forget what age I was, late middle school I think, I was doing a summer extra curricular thing that took place at the local SUNY Suffolk campus near Eastport (I forget the village name) but I wasn't in high school yet.
It was the year Third Eye Blinds self titled bum came out and I had it on CD. I had a discman but it was second hand and skipped like a mother so I would hook it up to a karaoke machine and dub the album on to cassette tapes since Walkmans were indestructible. I'd use one of those wired cassette disc adapters you would use in cars to have your portable CD player play through your cars speakers with a blank cassette in the second slot to copy.
It worked pretty well.
Anyway so one day I'm listening to my TEB CD through the karaoke machine one day and I hear my grandmother call me. I open my door, ask what she wants, and she's like "I didn't call you..." and that was that so I turned my music back on but then I hear her call me again. She, again, denies calling me and now I'm getting annoyed.
I grumpy am like whatever and go to make a copy of the CD so I can listen to it during my breaks at the college the next day. Flash forward and I've got my headphones on while eating lunch with friends and I f**kjng hear her again, my grandmother calling my name and I whip around because she very well could have been there as a chaperone for whatever reason but she's home. I replay the song, boom, her voice is imprinted on the tape.
I think to myself, "that's weird, the mic wasn't plugged in so there wasn't a way her voice could have leaked in, plus my door was closed and she was watching TV downstairs so... I dunno how this happened." I figured f**k it, just redo the tape when I get home, it's weird but whatever.
I'm home now and before I recopy the tape, I have just the CD player going while I do my homework.
Guess what I f**king hear...
My grandmothers voice coming from the CD player... her voice got imprinted on my f**king CD, it's not even possible. I had zero CD writing devices at my house at the time, in fact it was like another year or 2 before I got my first PC, and regular ass discmans never had or would have that capability. Even if I did, it wasn't a rewritable CD and it's not like the music cut out, like data had been rewritten, it was f**king OVERLAYED, like the music was still playing but you could hear my grandmother clear as a bell yell my name and to come downstairs.
Once I made the discovery, I brought it to school the next day to make sure what I was hearing wasn't so.ethjng triggered in my head and I got confirmation from 2 girls I was friends with that they could not only hear the voice but make out exactly what she said.
3 days later I went to play the CD again and it disappeared, not just the disc but the case as well. Never saw it again.