TV

One day my TV burned out and I decided to buy a new one. I worked as a security guard in a supermarket, well, of course, the salary was too much, so I couldn't afford a high-quality and good TV.

The next day, I went to buy a TV at a private market, accidentally noticed a strange store of various things and decided to go there. There were a lot of different watches, all kinds of books, souvenirs, old tape recorders, mirrors and many different things. After walking a little further, I came across a TV, it was lamp-mounted, but not small, it was old, black in color, the name was somehow incomprehensible. And the amount was ridiculous, only 100 rubles. I wondered why it was so cheap. Later, I realized the reason for such a low price!

I came home and put the TV in front of the couch. When I turned on the TV, I was surprised that the quality was excellent, how lucky I was, I was happy... I spent the whole evening watching TV and went to bed. In the middle of the night, I woke up to a strange knocking sound, as if tapping on glass, in my sleep I thought it was tree branches hitting the glass, but when my head cleared, I realized that there was no wind outside. The pounding continued...

Opening my eyes, I began to listen to where the knocking was coming from, it seemed to me that the knocking was coming from the TV. I sat down on the couch, started watching TV, and suddenly noticed some movement on the screen, decided to turn on the light, but it didn't turn on, probably a power plant malfunction, I thought.

Going to the window, I pulled back the curtains and the moonlight illuminated the room. I went and sat in front of the TV, looked at the screen, I saw something terrible, there was someone's terrible face on the screen, I had never seen such a terrible face in any horror movie. There were no eyes on the face, there were only two holes from which blood was flowing, and the mouth was cut almost to the ears and sewn with thick thread, the skin was blue and long black hair. Out of fear, I leaned to the side and fell down in a daze. The hair was so long that it started to come out of the screen, then it slowly started to come out of the TV.

Out of fear, I ran screaming out of the gym, put on a windbreaker and flip-flops, and ran outside. Near the house, I kept looking at my window without looking away, then I noticed a dark silhouette near my window, I was standing and looking at this shadow, slowly moving back, suddenly the glass of my window broke into pieces. I winced a little, but when I looked out the window again, the shadow was gone.

I was outside all night, and it was scary to enter the apartment. When it started to get light, I calmed down and decided to go into the apartment. When I entered the hall, I saw that the TV was in place, as if nothing had happened. After assessing the situation, I thought that if I threw the TV away, someone might pick it up and take it for themselves, so I decided to smash the TV. I took out the TV with a big hammer and went into the house where there was an abandoned 3-room apartment and there I completely gouged out the TV.

A month has passed, and everything has returned to normal. Having saved up a little money, I bought myself a normal good TV in a normal hardware store. And I put new glass in the frame. And one evening, after work, I sat down to watch TV, as usual, and on some news I heard that a man's corpse had been found in front of the TV, the man's eyes had been cut out, and his mouth had been slit and sewn with thread. The windows and locks were locked from the inside, and the police couldn't figure out what had happened there. When the story from the apartment was shown, I froze again, there was the same TV on the table that I had smashed...