Hello, my name is Kathy Folger. I was an intern for the third season
of Wordgirl, and it was great until things took a turn for the worse.
The PBS station demanded more animation frames for the show to make the
animation flawless.
They told us that they wanted to convey a more animated series
than there others. So Soup2Nuts (The animation group I was interning
for) and the group that animated the show agreed. But they had never
done such a feat. So they all worked day and night to get everything
flowing right.
As the animators drew, some members of the animation team were
growing tired and the animation became more and more grotesque. I should
know; I was there giving out coffee and other things for the team. I
saw them from the sidelines, gathering together and conversing about an
episode they were animating. It was called "The Last Word", and it was
going to be to teach children more advanced words like usual.
When the head director brought all the animators to view the
episode, he told the one animation group who were animating the last
bits to bring the finalized version, but they did not respond. He went
to their cubicles, and when he got there they were all dead with blood
stains on the alleged tape. The hospital was called and they were sent
to the emergency room as soon as possible but it was too late; they died
of unknown causes. But we still had the tape so we decided to watch it
in their honor and their hard work they put into it. As we all went into
the viewing room, everything was suddenly very quiet. The screen
flickered on and a scene of Wordgirl started as usual.
First the upbeat theme song played, followed by opening sequence
and the title card, but when the featured word was spoken something was
wrong. The narrator sounded distorted and demonic in some way and the
words sounded backwards, like he was talking in tongues. We thought it
was just a sound glitch so we kept going and pulled through the rest of
the episode, but it did not get better. Characters started to loose
color and the animation became shocking real and plastiscene-like. It
showed Wordgirl, the beloved super hero, spitting out obscenities and
losing her cartoon style. We kept watching as the horror on the screen
unfolded.
As we watched, the dialogue started to become backwards and
static started to engulf the scene as unholy creatures which we could
barely make out appeared in the background. Wordgirl got worse as scenes
of blood-shot faces floated past her as she turned to the screen. Her
head went slowly around making a screeching sound as she turned. We all
sat there and as her eyes rolled upward her eyes and her mouth opened
and she made a sound. Some staff member said that she thought she heard
her say "From all good knowledge and power comes greatness", and the
staff member said she stopped there. But we did not listen to her. We
watched to the end, when it cut to a dark crimson red with a faded pale
mask-like face. It just stood there in the screen staring at us until it
open its mouth and letters in a jumbled order appeared. HHKTIELLCEILD
We all stopped watching it and the tape was gone. We couldn't
find it in the VCR anymore and we assumed nothing about it. We went back
to our daily lives, except for me. I never went back to the Soup2Nuts
team again. I heard rumors that the video still was not found and they
did not know why it disappeared in the VCR. I am now trying to forget
about it but it still haunts me every night and I still get flashes at
night of the face and the things which Wordgirl said. Well, this is the
end of my story and I have nothing else to say. I hear Wordgirl is still
making new episodes but I will never be apart of that again.
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