So, I want to get the word around about this. I read it on a creepypasta app, and I really think this is worth investigating. If you guys decide to do a little investigation of your own, update me on the details.
0 2018-01-25 by MiniChicken15
COPYRIGHT WARNING!
I DID NOT WRITE THIS. CREDIT IS AT THE BOTTOM!
The Bum’s Countdown 01/02/2013
There’s a strange phenomenon I’ve noticed on several television reports from the early 1960’s onwards. There may be more before, but since I got my first television in 1962, I can’t say for sure. I would like to post this here to ask if anybody else has noticed, or seen any others.
It started in the early 1960s. Specifically, the Kennedy assassination. I was watching a broadcast by ABC of his final precession, and whilst the reporter was talking to the camera, amongst the crowd, I noticed something quite odd. A very scruffily dressed man standing quite a distance behind the reporter was staring right into the camera. He wore the typical attire of a homeless person. Dirty brown trench coat, a dark green woollen hat, and noticeably long facial hair. This wasn’t what creeped me out however. There was a massive amount of people around, and I just assumed this homeless man was here to watch the parade. The fact he was staring dead on at the camera motionless was quite off-putting though.
A little while into the report, he finally moved. He raised his arm in front of himself, and put him hand up, giving the number “5” with his digits. A few seconds after he did this, there was a loud bang, and a massive commotion in the crowd. The man stayed absolutely still, with his hand still outstretched, but the reporter and camera man moved to get a better look at what had happened, and the man was no longer in shot.
Kennedy had been killed.
Some years went by, and along the way, I seemed to forget about the strange homeless man from the Kennedy report. That was, until 1980. I had returned from work, and was absolutely shattered. My wife was laying out our evening meal, and I was just catching up on current events on TV. I changed to a particularly interesting report about a heat wave that was currently affecting some of the states down South. This concerned me, as my wife has relatives there, and I feared for their wellbeing. The news reporter was billing this as “The worst American heat-wave in decades.” At that point, I noticed him again.
In the distance, over the reporter’s left shoulder, was the homeless man from the Kennedy report. I didn’t notice him at first, and it was his initial movement that drew my eyes to him. As the reporter spoke, the homeless man lifted his hand once again, and signalled the number “4” with his fingers. I was more alarmed at the fact that the man seemed ”exactly” the same as when I had spotted him in the Kennedy report almost 20 years before. He was dressed the same, still wearing his trench coat, despite the reporter claiming that the heat was unbearable. He himself had removed his suit jacket, and had rolled his shirt sleeves up.
That man has made a couple more appearances in news reports that I know of. One in 2001, during a report of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centres, where he held up 3 fingers, and more recently during reports of the devastation Hurricane Sandy caused in New York, where he held up 2 fingers. Each time, in all 4 of these news reports, he has been dressed exactly the same, and shows absolutely no emotion. The people around him seem to pay no mind to him, and each time he just stares directly into the camera lens, until the report ends, or the cameraman moves the camera away from him.
I have written this because of his appearance in the Sandy reports. It is now 2012, and I know for a fact that DVD recording and such has become a lot more common. I have never owned a recording device myself, and so I haven’t been able to capture the man in any reports. Other people may have though, so I urge you to flick back through any recordings of the news reports you may have, and try and screen grab an image of the man if possible, so that we may identify him, and find out exactly why he is showing up at these events.
Right now I am very scared though. And I think it’s plausible that you all should be too. It’s obvious at this point that this man does not age, and appears in news reports of disasters- both natural and man-made. Not to mention, with the exception of the Kennedy assassination, many people have been injured and killed in said disasters, and it’s getting worse. It’s also obvious that this man is counting down to something in each one of the reports he has appeared in. And worryingly, he’s down to number 1.
Credit To – Cooperwithacamera
33 comments
1 limesqueezeme13 2018-01-25
Good story..
1 wy-tu-kay 2018-01-25
Show us a picture of your mystic tramp, good sir.
1 MiniChicken15 2018-01-25
I didn't write this...
1 wy-tu-kay 2018-01-25
My b
1 MiniChicken15 2018-01-25
Bad? Oh ok, no problem, I think I'm going to do some research
1 Othurion 2018-01-25
What is this creepypasta BS. No link to footage? Stills?
1 MiniChicken15 2018-01-25
Did you not read this? I DID NOT write this. I'm posting this BECAUSE I want you guys to do some investigation, and let me know what you find.
1 Othurion 2018-01-25
Im not the one posting the conspiracy, its not my job to put your report together. I read the whole thing, and if it were true OP would have put the effort into attaching the proof. Clearly he was paying attention and had ample time to scrub through the large cataloge of footage for a shred of this old man.
1 Garagecouch 2018-01-25
Uh. Are you unaware of the fact that this is fiction?
1 MiniChicken15 2018-01-25
How do you know?
1 Her_Excellency 2018-01-25
Because it was posted on a fucking fiction app
1 MiniChicken15 2018-01-25
Still, some creepypastas are true
1 sHaDowpUpPetxxx 2018-01-25
Which one?
1 Her_Excellency 2018-01-25
Which ones would that be?
1 Garagecouch 2018-01-25
Name one.
1 KoalaZombie 2018-01-25
Did you really just post a creepy pasta in the conspiracy subreddit, gtfo
1 jasenlee 2018-01-25
Creepypasta is fiction. People write these stories for their own amusement and that of others.
1 Camfella 2018-01-25
Once upon a time.......
1 MiniChicken15 2018-01-25
What do you mean
1 Camfella 2018-01-25
Isn’t that how all good fairy tales begin?
1 MiniChicken15 2018-01-25
Wtf are you talking about?
1 Camfella 2018-01-25
I just called your post a fairy tale, is that clear enough?
1 Tha_Dude_Abidez 2018-01-25
It's interesting but it sounds like /r/nosleep. All the same, thanks for the read!
1 greenmanfarm 2018-01-25
Great larp fag.
1 notyourreality 2018-01-25
The ultimate "pics or it didn't happen"
1 KiwiBattlerNZ 2018-01-25
Pure fucking bullshit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_John_F._Kennedy_assassination#ABC
ABC did not have cameras anywhere near Dealey Plaza.
1 IronSkyPost 2018-01-25
Surely after "Sandy" the Tramp has no fingers left and we can all breathe a sigh of relief? Or am I counting wrong? I can't be fucked to read it again because it was just so depressingly fucking shit.
1 Blunt4words20 2018-01-25
Sounds like the movie thrill chasers!!
1 MiniChicken15 2018-01-25
What's that? I might be interested in it :)
1 Blunt4words20 2018-01-25
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1Z5RjuB78
Here's the full movie
1 hockeyislife91 2018-01-25
Assuming the homesless man was an adult in 1962, let's say atleast of 35 years of age, he would be 90 years old today....
I think the last finger he'll be holding up is on his own deahtbed cause it's time for him to go
1 MiniChicken15 2018-01-25
Haha that was actually funny, you do have a point, I was just wondering if he was like a terrorist or something
1 Topsecretrocketman 2018-01-25
Isn't creepypasta fan fic?
1 MiniChicken15 2018-01-25
I think, I just had some faith that it was true, and we could actually discover something