• mr_account@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    4 days ago

    I forget where I heard the idea from, but I remember someone coming up with a similar idea, just way more sinister. Basically you get a bunch of these really cheap, battery operated speakers like they mention in the comic, but you put sounds on them like creepy children laughing or ghostly noises that are juuuuust loud enough to hear. Set them to have very long timers at random intervals, and scatter them inside someone’s air vents

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        4 days ago

        They also had one that made creepy sounds. I had one set to a child laughing in the air vents in a creepy hallway with flickering lights in an old church building.

        It was awesome.

        • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
          20·
          4 days ago

          They were bought and basically no longer exist. Hot Topic was going to buy them but then GameStop came in with a higher offer. For a while they launched ThinkGeek retail stores in shopping malls but eventually shut them all down and now they basically only exist as some tchotchkes in GameStop stores. Even the website just seems to redirect to the main GameStop page now, not their “store” within the GameStop webstore.

    • asqapro@reddthat.comEnglish
      28·
      4 days ago

      I rented a room from my boss in college and he pulled this prank on me. First he hid it in the office and convinced all my coworkers to pretend not to hear it. It would switch between a creepy child’s laugh to a man groaning to other random noises. I was pretty sure it was a noisemaker, but I couldn’t get anyone else to admit that they could hear it so I couldn’t confirm.

      Then he moved it into the air vents of his house that I was renting a room in. I started to think I was developing schizophrenia since my mom suffered from it and after I confided as much in my roommate / coworker, he finally came clean and showed me where our boss hid it.

      All of this to say, it’s a very effective prank.

    • talEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      Fallout 76 has a location, Alpine River Cabins, which is rigged up to have random screams and suchlike play, along with some other rigged things, like doors randomly opening and closing.

      I remember the first time I ran across them, walking by the road that ran near the cabins, and was like “what the hell?”