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INVASION OF THE MYSTERIOUS BLACK-EYED CHILDREN INVASION MYSTERIOUS THE CHILDREN BLACK-EYED Over the last decade, many people have reported encounters with black-eyed children who approach them, make demands and terrify them out of their wits. Several theories have been proposed to explain this strange phenomenon, but the answer remains elusive. artha Stacy didn't recognise the little girl standing on the other side of the screen. The child knocked on the front door—a door that people familiar with Stacy's family don't use—and just stood there, staring at her shoes. Stacy lives in a small town in rural Missouri and knows most everyone, but she didn't know this child standing on her porch. The girl with dirty blonde hair was about seven years old; her dingy white dress looked more like clothing from the 1940s than the 2000s. Stacy opened the screen door and knelt to talk with the girl. She didn't like what she found. "I need help," the girl said. "Can I come inside, please?" Even though the girl was polite and well spoken, something about her terrified Stacy. "| suddenly felt very afraid,” Stacy said. Stacy couldn't focus. She almost felt sorry for this dirty little girl with bad breath who wouldn't raise her head, but the pity didn't come. Then the little girl raised her head and looked into Stacy's face. ‘| immediately noticed that her eyes seemed wrong or something,” Stacy said. "Like they were ink—like someone had poured ink in her eyes. They were not normal kids' eyes. They were coal black, and black from rim to rim— just staring.” "I need to come inside," the girl said again. "Please let me in, now." Stacy heard something in the girl's voice, something cold, alien. "| could hear a kind of fake sweetness in her voice," Stacy said. "She had a little girl voice but had an adult vocabulary and force about her." As Stacy stood and backed into the house, the girl looked up and asked Stacy why she couldn't come in. Terror gripped Stacy and she slammed the door in this girl's face. "This little girl was real," Stacy said. "I hope she does not come back. | somehow know that she meant harm to us. | would rather forget that it happened at all, but worry that she will return.” Stacy, like many people across the globe, had encountered a "black-eyed kid". They approach quietly, yet boldly. They're young, usually in their teens or slightly younger. Using language and assertiveness beyond their years, they insist on coming inside the house or beckon you to follow them down a darkened path. But for some reason you're afraid. Then you notice their eyes: black, as if the pupil had poured over its banks. You don't let them in—or do you? What are they? Pranksters? Drug addicts? Extraterrestrials? Demons? The term "black-eyed kids" has floated across cyberspace since 16 January 1998, when journalist Brian Bethel posted his encounter with children whose eyes were black; not a hint of iris, nor white. And they scared the hell out of him. Bethel was sitting in his car across from a $1.50 movie theatre in Abilene, Texas, at about 9.45 pm when someone tapped on his window. He looked up by Jason Offutt © 2009 Post Office Box 501 Maryville, MO 64468, USA Email: jasonoffutt@hotmail.com Blog: http://www. from-the-shadows. blogspot.com Post Office Box 501 Maryville, MO 64468, USA Email: jasonoffutt@hotmail.com Blog: http://www. from-the-shadows. blogspot.com NEXUS ¢ 59 by Jason Offutt © 2009 FEBRUARY - MARCH 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com