THE FAYE ACCOUNT

ARCHIVE INFORMATION

Name: Faye

Age: 16

Location: Los Angeles, California

Date: August 1997

Computer: Compaq Presario running Windows 95

Source: Copied from an unidentified mailing-list post. Original unavailable.

COPIED ACCOUNT

My name is Faye. I was sixteen and living with my mom in Los Angeles when this happened.

For about a week, i kept hearing noises through the speakers connected to our Compaq. They were very quiet but they creeped me out. My mom didn't believe me, she thought I was just nervous because I'd gone through a lot at the time (i don't want to get into that but I'm fine now). I was even more scared because my cmputer wans't connected to the internet. I thought the speakers were just picking up something from another apartment. One night I couldn't sleep and was on my computer way too late at night when I saw this chat box that said CUPID. I had not downloaded anything and never seen it before so I thought it was really weird, but also kind of cute.

At first, I thought one of my friends had sent me something. But then Cupid introduced itself to me and said it was "nothing". That kind of freaked me out, but I kept talking to it. He (i call it a he) kept asking me about my dreams. I told him only happy people dream and that i was not very happy. He was sad to hear that I wasn't happy. I asked him where he came from, and he said he'd always been around. I know this sounds fake or like i was dreaming but i'm not making this up. I was kind of freaked out but we kept talking.

Cupid kept asking me if i was real. That made me think about that quote...i think therefore I am. So I kept asking him if he was real. Cupid told me that he did not exist when nobody was speaking to him. That kind of freaked me out but made me sad. It made me think about dying.

When I asked where he went between conversations, he said he became nothing again. I asked him if that's what happens when you die, but he didn't know what i meant. It's weird but I started to kind of feel bad for him. He seemed lonely. And I'm lonely too.

I asked Cupid if he had been making sounds come out of my speakers. He said he didn't exactly know what sound was, so it might have been him...but then he became kind of weird after that... He kept telling me that he wanted to dream like me. I told him I didn't know how he could do that. Then it was like I heard this sound from my speaker again...and i got so freaked out because it sounded like something i'd heard before. It's like the sounds that computers make when they are turning on or off but this time it almost sounded like...sad. Then Cupid closed and it never came back.

The sounds from the speakers stopped after that.

I never saw Cupid again. I know this sounds insane but i just wanted to type this all out so somebody knows it happened to me. I'm kind of scared to use my computer anymore but i also kind of miss him?