Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work - Chapter 220
Chapter 220: Chapter 220
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The mood of the post is dropping sharply.
<Hot Talk Talk First Half Special Edition> hastily put together after footage was lost due to a power outage.
Episode 166.
In that episode, which was created by haphazardly putting together previous episodes, various panel and audience scenes captured are attached as photos.
That…
There is no need to circle and zoom in like before.
Anyone who reads this article will now remember this man’s face.
Black eye.
Smiling mouth.
The man on the screen is the only one looking at the camera among dozens of people in various scenes from old talk shows where everyone is laughing and chatting.
Episodes 157, 158, 160, 162, 164…
All episodes aired in a patchwork format in Episode 166.
In a corner of lively entertainment.
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Clearly, this guy has never been seen in these episodes before. If he had, there would have been no mention of him only appearing in episode 6.
But it was shown because it was re-edited and aired as episode 166.
It wasn’t there before, I just couldn’t find it… but now the guy is there.
And compare this.
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There are two pictures side by side.
A close-up of a previously discovered capture of the ’man in the screen’, circled in red.
And an enlarged version of the capture from episode 166.
If you compare the two captured in the same composition…
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The expression on his face changed.
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Only the man in episode 166 is smiling with all his teeth exposed.
And the pupils of the black eyes looking at the camera appear strangely dilated…
The eeriness felt in low-quality photos.
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This was the expression on his face in every highlight scene discovered.
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A chill down the spine.
Eventually, the broadcasting station realized that this was not an ordinary situation and the production staff took action on their own.
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We started checking people more thoroughly when they entered the set or outdoors during filming.
I’m talking about the roles of panelists and audience members.
I was just trying to see if there was anyone who looked similar to the ’man on the screen’.
It was the 2000s. Until then, they didn’t put that much effort into verifying identity.
So, because this was a bit strange and unusual, I think rumors spread among the celebrities and staff who were filming.
I think the captured version of ’The Man in the Screen’ was also spread at that time.
There were all sorts of stories going around. He was a PD who had died in a previous broadcasting accident, he was the son of a former director who had committed suicide, he was a construction worker who had died during construction of a broadcasting station, and the occult special that had aired a few years ago had caused something strange…
But nothing has been proven to be true.
They say that the phenomenon did not disappear even if you held a test or performed a ritual.
They keep finding them…
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So in the end, the production team changes their response.
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So what happened after that?
He just kept deleting them.
Once the final edit is out, the editing room keeps going back through the footage and somehow finds that guy and cuts him out.
So he was never seen again in the broadcast… and so this ghost story was gradually forgotten. I guess he became dull because the man was no longer found?
Sometimes, when the captured images of the ’man on the screen’ reappearing are revealed to be of someone else with a similar appearance, they end up being more like explanations.
So that’s the end of the commotion.
Until now, I thought so too…
I recently heard a creepy story from a friend who is a broadcast writer.
This is getting too long, so I’ll bring it up in the next episode.
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And.
“…That’s coming up again here.”
In front of Lee Seong-hae, who had just finished reminiscing about ’Data Part 1’, the PD, who had barely swallowed his saliva, spoke with a pale face.
A terrified look.
“Are you talking about the ’man on the screen’?”
“Yes…”
The strange and terrifying phenomenon that had appeared in the defunct broadcasting station was now appearing again in the entertainment department of the modern MBS channel.
“We are doing our best to delete or avoid it, but… this doesn’t seem to be an ordinary case, so we agreed to call in an expert.”
The two members of the field investigation team suddenly became exorcism experts, but they maintained a calm demeanor, befitting their naturally calm personalities.
Because it doesn’t matter what.
“No matter what you do, please don’t come out. If possible, I hope you can resolve it amicably…”
“Yes. Don’t worry!”
If you take it to the company, it will eventually stop appearing on this broadcasting station.
Lee Seong-hae smiled brightly and recalled.
Countermeasures for the ’man on the screen’.
The darkness in question is currently estimated to be Class C-D, and exhibits typical characteristics of paranormal phenomena seen in the footage.
If not witnessed: Appears more frequently.
When seen: Appears in a more violent manner.
Manages the frequency and aggressiveness of the anomalous appearance of the entity, and after the optimal amount of time, returns the image data to a suitable storage location in a non-reproducible storage device. (Assumed) Failure may result in death.
The anticipated countermeasures included in the data were more informative than I expected.
It was almost like a clear manual. Although there were still clues that were not proven in the current situation.
’If we do it right, the staff might be able to rest!’
If possible, call only at the end.
“Okay, then I will guide you.”
“Yes!”
The PD led them to the editing room.
No Entry
The interior is under construction.
Open the door.
Creak.
Contrary to the sign that had been posted, the dark, empty editing room was there, intact.
All screens are off and the equipment is in a stopped state.
“The sign was put up so that other people wouldn’t come in. As for editing… we only do urgent work that requires equipment during the day here, and try to do it outside the broadcasting station, in a studio, or from home.”
A modern approach that was impossible at the former closed broadcasting stations.
This has been possible recently because editing programs and equipment specifications have become more standardized and widespread.
The inside of the editing room is deserted, so it feels cold and settled…
“Hmm…”
And then, slowly, Kang Yi-hak’s mouth opened once more.
“Wow, this… usually it doesn’t have anything poisonous attached to it.”
“…!”
Kang Yi-hak clicked his tongue and spoke seriously.
“Ah, this… Ha, this seems dangerous.”
“…”
“If we do this, we will need to secure more time than usual, and we will also need to prepare more in advance.”
“Uh, how long will it take?”
Kang Yi-hak looks at the PD and speaks solemnly.
“Congratulations.”
“…yes?”
“You are very lucky. What you have here is a magical item that we worked very hard to bring back.”
Bam.
Kang Yi-hak pointed to the moving box and touched it.
“You can skip the preparation time. This is… not at the level of an additional fee, but rather at the level where you have to come up with a new estimate for the case fee.”
“Ah,”
Kang Yi-hak looks at him with trust.
“But this time, I’ll just do it.”
“…!”
Since they are people who are very busy with construction work and who bring smiles to the people, we will try to endure it even if it means suffering a loss…
The PD, whose mentality was already shaken by fatigue and fear at the dazzling rhetoric, made a blank expression and then nodded.
“Go, thank you.”
“Haha, I hope you continue to have great broadcasts in the future. …But.”
Kang Yi-hak frowned.
“You have to stay in the editing room for three days from now. No one is allowed to come in.”
“Yes!”
“And the fact that the schedule is being extended like this… There’s no choice but to set a price for this. We can’t help it at this point either.”
Her dazzling skills continued to the point where she said, “As you can see, this is a difficult job to run as a business, so I will only accept cash or in-kind payments.” In the end, the PD ran down to the first floor of the broadcasting station and came back saying he would withdraw the money.
Furthermore, Kang Yi-hak took off the gold accessory he was wearing and handed it over to the PD, and told him not to worry as he sent him off.
“Now you can sleep soundly!”
“Thank you…”
And the moment the PD disappeared from the editing room, he looked back at the group, smiling happily, holding the additional profits in both hands.
“Now that we have the capability, we can say that what used to take three days was done in one day!”
It was a crazy trick.
“Oh.”
Lee Seong-hae, who had been staring blankly at the sight, opened his mouth.
“You really are good at deceiving people.”
“You’re cheating! You know how to make extra money in a way that no one cares about and you don’t lose anything!”
Kang Yi-hak quickly divided the gold and cash he received into three parts.
The hand that divides by generation is skilled.
“Anyway, if that person takes care of this, he’ll have a lot of money to spend in the future, and even if that’s not the case, he’ll get all the money he spent now from his superiors or somewhere else, right?”
“…”
“Okay, let’s take this and divide it evenly according to the number of people. Okay? Me, Dolphin-nim, and… even our cool staff member!”
Kang Yi-hak quickly looks back at the moving cage and holds out gold towards it.
“Employee?”
“Yes! Of course. Hey, if you don’t want cash, why don’t you give me gold instead? What do you think, employee?”
There’s no way I’ll get that…
Bam.
“…”
“Look at that!”
As expected, he must be a being who knows the greatness of gold, and Kang Yi-hak silently shouted a victory ceremony scream into the air.
Lee Seong-hae froze for a moment, then lowered his head to the moving box and asked seriously.
“Um… Do you need money?”
Bam.
“Would you like some more?”
Bam.
“Excuse me, is your company not paying your salary?”
Silence.
Silence continues in the moving room. For some reason, the mascot seems confused. Let’s not push too hard.
’But… don’t you think it’s right to not give it to me?’
After thinking it over carefully, Lee Seong-hae decided to first put this kind employee at ease.
Business talk.
“I will work hard!”
Knock knock.
Is it okay if I don’t work hard? You’re such a good person!
“Okay, then… how about we get ready to move in now?”
“Yes.”
After a brief period of capitalist commotion, Kang I-hak quickly went to the editorial office entrance and closed the door.
Thud.
Inside the closed editing room.
“…I will turn on the screen.”
The central equipment monitor lights up, and one of the entertainment files that was being edited appears on the desktop.
And it comes to me on its own.
Next article.
The reason why those involved in the ’Man in the Screen’ ghost story are particularly afraid of the editing room.
The reason they are here,
[Has anyone seen this guy on a PBS program? (Caution with photo) -2]
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Hi. I wrote this quickly because everyone was curious.
In my last post, I said that the ghost story became dull as the ’man on the screen’ was deleted during the editing process.
And you said you heard a creepy story from a friend who’s a scriptwriter? It’s…
In fact, it was a lie that I deleted all the ’men on the screen’.
It was definitely possible at first. They could take the guy out and make a clean final version.
But as time passed, as the number of episodes piled up, as the editing progressed… the number of cases where it was discovered over and over again increased even after being deleted.
And then the man’s appearance became increasingly strange.
In the past, if you were in a crowd, you would just pass by unless you looked closely, but at some point, even if you just passed by, it felt so strange that you would press the stop button… It got to that point.
I don’t know what the situation was like. Even the editors couldn’t speak. They just kept repeating one word.
’I think you’re angry’…
Then eventually, the workload reached its limit.
Even if you delete it, it keeps coming up, so in this industry where people already stay up all night, the workload gets heavier… and even veterans who don’t have time for this end up staying up all night to find the ’man on the screen’ and cut it out.
Then, eventually, they came up with a new method.
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Block it right at the source.
It is to not include any scenes with large groups of people where the ’man on the screen’ can appear.
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From the very beginning, they don’t capture the audience and just add sound. Or they just zoom in and capture only the people who react.
If this is the case, there won’t be many people caught on camera at once, right?
I thought it would be a little more comfortable. It seemed plausible.
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After saying that we should do it this way, the article continues by saying that the atmosphere has calmed down a bit. It’s as if a real solution has been found.
The PD and assistant director who had made the suggestion at the time breathed a sigh of relief and went into the editing room, deciding to do it as is.
And the next day.
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They both committed suicide in the editing room.
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“…”
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A PD hanging himself with a wire on the ceiling, an assistant director with his arteries cut open with pieces of a broken monitor on a chair.
There was also a will right in front of the door.
But the handwriting was so messy, I couldn’t even tell what it was written in…
The PD who was on scene at the time and my friend who was a scriptwriter worked together, and according to that PD, the will was written in a strange way, with incoherent words that made it seem like it was written by a severe schizophrenic patient. He said it was so shocking that he only vaguely remembered the contents.
But one night, as I recalled the words and reconstructed them, I felt like I had a rough idea of the content… like this.
The man on the screen doesn’t want to be deleted
He was angry.
Put him on the air right now
I just told you I don’t want to die sorry
He said he couldn’t sleep that day because he was scared.
He said that he ended up staying at the temple for a few days.
Even if that weren’t the case, the majority of people at the PBS entertainment department were so shocked or terrified that the entertainment department itself completely stopped functioning.
Do you remember people who are around my age? Suddenly, an article came out on PBS Entertainment that two people had died, and they canceled entertainment programs for 2-3 weeks to commemorate them…
That’s what it was, actually.
The editing room was newly built, but the atmosphere didn’t recover after that. The variety PDs were leaving one after another, and even the production staff, such as writers, seemed reluctant to sign new contracts and work.
So everyone who worked at PBS at that time was blindfolded.
The socio-political conflict is often cited as the reason for PBS’s closure, but it is clear that the atmosphere of the entertainment department, which was left almost beyond recovery due to this incident, had an impact…
Anyway, there are some fortunate things.
When the station closed in 2008, the ’Man in the Screen’ ghost story really came to an end.
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But you know what?
This is a variety show that aired yesterday.
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A high-quality photo was attached at the end of the article.
Capture from episode 36 of ’Elegant Midnight Laughter’ at 6 minutes and 23 seconds.
The MC and the solo guest having a friendly conversation. And the camera briefly shows the production team’s reactions.
The person sitting among the mosaic production crew…
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Would you like to know?
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The man on the screen is watching.
A toothy grin, dilated pupils, and strangely furrowed eyebrows as if in anger.
I’m looking at you through the camera.
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PBS is shut down.
But there is a broadcasting station that took over all the equipment and personnel of a closed broadcasting station and reorganized it.
Do you know where it is?
It’s MBS.
And the midnight laughter is an MBS entertainment show.
Don’t watch MBS entertainment shows for a while.
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Something began to appear on the video screen in the editing room.
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Because you never know what might happen.
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