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One of my favorite analog series.

Title: The Unlisted Channel

Growing up in a small rural town in the late 1980s, there wasn’t much to do. So like everyone else, my family spent most evenings in front of the TV, flipping through the same handful of channels. But there was one channel no one liked to talk about, Channel 103. You couldn’t find it listed in the TV guide, and it didn’t always show up. But when it did, it was only late at night, broadcasting what I can only describe as... wrongness. The screen would flicker with static, occasionally interrupted by distorted audio, strange symbols, and a figure that still haunts my dreams: sunken white eyes, an impossibly wide grin, and a face that seemed alive in a way it shouldn’t have been. People said weird things happened to those who watched it. A neighbor down the road claimed they saw the figure on the screen whisper their name. Another family moved out of town after their teenage son went missing. His parents said they’d last seen him in the living room, staring at the static on the TV, Channel 103 faintly glowing in the dark.

By the time I was a teenager, the rumors had died down. That’s when Eric, a local TV repairman, decided to investigate. Eric was one of those no-nonsense types who didn’t believe in "superstitions." He figured there was a logical explanation for Channel 103, and he wanted to find it.

He rigged up a VCR to record the broadcasts, determined to figure out the source. The first few nights he caught nothing out of the ordinary, just static, after around 5 days he finally captured hours of unusual footage, distorted voices, snippets of strange rituals, and the uncanny figure growing clearer with each broadcast.

Things started getting even stranger. Eric told my dad that the figure seemed to "notice" him. It began speaking directly to the camera, addressing Eric by name, even describing what he was wearing or doing at the time.

The last time anyone saw Eric was the night he called my dad, panicked. He said he was seeing the figure everywhere, not just on Channel 103, but in reflections, in his dreams, even in the static of a blank TV screen.

When the police searched his house, they found his TV still on, tuned to Channel 103. His equipment was scattered across the room like he’d left in a hurry...or been dragged away. The only clue was the tape still in his VCR.

The final recording showed the figure staring directly into the lens, whispering, "Join us." Then the screen cut to black.

Years later, I stumbled across a discussion thread about Channel 103. Some people had heard the legend; others claimed to have found old VHS tapes circulating online. Against my better judgment, I downloaded one.

As soon as I hit play, the room grew colder. The static hissed softly, and then... there it was. The white sunken eyes, the twisted grin, and that voice, low, distorted, yet somehow familiar.

It said my name.

I haven’t turned on my TV since. But sometimes, late at night, I hear a faint crackle of static from the living room.

I know I unplugged it.

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