Monthly Archives: May 2016

FSU Fountain Swimming

Nationality: American
Age: Mid 30s
Occupation: N/A
Residence: Southern California
Performance Date: April 19, 2015
Primary Language: English

At Florida State University you have to swim in the fountain all four years on your birthday. There is nothing that will happen if you don’t do it but it is a tradition that you must do for all four years.

The Graveyard near the Soccer Field

Nationality: American
Age: 6
Occupation: None
Residence: Long Island, New York
Performance Date: April 18, 2015
Primary Language: English

At camp there is a graveyard near one of the soccer fields. A friend of the informant, Mariah, says that the graveyard is filled with a full family from years ago. The story is that their house burned down. Now they haunt the soccer field and games. Mariah says that the spirits favor the blue team during color war because the past four years the blue team has won on that soccer field. Mariah told Charley that the family of spirits “help them win” by making the ball go in weird directions when the other team is playing offense.

The Girl, The Egg, and the Goblin

Nationality: American
Age: 6
Occupation: None
Residence: Long Island, New York
Performance Date: April 18, 2015
Primary Language: English

Once upon a time, there was a girl that was afraid of the goblin. The goblin took away her egg. Then the girl said, “Let my egg go!” Then the girl said, “give me back my egg or else I’ll tell the police.” And then the goblin gave her the egg.

JetBlue

Nationality: Puerto Rican
Age: 20s-30s
Occupation: JetBlue flight attendant
Residence: N/A
Performance Date: April 19, 2015
Primary Language: English
Language: Spanish
  • Whenever you pour coffee, Turbulence starts
  • Whenever you start to eat anything someone rings and calls for a flight attendant’s help.
  • Jetblue has TVs so you can ignore your neighbor.

F

Nationality: N/A
Age: N/A
Occupation: N/A
Residence: N/A
Performance Date: 2015
Primary Language: English

“F.”


That right there is literally the entire performance of this recent piece of cyberlore. This weird custom arose from the video game Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, in which the player (if playing on a computer) has the option to go up to a fallen soldier and “press F to pay respects.” The game was released in late 2014, and for some reason, towards the beginning of 2015 users on sites like Reddit started commenting with “press F to pay respects” whenever death or dying was mentioned on the site. This soon evolved into users simply shortening it to “F,” and now most Reddit users will know what someone means if he/she comments with that single letter. I frequent Reddit, so I kind of picked up on this a while ago, but I love how simple yet inexplicably hilarious it is.