u/JoaquinTheUnseen

I've spent years digging through old Reddit threads, and recently I’ve found a post titled “There’s a reason he’s called Cotton-eye Joe” that’s put me out of commission, I guess I’ll say and I’m sharing my story because I’m about to die. There was a photo attached to said post, and it showed a close up of a man’s face. He had an unkempt beard and mustache and was wearing a cowboy’s hat. The thing that horrified me though was that the man’s eye sockets… were lacking his eyeballs, and were stuffed with blood-soaked cotton balls. 

Unfortunately the photo looked legit, not edited or anything like that at all, and the post was 15 years old. Yes, I go that far into the darkness of old Reddit for my entertainment, but my point is that post was old enough that a photo like this can’t be easily faked. I saw this post some time ago, but those staring cotton-full eye sockets are still fresh in my mind, haunting me and refusing to tarnish. Besides that horrid photo, there was just a link, and initially, I was reluctant to click it.

 When I finally did however, I was expecting something real bad, but it was just a video showing a man singing Cotton-eye Joe. The video quality was horrible, but I could catch what was happening. The man singing seemed to be in the middle of a corn field, surrounded by corn stalks and scarecrows. The scarecrows caught my attention because where their eyes should be, was fluffy cotton soaked in red. 

Chills ran down my spine, It reminded me too much of that darn photo, and I would rather not be reminded about it so soon. The man had a guitar, and was strumming out the rhythm of Cotton-eye Joe, and upon closer inspection, I noticed the man has a resemblance to the face in the photo. At this point, I abruptly shut the lid of my laptop and questioned everything I’d just seen. What the hell was all this?

 What was the context behind it? Did I just stumble across something bad, or is it just a top notch prank or something? I sighed and slowly opened my laptop, like I was carefully handling a venomous snake. The man began to sing, and then he finished singing and the video ended.

I replayed the video a couple of times because I thought to myself that couldn’t be all. After the 3rd replay, I noticed something off. The lyrics were wrong, he was singing in tune with the Cotton-eye Joe rhythm, but the lyrics were different. I couldn’t hear it straight away because of minor audio corruption, but here’s what I heard:

 “Beware the cottoned-eye Joe,
 he’ll carve your eyes out with a hoe.
Then he’ll stuff them with cotton so,
no one sees what Cotton-eye knows.” 

That was it, but it sent me rippling with uneasiness. Those lyrics were so sinister in a way I can’t explain. If I randomly heard those lyrics in any other situation, I would laugh and think “what stupid lyrics”, but not this time, this time it terrified me. It’s been a week, I think at least, maybe it’s been a few weeks, or maybe even months since I viewed that post. I’ve stayed off of Reddit, and I avoided work by saying I was sick, the classic excuse.
Just days after, I decided I was going to do a bit more digging. The post left me horrified, but it also left me confused due to the lack of context. With that said, I checked out the comments to the post. To my disappointment, and probably relief, there were none. I wasn’t about to give up on my digging so soon however, so I clicked on the OP’s profile, which was u/Seth!23.

I was led to the OP’s profile page and I saw that the post that has traumatized me so much was their first and only post. But that wasn’t what scared me, what scared me was the bio. “He has my eyes now.”. That was what the bio said, and it sent chills up my spine.

I shut off my laptop and went to bed pretty quickly after that, but even sleep couldn’t protect me from the horrors I’ve witnessed because that night was when the dreams started. In the dream-state, I was spectating over a scene in a forest. There were people running through the trees, and this lanky, shadowy figure would pounce from behind the trees, grabbing 1 person at a time and plucking out their eyeballs. 

When their eyeballs were ripped away, they would hoarsely scream “It’s not just a song! It’s a warning!” while looking at my spectating dream self with their empty eye sockets. That’s how everyone of my dreams plays out nowadays, every single one! Quite some time has passed since the viewing of that post, and I’m on my last legs now. It’s night and I’m on my balcony, looking out into the forest in the back, and there’s a flickering light peeking through the trees. I know I’m on my last legs, because I can hear someone singing Cotton-eye Joe.                 

Where did you come from,          
Where did you go?                                               Where did you come from,         
Cotton-eye Joe?

I've spent years digging through old Reddit threads, and recently I’ve found a post titled “There’s a reason he’s called Cotton-eye Joe” that’s put me out of commission, I guess I’ll say and I’m sharing my story because I’m about to die. There was a photo attached to said post, and it showed a close up of a man’s face. He had an unkempt beard and mustache and was wearing a cowboy’s hat. The thing that horrified me though was that the man’s eye sockets… were lacking his eyeballs, and were stuffed with blood-soaked cotton balls. 

Unfortunately the photo looked legit, not edited or anything like that at all, and the post was 15 years old. Yes, I go that far into the darkness of old Reddit for my entertainment, but my point is that post was old enough that a photo like this can’t be easily faked. I saw this post some time ago, but those staring cotton-full eye sockets are still fresh in my mind, haunting me and refusing to tarnish. Besides that horrid photo, there was just a link, and initially, I was reluctant to click it.

 When I finally did however, I was expecting something real bad, but it was just a video showing a man singing Cotton-eye Joe. The video quality was horrible, but I could catch what was happening. The man singing seemed to be in the middle of a corn field, surrounded by corn stalks and scarecrows. The scarecrows caught my attention because where their eyes should be, was fluffy cotton soaked in red. 

Chills ran down my spine, It reminded me too much of that darn photo, and I would rather not be reminded about it so soon. The man had a guitar, and was strumming out the rhythm of Cotton-eye Joe, and upon closer inspection, I noticed the man has a resemblance to the face in the photo. At this point, I abruptly shut the lid of my laptop and questioned everything I’d just seen. What the hell was all this?

 What was the context behind it? Did I just stumble across something bad, or is it just a top notch prank or something? I sighed and slowly opened my laptop, like I was carefully handling a venomous snake. The man began to sing, and then he finished singing and the video ended.

I replayed the video a couple of times because I thought to myself that couldn’t be all. After the 3rd replay, I noticed something off. The lyrics were wrong, he was singing in tune with the Cotton-eye Joe rhythm, but the lyrics were different. I couldn’t hear it straight away because of minor audio corruption, but here’s what I heard:

 “Beware the cottoned-eye Joe,
 he’ll carve your eyes out with a hoe.
Then he’ll stuff them with cotton so,
no one sees what Cotton-eye knows.” 

That was it, but it sent me rippling with uneasiness. Those lyrics were so sinister in a way I can’t explain. If I randomly heard those lyrics in any other situation, I would laugh and think “what stupid lyrics”, but not this time, this time it terrified me. It’s been a week, I think at least, maybe it’s been a few weeks, or maybe even months since I viewed that post. I’ve stayed off of Reddit, and I avoided work by saying I was sick, the classic excuse.
Just days after, I decided I was going to do a bit more digging. The post left me horrified, but it also left me confused due to the lack of context. With that said, I checked out the comments to the post. To my disappointment, and probably relief, there were none. I wasn’t about to give up on my digging so soon however, so I clicked on the OP’s profile, which was u/Seth!23.

I was led to the OP’s profile page and I saw that the post that has traumatized me so much was their first and only post. But that wasn’t what scared me, what scared me was the bio. “He has my eyes now.”. That was what the bio said, and it sent chills up my spine.

I shut off my laptop and went to bed pretty quickly after that, but even sleep couldn’t protect me from the horrors I’ve witnessed because that night was when the dreams started. In the dream-state, I was spectating over a scene in a forest. There were people running through the trees, and this lanky, shadowy figure would pounce from behind the trees, grabbing 1 person at a time and plucking out their eyeballs. 

When their eyeballs were ripped away, they would hoarsely scream “It’s not just a song! It’s a warning!” while looking at my spectating dream self with their empty eye sockets. That’s how everyone of my dreams plays out nowadays, every single one! Quite some time has passed since the viewing of that post, and I’m on my last legs now. It’s night and I’m on my balcony, looking out into the forest in the back, and there’s a flickering light peeking through the trees. I know I’m on my last legs, because I can hear someone singing Cotton-eye Joe.                 

Where did you come from,          
Where did you go?                                               Where did you come from,         
Cotton-eye Joe?

I've spent years digging through old Reddit threads, and recently I’ve found a post titled “There’s a reason he’s called Cotton-eye Joe” that’s put me out of commission, I guess I’ll say and I’m sharing my story because I’m about to die. There was a photo attached to said post, and it showed a close up of a man’s face. He had an unkempt beard and mustache and was wearing a cowboy’s hat. The thing that horrified me though was that the man’s eye sockets… were lacking his eyeballs, and were stuffed with blood-soaked cotton balls. 

Unfortunately the photo looked legit, not edited or anything like that at all, and the post was 15 years old. Yes, I go that far into the darkness of old Reddit for my entertainment, but my point is that post was old enough that a photo like this can’t be easily faked. I saw this post some time ago, but those staring cotton-full eye sockets are still fresh in my mind, haunting me and refusing to tarnish. Besides that horrid photo, there was just a link, and initially, I was reluctant to click it.

 When I finally did however, I was expecting something real bad, but it was just a video showing a man singing Cotton-eye Joe. The video quality was horrible, but I could catch what was happening. The man singing seemed to be in the middle of a corn field, surrounded by corn stalks and scarecrows. The scarecrows caught my attention because where their eyes should be, was fluffy cotton soaked in red. 

Chills ran down my spine, It reminded me too much of that darn photo, and I would rather not be reminded about it so soon. The man had a guitar, and was strumming out the rhythm of Cotton-eye Joe, and upon closer inspection, I noticed the man has a resemblance to the face in the photo. At this point, I abruptly shut the lid of my laptop and questioned everything I’d just seen. What the hell was all this?

 What was the context behind it? Did I just stumble across something bad, or is it just a top notch prank or something? I sighed and slowly opened my laptop, like I was carefully handling a venomous snake. The man began to sing, and then he finished singing and the video ended.

I replayed the video a couple of times because I thought to myself that couldn’t be all. After the 3rd replay, I noticed something off. The lyrics were wrong, he was singing in tune with the Cotton-eye Joe rhythm, but the lyrics were different. I couldn’t hear it straight away because of minor audio corruption, but here’s what I heard:

 “Beware the cottoned-eye Joe,
 he’ll carve your eyes out with a hoe.
Then he’ll stuff them with cotton so,
no one sees what Cotton-eye knows.” 

That was it, but it sent me rippling with uneasiness. Those lyrics were so sinister in a way I can’t explain. If I randomly heard those lyrics in any other situation, I would laugh and think “what stupid lyrics”, but not this time, this time it terrified me. It’s been a week, I think at least, maybe it’s been a few weeks, or maybe even months since I viewed that post. I’ve stayed off of Reddit, and I avoided work by saying I was sick, the classic excuse.
Just days after, I decided I was going to do a bit more digging. The post left me horrified, but it also left me confused due to the lack of context. With that said, I checked out the comments to the post. To my disappointment, and probably relief, there were none. I wasn’t about to give up on my digging so soon however, so I clicked on the OP’s profile, which was u/Seth!23.

I was led to the OP’s profile page and I saw that the post that has traumatized me so much was their first and only post. But that wasn’t what scared me, what scared me was the bio. “He has my eyes now.”. That was what the bio said, and it sent chills up my spine.

I shut off my laptop and went to bed pretty quickly after that, but even sleep couldn’t protect me from the horrors I’ve witnessed because that night was when the dreams started. In the dream-state, I was spectating over a scene in a forest. There were people running through the trees, and this lanky, shadowy figure would pounce from behind the trees, grabbing 1 person at a time and plucking out their eyeballs. 

When their eyeballs were ripped away, they would hoarsely scream “It’s not just a song! It’s a warning!” while looking at my spectating dream self with their empty eye sockets. That’s how everyone of my dreams plays out nowadays, every single one! Quite some time has passed since the viewing of that post, and I’m on my last legs now. It’s night and I’m on my balcony, looking out into the forest in the back, and there’s a flickering light peeking through the trees. I know I’m on my last legs, because I can hear someone singing Cotton-eye Joe.                 

Where did you come from,          
Where did you go?                                               Where did you come from,         
Cotton-eye Joe?

I've spent years digging through old Reddit threads, and recently I’ve found a post titled “There’s a reason he’s called Cotton-eye Joe” that’s put me out of commission, I guess I’ll say and I’m sharing my story because I’m about to die. There was a photo attached to said post, and it showed a close up of a man’s face. He had an unkempt beard and mustache and was wearing a cowboy’s hat. The thing that horrified me though was that the man’s eye sockets… were lacking his eyeballs, and were stuffed with blood-soaked cotton balls. 

Unfortunately the photo looked legit, not edited or anything like that at all, and the post was 15 years old. Yes, I go that far into the darkness of old Reddit for my entertainment, but my point is that post was old enough that a photo like this can’t be easily faked. I saw this post some time ago, but those staring cotton-full eye sockets are still fresh in my mind, haunting me and refusing to tarnish. Besides that horrid photo, there was just a link, and initially, I was reluctant to click it.

 When I finally did however, I was expecting something real bad, but it was just a video showing a man singing Cotton-eye Joe. The video quality was horrible, but I could catch what was happening. The man singing seemed to be in the middle of a corn field, surrounded by corn stalks and scarecrows. The scarecrows caught my attention because where their eyes should be, was fluffy cotton soaked in red. 

Chills ran down my spine, It reminded me too much of that darn photo, and I would rather not be reminded about it so soon. The man had a guitar, and was strumming out the rhythm of Cotton-eye Joe, and upon closer inspection, I noticed the man has a resemblance to the face in the photo. At this point, I abruptly shut the lid of my laptop and questioned everything I’d just seen. What the hell was all this?

 What was the context behind it? Did I just stumble across something bad, or is it just a top notch prank or something? I sighed and slowly opened my laptop, like I was carefully handling a venomous snake. The man began to sing, and then he finished singing and the video ended.

I replayed the video a couple of times because I thought to myself that couldn’t be all. After the 3rd replay, I noticed something off. The lyrics were wrong, he was singing in tune with the Cotton-eye Joe rhythm, but the lyrics were different. I couldn’t hear it straight away because of minor audio corruption, but here’s what I heard:

 “Beware the cottoned-eye Joe,
 he’ll carve your eyes out with a hoe.
Then he’ll stuff them with cotton so,
no one sees what Cotton-eye knows.” 

That was it, but it sent me rippling with uneasiness. Those lyrics were so sinister in a way I can’t explain. If I randomly heard those lyrics in any other situation, I would laugh and think “what stupid lyrics”, but not this time, this time it terrified me. It’s been a week, I think at least, maybe it’s been a few weeks, or maybe even months since I viewed that post. I’ve stayed off of Reddit, and I avoided work by saying I was sick, the classic excuse.
Just days after, I decided I was going to do a bit more digging. The post left me horrified, but it also left me confused due to the lack of context. With that said, I checked out the comments to the post. To my disappointment, and probably relief, there were none. I wasn’t about to give up on my digging so soon however, so I clicked on the OP’s profile, which was u/Seth!23.

I was led to the OP’s profile page and I saw that the post that has traumatized me so much was their first and only post. But that wasn’t what scared me, what scared me was the bio. “He has my eyes now.”. That was what the bio said, and it sent chills up my spine.

I shut off my laptop and went to bed pretty quickly after that, but even sleep couldn’t protect me from the horrors I’ve witnessed because that night was when the dreams started. In the dream-state, I was spectating over a scene in a forest. There were people running through the trees, and this lanky, shadowy figure would pounce from behind the trees, grabbing 1 person at a time and plucking out their eyeballs. 

When their eyeballs were ripped away, they would hoarsely scream “It’s not just a song! It’s a warning!” while looking at my spectating dream self with their empty eye sockets. That’s how everyone of my dreams plays out nowadays, every single one! Quite some time has passed since the viewing of that post, and I’m on my last legs now. It’s night and I’m on my balcony, looking out into the forest in the back, and there’s a flickering light peeking through the trees. I know I’m on my last legs, because I can hear someone singing Cotton-eye Joe.                 

Where did you come from,          
Where did you go?                                               Where did you come from,         
Cotton-eye Joe?

I've spent years digging through old Reddit threads, and recently I’ve found a post titled “There’s a reason he’s called Cotton-eye Joe” that’s put me out of commission, I guess I’ll say and I’m sharing my story because I’m about to die. There was a photo attached to said post, and it showed a close up of a man’s face. He had an unkempt beard and mustache and was wearing a cowboy’s hat. The thing that horrified me though was that the man’s eye sockets… were lacking his eyeballs, and were stuffed with blood-soaked cotton balls. 

Unfortunately the photo looked legit, not edited or anything like that at all, and the post was 15 years old. Yes, I go that far into the darkness of old Reddit for my entertainment, but my point is that post was old enough that a photo like this can’t be easily faked. I saw this post some time ago, but those staring cotton-full eye sockets are still fresh in my mind, haunting me and refusing to tarnish. Besides that horrid photo, there was just a link, and initially, I was reluctant to click it.

 When I finally did however, I was expecting something real bad, but it was just a video showing a man singing Cotton-eye Joe. The video quality was horrible, but I could catch what was happening. The man singing seemed to be in the middle of a corn field, surrounded by corn stalks and scarecrows. The scarecrows caught my attention because where their eyes should be, was fluffy cotton soaked in red. 

Chills ran down my spine, It reminded me too much of that darn photo, and I would rather not be reminded about it so soon. The man had a guitar, and was strumming out the rhythm of Cotton-eye Joe, and upon closer inspection, I noticed the man has a resemblance to the face in the photo. At this point, I abruptly shut the lid of my laptop and questioned everything I’d just seen. What the hell was all this?

 What was the context behind it? Did I just stumble across something bad, or is it just a top notch prank or something? I sighed and slowly opened my laptop, like I was carefully handling a venomous snake. The man began to sing, and then he finished singing and the video ended.

I replayed the video a couple of times because I thought to myself that couldn’t be all. After the 3rd replay, I noticed something off. The lyrics were wrong, he was singing in tune with the Cotton-eye Joe rhythm, but the lyrics were different. I couldn’t hear it straight away because of minor audio corruption, but here’s what I heard:

 “Beware the cottoned-eye Joe,
 he’ll carve your eyes out with a hoe.
Then he’ll stuff them with cotton so,
no one sees what Cotton-eye knows.” 

That was it, but it sent me rippling with uneasiness. Those lyrics were so sinister in a way I can’t explain. If I randomly heard those lyrics in any other situation, I would laugh and think “what stupid lyrics”, but not this time, this time it terrified me. It’s been a week, I think at least, maybe it’s been a few weeks, or maybe even months since I viewed that post. I’ve stayed off of Reddit, and I avoided work by saying I was sick, the classic excuse.
Just days after, I decided I was going to do a bit more digging. The post left me horrified, but it also left me confused due to the lack of context. With that said, I checked out the comments to the post. To my disappointment, and probably relief, there were none. I wasn’t about to give up on my digging so soon however, so I clicked on the OP’s profile, which was u/Seth!23.

I was led to the OP’s profile page and I saw that the post that has traumatized me so much was their first and only post. But that wasn’t what scared me, what scared me was the bio. “He has my eyes now.”. That was what the bio said, and it sent chills up my spine.

I shut off my laptop and went to bed pretty quickly after that, but even sleep couldn’t protect me from the horrors I’ve witnessed because that night was when the dreams started. In the dream-state, I was spectating over a scene in a forest. There were people running through the trees, and this lanky, shadowy figure would pounce from behind the trees, grabbing 1 person at a time and plucking out their eyeballs. 

When their eyeballs were ripped away, they would hoarsely scream “It’s not just a song! It’s a warning!” while looking at my spectating dream self with their empty eye sockets. That’s how everyone of my dreams plays out nowadays, every single one! Quite some time has passed since the viewing of that post, and I’m on my last legs now. It’s night and I’m on my balcony, looking out into the forest in the back, and there’s a flickering light peeking through the trees. I know I’m on my last legs, because I can hear someone singing Cotton-eye Joe.                 

Where did you come from,          
Where did you go?                                               Where did you come from,         
Cotton-eye Joe?

I've spent years digging through old Reddit threads, and recently I’ve found a post titled “There’s a reason he’s called Cotton-eye Joe” that’s put me out of commission, I guess I’ll say and I’m sharing my story because I’m about to die. There was a photo attached to said post, and it showed a close up of a man’s face. He had an unkempt beard and mustache and was wearing a cowboy’s hat. The thing that horrified me though was that the man’s eye sockets… were lacking his eyeballs, and were stuffed with blood-soaked cotton balls. 

Unfortunately the photo looked legit, not edited or anything like that at all, and the post was 15 years old. Yes, I go that far into the darkness of old Reddit for my entertainment, but my point is that post was old enough that a photo like this can’t be easily faked. I saw this post some time ago, but those staring cotton-full eye sockets are still fresh in my mind, haunting me and refusing to tarnish. Besides that horrid photo, there was just a link, and initially, I was reluctant to click it.

 When I finally did however, I was expecting something real bad, but it was just a video showing a man singing Cotton-eye Joe. The video quality was horrible, but I could catch what was happening. The man singing seemed to be in the middle of a corn field, surrounded by corn stalks and scarecrows. The scarecrows caught my attention because where their eyes should be, was fluffy cotton soaked in red. 

Chills ran down my spine, It reminded me too much of that darn photo, and I would rather not be reminded about it so soon. The man had a guitar, and was strumming out the rhythm of Cotton-eye Joe, and upon closer inspection, I noticed the man has a resemblance to the face in the photo. At this point, I abruptly shut the lid of my laptop and questioned everything I’d just seen. What the hell was all this?

 What was the context behind it? Did I just stumble across something bad, or is it just a top notch prank or something? I sighed and slowly opened my laptop, like I was carefully handling a venomous snake. The man began to sing, and then he finished singing and the video ended.

I replayed the video a couple of times because I thought to myself that couldn’t be all. After the 3rd replay, I noticed something off. The lyrics were wrong, he was singing in tune with the Cotton-eye Joe rhythm, but the lyrics were different. I couldn’t hear it straight away because of minor audio corruption, but here’s what I heard:

 “Beware the cottoned-eye Joe,
 he’ll carve your eyes out with a hoe.
Then he’ll stuff them with cotton so,
no one sees what Cotton-eye knows.” 

That was it, but it sent me rippling with uneasiness. Those lyrics were so sinister in a way I can’t explain. If I randomly heard those lyrics in any other situation, I would laugh and think “what stupid lyrics”, but not this time, this time it terrified me. It’s been a week, I think at least, maybe it’s been a few weeks, or maybe even months since I viewed that post. I’ve stayed off of Reddit, and I avoided work by saying I was sick, the classic excuse.
Just days after, I decided I was going to do a bit more digging. The post left me horrified, but it also left me confused due to the lack of context. With that said, I checked out the comments to the post. To my disappointment, and probably relief, there were none. I wasn’t about to give up on my digging so soon however, so I clicked on the OP’s profile, which was u/Seth!23.

I was led to the OP’s profile page and I saw that the post that has traumatized me so much was their first and only post. But that wasn’t what scared me, what scared me was the bio. “He has my eyes now.”. That was what the bio said, and it sent chills up my spine.

I shut off my laptop and went to bed pretty quickly after that, but even sleep couldn’t protect me from the horrors I’ve witnessed because that night was when the dreams started. In the dream-state, I was spectating over a scene in a forest. There were people running through the trees, and this lanky, shadowy figure would pounce from behind the trees, grabbing 1 person at a time and plucking out their eyeballs. 

When their eyeballs were ripped away, they would hoarsely scream “It’s not just a song! It’s a warning!” while looking at my spectating dream self with their empty eye sockets. That’s how everyone of my dreams plays out nowadays, every single one! Quite some time has passed since the viewing of that post, and I’m on my last legs now. It’s night and I’m on my balcony, looking out into the forest in the back, and there’s a flickering light peeking through the trees. I know I’m on my last legs, because I can hear someone singing Cotton-eye Joe.                 

Where did you come from,          
Where did you go?                                               Where did you come from,         
Cotton-eye Joe?

Hey everyone, I know this is a bit of a long shot, but I thought I’d ask anyway. Would anyone with a ton of tokens be willing to gift me the Black Knight chestplate armor?

I don’t usually ask for stuff like this, but I don’t have enough tokens right now and I think the set looks awesome. I’d really appreciate it if anyone has some to spare.

My username is amb1984, thanks in advance!