When Grace Costa returned to the television station, her butt had barely hit the seat when she saw a box of videotapes placed on her desk.
"Mystie, did you put this on my desk?" she shouted to a colleague nearby, who looked over and shook their head.
As a reporter, her curiosity instantly sparked a myriad of fantasies about the contents.
She grabbed it and shoved it into the player next to her.
A hulking clown suddenly appeared on the screen, startling her so much that she knocked her water glass onto the floor.
"What's wrong, Grace?" asked a male colleague nearby, poking his head closer, "A new type of horror movie?"
"Or some kind of prank from somewhere?"
Perhaps influenced by Hollywood, there were often people who liked to send their self-recorded videos to TV stations, hoping to become famous—it happened all the time.
