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Black-eyed children are mysterious creatures who supposedly resemble kids between the ages of about 6 and 16 — creatures who appear only in the night, when they show up at the doors of unsuspecting residents and ask, in breathless and monotone voices, to use the bathroom, make a phone call, get a ride home, or grab something to eat. Theories about black-eyed children variously claim them to be vampires, extra-terrestrials, inter-dimensional beings, or some form of demon: The putative origin of the black-eyed kids legend is a 1998 ghost-related mailing list post by Brian Bethel in which he related an encounter with those darned black-eyed kids outside a movie theater in Abilene, Texas, then averred that someone else (with whom he had not previously discussed the subject) had reported a similar encounter in Portland, Oregon. Black-eyed children fever hit the Internet in February 2013, when a two-minute video episode of Weekly Strange featuring a look at these strange, putative beings was posted to the entertainment section of the MSN web site. But as The Inquisitr noted, that video and other sources of information about black-eyed children were far from convincing: Not surprisingly, the appearance of the black-eyed children video on MSN coincided with the release of Black Eyed Kids, an urban legend-based horror film:
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