The Smiling man, a tall, silent menace that approaches waltzing with a wide smile…too
wide.
Hello and welcome back to Life’s Biggest Questions – the channel that loves to talk
about history, politics and science as much as we do creepy fiction.
Today we have an eerie What If The Smiling Man Was Real?
Before we get into this video, I want to ask you guys what the scariest thing you have
ever seen in real life was?
I don’t think I have seen anything freaky like the smiling chappy – I did see an emergency
forensics tent in the road with bloody rubber gloves nearby.
Ergh.
I also have to say I am writing this with severe toothache – which makes thinking
of this mans smiling face pretty terrifying.
Okay, the Smiling Man.
The legend of the Smiling man came around about 6 years ago when Blue Tidal posted a
story about their late night encounter with a mysterious and very unsettling man.
The story was posted in the LetsNotMeet subreddit and ended up receiving 1.2 thousand upvotes.
The teller describes walking between one to two am when they came across a the silhouette
of a man who was dancing towards them.
They assumed he was drunk until he danced closer, with a painfully wide smile on his
face, with his eyes fixed to the sky.
The man then danced at the walker, basically acting like a huge creep.
Later the smiling man started taking giant exaggerated tip toed steps, in the style of
a cartoon character sneaking up on someone.
He then ran at the walker, who eventually got away but never forgot his creepy smiling
face.
Later the story left such a mark on the internet that Michael Evans adapted it into a short
film that received over 10 million views – creepy, smiling, meanacing; suffice to say the smiling
man captured the imagination.
SO, what if he was real?
Well…
Blue Tidal swears he is.
He wrote in a follow up post: to anyone doubting the truth in the story, I assure you it happened.
I'm not afraid of ghosts, devils or monsters.
It's people that frighten me.
I am with them on that….so who is he and what does he want
? Well the redditor who wrote the story conducted
a Q&A on the social media platform and gave us more information.
They said that the altercation took place in Seattle and that, while some people had
more supernatural speculations, he simply believes that the smiling man was an insane
person.
Whatever he may be – a lot of other people across the United States claimed to have seen
a man that fits his description – tall, manically smiling, dancing a weird box step,
wearing an old style dark suit.
Blue Tidal also mentioned he had a series of dreams about the man after the incident.
If we were going to run wild with the who and what ifs I would go with the Smiling man
being a creep in the style of slenderman, that stalks his victims conscious and subconscious
before challenging them to a dance off duel, which they will inevitably fail, after which
he kills them.
If that type of spook were real I would say avoid Seattle at all costs and hope that the
smiling man does dance his way up and down the pacific!
If you live in that area, an evacuation might be a bit extreme, but I certainly wouldn’t
go out walking alone at night.
The authorities probably wouldn’t the story of a murderous dancer seriously until there
was a body count, after which I imagine they would get looking into the creepster.
I imagine they would start by investigating local institutions to see if they have any
escaped patients…although if he is a slenderman style creepster, who knows where he could
have come from?
The very depths of hell itself?
Maybe we would need Ed and Lorraine Warren style folks on the hunt – the smiling man
could very well be possessed.
If the smiling man was real in this way it would have many wider implications about the
reality of things that go bump in the night…
if he is a real horror story nightmare – perhaps this means all our worst fears are true – maybe
Seattle is the hellmouth and we need to get Buffy on the case.
Side note, the smiling man kind of reminds me of The Gentlemen in Buffy…which are the
scariest of TV show creeps to ever pop up on my screen and in my nightmares.
In reality, though, if the Smiling Man is real like Blue Tidal claims, he is likely
either a man who took waaaaahhhy too many drugs, or someone who is mentally ill.
Either way, he is not necessarily a menace to society.
There is a chance he was consciously trying to freak out the young man in the streets,
and there is a chance he thought it was funny.
Maybe he is still out there somewhere looking for a dance partner…although rather you
than me.
Whether or not the smiling man is real, I hope that the story, scary as it is, reminds
us that it isn’t always safe to go out alone in the middle of the night and that being
sensibly on guard is a reasonable thing.
Always tells somewhat where you are going and have an emergency plan for situations
where you may run into somebody dodgy.
Always have a charged phone and always have an emergency number saved.
That is the best advice I can offer…
So guys, do you think the smiling man is real?
Let me know in the comments section down below…also let me know what you would have done had it
been you that ran into him!
I am honestly so interested to hear your thoughts.
Like and share.
For now though, I am out of here and I am very much hoping I don’t run into a smiling
dancing maniac on the way home…
Although…
I guess that sounds a little bit fun!
I am your host Rebecca Felgate….
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