{"id":489,"date":"2014-06-19T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/06\/19\/mysterious-hellraiser-vhs-terrorizes-london\/"},"modified":"2014-06-19T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T17:10:00","slug":"mysterious-hellraiser-vhs-terrorizes-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/06\/19\/mysterious-hellraiser-vhs-terrorizes-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Hellraiser VHS terrorizes London"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/now-here-this.timeout.com\/2014\/06\/16\/a-vhs-copy-of-hellraiser\/\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-b3xNBGOwlu0\/U6MZaH-MylI\/AAAAAAAABLA\/SmDdEgsPo9w\/s1600\/02relleh.jpg\" height=\"320\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Well, this is moderately terrifying: London appears to be cursed by some sort of lo-fi demon. Some time in 2011, a VHS copy of Clive Barker&#8217;s 1987 horror opus <i>Hellraiser<\/i> appeared on top of a specific bus stop on Old Kent Road. <a href=\"http:\/\/now-here-this.timeout.com\/2014\/06\/16\/a-vhs-copy-of-hellraiser\/\">As documented by Time Out London<\/a>, that VHS has been lingering there for the past four years, occasionally disappearing and resurfacing shortly after. At some point, <i>two<\/i> <i>Hellraiser<\/i> tapes appeared at once. No matter how often the local council takes the tape away, another one invariably springs up in its place.<\/p>\n<p>This is probably the work of one or more dedicated pranksmen, but we choose to believe in some sort of localized portal to hell and a demon with a sense of humor. Also, we&#8217;re slowly going mad from the heat outside, and this was too entertaining not to share. As far as we know, we don&#8217;t own <i>Hellraiser<\/i> on either DVD or VHS.. but we should check again just in case one mysteriously appeared.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is moderately terrifying: London appears to be cursed by some sort of lo-fi demon. Some time in 2011, a VHS copy of Clive Barker&#8217;s 1987 horror opus Hellraiser appeared on top of a specific bus stop on Old Kent Road. As documented by Time Out London, that VHS has been lingering there for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212,372,376],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links-of-interest","tag-unfathomable-terror","tag-vhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}