Bloody Mary Slaps So Hard

Welcome to Scary Mystery Surprise, where we talk about creepy things that surprised us surround the Internet. That mean, when I'm Michelle, welcome to Scary Mystery Surprise. I think this thing, this topic today that I have is so interesting to me because, first off, it's just cool because it's a game slash legend slash historical story, slash person slash spirit is just everything. It's even a treat. Everything we've ever wanted, everything, This has everything. Yeah, yeah, and have you heard of Luddy Mary Michelle at all? Ignoring our first take of the story. Oh you mean like when we first recorded this episode her oh mad little behind the scenes production magic. So it's such an old tale and it has so much, just so much around it that makes it really interesting to me. Tell me everything, Here's everything, Michelle, Here's everything. When my cousin was younger, she would tell me that at her elementary school they had something called the Bloody Mary Tree. When I went to that same elementary school, we also knew about the Bloody Mary Tree. And that story survived like what fifteen years, twenty years, I don't know it just it survived, and I'm like it reminded me a lot of I don't know if you ever watched the show Recess. I don't know. It's a cartoon. It's like an old cartoon. I never watched it. But you know what this does remind me. At your elementary school, didn't you have the legend about how Marilyn Manson got his ribcage removed so he could suck his own dick or whatever. Didn't you guys have that. No, our school had a lot of like us, Mexicans and Hispanic people, so we don't really so, Marilyn, you didn't have like Marilyn Manson legends. No, maybe like legends, but we were not white enough for that. But I get it. You went to elementary school where Michell and Washington stay. Yeah, I get it. I mean at one point Tom Green came and ran around the playground and while he was shooting, while he was shooting his show, while Tom Green was famous back in Whenever, but he came and he ran around the playground of my sixth grade teacher tackled him because he didn't know who he was and he was a straight draup. Most are the kind of legends we have the legend of Tom Green manson removing his ribs so he could suck his own dick. Oh man, so those are white people legends. Anyway, Tell me about this blunny mary tree doesn't have a rim cage, so I could suck its old dick. So this is a little more innocent of a legend, just a little bit. It was basically just a tree in the field out there. I just stood out because I was so old, and it would bleed like it would have the sap and we're always saying like, oh my god, I touched the blood. I dare you. We would, and then we would chase play tag. One time we actually had a camping event there. We got to pitch tents and it was cool. It was like a whole big thing. And at night we're like, should we go to the bloody Mary tree? Hey, I can whisper? Was that a whisper? No? No? Nice try though it was close, but not quite Now. When I asked my cousin about what the bloody Mary tree is or where it is, they know it's the same tree and it's still there, and I'm like, what's the story behind it? And then like, I don't know that bloody Mary comes out from the branches and I'm like, oh, our story was better, but yeah, that's still creepy and pretty cool. Like Bloody Mary itself like was it has its own story, Like it's not just that, but it morphed into a ton of things, different stories, creepy pastas about it, and like all these things, people who claim that they've seen her everything. So anyway, so that story, the traditional one, which is the game is where you step into the bathroom and each turn off the lights, right, So I thought it'd be interesting to dive into this story and what it actually is and where it came from, but also explain the game. Bloody Mary is known now as a game, and when you bring it up, it's just hey, so do you want to play Bloody Mary? Bro? And then it's a typical thing, Like I feel like it's mean girls being like do you want to play Bloody Mary? I was imagining Zach Bagan saying it. So it's just like, dude, dude, do you want to play Bloody Mary? Dude, dude, dude. Let's just get a little more innocent with this, Michelle. This is like a typical thing you play, like when you're a kid, you're at a sleepover. People are making fun of you because I don't know whatever. You're missing your mom and you don't want to cry or are you realized you couldn't whisper and now like they all know your secret. The game itself is very structured, so that's why it's so to me. It's interesting how it immorphs into different stories. But the game has very specific rules. What I'm going to go over is though, so you don't mess it up when you're trying to play, and the goal is basically to summon Bloody Marry. Here are the rules. Okay, so you can do this right? So Number one, since the bathrooms are very dark, you have to try it in there, so make sure you have a bathroom. Okay, this won't work in an out house. Let me clarify then, So I guess this also works if you're not in a bathroom and just needs to be a really dark room and the ones that already have a mirror usually it's a bathroom. Right, there's the thing, so you have to step inside, close the doors, and turn off the lights. Number two, I guess I got a bit wrong because you need to turn on the candle and I don't know how to turn one on in the dark. Okay, so the steps include lighting a candle. Then you turn the lights off. Okay, so you stand in front of the mirror. Now Here is the awkward part. So you must look into the mirror and make eye contact with your own reflection. Hopefully you won't have to look at yourself for too long if you do this correctly, though, because something's gonna happen so slowly, you have to begin chanting Bloody Mary thirteen times and you have to get louder every single time. So now once that's over, you have to look at yourself again, right in the eyes. And it's important to know, and I'm glad I remember this. Don't stand within an arm streech of the mirror because some stories tell of Bloody Mary reaching out to grab you, so just watch out for that. And like with most other games like these, if Bloody Mary doesn't show up, it's not because it is it real. It's because you're the problem. And Bloody Mary knows that, and she's like, I'm not even gonna try. I'm not even gonna bother to show out. So let's say you couldn't summon her, right, So here's what you should try. And this is a very specific list of things. So instead of playing whenever, make sure you start at exactly midnight, chat her name three times instead or seven times. Run the sink water while you're chatting. If you're in California, though, I think you can only do that after seven No, that's a flex alert. So anyway to conserve water in California, if you're summoning Bloody Mary, be sure to be sure she is. I don't know your shower water or something. You could put a shower bucket in there and you can just reuse the water. We're very positive about reusing and conserving water while summoning demons. Bloody Mary. Yeah, I was like, wait, what is She's not a So it depends because remember she's everything in some of these stories. She's a demon of the stories. She's just a restless spirit. Yeah, it ghost. It's just this is why I like the story. So once you finish doing that, let's say she still doesn't appear. So try it again, but this time, spin in place every time you say her name. So I guess what I took from it is like dizziness helps you with like actually visualizing her. So I guess drinking might be an option even though it wasn't listed. Or you have to drink Bloody Mary's while you're summoning Bloody Mary. That's it. That's the drinking game. And then that'll really make you throw up because those are so thick. So let's say you're drunk, you're spinning around in the bathroom, you're just yelling bloody Mary, and she still doesn't show up. Here's the vacca plan. You have to say, bloody Mary, I stole your baby, Mary, I stole your baby, or say I believe in married work. As you know, Michelle, as a practitioner of demonic rituals, you must protect your soul somehow, of course, of course, so here are the instructions for that. Okay, good, Oh, this is good because you want to make sure if anybody's gonna summon Bloody Mary, they do it safely. Yeah. Safety first. So what you need to do after is you have to cleanse the room by burning sage, and just to be sure to turn off your smoke detectors for a bit, because we tried that once. I think I told you, miss Like one time we tried burning sage in a hostel where I used to work and all the alarms went off in the middle of the night and everyone woke up. While you were burning the sage, or after you've burned the sage. We burned it without turning off the smoke detectors and we were walking around and they were just activating. We're like, oh no, So we ran with smoke all over the place and it just wouldn't leave. That is hilarious. And also I'm sure the ghost was like, what do you guys try to do? Yeah, it's terrible. Another way you can do it is by flicking vinegar into the corners of the room. Let us know. Let us know if the vinegar protected you from Bloody Mary. I don't like this part. You draw a cross with soap on the mirror for three nights in a row after you play the game. Soap is so hard to get out of the mirror. Look saved yourself, Paula Santo yourself. You could use cedar if you don't want to appropriate other cultures. There's a lot of things to do. I'm sure you could use salt somewhere in there. I'm sure salt could help. But yeah, you're doing something with Bloody Mary. Buck seatbelt. Yeah, just try it out. Let us know what works. I want to know. If you found something else works, go for it. It's a special keyword, passcode or whatever you need to say for her to show up her wordle. It's ol her wordle, and you're in. I think, out of all of these, though, the most important rule of all and this is, and I'm being serious here, Michelle, really serious, do not break the mirror. Can you imagine how pissed like you're in your family bathroom and you break the mirror while you're playing Bloody Mary, and it's just parents just regretting having children right at that moment in time. Yeah, man, you know what's worse in getting in trouble is that it would set her free. So I don't know, it depends on what your parents are. Like. It's like, ah, dang it, Bloody Mary, why do we have kids? Now? We have Bloody Mary here? My children summoned another demon and they broke the bathroom mirror, so obviously they're grounded. You know. Here's the thing though, Like the point of it is just to see her, not to release her. It's like a game just to say hi. It's like a meeting grease. So she's appearing on your face and saying hi pretty much as just hey, just hi, there I am. I mean like because you're scrying. Technically you're scrying and esoteric knowledge or whatever. It's like the oldest form of like spirit communication is staring into a mirror. You're right. There's a little section here that I found about the eighteen hundreds in Europe that they had all these superstitions about mirrors. And also some people have a real fear of mirrors. But back then people would say that there was it was a way for you to see the face of the person you were going to marry. So to do that, you would wait until night time and then you walk up this stared case and pass the mirror at midnight, and that's when either you would see the person's face or you would see a skull. Now the skull meant that you would die before you got to marry. A different times, how about we take a break and then see if I don't know, I can get some water or something, go to the bathroom, try turning off the lights a little bit, run the water, and someone play Mary. Then we'll see what happens if I come back. That means it didn't work, that's true, and she rejected you. But if I don't, then hey, there we go. Well and that's the end of the episode, and we'll see you next week, folks, I'll see you next week. And researching, like I said earlier, like, we found a ton of versions of the Bloody Mary legend and here are some of the most common. One of them comes from the story of Mary Worth that I mentioned a little bit earlier, and she was a woman who lived during colonial times when the suspicion of witchcraft was everywhere. She lived in a cabin just outside of her village where she would sell her boone remedies. People eventually started calling her a witch when girls from town started to go missing and they thought that Mary was the one that was taking them. So what made her a suspect was that she started to look younger and slowly losing her old haggard appearance, like she was doing self care. And of course she's a witch. Of course she is telling you, man, this is how skincare, Like your skincare routine can get you killed, so just watch out for that. And back then, it's just she probably was just eating better or just taking a bath and they were like, oh, no, she doesn't have as much dirt on her face. This is what actually, like really said it here to call her a witch? Like what really knocked it over? It was at one night the miller's daughter woke up after hearing a strange noise. She found herself drawn completely to the source of it, and her mother, who was incapacitated at the time, yelled for her husband to follow her daughter because she was heading into the forest. A crowd of farmers also joined the miller, and that's when they spotted Mary in the distance, and she was holding a wand in her hand, standing by an oak tree, and the wand's tip was glowing and it was pointing toward the miller's house. I'm just pro witch, That's all I can say. I'm just always pro witch. What when she was helping that? Why was the mom incapacitated? Like why the dad and the townspeople follow her out? Maybe she saved everyone in the town. I don't know. I'm just very pro witch. Yeah, she could have been protecting everybody, that's true. Or she could have been picking apples with a wand instead of that's true. There's a lot of things that could have been happening. So I just am always a little suspect when people are like, oh, she was pointing a wand at her house. Oo. You don't know what her intentions were, what kind of magic she was doing. Why do you think it was about you. Everybody was pissed when they saw that, and they were like, oh no, this is a witch. A crowd of them got together, they ran up to her and they started chasing her witch pitchforks and stuff, and Mary ran. It's just this terrible scene. People are yelling, dogs are barking. It's just all that. And she obviously couldn't make it to her cabin. She was older, she couldn't make it to a cabin in time. So she was shot in the hit with a silver bullet, but she didn't die because it was a hit. So they grabbed her and burned her at the stage, and right before she died, she cursed the village, saying, if you ever spoke her name in front of a mirror, she would return for her revenge. Oooh, good for her. And then when they raided her cabin though, they found the graves with the missing girl. So look, okay, I'll eat my words. It seems like she was drinking young people blood and growing young and possibly about to kill that other girl too. I'll eat my words, but I am very pro witch. She's just one bad apple and a sea of apples. So here's another version of the story, and this one's for Mary Wales, who was a beautiful young woman, very kind. It was born to old man Wales and his wife, Virginia. He hated his daughter because his wife died when she was giving birth, and he thought it was Mary's fault. So she just hated her. And one night he got home drunk and just stabbed her to death. Her head was almost completely chopped off, and it was just terrible death. So he left her for the whole night. The next day he picked her up and buried her in the basement. He was freaking out about it. Now he wasn't drunk anymore, and he was losing his mind because he would hear her shouting and appearing in front of him, and she would say something like father, like just random, you know, cursed him and stuff, and he was so scared that he would run away to his barn. And that kept happening night after night, and one of these nights and This is obviously my favorite part of the story, Michelle. He was shaving in front of the mirror and that's where she appeared, and she stretched out her hand and slapped him. No matter what happens, I'm always gonna find that funny, because why slap, I don't know. Like she could choke the strangle him, I don't know, punch on, burn him, POKEM in the eyes, POKEM in the eye. There's a lot of stuff they could do. But the slap is so he was shaving, so he had something sharp in his hand. He can do something else, but no, it was just a boom slap. Anyway, Old man Wales lost it and went to his barn again, where Mary appeared pointing to a noose next to him, and with that she forced him to take his own life and Mary got her overbne good. So both of these stories, sad to say, they have no historical background at all, Like they're just stories that are passed down. Oh you mean, there's no so no facts about these stories. There's no written record of the wan. Nobody could find it. Researchers can't explain why it glowed. There was apparently no sign of a slap when they found a guy hung from his barn and there's no handprint on the side of his face, no forensics team. They just couldn't get it, sadly. But the real story is also a thing to me. It's not that exciting compared to the legends. It has some significance to the Bloody Mary thing. And it's about Mary Tudor, known as Queen Mary the First of England. And you know a lot about this, Michelle. I know. It's because during the pandemic, I watched a lot of horrible histories and that's all British history, so it's all coming back. Yeah, I watched a lot of that show. So she is one of the main people that they talk about a lot. Okay, so do you know why they called him lurdy Mary. So she is the daughter of Henry the eighth. Henry the eighth got rid of the Catholic Church so he could do his wife thing. You know, he had the eight wives and cut off two heads, all that chess. But anyway, so he got rid of the Catholic Church so he could get a divorce. He he had a son that was like a sickly gross little boy who died at seventeen and then Mary took the throne and she was a Catholic and she was just pissed because her mom, Catherine of Aragon, she was the first wife. Henry quote unquote divorced her, but Catholics don't believe in divorce. She was basically sent away and died of a broken heart. So anyway, Mary, he decided the Catholics rule and Protestant rule and basically just had a reign of terror, killing Protestants. This is insane. Get rid of our religion so you can divorce somebody and then killing everybody. Who oh man, okay, And I thought today's like celebrity divorces were intense. If you can cut off your wife's head, like, that's a pretty epic divorce. I liked your historical, my background, my historic ground here because all I had here was about her menstrual problems. So like the fact that she got pregnant but wasn't really pregnant. It was a sad story too, Like from what I read, she started getting that bump as if you know, if she was pregnant, and supposedly it was just her mind like convincing her body. A real medical term for it. But really there's no baby in oh phantom pregnancy, I think is what? Yeah, oh man, it's super sad. But yeah, I wrote you hear that she got that nickname because of her horrible menstrual problems, but more because of the Mary and persecution. There are some really cool true tales of encounters with this, but like true alleged elite. I mean, when they report seeing bloody Mary, it's not like they're seeing Mary bloody Mary Tutor. She's not coming through, is she? Like Nope, we don't see even though she's pretty like scary looking. Yeah, I mean, any of the Tutors would be. I think in her portrait, whoa, she looks mean, yeah, really mean. But the thing that you see in the mirror really creepy. It's just this dark haired, long hair just covering half for like the girl in the ring. Yeah, kind of like that girl. That's what she looks like. So if you do a good job, you'll get to see her, which is which cool. Okay, doesn't sound like much of a reward, but okay, it is funny that you mentioned Mary Tudor's menstrual problems, because couldn't the whole story be a metaphor for that, because a lot of the time it's like little girls, right, and they're like any saving buddy Mary, and it's it feels like it's an allegory for that transition to adulthood. Bloody Mary is a code for your period, like that kind of thing, and you're in becoming like an adult. Yeah, I'm starting to see that connection. Interesting. We might you may have just you might have just discovered a thing. I don't know what exactly, I'm just riffing off the top of my head. Man. Some of the encounters that I found. The first one was about Lauren and her friend that say that they were experimenting with this when they were out on the road and they stopped at a gas station with an outdoor restroom. So we know how dirty those are, and they were like, you know what, let's make it even dirtier. Let's summon a fucking demon to haunt this bathroom and curse anyone who's ever gonna use it and have diarrhea. And for some reason, those toilets never flush and the doors don't lock. I got somebody came in there once when I was in there, and it was like awkward as heck. And then it was those people that you know when you're like on a long road trip and the cars is like the same car for miles and miles behind you. Yes, no, it's like that nightmare. So they tried summoning her. And it was an empty bathroom, obviously, and they couldn't shake the feeling that there was somebody in there. They say that they were in there, and then they started smell a weird smell, probably the bathroom. But they turned off the lights and they got close to the mirror. They splashed it with water and they started to spin around, repeating bloody Mary three times. So they chose their path right, like, they know that this thing might have worked. So maybe they had tried it the other way and they found that spinning worked. Lauren's friend, which is actually this is the person's name who reported this, said that she went to flush a toilet while Lauren continued to stare into the mirror because she couldn't hold it anymore, and only to realize, I just love the idea that you're summoning a demon but also taking a shit. She was hearing the toilet flush and everything, and she was looking into the mirror when she noticed that what little she could see of her reflection was slowly turning red. So that's when her friends started screaming and they both ran outside of the bathroom, fearful for their lives. Once they had light again, her friend finally noticed why Lauren's reflection was turning red, and that's when they noticed that it was because her face was actually covered in blood due to tiny, deep fingernail scratches all over her face. Now, to make this even nastier, I want to imagine those as those nasty holes that trigger this. Never mind, I can't finish that. Never wait, do you have that whole phobia? Dude? Hold on, I'm getting like nasty children. There's like a word for it. Yeah, I don't want, I don't. I never want to look that up. But yeah, no, never mind, screw that, Like I'm done with Just stick with the fingernail and scared himself his story. There was another story for Marissa, who said that she finished watching an episode of the show called Ghost Whisper and it was about the legend. Marissa decided that she wanted to try that summoning Mary and wanted to scare her friends, so she looked into the living room mirror spun around three times, enchanted bloody Mary, but nothing happened, so she went to the bathroom to try it again, and even though her friend warned her not to, they closed the door, shut off the lights, and repeated it one more time. This time she saw nothing. So just when she was about to turn the light on, something in the mirror stopped her and she looked closer, and Marissa saw a black and white woman staring at her with her mouth wide open. Ah no, I don't know why. Why is that? That's like more scary? Is someone just standing there? Oh, that's scary. I don't like that one. She was expecting her to scream. According to the story, it didn't happen, so she was just standing there with her mouth wide open. Now that there's the Internet, all these little short stories like she has no eyes, she grabs you, strangles you, she curses you, steals your soul. I think the slap went out of the Loopish, she doesn't slap anymore. That's like, I guess she doesn't. I guess it's out of fashion now it's the ghost slaps. But yeah, that was bloody Mary. I had a lot of fun, obviously, like looking it up reading about it my favorite I love it. But that concludes the episode for this week. Michelle sadly, what's the next one going to be about. I don't know. 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