So I was watching a random review on Youtube about the movie “The Bye Bye man”. They said it was nothing more then a shitty PG-13 horror movie. They are not wrong. The movie is bad and is nothing but jump scares but this is not about the movie. Oh no, this is about the history around this movies story.
So The Bye Bye man is based on story from a book called The President’s Vampire: Strange-but-True Tales of the United States of America by Robert Damon Schneck. The author,Robert Damon Schneck, is regular contributor to Fortean Times and Fate Magazine. He is director of the White Crow Society, a group that aims to educate and help those that have witnessed or experienced paranormal or other strange phenomena.
The kicker is that this story was being told and spread around since the early internet age. You can find post from 2008 on paranormalsoup.com ,post from 2005 on unsolvedmysteries.com, AmityvilleFAQ, and eBaumsworld all about this story.
The story is basically about what happens when 3 kids missed around with a Ouija Board on night and it told them a story about a spirit called The Bye Bye that scared all of the other spirits.
To qoute the story itself
[ The creature it was afraid of was a man who was born about 1912 in Algiers, Louisiana. He was born an albino and was left at a local orphanage. As he grew up he lost his sight and became violent. He attempted to run away from the orphanage several times, but he was always found and brought back. One night, he took a large pair of scissors, attacked a nurse and fled to the train yards. He became involved with voodoo or black magic, and became a kind of a monster who developed a name that became a folklore figure, a bit like the “Candyman” from the movie. He began wearing glasses that were painted black – after all, he was blind. He started killing people; they began to find bodies horribly mutilated by the train tracks all over the country, or at least all over the south.
The man then started putting together a friend or a pet, from the tongues and eyes of his victims that acted as his eyes. It would whistle when a victim was found and he closed in on them. But he found his victims in an unusual way – whenever someone would think about his name, or concentrate on the name he gave himself, it was a psychic beacon and the man was aware of them. As long as someone thought about his name, he would begin to move towards them. ]
After they hear this story then some typical kinda creepypasta things start to happen. For example they start to hear things and see shadows at 3am. At the end of the story the shadow is at one of the kids door and then sleeps on the floor to test if it was real or dream. He wakes back up on the floor. Thus meaning it was “real”. The whole thing sounds like a urban legends because it is.
The morale of the story is that movie was awful that its own history tells a better horror story then its own movie.
