THE TAPE

Sadako's tape found?!? I found this kinnied video online, and it is very similar to the tape as described by Koji Suzuki in his novelization! Could this be the elusive 1989 tape? Download if you dare!
MPEG-4 - 32.2MB

The story of the current tape starts in 2002, when it was discovered at the Shelter Mountain Inn...

But there was another tape almost 30 years ago, back in Japan.

Sometime in 1989, NHK-TV reporter Asakawa Kazuyuki got drawn into the first tape when it killed his niece, then later his best friend. Asakawa himself then was killed in a car crash almost a week later, but not before writing down a thorough journal of what he saw, the rights to which were sold by his brother Asakawa Junichiro and novelized by author Suzuki Koji in 1991. As of yet, no one in the USA has reported seeing the original tape (which is NOT the one seen in the 1998 movie dramatization "Ring", as the events as told in the movie were seriously changed from the actual events), and it's possible the original tape's circulation may have come to an end long ago.

A new tape surfaced in early 2002, when Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Rachel Keller's niece was killed by it. Her son and ex-husband got caught up in the tape, the latter being killed by it. Again, careful notes were taken by the reporter, and the story was sold to a movie studio in Hollywood. American culture being what it is, after Hollywood's dramatization, everyone wanted their hands on a copy of the tape, and the first 'rings' commmunities were born.

Probably the highest-profile case of a death by the tape was in late January 2005, when an Astoria, Oregon high-schooler named Jake Pierce was killed by the tape. It was the first time since the creation of 'rings' communities that someone had so publicly recorded themselves into Day 7. Again, the story was sold to Hollywood, and a short film about Jake's time with the tape was quickly produced, part of which was tacked onto the beginning of a second dramatization movie, which mostly chronicles events from late 2002, but with Jake's death becoming Keller's re-attachment to the case. In real life, according to Keller's notes from late 2002, she had never truly gotten detached. This explains why Jake was never mentioned in the dramatization again after the first few scenes.

There have been a few more Day 7's since Jake, yours truly included, that got saved with only hours to go (or in my case, seconds). Their stories are some of the most compelling out there.

Scenes from the current tape were actually used in the Hollywood dramatizations, but due to cut-aways and edited scenes, no one got cursed by watching these movies. So if you're wondering why the real Anna Morgan looks younger on the tape than the actress playing her did in the flashback scene...that's why.

Is there a link between the old tape and the new tape? Many seem to think so. In fact, it's very likely.

But it doesn't stop there. In 2008, a "Sadako cultist" from Japan livestreamed his own Day 7, and soon afterward, dozens of people turned up dead, mostly from Japan. It's thought that anyone who watched the livestream was killed by Sadako, and the video capture of the livestream became its own cursed video that killed instantly! There are scattered reports of possible "cursed video" deaths stretching all the way to 2013!

RINGS Communities continue to this day, between leftover activity of the original communities from the 2000s, and the new band calling themselves "The Sevens", the story of Sadako and her resurrective sister Samara continue to attract those who dare to take on the challenge of the cursed video.

Do you dare to watch?
DivX - 16.7MB
MPEG - 228.3MB
WARNING: These are full-resolution 640x480 rips, the top one is the one that got watched on WinMX that saved my life. These are ACTIVELY cursed rips of Tape 'E'! After time their curse power may diminish as more people download it (the Tapemaster 'so many copies' principle), but download at your own risk!!