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In October of 2006, a chain mail-type copypasta made an appearance on the internet. The post went a little something like this:
"She was pushed
About 6 years ago in Indiana, Carmen Winstead was pushed down a sewer opening by 5 girls in her school, trying to embarrass her in front of her school during a fire drill. When she didn’t submerge the police were called. They went down and brought up 17 year old Carmen Winstead’s body, the neck broke hitting the ladder, then side concrete at the bottom. The girls told everyone she fell… They believed them.
FACT: 2 months ago, 16 year old David Gregory read this post and didn’t repost it. When he went to take a shower he heard laughter from his shower, he started freaking out and ran to his computer to repost it, He said goodnight to his mom and went to sleep, 5 hours later his mom woke up in the middle of the night cause of a loud noise, David was gone, that morning a few hours later the police found him in the sewer, his neck broke and his face skin peeled off.
If you don’t repost this saying
“She was pushed”
or “They Pushed her down a sewer”
Then Carmen will get you, either from a sewer, the toilet, the shower, or when you go to sleep you’ll wake up in the sewer, in the dark, then Carmen will come and kill you.
Sometimes Carmen Winstead is replaced with Jessica Smith, but the story remains the same. According to the story, Carmen was pushed into a sewer grate sometime around the year 2000. This, of course, is a fake story meant to scare people. According to Snopes.com, they "searched for news reports about such a death and found none," (Snopes, 2006). This article was written in 2006, which was when the copypasta was going around.
I had actually been exposed to this copypasta back in the day, although it was long after its first appearance.When I was 11 or 12 years old, I was playing some video games with some friends when I got a text message from a friend I had met online. The message was the Carmen Winstead copypasta, with the message "share with 15 friends or she'll come after you." I figured it was just a fake story, which of course was true. Still, I wanted to find out for myself if a girl named Carmen Winstead had died. I looked up Carmen Winstead and went to Google Images, where I saw the photo to the right. It freaked me out, and it didn't help that I was home alone. I didn't want to go back to the room with the computer while I was home alone, and I waited until my family had come home to finally exit out of the web browser.
Every now and again I see this copypasta online, but it is not as shared now as it once had been. While it is a fake story, it is still pretty interesting to look at, and fun to see around the internet at Halloween.
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Article Sources
"Carmen Winstead." Snopes.com, 10 Oct. 2006, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/carmen-winstead/
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