The Midnight Game
There are rules to the Midnight Game that MUST be followed precisely for the ritual to work. These Rules are as follows:
Materials required: 1 candle per person (at least), matches, salt,a pen and paper to write your names on, a wooden door to attach your name to and finally a drop of your own blood.
Step 1: Write your full name on a piece of paper and put at least one drop of blood on it. Allow it to soak into the paper.
Step 2: Turn off all the lights in the house. Go to your wooden door (It has to be wooden) and place the paper with your name on it. Now take the candle and light it.
Step 3: Knock on the door 22 times (the hour must be 12:00 AM upon the final knock), then open the door, blow out the candle, and close the door. You have just allowed the “Midnight Man” to enter your house.
Step 4: Immediately relight your candle.
This is where the game begins. You must now lurk around your now completely dark house with the lit candle in your hand. Your goal is to avoid the Midnight Man at all costs until 3:33 AM. Should your candle ever go out, that means the Midnight Man is near you. You must relight your candle in the next 10 seconds. If you are not successful in doing this, you must then immediately surround yourself with a circle of salt. If you are unsuccessful in both of your actions, the Midnight Man will create a hallucination of your greatest fear, and rip your organs out one by one. You will feel it, but be unable to react. If you are successful in relighting the candle, you may proceed. If you are successful in creating the circle of salt, you must remain in there until 3:33 AM. You must continue to 3:33 AM without being attacked by the Midnight Man, or being trapped inside the circle of salt to win the Midnight Game. The Midnight Man will then leave your house at 3:33 AM and you will be safe to proceed with your morning.
Indications that you are near the Midnight Man include sudden drop in temperature, seeing a pure black, humanoid figure through the darkness, and very soft whispering coming from an indiscernible source. If you experience any of these, it is advised that you leave the area to avoid the Midnight Man.
DO NOT turn on any lights during the Midnight Game
DO NOT use a flashlight during the Midnight Game
DO NOT go to sleep during the Midnight Game
DO NOT attempt to use another person’s blood on your name
DO NOT use a lighter as a substitute for a candle. It will not work.
AND DEFINITELY DO NOT attempt to provoke the Midnight Man in ANY WAY
Even when the game is over, he will always be watching you…
Good Luck, you’re going to need it.
The rules of the Midnight Game are easy to find, and stories of people doing it are just as as common. The game has even drawn enough attention to warrant a film based around it that airs in 2013. But where did it come from? Is it real? The origins of the game are harder to track down. Some hint that it was an old pagan game to punish rule breakers, that this was a forfeit to teach them a lesson, while others suggest it's entirely fiction.
Searches on google reveal how popular the game has become however, with 49,500 searches per month globally. What is more interesting however is that the midnight game is already on google trends when it started in 2004, which means it was already popular by that point. Paired with the fact that the midnight game was only made popular 2009 onwards it does suggest the game is older than most sites give it credit for. But again this doesn't even come close to proving it's real.
Even if fake the piece does contain some features that are common in a lot of supernatural lore, the most obvious being the salt in a circle keeping the midnight man at bay. These themes along with various tales of shadowy figures and shadow men again don't prove anything, but it does prove that if fake it's one hell of an effort. With blood being added to the paper some would argue it would be enough to attract the attention of a wandering spirit looking for a home, the equivalent of leaving your front door open and handing your address out on craigslist. It's dam creepy. The only way to prove whether this is real or not would be to try it, and honestly it does sound fun. However anything with a blood ritual involved is not child play Let me know if you try it and if you do, seriously, good luck.
There are rules to the Midnight Game that MUST be followed precisely for the ritual to work. These Rules are as follows:
Materials required: 1 candle per person (at least), matches, salt,a pen and paper to write your names on, a wooden door to attach your name to and finally a drop of your own blood.
Step 1: Write your full name on a piece of paper and put at least one drop of blood on it. Allow it to soak into the paper.
Step 2: Turn off all the lights in the house. Go to your wooden door (It has to be wooden) and place the paper with your name on it. Now take the candle and light it.
Step 3: Knock on the door 22 times (the hour must be 12:00 AM upon the final knock), then open the door, blow out the candle, and close the door. You have just allowed the “Midnight Man” to enter your house.
Step 4: Immediately relight your candle.
This is where the game begins. You must now lurk around your now completely dark house with the lit candle in your hand. Your goal is to avoid the Midnight Man at all costs until 3:33 AM. Should your candle ever go out, that means the Midnight Man is near you. You must relight your candle in the next 10 seconds. If you are not successful in doing this, you must then immediately surround yourself with a circle of salt. If you are unsuccessful in both of your actions, the Midnight Man will create a hallucination of your greatest fear, and rip your organs out one by one. You will feel it, but be unable to react. If you are successful in relighting the candle, you may proceed. If you are successful in creating the circle of salt, you must remain in there until 3:33 AM. You must continue to 3:33 AM without being attacked by the Midnight Man, or being trapped inside the circle of salt to win the Midnight Game. The Midnight Man will then leave your house at 3:33 AM and you will be safe to proceed with your morning.
Indications that you are near the Midnight Man include sudden drop in temperature, seeing a pure black, humanoid figure through the darkness, and very soft whispering coming from an indiscernible source. If you experience any of these, it is advised that you leave the area to avoid the Midnight Man.
DO NOT turn on any lights during the Midnight Game
DO NOT use a flashlight during the Midnight Game
DO NOT go to sleep during the Midnight Game
DO NOT attempt to use another person’s blood on your name
DO NOT use a lighter as a substitute for a candle. It will not work.
AND DEFINITELY DO NOT attempt to provoke the Midnight Man in ANY WAY
Even when the game is over, he will always be watching you…
Good Luck, you’re going to need it.
The rules of the Midnight Game are easy to find, and stories of people doing it are just as as common. The game has even drawn enough attention to warrant a film based around it that airs in 2013. But where did it come from? Is it real? The origins of the game are harder to track down. Some hint that it was an old pagan game to punish rule breakers, that this was a forfeit to teach them a lesson, while others suggest it's entirely fiction.
Searches on google reveal how popular the game has become however, with 49,500 searches per month globally. What is more interesting however is that the midnight game is already on google trends when it started in 2004, which means it was already popular by that point. Paired with the fact that the midnight game was only made popular 2009 onwards it does suggest the game is older than most sites give it credit for. But again this doesn't even come close to proving it's real.
Even if fake the piece does contain some features that are common in a lot of supernatural lore, the most obvious being the salt in a circle keeping the midnight man at bay. These themes along with various tales of shadowy figures and shadow men again don't prove anything, but it does prove that if fake it's one hell of an effort. With blood being added to the paper some would argue it would be enough to attract the attention of a wandering spirit looking for a home, the equivalent of leaving your front door open and handing your address out on craigslist. It's dam creepy. The only way to prove whether this is real or not would be to try it, and honestly it does sound fun. However anything with a blood ritual involved is not child play Let me know if you try it and if you do, seriously, good luck.
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