The beginning...

A group of friends stumbled upon something that would change their outlooks on themselves, the world around them and much more. Here is where you can see their results of this ritual as well as the results from other people they've exposed to it. Here's is what they found...

"At 12:17 am, on any given night, arises the opportunity to awaken an alternate soul. The most common way of viewing them is through a mirror.
It is through said medium that the process must take place. Begin at exactly midnight. By no light but that of a single candle, stand before the selected mirror. For ten minutes you must concentrate in silence, focused entirely on your reflection. Do not look away from the eyes; for it will be interpreted as weakness and you will be overcome. After ten minutes have passed you must draw blood to smear in a line across the eyes of your reflection. Doing so will blind it, and you will watch as your own features begin to warp. Slowly, gradually, they will mutate into a frightening creature-one beyond the comprehension of those who have not experienced it. You must not look away through the entirety of the change. Soon the writhing movements of the image will cease. By now an echoing, inhuman sound will resound all around you--the creature will begin to ease toward the mirror's glass. You must keep watching as it approaches. If you do not extinguish the candle at exactly 12:17, the creature will escape. Be warned, should you succeed; through any polished surface-be it mirror, wood, or window-your reflection will always be watching."

The first attempt (Subject #1)

Subject #1 decides he will be the pioneer of our group and wants his shot at going first. This is how we'd get our feet wet with this entire ritual and we were all very eager....it literally began only hours after we first read about it. We decided we'd set each subject up with a "buddy" who would knock once on the bathroom door once 10 minutes had passed and once again when the entire 17 minutes had elapsed. Midnight was drawing close and the ritual was about to begin...

Subject #1 entered the bathroom at 11:58pm and got ready to begin. The candle was lit and he turned out the bathroom light....he began to stand in silence. After 10 minutes a single knock at the door let him know that it was time for bloodletting. He cut his finger open with a knife and smeared it across the eyes of his reflection. Pretty soon the things he was seeing were too much for him to handle and he couldn't stay in the bathroom any longer. He sat in silence for over a minute before he began to describe the things he had seen...his eyes and mouth turning black, his reflection moving when he was completely still and other things. He lasted 15 minutes but is eager to have another try.

Subject #2

Subject #2 was up next. He also said he saw many of the same things as Subject #1 but was the first to endure the entire 17 minute ritual. He soon went and did the ritual for a second time and we decided it would be interesting to start having a post-ritual interview describing the things you've seen while they were fresh on your mind. Here is the audio link to his interview about his second time confronting his fears and performing The Mirror Ritual.



Note: The picture used for our header is actually a picture taken after Subject #2's second ritual.

Subject #3

Subject #3 became intrigued when he heard of the ritual and decided to be next. After only 30 seconds into the ritual he burst through the door asking, "Is shit already supposed to be happening?". We assured him that everything was fine and to get back to it. Since Subject #2 didn't perform the ritual at midnight and it still worked, we continued and restarted Subject #3's time. The rest of the ritual went as planned and Subject #3 was the second subject to remain for an entire 17 minutes. The following is his first hand account of what he experienced...

Experiences...

It seems that all three subjects so far had experienced specific results of their own, but all had mentioned one particular thing in common: their eyes and mouths turned black and began to spread over their entire faces. Sometimes it would then morph into something else and other times their entire faces would be transparent....being able to see the bathroom door behind them. I've found a picture taken from a youtube video that is a fairly accurate description of what they've seen.

Subject #4

Subject #4 was ready for his turn and was the last of the original three (#1, #2 and #4) that discovered this ritual. He walked in somewhat expecting what to see, but nothing can honestly get you prepared for what is looking back at you in the mirror. Here's his audio...



Strangely enough, while Subject #4 was recording the first section of his post interview that you heard, the laptop stopped recording. His hands weren't near it at all and it appeared to still be recording, but when played back the video stops him right in the middle of a sentence. There's no real explanation why this happened or what caused it at all. Here's another section recorded before they realized part of the first recording had disappeared.



Some key points that were left out of the first recording were as follows:
"...a bright light behind me, like someone was holding a flashlight 3 inches from my back. There was a small sliver of light completely surrounding my entire body."
"...what looked like things crawling up my cheek and into the hole where my eyes were..."

The Cocoa Experiments...

After seeing our blog and being intrigued, two friends of ours set out on their own adventures. It's this kind of shared enthusiasm that really excites us and makes things even more interesting. Here are their experiences, in their own words...





The second person to perform the ritual in Cocoa spoke of the same outlined silhouette as our own Subject #4....before Subject #4's experience was ever posted on here. What caused these two to see this light shining behind them that no one else had?

Subject #5

After a little bit of coaxing, here comes Subject #5. Honestly, we did not expect this person to pull through and even show up, much less perform the ritual flawlessly. The previous friend we had try the ritual lasted just under 2 minutes before the images he was seeing became too much for him and he exited the bathroom. In the 2 minutes he was in there all we heard was him breathing loudly and a "what the fuck" before he couldn't take it anymore. Now, we have Subject #5's description of what he saw during the ritual.





Also, Subject #5 and I did had a rather in depth discussion of the things we've seen so far...and he came up with a theory that possibly the things you're seeing are how you die. It's obviously way too soon to base any real facts on this but it does bring up some pretty interesting questions, don't you think?

Subjet #6

Here we have Subject #6...one of the most skeptical subjects, I remember before he came to meet me, he said he'd do the ritual twice in a row back to back...it would be nothing! Needless to say he stepped out of the bathroom a believer and a changed man.

Subject #7

After a few years, here we are with the lost tape of Subject #7. The first and only female to attempt The Mirror Ritual from our test subjects. Here are her first hand accounts as to what she saw when she began the experiment. Enjoy. (Author - 3/7/12)