the L, on 06 February 2013 - 03:59 PM, said:
Scary. Is it based on some similar event?
Thats also one scenario.
I am pretty darn sure that no true crime event happened. At least not the UL version. There have been true crimes where the killer waited till everyone was asleep, like the Villisca and Crouch murders. A few crimes where writing was left, Mansons crew being the most famous. But nothing that really matches the UL. Geez, I miss JVE.
A UL that is quite closely related is the "Licked Hand" UL. Death in the dark still... This one the person wakes in the dark, dog licks hand, and person goes back to sleep. Come light, the dog was dead, the killer did the hand licking. This one sometimes has writing on the wall, sometimes not. Licked Hand is generally thought of to be the older of the two UL's.
My notion on "Lights"... It is a fairly recent variation to come onto the scene. I think it is in part due to a cropping up of "college kids killed by killer who tinkers with them" movies like Scream, I know what you did last summer, ect. Also possibly in part due to a lot of campus violence getting a lot more media attention.
I still don't have a fave... But some I like a lot...
Hell rides... It's not just one gate, it's a few of them to pass through.
Pentagrams of doom.. Where you take five points on a map and draw a star, and POW! instant evil.
Walled Lake Child Killer- because it is so untrue and totally skewed off some real crime, I find it a particularly fascinating study of a UL.
Werewolves and canine kin.
Food related UL's, there's a bunch of them.
Yes, I am a cynical and jaded jacknape. I try to see all three sides of the coin- do you?