The Curse
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Refers to the curse symptoms and virus a person contracts from watching any of the tapes. Almost always lasts exactly seven days.
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Curse Details
While it is almost exclusively referred to as a curse, it is actually a virus, at least in the case of Sadako and Eun-Suh. After watching the Tape, the watcher gains a cancerous growth on the outside of the artery leading to their heart. After exactly one week has passed, the growth detaches and moves to block the artery, causing fatal cardiac arrest.
The virus's structure is 70% smallpox, and 30% the DNA of Sadako or Eun-Suh, depending on the tape.
All-Inclusive Symptoms
These symptoms are universal among the tapes.
- A sense of feeling on edge
- Strange feelings around water, seeing shadows in water
- A mysterious, lingering smell of old well water
- Warped image on film
- Automatic scribbling out of faces
- Terrified, contorted face upon death
- Death at the end of seven days
- Spiritual awakening
- Psychic potential unlocked
Samara Morgan Tape Symptoms
These symptoms are usually unique to Samara tapes.
- Automatic doodling, especially of ladders, horses, wells, circles, eyes, and Samara herself
- Animals acting strange around the cursed or appearing in strange places, especially horses or deer
- Images of Anna Morgan brushing her hair in a mirror
- Images of Anna Morgan jumping off a cliff into the ocean
- Images of a burning tree
- Dreams or illusions of ladders
- Dreams or illusions of Samara
- Burn marks on skin where dream/illusion Samara touched the cursed
- Hearing static, water dripping, wailing, or singing
- Water, maggots, flies, or long black hair appearing in strange places
- Seeing eyes in dark places
- Hearing or seeing unexplainable scratching
Sadako Yamamura Tape Symptoms
These symptoms are usually unique to Sadako tapes.
- Images of Mt. Mihara erupting
- Images of Shizuko Yamamura jumping into a volcano
- Images of Shizuka Yamamura brushing her hair in a mirror
- Strange instances of Japanese characters, especially "Sada"
- Images of Sadako
- Smelling old, or stale water
- Seeing the Towel-headed Man
- Burn marks on skin where dream/illusion Sadako touched the cursed
Eun-Suh Park Tape Symptoms
These symptoms are usually unique to Eun-Suh tapes.
- Images of a tsunami
- Seeing the Hangeul characters 'Eun-Suh'
