DARK WEB: Dear David

So Supernatural

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True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 22.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In 2017, cartoonist Adam Ellis began posting a Twitter thread that terrified his followers. He claimed that after a series of horrifying dreams, the ghost of a boy named Dear David was haunting his New York City apartment. What he captured on film convinced people his experience was genuine. But one final tweet made them wonder if Dear David may have possessed Adam, too.

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0:00.0	So I have something I want to get off my chest.
0:05.1	Because while I'm a diehard believer through and through, there is one thing that really gets me questioning some supernatural phenomena,
0:14.9	particularly ghosts in the digital age.
0:18.2	Like we have so many ways of capturing things, cameras, social media, ring door cameras,
0:23.6	even our private moments aren't really that private anymore.
0:27.6	Which if that's the case, wouldn't you think that we'd be catching ghostly phenomena all the time,
0:33.6	like for the whole world to see?
0:35.6	Wouldn't we have some concrete validation by now on whether or not this stuff really exists?
0:42.3	Well, if you ask reporter Adam Ellis, he'd probably say, good point, Ashley, and lucky for you, I've got it covered.
0:50.5	Because on August 7, 2017, Adam posted the tweet of all tweets back when they were called tweets.
0:59.3	It read, quote, so my apartment is currently being haunted by the ghost of a dead child, and he's trying to kill me.
1:09.4	End quote.
1:11.2	For weeks, Adam kept the public updated with every little detail about his experience, including
1:16.4	photos, audio files, even videos of his cats going nuts at the door every night around
1:22.8	midnight.
1:24.2	It made a lot of people wonder.
1:26.2	Did Adam just invent a very ingenious method of storytelling,
1:30.6	a horror story for the digital age?
1:33.5	Or was there something really going on in that apartment?
1:38.0	One that the entire internet had a front row seat for.
1:43.1	I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is so supernatural. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is So Supernatural.
1:57.6	Hello, and welcome back to So Supernatural.
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