“Tom is lonely,” she whispers
MENLO PARK, CA – A chilling supernatural phenomenon has begun manifesting across the digital graveyard of abandoned MySpace profiles, as dozens of users report encountering a mysterious female apparition who haunts the forgotten social networking pages with an eerie message about the site’s former president.
The ghostly encounters began three weeks ago when Rebecca Martinez, 34, logged into her old MySpace account for the first time in over a decade. What she discovered sent ice-cold terror through her veins.
“I was just feeling nostalgic, you know? Wanted to see my old photos from college,” Martinez explained from her Sacramento home, her voice still trembling. “But when the page loaded, there was this translucent woman standing right there in my profile picture. She had long, dark hair covering most of her face, and she kept pointing at Tom’s picture in my top friends list. Then she whispered those words that I’ll never forget: ‘Tom is lonely.’ I slammed my laptop shut and didn’t sleep for three days.”
Martinez’s experience is far from isolated. Reports have been flooding paranormal investigation forums and social media platforms from across the nation, all describing encounters with the same ethereal female figure. The ghost appears exclusively on dormant MySpace pages that still feature Tom Anderson – MySpace’s co-founder and former president – in users’ “top friends” lists.
Dr. Helena Blackwood, a digital paranormal researcher at the Institute for Cyber-Supernatural Studies, believes this marks the first documented case of a haunting occurring within the digital realm itself.
“What we’re witnessing is unprecedented in paranormal research,” Dr. Blackwood explained during a late-night phone interview. “This entity seems to be drawn specifically to the digital loneliness and abandonment that permeates these forgotten social spaces. MySpace, once bustling with 100 million active users, now sits like a vast digital cemetery. The collective psychic energy of all that abandonment may have created a supernatural vortex.”
The ghost’s obsession with Tom Anderson has investigators particularly baffled. Anderson, who famously appeared as everyone’s first friend on MySpace, became the digital face of social connection for millions of users between 2003 and 2008. But as Facebook rose to dominance, MySpace was abandoned en masse, leaving Anderson’s smiling face frozen in time across countless deserted profiles.
Paranormal investigators have discovered disturbing patterns in the haunting. The apparition only appears between 2:00 and 4:00 AM, and she becomes increasingly agitated when users attempt to remove Tom from their friends list. Several witnesses report their computer screens flickering violently when they hover their cursor over the “remove friend” option.
Marcus Chen of Portland discovered the ghost while showing his teenage daughter his old profile. “The room suddenly got freezing cold, and my daughter started crying for no reason,” Chen recounted. “Then we both saw her – this woman in what looked like early 2000s clothing, just staring at us through the screen. She kept gesturing toward Tom’s photo and repeating ‘Tom is lonely’ over and over. My daughter refuses to use any social media now.”
The mystery deepened when investigators attempted to contact Tom Anderson directly. His representatives declined to comment, but sources close to the MySpace co-founder report that he has been experiencing unexplained technical difficulties with all his electronic devices, including spontaneous activations of old MySpace notification sounds.
Some researchers theorize that the ghost may be a manifestation of collective digital guilt – the psychic residue left behind by millions of users who abandoned their virtual friendships without explanation. Others suggest she could be the spirit of someone who died during MySpace’s heyday, forever trapped in the digital amber of obsolete social networking code.
As reports continue to multiply, one thing remains constant: the ghost’s haunting message about Tom’s loneliness echoes across the abandoned halls of social media’s forgotten kingdom, serving as a chilling reminder that in the digital age, even our ghosts can go viral.
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