I have read many BEK stories, and the strangest thing to me is their behavior. In most of these stories, there is a knock at the door of some unsuspecting adult, when the person answers the door, they see, usually, two children, in their early teens, and dressed like normal kids. The children have a story about being stranded or lost, and they need to use the phone. Most good people are willing to help a child in need, however, there is something off about these kids. They speak as if they are much older, their story seems contrived, and they are just plain creepy. Before the person notices anything unusual about the children’s appearance, they are overcome with a feeling of dread. These kids are pushy and insistent, they don’t really seem to be in distress. The homeowner begins to be stricken with irrational terror, and that’s when they notice the black eyes. That’s when the person hurriedly turns the children away, but not before some very urgent and demanding protests from the visitors. Finally, at the climax of panic, the homeowner shuts the door on the kids, praying that they just leave and make no further attempts to get in. Thankfully, this is usually the case. After a few minutes, upon further examination, the children seemed to have disappeared. At first glance it just seems that some scary looking kids tried to get into someone’s house and left when they were turned away. If we examine this more closely, some truly weird things start to pop up. If a juvenile delinquent wants to get into a home and steal stuff, he’s probably not going to walk up to a home and ask to be let in. Or if he does do that, then it’s just the first step in a big to-do list that he would use for a successful home invasion. For example, threats and weapons are employed if the homeowner puts up a resistance. If criminals politely asked to be let in so they could commit their crime of choice, I doubt any crime of that nature would occur. The Black-Eyed Kids are a different matter. I doubt they are hooligans trying to commit robbery using black contacts as their only means of threatening homeowners. The most notable behavior pattern is that these kids seem to need to be let or invited in. It seems that their main priority is to get inside with the person they are talking to; whether it is their car, their home, or any other place that happens to have an inside. It looks as if the BEKs cannot enter a house on their own accord, they need to get an invitation. What does this remind you of? That’s right! Vampires. In vampire lore, a vampire cannot enter a home unless he is invited in. Are vampires among us? Are they all children for some reason? It’s true that most vampire mythology has been invented by mostly non-vampires, so it’s possible that we may have some vampire folklore correct, and we may have missed some attributes completely. This is all assuming that vampires are real, and in all honesty, I don’t think they are. Unless stories of savage attacks on people where all of their blood has been drained are covered up really well. You just don’t read about such things in the news. You don’t hear about people rising out of graves or burning up in the sunlight; I just don’t see any evidence of true vampires. Don’t get me started on vampire culture, that’s something else all together. Okay, so the Black-Eyed Kids aren’t vampires.
There are definitely other possibilities, such as soul-sucking demons, but there are still major holes in this theory. If BEKs are demons, then what are they doing disguising themselves as children trying to gain entrance into people’s homes? Are they trying to possess people? Isn’t that what demons do? As far as I can tell, demons possess people who are emotionally weak and vulnerable. Yes, there is a sort of invitation to the possession, such as dabbling in the occult, or black magic, or whatever. So do demons really need to knock on the door to gain access to people? It would be interesting, however, to look in on people who have experienced possession to see if they’ve been in contact with weird kids before the trouble began. This data is impossible to collect, but it is something to think about. Maybe not all demons’ jobs are to possess people. Maybe some roam the Earth just to scare people. In that case, I suppose the Black-Eyed Kid demon people are doing their jobs just fine. Everyone who reports a BEK experience describes complete and utter terror just by looking at these entities. So, good job Black-Eyed Kids!
A new theory that I just heard is that the BEKs are aliens. This could make sense to me. You always hear about the grays, the little humanoid beings with the big, black eyes. This explains two things, why they appear as children, the grays are small to begin with; and why they have black eyes, they’ve obviously never heard of contacts. All joking aside, the theory I just read presents the possibility that BEKs are the result of failed disguises. It’s as if their image projectors, or whatever they use malfunctions and their black eyes show through. In this theory, the BEKs need access to a home in order to get a quick layout of the house so they can properly abduct someone. Okay, that makes sense, I guess, you don’t want to beam right into a wall or something. Yes, this is a very unique and interesting theory, but I find that it has major problems. Like, why does just the eye part of the disguise malfunction? Why don’t you hear any stories about bulbous-head kids, or alien language speaking kids, or just aliens showing up at the door? Also, I really don’t think aliens need to get into someone’s house before an abduction. Don’t these things have scanners of some kind?
Some people think they’re ghosts, skin walkers, or maybe a zombie-type being. I don’t have a lot of explanations for these theories. I like the ghost idea, mostly because I like ghosts. If they are ghosts, why do they have their own specific rules that don’t seem to apply to other ghosts? It’s true, some of your regular ghost sightings, sightings that take place in someone’s home, sightings that require no prior interaction; it’s true that some of these ghosts have black eyes. Yet most of those ghosts aren’t children, they’re already in the house, and therefore, aren’t what I’m talking about. As far as a skin walker goes, these beings from Native American culture usually change into an animal, or something half-animal, half-human. I don’t think they just change their eye color and age. And zombies, I don’t believe in zombies. But there is a story about a female black-eyed person. She was a little older than most Black-Eyed Kids. She tried to get into a dorm hall, the guy at the door thought she was pretty, until he realized she had black eyes and her clothes were tattered and her feet seemed to be rotting. Sounds like a smart zombie to me. There are several tales of Black-Eyed Kids having some inhuman characteristic; such as claws and extreme agility. Does that make them zombies or skin walkers? I don’t think so.
So if they aren’t vampires, demons, aliens, ghosts, skin walkers, or zombies, what could they be? A roving gang of scary teenagers with black contacts? Perhaps. But let’s step back from everything for a moment. Let’s remove all categories from the BEKs and just examine their behavior. Let’s forget about what they could be, and focus on what we know they are. First, they can’t get into a house uninvited or by force. Second, they aren’t very good at concealing the fact that they aren’t really human. Third, they give of scary vibes. Fourth, they are known to use a language style that is at a higher level than the kids they are trying to portray. And fifth, they are way too pushy and insistent for their own good. Add this all up and we’re left with very few options. They could be evil entities that don’t really understand humanity, or they could be evil entities that are just plain stupid. If they simply don’t understand that humans don’t come with solid black eyes, and that their houses aren’t usually impenetrable fortresses; I guess that could be forgiven, a little more human observation could clear that up. Stupid makes more sense to me, though. Their tactics for whatever they’re trying to achieve obviously aren’t working. No one wants anything to do with the BEKs, and yet they are still showing up. They want to get into our houses for some reason, but they can’t seem to figure out how. It all seems stupid and sloppy to me. But what do I know? I can’t even begin to comprehend what these things are and what they want. I’m usually pretty good about coming up with far-fetched theories, but the Black-Eyed Kids leave me stumped.
ACK! I read the first 4 sentences and had to stop! It'll for seriously give me nightmares! Ooohheee!
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