So where were you when Michael 'died'
OneStepCloser
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Just out of curiosity, where were you? what time was it and what were you doing? And how did u get here?
Personally, I was in Gran Canaria on holiday <!-- s:| -->:|<!-- s:| --> 5 days in to the 2 week break when it happened!
Anyway it was about 10PM at night I think? My family and I had just went out and we were sitting in this bar and they had the TV on playing random music... next thing the guy that worked in the bar suddenly started running about and turned the TV over to news...Michaels face was on the screen. All I could see was the word 'Dead'. I actually was like huh? LOL. My heart only had one pang of ache but something inside comforted me, something to say that this wasn't as it seemed.
My mum said, 'What does that say on the screen? Michael Jackson...what about him.' I said 'Michael Jackson is dead'. She said, 'No he cant be'. Note how I wasn't fazed at all, it was like something inside me, instinct which made me feel, no he's not gone. The whole night though all I kept saying was 'Something isn't right'. I said it within an hour of him 'dying' to my mum and she said 'You know I think the same'.
So for the rest of the holiday, I was basically stuffed up in the apartment watching Sky News, and when that went to break..I would switch to Spanish news and watch that even though I didn't understand lmao <!-- s:D -->:D<!-- s:D --> My parents were going insane, I wouldnt even go to the pool, they literally had to drag me out at night LOL <!-- s:D -->:D<!-- s:D --> I was totally taken by this...
I followed everything, 'death', aftermath, mourning fans, Conrad Murray disappearing, autopsy. So needless to say, that wasn't a holiday I would particularly like to remember...LMAO.
The whole time I just wanted to get home, on the internet and find out so much info. I typed in 'Michael Jackson faked death' the very morning I got back (July 2nd at 6AM <!-- s:D -->:D<!-- s:D -->) First went to MJHD followed the topics there for a few months then discovered this place. And the rest was HiStory <!-- s;) -->;)<!-- s;) --> LMAO.
So what about you???
Personally, I was in Gran Canaria on holiday <!-- s:| -->:|<!-- s:| --> 5 days in to the 2 week break when it happened!
Anyway it was about 10PM at night I think? My family and I had just went out and we were sitting in this bar and they had the TV on playing random music... next thing the guy that worked in the bar suddenly started running about and turned the TV over to news...Michaels face was on the screen. All I could see was the word 'Dead'. I actually was like huh? LOL. My heart only had one pang of ache but something inside comforted me, something to say that this wasn't as it seemed.
My mum said, 'What does that say on the screen? Michael Jackson...what about him.' I said 'Michael Jackson is dead'. She said, 'No he cant be'. Note how I wasn't fazed at all, it was like something inside me, instinct which made me feel, no he's not gone. The whole night though all I kept saying was 'Something isn't right'. I said it within an hour of him 'dying' to my mum and she said 'You know I think the same'.
So for the rest of the holiday, I was basically stuffed up in the apartment watching Sky News, and when that went to break..I would switch to Spanish news and watch that even though I didn't understand lmao <!-- s:D -->:D<!-- s:D --> My parents were going insane, I wouldnt even go to the pool, they literally had to drag me out at night LOL <!-- s:D -->:D<!-- s:D --> I was totally taken by this...
I followed everything, 'death', aftermath, mourning fans, Conrad Murray disappearing, autopsy. So needless to say, that wasn't a holiday I would particularly like to remember...LMAO.
The whole time I just wanted to get home, on the internet and find out so much info. I typed in 'Michael Jackson faked death' the very morning I got back (July 2nd at 6AM <!-- s:D -->:D<!-- s:D -->) First went to MJHD followed the topics there for a few months then discovered this place. And the rest was HiStory <!-- s;) -->;)<!-- s;) --> LMAO.
So what about you???
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I started suspecting things watching the hoax videos on youtube and here we are!
and this will for always remind me of that night... what a heavy shadow <!-- s
Whenever someone dies, even if I don't know them, I get this weird feeling in my chest and then I go through all the "Awww. What about their family?" thoughts and others like that for a few minutes. It happened with Farrah, Billy Mays, Ed McMahon, and others but when my brother said he had died I was HIGHLY confused. My instincts have never let me down.
I turned on the tv and couldn't get any feeling besides "Huh???" I even tried to feel bad. I couldn't do it.
My tweet on June 25th after I could finally log in after Michael broke Twitter said, "Wow. What an unexpected day. RIP" It's not there anymore and I don't know why. I think I accidentally deleted it yesterday while deleting other tweets. <!-- s:( -->:(<!-- s:( --> I was afraid to put RIP MJ. (because he didn't really die! <!-- s;) -->;)<!-- s;) --> ) I didn't even put RIP MJ for the memorial.
Funny thing. My dad, who if you remember in the dream thread has some very wrong views on MJ, came home from work and said, "Did you hear Michael Jackson faked his death?" I said, "Yep."
He's the whole reason I found MJHD in the first place. I was just going to let the whole situation be (at that time I believed the whole "He was poor!" thing and had a 'whatever' attitude about everything) but he showed me the video of the "moving body" in the helicopter. That was that <!-- s:D -->:D<!-- s:D -->
For a while I listened to radio, then suddenly I hear someone in radio laughing to MJ's death. I didn't believe it first. I listened another song from the radio, and then I really understood that they're telling me he is dead.
Then I just went home.
then i rang my partner who was working in canada at the time an told him.. it was very emotional.. well thats my bit.. <!-- s:( -->:(<!-- s:( -->
But now it's all fine, because Michael aint dead! He just 'disappeared'!
and then it all started..look where i am now, 5 moths later!! <!-- s;) -->;)<!-- s;) --> it's a great adventure for sure!! <!-- s;) -->;)<!-- s;) -->
I could not believe it, I called my mother, woke up my man, I was destroyed ....... was awful, I asked myself God why you have got him now so early to yourself? I thought sovieles, however, also nothing....
i honestly don't know how i got to thinking about him hoaxing his death...i can't remember. i was at college for 6 weeks straight so i kept myself occupied (& everyone knew me by my love for MJ <!-- s:D -->:D<!-- s:D --> ). but i'm glad i found you guys<3. thank you for giving me hope.
The live band that was playing, stopped and announced it on stage.
I ran upstairs and followed TMZ and CNN almost till after 3:00 in the morning.
It was such a weird feeling I will never forgot that night it was so shocking and awful, but now we know he's alive it all makes a little bit sense but still I get one of the worst feelings thinking about that night <!-- s
It was about 11pm uk time and i stayed up till almost 4am and i had to go to work the next morning.
I almost called in sick the next day. All day at work i was on the internet and then rushed home on 26 06 09 and the nightmare continued until July when i found MJHD forum and then i wasnt so bad, i really was in a bad way believe me.
*Rich*
But I was like, psh. TMZ? Yeah...probably another fake death.
But then I went to my grandma's house and it was all over CNN and other major news networks. They were showing the ambulance leaving. And that's when I knew he had "died" <!-- s;) -->;)<!-- s;) -->
Anyway.. it was afternoon, and my kids were out of state on vacation with their dad. I was really bored and should have been doing housework, but I thought "Eh, the kids are gone, I can do whatever I want.." so I turned the TV on and was flipping through channels - turned it on to the TV Guide channel and they had a headline about him going to the hospital. I started flipping through news channels (I think I watched HLN for a week straight after 6/25!) and it was all Michael, Michael, Michael.. at that point, no one knew for sure what happened, so one minute they were talking about how he was in critical condition, then it was a heart attack, then no one was sure, then it was a coma, then it was he's dead, then not dead but not able to be resuscitated.. and on and on..
it was awful watching it and flip-flopping like that.
I have to admit, I believed it. Every word. I cried and cried and cried.
My daughter is a fan, so I thought about texting her dad's cell because I didn't want her to hear the news from anyone else in an insensitive way but at the same time I didn't want to ruin her vacation in case for some reason she didn't hear about it. (She's only 8)
But alas, they came home from vacation talking about how disappointed they are in MJ, how he's a drug addict, etc. etc. and so we have had a lot of long talks since then about really not believing everything you hear, etc. It was awful to hear my daughter say that, to see the disappointment in her eyes. <!-- s
It wasn't until I watched the memorial on TV that things started seeming weird to me. The way the kids acted, the people who weren't there, etc. Then other things started to not make sense.
It wasn't until Nov. 12 that I started reading online about a possible hoax, and from that night forward I've been convinced.
I hope I'm not in denial. I hope it's not because I so desperately want him to be alive.
Anyway.. that's my story.