The haunted PC

Since it is Halloween, Gadgetell is taking a look at some the tech horror stories our writers have experienced. Here is one tale.

In my house, we usually built our own computers; we had, at most, two computers that were purchased pre-built. The second computer we built did everything it was supposed to. It connected to the Internet and could be used to write school reports on. Not to mention it handled “Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion” almost perfectly (if you were willing to take away some of the draw distance).

The computer had many hours logged into it, the hard drive was maybe three quarters filled. Oblivion and Civilization IV took care of most of that for me. My brother used it to go online, and my grandmother used it every hour we weren’t there to play her casino games. It had served us well.

That was until the one morning when we awoke to something we were quite used to. . . .