Ghostwriter Circus: The Paul Eckert Website

We all know and love the people in our life (and everybody has at least one) who send us emails with ridiculous warnings, like "Don't go to WalMart this week because there is a gang initiation scheduled to happen there" or "Don't eat margarine because it is 95% plastic".

But there is only one that has ever affected me. And it's not true, and I know this. But just the thought of it being true scares the crap out of me. Even as a work of fiction, it creeps me out.

Which one is it?

The serial killer that plays recordings of babies crying to lure women out of their houses.

Seriously, what twisted mind came up with this story? Using babies as a ruse to capture women? How bizarre is that. Could the guy not think of anything better? Is it a particular fetish for him?

Now I'm determined to write the biography for this guy. Maybe for every e-mail myth.

It's even creepier now that we have a baby, and we carry his baby monitor outside. Every time he cries and it comes crackling through the cheap monitor speakers, I shudder and my spine goes cold.

If you've never received this email, take a look here:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/crybaby.asp