Smile Dog

October 4, 2026

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The Image That Won't Stay Buried

In the summer of 2007, a young amateur writer named Mr. Al traveled to Chicago to interview a woman named Mary E. She was one of roughly four hundred people who had encountered a mysterious image called "smile.jpg" on a small bulletin board system in 1992, and she was the only known victim willing to speak openly about what happened afterward. But when Mr. Al arrived, Mary locked herself in her bedroom, crying and speaking incoherently about her nightmares. Her husband Terrence apologized, and the interview never happened. A year later, Mary emailed Mr. Al a confession: she had planned to give him a floppy disk containing the image, effectively passing the curse to a stranger, but couldn't bring herself to do it. Shortly after sending that warning, she killed herself.

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1 Smile Dog - Episode Outline
2 (00:26) **Investigation Begins: Interview with Mary E** - The narrator describes his 2007 attempt to interview Mary, a known victim of smile.jpg, and her refusal to speak due to terrifying nightmares.
3 (01:58) **The Origin: Mary's Encounter with Smile.jpg** - Background on how Mary first saw the image in 1992 on a Chicago bulletin board system, just five months into her marriage.
4 (02:29) **The Phenomenon: What Smile.jpg Is Said to Do** - The narrator explains how he first learned about smile.jpg in 2005 and describes the purported effects of viewing the image.
5 (04:28) **Internet Legends: The Spread of Smile.jpg** - Unverified rumors about the image's circulation across early internet platforms.
6 (05:21) **The Image Described: A Dog with Human Teeth** - A composite description from alleged victims of what smile.jpg actually depicts.
7 (06:51) **The Email from Mary: Fifteen Years of Torment** - In March 2008, the narrator receives an email from Mary apologizing for her behavior and revealing the full horror of her experience.

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