Toma Sota Balcu

The latest craze sweeping through LiveJournal, Xanga, and other blogging communities involves people posting this message on their blogs:

A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the ground when she was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded.

It obviously seems to be inspired by the movie The Ring. Other than that I don't know much about this (such as who started it, etc.), though I do know that I'm now safe.

Paranormal

Posted on Mon Jan 10, 2005



Comments

Klaatu...
Posted by Gort  on  Tue Jan 11, 2005  at  09:09 AM
My grandfather's father came here as O'Mahoney, no one really knows that story about why the O' was dropped. Ol' John James enlisted in the military when he got here. We have a copy of the ship's manifest, there were quite a few O'Mahoneys on the ship, but according to my grandfather, they weren't our family. The little info we have is that he worked in a castle named for the O'Mahoney family...but we haven't been able to back that up.
Posted by Maegan  on  Tue Jan 11, 2005  at  09:18 AM
A CASUAL BOTTOM
is a good anagram from these words!
Posted by AqueousBoy  on  Tue Jan 11, 2005  at  12:56 PM
Sorry Alex, but just in case, I would like to say:

TOMA SOTA BALCU

Thank you. I think I will sleep better now.
Posted by corax  on  Tue Jan 11, 2005  at  05:50 PM
Barghest, what are you, crazy?
If you caught the ghost of Blogger Alex in a jar, think how much you could get for that jar on eBay!
And you'd let him out again?!?
Posted by Big Gary C  on  Tue Jan 11, 2005  at  06:32 PM
Dominus vobiscum
Et cum spiritu two oh
Don't you eat my sleazy pancakes
Just for Saintly Alphonzo

That's the counter chant.
Posted by Ralph  on  Tue Jan 11, 2005  at  07:32 PM
A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the ground when she was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded.

Sorry, but I've been having enough trouble sleeping as it is. ;_;
Posted by Sam  on  Wed Jan 12, 2005  at  01:42 AM
<<<Sorry Alex, but just in case, I would like to say:

TOMA SOTA BALCU

Thank you. I think I will sleep better now.>>>

Ditto
Posted by thephrog  on  Wed Jan 12, 2005  at  02:33 AM
Will I see her tits?
Posted by hc  on  Wed Jan 12, 2005  at  07:57 AM
Good news all around: last night I did not die. I did wake up at 6:30 though. Trust me, I checked the ceiling. Clean.
Posted by Tim  on  Wed Jan 12, 2005  at  09:36 AM
A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the ground when she was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded.
Posted by Someone  on  Wed Jan 12, 2005  at  07:22 PM
A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the ground when she was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded.
O.K., I ot freaked out, sorry.
Posted by Elecktra  on  Wed Jan 12, 2005  at  08:10 PM
It's hoax. No flashing boobs. Not even a girl. Am I really that ugly?
Posted by hc  on  Thu Jan 13, 2005  at  04:50 AM
Chaos. Disorder. Chain blog postings. My work here is done.
Posted by Barghest  on  Thu Jan 13, 2005  at  09:15 PM
"A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the ground when she was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded."

I feel really stupid doing this. Really stupid.
Posted by Paul  on  Fri Jan 14, 2005  at  05:43 AM
"A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the ground when she was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded."

Better safe than sorry.
Posted by Bub  on  Fri Jan 14, 2005  at  10:01 PM
yeah, I found a pretty awkward Anagram...
"TO A CAUSAL TOMB"
Is that creepy or lame... I haven't decided yet...
I think anything with the word tomb is creepy anywhoo...
ARG, Why'd I even read it in the first place?
Posted by Jenny  on  Mon Jan 17, 2005  at  03:27 AM
Some idiot has spread it on MSN Messenger/Hotmail now :|

Scared the shit outta me :( I didn't send it and I'm still breathing, I feel cool saying that 😊.
Posted by Nerd  on  Wed Jan 19, 2005  at  02:20 PM
I ran it through some translators and "Toma" means "Taking" in spanish, and "Takes" in Portugese, and "Volume" In italian. Maybe the Murderer thought that she had her volume up too loud on her Grammaphone.
Posted by jef  on  Thu Jan 20, 2005  at  01:13 PM
Probably the name changings at Ellis Island legend came from strange transliterations from non-latin languages. I visited Ellis Island this year and found my Great-Great Grandma Sivia listed as Ciwia. I had to think awhile before I figured out where the "w" came from. My family came from Poland and spoke yiddish. Yiddish is written using hebrew letters, so her name would have been spelled samech, vav, yud, aleph. In hebrew, or in this case yiddish, there are 2 letters that make a v sound. vet makes a typical v sound, and vav makes an accented v sound which doesn't appear at all in the english lanugage, in fact, most english speakers (including me) can't even distinguish between the two. When it was transliterated to english, the people at ellis island probably just wrote a W in place of the vav because there wasn't any english letter that could make that sound. Transliterations like this one from foreign languages probably were the result in a ton of name-changes.
Posted by Razela  on  Sat Jan 22, 2005  at  11:36 PM
OH WAH TA GOO SIAM!

Keep saying this over and over, faster and faster. Good things will happen. 😛
Posted by Glamcat  on  Wed Jan 26, 2005  at  03:20 PM
scared now
Posted by joe  on  Thu Jan 27, 2005  at  08:06 PM
did your cat actually red it too ?
Posted by Akashka  on  Mon Jan 31, 2005  at  02:34 AM
'A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer'

Died, did she?
By a homicidal murderer?
Y'know, it'd be the grammatical mistakes that'd bug me about this, not some girl on the ceiling.
Posted by Boo  on  Mon Jan 31, 2005  at  06:11 AM
A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the ground when she was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded.
phew, I'm safe too now.
Posted by kljas;ldjf  on  Wed Feb 02, 2005  at  05:28 PM
I'm starting to get chills down my spine as I type this. That's a sure sign a ghost is around me. If I don't post another message on this board you will know I have suffocated at the hands of the Toma sota balcu girl...
Posted by THE BIG d  on  Mon Feb 07, 2005  at  08:55 AM
If you have access to a time traveling DeLorian you can go back to 1933 and reverse the curse witht the help of Marty McFly.
Posted by Hakuna Matata  on  Mon Feb 07, 2005  at  09:03 AM
Save the clock tower
Posted by Hairy Houdini  on  Mon Feb 07, 2005  at  04:25 PM
""Uma garota foi morta em 1933 por um assassino homicida. Ele a enterrou quando ela ainda estava viva. O assassino entoava o c
Posted by dawew  on  Fri Feb 11, 2005  at  07:30 PM
I'm bored.

Toma Sota Balcu!
Posted by Toma Sota Balcu  on  Sun Feb 20, 2005  at  05:13 PM
It's past midnight and I'm still cool.
Posted by Gigi on Mon Jan 10, 2005 at 11:28 PM


look, it says 11:28pm... still another 32 minutes lol
Posted by Reid  on  Wed Feb 23, 2005  at  06:35 PM
A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the ground when she was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded.

fuckin people preyin' on m'OCD
Posted by Kei Kusanagi  on  Thu Feb 24, 2005  at  07:23 AM
Well, I found this anagram: A CASUAL MOB TOT

Which makes me think that I'm going to be killed by a well-dressed baby who 'runs a restaurant, and that's all'. Which is only slightly more disturbing than the original version.

But I guess I'm safe; I posted this on my livejournal. Mleh! Mleh, I say!
Posted by KungFuMoose  on  Fri Feb 25, 2005  at  05:28 PM
the word "Toma" means "it takes" in Spanish, if that means anything at all. The other words dont show up in any other language, commonly anyways. Sota is a Japanese name, but thats it. I couldnt find Balcu anywhere. Perhaps this will help in your search a bit.
Posted by Muse  on  Sat Feb 26, 2005  at  07:39 PM
there are a series of anagrams, all of which could be the name of the originator and their location:

tom sabo at UCLA
Tom Baso at UCLA
etc.

think it over, or she will kill you.
Posted by deathbot  on  Tue Mar 15, 2005  at  02:57 PM
lucas boat moat thats the best anagram i found
Posted by will  on  Tue Mar 15, 2005  at  05:18 PM
"Toma sota balcu"

It doesn't seem any OH MY GOD: Dios Mio

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH :ahhh:
Posted by Sam  on  Thu Mar 17, 2005  at  08:14 AM
Why does this sound like something that would be pulled out of The Ring vs The Grudge?
Posted by Nuke  on  Thu Mar 17, 2005  at  06:30 PM
awww snap! now i'm really freaked out, dammit! in a way i wanna be the brave one and be all 'haha that is so stupid' and in another way i also don't wanna die. but now i'm thinking...what happens to those who DO repost the message, ehh? uh huuuh..
Posted by lily  on  Fri Mar 18, 2005  at  05:38 PM
HA got my google search tho when i saw it on a Ring message board :lol:
Posted by lily  on  Fri Mar 18, 2005  at  05:40 PM
Just, great. I really wonder if this is real.
Posted by Victoria Timar  on  Sat Mar 19, 2005  at  01:23 PM
Well, considering I've seen it on the top of every page and you lot have posted it again at least half a dozen times, am I going to get a cricket team of evil demon girls turning up tonight?

Do they crawl across the ceiling or what? If they crawl, I don't think they'll fit on my ceiling. They may have to take turns at killing me. Will they form a line or will they wander out and get a drink from the fridge while another one is killing me? If so, could I get them to drink the flat lemonade at the back of the fridge and leave my juice alone?

Enquiring minds want to know!
Posted by Ben  on  Mon Mar 21, 2005  at  03:11 AM
Ben, I think they work by an appointment system if ceiling space is limited.
Posted by Boo  on  Mon Mar 21, 2005  at  03:47 AM
A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the ground when she was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded."
Posted by matina  on  Fri Mar 25, 2005  at  10:36 PM
A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the ground when she was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded
Posted by Scorpio  on  Sat Mar 26, 2005  at  01:38 AM
A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the ground when she was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded."

Kiss-my-ass
Posted by Right...  on  Sun Mar 27, 2005  at  01:24 PM
"A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the ground when she was still alive. The murdered chanted, "Toma sota balcu" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded."
Posted by george  on  Sun Mar 27, 2005  at  07:06 PM
So, is there supposed to be a time limit as to when this girl gets here, or did she get stuck in traffic, or what?

I've been waiting WEEKS to get a picture of her to post here...

😜
Posted by Rod  on  Sun Mar 27, 2005  at  11:25 PM
wow...some people have way too much time on their hands......
Posted by yeah right  on  Wed Mar 30, 2005  at  07:08 PM
while yes this thing would seem that it would be from the ring or the grudge i actually remember getting this thing before either of those movies came out, maybe someone who saw ringu created it? all i know is that this was before those movies and that it is a piece of junk, i never saw her
Posted by Chris  on  Sat Apr 02, 2005  at  02:19 AM
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