“The year is nineteen-ninety-nine.

That sentence brings me back to my senior kindergarten class when I was five years
old, where we used to read out the date on the blackboard every single day. The
year 1999 exists as a stain in my mind, however, as a memory that will not go away
no matter how I try to forget it. 1999 marked the year I lost my first tooth, my
first time on a plane, and unfortunately the early loss of my childhood innocence.

That one memory that refuses to be wiped, it all started with that new (or old) TV.
At that time Pokémon was the latest fad to hit the school. Pokémon cards, games,
stickers, and the most popular, the TV show. So, of course, every time I came home
from school, I would stay glued to the TV until Pokémon came on at five. The only
problem was that my dad watched the news at 5:30, and Pokémon episodes were back-
to-back, which meant I had to miss an episode every day, something I whined on and
on about. My dad got tired of hearing me complain every day, that must be why he
went and bought another TV.

My dad put the TV he bought in my room. Unfortunately, it was just an old, small
boob tube, with rabbit ears even. It also only had 20 channels available; not
including the channel Pokémon was on. I recall I didn’t care, though. I was just
thrilled I had my own TV in my room. After surfing through the channels, I came to
the conclusion that only channel 2 (TVO kids) was worth watching so I watched that
for a while. It wasn’t for another few months until I discovered channel 21. One
day in April, I was flipping through the channels, trying to see if Pokémon was on.
I pressed channel 21 into the remote, hoping there were more channels, and to my
delight there was. My dad was surprised too, but he let me watch it because it
seemed to have kids programs on. The channel was called Caledon Local 21 and later
I found out it was indeed broadcasted from the town of Caledon, Ontario, a town
very close to my city.

The shows I saw on Caledon Local 21 looked poorly made, and I never understood what
was going on in them half the time. However as I grew up, every time I thought of
that channel, I realized more and more how messed up the shows were and I had to
ask myself, “What the fuck was I watching?”

The following is a list of shows and episodes I remember seeing on Caledon Local
21, how I remember such detail even disturbs me, but I guess things like this stand
out in your mind for a while. The channel only ran a few shows, probably because it
was only operational between 4:00 pm and 9:00 pm.

April 1999

Mr. Bear’s Cellar – Episode 12: Very sketchy name if you were to look at it
nowadays. The show featured a guy wearing a bear mascot costume who would get a new
visitor into his cellar every day. (It was always a kid) The show was filmed with a
camcorder, and not a very good one either. The police asked me a lot of questions
about this show. This episode started with Mr. Bear sitting at a table playing
checkers by himself. He sat there playing for a bit until there was a knock on the
door. The camera was then looking up the stairs at the door, where there was
another knock. Mr. Bear climbed the stairs and opened the door to reveal two young
children. One was a boy about my age, and the other was a girl who looked about
eight.

Mr. Bear danced in delight, and then started talking to the kids; I couldn’t hear
any of them that well, I remember. Mr. Bear then led the kids into the cellar,
which was quite dark, only lit by a small oil lamp on the table. I can’t really
remember that much more, except him singing a song which I couldn’t hear too well
either (Probably because of that large bear mask). The episode ended with them
playing hide-and-seek, with the kids hiding in a closet and Mr. Bear counting.
May 1999

Soup and Spoon: I don’t think this was even a show, I think it was more of a
special movie thing. All I know is I stopped watching Caledon Local 21 for a while
because I thought this show was too stupid, especially since Pokémon now came on at
4:30 and 5:00. I don’t remember much of this, but it showed a can of soup and a
spoon both attached to strings, swinging back and forth, as if someone was holding
them and dangling them in front of the camera. Interestingly enough, the show was
shot in a basement, which looked just like the one used in Mr. Bear’s Cellar. Like
I said, I can’t remember much, the only thing I can remember clearly was the end.

The entire thing was only half an hour, and just included stuff I found stupid,
such as the spoon chasing the soup around trying to “Eat him”. The ending showed a
table and about seven kids sitting around it, each with a bowl of soup in front of
them. They were sitting and looking at the camera, but with confused, almost
frightened faces. The cameraman then held the can of soup in front of the kids and
said, “Spooooons ready?” And then it just stopped.

July 1999

It was summer, and I hadn’t watched channel 21 for a while, until one day when I
slept over at my friend’s house, and I decided to check it out again. My friend had
gotten a TV in his room for his sixth birthday, so we stayed up very late (for us,
9:30 was very late) and watched TV. That’s when I remembered channel 21 and brought
it up to my friend. We decided to see if it was on, and to our surprise it was
(they must have changed the broadcasting time).

Mr. Bear’s Cellar – Episode 23: This episode was entertaining for my friend and me,
mainly because it had swearing. However, now when I think of this episode, I
realize something was definitely wrong when it was filmed. The episode started with
the camera on its side, while it was facing Mr. Bear, who was walking upstairs to
the cellar door. The camera then blacked out for about a second, before fading in,
back upright, and facing Mr. Bear. There was also another kid talking to him, but
this kid looked about eleven or twelve.

He was talking to Mr. Bear for a while, but I couldn’t hear well (Again with the
crappy camcorder) until the kid started raising his voice. The kid was saying how
it was late and his sister had to go home, you could also hear more voices in the
background. I remember Mr. Bear clearly saying “Get the fuck out, you’re not
invited.” with a deep voice muffled by the bear mask. I remember my friend and I
looking at each other and laughing at the mention of the forbidden F word, but the
episode got weirder. The kid began climbing the stairs before turning around and
saying how he was going to call the police. Mr. Bear began breaking into a run
towards the kid, who started screaming and running as well. The camera then cut
out, and that was the end of the episode. The channel then turned to static shortly
after.

August 1999

I didn’t want to watch channel 21 after that. In August I grew more curious to see
Mr. Bear’s cellar for some reason though. The last episode I saw of Mr. Bear was
weird and had swearing, which also made me think the show was meant for teenagers.
Nonetheless, I flipped onto channel 21 when my dad was busy.

Mr. Bear’s Cellar – Episode 28: Apparently this episode had been playing the entire
month of August. It was studied a lot by the police. The entire episode was just
Mr. Bear sitting in a chair talking to the audience. “Hello, kids! Do you want to
visit my cellar? If you do, please write me a letter at this address!” The screen
then switched to a white screen with multi-colored letters reading the address, and
that was what remained for the rest of the episode. This repeated for five hours
every day until September came.

And guess what I actually did? I sent “Mr. Bear,” or that sick bastard who
portrayed him a letter. I did it out of curiosity mostly; my dad was OK with it
because he thought it was a legit kid show, but then again he never saw any of what
was on channel 21. So I wrote a letter using my best writing possible, I think I
just said how I wanted to meet Mr. Bear. So my dad sent the letter to the address
Mr. Bear said on the show (it stayed on all day anyway for some reason).

It took about a week to get a response, which I was surprised I did. I still have
the letter I received on August 15, 1999. The letter read:

Dear Elliot,

Thank you ever so much for your letter, I would love to have you in my cellar! We
play games, watch movies, and go fire camping in the middle of the woods!

Come to my house at (the police cut out this address), Caledon, Ontario, Canada.

I look very forward to having fun with you!

Love, Mr. Bear

I cannot believe my dad never found this sketchy, because he actually took me to
the house. And then that’s when the police became involved, those endless
questions, those pictures of terrified kids, the woods…

That brings me to why I’m writing this blog. That psycho and his friends did some
fucked up shit back then, and now it seems he’s trying to get into contact with me
again,. The entire police thing is coming back. That has brought 1999 back to me.
Over a decade later, it is happening again.

[Update] – November 14, 2009

People have been emailing me asking what exactly happened in 1999, I will get to
that. Those weird TV shows I was watching apparently were meant to attract kids to
Mr. Bear’s house, what Mr. Bear did shocked the entire town.

My dad actually drove me to Caledon along with the address Mr. Bear left on the
letter. The house was actually in the outskirts of the town, in the open farmland.
I still remember that house. It looked like an older farmhouse that looked to have
been built in the early 1900s. The windows were all boarded up, and the house
looked in a state of disrepair. As we walked up to the house, I remember my dad
checking the address over and over again and looking at the house in disbelief.
Then the door opened.

I expected Mr. Bear to be at the door, but I was surprised to see a police officer
emerge from the creaking doorway. The officer began talking to my dad, while I
quickly asked if that was Mr. Bear’s house. The officer’s face cringed slightly,
and he muttered, “Oh God,” or something like that. He started talking quietly to my
dad so I couldn’t hear, although my dad told me to go to the car anyway. And then
we just went home. My dad was quiet the whole way home. I felt something strange
had happened.

My dad never told me what happened for a while, I forgot about it anyway too.
Channel 21 no longer came on, and when I asked about it my dad would not
acknowledge its existence. I think it was when I was 13 where I learned the truth.
I remembered channel 21 one day and asked my dad about it. I guess he finally
decided I should hear the truth.

Caledon Local 21 was a local TV channel that ran from October 1997-August 1999 in
the Peel Region of Ontario. The entire channel was made from a house in Caledon
(The one I visited) and run by a man who was not really known by anyone in the
town. The channel was only available to older TVs because the signal was one only
picked up by rabbit ears (Weaker frequency). The man created all the shows on the
channel, all of which were kid shows. He was Mr. Bear, and he was the mysterious
cameraman. The real reason he created the channel was more disturbing than what was
originally thought. As you might have already guessed, he kidnapped kids and held
them in his cellar. But while most people thought he was a serial child molester,
he really wanted to use the kids for another purpose. The day I arrived, the man
had fled his house the night before, the day before the police went in for their
investigation. I wasn’t the only one who was watching.

[Update] – December 2, 2009

Sorry for not answering any questions for so long, I haven’t accessed my email
account for some time. Anyway, let me finally set things straight about what I
know. Back in October, I visited the house previously owned by the man who ran
Caledon Local 21. Two women lived there, operating a daycare business… how ironic.
Now to answer the questions you guys emailed to me:

Q: Who else watched Caledon Local 21?

A: I know other people watched it for sure, including those kids who wound up at
Mr. Bear’s house. After some Google searches, I found a few people on the Neoseeker
forums who were discussing shows from Caledon Local 21. They talked about the two
shows I watched, but also another two shows I had never seen before. A user named
iamreallife seemed to know all the shows that were broadcasted on channel 21; here
are the two I’ve never heard of:

The Fallen Angel and Life – iamreallife described it as a fairly boring show about
a guy rambling on and on in front of the camera about how we must please Satan and
appease him before it is too late.

Paint with the Soul – iamreallife and another user called sigy92 were discussing
this show. They described it as “Blair Witch like” as it consisted of the cameraman
wandering around a forest at night, doing nothing particularly interesting.

I’ll go looking for the conversation and see if I can get the link.

Q: Where is Mr. Bear, or the guy who wore the costume?

A: If I did know, I would have said earlier. I have no idea where this guy is, or
if he’s dead or alive (hopefully dead). When I see my dad’s friend next time I will
ask him about this, maybe I can get a more definite answer.

Q: What did Mr. Bear do to the children?

A: This is by far the most common question I’ve been asked. I found this out in
October as well, via my dad’s friend who is a retired Caledon regional officer.
Apparently, the man playing Mr. Bear took the kids out of the house and into the
forest nearby. What he did there, police are not exactly sure how it happened, but
16 charred bodies of children between the ages of 4-13 were found in a 15-by-15-
foot ditch deep within the forest. My dad’s friend did not want to go into exact
details, but I’m seeing him next Thursday anyway, so maybe I can extort more
information from him then.
That’s all I have for now. Thanks for keeping an interest in my blog. I will try to
gather as much information as I can for my next post. I’ve actually been getting
pretty interested in this myself. It should be my right to know what the hell
happened.

[Update] – January 14, 2010

I’m sorry I haven’t posted anything for a while, I kind of lost interest in this
blog since I hit a standstill while looking for more information about the identity
of the owner of Caledon Local 21.

However, a few weeks ago, I struck gold. I found some answers surprisingly from the
father of a kid I used to babysit. He lives just across from my street, and I used
to look after his kids when they were younger, he currently doesn’t have a job
either. He used to live near the woods outside of Caledon, and witnessed the
owner’s activities in the woods. His name is Anthony Pollo.

When he lived in the small bungalow outside the woods, he would often venture in to
smoke a joint of marijuana or two before returning to his work as a wood craftsman.
Pollo described that sometimes he would hear voices of children coming from deeper
within the woods, as well as a glowing light off in the distance. Pollo told me
these events started in late 1997 (Note: This is around the time Caledon Local 21
began airing). He apparently became annoyed by this happening every once in a while
and actually went to investigate.

Pollo then described what the whole scene looked like when he got there. There was
a group of kids (He said about 13-17) and ages 5–12 gathered around a large fire
pit with a burning fire. With them was a single adult. Pollo talked to the man
(Noting his unusual unkempt appearance of a crack addict, as well as his constant
twitching) and asked what he was doing out in the forest with children. The man
said they were on a camping trip, something they did frequently. Pollo, not
suspecting anything (Caledon has one of the lowest crime rates in Canada) simply
left it at that and told them to be quieter. Pollo then paused for a while before
telling me that they never became quieter, in fact sometimes he heard loud chanting
from the children in an unknown language. He didn’t bother meeting with the man
again, as he was moving anyway.

I told Pollo that the man was probably the owner of Caledon Local 21, but he
doubted it, as he heard that the man was moving to Pickering by several other
residents near that area.

Here is what I know now:

The Man would take kids into the woods regularly for “camping”
The fire pit Pollo described may be the hole the bodies of the children were found
in
The children Pollo saw are probably the ones found dead
The man moved to a city called Pickering (a smaller city east of Toronto)
I will discuss this with my dad’s friend (the ex-cop) and see if this matches
anything the police knew about the man. I also want to see if he has any other
knowledge of what was aired on Caledon Local 21.

[Update] – February 10, 2010

Good news guys, I talked to my dad’s friend and he disclosed a lot of information
for me. First I asked if the police had any information on the man who ran Caledon
Local 21, he replied that they have only had the same leads for years and never
found a suspect. However, the Peel regional police do have some of the tapes found
in the house Caledon Local 21 was broadcasted from, he took me over so I could
watch a few. I guess I haven’t said much about him yet, my dad’s friend’s name is
Mitchell Wilson, a pretty nice guy, he seems to understand my thirst for knowledge
on what happened during the late 90s in that house. He feels it was wrong that my
dad went so long without telling me much.

He took me to the Davis road police station (if you don’t know, it’s the largest
station in Caledon, and one of the largest within the Peel region itself). Each of
the main stations around Peel have some of the tapes. I was able to watch all of
the footage that the Davis road station has. Unfortunately, I wasn’t allowed to
take any tapes home for obvious reasons.

Paint with the Soul – Episode 10, “Garbage Thrown Away”: Paint with the Soul was
one of the shows that iamrealife and sigy92 discussed on neoseeker. I told the
police about this and they informed me that 12 episodes of the show were made and
broadcasted between December 5, 1997′ and ‘January 8, 1998.’

Exactly as iamrealife and sigy92 described, the episode opened with the cameraman
wandering around in a forest. It appeared to be during the evening as it seemed the
sun was setting. The cameraman walked along a path until he got to an area where
there was a lot of garbage lying in the leaves.

The camera looked around at the various wrappers, bottles, bags, and boxes, making
sure each item got a few seconds of screen time. The camera then focused on a
single area before the man spoke. I recall he spoke in a very timid quiet voice,
and I swear I’ve heard it somewhere else before, like on another Caledon Local 21
show. I could barely hear what he was saying, but he mainly talked about how humans
are garbage, or something that had to do with saving ourselves by cleaning up the
garbage (us). It actually sounded really stupid, but still a feeling of dread came
over me, I mean that forest was possibly where those bodies were found, right?

Mr. Bear’s Cellar – Episode 25: When the police administrator brought this tape in,
I actually said “Ohhh, shit,” and chuckled a bit out loud. Of course, I got stares
from the staff, but Wilson explained to them about my little experience with Mr.
Bear and how I still kept the letter he sent me. Like the previous episodes, this
one included a guy wearing a bear mascot costume.

The episode began with Mr. Bear waddling over to his cellar door with a bottle of
orange juice in his paws. On the ground were sixteen shot glasses as well as a
small bottle that contained an unknown liquid. Mr. Bear poured an equal amount of
orange juice into each glass before opening the smaller bottle and depositing one
drop into the glasses. Mr. Bear then went off-camera, there were some minor sounds
such as shuffling, and then Mr. Bear emerged from behind the camera’s location.

Following him were 16 children. Some looked as young as four, while others looked
like they were practically teenagers. As the children entered, the administrator
commented that this is the only episode that showed all 16 victims.

The kids all looked rather content except for this one who had visible bruises on
his face, and unlike the other kids, he had a more fearful expression. He also
looked about 11-12, which caused me to recognize him. He was the kid who had asked
about his sister and subsequently met an unknown fate at the end of episode 23,
that one episode I watched during July 1999.

When I told the administrator this, he confirmed it was the same kid. He was also
featured in episode 24, an episode that only aired once at 3:00 in July 1999 (the
police have still not found the tape). Mr. Bear then broke into song, singing about
citrus fruits and how good vitamin C was for you (I could barely hear the lyrics as
they were muffled by the bear mask). The kids all drink their juice (the one from
episode 23 doing it rather reluctantly), and the episode ended.

After viewing the tapes in possession of the Davis Road police station, I’m
satisfied but only temporarily. I still want to know the full story. The police
just keep giving me the same crap about the creator of Caledon Local 21 being a
fetishist pedophile as well as an apparent cultist. I will sign off for now, get
into university first, and get information later. Hopefully, I will get back to
this blog as soon as possible.

[Update] – May 8, 2010

Last month, I finally got my G2 license (in Ontario, Canada, this allows you to
drive in a car by yourself as well as with some passengers after 6 months). I, of
course, took advantage of this and drove into Caledon for a little “Sunday drive.”
Since I haven’t updated this blog in a while, I figured I might as well visit the
house where the infamous channel of my childhood was located. The house looked
different than when I last saw it in October. The place was no longer used as a
daycare, and just sat there abandoned. However, it did have a “For Sale” sign
showing that someone still owned it, wanting to get rid of it, though.

The abandoned house drew fuzzy memories from my mind, mainly of that day my dad
took me to visit Mr. Bear. A feeling of dread came upon me. What happened to the
children while they were living in that house? I walked up the steps to the front
door and peered through the window. Inside I could see a nearly empty hallway with
a few boxes at the end.

At the end of the hallway to the right was an open doorway presumably leading to
the kitchen. To the left were two doors, both apparently leading to the rooms
visible through the windows outside. I wondered where the cellar entrance was
located and whether it had been sealed up. I walked around to the back of the house
and found my answer. Two wooden doors lying at an almost flat angle were padlocked
shut; this had to lead to the cellar. Not wanting to hang around (you cannot
imagine what was going through my mind at that time), I departed.

Behind the house, the empty field continued on until it reached a dense forest that
lined the horizon. I wondered if that was the forest where the bodies of the
children were found. I thought to myself “Fuck it” and proceeded to walk across the
field behind the house into the forest. The forest was oddly quiet, save for the
few periodic sounds of a woodpecker drilling into a distant tree. I cautiously made
my way deeper into the woods, not really caring about the fact that I had no idea
where I was going. I don’t know how to explain it, but it felt like there was
something I had to find. I came to a thinner part of the woods and few small houses
in the distance. Pollo’s house crossed my mind and I wondered if one of these homes
had belonged to him. I neared a small clearing in which I could see 3 adequately
sized logs gathered around a black, charred area (showing a small fire had been lit
there recently).

“HEY! GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR FORT!” Those words nearly gave me a heart attack. I
turned to my left and saw two dark-clothed people running towards me. My initial
thought was to run, however as they came closer I saw they were really just kids in
their early teens, possibly 13 or 14, maybe even 12. As they approached me, they
realized my size as well. I’m 6’ 1”, while they could have been no bigger than 5’
8” (one might have been 5’ 7”).

“We said… get the fuck out,” the larger one who was wearing a Slipknot shirt said
half-heartedly. I stood my ground and shrugged. The shorter one who was wearing a
Metallica shirt swung out a butterfly knife and held it in my direction.

“No, you wouldn’t want to,” I said in a deep, serious tone (trying to sound as
badass as possible). I pulled out my cell phone.

The two kids withdrew, the one in the Metallica shirt putting away the knife.
“Look, dude, we don’t like people in our fort, so can you just go?” the one in the
Slipknot shirt said, obviously intimidated. I had no business in the forest anyway,
so I uttered out a simple “fine” and turned before I realized I had a great
opportunity.

“Did either of you hear of a guy who murdered a bunch of kids in these woods about…
13 years ago?” I asked the kids. The two looked at each other in confusion, before
the one wearing the Metallica shirt answered.

“Yeah… everyone knows about that guy,” he said to me as if I were stupid. The kid
in the Slipknot shirt continued, “He still lives around here, in the storm drain…
my big brother’s friend says he saw him in a bear costume once, wandering around
the forest at night.”

My instincts told me this was probably a lie, and the owner of Caledon Local 21 is
probably long gone, only existing as folklore in this smaller isolated community.
However, as a human, the thought of the mysterious unknown sparks interest within.
“And where is the storm drain?” I asked (Just out of curiosity, I don’t actually
believe the kid’s story). The Kid in the Metallica shirt stared at me for a few
moments, his eyes seemingly full of annoyance, yet curiosity for me. “You’re not
from around here, are you? Why did you even come here?” Now, I do admit I was
slightly startled by the nature of his question. However, I figured I might as well
explain why I was there, just in case people mistook my intentions. I told the two
kids about my experience with the man and Caledon local 21, and that I had to come
to maybe seek out some sort of closure (although though even I wasn’t exactly
sure).

The kids seemed familiar with the channel as they smiled and looked at each other
when I mentioned it. They also became more understanding and gave me a detailed
description on how to get to the storm drain. Shortly after, I decided to just turn
around the way I came and head back to the house, leaving the kids at their fort.
But now you’re probably wondering why I left out such detail about what the kids
told me just now, it is it because I’m choosing to conclude what I have gathered
now.

Here is what the kids told me in detail:

The storm drain lies ahead of the kids’ fort, the same direction I was heading.
The drain ends at a small river, where access water is drained out. Near here is a
small playground (the kids told me people rarely use it).
The man supposedly lives in the large pipe that rainwater drains out of. People
have seen him, although always either wearing a bear mask or the mask and a full
body bear costume. Note: I do not believe this is true, and in fact simply a myth
made by the residents of Caledon. The story does not seem plausible in any way, why
did no one call the police? Didn’t this guy look suspicious? And other questions
like these leave the story invalid.
I may visit the storm drain. Not because I believe the story, but because I want an
excuse to visit Caledon again, so this blog doesn’t die (With no more tapes to
watch, I don’t know what to talk about anymore!).
Thanks for continuing to support me and my blog. I know many are looking forward to
more information about what happened in Caledon during the year 1999, and I will do
my best to continue my research into the topic. Elliot out.

[Update] – October 7, 2010

Wow, nearly five months since I last updated. I’m guessing everyone pretty much
thinks I was dead right? Thankfully I’m not. But in all my seriousness, I really
have been busy these past few months, and a blog about something that could have
killed me as a kid is a little low on my current priorities list. As of now, I am
living in Waterloo, Ontario, attending the University of Waterloo for computer
engineering (yeah, I’m a keener). As you can imagine, engineering is no walk in the
park, so obviously I nearly forgot about this blog. But as you can see now, I am
back.

I remembered to visit the storm drain the kids from the Caledon forest told me
about. It was out in a clearing between the wooded areas, nearby a marsh.
Unfortunately, I found absolutely nothing; save for a turtle that retreated into
its built-in home when it saw me. I snapped some pics of the pipe which I have
posted as well. Also, let me tell you it was NOT a storm drain like they said it
was.

What I saw was a simple pipe, possibly to channel the access water from the marsh.
When I returned from Caledon however, I simply kept putting off uploading
everything until I forgot all about my blog. It just didn’t seem important anymore
(Please forgive me). It wasn’t until only recently that I am now interested in my
case again. On September 10th, I received an email from this email address:
returntheb@hotmail.com

Funny, am I right? Well, it gets better. I’m going to copy and paste the exact
email this guy sent me:

Dear Elliot,

My dear, dear boy,

You see this story may or may not be true but it could happen. There are many slots
for air time, if you have money you can have a public access TV channel. Some
public accsess channels share air time like EWTN (Religouse channel based out of
Michigan) That shows Catholic based programming but during off air hours have
independant shows or just blue screen. Cable networks have emty channels available
for rent space. So the scenario of a pedo renting a channel on basic TV is not far
fetch at all. However public access TV is widley reveiwed and can be teminated at
anytime. (These are the rules for the United States not for Canada where this story
took place) So if this happened in the US the pedo would be tracked and arrested
emedatly. Yes this story could happen but it is unlikely.

100 fuzzy hugs,

Mr. Bear

Now obviously this letter is fake and sounds almost corrupted, but still, I would
like to thank whoever sent it — though they could use some English lessons. Just
reading this letter creeped me out, but because of it, I am now full of this new
interest to continue my blog. I guess it’s just funny trying to pursue the
mysteries I’ve always questioned. Now my roommate knows about all of this. He
thought the letter was real and actually seemed more scared than I was for a
second. But then I shrugged it off, so he did too. I mean, what are the chances of
this being real? How would “Mr. Bear” know all this about public access TV, and
about when I went to Caledon on those occasions? More or less know my email or me
still be interested in his cellar. Ha.

I’m going to send a reply to “returntheb.” Wow, just looking at the email address,
you can tell someone wanted to freak me out. It didn’t really work, though.
Although, to whomever you are, thank you for sparking my interest back into the
full matter. Maybe I can find out more about what happened to “Mr. Bear,”
hopefully, because although I don’t buy that email, a part of me still feels
anxious. Thank you to all those who are still following me and have become avid
fans, you are also why I am choosing to continue this!

Thanks, guys.

[Update] – November 7, 2010

Wow, I can’t believe this blog hasn’t been deleted yet, I haven’t posted anything
for so long. I have my reasons and I’d rather not discuss them just yet, it has
been a rather… traumatic year for me. Some of you were right, I shouldn’t have gone
back trying to relive the mysteries of my childhood, but I couldn’t resist. It has
been over a year since my last post and a lot has happened. Let’s recap where I’m
at right now with regards to the whole “Mr. Bear” incident.

returntheb@hotmail.com is no longer in use, I tried replying to the email but I got

no reply. I tried again a while back, still no response.
I’ve actually moved up to Ottawa (Capital of Canada for those who don’t know) for
university so I haven’t been back to Caledon or back home in the Peel region for a
while. I had my reasons for leaving as you could guess why.
I’ve had to make a new email account because people keep prank mailing me
pretending to be Mr. Bear. Thanks a lot, guys (not).
Why have I ventured back to this blog? Mitchell Wilson (Remember my dad’s ex-cop
friend?) gave me a phone call on October 23 about a tape that was found in a branch
of the Brampton public library. Brampton is my hometown in case you haven’t picked
up on that. He claims he isn’t allowed to discuss the contents of the tape with me
as it is still in evidence, but he asked me to come check it out when I return
home. That tape got the gears grinding again because we all know what was on the
last tapes I saw. I can only imagine what can be on it; I’m guessing it must have
something to do with Caledon Local 21.
I guess I just wanted to say I am continuing this blog and thank you for everyone
who still follows it. I don’t know when my next entry will be, but when I see that
tape I’ll write what I find. I don’t know what to expect, but the idea of seeing
another tape has gotten me interested in this whole mystery all over again.

– Elliot

[Update] – January 21, 2011

It has been a long year for me. University has been giving me the usual sleepless
nights especially since I transferred to Ottawa which is the place to party
(sarcasm). But now I’m back home with my dad in Brampton, the town I grew up in. I
got home on the 18th of December and have been visiting with friends and family, or
at least that’s what I would rather have done. Now that festive holiday cheer that
I usually have at this time of the month is absent.

To answer the hundreds of emails and comments I got – yes I did see the tapes that
my dad’s friend (Mitchell Wilson) promised to show me. These tapes, however, act as
a curse; I want to know more, yet I want to forget everything. I couldn’t help it;
I needed to see those tapes. Not only for myself, but for all of you guys who are
just as intrigued as I am by that ominous man in a bear suit from my past. However,
after viewing those tapes, I feel that pit of dread deep inside me once again, that
feeling where I know that all those kids in those videos are dead, that I could
have been one of those kids, and that humanity is a dark, dark place. If you
haven’t skipped this paragraph for the “juicier” details below, thank you for
listening to my rambling.

On January 1st, I called Mitchell Wilson and asked if there was a time where I
could come by and view the tapes. Things were pretty slow at the station because of
a snowstorm so he said I could come down anytime that day. The tapes were located
at a branch not too far from me. So I braved the slushy roads and terrible Brampton
drivers and made my way to the Peel regional police station located at the Bramalea
city center.

I met Wilson at the front desk where he then led me up to the second floor and into
a small office. He instructed me to have a seat and wait while he went and got the
tapes. Before leaving the office he turned to me and said, “I know you’re curious
but… are you sure you want to do this?”

Of course I did, or at least thought so. Besides, Wilson’s friend had pulled a lot
of strings to get me in there and I didn’t want to waste the opportunity. This
particular station had two tapes on hand. I was only able to watch a few minutes of
footage, however, because the second tape was apparently too damaged to be played
on a VCR.

Mr. Bear’s Cellar – Episode 30: Mr. Bear never ceases to disturb me, especially
after what almost happened when I was younger. This episode took place outside in a
forest at dusk, making it slightly hard to see especially considering the quality
of the film (A trademark of anything from Caledon Local 21). The episode started
with the camera being held in the “paws” of Mr. Bear aiming it at himself.

That bear mask… it looked more sinister in the shadows of the trees. The
unmistakable muffled voice spoke up; “Hello children! Today I will be doing a
wonderful thing for my friends, I will be delivering them to a faraway land where
they will surely be happy!” Mr. Bear turned the camera around to show an ATV with
an attached trailer, but what stood out the most was that the trailer contained
seven motionless children lying side by side. “T-this here is the first load, but
more will be on their way soon!” Mr. Bear turned around and pointed the camera at a
large burlap tarp spread on the ground.

He picked the tarp up revealing a large hole that must have been at least 12 feet
deep and maybe about 15 feet wide. The rest of the episode consisted of Mr. Bear
taking each kid and dropping them into the hole. I asked Wilson if they were dead
to which he shook his head and replied, “Not yet.” Soon all the kids were in the
pit. Some were in awkward positions due to being tossed in, but they remained
unconscious. “The vitamin C will surely help these children on the great journey
that awaits them!” Mr. Bear mentioned as he panned the camera towards multiple
bottles of gasoline beside a bush. The camera zoomed into the bottles as Mr. Bear
hummed before the episode ended.

Wilson revealed to me that these were 7 of the 16 victims found burnt to a crisp.
The gasoline is what the man playing Mr. Bear used to light them on fire. A pit
full of burning children… who the fuck would do that? That feeling of dread found
me once again when I realized that I could have been one of those kids.

Wilson then explained to me that he had previously lied. The other tape confiscated
by the Bramalea police branch did indeed work and contained the filming of the
actual burning. However, he felt that I wouldn’t be able to handle the “disturbing
and graphic” nature of the episode. And you know what? Maybe I can’t. I don’t even
want to see it. I’m satisfied for now, but I just need some time to get myself
together. The thing is, the man who ran Caledon Local 21 is still out there.

More to come soon.

– Elliot

INRI
Once upon a time…
There lived a boy named Elliot.
Elliot was a clever boy who loved playing with his friends.
One day, he watched a lovely television show about a bear and his children friends.
The children loved helping each other as good children should, but they also loved
the bear.
The bear loved the children since the children were so good at helping him and the
fallen angel.
The children and the bear wanted to play together forever with the help of their
angel friend.
But the fallen angel needed even more help, so the children had to give the
ultimate sacrifice.
Because that’s what friends do, Elliot.
They help each other.
Help us, Elliot, burn with us, Elliot.
I want you, Elliot, he wants you, Elliot.
Come back to my cellar.
Pretty please with sugar and icing on top!

– Mr. B

INRI

[Update] – April 5, 2011

I wanted to update more, I truly did. However certain circumstances had turned me
off the whole Caledon Local 21 thing. I’ve since then had hundreds of emails about
my blog and was even in contact with a magazine about my story. But now is the time
to come clean to everyone, where have I been for an entire year? The story of
Pandora’s Box is true, and I opened it. I opened it when I watched the second tape
in the possession of the Bramalea police branch. The other subject I’d like to
address is the number of joke/fake emails I’ve been getting from people claiming to
be Mr. Bear. Let’s start with the second tape, as that is what traumatized me into
stopping my search temporarily.

After a few weeks of playing silent, I decided to ask Mitchell Wilson if I could
view that infamous second tape he had talked about. I don’t know why. I just felt
that viewing that tape would give me some closure. Wilson was obviously reluctant
to show me, but I was persistent. He gave me an offer. If I was still interested by
the time I turned 20 he would show me the tape. Not being able to do much else, I
just played the waiting game. By the time my 20th birthday rolled around, I was
definitely still interested in viewing the tape. I gave Wilson a call, during which
he admitted that he had hoped that I would forget about asking him again, but I was
not taking no for an answer. “You really don’t need to see it,” he kept telling me,
but I did need to see it. I had to at this point. Sure enough, he invited me to the
Bramalea branch one Monday afternoon. Having watched every Saw film, and a video of
animal slaughterhouses in my ethics class, I was sure I would be able to handle
whatever the tape could throw at me. How naive I was…

Mr. Bear’s Cellar – Episode 31: When Wilson went to collect the tape from evidence,
the officer in charge of the evidence room shook his head at me, his face saying
“What are you doing?” Wilson explained that this tape includes the last known
episode of Mr. Bear’s cellar. I rightfully assumed that I would be seeing the fate
of the children, and began to feel a sense of dread.

The episode opened inside a forest, the usual one from the previous episodes. This
fact took me a while to realize because it was night, the trees and leaves just
looked like shapes dancing around in the darkness. A faint glow of light was
present on the right side of the screen. There wasn’t any apparent audio, it
appeared to be a windy night yet the trees weren’t making any noise. Slowly, the
camera began to pan towards the glow, revealing smoke rising from a hole with the
tips of flames peaking over the top. Wilson paused at this point; “Are you sure you
want to see this?” he asked me. I insisted on it, even though a voice in my head
was telling me not to. The video continued, the cameraman moved towards the hole,
showing a pit of fire. This was the hole that I had seen in the previous episode.
Only this time it was filled with shapes. I could see shapes moving around,
fluttering, flailing…some motionless. I knew perfectly well what they were. The
camera began to adjust to the light and… burning flesh. Red, black, a blur of
surreal movement and colors. I wish I could forget what I saw, but you can’t
forget a scene like this. This was not a horror movie, this was reality. Human
beings were being killed in a horrifying way, a fate that I could have potentially
met.

The video suddenly cut to dawn, the camera now positioned farther away from the
hole. The fire was out. However, there was still smoke rising up. A figure was up
ahead. I recognized it right away; the Mr. Bear suit was laid out on the ground.
Empty, it looked just as unnerving. The suit was laid out in the shape of a cross.
The cameraman did a lap around the suit, treating it like a treasured artifact.
Placed at the head of the suit was a sign. In bold red letters, INRI was printed.
The cameraman moved back to the end of the suit, zooming in to the bear’s face. The
episode finally ended.

I was speechless. It was like a dream. You can find a lot of terrible things on the
internet, but I had never seen anything like this. Wilson asked if I was okay and I
replied with a shaky “yes.” I assured him as we left that I was fine and that the
video gave me some closure over the whole incident. He didn’t seem too confident in
me, but he left it at that. He was right, though – I had nightmares for weeks. I
gave up. I didn’t care about the whole thing anymore. A sick man burned a bunch of
kids alive, attracting them with a fake kid’s TV channel. I could have been one of
his victims, yet I’m still here. I suppose I should be grateful, but I feel guilty.
Am I still here only by pure luck? Ten months later I’m back, but now I need to
address something else.

My email has been flooded with messages. Some people ask for more details, some ask
if I can upload the tapes, and some people email me claiming to be Mr. Bear. First,
I cannot get the tapes uploaded as they’re A) in police possession as evidence and
B) I have no idea how to transfer VHS onto a computer. As for people pretending to
be Mr. Bear, you’re not fooling me. When you have dozens of people pretending to be
the same person, it doesn’t work. I’ve even seen a fake Caledon Local 21 YouTube
channel, which is cute but still not real. Even more annoying is the fact that
someone hacked my account just to put up some demented poem about me on this blog.
I’ll leave it in the entry above this one, just to show you guys. I have contacted
my webmaster about the entry and was told that it was posted on Halloween (oh,
spooky!), attached to the email paintwithb@aol.com, which I assume is another joke
email.

I’m over episode 31 now. The images of what I saw will stick with me for a while,
but I want to do one last hurrah. I will get into contact with Mitchell Wilson
again and hopefully get set up with the tapes in the possession of the other Peel
Police branches. I’ll try to update you guys as soon as I can (I’m sure this won’t
take so long again). Thank you to everyone who still reads this.

– Elliot