Dear David is now haunting INSTAGRAM, and this is honestly too much
Someone please call the Ghostbusters, because it seems like this Dear David sagais never going to end.
In case you haven’t been keeping up with the NYC ghost that has captured Twitter’s attention, “Dear David” is a child ghost who has been haunting a Manhattan-based illustrator named Adam Ellis. While at first, Ellis’ tweets about a ghost in his apartment didn’t seem too out of the ordinary — because a ghost is a ghost, amirite? However, soon things started to get pretty dark as Ellis updated Twitter on Dear David’s cause of death, and later revealed that the ghost was not haunting Ellis’ apartment but rather Ellis himself. Yikes.
Just after New Year’s, Ellis dropped what may be one of his scariest updates yet. The illustrator took to Twitter to share that Dear David had left Manhattan to pay Ellis a visit all the way in Montana. That’s right, Dear David braved holiday travel to spook Ellis into the new year. Just kidding — Dear David doesn’t need to pay travel fees because he’s a ghost.
Anyway, Ellis also revealed that after their excursion West, he used a recording device to capture a photo of Dear David hovering him like Casper the potentially murderous ghost of your nightmares.
But after a brief hiatus like the one boyband One Direction was *supposed* to have, Dear David is back — and just like Fit Tea and those haircare gummies beloved by Bachelor contestants, he’s now haunting Instagram.
In his latest Twitter thread, Ellis revealed that after his haunting in Montana, Dear David was largely leaving him alone and he was feeling pretty excited about it. After sleeping soundly for a while and feeling all-around pretty top-notch — save a few concerning memory gaps — Ellis was finally ready to celebrate the end of the saga on Twitter. That is, until Dear David decided to desecrate the beloved sacrament of bottomless brunch.
So on Sunday I opened Twitter intending to update you all that it was over, or at least I thought so. I just want things to go back to the way they were, and it seemed like they had. I was writing something to that effect when I noticed I had way more notifications than usual.
— Adam ElIis 𓁹𓂏𓁹 (@adamtotscomix) January 17, 2018
I swiped to my mentions and saw that everyone was tweeting to me about something I'd posted to my Instagram Story the day before, saying they saw something weird. The stories are expired now but I have screenshots, and I don't know how to explain it.
— Adam ElIis 𓁹𓂏𓁹 (@adamtotscomix) January 17, 2018
Long story short, I went to brunch on Saturday with a friend. I posted a few photos to my story, and they were fairly unremarkable. Here's the first two I posted. Totally dumb and normal. pic.twitter.com/t7Y0DT28qu
— Adam ElIis 𓁹𓂏𓁹 (@adamtotscomix) January 17, 2018
You see, Ellis and his friend went to brunch and documented it on his Instagram story, as one does, and left it at that. But Ellis revealed that he suddenly found himself with a lot of notifications because it appeared there was something off with one of his photos.
They're totally boring brunch photos. I posted one more photo of me and my friend before leaving, and that was that. But the next day I had a zillion messages about the third photo I posted. People had taken screenshots and sent them to me.
— Adam ElIis 𓁹𓂏𓁹 (@adamtotscomix) January 17, 2018
Apparently Dear David was jealous they didn’t get an invite to brunch because the ghost decided to straight-up mess with Ellis’ face.
This is what somehow got uploaded to my Instagram story: pic.twitter.com/kr2vBBs4K4
— Adam ElIis 𓁹𓂏𓁹 (@adamtotscomix) January 17, 2018
Ellis went on to reveal that he had no idea how the glitch happened…before correcting himself to say that he knows exactly how the glitch occured — looking at you, Dear David — but added that he’s almost reached the point where he doesn’t even care because he just wants his life to go back to normal.
I have no clue what happened. It looked perfectly fine on my phone when I uploaded it. I'd say it was just a glitch but I can't make sense of what's happening with my face.
— Adam ElIis 𓁹𓂏𓁹 (@adamtotscomix) January 17, 2018
Maybe I can. I know what it looks like. What it probably is. But I don't know if I care anymore. I really just want things to be normal again and things feel normal enough right now. I don't know. I guess I'll keep you updated if something else happens.
— Adam ElIis 𓁹𓂏𓁹 (@adamtotscomix) January 17, 2018
Maybe Dear David just wants Tom Hardy or Chris Evans to read him a bedtime story. I’m no paranormal expert a la Peter Venkman or Abby Yates but it sounds like it could be worth a try. If I was a ghost, I feel like that would certainly be helpful to my plight and make me want to haunt people less. But that’s just one suggestion. Honestly though, Ellis would also benefit from being read a bedtime story by Chris or Tom. It seems infinitely more relaxing than going to bed dreading a child ghost infiltrating your dreams!
Regardless, we’re certainly wishing Ellis all the best as he attempts to live his best Dear David-less life.