I found an urban legend on the internet about the Smith Sisters. The story goes as follows: A boy named John Smith loved to send scary emails to his friends and strangers. One day in November 2007, he opened up his Inbox and found a message that appeared to be from two young girls. They called themselves the “Smith Sisters†and they said they were his older sisters. This didn‘t make sense - he was an only child. He replied, saying he didn’t have any sisters. He told them to get lost and leave him alone. The next day, he received a chilling message with some attachments. The caption said Smith Sisters murdered anonymously. The email said that in 1993 his sisters had lived in his house. His bedroom had once been their bedroom. The email said the sisters were angry that their parents had never mentioned their daughters or their tragic murder to their new son John. The first attachment showed their photo. They were pretty girls with blond hair. The other attachment showed a scan of an old newspaper article. It read “In 1993, two sisters were brutally murdered in the small-town community of Plainfield, Wisconsin. Lisa Smith, 19 and her sister, Sarah Smith, 15 were attacked in their parent’s home on the night of November 17th, around 1:30AM. The Smith Sisters were lying in bed when a crazed killer broke into the house. No-one heard them scream. In the morning, their parents found the dead bodies of the Smith Sisters hidden in the bedroom closet. They had been skinned alive. The killer was long gone and no trace of him could be found. They had been murdered anonymously. Police conducted an extensive investigation, but to no avail. The motives for the attack were never discovered, nor was the attacker ever found. The only lead authorities had was a series of strange emails found in Lisa’s computer. The case was closed in October of 2000.†John Smith, replied to the email and said he didn’t believe the Smith Sisters were really related to him and he didn’t believe the newspaper article was real. Five minutes later, he got another email from them. It said “If you don’t believe us, look in the bedroom closet.†No one knows what John did next, but in the morning, John’s parents found their son was missing. When they checked his bedroom closet, they got the shock of their lives. There they found the dead body of their son. He had been skinned alive. On the floor of the closet, they found a faint message, carved in the wood. It simply read “Lisa and Sarah – 1993″. Underneath that, was another carving that read “John 2007″. Police were unable to trace who had sent the messages to John. This story inspired me to do this picture. Here are the Smith Sisters waiting for John in their closet. I used Poser Pro 2010 to create this picture. I used Photoshop CS5 to do some post work. It took about 6 hours to create this scene.