Carmen Winstead is a piece of fiction. No girl was ever pushed down a sewer by five other girls at her school. The story is a huge tasteless hoax.
Carmen Winstead/Jessica Smith - were never pushed down a sewer.
They don't have open sewers/manholes on schoolgrounds. That would be extremely unsafe, for obvious reasons.
The meme started out in 2006 and the names "Carmen Winstead" and "Jessica Smith" were interchangeable.
Later, the meme was expanded on, and the Creepy Pasta Files site gave a description of Carmen's appearance, as well as the middle name Elizabeth.
This stupid hoax continues to circulate and mutate. A version from early 2010, added a lot more detail.
No accompanying picture makes the story true. At least one mutation of this chain letter contains a picture that is supposed to be scary, but actually comes from that awful "The Ring" movie.
An explanation of the picture:
"Let me begin by saying to you all that the Carmen Winstead case is false just like any other chain-leter. They capture pictures of the girl supposedly climbing up the well but the truth behind it is that the pictures of the supposedly 'ghostly' Carmen Winstead were actually pictures of the horror ghost-like character named Samara Morgan from the movie 'The Ring.'"
Those pictures of her in the sewer with her hair in her face claiming that it is her 'ghost' is false. Those pictures are stolen from 'The Ring 2' copying that girl in the well named Samara. Samara was never bullied, she was the girl who killed, and her mother later pushed her down the well and she drowned."
Yep, you read it here, folks, "Carmen Winstead" = that stinky little creep Samara Morgan, from that obnoxious "The ring" and the ring 2. I really don't go in for all this possession and soul-stealing stuff so common to horror stories, but even with having said that, I prefer the sequel to the first movie. Samara Morgan is finally put in her place, though the series of crazy situations leading up to it are campy and confusing, and making the end almost anti-climactic. The first movie and the Japanese film that inspired it, only encourage people to believe in and spread chain letters. There are other things I really dislike about it, but that is for another time. There are definitely things I don't like about the Japanese "Rings" stuff in all their versions.
Samara Morgan is based on Sadako from a "Ring" series of Japanese horror books/film/anime/whatever, and they are more than a little suckish. She is also the earless, noseless, weird-eyed, weird-haired dead kid in the Summer chains and variants thereof. "Summer" "Samara" see the similarity? And she stars as Carmen Winstead in this hoax.
I have it seriously in for that Samara chick, I utterly hate "The Ring" movie(s) however many there are, and that little brat won't make it past me.
Videos like this retelling are just that, play-acting with a good deal of camera tricks and editing thrown in. They are not real.
Oh, wow, that gives me an idea. What if Samara Morgan was actually one of the bullies? The ring-leader in faxt. And she forced Carmen Winstead to start a chain letter. That would make for an interesting plot twist.
Here's a discussion started on Mumsnet in May 2013.
The Carmen Winstead chain is among those featured on this hub page.
And here's another of the 100% of people who have received the Carmen Winstead and other chain letters in the past, and lived, and she also knows better than to believe in chain letters now.
Another Youtuber who knows this story is fake.
This question was submitted by someone who used to be afraid of Carmen Winstead, but isn't any more.
Years after this pile of Carmen Winstead sewer girl lies chain letter was first originated, it continues to frighten young people and circulate as this question on Dirk Bradshaw's page, this Youtube video, and so many of these pages from Yahoo Answers show.
I expect the links to keep coming because this hoax just keeps going around, and these examples will be put here:
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Dec. 22, 2011. Dec. 30, 2011. Feb. 8, 2012. Feb. 18, 2012.
March 5, 2013 - (by someone who claims they know chain letters are fake but goes on reposting them out of fear anyway. If you know it's fake, you have no excuse to go on spamming.)
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One of my answers was reposted as an entry on attorney Earl G Taylor's site.
Unbelievably, Carmen Winstead and Jessica Smith hit the big time once again according to the abs-cbnnews.com news article, Urban Legend Carmen Winstead Tops Ph Newsmakers List around Halloween 2011!
This stupid hoax has even been translated into different languages, French and Spanish versions have cropped up.
Whereas in 2010, somebody added in a backstory, in 2013, a Twitter version chopped off most of it, leaving the David Gregory section. What a laugh. David Gregory. This chain letter gave one of its fictional victims the same name as a whinging liberal.
However many languages it is translated into, in whole or in part, this doesn't make it any less of a fake, and people who may be tempted to buy into the hoax need to keep that in mind.
Here's a wonderful smash via Youtube.
Now, a mondo mangling of this meme in its various mutations.
The various mutations will have their content preceded with headings like "Chains2006" denoting which year that version of the hoax came from, or at least "Carmen" or "Jessica" showing the differences between both the Carmen and Jessica versions of the same 2006 hoax. "Chains:" for all of them when they have some wording in common, and all of their stories combined into one to cut down on repetition. First, the main Carmen/Jessica story in its variants, then the supposed examples of people getting killed by this stupid chain letter. The 2010 re-write still contains the David Gregory section, but added another story about an unnamed girl and claims about others getting killed by the chain. The 2006 Jessica Smith version uses the David Gregory story, but calls him Ron anderson instead.
Carmen Winstead debunks and apologizes for her own meme.