Uncanny Second Life

I vowed to bleg about this, so here we go: does anyone have pointers to stories about the uncanny and Second Life? 
This question has two parts, consonant with my haunted spaces project:

• Stories which see Second Life as uncanny - scary, Gothic, creepy, disturbing.  These can be journalistic, literary, or places in between.
• Accounts of people making uncanny content in SL, accidentally, deliberately, or for unclear reasons.  For example, see a Dark Shadows "Gothic mansion."

Examples of the former Gothic Second Life category could be news or other popular stories demonizing SL as a source of moral decay.

Examples of the latter: haunted houses on SL islands - not just the various Gothic items to buy, or samples of the non-uncanny but charming Gothic architectural style, but creative attempts to elicit Gothic horror, such as this uncanny valley contest.

Accidentally, unintentionally creepy events might constitute a third category, such as lag- or error-driven body part errors, textual body parts, or the gloom caused by underpopulated empty spaces.  This might be the first sign of uncanny Second Life so far.

I'll aggregate and credit everything sent to and used by me.  If it gets big enough, a wiki page will serve.

NB: this bleg is not intended as a negative criticism of creators within SL, or of Linden Lab itself.  It's part of my ongoing research into the cultural intersections of the Gothic and cyberspace. 

Comments

[Owen Kelly]

I am not sure if this directly meets your criteria or not but it is, I supsect, fairly closely connected.

Recently in SL there was the "copybot scare", when some people released a small program that lived on your computer if you wanted it, and intercepted the data to the SL client; interpreted it, and enable you to upload copies of what had been presented to your client. Effectively enabling the unscrupulous to steal textures and objects (but not scripts).

This produced a week of panic, but more relevantly it produced genuine examples of superstition. On a forum a shopkeeper said that she had arrived at her shop just in time to hear a copybot whispering. Others produced a "cure" that consisted of an inworld object that "shouted" at copybots.

Both of these occurences (and many similar which I have been collecting) reminded me of the middle ages. And made me wonder whether superstition is perhaps a necessary constituent part of a large community.

The copybots really were seen as ghosts in the machine, and attempts were made to exorcise them.

And in proper medieval fashion dissent was not tolerated...

[Alan]

I Miss My Face:
http://flickr.com/photos/nmc-campus/267840622/

A Quick Movement, and He Rezzed Out of His Hair and Shoes:
http://flickr.com/photos/nmc-campus/215389323/

[Ceredwyn Alexander]

I personally think the giant kitty building is pretty damned uncanny, but that's just me.

[Alan]

One more un-rezzed fella looking for some skin under a Xmas tree:
http://flickr.com/photos/nmc-campus/326782539/