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Well, were I you, I would hope that no-one involved in the site happens to be a Gaia member living near Wallsend. A single email address can, after all, be used to determine all sorts of things.

In any case, at best, this smarts of Failvestigation, and at worst, being completely made up from start to finish. The way that the boyfriend repeatedly says "Tell her" a couple times makes me a little suspicious, first of all, because it's the kind of thing partners say to each other when one of them is trying to cover the other's a** about a made-up story. Secondly, the order of events seems a bit messed up in terms of how it actually would have played out, which is odd - first it's a black screen, then it's a black screen with something in the middle, then she clicked "something" which led to another black screen (at this point I assume she meant "webpage with a black background") with text and an image (incidentally, "massacre" is pretty much used only for multiple individuals, not one), but then implies that somewhere there was an email entry field and other "scary s**t"? And she leaves off mentioning the fact that her computer turned off til last? Third, to be fair, sites that ******** around with your email address /do/ exist, including ones with kind-of-freaky content, such as the C.I.P., which I'd much rather not be indexed on Google about, so if this hasn't been made up, there's likely a very rational explanation for it - and that's not even calling into question how aware Panda and her boyfriend are of the background workings of websites - Panda may well have done something without realising it that sent her email address to the site's admin, for example.

In any case, here're some questions for you and Panda, if you can get her to answer them with anything that isn't a non-commital "What if they come after us? ;_;".

• When was the site accessed?
  
• What was the name or URL of the site? (I assume after having tried to get on it for several weeks, she'd remember at least one of these. And, if it was a recent find, she might even still have it in her browser history.)
  
• What day was the email sent on? (If she still has it - it might have mysteriously disappeared!)
  
• If the email is still around, can you forward it to us? (The email may have come from an anonymous sender, but email also has header data that can tell you quite a bit of information about it if you extract it.)
  

Lastly, I'd suggest you - Rem, I mean - don't leap into being ready to believe something based on feeling alone, since it could wind up with you deciding that something must be true and then gathering data to support your decision, rather than gathering data and then making a decision based on that.

My room mate says it could be an ARG, a sort of game where a sort of 'real' scenario plays out that the players have to figure out, its completely fictional but they like to make it seem as real as possible, to include sending the players emails, phone calls, and making youtube video messages.