The Top 7... Creepiest gaming urban legends

We celebrate Halloween by creeping you out

Words: Hollander Cooper on November 2, 2012

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RebornKusabi - October 29, 2012 2:54 p.m.

I found the "Ben Drowned" creepypasta to be fairly creepy. It's been mentioned a couple of times so far so I figured I would throw my weight behind that one and link to it- http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/majoras-mask-creepypasta-ben-drowned With said, I found the "NES Godzilla Creepypasta" to be better than that one, just because of how much of a slow-grind it is in it's horror. http://nesgodzillacreepypasta.blog.com/category/chap1/
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AlpineGuy - October 29, 2012 3:06 p.m.

OH GAAAAWD, the Majora's Mask story chills me to the bone every time, especially once the "videos" on YouTube came out. I would've personally ranked Ben Drowned #1 on the list.
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PoisonWar - November 2, 2012 10:48 a.m.

That's pretty damn disturbing.
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zombi3grim - October 29, 2012 2:39 p.m.

Awsome list!
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RODTheMaster - October 29, 2012 2:12 p.m.

I'm also disappointed that the Haunted Majora's Mask cart wasn't included. It was a great horror narrative/ ARG that played on the subversive nature of the already-creepy Majora's Mask.
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tomasfr89 - October 29, 2012 2:02 p.m.

Somebody NEEDS to make that Killswitch game (of course, they would have to exorcise the twisted souls of the Karvina CEOs to get the rights).
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KnightDehumidifier - October 29, 2012 1:23 p.m.

So many Pokemon myths that it's hard to fathom: The idea that Ditto is a failed Mew clone hypothesis. The Cubone/Kangaskhan correlation. That Blue visited the Pokemon Tower was to mourn the loss of his Raticate, which has never been seen after you fight him.
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ShowMeYourKitties - October 29, 2012 2:54 p.m.

Gengar is Clefairy's shadow The strange lack of young and middle-aged men in R/B/Y is due to a war Oh, and the "Lost Silver" myth.
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robertpopovic - October 29, 2012 1:07 p.m.

Totally love these urban myth stories like the random folks in the background on some levels of Mario Galaxy 2 (or was it 1?)
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shawksta - October 29, 2012 6:03 p.m.

It was 2, in shiverburn galaxy
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Lucario995 - October 29, 2012 1 p.m.

Love the list, but you forgot to mention the story of Ben from Majora's Mask.
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GutFunk - October 29, 2012 1:17 p.m.

Yeah, the Ben story from Majora's should definitely be on this list
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CUFCfan616 - October 29, 2012 12:57 p.m.

I'd be quite disappointed if my last thoughts followed the plot of FF8 and had not one character who wasn't completely annoying (or annoying in some small way). Maybe it is actually a horror game. Seeing Seifer cut apart Odin was scary enough in that an annoying sub boss defeats a FF legend
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Thedigitalg - October 29, 2012 12:33 p.m.

I remember the FF8 theory, which I thought was really cool. Most of the points are wrong, but it did make me think.
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ultimatepunchrod - October 29, 2012 11:20 a.m.

Some of those are actually pretty creepy. I really like theories like the FF 8 thing in games.
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Apastron - October 29, 2012 3:26 p.m.

I love the theory that Sorceress Ultimecia is actually Rinoa. I know a lot of it doesn't hold water but I like to think that gaming stories are whatever you make of them (usually due to a lot being so poor/mundane/hole-ridden) and it's that angle that contains the most meaning to me personally. Of course, this negates the above story, but I don't like it as much anyway.
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