Ben Drowned Creepypasta Full story

okay I need your help with this this is not a copy pasta this is a long read but I feel like my safety or well-being could very well depend on this this is video game related specifically Majora's Mask and this is the creepiest that has ever happened to me in my entire life having said that I recently moved into my dorm starting as a sophomore in college and a friend of mine gave me his old Nintendo 64 to play I was stoked to say the least I could finally play all those old games of my youth that I haven't touched in least a decade his Nintendo 64 came with one of those yellow controllers and a rather shoddy copy of Super Smash Brothers and while Beggars can't be choosers needless to say it didn't take long until I became bored of beating up level 9 CPUs that weekend I decided to drive around a few neighborhoods about 20 minutes or so off campus hitting up the local garage sales hoping to score on some good deals from ignorant parents I ended up picking up a copy of this Pokemon Stadium GoldenEye f-zero and two other controllers for two dollars satisfied I began to drive out of the neighborhood when one last house caught my attention I still have no idea why it did there were no cars and the only table was set up with random junk on it but something sort of Drew Me There I usually trust my gut on these things so I got out of the car and I was greeted by an old man his outward appearance was for a lack of a better word displeasing it was odd if you asked me to tell you why I thought he was displeasing I couldn't really pinpoint anything there was just something about him that put me on edge I can't explain it all I can tell you is is that if it wasn't the middle of the afternoon and there were other people within shouting distance I would not even have thought of approaching this man he flashed a crooked smile at me and asked what I was looking for and immediately I noticed that he must be blind in one of his eyes his right eye had that glazed Overlook about it I forced myself to look at his left eye instead not trying to offend and I asked him if he had any old video games I was already wondering how I could politely excuse myself in the situation when he told me he had no idea what a video game was but to my surprise he said he had a few ones in an old box he assured me he'd be back in a jiffy and turned his head back to the garage as I watched him hobble away I couldn't help but notice what he was selling on his table littered across his table were rather peculiar paintings various artworks that looked like the ink plots that a psychiatrist might show you curious I looked through them it was obvious why no one was visiting this guy's garage sale these weren't exactly aesthetically pleasing as I came to the last one for some reason it looked almost like Majora's Mask the same heart-shaped body with a little spikes protruding outward initially I thought that just since it was secretly hoping to find a game at these garage sales some Freudian was projecting itself under the inkblot but given the events that happened afterward I'm not sure but given the events that happen afterwards I'm not so sure now I should have asked the man about it I wish I would have asked the man about it after staring at the Majora shaped blot I looked up and the old man was suddenly there again arm's length in front of me smiling at me I'll admit I jumped out of reflex and I laughed nervously as he handed me a Nintendo 64 cartridge it was the standard gray color except that someone had written Majora on it in Black permanent marker I got butterflies in my stomach as I realized what a coincidence this was and asked him how much he had wanted for it the old man smiled at me and told me that I could have it for free that it used to belong to a kid who was about my age that didn't live here anymore there was something weird about how the man phrased that but I didn't really pay attention to it then I was too caught up in only finding this game but getting it for free I reminded myself to be a bit skeptical since this looked like a pretty shady cartridge and there's no guarantee it would work but the optimists inside me interjected that maybe it was some kind of beta version or pirated version of the game and that was all I needed to be on Cloud9 I think the man and the man smiled at me and wished me well saying goodbye then at least that's what it sounded like to me all the way the car ride home I had a nagging doubt that the man said something else my fears were confirmed when I booted up the game to my surprise it worked just fine and there was one save file simply named bib goodbye then he was saying goodbye Ben I felt bad for the man obviously a grandparent obviously going senile and I for some reason or another reminded him of his grandson Ben out of curiosity I looked at the save file eyeballing it and I could tell that he was pretty far in the game he had almost all the masks and three-fourths for man of the bosses I noticed that he had an owl statue to save his game it was on day three and by the Stone Tower Temple with hardly an hour left before the moon would crash I remember thinking that was a shame that he had come so close to beating the game but never finished it and I made a new file named link out of tradition and started the game ready to relive my childhood for such a shady looking game cartridge I was impressed at how smoothly it ran literally just like a retail copy of the game saved for a few minor hiccups here and there like the textures being where they shouldn't be random flashes of cutscenes at odd intervals but nothing too bad however the only thing that was a little unnerving was at the Times the NPCs would call me link and other times it would call me Ben I figured it was just a bug a fluke in the programming causing our files to get mixed up or something it did kind of creep me out though after a while and it was around after I had beaten the woodfall temple that I regrettably went into the save files and deleted Ben I had intended to preserve the save file just out of respect for the game's original owner it's not like I needed two files anyway hoping that I would solve the problem it did and it didn't now NPCs wouldn't call me anything or my name should be in the dialogue there was just a blank space a save file name was still called link though frustrated with homework to do I put the game down for a day I started playing the game again last night getting the lens of Truth and working my way towards completing the snowhead temple now some of you more hardcore Majora's Mask players know about the fourth day glitch for those who don't you can Google it but the gist of it is is that right as the clock is about to hit zero zero on the final day you talk to the astronomer and look to the telescope if you time it right the countdown disappears and you essentially have another day to finish whatever you were doing deciding to do the glitch and try and finish the snowhead temple I happen to get it right on the first try and the time counter at the bottom disappeared however when I pressed B to exit the telescope instead of being greeted by the astronomer I found myself in the Majora boss fight room at the end of the game staring at Skull Kid hovering above me there was no sound just him floating in the air above me and the background music which was regular for the area but still creepy immediately my Palms began to sweat this was definitely not normal Skull Kid Never appeared here I tried moving around the area and no matter where I went Skull Kid would always be facing me looking at me not saying anything would happen though just kept up for around 60 Seconds I thought the game had bugged or something but I was beginning to doubt that very much I was about to reach for the reset button when the text appeared on my screen saying you're not sure why but you apparently had a reservation I instantly recognized the text you get that message when you get the room key from anju at the stockpot in why was it playing here I refuse to entertain the notion that it was almost as if the game was trying to communicate with me I started to navigate the room again testing to see if that was some sort of trigger that enabled me to interact with something here then I realized how stupid I was to even think that someone could reprogram the game like this that was absurd sure enough 15 seconds later another message appeared on the screen and again like the first one it was already a pre-existing phrase go to the lair of the Temple's boss yes or no I paused for a second contemplating with what I should press and how the game would react I realized that I couldn't select no taking a deep breath I pressed yes and the screen faded to white with the words dawn of a new day with a subtext beneath it where I was teleported to a filming with the most intense sense of dread and impending fear I had ever experienced the only way I can describe the way I felt here is having this feeling of inexplicable depression on a profound scale I am normally not a depressed person the way I felt here feeling that I didn't even knew existed it was such a twisted powerful presence that seemed to wash over me I appeared in some kind of weird Twilight Zone version of Clock Town I walked out of the clock tower as you normally do when you start from day one only to find out that all the inhabitants were gone usually with the fourth day glitch you can still find guards in the dog that runs around the outside the tower this time they were all gone what replaced them was the ominous feeling that there was something out there in the same area as me and that it was watching me I had four Hearts to my name and the Hero's Bow at this point I wasn't even considered for my avatar I felt that I personally was in some kind of danger perhaps the most chilling thing was the music it was the song of healing ripped straight from the game itself but played in reverse music would get louder building up but as if you should expect something to pop out at you but nothing ever did the constant Loop began to wear on my mental state every now and then I would hear the faint laugh of the happy mask salesman in the background just quiet enough so I wasn't sure if I was hearing things but just loud enough to keep me determined to find him look in all four zones of Clock Town only to find nothing no one [Music] textures were missing West Clock Town had me walking on air and the entire area felt broken hopelessly broken as the reverse Song of Healing repeated if it was a man at least the 50th time I just remember standing in the middle of South Clock Town realizing that I had never felt so alone in a video game before as I walked to the ghost town I don't know whether it was the combination of the out of place Textures in the atmosphere of The Haunting Melody of the once peaceful and soothing song being butchered and distorted I was literally on the verge of tears and I had no idea why I hardly ever cry something had gripped me here and this powerful sense of depression that was both foreign and crippling I tried leaving clock town but every time I attempted to zone out the screwing Fade to Black and I would just Zone into another part of Clock Town I tried playing my Ocarina I wanted to escape and I did not want to be here every time I played the song of time or the song of soaring it would only say your notes Echo far but nothing happens by this point it was obvious the game didn't want me to leave but I had no idea why it was keeping me here I didn't want to go inside the buildings I felt that I would be too vulnerable there whatever I was terrified of I don't know why but I came up with the idea that maybe if I drown myself at the laundry pole I could spawn somewhere else and leave this place as I zoned in and ran towards the pool that's when it happened link grabbed his head and the screen flashed for a brief moment of the happy mask salesman smiling at me not link me but Skull Kid scream playing in the background screen returned I was staring at the link statue from playing the song elegy of emptiness I screamed as the thing just stared back at me with that haunting facial expression I turned around and ran out and back into the South Clock Town into my horror the statue followed me and the only way I can compare this is like the weeping angels from Doctor Who every so often at random intervals the animation will play the statue appearing behind me it was like the thing chasing I or I don't even want to say it but haunting me by this point I was on the verge of hysterics but not even once did the thought of turning off the console occur to me I don't know why I was so wrapped up in it the terror felt also real I tried to shake the statue but it would literally appear right behind me every single time link started to began making weird animations I had never seen him do before he would flail his arm around or spasm randomly and the scream would cut to the happy mask salesman smiling for a brief moment before I was face to face with that statue again I ended up running into the sword Masters dojo and ran to the back don't know why but in my panic I just wanted some kind of assurance that I'm not alone here my dismay I found no one but as I turned to leave the statue cornered me in the lobby in the back I tried attacking the statue with my sword but to no avail confused and backed into a corner I just stared at the Statue waiting for it to kill me suddenly the screen flashed again to the happy mask salesman and Link turned to face my screen standing upright mirroring the statue looking at me along with his copy literally staring at me whatever was left of the fourth wall was completely shattered while I ran out of the dojo terrified suddenly the game worked me to an underground tunnel in the reverse Song of Healing queued up again as I was given a brief moment of rest before the statue started appearing behind me again this time aggressively I could only take a few steps before it would summon behind me again I hardly made my way out of the tunnel and appeared in southern Clock Town as I ran aimlessly in a sheer Panic suddenly a redead screamed and the screen faded to black as dawn of a new day and appeared again the screen faded in and I was standing on top of Clock Tower with skull kid hovering over me again silent I looked up and the moon was back looming just meters above my head but the skull kid just stared at me hauntingly with that mask a new song was playing the Stone Tower Temple Theme played in reverse and some sort of desperate attempt I equipped my bow and fired off a shot at the skull kid and actually hit him and he played an animation of him reeling back I fired again and on the third Arrow a text box appeared saying that won't do you any good I was picked up off the ground levitated upwards on my back and then link screamed as he was burst into flames instantly killing him I jumped when this happened I had never seen this movie used by anyone in the game and skull kid himself didn't have any moves as the death screen played my lifeless body still burning the Skull Kid laughed and the screen faded to Black only to have me reappear in the same place I decided to charge him but the same thing happened Link's body was lifted off the ground by some unknown force and he immediately burst into flames again killing him this time during the death screen the faint sounds of the reverse Song of Healing could be heard on my third and final try I noticed that there was no music playing this time that all there was was Eerie silence I remembered that in the original encounter with skull kid you were supposed to use the ocarande to travel back in time or summon the Giants I attempted to play this song or time but before I could hit the last note Link's body once again horrifically exploded into flames and he died as the death screen neared its end it began to chug as if the cartridge was trying to process a lot of something when the screen came too it was the same scene as the first three times except this time link was lying on the ground dead in a position I had never seen in the game before his head tilted towards the camera with skullcad floating above him I couldn't move I I couldn't press any buttons all I could do is just stare at Link's dead body after around 30 seconds of this the game simply Fades out with the message you've met of terrible fate haven't you before kicking you out to the title screen [Music] upon getting back to the title screen and starting again I noticed my save foul is no longer there instead of link it was replaced with your turn your turn had three hearts zero masks and no items I selected your turn and immediately when I did I was returned to the clock tower rooftop scene of my link dead and the Skull Kid hovering over with the skull kids laughing looping again and again I quickly hit the reset button and when the game booted up again there was one more save file added below your turn entitled bin 's save file is right back where it was before I deleted it at the Stone Tower Temple with the moon almost crashing I turned the game off at that point I'm not superstitious but this is way too up even for me I haven't played it at all today hell I didn't even get sleep last night I just kept hearing the reverse song of healing music in my head and just remember the sense of dread I felt exploring Clock Town I drove back to the old man's house today to ask him some questions the buddy of mine there was no way I was going there alone I want to find that there's a for sale sign in the front yard and when I rang the door no one was home so now I'm back here writing down the rest of my thoughts and recording what happened sorry if some of this has grammatical errors and whatnot I'm running on no sleep here I'm terrified of this game even more so now that I lived it a second time writing all this down but I feel like there's still more to meets the eye and there's something called me to investigate this further I think Ben is something in this question but I don't know what and if I could get a hold of the old man then I'd be able to find some answers and another day or so to recuperate before tackling this game again it's already taken a toll on my sanity I feel like but the next time I do this I'm going to be recording my footage all the way through the idea to record only came to me towards the end so you see the last few minutes of what I saw including the skull kitchen and the elegy statue but it's on YouTube I'm going to stay in this thread for a little while longer before I fall asleep to answer any questions you might have or hopefully listen to your ideas or theories to help me shed some light into this maybe things I should try to do I think I'm going to play Ben's file tomorrow to see what happens maybe I was supposed to do that all along I don't believe in paranormal but this is a little up or maybe this bin guy is really just a good hacker slash programmer I don't want to think about the Alternatives if he isn't [Music] foreign thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] laughs foreign [Music] and Link the video footage but last night everything got too real for me I think I'm done messing around with this I passed out pretty much immediately after making that thread but last night that elegy of emptiness statue I had a dream about it I dreamed that it was following me in my dream that I would be minding my own business when I'd feel my neck hair stand up on end I would turn around that thing that horrible lifeless statue would be staring with those empty eyes right at me merely inches away in my dream I remember calling it Ben and never before I had a dream that I could remember so vividly but the important thing is I did get some sleep I suppose [Music] today putting off playing the game as long as I could I drove back up to that neighborhood to see if the old man came back as I expected the car was still gone and no one was home as I was walking back to my car the man next door mowing the grass killed the power to his lawnmower and asked me if I was looking for someone I told him that I was looking to talk to the old man that lived here to which she told me what I already knew he was moving trying a different Avenue I asked if the old man had any family or relatives that I could talk to I discovered that as this old man had never been married nor did he have any children or grandchildren for adoption starting to become worried I asked one final question that I should have asked from the beginning who was Ben the man's expression turned grim and I learned that four doors down around eight years ago on April 23rd the Mana format the same day as his anniversary that's how he knew the specific date it was an accident with a young boy named Ben in the neighborhood shortly after his parents moved and despite any further attempts to talk to the man to get more information he wouldn't divulge anything else I went back and started playing again I loaded up the game and immediately I jumped at the title screen where the masks fly by the sound that played was not the normal whoosh sound it was something much more higher pitched Press Start bracing for the worst but just like two nights ago the files your turn and Ben were displayed just be told I looked at the bin file earlier it seems to fluctuate between displaying the owl save and not I brought up the Ben file hesitated for a moment noticing that the stats were not the same as the original word two days ago it seemed like he had already completed the Stone Tower Temple this time summoning my courage I selected it immediately I was thrust in complete chaos sure enough I was outside the Stone Tower Temple but that's about all that was expected The Zone itself wasn't called Stone Tower Temple but rather St o and E and immediately a dialog box of complete gibberish that I couldn't make out greeted me Link's body was distorted his back was cocked violently to the side where his posture was permanently disfigured Link's expression was dull almost monotonous he had an expression on his face that I didn't recognize before it was a blank look as if he was dead link stood there his body spasmed her regularly back and forth I examined what had become of my avatar and I noticed I had a c button item I had never seen before some kind of note but pressing it did nothing sounds played back and forth that I didn't recognize from the game almost demonic in nature and there was some kind of high-pitched Yip or some kind of laugh or something playing in the background at all two minutes to take in the environment before another one of those elegy of emptiness statues was summoned and immediately after I was cut into the dawn of a new day screen except this time it was without the subtext [Music] I was a Deku scrub in Clock Town this scene would normally play after the first time you traveled back in time [Music] tati would say what just happened it says ever everything has but instead of saying start it over she finished her remark in broken text as the laugh of the happy mask salesman played in the background I was put back in control of my character from a up camera angle I was looking from behind the door to Clock Tower watching my avatar run around as a Deku scrub seeing as how I had really no place to go because I couldn't see anything I begrudgingly went inside the door there I was greeted with a happy mask salesman who simply told me you've met with a terrible fate haven't you before the screen Whited out I was in terminal field as a human again I might as well not have been playing the same game anymore as being warped around and there was no sign of a day clock or anything I took a moment to get my bearings as I looked around the field and immediately I could tell this was not normal there were no enemies and a twisted version of the happy mask salesman scene was playing I decided to run towards woodfall before I noticed a gathering of three figures off to the side one of them being Epona as I approached them to my horror I saw the happy mask salesman the skull kid and the elegy of emptiness statue just standing there I figured maybe they were bugged out but by now I told myself that I should know better nevertheless I approached them and carefully found that the skull kid was playing some kind of idle animation on Loop same with Epona and the elegy of emptiness statue was doing what had been doing all along just standing there eerily it was the happy mask salesman that scared me more profoundly than the other two he too was idle wearing that shit-eating grin but wherever I moved his head slowly turned and followed me I had not engaged in any dialogue with him nor was I in combat with him yet his head still continued to follow my movements reminded of my first encounter with the skull kid on top of Clock Tower I pulled out my Ocarina wish the game played the ding sound when you're supposed to play your Ocarina and I tried a song I hadn't played yet the happy mask salesman's own song that had been playing on loot back in day four the song of healing finish playing the song and as I did an ear piercing shrake blasted on my TV this guy immediately started flashing the happy mask salesman's twist a theme song sped up intensifying the fear inside me and Link exploded into flames and died the three figures stayed lit up during my death screen as they watched my lifeless body burn I Can't Describe to you how sudden and terrifying the transition from Eerie to Terror it is you're gonna have to watch the video if you want to see firsthand the same fear that caused me to lose sleep two days ago started to grip me again as I was met with the text you've met with a horrible fate haven't you for the third time there has to be some kind of meaning behind that I had little time to ponder is I was immediately given another small cut scene of transforming into Azora and I now found myself in Great temple Bay hesitant but curious to see what game I had in store for me I slowly made my way towards the beach where I found Epona I wonder why the game had decided to put her here was the game implying that she was trying to get a drink unable to take the mask off I decided that riding the stage wasn't the reason she was placed there [Music] suddenly realized that oppona kept naying and the way she was angled made it looked like she was trying to Signal a point to me off in the distance it was a hunch but I dove into Great Bay and started swimming and sure enough I almost missed it I found something at the bottom of the ocean one last elegy of emptiness statue I went down to examine it and suddenly my Zora started doing a choking animation I had never seen Azora do which didn't even make sense because Zoras can breathe underwater regardless my character choked to death and died and again the statue was the only thing that was highlighted in my death I didn't respond this time I was booted back to the main menu as if I restarted the console the Press Start screen was before me I knew the only reason why it would put me here is because the save files had changed again taking a deep breath I pressed start and I was right the new save files told me about Ben now it made sense where the statue appeared when I tried to go to the laundry Pole the game must have anticipated how I would have tried to escape the day four o'clock town the two save files told me his fate as I suspected Ben was dead he had drowned the game obviously isn't through with me it taunts me with the new save files it wants me to keep playing it wants me to go further but I'm done with this I'm not touching any more of the files this is already way too horrifying for me and I don't even believe in the Paranormal but I'm running out of explanations why would someone send me this message I don't understand I just get too depressed thinking about this footage is up here for those who want to see it and try to analyze it maybe there's some kind of coded message in the gibberish or something symbolic in what I went through I'm too emotionally and mentally drained to with it anymore [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you foreign foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] hmm [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] I've stayed up all night I can't sleep and I don't care if people see this that's not the point I just want the word to get spread so I don't suffer for nothing I've lost a little type about this unless I dwell on this the better I think the video just speaks for itself I did what you guys told me to I played the elegy of emptiness song the first prompt by the game I was given but I think that's what the game or been Jesus Christ I can't believe I'm in humoring the Absurd idea that he exists in the game wanted me to do he's following me now not just in the game he's in my dreams I see him all the time behind my back just watching me I haven't gone to any of my classes I stayed in my dorm room with the windows closed and the blinds shut that way I know he can't watch me but he still gets me when I play when I play he can still see me the game is scaring me now it's talk to me for the first time not just using text that's already there in the game it spoke to me talk to me it referenced Ben it talked to me I don't know what it means I don't know what it wants I never wanted this I just want my old life back stuff like this just doesn't happen to people like me I'm just a kid not even old enough to drink yet it's not fair I want to go home I want to see my parents again I'm so far away from home here at this school I just want to hug my mom again I just want to forget the statue's horrible blank face my original game file is back just the way I left it before it was gone I don't want to play anymore it feels like something bad will happen if I don't but that's impossible it's a video game on it or not it can't hurt me right like serious though it can't right that's what I keep telling myself but every time I think about it I'm not so sure [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] everything [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] watch out [Music] thank you [Music] [Laughter] foreign let me just clear things up I know you guys are worried but he's okay he finished moving out today and says going back home he's just taking the semester off I'm not really sure what happened I have a vague idea but you guys probably know more than I do I'm just his roommate and I obviously knew something was wrong with him for a few days now he stayed in his room all the time fell out of contact with literally all of his friends and I'm pretty sure he hadn't been eating hardly anything after the second day I couldn't stay in there anymore so I've been crashing at a buddy's place only coming in my room to get stuff that I need I tried talking to him several times but he would cut me off or keep the conversation brief when I asked him about his strange Behavior it was like he was convinced something was hunting him yesterday I came to grab my philosophy book and he approached me looking awful like horrible bags under his eyes he handed me a flash drive and gave me Specific Instructions he told me that he needs me to do one last favor for him he finally explained to me what's been going on gave me the account and photo his YouTube account and told me that he's getting away from here that it lured him to play again instead of trying to change things that he shouldn't have done that and to upload the footage and inform people what happened I told him that he could do it himself and he got this wild look in his eye and told me that he is never looking at that game again and that's the last thing he said to me he never even said bye when his parents came to pick him up I never got to meet his parents I honestly can't tell you what happened when he spoke it was kind of hard to understand him his up appearance really distracted me the flash drive there was the footage of the game last night a text document with his name and password for YouTube and a third document called the truth.txt painting what he told me where his notes said he'd taken told me that this meant for everything I follow his instructions exactly normally I wouldn't be so to the letter for a quest over a video game the way he spoke and the way he looked maybe another it's just really serious and I'm gonna honor that I've had this video since yesterday but I've had to have someone help me use pinnacle that's not really my forte and after that watching it go back through and look over his other videos on his YouTube account to realize what was going on and even then I'm really confused the video I'm releasing tonight the truth.txt will be released on September 15th just like he requested I haven't dared peek at it so the first time I see it will be the first time you see it out of respect to my friend answer your questions no [Music] I haven't tried calling him yet I think I'll give him a call tomorrow to see if he's okay or not he should have gotten back home by now about the video in this video cut straight to the when he loaded the bin file in the game looking back I realized that he left the save to select screen in because it said different names sometimes am I bad for that but all it said this time was the same thing at the end of his last video link and Ben nothing different I wasn't there when he played it but it looks to me like in the beginning when he first spawns he's testing out his equipment they're saying what items he has or something because apparently they've got changed randomly before then and after that I just think the game got too personal for him thank you foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign foreign [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign these are the notes that I have taken and the realizations I've made before I delve into this I want to thank you for following me and thank you for listening it feels like the weight of a powerful burden is about to be lifted by the time you read this I won't be around anymore but after spending four days with this maddening game I've begun to understand what's really a play here and hopefully after reading we can ensure that this never happens again there are things I could not share with you while this is going on due to the circumstances to which I'll explain with Ben blocking any attempt I made to try and relate the truth to you I tried ever so subtly to warn you guys in various ways amidst the chaos and my delirium I've devised I make a barely noticeable pattern in my videos in all five videos I recorded over the four days I have either had the mask of Truth interact Ed the gossip stone or the lens of Truth equipped at some point or use all the enthusiasts these are all samples of honesty and trustworthiness I would hope that one of you may have picked up on the reference as I played the file which I would name Ben being my flat Ben was watching on my ever moved the game I made a point to avoid doing anything too obvious but I sent out a hidden message to you guys I never equipped a lens nor the mask nor visited a stone it worked and the video was uploaded I prayed that someone would notice the pattern didn't apply to Ben attacks followed suit two I hope you guys paid attention to those as well here are my little messages to you nothing big enough and it would catch Ben's attention or make him suspect anything we've been manipulating and changing my files I honestly hope that what you guys saw was close to actually what happened but there's no way for me to know this may be a long read I don't have time to proofread or make all of my research pretty but here it all is [Music] Timber six 2010. 11 p.m can't believe what happened not sure if this is some kind of elaborate hoax despite the fear I can't help but be exceptionally curious about this who or what is that statue lots of questions here I'm stating this document as a diary so I can keep track of everything typing up a summary of what happened so I can come back to it later March 7th 2010. 2 10 A.M summary was posted here you can go back and look at my first post for day 4.wmv for that 4 23 am I can't sleep I've been trying so hard but the harder I try I just get more Restless I just feel like that statue is appearing whenever I close my eyes 8 20 a.m I didn't sleep at all just going to start my day I don't think I have the energy to go to class today I'm going to drive back down to talk to that old man taking my buddy Tyler with me just in case 1 18 P.M back home now no sign of the old man really aware that he appears to be moving the next day but maybe the for sale sign was up there yesterday and I just didn't notice it Tyler wants to know what's gotten me all worked up I didn't tell him I'm going to eat and I feel like death 3 46 P.M I could have sworn driving back from Subway that I saw the elegy statue buried and some Shrubbery staring at me go by now I definitely definitely need sleep 5 PM I think a lot of people would believe me if I told them about what's happening I think I'm going to try posting this on the internet I think I'll just use the summary these notes are pretty sporadic 6 pm connected my capture card to my computer to upload the footage I thought that my computer froze for a second made the strange popping sound when I looked everything up now it seems to be working fine again my computer can't die on me now 7 pm but I just finished uploading the quality is a lot better than I thought it would be gee this is a really special cartridge I've never had it come through this clear before 8 45 p.m I saw an icon pop-up on desktop that looked like the statue's face for a split second gave me quite a scare getting really unnerved and Delirious I'm gonna crash after this 9pm began uploading my YouTube video on an alternate account 903 PM I don't remember having uploaded vampire the Masquerade bloodlines video last year this is probably an account that I've shared with a friend of mine last summer hope he doesn't mind me using it to upload this 9 55 PM posting my summary of day four with a link to YouTube video we're gonna try to stay awake but I'm so tired right now September 8th 2010 10 48 a.m I had a dream about the Statue I dreamed that it was following me in my dream that I would be minding my own business where I feel my neck hair stand up on end I would turn around and that thing a horrible lifeless statue will be staring with those empty eyes right at me nearly inches away in my dream I remember calling it Ben power suggestion most likely and never before had I had a dream that could I that I could remember so vividly 11 21 am I really don't want to play this game again I think I'm going to go back to see if that old man's there instead 1 35 P.M no old man but I had an interesting conversation with this neighbor I'll post the full thing with my summary of tonight's attempt at playing the game been away for a bit though and see if I can't dig up any information on this Ben guy 2 45 pm I've been getting random inexplicable headaches to the lack of sleep and keep hearing that song in my head also it's flu season so I need to be careful not to get sick my immune system is going to be right now because of that all-nighter [Music] 302 pm my computer just on its own opened up a text document and read the words hi and www.cleverbot.com by itself what the 3 46 pm I went to the website it's one of those bot chatting programs I think it's best if I just let the conversation speak for itself December 8th 2010 conversation user hello Cleverbot hello who is this and how are you able to control my computer who am I right forgot you're bot do you really think that listen I know whoever's with my computer can see my screen right now yes yeah and I'll wager that you're one of those I.T kids who thinks he's tough you know what you're doing right now is illegal right is it no are you familiar with HTE terms invasion of privacy get the off my computer kid I am your computer full story anyway I'm calling DPS she picked a bad time to with me kid should I wait until you play the game then what that game what's yours mask yes how did you know about that because because what I did it did what I played with you what the were you scared who the is this Ben the statue you're inside my computer now yes ow you connected me how the hell did I connect you tables and chords how tell me about yourself what tell me about yourself what do you mean what is it that really scares you the answer no answer what the how the did you just open that by yourself I'm your computer now how much can you control all what do you want from me to entertain you're stuck inside there you can't hurt me go play no you can't hurt me took you longer to type that so you're not sure if you're so powerful why use a ridiculous website like this to chat with me less messy more structured fun yes tradition I like that you think it's funny amazing in my notes you may write them down why are you letting me it is amusing to see what you think of me window closes what have I done I've invited into my computer to write these notes write my summaries I feel like I'm a prisoner one place of security I don't know if I'm hallucinating or not I feel like I'm insane right now I can feel it watching over me even as I type this Ben is controlling everything in the game touring with me leading me like a sheep but for what what's the purpose I know Ben Drowned but why these hauntings what the am I even doing they can probably even see this right now Ben called me to Cleverbot again he tells me hey sorry wants to be freed and then I can free him that just like how he got on my computer for the capture card he can spread but he needs my help he says I'm special because I can help him that's the first nice thing he said he promised us to leave me alone if I do it he swears he will I don't know what to think right now how can I even trust this thing terrified of it but now it's saying it's just having fun it's twisted and up version of fun he's saying that the game is over I do want it to be over he says he just wants to be free that he's trapped in the cartridge of my computer and he wants to be freed have to deal with this how long I can deal with the watching it's watching my every move every keystroke I have nothing private anymore it knows everything that's been on my computer it tells that if it wanted to I could do some horrible things to me hasn't so should I trust it something tells me they're being played again just like in the game Ben called me to Cleverbot again I ignored it and went to take a shower when I came to my laptop I was walking with an image elegy statue staring at me those dead eyes I don't want to talk to him talking about I'm not talking to you you Ben I'm not talking you Ben I'm not talking to you I'm not talking to you 10 45 pm it's been more than half an hour and the messages have stopped Ben has stopped we didn't think that Ben isn't confined to just my computer slash cartridge I needed to feel something it's hard to explain it Urban spiritual but there's something different about the air in my dorm room now [Music] 11 42 PM I'm beginning to see the allergy statue randomly as I search the internet in places I shouldn't places where he shouldn't be I'd be scrolling down suddenly I'd be staying at a picture of the elegy statue always the energy statue more or less I can take September 9th 2010 12 35 A.M my worst fear is confirmed Ben has tampered with my summary of ben.wnv I looked at the summary that I post on various forums for the bim.wmb file and participant omitted there's no mention of ban existing outside the game there's no mention of the Moon children how could he have been that quick to delete every post without me noticing I'm wondering if maybe it appeared to me that I was posting everything but in reality Ben was posted his own sense of version I want to ask Ben why he did it he isn't responding to me I'm Cleverbot it's just giving me the generic responses like it usually does I'm just talking to a bot this time I think Ben is mad at me 10 43 a.m the moon children appeared in my dreams last night they lifted up their masks to reveal their hideously disfigured faces maggots crawling out of their orifices sunk in black holes where their eyes should be a yellow smile that slowly grew bigger and bigger as they came closer to me told me that they wanted to play I tried to run from them but the four children pinned me down to the ground with surprising strength over them stood the happy mask salesman announcing that a new mask he wanted me to try and his sudden movements matching his in-game appearance he took out a mask modeled off of someone's face that I couldn't recognize a younger looking face and handling children giggling blasted in my face their horrible broken bodies bouncing up and down two of them held me down but the other two began to sew The Mask under my face my shrieks and screams caused a happy mask salesman's face to turn the most horrific smile I had ever seen heretically moved around examining this procedure like a curious doctor a possible movement I fled around but it was no use my eyes rolled to the back of my head because of the pain it felt so real but I couldn't wake up I like how hard I tried I couldn't wake up after the Master's medal in my flesh they began sewing my legs together in my arms the horrific feeling of a needle puncturing your legs and then pulling them in rupturing your Achilles tendons and tying them together resonated throughout my entire body I tried to scream but the mask was pressed so tightly against my face that it was my new face my new face had no mouth didn't make a sound I tried telling myself in my head that I was dreaming I tried telling myself again and again and suddenly the moon children stopped and looked at me just stared and the happy mask has been slowly bent down and stared at me inches away from my face and when he simply said terrible fate haven't you before the moon children resumed with increased vigor I couldn't wake up I could not wake up it would not let me wake up until they had crafted me into another elegy statue I woke up sweating and crying and shaking uncontrollably I immediately ran to my computer and went for Ben September 9th 2010 answer me Ben welcome back what is the point of doing this why amusing to see how fun to play under toy with you make you feel safe I wonder how you would have reacted what if I hadn't revealed myself and stayed hidden only doing little things to play with you close out your windows turn off your computer move your mouse by itself little things make you wonder if I'm there but you never know if you little hints that I am I wanted to do something different with you you did this before yes and I will do it again to who Ben hmm did you know Ben won't tell that information to you how did Ben die you know no but how did he drown won't tell that to you why it is reserved for another oh another who asks when later the window closes and beginning to think that this thing maybe isn't been at all and in sadistic nature I wouldn't be surprised if it took the boy's name after it killed him 1204 pm our room is beginning to feel different again there's something out there I feel really threatened like there's something that's just trying to reach out to me and strangle me but it can't quite get there I think Ben doesn't want to play with me anymore I'll play again not I'll play the game again Ben can you see this I'll play the game again please just stop this please 1 41 pm I'm going insane trying to decide what is real and what isn't is Ben just playing a trick on me or is this for real it's been generating these replies or are people actually posting them did I just see that screen flicker was it my imagination imagine depending on the internet and trusting your eyes for your entire life and then being blinded you can't rely on it anymore you second guess everything for the brief moments I am looking at my responses to the video [Music] people were pointing out things that looked fake or photoshopped or whatever and there's literally no way for me to know if Ben changed something on purpose and tried to shut me up or if maybe those replies were just constructed by I've been to try to discourage me from even reaching out see I get caught in infinite mind Lube like this is what I've been wearing on my sanity and pushing me to the edge as I'm writing this there's no way of even telling if anyone even cares as much as I think they do just another trick does this whole document even exists am I writing nothing September 9th 2010 conversation toe what is it what's the point of playing I die whenever I do anything you die because you can't figure out the secret what thematic what the are you talking about their beauty and your suffering the window closes Ben is making me play the game again it tells me that it has something very important to show me summary of the drowned dot wnv playthrough and summary of the children.wmv playthrough the drowned wnv playthrough was up when I woke up today I remember typing it up but I don't even remember posting it he censored it again there's no mentioning of the old man I have no voice anymore I am only posting what he wants me to in the mask that he uses design I am the mask he uses to disguise himself as a I am the mask he uses to disguise himself as he lies there's an entire video summary of a video that I don't remember doing reading through the summary this sounds morbid resembling my dream from two nights ago except on a far more sadistic scale these Moon children something and more to them as if they're another entity from Ben something happened last night that I can't remember hosting the fourth summary to the forums now shadow of my chair moved Ben won't let me visit YouTube I can browse the rest of the sites but it keeps on exiting the window when I go to YouTube why fill in the air start to constrict and I don't think I'm alone here whatever Aura has been here is getting more violent I'm trying to contact Ben on Cleverbot and he's not responding I just get the AI my ears aren't fooling me I'm hearing the song healing keep hearing it now I'm positive of it earlier I thought it was a weird coincidence but now I just want to open my window and three floors down at ground level I saw the old man completely positive I did the same guy he was just staring up at my window standing in the middle of the campus many students took notice of him they didn't seem to acknowledge it that is where my notes end I fled my room taking the cartridge with me I don't want to go into details of what happened I'll lose my train of thought as I hammer out these last details it's been roughly two days since then and this is my last summary and service to you for the final video you guys saw matt.wnv the last video entry I made Matt dot wnv began as normal I was spawned in Clock Town as usual and nothing seemed to be out of place determined to set things right and play The Oath to Order on top of the clock tower on the fourth day I prepared myself sped up time and got to the final day making my way to the observatory as I got up to the telescope room and approached the astronomer he would not let me look into his telescope he told me that it would be cheating and I should follow the rules despite my repeated efforts the game would not let me do the fourth day glitch no matter how hard or what I tried I tried working around the game and doing the glitch but it was adamant this time regardless of if I simply had the illusion of Free Will in Prior games this time the game became more aggressive than anything I've ever seen eventually told me to go to Icona Canyon where the game would end and it would stop haunting me anxious and desperate to end this nightmare I played the song of soaring and ended up there I was told to check my inventory that I would find the answers there to end the game I arrived at Icona Canyon and saved my progress at the owl statue as I searched through my inventory finally noticed what was missing our reoccurring song an elegy of emptiness obviously once I traveled there and learned the song I suppose that it was the last thing it needed before Ben decided had enough fun playing with me Ben is a manipulator he tries to fool his victims into security and makes you drop your guard like a Venus flytrap and snares them nothing but a puppet to him he enjoys seeing what kind of human emotions he can tap into by doing different things there are still some things about this whole experience that don't make sense but then again I know it was good to figure out these things I'm not exactly the right State of Mind to I'm giving you all the pieces to the puzzle for you to analyze and piece together the missing links we're typing these closing thoughts on the library computer on campus emailed myself notes I have stored on my infected computer from the last four days and then I'm going to combine those copy slash paste those notes with the closing slash openings that I've typed on here on the safe public computer and a one text document I'm not taking any chances on spreading Ben I would not wish this horrible torment on anyone and I made sure to have my bases covered here it didn't run on any problems with Ben when I was back on my computer trying to email myself those notes went right under his nose no idea what he just let me do had no problems opening the text document for my infected computer in my email can't describe to you how it feels to finally be able to get the word out in this post nightmare ends here do not download any of my videos or anything about my videos through YouTube audio Ripper I screen grab whatever I don't know how he can spread but I know that just watching them on YouTube reading them my text won't be able to allow him to spread otherwise he wouldn't have needed my help in the first place but I strongly recommend you do not take anything you see straight online into your own personal computer this will be my last posting I'm putting up the putting up on this forum here for the world if you see any further posts from me after today's current date September 12th and after the current time 1208 am discredit them it has already proven to me that Ben can access my account slash password and manipulate my computer and I have said and like I said I have no idea to what extent it can do this but know that it will do anything to break free he is desperate to ensure your safety just forget about me please [Music] obviously this goes without saying but from here on out do not download any images I may have put up any files or anything this fifth day will be my last day I'm gonna burn the cartridge and then come back to the store on my laptop even though I don't even know that you know this is sort of Bittersweet for me this semester I really didn't have any friends or rather I stopped paying attention to them but I suppose that's partially to blame because I'm the genius who picked or live a single I suppose someone who to get a hold of me and save me before I got too immersed into this game would have literally saved my life however it proved too much for me I'm just glad it happened to me and I could get the warning out so Ben dies here lastly thank you for taking the time to open this and open yourselves up to me by hearing my story despite maybe not believing me you didn't have to do that really you shouldn't have you support this entire time has kept me going and now I'm finally free of this again producible [Music] foreign [Music]

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Length: 89min 18sec (5358 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 02 2023