The Sinister Case of Sad Satan - Internet Mysteries

most of us on the internet are well aware of alternative reality games that make up stories of wrongdoing involving different interactive experiences but what happens when one of these stories turns out to be true well that is what we'll be discussing today when it comes to mysteries video games and creepypastas seem to go hand in hand just think about it some of the most popular creepypastas are based off of iconic gaming franchises and some of the trendiest indie projects in the past decade veer in the horror territory while there are many examples of creepypastas becoming popular based off of pre-established franchises one thing you don't see really often is the success of urban legends based off of entirely original games but this is exactly what we're going to be discussing today the mystery of this creepypasta doesn't really lie and if the game is real or not because it definitely is rather people don't really know who truly is responsible for making it and why and as mentioned previously the name of this eerie piece of media is sad satan the first evidence of this game existing would be uploaded in june of 2015 when the youtube channel obscure horror corner published the first episode of their sad saiyan let's play the channel known for playing games at the request of subscribers was run by a man named jamie much like the other let's plays on the channel it was entirely narrationless letting the gameplay speak for itself in the description jaime details the circumstances of how he obtained satsain as well as other details regarding his playthrough he claimed that he had downloaded the game from the deep web a month or so ago and that the footage was recorded shortly thereafter he summarized his playthrough as simply him wandering around and getting teleported to different sections of the maze then stating that quote nothing really happened but it has an odd feeling about it and kind of freaks me out he then goes on to claim that he had since deleted all of the game's files off of his computer due to a notepad document containing gibberish constantly reappearing on his desktop he then listed the onion link he had used to download the file apparently having been sent the address by a subscriber for those unaware an onion link is a suffix used to designate anonymous services only available through the tor network adding validity to his claim those who attempted to use this link however found that the download had seemingly been taken down in the time between his download of it and the upload of his video focusing on the youtube video itself the gameplay of sad saiyan is unsettling while as jaime stated it's simply him walking through various dark corridors before being teleported interspersed throughout these levels are what appear to be subliminal messages and strange audiophiles that hint towards some sort of larger theme to start an image of a man in a hallway surrounded by antlers appears this thing causes the player's view to become distorted before another image is shown of margaret thatcher and jimmy seville holding signs promoting the nspcc this is an acronym for the national society for the prevention of cruelty to children additionally the video also contains an excerpt from the song stairway to heaven by led zeppelin and lynch mob by kmftm albeit heavily distorted the one audio clip used contains lyrics that seem to allude to the assassination of former us president john f kennedy stating lynch mob pigs in a motorcade bearing down on you like birds of prey and for the kill law of the gun deer in the headlights on the run two days after his first video jaime posted episode 2 of his let's play series and then submits the video to the creepy gaming subreddit looking at his reddit history it seems that he had been quite an active member of the community in the past so that wasn't out of the ordinary and this would also spawn the first discussions of the game most of the comments were people just asking for a download link though there were still a few interesting replies for example one commenter speculates that the game's title could have come from a backwards message that people commonly hear in the song stairway to heaven which considering the song's presence seems to hold true also worth mentioning is a comment thread between jaime and a user named sir chrome worried about continuing to watch the video due to its origin jaime assures him that there are no corpses or cp if that's what you mean this part two of the let's play is unsurprisingly very similar to the first you'll notice quickly that the actual gameplay of sad saiyan is rather bare bones with many viewers criticizing it for being a walking simulator 52 seconds into this part a chinese propaganda song infamous for its usage in the game hong kong 97 is played backwards then an image of jfk moments before his assassination appears on screen next to slow down and pitch down adolf hitler's speech is played followed by a depiction of baphomet the baphomet is a symbol from the 14th century that has since been heavily associated with occultism and the church of satan the song that plays during this jump scare is once again led zeppelin's stairway to heaven finally a little girl appears in front of the player we're then shown the model up close in which it's revealed that the girl has a graphic mangled face she then screams and the player is surrounded by six children in a circle the exact nature of the creator's usage of all these different songs and symbols was still up for debates with viewers confused as to what exactly he could have been getting at some theorized that this was all connected to the illuminati in the comments many feared that due to the supposed deep web nature of the game the screams could have been extracted from actual murder tapes thankfully the source of the cries was tracked down and it was confirmed to be stock sound effects while the second episode saw more attention than the first interest in the game wouldn't erupt until july 1st when kutaku wrote an article about the playthrough entitled a horror game that may be hidden in the darkest corners it contained a wealth of new information due to the writer speaking directly with jaime in the article jaime describes his experience playing the game as being perplexing in response to the author asking about the notepad files that kept reappearing he stated this i unfortunately have no screenshots of the notepad files they were genuinely gibberish text it didn't seem to be in any language just symbols and numbers really i did notice 666 a few times which fits i guess considering the title of the game jaime claimed that he had no idea who created the game and said that he hoped to learn more by sharing the videos interestingly the journalist also interviewed the subscriber who had supposedly sent jaime the game though their name isn't disclosed due to privacy concerns according to the subscriber the file originated from an all-purpose deep web form where video games were rather uncommon they state that the post promoting the game was vague they did however sign off the post with the initials zk which the commenter recognized due to them being quite active in other threats they described his other comments as being quote unquote satanic mumbo-jumbo though they never elaborated further than that in the writer's own investigation within the article she was unable to find any definitive references to the game predating jaime's playthrough though she did find one potentially related video called sad sad saiyan from 2013 uploaded by an account named scaraburr its description simply reads follow the trail the video is a surreal reenactment of an unspecified violent act though to be honest it's quite difficult to make sense of it constantly cuts the close-up shots of a man in a ski mask this was apparently a music video for a song the uploader had composed probably by the same name to this day the validity of this connection is unknown though it's likely that the name is simply a reference to the stairway to heaven back mask the vague description however is still very suspect as it's unknown what trail he could be referring to after the article was published a master thread was started on the creepy gaming subreddit to contain speculation about the topic with dozens of users carefully re-watching and analyzing each video their first course of action was attempting to identify every single piece of subliminal audio and imagery used as well as discuss the potential motives of the creator at this point the source of the antler man image was found pinning the man in the hallway as franz joseph a prince that had a collection of over 2 000 deer antlers the exact implications of the image are still unclear with users speculating that it may have some relation to the man's apparent nazi history or the occult a picture of margaret thatcher and jimmy seville holding nspcc signs is seemingly a reference to the accusations of sexual abuse against seville that surfaced shortly after his death in 2011 with him now deemed a predatory sex offender by scotland's yard thatcher's inclusion in this photograph as opposed to being cropped out is thought to be a critique of the fact that the elite in the country protected him as the conspiracies started rolling in a third episode of the playthrough had been released with more people than ever before following the case firstly coded messages over a white background appear throughout the gameplay also present are reversed audio clips of charles manson stating that if he started murdering people there there'd be no one left we then hear a gargled slowdown recording of radio which when reversed is revealed to be a russian man reading out a list of numbers this is followed by more assorted clips of charles manson along with the song i love beijing tinaman played once again the repeated uses of this chinese propaganda song led internet detectives to the oddity that is hong kong in 97 on the super nintendo this was a bootleg game and made in two days by a journalist in the 90s but the weird thing about it comes in the form of the games game over screen in which it shows a forensic photograph of an actual dead body riddled with bullet holes the photograph's origin has never been determined and the developer of the game refuses to disclose where the image came from so it's possible that the creator of sad satan saw this mystery and wanted viewers to think that he had that info moving on to the 3rd of july episode 4 of the playthrough was released the video begins with a photo of a man with his eyes and mouth crossed out this photo is a mugshot of the infamous otaku killer a japanese child predator at around 54 seconds in a photograph of the lady of justice appears at three minutes and two seconds the player encounters a child staring at a wall while the text stopped doing this appears on screen next the otaku killer's mug shot is shown once again this time without the sensors finally a picture of a guy surrounded by children is shown the man in question is tv actor rolf harris who was charged with 12 counts of indecent assault in 2014 and whose trial was heavily associated with jimmy seville when this episode was published speculation regarding the series genuineness only furthered at this point users were able to identify that the software used to create it was the unity-based terror engine they were also getting suspicious due to inconsistencies with the flow of information remember these videos were supposedly a single experience also many of the newly introduced clues just didn't seem to connect with the old ones the jfk subplot for example seemed to have been completely dropped at this point in favor of the overwhelming theme of child abuse many logistical questions regarding the gameplay also caused even the owner of the thread to cast doubt he states this in one of his replies trends of things happening change between episodes like you hear manson a ton in one episode and not at all in the other episodes also how did we see a picture in the exact first frame of part 4 there's no way it would just line up like that some have also claimed that the let's player might have contradicted himself through his multiple statements at first claiming he had found the game himself on the deep web while later posting that he had been centered by a subscriber curiously around this time the uploader of the sad sad saiyan video returned after seemingly years of inactivity to state i assume everyone here wants the game though it seemed that he was just playing along with the hype speculation of this mystery got popular enough to the point that the thread's creator felt it was time to expand the community into its own subreddit the original text of the thread has since been lost to time being replaced with a link to the new community form on the 5th of july the 5th episode of the let's play was uploaded it would be the final video in jaime series in this part an image of the film director roman polanski appears who was arrested for sexually assaulting a 13 year old girl in 1977 what makes his appearance in the game even more interesting is that his pregnant wife was murdered by the manson family considering how prevalent charles manson is in the game it's unlikely that this was unintentional in this area the player comes across another girl although this time she chases him the video ends with a slowed down and reversed music track playing as the player appears to have gotten trapped in the room it's not 100 confirmed what happened in the rest of jaime's playthrough though most believe he stopped uploading because at this point his story started to fully unravel firstly users began digging into his reddit history where they discovered that in november he had begun discussing interest in developing his own horror game on top of this they noticed that despite him claiming to be a spectator he never actually speculated along with the community suspicious behavior if he was truly interested in learning more one redditor wrote it is also possible that jamie is acting in concert with the creator for marketing purposes the obscure horror corner channel's other videos have relatively low view counts while the sad saiyan videos are much much higher also the subscriber count has jumped significantly in the last few days so jaime is benefiting directly but by far the most damning piece of evidence would be revealed on 4chan when a user definitively proved that the onion link jaime had included in the description and never worked he figured this out when he noticed that there was a number 9 in the url which doesn't make sense since onion urls only use digits between 2 through 7. shortly thereafter jaime deleted all of the video's descriptions on july 7th two days after the fifth episode had been uploaded the kotaku writer who was one of the first to break the story updated her article to discuss allegations that the story had been faked she writes people sent me a variety of rationales for and against the possibility that sad saiyan came from the deep web some valid others not what stood out to me was the allegation that the deep web link provided in the youtube description for the initial video contained the number nine which is a number that is unlikely to be found in onion links she then reveals that she had questioned jaime about this discrepancy herself i contacted jaime the proprietor of obscure horror corner to ask what was going on with the link he now says he gave people the wrong link because the real one had he claims also included gore pictures and cp along with the game i didn't feel comfortable giving out a link for something like that he did not share the link with me unfortunately that makes it harder for me to put as much credence into the rest of his account jaime's answer can be somewhat plausible until you remember that he specifically stated in one of the original threads that there was no gore or cp too many this was the final nail in the coffin and proved to many commenters that sad saiyan was nothing more than a ploy for attention accusing jaime of having created the game himself and this was nothing more than yet another stupid alternative reality game but then something happened that no one could have predicted the game leaked to the public this turned what was for many just a fun mystery into real criminal acts we'll learn more about this after a brief word from our sponsor did you know that two out of three guys will experience some form of male pattern baldness by the time they're 35 the best way to prevent hair loss is to do something about it while you still have hair left that is where keeps comes into play you used to have to go to the doctor's office for hair loss prescriptions now thanks to keeps you can visit a doctor online and get hair loss medication delivered right to 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this game at first believed to simply be a hoax this file turned out to be legit and many users on both reddit and 4chan began investigating within seconds of launching sad saiyan a corpse appears on the main menu a screen that jaime claimed never existed and as the game continued progressing four different images of gore as well as cp would flash on screen elements that weren't present in jaime's playthrough in fact as they continued to sift through the download they noticed that many of the files from the original playthrough didn't seem present here things would only get worse upon the discovery that the creator possibly loaded the game up with malware as users began complaining of their computers running sluggishly after playing it there were even reports of the game supposedly deleting user's bios with or without bugs this release caused interest in the game to explode it became the next big topic for horror-oriented let's play channels naive twitch streamers were tricked into playing the true version of the game and foolishly showing uncensored dead bodies on stream at this point the mythos of sad saiyan had gone well beyond an innocent creepy pasta tale from the deep web whoever had created this so-called true version had potentially distributed malware as well as explicit pictures of minors making them a literal criminal this has led many to theorize who is responsible for sad saiyan in the first place theory number one jamie was telling the truth and zk is real to be honest there's not a lot to support this theory not only was jaime's story full of holes and inconsistencies but the fake onion link had just made it seem implausible to most but assuming jaime was telling the truth and he had actually removed the gore from the videos why wouldn't he disclose this for someone who supposedly uploaded the video to signal boost he certainly misled people trying to help theory number two jaime was lying but the clone was a troll back in 2015 this was the most popular narrative that even though jaime had made the entire deep web story up he had been undeservedly targeted by a troll on 4chan who thought it'd be funny to make a clone to get him in trouble and there are many reasons to point towards this being the case firstly as mentioned before the game lacks many of the resources seen and heard in the original playthrough in fact it only maintains a handful which is suspicious because if this were the same copy of the game from the videos it should include previously unidentified sources that could confirm its validity instead it only includes a handful of confirmed images additionally sad saiyan itself is an extremely simple game so creating a clone wouldn't be very difficult to logistically speaking it consists almost entirely of built-in plugins and stock sounds and textures and because it's gameplay boils down to walking through a maze while scary images appear on the screen it's not impossible to believe a troll went through the effort of recreating visuals for a laugh there were also many discrepancies between the two versions that seemed to imply it had been produced relatively quickly whether he was responsible or not upon the 4chan link going up people began reporting the case to authorities and jaime began breaking character in response to the leak because of this on july 9th a thread was posted to the sad saiyan subreddit titled processing what's happened so far almost uncharacteristically jaime finally began to defend himself realizing that the situation had escalated beyond his control i didn't make the clone i honestly don't care what everyone thinks about the rest of this but the clone has nothing to do with me i know everyone thinks i made sad saiyan but making a file containing cp and a virus is on a whole new level to that the thing that makes me so angry about this is that my full name has been used by some people in videos about the game and some of the write-ups i'm not just an anonymous youtuber now my reputation is being damaged by this clone without passionate he seems to be in these replies it's hard not to give him the benefit of the doubt but as you may have seen coming we have to discuss the possibility of him being guilty which leads us to theory number three jaime made the game and the clone well there's a lot of circumstantial evidence pointing to the clone being made by a troll there's also a lot pointing to jaime having made the clone himself as well firstly the post on 4chan attempts to roleplay within the lore jaime had written for the kotaku article which is melodramatic why would a troll do this secondly of both the dates and logs of the files seem to point towards the game being an altered version of the one seen in the videos many of the files in the true version were last modified in april and may when jaime had supposedly downloaded the game from the dark web meanwhile all the goran pornography images were dated to july 4th so if this were a quickly made clone as claimed why had all these files been prepared ahead of time there's also a time discrepancy as well the kutaku article's update is dated to 1 45 pm and at the time the author had been living in san francisco california which put the update's publish date at 3 45 pm cst why is this important well the 4chan leak is dated at 1 27 pm cst a little over two hours before the new update was released so coincidentally right before jaime's mention of the game containing gore and cp is published the troll just so happens to come out and release his own version of the game also containing gore and cp the true smoking gun of this theory however was when people investigated the output logs of the clone found in the documents folder they discovered that in the files of the game there were references to the creator's computer directory and as you can see here the user who created the game had an account named jamie and jamie's only response to all this was that he could have been framed that it was possible that someone used a tool to edit the dates and doctor the locks now if jamie had made the true version using the original why did the game lack so many of the original resources well for one the benefit of verification goes both ways it's possible that jamie purposefully removed the files so he had a level of plausible deniability but it's also possible that many of these resources had been added in post using editing remember in episode 4 an image of the otaku killer appears on screen for only a few frames of the video this is a logistical improbability and evidence of splicing splicing can also be seen in some of jaime's other let's play series such as the one where he plays the dos game a toy maker in that series he's been accused of inserting images in an extremely similar manner to sat saiyan though it was much more apparent due to his claim of the game running on dos despite never getting full closure on what the truth surrounding sad saiyan was hype around the game slowly died as jaime never posted using his reddit account or youtube channel ever again perhaps out of fear of law enforcement emotional pressure or satisfaction in finally succeeding in his goal of creating an urban legend he has yet to return leaving many questions forever unanswered but certain members of the community never forgot about the mystery and kept on digging on august 26 2015 a user named broken link 100 began conducting tests on the original version of the clone from 4chan using packet capturing he was able to determine that this game may have operated as a trojan putting a back door on a machine that a hacker can use later for whatever they want later it was found out by the user gauge the remixer that there was in fact actual cp being distributed within the game apparently as he was searching the deep web he was able to find the exact video it had come from that is a very disturbing discovery as whoever was responsible for putting it in there was frequenting some of the most vile pages imaginable aside from these developments though there have been no new substantial leads some have tried to revive interest such as by making a supposed official remake containing the uncensored images but for the most part the search is conclusively over we'll probably never know if jaime was behind the true version or not but this mystery is interesting because it goes well beyond the original arg people thought it was so there you have the story of sad saiyan and if there's any moral to this one it's that you probably shouldn't trust random links on 4chan because if you download them you might end up going to prison and with that thought i'll end the video here so until next time thanks for watching you

Channel: TheGamerFromMars

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Keywords: thegamerfrommars, internet culture, Sad Satan, Internet Mysteries

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Length: 28min 13sec (1693 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 24 2021