Earlier this year, Connor Coop submitted to
me through Oddheader.com a story about a discovery he made as a kid that still haunts him to this day. Connor explained when he was a kid, him and
a friend of his were obsessed with PlayStation 2 demo discs and would frequently trade and swap them amongst each other. Connor says, “Around the time I believe Ratchet and Clank 2 was to come out, there was a playable demo on a disc with the PlayStation magazine in the UK, but I've found that on the list of demo options, if you were to take the cursor one choice down further than the last, the highlight would disappear,
obviously implying there's a secret final option.” Connor explains when he selected the secret
menu item, an incredibly disturbing video played that shocked him so horribly, he decided
to never tell anyone about it as he thought he stumbled upon something that was never
meant to be found. Years later, Connor stumbled across the trailer
for the movie, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, and was convinced that it was either a trailer for
this film or a scene lifted from the movie that was hidden on his demo disc that he found
all those years ago. Unfortunately for Connor, the disc was no
longer in his possession and was now long gone. Connor went through the comments of the trailer
and found several other comments discussing finding the same video being hidden on an
alleged PlayStation 2 demo disc. “The first time I saw this, I was about
10 and this exact trailer was an easter egg on a PlayStation 2 demo disc." "Needless to say, I was pretty creeped out." But first, what is Tetsuo: The Iron Man for those that don't know? And why would it be showing up on a PlayStation 2 demo disc? Well, I decided to watch Tetsuo myself just for this video. And honestly, I'm not entirely sure what I saw. If I had to describe it, I'd say it's an experimental Japanese techno horror film that makes Eraserhead look like Eat, Pray, Love. Shot in a completely abstract
and extremely difficult-to-follow manner. Tetsuo opens with a metal fetishist who enjoys
injecting and violently shoving pieces of metal into his body. Yeah, really. After a gruesome scene of the character shoving
metal into his veins, he appears to run into the street and gets hit by a vehicle. From here, the movie focuses on the couple
who pulled the hit and run on the metal man as they appear to be haunted by his spirit,
as every part of the boyfriend's body slowly becomes a concoction of heinous, metallic mutations. And I mean, literally every part of his body. What the [bleep]? The film overall is extremely abstract and wildly experimental, that as much as it disturbed me I actually kind of enjoyed it; as I had to appreciate
just how much effort they must have spent making every frame of this movie the thing of nightmares. Regardless, I would never watch this again.
Which is honestly why I want to know somebody thought to hide this on a PlayStation 2 demo disc. For someone like Connor, who found this as a child, I can only imagine it was as intensely traumatizing
as he claims it was today. But despite ruining children's lives, at the same time, it does sound like a pretty brilliant easter egg. Me and Connor's investigation continued as
I purchased a number of PlayStation 2 demo discs that Connor suspected that the easter egg
could have been on. Going off of Connor's memory, he recalled that it was a demo for Ratchet and Clank,
assumably Ratchet and Clank 2. And being that he's from the UK, we thought
we had it down to one of these three discs: OPM UK 40, Jam Pack Volume 11, and PSM
215. Unfortunately, after exploring the hell out
of these discs, I couldn't find a thing. I even placed the disc in my PC and crawled
through the contents of the disc and couldn't find any files that didn't seem to be accounted for already. Additionally, Connor continued exploring through
leads throughout the internet and managed to find another person who made a tweet about
finding the same sort of discovery. But even this person couldn't remember exactly
what the disc was. Connor interviewed a number of other commenters
in the discussion on the Tetsuo trailer. And if every person he talked to that seemed
to know of the easter egg, no one could remember exactly what they found it on, only that it
deeply shocked them when they saw it. Pulling from everyone's stories we can deduct that
the demo does likely had these elements: A blue background— Many people seem to recall the disc having
a blue background. The background also likely featured a 3D animated
moving graphic. At least two people reported that the disc featured this element. Connor thought the demo disc menu shown here looked most similar to what he remembered, but didn't think it was it for sure. Most people seem to think it was an official PlayStation Magazine demo, although no one seems to be sure on this fact,
and there are some reports that conflict this. Me and Connor have reason to believe it might
be a PSM demo, a publication that was only in the UK. Both the official PlayStation Magazine and
PSM demo discs were known to have easter eggs. For example, on the OPM disc 105, if you press
all the shoulder buttons at the same time, you would get to play Paperboy. However, a PSM demo discs seem to have touted
easter eggs as a feature a lot more on the back. Additionally, PSM demos have much crazier
visual designs than OPM's, which seemed to align with the absurdity of the easter egg. Also PSM demos discs don't have playable demos,
only videos, and at least one person reported that the disc was only video, not games. The single thread most common across every
story though is how the easter egg was accessed itself. There was a submenu with a list of selectable options. If you scrolled all the way down to the bottom,
an invisible menu icon appeared to be selected. And when you hit it, it would take you to
the video. With the seemingly many similar reports that can be found across the internet
about the mysterious unfound easter egg, it seems likely there is an easter egg like
this out there that's been lost to time. However, there is a small possibility that
people are misremembering this for something else. As there's been many collective false
memories through the years of people remembering something that we just have absolutely no
evidence for, sometimes referred to as the Mandela effect. For example, a particularly strange case of
Mandela effect has recently cropped up on Reddit, as many people have recalled playing
a farming game where you played as a farmer who killed his wife and then you had to hide the
body for the rest of the game. There's never been any evidence of this game
that's shown up that proves this game’s existence. Yet many people definitely recall playing it. Some people believe it's an elaborate hoax,
people are completely misremembering it for something else, or it is truly something that's
just never been found again. One theory is there maybe was an obscure game
that very few people played and that people have jumped on the mystery over the years
and made it more of a hoax than reality. That said, I have a strong feeling the Tetsuo demo disc mystery could indeed be the real deal... As maybe it just hasn't been given the right attention yet. I'm hoping after the publication of this video,
somebody will quickly come forward with the demo disc... But I might end up surprised and
find that no one can ever seem the find the disc at all. And demo disc easter eggs themselves are completely
undocumented online. So maybe through this investigation, some
of that can finally change. So if you have any information, please come
forward, as we're dying to know the story behind this memory that many seem to have across the internet. At this point, me and Connor seem to have exhausted all the possible options of researching this and trying to solve the mystery ourselves. As there's just so many demo discs out there, I don't think I can afford to buy up every single demo disc collection that pops up on eBay... Let alone search through every disc. And I can't really investigate the mystery any further at this point anyway... As I'm kind of out of a PlayStation 2 after what I did in the last video. If you enjoyed this video, please subscribe. And today's the last day that you can pick up an Oddheader plush. So again, if you want to be one of the only people to ever own one of these... Very last chance to pick one up on Makeship.com today. If you know any more mysteries like the one
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Prepare yourself for the laptops forgotten in the grandmothers basements that later on appears to be not working or sold at a garage sale.
He just wrote it off as a gigantic case of Mandela effect
I had a laptop in 2005 with the game. Same details as most people know no need to specify. However the laptop was my uncle who works at CIA and 1 day he said he forgot it in a restricted area which it got there since he dropped it down a vent. He longer works there and the only way to retrieve the laptop is by retrieving it from the facility Metal Gear Solid Style. Will update once I can fly out to the state where the facility is and begin operations
Here we go
Pretty creepy mystery in its own right.
Watching it now.
Yeah I'm one of those lol. Hi
I used to have this game on a flash drive, I launched my only copy up into space with a model rocket though so the aliens could play it.
Oh hey it’s oddheader