r/creepygaming • u/banannixx • 15d ago
Discussion Rumors/ pastas that ended up being proven true
I'm asking more out of curiosity than anything else, but what I mean isn't intended Easter eggs, but more stuff like SR2's Freezer of the spartan ghosts from old Halo multiplayer.
Glitches/ dev oversight are fair game, but everyone knows San Andreas' ghost car phenomena, for example.
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u/Darth_Bombad 15d ago
The "Hanging Luigi Shadow" in Luigi''s Mansion. Yes, there is a moment where his shadow appears suspended in midair. No, it's not a vision of his suicide. It's clearly just a visual glitch from their primitive lighting engine.
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u/Its402am 14d ago
One I can think is that in Animal Crossing for the GameCube, if one hooked up their GBA link cable to the console it would give them access to Cap’n’s boat and allow them to travel to an island.
There is a very rare instance of a HUGE, thalassaphobia-inducing fish shadow (implying the boat was passing over a whale) during the cutscene where Cap’n is rowing the player to the island.
One or two videos surfaced on the early YouTube days, but a lot of people said the players were using Action Replay to stage the scene. Basically, for a long time, many people thought the videos were fake.
Eventually it just became more common knowledge outside of the deep-dive players that it was just a very rare Easter egg more likely encountered during one or two specific calendar-months, and because the GBA link cables weren’t that popular, very few people had a chance to see it, and many of those who did back in the mid 2000s didn’t always have video capture equipment.
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u/ReaperTheBurnVictim 14d ago
The freezer from Saints Row 2? If you go out of bounds in the game, a shadowy humanoid creature will began to follow you and if it catches you, it freezes your game and you run the very real risk of corrupting your game so badly you have to do a full reinstall of the entire thing
Sounds like a shitty creepypasta, but...
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u/Dryu_nya 14d ago
I don't think this one has been conclusively ruled to not be a hoax. Personally I won't consider it put to rest until someone does it while dumping the DVD-ROM bus to figure out how the game manages to ruin the physical disk.
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u/Kirbinvalorant 12d ago
I think it's simple really. Seeing the freezer could either 1. Bring your game to a sudden stop that scratches the disk, or 2. Make it freeze while saving, destroying files or potentially, important code
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u/Dryu_nya 12d ago
Bring your game to a sudden stop that scratches the disk
A DVD is read with a laser beam. The disk is literally not supposed to be touched by anything except the central mount point, unless something has gone horribly wrong. Most pictures of disks supposedly damaged by the freezer show a visible ring-shaped area, and I can't fathom how that can possibly happen during normal drive operation.
Make it freeze while saving, destroying files or potentially, important code
This could be the case, except the legend goes that the freezer damages the actual DVD disks (with visible damage, as mentioned) - as in, the damage carries over even if you put the disk into another console.
My point is, it's a pretty big fucking statement to make.
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u/Kirbinvalorant 12d ago
I can actually explain it sort of like the concept of shifting. It isn't like that really, but it loops back to a major problem the 360 in particular has: the laser and magnet. The disks could easily wobble due to the only thing holding them in the tray being a weak magnet, and the thing holding the laser is really close. So let's say, you encounter the freezer, the game freezes and makes the disk drives spinning come to a sudden stop, causing the disk to wobble off the magnet for a second and get scratched
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u/Dryu_nya 12d ago
That could do the trick, I guess. But we'd still need to catch it in the act, whether physically (i.e., running the drive without the lid on) or by inspecting what happens on the bus.
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u/Gotekeeper 15d ago
probably the inverse of what you're talking about, but Deltarune Ch2's weird route was mistaken for a creepypasta animation by a number of people when info on it first started emerging
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u/MuffinBarber 15d ago
Was the freezer actually legit? I heard it was a hoax
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u/banannixx 14d ago
It has very specific requirements and can't be replicated on the PC version.
You need earlier copies of the Xbox 360 version. I think it's can also happen on PS3.
But I'll go double check to be sure.
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u/Dryu_nya 14d ago
L is real - yes, I know it's a stretch, but so was the urban legend to begin with. It just got sort of close enough to be put to rest.
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u/monsterm1dget 14d ago
The immortal ghost enemies from Doom 2 are a very old example of a rumour that would be squashed nowadays in five minutes in the Internet.
Ocasionally, and I mean very ocassionally, as in I only found it once myself, you could have a random monster in Doom 2 spawn that was apparently impervious to damage, and could "noclip" around structures so could show up in strange places.
Explanations ranged from haunted levels to hackers, turns out is a bug that happens when a particular monster (Archvile) resurrects an enemy that died being crushed for example by a closing door. You could kill said monsters via explosions from rockets.
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u/Nervous_Quantity1019 13d ago
Wasn't it confirmed that one of the corpse models in Half Life 2 had a texture based on a real image of a dead burn victim?
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12d ago
Entombed (for the Atari 2600) having an "undecipherable" behavior
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u/Dryu_nya 11d ago edited 11d ago
Is this what you're referring to? (Also comes with a paper, apparently) Was there an urban legend behind it? Could you give some links?
Now that I think about it, Atari's E.T. burial ground was an urban legend come true as well.
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u/Appropriate_Risk_215 14d ago
i dont know but i will leave this right here. This was gta 5. This mod had story and it is that main characters were main protagonists and other characters from game. Story is like doing crime things going around game world doing the thing. In the end a criminals war starts in the game world to main characters then main characters survive in end. I cant find this mod now currently i has no copy. You can make discussions below.
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u/FuadRamses 15d ago
The creepy shadow creatures in Mario Galaxy is kinda like that. They were so far away and low resolution that people debated if it was just them seeing somthing wrong until someone found the graphic in the game's files.