Discussing Creepypastas that I love, particularly interesting Creepypastas I read in highschool, modern Creepypastas, and Creepypastas I think deserve more attention.
Please note that these enteries will contain content that may be distressing to some people.
I highly encourage you to read this story before I talk about it, because it's one of my favorite Creepypastas out there. The story spans over 13 parts, but isn't that long of a read. This entry will contain spoilers for the story, but I will hide them.
The story starts with the author playing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and discovering a strange girl NPC T-posing and hovering in the middle of a field, with red hair and a white dress and no other textures. The NPC starts to cause the game to glitch out horrendously, to the point where it becomes unplayable.
Upon posting the incident to a message board, the author is met with skepticism from everyone who reads it. Even though the game was still new at the time, many brushed it off as just a fake story. Seven years later, the author is contacted by someone who read his post on the board, and invites him to join The Princess Society, a group for those who have encountered this strange NPC in their games.
Spoilers beyond this point, click here to continue.Through this society, the author learns about how The Princess works, including her ability to kill if provoked enough.
He retells the story of Adam and Brian, two members of the society that attempted to summon The Princess in order to communicate with her. The tried several games before she finally appeared to them in Ocarina of Time, which seems to be her favorite game. This started a lengthy in-game battle between her and Adam, during which Adam became increasingly more and more invested to the point of madness, threatening Brian with a knife when Brian tried to turn off the game. Brian left, but that next morning Adam was found dead, looking like someone had beaten the absolute shit out of him.
This event happened before the author joined the society, but it certainly sent a shockwave through the society, and The Princess became something to be feared.
The sad things is, Adam was not the only fatality of The Princess. Years before the society started, Ellie, a ten year old girl, became infatuated with The Princess in such a way that her parents sent her to counseling. The Princess killed Ellie after she stopped believing she was real, and her older sister Faye was the one who discovered the gruesome aftermath.
MAJOR Spoilers beyond this point, click here to continue.At some point, the author learns the tragic origin story of The Princess.
The Princess was supposed to be a companion for the main character in an unfinished and unreleased game only known as Hero and Princess. It was made to compete with the newly announced Ocarina of Time, and the game's creator, Mr. Carver, had a lot of passion for it.
The Princess was meant to use an incredibly advanced AI system, completely free-thinking with her helpfulness in the game tied directly to how you treated her. However, the feature was much too advanced for the N64. When Mr. Carver repeatedly refused to alter it to better fit the console's limitations, the publisher forced The Princess' removal from the game entirely. This caused Mr. Carver to go into a deep depression, and his instability led to him being removed from the project. After this, he ended his own life. His apartment was discovered to be full of drawings of The Princess, many of them depicting her either in peril or t-posing with no face.
This is what is commonly theorized to have created The Princess entity.
After the tragedy, The Princess began showing up during the testing phase of Hero and Princess, even after repeated attempts to remove her from the game. One employee was even found passed out with a crumpled drawing of The Princess in her hand, and the drawing caused her to freak out and quit her job.
Hero and Princess was finally canceled, people were leaving the project and testers were unwilling to stay, and the studio moved on to another project.
Unfortunately, the executive producer of the project also ended his life six months after the project was canceled, presumably after encountering The Princess while playing Ocarina of Time in his office.
One of the testers who witnessed all of this, Dan, came to the society to tell his story, and also to get help with making contact with The Princess himself.
Already, he had played a variety of games, sometimes multiple at once, in order to increase his chances of encountering her. After getting her to appear in the Gamecube port of Ocarina of Time, he turned off his television, successfully trapping her inside of the game. But time is running out, his Gamecube has been on for probably days at this point, and The Princess is trying to fry the console in order to escape.
His plan is to get everyone in the society on a livestream, where he will confront and defeat The Princess once and for all.
Though, you can already tell just how well it goes, if we've learned anything from the incident with Adam.
And so, after everything he's learned and witnessed, the author puts this series out as a warning to others.
If you see her...turn off the game.
Yet another creepypasta that I will encourage you to read in full before I discuss it here. There are 8 chapters in all, chapters 5 and 8 are split into two parts, plus an epilogue.
Throughout the pasta, there's stunning pixel art of the different levels and enemies of the game. There's even a playable version you can download from the game's website. I think there may have been music tracks, specifically the music that was added to the game, on the website at some point, but maybe I'm remembering wrong. There's also a sequel that I haven't read yet. Though the last update to the sequel was Chapter 6 in March of 2023, but seeing as there was a 2 year gap between chapters 5 and 6, I don't think that the series is abandoned. I think that it just takes longer for them to make the art for the screenshots than it was for the original series, either that or there's just other stuff going on in the creator's life.
Anyway. This story is about the game Godzilla: Monster of Monsters for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Or, actually, it's about Zach, the player of a copy of the game that seems to be possessed by some demonic entity dedicated to tormenting him psychologically.
His friend finds him a used copy of the game, and he plays it for some good old childhood nostalgia, only to find that the game is different than he remembers. Initially chalking this up to some sort of prototype or beta version of the game with some glitches, but realizes that there's new levels, characters, and bosses that seem to be way too much for an average NES game. One such boss, which has become the face of the creepypasta, is known as Red. A large, intimidating, skeletal demon creature that chases Zach at the end of each chapter, before he finally gets to fight him in an epic final battle. (But that's getting a little too far ahead in the story.)
But as he keeps playing, he starts to notice that the game seems to be aware of him, and discovers that whoever, or whatever, created this nightmare seems to have done so SPECIFICALLY for him.
MAJOR Spoilers beyond this point, click here to continue.In fact, he turns out to be exactly right. As Red brings up an old wound from Zach's past in the form of a strange blue figure. This blue figure is his middle school sweetheart, Melissa, who was diagnosed with an unknown mental illness that caused her to go into strange trances where she would sit still and expressionless, speaking in clear and concise monotone, after which she would have a sort of recuperation period where she would tremble and hide her face and refuse to speak.
Tragically, while she and Zach were stargazing in a field one night, she had one of her usual episodes, and it caused her to run into traffic. She was killed after she was hit by a truck. Losing a someone like that at middle school age is already hard enough, but the game was taunting him about it through this blue figure.
Even worse, Zach discovers that it was Red who had been tormenting Melissa her entire life, and it was Red that caused her to run into traffic that night. It becomes very clear as the game goes on afterwards that now, for whatever reason, Red was back to finish the job.
This is a creepypasta that I discovered as it was being written, and I remember checking the website daily, even during school, to see if it had updated. I'm not afraid to admit that I shed a few tears at the ending. While not your standard creepypasta, it is certainly a well written one, and being accompanied by artwork makes it even better. Dare I say, this even could be viewed as a sort of ARG or unfiction series, due to the sheer amount of work put into it to make it feel real and tangible. Absolutely something you should read, or even listen to as there is an official reading of it, if you like creative works like this.
