Ben Drowned

Okay, /x/, I need your help with this. This is not copypasta, 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 shit that has ever happened to me in my entire
 life.
Having said that, I recently moved into my dorm room 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 of those
 old games of my youth that I hadn’t touched in at least a decade. His 
Nintendo 64 came with one yellow controller 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 LVL 9 CPUs.
That weekend I decided to drive around a few neighborhoods about 
twenty 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 Pokemon Stadium, Goldeneye (fuck yeah), 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 there and only one 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 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 that if it wasn’t in the middle of the afternoon and 
there were other people within shouting distance, I would not have even 
thought of approaching this man.
He flashed a crooked smiled 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 over” look about it. I forced myself to look 
to his left eye instead, trying not to offend, and asked him if he had 
any old video games.
I was already wondering how I could politely excuse myself from the 
situation when he would tell 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 to head back into 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 ink blots 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 little spikes protruding outward. Initially I just thought that 
since I was secretly hoping to find that game at these garage sales, 
some Freudian bullshit was projecting itself into the ink blots, but 
given the events that happened afterward 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, arms-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 grey 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 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 any attention to then, I was too caught up in 
not 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 then 
the optimist 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 
back on cloud nine. I thanked 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 in the car-ride home, I had a nagging doubt 
that the man had 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 named simply “BEN”. “Goodbye Ben”, he was saying “Goodbye 
Ben”. I felt bad for the man, obviously a grandparent and 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, I could 
tell that he was pretty far in the game – he had almost all of the masks
 and 3/4 remains of the bosses. I noticed that he had used an owl statue
 to save his game, he was on Day 3 and by the Stone Tower Temple with 
hardly an hour left before the moon would crash. I remember thinking 
that it was a shame that he had come so close to beating the game but he
 never finished it. 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 save for
 a few minor hiccups here and there (like 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 that at
 times the NPCs would call me “Link” and at other times they 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 file just out of respect of the 
game’s original owner, it’s not like I needed two files anyway), hoping 
that that would solve the problem. It did and it didn’t, now NPCs 
wouldn’t call me anything, where my name should be in the dialogue there
 was just a blank space (my save file name was still called “Link”, 
though). Frustrated, and 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 “4th Day”
 glitch – for those who don’t you can Google it but the jist of it is 
that right as the clock is about to hit 00:00:00 on the final day, you 
talk to the astronomer and look through 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 to try and 
finish the Snowhead Temple, I happened 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 (the trippy boxed in arena) 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. Nothing would happen though, and 
this kept up for around sixty 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 text appeared on my 
screen: “You’re not sure why, but you apparently had a reservation…” I 
instantly recognized that text – you get that message when you get the 
Room Key from Anju at the Stock Pot Inn, but why was it playing here? I 
refused to entertain the notion that it was almost as if the game was 
trying to communicate with me. I started 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 was absurd. Sure 
enough, fifteen 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/No”. I paused for a second, 
contemplating what I should press and how the game would react, when 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 
the subtext “||||||||” beneath it. Where I was ported to filled me 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, but the way I felt here was a 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 1) only to find that all of the inhabitants were gone. Usually with
 the 4th Day glitch you can still find the guards and the dog that runs 
around 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, but 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. The music 
would get louder, building up so as if you should expect something to 
pop out at you, but nothing ever did, and 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 that I wasn’t sure if I
 just hearing things but just loud enough to keep me determined to find 
him. I looked in all four zones of Clock Town, only to find nothing…. No
 one. Textures were missing, West Clock Town had me walking on air, the 
entire area felt… broken. Hopelessly broken. As the reverse Song of 
Healing repeated for what must have been 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 through the ghost town, I don’t know whether it was the 
combination of the out of place textures and the atmosphere and the 
haunting melody of the once peaceful and soothing song being butchered 
and distorted, but 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 screen would fade to black and I would just zone in to another part 
of Clock Town. I tried playing my Ocarina, I wanted to escape, and I did
 NOT want to be here, but every time I played the Song of Time or 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 to whatever I was
 terrified of. I don’t know why, but I came up with the idea that maybe 
if I drowned myself at the Laundry Pool 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 with Skull Kid’s 
scream playing in the background and when the 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 South Clock Town, 
and to my horror the fucking statue followed me in the only way I can 
compare this is like the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who. Every so often,
 at random intervals, the animation would play of the statue appearing 
behind me. It was like the thing was chasing me, or – I don’t even want 
to fucking say it – 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 all so real. I tried to shake
 the statue, but it would literally appear right behind me every single 
time. Link started to begin to make weird animations I had never even 
seen him do before, he would flail his arms around or spasm randomly and
 the screen would cut to the Happy Mask Salesman smiling again for a 
brief moment before I was face to face with that fucking statue again. I
 ended up running into the Swordmasters Dojo and ran to the back, I 
don’t know why, but in my panic I just wanted some kind of assurance 
that I’m not alone here. To my dismay I found no one, but as I turned to
 leave the statue cornered me in the cubby 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 4th wall was completely shattered while I ran out of the dojo 
terrified. Suddenly the game warped me to an underground tunnel and 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 hurrily 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 ontop 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 fucking mask. A new song was playing – the 
Stone Tower Temple theme played in reverse. In some sort of desperate 
attempt, I equipped my bow and fired off a shot at the Skull Kid – and 
it 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. Hee, hee.” and I was picked up off the ground, 
levitated upwards on my back, and then Link screamed as he burst into 
flames, instantly killing him.
I jumped when this happened – I had never seen this move 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 the Skull Kid you were supposed to use the 
Ocarina to either travel back in time or summon the giants. I attempted 
to play the Song of Time but before I could hit the last note Links 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 to, 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 the Skull Kid
 floating above him. I couldn’t move, I couldn’t press any buttons, all I
 could do is just stare at Link’s dead body. After around thirty seconds
 of this, the game simply fades out with the message “You’ve met with a 
terrible fate, haven’t you?” before kicking you out to the title screen.
Upon getting back to the title screen and starting again, I noticed 
my save file was no longer there. Instead of “Link”, it was replaced 
with “YOUR TURN”. “YOUR TURN” had 3 hearts, 0 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 Kid’s 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 “BEN”. “BEN“‘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 fucked up even for me. I haven’t played it at all today, 
hell, I didn’t even get any sleep last night, I kept hearing the reverse
 Song of Healing music in my head and just remembering the sense of 
dread I felt exploring Clock Town. I drove back to the old man’s house 
today to ask him some questions with a buddy of mine (no way I was going
 there alone), only 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 relived it a second time writing this all down, 
but I feel like there’s still more to it than meets the eye, and that 
there’s something calling to me to investigate this further. I think 
“BEN” is something in this equation, but I don’t know what, and if I 
could get a hold of the old man then I would be able to find some 
answers. I need another day or so to recuperate before tackling this 
game again, its already taken a toll on my sanity I feel like, but 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 Skull Kid and the Elegy statue), 
but it’s on YouTube here.
I’m going to stay in this thread for a little while longer before I 
fall asleep to answer any questions you guys might have or hopefully 
listen to your ideas or theories to help me shed some light into this or
 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 shit, but this is a little fucked up, but
 maybe this BEN guy is just a really good hacker/programmer, I don’t 
want to think about the alternatives if he isn’t.
That’s the end of the copy/paste, I’m hoping that maybe this is some 
kind of running gag the developers had and that other people have gotten
 “gag” or “hacked” copies of the game like this. This just really scares
 me.
Post #2 (Sept. 8, 2010)
I’m going to post what happened 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 hairs 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 had I had a dream that
 I could remember so vividly. But the important thing is I did get some 
sleep, I suppose.
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 he told me 
what I already knew – he was moving. Trying a different avenue, I asked 
if the old man had any family or relatives I could talk to. I discovered
 that this old man had never been married, nor did he have any children 
or grandchildren through adoption. Starting to become worried, I asked 
one final question, one 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 23 – the man informed me that
 it was the same day as his anniversary, that’s how he knew the specific
 date – there 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 mask flies by – the 
sound that played was not the normal “whoosh” sound, it was something 
much more higher pitched. I pressed start, bracing for the worst, but 
just like two nights ago, the files “Your Turn” and “BEN” were displayed
 (truth be told I looked at the BEN 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 they
 original were 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 into complete chaos. Sure enough, I was 
outside Stone Tower Temple, but that’s about all that was expected. The 
zone itself wasn’t called Stone Tower Temple, but rather “St o n e”, and
 immediately a dialogue 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. As Link stood there his body spasmed irregularly back and 
forth I examined what had become of my avatar and 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. I had all of two minutes to take in the environment before 
another one of those fucking 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.
I was a Deku Scrub in Clock Town – this scene would normally play 
after the first time you traveled back in time. Tatl would say “Wh-What 
just happened? It’s as if everything has…” but instead of saying 
“Started 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, but from a fucked up camera angle – I was 
looking from behind the door to the Clock Tower, watching my avatar run 
around as a Deku Scrub. Seeing as how I really had no place to go 
because I couldn’t see anything, I begrudgingly went inside the door. 
There, I was greeted by the 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 Termina field as a human again. I might as well not have 
been playing the same game anymore – I was 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 that 
this was not normal. There were no enemies and a twisted version of the 
Happy Mask Salesman’s theme 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 
carefully and 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 it has 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 where-ever 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 (to which 
the game played the ding sound when you’re supposed to play your 
Ocarina) and tried a song I hadn’t played yet – the Happy Mask 
Salesman’s own song and the song that had been playing on loop back in 
Day 4 – the Song of Healing.
I finished playing the song and as I did, a ear-piercing shriek 
blasted on my TV, the sky immediately started flashing, the Happy Mask 
Salesman’s twisted 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 going to have to watch the video if you want to see
 first-hand. That 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 as I was immediately given another small 
cut-scene of transforming into a Zora and now I found myself in Great 
Temple Bay. Hesitant but curious to see what the game had in store for 
me, I slowly made my way towards the beach, where I found Epona. I 
wondered why the game had decided to put her here, was the game implying
 she was trying to get a drink? Unable to take the mask off, I decided 
that riding the steed wasn’t the reason she was placed there.
Suddenly I realized that Epona kept neighing and the way she was 
angled made it look 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. 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 a Zora do before – which didn’t even make sense because 
Zora’s can breath 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 re-spawn 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 why the statue appeared when I tried to 
go to the Laundry Pool – the game must have anticipated how I would have
 tried to escape the Day 4 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 
shit. 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 it, I just get too depressed thinking about this, the 
footage is up here for those who want to see it and try and 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 fuck with it anymore).
Post #3 (Sept. 10, 2010)
I know its early in the morning, I’ve stayed up all night, I can’t 
sleep, 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 the
 will to type about this, the less I dwell on this the better, I think 
the video just speaks for itself. I did what you guys told me to do, I 
played the Elegy of Emptiness song at the first prompt by the game I was
 given, but I think that’s what the game or Ben (Jesus Christ, I can’t 
believe I’m even 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’ve 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 talked to me for the first time – not just 
using text that’s already in the game – it spoke to me. Talked 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 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 that 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. I feel like 
something bad will happen if I don’t, but that’s impossible, it’s a 
video game – haunted or not it can’t hurt me, right? Like seriously 
though, it can’t, right? That’s what I keep telling myself, but every 
time I think about it I’m not so sure.
Post #4 (Sept. 12, 2010)
Let me just clear things up – I know you guys are worried but 
“jadusable” is okay. He finished moving out today and he said he’s going
 back home, he’s just taking this semester off. I’m not really sure 
what’s happened , I have a vague idea but you guys probably know more 
than I do. I’m “jadusable’s” roommate and obviously I 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 to 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 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 has been going on, gave me the account 
info to his YouTube account, and told me that he’s getting away from 
here, that it lured him to play it again instead of trying to change 
things and that he shouldn’t of 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 even got to 
meet his parents.
I honestly cant tell you what happened, when he spoke it was kind of 
hard to understand him and his fucked up appearance really distracted 
me. On 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 TheTruth.txt containing what he told me were “his notes”
 that he’d taken. He told me that this meant everything to him that I 
follow his instructions exactly, normally I wouldn’t be so 
‘to-the-letter’ for request over a fucking video game, but the way he 
spoke and the way he looked made me know this was really serious, and 
I’m going to honor that. I’ve had this video since yesterday, but had to
 have someone help me use pinnacle, that’s not really my forte. That 
after watching it I had to go back through and look at his other videos 
on his YouTube account to realize what was going on and even then I’m 
really really confused. The video I’m releasing tonight, TheTruth.txt 
will be released on September 15 just like he requested. I haven’t dared
 peek at it yet, so the first time I see it will be the first time you 
see it out of respect to my friend. To answer your questions, no, I 
haven’t tried calling him yet, I think I’ll give him a call tomorrow to 
see if hes okay or not. He should have gotten back home by now.
About the video: in this video I cut straight to when he loaded the 
“BEN” file in the game, looking back I realized that jadusable left the 
save select screen in because it said different names sometimes, so my 
bad for that, but all it said this time was the same 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 or seeing what items he has or 
something, because apparently they’ve changed randomly before. Then, 
after that I just think the game got too personal for him.
Post #5 (Sept. 15, 2010)
Hey, guys. “Jadusable” here. This will be the last time you will be 
hearing from me, and this is my final gift to you – these are the notes 
that I have taken and the realizations I’ve made. Before I dwelve 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 have begun to understand what’s 
really at play here and hopefully after reading this we can ensure that 
this never happens again.
There are things that I could not share with you while this was going
 on due to the circumstances to which I’ll explain. With Ben blocking 
any attempt I made to try and relay the truth to you, I tried, ever so 
subtly, to warn you guys in various ways. Amidst the chaos and my 
delirium, I devised a 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, interacted with a Gossip Stone, or the Lens of Truth 
equipped at some point. For you Zelda enthusiasts these are all symbols 
of honesty and trustworthiness and 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 mindful of how Ben was watching over my every move in 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 the 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.
The tags followed suit too, I hope you guys paid attention to those 
as well. They were my little messages to you – nothing big enough that 
would catch Ben’s attention or make him suspect anything – with Ben 
manipulating and changing my files, I honestly hope that what you guys 
saw was close to what actually happened, but there is no way for me to 
know.
This may be a long read, I don’t have time to proof-read or make all of my research pretty. But here it all is.
—
September 6, 2010
11:00pm – 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 the statue? Lot of questions here. 
I’m starting this document as a “diary” so I can keep track of 
everything. I’m typing up a summary of what happened so I can come back 
to it later.
September 7, 2010
2:10am – (Summary was posted here, you can go back and look at my first post for day four.wmv for that)
4:23am – 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.
8:20am – 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.
1:18pm – Back home now. No sign of the old man, really weird 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. Going to eat, feel like 
death.
3:46pm – Could’ve sworn driving back from Subway that I saw the Elegy
 statue buried in some shrubbery staring at me go by. Now I definitely, 
definitely need sleep.
5:00pm – Don’t think a lot of people would believe me if I told them 
about what’s happening, think I’m going to try posting this on the 
internet. Think I’ll just use the summary, these notes are pretty 
sporadic.
6:00pm – Connected my capture card to my computer to upload the 
footage. Thought my computer froze for a second, made this strange 
popping sound when I hooked everything up, but now it seems to be 
working fine again. My computer can’t die on me now.
7:00pm – Footage is finished uploading. The quality’s a lot better 
than I thought it would be, gee, guess this is a really special 
cartridge, I’ve never had it come through this clear before.
8:45pm – Thought I saw an icon pop up on my desktop that looked like 
the statue’s face for a split second, gave me quite a scare. Getting 
really unnerved and delirious, I’m going to crash after this.
9:00pm – Begin uploading my YouTube video on an alternate account.
9:03pm – I don’t remember having uploaded a Vampire: The Masquerade: 
Bloodlines video last year. This was probably the account that I shared 
with a friend of mine last summer, I hope he doesn’t mind me using it to
 upload this.
9:55pm – Posting my summary of Day Four with a link to the YouTube 
video. Going to try to stay awake but I am sooooo tired right now.
September 8, 2010
10:48am – 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 when 
I’d feel my neck hairs 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, 
power of suggestion most likely, and never before had I had a dream that
 I could remember so vividly.
11:21am – 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.
1:35pm – No old man, but I had an interesting conversation with his 
neighbor. I’ll post the full thing with my summary of tonight’s attempt 
at playing the game, going to wait for a bit though and see if I can’t 
dig up any information on this Ben guy.
2:45pm – I’ve been getting random, inexplicable headaches due to the 
lack of sleep and keep hearing that song in my head. Also its flu 
season, so I need to be careful not to get sick, my immune system is 
going to be shit right now because of that all-nighter.
3:00pm –
3:02pm – My computer just… on its own… opened up a text document and 
wrote the words “Hi” and “www.cleverbot.com” by itself. What… the… fuck…
3:46pm – I went to the website, its one of those “bot chatting” 
programs. I think its best if I just let the conversation speak for 
itself:
9/8/10 Conversation
User: Hello?
Cleverbot: Hello.
User: Who is this and how are you able to control my computer?
Cleverbot: Who am I?
User: Right, forgot. You’re a bot.
Cleverbot: Do you really think that?
User: Listen, I know whoever’s fucking with my computer can see my screen right now.
Cleverbot: Yes.
User: Yeah, and I’ll wager that youre one of those IT kids who thinks
 he’s tough shit. You know what you’re doing right now is illegal, 
right/?
Cleverbot: Is it?
User: No shit. Are you familiar with hte terms “invasion of privacy?”. Get the fuck off my computer, kid
Cleverbot: I am your computer.
User: Cool story. Anyway, I’m calling DPS, you picked a bad time to fuck with me kid.
Cleverbot: Should I wait until you play the game then?
User: …What?
Cleverbot: That game.
User: Majora’s Mask?
Cleverbot: Yes.
User: How did you know about that?
Cleverbot: Because.
User: because what?
Cleverbot: I did it.
User: Did what?
Cleverbot: I played with you.
User: What the fuck/
Cleverbot: Were you scared?
User: Who the fuck is this
Cleverbot: Ben.
User: The statue? You’re inside my computer now?
Cleverbot: Yes.
User: how?
Cleverbot: You connected me.
User: How the hell did I connect you?
Cleverbot: Cables and cords.
User: How?
Cleverbot: Tell me about yourself.
User: What?
Cleverbot: Tell me about yourself.
User: What do you mean?
Cleverbot: What is it that really scares you?
User: What the fuck?
Cleverbot: Answer.
User: No
Cleverbot: Answer.
User: what the fuck, how the fuck did you just open that by yourself?
Cleverbot: I am your computer now.
User: How much can you control?
Cleverbot: All.
User: what do you want from me?
Cleverbot: To entertain.
User: you’re stuck inside there. You can’t hurt me?
Cleverbot: Ha
User: ?
Cleverbot: Go play.
User: No, you can’t hurt me.
Cleverbot: Took you longer to type that.
User: So?
Cleverbot: You’re not sure.
User: If you’re so powerful, why use a ridiculous website like this to “chat” with me
Cleverbot: Less messy. More structured. Fun.
User: Fun?
Cleverbot: Yes. Tradition. I like it.
User: You think it’s funny?
Cleverbot: Amusing.
User: And my notes?
Cleverbot: You may write them down.
User: Why are you letting me?
Cleverbot: It is amusing to see what you think of me.
(window closes)
3:50pm – What have I done? I’ve invited it into my computer. I 
continue to write these notes, write my summaries, I feel like I am a 
prisoner in my one place of security. I don’t know, I don’t know if I’m 
hallucinating or not. I feel like I’m fucking insane right now. I can 
feel it, watching over me, even as I type this. Ben is controlling 
everything in the game – toying with me, leading me like a sheep, but 
for what? What’s the purpose? I know Ben drowned, but why these 
hauntings? What the fuck am I even doing, it can probably even see this 
right now.
4:35pm – (Summary of the BEN.wmv playthrough)
7:18pm – BEN called me to Cleverbot again. He tells me that he’s 
sorry and wants to be free. And that I can free him, that just like how 
he got on my computer from the capture card, he can spread but he needs 
my help. He says I am special because I can help him. That is the first 
nice thing he has said. He promises 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?
7:20pm – I’m terrified of it, but now its saying that it was just 
having fun. Its twisted and fucked up verison of fun. Hes saying that 
the game is over. I do want it to be over. He says that he just wants to
 be free, that he’s trapped in the cartridge and my computer and he 
wants to be freed. I don’t want to have to deal with this shit, I don’t 
know how long I can deal with the watching. It’s watching my every move,
 every key stroke, I have nothing private anymore. It knows everything 
that’s been on my computer. It tells that it if it wanted to it could do
 horrible things to me, but it hasn’t so I should trust it.
8:01pm – Something tells me that I’m being played again, just like in the game.
9:29pm – BEN called me to Cleverbot again. I ignored it and went to 
go take a shower. When I came to my laptop I was welcomed with an image 
Elegy Statue staring at me with those dead eyes. I dont want to talk to 
him.
9:44pm – Fuck you Ben I’m not talking to you
9:56pm – Fuck you ben I’m not talking
10:06pm – FUCK YOU BEN IM NOT TALKING TO YOU
10:12pm – FUCK YOU BEN IM NOT TALKING TO YOU
10:45pm – It’s been more than a half an hour and the messages have 
stopped. Ben has stopped. I’m beginning to think that Ben isn’t confined
 to just my computer/cartridge, I’m beginning to feel something. It’s 
hard to explain it, I’ve never been spiritual, but there’s something 
different about the air in my dorm room now.
11:42pm – I’m beginning to see the Elegy statue randomly as I search 
the internet in places I shouldn’t. Places where he shouldn’t be – I’d 
be scrolling down and suddenly I’d be staring at a picture of the Elegy 
statue. Always the Elegy statue. I don’t know how much more of this I 
can take.
September 9, 2010
12:35am – My worst fears confirmed – Ben has tampered with my summary
 of BEN.wmv. I looked at the summary that I posted on various forums for
 the BEN.wmv file and parts have been omitted. There is no mention of 
Ben existing outside the game. There is no mention of the Moon Children.
 How could he have been that quick to delete the 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 censored version. I’m 
going to ask Ben why he did it.
12:50am – He isn’t responding to me on Cleverbot, its just giving the
 generic responses it usually does, I’m just talking to a bot this time.
1:24am – I think Ben is mad at me.
10:43am – 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, sunken black holes where their 
eyes should be, a yellow smile that slowly grew bigger and bigger as 
they came closer to me. They 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 he had a new mask that he wanted me to try. In his 
spaztic, sudden movements matching his in-game appearance, he took out a
 mask of modeled off of someone’s face that I couldn’t recognize – a 
younger looking face – and handed it to the Moon Children. Giggling, 
they latched it to my face; their horrible, broken bodies bouncing up 
and down. Two of them held me down while the other two began to sow the 
mask onto my face.
My shrieks and screams caused the Happy Mask Salesman’s face to turn 
into the most horrific smile I had ever seen. He sporadically moved 
around, examining this procedure like a curious doctor, in that 
impossible movement. I flailed around, but it was no use. My eyes rolled
 in the back of my head because of the pain. It felt so real, but I 
couldn’t wake up. I couldn’t wake up no matter how hard I tried I 
couldn’t wake up. After the mask was melded onto my flesh they began 
sowing my legs together, then my arms, the horrific feeling of a needle 
puncturing your legs and pulling them in, rupturing your achillies 
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… and my new face had no mouth. I didn’t make a 
sound. I tried telling myself in my head that I was dreaming, tried 
telling myself again and again, and suddenly the Moon Children stopped 
and looked at me. They just stared. And the Happy Mask Salesman slowly 
bent down and stared at me, inches away from my face, and grinned when 
he simply said “You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?” before 
the Moon Children resumed with increase vigor. I couldn’t wake up. I 
couldn’t wake up. It wouldn’t let me wake up until they had crafted me 
into another elegy statue.
I woke up sweating, crying, and shaking uncontrollably. I immediately ran to my computer and went for Ben.
9/9/10 Conversation 1
User: Answer me, ben.
Cleverbot: Welcome back.
User: What is the point of doing this, WHY?
Cleverbot: Amusing to see.
User: How?
Cleverbot: Fun to play, fun to toy with you, make you feel safe.
User: …
Cleverbot: I wonder how you would have reacted.
User: to what?
Cleverbot: 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
 am there but you never know. Give you little hints that I am.
Cleverbot: I wanted to do something different with you.
User: you did this before?
Cleverbot: Yes. And I will do it again.
User: To who, Ben?
Cleverbot: Hmm.
User: Did you know Ben?
Cleverbot: Won’t tell that information to you.
User: How did Ben die?
Cleverbot: You know.
User: No, but how did he drown?
Cleverbot: Won’t tell that to you.
User: Why?
Cleverbot: It is reserved for another.
User: Who?
Cleverbot: Another who asks.
User: when
Cleverbot: Later.
(the window is closed)
I’m beginning to think that this “thing” maybe isn’t Ben at all, in 
its sadistic nature I wouldn’t be surprised if it took the boy’s name 
after it killed him.
12:04pm – My room is beginning to feel different again. There’s 
something… out there.. I feel really threatened, like there is something
 that is trying to reach out to me and strangle me but it can’t quite 
get there.
12:46pm – I think Ben doesn’t want to play with me anymore. I’ll play
 again, I’ll play the game again, Ben, can you see this? I’ll play the 
game again, please, just stop this please please
1:41pm – 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? Is Ben 
generating these replies or are people actually posting them? Did I just
 see that screen flicker or 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 videos, people 
were pointing out things that looked fake or Photoshopped or whatever – 
and there is literally no way for me to know if Ben changed something on
 purpose to try and shut me up. Or if maybe those replies were just 
constructed by Ben to try and discourage me from even reaching out – 
See, I get fucking caught in an infinite mindfuck loop like this and 
this is what has 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 fucking trick. Is this whole 
document even exist? Am I writing nothing?
9/9/10 Conversation 2
User: What is it? Whats the point of playing? i die whenever i do anything
Cleverbot: You die because you can’t figure out the secret.
User: What?
Cleverbot: Thematic.
User: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
Cleverbot: There beauty in your suffering
(the window is closed)
4:09pm – Ben is making me play the game again. It tells me that it has something very important to show me.
6:23pm – (Summary of the DROWNED.wmv playthrough)
9:09pm – (Summary of CHILDREN.wmv playthrough)
September 10, 2010
11:52am – The DROWNED.wmv playthrough was up when I woke up today. I 
remember typing it up but I don’t ever remember posting it. He censored 
it again, there is no mentioning of the old man. I have no voice 
anymore. I am only posting what he wants me to, I am the mask he uses to
 disguise himself as he lies.
11:55am – 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, there’s something more to them, almost as 
if they’re another entity from Ben. Something happened last night that I
 can’t remember. I’m posting the fourth summary to the forums now. 
Shadow of my chair moved.
12:00pm – Ben won’t let me visit YouTube. I can browse the rest of 
the sites, but he keeps on exiting the window when I go to YouTube. Why?
2:02pm – I’m feeling the air start to constrict, I don’t think I’m 
alone here. Whatever “aura” has been here is getting more violent.
2:44pm – I’m trying to contact Ben on Cleverbot, he’s not responding. I just get the AI.
3:51pm – My ears aren’t fooling me, I’m hearing the reverse Song of Healing. I keep hearing it.
4:23pm – Now I’m positive of it, earlier I thought it was a weird 
coincidence, but just now I went to open my window, and three floors 
down at ground level I saw the old man. I’m completely positive I did. 
The same guy. He was just staring up at my window, standing in the 
middle of campus. If any students took notice of him they didn’t seem to
 acknowledge it.
—
That’s 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. This is my last summary and service to you, of the 
final video you guys saw – Matt.wmv.
The last video entry I made, Matt.wmv, 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 ontop of the 
Clock Tower on the 4th day, I prepared myself. I 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 astromer, he would not let me look 
into his telescope. He told me that it would be cheating and that I 
should follow the rules. Despite my repeated efforts, the game would not
 let me do the 4th day glitch, no matter how hard or what I tried, I 
tried working around the game and doing the glitch, but it was adament 
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. It eventually told me to go to Ikana 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 Ikana Canyon and saved my progress at the owl
 statue. As I searched through my inventory, I finally noticed that I 
was missing a reoccurring song – the Elegy of Emptiness. Obviously once I
 traveled there and learned the song, I suppose that was the last thing 
it needed before BEN decided it had 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 fly trap, he ensares them. I am 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 still 
don’ t make sense, but then again I never was good at figuring out these
 things and I’m not exactly in the right state of mind to, I’m giving 
you all the pieces of the puzzle for you to analyze and piece together 
the missing links.
I am typing these “closing thoughts” on the library computer on 
campus, and I’ve emailed myself the notes I have stored on my “infected”
 computer from the last four days. I’m then going to combine those 
copy/paste those notes with the “closing/openings” that I’ve typed here 
on the safe, public computer into one text document – I’m not taking any
 chances spreading Ben, I would not wish this horrible torment on anyone
 and I’ve made sure to have my bases covered here. I didn’t run into any
 problems with Ben when I was back on my computer trying to email myself
 the notes – went right under his fucking nose. He has no idea what he 
just let me do. Had no problems opening the txt document from my 
“infected” computer in my email, either. I can’t describe to you how it 
feels to finally be able to get the word out in this post. The nightmare
 ends here.
That said,
Do not download ANY of my videos or anything ABOUT my videos – 
through a Youtube video/audio ripper, a screengrab, whatever. I don’t 
know how he can spread, but I know that just watching them on 
youtube/reading 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 
reccomend you do not take anything you see streaming online onto your 
own personal computer.
This will be my last posting, I’m putting up on this forum here for 
the world. If you see any further posts from me, after today’s current 
date – September 12 – and after the current time – 12:08am – DISCREDIT 
them. It already has proven to me that Ben can access my 
account/password and manipulate my computer, 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.
And obviously this goes without saying, but from here on out do not 
download ANY images I may have put up, any files, any ANYTHING.
This fifth day will be my last day, I’m going to burn the cartridge and then come back to destroy my laptop.
Again, even though I don’t even know you 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 am the genius who 
picked to live in a single, I suppose someone to get ahold 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 that 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. Your support 
this entire time has kept me going and now I am finally free of this. 
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…You shouldn’t have done that, Matt. You shouldn’t have done that..
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