Dead Pokemon

The story I'm going to tell you is 100% true. I have no reason to make this up. The game it happened in was Pokemon Blue, and it is still the oddest thing that has ever happened to me to date in any video game.
I guess I will start off with an intro. I was around the age of eight, and my cousin allowed me to borrow their Pokemon Blue. Obviously, I made a new save file, and I was on my way. I decided I was going to make this my best file yet. I started off with Charmander (stupid decision, but he will always be my favorite.) I realized the grinding of the next two bosses would be difficult, so I worked hard. Level 20 Charmeleon by Brock: hard. I also had a Butterfree and a Pikachu. Moving on, I caught a full team. Geodude, Pikachu, Charizard, Gloom, Gyarados, Dugtrio.
Skipping forward a bit, I was playing the game while on route to a hotel for a vaction. I decided, why not play in the car? I was in the Dark Cave (Route 9 iirc, memory guess). I beat Red Version so many times I memorized the cave perfectly. All corners, ladders, even trainers and their Pokemons' level. After I got out of the cave, I knew what was the coming. The sad, gloomy town everyone knew about. I loved this city.
No suprise, I came through and destroyed all competition with my high-level Pokemon (all around Level 40). I moved on, beat Team Rocket, all that jazz, and got the scope that allows you to find Ghost pokemon. Excited, I rushed to get a Gastly. Dropping the Geodude, I moved on to get a Ghost-type Pokemon. After searching a while, I got a Level 23 Gastly. Not bad for a find. I decided to keep walking around, trying to find a better level, and the experience was pretty good here. After a bit, I had to stop playing. I was already at the hotel for my vaction, so I saved the game while in the tower.
After the vacation was over, around a week of not playing my Gameboy, it was time to head home. I was really excited to get back into my game. When I loaded up the game, though, something was different. It was the gloomy music. It was playing instead of the actual menu music. Thinking it was a small glitch, I loaded up my save. To my surprise, I was in a different part of the tower, facing a tombstone.
I wasn't allowed to move in any direction. Only look forward at a tombstone. I thought it was a glitch, and decided I would restart my game after I checked the tombstone. To my suprise, the tombstone read a horrifying message. It would read:
"Here lies Dan's Pokemon. They have passed on to a better place."
Terrified, I shut the game off immediately. I turned it back on, and the menu music was normal again. I thought, "Thank God." And pressed start. I was met with a message however, it read "Your old save data was corrupted. Make a new file."
And that was it. My Pokemon literally died. I still wonder why this happened. I can't find anyone who has had this happen to them, and it bothers me. I tried to have this happen again. Everytime I play an old Pokemon game, I save in the tower, to see if this will happen again.
To this day (I am now eighteen), I have never had this happen again to me. I hope by creating this article, I can find someone else who had this happen to them. I will continue trying for this event.
R.I.P. my dream team.
Category:Deletion Log Refugees
Category:Bad Creepypasta
Category:Pokemon
Category:Pointless Violence
Category:English Class Failure
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