Pokemon creepy pastas are some of the most intense gaming themed creepy pastas (and scariest)
out there.
Often, these online urban legends takes the concept of the game and twists it, leading
to nostalgic players experiencing horrific consequences when something goes wrong in
their game, or they stumble upon a nefarious copy of one of the original titles.
So today, we’re taking a closer look at a few of those, but with a slight twist; all
of the ones we’ve included on this list are Pokemon creepy pastas that have been adapted
into actual video games that you can download and play (typically for free, too).
We only have 5 for you today (since the creepy pastas can get quite long).
So with that in mind, let’s get to our list of the top pokemon creepy pastas you can play!
5 Pokemon Cursed Forever Cursed Forever’s creepy pasta is as follows:
the narrator begins their tale by stating that they’ve always loved Pokemon, specifically
the first three gameboy titles, Red Blue and Yellow.
Hating emulators, they managed to find a copy of Pokemon yellow and an old gameboy colour.
After he bought them and returned home, he attempted to play the game.
Immediately, he realized the title lacked sound.
Assuming the cartridge was a little glitchy, he wasn’t surprised when the music kicked
in at the main title screen, and that Pikachu, who appears on the title screen, was missing
his eyes.
When Professor Oak appeared, his head and arms were missing.
When our narrator decided to test out the previous game saved on the cartridge, it got
even weirder.
Pikachu’s special emotion window appeared, the electric Pokemon looked incredibly solemn.
Then the game continued in Professor Oak’s lab.
Pallet Town wasn’t like how our narrator remembered.
It was entirely deserted, with only himself and the lab remaining.
Walking north of the town in the tall grass brought forth more surprises; the grass was
populated by Pokemon who shouldn’t have been there, like Gengars and Alakazams and
Cubones.
The only option that appeared when he’d get into a battle was run.
Eventually the player got to Viridian city, which was severely glitched.
The only building they could enter was the pokecenter, which looked demented on the inside.
Nurse Joy had been replaced by a Chansey who let our a deranged cry, and a battle between
the Chansey and the player began.
The only option available yet again was run, but this time, they couldn’t escape.
The Chansey then used anattack called Uhcakip.
Pikachu backwards.
Chansey then fainted.
All of a sudden, another pokemon, an evil looking Pikachu spirte appeared, and a new
battle began.
Now, the player’s spirte had an HP bar, and a battle ensued.
Long story short, Uhcakip wins the battle, they returned to Viridian city, everything
was even more demented, and a text boxes appeared declaring the player had caught Uhcakip.
And eventually, a screen appears on the player’s gameboy that reads ‘cursed forever’, and
no matter what he did, what button he pressed, that screen wouldn’t go away, except for
when he turned the gameboy off.
Sounds intruging to you?
Well its been adapted into a game you can download online at gameholt.com and play!
4 The Original Pokemon Red and Blue - Lavender Town Syndrome
So this one is a bit of an exception on our list.
It’s the reverse – a creepy pasta spawned from the game that you can in fact play, although,
you likely won’t find yourself getting deathly ill.
So let’s back track for a sec.
One of the most prominent Pokemon creepy pastas is Lavender Town Syndrome.
It’s an urban legend that tells of how kids in Japan after playing the initial Pokemon
Red and Green games (it came out as Blue in North America, fyi), a bunch of them got really
ill, to the point where there was allegedly reported suicides.
This was caused by a specific high pitch that can be heard only by the years of younger
individuals; the Lavender Town theme was said to have this pitch, and, depending on the
version of the tale you’re reading, it was added in maliciously by a member of the design
team working on the games, later taken out in releases of the titles afterwards.
Whether or not you believe the tale to be true, you can actually test it out yourself
if you’re able to get a copy of the Japanese Red or Green cartridges (which might cost
you a pretty penny nowadays.)
3 Pokemon Black This fictional version of Pokemon black is
said to turn it’s players into cold blooded killers.
Fun!
Not to be mistaken with the actual 2010 Pokemon Black, this one, spawned from a creepy pasta
and said to be salvaged from a flea market in 2005, begins as Pokemon Red and Blue do,
but instead of choosing between three starter pokemon, you choose between four, with the
fourth being a pokemon called GHOST.
If you select Ghost, it starts at level one, and only has one move titled ‘curse’.
Not that that matters though, because almost every pokemon who faces Ghost is, I quote,
“too scared to move”.
When Curse is used, the screen cuts to black, you hear the cry of the opposing Pokemon,
and then the screen would reappear, with the pokemon having disappeared entirely.
After defeating the Elite 4, the game would go askew again, with text appearing on the
screen that read “many years later....” and then the screen cutting to Lavender town.
Your sprite becomes an old man looking at tombstones in lavender town, no longer having
any pokemon in your roster, not even Ghost.
The game is now empty of people, with only tombstones remaining scattered throughout
the land.
It’s then revealed to you that everyone you cursed with Ghost’s curse move was killed
by you and your pokemon.
You then come across Ghost once more, in a battle, with your only move being ‘struggle’,
which chips down your own health until its almost entirely depleted.
Ghost then uses curse on you, and your screen fades to black.
If you reboot the gameboy, your saved game is gone.
But you can play it!
Often referred to as Pokemon Creepy Black, you can download mods to play on emulators
that allow you to experience this unsettling version.
2 Snow on Mount Silver The Snow on Mount Silver creepy pasta follows
a sister and brother, narrated by the former, who grew up together collecting Pokemon games.
As they got older, they decided to dabble with hacking some of those games using a GameShark,
but when it failed, the sister, our faitfhul narrator, gave up on hacking games for the
most part.
Her brother, on the other hand, became obsessed.
One day, after returning from a sleep over at a friends, the sister came home looking
for her brother, wanting to trade pokemon with him after having a particularly hard
time with the Elite 4 in Pokemon Gold.
When she found her brother, she discovered all of his pokemon cartridges smashed and
damaged on the living room floor, and him sitting on the edge of his bed, his face pale,
a hammer in hand, and his GBA destroyed.
When she went over to give him a hug, he saw her GBA in her pocket and screamed, hurtling
it over into the nearby wall.
The sister went over and turned it on to see if it still worked.
It did, and when the Pokemon theme began to play, her brother screamed once more, picking
up the hammer.
He ended up in the hispital for two days.
During his stay, he asked his sister to get rid of whatever games were left in his room.
But when she arrived back home, curiousity got the best of her; she had to see what he
had seen, what had made him go manic in this way.
She found a gameshark code in his notes, a string of uintelligable numbers and letters
with the phrase ‘easter egg- snow on mt silver’ written next to it.
So she tossed in the cheat code into his GBA with Pokemon Silver,
It’s another title you can download from gamejolt.com, so definitely head on over there
and check it out.
The opening titles were perfectly normal.
It wasn’t until she saw the time on the saved game (999:99) that she knew something
was off.
Eventually a dim map appeared and it looked like static, but turns out, it was the Mt
Silver map, that static being heavy falling snow.
She began to explore.
Her spirite hit an invisible wall, and the text “I can’t turn back now” appeared.
Even after using an escape rope, she still couldn’t leave the area.
More strange dialogue continued to appear over the next several minutes, including the
sprite announcing that he was cold, and her brother’s Pokemon in his roster dying off.
At the submit of the mountain, Red was no longer there.
Instead, it was Celebi, whose spirte looked mangled.
It used a move called Perish Song, and a screech came out of her GBA.
She was teleported to a cave rather than a pokemon center, and all of the Pokemon were
mauled.
The trainer on the trainer card was missing a leg.
All the pokemon looked frost bitten.
Eventually she came across Red’s spirte.
A battle began.
Each of their pokemon were barely alive, their sprites mangled, and every time they fainted,
rather than the text box stating as such, it said the pokemon had died.
Eventually, our narrator had come to the conclusion that this sub level of the mountain was some
type of hellscape where all of these deceased Pokemon, her sprite, and Red’s spirte now
lived.
Eventually, after the battle ended, a now mangled looking Red said the words “it’s
over”.
Texted appeatred that read “used destiny bond!” and our narrator’s screen went
white, followed by a painful screech emitting from her game boy’s speakers.
Then the screen went black.
She tossed out the game, the gameboy and the gameshark.
And her and her brother have never been able to play a pokemon game since.
But you still can!
Including an adapted version of this creepy pasta.
1 Hypno’s Lullaby Hypno’s Lullaby is one of the more interesting
and unique creepy pastas on our list.
It began as a creepy pasta poemin the vein of the pied piper, in which the psychic Pokemon
Hypno lures children away from their homes using his hypnotism abilities and then feeds
on their dreams for all of eternity.
Here’s a taste of the poem for you.
I quote, “Come little children, come with me/ safe and happy you will be/ away from
your homes, now let us run/ with Hypno, you’ll have so much fun./ Oh little children, please
don’t cry/ Hypno wouldn’t hurt a fly/ Be free, be free be free to play/come down
in my cave with me to stay.”
It gets darker from there, too.
The poem began circulating around 2010, and then, the same year, a youtuber uploaded an
actual song using the poem, which was creepy AF anbd scored itself 3 million views.
Now, you can actually download a fan made version of the game, which began circulating
online around 2013.
It’s a rom hack of Pokemon Fire Red and you encounter an evil hypno who kidnaps children.
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