In the past, we’ve covered a lot of scary Sonic content – from urban legends about
the franchise, to story beats within the games themselves, Sonic’s history has no shortage
of spooks.
But with this list, we’ll be focusing more so on creepy tales from the perspectives of
players, including creepypastas.
So get ready to be a little freaked out by our list of the top 10 sonic Scary stories.
Or not.
Some of them aren’t all that scary, but they’re at least neat takes on the more
popular Sonic creepypastas out there.
10 Don’t Play Track 01 This story tells of a gamer named Tyler who
bought himself a Dreamcast in 2000, along with Sonic Adventure.
He loved the game, and almost a year had passed since he bought it, and he still adored it.
Tyler even started to listen to the soundtrack on a frequent basis.
So he thought he’d try popping in the disc into his CD player to see if it’d play the
music, despite it being a GD-ROM.
This is when he heard the Dreamcast Disc Warning, informing him that if he continued to play
the disc in the cd player, it could damage the disc.
He ignored the warning and selected Track 01.
This is when his eardrums were assaulted – a loud screeching noise blared out from the
speakers, and continued to do so as the speakers on his CD Player started to leak mercury.
Freaked out, Tyler pulled the disc out and put it back into his Dreamcast as he cleaned
up.
After he was done, he decided to play Sonic Adventure to get his mind off of his screw
up.
But the game was wonky now.
All of the colours were distorted, and his save files were corrupt, so he started a new
game instead, frustrated.
It was almost unbearable to play; there was so much static, and eventually, a warning
popped up on his screen, reading “Your GD-Rom of Sonic Adventure has suffered irreparable
damage”.
Disappointed, Tyler pulled out the disc and smashed it.
For the new several weeks that followed, he would have strange dreams; he was standing
knee deep in mercury, almost drowning in it, before waking up drenched in sweat.
9 Maria’s Revenge This story tells of a player who had recently
learned how to hack and emulate video games and decides to boot up Sonic Adventure 2:
Battle.
He discovers a Maria Robotnik menu theme.
But after he implements it, the game shut down on him.
So he restarted it, but this time, Maria didn’t appear as she did previously.
She was now holding the pose from the Shadow’s Past cutscene, and the graphics had downgraded,
looking as if they were created in MS Paint.
The game lagged, the graphics contorted, but he continued to play.
In the Chao Garden stage, he started to notice that Maria was appearing subtly everywhere
– her head appeared on a rock, her hair on a Chao.
It freaked him out.
So he shut off the game and shut off the Maria theme.
When he continued to play it, she continued to show up, even more, with her head enlarged,
or her naked body visible.
As he continued playing, messages started to appear in the game; words like Kill.
It continues to glitch, and he sees this.
The player ends up having to murder Gerald Robotnik in the game in order to give Maria
peace.
The game then ends with the words ‘Thank You’ before shutting off.
8 Robotnik’s Torture A young woman is playing Sonic CD after going
through a stint of Sonic nostalgia when she introduced her younger sibling to the series.
She’s facing off against Metal Sonic when her game starts to act up.
When Metal Sonic is defeated, rather than falling off screen, he gets stuck by the wall,
and is destroyed by Robotnik’s laser beam.
Thinking this is just a moment in the game she remembered incorrectly, she saves the
game and exits.
The next day, her mother is oddly ill, and she finds her cats hissing at her Sonic Mega
Collections Plus game.
She decides to play some Sonic 1 this time, and when she faces off against Robotnik in
her first boss battle, he smiles menacingly when he’s defeated, and the whole zone turns
into a weird, rusted version of itself.
She sends a message to her boyfriend about the games, and he says he’ll take a look
at them to see if the Collection is a hacked copy.
That night she has a dream about Robotnik, where he threatens her.
Waking up, and unable to fall back asleep, she decides to keep playing Sonic 1.
This is when Robotnik starts addressing her through her television screen, and in order
to make him go away, she fights him, controlling Sonic.
She goes to bed, relieved, believing that this weird Robotnik has been rid of her game.
The next morning, she gets in her email inbox that was in Japanese from an unknown sender.
When she goes to translate it, it reads “you will fear me”.
7 Blackspace Blackspace starts off as a story about the
author’s sister, and how she was an expert at all things Mega Drive, especially Sonic.
When Sonic 3 and Knuckles came out, she managed to find an odd glitch outside of debug mode
that let her drop Sonic over top of the credits and go Super Sonic.
Except instead of yellow, he would turn red.
Eventually, she grew up, and moved out of their family home, leaving the Mega Drive
behind.
Years later, when the family all got back together and were staying over for the holidays,
they busted out the Mega Drive and played some games together.
Later that night, the author couldn’t sleep, and went downstairs for a glass of water.
He decided to play a bit of Sonic 3 and Knuckles until he was tired enough to go back to sleep.
He tried out the glitch his sister used in the past, except this time, all of the rest
of the game turned red.
Eventually, the game glitches more on its own, and Sonic begins to fall.
The player continues screwing around with debug mode, resulting in him bouncing around
Sonic in a game of keepy-uppy – Sonic has a death animation, he turns Sonic into an
object, Sonic bounces up – that cycle continues for a while.
As he continues to play, the game continues to glitch, until one of the sonic sprites
just continues to fall, unresponsive to his controls.
The player then dozes off for a while, waking up later in the night.
What appears on the screen in front of him blows his mind; the screen is entirely black,
but at its bottom is a bunch of squirming sprites.
A split second later, he realizes that it’s a bunch of Sonics twitching and squirming
around in what can only be described as a Sonic landfill.
These were all of the Sonics he was playing keepy-upy with.
6 Possessed Amy If you’ve heard about the deleted zones
in Sonic 2 that some players have found over the years, like Genocide city or Hidden Palace,
this creepypasta will interest you.
Genocide city is notorious for being unsettling; when you load it, a blank screen appears and
Sonic will fall immediately to his death.
Anywho, in this tale, a player receives an unmarked CD in the mail from an old friend
of his that he hasn’t heard from in a while.
So he pops the disc into his computer, and there’s two files on it.
One is labeled undead.exe.
So he opens it, and sees Amy in the original 1991 Sonic game.
Thinking it was a rom, he gets excited, and starts to play.
The character select loads, and it looks like the one from Sonic 3, with tails, sonic and
Sally Acorn appearing.
He decides to play as Tails.
The rest of the story plays out like the Sonic.exe creepypasta.
The game loads, it’s a flat zone, and dead animals begin to appear.
Creepy laughter is heard.
And then Amy appears, flashing periodically on the player’s screen.
Amy’s sprite finally appears in front of Tails, and lunges at him.
The screen goes black, and a loud screeching noise comes out of the player’s computer.
That’s when he hears a female-like distorted voice that says, “aww, that’s too bad!
Let’s try that again!”
5 The Devourer The Devourer is a tale about one of the escaped
servants of Dark Gaia who had appeared after Gaia’s defeat.
The Devourer is said to be an entity that surrounds you in darkness, and after a long
period of silence, will strike you with unimaginable pain.
But, as the creepypasta depicts with several soldiers, when the Devourer tortures you,
you become a monster yourself.
One soldier, by the name of Richard, begins howling in pain.
He opens up his mouth wide, and those around him swear they saw a flash of purple lightning
strike him.
That’s when things get demonic.
Richard begins to attack the soldiers, and pins one down on the ground before beginning
to rip him apart, eating his flesh.
One by one, Richard devours the soldiers, until he falls to the ground, seemingly dead,
amongst the bodies of his victims.
4 The Mega glitch This story is about a gamer who finds his
old Sega Genesis buried in his closet, along with a his copy of Sonic 3 and Knuckles.
He decided to give it a play even though the console was in rough condition.
When he started up the game, he noticed that his save files were all gone.
Shrugging it off, he starts a new game, and after a few hours of play, he beats the game.
So he decides to search through youtube and test out some glitches for fun.
He stumbles upon something called the mega glitch, which allowed a player to ‘loopback’
which took you to a spot in the game that normally crashed, but let you avoid it, therefore
witnessing some really crazy glitches.
So he gives it a go, and after a few attempts, he manages to succeed, but after a few minutes,
his system shuts down.
Assuming it was busted, he decides to play Sonic Generations on his Ps3 instead.
The game lags, music doesn’t play, and Sonic has a weird expression on his face.
When he’s killed by an enemy, Sonic has a different death sequence.
White noise blasts through the player’s speakers, and the enemies keep attacking him
instead of him respawning.
After a few minutes, he eventually respawns.
As he continues to play, Sonic keeps getting killed in brutal ways that the player doesn’t
remember the game ever featuring.
After dying again and again, the player hears Sonic saying something over and over in a
high pitch.
It’s the word mega glitch.
But before the player could further investigate, his screen went black, and the lava reef stage
music began to play.
The player tried to make the system function again, but he couldn’t, yet the music kept
playing.
And that’s when he realized it- the music wasn’t coming from his system.
It was in his head, and it wouldn’t stop.
3 Sonic Depression Sonic Depression is a creepypasta about a
player who finds a cartridge of Sonic the Hedgehog.
Except, when he plays the game, the logo isn’t the Sonic logo we all recognize.
It’s a different one that reads Sonic Depression.
He starts the game.
Rather than the first title card reading Green Hill Zone Act 1, the text has been replaced
with the word ‘life’.
The level plays like normal, though.
But by the time he gets to Act 2, the title card is different again, and reads ‘confusion’.
This act was altered – there were only a handful of enemies and obstacles.
Sonic’s sprite had a sad expression on its face as he navigated the level.
He then shuts it off and goes to school.
When he returns home, he brings a friend to show him the game, but the game is now frozen.
His friend goes home, and the game unfreezes.
A text box pops up and reads “only one may see this.”
The next level is titled ‘depression’ and is void of enemies.
The whole stage is flat.
He moves Sonic forward, and discovers a tombstone with Sonic’s name on it.
Before he knows it, a pair of spikes shoot up and hit Sonic.
Another title card appears and reads ‘realization’.
Sonic reappears on his screen.
But this time, the ground beneath him is crumbling, and the screen is soon engulfed in black.
The player tries to move Sonic, speeding away from the abyss, but it’s too fast for him,
and consumes Sonic.
2 Tails’ Abuse One night, a player was up late playing Sonic
2 on an emulator.
Bored of traversing through the stages, he thought he’d have a little fun by messing
around with Tails and some enemies, taunting his foes.
He was enjoying himself until Tails’ animation changed to the animation he makes when he’s
drowning.
Tails dropped out of the frame and didn’t return, so the player reset his game.
When the game booted back up, Tails was missing from the opening logo.
When the game began, there was only the option to play Sonic; Tails was missing from there,
too.
He shut off the game again and reset it.
This time around, the logo glitched, but after the game started up, everything seemed normal.
But when he reached the first boss with Tails, the character’s drowning animation appeared
again, and the screen turned white.
A text box appeared that read ‘you killed him.’
The player tried to turn off the game and the system.
It didn’t work, but something did happen.
The player ended up in the Chemical Plant Zone.
Blood was everywhere.
And Sonic appeared, but was out of his control.
Another text box appeared that simply read ‘yes or no’.
The player chose no, but wasn’t allowed to select it.
Regretfully, they selected yes, and 5 seconds later, after the screen faded to black, Tails’
corpse appeared.
1 Anti-Sonic.dll This story is said to be derived from an audio
file found on a website that was available to the public for 3 days before it was taken
down.
The mp3 contained 26 minutes of a voice speaking – someone named Chris Laurence – discussing
an experience that ties into Sonic.exe.
If you’re unfamiliar, the Sonic.exe myth is about a PC port of Sonic the Hedgehog that
contained a demonic version of the main character, and is said to have haunted and chased down
those who played it.
Chris tells of how he heard about Sonic.exe from a top 10 youtube video, so he decided
to hunt down a copy of it.
He did, played it, and was fascinated by it.
It wasn’t the original game, but rather one crafted after the original myth.
Shortly afterwards, someone by the name of Gamma added him as a friend on Steam.
Before he could send them a message through, Gamma beat him to it, calling Chris by his
name.
Chris began to hear laughter through his headphones.
His monitor began to act up, and scratch marks appeared.
They grew bigger and bigger, and became gashes that looked like flesh was beneath the cuts.
Then a moment later, all of the noise and damage was gone.
He goes on to describe stranger and strange events happening to his computer, until the
audio file cuts out briefly, turning into static and then cutting to what sounds like
wind.
Then a voice returns, and it’s this.
The audio clip cuts to a mixture of audio clips and screams before returning to Chris’
voice warning people about playing Sonic.exe, all of which sounds like he’s gone completely
mental, and is hallucinating.
You can then hear Chris struggling with something in the background, and gunfire is heard, then
it becomes static once more.
There we have it friends!
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