Fortnite has quickly become a pop culture phenomena – back in February of this year,
it was reported that there were 3.4 million concurrent players on the game, breaking records.
So of course, the game has its fair share of odd occurrences and seemingly supernatural
moments – some quite rooted in fantasy, while others a little too close to reality
for our liking.
Today we’ll be counting down some of those shivering situations with our list of the
top 10 scary Fortnite Stories.
Worth noting that we’ll be focusing more so on scary things that have happened during
the game or concerning someone who was playing the game rather than getting into creepypasta
territory – which we’ll actually have a list on coming up sometime soon on our channel,
in case you’re curious.
And we’re talking scary things to do with the game as a whole, not just within the Battle
Royale mode.
With all that in mind though, let’s get to it!
10 Ghosts Every now and then, a ghost story in Fortnite
will pop up on Reddit or on the Epic Games forums.
And often, they’re just the result of an animation glitch.
But to those who encounter these glitches, upon first glance, they can totally seem to
be some sort of ghoulish presence.
Combine that will playing the game at 1am or later, and it can get pretty freaky.
Here we have one case of a spooked player who posted a video of them spotting what appears
to be a ghost in the distance.
The figure in question moves along a hill in a straight line, almost as if they’re
floating by.
Commenters were quick to point out that it was a glitch, but one can easily see how upon
first glance, that’s some creepy s***.
9 Fortnite Fire Alarm This number is more of a freaky story as opposed
to horrific – a what if cautionary tale.
So this player, who goes by the name of sundevilsig, posted a story on Reddit about how Fortnite
prevented his apartment from burning down.
Actually!
In the story, he outlines how he’s been addicted to the game the past few months,
with it being the reason why he’s staying up later than he normally would.
One night, around 12:45am, he was just wrapping up playing for the night when he noticed smoke
in his apartment.
The alarm hadn’t gone off.
He popped outside to see if the smoke was coming from elsewhere, and upon returning,
the smoke had become even more excessive, so he called the fire department.
Turns out that the water heater in the building had shorted out and caused an electrical fire
in the building’s walls.
Had he not been awake from playing Fortnite, his apartment could have been burnt down,
and who knows how badly he could have been hurt.
8 Metamorphosis As with many video games, Fortnite is susceptible
to glitches.
Including utterly terrifying ones.
In this clip, posted on Reddit by Nomnipotent, we see how one of his pals glitches into a
horrific pose – on hands and knees – moving at a super quick speed, transforming him into
something that looked like it crawled straight out of an Exorcist film.
While it may not be a scary story, it sure is hilariously creepy.
7 The Singing Girl There have been multiple rumours about players
spotting a girl singing in forested parts of the map in the game.
Some say it sounds like the voice is that of a little girls’.
While most suspect this is an Easter Egg plopped in by Epic Games as a ghost of someone who
died before the breakout – you know, the thing that the game was about before it was
popularized as a battle royale game – but others think she’s a little girl who has
morphed into husks, and keep the other husks asleep by singing.
Others have said that noise of the singing sounded directional, and that when they followed
it, the singing was replaced by laughter.
6 Creepy Laughter The Singing Girl isn’t the only creepy noise
that multiple players have picked up on in the game.
Players have noted that they’ve encountered creepy laughter – or something that at least
sounds like creepy laughter – while playing the game.
One thread on Reddit tried to dive into this more – according to user SwishLife24, the
most common speculation is that the noise is coming from husks.
But, fear not!
There’s actually an explanation.
As part of a recent update, one of the new challenges involves searching for gnomes – the
ones responsible for the laughter.
There’s seven in total.
Not so scary now, is it?
5 Webcam Horror This one was posted on Reddit by a user named
KronixPC.
Kronix tells of how he hopped on his computer one day to discover that someone had been
accessing his webcam.
Aside from the webcam, he had YouTube and Fortnite open on his computer.
The process that was detected was a weird mysterious one he didn’t recognize, but
he shut it down, and his webcam turned off.
A few hours later, he decides to play some Fortnite, and that’s when he discovers a
picture of his forehead is one his screen in the bottom right hand corner that only
appeared when the game was open, taken hours ago when the sun was pouring through his window.
Luckily, other Reddit users were quick to offer explanations as to how this could have
happened, but it’s still creepy nonetheless.
4 Jump Scares With over three million people playing a game,
you’re bound to get a bit spooked by someone every now and then.
This was very much the case for user NiteFortLegend on Reddit – the player uploaded a video
of themselves standing next to a door in Tilted Towers, waiting to take out another player
that they could hear outside of the building.
Standing by the door, they hear footsteps just outside, that slowly start to disappear.
Until they get louder that is.
And louder, and louder, and then- YUP.
I’D JUMP TOO.
Luckily they ended up getting the upper hand on the situation.
Still creepy nonetheless.
3 Creaky Doors If that didn’t freak you out, this video,
posted by Xbox user Steezur, totally will.
He’s inside of a house in Salty Springs, and can hear someone lurking around outside
– someone clapping, to be precise.
The clapping gets louder and louder, and the front door to the house keeps creaking open.
Doors can sometimes be tricky business as far as Fortnite is concerned, and in this
clip, Steezur witnesses this the hard way.
After trying to shut the front door of this house twice, someone wearing the nutcracker
skin bursts through it and starts firing away at him.
Talk about using fear as an intimidation tactic.
2 School Shootings Shooting up a school is no laughing matter.
And as this Reddit user, J29ID reiterates in his post on the site, it’s terrifying
to hear.
The user encountered a 21 year old player who claimed they were planning to shoot up
schools in Pittsburgh.
The player stated that this was going to be his very last Fortnite game, and bragged,
I quote, “On Monday I’m shooting up schools, bro.
As many as I can before I get killed by the cops.”
The
male in the video also claimed to have two AK 47s and a handgun, and that he was motivated
by hatred towards people.
What’s worse is that earlier on in the video, you can hear a kid playing with them, who
was probably scared shitless – the kid becomes quickly absent on voice chat after the player
starts divulging his plan.
This prompted a lockdown of various schools in the identified area to go on lockdown on
the Monday following the video’s posting.
While the police investigation discovered that it was a hoax, the Pittsburgh Public
Safety director made a statement that sums up the importance of the lockdown, and the
importance of having players report claims like these, saying that they take matters
like these very seriously.
1 Pedophiles Fortnite attracts players of many ages – whether
you’re a kid or you’re in a gamer in your 50s, the battle royale mode has no shortage
of appeal.
But, like many other games that allow for players to chat while gunning each other down,
sometimes things can get a little out of hand.
And we’re not taking dudes trolling little kids on GTA V out of hand.
One mother from London, England, was sitting with her 10 year old son Tyler while he was
playing Fortnite on their television.
As he played, she heard the sound an older man giggling coming from the TV’s speakers.
The voice was attempting to talk to her son, calling him by the name she had set his account
up as – a pseudonym, Danny.
He kept saying “Put your headset on, Danny” and “do you know what sex is?”
Horrified, she shut off the system.
Tyler, who has been diagnosed with autism, was traumatized by the incident, and it led
to Tessa’s efforts to warn other parents about perverts trying to reach out to kids
through the in-game chat.
Shortly after, reports of other incidents also started popping up online – one account
involved a man trying to coax a 12 year old into send him nude photos.
She also recorded the encounter.
There we have it.
While some of those scary stories feel like they’re downright fiction, that last one
was pretty nasty, eh?
But I think it goes without saying not to trust creepy dudes looking to get their kicks
by sexually harassing kids on a video game.
Just saying.
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