Oh creepy pastas! What popular game franchise doesn’t have them? Like many of the other
creepy pasta videos we’ve touched on on our channel, Mario and his pals have a slew
of internet myths that have been written about them over the years. Some are down right spooky.
Others seem far from being fact. And all of them are rather entertaining. So today, we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10 Scary Mario Creepy Pastas. Let’s jump in!
10 MARIO Like many a creepy pasta, this internet tale
tells the story of a player who stumbled upon a Mario ROM online, and decided to try it
out. It was titled simply Mario. When the player opened up the ROM on their computer,
they were greeted by 2 files. One was a text file titled a slew of numbers, and the other
was an IPS file titled Mario. When opening the text file, he discovered that it was empty
all for a bunch of indistinguishable symbols and seemingly random letter, leading them
to think perhaps the author of the ROM accidentally tried to copy the games data into text form.
But upon taking a closer look, he was able to decipher the words ‘find me’ written
over and over and over again. When starting the game, he knew something was off; Mario,
rather than Bowser, was the villain of the game. He decided to continue playing anyway.
As he progressed further, strange notes would appear, at first just a series of random numbers,
but later contained messages like I hate you. Eventually, he arrived to Yoshi’s Island
2, only to discover the game looked much different than it should; the colours had changed, and
the vegetation in the foreground was no longer present. When he freed Yoshi, Yoshi told him
that Mario had trapped him inside that egg. That’s when things got weird. Message boxes
from Yoshi kept appearing, as if the dinosaur was trying to communicate with him through
them. He kept playing. As the levels progressed, they became more barren. At one point, he
killed Yoshi while trying to jump over falling pits, which prompted the message, this is
the selfish way. Yoshi, now fallen into the depths below, kept communicating with him.
Messages like don’t you think you’ve caused enough trouble? Kept popping up. By the end,
he was taken to a small dark room with a pipe. He entered the pipe, which would then reveal
Mario on a black screen, He was unable to move or exit the level. Then, he heard a crash,
the video game representation of death. That’s when he connected the dots; the whole game
was Mario attempting to atone for his actions and the deaths of others. Fun fact, this Mario
game is actually the basis for a Super Mario World ROM hack that you can download yourself
and play, much like the famous Sonic.exe creepy pasta game.
9 Paper Mario Cursed Star This creepy pasta has made the rounds on the
interwebs for a while, and has even been criticized by some to be the worst Mario creepypasta
out there. But I’ll let you guys be the judge. There’s two variations of it. The
first is that a 15 year old boy got Paper Mario Sticker Star for Christmas, and after
playing the game for a while, he realized that the toad characters who appear in the
game were acting strangely; all of them were stuck and essentially, it just glitched out,
and freaked him out. So you can see why that version isn’t overly interesting. The other
version of the story is that he got the game, and the same events occur, except that one
of the Toad characters told him in the game that he was dead. When the player saved the
game and returned to the game play, that toad was covered in something that appeared to
be blood. Freaked out, the kid continued to play, but every toad he came across afterwards
had no eyes. This is when he realized that the game must’ve been a hack. The story
then goes on to claim that after playing, his soul was stuck inside of the card, and
that now he can’t truly ever die because of it, and is therefore tormented because
of his encounter with the Toad character. 8 Super Mario 128
According to this creepy pasta, after Nintendo released Mario 64, they were looking to impress
with its follow up title. The plan was to try to aim for more realistic graphics and
violence, much like the kinds of games that were coming out on the original Playstation
system at the time. So in an attempt to make a Mario game that appealed to a wider audience,
developers crafted up some test concepts, all of which Mario creator Miyamoto has denied
ever existed to this day. This creepy pasta follows the efforts of one gamer trying out
one of these test concepts, with him claiming to have witnessed some really traumatizing
content. During Mario’s adventure, all of his friends shun him and desert him. The locations
in the game were filled with creepy things like children’s skeletons. Bowser, who looked
too realistic for their liking, kills Mario by eating him. And the game ends with Mario
stuck in purgatory. Yeah, best they let that concept die.
7 Why I will Never Play Another Mario Game This one comes as a warning from the author.
On his 12th birthday, his parents gave him 200 dollars and went away for the weekend,
so he decided to go spent it all n a new video game. When he arrived at his local shop, all
they had was one game left. It was odd, a cartridge with a sticky note on it that read
‘do not, under any circumstance, sell.’ Unsure of what game it was, the kid decided
to pay off the teenage clerk extra money for it, and lo and behold, when he popped it into
his N64, it was Super Mario 64! Exactly what he had wanted! He ran home and started to
play it. Everything was normal at first with the title screen and opening bit with Peach.
But when the game itself started, something was off. He thought it may have been some
weird knock off, which is why it was marked at the shop to not be sold. Peach’s letter
at the beginning now read “Dear player: you don’t know what you are getting into.
Turn off your system now and get help. Yours truly, the previous owner.” Too excited
to worry about this strange warning, he continued to play anyway. Afterwards, he ran into Toad.
Toad also had an odd message, telling him, “You will die if you continue. Turn off
the game or I will kill you,” The kid figured it was some weird hacked copy of the game,
and his curiosity got the best of him. He continued to play, with no issue with any
of the levels at all. But when he made it into the castle, the floor fell through, and
Mario landed onto rock, with a text bubble popping up reading Welcome to Hell. That’s
where things started to look really different. Enemies had black eyes. Things in the game
were glitching. There were endless hallways that seemed to go on forever. As he progressed,
he found something terrifying. A pixelized picture of a dog. But not any dog. His recently
dead pet Lassie. That’s when he heard noises coming outside of his bedroom door. Bolting
the door, he panicked, and felt his room started to vibrate. He went back to the game. But
his tv was now all static. Next thing he knew, he woke up in a hospital bed. Later he would
track down who the previous player of the game was through his game shop. It was a boy
named Jeff, who had died when his parents found him in his room, having strangled himself
with the cord of his N64 controller. 6 Mario Kart Purgatory
This one is about a gamer playing Mario Kart. They had finally made it to the final course
of the Special Cup, meaning they were racing on Rainbow Road. Using their favourite character,
Toad, they were off on to a solid start in the first lap, and managed to get their way
to 1st place. But as they were speeding away, on a turn, they were knocked with a red shell.
And to their surprise, they were knocked off the course. Normally, under these circumstances,
a player would see the animation that lifted them back up onto the courses road. But this
time, no animation came. Toad, inside of his kart, kept falling. And falling. And falling.
After a minute of this, the player got frustrated, and turned the game off. They rebooted it,
hoping it was a glitch, but to their surprise, every other course in the game now was locked.
All they could play was Rainbow Road. So they decided to start that race again. But as soon
as the race started, after the count down, they would automatically appear to be falling
below the track once more. Frustrated even more so, they shut off the game. That night,
they began having nightmares, seeing Toad falling and falling, but this time, Toad fell
through the fiery depths of what appeared to be Hell. The player awoke, and was unable
to fall back to sleep. These nightmares persisted, and every time they tried to play the game
again, the same thing would happen. Only Rainbow Road was accessible, and they would continue
to fall. After a week of having the same nightmare, they decided to throw out the disk, writing
the words ‘DO NOT PLAY’ on it in sharpie. Since, they’ve never dreamt of Toad falling
through hell ever again. 5 The Bowsette Killer
If you’re privy to the recent internet sensation that is Bowsette, you’ll probably get a
kick out of this one. And if you aren’t you should check out our top 10 video on Bowsette
facts after this, It’s a hoot. Anyway, this story is about a fellow who had a particular
interest in Bowsette. Now Bowsette is a bit odd to some; she’s an amalgamation of Peach
and Bowser, with Bowser using a special crown mechanic in the games to transform into a
Peach-ified version. This fellow, our protagonist, was really into Bowsette. I mean, REALLY INTO
HER. He would get his rocks off by checking out Bowsette fan art, reading Bowsette fan
fiction, and watching the videos that cosplayer Jessica Nigri posted of herself dressed up
as Bowsette. After one particular hands on session of appreciating Bowsette, our protagonist
went out in the middle of the night to the nearby 7/11 to get some grub. On his way home,
he chose to cut through a nearby alley to get back home quicker. As he was walking down
the alley, he heard a crashing noise by the dumpster behind him. So he turned around.
Standing there in the dark, he saw the silhouette of a woman. But not just any woman. A woman
who looked like Bowsette. Astonished, he thought his mind was playing tricks on him, until
he realized she had a dripping knife in her hand. Then,before he could realize what was
happening, she was racing towards him, the knife raised. He panicked and began to ran,
but the figure kept chasing him. Finally, he got to his house, ran through the door
and locked it. Breathing hard, he looked through the peep hole, but saw nothing. The next day,
he told his friends what happened, but they all mocked him, calling him a wanker. He was
humiliated. But he knew what he saw was real. Later that night, he turned on the news to
see a report about a serial killer; a woman, who ran around in the middle of the night
dressed as a dominatrix who killed unsuspecting men. It may not have been Bowsette, but he
did almost lose his life. 4 The Haunted Save
The Haunted Save tells the tale of a bored gamer who had developed a New Years resolution
of playing through all of their unfinished video games. Since they had succeeded in doing
so, they were out of games to play. That’s when they got an email. The subject of the
email read ‘Get old bootleg SNES cartridges! Only in today’s e-auction!” Opportunity
knocking! They hit up the e-auction, and managed to win a copy of bootleg copy of Super Mario
World. Two weeks later, the game arrived in the mail. Weirdly enough, the cartridge’s
label was half torn off, with only the letters U E R M R and D visible. Thinking nothing
of it, they popped the cartridge into their system and began to play. Everything looked
normal at first. And there was still a save file on the cartridge, titled Save File 1,
so they decided to take a look. It opened on the level in which Yoshi first appears.
The level looked odd though, different than they reminded Super Mario World appearing.
That’s when they happened upon a small red hill with a dark red pipe on top of it. They
went down the pipe. After falling for what felt like 30 seconds, they hit the ground
to discover Bowser standing there, watching. So the player hit the power button, but then
text appeared on the screen. It read You wouldn’t want to that, would you? That’s when both
Mario and Bowser turned towards the screen, which looked freaky as hell. More text popped
up. You want a surprise? Bowser pulled out what can only be described as a portal gun.
All of a sudden, all the player could see was lava. Everything around them looked like
lava. It was as if they were hallucinating. That’s when they connected the dots. The
letters that were on the cartridge, when rearranged, spelt out the word Murder.
3 Super Mario Galaxy This creepypasta is about a gamer who wanted
to play his favourite game, Super Mario Galaxy had been long been destroyed from wear and
tear, so he headed down to his local game shop to see if he could find a copy. Then
something weird happened. As he was walking over, he found a copy of the game sticking
out of a trash can. Curious, he picked it up, and thinking he got super lucky, he brought
it home. When he put the disc in his Wii to start playing, it was pretty laggy, but eventually
got better the more he played. Unfortunately, the game froze on him, with an error that
read ‘ERROR: FLOATING TILE EXCEPTION. IF WANTED, PLEASE SEND A REPORT TO 71773740@5100470474.COM.
Just as he was about to take the disk out, a new message popped up on the screen that
read Enter Disk in PC. So he did exactly that, but instead of the game showing up, a folder
appeared that read ‘OPEN_NOW’. He decided to run a virus check on it, but it came up
clean. He opened the folder and inside were 5 files. WATCHME.avi, HEY.txt, YOUDONOTWANTME.wav
and RAIN.wav, and INFO.txt. He opened the info file first. It read ‘this disk is just
a test’ over and over again. Then he clicked on the avi file. It was a video of a deranged
man dancing to a song, but rather than the song playing, it was a bunch of screams. This
went on for 30 seconds. HEY.txt read ‘hey there. You don’t know me, but I’m spying
on you.’ The rain wav file was the sound of calming rain, and the last wav file had
audio to someone saying the phrase Dispose of me. I am a mess, repeated multiple times.
That’s when things took a turn for the worse. Our protagonist heard a knock on his door.
Looking through the window next to the door, he saw a mysterious man standing there, starring
back at him through the window. The protagonist went away, but that’s when he heard his
front door burst open. The mysterious individual was now inside their home. He hid, but that
didn’t help much. In a matter of seconds, he was found, and the last thing he remembers
before falling into a deep sleep were a pair of piercing cold eyes that felt like they
were burrowing into his soul. 2 The Stage Play
This creepypasta tells the story of a gamer playing Super Mario Bros 3. There was a long
running theory about this game that it was actually all just a stage play, based on the
way the game looked, the curtains that opened at the beginning, and the belief that Mario
killing Bowser at the end was all just an act. Years later, Mario creator Shigeur Miyamoto
confirmed this theory to be true. This Mario myth turned fact inspired this creepypasta.
So the gamer dives into the game, deciding to try to beat it in one go. While playing
though, she notices a few glitches throughout. Thinking nothing more of it other than its
an old ROM that she’s running on her computer, she continues, trying her best to ignore it.
But after a while, the glitches increase, making it hard to play at times. She eventually
manages to get to the end. But in the final moments, when Mario is supposed to kill Bowser,
a different character appears. Bowser is no longer there. Rather, it’s a 16 bit character
with a yellow shirt and blue jeans. This just so happened to match what the gamer was wearing.
A little freaked out, she continues to watch the game’s final moments as Mario kills
this strange figure that resembles her. The second that the character dies, she feels
chest pain, she feels faint, and passes out. When she wakes up in the hospital, she tries
to tell her family members and the doctor what happened. They all look at each other,
concerned. That’s when her sibling tells her something startling. When they found her,
passed out in front of her computer, there was a note on its screen that read “I’m
watching” up on her desktop. There was no sign of Super Mario Bros 3 at all.
1 Super Mario 64 This one is fairly well known. It tells the
story of a gamer who, in their childhood, had fond memories of playing Super Mario 64
while at their aunt’s house. Years later, as they’re watching gameplay footage on
YouTube, an ad pops up, and it leads them to a site with a mint condition version of
the game. Normally not seduced by ads like this, they decide to check it out anyway.
The site functioned oddly though, with the customers required to transfer the money for
their purchase over to an address on the website. They buy it, and a few days later, it arrives
in the mail, but they notice that the URL they purchased it from had disappeared entirely.
The bust out their old N64 and put the cartridge in and the title screen appears. But immediately
something is off. Static starts to appear, and Mario’s face weirdly distorts on the
title screen. So the player shuts off the system and turns it back on. This time, things
go smoothly, and they start a new game. But the game skips over the intro with Peach’s
monologue. Instead, it starts off with Mario inside Bowsers castle, facing a silent Bowser.
There’s no music. From there, he starts to explore, and weird things keep occurring.
He sees disturbing photos of Luigi hung up on walls. Images of Mario’s corpse scattered
around the games world. He runs into the Mad Piano, who mauls his Mario. And finally, he
makes his way back to the castle, only to find Peach standing there, her mouth gaping
wide, and her eyes dead black. His Mario is then engulfed in darkness. When the screen
fades back in, he's lost all of his lives, and he’s on a small secluded island. There’s
only a sign that reads DIVE. So he does. But as he swims downwards, there’s nothing there.
No fish. The ocean is empty. After what feels like an eternity, out of nowhere, Unagi the
Eel appears and eats him whole. The game fades out. But what fades in scares the player.
It’s a photograph of his family. No matter how many times he tries to turn off the system,
it remains on his screen. There we have it friends! Are there other
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