Creepy Pastas Plus Creepy Pokemon Black

     Creepy pasta roughly translates to scary story. They usually get related to video games, due to the content they have, or the characters of the games, can be used to tell a creepy story. When told creatively and with realism, they become poop in your pants, pee soaking your underwear, too scared to sleep in the dark scary! Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating, but when they give that realistic effect, it feels as if it really happened. In pokemon, there are a lot of them, due to so many optional characters(as there is no one pokemon of each species--as you can be the main character).

     Since it's close to Halloween, I feel like sharing a few of them, but not go word for word: I'll simply summarize and give my imput on it. There are good and popular ones out there, and maybe you heard about them. However, others are popular, but have clear reasons to not be real. Most I'm talking about there is ones involving Lavander Town in the original Red, Blue, and Yellow versions. It's a creepy town, but the stories people make up(i.e. Conspiracies, syndromes, white hand and buried alive, ect). Overall, most of the creepy pastas written are not true. I only say most, because with the realistic effect given, and the open-ended ending, I feel like some are possibly true, but the author hasn't revealed the true answer.

     The story I'll share today is Pokemon Creepy Black. This story was written before the actual pokemon black was even revealed, so the title received creepy in it to tell the difference. The link to the story itself if you want to take a look:

http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Pokemon_Black

     The story starts out with a fan of pokemon bootleg games(hacked pokemon games with different content, or even different fake pokemon!). The author picks up this cartridge of a first generation pokemon game at a flea market five years prior to the story, and tests it out like he does with other bootleg games.



     What happens is the author gets a ghost like the ones from the pokemon tower, and it knows curse, which wasn't around in first generation. Ghost would use this move, the screen would cut to black, a distorted cry of the defending pokemon would be heard, and the pokemon would be gone. If it was a trainer's pokemon, one less pokeball would be in the roster, implying death. After winning the battle and getting the money from the trainer(because who doesn't like money after killing someone's pokemon?), you have the option to use curse on the trainer, or run. Run, and the battle ends as normal, use curse, and a similar effect happens to the trainer, and a tombstone takes their place in the overworld.

     After using this move constantly, and discovering what can be and cannot be effected by curse, the author uses ghost to beat the game much quicker. After getting through the hall of game, the game transitions many years into the future at lavender town. Red, the character the author controls, looks like the old man who helps you catch pokemon early on in the game. It takes awhile to figure out what's going on, as Red only moves as half speed, the lavender town music plays nonstop, there are no wild pokemon, and no humans except the tombstones of humans the author used curse on.

     The author discovered that once you make your way to the starting point in the game, the screen cuts to black. The author saw pokemon after pokemon cursed by ghost, then trainer after trainer cursed. After seeing the author's rival's sprite, the screen cuts to black again, and then a battle starts with the old man sprite, but indicating its Red by the name. Ghost is the opponent. After a battle of Red using struggle, with no avail against ghost, and recoil damage, ghost uses curse when Red's HP was near zero. The screen cuts to black once more, but for the last, as nothing would continue on, forcing the author to turn off the game.

    When the author turned on the game again, it showed new game: The file deleted itself. The author played through the game multiple times, even without playing as ghost, but still couldn't remove ghost from the party. Even if no pokemon or trainer were cursed, the screen would just go straight into the battle with ghost at the end.

     The author then thinks about the meaning behind the hacked game, ending with how it made the author cried. Also, the game was lost sometime when the author was moving two years prior to the story.





     A lot of people don't believe this story due to saying, "Pics or it didn't happen", which, can disprove a lot of stories because you can easily provide evidence for things these days, if you're telling the truth. I don't believe it's real, but the realistic thought of how it happened(with nothing coming out of the game and attacking the author, or some paranormal activity happening later), it feels believable, which is what I like about it.

     However, there is still some what ifs that can be out there: What if you came upon a game like this? What if the hack is true? What if ghost was meant to be obtainable in generation one?! Oh wait, that's what ghastly was for.