10 Disturbing Video Game Secrets Hiding In Plain Sight

10. Wallpaper Ghost - Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Animal Crossing might be targeted at kids (and overworked adults who like to relax by doing more virtual chores), but it definitely has its scary moments.

Most of them are related to the game's lore that sometimes likes to share a little too much information with the player (like how vocaloid are apparently dead people), but in Animal Crossing: New Horizons it is actually an easter egg that does the scary.

The easter egg is hidden inside the special, spooky holiday wallpaper that was released in the 2021 Halloween update.

The wallpaper shows a cartoonish dark forest, but also a hidden, photorealistic sprite of a ghost!

The dissonance of adding a realistic-looking person in a white sheet is already slightly disturbing, but what makes this Easter egg truly terrifying is that the ghost moves!

Yes, every time you turn the lights on and off, the ghost changes its position on the wallpaper!

This can give you quite the spook, especially if you enter the room and the wallpaper ghost chooses to teleport right behind you after stalking you between the cartoon trees.

Nintendo! This is supposed to be a family-friendly game!