10 Creepy Secrets Behind Classic Video Games

7. The Forgotten Crypt Is Massively Multiplayer Nightmare Fuel - World Of Warcraft

World of Warcraft boasts one of the most richly lived-in worlds in video game history, and so it's little surprise that there are a number of planned locales which were ultimately scrapped - though few would've ever expected them to be this accessible or this pervasively creepy.

Back in vanilla WoW, the Forgotten Crypt - or the Karazhan Crypt, as it was known at the time - was an infamous "phantom zone" which players could only access by dying close to the gate and glitching through to the area.

Though the Crypt is clearly an unfinished locale, there's one area which is especially notorious among fans - The Upside-Down Sinners, which contains dozens of humans hanging upside down in water with ropes tied to chains.

It's deeply creepy, to the extent that fans speculated its excessively macabre mood led to the entire Crypt being dumped, even if former WoW Community Manager Bashiok suggested it was more likely the dev team simply decided they didn't like the area.

While the release of Patch 7.3.0 in 2017 did make the Crypt partially accessible for players who solved a difficult series of riddles, its chillingly incomplete original state, which remained in the game for over 12 years despite Blizzard's numerous attempts to wall-off access to players, was a truly morbid curiosity.