10 Most Ludicrous Video Game Urban Myths You Actually Believed

9. Ben Drowned - The Legend Of Zelda: Majora’s Mask

The Legend of Zelda is absolutely in the Pokemon vein of games for kids that really shouldn’t be home to horrifying urban legends, but here we are.

Like Lavender Town Syndrome, this is another urban myth that originated on Creepypasta. If you’re one of the eleven people who doesn’t know what Creepypasta is, well done on not spending your childhood on your computer, but what you’re going to need to know is that these stories are fiction.

Then again, when you’re ten years old and don’t understand that then you, like me, could absolutely have been convinced by the Ben Drowned saga. The story goes that someone bought a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask and there was a save file already on there with the name ‘Ben’. The owner ignored the file but all NPCs would still only call him Ben and even deleting the file led to more terrifying things happening within the game until ultimately a second save file appeared reading “Drowned”.

What made this so convincing was the wildly impressive implementation. You see, this wasn’t just a campfire story, the creator made a tonne of wildly creeptastic footage of the game glitching out in scary ways to go along with it.

Sure, we’re all adults now and we know somebody just wrote this story and cleverly played with the game to make it look all janky before adding another save file saying ‘Drowned’ but, yeah, no, glitched out leaning Link and that creepy Link shell created by the Elegy of Emptiness is just not for me.