6 Terrifying Moments In Non-Horror Video Games

If you proclaim yourself to be a Pokémon fan and have never heard the myth of Lavender Town... you need to brush up your myth game, honestly.

Lavender Town's reputation is almost legendary among Pokémon's players, and is known even among the circles who don't play Pokémon. After all, a creepypasta revolving around how the soundtrack that plays when you're at Lavender Town contains a sub-harmonic that had driven hundreds of school children in Japan to commit suicide is... morbidly fascinating regardless of whether you're interested in Pokémon or not.

At its core, though, Pokémon's a game that's all about friendship. You make friends with all of these amazing creatures, bond with them, and go on a grand adventure to 'catch them all'. With that in mind, the fact that the developers went ahead and created an entire cemetery for dead Pokémon in the form of Lavender Town is puzzling to many until this day.

That freakish, dissonant music is discomfiting from the off - even when you know that the myth about how the song could kill was debunked as an urban legend. There's still something about the harmony that feels off.

Walking by grieving trainers while ghost-type Pokémon flitter by is quite an experience. The town's creepy reputation is also bolstered further because of the central plot of the town: An enraged, dead Pokemon haunting a tower.

I mean, come on, we all know that ghost-type Pokémon definitely need to start somewhere but an entire cemetery? I know that we need to have a talk to kids about how their pets won't live forever but definitely not like this.