9 Crazy Video Game Conspiracy Theories People Actually Believe

5. The Haunting Of Majora's Mask

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Thanks to the particularly imaginative mind of one Creepypasta user, a conspiracy involving a haunted Nintendo 64 cartridge blew up almost overnight from a fun work of fiction to an internet-wide warning against buying second-hand games.

Bored of his current library of Nintendo 64 games, Alex Hall decided to attend a garage sale in 2010 with the hopes of scoring some cheap second-hand games to play. After some extended scavenging, he came across a battered copy of Majora's Mask that still worked.

Booting the defaced cartridge up, Hall discovered that a save file, presumably from a previous owner called 'BEN' already existed on the chunk of plastic. As anyone would, he decided to investigate the save file to monitor its progress, but what he found was a jumbled mess of a game that was plagued by distorted audio and strange visual glitches.

Ultimately deciding to delete the save file, Hall's attempts at doing so resulted in the opposite. Not only did the BEN file remain, but a new one - DROWNED - had appeared below it.

Creepy? Absolutely. True? Of course not.

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