The human imagination is a curious thing. It can conjure up wonderful things like the image of a hilly meadow at the height of spring or as terrifying as being trapped in a haunted house with numerous rooms.
It is humanity's creativity and imagination that sparked the existence of urban legends or creepypastas. Some are spine-tingling, while others can keep you up at night from the sheer terror your imagination can make up.
Here are some of the creepypastas on the internet that are connected to old and current technology.
"My Dead Girlfriend Keeps Messaging Me on Facebook"
Have you ever wondered what happens to a Facebook account when its owner has passed away?
Before Facebook had its "Legacy Contact" feature, nothing would happen to it. It is just there as a remembrance of someone you lost.
However, what if you received a message from that same Facebook account?
That is the premise of the "My Dead Girlfriend Keeps Messaging Me on Facebook" creepypasta, per Bustle. Despite its outdated tech reference, it still has quite the frightful punch.
With current technology, Facebook allows the account of a deceased user's loved ones to manage their account for them even when they're gone.
However, becoming a custodian of a "legacy contact" requires the extension of an invitation to a loved one before they can manage the account. And with hackers getting more intelligent, messages from this account could mean three things: a deceased loved one's relative, a hacker, or...
Ben Drowned
One of the more popular video game creepypastas on the internet that harkens back to the 90s, "Ben Drowned" is about the hacked cartridge of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
According to Mashable, a boy got the hacked Majora's Mask cartridge from a garage sale and plugged it into his Nintendo 64, but something with it doesn't feel right, as the game has some differences from the one commonly sold in stores at the time.
The ending of the story s up to your imagination if you've managed to read it to the end.
Sonic.exe
Sonic.exe is similar to the "Ben Drowned" creepypasta, wherein instead of getting a hacked cartridge, it involves a haunted copy of the game Sonic the Hedgehog, per the Creepypasta Files wiki.
The story centers around Tom and his experiences with a cursed copy of the game and a letter begging him to destroy the disc before it's "too late."
Ignoring the letter and out of curiosity, Tom booted up the game, only to discover something sinister. Instead of playing as Sonic, Tom has to choose one of three playable characters while a demonic version of Sonic, complete with bloodshot eyes, chases each character Tom picks until he has none to play as.
As with the boy in the "Ben Drowned" story, the story ends with an open ending, leaving its ending up to your imagination.
Lavender Town Syndrome
Fans of the original Pokemon games, Pokemon Red and Green, would know this creepypasta about Lavender Town. According to urban legend, the music for Lavender Town induced a peak in illnesses of children between the ages of 7 to 12 due to the extremely high frequencies it plays at.
"Studies" on music showed that only kids and young teens can be affected by music, as their ears are more sensitive than an adult's.
The situation was so bad that Nintendo allegedly tuned the music's frequency down so that kids can no longer be negatively affected.
This didn't happen at all - Japan didn't report any number of children falling ill because they listened to the Lavender Town theme, right? Right?
"Psychosis"
Last but not least is "Psychosis," which is highly regarded as one of the best creepypastas in existence. According to the people who have read the story, it could be enough for a person to swear off technology for good.
According to TV Tropes, "Psychosis" is an urban legend written in 2013 by Matt Dymerski. It is about a young man suffering from severe paranoia due to him being convinced that aliens have taken over the world, but his paranoia prevents him from confirming his suspicions.
