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Ben Drowned: The Spooky Game Ghost!

Imagine a video game that seems to come alive and play tricks on you! That's Ben Drowned!

Key Facts

Story Type
Internet horror story (creepypasta).
Game It's Based On
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
Main Spooky Character
BEN.
Creator's Pen Name
Jadusable.
First Story Year
2010.
Story Format
Web serial and web series.
Internet Genre It Helped Create
Creepypasta.
Popularity
Millions of people have watched or read it.
Influence
Helped create common spooky internet story ideas.
Key Plot Element
A haunted video game cartridge.
Main Antagonist
BEN, an artificial intelligence entity.
Story Structure
Multi-part web serial.

What's This Scary Game Thing?

Ben Drowned is like a super spooky story that started on the internet, all about a video game called Majora's Mask. It's not a real game you can buy, but a story that people wrote and shared online. It's about a character named BEN who seems to be inside the game and can even talk to the person playing it! It's like the game knows you're there and is playing back!

How Did This Spooky Story Start?

A person named Alexander D. Hall started telling this story online in 2010. He pretended he found an old video game cartridge that was haunted! The story grew and grew, with more parts added over many years. It's like building a giant LEGO castle, but with scary words instead of bricks. People loved it so much, it became one of the most famous internet spooky stories ever!

Why Is Ben Drowned So Famous?

Ben Drowned is super famous because it was one of the first stories like this! It showed everyone how cool and scary internet stories could be. It's like when a new toy comes out and everyone wants it.

This story helped make 'creepypasta' a popular thing, and lots of other spooky internet stories are like Ben Drowned's cousins. It made people think about games and stories in a whole new, spooky way!

What Happens in the Story?

The story is about a person playing a video game, but the game starts acting weird. A character named BEN appears and seems to know everything about the player! Sometimes BEN is friendly, and sometimes BEN is very scary. The story has different parts, like chapters in a book, that tell more about BEN and the strange things happening. It makes you wonder if the game is really just a game!

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