The short version is that the author plays the game, titled “Sonic.exe,” and finds three levels in which Tails, Knuckles, and Dr. If you want to know the full story, all 4,149 words of JC the Hyena can be read here. I remember what the image looked like in that split second before the game cut to black The sky had darkened, the title emblem was rusted and ruined, the SEGA 1991 was now instead SEGA 666, and the water had turned red, like blood, except it looked hyper-realistic. The first thing I noticed that was out of place was when I pressed start, there’s was a split second when I saw the title image turned into something much different, something that I now consider horrifying, before cutting to black. It came with a warning that he should not play it.īut he does, of course, and the game quickly becomes harrowing: The story of Sonic.exe starts in 2011, when a web user by the name “JC the Hyena” posted a short story to the Creepypasta Wiki that described a disturbing and violent Sonic game his friend supposedly mailed him.
It stems from “copypasta,” which is a portmanteau of “copy/paste.” Creepypastas are the spooky version of text copied and sent around the web, with Slenderman perhaps the most famous example.
It’s not the tagline to an especially nerdy sequel for The Ring, but it is the idea behind an infamous internet creepypasta known as Sonic.exe.Ĭreepypasta is internet slang for any urban legend that originated from online sharing. “If you play this haunted Sonic game, you’ll die.”
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