Pokemon Creepypasta Stories: An Ultimate List of the Best

The nether realm of pokemon creepypasta is one of the most popular as well as stranger niches of shadowy internet folklore.

Pokémon is, of course, the world’s second largest video game franchise of all-time. It’s entertained several generations of children with its’ friendly imaginary creatures. There are dozens of video games, hundreds of episodes and nearly a thousand pokemons to collect.

With such a large fanbase it was only natural that some fans of pokemon would crossover into creepypasta fandom. Their resulting creation of pokemon creepypasta stories has slowly accumulated over the past decade and now we have a number of these stories that have attained various levels of notoriety.

Let’s walk up to the smorgasbord and partake in the darker pokemon creepypasta tales. Some might make you pause and consider the world of Pokémon in a new (and sinister) light, while others may strike you as being too unbelievable. But what you may find as unlikely, others out there in internet land might believe. Surprise: there’s even some truth to several of these Pokémon creepypastas.

 

Pokémon: Rotted Yellow

This creepypasta is told from the eyes of a former video game story clerk. One day a young boy comes in to trade his copy of Pokémon Yellow. The clerk helps the boy handle the transaction, but he’s curious about the cartridge and why Pikachu’s eyes are scratched out on the cover art.

The clerk decides to play the game. He finds some strange gameplay, like his collection of pokemon disappearing from his inventory. As a creepy feeling falls over the clerk, he realizes that the game is showing him the graves of his defeated pokemon. There’s an ending that leaves the gamer unsettled, as if they just had an existential crisis that’s shaken them to their core.

First appearance of this pokemon creepypasta: 2013

 

Pokémon Black

No, this isn’t about the legit game of the same title. The official Pokémon Black game was released in 2012, but this pokemon creepypasta story dates back a couple of years earlier.

The story goes that the author picked up a bootleg Pokémon game at a flea marker. The game had a jet black cover that looked like this:

A new pokemon called Ghost is included in your starter set of animals. Ghost has only one attack move, and it’s called “curse”. As the original storyteller explained:

When the move “Curse” was used in battle, the screen would cut to black. The cry of the defending Pokémon would be heard, but it was distorted, played at a much lower pitch than normal. The battle screen would then reappear, and the defending Pokémon would be gone. If used in a battle against a trainer, when the Pokéballs representing their Pokemon would appear in the corner, they would have one fewer Pokéball.

 

The implication was that the Pokémon died.

As you keep playing this bootleg Pokémon game more and more ghosts of the dead and defeated Pokémon would show up. The game kept on getting progressively more morbid until at one point your Ghost pokemon wanted to fight you. If you did, the game’s kill screen would be a solid black. There was no way to resume gameplay without switching the game off and rebooting it.

First appearance of this pokemon creepypasta: 2007-08

 

Pokémon Lost Silver

 

With the release of Pokémon: SoulSilver in September 2009, another pokemon creepypasta got it’s start. There is supposedly a hard to find edition called Pokémon: Lost Silver which allows gamers to play new pokemons and arenas.

The creepypasta goes that a gamer picked up a used edition of SoulSilver and found that it contained the saved game from the former owner. The player finds himself inside a building and, walking further inside, the light starts fading until it’s nearly all gone. A sign reads TURN BACK NOW, but of course the player doesn’t do that.

Further along the player discovers a macabre collection of mutilated Pokemons: a Gold sprite missing its legs and arms; a Celebi missing half of its body. More disturbing imagery is seen as the game progresses.

The legend of the Lost Silver Pokémon game grew for about a year before a user decided to hack together a playable PC version of the pokemon creepypasta story. A video shows what the game is like and the weirdness in it:

First appearance of this pokemon creepypasta: 2010

 

Lavender Town Syndrome

This creepypasta works so effectively because it rides the coattails of a true dark chapter of Pokémon history.

The story goes that there was a change to the music played in the Lavender Town stage area in the release of Pokémon Red & Blue in North America. According to the legend, the original Japanese version of the game (which was called Pokémon Red & Green in Japan) had slightly different theme music for Lavender Town. The music created unsettling feelings in some children, causing some to display erratic behavior, paranoia, and even suicidal thoughts.

Of course there is no subconscious music in the non-localized version of Pokémon Red & Green that will cause you to harm yourself. The origin of this story likely comes from a twisting of what happened in December 1997 when a sequence of the animated Pokémon TV show called “Electric Soldier Porygon” caused some viewers to have seizures.

The sequence in question had a rapid back-and-forth strobing of the colors red and blue. Nearly 700 Japanese children complained of feelings of disorientation, nausea, and in some cases, black outs. The news made international headlines and caused the broadcaster to yank the show from airwaves for four months.

 

First appearance of this pokemon creepypasta: 2010

 

Pokémon Strangled Red

Another variant on those “I found this old game cartridge”, this one’s about a rumored hacked Pokémon Red cartridge that extends the game beyond the normal ending. The main character is a Pokémon trainer called Steven who has a beloved pokemon charizard named Mickey.

Where the traditional Pokémon Red ends, Strangled Red goes on. Steven completes his trials only to find that Mickey has been taken from him. When Steven sets out to reunite with his favorite pokemon, his new adventures cause him to lose his previous high standing, his money, and ultimately the rest of his pokemon collection.

The game ends with a broken and resentful Steven visiting his brother. Standing above his sleeping sibling, Steven moves to murder his brother in his sleep.

Supposedly the cover art for Pokémon Strangled Red shows the charizard Mickey with two red lines running across the pokemon’s neck:

 

First appearance of this pokemon creepypasta: 2012

 

Buried Alive Model

Creeping out fellow Pokémon players seems to be a hobby to some of them. One such true tale is that of Buried Alive, a boss that was to be battled against in the Japanese version of Pokémon Red & Green. Supposedly, the game’s developers eventually thought that the zombie-like boss was too intense and decided to remove the Buried Alive character with the boss you battle against now in the name, Marowak. There’s even supposed to be code for this character still in the game called the Buryman Script.

Buried Alive was to have three pokemon of his own including two called White Hands. These gruesome pokemons would display hanging tendons at their wrists, and decaying flesh that was flaking off of their digits. Their power moves were known as Fist and Brutal, whatever they were supposed to be.

If the player defeats Buried Alive at the final boss battle, the game supposedly freezes. If Buried Alive beats the player, he bellows “Finally! Fresh meat!” and then drag the player’s on-screen character back to his grave, to devour.

Here is a video that’s supposed to show gameplay footage from this pokemon creepypasta:

First appearance of this pokemon creepypasta: 2012

 

Pokémon Tarnished Gold

 

Are there other pokemon creepypasta stories that deserves to be on this list? Have you heard of new ones that are worthy of inclusion? Tell us in the comments below so we can add them.