Hey guys! Silver again! I was reading creepypastas recently, so I decided to make my own! :3 But this is my first one, so... Anyways. This is written in the form of a blog. And the tense switches on occasion. (From telling what HAD happened, to recording what IS happening, and vice versa.)

To Faith Kunai, one of my best friends, who got me started on BEN in the first place. :)

Post #1 October 21, 2013

Hey, I'm Rachel. I'm 23 years old, and I'm the second person who was haunted by Ben. Don't believe me? Not a big deal. Nobody ever did.

It all started the fall of 2010. That was when I had first heard of BEN. I had a computer in my room at the time. It was around seven or eight in the evening, and I was bored, so I started watching some Haunted Gaming videos on YouTube. Eventually, I found one titled, "BEN Drowned: Majora's Mask Creepypasta." Curious as to what it was, I started watching it.

It was about the ghost of a ten-year-old boy who drowned. His name was Ben, and he supposedly haunted an old Majora's Mask game cartridge.
The guy (I will proceed to call him "The player," so as to keep him safe from Ben, and to keep his name a secret.) who originally haunted by Ben had bought the game from a garage sale. He mentioned that the old man had called him Ben, multiple times, and was probably senile.
The cartridge the player bought didn't have a sticker label on it, but the word 'Majora' written in black Sharpie. He didn't think much of it at the time, which he mentioned was a huge mistake.

By that time in the video, it got way too creepy, so I turned it off. That ended Ben for awhile.

Then on a Saturday in 2011, I got up the courage to read the actual story on the creepypasta wiki. At the top of the page was a picture of Ben. It was the Elegy of Emptiness statue, but the eyes were rolled back into his head, and he was crying blood. It was captioned, "You shouldn't have done that..." in a Majora's Mask text box. It didn't really bother me, so I continued reading it.

The author (Who I'll continue to call "The player") started up the game. There was already a save file on it, named BEN. The player didn't delete it, out of respect for the last owner, and started his own file named Link.

After awhile, he noticed something was wrong. At times the game would talk to him; call him BEN. Lightning-type lights would flare on screen when it wasn't raining, Link would suddenly burst into flames and drop dead, the Mask Salesman's face would flash on the screen on occasion, the Song of Healing would play backwards in a Clock Town devoid of people, Zora Link would drown after seeing the Elegy of Emptiness statue underwater, and finally, correct me if I'm wrong, after dying, the screen would black out and a single phrase would appear on screen:

"You shouldn't have done that..."

The game went back to the title screen after this phenomenon. This time, the player chose the file "BEN." The previous owner had almost completed the game; he had most of the masks and three out of four boss remains. The game loaded up at an owl statue in Stone Tower Temple.

Link's body was contorted, his entire torso turned sideways, and his facial expression blank. As if he was dead. The player took out the Ocarina and played the Elegy of Emptiness, and the screen blacked again.

"You shouldn't have done that..."

This time, the game loaded in Termina Field. Link was standing in front of the Mask Salesman, Epona, and Skull Kid, like in the ending cut-scene of the game. However, the Elegy statue stood between the Mask Salesman and Skull Kid. The Salesman's head turned to follow Link's movement. After a while, the player decided to play the Song of Healing.

The game gave an ear-splitting shriek, and Link caught on fire and died.

Now you may be wondering: What does this have to do with me?

Everything. Just keep reading.


Three years later, today, I had completely forgotten about Ben.

I was coming home from my collage art class last night, when I heard someone call my name. I turned around, thinking it was one of my friends. Nope. It was some random guy. I had no idea who he was, but he was running right at me. I immediately turned back and started walking away.

"Wait! Come back!" He shouted after me.

I quickened my pace to a jog, to no avail. The guy caught up to me within seconds. How he went that fast, I have no idea. I whirled around and pulled out my handgun, cocking it before pointing it at his head. "What the hell do you want from me?! Are you some kind of criminal?! What?!"

He put his hands up. "Easy. I just want to give you this." He handed me a small, unlabeled, gray cartridge. I inspected it with great interest.

"Wha-?"

"Destroy it while you still can." He said, "Don't play it. Not ever."

"Dude.. Who the hell-"

But he was gone when I looked back up.

"What the..." I looked around. He was nowhere in sight, as if he had completely disappeared. "Weird..."

I shoved the cartridge into my pocket and headed off-campus to the apartment complex down the street.


"I heard you shouting out there." My fiance, Skyler, said as I entered our apartment, "What's goin' on?"

"Some guy came up to me and gave me this." I took the cartridge and tossed it onto the table. "He told me to destroy it."

Skyler immediately snatched it up and inspected it. "Looks like an old Nintendo 64 cartridge. Luckily, I happen to have a 64." He got up from the table and put the game into the console's slot.

The game loaded up to reveal it as Majora's Mask. I squealed, being the Zelda fan that I am. "I've always wanted to play this!"

"Don't you think it's a bit suspicious that some random guy gave you that? And even told you to destroy it?" Skyler questioned.

"Who cares, Sky?" I laughed as I picked up the controller, "You know that I never turn down a Zelda game. It's his loss!"

Skyler rolled his green eyes. "Fine." He looked at his watch. "It's late. I'm going to bed. Don't make too much noise, okay?"

I nodded, now completely absorbed in the game.

The game didn't have any save files on it, which was weird, given it's an old game. I chose the top file and named it Swarley, as a joke.

I played late into the night, resulting in getting pretty far. I just finished the Great Bay area when things got just plain weird. The text inside the text box would jumble up, and occasionally the game would call me BEN.

I automatically knew what that meant. The only thing going through my mind last night... Shit... I don't even... Oh, God...

I screamed for Skyler.

"He can't hear you." a small boy's voice had said to me.

I stopped yelling, and froze where I stood, in fear. "Ben..."

"How kind of you to remember me." He sneered.

I turned to look at the screen. The Elegy of Emptiness statue was next to Link on screen, with a completely black Termina Field. Like, ash black. Burning black. Link was sprawled on the ground, staring blankly at the black sky. Blood bloomed around his body in a huge puddle.

Ben had killed Link, and possibly even Skyler.

"SKYLER!" I shouted as loud as I could, in utter terror.

"Weren't you listening? He can't hear you!" Ben taunted.

"Why are you here?!" I asked, "What do you want?!"

Ben smirked, as a trickle of blood ran down his face like tears. "Suffering..."
And he disappeared, leaving me sitting in the dark, as the game returned to the title screen.

I didn't get any sleep that night.