Ok, for those of you who don't know what this is, last October I hosted a series made up of stories collected from players in YoWorld. The series was called Paranormal YoWorld. It was about things that happened in game which players found mysterious, scary, or just cryptic. I have here all of season one for those who are interested. Its not that long, lol, there are many mini-stories in there. Some people were curious at the forum party, so I posted season 1 for all to read. Enjoy, let me know what you think...
Episode 1
The Blue Man
Date of Occurences: October 9th-23rd, 2012
Player: XxLindaxX
Hello, my name is XxLindaxX in game. I have been playing Yoville for about 4 years now. Here is my story, it happened to me back in October, 2012.
I was going to a few events to pass time, I was looking for some extra pieces to finish my Halloween costume. I was going make my own gothic version of the Dorothy costume. So I came to an auction, it was quite full but not too full. Everyone was sitting down, wile the owner had been placing multiple items in the front of the room, I took a seat. After a wile of watching a few bids and sales, the owner placed a white board art in front of the room to auction off. At the sight of the painting everyone went hype! Bids easily went over 12m quickly! I asked the person next to my avatar about the painting, she explained that the painting was supposedly haunted, and its very famous. I saw nothing very nice about the painting, it depicted a blue man, with his face twisted in agony. It looked very creepy, I thought this would be a very good opportunity to buy it and sell it for an even higher price, since everyone seemed to believe that it was haunted IN A GAME! So I placed the highest bid in the house, and everyone began to rage, and leave. About half of the people who were there originally had left, the owner then decided to sell it to me, he even lowered the price from what I offered (what a nice guy) and I got the white board.
I went home and placed the white board in the living room where I stored items that I would later sell. I saved the room then I looked the painting, what an ugly thing it was. Then the room froze, and I had to refresh. As I was reloading the game, and my avatar appeared in the living room, something caught my eye. All the way in the corner of the room, next to the white board, was a man. His skin was blue, and he was wearing a black suit and tie. As soon as I saw him, he poofed (I know how rude). So anyway it was almost time for me to go clock in at the factory, I went to do that. Then I logged off for the day, the next day I log in as usual, as the room loads I once again see the blue dude standing next to the board. He did not poof this time, I asked him how he got in and he did not respond. I began to look at his avatar standing next to the board, he was not moving. I saw a striking resemblance in both the guys avatar and the one on the white board. I felt a cold chill go down my spine in real life, then the guy poofed. Now I got worried, what if I was being stalked by a hacker of some sort? At that moment, my friend walked into the room, she sees the white board. If I remember correctly, she asked me about how I got the board in the first place. I told her, and she advised that I sell the dreadful thing right away. Now this is when I began to worry some more. Then she told me to go to some site and do some research, I did.
Later that night when I was looking for some answers, I found a fan site about Yoville that had a blog about the painting. They called the phenomenon, the Blue Man. I read some more and found that the painting was painted some time in 2009, by a noobie who just joined the game at the time. I read numerous reports on the said man, the previous owners of the painting claimed to have seen a blue man standing at or in the same room as the painting multiple times. Some even referred to it as The Blue Demon. At that point I was too creped out to keep the painting any longer. I log in quickly to start a sale the next day, and see the blue man, yet again standing next to the board. This time I confronted what ever it was. I told it that I was going to sell the painting, and I think I remember trying to kick it out, I then took the board and placed it in my inventory wile the man was still there. Big mistake! The man got infuriated, it walked over to me, then I froze. I had to refresh. When I came in, it was gone. To cut things short here, I sold it for a little higher than I got it for, let that hellish white board be some one else's problems! I was done! I had sold the creepy board and got some more coins than I had the last time, it was time to finish my gothic Dorothy costume! I went over to an auction, to by one of the last pieces for it. To my surprise, the owner of that auction was the same person I sold the board to, and he was at that moment auctioning it off, I left the room immediately and went back to my apartment, and there where on the wall where the board once was, was the Blue Man, waiting for me.
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Good lord that was weird! I wonder our friend Linda is still seeing this Blue gentleman today! This next story comes to use from an anonymous user, who had just began to rent a new apartment in Yoville, but what secrets lurk inside? Could there be something else there with him?
The New Apartment
Date of Occurrences: Unknown
Player: Anonymous
Hey guys this is my story. This happened to me in yoville a wile back. I was new at the time, I began to become more and more interested in the game. I had little friends, my buddy list was almost empty. I had little money to buy any new house of my own so I began to rent them off of other players for cheap. I came to this lady some person told me about, who rented houses for low costs. She was promising and showed me a few of the homes she had for the renting, the one that caught my attention was a trailer home. I began to rent it right away. I was saving up to buy a trailer home, so I figured why not try it first? I began to decorate the house with items with the help of the lady. I could not decorate it my self because it was not my home.
After she left the place was mildly decorated. I entered the bed room and got into the bed that came with the house. I thought maybe I could also decorate this room after the woman came back. As I was about to leave a man appears at the door way, he was dressed in black. I ask him what he was doing there, he walks up to me then leaves. No big deal, he was just lost maybe. The next morning I logged in and went to the trailer home after going to work at the factory. As I walked in I saw a woman in a black dress sitting on the couch of the living room. I ask her why she there and she gets up and walks into the bed room, I follow her. She walks over by the bed and then leaves. I messaged the lady and reported that there were intruders in the trailer home. She messages me back and tell me that they were not intruders. I ask her who they were, and she never responded.
She got on the next day and visited me for the rent that was due. After the trade I asked her about the people in the trailer. She told me it was no big deal, and to just ignore it. I kept bugging her about it about it until she just told me. She said that the lady who rented the place before me was strange. She once had filled the house with white boards and drew strange red symbols in them. The lady told me that she we feeling a little scared to be renting a home to such a person, so she kicked her out and gave the white boards back. So it was like her way of telling my that the trailer was haunted. I did not believe her, I do believe in ghosts in real life, but in a game? I decided to keep renting the home for a few more days. I was laying down in the bed in the bed room once again, and I was about to have a friend over. As I was about to click on my buddy list, a large group of players appeared around my bed. They all had pale skin with black clothing, their avatars were facing me. At that point I thought it was time to drop it and go back to my apartment as quickly as possible. When I got there I messaged the lady and told her that I wanted to discontinue with the renting. She replied back and said that it was ok, then gave back all of the items I had decorated the trailer with. I vowed never so rent another home on Yoville ever again!
Episode 2
The Little Boy
Date of Occurrences: February 19th-30th, 2012.
Player: Sally Maple Syrup
Hi guys. I am Sally Maple Syrup in Yoville. But most people just call me Sally, or Maple.
This happened to me last year. I was becoming a little bored with Yoville at the time. It was just another normal day, i was talking with my friend at the Alton Towers (we were just kicked out of an event, the owner wanted to scam me) and we began to talk about random stuff. After a wile the towers were becoming empty, and it was about time for me to log off. Just as i was about to say good bye to my friend, a guy appeared right next to my avatar. I could tell that by the way he was dressed that he was a little boy (or at least dressed like one). He smiles then throws a water balloon at me. I throw one back. I thought he was just playing around with me. My friend then asks me why i threw the balloon. I told her that the boy had thrown one at me first. She did not know who or what i was talking about, yet the boy just stood there. She told me that she saw no one there. I thought this was a little weird. Why was this little boy not showing up on my friends screen? The boy then poofed. It was getting late, and i had to log off.
The next morning i could not log in, i had to go to work in real life. When I came to log in that afternoon, i saw that it was time for me to go to the factory to get my coins. i logged in, then went over to the factory, and came back to my apartment directly after. When i loaded into the room, i saw the little boy, he was standing in the corner of the living room. I ask him why was he here. I notice his name was Charles. He says nothing, then walks up to me. He smiles then throws a water balloon at me then poofs. Soon after he left my friend walked in. Another girl follows her in, i am thinking this was probably one of her friends. We all sit down and talk. I tell my friend about the little boy and how i saw him again. She still had no clue on what i was talking about. I felt a little embarrassed because her friend was there. I hope her friend did not think that i was crazy or something. After they left i decided to so some research. I found no information on the internet about this mysterious little boy. Then i stumbled up on this very recent page, well it was recent at the time. There i read about 20 reports from other people who played Yoville. All of the said something about being stalked by the little guy. One of them even provided the link to his Yoville profile page. I clicked on it, i wanted to see this page for myself.
When i got to the profile, i saw nothing strange about it. But this was indeed the Charles i was seeing in Yoville. I took a look at his messages and he had plenty of fan mail. I took a peak at his homes. His homes were filled with plenty of toys. I decide to read some more of his messages. I notice something strange as i was scrolling down. The more deeper into the message box i got, the stranger these messages were. I began to see things like "RIP" and "You will be missed". This is when i began to feel very nervous. I take a look at the last time he was on. This is when i began to get very worried. This account has not been touched for years! His account was dormant! But how have i been able to see him in game? I rushed into the game to tell my friend about what i found, when i logged in i saw Charles. He was once again in my living room. This time he was sitting on the couch, crying. He then walks up to me and says something like good bye. Then he vanished, i never saw him again.
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That was wacky! I hope that I can be visited by this Charles! Up next we have a very cool story that comes to us from an anonymous player. The player begins to mess around with a Yobaby, and soon find out about their imaginary friend. But then later on this person sees, that maybe this imaginary friend, is not so imaginary?
The Evil Imaginary Clown
Date of Occurences: Unknown
Player: Unknown
Hi. Here is my story.
I was not new to yoville. By this time I had been playing the game for about 3 years. I began to find a strange interest in adopting yobabies, I just like to mess with them a lot. One day I came across an adoption center event, and I saw this yobaby that really caught my eye. I walked over to it and asked if it wanted to be my yobaby. It said "Ywes". Well duh, what else would such a thing say? Anyway I brought it home, and I had it chilling in the living room, wile I pretended to make it some baby food. It ate too much! Then I had to help it burp. Then came the worst part, giving it a bath! After its bath, it was time for the nap. I put it in the bed were I put all of my other yobaby victims to sleep in. It began to complain about it being too cold. So I pretended to cover it up in blankets. But I would not stop. I kept putting more and more blankets on it, eventually it formed a giant blanket mountain, the yobaby was inside. It then accused me of trying to suffocate it. It told me that it was going to call the yocops. I have already pretended to go to yoprison before. It was boring, I was not planning on going again. Then it told me that it was going to get its friend Mr. McSuffles to beat me up. Now since when do yobabies have imaginary friends? I offered to play a game of hide and seek. It agreed and got all happy. Yuck! Then I took it to one of my special haunted houses to play at. It did not like the place I had chosen, then began to cry "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!". I told it to shut its mouth or what ever it used to talk with. Then I explained that this was the best place to play hide and seek at. It calmed down, then told me that its friend Mr. McShuffles was going to be joining us. Why bring Mr. ImaginaryPixels into this? I began to count, wile it ran inside to hide.
I gave it three minutes to hide. I went inside to find it. I found it behind on of the trees in my haunted living room. It then told me that I had also found Mr. McShuckles as well. I was thinking of a scarier game to play, when something else in the room caught my attention. Something moved from one tomb stone to the other on the other side of the room. It then stepped out, revealing itself. It was some dude dressed up as some psycho clown. There was also a bloody smile carved into his face. I was about to kick this person out. Then I read his name. Mr. McSnuffles! I thought he was not real. I thought he was just imaginary pixels! Why was clown face in my room? He then began to run around the room and laugh uncontrollably, the yobaby began to cry again, and here we go "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!". I thought this was getting creepy. Forget that yobaby, I was out of there! I then removed the yobaby from my buddies. I never wanted to see it or its clown ever again.