Creepy - Don't Speak with the Boneman on Animal Crossing

Episode Date: September 11, 2020

Just don't...***Written by Matt Deeping***The Bloody Disgusting Podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bloody-disgusting-podcast/id1528386150 ***The Bloody Disgusting Podcast on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/7AcIAof1JPBxbdiIEX4mQC ***Check out our reward tiers at patreon.com/creepypod***You can also subscribe to us on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/creepypod***Produced by Steve Blizin***Title music by Alex Aldea***Intro/Outro Narration by Joe Stofko Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Listener discretion is advised. Creepy presents. Do not speak with the bone man on Animal Crossing. Written by Matt Deeping and narrated by Cole Burkart. This is a warning to all those who, like I once was, are obsessed with Animal Crossing. This is not a joke, nor a trick. This is real. This happened, and I am praying it will not happen to another player.

Please read this and follow my advice. When he appears, do not speak with the Bone Man on your island. I received my switch for my birthday back in May. I was so excited. It came with one game, the only game I was interested in. Animal Crossing As weeks split into months, I built my island, completing my goals, making friends,

and partaking in my favorite pastime, finding new exhibits for my museum. My island was a happy place. It was also my happy place. After work, I could sit back on the sofa and play for hours. Fishing, catching, chatting, visiting. It was what I needed after a little. long stressful day. The perfect way to unwind. I'm not gonna lie, I have probably put in an unhealthy

amount of hours into that game, so when I saw something I didn't recognize, it really got my heart going. It was odd. I immediately noted that it was a bit dark for an animal crossing, but I put this down to the fact that it was approaching Halloween and must have been an update added by Nintendo. On the beach it lay. A skeleton with no skull. I went up to it and pressed the A button, but nothing happened. I walked off and left it, assuming it was just a decorative piece for the time of year. The next day, I noticed the skeleton had disappeared and thought nothing to it. Then, a few days later, it appeared again, this time on the other side of my island. I approached the it again and this time pressed several different buttons trying to get a reaction.

I'm not sure what I pressed, but it worked. The skeleton did not move, but a speech bubble appeared with the following words. Yeah, it was weird. Really weird looking back on it, but to be truthful, I just saw it as a fun new challenge with a mysterious prize, so off I went to search the island. I searched all night for the head of the bone man. I even tried diving in the ocean to find it, but I found nothing. I was annoyed, but went to bed that night and had mostly forgotten about my failed quest by the next day.

A few more days passed. I hadn't completely forgotten to search for the head of the bone man whose strange skeleton lay on the beach and hadn't moved again. But I was getting along with other things, such as selling critters and fish, so on Sunday I could buy as many turnips as I possibly could. I also searched for fossils, as there's pretty pretty much. good money in selling those, which blathers the museum curator didn't want. That's when things started to get creepy. I just finished fishing off the north shore of my island and was running back to Nook's Cranny to sell my fish when I saw it.

A pentagram on the floor. It looked very similar to the starlight pattern, which is used to tell you when a fossil lies underneath. I didn't... I didn't even think about it too much, and pull it. pulled out my spade and dug on top of the pendant ram. You found the bone man's head, popped up on screen. I was super excited and forgot all about my fish and went straight to where the rest of the bone man's skeleton had been. But when I arrived, it wasn't there. Defeated, I went to the shop

and sold my fish, and then headed to the museum to have blathers assess my fossils. I didn't mean to, but I clicked on the bone man's head before continuing my conversation with the curator. No. No, no, no, no. Blathers started saying, just repeating this word over and over again. Then he did something I'd never seen him do. He took flight and flew up until he was almost looking through the screen at me rather than looking at my character. Leave this place. Leave, do not come back. He tried before disappearing off. my screen entirely. I actually laughed at this, leaving it to be another Halloween gag by Nintendo.

I wish this had been true. I put the bone man's head in the storage of my house and carried on with what I would normally do, fishing, catching, chatting, and visiting. When Sunday came around, I was really excited to get my hands on as many turnips as I could buy. I logged on in the morning and spent all my bells on the turnips, then logged off and waited for Monday.

On Monday, I logged on again. I went into my storage at my house and picked out all the turnips I had bought. I was doing so, I hovered over the bone man's head. However, it was no longer called that. The graphic was the same. It was in the same place I had left it in storage, but now it read, Tim's head. That did creep me out a little.

I shored it off and wondered if it was a developer gag, someone who had added the update playing around with a friend. Must be, right? I took my turnips over to Nuch's Cranny. As always, Tommy and Timmy were waiting for me. I told them I wanted to sell and selected all my turnips for them and waited to hear the price. But no price came up.

Tommy's expression became weird then. His eyes grew in size and out of nowhere started vomiting on the shop floor. Timmy, on the other hand, stood still. His eyes had turned into large crosses. He did not move or say a word. I left the shop quickly, as this really freaked me out. I opened my pockets to make sure I still had my turnips. Yep, they were still there.

Then, on further, inspection, the graphic usually used for my turnips was different. This time, they were red. I hovered over a stack of turnips, and instead, they were now called severed head. Now even I thought this was messed up, a joke gone way too far. Straightway, I decided to do see Tom Nook, the leader of the island, to see if that would clear up what was going on. On my way, of the town hall I ran past the museum, but it wasn't like before. It was boarded up. I couldn't even get inside. And this just made me want to speak with Tom Nook more.

I entered the town hall and Tom Nook stood alone. This time unusually in front rather than behind his desk. You found it then? Were his words to me. The game gave me no option to reply. And Tom Nook continued. I guess I owe you an apology, you see. This island getaway was more of an escape than the dawn of a new civilization or holiday.

We thought this time he wouldn't find us, but again, he did. This time, it let me reply. Who find you? My brother. Tim. As he said those words, the lights inside the town hall turned off, but I could still see Tom Nur standing. in front of me in the shadowy room.

I suppose he wants his payment. Tom Nook spoke again. Payment? I selected as my reply. That is one way of calling it, though perhaps sacrifice is better. Before I even take those words in, Tom Nook pulled something from his pocket.

An axe. I tried to move my character, but I couldn't. None of the controls were working. With one swing of his axe, Tomnut cleaved my character's head clean off. I dropped the console onto my lap and watched as the screen filled with blood and the words, Game Over, appeared in black letters across the red screen.

My switch turned off. I didn't pick the console back up for a couple of days. I asked my friends if they had seen anything weird on Animal Crossing, but none of them had. I didn't go into detail about what happened to me. I tried turning my switch back on this morning, but it didn't work. It wouldn't even charge. This thing is completely busted. I know you think that this is made up, or that my switch broke another way, but you're wrong.

I truly believe something which wasn't meant to happen on my Animal Crossing Island happened. I've heard how games can actually become possessed. I think this is what happened to my game and my console. I'll try turning it on again soon, but I'm almost certain it will not work. If anyone out there knows something about this, then please send me a message. If this happens to anyone else, I can only suggest not talking with the Bone Man. And if you do accidentally, then please don't dig up the head. I don't want more happy players to end up like me.

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