Did a college student buy a haunted game cartridge? Can you be haunted by a ghost trapped in your computer? You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you? This week's legend is: Ben Drowned: The Haunted Majora's Mask.
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“Ben Drowned Creepypasta Story.” Creepypasta, 19 Dec. 2017, https://www.creepypasta.com/tag/ben-drowned-creepypasta-story/
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Within Hubris. “Jadusable Wiki.” Jadusable Wiki Within Hubris, jadusable.withinhubris.com
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“BEN Drowned.” Creepypasta Wiki, https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/BEN_Drowned
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Arcade Attack Retro Gaming Network. “The Making of BEN Drowned (Creepypasta) - Alex Hall Interview - Haunted Zelda: Majora’s Mask.” YouTube, 17 June 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR4EEfnEe14
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Baraniuk, Chris. “Ghost in the Machine? How a ‘Haunted’ N64 Video Game Cartridge Terrified Children Around the World.” BBC, 3 May 2025, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250501-the-haunted-video-game-that-traumatised-the-web
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Van Allen, Eric. “The Zelda Ghost Story That Helped Define Creepypasta.” Kotaku, 26 Oct. 2017, https://kotaku.com/the-zelda-ghost-story-that-helped-define-creepypasta-1819883645
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Crawford, Emily E. “View of Glitch Horror: BEN Drowned and the Fallibility of Technology in Game Fan Fiction.” American University, https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/934/934
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Zawacki, Alexander J. “Glitches and Ghosts: The Digital Uncanny in Video Games and Creepypasta.” Horror Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, 19 Apr. 2024, pp. 83–98, 10.1386/host_00082_1, https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/host_00082_1
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r/creepypasta. “What’s Ben Drowned’s Actual Backstory?” Reddit, 2024, https://www.reddit.com/r/creepypasta/comments/1e95w4m/whats_ben_drowneds_actual_backstory/