What if a video game didn’t just scare you, but started watching you back?

In this episode of FEARFEED, we explore Ben Drowned, one of the most infamous creepypastas and internet horror stories ever created. What begins with an old Nintendo 64, a mysterious copy of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, and a strange save file named Ben slowly turns into something far more disturbing.

As the game begins behaving in impossible ways, familiar characters become unsettling, glitches seem intentional, and the line between a fictional horror story and an interactive nightmare starts to disappear.

We follow the story through its Majora’s Mask imagery, the mysterious Ben save file, the Fourth Day Glitch, the Happy Mask Salesman, the Elegy of Emptiness statue, and the increasingly disturbing events surrounding the player.

But Ben Drowned was more than just a creepypasta. Its presentation as an evolving online story and ARG (alternate reality game) helped make it one of the defining pieces of early internet horror.

This is the story behind Ben Drowned, one of the most iconic creepypastas, gaming horror stories, and internet mysteries of its era.

FEARFEED explores creepypastas, true crime, unsolved mysteries, internet mysteries, strange cases, and the darker stories hidden across the web.