The 8 Creepiest Glitches Hidden in Popular Video Games
We've told you about the creepiest video game Easter eggs ever found. But Easter eggs are hidden details that someone intentionally put there to mess with you -- their horror is still limited by the human imagination. No, the most terrifying game moments are when lines of code go awry to make characters start looking, and behaving, like monsters.
Lines of code, or maybe demonic possession. You be the judge.
#8. Call of Duty Series -- A Glitch Raises the Dead
While some of the Call of Duty games have a zombie mode, there are far scarier, unintentional zombies in the regular game. You'll be playing along in what is distinctly not supposed to be a level with zombies, and suddenly you run into this:
Generalkidd
What do you know, war is hell.
... a mutilated corpse, standing perfectly still in the hall, its arms spread wide.
The problem is that to the computer that runs your video games, there's not a whole lot of difference between a live character and a dead one. They're all just lines of code. It's just that some are programmed to move around and talk and some are programmed to lie motionless on the ground. Sometimes those lines of code get mixed up, and you fucking get the stuff of nightmares. Like this:
That's a completely dead dude in Call of Duty: Black Ops. At first he's just laying there, moving his lips without saying anything, as if he were mouthing secret obscenities only the undead are privy to.
MrEdxwx
"... that's right. With a donkey."
But then, after you shoot at him (not while you shoot, but some seconds later), his body parts start twisting themselves over and over like he's being resurrected by the alien from The Thing -- at one point it looks like his head is going to snap off on its own.
MrEdxwx
It rejects its own bones and steals yours away.
Also, this happens in other games from the same series: here's a dead guy talking in Call of Duty 2 (and another one), and if you're not planning on sleeping anytime soon, feast your eyes upon the undead human vibrator from Call of Duty 3:
It's like he died while performing a break dance routine and his body simply refused to stop going. Even though he has no legs.
cods1234and5
We're not sure who just got served here.
And it happens in other types of games, too: check out this twitching face in Crysis (and another one), this dead guy desperately fanning himself in Far Cry 2 and a dead lady turning her head around in Red Dead Redemption.
Here, we'll leave you with this winking corpse in Infamous:
ColumboNinja
"HELL IS HERE."
#7. Red Dead Redemption -- The Manimals
Red Dead Redemption is every cowboy movie ever in video game form. You ride horses, shoot six shooters and rob trains, and if you look closely, you may be shocked to discover that the game disc itself has two days' worth of stubble.
Even his farts make a p-ting! noise.
But while wandering around the game's vast deserts, you may come across something ... unsettling. Fans call them the Manimals, and they are things that even nightmares have forgotten. They are horrifyingly bizarre human/animal hybrids, like from some sort of carnival sideshow.
There are the Bird-People -- human beings who fly around the skies by flapping their arms like we all believed we could when we were children.
RDRGlitch
You thought regular bird shit was bad.
Then you have deformed horrors such as Snake-Man, who is little more than a rattling, hissing torso with a head twisted at an 180-degree angle and bulging, soulless eyes.
mechajkh
"What the hell has happened to my dick?"
Others, while appearing outwardly human, have the attributes of their animal side, such as Cougar-Man -- a bearded man charging around on his knees, yowling and clawing at the player like a cat.
WhereDaBootz
Half-man, half-cougar, all Amish.
And sometimes you can find the opposite -- human characters replaced by animals, up to and including mission-critical NPCs. The Gunslinger Dog, for example, is a floating coyote wielding a freaking rifle and speaking with a Mexican accent.
WhereDaBootz
In the sequel you get to take him around and solve crimes.
However, none of these compare to the utter terror that is the Donkey-Woman. The Donkey-Woman is, obviously, a donkey replaced with a woman model upon whose shoulders you can ride like a very easygoing prostitute. But that's not all. In a true mockery of humanity, the Donkey-Woman appears mostly human ... all except for the black horse head jutting out of her face.
WhereDaBootz
"I like oats and long walks in other dimensions."
And this isn't people hacking or some sort of one-off series of glitches. Rockstar Games has actually acknowledged the bug and (luckily, for all our immortal souls) released a patch to fix it.
WhereDaBootz
As if anything could fix a nightmare.
#6. Super Smash Bros. Brawl -- Pikaman And Other Terrifying Mashups
What's cooler than Mario fighting Sonic for video game mascot dominance? How about Mario fighting Sonic, but with Link's moves? Yeah, what if you could merge the characters to get cool hybrids! Let's see what happens when hackers merged Solid Snake with Donkey Kong ...
TheWhistleTeam
Behold, Donkey Snake.
OH HOLY GOD NO.
This horror came about when fans decided to hack their copies of Super Smash Bros. Brawl and perform what are known as "moveset swaps" -- taking one character and swapping out its moves and abilities for another character's, which seems perfectly innocent. But there was one horrifying consequence no one could have anticipated: Changing character movesets rearranges the character models as well (since the moves were designed assuming the limbs would be in certain places), with horrific deformities as a result.
So Pikachu with Ganondorf's moves becomes, well, see for yourself...
TheWhistleTeam
... yes. This is exactly what cosplay looks like.
It's even creepier in action. Also from the "seeing it will give you nightmares" category is Peach/Sonic, who has grotesquely long fingers and moves like a horror movie monster ...
TheWhistleTeam
"Children. Children are what we require."
Meanwhile, Link/Meta-Knight creates a crab-shaped monstrosity...
TheWhistleTeam
He's as baffled as we are repulsed.
And Giga Bowser/Jigglypuff (whom we've taken the liberty of naming Gigglypuff) becomes this fucking thing:
TheWhistleTeam
"Free hugs!"
Peach/Kirby, on the other hand, looks like the most horrifying sex doll ever -- Her eyes a blank stare, her mouth twisted into a ghoulish scream. All the while her arms flop uselessly around her body.
TheWhistleTeam
Her eyes never close. And now, neither will yours.
It's like the game itself is trying to punish you for trying to play God (or Shigeru Miyamoto, we guess), turning your attempts to merge cool characters into unspeakable horrors worthy of Dr. Moreau.
#5. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas -- The Ghost Cars of the Forest
We've previously mentioned some creepy things in Grand Theft Auto IV, and it turns out these open-world sandbox games really lend themselves to dark pockets of undiscovered horror.
Likewise, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is specifically known for its urban legends and weird occurrences, which makes sense when you consider how enormous the game world is. There are so many myths about things you can find in the game that people are still discussing them seven years later. But among all the stories of UFOs and murderers and cryptids, there is one legend that's actually true: The Ghost Cars.
steiwher
"Hey man, have you seen a dog and some kids running around here?"
If you venture out into the hilly countryside, away from the city, you'll find the automotive equivalent of Bigfoot: cars with no drivers roaming around the game. Sometimes they chase you, as if possessed by the spirits of drivers you jacked months ago.
The glitch is due to the fact that the game engine only spawns cars in the player's immediate area, and when you're in the hilly, country areas of the game's map, a car will appear on a hill and just roll like a real-life runaway car until it either eventually stops or hits something (most hilariously when it's you).
james227UK
The chase music is "Yakety Sax" with broken violins.
The moveset swapping was actually pretty cool.
ReplyI'm going to go browse the internet for that now.
I've also seen a Fallout NPC run off into the sky like he had a literal stairway to heaven. Complete the quest he's part of, and he's back to normal.
ReplyTo explain the sims one: (I'm sure someone already has but whatever) what happens is when you download custom content, it's a little risky because, like you said, it's user programmed and can slow down your game. Anyways, so let's say you download a women's shirt. The problem is it might have a copy of it in baby form, but not actually switched to the baby skeleton, and voila. Nightmare fuel.
Replyas a girl my reaction was : 0-0 wtf
Replyi had a fallout glitch(ps3) where the skin on a charecters face would dissaper and only have eyeballs and teeth. its wierd because it randomly happens and the still talk and move.
ReplyFREE HUGS!
ReplyI constantly have messed up baby sims on Sims 2. When they have to age to a toddler and then kids and teenagers they can either lose parts of their faces, start spazzing over the screen or turn black and blocky. It can be fixed by just resetting their appearance using a mirror but it is weird as hell to witness
ReplyThe Red Dead's Manimals had me laughing so hard I cried. Please tell me the patch is completely optional. I would without a doubt go buy that game as soon as I have money again if it meant I could ride the donkey woman across the countryside.
ReplyGood, I'm not the only one! I thought the gun-wielding coyote was great, and then I saw donkey woman, the cougar man was hilarious too. God, they're all so funny!
You thought Moveset Swapping was bad? It's not really a glitch, but sometimes mods can have bizarre effects, like Waluigi triple-jumping with his arms straight out and a tennis racket in his hand, or Rainbow Dash teleporting backwards every 3 steps.
Replylol creepy Watson should of been #1
Replypopsicle pete grew up.
I have a pair of glitch-faced twins on the Sims 2, who were normal little children, then grew up somehow missing parts of their faces. If I knew WHY they decided to become cyber inhuman abominations, I would warn everyone not to do whatever it is I did.
Replyi've never had that happen to me on red dead redemption.. I WISH IT DID THOUGH! man that sounds epic. and i've played fallout NV and i know it has it's share of problems but floating heads? man this guy's (insert system here) is all WACKED UP! trade? ;)
ReplyI thought I was going to pee my pants laughing at the videos for 8 and 2.
ReplyThe terrifying F:NV floating parts can also occur if a PC player uses the "resurrect 1" console command on a dismembered or exploded corpse. I was led to using said command because the wiki said it led to "some pretty silly animations" Pretty silly indeed...
Reply(MAJOR SPOILER ALERT) What about in GTA4 when his girlfriend dies at the end. You still get calls from her and pick her up for dates. When she calls you, though, it comes on the ID as "Unknown caller". These events play out like nothing happened. When this first happened to me it was 2am and I freaked out a bit.
ReplyAlso, the possessed swing set.
I've had enough of the sims 3 exchange. All my sim's children are turning out looking like bloody Slenderman! From now on I am only downloading from custom content sites where I can download the outfits and not the stupid sims that come with them on the exchange
ReplyA warning to sims 3 players: don't download sims from the exchange because you always end up with like the nude bottom thing and that's what causes the ass-faced kids. Not saying don't download from the exchange, just don't download sims.
Replyits weird but i've never really had any glitches with bethseda games
ReplyDonkey Snake reminds me of the Dead Hand from the well in Ocarina of Time.
ReplyWall/floor masters?
Easily the creepiest enemy in any zelda
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We've told you about the creepiest video game Easter eggs ever found. But Easter eggs are hidden details that someone intentionally put there to mess with you -- their horror is still limited by the human imagination. No, the most terrifying game moments are when lines of code go awry to make characters start looking, and behaving, like monsters.
Lines of code, or maybe demonic possession. You be the judge.
#8. Call of Duty Series -- A Glitch Raises the Dead
While some of the Call of Duty games have a zombie mode, there are far scarier, unintentional zombies in the regular game. You'll be playing along in what is distinctly not supposed to be a level with zombies, and suddenly you run into this:
Generalkidd
What do you know, war is hell.
... a mutilated corpse, standing perfectly still in the hall, its arms spread wide.
The problem is that to the computer that runs your video games, there's not a whole lot of difference between a live character and a dead one. They're all just lines of code. It's just that some are programmed to move around and talk and some are programmed to lie motionless on the ground. Sometimes those lines of code get mixed up, and you f*****g get the stuff of nightmares. Like this:
That's a completely dead dude in Call of Duty: Black Ops. At first he's just laying there, moving his lips without saying anything, as if he were mouthing secret obscenities only the undead are privy to.
MrEdxwx
"... that's right. With a donkey."
But then, after you shoot at him (not while you shoot, but some seconds later), his body parts start twisting themselves over and over like he's being resurrected by the alien from The Thing -- at one point it looks like his head is going to snap off on its own.
MrEdxwx
It rejects its own bones and steals yours away.
Also, this happens in other games from the same series: here's a dead guy talking in Call of Duty 2 (and another one), and if you're not planning on sleeping anytime soon, feast your eyes upon the undead human vibrator from Call of Duty 3:
It's like he died while performing a break dance routine and his body simply refused to stop going. Even though he has no legs.
cods1234and5
We're not sure who just got served here.
And it happens in other types of games, too: check out this twitching face in Crysis (and another one), this dead guy desperately fanning himself in Far Cry 2 and a dead lady turning her head around in Red Dead Redemption.
Here, we'll leave you with this winking corpse in Infamous:
ColumboNinja
"HELL IS HERE."
#7. Red Dead Redemption -- The Manimals
Red Dead Redemption is every cowboy movie ever in video game form. You ride horses, shoot six shooters and rob trains, and if you look closely, you may be shocked to discover that the game disc itself has two days' worth of stubble.
Even his farts make a p-ting! noise.
But while wandering around the game's vast deserts, you may come across something ... unsettling. Fans call them the Manimals, and they are things that even nightmares have forgotten. They are horrifyingly bizarre human/animal hybrids, like from some sort of carnival sideshow.
There are the Bird-People -- human beings who fly around the skies by flapping their arms like we all believed we could when we were children.
RDRGlitch
You thought regular bird s**t was bad.
Then you have deformed horrors such as Snake-Man, who is little more than a rattling, hissing torso with a head twisted at an 180-degree angle and bulging, soulless eyes.
mechajkh
"What the hell has happened to my dick?"
Others, while appearing outwardly human, have the attributes of their animal side, such as Cougar-Man -- a bearded man charging around on his knees, yowling and clawing at the player like a cat.
WhereDaBootz
Half-man, half-cougar, all Amish.
And sometimes you can find the opposite -- human characters replaced by animals, up to and including mission-critical NPCs. The Gunslinger Dog, for example, is a floating coyote wielding a freaking rifle and speaking with a Mexican accent.
WhereDaBootz
In the sequel you get to take him around and solve crimes.
However, none of these compare to the utter terror that is the Donkey-Woman. The Donkey-Woman is, obviously, a donkey replaced with a woman model upon whose shoulders you can ride like a very easygoing prostitute. But that's not all. In a true mockery of humanity, the Donkey-Woman appears mostly human ... all except for the black horse head jutting out of her face.
WhereDaBootz
"I like oats and long walks in other dimensions."
And this isn't people hacking or some sort of one-off series of glitches. Rockstar Games has actually acknowledged the bug and (luckily, for all our immortal souls) released a patch to fix it.
WhereDaBootz
As if anything could fix a nightmare.
#6. Super Smash Bros. Brawl -- Pikaman And Other Terrifying Mashups
What's cooler than Mario fighting Sonic for video game mascot dominance? How about Mario fighting Sonic, but with Link's moves? Yeah, what if you could merge the characters to get cool hybrids! Let's see what happens when hackers merged Solid Snake with Donkey Kong ...
TheWhistleTeam
Behold, Donkey Snake.
OH HOLY GOD NO.
This horror came about when fans decided to hack their copies of Super Smash Bros. Brawl and perform what are known as "moveset swaps" -- taking one character and swapping out its moves and abilities for another character's, which seems perfectly innocent. But there was one horrifying consequence no one could have anticipated: Changing character movesets rearranges the character models as well (since the moves were designed assuming the limbs would be in certain places), with horrific deformities as a result.
So Pikachu with Ganondorf's moves becomes, well, see for yourself...
TheWhistleTeam
... yes. This is exactly what cosplay looks like.
It's even creepier in action. Also from the "seeing it will give you nightmares" category is Peach/Sonic, who has grotesquely long fingers and moves like a horror movie monster ...
TheWhistleTeam
"Children. Children are what we require."
Meanwhile, Link/Meta-Knight creates a crab-shaped monstrosity...
TheWhistleTeam
He's as baffled as we are repulsed.
And Giga Bowser/Jigglypuff (whom we've taken the liberty of naming Gigglypuff) becomes this f*****g thing:
TheWhistleTeam
"Free hugs!"
Peach/Kirby, on the other hand, looks like the most horrifying sex doll ever -- Her eyes a blank stare, her mouth twisted into a ghoulish scream. All the while her arms flop uselessly around her body.
TheWhistleTeam
Her eyes never close. And now, neither will yours.
It's like the game itself is trying to punish you for trying to play God (or Shigeru Miyamoto, we guess)"
Implying they're two different people.
what the hell?
it pasted the whole article instead of one quote.
If you copy more than a few words, it includes the url, always make sure to delete that part.
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