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The Dark Somnium

"Ben Drowned" Scary Stories from The Internet | Classic Creepypasta

The Dark Somnium

Bloody FM

Fiction

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This is a classic creepypasta scary story, one of the originals in the genre, posted by Alex Hall (Jadusable). when they posted this story, they also uploaded the footage to his youtube channel, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/@UCZ6sE1jUjeloB5uCf1tJrZw--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/darksomnium/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0

I recently moved into my dorm room, starting as a sophomore in college, and a friend gave

0:07.2

me his old Nintendo 64 to play.

0:10.0

I was stoked to say the least, I could finally play all those old games from my youth that

0:14.6

I hadn't touched in at least a decade.

0:17.6

His Nintendo 64 came with one yellow controller, and a rather shoddy copy of Super Smash Brothers.

0:24.0

And while beggars can't be choosers, needless to say, it didn't take long until I became

0:28.6

bored of beating the level 9 CPUs.

0:32.1

That weekend, I decided to drive around a few neighborhoods about 20 minutes or so off

0:36.5

campus, hitting up the local garage sales, hoping to score some good deals from ignorant

0:41.8

parents.

0:42.8

I ended up picking up a copy of Pokemon Stadium, Golden Eye, F0, and two other controllers

0:48.7

for $20, satisfied, I began to drive out of the neighborhood when the last house caught

0:54.0

my attention.

0:55.5

I still have no idea why it did.

0:57.9

There were no cars there, and only one table was set up with a random junk on it.

1:02.7

But something sort of drew me there.

1:05.4

I usually trust my gut on these things, so I got out of the car, and I was greeted by

1:10.1

an old man.

1:11.2

His outward appearance was, for lack of a better word, displeasing.

1:16.4

It was odd.

1:17.4

If he asked me to tell you why I thought he was displeasing, I couldn't really pinpoint

1:21.6

anything.

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