ben drowned

Ben Drowned is a viral horror story and creepypasta based on the Nintendo 64 game The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. The story is about a college sophomore named Jadusable who is haunted by an artificial intelligence entity called BEN after receiving a haunted cartridge of the game. The story was first posted to 4chan in September 2010 by user Jadusable, whose real name is Alex Hall. The story includes: A college roommate lending Jadusable an old Nintendo 64 console An elderly man at a yard sale giving Jadusable an old copy of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Jadusable noticing that there is a game file named "BEN" still loaded onto the cartridge Ben Drowned is considered one of the most important pieces of internet fiction ever created, and has inspired many other works of internet fiction. It has also pioneered many tropes that are now common in the creepypasta genre, and has shown how the internet can be used to create a narrative where readers have a say in how the story unfold