Red Dead Redemption Lost Level
I have a really good friend named Jacob that worked for Rockstar while developing the videogame Red Dead Redemption. The game was near completion, they were just going though a few graphical changes, and my friend was given a few copies two months before the game was publicly released, and, nicely enough, he mailed one of them to me.
Being incredible excited, I popped the game into my Xbox and started playing the story mode, seeing it was the only option because the servers for the online aspect of the game were not yet launched. Anyway, I played the game for the entire day, only stopping for food and bathroom breaks. I can imagine I was on my couch gaming for a good eleven hours before I finally decided to go to asleep.
I woke up the next day and immediately hopped onto the Xbox again, and of course, started with playing story mode. At this point in the game I was back at the ranch doing mundane tasks labeled as missions, and I was bored as shit. Eventually I made it to the final level where the Army and the Blackwater Police come to your house and kill you, the one called "And the Last Enemy Shall Be Destroyed" or something along the lines of that. And I have to say, this mission by far was my favorite. As you know, I completed the game and there was not much to do other than go on lengthy crime sprees throughout the game's world, playing as John Marston's son, Jack. I was bored and started going through the menu options and found that you can replay the levels. Nothing out of the ordinary appeared except there was one level after the one where John dies. Not only was it odd that it was sort of a hidden level, but there was no name, just a blank space that you could select.
Of course I selected the level out of sheer curiosity and began playing. The beginning was not normal at all, there was no scene before the level, and you just started out in the woods on your horse. Even more oddly, the camera angle is still for an entire minute. None of the buttons do anything, you can't go the home screen, you can't pause, you can't move. Plus, there is no music or noises from animals or anything; just this high pitched ringing. Suddenly your horse takes off and your character screams "move it" at the horse, but it isn't the same voice actor as John or Jack or any other character, the voice is very deep, akin to the one that people use to disguise themselves in interviews on television and in some films.
So you keep running though the woods on your horse but you can't control what's happening until you venture out into this long, flat prairie that is completely different from any in the game. So the first thing I did when I had control was move the camera so you could see the face of your character, your character is hooded and wears a red bandana which covers everything up to your nose, only showing your white skin and blue eyes. You were wearing a black duster coat with brown leather chaps, looking relatively unique to other characters. Anyway, the entire time I'm running and this field keeps going on, no changes in the landscape other than a few bushes. Knowing that running wouldn't do me any good, I hopped off my horse and then a marker appears on the mini-map which was a little strange. I also noticed that I had no gun on my back and no holster, so I decided to press the button that makes you pull out your weapon and I withdrew a knife. The marker still remained and then I hopped back on my horse. This really freaked me out because as soon as you hop on, the horse rears and the screen turns black and white and this screechy and slow violin starts playing.
So it's really creepy because the sound is just piercing due to the combination of the shrill violin and the ringing. And you speed through the prairie for a good five minutes until you come across a log cabin. I hopped off my horse, it went back to color and all noise completely stopped and I'm standing in front of the door to some random cabin. I start walking towards it and then right before I opened the door my character pulled out his knife and burst in. Inside the cabin was around twelve children and a schoolteacher. I lost all control again and I slowly walked to the center of the classroom. For around fifteen seconds all you can hear is a high and murderous scream, but the camera stays perfectly still and everyone is looking at you expressionlessly and it holds like a photo. Next, the screen went completely black and this is the thing that deprived me of sleep. The pictures started appearing on the screen, they were faded from time and it was like a slideshow, each picture changing to the next, one frame every second. They were all color pictures and all you could see was a hand in the lower corner with a knife and a child near it. It kept going on until eventually there were just these pictures of small bodies on the floor; slashes in them, intestines hanging out, blood all over the floor. Then the very last picture was a masked figure crouching next to the bodies with a knife in his hand. Then the level just ended and I was taken to the home screen.
Afterwards I went on the computer and checked my email. I had one new message in my inbox from Jacob who originally gave me the game with only one link which led to a German news article. Apparently a month before he sent me any of this he had broken into a woman's house and killed her as well as the children she was privately schooling.
Credited to HandsomeChris
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