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He goes on to explain that he specifically moved to Phoenix, Arizona, due to its enormous grid layout making the game a lot easier to play. Repeat the process ad infinitum, until you wind up somewhere…new.” Take a left, then the next possible road on the right, then the next possible left. Each file of an entry into the story and delves into what happened to her once she seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth for a few months.Īlice has been chasing stories for NPR and comes to meet a man named Robert, who himself chases paranormal phenomena after once seeing a ghost and deciding to see “ if one was true then who knows how many others could be.” After finding a paranormal forum, he becomes intrigued by a post describing the Left/Right game.

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The poster receives a mysterious email written by a journalist acquaintance of his named Alice, full of text files. The “my uncle who works at Nintendo” of horror. The story is told in a “this happened to a friend of a friend of mine” way which I quite like as a trope-close enough to be plausible, but far away enough that hopefully none of the spooky things happen to your person. The Left/Right game uses both of these concepts in wonderful and horrible ways. The eerily beautiful Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos in the video game Bloodborne resembles a mournful praying woman from behind, though once attacked she turns and her cracked, tentacled visage and skeletal wings make it implicitly clear she is the furthest thing from human. The legendary xenomorph in the Alien franchise has a human skull underneath its shell-like face. These concepts work together like bread and butter, especially in sci-fi and horror. You can just make our the human skull underneath. You might not understand right away, but the feeling is there. When you see it, you know something is off about it. This tech was used in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story to create a younger Princess Leia after actress Carrie Fisher had passed away. Another more recent example of this is the process known as “ deepfaking, ” where machine learning and neural networks help recreate or replace one person’s face with another, even in some cases the deceased. It’s so close to reality but our brains know it isn’t and there’s a disconnect. It’s the idea that when something is almost human, but not quite, like an android, we start to feel revulsion. Uncanny valley, on the other hand, is kind of the opposite. We’re meant to sympathize with the aliens, but it’s also a struggle because of their appearance. Films like District 9 have delved into this, with the humanoid “prawn” aliens that are subject to discrimination with direct parallels to the apartheid. To help give us an emotional tie to them, cartoons and animations will give a variety of creatures including insects huge, puppy-dog like eyes, and other more human features. Obviously, you can guess the emotions an ape is going through, via facial expressions and body language-but what’s going on in a spider’s head? It’s incomprehensible. It’s why we feel more empathy toward a chimpanzee than a spider. It’s been researched that the more inhuman something is, the less we can relate to it. Two of my favorite types of horror are the fear of the unknown and the uncanny valley. I honestly think the way this story is told would work quite well as a podcast, so I might have to check it out someday.īefore we get into the meat of the Left/Right game’s narrative, there are a few concepts I’d like to explore that come into play. Thompson also played my favorite character in Annihilation, which I’ve written about before. Strange coincidence that this and the last Creepypasta I covered went on to audio format, but podcasts are extremely popular these days and lend themselves well to horror, so maybe not so surprising. Like Borrasca, Left/Right also has now been adapted into a podcast, produced by and starring Tessa Thompson. The Left/Right game was originally posted to Reddit in late 2017, and grew to have a dedicated fanbase. And if you have any stories you’d like me to cover in the future, please let me know! Welcome to the Creepypasta Corner! If this is your first time here, definitely give my previous articles on Mother Horse Eyes and Borrasca a peek.

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