It's been a long time since it happened. I don't talk to anyone about it until I found this site. I thought this was the perfect place to spread the word with everyone, here’s my story.
I live in Brazil, here I know a place where you can buy many pirated games for a cheap price. When I don't have money to get it through Steam, I just get a pirated copy. Well in the day that I’ve decided to go get some shooting games, I saw a man bleeding on the ground, he was selling pirated games before he died. “I know I was going to die soon...that damn game...” I tried to understand what happened and I said “What game are you talking about?” “Please my child... go away and save yourself...”
The last thing he said before he died. I was too curious about the game and I searched around to see if I would find anything, do yourself a favor and if this ever happen to you PLEASE don't be an idiot like me. I found a lot of strange stuff such as "Half-Life Bloody Version", "Super Meat Boy: The Death of Everything”, “Binding of Isaac: Lost Version", "Battlefield: Hero’s Hell" and much more. That guy was really crazy; selling the normal games with creepy names isn't the proper thing when selling games.
After searching I find one that was different, it was just named Life.exe, it had blood around the game box with a note behind it, and I just started to read. "No one deserves what is coming now, except you, if you were really looking for this; I hope you die in hell". After read it that I felt strange and left the place with the game, oh how I regret this.
I came back home and popped the CD onto my computer. It was empty. "I went there for nothing? Maybe I should try tomorrow". It was late so I shutdown my PC and went to sleep. While sleeping I could hear some creepy voices saying "Don't do that please...” I woke up with a really loud sound; it was my PC starting up! It was midnight at that time. When I got to my PC, a window was open with the contents of the CD that was just "IMAGES" and "Life.exe". The "IMAGES" folder had a RAR file in it was named "Hell.rar". At that time I was creeped out of my mind, but when I saw the opportunity to play the game, I clicked it and that my friend was the worst error of my life.
It began with a black screen with no sound at all and had only two options: "Begin" and "GET OUT NOW". I pressed Begin then the screen goes black again for about 10 seconds then some intro starts to play. It was a filming of me when I entered the man's store to search for the game and when I got the game for the first time I saw a black shadow behind me with red eyes that looked at the screen, it looked right in my eyes, then it screams and the screen goes black. I turned off the sound of my PC. I was terrified and wondering how the CD could have this recent footage?
The game finally started, the character looked just like me. It was a 2D like game and I could move the character around the city, it showed the place where I live and the NPC's were my friends and family. Everything in the game was just as my life.
Now I know why the game was named Life.exe. I explored the city when everything went darker and only two characters visible in the game now. Me and a shadow with red eyes, just like in the video. I click him and he said. “YOU KILLED EVERYONE.THEY HATE YOU NOW. Who is going to protect you?” A creepy sound started to play, I turn off my PC sound how could it possibility play on my PC? Anyway I continued and click on it again.
The screen displayed,
''“01011001011011110111010100100000011101110110100101101100011011000010000001100100011010010110''
''01010010000001101001011011100010000001101000011001010110110001101100001011100000110100001010 ”''
This time the sound get freakier and I started to hear cries and screams. Just like if I was in hell. The game screen was all bloody around it and when I clicked it again. “You are next. You are like everyone...you deserve what you wanted.”
A loud scream that made my speakers stopped working. I saw a picture of me being stabbed by the man who I found dead, my stomach was exposed and shaved, there was blood in his hand and he had red eyes like the shadow and in the pictures was the message. "You are next too”. I freaked out. I tried to call the cops, but the phone line was cut. Then I realized that the binary code must mean something, and then I used Google and decrypted meant. "You’re going to die in hell".
I used the code to open the "Hell.rar" file and showed a note. "Everyone has a destiny and the people who find this only have one. Hell, try not dying by my hand, I come for you [My name]” How did it know my name?
I burned the CD and went away from my home. I'm now changing my place every time that I feel necessary. Every night I have dreams with the creepy figure and in the end of every dream I see the same message "You going to die in hell".
These days I used Google to search Life.exe. There was nothing about it and also looked for news of the man that I talked about. There was nothing about him. The store and he didn’t even exist.
The Aftermath