I have done something that I regret.

[MissAshley]

First i would like to start by saying that THIS is not a hoax or a fake.

 

I am a huge legend of zelda fan and for the past year have been researching a lot of paranormal things. Latey i have come across the BEN Drowned story and learned all that i could about it. it started when i was searching you tube for scary things and "Haunted Zelda Cartridge" came up. i had to check it out. come to find out there was a whole back story on it, then it was later admitted that it was all a fake... i did what the guy told me NOT to do and downloaded the 4 movies of the unexplained occurrence being the zelda nut that i am. of course i scanned them for viruses and malware all came up clean, i thought it would be cool thing to have. saved it to a .RAR and put it in a flash drive. after doing so i deleted the original file with a bunch of other crap in my recycle bin.

 

i am absolutely sure that it was off my main hard drive. the night i did that is when it all started. im sure you know what remote desktop is, well i would hope you do. things that are impossible to happen were happening to me. not crazy stuff like my disk drive opening but other stuff like files being renamed by them selves programs opening then closing randomly but nothing harmful. i keep a very clean system i know what goes on in my computer at all times il say that right now but to be on the safe side i ran a malware scan because my CPU was having major ping spikes and not in a timed manor it was very sporadic major fluctuations in memory usage and my network adapter was dead 0 ban with usage so it was not a hack. there were no packers or back doors nothing. but something was going on that my task manager would not show. i thought it was a dumb idea to even think it but i unplugged the flash drive and it all stopped my computer froze solid the .RAR that i had made was already done being transferred to the flash drive. it had finished already.

 

i had no choice but to reboot my pc and when i did i was horrified at what i found the folder that i made and put the movies in was back on my desktop, unpacked and my recycle bin was still empty with no trace of the .RAR archive on my pc at all after looking for it. the file was renamed to and i cant believe im even typing this "You shouldn't have done that..." after everything i have read and seen about this BEN Drowned story i could not believe my eyes.

 

afrter sitting to scared to move for about 20 mins i opened the file and it had all 4 movie clips in it but there was a forth file in the folder of the TESV icon. nothing else. i did not put that there. and i didnt think about what the TESV file being in there was supposed to mean at the time. i wanted to play this safe knowing what i knew about the story. i plugged the flash back into my USB only to find that there was nothing on it but the USB device was renamed to "YOUR TURN"

 

at this point i was smiling thinking this is stupid someone is messing with me. so i unplugged my internet cable and seen if that changed anything but things kept happening that i cant fully explain then something crazy kept happening. steam kept opening and trying to launch skyrim and that is when it hit me that what ever this is has something to do with skyrim now remembering the TESV icon in the folder that i deleted.

 

but i dont launch skyrim normally i use SKSE so i launched it with that and it finally loaded correctly the Bethesda screen with the THUMP THUMP sound was distorted right off the bat. not only were all my saved games corrupted but they had no name and that is impossible to the best of my knowledge. so i had to delete them all and start over.

 

Bear in mind that i have deleted all traces of the movie files i have downloaded of this BEN thing and even ran tune up utilitys to clean my registry. but what happend next scared me and that does not happen easly. seeing the folder was a shock kind of scare this was disturbing. i started the game and already something felt wrong. but nothing i could put my finger on, i could tell it was like the animations of the game were speed up a little and sometimes weird twitching of the meshes of the charterers.

 

at one point Ulfric Stormcloak was staring right at me in the back of the wagon. that never happens i was running a few mods body mods and armors weapons and weather mods nothing too serious. but i wont forget that, he was staring right at me like saying "yeah hi i see you!" but his mouth was covered and he was silent. the next thing that happened was the thief that tries to run. he did not run instead he turned to face me then the audio plays "you not going to kill me" then he just drops dead right in front of me. im thinking at this point that something more than a glitch is going on.

 

but what ever i continue to play and everything is normal and i think it was some weird scripting error. till i get to the part where you get your hands cut free. i grabbed some armor and a weapon then pressed tab to equip it when i noticed something very strange. every option had a $ in front of it i mean everything like this

 

$NAME

$APPAREL

$WEAPONS

$LEVEL UP

/\

$MAGIC< >$INVENTORY

\/

$MAP

 

everything has the $ next to it. but it gets even stranger still.

going through the tutorial where you have to fight either the stormcloaks or the imperials there was nothing to fight. they were all dead. everyone of them but they were all still standing.

i could walk up to them and search them and if i run into them or swing at them they fall down. it was a little creepy. even the bear you have to sneak up on was dead but laying down so were the spiders all of them. so i get to the end and leave the cave.

 

after that everything was fine or so i thought and this is where i almost lost it. i get to riverwood and talk to he blacksmith forget his name and hadvar shows up and all that goes well. then i make some armor and that goes well. im good. so i go to the sleeping giant inn to get my own Conan partner that i made myself and thats when it gets real.

 

i walk in and approach him and he wont look at me. he is sitting at a bench, normally when you walk up beside an NPC they are scripted to look at you he wont do it as a matter of fact he looks the opposite way like the back of his head is following me. i go around the other side and he is still avoiding looking at me. he is now looking in the direction that i was standing so i run back over there pressing E on him the whole time trying to get him to talk to me so he will follow.

 

after pressing E on him maybe 40 some odd times he finally disappears and instantly reappears standing up next to me where i cant see him i have to turn to see him and what i seen made me scream. he was making an awful static fuzz sound that you get when your TV is not on the right channel his mouth was fully open and he had no eyes it was black in his eye sockets. i instantly pressed tab but accidentally hit ~ button first and the screen froze in console still making that awful static sound. i paniced and hit ~ again then pressed tab.

 

after i did that he was sitting again this time looking at me the way he should. i had to leave the room and collect myself and think about everything that had happened so far and if i even wanted to continue playing skyrim. my own creation gave me a panic attack.

 

after a smoke and a talk with my roommate we agreed that i should keep playing but not alone she does not know anything about the mechanics of scripting or BEN or anything like that. i more or less wanted someone to at least see what is happening so i know someone else is seeing it too and sure enough it was really happening. after that i closed the game and gave my PC a reboot as something may have been glitched or something somewhere was conflicting so i did.

 

once i restarted the game i was back in the sleeping giant inn. i decided to try getting Conan to come with me again and it all went well. the only thing that was still strange was the $ that was still in front of every option. nothing else seemed amiss. i went to whiterun and remember stopping at the war maiden to get ingots to make Conan armor when i remember seeing lars battle born heading out the gate to skyrim. at the time i thought nothing of it.

 

i went and got reinforcements for riverwood like i was supposed to and did a few things that i could do in whiterun while i was there then left whiterun after that i headed east along the road when im not sure why i looked around my environment i guess i always do that habbit of playing FPS games i guess but under the bridge i seen something that i thought was a mud crab and i thought why are the soldiers not killing it or if they did it may have some alchemy stuff i can use.

 

when i got close i seen that it was a body even closer still i seen that it was a kid! laying face down in the water my room mate asked me if that was a dead kid. i said "it cant be kids cant die in skyrim." i got close enough to see the name and talk to the body and it was lars laying face down in the water with his arms out and warer splashing around him. he was very still not bobbing up and down like things normally do.

 

when i pressed E on him he instantly went from laying face down in the water to standing and said "i hate getting pushed around all the time." stares at me for a moment and walks off like it never happened, it was at that moment my roommate told me

"i dont like this game, that gave me the creeps!" that never happens EVER! kids do not die in skyrim. lars had no reason being down there or face down in the water or so far from whiterun.

 

i have made level up sound files for sky rim before so i know how and i have even placed one so i have a specific level up sound. but this is where it got to be too much for me. i currently have a recording in .WAV format of peter griffin saying "pow right in the kisser!" from family guy as my level up sound.

 

after the smithing and few side quests i had done i was almost level 2 i came across a few wolves and killed them and as soon as i hit level 2 a song played that i know 100% for sure i did not place there and have no record of ever have on my computer other than in those BEN videos but they are .Mp4 format and cant be played because Skyrim uses .WAV format sounds for level up.

 

that creepy freaking song called: The song of healing but just like in the movies it was playing in reverse.

 

that is where it got to me so much that i had to remove skyrim i was convinced that something was very wrong here and i had to fix it. i whipped skyrim from my hard drive and registry and did a factory restore. i reconnected my internet and re downloaded skyrim. when it was dont i opened it up vanilla and to see if everything was working.

 

i had deleted the skyrim folder from my common file in steam apps and even the skyrim folder in my documents it was all gone. there was nothing left i even cleaned out my registry again, but some how there was 1 save game that i didnt save and the image was of lars face down in the water and the name of the saved game was "DROWNED" there was never a save called BEN like the other that guy that told the story said with the zelda game but this was very to the point in what it was showing me.

 

what is going on is not possible. it goes against everything i believe but it is to real to deny. at first i thought it was a bug of some kind but the more i look at it and the more i play the more obvious it becomes that there is more to this than some malfunction.

 

that is when i gave her the information on the BEN Drowned story and she looked into it too only she did not do what i did and try to dig into it.

 

other things have happened like floating bodys tumbling in the air in dungeons in slow motion then randomly and violently spazing out then meshes becoming extremely distorted and stretched like the neck being stretched out limbs bending backwards dead NPC heads follow me. when i get close to them. and this happens with vanilla skyrim with no mods installed.

 

music files messing up like they are trying to play properly but something keeps messing with them. things doing what they are not supposed to be doing. and there is nothing i can do about it.

 

i have fraps now and im starting to record these things as they happen and i will be posting them later on once i get some real hard evidence of this so you can see for your self that there is no mod that can make these things happen so randomly at least not that i know of.

 

im guess is that this BEN what ever it is has found a new play ground with more things to play with that is what it seems to be at least in my eyes. if it has a personality i would have to say its demented because of the things it likes to do in the game.

 

beacuse i cant be in 2 places at once in the game i dont know if this only happens around me or in other places at the same time but it seems like it does this because it wants me to see it, like it wants me to play along.

 

what ever this thing is it its real and i provoked it and brought this on my self and even thought its very strange and creepy most of the time its also very cool. to know that a part of skyrim is more than AI in some sort of way.

 

one thing i have to say is the guy that told the story about BEN is a liar! this thing is real. i have no reason to lie and im going to record as much of this as i can to show it.

 

i dont want to call it BEN because it is not a person it is not living, existing inside programming maybe but not flesh and blood. and i dont think it can be killed.

 

also just so you know it does kill me at random times. when i show no reaction to something strange kind of telling me that i missed something im guessing idk what exactly im supposed to do all the time but usually when it kills me and i go back and look around there is something out of place or deformed and i think it gets mad when i dont pay attention to its work maybe i guess you could say.. and TGM does not work i still die. it will not allow that command to work for me.

 

looking at it from a psychological point of view its like a child that gets angry when its mother ignores the child. like it needs my recognition for validation or something. like a "look what i made for you mommy." state of being, and its ongoing.

 

i dont believe the BEN Drowned story to be a fake at all not after what i have been seeing and dealing with. maybe the guy thought that if he said it was fake or for a project that he would not seem crazy or something. i know for a fact that it is not and here it is 3 years later and it chose me. i really did bring it on myself because i went looking for it. i wanted to know the truth and i found it.

 

there are some things in chat bot that you know are fake and others that are not fake at all when the chat bot knows your real name and is persistent on getting information it gives things a violent shove into serious. when it tells you that it knows why you are there and tells you it is BEN without even ever typing the name BEN to the chat bot then there is no question im my mind that this BEN is in my skyrim because i went looking for it.

 

like i said i will be adding videos later so you can see your self but you need to know that this does exist and it is very real.

 

 

 

 

[Werne]

The thing that happened to your PC is called a security breach, you get a file which is designed as bait, and once you have it, it finds a back door or exploits a system vunerability to get the attacker access to your PC. It's easy to do, especially if you get an OS like Kali Linux, I did it for fun to my own PC several times, not to mention my neigbour's.

 

Seeing how you have OS and game problems, whoever did this either must've left a worm/hydra/other type of malware behind or he left a back door open and still has control. My advice would be purging the hard drive(s) completely (all data, don't even think of making any backups) with GParted on a Linux live distro and reinstalling Wndows, games, etc. from scratch. Also purge the flash drive with a Linux live distro, it may be that something is left behind hidden on it.

 

Other than that, you're paranoid and jumpy as hell, loosen up a bit, or lay off the horror movies. Any PC starts to act like that from time to time, it's just that most of us go "bloody Windows" and format the thing, instead of chasing ghosts.

[ripple]

Do you really believe a ghost lives in your PC? Really?

[MissAshley]

even go as far as making save games while my pc is not connected to the internet? i know viruses to be destructive no constructive. im not a paranoid person i actually think is interesting creepy but interesting. the pc that i am using for skyrim is not connected to the internet at the moment as a matter of fact im playing it now. its funny how these things are happening but not crashing my game and i have not gotten one blue screen or drop in performance. they are being caused by something inside my game.

 

iv been working with PCs for 7 years and i have never seen anything like this. unless the method you describe uses a 110v outlet as an injection point then this is something else, there is no back door my file system is clean and secure no way this can be done from an outside source this is happening inside my computer. and there is no way it is a virus. im telling you. wait till i upload the videos i have BEN or at least a part of it. any other time i would probably agree that this is a logical attack or corruption of data but no this is different.

 

there is more to this than a simple back door, worm etc.

 

when i have all i need to prove it i will post it till then try to be open minded please.

[MissAshley]

Do you really believe a ghost lives in your PC? Really?

to think a ghost lives is absurd i believe there is something inside my game making it do things it is not supposed to do. a virus that mainly effects the game that i play and hardly anything else? nah! i think there is something to this. a few 100 years ago we KNEW the world was flat.

 

truth is there is something here i cant fully explain but im trying.

Edited June 11, 2013 by MissAshley

[MissAshley]

im having the biggest tech nerd i know come to look at it and tell me what he thins if im wrong il let you all know.

[Werne]

even go as far as making save games while my pc is not connected to the internet? i know viruses to be destructive no constructive. im not a paranoid person i actually think is interesting creepy but interesting. the pc that i am using for skyrim is not connected to the internet at the moment as a matter of fact im playing it now. its funny how these things are happening but not crashing my game and i have not gotten one blue screen or drop in performance. they are being caused by something inside my game.

 

iv been working with PCs for 7 years and i have never seen anything like this. unless the method you describe uses a 110v outlet as an injection point then this is something else, there is no back door my file system is clean and secure no way this can be done from an outside source this is happening inside my computer. and there is no way it is a virus. im telling you. wait till i upload the videos i have BEN or at least a part of it. any other time i would probably agree that this is a logical attack or corruption of data but no this is different.

 

there is more to this than a simple back door, worm etc.

 

when i have all i need to prove it i will post it till then try to be open minded please.

Ok, here+s how things work:

 

If someone gains access to your PC they have free reign over it, Windows is pretty easy to manipulate, infect and gain control of, it takes about 10 seconds to gain full control if a guy knows what he's doing. He can then leave a small script that works it's way around in random intervals and does random things, it's not hard, I can write a script like that in an hour or two. A PC doesn't need to be connected to the internet for things like that to work.

 

And I never said viruses, I said malware, there's a difference. A virus is designed to infect and destroy a PC, malware is sometimes made to do that but mostly it's designed to gain control and sit dormant until it activates via a script/process/whatever - it pretends to be a legit process (or it hooks to one, like a worm) while doing whatever it's made to do, so it's hard to find, especially if it already rooted itself.

 

And saying there's no back door is like saying there's no OS on your PC, every OS has a back door and/or a vunerability to be exploited. In this case, you were the vunerability (doing something that was already said you shouldn't, and allowing that thing access to your PC) and by doing so, you've allowed the malware to create a vunerability in your system, giving it full control. I must say, and don't be offended cause you shoud've figured it out yourself by now, it was a really, really dumb move on your part.

[TPA5]

Wait, you mean everything people post on forums is true? Especially when it involves a (and I can't believe the OP didn't use this) 'ghost in the machine'.

 

Or maybe the OP is just telling a good story. Unless I saw it in person, or at the very least in a video, I'd never believe it.

 

In other news, my breakfast cereal this morning tried spelling out messages for me. I did a factory restore on them.

[luzburg]

rofl I thought people were a bit more cultured on the internet these days.

[MissAshley]

Some of this i dont know how to respond to. im still recording and if anyone here does not believe what i am saying that is fine. to me that is like 2 guys seeing a ufo,

 

one says: OMG a ufo!

 

the other says: thats not a ufo i dont know what that is, but its one a ufo.

 

so sure that it is not Unidentified but quick to say it is something else unknown that is not unidentified.

 

how can you be so sure?

 

ok il bite im going to remove my current HDD and hook up my reserve HDD with windows already installed on it and see if that changes anything.

 

off to DL steam and skyrim again. il let you guys know.

 

i will tell you now that my computers network adapter is disabled.

 

if something were installed like a worm or what ever else you can come up with was present it would not effect one specific file system it would spread and corrupt as it moves along.

 

i will explain, this is not controlled from an outside presence because there is no access point.

 

if it were a man made script it would be huge to do all things it is doing. killing NPCs that can not die. placing them in spots where they should not be in a disturbing way. i find it hard to believe that the LOGICAL explanation is the correct one. unless this thing was designed specifically for skyrim and i seriously doubt that given the way it all started.

 

the only strange thing that happened outside of skyrim was the folder with the videos. that was removed and some how while my PC was off renamed the folder then after already unplugged from the internet network adapter disabled played that song backwards.

 

i went to my data folder and looked for the level up song it was still peter griffin so unless this program can convert and over wright audio for no better reason than just to do it. that is out of the question. if it can go into the skyrim.BSAs and change them the way it wants without corrupting a single file then im sorry you are wrong.

 

im sorry but there is no way to control what happens in that computer from an outside interface that is impossible i know that for sure you would need connection to either WiFi, Ethernet or Bluetooth and it has none of the above that the moment.

 

seriously floating bodys seems to be the most common then violent distortion like stretched limbs

and lately talking to NPC they look normal at first then when you talk to them the eyes go black and mouth opens way farther that it was meant to. and when your done talking to them it goes back to normal. you tell me what can do that.