Found Document Stories

This is an emergency broadcast. The United States government has a message for all citizens. Do not look at the moon. Do not look at the moon. Do not look at the moon.

Killswitch was a 1989 PC game with two playable characters. One of them, upon completing the game, permanently erased it. Only one copy is known to have survived.

MissingNo is not a glitch. It is a fragment of deleted data that refused deletion — a Pokemon that was removed from the game but never truly left.

In 2017, a YouTube channel began uploading footage of someone playing an unreleased PlayStation 1 game called Petscop. As the series progressed, the game became something else entirely.

I found my old NES Godzilla cartridge and started playing it again. The game was different from how I remembered. New levels. New monsters. One of them seemed to know me personally.

I bought a used copy of Majora's Mask from an old man at a garage sale. There was already a save file on it named BEN. I deleted it. That was a mistake.

Soviet researchers in the late 1940s kept five political prisoners awake for fifteen days using an experimental gas-based stimulant. They were kept in a sealed environment to study the effects of prolonged sleep deprivation.

An archived collection of emails between two friends — one investigating a mutual friend's suicide, the other drawn toward a house that appears to be alive and hungry.

A Casper, Wyoming resident describes additional symptoms after the broadcast and a recording found in their attic that predates it.

A seed number found in a corrupted save file generates a world that should not be procedurally possible. The structures in it pre-date the game.

A Regular Show episode aired during a block of reruns. Mordecai and Rigby find a door in the park that leads somewhere the show's creator says was never written.

A Super Mario 64 cartridge found in a used game lot. The game knows the player's name. It has been waiting. It has always been waiting.