Urban Legends zijn vaak bizarre verhalen die (vaak) zijn verzonnen en worden verteld als waar gebeurd, iets wat zelden ook zo is. Maar ook onze video games kennen deze creepy verhalen, en daar van blijken een aantal toch echt waar te zijn. Want de website Cracked.com heeft er een aantal van onderzocht (opvallend veel Nintendo games) en zo zitten er verborgen ruimtes in World of Warcraft, een Bondage dame in Portal en een spook schim in Luigi Mansion. Zeer interessante materie.

#5.Mario Universe -- Luigi Is Dead and Daisy Is Deformed

So Mario games are full of creepy stuff, apparently. Knowing that, we're not so shocked to find out that Mario fans are always looking for hidden conspiracies in those games. We are, however, a little disturbed by what they've actually found.

Take Luigi's Mansion for GameCube, which is about Mario's taller, greener brother hunting ghosts in an old mansion. According to an urban legend that keeps popping up in the always-reliable gaming message boards, if you go to a certain room, stand in a specific spot and wait for lightning to strike, you can see what looks like Luigi's shadow hanging from the ceiling. As if he had just committed suicide.

But that's ridiculous, of course. We'll even go ahead and disprove this rumor by taking a look at that part of Luigi's Mansion and ...



... oh, shit. That does look remarkably like someone's shadow hanging from the ceiling, in a game about haunted mansions and ghosts.

There's some debate about what it actually is: Some say it's a glitch, while others claim the game was originally meant to be much darker and this is one of the many leftovers from the beta version ... but they're all ignoring the simplest answer: Luigi has been a ghost all along.