Luigi’s Shadow

It’s been three years since the day I fled from that abandoned building and discovered the truth about the hanging shadow glitch in ”Luigi’s Mansion”, witnessing that disturbing cutscene. I haven’t been able to sleep at all recently.

For those wondering, yes, it was me—the original person who wrote about the shadow. I told my friends about my experience; they believed me and were interested. Yeah, you heard me correctly—they believed what I saw, so I don’t need to pull a cliché right here. But many of them questioned why I decided to break the game before leaving the building. To be honest with you, I don’t know why I broke the game like that. I really wish I had brought it home with me for proof of what I saw.

Regardless, I was able to write my story about the experience and share it with you guys, especially about the part where I broke the game. I still wish I hadn’t done that because the contents shown in the game weren’t even that bad. I guess I was too unnerved by what I was seeing and just wanted to dispose of the game. I mean, technically, wouldn’t you do the same thing I did? Think about it—just imagine having to sit there in a dark and quiet abandoned Nintendo headquarters, alone, and watching an unused sequence of Luigi hanging himself.

Now, again, it wouldn’t have been too bad, but I ended up having nightmares and night terrors about my experience in that place.

You might be wondering why I’m telling you all this. Well, I saw it. Or rather, I saw him. Not Luigi himself—nothing like that—but his shadow. And it started following me.

I had just finished packing the last of my belongings and was settling into my new home. As I stood in the living room, something caught my eye—a shadow peeking at me from the kitchen. I assumed it was just furniture casting an odd shape and thought nothing of it, so I ignored it at first.

But no matter how much I tried to dismiss it, I found myself frozen, staring. Upon closer inspection, the shadow came from a chair, but for some reason, it looked almost like a hanging figure. I rubbed my eyes, and just like that, it was back to normal—the simple, ordinary shadow of a chair.

I exhaled, shaking off the unease. My mind was playing tricks on me, still wound up from my past experience. Deciding I needed to relax, I stepped out of the kitchen, slumped onto the sofa, and turned on the television.

I switched to Nickelodeon just as an episode of ”SpongeBob SquarePants” was ending. But then something caught my eye. A strange cartoon flickered onto the screen—grainy, black and white, like something from the 1930s. That era had nothing to do with Mario, yet somehow, I knew it was related. But I didn’t see him. I didn’t see Luigi either.

I only saw his shadow—hanging in the air, a rope tied around its neck, its arms dangling limply in a way that made my stomach turn.

I am not going to bother calling the company about this, as I highly doubt they will believe me about the existence of this show and think I am crazy. Maybe I am, because I think I am a bit too terrified right now because of what happened years ago.

Anyway, out of fear, I immediately switched the channel, and it was just normal shows. I switched back to Nickelodeon, and it was normal shows playing again. Then, I switched to a random news channel, and for some reason, instead of the usual reports, the reporter was discussing details about people reporting a strange figure entering their homes.

Now, okay, I understand that this isn’t unusual for the news, as they occasionally cover stories about intruders and people entering homes. But when they showed a picture of the figure, I felt my heart leap into my throat… It was the shadow, specifically a photo of how it appears in ”Luigi’s Mansion”—a screenshot of the shadow as seen hanging in the telephone room. And then, out of nowhere, the television turned off by itself.

I tried turning the television on, and it went back to normal programming—nothing more, nothing less. I switched back to Nickelodeon, and another episode of ”SpongeBob SquarePants” was on. I set the remote down and walked to the bathroom to wash my face. Afterward, I returned to the television. Nothing weird was playing this time, so I just turned it off.

I didn’t feel like watching television anymore.

As I sat in my chair, I jumped at the sound of an object falling in my bedroom. I went to check it out, and the object was a dresser. I lifted it up and put it back.

Eventually, I got into bed and fell asleep.

I woke up to find myself inside the telephone room—the same room from the game. As I answered the phone in the middle of the room, I heard a voice on the other end say:

“Good night.”

Before hanging up, I stood there in fear. Eventually, I felt something cold around my neck. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw it.

Luigi’s shadow was wrapping a noose around my neck. It jerked the rope harder and harder until I woke up. But the most disturbing thing happened then.

I saw the shadow of the once-friendly green plumber tilting its head at me, standing still, holding the rope. When I got up and tried to chase it out of my house, the shadow ran out the front door.

As I reached the door, I noticed something on the floor that made my skin go pale. It was a rope. And I knew exactly what it was meant for.

I locked the door and ran into my bedroom, into my closet, and went on my laptop to search for why this is occurring. Then I found something.

According to a forum I checked, before the release of ”Luigi’s Mansion”, many children reported that the shadow—the same exact one that’s currently hunting me down—was allegedly following them home. I knew I was getting somewhere, so I kept searching and found more.

There were also reports of sleep paralysis, where many people woke up in the dead of night to see the shadow standing at the edge of their beds, eerily similar to my encounter. Many claimed to have heard faint footsteps before the shadow disappeared.

Now, I found something that disturbed me the most, as this is exactly what I witnessed.

Many of these accounts of the shadow reported that the monster was holding a noose, similar to what I was seeing! Many of them had said that the shadow would show up at the foot of their beds and then reach for their necks.

From what I was gathering, the shadow seemed to watch at first, and then when it had the chance, it would use its rope and attempt to strangle you with it. Not to mention, the people also stated that when they woke up, they started gasping for air, as if they were being choked by that same noose, only to find their rooms empty.

Luckily, all of these people survived and lived to see another day, but they were all scared to sleep and developed PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).

I then closed my laptop, and since that day, I started seeing a psychiatrist about what I’ve been seeing lately. I was asked to draw a picture of the monster, and so I did. I will digitalize the drawing and share it with you guys in this post.

My psychiatrist vouched for me, and suddenly, I felt a bruised spot on my neck. She asked me what was wrong, and then she looked at the bruise. Her shock was palpable.

At first, she thought I was crazy, but when she saw the bruise, the shock was evident, especially since it’s linked with Luigi’s shadow.

I was prescribed medication, and soon enough, I started to feel better. But the nightmares haven’t stopped.

I had one nightmare in particular—of course, this was related to ”Luigi’s Mansion”, as usual—where I was walking through the dark hallways. I didn’t see any ceiling ghosts or the bowling ball ghost as seen in the final game.

For some reason, the hallways looked more disturbing, abandoned, and dark than how they are in the game. Instead of the usual dark hallways theme in the game, it was more realistic in a way, as if you were really there.

Instead, I was hearing the sound of a fan running in the background and some unsettling occasional faint moans in the distance. For reference, they sounded similar to the sounds you hear in the Garage location in ”Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon”.

I found a flashlight on the ground, picked it up, and walked through the quiet and dark hallways. In the corner, I saw the shadow run into another room and slam the door shut.

I thought nothing of it, but then out of nowhere, I heard a bloodcurdling scream, and it sounded like it was coming directly from the Washroom.

However, I tried to ignore it, but curiosity got the best of me, so I slowly walked to the door, opened it, and saw the most sickening thing ever.

I saw Toad hanging in the air, and I noticed that he wasn’t being hung by a rope. He was being hung by his intestines, which were pulled out and wrapped around his neck to resemble a noose! I slowly stepped out of the room, closed the door behind me, then, as I turned around, I saw Luigi—not his shadow, at least—but he looked identical to how he did in the clip shown at E3.

Luigi had his eyes obscured by his hat. They were visible but were being cast by a shadow. His face seemed shaggier and droopy. I am not going into more detail, as those who have seen the clip may understand what I am talking about.

I didn’t fear him, but I was just staring at him with concern. I attempted to approach him, but then he ran up into the attic. I tried to chase him there, and we both ended up in the telephone room.

Then I saw what used to be Luigi standing there, no longer facing me. Then he turned around, looking like he normally does, but I noticed how red his eyes seemed. Out of nowhere, his shadow entered the scene with a noose in its hand and handed it to Luigi.

Then I heard his voice:

“Get… out… of… MY MIND!”

Luigi started slapping himself and pulled off his gloves, revealing his hands underneath. He dug his nails into his head, and as expected, blood began to leak out of the wounds as he let out a gut-wrenching scream.

I watched as Luigi snatched the rope out of his shadow’s hand, and I mumbled, “No,” over and over again as I ran toward him, trying to snatch the rope from his hand. I was pushed away immediately.

Luigi started to sob, repeating, “I am sorry,” over and over as he staggered toward a stool and dragged it into the center of the room.

He was repeating what I had seen in the cutscene, but I noticed that this dream was telling me something. I’m not sure what. Perhaps the shadow was causing Luigi to commit suicide? I’m not sure; this is a dream, so I could be wrong.

I noticed that the shadow was watching Luigi hang himself with a look of satisfaction as the monster slowly turned its head toward me and began to chase me out of the room.

Before I woke up from this dream, I saw a similar message, clawed into the wall in the hallway, with that cryptic and unnerving phrase:

“Leave luck to Hell.”

I immediately woke up before anything could happen. I sat there in my bed, trying to figure out what this dream meant. I understand that this is just a dream.

But there’s a saying that dreams have meanings, so perhaps this one does, in fact, have some kind of meaning.

As for the phrase I saw, that was how I ended the original post about the hanging shadow glitch, and many of you have asked what that phrase means.

I have the answer.

Nintendo has been allowing these types of hellish things behind the scenes, and according to a former employee of the company, they explained that a supernatural being called Burnt Luigi was summoned by a mysterious group of people into a copy of Super Mario 64.

I heard about what happened to this employee, which still makes me angry. When he sent his story to a news outlet, Nintendo came there and took down the article to cover up their reputation.

No apology whatsoever. They just did it.

As for the encounters with the shadow attacks, Nintendo didn’t do anything about them, despite the photos of the bruises and such. They simply denied these claims and even went as far as to make the victims angry by excusing it as self-harm.

As for that shadow, I haven’t seen it again, but I still think it watches me to this day—night and day, in the corner of my eye. But it looks like I have to end it here.

I heard one of my neighbors screaming. They’re kind, so I rushed to see what was wrong.

What he said made my skin pale. He saw a shadow wearing plumber attire, and he stated that his child was strangled by the shadow. Unlike the people who survived, the child was rushed to the hospital, but he was strangled so hard that he didn’t make it.