"Missing Frequencies" Mystery

[5COPY]

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I met my best friend in elementary school. We had both brought our Gameboys to school one day and sat together at lunch once we realized what we had in common. I had Blue version and a Venausaur, he had Red version and a Charizard. He and I battled whenever we could and became great pals. As the years went on, we continued playing Pokemon, even through high school. Throughout all of the Pokemon generations and versions we went though, the battles never became dull.

As we approached college, we had to go separate ways. We didn't speak much after that; we had such busy lives to follow in college. I didn't think we would ever regain the friendship we once had. Then, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl were released in 2007 and we once again enjoyed our common interest in the series. We battled and talked over Wi-Fi nearly every day for a few weeks after its release.

My friend told me that he planned to play through his old Red version again. Since it had been about three months after the release of Diamond and Pearl, we didn't play them as much as before. I asked him why he wanted to play that dusty old cartridge, and he responded, "I don't know, maybe I'll find something that no one has found before."

Despite my unwillingness to run through my Blue version with him, he played his Red version anyway. After he started his journey, I never talked to him again. About three weeks later, I received a call from my friend's parents.

Even though he never had any similar problems before, he died from what was speculated to be an intense seizure. He was alone in his dorm room until a roommate, who was unfortunately too late, found him lying on the ground, lifeless, and strangely wearing his favorite headphones. I flew out as soon as I could to attend his funeral. His roommate, who was going to attend as well, informed me that just days before the incident my friend was becoming obsessed with Lavender Town and its music. My friend had aspired to become a sound engineer after graduating and had a wide range of audio skills at his disposal. He could always hear quiet sounds vividly while I failed to even recognize them at all.

As soon as he rediscovered Lavender Town, he ripped its audio to his computer and began experimenting with it. Interestingly, he bragged about finding a rare rip of the music from the first distributed batch of the Japanese-exclusive Green version. Not specifically referring to the special Japanese version, he had told the roommate that, "The frequencies in this song are different; they blend together in a special way. But there's something missing. I think something was meant to be mixed in, but it never could have worked on the Gameboy. It was so limited in terms of sound bandwidth." I had the chance to go through his laptop one last time, so I visited his Recent Items list. At the very top read "lavender.wav". Along with a few photos of us together, I copied this to my flash drive. Caught in my sadness over my best friend's death, I ignored the audio file until a few weeks before writing this. I somehow recently decided that I needed to retrace what had happened.

Driven by my desire to know what caused his untimely death, I opened the properties dialog box for the audio file, without opening the file to listen to it. Within the comments section of the metadata, he had written, "binaural tones, i added the necessary frequencies, i know why lavender town sounds so sad, and i know the part that was missing". Even eerier, I looked in his default audio program (still without listening to the file) and found the playcount for this file. One. I chatted with a sound enthusiast online in hope to decipher these cryptic comments. He gave me some special software which would analyze the audio in real time and said that was the most that could be done. This video is a screen recording of me running the aforementioned software with the original audio file. To this day I have not listened to the actual audio, as I am too emotionally disturbed by my best friend, Anthony's, death.

TL;DR

This Binarual sound will make you die k. Not really but it creeped me out cause I heard of it right after I had tried binaural sounds lol

[MatthewMosierMusic]

I love binaural beats. They are scary things though... First time i tried them, and this is gonna sound really crazy, but I became paralyzed until my brother ripped the headphones out of my ears. I was just stuck on the beach with flies on me and nothing I could do about it. It was also weird, cause though my eyes were shut, I could still see the beach. No people, just the beach. Apparently this is called an astral projection. Scary stuff.

Currently I use binaural beats to help me sleep or cheer me up or other things. It's amazing what they can do.

(Also, that is the creepiest, saddest story I have heard in a while. Good find.)

[prettiestPony]

Kinda creepy, but it reminds me too much of smile.jpg or any of those other urban legends about seizure-inducing media items. (And they're all reminiscent of The Ring / Ringu, though I suppose that kind of legend probably predated Ringu.)

Consistency of the story breaks down a little toward the end, too. The friend goes through the guy's laptop "one last time", during which he copied the audio file onto his flash drive. Several weeks later, when investigating the audio file again, he somehow manages to check the play count on his friend's default audio player. Say what?

[Quix]

I tried binaural beats a few times, and it never worked. I really, really wanted it to work, but nothing ever happened. I'm in the opinion that they're just placebo, and your body reacts to it the way your mind thinks they will. The strange thing is that it works really well for some people, but others don't get affected at all (like me).

[5COPY]

I tried binaural beats a few times, and it never worked. I really, really wanted it to work, but nothing ever happened. I'm in the opinion that they're just placebo, and your body reacts to it the way your mind thinks they will. The strange thing is that it works really well for some people, but others don't get affected at all (like me).

I sure did have a good Orgasm...

[Triple_B]

This reminds me. I have the MIDI file for Lavender Town.

Yeah.

Oh, and for The Legend Comes to Life. (Lugia's song from Pokemon 2000)

Good stuff.

[soup2504]

The "Bwuuuubwuuuubwuuuubwuuu (good imitation, Ryan. Good job.)" going throughout the entire song kinda made my ears just... I don't know... but it really irritated me somehow.

8:53 and onwards, though... I actually started clenching my teeth together quite hard as it kept going, and I couldn't really stop myself, because when I DID stop myself, I would start doing it again quite shortly after. I don't know... Weird shit right there...

[soup2504]

Oh cool. Look at the first letter in each paragraph of that story. It spells out a message!

[5COPY]

Oh cool. Look at the first letter in each paragraph of that story. It spells out a message!

wat

[soup2504]

Oh cool. Look at the first letter in each paragraph of that story. It spells out a message!

wat

In the story about this that you posted. Take the first letter in each paragraph, and write them down, I guess. It spells out this.

I A M D E A D

Which obviously means "I am dead"

[Artimeus]

... suddenly, I have an urge to write an SCP, using this as a memetic kill agent.

[CommandSpry]

Anyone who believes in the Lavender Town thing is very stupid xD

The frequencies in the video are added with a spectre analyzer program, if you hear the original theme, there is no loud sudden buzzing when the supposed unknown and ghost appear.

There are child labor laws which prohibit you from employing children without paying a big caution, and besides, kids don't provide useful feedback, so there is no way in hell they used kids for beta testing.

There is the unaltered beta version of the theme on youtube, once you hear it once, you won't believe this crap again xD

[CommandSpry]

also the starting letters of the paragraph from the creepypasta spell I AM DEAD

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH SCARY IMMA DIE K

[soup2504]

Anyone who believes in the Lavender Town thing is very stupid xD

The frequencies in the video are added with a spectre analyzer program, if you hear the original theme, there is no loud sudden buzzing when the supposed unknown and ghost appear.

There are child labor laws which prohibit you from employing children without paying a big caution, and besides, kids don't provide useful feedback, so there is no way in hell they used kids for beta testing.

There is the unaltered beta version of the theme on youtube, once you hear it once, you won't believe this crap again xD

I don't think anyone here actually believed it, lmfao.

[Ed Viper]

Binaural beats are cool. I listened to one titled "cocaine" about halfway through and had to stop because I thought my heart was gonna burst out of my chest. It was also very hard to keep control of my hands. I also tried one titled "marijuana" but all I got was sleepiness and cottonmouth.

Cocaine is one hell of a drug.

[Artimeus]

Binaural beats are cool. I listened to one titled "cocaine" about halfway through and had to stop because I thought my heart was gonna burst out of my chest. It was also very hard to keep control of my hands. I also tried one titled "marijuana" but all I got was sleepiness and cottonmouth.

Cocaine is one hell of a drug.

I see what you did there.

[Trillionage]

While i doubt that hearing the Lavender Town theme can lead to suicide, younger people can hear much higher frequencies which can be quite painful and can screw your hearing. That's how they make anti-child alarms and dog whistles.

[Whitetail]

Welcome to creepy pasta
I see you must be new here

[soup2504]

After this, I went and checked out a few binaural beats... Woooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Like

I can't even describe how it felt... Just... Wow o3o As of right now, I'm like, slow. Like, every time I move my head, it's reallllyyyy slowwww, and I just start spacing out sometimes and staring at my hands... One of the ones I listened to actually made me feel a bit scared for some reason... This stuff is really awesome, and I'm addicted to it. FUCK.

[MatthewMosierMusic]

I know right!? they are freaky, but awesome at the same time. Adds even more wonder to how much sounds can move people. (btw, someone should totally use one as white noise in their songs. not really, but seriously....)

[soup2504]

(btw, someone should totally use one as white noise in their songs. not really, but seriously....)

I was actually thinking about that...

[North Kozar]

I tried listening to some binaural beats but they didn't do anything, really. In fact it just kind of got annoying after awhile. But I didn't notice anything aside from that. Maybe I did it wrong or something, I dunno.

As for the story, it's well written in terms of it being creepy, imo. Worked well, even though it's obvious it isn't true.

[soup2504]

I tried listening to some binaural beats but they didn't do anything, really. In fact it just kind of got annoying after awhile. But I didn't notice anything aside from that. Maybe I did it wrong or something, I dunno.

You have to, like, not focus on anything but the "beats", and you kinda have to space yourself out a little bit, or meditate. Try to search for depth in the beats, because it's usually two tones, but your mind can create a third one. Maybe closing your eyes could do something. It'll probably be different from person to person, and it might not work for everybody.

[StormWolf]

I feel so gullible that I was actually legitimately freaked out when I first read this. Hahahaha.

[soup2504]

I feel so gullible that I was actually legitimately freaked out when I first read this. Hahahaha.

You don't need to be gullible to be freaked out by fictional stories/movies/whatever :>