# Lavender Town Syndrome Creepypasta Lavender Town Syndrome, also known as the Lavender Town Tone or Lavender Town Suicides, is a Pokemon creepypasta claiming the eerie theme from the graveyard town in the original Japanese Red and Green cartridges drove around 100 Japanese children to suicide in 1996 through hidden binaural tones. First uploaded to Pastebin in February 2010, the tale spread across 4chan, YouTube and Yahoo! Answers into a staple video game urban legend of the early creepypasta era. ## Origin The earliest written version was uploaded to Pastebin on February 21, 2010 by a user going by DannoW[3]. Framed as a detective's investigation report, the story alleged that around 100 Japanese children ages 10 to 15 killed themselves within days of the game's February 27, 1996 release, blamed on a subliminal audio code hidden in 104 original cartridges. Lavender Town itself was already the games' designated graveyard, home to Pokemon Tower and the ghost of Cubone's mother, so the setting arrived with a built-in creepy reputation before the pasta ever appeared. - **Platform:** Pastebin (viral spread on 4chan and YouTube) - **Creator:** DannoW (Pastebin user) - **Date:** 2010 ## Overview The pasta frames the story as a Nintendo cover-up: various versions claim the company hid high-frequency binaural tones in 104 of the original cartridges, triggering headaches, nosebleeds and suicidal thoughts in kids ages 10 to 15, with later retellings padding the myth with fake academic writeups and an invented interview with a Game Freak art director who supposedly said Satoshi Tajiri had them place the killer track only in the Red version[3]. The format spans creepypasta text posts, YouTube videos pairing the original Japanese Lavender Town theme with static Ghost-type Pokemon imagery, and 'unfiltered' remixes of the tune claimed to be the true cursed original[1]. Blog comment sections drew responses ranging from believers sharing stories about cousins driven to suicide to skeptics debating Game Boy internal clocks and flash memory corruption[2]. ## How It Spread Discussion of Lavender Town's unsettling atmosphere predated the pasta by years, with players on Serebii Forums and NintendoWorlds.net trading spooky theories about the music in 2008 and 2009[3]. Once DannoW's Pastebin post dropped, it reached 4chan's /x/ paranormal board on March 3, 2010, with a trimmed variant posted a week later. Between April and July 2010 copies traveled to ImageShack, personal blogs and the pop culture site Rickey, with variants including a fake textbook excerpt about audio-induced illness and the fabricated Game Freak interview. A YouTube upload of the original Japanese Lavender Town theme circulated widely through the early 2010s, becoming the sound cue tied to the legend[1]. Yahoo! Answers logged more than 20 threads about the syndrome starting in April 2010, with users asking whether the tune could actually kill[4]. Fan blogs kept the debate running, with commenters swapping secondhand stories about broken cartridges and traumatized relatives while others argued the whole thing was a hoax[2]. ## How to Use The pasta is typically shared as text alongside audio of the original Japanese Lavender Town theme or a 'true' unfiltered remix, often with a warning to listen in a dark room with headphones. Retellings commonly recycle the '100 dead Japanese children' figure and the fake Game Freak interview, sometimes adding local touches like a personal story about a cousin or classmate. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Lavender Town Syndrome Creepypasta? Lavender Town Syndrome is a Pokemon creepypasta claiming the theme from Lavender Town in the original Japanese Red and Green cartridges drove children to suicide in 1996 via hidden high-frequency binaural tones[1]. ### Where did Lavender Town Syndrome Creepypasta come from? The first version was uploaded to Pastebin on February 21, 2010 by a user called DannoW, then spread through 4chan's /x/ board, ImageShack and personal blogs by April 2010[2]. ### What does Lavender Town Syndrome Creepypasta mean? The name refers to a fictional wave of Japanese child suicides supposedly caused by binaural audio hidden in the Lavender Town track, framed in the pasta as a Nintendo cover-up[1]. ### How do you use Lavender Town Syndrome Creepypasta? Fans share the pasta text alongside YouTube uploads of the Japanese theme or 'unfiltered' remixes claiming to be the true cursed original, and blog comment sections trade secondhand stories about affected relatives[2]. ### Is Lavender Town Syndrome Creepypasta still popular? The story is a classic early-2010s creepypasta, kept alive by Yahoo! Answers threads, Urban Dictionary entries and reposts on creepypasta indexes[4]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMMYj7R1h5Y]() 2. [https://thathingwearingmommieskin.blogspot.com/2010/04/lavender-town.html]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lavender-town-syndrome]() 4. [https://answers.search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22lavender+town+syndrome%22]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/lavender-town-syndrome-creepypasta Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library