Burnt Luigi

I love Nintendo, the console I grew up with was the Nintendo 64 — the games on the console are alright, but the one I liked the most was Super Mario 64. Unfortunately, I just realized that I don’t have a copy of Super Mario 64, I looked everywhere, and I couldn’t find one — only a dusty Nintendo 64 console I have.

I just brushed it off, and I asked my parents if they could let me get Super Mario 64 again, they allowed me to, and I went to the nearby GameStop across the street — I found the game, good as new, and I happily bought it — I didn’t see any short message on the cartridge written in sharpie or any spooky things from one of those haunted game stories I saw before.

I went back home and I turned on my Nintendo 64 to start playing, the game started how it normally does.



I played the game until I unlocked the basement after defeating Bowser and getting the key, I didn’t go into any detail because nothing fascinating happens, and then I entered the basement.

this area always creeped me out as a kid, I don’t know why anyway, I just walked around messing with my N64 controller for the fun of it, I don’t know what I activated, but I might’ve activated a secret and eventually, I reached the part of the basement where the picture frame of lethal lava land is at.



For some reason, instead of the flaming figure in the picture frame, it was Luigi.

It didn’t seem too out of the ordinary because Luigi was planned to be in the game, but I just jumped into the picture frame, and I was sent to the level afterward and Lethal lava land was the same as it normally should be, but some platforms were missing and coins were gone.



I started trying to look for some stars to collect, so I can unlock a level or star room — I eventually reached the platform where Mr. I will be supposed to be, but instead of Mr. I; Luigi was standing there on the edge, he wasn’t moving at all, I instantly ran up to him, but I accidentally pushed him into the lava, Luigi started screaming in his regular tone.

his screams and cries for Mario were not distorted or recorded by a different person — it was Charles martinet.



After Luigi’s flesh melts and as he drowns in the lava — a star flies out of the lava and I collected it.

I was instantly sent to peach’s castle but for some reason, I was knocked out of the picture frame like Mario does when he fails a level — the weird thing I noticed is that the water was red and Mario had a terrified expression on his face.

Right behind him, Luigi looked different — almost like a zombie, his clothes were darker and his skeleton was seen. his clothes were torn as well, I tried running around in the basement, and every door was locked.



The eerie part is that Luigi in the picture frame had 1080p graphics, and it’s pretty eerie because the game doesn’t have decent graphics since it’s on the Nintendo 64 and Mario was going to die here.

I was presumably right because the game crashes immediately.

The Aftermath
This was originally planned to be in the game, I was searching through the game files on Super Mario 64, and here’s what I found — the file name was “BURNT LUIGI”