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You think a simple digital "archive" for gaming music won't give you everlasting nightmares? Think again. More than a few of these "high quality rips" can, intentionally or not, trip into the grand level of a screaming terror threshold. And as this page will come to show, they won't be lovely.

Just remember that Haltmann Works Co. is watching you...

  • The very, very not safe for life rip of Rhythm Code, then called Puzzle Room (which was taken down) ended with a Vinesauce reference - a screen with “да”note  and “нет”note , and annotations for both. Clicking the former lead to a music video for "Russkij Pusskij" by Carlito; clicking the latter lead to a shock video of a harlequin babynote  screaming; what's worse is that a human hand slowly inched towards “нет”; when it did, it displayed a still from that video with the Hypernova filter applied to it (accompanied by “Игра окончена” - “game over”). explanation Virtually everyone thought it crossed the line as a result of its gory content, and SiIva broke character to apologize for it (as one person had uploaded it without permission from the rest of the group - he was removed for this, of course). Funnily enough, the original uploader, Le Ruse Bird, uploaded a song to his Soundcloud titled What Harlequin Baby?
    • Puzzle Room would eventually get re-uploaded again. The song is the same, but this time... you get BEANED!!!. The rip has been deleted however.
    • The song was, once again, reuploaded... but this time, Felix the Cat's Game Over theme is recreated using samples from Rhythm Code. Clicking да leads to a harmless Tetris rip while нет leads into later in the video, which shows a crudely drawn image of Kirby with Harlequin Ichthyosis (in reference to the Baby incident). The rip has currently resulted in numerous fans losing trust in SiIvaGunner as they believe he has gone back on his apology.
      • It should be noted that this rip was most likely meant to feel like the last Puzzle Room-related rip, because it was uploaded the day before the September 30th ending and has a much higher production value than the two previous versions.
    • And now, they seem to have used audio from the original Harlequin Baby video in a rip titled "The Bathroom - P.T.". No link here, it's NSFL.
  • "Ending" from The Terrible Whiteness of Appalachian Nights. Granted, the original game was rather terrifying anyway, and the creepiness factor decreased once you realized that The Eight Melodies was playing, but it combined with the description (a reference to the "game") is still really unsettling.
  • The rip of Mickey Mousecapade's Game Over screen, aka the theme from Suicide Mouse. Thankfully, there's some Nightmare Retardant at the very end.
    Distorted Voice: What the heck, game designers?! Get it together! (laughter)
  • The rip of "Destruction of the Sammer Kingdom" from Super Paper Mario. It starts out playing the Theme Tune for The Simpsons (albeit in minor key), but then it gets interrupted by the sound of The Void engulfing Sammer's Kingdom, topped with Homer's Catapult Nightmare scream from the episode "Moaning Lisa" (which is also heard in The Simpsons Arcade Game), the scream echoing into nothing but dead silence. And unlike the Mickey Mousecapade Game Over rip, there's no Nightmare Retardant in sight — just pure, uncomfortable silence. It's disturbing enough on its own, but consider the context: It's July 7th, the date that was promised to be the end of the reboot storyline. People were expecting the video in which Chad Warden finally decides whether or not to accept the lack of Snow Halation in the Merged Reality, and the end was repeatedly teased with uploads of ending themes and the like. And then, at 5:00 P.M. EST, this video shows up. Does this indicate that the merging of both universes is not happening? Was It Really Worth It?
    • Just a few hours later, a rip of "Twinkle Circuit" from Sonic Adventure went live. The rip includes the sound of a loud crash, seemingly killing off some of the Sonic characters. It seems as if something or someone is killing off the reboot memes. So now the question is: whatever happened to the deal about merging universes? Was the Voice playing us for fools? Is this his doing, and if so, was this his plan? (Although it's more likely this was a one-off joke, as the universes were merged in the end.)
  • In a mild sense, the rip of Lavender Town from Pokémon Red and Blue during the reboot (already infamously creepy on its own). The main melody is altered into The Simpsons theme, but at certain times begins to break into The Flintstones theme before pulling back (which some interpret as Grand Dad attempting to break free). Not helping is a bit of intentional distortion near the middle of it.
  • The Intro Title / Minigame Theme from Barbie Horse Adventures: Blue Ribbon Race is presented with a grainy television filter over the image of the boxart, but the music is otherwise normal, amplifying just how unintentionally creepy the song is. Then Barbie's face starts distorting, and the video and song glitch out. It then cuts to an Emergency Alert System message letting viewers know that there is a serial killer in Bedrock. The description of the serial killer's features match those of Mr. Rental.
  • Another Time Diver from The Third Super Robot Wars Alpha, Red Herring ARG teases aside, is a terrifying Bait-and-Switch for reasons entirely unrelated to the channel: after the glow in the "Alpha" of the logo changes to a realistic eye, the video suddenly cuts to a POV of someone being fired on by the Dis Astranagant's Ain Soph Aur cannon. For reference, it's a weapon that destroys its targets by rewinding them back in time until they cease to exist. The "DEAD END" screen that appears afterward has a bit of horror in it as well, as it references the Pre-Mortem One-Liner of the Dis Astranagant's user, likely the last thing any poor sod in their sights would hear before being unmade by the Ain Soph Aur.
  • Any of the rips that contain the Green de la Bean meme can be this due to the Sensory Abuse Jump Scare. It also leads to Paranoia Fuel as this is now a Running Gag and can show up anywhere.
    • The rips stopped appearing temporarily after the Bean died before he came back with no explanation before his rips died out again. However, with the Bean being reconstructed by Haltmann as a robot, he's come back again.
  • On December 14th, 2016, a certain series villain returned, taking advantage of Siiva's sleep and created a Villain World, defeating and/or capturing all the memes except for Smol Nozomi. Before the opening of the arc plays, only one line is said:
    The Voice: Hahahahaha... I'm back.
  • Lost Life - The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants starts eerie, then slowly gets worse. The video ends with a distorted image accompanied with Russian text. Doubles as a minor Tear Jerker if you know what said Russian text means and what the video itself is expressing and portraying.note 
  • Egghead rivals even Green de la Bean as one of the most terrifying characters from the rips. He's a Creepy Child wearing a life vest who typically warps into the screen with the camera zooming in on him, before almost instantly cutting to a (sort-of) screamer of a distorted and glowing-eyed celebrity before fading back to white. The Nightmare Retardant usually comes in afterwards with a humorous vine being played, but even that isn't always the case. In later rips he just pops out of nowhere and subjects the audience to earrape (possibly a distorted Flipagram roast laugh) with the caption "HOWIE DOIN?" The creepiest thing about him is that NO ONE seems to know where this meme and the picture used in it even came from. It's a good thing his rips had a relatively short run, (mostly) only throughout early-mid 2017.
  • LSD: Dream Emulator rip Lucy in the Sky with Dynamites (20. Flashback) is a very unnerving rip even by Siivagunner standards. The whole video is very creepy, first starting with a dark screen as the sounds of something starting up can be heard. The screen suddenly shifts to the POV of a camera filming a birthday cake's candles being lighted, as a creepy "Happy Birthday" song can be heard in the background. Suddenly the screen shifts to static as unsettling distorted noises can be heard in the background, and then to just silent blackness. Then Egghead suddenly JUMPS AT THE SCREEN straight out of the darkness as a terrifying noise is played. The succeeding screen, which is just a silent clip of Silento doing the Whip/Nae-Nae on a Game Boy, does nothing to balance out the creepiness from previously.
  • Shellfie (Alternate Mix) - Splatoon begins with Egghead suddenly warping on the screen, and then cuts to a rather disturbing, red-tinted picture of a possessed-looking Kevin Hart with Harmony/Paruko's hair and black, empty eyes with white dots in the middle. The video then cuts to a "smol" Paruko floating in a white void as faint screaming can be heard in the background and birds and cats float in and out of the screen. As she floats closer to the screen, the scream gets louder and louder (verging on Sensory Abuse) as the screen starts to shake and become red. Luckily enough, the video then becomes much more humorous, but the beginning is terrifying.
  • "Subject removal" edits are an uncommon staple in rips, and for good reason; these rips take innocuous meme videos and edit it to remove everything from them save from the background and the occasional white noise, leaving it empty and ominous. Such examples are:
  • Though not physically scary, the first two Haltmann's Archives episodes possess this unnerving atmosphere that makes you feel alone, and that someone could find you at any minute.
  • File 13 can make you feel like your home could end up mechanized at any second and without any remorse.
  • PlayStation Format Disk Error - Console BIOS/Startup Fanfare. Basically what happens when you take Sayo-nara, an already pretty unnerving and creepy song, and combine it with video distortion and a sound font that makes it sound like it's coming from a broken PlayStation console.
    • The PlayStation 2 version is potentially more disturbing. An arrangement of the Lavender Town theme as the model of the PS1 logo corrupts throughout the whole rip.
    • The SuperDisc version, which begins as normal, but then plays a remix of Super Mario 64's Merry-Go-Round theme. It then plays again, but out of pitch. The music becomes increasingly distorted and out of pitch. The visuals of the rip have the camera moving back in a hallway reminiscent of the area where the Wario Apparition is supposed to be found. When the music begins to distort, the hallway turns red... and eventually, the video footage itself distorts. To quote one youtube viewer, "Every copy of Super Mario 64 is personified fear".
    • Startup (DTL-H1000 Version) is the preceding rip's Alternate Company Equivalent, with Sonic the Hedgehog sliding through a PSX version of Sonic.EXE's Hill Act 1 as a remix of the forwards moving version of the track from that stage plays... and then Sonic encounters EXE himself, and the music plays backwards. The video ends with Sonic being chased, the video fading into silent static once he gets caught.
  • N's Room - Pokémon Black & White 2. Like the above mentioned rip, It's a cover of Sayo-nara, but this time sounding like it's coming from a broken music box.
  • Beelzebub - Pony Island, Awesome Music aside, does have some rather abstract and bizarre imagery that could weird out some viewers. That seizure warning at the beginning definitely isn't lying.
  • Christmas Comeback Crisis Episode 10 has brought us what is likely to be the most uncomfortable imagery the entire channel has produced. The majority of the episode is based around a fight against JustinRPG, who has finally found out how to bring Reshiram to life. While he does succeed, he also gets eaten whole by the Pokemon. Eventually, he also fuses into it, becoming an unholy abomination. What makes it worse is that the heroes seem to have no chance against the monster, with Santa being eaten. He does escape the jaws of the monster, though not in one piece. They do succeed, but it surely isn't a pretty victory. The entire second half of the episode is a horrific display of Fan Disservice, Ludicrous Gibs, and Fetish Retardant.
  • On Halloween 2018, the Christmas Comeback Crisis resumed, skipping from Episode 10 to Episode 13, which is simply titled "Comeback Crisis". If you look at the video itself, it's actually an original creepypasta where the reader comes across Episode 13 of the CCC. It turns out to be Puzzle Room for FOUR HOURS, and then the да and нет screen shows up. The reader clicks нет for the funny meme only to find Felix the Cat with hyperrealistic eyes, and then everything goes downhill from there. See the video here.
  • MissingNo.'s role as a contestant for KFAD2 naturally has plenty of this:
    • The reveal is rather unnerving. After Meowth get its attention, Siiva constantly tries to hand the invitation to MissingNo., who refuses. Siiva continuously gets weaker and weaker, due to being exposed to MissingNo.'s glitchy nature, untill the point where he blacks out, leaving MissingNo. to simply take it for itself.
    • Then there's its victory theme, featuring the opening notes of Lavender Town fizzling out into a deep, static drone while a slower version of the infamous Kefka laugh plays as it closes off. It manages to take the often infamously silly history of glitch-related creepypastas MissingNo. is tied to so heavily and make it into something genuinely unsettling, resulting in what sounds less like a victory theme for MissingNo. and more like a Game Over theme for its opponent. Not helped at all by MissingNo.'s first victory in the tournament being against HOBaRT, whose icon was uniquely shown as giving off smoke after losing.note 
    • When eventually facing Mr. Krabs in the tournament, a dual arrangement regarding the two characters was released, titled "Red Mist", which can best be described as a remix of Red Mist Cue, a 15-second jingle from the Red Mist scene from "SpongeBob in Randomland", to represent the infamous Squidward's Suicide creepypasta, with droning ambient noises, turning into a creepy clarinet song playing through the middle section concluded by the sudden sound of a gunshot, ending with a creepy rendition of the Lavender Town theme in the aforementioned ambient noises from the first part of the song.
    • * Yσυ'ɾҽ Tσσ Sʅσɯ. starts off as a normal, upbeat version of Green Hill Zone but then starts glitching out until the drowning theme plays, Sonic.exe is back. The song turns into an eerier remix of Hill Act 1.gym. At the end the song cuts to Green Hill again, pretending that nothing happened. You can still hear the static.
  • Pull Up A Chair - Hearthstone may be one of the most disturbing rips produced by the channel, full stop. An unsubtle Take That! to Blizzard Entertainment acquiescing to the Chinese government's demands and blacklisting a Hearthstone champion who spoke out in support of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests, the rip features actual audio from the protests (including screaming, glass breaking, and what sounds like someone being beaten) as the mellow song plays in the foreground. Aside from the horrible and depressing Real Life context, the rip itself is not pleasant to hear.
  • Nowhere to Run - Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator. You want to know how to make the the original track all the more ominous and dread-inducing, which is best known for an ending speech that makes it crystal clear that those hearing it are trapped in an inescapable situation that will end with their death? Swap the ending speech with... a more sadistic one.
    (beep!)
    The Narrator: Ah, now this is making things a little more fun, isn't it, Stanley? It's your time to shine! You are the star! It's your story now; shape it to your heart's desires. Ooh, this is much better than what I had in mind! What a shame we have so little time left to enjoy it.
    • Several years later, it got a remaster, to make it into a full recreation of both the Pizza Simulator ending cutscene, and the Countdown ending. Of note is the fact that the Narrator adding more time to the clock is replicated by the video rewinding.
      The Narrator: My goodness! Only 34 seconds left... but I'm enjoying this so much! You know what? To hell with it. (video rewinds) I'm going to put some extra time on the clock, why not? These are precious additional seconds, Stanley. Time doesn't grow on trees!
    • Not only that, but as if to turn the screws some more, the opening portion of the cutscene (where Molten Baby gloats to the player) is instead replaced with... this:
      The Narrator: Let me wake up, he thought to himself. I'm through with this dream, I wish it to be over. Let me go back to my job, let me continue pushing the buttons, please, it's all I want. I want my apartment, and my wife, and my job. All I want is my life exactly the way it's always been. My life is normal, I am normal. Everything will be fine. I am okay.
      (BEEP!)
  • The "Playboi Carti Standing Goat" meme, introduced in early 2020, is another one of the creepiest memes on the channel. Its rips will will Jump Scare the viewer with footage of an extremely unsettling taxidermized baby goat, modified to have a humanoid posture and dark, forward-facing eyes. As if this isn't scary enough by itself, this rip has a still of it staring at the viewer for the entire duration of the video.
  • Circus (Let's Mix) - Five Nights at Freddy's. After beginning with the typical bait and switch associated with a Circus rip, it starts with a clip of Joel's playthrough of FNAF 4. After several seconds pass, it gets interrupted by static (with sounds that appear to have been taken from Vinny's corruption streams). As the static dissipates, it cuts into a video done in the style of The Wyoming Incident, telling the viewer that "YOU WILL SEE SUCH FUNNY THINGS" as a creepy remix of the Flintstones theme plays. Right when the viewer thinks the rip is about to end, the viewer gets jumpscared with the rotating head of YandereDev, with the video ending with the message "WHAT DO YOU CODE?"
  • "Last Stand (Ingame Version)". At about 49 seconds in, you hear the Rebel Flagship's cloak activate. Followed by the Power Surge warning. Then the entire run goes to hell. The last thing you hear is a scream cut short, implying the final moments of the player's crew. Although the scream in question being Loud Nigra might be Nightmare Retardant to some.
  • To commemorate the end of Super Mario Bros..'s 35th anniversary (which infamously involved Nintendo discontinuing the sales of the games tying into said anniversary, with the centerpiece game being Super Mario 3D All-Stars), the channel delisted all its prior Mario rips and uploaded new ones with altered game logos. For the majority of them, it's a simple omission of Mario's name. For the three games featured in Super Mario 3D All-Stars, however, they're very obviously corrupted, sticking out like sore thumbs in this otherwise Mario-less alternate reality. Some of these rips, most notably the Gusty Garden one, are a distorted, hollow imitation of the original song, with howling wind to highlight Mario's vanishing. Some other rips ("Big Robo Bug" and "Athletic Theme (Alpha Mix)") reference the first track of Everywhere at the End of Time, an album which is focused on dementia and the decay of memory.note 
  • Thorns (Beta Mix) from Friday Night Funkin'. What was already a very creepy battle in the original game is now made even scarier as Spirit, along with the level background, is replaced with the character he was probably inspired by; none other than Giygas himself, who proceeds to give a variant of his infamous "it hurts" speech before initiating the battle, which is set to a very creepy remix of "Thorns" but with noises and instruments from the Giygas battle, and with some uses of "Porky Means Business". In contrast to his usual portrayal of being motionless and adrift in space, here Giygas makes wobbling and stretching movements throughout the song, especially when he sings, giving off an extremely unnatural and uncanny vibe. Special mention goes to the portion around 0:36 where Giygas unexpectedly screams in the middle of the song. Despite involving a rap battle of all things, the rip manages to do quite a good job of capturing the hopeless, terrifying feeling of the original Giygas battle.
  • Released during the Beatles event, "'It's a me, Mario!' - Super Mario 64DD" parodies "Revolution 9", a song that in itself is on The Beatle's Nightmare Fuel page. It begins with Mario going "It's a me!" from ear to ear, as various tracks of Mario 64's music and sound effects play, some forward, some backmasked.
  • "Smart Race (Alternate Route) - Deltarune" mashes up the original song with Astronaut In The Ocean. After the second linenote , the song is abruptly cut off by the sound of the IceShock spell. The remainder of the rip is still Astronaut In The Ocean, but it's heavily slowed down, giving an atmosphere similar to "But Nobody Came".
  • "Misty Menace - Donkey Kong Country" is Siivagunner's take on the "Unnerving images with unnerving music" meme, featuring 16-bit quality images of (among others) a bunch of humanoid creatures framed in shadow standing underneath an Eldritch Abomination at a parking lot, a woman with a Nightmare Face next to a dog that appears to have flesh coming out of its mouth, two birds standing in a public restroom, a man hanging in an intersection, and finally culminating in a certain taxidermied goat.
    • Speaking of memes, Level 8 - Eversion HD is a recreation of the "Mr. Incredible Becoming Uncanny" meme. The visuals of Zee Tee becoming uncanny aren't too bad, considering he remains in an 8-bit style throughout near the entire video (the exception being the game's thumbnail shown at the very beginning, which itself isn't scary at all). The music however, is an 8-bit remix of the meme's musical arrangement, with all the original sounds and songs that came with it.
  • To commemorate the release of Kirby and the Forgotten Land, all of the day's rips were of Kirby games, but with a... darker spin on the concept of a "Forgotten Land". These tracks were reworked In the Style of The Caretaker (who, perhaps not coincidentally, shares his real surname with the character) and cycled through the first three stages of Everywhere at the End of Time, plus the final few minutes of "Place in the World Fades Away". The results were quite disturbing to say the least. Thankfully, the event truly ends on a much more light-hearted rip, indicating that Kirby was able to remember.
  • Mortimer's Theme - Five Nights at Treasure Island (2020) starts as a simple arrangement of the Harlem Shake to the aforementioned track, before abruptly cutting to static at 1:10. At 4:42, the track becomes a recreation of the second half of the original audio using Harlem Shake samples, and it sounds just as eery and disturbing. Special mention goes to when the growling lion sample is pitch-shifted to match the original screaming... And then Harlem Shake instruments are arranged to the music box at the end.
  • Central Park - POSTAL is very similar to the original theme, only the melody is changed to "The Sireen's Call". It's arguably more creepy than the original.
  • "Cave of the Past (PAL Version) - EarthBound" utilizes the nightmarish aspects of The Caretaker's music to its fullest by the virtue of being an arrangement of the infamous "Hell Sirens" from "H1 - Post Awareness Confusions". The description doesn't make it any better too.
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  • The 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's 3 8th anniversary event, while having standard rips as well as goofy ones, has a few rips that fit here as well:
  • Dianthus alpinus - Dreaming Mary is the first high quality rip of Dreaming Mary, and it's faithful to the original material. It starts like the original track before sounding like "Scarlet Forest" from Deltarune, but at some moments, the video glitches, repeating the notes in the process, before becoming more and more blurry before going darker and not moving at all. Only a discreet white noise remains while this message appears: "You have to wake up". After that, this noise becomes louder while spooky pictures show on the screen: the final one is the Playboi Carti Standing Goat, who fills the whole screen and stares the viewer dead in the eyes. After it disappears, the sounds becomes quieter before the final message: "That's all there is to it".
  • "super mario bros but it's sus" from the 2024 April Fools event starts off as a parody of a stolen version of an earlier Beta Mix rip of the New Super Mario Bros. Underground theme. The joke behind this one is that instead of the Among Us trap remix, the song switches to "Hot Cross Buns". (As a riff on the aforementioned stolen version of the original rip, the "Super Mario Bros." portion of the logo at this point is blacked out except for "Bros.", which is edited to instead say "Buns".) Fourteen seconds into the rip, however, the song abruptly stops and the screen is replaced with a "Phase 5 uncanny Mr. Incredible" version of Boyfriend, complete with black, empty eyes. No further audio is present for the rest of the rip, just dead silence as Boyfriend unnervingly stares at the viewer.

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