Green Mountain (Sonic Creepypasta)

About

Green Mountain is a Sonic the Hedgehog creepypasta fan game in which Sonic climbs Green Mountain and encounters a shadowy doppelganger known as "End" with a black hole for a face. Sonic fights the doppelganger and is consumed by darkness, resembling End by the game's conclusion. The game was uploaded to the Sonic Fan Games HQ forum in mid-January 2024 and went viral that February, inspiring fan art, theories and other fan content.

Origin

On January 12th, 2024, Sonic Fan Games HQ^[1] user grenmoun_s o n i c uploaded a creepypasta fan Sonic fan game titled "Green Mountain," writing, "Climb the green mountain trail." In the game, the player, as Sonic, is tasked with climbing an enemy-free mountain. Once the player reaches the top of the mountain, they encounter a doppelgänger resembling Sonic with a black hole or shadows across his face and body. The player fights the doppelgänger. If they wait a few minutes after the end of the fight, the screen and Sonic turn black, with Sonic resembling the doppelgänger by the end. A gameplay video was uploaded by YouTuber^[2] SquishyBox on February 1st, garnering over 23,000 views in four days (shown below).

Several images taken from the game's file were uploaded to the forum by various users over the following days, including a dark image named "returnal" that appears to show Sonic's corpse when brightened (shown below, left) and a list of the sprite names, featuring names like "did_you_bring_the_shovel" (shown below, right).

Spread

On January 31st, 2024, X^[3] user @gurgney posted a link to the game, writing, "i found this," garnering over 780 likes in five days. The game gained further viral spread in February. On February 1st, 2024, Newgrounds^[4] user MadzillaKOTH posted a GIF based on the game, which they also post to X^[5] that day, garnering over 170 views on the former and 200 likes on the latter in four days (shown below).

On February 2nd, YouTuber^[6] Madzilla uploaded a video playing through and exploring the files of the game, garnering over 5,000 views in three days (shown below).

That day, X^[7] user @JackasseryAgain posted a thread about the game, garnering over 5,600 likes in three days, writing, "So about this Green Mountain game. Nobody knows where it’s from. Nobody knows who made this." The user shares several discoveries and theories made about the game throughout, including a post explaining what they believe is lore relating to the game, writing:

I’ll develop this post into a thread as I go along because I’m heavily invested in this mystery, but here’s what I’ve been able to piece together so far.

Two people buried a body at a mountain called Green Mountain. This is found from bits on a conversation in the game’s sprite menu and the number 811 decoded from the game’s music, which is a real emergency code used to get permission to dig in an area of safe to do so.

There’s a name floating around found from an audio file. The name is Jared. Whether this is the murder victim, one of the two who buried the body, a mislead, or someone else entirely, we don’t know, but the name matters.

That day, X^[8] user @HexchromaManiac posted fan art that gained over 1,000 likes in three days (shown below, left). X^[9] user @LemonBluezYT posted a thread on the game and its lore that gained over 18,000 likes in the same span of time. On February 3rd, X^[10] user @Artrax63 posted fan art that gained over 1,200 likes in two days (shown below, right).

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