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Animal Crossing has built its legacy by offering players a glimpse into the joys of moving to strange new towns full of strange new people, discovering hobbies, and working their way out of crushing debt. The number of adjectives gamers use to describe the Animal Crossing franchise is downright staggering but 'relaxing,' 'charming,' and 'cute' usually top the list. However, after exploring the wide world of Animal Crossing for long enough, many players have added 'creepy' to the long list of descriptors.
You have to really search for the creepy side of Animal Crossing, but rest assured: it's there, waiting to be discovered. Sometimes you have to comb through the furthest reaches of the games; in other instances, you stumble upon the franchise's darker side by accident. Occasionally, you encounter a friendly face who transforms into something terrifying if you think about it for too long.
Here are the creepiest discoveries players have made in the Animal Crossing series.
K.K. Slider sometimes sneaks in some creepy tunes
Animal Crossing is full of colorful characters, and few are as memorable as the game's resident musician, K.K. Slider. This guitar strumming canine appears in every game and produces some downright addictive songs, such as the soothing 'Two Days Ago' and 'Go K.K. Rider!' However, K.K. Slider has produced a variety of songs in different genres, including some that will chill you to the core.
One of K.K. Slider's creepiest creations is 'K.K. Dirge' (a dirge is a song of lamentation for the dead). While the standard version is absolutely terrifying, the Air Check version is doubly so and sounds like it's voiced by restless ghosts. The song feels out of place in Animal Crossing and would better fit a Legend of Zelda dungeon full of Gidbos and ReDeads.
K.K. Slider's second creepiest song has to be 'Hypno K.K.' At first glance, the live version sounds hauntingly beautiful instead of just plain haunting. But, then you hear the Air Check rendition, which sounds like it's playing in reverse. Any song played backwards tends to make your hairs stand on end, even if it is penned by a cute Jack Russell.
Mr. Resetti's rants can break the fourth wall if you're not careful
While Animal Crossing tries to simulate real life, it cannot escape its video game nature. If something doesn't go your way, you can hit the reset button and try again. And that's where Mr. Resetti comes in, because his job is to remind you that you can't reset real life and shouldn't reset Animal Crossing either.
At first glance, Mr. Resetti is not creepy. He's just a mole with seven-on-the-Richter-scale mood swings who can rant for days about the importance of saving. Gamers have grown accustomed to his ramblings, but in the first Animal Crossing, Nintendo warned parents that his sudden appearances and demeanor might be 'disturbing to young children.' However, his creepiness burrows much deeper than scaring kids.
When you stop to think about Mr. Resetti, he's essentially a character who can see beyond the veil of time. He knows whenever you want a do-over (and if you cheated to get one). Most terrifying of all, if you press the reset button or forget to save too many times, Mr. Resetti pulls an Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem and fakes deleting your progress. He doesn't actually delete your save because he's a nice guy, but he scares the uninitiated nonetheless.
You can lose everything in a friend's town, including your face
If you play the original Animal Crossing and stick to your own town, you probably don't use the train often. You ride it into your village, pass by the station occasionally, and that's it. If you borrow a friend's GameCube save card, however, you can visit a town saved on their card. If all goes according to plan, you get to see some new sights, greet new neighbors, and maybe bag a souvenir. If not, then the creepiness starts.
If you reset the game while exploring your friend's town, you won't receive a visit from the ever-testy Mr. Resetti. Instead, your fate is far worse: you'll lose all of your money, items, and facial features. Your character's face will sport the blank, terrifying stare of Animal Crossing's famous gyroids. Some players have also reported the disappearance of one or more villagers after pulling off this trick.
While this 'Easter egg' is creepy by itself, the rumored cause is far scarier. Many players believe the face is a failsafe that prevents a game-breaking bug that probably would force them to rebuild their town from scratch. To gamers, few things are more terrifying than losing all their progress to a save-eating glitch.
Wasps, tarantulas, and scorpions, oh my!
In the world of Animal Crossing, you are mostly free to complete activities at your leisure. You are in no rush to dig holes, plant trees, and decorate your house. However, all that changes when you run into (run from?) wasps, scorpions, and tarantulas.
While wasps ('bees' prior to New Horizons) aren't as scary as ghosts, anyone who has encountered these living attack drones will tell you that you do NOT want to get on their bad sides. You can easily avoid wasps in the real world, but in Animal Crossing, you never know until it's too late if a tree holds a nest. Once the wasp nest drops, you need to run for the nearest house to escape their stinging wrath.
Tarantulas and scorpions are slightly more tolerable since they are normally docile, but if they see you with a bug net, they will chase you with the vengeance of a thousand suns. While a tarantula, scorpion, or swarm of wasps only makes you pass out if they catch you (or in the wasps' case, give you a swollen eye and then make you pass out if they sting you again), the chase is enough to terrify most players.
Fan made towns bring the horror genre to life
Animal Crossing has always emphasized letting players create their own little worlds. Many build cozy hamlets, but more than a few have opted to build small nightmares. While the franchise doesn't offer as much open-ended freedom as titles like Dreams or LittleBigPlanet, many creepy little towns have popped up in Animal Crossing that use environmental storytelling to create Silent Hill-esque experiences.
Two of Animal Crossing's most famous user-made creepy towns are Aika Village and Hitokui from New Leaf. While Aika uses symbolism, scary music, and carefully placed objects to tell a horrifying story, Hitokui goes for full shock value with obvious gore that gives players Texas Chainsaw Massacre flashbacks. Admittedly, some of the creep factor is diminished by NPCs who only speak Japanese, but these towns still put the creative creepiness of players on full display.
Moreover, as technology improved, so did the tools players could use to customize their towns and villagers. Since players can now design more elaborate custom patterns, many have created blood splatters that bring the creepy villager (a.k.a. killager) meme to life.
The truth is out there (and on TV)
The passage of time is the lifeblood of the Animal Crossing franchise. In each game, characters have schedules, so you can't exactly talk to Tom Nook any time you want, even if you finally have the money you owe him. This system also ties into each game's events, including the terrifying ones that most will never see, because many people don't think to play Animal Crossing at three in the morning.
If you have the urge to power on your 3DS in the middle of the night and play Animal Crossing: New Leaf, you cannot interact with many of the game's NPCs. You can, however, turn on your in-game television and catch a UFO broadcast at 3:33 AM on a Sunday or Monday. The transmission consists of simple screens featuring a UFO and alien — the big-headed, bug-eyed kind — and its creep factor comes from its mystery. Who is broadcasting the footage? Why are they broadcasting the footage? Where are they broadcasting from? What is the significance of 3:33 AM? Players still don't know, which adds to the broadcast's terror.
Gyroids. Everything gyroids.
Gyroids are creepy by their very nature. While they look like terracotta cactuars, gyroids are actually based on haniwa figures that were buried with the dead in Japan during the Kofun period. This little factoid spawned the fan theory that Animal Crossing's gyroids are semi-sentient graves that house the souls of the departed, but some gyroids are even creepier than that theory.
Most gyroids are only disturbing when you stop to think about them, but a few drop all pretense and freak players out from the start. While many come in a variety of cute designs and make equally cute noises, tall buzzoids cry like haunted internet modems. Freakoids, meanwhile, scream like creepy, crying babies. And then there are howloids and poltergoids, which sound freaky and look even freakier because of their ghoulish faces.
Of course, gyroids have one more trick up their sleeves. They can appear anywhere. According to Dr. Shrunk in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the gyroids in Club LOL just showed up 'out of the blue' on the club's stage. At least they don't try to steal the spotlight from the club's performers.
The snowmen are alive, much to their despair
If you play Animal Crossing during the winter, you will probably want to build a snowman. Few players can resist participating in such an iconic wintertime activity. Moreover, snowmen spring to life once complete. While the surprise of a talking snowman is creepy on its own, the magic takes a turn for the bizarre if you mess up the snowman's body.
Most people know how to make a snowman. You roll balls of snow and pile them on top of one another, with the largest ball forming the base and the smallest forming the head. However, if you accidentally (or intentionally) screw up and place the larger ball on top, the snowman curses its existence with eloquence that belongs in a rendition of Frankenstein directed by William Shakespeare.
Okay, maybe their lamentations are kind of funny, but you cannot deny the inherent spook factor of snowmen gaining sentience at the drop of the hat.
Some characters are just plain haunting
Animal Crossing is full of wild and colorful characters, all of whom (with the exception of your avatar) are anthropomorphic animals. While this raises the obvious question of why the protagonist is the only human in the game, the more pressing question is why some characters go beyond simple anthropomorphism and cross into the realm of creepy.
Stitches, the patchwork teddy bear with cross marks where his eyes should be, is a prime example. Stitches' mere existence raises numerous questions since Animal Crossing features living bear neighbors. How does Stitches see? Is Stitches even alive? The same questions apply to Coco, who appears to be a gyroid crossed with a rabbit. Not only does Coco maintain a terrifyingly blank expression, but her creep factor is dialed up to eleven because her house looks like a funeral pyre and is filled with gyroids.
Coco and Stitches aren't Animal Crossing's only possible undead residents, though, as Lucky lurks throughout the franchise. His creep factor is dependent on whether you read his heavily bandaged body and single glowing eye as a sign that he is a mummy or recovering from a horrible injury.
Finally, there's Pietro, the sheep clown. However, you might only find him creepy if you suffer from coulrophobia.
New Horizons' fish are too realistic
Animal Crossing launched on the Nintendo GameCube (or the Nintendo 64 if you live in Japan). The franchise has seen entries on every Nintendo console since then, and while its art style has remained consistent throughout, graphical fidelity occasionally improved to take advantage of newer, stronger hardware. Though these improvements were baby steps in past iterations, Animal Crossing: New Horizons features the best graphics of the franchise ... which make its fish look absolutely terrifying.
Previously, fish in Animal Crossing were polygonal blobs that relied on textures to convey their fishy nature. In New Horizons, fish are hi-poly models that look far more realistic than previous incarnations, but not quite real enough. Many of the game's saltwater fish look so to true to life that they circle back to unappealing, if not downright creepy.
Prominent examples of fish that suffer from this effect are the ocean sunfish — whose bulging eyes stare into your soul — and the barreleye, which is already a creepy fish thanks to its translucent dome head and protruding, green eyes. Sometimes, there's such a thing as too much realism.
New Horizons' bug head models are full-on nope
Decking out your house in Animal Crossing is half the fun, especially since you can fill your home with tons of colorful furniture. Of course, you can also decorate your digital home with spooky doodads and New Horizons includes some of the most (unintentionally?) creepy decorations in an Animal Crossing game, if not any video game, period.
While wandering New Horizons, you might have encountered the Grasshopper-head, Mantis-head, and Wasp-head models. These horrific, blown-up renditions of bug heads are mounted on walls like hunting trophies and let you see every micron of their noggins in terrifying detail, from their chewing mandibles to their segmented antennae. Bug heads were not meant to be seen that close, but New Horizons provided the models, presenting them as art commissions by the special visitor, Flick. It's hard to decide what's more frightening: the models themselves, or the fact that one of your island's frequent guests creates them as a hobby.
There are several den items in Animal Jam that were released during the Beta Testing phase of the game. They were only available for a short period of time, which makes these items very rare. Today, we are going to take a look at those Den Items. Keep in mind that there are items in this list that were technically not released during the Beta Testing phase, but are still seen as such by the Animal Jam community due to their rarity.
The list will be grouped into two different categories: Member and Non-Member Den Beta Items. We have already covered the Den Beta Floors and Walls in another post to keep things organized. If you are interested in seeing those, simply click here to be redirected to that post.
AJ Member Den Beta Items
We will first take a look at the Member Den Beta Items. There are a total of twelve items in this list.
The Claw
There is a min-game in Animal Jam that is simply called The Claw. In August of 2011, AJHQ released a den version of that mini-game, which is also called The Claw. This den item was rewarded to Animal Jam members as a Monthly Member Gift. It never appeared in any of the stores in the game, which makes it extremely rare.
In appearance, The Claw looks like a regular claw machine. It seems to be made out of solid wood, with four wooden poles to hold it up. There are differently colored plush toys within the machine. At the front of it, you will find several buttons, as well as a large game controller sign.
Item Value: Good Short Wrist or Bad Long Wrist or 3-4 Den Betas
Porch Swing
The Porch Swing item is a wooden swing that was released during May of 2011. It used to be sold at Coral Corner for 300 Gems. However, the item was removed from the stores when AJHQ decided to shut down Coral Corner completely.
In the pictures above, you can clearly see that the Porch Swing is made out of wood, and has strings of rope going through it to create a makeshift bench that is being held up. The bench appears to be made out of sticks, while the swing is being held up by larger logs.
Item Value: 20 RIMs or 2 Clothing Betas
Television
If you enjoy watching television, the Television den item is a must-have item for you. This item was released during the Beta Testing phase of Animal Jam. At the time, it was sold at Jam Mart Furniture for 600 Gems. It went on clearance in 2013, and did not return to the game after that.
The Television den item appears to be a large screen that is placed into a wooden frame. Below the screen, the letters SBi are carved into the wooden frame. You are able to click on the screen to make three different animations appear. You will either see the WildWorks logo, a Phantom or a smoothie drink. Both the Phantom and smoothie drink are animated.
Item Value: 20 RIMs or 2 Clothing Betas
Open Sign
If you are looking to role-play as a bartender or restaurant owner, the Open Sign is a must-have item for you! This sign was released in 2011, and was sold at Jam Mart Furniture for 200 Gems. It is not clear when exactly the item was removed from the stores. However, it is still obtainable as a prize for completing The Forgotten Desert.
The Open Sign consists of green letters that spell the word OPEN. On the right side of the word, there is a palm tree with four leaves. Around the word, there is a wooden frame. When you click on the word OPEN, it will turn into the word CLOSED, and will have red letters.
Item Value: 20 RIMs or 2 Clothing Betas
Art Easel
The Art Easel is a great item for creative and artistic Jammers. The item was first released during the Beta Testing phase of the game, but was removed from the game after the phase ended. The Art Easel can also be obtained as a prize for completing The Forgotten Desert.
The Art Easel item is exactly what it say it is, an easel. It is made out of wood, and has three legs, which makes it lean towards one side. At the top of the easel, there is a large clip, which holds a large sheet of paper. You will find three pots of color on the edge of the easel; blue, purple and orange.
Item Value: 20 RIMs or 2 Clothing Betas
Pot O’ Gems
Many Jammers enjoy showing off their wealth in Animal Jam. The Pot O’ Gems will help you to do so. This item was first released during the Beta Testing phase of Animal Jam, and was sold at Jam Mart Furniture for 400 gems. It was quickly removed from the stores, but you can still win the item by completing The Forgotten Desert.
The Pot O’ Gems item is a large, blue pot that is filled up with Gems. The pot has a gold pattern on it. The item is animated as well. The Gems have a shining effect.
Item Value: 20 RIMs or 2 Clothing Betas
Robot
If you are a robotics enthusiast, the Robot den item is definitely an item you should take a look at. This item was sold at Jam Mart Furniture during the Beta Testing phase of the game. It is no longer sold, but can still be won as a prize for completing The Forgotten Desert adventure.
The body of the Robot is light-blue, while its claws, eyes, ears and feet are light-yellow. The arms of the Robot are animated, and will move back and forth. There are yellow and green lights on its chest. This item comes in only one variety.
Item Value: 20 RIMs or 2 Clothing Betas
Mira Statue
The Mira Statue den item was first released in December of 2010. It was sold at the Mystery Emporium for 200 Gems. However, it is currently no longer available in any of the stores in the game. The Forgotten Desert still has the Mira Statue item in its prize pool.
The Mira Statue is a large, golden statue with Mira on it. She is standing upright, with her wings folded next to her body. Her wings and tail seem to be darker than her head and chest. The statue is standing on a brown box.
Item Value: 20 RIMs or 2 Clothing Betas
Bubblegum Machine
The next item in our Den Beta items list is the Bubblegum Machine. This item was released in August of 2010. At the time, it was sold at Jam Mart Furniture for 45 Gems. Even though it is currently no longer sold, the Bubblegum Machine can still be obtained as a prize through The Forgotten Desert adventure.
The Bubblegum Machine appears to be a machine that spits out bubblegum. The glass sphere appears to be misshapen. Within that sphere, you will see dozens of differently colored bubblegum balls. At the feet of the machine, there are three bubblegum balls that have been spat out. There is only one variety of this item.
Item Value: 20 RIMs or 2 Clothing Betas
Sewing Machine
The Sewing Machine was originally released on March 18, 2011. It was sold at Coral Corner for 300 Gems. However, after Coral Corner was closed down completely, the item was no longer sold in any of the shops in the game. You can still win the Sewing Machine by completing The Forgotten Desert.
The Sewing Machine appears to be a completely white, with a red spinning dial on its side. At the top of the machine, there is a spool with brown thread around it.
Item Value: 20 RIMs or 2 Clothing Betas
Zios Sculpture
If you have been a Jammer for a while, you are probably familiar with the Lost Temple of Zios. The Zios Sculpture was originally released during the Beta Testing phase of Animal Jam. It was sold at Jam Mart Furniture for 250 Gems, but was removed shortly after. The only way to get the Zios Sculpture now is by winning it at The Forgotten Desert adventure.
The Zios Sculpture appears to be a large, golden mask, which resembles the mask of Zios. It is 2D, which means that it looks like wallpaper when you hang it up.
Item Value: 20 RIMs or 2 Clothing Betas
RC Car
The last Member Den Beta Item in our list is the RC Car. This item was also first released during the Beta Testing phase of Animal Jam. It was sold at Jam Mart Furniture for 10 Gems. It is now available as a prize for completing The Forgotten Desert.
The RC Car looks like a small purple toy car. It has dark purple wheels, a light-purple body, blue windows and a light-purple spoiler at the back of it.
Item Value: 20 RIMs or 2 Clothing Betas
Non-Member Den Beta Items in Animal Jam
The next list consists of Non-Member Den Beta Items. This list also contains a total of twelve items. Let’s take a look.
Cami’s Frog
The first item in our non-member list is Cami’s Frog. This special item was released during the Beta Testing phase of Animal Jam. At the time, it was sold at Jam Mart Furniture for 100 Gems.
Cami’s Frog is a green plush toy that was entered into the game as a homage to Cami. She is a leukemia survivor, and the daughter of one of the employees at WildWorks. The stomach of the plush toy appears to have stitches, and there is a pink bandage on it.
Item Value: Decent Long Wrist or 4 Den Betas
Small Table
The Small Table den item was also released during the Beta Testing phase. It used to be sold at Jam Mart Furniture for 80 Gems. Currently, it is obtainable through The Forgotten Desert.
The Small Table appears to be a wooden table. The planks are different shades of blue. The legs of the table are extremely short. This item comes in only one variety.
Item Value: 25-30 RIMs or 3 Clothing Betas
Orange Mat
The Orange Mat is a non-member den item that was originally released during the Beta Testing phase. During that phase, it was sold at Jam Mart Furniture for 45 Gems. It is no longer sold in any stores, but can be obtained by completing The Forgotten Desert.
The Orange Mat, while confusing, is not a mat, but rather a floor pillow. It is bright-orange in color, and has yellow horizontal stripes going over it. If you look carefully, you will see that there is an orange button sewed into the pillow in the center of it.
Item Value: 25-30 RIMs or 3 Clothing Betas
Blue Mat
The Blue Mat is quite similar to the Orange Mat. This item was also released during the Beta Testing phase of the game. While no longer sold, the Blue Mat can be obtained as a prize through The Forgotten Desert.
The Blue Mat is a floor pillow. It is light-blue in color, and has white horizontal stripes going across it. A blue button has been sewed into the center of the pillow.
Item Value: 25-30 RIMs or 3 Clothing Betas
Rocking Horse
The Rocking Horse was first released into Animal Jam in 2010, which was during the Beta Testing phase of the game. It is no longer sold at Jam Mart Furniture, but is obtainable through The Forgotten Desert.
The Rocking Horse appears to be a small wooden horse. Its body has a reddish-brown color, while its mane, tail and wooden rockers are dark brown. Its eyes are black, with yellow stitching making an X. This item comes in one variety.
Item Value: 25-30 RIMs or 3 Clothing Betas
Gecko Plushie
The Gecko Plushie was originally released on World Animal Day, which was on October 4, 2010. At the time, it was sold for 100 Gems. The Gecko Plushie is a large, orange plushie. It resembles a Gecko. It has large white eyes, an orange body, and several white patches on it.
Item Value: 25-30 RIMs or 3 Clothing Betas
The Gecko Plushie also has a green variant, simply called the Green Gecko Plushie. This was a promo item, which was obtainable by entering a code.
Item Value: Bad Short Wrist or Good Short Wrist or 2-3 Den Betas
Basket of Candy
If you have a sweet tooth, the Basket of Candy is a den item that might interest you! This item was released in April of 2011, and was obtainable as a prize during the Spring Egg Hunt event.
The Basket of Candy is a green basket that is filled with all kinds of sweets. The handle of the basket is also green. There is a yellow flower decoration of the basket itself. The sweets appear to be in the form of differently colored candies, a yellow candy bar and a pink/white candy cane.
Item Value: 25-30 RIMs or 3 Clothing Betas
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Books
If you are a bookworm, and you enjoy reading books, the Books den item is a must-have for you! This item was originally released during the Beta Testing phase of Animal Jam. They were sold for a short period of time, were removed shortly after and never returned again.
The Books den item appear to be five books that are standing together. The first three books are standing up, while the last two books are piled on a pile. This item is extremely valuable because it is not available as a prize for completing The Forgotten Desert, unlike other rares.
Item Value: Good Short Collar + Other Items or 8 Den Betas
Globe
The Globe is a den item that matches perfectly with the Books den item. This item was also released during the Beta Testing phase, and was sold at Jam Mart Furniture for 150 Gems.
The item consists of a dark-green globe, but has different shades on it to represent other areas in the world. The stand is made out of bronze.
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Item Value: 25-30 RIMs or 3 Clothing Betas
Scarecrow
The Scarecrow den item was released during the first Night of the Phantoms event in Animal Jam, which was in October of 2010. The item could be won by completing several levels of the Phantoms! Mini-game.
The Scarecrow appears to have the head of a tiger, and a witch hat on top of its head. Its jacket appears to be orange, while its pants are purple. There are stitches all over its clothing.
Item Value: 25-30 RIMs or 3 Clothing Betas
Fly Trap
If you like plants, you should definitely check out the Fly Trap den item. The item was originally released in February of 2011. It used to be sold at Coral Corner, but the shop was closed, and the item was removed from the game.
The Fly Trap appears to be a Venus fly trap plant with several heads. It’s mostly green, but some of the heads have open mouths, with red insides. The pot that houses the Fly Trap is bright blue.
Item Value: 25-30 RIMs or 3 Clothing Betas
Traffic Cone
The Traffic Cone is the last non-member den beta item in our list. There is not much information available about this particular item. However, it can be obtained as a prize for completing The Forgotten Desert.
The Traffic Cone appears to be a light-orange cone with white reflector stripes on it. The cone holds a racing flag, which consists of black and white squares. The foot of the cone is brown.
Item Value: 25-30 RIMs or 3 Clothing Betas