Previously: Classics, Vol. 1.
You probably already know “Suicidemouse.avi”; it’s an early creepypasta, and known for being the one that introduced the immensely popular “Lost Episode” subgenre of the form. It dates back to 2009, with the uploading of the video seen here and the circulation of a short tale to accompany it.
I took a deep dive — and I do mean a deeeeeep dive — into exactly what makes this one resonate as strongly as it does here, so head on over there if you want to get up close and personal with it. Or, just enjoy it for what it is by reading on.
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It’s interesting how many notable creepypastas focus on Disney gone wrong, isn’t it?
So do any of you remember those Mickey Mouse cartoons from the 1930s? The ones that were just put out on DVD a few years ago? Well, I hear there is one that was unreleased to even the most avid classic Disney fans.
According to sources, it’s nothing special. It’s just a continuous loop (like Flintstones) of Mickey walking past six buildings that goes on for two or three minutes before fading out. Unlike the cutesy tunes put in though, the song on this cartoon was not a song at all, just a constant banging on a piano for a minute and a half before going to white noise for the remainder of the film.
It wasn’t the jolly old Mickey we’ve come to love either, Mickey wasn’t dancing, not even smiling, just kind of walking as if you or I were walking, with a normal facial expression, but for some reason his head tilted side to side as he kept this dismal look.
Up until a year or two ago, everyone believed that after it cut to black and that was it. When Leonard Maltin was reviewing the cartoon to be put in the complete series, he decided it was too junk to be on the DVD, but wanted to have a digital copy due to the fact that it was a creation of Walt. When he had a digitized version up on his computer to look at the file, he noticed something.
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