Lavender Town Syndrome, also known as The Lavender Town Conspiracy, The Lavender Town Tone, or The Lavender Town Suicides, is a creepypasta story about a conspiracy to cover up mass child suicides. These suicides were allegedly caused by listening to the first version of the Lavender Town Theme in the Japanese version of the Pokemon Red and Green games.
The Lavender Town Syndrome began when there was a peak in suicides and severe illnesses among children between the ages of 7 and 12 shortly after the release of Pokémon Red and Green in Japan, back in February 27, 1996.
Rumors say that these suicides and illnesses only occurred after the children who were playing the game reached Lavender Town, whose theme music had extremely high frequencies, that studies showed that only children and young teens can hear, since their ears are not fully developed.
Due to the Lavender Tone, at least two-hundred children supposedly committed suicide, and many more developed illnesses and afflictions. The children who committed suicide usually did so by hanging themselves or jumping from a great height. Those who did not kill themselves acted irrationally and complained of severe headaches after listening to Lavender Town’s theme.
Although Lavender Town now sounds different depending on the game, this mass hysteria was caused by the first Pokémon game released. After the Lavender Tone incident, the programmers had fixed Lavender Town’s theme music to be at a lower frequency, and since children were no longer affected by it.
One video appeared in 2010 using â€special software” to analyze the audio of Lavender Town’s music. When played, the software created images of the Unown near the end of the audio. This raised a controversy, since the Unown didn’t appear until the Generation 2 games: Silver, Gold, and Crystal. The Unown translate to “LEAVE NOW”. There is also the said Beta Version of Lavender Town.
It is said that the Beta Version of Pocket Monsters was released to some kids to test the games. This is the video of the Beta Version of Lavender Town:
thank gudness i have pokemon emerald :)
it’s actually fun to listen to!
nor is my brother having the effects after listening
THIS IS SO FAKE! I’M NOT HAVING THESE EFFECTS AFTERL I LISTENED SO FAKE!
i listened to the whole thing cuz im just that awesome
Oh yeah… 7-12 im 13 T_T
NOTHING HAPPENED!
Lol.
Seriously? I hate songs. I like flying.
I love this song. I’m not being sarcastic and I’m not joking, I love the music. The myth of children committing suicide over it is ridiculous though. I remember playing Pokemon Red when I was 7-9 and I’ve always loved the music, even then.
LOL I love purple but the song is killing me!!!
AAAAAH! THAT SONG!!!! KILL ME NOW! xO
Im 10 ok….. And i listen to lavender town theme sooooo much…. I cant hear the high frequences and it CAN NOT give me headaces….
HEYY I JUST MADE UP A RIDDLE!!! here it goes. “No Responses”. I was on my favorite scary story website. i LOVE reading the comments a little mores than the scary posts. There was a new post on the website and it was called suicide video. I’m really not a fan of those types of stories but, i read it anyway. it was interesting. it was about a video and below was a desription about the video is you didn’t want to watch the clip. im not going to lie, i am a little scared of clips like that so i didn’t watch it. It said that it was true and you will commit suicide. It was pretty cool. It had some experiences from the victoms moms and dads. Now the best part of the story. The comments. I looked at the time it was posted(i don’t know why) and it said 2 days ago. then i saw the comments but suprisingly, there were no comments. Strange huh? Well, i guess nobody got on today. I’ll try again tomorrow. (this is my first riddle nd i hope its good)
I listened to this about 2 months ago and I’m STILL waiting for the madness to kick in.I also would like to say that Hypno’s Lullaby was way creepier.Especially because I heard it at night…
@phantomfang
DUDE NO-END HOUSE IS FRIKIN CREEPY MAN I MEAN, He went through all that just to get $500!?!?
arrrrgh hurt my ears >.<
i dont like creepypasters and that music irritates urgh need more riddles plliiizzzz
reminds me of Nyan cat 😖😖
That’s why I don’t play Pokemon, at least not back then. xD
I listened to the whole thing. I actually really like the music. Gave me a headache though.
How.about the white hand and buried alive and also the axe rope and candle thoes stories are cool to
@Phantom it’s just a myth ya know? I tried it and I only got a minor headache. The game is pretty cool! I suggest you get it and try the mew glitch! :)
SFK, an idea for videos, try almost ANY music video from the nineties. (As in Black Hole Sun, Heart Shaped Box)
Dude this is so scary gonna have nightmares for weeks