NOTE FROM GARY P., WHO MADE THIS PAGE A CANDIDATE FOR DELETION: This wiki is related to Fish Hooks, not Gravity Falls.
I’m a total Gravity Falls fan much like everyone else, I like the newer episodes, but I don’t mind watching the classics. I don’t think I’ve ever played glitchy or hacked fangames before, though I don’t think I want to play any after the experience I had…
It started on a nice summer afternoon, I was watching Double Dipper (I liked how Paper Jam Dipper was in it) until I noticed, out of my peripheral vision, that the mailman had arrived and put something in my mailbox as usual and left. I paused my game to go see what I got in the mail… The only thing in the Mailbox was a CD case for computers and a note. I took it inside. I looked at the note first and realized it was from my dear friend Kyle (Let’s just call him that), whom I hadn’t heard from in 2 weeks. I know that because I recognized his handwriting, though what was weird is how it looked; it looked badly written and scratchy and somewhat difficult to read, as if Kyle was having a hard time writing it down and did it in a hurry. This is what he wrote… “Tom, I can’t take it anymore, I had to get rid of this thing somehow before it was too late, and I was hoping you’d do it for me. I can’t do it, he’s after me, and if you don’t destroy this CD, he’ll come after you too, he’s too smart for me…. Please Tom, destroy this god-forsaken disc before he comes after you too, it’s too late for me. Destroy the disc, and you’ll destroy him, but do it quick otherwise he’ll decipher you. Don’t even play the game, it’s what he wants, just destroy it. Please…
Kyle”
Well, that was certainly weird. Even though Kyle IS my best friend and I haven’t seen him in 2 weeks, I didn’t do what he asked me. I didn’t think that a simple gaming disc would do anything bad to him, after all it’s just a game right? Boy, was I wrong about that… ANY way, I looked at the disc and it looks like any ordinary computer CD-R disc, except it had black marker on it written “DIPPER.EXE”, and it was much unlike Kyle’s handwriting, meaning that he must’ve gotten it from someone else, like a pawn shop or eBay. When I saw “DIPPER” on the writing of the CD, I was actually excited and wanted to play it, since I’m a a BIG Gravity Falls fan. I went up to my room and turned on my computer and put the disc in and installed the game. When the title screen popped up I noticed that it had the shows opening as the intro, I was like “Awesome!” Because like I said earlier I like Gravity Falls. The first thing I noticed that was out of place was when I pressed start, there’s was a split second when I saw the title image turned into something much different, something that I now consider horrifying, before cutting to black. I remember what the image looked like in that split second before the game cut to black; The sky had darkened, the text was rusted and ruined, the DISNEY 2016 was now instead DISNEY 666, and the trees had turned red, like blood, except it looked hyper-realistic. But the freakiest thing that was in that split second frame was Dipper, his eyes were pitch black and bleeding with two glowing red dots staring RIGHT AT ME, and his smile had stretched wider up to the edge of his face. I was rather disturbed about that image when I saw it, though I figured that it was just a glitch and forgot about it. After it cut to black it stayed like that for about 10 seconds or so. And then another weird thing happened, the character select from Rumble’s Revenge popped up, and I was like “WTF? What’s this doing in this game?”, anyway, then I notice something off, the background was the dark cloudy sky of the Bad Stardust Speedway level from Sonic CD, and there were three characters. The music was that creepy Caverns of Winter music from Earthbound, only it was extended and seemed to have been in reverse. And the characters looked terrified.
What freaked me out more was the character select, it showed only Mabel, Stan, and to my surprise, Bill Cipher! Now I was sure that something was up, I mean, how can you play as Bill Cipher in a Gravity Falls game, for crying out loud? That’s when I realized that this wasn’t a glitchy game, it was a hacked game. Yeah it definitely looked hacked, it was really creepy, but as a smart gamer, I wasn’t scared (or at least I tried not to be), I told myself that it was just a hacked game and there’s nothing wrong with that. Anyways, shaking off the creeped out feeling I chose Mabel and got started. The game froze for about 5 seconds and I heard a creepy pixelated laugh that sounded an awful lot like that Kefka guy from Final Fantasy before cutting to black.
The screen stayed black for about 10 seconds or more, then it showed the typical level title thing, except the simplistic shapes were different shades of red and the text showed only “MYSTERY SHACK”. The screen faded in and the level title vanished revealing Mabel in the Mystery Shack from Gravity Falls, the music was different though, it sounded like the theme song in reverse. Anyway I started playing and had Mabel start running like you would in most 2D platformers, what was odd was that as Mabel was running along the level there was nothing but flat ground and a few trees for 5 minutes, that was when the peaceful music started to lower down into slow deep tones very slowly as I kept going.
I suddenly saw something and I stopped to see what it was; it was a small animals lying dead on the ground bleeding (That was when the music started to slow down), Mabel had a shocked and saddened look on her face that I never saw her have before, so I had her move along, and she kept that worried look on his face. As she kept moving I saw more dead animals as Mabel moved past them looking more and more worried as the music lowers and she moves past more dead animals, I was shocked to see how they all died, they looked like somebody killed them in rather gruesome ways; a squirrel was hanged on a tree with what appeared to be his entrails hanging out, a bunny had all four of his limbs torn off and a duck had his eyes gouged out and his throat slit. I felt sick to my stomach when I saw this massacre and apparently so did Mabel. After a few more seconds there were no more animals and the music seemed to have stopped, I still kept Mabel to continue. After a minute passed after the music stopped, Mabel was running up a hill and then she stopped, it wasn’t until I saw why; Dipper was there on the other side of the screen with his back against Mabel with his eyes closed. Mabel looked happy to see Dipper but then her smile faltered, obviously noticing that Mabel wasn’t responding to her, if not acting as if he was totally oblivious of Mabel’s presence. Mabel walked slowly toward Dipper, and I noticed that I wasn’t even moving my keyboard to make him move, so this had to have been a cut scene. Suddenly I began to have a growing feel of dread as Mabel walked closer to Dipper to get his attention, I felt that Mabel was in danger and something bad was going to happen. I heard faint static growing louder as Mabel was but inches away from Dipper and stopped and stuck her hand out to touch him. That foreboding feeling in my gut was growing stronger and I felt the urge to tell Mabel to get away from Dipper as the static grew louder. Suddenly in a split second I saw Dipper’s eyes open and they were black with those red glowing dots, just like that title image, thought there wasn’t a smile. When that happened the screen turned black and the static sound was off.
It stayed black for about 7 seconds and then white text appeared forming a message, saying, “Hello. Do you want a Lamby Lamby Lamby?” At this point I was creeped out, I didn’t want to continue with the game, but my curiosity got the better of me when I was taken to a different level with the level title now saying “I DO, I DO”. This time I was in the convenience store from Inconvenience Store and it looked like everything was on fire. Mabel looked as though she was scared out of her wits this time. She actually looked at me and made frantic gestures to me as if she wanted to get out of the area she was in as fast as possible. I was starting to get freaked out by this…I mean Mabel was actually breaking the fourth wall, trying to tell me to get her out of there. So I pressed down on the arrow key as hard as I could and made her run as fast as she could, a pixelated version of the Lamby Lamby dance song was playing as I made Mabel trek through the desolate store, trying to help her escape from whatever she was trying to run from. Suddenly I heard that laugh again… that Kesha laugh… right after 10 seconds have passed as I helped Mabel run through the forest, and then I started seeing flashes of Dipper popping everywhere on the screen, again with those black and red eyes. The music sped up as I see Dipper behind Mabel slowly gaining up on her FLYING; Dipper wasn’t running, he was actually FLYING! The flying pose his sprite was making looked very similar to Metal Sonic’s flying pose in Sonic CD, except it was just Dipper and he had the black and red eyes again, only THIS time he had the most deranged looking grin on his face, he looked as though he was enjoying the torment he was giving his poor sister as he gained up on her. Suddenly when Mabel tripped (another cut scene) the music stopped and Dipper vanished. Mabel laid there and started crying for 15 seconds. The scene was rather upsetting to watch and I kind of teared up myself. But then Dipper appeared right in front of Mabel and Mabel looked up in horror. Blood started to come down those blackened eyes of Dipper’s as a grin slowly grew from his face as he looked down at his horrified sister, I could do nothing but watch. Just in a split second Dipper lunged at Mabel right before the screen went black, there was a loud screeching noise that only lasted 5 seconds. The text returned only this time it said “And don’t, don’t, don’t you forget about the baby!” and then that god-awful Kefka laugh came with it. I was so shocked by what had happened…did Dipper murder Mabel? No, he couldn’t have… He and Mabel are twins, right? Why did Dipper do that to her? I shook the shock off as I was brought back to the character select, Mabel was different; Mabel was flickering with that red static, and her expression scared me, her eyes were black and bleeding, her brown hair had gone black and she had an expression of anguish on her face, Trying to ignore it I picked Stan next.
The laugh came again and the screen cut to black again and stayed there for another 10 seconds, this time the level said “I still miss you”. I was really freaked out by now, I couldn’t really tell if this was a glitch, or a hack, or some kind of sick twisted joke… or anything really. But despite my fear of what happened next, I kept playing. The next level looked much different, it had the ground of the Mystery Shack but the sky background looked like the Nightmare Realm. But it was the music that creeped me out the most: It sounded like Giygas’ theme right after you beat Pokey in Earthbound. I also noticed that Stan looked afraid just like Mabel did, though not as much, more rather he looked a little unnerved. He broke the fourth wall just like Mabel and looked as if he wasn’t sure about going on, but I made him move anyway. He ran down the straight pathway in this dark level, and as he did the screen started to flicker red static a couple times and then that maddening laugh came again. Then after a few seconds of running I notice several bloodstains on the wooden ground, I felt a growing sense of fear again thinking something horrible is going to happen to Stan. He looked nauseated walking down this blood-stained road, but I still kept him going. Suddenly as Stan ran, Dipper appeared right in front of him with those black and red eyes and then red static appeared again, when the static vanished showing nothing but black screen with text saying “BUT MY AIM IS GETTING BETTER!”, I was now scared, Dipper found Stan already?! What was going on?! Anyway red static came again and then I was back to the level, Stan looked like he was panicking, and Dipper was nowhere to be found. And this time that high-pitched squealing from the Silent Hill 1’s final boss was playing. Was this some kind of boss battle with Dipper? I hoped to God it wasn’t, honestly. Suddenly Dipper appeared right behind Stan in what appeared to be pixelated black smoke, I made Stan turn and then punch Dipper, but Dipper vanished in black pixelated smoke before I could even land a hit, and that terrible laugh went off again. Then Dipper appeared behind Stan again and then I made him punch again, and Dipper vanished again laughing. Stan was panicking even more, and even I felt like I was going crazy, Dipper was practically playing with us, he was playing a sick twisted little mind game with me and Stan… Another cut scene played as Stan fell to his knees and clutched his head sobbing, I felt his agony, Dipper was actually driving us BOTH crazy. And then in a split second Dipper lunged at Stan and the screen went black with another distorted screeching noise that lasted for at least 3 seconds.
Another text message appeared, “So many puzzles to decipher, so little time… would you agree?” What the hell… Just what is going on? I started to think Dipper was actually trying to talk to me through the game… But I was too scared to think that. I was brought back to the main menu and this time Stan had changed, his grey hair had darkened to a reddish grey, his eyebrows were dripping with blood and his eyes were black and bleeding too, and he had a look of sadness on his face. I began to think that those are the actual characters trapped in this game but I couldn’t believe it… I didn’t want to believe it… So I shut off the game and took a break. I took a nap, wish I hadn’t, ‘cause I then began to have the most disturbing nightmare, I was in pitch black darkness, though I was under the light given off by a lamp that hung high above my head. I could hear the cries of Stan and Mabel nearby. They were saying stuff like, “Help us…” and “Why did you give us to him?” and “Run away, before he gets you too…” Their cries died out as I then heard Dipper laugh, his laugh… it sounded a lot like the distorted Kefka laugh. “You’re a lot of fun to decipher Tom, just like your friend Kyle, though he didn’t last long…” I was scared and looking around for the source of the voice… “Won’t be long now until you join him and all my other friends…” I saw him walking toward me, flickering in and out in several directions… “You can’t run, Tom. You’re in my world now. Just like the others…” When he grabbed me and I saw his bleeding black and red-eyed, grinning face, I woke up with a fright.
After a couple of hours I decided to continue playing the game. I don’t know why, but I had to know, I had to figure out why this was happening… So I turned on the computer, turned on the game and selected Bill next. I still thought that was wacky, playing as Bill, but anyway the level title appeared again and this time it said “…”, which I found really freaky. This time I was in some kind of hallway, didn’t really look like it was from Gravity Falls; the floor was shiny and checkered, the walls were a dark greyish purple with animated candlelight’s and a few dark bloodstains here and there, and there was a dark red curtain hanging above on the top part of the screen. Every 12 seconds or so that red curtain sways very slowly, but whenever you’re playing the game you can barely see it move. The music was the reversed Gravity Falls theme, but played on piano. Bill didn’t look entirely nervous like Mabel and Stan did, but he did have a suspicious look on his face as if he was just a bit paranoid. He did a little animation when I just left him standing, he turns his head to the left and then to the right at least twice and then shrugs at me, as if he has no idea where he was or what was going on. Even though I was scared outta my mind about what was going to happen, I had Bill continue onward. He did his usual floating animation as we continued going through the hallway. Then I stop at a long flight of stairs leading downward, now I was nervous, even Bill seemed unsure of himself, though I pressed onward. As I led Bill down the stairs, I noticed that the walls have gotten darker and more reddish; the red torches are now an eerie blue. Then we landed onto another hallway, this one was longer than the last one (or at least it felt like it) and then we headed down another flight of stairs down, this one was much longer, took at least 1 full minute. And then I heard that horrid Kefka laugh again and then the music slowly faded until it was quiet, as it did the walls turned more dark red and the torches were a black flame now. When Bill landed onto the 3rd hallway, I noticed he now looked really creeped out, though he tried to hide it, I couldn’t blame him, I was scared too. Suddenly, Dipper popped right in front of Bill the same way he did Stan and then red static. The red static lasted for about 15 second and then it showed me a most unpleasant image… The image showed a hyper-realistic picture of Dipper standing in the darkness, and when I say hyper-realistic, I mean like he looked so real you could actually see the lines in his hair, as if you could actually feel the hair if you touched the screen. His face…oh god, he had the most horrifying smile I had ever seen. And that’s saying something considering I saw that image at the start of the game. His eyes are wide and black and once again crying blood (Which also looked hyper-realistic) and there were two small glowing red dots in those black eyes staring RIGHT AT ME, as if staring into my mind. His grin was wide and demonic, it literally stretched to the sides of his face like a Cheshire Cat except Dipper had fangs, VERY SHARP fangs, much like a wolf’s teeth except more vicious-looking, somewhat yellowish and from the look of it, he had stains of blood and small bits of flesh on his lips and fangs as if he ate some animal. I stared at that gruesome image for a good 30 seconds, never taking my eyes off it, I felt as if he was actually looking at me, smiling at me…that face, it just took 10 seconds for it to etch itself into my brain for good.
Then the screen flickered with red static again 3 times, and on the 3rd time I heard the Kefka laugh, except this time it sounded distorted, demonic even… It went back to the image again except this time there was the text again though it was messed up, but it was pretty much one of the most horrifying things I looked at since I had this game… “WEAKNESS: UNGNOME" It was when I read that message while looking at Dipper when it hit me, I realized right there and then. This Dipper was a monster, a pure evil, sadistic, all-powerful, nightmarish, demented monster… and all of his victims, including Mabel, Stan, Bill and possibly Kyle, are just his little toys, and the game is the very gateway into his chaotic, nightmarish world and the very Hell his victims are trapped in. Suddenly in an actual split second I screamed as Dipper lunged at the screen before the red static came again, this time much louder and distorted, so loud that it hurt my ears, I yelled and grabbed my ears as the red static screeched for a good 7 seconds. Then it stopped and showed nothing but black screen. As I sat there staring at the black screen, one last text came up. “Ready for Season 2, Tom?” The Kefka laugh, now sounding more clear as if Dipper was right behind me, played again 3 times as I looked at that text in shock and confusion. Then I got booted back to the main menu and this time the third save file had a image of Bill in the same, tormented state as Mabel and Stan; Bill’s eye turned a dull grey, his hat drooped, his body was covered in cracks that had blood coming from them and he had a dead like expression on his face. I looked at Mabel, Stan and Bill and I cried a bit, I pitied them for the agony they’re going through, they were forever trapped within the game, forever tormented by that horrid child, and always will be. Then the computer shut itself off, I couldn’t turn it back on no matter what I did. I sat there for maybe 25 seconds, horrified by what had just happened… That Dipper is the very embodiment of evil, he tortures people who play his game in more ways than one and then when he gets bored he drags you into the game, literally drags you to Hell, where he can play with you always, as his toy…. I can’t get the game outta my computer. I think it’s stuck in there, but at least I managed to turn it back on now. After I sat there for 25 seconds I heard a voice right behind me, like a whisper… “Try to keep this interesting for me, Tom.” I turned around to see where the voice came from, and what I saw made me scream… Sitting on my bed… staring right at me… … Was a Dipper plushie, smiling with bloodstains under its eyes.
picture of Dipper EXE I extracted from the laptop