The Lavender Town Syndrome

For those who play the ever popular game Pokemon, in Pokemon Yellow, Red, and Blue (or Green in Japan), Lavender Town was simply the creepy town where there wasn't a gym leader to defeat and Pokemon Tower stood. Pokemon Tower was the final resting place for Pokemon who had died due to many causes and people travel from all over the region to lay their friends to rest.

What is the most popular myth or conspiracy behind this small purple town is the Lavender Town Syndrome. The creepy music that plays in the original games isn't the same as it was when first released in Japan. Pokemon Red and Green were released with the Lavender Town theme raised to a higher frequency.

Surrounding the release of these two games, a spike in child suicides and illness between 10-15 popped in Japan. When investigating this occurrence, police found that each child had something in common; all the children had made it to Lavender Town on the games. They believed the high frequencies of the theme was the cause of the suicides and illness. It was apparently a frequency only underdeveloped ears could hear and it only affected children listening to the theme through headphones.

People claim that these stories were all true and from credible sources (because Kyoto refused to release anything about the happenings) and some even recounted their own creepy tales. I've read articles about adults listening the old theme and constantly hearing it playing faintly, no matter what they did. One very creepy story involved someone leaving their house for a week to rid themselves of the tune, and after returning to their home, their sister asked them to watch their nephew. The person awoke in the middle of the night to see their nephew dead at the computer, the tune playing faintly, and writing on the screen was "Do not mourn me. I've gone to the noble purple town now." Another story is a girl playing the music to her friend playing through headphones and her friend seizing and dying days later.

I can not deny that this theory is creepy, but, as explained by people on the internet and YouTube, the facts just do not add up. I'm not saying that the people telling these stories are lying; on the contrary, weird things happen all the time in our world. But look through this. Suicide caused by a simply tone and frequency? I don't find that to be possible. I believe the illness, such as headaches and migraines, but I feel suicide was simply added in by the internet to make it sound creepier than it is. The internet tends to do that.

Simply though, in my opinion, this conspiracy's facts don't follow through for me. There are holes, but I believe a less serious version.

Have a good day lovelies.

                                                       Love,
                                                       The Childhood Conspiratorist