The Lord of Wizela is responsible for this shocking story. I wonder if the Lord of Wizela
knows the Duke of Earl....?
Hello, friend. I saw your site, about your Shadow the Hedgehog Shrine, and other
things.
Now, while flipping through your site, I read about the curse of the Tails Doll. I have my
own little story to tell about it.
*ahem*
"Can you feel the Sunshine?..."
"Keep the dream alive..."
"Take me away..."
"Think about it..."
"Like a diamond in the sky..."
"The point of no return."
The six points to recognize your other-worldy demise.
It was a day much like any other. One of those days that makes you want to smile for
no reason when you walk down the street. And that's just what I was doing. All seemed
alive and well for everyone. Little did I know what horror awaited me.
628 Gargin St. The location of my girlfriend, and hopefully future wife. Being a bit of a
nerd and loving video games myself, she had picked up on my habits. She was a huge
fan of Sonic, and owned every Sonic game to date. It was fun, like racing without the
MPH stuff. Sega was good at making games back then, and still is now.
My girlfriend had told me, while we played Sonic 2, that another Sonic game was going
to be released that day, and had asked me to come with her to get it. I asked what it
was called, and she told me it was a secret. She did that to me rather often, so I
decided probing her would be of little use.
So, down to the mall we traveled. The 66 bus took us there. I made some joke, saying
that it was the sign of the devil. She chuckled, and we drew closer to our impending
demise.
I picked the game from off the shelf, seeing as it was high up -- people always tell me
to try out for that Basketball team. "Sonic R", the box read. She paid for the game and
hugged the box close in her arms. I felt jealous of that game and the attention it was
getting. The attention I never got.
The bus home. 66 again. We got back to her house, opened the game, popped it in
the system. I played as Sonic. She played as Knuckles. It was quite fun. I helped her
unlock Robotnik, Super Sonic, and Egg Robo. I told her to try to unlock the rest. I
headed home for the night.
The next morning, I got a phone call before my parents woke up. From my girlfriend,
the caller ID told me.
Silence. Then, the message.
"Tails Doll..."
Silence again. I guessed my girlfriend's stupid brother was playing a trick on me. He
had never done it before though. I sat down and ate my breakfast, when the phone
rang again. It was her number again.
"Tails Doll..."
I wasn't amused by the joke. I took a quick shower, and the phone rang yet again, still
the same person.
"Tails Doll..."
I decided to go and set the little punk straight. I put a coat on, as it was still rather
frosty out, and made my way over.
The door was wide open, but on it were the words written in a dark crimson hue...
"Tails Doll..."
I smelled the door. Blood. Fresh blood. As I stepped in, the temperature seemed to
decrease rapidly. More blood on the walls. Still spelling out those two words. I made
my way upstairs to where her room was. More blood. It seemed to gush down the
stairs like a waterfall. I made it to her room, where terrible things had happened.
She was there, dead, on the floor. Her blood scattered about. But it looked like she
hadn't been stabbed at all. Her brother's body lay beside it, also heavily stained with
blood. I looked up to see Sonic R still on. All the characters unlocked. And her
controller was on what looked like a stuffed Tails Doll. Creepy and disturbing, in all it's
mindless ways.
"Call the police," I thought. I turned around, and then, the sound.
"Tails Doll..."
I whirled around. There it was. The deranged, freakish, blood stained, Tails Doll. It
stood atop the Television. Staring at me. Like it wanted my soul. And it did. The lights
went out, and all I could see were the glowing red jewel atop his head, and his freakish
large eyes. They drew closer. Closer.
Closer.
I must have passed out at that point, because I couldn't remember anything. I awoke in
the hospital, my left arm torn of my body. My parents told me that a killer had broken
into her house. I knew they were wrong. I knew the truth. But they couldn't know. They
could be it's next victim.
From that day on, every time I'm in a pitch-dark room, and every time I close my eyes,
it's jewel and eyes are always watching me.
Always.
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This comes to us from Archerfish 1989, which as we all know was a good year for
archer fishing. It seems the Tails Doll has found a loop hole....
Hello. I love your sight, but I have some news you may should be aware of.
You posted an FAQ for Sonic Gems Collection. In there you said that the version of
Sonic R in that collection was safe. You are wrong. Here's my story.
A few days ago I picked up the Gems Collection. I was worried because I had heard of
the curse of Sonic R. But I laid that to rest, knowing how this version was safe to play. I
popped it in and beat Sonic R in less than two hours. I actually found the game pretty
addictive and it soon became one of my most frequently-played games on Gems.
All was well, until today. I chose Sonic R from he menu and began playing. I was in the
mood for a time attack match and decided to try out "Tag 4 Characters". Looking at
the characters I thought, "Heh, I should pick Tails Doll. That would be humorous. Tails
Doll chasing down the others." Indeed, it entertained me so much that I chose Tails
Doll and began the game.
I heard my brother come in my room. When he realized what I was doing, he said, "No!
What are you doing!? You know about Tails Doll"
"Don't worry," I said, "check the site. According to the FAQ the person made, this
version is safe." Upon reading your FAQ his fears were destroyed. But not for long.
"Wait!" he cried, "your playing the tag game? What if Tails doll isn't tagging, but
draining their very life force energies! He could use that energy to break Miyamato's
seal!"
I laughed. I laughed! "Dude, calm down. With Tails Doll you only chase after the
robots. They're cold machines with no life at all. It's fine."
But I was overlooking a vital detail. Super Sonic. I didn't think much of it because he
was only one -- how could he break a powerful seal with only Sonic's life energy? But I
forgot to add to my calculations the fact that Sonic's spirit was now enriched with the
power of 7 Chaos Emeralds!
I continued playing, and I did eventually tag Super Sonic. As soon as I did, the screen
went wacky. Crazy stuff happened, until it turned to Tails Doll's splash page (you
know, the one when you beat the game with Tails Doll), and the game over music from
Sonic CD was playing. (Either that, or it really was the evil laughter of the Tails Doll.)
I had realized what I had done. Iin horror I turned to my computer and tried to email
you! But at first the connection was down. The urgency of the matter was too great, I
went outside, going door to door, begging to use their Internet. They all thought I was
crazy. I went to my friends house and he let me use his computer. I logged into my
email account but was stopped. Pop ups, pop ups everywhere! All with the words "Can
you feel the sunshine?" So many that I couldn't get to composing mail.
I went home, defeated. Until recently. I was in my room, trying to get it off my mind.
Then...my Gamecube suddenly turned on. Then I heard the "Can You Feel the
Sunshine ACID Remix" form the museum. I looked in horror as the Tails Doll
appeared, and came out of the TV. I ran. I just ran. But I tripped and fell down the
stairs. (My room was in the basement) I saw him. When I thought it was over, I heard:
"Don't be afraid, mortal." He had no mouth. I heard this in my head. His body just
hovered there. Those blank eyes..that gem...
Mortified, I asked, "Why not? I know who you are!"
"You have done a great deed. Thanks to you, Miyamato's seal is broken. Here
anyway. I will repay you, buy sparing you. But under one condition. Tell no one of how
to brake the seal. They can not be warned."
Then, the lights flickered, and he vanished in the shadows.
Even though he told me not to, the one condition that he will allow me to be spared, I
know that he cannot escape. No one else can make my mistake. So I'm sending this
mail to you.
DO NOT play the "Tag 4 Characters" game with Tails Doll. If one does, for some
reason (maybe the controller slipped), then exit immediately! Tagging the robots are
safe. They have no life. But tagging Super Sonic will allow Tails Doll to steal his Chaos
Emerald-enriched life energy and muster what energy he needs to break the
Miyamato seal.
____________________________________________________________________
This creepy catch is from Dooblegem....
TD they called me. Maybe that's why I had this fate...
I played "Sonic R," all the way to the character.... The Tails Doll....
When I got the character, it seemed harmless enough... My friend was with me,
pointed out how my nick-name 'The Dragon' had the same initials as 'Tails Doll'. Two
dreaded initials I mentioned before, TD...
We laughed about it, laughed about me being the Tails Doll.
That night I lay in my bed, my eyes wide open... I didn't feel right, as If something was
in me that didn't belong... I heard a creak on the floor-boards and turned too see a
small figure, that reminded me of Tails, hovering towards me. The Tails Doll.
It raised a knife, held within it's bloody paws. I got ready too scream at the pain, yet it
never came. The knife went in and I felt nothing.... The Doll pulled the knife out and
started to pull oven my leg at the cut. All I saw was white in there.
White stuffing.
A voice resonated in my head. "You'll need stitches on that."
When I woke up in the morning, my sides had massive stitchings down them....
The letters 'TD' were written on a toy maker's label coming from my leg....
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"Sonic Lover" tells us a tragic tale with a big body count...
Back when Sonic R had just come out, I worked at a video game store in Idaho.
A shipment of 50 Sonic R games came in. Not knowing what the consequences would
be, I put them on display in the store. They were all sold in a week or so. I kept a list of
the customers who'd bought the game on a clipboard.
About a month later, the police entered my store and questioned me. It appears that
there had been about fifty murders that week, and the victims had all been found in
the same condition: in front of their Sega Saturns, which were always on with Sonic R
in them.
The police found my clipboard of Sonic R buyers, and someone mentioned that the list
looked kind of familiar. They compared it with the list of people who'd been murdered.
It was a perfect match.
I was immediately taken into custody. Luckily, though, I was released, since nobody
could find any evidence other than the lists to connect me to the deaths.
I have since found out about the Tails Doll curse, and I wish I could have gone back in
time and stopped myself from putting those stupid Sonic R games on display. Well, it's
too late now.
To the families and friends of the fifty victims ... I give you my deepest apologies.
-Ray Mariaki
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This close call is comes compliments of Berserkedrage...
I was reading around your site and noticed the Tails Doll stories, which I though were
nothing more than fake superstitions and just humor when I first read it...
How wrong was I...
I didn't think much of it because you mentioned that the Gems collection version was
safe, that is until I read the most recent story mentioning that the Tails Doll had found
a loophole via getting Super Sonic's Emerald-infused energy in "Tag 4 Characters"
mode and using that energy to break the seal. Having just finished Sonic CD with all
the Time Stones acquired successfully, I was in the mood to play some Sonic R, and
was hovering around my usual character selections when I noticed the Tails Doll and
though to myself "Hmmm...I think I'll go and play with Tails Doll and try and catch
Super Sonic" (It might have been TD itself trying to get me to help him escape)
So anyway I start and make my way to tagging the other 3, getting them out of the
way. Then I started chasing around Super Sonic, whom I thought was doing a really
damn good job at not getting tagged (more than usual at least).
Eventually, SS slips up and I manage to touch him...
Nothing happened...in my mind I was thinking "I knew it was nothing really" and went to
turn off my GameCube, then went for the TV but I stopped before hitting the power
button on the screen...
Sonic R was still on the screen...
Then I started hearing softly, but distinctly, "Can you feel the sunshine"...
Then the screen flickered black and I saw it...the gem...the eyes...
"What have I unleashed?" I though, then I heard in my mind "You though I was a fairy
tale, mortal? No matter, for you will have the great honor in being one of my victims"
While I was hearing this I was singing (weakly) "Super Sonic Racing" for some weird
reason...
Tails Doll slowly hovered closer and closer...but then suddenly there was a bright flash
from nowhere -- it was so bright I had to shield my eyes.
When I was able to look again, Tails Doll was nowhere in sight...
I though that I somehow survived, somehow lucked out, but wondered how...the
answer showed up on my TV a few seconds later...
It displayed "YOU MADE A GOOD FUTURE" and all of the Time Stones, while playing
the music for finishing a level in Sonic CD. It disappeared once the music ended...
I turned my GameCube back on and looked around the settings, and I noticed that the
clock was wrong by about 20-30 minutes, more or less, the same time I had started
playing. I then realized what had happened when that bright flash appeared...
The Time Stones from Sonic CD turned back time!
I think that both Sega and Miyamoto must had included it as a fail safe for if the Tails
Doll broke the seal -- seeing that they already know the Tails Doll is a sinister foe.
So it's important that everyone knows that the Time Stones can contain TD, but you
must have gotten them in Sonic CD, and I don't exactly know how they were activated
(Perhaps it was singing "Super Sonic Racing"?, I'm not gutsy enough to tempt fate
again...)
Still, I just hope that TD doesn't find another loophole somehow...
____________________________________________________________________
Novkris sends us these ominous glitches, bitches....
The Tails Doll manifests itself in different manners; I have yet to see it in the real
world…but it mocks me in the cyber one…
I beat Sonic R on my computer and was racing for fun on Regal Ruins as Super Sonic.
I enjoyed bumping into Metal Knuckles to knock him off the road and make him come
in last. In the 7th race I just let Metal Knuckles be and raced normally. I finished
first…or so I thought! At the last second the order of players started messing up and
as I crossed the finish line second…
"What?!" I thought, expecting Metal Knuckles to have outsmarted me. But no -- Tails
Doll was first. The order was as follows:
Metal Knuckles 5th
Metal Sonic 4th
Egg Robo 3rd
Super Sonic 2nd
Tails Doll 1st
On the victory screen the Tails Doll stared directly at me. I was more pissed then
scared and exited the game in a hurry to cool off.
The next day, I enjoyed a game of tag as Super Sonic in Radical City with my friend
over. I tagged Metal Knuckles in the first 10 seconds, Metal Sonic shortly after and
Egg-Robo easily. I only had to find the Tails Doll. The map showed him located in the
ricocheting area where one of the coin is right before the slot machine thing. I looked
for him for hours…
Later I finally found him…floating there…outside the track, in the grayness of Radical
City…it was staring right at me, floating there, motionless. That image always haunts
me…
I never play tag in Radical City anymore…
This is entirely true -- all glitches in the game revolve somehow around the Tails
Doll…don't be surprised if next time you are on Radical City the Tails Doll is
missing…if you are alone…don't scream…it can taste fear…
____________________________________________________________________
Metalvirus 9000 bravely shares with us this tragic tale...
Tails doll. The curse that would haunt me the rest of my life.
I thought that the myth was just a fake and funny way to amuse people. I was wrong. I
had gotten Sonic Gems for my birthday. It was a blast. I played through Sonic CD, and
beat Sonic the Fighters more times than I could remember.There was only Sonic R
left. I eventually got 100% on that too.
The next day, I had got 3 of my friends to come over and play Sonic R with me. We
had matches in every stage. I had noticed that one of my friends used Tails doll the
whole time. I warned him about the curse. He just laughed.
That was the last time he ever laughed.
He wanted to do a 4-way tag match to prove that the curse was fake. I said sure. I
choose Metal Sonic, and my friends chose Tails, Super Sonic, and he chose the Tails
doll. The chase began. Tails doll eventually got me, and my 2 other friends. Super
Sonic was the only one left. He evaded him for a while, and slipped up and got tagged.
My friend's face started to shrivel up!
He fell down, dead. The TV turned black. Can you feel the Sunshine was playing.
Suddenly, the TV buzzed on and "A new challenger" appeared. I passed out. When I
woke up, my house looked like a doll house. I searched for my friends. I found them.
They were in my room. They were all dolls. I screamed, and felt something soft hit my
leg. I looked down.
The Tails doll was staring right at me.
He jumped up, and flew inside of me. I passed out again. When I woke up, I was in my
bed, and was holding something. I was holding my friends. They were still dolls. My
mom came in. I told her all about it. She said that I had no friends with those names.
I started to cry.
It has been a week since that day. My friends that were turned into dolls are now
inside a glass case. The Tails doll is inside of me. I warn you, if you don't want your life
to be a nightmare, than PLEASE dont use Tails doll.
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PuppyLuver warns us that evil does not discriminate...
The story I must tell shows just how far the Tails Doll curse can go. I have never
played Sonic R in my life(seeing as I didn't get into it until Sonic Adventure 2 came out
on Gamecube) and yet IT has tried to get me. This is my story.
I was working on a comic series based on homestarrunner.com and had no ideas for
the first story arc. While 'net surfing, I happened to come across your Shadow thingy (I
looooooove Shadow) and I poked around on it. The Sonic R curse was what inspired
me. It had given me nightmares the first time I saw it. That's when I knew that the first
story arc in "Homestar & Friends" would be scary. Very, very scary.
It was quite simple: Homestar buys cursed game and doll, Homestar plays game, Tails
Doll possesses Homestar, Tails Doll(as Homestar) tries to kill everybody, Homestar's
sister defeats Tails Doll, end of story arc. I started working on it immediately.
I never put any pages of it on deviantART because of what almost happened to me. I
was listening to a Heywood Banks CD at the time. The song that was supposed to
come next never came. Instead, it was a song I had never heard before.
"Can you feel the sunshine? Does it brighten up your day?"
I thought my CD player was just messing up (it was at least 5 years old) when I
recognized the lyrics to the song.
It was the song all victims of the Tails Doll heard.
I turned around to see the fuzzy monstrosity. It had a wire and a fillet knife in its hands.
And it came at me, yelling something like "Shumpy". That's when I passed out.
I woke up a few hours later with a gash on my right leg and a wire wrapped around my
hand. I tried to tell my parents what happened, but they thought it was just to get
attention. To this day, I've still yet to convinced them.
I'm telling you this to warn you, you don't have to play Sonic R to be a target. Don't
draw pictures with the Tails Doll in them, don't write fan-fiction with the Tails Doll in
them, even if it's just an obscure reference. Because if you do, IT WILL GET YOU.
Now that you've heard my story, I have one question for you:
Can you feel the sunshine?
____________________________________________________________________
This confusing creepfest comes from Ghoulish Goomboss...
I bought Sonic R and tried a little "cheat"
X,Z,Y,A,B,C^,C>,Cv,C<,A,B,C^,C>,Cv,C<,L,R,X,Y,Z,
Then I played tag, Tails Doll vs. Ivo, Metal Sonic, And TAILS.
Fatal mistake. I first tagged TAILS, then the game froze...I tried to turn it off. But it
didn't. I rushed for the door. It was locked. I tried to call for help. But it was out.
Then..... IT came.
Tails doll, zapped me in the crotch "eww..."
Tails, then appeared and crashed into me with the Tornado.
And Metal Sonic and Ivo grabbed me and... "Do not tell anyone of this."
It is now coming.
For YOU!
____________________________________________________________________
"WTF?!" Adamoh501 sends us this heart-aching anecdote....
We all have heard of the tails doll, but everyone one thought they were too smart to
believe in the curse.
They were my three best friends. Tom, Jason, and Dan. They all decided to have a
get-together on Friday night. A kid named Derek dared them to play Sonic R and take
pictures of what happens. So the three were all "OK" so they played Sonic R, and
unlocked all the characters. Now all they had to do was tag Super Sonic with the Tails
Doll. Getting the robots outta the way, Super Sonic was racing at top speed. On a
slight turn Super Sonic was caught. They got the cameras ready ....
"WTF?!"
Nothing happened!
They kept taking pictures to prove them wrong. All of a sudden, a power outtage. The
only thing that stayed on was the Sega Saturn. They all screamed, but each was too
scared to make any audible noise.The TV kept flashing. The Tails Doll was on there.
As it flashed, the doll came closer.
They were still taking pictures ...
"WTF?!"
The doll popped out of the TV. Tom, with the camera, passed out. He woke up the
next morning, with everyone gone. But he still had the camera. He showed it to his
mom, but the
pictures where blank. Nothing on it. And he asked what happened to his friends.
She said she had never seen of heard of them. It was like they never existed.
____________________________________________________________________
This comes to us from "A very lucky Tails fan..."
For several years I have been a Sonic Fan. I have collected many items of Sonic
merchandise, even created a shrine to my favorite character, Miles "Tails" Prower in
my closet. I owned a copy of Sonic Gems Collection, and that's where it all started... I
had beaten game, and I had once tagged Super Sonic in tag 4 characters.
While using the Tails Doll...
One day, I was watching Episode 78 of the Sonic X TV series, when it got to the Part
where Tails imagines seeing Cosmo (One of the Characters that only appears in
Sonic X). However, the normal music did not play...
In it's place was...
"Can you feel the Sunshine? Does it Brighten up your Day?"
And instead of Cosmo, was the Tails Doll...
Right then the Video locked up, the shades on the windows closed instantly, the power
went out, and only my Computer screen was still on. And the picture of the Tails Doll
still stared at me with it's empty eyes...
I knew then to run.
I scrambled out of my chair, over bed, onto the floor, and then, I slowly opened the
door, just a tiny bit...
Seeing nothing, I opened it all the way, and he was there. I dropped to the floor,
kneeling, Hand raised in surrender, hoping that perhaps, the horrible plush toy would
have mercy on me...
"The Tails Doll kills all, no matter how well they evade him" I heard in my head.
I began to lose strength, my life slipping away from me. I hurried to the closet, not
willing to just sit there and accept fate like most of the Tails Doll's victims. Then, I saw
it. No, not some odd vision, or horrific image, but my Tails shrine. Grabbing the Large
Tails plushie and Tails' Skypatrol cartridge that made up the main part of the shrine, I
ran back into the room, holding the two items up like shields as Tails Doll rushed at me.
Surprisingly, he hit the plushie, and flew back against the wall. His somehow
dissolving, his blank eyes disappearing from his face. He seemed to deflate, his
stuffing exiting his body through what looked like bullet holes, and then vanishing into
the air.
Late that night, I exited the house, bag of charcoal and the dead Tails Doll in my
hands, and began to start a fire in the grill on the porch. And in the fire, I placed the
Tails Doll. I knew as the smoke rose into the darkened sky, however, that I could play
Sonic R in Gems Collection only once more...
And that time, I erased all save data for the game...
That is how I am a very lucky Tails fan.
knows the Duke of Earl....?
Hello, friend. I saw your site, about your Shadow the Hedgehog Shrine, and other
things.
Now, while flipping through your site, I read about the curse of the Tails Doll. I have my
own little story to tell about it.
*ahem*
"Can you feel the Sunshine?..."
"Keep the dream alive..."
"Take me away..."
"Think about it..."
"Like a diamond in the sky..."
"The point of no return."
The six points to recognize your other-worldy demise.
It was a day much like any other. One of those days that makes you want to smile for
no reason when you walk down the street. And that's just what I was doing. All seemed
alive and well for everyone. Little did I know what horror awaited me.
628 Gargin St. The location of my girlfriend, and hopefully future wife. Being a bit of a
nerd and loving video games myself, she had picked up on my habits. She was a huge
fan of Sonic, and owned every Sonic game to date. It was fun, like racing without the
MPH stuff. Sega was good at making games back then, and still is now.
My girlfriend had told me, while we played Sonic 2, that another Sonic game was going
to be released that day, and had asked me to come with her to get it. I asked what it
was called, and she told me it was a secret. She did that to me rather often, so I
decided probing her would be of little use.
So, down to the mall we traveled. The 66 bus took us there. I made some joke, saying
that it was the sign of the devil. She chuckled, and we drew closer to our impending
demise.
I picked the game from off the shelf, seeing as it was high up -- people always tell me
to try out for that Basketball team. "Sonic R", the box read. She paid for the game and
hugged the box close in her arms. I felt jealous of that game and the attention it was
getting. The attention I never got.
The bus home. 66 again. We got back to her house, opened the game, popped it in
the system. I played as Sonic. She played as Knuckles. It was quite fun. I helped her
unlock Robotnik, Super Sonic, and Egg Robo. I told her to try to unlock the rest. I
headed home for the night.
The next morning, I got a phone call before my parents woke up. From my girlfriend,
the caller ID told me.
Silence. Then, the message.
"Tails Doll..."
Silence again. I guessed my girlfriend's stupid brother was playing a trick on me. He
had never done it before though. I sat down and ate my breakfast, when the phone
rang again. It was her number again.
"Tails Doll..."
I wasn't amused by the joke. I took a quick shower, and the phone rang yet again, still
the same person.
"Tails Doll..."
I decided to go and set the little punk straight. I put a coat on, as it was still rather
frosty out, and made my way over.
The door was wide open, but on it were the words written in a dark crimson hue...
"Tails Doll..."
I smelled the door. Blood. Fresh blood. As I stepped in, the temperature seemed to
decrease rapidly. More blood on the walls. Still spelling out those two words. I made
my way upstairs to where her room was. More blood. It seemed to gush down the
stairs like a waterfall. I made it to her room, where terrible things had happened.
She was there, dead, on the floor. Her blood scattered about. But it looked like she
hadn't been stabbed at all. Her brother's body lay beside it, also heavily stained with
blood. I looked up to see Sonic R still on. All the characters unlocked. And her
controller was on what looked like a stuffed Tails Doll. Creepy and disturbing, in all it's
mindless ways.
"Call the police," I thought. I turned around, and then, the sound.
"Tails Doll..."
I whirled around. There it was. The deranged, freakish, blood stained, Tails Doll. It
stood atop the Television. Staring at me. Like it wanted my soul. And it did. The lights
went out, and all I could see were the glowing red jewel atop his head, and his freakish
large eyes. They drew closer. Closer.
Closer.
I must have passed out at that point, because I couldn't remember anything. I awoke in
the hospital, my left arm torn of my body. My parents told me that a killer had broken
into her house. I knew they were wrong. I knew the truth. But they couldn't know. They
could be it's next victim.
From that day on, every time I'm in a pitch-dark room, and every time I close my eyes,
it's jewel and eyes are always watching me.
Always.
____________________________________________________________________
This comes to us from Archerfish 1989, which as we all know was a good year for
archer fishing. It seems the Tails Doll has found a loop hole....
Hello. I love your sight, but I have some news you may should be aware of.
You posted an FAQ for Sonic Gems Collection. In there you said that the version of
Sonic R in that collection was safe. You are wrong. Here's my story.
A few days ago I picked up the Gems Collection. I was worried because I had heard of
the curse of Sonic R. But I laid that to rest, knowing how this version was safe to play. I
popped it in and beat Sonic R in less than two hours. I actually found the game pretty
addictive and it soon became one of my most frequently-played games on Gems.
All was well, until today. I chose Sonic R from he menu and began playing. I was in the
mood for a time attack match and decided to try out "Tag 4 Characters". Looking at
the characters I thought, "Heh, I should pick Tails Doll. That would be humorous. Tails
Doll chasing down the others." Indeed, it entertained me so much that I chose Tails
Doll and began the game.
I heard my brother come in my room. When he realized what I was doing, he said, "No!
What are you doing!? You know about Tails Doll"
"Don't worry," I said, "check the site. According to the FAQ the person made, this
version is safe." Upon reading your FAQ his fears were destroyed. But not for long.
"Wait!" he cried, "your playing the tag game? What if Tails doll isn't tagging, but
draining their very life force energies! He could use that energy to break Miyamato's
seal!"
I laughed. I laughed! "Dude, calm down. With Tails Doll you only chase after the
robots. They're cold machines with no life at all. It's fine."
But I was overlooking a vital detail. Super Sonic. I didn't think much of it because he
was only one -- how could he break a powerful seal with only Sonic's life energy? But I
forgot to add to my calculations the fact that Sonic's spirit was now enriched with the
power of 7 Chaos Emeralds!
I continued playing, and I did eventually tag Super Sonic. As soon as I did, the screen
went wacky. Crazy stuff happened, until it turned to Tails Doll's splash page (you
know, the one when you beat the game with Tails Doll), and the game over music from
Sonic CD was playing. (Either that, or it really was the evil laughter of the Tails Doll.)
I had realized what I had done. Iin horror I turned to my computer and tried to email
you! But at first the connection was down. The urgency of the matter was too great, I
went outside, going door to door, begging to use their Internet. They all thought I was
crazy. I went to my friends house and he let me use his computer. I logged into my
email account but was stopped. Pop ups, pop ups everywhere! All with the words "Can
you feel the sunshine?" So many that I couldn't get to composing mail.
I went home, defeated. Until recently. I was in my room, trying to get it off my mind.
Then...my Gamecube suddenly turned on. Then I heard the "Can You Feel the
Sunshine ACID Remix" form the museum. I looked in horror as the Tails Doll
appeared, and came out of the TV. I ran. I just ran. But I tripped and fell down the
stairs. (My room was in the basement) I saw him. When I thought it was over, I heard:
"Don't be afraid, mortal." He had no mouth. I heard this in my head. His body just
hovered there. Those blank eyes..that gem...
Mortified, I asked, "Why not? I know who you are!"
"You have done a great deed. Thanks to you, Miyamato's seal is broken. Here
anyway. I will repay you, buy sparing you. But under one condition. Tell no one of how
to brake the seal. They can not be warned."
Then, the lights flickered, and he vanished in the shadows.
Even though he told me not to, the one condition that he will allow me to be spared, I
know that he cannot escape. No one else can make my mistake. So I'm sending this
mail to you.
DO NOT play the "Tag 4 Characters" game with Tails Doll. If one does, for some
reason (maybe the controller slipped), then exit immediately! Tagging the robots are
safe. They have no life. But tagging Super Sonic will allow Tails Doll to steal his Chaos
Emerald-enriched life energy and muster what energy he needs to break the
Miyamato seal.
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This creepy catch is from Dooblegem....
TD they called me. Maybe that's why I had this fate...
I played "Sonic R," all the way to the character.... The Tails Doll....
When I got the character, it seemed harmless enough... My friend was with me,
pointed out how my nick-name 'The Dragon' had the same initials as 'Tails Doll'. Two
dreaded initials I mentioned before, TD...
We laughed about it, laughed about me being the Tails Doll.
That night I lay in my bed, my eyes wide open... I didn't feel right, as If something was
in me that didn't belong... I heard a creak on the floor-boards and turned too see a
small figure, that reminded me of Tails, hovering towards me. The Tails Doll.
It raised a knife, held within it's bloody paws. I got ready too scream at the pain, yet it
never came. The knife went in and I felt nothing.... The Doll pulled the knife out and
started to pull oven my leg at the cut. All I saw was white in there.
White stuffing.
A voice resonated in my head. "You'll need stitches on that."
When I woke up in the morning, my sides had massive stitchings down them....
The letters 'TD' were written on a toy maker's label coming from my leg....
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"Sonic Lover" tells us a tragic tale with a big body count...
Back when Sonic R had just come out, I worked at a video game store in Idaho.
A shipment of 50 Sonic R games came in. Not knowing what the consequences would
be, I put them on display in the store. They were all sold in a week or so. I kept a list of
the customers who'd bought the game on a clipboard.
About a month later, the police entered my store and questioned me. It appears that
there had been about fifty murders that week, and the victims had all been found in
the same condition: in front of their Sega Saturns, which were always on with Sonic R
in them.
The police found my clipboard of Sonic R buyers, and someone mentioned that the list
looked kind of familiar. They compared it with the list of people who'd been murdered.
It was a perfect match.
I was immediately taken into custody. Luckily, though, I was released, since nobody
could find any evidence other than the lists to connect me to the deaths.
I have since found out about the Tails Doll curse, and I wish I could have gone back in
time and stopped myself from putting those stupid Sonic R games on display. Well, it's
too late now.
To the families and friends of the fifty victims ... I give you my deepest apologies.
-Ray Mariaki
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This close call is comes compliments of Berserkedrage...
I was reading around your site and noticed the Tails Doll stories, which I though were
nothing more than fake superstitions and just humor when I first read it...
How wrong was I...
I didn't think much of it because you mentioned that the Gems collection version was
safe, that is until I read the most recent story mentioning that the Tails Doll had found
a loophole via getting Super Sonic's Emerald-infused energy in "Tag 4 Characters"
mode and using that energy to break the seal. Having just finished Sonic CD with all
the Time Stones acquired successfully, I was in the mood to play some Sonic R, and
was hovering around my usual character selections when I noticed the Tails Doll and
though to myself "Hmmm...I think I'll go and play with Tails Doll and try and catch
Super Sonic" (It might have been TD itself trying to get me to help him escape)
So anyway I start and make my way to tagging the other 3, getting them out of the
way. Then I started chasing around Super Sonic, whom I thought was doing a really
damn good job at not getting tagged (more than usual at least).
Eventually, SS slips up and I manage to touch him...
Nothing happened...in my mind I was thinking "I knew it was nothing really" and went to
turn off my GameCube, then went for the TV but I stopped before hitting the power
button on the screen...
Sonic R was still on the screen...
Then I started hearing softly, but distinctly, "Can you feel the sunshine"...
Then the screen flickered black and I saw it...the gem...the eyes...
"What have I unleashed?" I though, then I heard in my mind "You though I was a fairy
tale, mortal? No matter, for you will have the great honor in being one of my victims"
While I was hearing this I was singing (weakly) "Super Sonic Racing" for some weird
reason...
Tails Doll slowly hovered closer and closer...but then suddenly there was a bright flash
from nowhere -- it was so bright I had to shield my eyes.
When I was able to look again, Tails Doll was nowhere in sight...
I though that I somehow survived, somehow lucked out, but wondered how...the
answer showed up on my TV a few seconds later...
It displayed "YOU MADE A GOOD FUTURE" and all of the Time Stones, while playing
the music for finishing a level in Sonic CD. It disappeared once the music ended...
I turned my GameCube back on and looked around the settings, and I noticed that the
clock was wrong by about 20-30 minutes, more or less, the same time I had started
playing. I then realized what had happened when that bright flash appeared...
The Time Stones from Sonic CD turned back time!
I think that both Sega and Miyamoto must had included it as a fail safe for if the Tails
Doll broke the seal -- seeing that they already know the Tails Doll is a sinister foe.
So it's important that everyone knows that the Time Stones can contain TD, but you
must have gotten them in Sonic CD, and I don't exactly know how they were activated
(Perhaps it was singing "Super Sonic Racing"?, I'm not gutsy enough to tempt fate
again...)
Still, I just hope that TD doesn't find another loophole somehow...
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Novkris sends us these ominous glitches, bitches....
The Tails Doll manifests itself in different manners; I have yet to see it in the real
world…but it mocks me in the cyber one…
I beat Sonic R on my computer and was racing for fun on Regal Ruins as Super Sonic.
I enjoyed bumping into Metal Knuckles to knock him off the road and make him come
in last. In the 7th race I just let Metal Knuckles be and raced normally. I finished
first…or so I thought! At the last second the order of players started messing up and
as I crossed the finish line second…
"What?!" I thought, expecting Metal Knuckles to have outsmarted me. But no -- Tails
Doll was first. The order was as follows:
Metal Knuckles 5th
Metal Sonic 4th
Egg Robo 3rd
Super Sonic 2nd
Tails Doll 1st
On the victory screen the Tails Doll stared directly at me. I was more pissed then
scared and exited the game in a hurry to cool off.
The next day, I enjoyed a game of tag as Super Sonic in Radical City with my friend
over. I tagged Metal Knuckles in the first 10 seconds, Metal Sonic shortly after and
Egg-Robo easily. I only had to find the Tails Doll. The map showed him located in the
ricocheting area where one of the coin is right before the slot machine thing. I looked
for him for hours…
Later I finally found him…floating there…outside the track, in the grayness of Radical
City…it was staring right at me, floating there, motionless. That image always haunts
me…
I never play tag in Radical City anymore…
This is entirely true -- all glitches in the game revolve somehow around the Tails
Doll…don't be surprised if next time you are on Radical City the Tails Doll is
missing…if you are alone…don't scream…it can taste fear…
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Metalvirus 9000 bravely shares with us this tragic tale...
Tails doll. The curse that would haunt me the rest of my life.
I thought that the myth was just a fake and funny way to amuse people. I was wrong. I
had gotten Sonic Gems for my birthday. It was a blast. I played through Sonic CD, and
beat Sonic the Fighters more times than I could remember.There was only Sonic R
left. I eventually got 100% on that too.
The next day, I had got 3 of my friends to come over and play Sonic R with me. We
had matches in every stage. I had noticed that one of my friends used Tails doll the
whole time. I warned him about the curse. He just laughed.
That was the last time he ever laughed.
He wanted to do a 4-way tag match to prove that the curse was fake. I said sure. I
choose Metal Sonic, and my friends chose Tails, Super Sonic, and he chose the Tails
doll. The chase began. Tails doll eventually got me, and my 2 other friends. Super
Sonic was the only one left. He evaded him for a while, and slipped up and got tagged.
My friend's face started to shrivel up!
He fell down, dead. The TV turned black. Can you feel the Sunshine was playing.
Suddenly, the TV buzzed on and "A new challenger" appeared. I passed out. When I
woke up, my house looked like a doll house. I searched for my friends. I found them.
They were in my room. They were all dolls. I screamed, and felt something soft hit my
leg. I looked down.
The Tails doll was staring right at me.
He jumped up, and flew inside of me. I passed out again. When I woke up, I was in my
bed, and was holding something. I was holding my friends. They were still dolls. My
mom came in. I told her all about it. She said that I had no friends with those names.
I started to cry.
It has been a week since that day. My friends that were turned into dolls are now
inside a glass case. The Tails doll is inside of me. I warn you, if you don't want your life
to be a nightmare, than PLEASE dont use Tails doll.
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PuppyLuver warns us that evil does not discriminate...
The story I must tell shows just how far the Tails Doll curse can go. I have never
played Sonic R in my life(seeing as I didn't get into it until Sonic Adventure 2 came out
on Gamecube) and yet IT has tried to get me. This is my story.
I was working on a comic series based on homestarrunner.com and had no ideas for
the first story arc. While 'net surfing, I happened to come across your Shadow thingy (I
looooooove Shadow) and I poked around on it. The Sonic R curse was what inspired
me. It had given me nightmares the first time I saw it. That's when I knew that the first
story arc in "Homestar & Friends" would be scary. Very, very scary.
It was quite simple: Homestar buys cursed game and doll, Homestar plays game, Tails
Doll possesses Homestar, Tails Doll(as Homestar) tries to kill everybody, Homestar's
sister defeats Tails Doll, end of story arc. I started working on it immediately.
I never put any pages of it on deviantART because of what almost happened to me. I
was listening to a Heywood Banks CD at the time. The song that was supposed to
come next never came. Instead, it was a song I had never heard before.
"Can you feel the sunshine? Does it brighten up your day?"
I thought my CD player was just messing up (it was at least 5 years old) when I
recognized the lyrics to the song.
It was the song all victims of the Tails Doll heard.
I turned around to see the fuzzy monstrosity. It had a wire and a fillet knife in its hands.
And it came at me, yelling something like "Shumpy". That's when I passed out.
I woke up a few hours later with a gash on my right leg and a wire wrapped around my
hand. I tried to tell my parents what happened, but they thought it was just to get
attention. To this day, I've still yet to convinced them.
I'm telling you this to warn you, you don't have to play Sonic R to be a target. Don't
draw pictures with the Tails Doll in them, don't write fan-fiction with the Tails Doll in
them, even if it's just an obscure reference. Because if you do, IT WILL GET YOU.
Now that you've heard my story, I have one question for you:
Can you feel the sunshine?
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This confusing creepfest comes from Ghoulish Goomboss...
I bought Sonic R and tried a little "cheat"
X,Z,Y,A,B,C^,C>,Cv,C<,A,B,C^,C>,Cv,C<,L,R,X,Y,Z,
Then I played tag, Tails Doll vs. Ivo, Metal Sonic, And TAILS.
Fatal mistake. I first tagged TAILS, then the game froze...I tried to turn it off. But it
didn't. I rushed for the door. It was locked. I tried to call for help. But it was out.
Then..... IT came.
Tails doll, zapped me in the crotch "eww..."
Tails, then appeared and crashed into me with the Tornado.
And Metal Sonic and Ivo grabbed me and... "Do not tell anyone of this."
It is now coming.
For YOU!
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"WTF?!" Adamoh501 sends us this heart-aching anecdote....
We all have heard of the tails doll, but everyone one thought they were too smart to
believe in the curse.
They were my three best friends. Tom, Jason, and Dan. They all decided to have a
get-together on Friday night. A kid named Derek dared them to play Sonic R and take
pictures of what happens. So the three were all "OK" so they played Sonic R, and
unlocked all the characters. Now all they had to do was tag Super Sonic with the Tails
Doll. Getting the robots outta the way, Super Sonic was racing at top speed. On a
slight turn Super Sonic was caught. They got the cameras ready ....
"WTF?!"
Nothing happened!
They kept taking pictures to prove them wrong. All of a sudden, a power outtage. The
only thing that stayed on was the Sega Saturn. They all screamed, but each was too
scared to make any audible noise.The TV kept flashing. The Tails Doll was on there.
As it flashed, the doll came closer.
They were still taking pictures ...
"WTF?!"
The doll popped out of the TV. Tom, with the camera, passed out. He woke up the
next morning, with everyone gone. But he still had the camera. He showed it to his
mom, but the
pictures where blank. Nothing on it. And he asked what happened to his friends.
She said she had never seen of heard of them. It was like they never existed.
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This comes to us from "A very lucky Tails fan..."
For several years I have been a Sonic Fan. I have collected many items of Sonic
merchandise, even created a shrine to my favorite character, Miles "Tails" Prower in
my closet. I owned a copy of Sonic Gems Collection, and that's where it all started... I
had beaten game, and I had once tagged Super Sonic in tag 4 characters.
While using the Tails Doll...
One day, I was watching Episode 78 of the Sonic X TV series, when it got to the Part
where Tails imagines seeing Cosmo (One of the Characters that only appears in
Sonic X). However, the normal music did not play...
In it's place was...
"Can you feel the Sunshine? Does it Brighten up your Day?"
And instead of Cosmo, was the Tails Doll...
Right then the Video locked up, the shades on the windows closed instantly, the power
went out, and only my Computer screen was still on. And the picture of the Tails Doll
still stared at me with it's empty eyes...
I knew then to run.
I scrambled out of my chair, over bed, onto the floor, and then, I slowly opened the
door, just a tiny bit...
Seeing nothing, I opened it all the way, and he was there. I dropped to the floor,
kneeling, Hand raised in surrender, hoping that perhaps, the horrible plush toy would
have mercy on me...
"The Tails Doll kills all, no matter how well they evade him" I heard in my head.
I began to lose strength, my life slipping away from me. I hurried to the closet, not
willing to just sit there and accept fate like most of the Tails Doll's victims. Then, I saw
it. No, not some odd vision, or horrific image, but my Tails shrine. Grabbing the Large
Tails plushie and Tails' Skypatrol cartridge that made up the main part of the shrine, I
ran back into the room, holding the two items up like shields as Tails Doll rushed at me.
Surprisingly, he hit the plushie, and flew back against the wall. His somehow
dissolving, his blank eyes disappearing from his face. He seemed to deflate, his
stuffing exiting his body through what looked like bullet holes, and then vanishing into
the air.
Late that night, I exited the house, bag of charcoal and the dead Tails Doll in my
hands, and began to start a fire in the grill on the porch. And in the fire, I placed the
Tails Doll. I knew as the smoke rose into the darkened sky, however, that I could play
Sonic R in Gems Collection only once more...
And that time, I erased all save data for the game...
That is how I am a very lucky Tails fan.