Spooky Locations in The Legend of Zelda!

[@HyruleGamer]

Are you celebrating Halloween tonight? If so, what ya got planned?

[@liamlockheartart7560]

Gonna hand out candy for my Mom because I don't get trick or treaters where I live and she has a migraine, and also gonna play ToTK! I'm on my 2nd playthrough of it now.

[@melaniewhitt9271]

yes eat candy lol

[@melaniewhitt9271]

the place that really creeps me out is the bottom of the well in ocarina of time and Majora's mask

[@cherubin7th]

Already went out collecting candy with the nephews. It is 22:30 already here.

[@Margar02]

I finally got the evening off for the first time in many years, so I can pass out candy!

[@MichaelaJungheim]

The underground part of the ancient cistern in skyward sword was spooky, especially with the zombie bokos

[@affinityforanime]

The nighttime raid by the aliens on Romani Ranch in Majora's Mask was probably even more unsettling to me as a child than the Shadow Temple. The music that plays during that event still gives me chills.

[@neilgreenan5074]

Me too. As a kid, it was my least favourite mission just because it was creepy. The aliens aren't even scary! But the atmosphere...😬

[@llyallowyn8127]

@@affinityforanime same here! Especially because they never explain it.

[@kairi4640]

Ikr? I hated doing that part, it's part of the reason why I don't like replaying Majora's Mask. Always makes my nerves go crazy lol.

[@MajinK]

I would've put The Depths from Tears of the Kingdom as an honorable mention at least. Even with all the Light roots active, it's still fairly dark and eerie down there. Not to mention the terror of your first Frox encounter.

[@TheBlackSquirrel]

YES!! I was surprised that the Depths weren't at least an honorable mention. The design is incredible. The terror of running literally BLIND from enemies you can barely see. The sounds are super uncomofortable and new, so you don't know what most of them are. You see a ginormous shadow moving in the distance but it's too dark to tell what the heck it is. And adding the game mechanic that the malice around you and some of the enemies lowers your maximum health if you get too close or unlucky just makes it worse. I love AND hate that place.

[@rockypockypuff]

Some people like me find the Depths super comfy though, especially when there's no Light Roots active. Maybe Hyrule Gamer feel the same and thus didn't think of mentioning it?

[@gregoryleverton]

Is it weird that as a kid, i never found the shadow temple remotely creepy, but was actively scared of the bottom of the well haha

[@josephbeaulieu1569]

@@gregoryleverton Bottom of the Well is definitely dirtier, and playing in child form makes it way scarier for me too

[@squeakykittah3416]

I was expecting the well to make the list

[@SirBallsDeepOfHouseManthrust]

@@gregoryleverton It’s so strange because I remember the EXACT SAME THING. I mean, Shadow Temple was spooky obviously, but The Well of Three Features legit scared me as a kid.

[@kmfdm5]

Freaked me right the fuck out. Still does but in a worse way. Nuance is the real horror here

[@jpbrother]

Same.

[@neox4735]

The lost woods in the wilds era is like a more realistic version of the idea of the earlier ones with how the lore is really kinda unnerving. Doesn’t sugar coat the getting lost with ”cheery music” Shoutout to the discord server! :)

[@squeakykittah3416]

Fun fact: shadow temple music theme has bongos playing as you are going through the temple. You hear it the moment you walk in. The bongos stop playing when you defeat the boss. At least in the n64 version I played back then. I went back for heart peice searching during time that internet and game guides were hard to come by.

[@kairi4640]

Woah really? That's a creepy detail lol.

[@goldam1986]

The strange laughter you hear when you take a wrong turn in the lost woods. Might be the sound of one of the Koroks.

[@Imjstvibin]

@@goldam1986 I’m pretty sure koroks shouldn’t exist in the timeline yet

[@ttapion]

@@goldam1986 or skull kid ;)

[@ttapion]

Or skull kid ;)

[@fishnewt1331]

@@Imjstvibin​​⁠: In Breath of the Wild/ Tears of the Kingdom? The games where Korok Seeds are collected and getting lost in the Lost Woods signals children’s laughter? The game this comment is referencing?

[@RyanBlazeheart]

@@fishnewt1331 Nyahahaha... *Link shudders as he is whisked back to the start of the maze*

[@runilareads15]

Warns that there's thunder Immediately jumps out of skin at thunder sounds

[@jameskorkie4924]

This video was fantastic. The one honorable mention I think that deserved a shout out was the bottom half of the Ancient Cistern. The zombie bokoblins swarming as you climb the rope gets me every time.

[@justamags]

The first time I experienced that scared the crap out of me! 😂 Such a twist to have that serene opener and then that!

[@kairi4640]

I actually completely forgot about that lol.

[@davidfitzpatrick6535]

12:25 Even worse when u consider the redeads are PROBABLY THE DEAD CITIZENS WHO WERE KILLED IN THE CASTLE TOWN ATTACK. Then due to Ganondorf's magic instead of being given bliss in death reunifying with the goddess Hylia (In my HC Skyloft from Skyward sword is like "Heaven" from Christianity/Judaism and after the people in Hyrule die they go to Skyloft and are able to communicate with Hylia if they so wish) they're forced to serve Ganondorf as redeads.

[@kairi4640]

From what one of the npcs mentioned, it's actually just dark magic used by Ganondorf. Which kinda feels like Nintendo trying to tone down the darkness tbh.

[@samael759]

To me, the forest temple is one of the eeriest places. But pretty much every place that felt "too far" from any store in-game feels like doom. Especially the stone tower when thinking of it's real size when looking down. Or above

[@annaisntcool]

16:44 the cabana basement in wind waker is *my* childhood fear for sure

[@liamlockheartart7560]

I've never been this early before! I just beat ToTK for the first time the other day so I'm only now getting back into watching lore videos. Very excited!!!

[@DP3com]

Admittedly I haven't played and/or completed every mainline LoZ game (I'm working on that), but Castle Town after Ganondorf's takeover always shook me. The Redeads already made me nervous whenever I encountered them but encountering them plus seeing CT in ruins along with the howl of the wind always scared me. This is coming from someone who played the Resident Evil remake, which looked pretty realistic for the time, first on GameCube before playing the less realistic looking OoT on GameCube.

[@yatanogarasu]

Bottom of the Well and Wind Waker's Earth Temple. Also the Phantom Ganon's maze in Ganon's Tower (Wind Waker) and the Forest Temple.

[@noahmcconnell5560]

You got em all, graveyards + skultulla houses

[@CanadianDude]

I always thought the Forest Temple was creepier than the Shadow Temple in Ocarina of time.

[@eileensmiller8041]

One of the creepest locations for me are the silent realms from Skyward Sword.

[@HyruleGamer]

That's a super creepy place! The silent realms are tough xD

[@frz3rbRnotaku1]

I have a really good theory for Arbiters Grounds. Supposedly it was built on top of the Spirit temple. So the desert colossus was probably unstable. Thus making the sinkholes. Which eventually becomes its appearance in Breath of the wild. Then when the Molduga moves in, it probably made the ground even more unstable, thus making its appearance in Tears of the kingdom, a giant quicksand patch. And I just go with the thought that the desert coliseum is the original building. And then the Underground graveyard right underneath as well.

[@actuallyminapaige]

obviously it’s not quite on the level as the hyrulian war crimes temple or anything in terms of like implication and atmosphere but i would like to offer an honourable mention to breath of the wild’s thyphlo ruins for making me anxious because i’m already bad at video games and then they had to take my visibility away

[@jamst5913]

@@actuallyminapaige It's probably useless now that most people have beaten and replayed BotW so much by now they won't go back to it, but back when it was still big I'd always give a hint on how easy it actually is, so might as well do it again for old times sake. SPOILER: The Hinox and shrine are literally a straight line from the entrance. Just have to find a way over the wall.

[@mr.lavander7145]

Great Bay was especially eerie and unsettling because first I played Smash Brothers Melee and in the Great Bay stage, it plays the upbeat Saria's song. I thought the place would be a happy beach.

[@DemonicAdj]

I kinda want a "Day 4" mod where it IS just Termina at the beach. Everybody Lives, so let's hit the beach!

[@philippak7726]

gone, but it was good, pretty quiet I found the basement where you found Joni really eerie, him aware and frozen as a gold statue, aware of the world but able to do anything but watch as the floodwaters start creeping in, and all that gold just untouched. Twilight Princess was good at the spooky spaces

[@ttapion]

The giant eels in the Great Bay in mm. They scared the living crap outta me as a kid. Thanks for the great videos. (Also, it's pretty hard to be scared when gerudo valley is playing!)

[@am9189]

For me, it's still, to this day, The Bottom of the Well. Even 17 years later and now that I'm an adult, I can't even bring myself to play that part of Zelda without my heart starting to race. It was that terrifying and it certainly didn't help that you played that part as Child Link, forced to see such horrors.

[@darkcloak100]

I been thinking on going through all the mainline Zelda games and visit the spookiest locations in each one. I know some of them technically don't have a spooky area but they at least have spooky themed areas, like graveyards and dark forest. And on a side note, Nintendo, please put Twilight Princess HD on the Switch or Switch 2 so I can finally play it.

[@DarkAngelBluejay]

15:07 The gargoyle holding the chain looks... kinda like Mogryph from Echoes of Wisdom. Or is that just me?

[@NightcallerZ]

I have to say, the most hilarious part of this video is the fact that you describe Bong Bongo as a "creepy, headless pair of pants" Had me rolling Good video :D Always love the quick run-throughs of creepy locations in games.

[@moka4086]

I think Gerudo Town from Tears of the Kingdom before doing the main quest there should have been in that video! The feeling I had when I entered the town for the first time, completely empty except for a few gibdos was unreal and 100% one of the creepiest moments in that game!!!

[@DemonicAdj]

Zombie town. People also noted the low-key horror of the Rito village. Only kids left to run things.

[@MidnightFire1222]

I would've put the Earth Temple from WW as at least an honorable mention. You can't tell me that the scream from the Redead of that game isn't bone-chilling on some level.

[@brandoncampbell7274]

No Wind Waker Earth Temple, no Faron Temple, no Palace of Darkness, and no bottom of Ancient Cistern??? Not even as honorable mentions????

[@BrownMan-gg7dx]

@5:51 i was waiting for a Majora's mask one and just when I was thinking it you mentioned Majora's mask 😂 perfect timing

[@Celestyal22]

The head isn't a crow, it's the head of Anubis.

[@Clyde-S-Wilcox]

No it's your mom's

[@B.Ent98]

6:42 “anywhere you go in Ikana is unsettling and not fun to hang around” Bruh I swear! I always hated having to go to Ikana in a game lol

[@darthseverus89]

Happy Halloween everybody @HyruleGamer thanks much for this very timely video!

[@johnfodo4129]

You too

[@averykevin47]

It's well-established that both the Shadow Temple and the bottom of the well dungeons are absolutely 100% terrifying. But what most people don't know is that what makes it even more terrifying and intriguing is the fact that Ganondorf himself actually didn't have anything to do with the bottom of the well or the Shadow Temple. It was all based on around the work of the Royal family.

[@aster4jaden]

Just what I needed for Halloween, thank you!

[@majuuorthrus3340]

I always find it funny when people are like "Shadow Temple was especially scary when playing it for the first time as a kid", because my family was poor and I didn't get to play OOT until the 3DS remake. And like, it terrified the crap outta me then. When I was in my 20s. Anyone doing it at like, eight must have the courage of Link.

[@domdude64dd]

I was always scared of the forest temple, the music is still terrifying

[@cobracommander6522]

In the uncut preorder 1.0 gold cartage version of Ocarina of Time the bottom of the well and Shadow Temple does have blood in places. I got that version when I was a 6 back in 1998 and I still have it.

[@kevinmcourtney]

One that is surprisingly creepy because it’s so serene in an uncomfortable, misplaced way is the moon in Majora’s Mask and the kids playing around the tree. It’s not creepy in a traditional sense, but to me there’s such an undercurrent of pending evil despite what appears to be a peaceful setting.

[@SonicJrandSarah]

I think Ikana Canyon Grave you can enter on the night of the second day is quite spooky with all those piles of skulls in the mini-boss room.

[@Applemangh]

I love it when Zelda touches on horror vibes! Not for a whole game, mind you, but I wish every game had it's own shadow temple area.

[@butterballmach2]

snowpeak always brings up so many questions like Why did anyone wanna build there or what was the real purpose of it

[@marie-camilleschaap2708]

I can't believe you find the Lost Woods in BotW scarier than the Earth Temple in WW or the Bottom of the Well in OoT or even the bottom part of the Ancient Cistern in SS

[@neogotham2k39]

Happy Halloween Hyrule Gamer!

[@randytimmons7700]

The forest temple in oot was creepy AF to me as a kid, the music was unsettling

[@tjx0116]

When those 90 seconds run out in the Silent Realm of Skyward Sword.

[@kevinmcourtney]

Good list. I agree with the Shadow Temple as #1, but I would have also added Lanayru Desert from Skyward Sword, too.

[@Stevenuniversefan-n4f]

I love how you posted this supposing to be Halloween but for me it’s already November 1 lol

[@luponscarleteye7933]

An eerie place for me is the Hyrule Castle graveyard from Twilight Princess. The first time I played the game I got there by accident. I was taken by surprise. Now I feel melancholic about the place

[@itsdangeroustogoalone-takeme]

The lost woods music from breath of the wild is my alarm sound. It’s not a jump scare out of sleep, but it certainly wakes me right up.

[@kageokami5]

Death Sword being an actual demon sealed by what are very real methods used in the real world for similar purposes is so creepy.

[@B.Ent98]

Zelda does a great job conveying ambience with their soundtracks 🔥

[@michaelplantarich3375]

So happy when I saw this come across my notifications this morning. Made sure to wait until midnight and dark to watch 😁. Thanks for the spooks!

[@HyruleGamer]

Enjoy!

[@Nowle92]

Not overly terrifying but more of a sad invading feeling - Deya village

[@childofcascadia]

Snowpeak Ruins music will forever be tied to FromSoftwares games. Thanks, Zullie.

[@SirSonic900]

It's funny. I'm not really big on horror but I do enjoy your spooky videos. As far as which area I think is the spookiest in the Zelda world? It's hard to say. But for me, one of the spookiest areas was in the Wind Waker. The island bungalow always creeped me out only because I knew I had to navigate those catacombs with the rats and the Redead. But I gotta say your pick of the Shadow Temple? It's definitely creepier than those catacombs under the bungalow.

[@michaelbraden4150]

For me, when I was growing up and I thought every Zelda game was the same, I was in for a surprise when I did the Wind Waker because in the EARTH Temple, the character Redead was there and I never seen him before in other Zelda games before. If you could only imagine that when he moved that I would be scared of him because of the way he looks and especially his sound. I will admit that every time I see him in the temple he still has that kinda scary effect on me because he just that good at being scary. If he ever get close enough, he will grab you and start eating at your hearts in the game even to the point of killing your character. The other places in Zelda games do come off as creepy and scary, to me, the EARTH Temple will always be scary to me day or even at night. 😱

[@kairi4640]

Lol, I knew shadow temple would be at the top as usual. 😂 But to me shadow temple is mostly a silly haunted house, I don't mind doing that dungeon. The ones that creeped me out most was the bomb trains in spirit tracks, romani's ranch ghosts, and the guardians for the tears of light. I'm literally like nope you would have to pay me to do those again. 😂

[@elfofcourage]

The Sad Ghost House in Link’s Awakening, the Ghost Ship in Wind Waker

[@DarkHazard]

16:25 I had to rewind this part like 3 times because I was like "Did he really just say pair of pants?"

[@HyruleGamer]

Hahahaha Bongo Bongo having pants is a funny image

[@chevelle70ss350]

Thank you for the spooky video on the best of holidays! Hope you have a great Halloween!! 👻

[@morrigankasa570]

I've only ever played Ocarina of Time & Majora's Mask on N64 as well as Link to the Past on Gameboy Color. Even as a kid playing them I never got spooked by any locations in those games. But I have been frustrated many times by certain locations; I have managed to beat Ocarina of Time multiple times, but I have never been able to beat Majora's Mask or Link to the Past. IF, Majora's Mask didn't have the time crunch and kept things completed then I could beat it. I'm a 31 year old Man who isn't ashamed to admit that I think Majora's Mask is too difficult!

[@mario_maniac9368]

Im so late on my zelda vids😅 glad to be able to catch up on your halloween one you guys are killing it

[@SharlynnShida]

The labyrinths in the Wild's era!

[@jaKobus914]

Man why did I miss this last night, oh well a little late spooky listen on November 1st

[@stevebadcock9206]

So weird seeing a new Hyrule Gamer on a Thursday instead of a Sunday! Couldn’t be a better subject for Samhain though… Happy Halloween

[@gamingtheologian8515]

I really liked the Blizzeta cutscene also.

[@davidfitzpatrick6535]

Sees loud thunder warning *IMMEDIATELY UNPLUGS HEADPHONES*

[@ponyote]

Happy Halloween. Thanks for another lovely videe.

[@brittanyykitty]

Loved this video so much ❤

[@HyruleGamer]

Thank you!

[@pyraffin]

Number one: the entirety of majora's mask

[@lnsflare1]

#0: Anywhere where Malo is looking at you in Twilight Princess.

[@phillymoss2986]

Kingdom of Ikana was definitely weird vibes

[@AntWard-r2s]

I enjoyed this video for Halloween thank you hyrule gamer 😊

[@HyruleGamer]

Happy to hear, glad you enjoyed!

[@kiminowak8295]

Probably not related to this video, but I got to go trick-or-treating this past Halloween & scored plenty of candy(& getting to see popular icons along the way). And best of all, I got to have Pizza Hut for dinner!! ^v^ Best Halloween by far!!

[@tashicakennedy3612]

There is a theory about bongo bango that he was ounce a sheikh.

[@Hyrulianslayer690]

OOT Fire temple, but with the old music.

[@JacobKeele]

Such a fun, creepy video! Thanks for a fun way to spend some of my Halloween 🎃 night! 👻

[@HyruleGamer]

Glad you enjoyed, thanks for watching!

[@JacobKeele]

@HyruleGamer Absolutely!

[@dannys6957]

Hey, that's me, ABlazingBread!! I like mid whiskey & Zelda! With that said, I'm gonna fly away!!! *whoosh*

[@HyruleGamer]

Thanks for sending that in!

[@BandClarinet3]

I played OOT twice in my 20s and I never noticed blood in the shadow temple.

[@Levacque]

Depends on the version you play! Some had the blood removed.

[@OmegaFox09]

My favorite “haunted location”: the Shadow Temple

[@duyanhpham9227]

Snowpeak mansion is on the opposite site of the country but for some reason Yeto and Yeta have Ordon pumpkin and Ordon goat cheese lying around and I want to know how

[@orlandoacontreras]

Greetings from Venezuela, South America. 🇻🇪👋

[@treetopterra7453]

Aw, no Forest Temple? For outright horror, the Shadow Temple wins, but the Forest Temple is definitely the winner for subtle creepiness. Nothing about it is explained, and the music just adds to the weird nature of the place. But I'm also biased because it's my favorite temple. :)

[@ShepherdsCreek]

You missed bottom of the well from OoT

[@girlovezim]

I feel like the ghostship from windwaker would have made a good pick!

[@HyruleGamer]

Ooh absolutely, that would have been a great shout!

[@CGplay186]

never fealt spooked by zelda games, only game that gave me odd fealing was hybrid heaven still loved the game thou

[@historictruecrime5119]

The forest temple in ocarina of time and the outside of the wind waker ghost ship. The inside not so much.

[@Ptitmalle]

Great video, thank you 😃👍

[@HyruleGamer]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@shawnthompson2303]

Bottom of the Well and the Shadow Temple.

[@fishnewt1331]

Anywhere a Stalnox exists. They are like oversized possums, only less cute (if one finds possums cute to begin with).

[@gmradio2436]

A spooky location in a Zelda game? The graveyard in Oracle of Time. The location itself is rather simple Halloween themed, but there is a character there that has a tragic fate. There is a Poe that starts the Straw Millionaire quest that ask you to move his tombstone as it is trapping him in the living world. That I find scary. That after death someone will be trapped aware in their own grave, unable to escape until the tombstone is removed or worn away.

[@elfofcourage]

Oracle of Time? You mean Ages.

[@gmradio2436]

@@elfofcourage Correct.

[@NerdStuffGaming]

When I was 8 in 1998 & playing this, I'd reset the game when I got to the shadow temple 😂

[@tashicakennedy3612]

Happy holloween

[@fromtheart26]

My Halloweens been pretty good. Pretty relaxed and brain dead rn though. I found a good deal for a computer set up and it's gonna be here tomorrow. Im.just writing down all my zelda info as I'm listening. Or trying to anyway.

[@johnfodo4129]

Happy Halloween 👻🎃

[@ItatsuMagnatsa]

You forgot some places. 1. The Forest Temple (OoC). 2. Bottom of the Cistern (Skyward Sword). 3. Bottom of the Well (OoC). And so on.

[@RyanBlazeheart]

To end of the month I beat Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance for the umpteenth time. I really should have play Ocarina of Time and spent time in the well/Shadow Temple though.

[@gamingtheologian8515]

Bottom of the well should have been prominent

[@meimei8718]

Dropping a cheeky wee like