Creepypasta stories

Yu-Gi-Oh type: Ghosts

"I've been playing the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game for a good long time, and every now and then I do some research on new cards and archetypes. A couple months ago I was looking around on Yu-Gi-Oh! Wikia and found something…disturbing. Apparently, Kazuki Takahashi tried to make a new type to be released alongside the Psychics: Ghosts. This might be the reasoning behind the joke in Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXal when Astral asks Yuma what kind of card a Ghost is.

"From what I read, it was widely released in Japan and only one pack series was released in the UK that was exclusively Ghost-Type cards,Tombstone Ritual, and they were only in stores for about a month. There wasn't much reasoning behind it on the Wiki page, just that strange anomalies were happening around the places that a lot of Ghost-Type cards were gathered, mostly tournaments and schoolyard dueling areas, I'm guessing. No other details.

"After a little more research, I noticed that most of the Ghost-Type cards were either Spirit cards or turned into Zombie-Type cards in later pack releases. One card that caught my eye on the latter list was 'Il Blud,' which was released in Crossroads of Chaos. I myself owned one, so I was curious if the effect of the Ghost-Type was the same. I didn't see the Ghost-Type version on the Wiki, however, since there was only a couple released in the packs. 'It must have been an Ulti,' I told myself.

"I eventually forgot about it, being in school and all, but when Summer Break started, my interest was renewed.

"I searched EBay for a long while before finding something interesting: A bulk set of 119 Cards, with the thumbnail being a Ghost Rare 'Il Blud' card, the kind released in the Tombstone Ritualpacks. After reading the product description, I learned that the bulk set was in fact the entire English set released in the UK, plus a few duplicates. There were no bids, and it was for only $2. With only about an hour left to bid, I clicked 'Bid' and raised it to $5, just to make sure those cards were mine. Strangely enough, despite the fact there were 12 hours left on the bid, the screen changed to say 'Thank You For Purchasing This Item. Please Proceed to Checkout.'

"Now, I'm not a big EBay user, but I'm sure that when you bid, it doesn't automatically thank you for buying the item, just for bidding, and that you'd be notified when bidding was over or if someone outbid you. Anyway, I shook off my strange feeling and continued pay for the cards. Almost immediately after the purchase, I got an email from the seller. This is what it said:

'Thank you so so sooo much for buying the cards from me. You have NO idea how long I've been trying to get rid of them. I wouldn't be surprised if you sell them off again later on. Thanks again though. '

"At the time, I had no idea what he meant by that, but once I received the cards, I knew instantly.

"At first, everything was normal: cardboard box, send label, tape. However, it took me a second to realize that the sender used RED tape. 'Who uses red tape for a box?' I wondered. I shook this feeling off, too, assuming he ran out of regular tape. It can happen, right?

"So, without another thought, I opened the box and sifted through the cards. As promised, they were either Ghost-Type Monster cards or their support Spells and Traps, and all had the call number starting with 'TSRT,' indicating that they are all from the Tombstone Ritual pack set.

"Time went on from then; I made a deck and dueled a few people. I got a lot of complaints because my opponents thought the cards were fake. But since I mostly dueled my friends, who don't mind at all, I didn't care. My best friend, who, for the purpose of security we will call Samantha, was a perky blonde who was always trying to beat me, but never could so long as I was using my ghosts.

"The one card she dreaded was the one card I always seemed to be able to draw against her: 'Il Blud.' You see, unlike the Zombie/Gemini version released in Crossroads of Chaos, the Ghost-Type was able to Special Summon itself from my hand if I controlled only one Ghost-Type and all cards on my opponent's side of the field were anything but. Samantha hated this, seeing as how I am very conservative with my monsters and never summon them unless I absolutely have to. She's always surrender at that moment, like she thought that if I attacked with 'Il Blud,' she'd never play again.