the story of 'Roblox's Horror Music', explained

0:00 intro/context
1:36 the origin
7:11 other stuff i found
8:39 outro

* the original sound just didn't play so i had to put it in with editing lol
* the song that plays for like 1 second during the fake outro was made by me :p

thank u guys for watching. pls sub so i can have food
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[toastedcherries]

This is *NOT* a "Mozambique EAS alarm from 1923", as the source for that "fact" is a mockup, and Mozambique wasn't even formed until years later. The name is also not SpookyBass1.wav. The first Roblox model to use this was "Spook Sounds" by the user Uploader, who used it in August 2009. He used it in his Friday the 13th game.

*june 21, 2021:* a lot of people have mentioned that my voice sounds really weird in this video - thats because i recorded this really early in the morning right before school lol. thats probably the only thing i really dislike about this video. thank you guys for the huge wave of support
*july 14, 2021:* halloween1-3.wav was found by the roblox remastered soundtrack team, and a video should be coming in around a month about it, along with a bunch of other sounds!

[AerionMersaror]

Honestly, if it's used properly. The Horror audio can be pretty damn terrifying.

[Coconuttal]

Watching slender man t posing slowly approaching you at 3 FPS 144p

[breakfastboii]

Not only are the sounds nostalgic, but the fact that the compression is so heavy you can hear the bytes and that they still sort of scare me makes them so much better.

[youvsanoob]

Dude I use to play all those Area 51 and I thought 3:52 was just monster making that sound same with one after it

[mixazizu]

3:34 its scarier than the slowed down version

[jaydengaming]

Then: Being Completely Terrifed Of The Song
Now: Being Completely Nostalgic Of The Song

[radianteko]

"You recorded a bell?"
"Yeah."
"But I was asking for horror sounds!"
"Well, y'know, you could make a horror theme from this!"
"Fair enough."

[jorts_master]

It's kinda amazing what you can create by severely slowing down audio. This music was the cause of so much childhood fear for me when I was young, finding out that it was made of a bunch of windchimes and a stock ghost noise is really weird lmao

[eelixdxd]

YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER, ive been looking for the dark ambient for 2 days now! Tysm

[IneptOrange]

God this throws me back to a roblox horror "game" I made almost ten years ago, and is still up today. It had that music, the spinning clouds, zombies, weapons and buildings all ripped from the catalogue.

Basically 50 or so zombies would spawn at the other side of the map and walk towards you, and you had to kill them all without dying. It was easy because they were slow and died easily, and they didn't respawn very fast if at all (I can't quite remember). If I remember correctly, I was obsessed with "epic duck" at the time and hid several of them around the map.

It was garbage.

[hunterpinder]

That ghost ooOooOo sound is ancient. Alot of Halloween sound effect CDs and such you can buy had them on it. I have one from my dad going back the the 1980s with it on it. Also alot of dollar store Halloween props had it. Wouldn't surprise me if they were all just royalty free spooky Halloween sounds

[AltairBlue]

this used to be spooky, then it was nostalgic, and now it's just shitpost material

[DexTheLelGuy]

i just love when it cuts off when cherries says "thats not sca-"

[rxny_]

At 6:28 the metal design looks just like the design for the doors of the Area 51 map. Coincidence?

[Lannarama]

I actually found out about this quite recently, it feels so great to know the origin of what scared me as a kid, and being able to hear them whenever I want!

[TomoLamp]

Dude i think its the nostalgia speaking, but the song still creeps the shit out of me, i just reminds me of one of those silent hill esc dreams, where you are alone, and there is no threat, there is only the dread, and realization that you are stuck.

[wumfumblus]

so... technically the roblox horror music is personalized-

[SierraRailProd]

1:25 it’s actually hip-hop music slowed down quote:this isn’t scary-

[MiDNiT]

The fear instilled in me when I used to play with the horror music it kept me up at night I had to make sure that my windows were locked and curtains shut before I felt slightly safe