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by Andrew Brown - November 1, 2013, 10:41 pm EDT
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Halloween may be over, but the spooky continues!

I hope everyone enjoyed the Halloween festivities that took place in the world of Animal Crossing, and managed to score all of the rare holiday items you wanted.

But just because the holiday is over doesn't mean we can't enjoy some creepy fun all year round. I'm sure many players (myself included) have taken it upon themselves to build a haunted house in their town. What self-respecting village doesn't have that one creepy, abandoned place off the beaten path, full of old furniture and a few shocking surprises for any curious Dream Suite visitors, right?

Oh, the delightful things you'll see.

Some players have gone the extra mile and fashioned their entire town in the ways of the macabre. These horror towns have been gaining infamy in small cult followings around the internet, and across spooky YouTube channel communities. Many of these are grounded in Japanese horror stereotypes and culture, and several require some Japanese reading ability to fully comprehend the various signs and messages, but the masterful planning, decorative skills and atmospheric eeriness is clearly evident whether you can understand the text or not.

I'll give you three guesses as to what happened here.

I've put together a list of a few particularly creative towns I've visited myself. I'm not going to give much description or post many pictures, as I highly encourage you to check them out yourself. Just be warned, many of these are far more gruesome than anything you'd normally find in the game.

AIKA VILLAGE - 2600 0218 7298 (Japanese)

Possibly the most famous creepy town in the Animal Crossing Dream Suite. Piece together the story of a happy family breakdown and the resulting deaths, told through the eyes of a little girl.

HITOKUI - 2600 1856 4772 (Japanese)

My personal favorite! The name of the village means "cannibalism", and allows you to dress up as a bride or a police officer as you investigate the town. The seemingly quiet burg has a series of houses that appear cheerful and normal on the outside, yet each hides a grisly secret behind the innocent facade. Genuinely disturbing!

VOID - 5800 2261 2914

A decently creepy town with some interesting medieval style decorative spookiness and a mad doctor's laboratory.

KOTORIBAKO - 1100 0907 3801 (Japanese)

The name is a misspelling of "little bird cage", and tells the story of a mother who did something unforgivable... lots of shocking discoveries to be made.

NURSERY - 2000 1259 8879 (Japanese)

Probably the prettiest and most creative town I've ever seen. You never know what to expect here, as each separate room of each house seems to be from a completely different world! Plenty of strange and funny things to see, such as a Gyroid rock concert and a funeral for Tom Nook. Beware the house in the woods...

ANIVILLE - 4800 2398 3734

Explore what appears to be some kind of boarding school or prison camp, and discover what happened to those who tried to escape. Be sure to pack a shovel.

"Koroshite" means "kill me".

Well, that's my list for now. Know of any great other towns worth visiting? Share the Dream Code in the thread below! In the meantime, have a great Halloweekend.

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KhushrenadaNovember 02, 2013

Nothing to do with creepy villages but I since it is Animal Crossing related and get more views, I'll post it here. It has to do with trying to make a lot of money on the Stalk Market.

Currently it is Nov. 1 and 2:30 pm at my town. However, I've also got turnip prices at 406 bells a piece. I've racked up some good coinage from this but I'd like to try and take advantage of it further. What I'd like to try is for someone to work ahead a bit or keep up to Sunday morning. Meanwhile, I'll leave my game alone thereby keeping the town frozen at this 2:30 pm time and turnip price. Once the other player is ready for Sunday morning, they set their time for 6:00 am when Joan is supposed to show up and open your gates. I'll come over buy some turnips and take them to my town. If the turnips don't wilt and I can still sell them for 406 a pop, then I'd like to do a bunch of turnip runs back and forth. Filling up my locker in your town, coming to mine and selling. Whoever wants to help me on this is welcome to also take advantage of my fortuitous turnip prices and rack in some good dough. In fact, by giving you this advance warning, if you don't have a lot of bells, this will give you the chance to save up for and buy a bunch of turnips also.

Joan sells turnips from 6:00 am - noon. Re-tail is open until at least 10:30 pm so we have a large time window to take advantage of this. Even if turnips are sold at 115 bells, that is 291 bell profit per turnip. If you free up the entire space in your locker, the maximum you can store there would be 18,000 turnips. 18,000 turnips at a sell price of 291 per turnip is a sale total of 5,238,000. Subtract from that an estimated cost of 2,070,000 for buying the turnips and it gives you a gain of 3,168,000. Every trip back and forth between our towns would be worth that much. Let's say we can only make two trips per hour to buy and sell and we do this for three hours. That's 19,008,000 bells we could make. Of course, if you make a day out of it and do the full 6 hours, you should be able to double that to 38,016,000 and money will never be a problem again in the game. This is all based on turnips selling at their highest cost and not including the fact that one can also load up their pockets in addition to their locker each trip.

Still it all depends on whether one can actually buy turnips in one town and take them back in time to another town to sell. If that can't happen, then this pipe dream goes down in flames. The only other option would be someone being able to go backwards in time to Sunday Oct. 27 and buying the turnips then. You can time travel forward with them no problem but you can't go back without them spoiling.

Who wants to try?

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