Disturbing Moments in Super Mario 64 Iceberg Explained (Easter Eggs, Disturbing Moments, Theories) 

I always thought the flame painting was a distorted version of Bowser, very stylised but I think it is fairly obvious

A lot of this never really bothered me as a kid but I can see how it feels off now. Especially compared to other Mario games. The Endless Stairs always bothered me though.

23:24 It got so, SO much worse in the Galaxy games. They toned down the drowning, but the way Mario goes belly-up and his eyes don't shut all the way is kind of chilling. They made quicksand a lot scarier, and Mario dies instantly when crushed. I'm not even going to go into detail about the logistics of falling into space, especially when the galaxy is in a planet's orbit. Black holes and dark matter are terrifying, and the death animation for electrocution is infamous for being the goriest and most out-of-place death in a 3D Mario game.

Super Mario 64 is art not because of it being impressive at the time, but how beautiful and terrifying the game's universe can be, like an alien planet far off from the earth. Hell, SM64 felt like a child went into an alternate world different than ours whilst playing.

the Ghoul Medal is a horror-based pun on the Gold Medal.

I love how there is this whole theory about a supposed "Ghoul Medal" and what its uses would be, when it's literally just a pun on "gold medal."

Personally I found the eye enemy very scary as a child. Edit:Another thing that spooked me was the endless stairs. For some reason I thought that if I ran up them for too long a monster would attack me.

I remember as a kid thinking the blue sky painting next to the staircase leading up to the clock room could have led to a “night sky” level. That would have been cool.

Some parts are wrong like the secret goomba there is a impossable goomba in the level Bowser in the sky or BitS for short where one of the goombas spawns over the void, and due to this it instantly downwarps to the bottom of the void and unloads. But you did go into detail for the textureless Mario. some others did have some minor details wrong but again over all a great video

I'll tell you why the cake scene is creepy. It's because for no reason they decided to trap you there. They won't let you go back to the main screen, it just sits there in silence. It's sort of laziness on the developer's part that turns into creepiness because it causes the player to be stuck staring at a blurry image completely out of place with the artistic style and assets of the rest of the game in complete silence.

I love how people assumed the ghoul medal isn’t a silly pun with gold medal but an actual item lol

On the actual iceberg image I saw that hazy maze cave is called Hazey Mazey Cavey. Is that a reference to Chuggaaconroy? If so that's a really specific thing to reference.

The "inside the walls" thing is not literally inside the walls but it has to do with the fact that is said Bowser transformed everyone into bricks and now they are probably using their last powers to project themselves as toads in the world.

10:48, THEY’RE BEING SARCASTIC! There was no ghoul medal, they were just being ghosts!

Pretty sure “Ghoul Medal” is just a joke and a play on words of Gold Medal

39:28 actually, the theory of princess peach trapped in the stained glass seems true because when we save peach, she appears from the stained glass

Don't know about you guys but the white eye chain chomp being a sign of a very "active and aggressive" AI is creepy and badass to me.

I actually vividly remember my first playthrough of this game, I was using another family member's copy of the game because I was a tiny child, but I remember the pretty intense fear of the chain chomp in those fields never being idle. I couldn't get around it. It was always just all the way stretched out in the direction I was and I couldn't get around it because of that. I think my uncle managed to get around it by tanking some damage, but whenever I quit the game and came back to that area, it was still like that

8:30 It is known what the painting is meant to represent, its one of the fireballs that bowser drops down in the final boss fight in Super Mario World

8:35 bruh, that’s a stylized Bowser

luigi:"hey bro what do you fear most" mario:"pianos"

The fire painting is so nostalgic for me, me and my great grandad played Mario 64 together (he watched me play essentially) all the time when I was 3-4. And I remember we just called it the mean man painting or something of the sorts. Always think about that when replaying it nowadays

31:14 Fun Fact that people already know, nobody asked to hear, or probably doesn’t even care about ;-;: That laugh sounds a lot like Mario because it was a sound clip of his voice actor, Charles Martinet laughing which was also used for Bowser’s laugh, and the regular Boos’ laughs.

i was obsessed with the mario 64 iceberg back in 2020, so i knew this entire iceberg. i still love watching people explain it, though. great job!

Sm64 is a revolutionary game in ways we didn’t expect

Never get tired of super Mario 64 icebergs, love it!

The ghoul medal is just a pun my dude.

Isn't the face in the Lethal Lava Land painting supposed to just be a fiery Bowser...?

Mario 64 players when they read a normal sign. (too scary!)

Looking back sm64 and 64ds feel like alternative time lines to each other.

This game was never personalized for anybody and i just thought you should know that every copy of super mario 64 i played had everything in it all the copys should have. That theory should be thrown off the iceberg

What’s cool to me is that some of the creepy, eerie, or mysteriousness of some of this was later put into Mario 64 DS. Like the mirror room.

Goul medal is just a play on words of gold medal

The ghoul medal might just be a gold medal play on words

That secret Big Boo laugh... that's the most recent thing for me. I was actually playing All-Stars on the Switch about a month ago now, and I got that laugh. I had it recorded but accidentally deleted it when I started running out of video space, and dang I was kicking myself so hard afterwards... I've noticed though, the main time it seems to play is when Big Boo laughs at the very second you head through the front door of the manor, and both the audio of the opening door and his laugh play. The timing is INSANELY hard to get though, and I haven't been able to get that laugh since. As a kid amazingly, the piano and Unagi never scared me, but Tiny Huge Island's fish traumatized me. The eel just kinda swims around, minding his own business, the piano you never need to deal with other than getting the red coin. They'd hurt if you touch them, but that's about it. But those fish... the way they swim at you, mouth open to actually eat and OHKO you was genuinely terrifying and disturbing to me. It still kinda is to this day.

Nintendo: so people got scared of the eel in Mario 64? Ok, lets ramp up that fear multiple times in Majora's Mask.

A thing I notice nobody really brings up (as far as I've seen) is that the town in WDW has those black spheres that usually shoot fire at you when you get close. But in WDW, they don't move, they're dormant. Considering that they were all underwater until we lower the level, one could argue that those enemies drowned.

I always thought "ghoul medal" was just a silly pun lol

This was a very entertaining iceberg video Can't wait to see more like this

My personal theory for the LLL painting face is that it’s supposed to represent a potaboo… or as it is more commonly known, A Lava Bubble, even though it isn’t in the game, but it is in multiple others.

Just because Luigi was planned for SM64 doesn't mean the fountain says "L is Real 2401".

"Sorry Mario, but our Princess is in another castle".

If you look behind the cake. You can see a painting of yoshi! I think that’s what they were talking about

26:40 I see the princess (left of cake [above the steam of the tea] Mario (behind the cake or right of it )(and yoshi? or Luigi *busting a N U T* ? ) in the background of the cake.

Re: Big Dud: One of the Bob-omb Buddies (the pink Bob-ombs) actually says that "King Bob-omb is nothing but a big dud now" in subsequent star missions after you defeat him. That third ball appearing specifically on any star that isn't the first one is just way too much of a coincidence...

One of the things you got wrong is the end screen. There is something in the background, im prettyl sure its a poorly drawn yoshi face on a box or something. You can see the face a little bit in the back and I see why its scary.

The atmosphere and overall mood that you're able to generate with your videos, is incredible. The tone of your voice adds to the mystique in the created universe that you are creating. Thank you so much for dedicating the time to make this and share this with us!

dang, perfect timing, I was just looking for new icebergs to watch

For anyone who isn't aware. We knew for a long time Luigi was planned for Mario 64, as Miyamoto has said numerous times in interviews that the game was originally planned to be multiplier with Luigi as the second character. We knew he was planned for the game long before the data leak. I know that kinda ruins the story of "Luigi was finally discovered in a data leak decades later", but unfortunately you can't always have a good story.

I really dont understand some of these entries, why cant a sign to tell people to shut up be a sign. Or 120 stars just being a goal to make a long game, even the emptiness of the game is highly likely due to technical restraints

The personalization theory is just really stupid, it shouldn't count as a theory. Yeah it's creepy, and yeah mario 64 has alot of off putting things about it. But that's it tbh.

The Shared Nightmares one is so bizarre to me because when I was younger, I absolutely loved playing SM64 (i was like 7 or 8 back when the n64 was the console) but if I played too much I'd get horrible nightmares. I also believed that the Game Over screen triggered it so I'd turn off the game quickly if that happened or I'd restart if i got close. No other game did this to me, not even OoT (though OoT was less scary, more mysterious), Pokemon (we all know about Missingno) or even watching some more mature games that I was allowed to (like Resident Evil).

What it's like to listen to a 5 year old explain SM64...

what's cool is that if you play a rom hack called B3313 at night and visit the vanilla basement, the fireball in the lethal lava land painting will charge at you

5 years! 5 long fricken years it took me to find out the name of the song "art of silence" that people use in videos. No youtuber would show music in descriptions, but you did! From the bottom of my heart thank you, you have a subscriber for life now!

I distinctly remember playing the one with the sunken ship and the eel for the first time. I was already uneasy from the deep water then after the eel popped out and scared the bajesus out of 9 year old me, I ran out of the living room to find my big sister and ask her to get the stars for me. She was shit at sm64, but there isn't a better sister on earth. Edit: Jolly Roger Bay! I should've known it'd show up here haha never knew the eel's name is Unagi, that's cute.

I'm glad someone finally addressed the bowser laugh and the musical cue associated with it FUCKING SCARY

Life is always good when sacrow drops

No way. I literally just started watching a bunch of videos like this and this just came out, what timing!

I remember playing this game and for some reason I felt nothing scary except for the piano

26:45 When you said that people see something in the background I was curious and looked behind the cake and I got scared the second I realized that it looks like some sort of disturbed Joshi

I’m so glad I found your channel!! I love these long iceberg videos - thank you 🙏

almost everything on the first layer is something that i was scared of when i was younger, and the fact that all of the explanations to those things were pretty accurate to how i felt honestly scares me. the entire time i was listening to the first layer i was like "i remember being scared of that". of course i don't feel like that about those things now at all but hearing these things brings me nostalgia in a weird way.

I think the “each copy of the game is personalized theory” is interesting and I’m lowkey not against it because when I was little, I have a faint memory of chain chomp being in the castle courtyard and was able to follow me. As an adult, I have not seen anything online related to that occurrence.

The liminality and how alot of thingd are just off or slightly creepy honestly just makes this game feel more like home. I always come back and explore levels for fun its like coming back to your hometown or visiting your childhood home

This ended up being kinda cool. The iceberg itself seems to be nice a tribute and retake on the regular Mario 64 iceberg that blew everything up. Even before all that though I was always interested in the overabundance of stuff in this game that creeped people out as kids. So it's nice to see it all attempted to be talked about in one fine not bs video. Would be down for more Super Mario 64 iceberg charts that only have one focus. You know something I have very early memories of being scared by in this game? Nothing on here. It was Mario's head in the beginning popping up of all things that scared me lol.

When I was 8 years old I always had an odd feeling from the game, and then I remember talking to one of the toads and he was saying there were monsters inside of the walls and idk maybe I was just a dumb kid or something but that to this day creeps me out bc I never heard of anybody reading that or seeing it

ah yes that personalised AI they had in games back then.... oh wait they never did

24:49 is actually a reference to a personalized entity called Mother Dorrie,it is known as a hostile boss in the level and tho Mother Dorrie is very rare to occur in copies of Super Mario 64 the sign still reminds for the original boss of the level that was in official releases

I think the "weird thing in the background" of the end screen is that weirdass clock that seems to have a yoshi face on it. Looks really uncanny.

The fire ball in the painting of lethal lava land is supposed to kinda resemble the Bowser symbol/face

I havent watched you in a bit but your still dropping amazing videos. Good job!

23:54 Heart of Darkness also has that death scene but it's even more scary and disturbing because it happens to a CHÍLD, in fact that game has loads of disturbing death scenes.

8:18 wow, 26 years and I never once thought to knock the big bully onto the platform on the side. Hm.

Amazing video has always,Man. :>

Without a doubt these icebergs are great they are just so great thank you sacrow This video is great 👍👌👏 Keep making more icebergs please

I love seeing all this Super Mario 64 spooky content, it makes me kinda wish I could've been born a little earlier in history to play this when it was new but I like my 21st century technology and can't time travel anyways lol. At least later it came out on DS and PC!

that textureless mario picture slowly bring more visible as the explanation went on was pretty friggin’ creepy. Kinda gave me slenderman vibes ngl

Tip for the future: actually show what you're talking about ! I was listening to this as a podcast, and, when you mentioned something especially interesting, I came to check the video... and you just showed regular footage of the level.

Lethal lava land Painting Looks like Bowser's face when you die in a level

I think what I like about SM64 is that despite being in the enemies claws not knowing if Bowser would explode out of one of the doors and chase me down and into the forest like it appears on the cartridge game box, seeing Toad stuck in their corners made it sad. Despite Mario being alone it didn’t fully feel lonely. There was a lot of color, there was a lot of music, and I felt Mario could take on anyone and anything

5:54 Yup and we ended up getting Luigi, Yoshi and Wario in Mario 64 DS.

I remember when I played Mario 64, I had a used cartridge. So I played off the save files already on it, never seeing the opening. So when I got to the mirror room and saw I wasn't alone but couldn't see anything behind by turning around freaked me out

This game always creeped me out as a kid and even more so now …

Mario has never scared me at all, however the one thing that was pure nightmare fuel for me was the Tarrs from Slime Rancher. Pretty much they spawned and would eat all your slimes. The reasons why this scared me, was the slightly ominous music and the sounds they made- it kinda sounded like bones crunching or something similar. They just felt super dark for that game and literally gave me nightmares for a month after seeing them for the first time when I was younger.

I'll admit there is only one character that I have ever liked the eyes sewn shut look on and it was that one character I think his name was no face and it was on twisted Metal black so pretty much I don't know if he was an esteemed boxer or someone like glass Joe but let me just say those characters had a better backstory than the twisted Metal 2013 edition at least I think it was 2013. let me just say I would go back to that game whenever I wanted if I could.

Am i just tired or did this actually make me fall asleep? Love the video but i think the calming voice got me lol

Jolly roger bay never scared me so much when I was a kid, it was dire dire docks. When i first entered that level I remember being absolutely terrified, so much that I paused my game and turned the game off. I believe this has caused a lot of my water phobia.

Bro the last one was actually kinda scary

Time stamps 0:00 intro 2:06 iceberg 2:21 Layer 1 2:32 Creepy bowser laugh 3:28 Paino jump scare 4:24 Hazey Maze Cave 4:59 L Is Real 2401 6:12 Big Boo’s haunt 8:02 Lethal Lava Land Painting 8:46 Water Levels And Phobias 9:29 Unagi The Eel 10:27 Ghoul Medal 11:21 The Bowser Levels 11:58 Inside The Pyramid 12:26 The Chain Chomp 13:10 Layer 2 13:22 SM64 (N64) Sky Boxes 14:00 Bob-omb Village 14:40 Endless Staircase 15:22 SM64 Creepypastas. (SM64 & SM64 DAMMED). 17:12 The Painting Theory 17:37 Cold, Cold, Crevice Below 18:02 Mysterious Mountainside 18:33 The Oman Archives 19:08 Every Copy Of Super Mario 64 Is Personalized 20:08 The Wario Apparition 20:52 Bowser Final Boss Fight 21:24 The Mirror Room 21:59 Layer 3 22:10 Space World Sm64 22:36 Secret Slide Dimensional Rift 23:00 Mysterious goomba 23:24 Mario Death Animations 24:47 Don’t Become His Lunch 25:33 ET In The Pyramid 26:05 The Yellow Cap Switch 26:32 End Cake Screen 26:58 Secret Aquarium 27:33 Wet Dry World’s Skybox 28:22 Big Dud 28:47 29/07/1995 29:16 Layer 4 29:26 SMG4 BLARGG 30:08 Please Walk Quietly 30:38 Yoshi Commits Suicide 31:03 Big Boo’s Secret Laugh 31:33 King Whomp Theory 32:06 SM64 Got Milk Commercial 32:37 Big Boo’s Haunt Giant Forest 33:32 The Emptiness of SM64 34:36 Toad Projection 35:13 Layer 5 35:25 120 Spiritual Significance 35:54 SM64 Freemason Journey 36:28 Wet Dry World Negative Emotional Aura 37:41 Toad Is Trapped Inside The Walls 38:29 Textureless Mario Anomaly 39:08 Wiggler Bodies Theory 39:25 Princess Peach Window Theory 39:47 SM64 Sequel Temporal Leak 40:09 Brain Diagram Hidden In Game Files 40:26 White Eyed Chomp 40:56 Eternal Fort 41:31 Shared Nightmares 24:19 Outro

The Mario 64 piano room and the Original Doom level with the maze full of pinkies are my top two, “I’m gonna quit here and come back later (never)” rooms.

30:20 i think, since i first read this message, that its maybe because there was a bedroom near the sign, maybe peach's bedroom and it was put here like if it was a message to the toads or anyone coming here, all of this before bowser kidnapped peach.

Great video as always bro

Ghoul medal is a play on the words Gold Medal

LMFAOOO THIS SHIT IS SO DRAMATIC I WAS DYING THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH 😭

Villain's evil laugh is... le scary? NOOO HOW COULD THEY HAVE DONE THIS IN A KID'S GAME?! I'M GOING INSANEEEEEE!!

The sky boxes for me especially Bob-omb Battlefield and Jolly Roger Bay were not scary but made me feel more like there was more out there and curious as to what was beyond the level, I remember playing the DS version (the N64 version was before my time) and wanting to explore the islands in the sky box in Bob-omb Battlefield or what was beyond the rocks in Jolly Roger Bay

Did anybody else notice how bowser’s laugh is kind of humanoid

Only thing really missing from this I feel is the bubba fish that eat you whole in tiny huge island

64 is one of my favorite 1900's video games.