Haunted House

"Haunted House"

Thumbnail for 8-Bit Beast's Haunted House.

Source

8-Bit Beast

Era

Season 1 (The SilvaGunner Spooktacular Halloween Horror Special)

First appearance

"Vampire Killer - Castlevania" (September 16, 2016)

Media
Audio preview

Track information

Key

A minor

BPM

150

"Haunted House", also known as "Castle boss", is an 8-bit song composed by 8-Bit Beast. It is a meme on the SiIvaGunner channel.

Overview[]

On June 13, 2013, ChipMusic.org user 8-Bit Beast published a track created in Famitracker named "Castle boss" in a post titled "Haunted House".^[1] The song is notable for its inconsistent/non-existent melody, bare instrumentation, and disorganized sound. Prior to its use on SiIvaGunner, it was a small in-joke with some members of the chiptune community. On October 30, 2015, chiptune artist Ap0c released the album 8-Bit-Beast's Haunted House Remastered, containing remixes of the song. JJokerDude, after hearing about "Haunted House" from Ap0c, created a remix of the track and submitted it to the chiptune music collective Chiptune=WIN, and it was published on July 18, 2016, as a bonus track titled "ＣａｃｈｅＢｏｓｓ" in the album Chiptunes=WIN: Volume 5, credited to "8-Bit Shifter".^[2]^[3]

Rips[]

"Haunted House" was introduced to SiIvaGunner by JJokerDude, after he joined the team and submitted eight rips featuring the song, all with titles containing the words "castle", "haunt", or "beast", inspiring other team members to make their own rips with it.^[3] The first of these rips to be uploaded was "Vampire Killer - Castlevania" on September 16, 2016. After that, it appeared 19 times during the remaining two weeks of Season 1. It was later used as a major meme during The SilvaGunner Spooktacular Halloween Horror Special. During this event, a fake game dedicated to the meme, 8-Bit Beast's Haunted House, was introduced, which is used to publish edits of/involving the song. Since then, "Haunted House" has become a recurring joke in all Halloween events, along with "Kyun! Vampire Girl".

Since its appearance on SiIvaGunner was the first time the fanbase had heard it, it was initially referred to as "the mystery meme".^[4] Eventually, an upload of "ＣａｃｈｅＢｏｓｓ" by YouTube user MattHubris was discovered.^[2] With the increased attention the video received, MattHubris uploaded the original 8-Bit Beast track in another video, "8-Bit Beast - Castle boss", a few days later, revealing the true source of the meme to the fanbase. SiIvaGunner would later publish "Haunted House - 8-Bit Beast's Haunted House", an unedited upload of the track, to end any ambiguity.

In SiIvaGunner lore, Wood Man was the one to bring the use of "Haunted House" in rips. Additionally, the 8-Bit Beast is an actual character, whose appearance is based on the cover of 8-Bit-Beast's Haunted House Remastered, which also served as the inspiration for the 8-Bit Beast's Haunted House thumbnail. The Beast has been implied to be Wood Man in a werewolf-esque transformation, being first indicated in the video "A Nice Announcement".