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2025 Update: The aforementioned image comes from the trailer for a horror movie called Exte. You can find it at the 57-second-mark here. Low-budget horror games from this time are interesting to me for the way they rip outside media and somehow work it into their story. Earlier in the same game, there’s a computer where you can find a short video of that talking bacteria mobile game. Anything is possible

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Since 2020, multiple YouTubers (notably Nexpo and Goose Boose) have made videos about a certain event in an obscure (not so much in Japan, but obscure in the US) RPG Maker horror game named Utahonotatari 2 or Haunting 2. RPG Maker horror games are one of my favorite subgenres of horror (one of my favorite genres of anything already) so it was a pleasant surprise seeing two YouTubers I’ve already watched for ages talking about them.

In the game, there is a supposed glitch which is triggered after walking through a pair of structures in a certain area, where your game would create a fake error before cutting to black with some occasional glitchy noises and flashes of white, before cutting again to what appears (to most people) to be a low-quality photo of a supposed corpse.

Here’s a video of the glitch in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uFSsLNoy3k

For the last few years, people have slowly been finding out about this game & the supposed glitch inside of it and treating it as if it really is a glitch with a real photo of a corpse. Obviously, it’s not.

I found a way to extract all the data and files used in a Wolf RPG Editor game (because usually they're compressed into giant files called Data.wolf that contain everything) and in the games files, there's an entire folder named "ばぐ" in the games files (translated to computer bug in English, thanks Tea 4 helping), and it’s dedicated to all the images and textboxes used during the glitch.

As well, this practice is used a few times throughout the duration of the game instead of video files, and the supposed “corpse image” is even reused in different areas of the game! 

It’s very obvious this is a planned glitch not only because of the creepy nature but two things:

1) The textbox quality before it starts to go all over the screen is very compressed (looks like it was made in an older version of MS Paint, but that’s just based off the way it’s compressed, I have no way of proving that) and low quality because the majority of the images made by the creator of the game that were used in the game were made in 320x240, and get stretched to at least 640x480

2) Most of the footage of this glitch was recorded by people who speak English (after the glitch became well known over here) and the textboxes that are triggered by Wolf RPG Editor and go all over the screen seem to be random symbols because they do not have their computers set to a Japanese locale

Here’s a screenshot of what it would look like without an English locale:

One thing I’ve seen that really confuses me is the point that “if this were a real event, why would it only happen once throughout the game?”

My first thought upon hearing that was “no shit it only happens once”

The whole point of it is to catch the user off guard, appearing as if it were a true glitch; in a very quiet section of the game I might add. If it happened more than once, it would totally ruin the immersion that the error brings when it does happen that one time.

October 2025 Update: Reminder that this blog post is quite old. It’s not written very well and some of the information may be inaccurate. Thank you!

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Shedletsky is one of the most famous figures in the ROBLOX community, and even more so in the earlier days of the platform. Shedletsky is known for having MANY accounts, such as EarlGrey and SonsOfSevenless - which may be familiar names if you’re into trading on ROBLOX, as they are some of the most worthful accounts in the platform’s history. On his personal page on the ROBLOX Fandom Wiki (right below the section about transphobia and NFTs) it claims that Shedletsky was known for making many alternate accounts and pretending to be various different people from 2006 to 2007.

This trivia section & the last post on this blog inspired me to start working on a list of accounts that Shedletsky owns, most of which being created between June of 2006 and sometime in 2007 or 2008. The current answer is well over 30 accounts, and I’m very sure that I’m missing a good majority of them.

Telamon - This account was (initially) created in June of 2006, before being renamed to Shedletsky around 2009 or 2010. The account that now accompanies the name Telamon was formerly named Shedletsky, and was created in January of 2007. This account is rarely used anymore.

TelamonTwo, TelamonThree, TelamonFour, TelamonFive, TelamonsNightmare - These are all accounts created in early 2007 as alt accounts to the Telamon name, all with gibberish emails which consist of stuff like “[email protected]” and the likes. It’s unknown what these accounts were 100% used for, and it’s unconfirmed but very likely they were created by Shedletsky, considering not only the names but how the same kind of emails were used on other Shedletsky accounts.

BlankArena, OriginalCrossroads, arena, arena2, RocketArena, Robloxopolis, HauntedHill, Chess, videocontest, Montresor, Swinburne, NukeTheWhales, Yorick, JohnCarmack  - These are all accounts that were used to store games that didn’t fit on the Shedletsky profile, all of which were created in early 2007 or before. Until May of 2007, only one game could fit on a user’s account - admin or not. This is why these accounts were created. Swinburne was for an event in August of 2007 where it held for the Void Star event, arena was made for holding Crossroads, arena2 was for holding Chaos Canyon, RocketArena is self-explanatory given the reason for arena and arena2′s existance, HauntedHill was for holding a modified version of Haunted Mansion for a scavenger hunt event in October of 2007, NukeTheWhales was created to hold the earliest version of Nuke The Whales, BlankArena was for holding a copy of Crossroads but only with the borders and baseplate, OriginalCrossroads was for holding the June 2006 version of Crossroads, Robloxopolis was made for holding a city project that Roblox users could submit their buildings too to be featured inside the map (fittingly named Robloxopolis), and Yorick was created for an unknown reason in 2006 before being used for the “Yorick’s Resting Place” event in October of 2008. Chess was created in August of 2007 under a “@roblox.com” e-mail, and was almost used for a “Robloxian Chess Tournament”, however the event never ended up happening for one reason or another. Videocontest was created for the Humorous Video Contest in July of 2007, and even included this strange place on the account (which no longer works because base64 strings linked to audio are not supported in modern day Roblox). See a recording of what happens here: https://streamable.com/kuxjkk Some of these accounts had no places but were used for contests, such as JohnCarmack - which was for a Giftsplosion 2007 gift

Predator.John123, GodOfSmallThings, john, Yahoo, TimmyMcPwnage, RobloxJunkie, Abyss, MrAlpha - These accounts were all made between 2006 and 2007 for playing ROBLOX without being bugged by every user ever for being Telamon. RobloxJunkie was featured in some screenshots and videos that Shedletsky took in October of 2006, and a profile on the series Webshots was even opened under the name RobloxJunkie, which included some photos taken between August of 2006 and September - these photos were also reuploaded on Brickshelf, a Lego-based photo-sharing site under the name Shedletsky. Predator.John123, GodOfSmallThings, Abyss, John, Yahoo, and TimmyMcPwnage were all made for unknown reasons, most likely to pretend to be someone else. These three were all confirmed to be Shedletsky after the e-mails were leaked for the first 40,000 accounts. These all were registered on one of John’s emails. What’s especially strange is that some buildings on the “Chaos Canyon” map from September of 2006 were even credited to Yahoo, which as we all know - was Shedletsky’s alt. Abyss is most likely Shedletsky, as many of Shedletsky’s alts were registered with gibberish-filled emails, including Abyss. Abyss was already rumored to be Shedletsky due to the style of typing and building, how Shedletsky later re-used buildings from the game listed on the Abyss account, etc. 

Featured - This account shared the same email as a few other Roblox accounts that Shedletsky registered. This account was created on April 30th, 2007, and it’s unknown exactly what it was used for as there was no activity on the account before it’s eventual termination due to being password guessed for having a semi-OG username. My only theory is that it was something relating to the “games page”, which ended up being revamped just a day later, on May 1st. Considering how unique accounts used to be created for each official ROBLOX game (i.e. Crossroads).

SuperTrader - This account was a trading experiment to see how far someone could go with $20 worth of ROBLOX gift cards and experience/knowledge on how to trade. The account was created in 2012, and now it has millions of Robux worth of limiteds on it.

TotallyNotShed - Not sure what this account was for but it’s rank #71 on the richest Roblox players chart. It’s also definitely him.

IpadJohn - This was used for early iPad testing. Here’s an image.

Telamonium237 - Don’t actually know what this one was for. It was mentioned in a later version of Crossroads, though.

December 2025 Update: This post is extremely outdated! This screenshot was taken on a test site named dev.roblox.com, where NoCrashPlz was a real account. 

The ROBLOX game, “Crossroads” built by Shedletsky in July of 2006 is one of the most iconic maps in ROBLOX’s history - once serving as the only available map for the then in-development multiplayer ROBLOX servers feature, until September of that same year. 

For reference, the above image is what the normal Crossroads map looks like. It took from mid-2006 until early 2007 to get this version of the map finalized. The image below is a screenshot from December of 2006, of the earliest version of Crossroads. Shedletsky joined in June of 2006, while this level was in progress. The level seen in the image shows various builds created by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel, such as Erik’s castle and David’s playground. This version was published under the account “OriginalCrossroads”, when a user asked Shedletsky who created the Crossroads level. At the time, the only weapons in the game were the slingshot and rocket launcher - not including the drag tool, which was seen in a lot of places from 2006.

After this version, the admin team (mostly Shedletsky) kept on adding to this level. Now this version is interesting, this one actually included builds from popular users on the site at the time that weren’t admins. In August of 2006, the (technically first ever) ROBLOX contest was held on the forums by Shedletsky. Essentially, Shedletsky would go into random uncopylocked games by ROBLOX players and grab builds and put them in Crossroads. The sniper tower in the below image was created by Stealth Pilot, then known as PilotLuke - and was seen in Crossroads from sometime around August of 2006 to November. This version also sees the inclusion of the Thieves’ Den, the giant mountain and base in the corner of the map, and the blue tower. 

(edit: aug 25th, 2022)  when i originally made this post, i forgot this version that was made between the sniper tower’s addition and the original version (aka sometime in august 2006?) 

Here’s another version of Crossroads, this time from sometime in August of 2006. This was when Stealth Pilot’s tower was just added, and instead of the Thieves’ Den, there was the “free bricks” area from current the starter place.

In November of 2006, Crossroads saw a huge revamp. PilotLuke’s tower and the Free Bricks area were removed, and the Trampoline, Blackrock Castle & Lost Temple were added to the game. This was also when the Trowel, Superball, Bomb, Copy Tool, and more were added. This was far from the last variation though, as more things would be added then removed in the coming years. 

Throughout early 2007, many small variations were made to the game. Note that at this time, this was no longer the only available multiplayer game - many people were focusing on the user games, or games like Chaos Canyon and Glass Houses. This doesn’t mean that Crossroads lost all its popularity by this time either. Some of these small variations included a time changer script which added a Day & Night cycle which was first added in April of 2007, a Jukebox that would suddenly appear in the middle of the map in 2008 before being removed shortly after, and more. It’s also worth (not really) mentioning that Crossroads was formerly hosted on an account called “arena” in 2006 and some parts of 2007, before being moved to the official ROBLOX account. In 2009, a winter version was made that was available until February of 2010. For some parts of March and April 2010, ROBLOX replaced Crossroads with the Disney XD Skatepark event game, which upset a lot of players. This change was reverted within the following months.

The last variation to be mentioned is the teleporter to Welcome to ROBLOX Building, which was put in Crossroads sometime between 2011 and 2013. By this time, Crossroads’ popularity started to fade - and by now, the only people who play it are people who really (really) want to re-live old ROBLOX. Challenge, go to the servers tab of Crossroads and count how many “trying to be old ROBLOX” avatars you see.

Last thing, look at this old screenshot from 2006 of Jack Rackam playing Crossroads. Thanks for reading, I guess.

While there’s already a large community of people bonding together to try and find old ROBLOX clients that are currently lost from March 2007 and before, there are a lot of people who are taking a step back and are instead recovering old photos, videos, now-deleted-forum-posts, and other miscellaneous media from ROBLOX’s infancy. In 2006, Shedletsky (formerly known as Telamon) made a slew of now-deleted posts on sites like Gamedev.net asking for feedback and promoting the self-proclaimed “virtual world building game”. Many of these included screenshots of the game, many of which aren’t fully archived. One of these posts was from October of 2006, and included some screenshots of the special Halloween brickbattle map, known as “Haunted Mansion”. In 2010, a random user uploaded one of these screenshots as a ROBLOX shirt, for some reason. The image doesn’t use the provided shirt template and therefore doesn’t fit on the avatar at all, but hey - at least Gordonrox24 successfully archived and preserved some old ROBLOX media without knowing it. The second and final image is the original image, although some of the quality has been lost as ROBLOX compresses shirt image uploads into 1:1 images - before I stretched it to 768 x 472 pixels, which is the dimensions of many of the other full-size screenshots Shedletsky took around August to November of 2006. Hopefully you learned something new, and hopefully this wasn’t too long, convoluted, and completely nonsensical if you don’t have a basic understanding of what I’m talking about already