On October 2nd, I joined Mindcrack. But none of you knew it yet. We were brainstorming ways to make the announcement and for me to join the server. We thought about me announcing it in the Weekly Recap, just uploading a video one day with no hype, or even announcing it at an upcoming convention. However, with it being October and all, what if something spooky haunted the server and it was unmasked, Scooby Doo style, to be me?

We all wanted to avoid another NewMindcracker situation. There was a lot of drama on the subreddit and comments surrounding NewMindcracker. To avoid this, we agreed that I should only be spoooky_ghost for about a week, not let the joke run too long, and everybody should act like they don’t know who it is.

Under spoooky_ghost, there were four major points I wanted to happen:

Everyday there would be a new “spooky” themed prank that would target specific Mindcrackers I wanted to frame other Mindcrackers I wanted to be a massive troll. When I wasn’t pulling off a prank, I would be trolling people during recordings and livestreams. I wanted Mindcrackers to pretend like they didn’t know who the ghost was or that it existed, they needed to guess who it was

I spent the couple weeks before I would join as spoooky_ghost to come up with pranks and design them in a creative world. After designing them, I would pull them into MCedit and get an exact count of resources I would need for each build. Here are the list of pranks I was going to pull, the ones bolded are the ones that actually got pulled.

Fill Bdoubleo’s house with witches (Partially happened)

Build the Lochness Monster in Lake ZEL

Haunt Guude during Torch Tuesday

Build a Headless Horseman at the Racetrack

Fill Vechs and Aureylian’s Dyed and Died shop with Black Cats

Build a giant Zombie Danger Zone

Surround Zisteau’s base with pumpkins

Here’s part of the schedule I made up:

I officially joined the server on the 20th, Monday. I gathered resources on Tuesday and Wednesday with my first prank being pulled off on Thursday. BTC and Jsano uploaded videos with spoooky_ghost in it on Friday, and I asked Vechs to tweet a screenshot of spoooky_ghost on the server.

On Saturday, the Headless Horseman was discovered and Avidya found my black cats for the Vechs prank. The world border stopped moving this day. I had nothing to do with the border, but lots of people on reddit thought it was part of The Spookening :).

By Saturday, people seemed to catch on pretty quickly that I was spoooky_ghost. I needed a way to get the attention off me…and I had the perfect idea. Guude, Beef, and Pause were all live streaming on PlayMindcrack…so I should join…with the ghost! I sent a quick text to my friend:

This threw most people way off! Success!

I kept gathering resources for pranks throughout Sunday and Monday, and then on Monday afternoon I got called into a meeting. I got let go from my job. Because of this, I didn’t complete the amount of pranks I wanted to. I spent a lot of time setting up stuff like Patreon and wrapping my head around everything.

On Tuesday, I announced the company let me go. BTW, my Tuesday night stream…if you go and look back, I am on Minecraft 1.8.1pre-2, a version no longer available told download in a client and the same version the Mindcrack server runs on.

Tuesday night I was talking to Aureylian. She said she needed to record 17 videos in 2 days with a couple being Mindcrack. This was the perfect opportunity to do something to Aureylian. I wanted to hide a prized possession of hers and make her go on a treasure hunt for it.

I spent the next 24 hours awake gathering resources and rebuilding her barn in the nether and then destroying it at her base. The barn in the nether is perfect in every detail, including the placement of torches, chests, and crafting tables.

I didn’t get the amount of pranks I wanted done, but I did get to troll Pak pretty hard during his stream on Wednesday.

Thursday, we recording the revealing…and now it’s Friday, Halloween! That is how I pulled off spoooky_ghost.