User:Prism55Writes/Oaks

''This pasta is a sequel to In the Trees. Make sure to read the first pasta before reading this one!''

Note: This pasta is a long read.

A few months ago I heard about a weird event on the internet. I discovered it using a website called "minews.com", that reports on interesting news all related about Minecraft. Last time I tried to look the website up it was gone, so I assume that it was hacker or someone posted sensitive material there, prompting the site host to shut it down.

Anyways, I only vaguely remember the story, but apparently a boy was discovered in his home, sitting on his gaming chair and emptily staring into the wall. The police were called on him, after onlookers spotted two people hanging from a tree in the house's backyard.

When the police forces arrived, they discovered the insides of the home trashed. Glass and porcelain items were tossed at a wall in one spot until the paint began chipping. Electronic items had water and milk poured over them. Tables and chairs were flipped over and hit several times with a blunt object. There were blood marks on some walls and the floor.

After the police scouted the house, they discovered a boy in a room. The boy was around 15 years old when he was discovered. The only piece of furniture in the room was a single gaming chair, which the boy was sitting on. Everything else was discovered in the yard after the boy tossed several items out of the window, and the cabinets were pushed down the home's stairs. The boy had a pale green t-shirt, black shorts and wore red Crocs shoes. The police tried interacting with him, but discovered that the boy was unresponsive to their commands and words. He was alive, breathing and moved around, but simply did not listen to the police or didn't talk. They also discovered blood and scratch marks on the boy's hands and arms, indicating that he committed the murders.

The police lead the boy into the house's yard to study the corpses. It was discovered that the two people were in fact the boy's parents. The two adults were first strangled by the kid, who then cut multiple incisions all over their bodies, before hanging them from a single oak tree the family owned in their backyard.

The police tried to communicate with the boy some more, but discovered that he only repeated the words "oak", "tree" and "glitch". He appeared to be in some sort of a trance, not looking at any specific area, just walking around and repeating those three words. The police took the boy to their car and drove to the police station, after which the story becomes hard to follow due to several differing sources.

One source indicates that test conducted on the boy indicated that his brain was completely functional and not in any way different from an usual human's brain. A different source state that the boy became increasingly violent after being taken away, even clawing and punching the police officers. There is a chance that both of those claims are false.

The police also took the remnants of the boy's computer from the crime scene at his house. The PC was repeatedly hit with objects, burned, smashed with several chairs, thrown out of a window and left to lie in the yard.

An autopsy on the parents indicated that the initial strangling only knocked them out. The parents died unconscious after the boy hanged their bodies.

During the investigation, police discovered a blog online. The blog detailed the experiences of what was presumed to be a young individual, who enjoyed the online sandbox game Minecraft. Initially the blog was relatively innocuous, featuring several accounts of the boy playing the game and his life stories. However, at one point the boy began detailing his experiences in a new world that he had created. He reported seeing a strange entity hiding behind an in-game oak tree, which observed him from afar. When the boy approached the entities his game began getting glitchy, eventually crashing if he got too close. Over time, the amount of entities increased, and the boy discovered weird files named "oak.exe" appearing on his PC. The boy also received unusual cryptic messages in double-encoded binary, as the amount of entities increased.

Eventually, the boy seemingly got so angry at the game, he destroyed his PC, which was his last blog post. Afterwards, the boy seemingly disappeared from the internet, not posting anything since.

The police reported eerie similarities between the boy's blog and the murder case they received. Both featured destroyed computers and a seemingly insane boy. Their suspicions were confirmed to be true, after the boy's phone was restored and it was discovered that he wrote the blog posts.

The police reported that they are now aware of a possible virus let loose, named "oak.exe". They do not understand why the boy committed the crimes he did, or why he seemingly went insane. The case is still being investigated, and the boy will likely go to a mental institute very soon.

After reading this story I became interested in it. I wanted to investigate what happened to the boy, and why it did. And so I looked online to find a way to get the oak.exe file on my computer. I bought a spare Windows 7 computer just for this purpose, so that my real PC would not be damaged by the virus replacing files, and downloaded Minecraft to observe the weird tree entities myself. I was ready to investigate for myself. At the time, I had no idea what a mistake I was making...

...To be continued...