This is a preview trailer for a game called The Hum: Abductions, where it’s essentially a game about people being abducted by aliens. It’s also essentially a game that is going to make my childhood fears be personified in a video game.
When I was 10 years old, I had a fear of aliens. Not like FOX pictures Aliens with Ripley and Bishop, but the whole concept of the existence of waif-bodied, giant-headed, large-eyed aliens, UFOs, abductions and all the wacko conspiracies that existed in regards to them. It didn’t help that shows like Sightings and Unsolved Mysteries existed that had the occasional episode about them, and I’m not entirely sure where the fear stemmed from, but I became really, really afraid of aliens for a little while.
I’d have bad dreams about aliens, being abducted and having all sorts of weird tracking devices implanted into me or just straight up killed in experimentations. It was so bad that I was afraid of nighttime, because the sky was dark, and I’d be able to see all the flashing lights in the sky that I now know and can identify as particular aircrafts, but when I was a kid, every flashing light in the sky was clearly a UFO, full of aliens that had malicious intent for humanity.
Man, did I ever hate going outside at night during those years. The wintertime was really rough, when it would become night at like 5:30 pm, and my mom would make me go to tae kwon do, and the four mile drive to my school, I’d refrain from looking straight or in any direction where I could possibly have peripheral vision of the sky, because blinking lights would scare me.
Once, I was lying in bed, to which I could look out a window, and I made the naïve mistake of thinking I wouldn’t see anything from the comfort of my own bed, but that was put to rest real quick when on two different occasions I saw a blinking aircraft pass by in the sky outside my window, and I pretty much never looked out the window again as long as I lived in that home.
Halloween was the worst, because it meant having to spend numerous hours outside in the dark, but at least I was with my neighborhood friends, who also weren’t aware of my paranoia and fear of aliens and UFOs. Regardless, I have a particular memory of recklessly glancing up at the sky one Halloween, and seeing a blinking light pattern that was unusual, and naturally had to be a flying saucer full of devious aliens.
Eventually, I grew out of this childhood fear. But it doesn’t change the fact that seeing an upcoming game that personifies my greatest childhood fear certainly doesn’t help bring back memories of being scared of night, and being whisked away into the unknown by extraterrestrials.
All the Resident Evils, Silent Hills and Dead Spaces will have absolutely nothing on this game, I can tell this already, by just a preview trailer alone. This game isn’t going to just scare me, it’s going to make me lose sleep, be afraid of the dark, and probably make me not want to look up at the night sky again.
And yet like a retard, I’m intrigued, and very might well attempt to acquire it to put my fears to the test.
