Even years later,Animal Crossing: New Horizonsjust keeps surprising its players with some of the most interesting situations ever imagined. Whether it’s from people discovering new uses for interactive items, making beautiful custom designs, or simply coming across a silly piece of dialogue from a villager, it seems thatACNHis the game that just keeps giving. The relaxing island getaway has offered players a safe and cozy virtual home throughout the pandemic and countless personal trials in the lives of its players. On some rare occasions, however, it isn’t quite the idyllic vacation that it is designed to be.
For Reddit user,Lord-Mankey, thiscozy island experience quickly became a dark and grisly murder scenethanks to a glitch in the game that caused the poor rabbit villager, O’Hare, to become impaled on a beach umbrella.

Finding their NPC neighbor O’Hare impaled on a beach umbrella in this peaceful space would certainly be a shock to anyone.Thankfully, O’Hare survived the difficult ordeal, which was caused by thegame having a minor glitchwith placing the villager on the chair in the middle rather than to the left or right.
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O’Hare must have thought a nap on the beach under an umbrella would be much more peaceful than it turned out to be. Though the actual event of his massacre was not witnessed, the aftermath brought a gasp and likely a moment of panic. The player, Lord-Mankey, was simply taking a stroll when they stumbled across the scene andquickly removed the murderous furnitureto prevent this situation from occurring again.
Comments on the thread ranged from accusations of the often distrusted Easter Bunny, Zipper, having caused the scene to the above comment fromastudyinamberwho perfectly referencesFrozen’s Olaf having a casual reaction to becoming impaled. UserIamaJarJarcommented that it was a murder and stated the murderer must be found, leading to a thread of responses from others.

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Over the years,players have found some truly terrifying glitchesin theirAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsislands. From situations where thegame created a biblical-style river of bloodto more head-scratching glitches involving Brewster and The Roost coffee shop vanishing from their islands, players seem to continuously find interesting moments happening. Of course, there are plenty morethings that some players stumble acrosswhich are not glitches, but equally scary, such as haunted fake artwork and an alien message on the television during the night.
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Animal Crossing New Horizons villagers are usually pretty good at interacting with items in the game, but sometimes it can be funnier when they don’t.
While I am grateful that I have not had the shock of finding one of my belovedACNHvillagers murdered on the beach of my cozy, safe island, it does make for a funny situation after knowing that everything turned out okay.

Lord-Mankey must have initially been a bit panicky and shocked, but thankfully they quickly recovered their composure enough to take the screenshot with their character looking away with their eyes closed, respectfully, and share the image with Reddit. Despite accusations against Zipper and other characters, it does appear that the entire situation was ultimately an innocent accident inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, and the case is now closed.






