One witness stated that Eric had a map of CHS he based the mod on, which is corroborated by the Denver Post 'Authorities said they confiscated a copy of the floor plan from Harris' house which noted good places to hide and spots with poor lighting.' That's where an interesting detail comes in, many of the witnesses report that only a part of the school was recreated in the Mod. One of the common criticisms I hear of the story is that DOOM couldn't support an actual recreation of Columbine High School due to engine size, which is likely true. This article also claimed that more people knew about the module, and that a Duke Nukem mod was also created and modeled after the school. While this student claimed the gaming was being done online, the name doesn't match up with any files on Eric's website so again it's likely he didn't post it. The Denver Post reported on the story and said an anonymous young man (understandable given the circumstances) claimed to have played the mod with Eric, titled 'CHS'. Allegedly Joe Stair (co-founder of the infamous trench coat mafia) used to talk about playing the mods on internet forums in the 2000s, though the posts are likely gone by now. I was able to dig up more reports from students not in the police report. To corroborate this, Proctor said these games were played through a direct connection, not over the internet, so it's possible Harris just didn't upload this mod. He also stated that Scott Carpenter had also mentioned that Harris told him about the mod. They can be accessed here on page 7043 During the police interview with David Proctor, he mentioned that Harris himself had told him about a mod set in Columbine, where a Swat team fought against terrorists (Proctor assumed the player was the Swat team). Because of this the story was widely thought to be a hoax, as none of the mods that survived seem to resemble Columbine.ĭigging deeper I found out that the source of the rumor about the DOOM mod wasn't random people on the internet, but the actual through police investigation and friends of the shooters.

It seems like something an edgy fan would make up, or perhaps something someone against violence in video games would spread around to tarnish the games reputation. Snopes lists the rumor as debunked, likely the result of someone looking to blame video games for the tragedy, or someone looking to scare others. Eric Harris did have an affinity for the internet, creating and sharing multiple doom mods to the internet, some of which are still around today. There's a decades old Urban Legend that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the infamous Columbine Killers, created a modded DOOM map to resemble parts of their school, to ”train” on it.

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