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Urlesque counts down the top 100 viral videos in the history of the web.

The maze scare game phenomenon originally began as an online computer game called Scary Maze. As the name suggests, users navigate a red dot through three levels of mazes before suddenly being confronted by a screaming image of a bloody and possessed Regan McNeil (Linda Blair's character in The Exorcist). Fright and hilarity almost always ensues and the game spread like wildfire.

Inevitably, it was only a matter of time before people (even celebs) began videotaping their friends, co-workers, and loved-ones playing the maze game, and posting their hysterically frightened reactions online for the world to see.