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xxkiriyamaxx
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linksticks wrote:

idk if this is just me but when i first started reading about slenderman he reminded me of jack skellington...just with more arms haha


Yes, now that you mention it... he certainly looks like it. Very Happy

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justcurious
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 		New Twitter
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Still out here. Still searching through the tapes.
19 minutes ago from web

He's going to have to do better than that to get this thread back on track! Wink

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 		Ok, before this thread gets too far off topic, I'll note any youtube updates,
and that's the 30-minute call, show starts in a half hour, later guys!

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Leigh-Cherie
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 		Alright, I'm hopping back on this tall, dark, and creepy wagon.

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or what about "thought taker"?

When I asked totheark the meaning of it's name, he answered: remaininthought.


So, I'll reach a little with my theories on the name. Totheark wants to "remain in thought" and keep our minds occupied, puzzling over his nom de plume. Maybe this means it'll be crucial later- so we'd best make note of it now.

Also, the "great flood" motif has remained in a LOT of other cultures, beyond just christianity. Perhaps the name is nudging us towards the fact that SM is a global phenomenon, almost like the Mothman, that perhaps precedes some big event?

Just my two cents.

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 		Entry 8
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but in Entry 8, a few of the drawings are fairly interesting. The one nearest the camera says "trees" in a different style of writing than the others, which use heavy block letters.
You can also make out a human figure standing beside a much larger tree in that drawing. He has the X-ed out face of Slender Man.

One of the other drawings (furthest from camera) seems to have the phrase "Upsnk (No real idea on the first word) these pines".

Slender Man appears to like, or have some closeness to trees. Maybe he's trying to say something?
I'm absolutely certain if he simply wanted to kill Alex, he could have in some of the tapes we've seen. He always seems to be waiting to me.

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 		Hey guys. I just finished reading through the entire trailhead to get me up to date.

Just to clarify has anyone attempted to edit the audio or has it been agreed that it is incoherent.

Also on the previous note someone made on there possible being 2 figures is it possible that the "slender man" may infact be trying to help/protect Alex from something else? Only reason I mention this is because given the chance he doesn't physically harm him in any way (Entry #11)

Also I was looking at the drawings at entry #8. Could it be possible that one ready "Upset the Pine". Have included a pic on how I read it.

One last thing. Can anyone link me to anything I need to keep updated? (Twitt Addy's or anything?) I have the wiki bookmarked but I hear alot about SA... is it being used in the ARG or are you guys just looking there for new/different perspectives.

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justcurious
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 		hmm..

Entry #2- Alex is walking his dog (Rocky?) when he sees SM, possibly w/out a camera
Entry #9- @2:32 he gets rather upset that someone brought their dog
Deluge- Some of the cleaned up audio sounds a lot like a dog barking

is there anything on SM and dogs? I found a few loose threads about him keeping shadow dogs in his suit, or disembowling them, or changing them in to slender dogs... but it seems that rules for the SM are made up as people create the legend.

Maybe SM's afraid of dogs? Dogs can see him, ruin a disguise?
Or maybe they attract him...he can use them somehow?

Not sure if Alex was videoing at the point of #9 because he wanted SM to be there, or if he didn't.

Any ideas?

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 		@ Softspoken: We've already figured out what most of the words on the papers are. The phrase is presumed to be 'UP IN THESE PINES'. Slender Man does prefer trees as camouflage, as it seems.

@ mucka1916: I don't believe it is very logical that Slender Man is trying to protect Alex. It goes entirely against his character. I think the reason he hasn't killed Alex on the tapes is because Alex is taping it. Slender Man seems to prefer not to be known, and as long as Alex is taping himself during encounters with the Slender Man, I believe Slender Man won't run the risk of being exposed. Perhaps Alex knows this and that is why he is so concerned about keeping a camera on himself the whole time. Also, the phrase is believed to be 'UP IN THESE PINES'. Also, SA is being used as a Slender Man reference. And you can keep updated on Marble Hornets by checking out http://twitter.com/MarbleHornets

@ justcurious: I don't recall there being any stories linking Slender Man to dogs. I remember a joke on SA about Slender Man walking his Slender Dog. I also recall an SA member having a dream in which Slender Man's shadow produced shadow people, which could be were you heard about the 'shadow dogs'. I do believe he pretty disembowels everyone and anything he wants to, so I don't believe there's much significance to that. Overall, I personally don't think Slender Man has anything to do with dogs, because I read the whole SA thread that spawned him, and nothing was stated about Slender Man fearing or using dogs.

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Shiningfist wrote:

@ mucka1916: I don't believe it is very logical that Slender Man is trying to protect Alex. It goes entirely against his character.


Be careful not to cloud the line between truth and presumed truth. As far as I have seen there has never been any reference either in the videos or the twitter pages that the slender man in the video is in anyway related to the urban myths of the slender man or wishes to harm Alex. (unlikely as it may be it's a fresh approach)

As I stated previously I'm only new so please point to the errors of my way if I'm correct or spoken out of line. (comments sounds sarcie but not intentional)

We know nothing about the Slender man but we do know something that is seemingly overlooked. Everytime totheark leaves a message J gets ill in or around the same time. So on that note i've sent two PM's on YT. One asking totheark Is he trying to deceive us or aid us? If he simply answers aid us then his answer is pointless either way. But you never no.

Also I have asked J if he has been suffering any loss of time or absences of memory around the time he was ill. If so it may be that J is suffering from multiple personalities same as possibly Alex.

ED 1 last thing to disturb the pot while i'm here. At around 1:26 on the intro vid the cam seems to go outta focus when moved sharply after looking at the woods on the hill. Could be to do with Auto-focus on the cam(highly likely) or we could be looking at our 1st possible distortion. Not trying to read anything into this. Just trying to exam everything in case there's something small was missed.

ED2 About Entry #4, is it possible that Alex was attacked in this one? It's just at the extreme end he had the camera lying sideways on the ground which doesn't seem to have any other reasonable answer. It seems to low to be merely just hanging there and Alex wouldn't just set down the cam for no reason.

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 		One thing i can remember about SM and dogs was in Kenneth Loves therapy journal.

Or is this OOG?

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supasquid
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 		Some things i've noticed that i'm not sure have been pointed out yet...

At around 0:37 in entry 6, there's something bright in the lower right hand corner that of course is hard to notice due to slender man's bright face drawing your attention. Probably nothing but...

At around 1:00 of entry nine, has anyone else noticed that there's sounds of CHILDREN in the background!?

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DavFlamerock
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OneEyedGod wrote:
One thing i can remember about SM and dogs was in Kenneth Loves therapy journal.

Or is this OOG?

This was from the Slender Hunter side-story. It was terminated very abruptly with no ending. However, it could be considered an addition to the Slender Man mythos, if you wish.

mucka1916 wrote:
Be careful not to cloud the line between truth and presumed truth. As far as I have seen there has never been any reference either in the videos or the twitter pages that the slender man in the video is in anyway related to the urban myths of the slender man or wishes to harm Alex. (unlikely as it may be it's a fresh approach)

While it may not be confirmed in the realm of the story, it is confirmed that the figure in the Entries is the Slender Man. HOWEVER, very little is known about him and I am open to the possibility that the Slender Man is trying to protect him from some new, previously unknown figure or entity.

That said, at the moment I am leaning more towards "I don't wanna kill Alex on video" theory, as it does seem more likely.

Contacting totheark is always a good idea. I'm not getting very far on the visual puzzle on Deluge (though to be fair I've barely had time to ponder--now is a very turbulent time for me) but I think there is still something there. If the first two said "LOOK CLOSELY" and "LISTEN" then I can't imagine this would have nothing of note (though "Alex" does seem important.)

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 		Just for the record, I wrote J on youtube asking what had happened to the dog, you know, in case it was disemboweled or whatnot, and if Alex had a blog. (Which, forgive me, may have been asked already)

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Thank you for the interest. As far as I know, Alex took his dog with him when he left for where ever he is now.

Currently, I'm looking for any kind of blog or twitter account that Alex would have had. No luck so far.

-J.


Sooo....maybe it just boils down to animals/young children seeming to have a higher sensitivity to "paranormal" activity.
Which still doesn't explain how Alex saw him while out walking that night. Unless he randomly taped himself walking his dog before he started to get paranoid.

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supasquid: At around 1:00 of entry nine, has anyone else noticed that there's sounds of CHILDREN in the background!?


Yes! I was trying to figure out if it meant something. @ ~1:05 Alex says, "Action! .. Well, no. No we can't" -presumably because of the noise the children are making. @ 1:00 there seems to be a little boy saying "we'll be lost". If I had any idea how to play with sound I would try to filter it out and see if they are just real little kids playing in a public place, or if it's part of this.

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DavFlamerock: That said, at the moment I am leaning more towards "I don't wanna kill Alex on video" theory, as it does seem more likely.

I don't know that a creature like this would care so much about being caught, that would suggest some sort of consience. Although it may be uncomfortable with being seen when it was not allowing it to happen. I'm starting to think it can reveal itself to feed off of peoples fear or something, and it gets PO'd when someone catches it off guard and kills the buzz. Maybe he revealed himself to Alex that first night, sparing him for some reason.


ok! i think i have that all off my chest! srry for long post - my head has been filled with this all day. back to reality for a while

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 		Yes, that is Slender Man. There is absolutely no possibility in the whole world that the figure shown isn't Slender Man. Just because the videos aren't blatantly shouting 'HEY GUYS, THIS GUY IS TOTALLY SLENDER MAN! SLENDER MAN IS TRYING TO KILL ME!" doesn't mean it isn't Slender Man. The creator is injecting realism into story, making it so Alex doesn't automatically jump to the conclusion that he's being stalked by Slender Man. Also, SomethingAwful has loaded this myth full with information, fully defining the character. I'm sticking with the fact that there isn't a deeper story to this. It's just Alex, and his slow ascension to paranoia from being stalked by Slender Man. I'm sorry, but everybody's just looking too deep into the story. Slender Man doesn't have some sort of deeper agenda with Alex. He's stalking him. That's it. Read the SA thread and learn about the Slender Man. Taking this whole 'he's protecting Alex from something else' or 'Slender Man is somehow linked with Alex' direction is completely redefining the character, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but this kind of redefinition doesn't work. You're reshaping the Slender Man into something he's not. You're taking the whole creepiness that he has to him and demolishing it, turning him into some sort of angelic guardian, or psychic alien thing. He's simply the Slender Man. Nothing more. There isn't a deeper link between him and Alex. It's just a visual version of your average Slender Man story. Totheark may be adding a story to it, that's true, but it isn't a story that makes Alex any more special than any other of Slender Man's victims. I know you're thinking 'How the hell does this guy know so much?'. I don't. I'm just putting down some logic. I'm tired of the speculation of the relationship between Slender Man and Alex, because in my honest opinion, if you guys are right about Slender Man having some special thing for Alex, it would make the whole Marble Hornets story really, really stupid. Slender Man is more creepy and effective when you don't try to inject deeper meaning to his existence. Just giving my 2 cents. Soapbox session over.

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I don't know that a creature like this would care so much about being caught, that would suggest some sort of consience.


He's a paranormal entity, not an animal. Why would an animal wear a suit? We don't know what exactly he is, so he could have a conscience for all we know. He seems pretty intelligent if you read all of the stories about him.

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Shiningfist wrote:


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I don't know that a creature like this would care so much about being caught, that would suggest some sort of consience.


He's a paranormal entity, not an animal. Why would an animal wear a suit? We don't know what exactly he is, so he could have a conscience for all we know. He seems pretty intelligent if you read all of the stories about him.


Oookay. I think I've been misunderstood. I'm not calling it an animal. "Creature" can mean things other than animal. I don't think this is some psycho barn animal that felt like playing dress up. It is a tall creepy being, and probably very smart. the pics that have been posted are scary, I would go crazy if something like that appeared to me.

It's been 12 days since a Marble Hornets Vid, and 10 days since totheark last posted. People will speculate many different things in that amount of time on topics that are this intriguing. Part of the ride for me is viewing the forum and seeing what others come up with, all the different points of view.

I don't think anyone is trying to question the integrity of Slender Man.

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