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[Side-Story] Just Another Fool
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RedBlade2021
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Swipe a finger print off of the graphite print.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:42 pm
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badwolfcorp
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DavFlamerock wrote:


Oh hey, there's some smudged graphite on the back. It looks like someone with graphite-covered fingers ran their fingers down the back. Awesome!


is it just me or do those smudges look alot longer than a normal humans fingers? Just throwing that out there.

Also, is jafool down for anyone else?

PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:05 am
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As I watch the videos, I'll be adding snippets here that I feel may be of interest.

1. It appears that the square eye-shaped cuts in the front cover seem to match pretty well with the "canyou seehim" eyes on the drawing made to the "If found" page.

2. It seems quite apparent that the original soldier, who was standing on his own, has been made into a thicker, spined creature, much like Slender Man. Perhaps he reprodouces by catching, killing, and mutating.

3. It would appear that the "Old Tree Grows" page has been altered slightly. The besides the words, I wonder if the branch-like apparitions around near the square have grown/been added on to?

4. "The old tree grows while the giant slips" whatever, lol. The tree usually refers to Slenderman's limbs, but so does the "giant" part... A mystery to me.

5. "When he comes, try as I might
Even my soul cannot take flight."

6. The dates don't seem to follow any particular patterns, unfortunately.

7. The added wings makes Slenderman seem like the Angel of Death, reaching forth to collect souls to bring with him to Heaven or Hell. Or something.

8. "Why must I dream your life" seems to be a reference to Logan's dreams as they unfurled; Remember, Logan only realised that the bodies in the tree were there after dreaming about Matt's experience.

9. 215 is most likely an address on a postbox or mailbox.

10. Two red eyes with black lines beneath them. Tired, insomniatic eyes?

11. "Hunter Identified?" A nod to SlenderHunter?

12. The "In time he will come for us all" thing sort of reinforces the "Angel of Death" theory here.

13. The best way to figure out what was on the torn-out page is to go back to Logan's early blogs and sift through the posts for the picture there.

I'm seriously contemplating making a video reply outlining my theories for non-UFers to see. Lol, probably just an excuse to camwhore.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 3:07 am
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It appears the drawing of the wing, beside the bone, was an original Matt Selby drawing, as well.



EDIT: :/ Is it just me, or do the order of the pages not match up with that of the Jafool website?

PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 3:32 am
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Noboy mentioned this yet, but the first page with green text says Yggdrasil, which is a mythological tree in Nor- aw, you either already know this or can read it on Wikipedia. I don't have to tell you anything...

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TheNightmareComplex
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EDIT: Oi, there isn't an I after all. It is, indeed, a sideways H.


And as an addendum to the oddities that are the JAFOOL notebook, Matthew did, indeed, draw in pen on page 6. I've also deduced that, although you've likely already figured this out, that Logan wrote the word "Tie" next to the image of the tie Matt drew out. I find this especially interesting because of the neatness of the handwriting and the fact that Logan was unable to identify it earlier.

This leads one to believe that all of the chickenscratched words are Logan or Matt's, Logan being more artistic than frantic compared to Matt, while the calm, neat lettering, is either Slenderman, or Slenderman controlling Logan.

Think of it this way; Logan did NOT know what the drawing was.

So Slenderman told him.



Another EDIT:

Even more interesting; As I mentioned before, the wing was, in deed, drawn by Matt instead of Logan; In the blog, Logan states that a few of the drawings on page 6 and onward were drawn in pen rather then pencil, but not a lot. Pages 6 - 13 will need constant reference to know exactly what was added. For instance, on page seven, the outline of SlenderMan and the words "Does he intrude on our world" were added to the blackened background by Logan, though the space for Slenderman to have fit into previously existed.

Perhaps he doesn't intrude, and isntead, completes it?

Unfortunately, page 12, and the back of page eleve, remain hugely altered. The words "Are we his," like you say, are there, and the slenderman drawing seems to be inked over with lots of orange/red and black. Though the "scribblings" were, originally, just Slenderman's reaching arm and hand, not words.

Perhaps the most startling alteration of these pages are the erasing of the slenderman's tendrils that CONNECT the limb on the back of the other page, with the red seemingly to be, perhaps, wounded limbs or gouts of blood?

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Reila
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TheNightmareComplex wrote:
EDIT: Oi, there isn't an I after all. It is, indeed, a sideways H.

But some people, maybe especially writing like that, writes I like a sideways H (or like you would write 1 in roman numeral).
The reason why it looks more like an H, could be because it follows a shape.

But it certainly does say Yggdrasil.

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OneEyedGod
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Reila wrote:
TheNightmareComplex wrote:
EDIT: Oi, there isn't an I after all. It is, indeed, a sideways H.

But some people, maybe especially writing like that, writes I like a sideways H (or like you would write 1 in roman numeral).
The reason why it looks more like an H, could be because it follows a shape.

But it certainly does say Yggdrasil.


Thatīs exactly what i thought when i watched the video.

But i canīt think of any connection between SM and Yggdrasil or any other aspect of norse mythology...

PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 3:45 pm
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Reila
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OneEyedGod wrote:
Reila wrote:
TheNightmareComplex wrote:
EDIT: Oi, there isn't an I after all. It is, indeed, a sideways H.

But some people, maybe especially writing like that, writes I like a sideways H (or like you would write 1 in roman numeral).
The reason why it looks more like an H, could be because it follows a shape.

But it certainly does say Yggdrasil.


Thatīs exactly what i thought when i watched the video.

But i canīt think of any connection between SM and Yggdrasil or any other aspect of norse mythology...

Well, it is a tree. And as much as I've gathered, there seems to be something about SM and trees..
Looking up Yggdrasil on Wikipedia:
Quote:
The generally accepted etymology of the name is that Yggdrasill means "Odin's horse," which means "tree," and that the reason behind the name "Odin's horse" lies in the notion of gallows as "the horse of the hanged," (...)

thus making the tree somekind of a gallow (probably unrelated, but in Matt's drawing there are people in the tree :B)
Also:
Quote:
A third interpretation by F. Detter is that the name Yggdrasill refers to the word Yggr ("terror"), yet not in reference to the Odinic name, and so Yggdrasill would then mean "tree of terror, gallows."


But yeah, I have no clue really..

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Reila wrote:

Well, it is a tree. And as much as I've gathered, there seems to be something about SM and trees..
Looking up Yggdrasil on Wikipedia:
Quote:
The generally accepted etymology of the name is that Yggdrasill means "Odin's horse," which means "tree," and that the reason behind the name "Odin's horse" lies in the notion of gallows as "the horse of the hanged," (...)

thus making the tree somekind of a gallow (probably unrelated, but in Matt's drawing there are people in the tree :B)
Also:
Quote:
A third interpretation by F. Detter is that the name Yggdrasill refers to the word Yggr ("terror"), yet not in reference to the Odinic name, and so Yggdrasill would then mean "tree of terror, gallows."


But yeah, I have no clue really..


The gallow theory would seem to fit, seeing as SM is known to hang children from trees (however, in a less cliche way of around the neck, and instead through the chest)

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I wrote this on the youtube page, but figured I should put it out there here tot:
Perhaps you should compare handwriting between the note Joshua left, and the additions to the drawings...?

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badwolfcorp wrote:
DavFlamerock wrote:


Oh hey, there's some smudged graphite on the back. It looks like someone with graphite-covered fingers ran their fingers down the back. Awesome!


is it just me or do those smudges look alot longer than a normal humans fingers? Just throwing that out there.

Also, is jafool down for anyone else?


It looks more to me like someone pulled it out of his hand. Maybe he wasn't as willing to let it go as he thought he was? Maybe he too was getting dragged into it?
"The notebook seems to have a magnetic quality to it. I'd be lying if I said I have no urge to look through it, but its past is far too disconcerting and personal for me to delve into it."
Maybe he caved?

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TheNightmareComplex
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Perhaps after writing everything on the package [send and from addresses], some "passerby" tried to steal it from him.


Perhaps, Logan, disguised or hooded?

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TheNightmareComplex wrote:
Perhaps after writing everything on the package [send and from addresses], some "passerby" tried to steal it from him.


Perhaps, Logan, disguised or hooded?


Ahhhh, yes, that would make sense. Logan probably would not have wanted him to spread the notebook's influence to anyone else and attempted to steal it.

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Brados
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SvenVikson wrote:
TheNightmareComplex wrote:
Perhaps after writing everything on the package [send and from addresses], some "passerby" tried to steal it from him.


Perhaps, Logan, disguised or hooded?


Ahhhh, yes, that would make sense. Logan probably would not have wanted him to spread the notebook's influence to anyone else and attempted to steal it.


but that would assume that Josh had graphite on his fingers, and i can't understand why, you dont just randomly have graphite on your fingers.
unless one of the pictures in the notebook was actually drawn by him in graphite.

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