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Anonymousity
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 		I'm pretty sure that ain't the thing. TV is a visual medium, so if the guys incorporate the laughter and noises to suggest she watches TV, that's quite a stretch.

And we haven't heard the children laughing whenever Slendster was around the boys... so hmmmmmmmm... I think there is something we're missing here. Evan also talked of children... is there anything creepypastaish we can connect to this, similar to Rake to whitecrawly (apart from Phone)??

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Anonymousity wrote:
I'm pretty sure that ain't the thing. TV is a visual medium, so if the guys incorporate the laughter and noises to suggest she watches TV, that's quite a stretch.

And we haven't heard the children laughing whenever Slendster was around the boys... so hmmmmmmmm... I think there is something we're missing here. Evan also talked of children... is there anything creepypastaish we can connect to this, similar to Rake to whitecrawly (apart from Phone)??


Slenderman has always been associated with children. Earlier in the series Evan said a little girl gave him the Slenderman doll. Evan was having horrible dreams involving children. In their (maybe) OOG video Slender Man, when Evan starts attacking Vince, a loud siren is heard along with children laughing.

I'd say it's Slendy.

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 		[quote="Anonymousity"]And we haven't heard the children laughing whenever Slendster was around the boys./quote]

Great point, and it's been bugging me too. Maybe the children's laughter doesn't accompany Slendy per se but instead manifests when he's getting ready to use some particular ability, maybe related to abductions.

Maybe children's laughter is Slenderbro's shoop-da-woop, is what I'm saying. It doesn't follow him around, it just turns up whenever he's charging his mind-raping laser. So to speak.

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 		Actually, the sense I got at first was that it was Jessa's hysterics being echoed onto the phone and distorted. There's parts where it sounds like her voice gets really high or speaks really fast, and Slenderman right next to your phone might very well cause that sort of distortion.

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 		Maybe...

But see, all I am saying is this: the boys know their business. They have proven this many times. If the laughter was meant as some TV-in-the-background... that is sort of weird/dull business. How should somebody figure that out?

If the laughing occurs once Slendster goes apeshit, that could work... but why is it there though? Laughter - voices in general - seem to accompany a presence. So all I'm asking is: why?

Somehow, it feels to me as if the boys have something up their sleeve that's not just "Oh, the laughing occurs cause of ze Slendster taking her, because... he KNOWS it's creepy, that's why he laughs, muahahahahaha..." Twisted Evil

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Somehow, it feels to me as if the boys have something up their sleeve that's not just "Oh, the laughing occurs cause of ze Slendster taking her, because... he KNOWS it's creepy, that's why he laughs, muahahahahaha..." Twisted Evil


Ah! I think I see what you're finding problematic now. Great analysis, and something I wouldn't have thought of.

Maybe it's related to the seemingly out-of-character tweets that appear to have come from Slendy? The one where he refers to the boys as his children, and seems downright benevolent?

Maybe that's foreshadowing that, in EMH, Slender Man isn't really a demonic presence but is instead a cosmic horror because his motivations are completely out of whack with our human concepts of right and wrong. Possibly he'll turn out to be a Pied Piper sort of figure, stealing children away into his shadowy pocket-dimension in order to save them from some even greater horror.

Totally spitballing and tree-planting here, of course, but I find it kind of appealing to think that Slenders is like Peter Pan in a bespoke suit, and the children's laughter is genuinely joyous sounds crossing into our world from his Never Neverland.

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Ah! I think I see what you're finding problematic now. Great analysis, and something I wouldn't have thought of.


See, I think we have to always think of one fact first:
Jeff is an awesome writer.
Many of us spent time trying to puzzle on those things, trying to come up with answers while the facts are mostly the most obvious thing.

The white crawlie? It was the Rake. The tumblr Evan checked? Part of the game. etc.

I just wonder why put the laughter in now? Why in this "scene"? Why during a phone conversation?
So phone conversations... you talk to a person but don't see her. You don't see her surroundings either.
Making the laughter TV background noise would be a twist a la Hitchcock. "There was a scream on the phone." "OH; I know, last night the new crime series was playing on the channel, and only two people - me and Irene - have a TV. So it must be her."
But here, we don't have any kind of clue that there was one. It's non-visual, which leads to only one possibility:
They chose it so we don't see what attacks her. We hear the monster but don't see it.
Now people think it is Slendy... but the laughter may well indicate another being. The static is all Slendy, but the laughter...? Hurm...

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Maybe it's related to the seemingly out-of-character tweets that appear to have come from Slendy? The one where he refers to the boys as his children, and seems downright benevolent?


I said it once and say it again: 20$ those are Corenthal-tweets. See his letters, where he reffers to the 70s crew as his children.

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Totally spitballing and tree-planting here, of course, but I find it kind of appealing to think that Slenders is like Peter Pan in a bespoke suit, and the children's laughter is genuinely joyous sounds crossing into our world from his Never Neverland.


But why does he have the Neverland Bart, WHY DOES HE HAVE THE NEVERLAND?? Wink Cool

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Now people think it is Slendy... but the laughter may well indicate another being. The static is all Slendy, but the laughter...? Hurm...


That's some compelling thinking, and you're very close to swaying me. We're only halfway through and have already had two bonus monsters introduced, so it's very possible that more creatures will join the party. The thing that gives me pause, though, is that we have seen post-disappearance footage that at least appears to show Jessa under the sway of Slendy. Of course, that would just make it even more thrilling if things turn out to be Not What They Seem.

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I said it once and say it again: 20$ those are Corenthal-tweets. See his letters, where he reffers to the 70s crew as his children.


I held to that belief for the longest time, but I finally gave up and joined the crowd. Wink It'd be awesome if you're right, though. I kind of want both HABIT and Corenthal to be free-floating entities inhabiting a variety of hosts.

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But why does he have the Neverland Bart, WHY DOES HE HAVE THE NEVERLAND?? Wink Cool


Ha! Very Happy

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 		Oh man, I know we went over this when baghead showed up in ...., but another new monster showing up would simultaneously be awesome and incredibly difficult, since we'd then have to find some way to incorporate the canon of that creature as well.

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 		I probably missed it, but has anyone brought up that they had the same kind of laughter that was in the phone call as was in the one video ('Slenderman', I believe) with Evan going axe crazy and attacking Vince and Jeff?

Unless I'm wrong, which I could be. But it sounded the same. Sorry if someone already brought this up.

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kirokokori wrote:
I probably missed it, but has anyone brought up that they had the same kind of laughter that was in the phone call as was in the one video ('Slenderman', I believe) with Evan going axe crazy and attacking Vince and Jeff?

Unless I'm wrong, which I could be. But it sounded the same. Sorry if someone already brought this up.


it was similar, but that video is widely believed to be non-canon, so...yeah.
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 		Naw, the boys said they couldn't see either Slender Man or Welcome to the Ark in the same way they can't see the secret videos on their own page. So it's not that it's "non-canon" so much as it's not "reality" so far as we can see. Unlike the hidden videos, though (unless some sort of time/memory alteration has happened), the things happening here don't seem to have actually happened behind the scenes, whereas in, say, the first hidden video, ..., the events recorded were obviously something that actually happened at some point after Healthy Eating.

Congratulations, Magus!.avi is similar to the two off-channel videos in that the crew supposedly never did what was recorded. But it is dissimilar in that they could actually see the contents of it. This separate video and their response to it (as well as their lack of response to 78of76.avi) lends credence to the theory that, somewhere along the way, the timeline may have split somehow, creating both a reality that we see in most EMH videos, and one that exists separately, in which the boys are stranded in a dimension that houses a structure or location named "The ARK".

My two cents, anyway.

EDIT: Just realized that, what with Dr. Corenthal and everything he connotates, time travel is also a possibility, although I have no theories as to how that would explain the unusual videos.

EDIT EDIT: At any point, did Evan say that he couldn't remember describing a bad dream in the dream study? Can they all see that part of the video?

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EDIT EDIT: At any point, did Evan say that he couldn't remember describing a bad dream in the dream study? Can they all see that part of the video?


Oh that is a very good question.
To back up kirokokori on the laughter thing- as soon as I heard it I thought of the "Slender man" video. While I don't believe it's what you can call canon at least so far, the video did have childlike laughter.
About a "new monster", I admit I thought that too. I'm not into the idea, and I also don't think that's going to happen. (By the way I never noticed we were calling that one clip "bag head" and I admit I laughed for like five minutes when I read that.) But it was certainly a somewhat "new" feeling. In the end, I decided it wasn't so much something else as it could be Slender Man really becoming more prominent. We can agree He had a brief break while Damsel was locked up, and once she escaped (even WHILE she escaped) He suddenly returned. Perhaps the theory that He wanted the four together can explain this, but even without, it can be said that we're just now beginning to really witness the danger or "shit-has-hit-fan"ness of Slender Man.
I hope that made sense, I'm running on very little sleep here XD

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 		I think we addressed the Evan's bad dream thing earlier, but no one ever got a concrete answer about it, from what I recall. Then again I might be wrong so please feel free to correct me, lord knows I forget things here or there with all the information.
Also if the laughter is Slender generated I wonder if the way the children sound dictate how Slenders is acting. I mean Evan's dream had children screaming and we've heard the laughing now, I wonder if it's a small sound related cue to Sir Slender's actions. Which would be interesting if that was the case.
If Slender's wanted them together he did it correctly for the most part but I think it might be our slow descent beginning officially now. We might have to wait and see what will happen next but I have a feeling this is only the beginning of the worst of times for our crew, which is well pretty much going to suck for everyone if that is the case.
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Karuvitomsk wrote:

EDIT EDIT: At any point, did Evan say that he couldn't remember describing a bad dream in the dream study? Can they all see that part of the video?


When he wakes up again, Evan says he doesn't remember dreaming at all that night. I don't know if they can't actually see that part, but it seemed like Evan didn't remember recording anything prior to that.

Edit: about children. Wasn't there something that sounded like children laughing in A Day in the Life?

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