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Staabula
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iFaux wrote:
I'm kinda going with the Slendy went back in time or the video's edited theories. While the 'stalked since he was a child' theory makes sense, I just can't see why he wouldn't say anything. And if he forgot, why would he start remembering as soon as he started filming?

And it almost seems too default, too cliché for them to do. Leaning towards the edited theory, which while it's not as exciting makes the most sense IMO.


That's the beauty of repressed memories. The human mind does whatever it can to keep running like normal. Alex wouldn't remember he repressed the memories... And the memories would have been forced to resurface when Alex saw Slendy again.

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killerkittycat
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Idk if I'm the first person to mention this, forgive me if I'm not, but I think it's safe to assume that we won't be getting another update until april 4th-- and it will probably be from TTA... Ooooh imagine if it's a hostage video, or like that one TTA entry where jay was slenderized in the hallway as slendy walked by.... Spooky.

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Oscar Langley
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^YES. I forgot about it being so soon, there's gotta be something that happens on April 4. Either a video will be uploaded, or something will happen IG that will be uploaded later.

Also, this had to have been mentioned already, but I'm thinking the significance of April 4th probably has to do with "4 is death".

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iFaux
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Staabula wrote:
iFaux wrote:
I'm kinda going with the Slendy went back in time or the video's edited theories. While the 'stalked since he was a child' theory makes sense, I just can't see why he wouldn't say anything. And if he forgot, why would he start remembering as soon as he started filming?

And it almost seems too default, too cliché for them to do. Leaning towards the edited theory, which while it's not as exciting makes the most sense IMO.


That's the beauty of repressed memories. The human mind does whatever it can to keep running like normal. Alex wouldn't remember he repressed the memories... And the memories would have been forced to resurface when Alex saw Slendy again.


But why would he randomly stop stalking him then start up again? :v I dunno, it seems almost like it's way to obvious.

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iFaux wrote:
Staabula wrote:
iFaux wrote:
I'm kinda going with the Slendy went back in time or the video's edited theories. While the 'stalked since he was a child' theory makes sense, I just can't see why he wouldn't say anything. And if he forgot, why would he start remembering as soon as he started filming?

And it almost seems too default, too cliché for them to do. Leaning towards the edited theory, which while it's not as exciting makes the most sense IMO.


That's the beauty of repressed memories. The human mind does whatever it can to keep running like normal. Alex wouldn't remember he repressed the memories... And the memories would have been forced to resurface when Alex saw Slendy again.


But why would he randomly stop stalking him then start up again? :v I dunno, it seems almost like it's way to obvious.


Maybe Alex escaped him some how? Or maybe he's always stalked him, but he never noticed again until he saw the Marble Hornets footage.

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Oscar Langley wrote:
^YES. I forgot about it being so soon, there's gotta be something that happens on April 4. Either a video will be uploaded, or something will happen IG that will be uploaded later.

Also, this had to have been mentioned already, but I'm thinking the significance of April 4th probably has to do with "4 is death".


When did it say "4 is death"?

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Staabula
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killerkittycat wrote:
Oscar Langley wrote:
^YES. I forgot about it being so soon, there's gotta be something that happens on April 4. Either a video will be uploaded, or something will happen IG that will be uploaded later.

Also, this had to have been mentioned already, but I'm thinking the significance of April 4th probably has to do with "4 is death".


When did it say "4 is death"?


It's a common theme in fiction
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FourIsDeath

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bocaj470
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Most of the dates and times flashed in the video:


April 4th, 1991
-6:03 pm

Quote:
Alex's birthday.

Presumably Alex's 6th birthday, since there are 6 candles on the cake.
From how he looks in the video, 6-years-old seems right, but that would make him 16 right now.

"Four is death."



May 17th, 1988
-9:00 am


June 3rd, 1900
-8:23 pm


August 30th, 1891
-1:00 pm

Quote:
Day after the boy near the Twelfth street depot on North Main street went lost, as written in an article in the August 30, 1891 Wichita Daily Eagle.



Sep 4th, 1991
-10:48 am

Quote:
"Four is death."



June 6th, 1984
-9:99 pm

Quote:
D-Day. Also, as it was previously stated, the time is "666" upside-down.



January 1st, 1992
-12:00 am

Quote:
New Year's Day, 1992.



November 12, 1993
-12:34 am


December 31, 1999
-11:58 pm

Quote:
2 minutes before the theorized "Y2K" disaster.



February 29, 1996
-4:44 am

Quote:
"Four is death."



March 3, 1981
-9:42 am


Also, considering that the video title is this time not capitalized and there's an extra t, I'd say it WAS Jay that posted the video, but he was in some trance, like he did it as a sleepwalking-type action.

OR

He did it with the same health status as when he posted "sllee p.now" via Twitter. If this is true, it means he had a raging headache, so it would kinda explain why he didn't make any follow-up reasoning or explanation.

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McWeird007
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bocaj470 wrote:



April 4th, 1991
-6:03 pm

Quote:
Alex's birthday.

Presumably Alex's 6th birthday, since there are 6 candles on the cake.
From how he looks in the video, 6-years-old seems right, but that would make him 16 right now.



He wouldn't be 16 right now. He would be 26 April 4 this year. He would be 16 in 2001.

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JayQue
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Going out sort of on a bridge here but...

The slenderman "doll" we see in the house of Brian/then supposedly Alex - as a doll it seems almost like a child's toy. Do you think one of the gifts at Alex's party could have been this slenderman doll? Even if he had repressed memories of slenderman in his childhood, he could of carried around this doll his whole life, having some sort of attachment to it.

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Myre
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Haven't seen it commented on before, and it's somewhat off topic with what's being discussed now, but I feel like we do have some precedent for MH characters being stalked as kids. In Entry #32 Jess specifically says (and I'm stealing from the wiki here) "And I keep having these dreams where I'm a little kid… and someone is watching me."

I think it's possibly significant that both of them may have been/were slendy-stalked as kids. If nothing else, it shows that it's not just Alex and the MH crew that have issues (which would seem obvious since Jess wasn't part of the MH crew, buuuuuut still)

I just thought I'd point out that tidbit, see if anyone else had something more substantial to add to it.

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Alchimiste
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So are the headlights from sidetone really the candle from enttry?

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Jsor
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Myre wrote:
Haven't seen it commented on before, and it's somewhat off topic with what's being discussed now, but I feel like we do have some precedent for MH characters being stalked as kids. In Entry #32 Jess specifically says (and I'm stealing from the wiki here) "And I keep having these dreams where I'm a little kid… and someone is watching me."

I think it's possibly significant that both of them may have been/were slendy-stalked as kids. If nothing else, it shows that it's not just Alex and the MH crew that have issues (which would seem obvious since Jess wasn't part of the MH crew, buuuuuut still)

I just thought I'd point out that tidbit, see if anyone else had something more substantial to add to it.


I'm going to go way out into crazytown for a second:

I think Jess is some sort of supernatural representation of Jay's memories. It's all too convenient that as soon as they're ready to leave, Jess disappears into thin air, and Jay suddenly gets a piece of paper (containing a combination he likely set himself) unlocking his tapes (memories) of the past 6 months. On top of that, "fragments" implies that Jay has been broken, it could literally refer to his memories splitting off of him, and his memories being unable to be truly returned, just second-hand in the form of footage. There's other supporting evidence, such as Jessica recognizing Jay's name for no reason (it's secretly her name), and then the "weak evidence" that doesn't mean anything except in conjunction with other evidence such as both of their names starting with J, and the fact that the hotel only contained them. They also had adjoining rooms, which implies that they were connected somehow, and could be an implication that they literally were connected, i.e. their memories were shared but there was a sort of door separating them.

There are some complete and utter weak points (for instance, Jessica doesn't remember her last 6 months, but this could still by symbolic somehow). Also, well the Operator has a great many powers that have been observes in MH, EMH, TT, and everywhere else, I don't think he's ever shown the ability of person splitting. This doesn't make it impossible, but so far my only evidence is symbolic and is only really a plausible theory if he has such a power.

Where am I getting with this? Well, Jessica = Jay implies, in conjunction with the Jay's birthday = Troy's birthday theory (and taking as a given that the dates aren't red herrings), then it implies that Jay has had Slender-problems as a child too.

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OK, so I'm pretty positive I read this whole thread, aaand... where the hell does this time travel thing come from?

Now, I'm not disputing that the Operator may be able to do that, but going back in time specifically to bug Alex as a child seems a bit far-fetched. Everyone's talking about repressed memories too, yadda yadda yadda. That's assuming that Alex, as a kid, was even conscious of the Operator, and if he was, you have to assume that he kept the same mentality as he went into adulthood. I mean, how many people knew about giant swings at a park when they were far younger, and returned years later to find that they weren't that big? It's kind of the same deal- the Operator seems totally improbable anyway, so as Alex got older, he dismissed it as being a part of his wild imagination- maybe he could have conceded that there was some dude in a business suit hanging around for a little bit, but not to the dimensions that he thought.

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bocaj470
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McWeird007 wrote:
bocaj470 wrote:



April 4th, 1991
-6:03 pm

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Alex's birthday.

Presumably Alex's 6th birthday, since there are 6 candles on the cake.
From how he looks in the video, 6-years-old seems right, but that would make him 16 right now.



He wouldn't be 16 right now. He would be 26 April 4 this year. He would be 16 in 2001.


Ah, yes. Thanks. The concept of time in math always seems to escape me.

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