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JokerCard
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 		Something I also noticed... the titles of the videos.

Why is the first video is called "the end", but the second is "the beginning"?

Question

Don't they know how to put videos in chronological order?

EDIT:

I also noticed that "The Holder of the End" is some kind of story? Here...

(Excerpt from http://ultralaser.washuu.org/static.php?page=static070201-231258)

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The Holder of the End
In any city, in any country, go to any mental institution or halfway house that you can get yourself into. When you reach the front desk, ask to visit someone who calls himself "The Holder of the End". Should a look of child-like fear come over the person's face, you will then be taken to a cell. It will be in a deep, hidden section of the building.As you walk, all you will hear is the sound of someone talking to themselves echoing through the halls. It is in a language that you will not understand, but your very soul will feel unspeakable fear.

Should the talking stop at any time, STOP and QUICKLY say aloud "I'm just passing through; I wish to talk." If you still hear silence, flee. Leave, do not stop for anything, do not go home, don't stay at an inn, just keep moving, sleep where your body drops. You will know in the morning if you've escaped.

If the voice in the hall comes back after you utter those words, continue on. Upon reaching the cell, all you will see is a windowless room with a person in the corner, speaking an unknown language, and cradling something. The person will only respond to one question. "What happens when they all come together?"

The person will then stare into your eyes and answer your question in horrifying detail. Many go mad in that very cell, some disappear soon after the meeting, a few end their lives. But most do the worst thing, and look upon the object in the person's hands. You will want to as well. Be warned that if you do, your death will be one of cruelty and unrelenting horror.

Your death will be in that room, by that person's hands.

That object is 1 of 2538. They must never come together. Never.


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degravedi
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 		Wow, I don't know if that has anything to do with this but that sure is one awesome short story!

Edit: Apparently that's part of someone's larger story http://www.freewebs.com/thekingofwolves/index.htm#111340481
There's even a wiki associated with it: http://theholders.org

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inflamzalive
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 		It may be unrelated, but just so we're not missing stuff...

The song in the second video is Joanna Newsom - Sprout and the Bean

(which i might add is a very creepy song and video in its own right) Smile

{EDIT} i looked at the wiki and chose start your journey,

now on this page: http://theholders.org/?Special:Series_List

The End is first, the Beginning is second


Coincidence? If the next video is eternity i guess we'll know for sure?

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 		So it seems the Beholder Series is a bunch of stuff written by unknown ammounts of contributors and originated on 4chan as "creepypasta"

Explanation of Creepypasta from encyclopedia dramatica (not linked due to possible adult content):

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Creepypasta are short stories designed to unnerve, disturb or scare the readers of a Creepy Thread on /b/.
After a flood of Creepypasta, Moot created /x/ for creepy and paranormal threads. Unfortunately, due to a lack of mooteration, /x/ has degenerated into a pit of spam and fail.
7chan's /x/, however, is better quality, but it has maybe one page of posts a day whereas 4chan's /x/ gets about 5 pages of posts a day.


PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:14 pm
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JokerCard wrote:
Something I also noticed... the titles of the videos.

Why is the first video is called "the end", but the second is "the beginning"?

Question

Don't they know how to put videos in chronological order?

EDIT:

I also noticed that "The Holder of the End" is some kind of story? Here...

(Excerpt from http://ultralaser.washuu.org/static.php?page=static070201-231258)

Quote:
The Holder of the End
In any city, in any country, go to any mental institution or halfway house that you can get yourself into. When you reach the front desk, ask to visit someone who calls himself "The Holder of the End". Should a look of child-like fear come over the person's face, you will then be taken to a cell. It will be in a deep, hidden section of the building.As you walk, all you will hear is the sound of someone talking to themselves echoing through the halls. It is in a language that you will not understand, but your very soul will feel unspeakable fear.

Should the talking stop at any time, STOP and QUICKLY say aloud "I'm just passing through; I wish to talk." If you still hear silence, flee. Leave, do not stop for anything, do not go home, don't stay at an inn, just keep moving, sleep where your body drops. You will know in the morning if you've escaped.

If the voice in the hall comes back after you utter those words, continue on. Upon reaching the cell, all you will see is a windowless room with a person in the corner, speaking an unknown language, and cradling something. The person will only respond to one question. "What happens when they all come together?"

The person will then stare into your eyes and answer your question in horrifying detail. Many go mad in that very cell, some disappear soon after the meeting, a few end their lives. But most do the worst thing, and look upon the object in the person's hands. You will want to as well. Be warned that if you do, your death will be one of cruelty and unrelenting horror.

Your death will be in that room, by that person's hands.

That object is 1 of 2538. They must never come together. Never.


That is so very, very unsetteling that I may never sleep or eat again.

PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:34 pm
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inflamzalive
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 		i've read a few of them, and thats bout par for the course...

{Edit} I went back to the first blog and came up with this:

http://holderoftheend.livejournal.com/profile

so that journal is related...but is it related to the new blogspot journal?

and...

{Edit 2} after some thought, i'd think if this was related the location wouldn't be trinidad and tobago, it would be Any City, ANy country, the way the first journal is

PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:41 pm
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 		ok, so when programmers get bored they make silly things...

long story short, i wrote a tool to extract every frame from a youtube video to make it easier to screencap a screen, and it brought me to a very interesting find... in the second video, there is a single frame (frame #436) that stands out, i don't think someone could notice it with the naked eye while actually watching the video... image attached... looks like an obvious "R"...
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:35 pm
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degravedi
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 		Wow! Great find! Did you try the first video?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:22 am
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degravedi wrote:
Wow! Great find! Did you try the first video?


Yeah, tried the first one as well, but nothing of interest in there (unless something is hidden in the dark that I missed)...

I'll clean up a few bugs in the script and then give people here access to it (as long as it's not abused too much)...

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inflamzalive
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 		theres something at 8 seconds in the first video that i was wondering about, but its really dark,

I'd get a screenshot and lighten it but i'm at a work computer and don't really have the software to do it..

PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:04 am
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inflamzalive wrote:
theres something at 8 seconds in the first video that i was wondering about, but its really dark,

I'd get a screenshot and lighten it but i'm at a work computer and don't really have the software to do it..


http://www.trendinteractive.com/tools/youtube/
simply copy and paste the youtube url of the video and it will extract all the frames as well as offer the audio to download...

please note, this works best on smaller videos... the first video is 364 frames... the second is 1102 frames... and even that can take a while to load in your browser since it downloads all the thumbnails... so be responsible in using this!

also, it caches the videos it has already processed, so in this case, it won't need to download the video, parse it etc, it will just start showing the frames pretty quickly... enjoy...

EDIT: Just added a feature at the bottom of the screen to download all the frames that were extracted in a zip file...

PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:10 am
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 		Very cool you.! Cool The 8 seconds frames don't produce anything substantial from what I can see.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:20 am
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inflamzalive
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 		nah its just a blob really

Sad oh well

program is great though. thx!

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 		You know what I noticed
This looks interesting, I wonder where it is going, definitely going to watch this one.

Any more ideas JokerCard you have certainly been quite observant so far. Wink

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inflamzalive
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 		any relevance to whats in the back of the subaru?

Also, you can see the reflection of th eperson filming, but they've traded the weird masks for a jack covering their head... (probably because walking through a playground with weird masks on like that would just be...well bad)


{Edit} The large buildings near the park make up Highland Elementary School.

Possibly related to "the beginning"

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