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[The Last Gent]

That's what I got, too, simply because there was distortion to the cuts, too.

[morscata12]

Loved the music video. Brought to mind one item on my list of MH Unsolved Mysteries - why does Alex keep turning lights off when SM is nearby? He turned the lights off in at least three entries (1, 8, 11). After seeing the flashing hallway lights in Return associated with the return of Slenderman, it seems like an important theme. Does SM need light to exist?

Most entries support this theory:
- Entry 1: Standing outside under the porch light
- Entry 2: Alex drives to the SM sighting, which is under a street light.
- Entry 4: Running around a well-lit park
- Entry 6: Bright porch lights
- Entry 7: Daylight
- Entry 12: Daylight
- Entry 13: Daylight
- Entry 14: Lit hallway, SM seems to disappear when entering Alex's dark room
- Return: Flashing lights in hallway

There are a few entries not completely supporting this theory:
- Entry 10: SM was definitely standing around in the dark for most of this. HOWEVER this was his big teleport-a-thon, where he seemed to appear wherever Alex shined his flashlight.
- Entry 11: This was in the dark, but we don't know if it was Slenderman that caused the breeze in Alex's room
- Any hidden SMs found through adjusting contrast/brightness.

[Sylvine]

[Badgerconda]

Yeah, there's nothing to show that Masky/TTA can teleport. The video is edited/distorted by either J or masky. Unless J can teleport between different sleeping positions too.

Also, the Slendy light thing.... I always thought that it was just Alex trying not to get noticed, at least, in that one entry where he's looking out his windows and stuff. If you turn your indoor lights on and look out at night, you're really easy to see (and it's much harder to see anything outside), so you'd logically switch your indoor lights off when looking outside to see if slendy was stalking across your front lawn.

Otherwise, I think it just makes it creepier that slendy appears in broad daylight a bunch of times. It's much harder to mistake him for a normal person, or background scenery, if he's well lighted, and it's not what you expect from an eldritch horror type monster-- monsters usually hide in the shadows. Slendy isn't afraid of the light, so turning them on won't save you....

[AxMxK]

[The Last Gent]

IIRC, there was a whole debate about an apparent edit in the middle of that entry, and people thought that during that edit Alex doubled back to check on Jay, and then returned to his exploration. It supports a few theories. There was even a map of the forest drawn to prove it was possible.

[chaos]

[Two2teps]

[tetsuyabh]

[superorange]

[Sylvine]

[superorange]

[Reginald]

Slendy is outside the sliding glass door at that time in entry 11.

[Joseph Lolin]

It might be worth mentioning that, OOG, you kind of need light to see -anything- in the first place. So it would make sense to stick your otherworldly monster near lamps and such.

[Future Sith]

I also think Alex was just trying to hide himself those times he turned off the lights, I doubt SM needs light to survive. After all, he lives in the dark woods, does he not?