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[VIDEO] Entry #38
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ToTheAlex
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I kind of like the idea that this forest is a sort of portal where the operator can go between the separate dimensions. It could be that certain loophole between the worlds. Maybe it's the ark as well.

Also, maybe Alex needs to sacrifice someone in this forest so that the operator will stop stalking him? It would seem plausible with the whole "lead me to the ark" deal. Jay/Tim/whoever will lead TTA to the ark which may or may not be in the forest, which is the crossing point that will send the operator back to the dimension he belongs. This would seem like the only way to defeat a tall paranormal being with tentacles....just send him away!

And as for the chronology, I started out on the pre-mh idea. Now I'm certain this is during the 7 lost months. It just makes a lot more sense and has more evidence to back it up.

I still think we're about to see something to do with entry 29 as well, possibly by TTA.

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Geneaux486
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2.Alex doesn't seem to like J. Entry #20 and maybe some other parts I'm forgetting clearly show that they were good friends.


The vibe I got was that Alex has been through so much that he simply isn't one for idle chat anymore. He's just focused on... whatever his goal here is, and won't be distracted.

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but if alex has been stalked since childhood, its not unlikely he'd be interested in his stalker and went seeking him. Maybe he founf him and that's how it all got started.


I doubt it. Think back to entry 2 and whichever entry had Alex, Seth, Brian, and Sarah at the treeline. Both times Alex either encounters the Operator or talks about seeing him beforehand, and both times he exhibits complete unfamiliarity with it. The Operator may have been watching Alex since childhood, but I don't think Alex was ever aware of him until the summer of 2006.

Seems to me like they were trying to find "The Ark", or that Alex already knew where it was and was taking J there. The fact that Alex made it a point to mention that everything in that area grew abundantly and was considered blessed leads me to believe that there was, at one point at least, some tangible object that catalysed said growth. Maybe the Operator needs it to achieve full humanity, as opposed to the hollow mockery of it we see now.

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mokie
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TwentyThree wrote:
This Entry is almost certainly pre-MH. Jay laughs at the very idea of "ghost stories." No way he'd be like that if either he or Alex had seen the operator, since, in the case of the former, he'd believe in the supernatural, or, in the latter case, he'd be seriously trying to convince Alex he'd been seeing things or that he's just being paranoid. Either way, Jay is WAAY too casual for this to have been taken while they were aware of being Slendy stalked.


This entry is almost certainly post-MH, because, unless I'm remembering wrong, Jay's apartment burned down with the tapes in it, after he went on the run. Ergo, this has to be from the new cache.

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emevas
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Geneaux486 wrote:


Seems to me like they were trying to find "The Ark", or that Alex already knew where it was and was taking J there. The fact that Alex made it a point to mention that everything in that area grew abundantly and was considered blessed leads me to believe that there was, at one point at least, some tangible object that catalysed said growth. Maybe the Operator needs it to achieve full humanity, as opposed to the hollow mockery of it we see now.


This is an awesome theory, btw. I didn't even think of this.
So if alex is taking jay to the ark. . . Maybe J is tothark?
Maybe more likely Alex is totheark. Maybe he needs J to get there for some reason. . .?

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Geneaux486
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I'd be more inclined to go old school and say Tim is totheark. If he's trying to find it, presumably for the Operator, then it would make sense that Alex wouldn't want Tim to "follow us".

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IThinkImMe
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I found Entry #39!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODJgtz_JAvI

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shoeler
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The facts:

Trees would grow super fast.
The citizens of the area thought it was blessed or somethin', so they'd put their criminals "on trial".
The idea was to get their bodies to stretch out, but all they did was die (even with magical fast growing forest, it's not bamboo)
They would burn the entire tree with the dead criminal still on it.
One day a kid was found dismembered and like the criminals, so they stopped.

Common sense tells me that the operator was the reason the trees grew super fast, which caused them to burn the criminals there, and not the burning of criminals turning into the operator. if the criminals were somehow turned into the operator, what the heck made the trees grow all fast?

also, perhaps the citizens knew about the operator, and knew this area was his home. maybe they thought the operator was some sort of deity.

also, at the end he says that "whoever posted ###### probably posted enttry 37", but on entry 25 he says

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I've been out of the house ever since totheark put the last video on this channel


just something interesting to note.

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Jsor
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ToTheAlex wrote:
And as for the chronology, I started out on the pre-mh idea. Now I'm certain this is during the 7 lost months. It just makes a lot more sense and has more evidence to back it up.


I still maintain that this takes place a couple days ago, between sllee pno.w and "woke up at the red tower." I think Alex may have phoned Jay after the video, either before the headaches, or after he went to sleep. This would also explain why he somehow has this footage but nothing else (OT: Jay really needs to just download http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/ or similar given how often this happens), as well as explaining the fact that we can't seem to place it at all during the 7 months (granted we don't have much context to help).

Are there any geographical features present that hint at this being near the red tower? If not, my theory is still possible, but I wonder if it's possible that it's near there.

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ToTheAlex
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shoeler wrote:
also, at the end he says that "whoever posted ###### probably posted enttry 37", but on entry 25 he says

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I've been out of the house ever since totheark put the last video on this channel


just something interesting to note.


I guess that's just more evidence to Jay being an unreliable narrator.

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Zaden
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Richard2765 wrote:
Zaden wrote:
Richard2765 wrote:
May I point out that every single video Jay has uploaded in the past just had a number relating to the entry and introduction?

That is simply incorrect.

Is it? Because if it is, I apologize for my mistake and I will correct it accordingly.

No problem.

[Entry] - [description]
Introduction - 0
Entry #1 - 1
Entry #2 - first encounter?
Entry #3 - 3
Entry #4 - 4
Entry #5 - 5
Entry #6 - 6
Entry #7 - Patterns emerging.
Entry #8 - Short entry. Doesn't seem like Alex.
Entry #9 - 9
Entry #10 - More missing audio.
Entry #11 - Alex missed something
Entry #12 - 12
Entry #13 - I was close by
Entry #14 - Beginning a search.
Entry #15 - 15
Entry #16 - searching
Entry #17 - I'm not sure of what to do anymore.
Entry #18 - 18
Entry #19 - 19
Entry #19.5 - Trying to make connections
Entry #20 - 20
Entry #21 - 1 of 2
Entry #22 - 22
Entry #23 - no description available
Entry #24 - 24
Entry #25 - Names and locations have been removed.
Entry #26 - 26
Entry #27 - 27
Entry #28 - Searching for anything
Entry #29 - 29
Entry #30 - 30
Entry #31 - 31
Entry #32 - Time has run out.
Entry #33 - 33
Entry #34 - Starting on the new tapes.
Entry #35 - 35
Entry #36 - 36
Entry #38 - Unalbeled.

Sorry my last post was so uninformative...

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noskirt6
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Jsor wrote:
I still maintain that this takes place a couple days ago, between sllee pno.w and "woke up at the red tower." I think Alex may have phoned Jay after the video, either before the headaches, or after he went to sleep. This would also explain why he somehow has this footage but nothing else


Entry 38 wrote:
Since this tape was unlabeled, I don't know where it fits in with the seven months that I don't remember.


I'm quite sure this is one of the tapes that he picked up from the hotel, so it can't be from when he disappeared two weeks back.

Currently, I'm under the impression that the order of events is something like this:
-Met up with Alex (entries 34-36)
-Got called by Alex to meet him and they came to this place where something may have happened (entry 38 )
-Somehow acquired chest cam (and why did he get it?)
-Entry 29

Mmm... there's still a lot we don't know, I feel.

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Jsor
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noskirt6 wrote:
Jsor wrote:
I still maintain that this takes place a couple days ago, between sllee pno.w and "woke up at the red tower." I think Alex may have phoned Jay after the video, either before the headaches, or after he went to sleep. This would also explain why he somehow has this footage but nothing else


Entry 38 wrote:
Since this tape was unlabeled, I don't know where it fits in with the seven months that I don't remember.


I'm quite sure this is one of the tapes that he picked up from the hotel, so it can't be from when he disappeared two weeks back.

Currently, I'm under the impression that the order of events is something like this:
-Met up with Alex (entries 34-36)
-Got called by Alex to meet him and they came to this place where something may have happened (entry 3Cool
-Somehow acquired chest cam (and why did he get it?)
-Entry 29

Mmm... there's still a lot we don't know, I feel.


Ah, I missed that it was a tape somehow, for some reason I thought it was mysteriously on his hard drive, even though he mentions the tape several times during the entry >.<.

Edit: You know what? From now on, Jay needs to enable timestamps on EVERYTHING he films. It would make his life so much easier.

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TheCake
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Hmm. I'm definitely getting a less than friendly vibe from Alex here. I'm starting to think he might be on The Operators side, or at the very least know a lot more about him than Jay does. I'm glad to see Jay has finally shown that he knows 37 is up, and that he thinks TTA put it up.

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IThinkImMe
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Edit: You know what? From now on, Jay needs to enable timestamps on EVERYTHING he films. It would make his life so much easier

It would make things easier on us for sure. But from a filming/editing standpoint it would be a nightmare.
Just found this list on my MH dvd comprising a theory as to the order of the tapes in s01
01:: Entry #5
02:: Entry #12
03:: Entry #13
04:: Entry #2
15:: Entry #17
06:: Entry #4
07:: Entry #10
08:: Entry #7
19:: Entry #1
10:: Entry #6
11:: Entry #3
12:: Entry #11
13:: Entry #8
14:: Entry #20
15:: Entry #9
16:: Entry #14
17:: Entry #22
18:: Introduction
19:: Entry #15
20:: Entry #16
21:: Entry #19
22:: Entry #19.5
23:: Entry #18
24:: Entry #21
25:: Entry #23
26:: Entry #24
27:: Entry #25
28:: Entry #26
(This info is also on their wiki page) Not sure if it helps our current timeline at all.

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morscata12
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I finally realized that Jay never said the tapes were stolen. He just didn't have them on him when he woke up near the red tower. So this footage is from the original set of tapes. The only thing that was taken from him was that the footage on the laptop was deleted.

I assume he got back home safely, went through an unlabeled tape, and posted the resulting footage. My guess is that what he found on March 20th was on an unlabeled tape, and he was trying to find it again. He got this instead, but as it was relevant, he posted it anyway.

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