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[VIDEO] Entry #38
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Jsor
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IThinkImMe wrote:
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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.


Well, I was saying IG. Also, I don't think Troy should actually enable timestamps, but I think there are programs that can add any timestamp you want pretty painlessly.

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 		From what I can discern, as J changed the tape, Alex's hands aren't clenched, they are slightly relaxed, so I imagine that his following actions aren't as evil as we can imagine, but overall it still unnerves the shit outta me :/

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 		I wonder if the unspeakable horrors of the REAL Entry 37 were the events directly after this.

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morscata12 wrote:
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.

Wrong. He went through an 'Unalbeled' tape. Mad

I like that avatar, SlenderPunk! Very Happy

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Zaden wrote:
morscata12 wrote:
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.

Wrong. He went through an 'Unalbeled' tape. Mad


This made me chuckle Very Happy

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Two observations:

1. BranRainey and Aylana are right. There is something phenomenally creepy about unadorned raw footage of two men walking along a woodland trail -- I kept expecting them to come across something horrifying, or Alex to suddenly turn around and reveal that his face was gone.

2. "The nineteenth century"? Thank you, Alex, that's helpful as hell: WHEN in the nineteenth century? Some of us would like a chance to check your extremely dubious historical allegations, you know, or at least have a remote idea what period you're talking about. And "brought them out here to try them before God" sounds more seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century than nineteenth. History is not a monolithic slab of The Olden Days, you know. You're probably one of those people who thinks of the Napoleonic Wars as "Victorian", aren't you?

(Cactus Wren begins pounding her head against the wall, wishing she could do the same with Kralie's)


I seriously doubt that there's any bit of this that's based on historical record. If anything, it might be folklore tied to the area, but even then, folklore usually doesn't bother itself with, you know, facts.
Sorry -- the moment anyone mentions "The _____th Century" I tend to drop into irritable-history-buff mode. I like to get my bearings and establish when, IG, we're talking about. I've wanted very badly to establish a real-history branch of the PPC.

(Woo hoo. Tenth posting. I can haz avvitar.)

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 		I really don't have a lot to say besides praise for this entry because everyone here is lovely with thinking up every god damn possibility ever. Which is awesome.

A random thought though, even though I don't believe this, does anyone else think it would actually be equally as scary if Slendy was once human? Everyone's been saying that would take away from the whole unknown part of it but seriously, I think it would be just as creepy. What in the fucking world could distort a human body so badly that it becomes something like Slenderman? What the hell does it want from Alex, two hundred years in the future? How has it survived at all?

Also pardon my slight weeaboo-ness but seasons one and two are starting to really remind me of seasons one and two of Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni. The first season, appropriately called the "Question Arcs" is very confusing, and very little is explained. You simply wonder, why is this happening? What's going on? The second season, the "Answer Arcs", begin to slowly ease into answering all of the questions that the first season drilled into your head. You finally begin to understand what's happening, and more real story is brought into everything and ties it all together. If you like anime I highly suggest watching it btw.

Anyway, it seems like that's the way Marble Hornets is going right now. The first season had little explanation to anything, and only brought up more questions. Now, there's a developing story, and slowly, mysteries are being solved, and answers are coming to light. I love it!

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 		That his mind was once human would take away a bit. That fact that he's such an alien horror is part of the fun. For all we know he's doing this just to see how humans work, and were he is from, its not lethal. Which is far more disturbing than some human turned monster. That means at one point, he was just like us.

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 		Totally agree with every you said Indextic. Sure, IF he once was human it takes that aspect of the unknown away, but still leaves the unknown force of what created the Slender Man. Wow. Loving all these theories flying about.

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 		I haven't read through all the pages yet but could this entry 38 take place before entry 29 there's no Alex there but that could be where Alex was taking Jay to both places being in a forest and the trail in the beginning sections of Entry 29 and the trail of entry 38 look pretty similar

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Megarain wrote:
That his mind was once human would take away a bit. That fact that he's such an alien horror is part of the fun. For all we know he's doing this just to see how humans work, and were he is from, its not lethal. Which is far more disturbing than some human turned monster. That means at one point, he was just like us.

Well in some of the mythos SM just kidnaps the person and they are never found again. In others he guts them with precision and places the organs back in the body neatly wrapped in a type of plastic. (Maybe he's anal retentive or OCD?)
Keep in mind these guys are doing this on a shoestring budget or even no budget and with work and school they are taking the time to give us what we want. I humbly commend them for that.

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Megarain wrote:
That his mind was once human would take away a bit. That fact that he's such an alien horror is part of the fun. For all we know he's doing this just to see how humans work, and were he is from, its not lethal. Which is far more disturbing than some human turned monster. That means at one point, he was just like us.

I dunno, ironically the fact that we've bandied the "Slender Man = Eldritch Abomination" theory around here so much makes that viewpoint somewhat less exciting to me in a "Malevolent Omnipotence Is Boring" kind of way. I did get a tiny little split-second thrill however when I watched this entry then tried to connect the Operator --> convicts-tied-to-trees" dots in my mind...

Obviously this is a YMMV issue. I can still buy into the Operator being a Blue And Orange type of being, but wouldn't it be an interesting wrinkle if his Uncanny Valley appeal did stem from some secret long-lost morsel of humanity?

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 		This might have happened before 35 and 36. Jay is very mad at Alex in 36, and he tweeted about not seeing him in the next tapes. Unfortunately, we can't see Alex's arm.

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 		Hmm.

Anybody else think that the visual distortion in this entry wasn't caused by Slendy, but by the forest itself?

Slendy isn't anywhere in this video, but it doesn't mean he wasn't close by.

However, if he was the "god" the people of the town believed tried the criminals, and this is that forest, wouldn't it make sense for the area to emit the same sort of energy as Slendy.

Also, I still unnerved that there has been no mention of this entry on his twitter.

Something is wrong. Very wrong.

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Megarain wrote:
That his mind was once human would take away a bit. That fact that he's such an alien horror is part of the fun. For all we know he's doing this just to see how humans work, and were he is from, its not lethal. Which is far more disturbing than some human turned monster. That means at one point, he was just like us.


That might make him more scary though, and even if he was once human we don't know how he thinks/feels/believes now. And the fact that a human could become that incomprehensible is kind of scary.

Way out into left field theory:

Could Alex be stuck in a cycle like the EMH crew? Like, Alex was the kid who got killed in the forest, and every life he lives he keeps coming back there and getting restalked by Mr. Operator?

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