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[VIDEO] Entry #38
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Timur
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 		the strange thing is that plants don't have a specific point on a branch move outwards, they simply build on the ends of existing branches, so I don't see how you'll be stretching anyone via tree. (Unless you attached their limbs to the tips, which do move...however, wouldn't that cause the tip to be unable to grow?)

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jerry111
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 		I'd hate to listen to Alex walking in parks with his dates

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blahblah
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 		what a cocktease entry. its gonna take 2 weeks to find that other tape now lol
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czaaaaaa
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 		I thought they were letterboxing

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spockgrrl
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Antifringe wrote:
Is anyone else uneasy with the direction the story is going? I don't think that Marble Hornets needs a long brick of demystifying exposition about the Slenderman's origins.


I'm nervous about it too. I also think it's kind of weird that they are moving into the missing children mythos territory. I'm not opposed to it, this entry is just really different from the others, and I'm still adjusting to all of the exposition I just received. I'm cautiously optimistic given their track record, however.

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spockgrrl
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czaaaaaa wrote:
I thought they were letterboxing


This.

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sgt lonestar 91
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blahblah wrote:
what a cocktease entry. its gonna take 2 weeks to find that other tape now lol


I hope it doesn't take that long for a new vid from jay. But i still think we'll have a TTA video coming soon hopefully relating to alex's birthday that was yesterday.

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Antifringe
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Timur wrote:
the strange thing is that plants don't have a specific point on a branch move outwards, they simply build on the ends of existing branches, so I don't see how you'll be stretching anyone via tree. (Unless you attached their limbs to the tips, which do move...however, wouldn't that cause the tip to be unable to grow?)


It sounds like some people are visualizing it like Sinis' method, but I don't see any support for that in the video.

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cemetrygates
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 		For the other people that are suspicious about this entry: maybe this doesn't mean anything, but if J didn't post enttry #37 then why is this Entry 38? I guess for the sake of not being confusing, but it just seems strange. This should be 37.

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iFaux
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 		So basically, the Operator is

a) a criminal from the 1800s who was stretched out via some sort of torture method involving trees, who was then burned (getting rid of his face) who lived forever and ever

b) a ghost of the above

This kind of takes away some of the mystery. But so much people were constantly complaining about how MH is getting nowhere, etc..

Also, maybe this place is The Ark? Or somewhere around this area?

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mokie
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Antifringe wrote:
Except that now they basically did just that Sad. He's the ghost of a murderer, or a child rapist, or perhaps a murdering child rapist that got tied to a magic tree :/


Or the thing that preyed on people left out to die. Or a folkloric attempt to explain away uncomfortable events, the way Hansel & Gretel supposedly came from infanticide during the Great Famine, and child-eating witch Baba Yaga's house from food storage sheds that stood on stilts in hopes winter predators wouldn't raid them.

(In case it's not obvious, I'm hoping against an obvious Freddy reveal...)

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Spritey
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iFaux wrote:
So basically, the Operator is

a) a criminal from the 1800s who was stretched out via some sort of torture method involving trees, who was then burned (getting rid of his face) who lived forever and ever

b) a ghost of the above

This kind of takes away some of the mystery. But so much people were constantly complaining about how MH is getting nowhere, etc..

Also, maybe this place is The Ark? Or somewhere around this area?


I liked the idea that Slendy was a demon, or some other kind of nonhuman being from a completely separate reality. If he was human at some point, that makes it a lot less creepy.

It does make some sense though. Remember how crazy that distortion got in one of the early entries when Alex said "fire department"?

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Timur
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Antifringe wrote:
Timur wrote:
the strange thing is that plants don't have a specific point on a branch move outwards, they simply build on the ends of existing branches, so I don't see how you'll be stretching anyone via tree. (Unless you attached their limbs to the tips, which do move...however, wouldn't that cause the tip to be unable to grow?)


It sounds like some people are visualizing it like Sinis' method, but I don't see any support for that in the video.


Interesting idea, but I'm not quite getting it from Alex's strange ramblings, which seem to focus on growth rather than tension when it comes to the executions. All-in-all, I'm voting for the "they actually die via thirst and starvation" option, which seems far more viable than "magic trees did it".

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Rogue Thoughts
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Zaden wrote:

Weights are not necessary; the weight of their own body would stretch them out if they were hanging by their hands. People who were crucified died of suffocation because their body weight stretched them so thin that they couldn't inhale.

But I don't think that would stretch anyone out to Slendy-proportions. And they specifically said stretched like on a rack, so I'm just still not getting the right picture.

sje46 wrote:
Imagine you give a baby a tattoo. How is that tattoo going to look after the baby is an adult? Stretched out. Does't have to be tethered to anything. The idea is that the entire tree grows.

Which I don't think is true. I'm a bit confused about that. Were the villagers that...stupid, or did the trees grow so fast that they would actually kill someone that way?

Unless the knowledge I've gained from my many years of studying tree biology fails me, I've never thought of trees growing like that. More stacking legos than stretching silly putty.

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awakeasaurusrex
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iFaux wrote:
So basically, the Operator is

a) a criminal from the 1800s who was stretched out via some sort of torture method involving trees, who was then burned (getting rid of his face) who lived forever and ever

b) a ghost of the above

There's a third option that pretty much everyone who's bitching about the Operator's origins being demystified is missing:

c) the entity that caused the trees that grow so fast. The villagers thought that the killings of these criminals were in honour of God. Not so. The sacrifices were for the sake of someone far worse. The tree method may have been ineffectual at stretching the victims out into the image of the Operator, but the intention was there. And watching them starve was delicious enough... at least, until the Operator had built up enough strength that it didn't need to wait for them to bring it sacrifices any more.

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