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New here, first post.

I think it is silly to say that the person recording cannot be Tim. Even though his leg was broken he has already shown inexplicable powers in other entries. When he made Jessica disappear, or when he got into Jay's room and made the camera skip around. (assuming there is only one masked person.) There was also the teleporting or whatever you would like to call it inside the house, also assuming that was Tim. A broken leg wouldn't stop someone that could do that.
EDIT: Response to many posters, Saying that Tim couldnt be recording because that would be ridiculous supernatural healing garbage is pretty dumb. Of all the great supernatural events that have happened in the story so far, the one you call shenanigans on is this?

Also, I don't think it is Jessica, but I don't think she should be written off as a pointless character. She showed us that the TTA, Masky, Operator story is far bigger than we know yet. If we knew the whole story then people wouldn't randomly pop up in the same situation as Jay. In my opinion the entire hotel series, and the fact that no one else was in the hotel tells me that there is definitely more behind the organization of people controlling events than we know. It doesnt matter if we never see jessica again. In fact if we don't ever see her again it would say far more than if she came up in a later episode.

The talk of TTA asking if he is a prophet makes me think of the ark as more of Noah's ark, as in a refuge, more than the Ark as in a place to keep secrets. This follows the water theme of past TTA videos (ex. deluge)
EDIT: Also the title "Forecast", makes me think that TTA is predicting the weather, aka the 40 days of rain so to speak. So something bad is going to happen soon, that is what he is potentially forecasting. And it is up to Jay to save who he chooses with the ark?

I also think it hasn't been brought up yet that Tim seems oddly comfortable around the Operator. After seeing how Jay reacted and became almost comatose to his presence, we have numerous accounts of Alex being almost comfortable around him. When he was in his house with his girl friend and told her to leave, he almost seemed like he was going to take a stand against slendy. Obviously the Operator seems most interested in following Alex for some reason, considering he was the first to be followed. Even the earlier videos of Alex running in that park, basically looking for trouble. Not to mention that earlier clip of Alex at that odd concrete structure being mere feet away from the Operator and simply running away. That doesn't sit right with me. There is a bigger connection between the operator and Alex than we know yet.

I also don't know why people have assumed that Alex sent that tape to Jay. Alex said "You AREN'T exactly hard to find". In my opinion if Alex has sent the tape he might have said "You weren't exactly hard to find". If Tim had sent the video, I don't know how Alex would have found him. It seems like Alex was following Tim, and Tim is following Jay judging by Jays previous encounters with Masky.

I had another point to make but now I cant remember it, ill edit soon. Hope these are somewhat new facts.
Hopefully final edit: The opening video is of some re-animation, revival of some dead animal as someone pointed out in this thread. This makes me think that TTA is forecasting that something is going to be revived, or brought back that was once gone. That is the event that Jay needs to save everyone from with the ark. My best guess is that TTA is referring to the Operator. It is clear that the Operator seemed to be gone for a long time while Alex was with Amy, and whoever planted that camera brought him back, maybe with the mere act of Alex being near a camera. So someone is trying to bring slendy back, and it seems as though it is not TTA, because he seems to be equally scared, and wants Jay to help him out now.

So assuming that is all true, who is trying to bring back slendy? It cant be Alex, the Operator confronted (note, i didn't say attacked) him in his home and Alex seemed pretty surprised about it. It is not TTA, because he wants to be saved by Jay with the Ark. So who does that leave us?

[Jsor]

Tim wasn't really shown making Jessica disappear. All we know is A. Jessica was gone, B. Tim showed up. For all we know, Tim went "shut up and leave now or I cut a bitch."

Edit: I'm giving up on the picture for now, so far I've determined that 252 & 253 definitely match, and that 260/283 go together really well, but may not match. So far I'm not convinced we have all the images, or there's some trickery here that's throwing me off like letters being deliberately backwards/upside down (so if you try to flip them to be oriented normally, it won't match up). I haven't found any more matches despite some real attempts.

[IonCharge]

Has anyone tweeted to Jay about this? He may not know of it yet.

[pravado]

In "exit," TTA films Jay going to his car. As Jay runs back to meet Alex, TTA begins to run towards the same direction as well. Leading me to believe Alex was running back to meet Jay. i think TTA WAS a mixture of Alex/Tim(masky), but alex has figured out how to break free of the "zombie effect" that slendy creates


Alex clearly lured Jay to the abandoned house because he knew that tim would be there. he had somehow figured out that tim was under the influence, and was following him. in entry 35 when they unmasked tim, alex bashes his leg. this was before entry.. 33 i believe, where tim assaults jay in the hotel after jay finds the tapes. tim clearly has a limp there, as a result of alex hitting him in the leg. Alex defenitely hit tim in 35, you can hear tim scream. since a rock to the face would have killed tim, the only explanation is that alex hit him in the leg, then slenderman appeared and "made them his zombies" allowing tim to get away.

i think in the few months where jay lost his memory, jay met the girl in the hotel (jessica or sarah, can't remember her name) and they figured out they were both being stalked by the operator. jay still tapes all of this with, although somehow loses his memory. but not before stashing the tapes in his safe. he exchanged safe codes with sarah.

during this time, alex had figured out what the slenderman was, along with who the masked man was and how to get him to where he needed him to be. however he too might have gotten his memory wiped.


(In religion, a prophet is an individual who is claimed to have been contacted by the supernatural or the divine, and serves as an intermediary with humanity, delivering this newfound knowledge from the supernatural entity to other people) - the new tta video had a part translate into AMIAPROPHET or something. makes sense.



sorry for the rambling, just thoughts i'm rolling off ideas

[Jsor]

The odd thing is, he doesn't say "I am a prophet" he says "am I a prophet" which is an interrogative construction.

[BranRainey]

[SticktheFigure]

Semi-important:
I think it should be noted that no one ever said TTA was the person filming Jay in Exit. It very likely could've been Alex acting as.... Alex.

TTA seems to have clips and audio from the tapes. So it is likely that he wasn't there, he just posted it.

[mellodragon]

Jesus, I'm late!

Anyway, just wanted to say something I caught right off the bat about the video, and I'm sorry if it's already been mentioned.

The opening shot of the lung is taken from a video of experiments conducted by the USSR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=739DPi7dAOM

Pause at about 52 seconds and compare with Forecast. Exactly the same.

[Fidgety]

Hey, guys. It's been a while because my life is currently in chaos.

This is just going to be a running, random block of speculation. There's themes that keep circling in my brain, but I'm having trouble actually connecting all of it. Maybe somebody will see what I can't.

I don't know if it's simply timing (Good Friday) or my recent choice of books, but for some reason, this video has been making a Philip K. Dick line run through my head over and over. I'm too lazy to look up the original wording, but it had to do with hymns being sung in church: "The singing was not to calm the congregation, but to appease the angry god."

Reading the "translations" you guys have managed, it reminds me of another one from the same book (VALIS): ‎"Once God started talking to him he never seemed to stop. I don't think they report that in the Bible." It was talking about prophets.

I knew I had seen the opening footage somewhere -- It was far too familiar. Good catch on whoever linked it to the Soviet dog experiment. I had originally watched it during the summer, when I was doing some neuro-related research. I find it telling, however, that it purposely showed a heart-lung type device. I see those types of things every day at work. The kind from the video obviously isn't used anymore. So, there's something specific to this footage.

One big connection I can see is the fact that when Alex originally encountered the Operator, his dog was with him. Later on, somebody says something about animals being mutilated on the front lawn with some implication that they may have been domestic ones as opposed to feral. Something happened to Alex's dog, though we're never told what.

The impression that I'm getting is that maybe the Operator is capable of keeping people alive or doing things to them -- maybe in a metaphorical sense, even -- that defy the natural order. I can't stop thinking about the heart-lung machine. I typically see them used on people who are waiting for a heart transplant. They keep the blood circulating so the brain doesn't die. Maybe it's not even that complicated -- whenever people are intubated and hooked up to a ventilator, air is forced in and out of the lungs, and that repeated motion automatically makes the heart beat. I really don't know why, but there's something flashing in my head that says "medical knowledge" and "weird Biblical facts" should be connected somehow with this, but I don't quite know how. The dog part is important, especially since the heads were re-transplanted onto the dogs in the second part of the footage, and they're shown happily jumping all over the scientists.

You know, maybe Alex is the metaphorical dog. In a sense, the Operator took his head off, tinkered around a bit, and put it back on; maybe Alex was once something of a faithful pet, and he will be again after the procedure.

Sorry about the long post. I had to get it out somewhere, and I won't have the opportunity to discuss it with my MH-loving friends since I have to go to work tonight.

[Magyk]

[fezzik]

there is just something indescribably creepy about filming someone while they're sleeping

[det slanke mannen]

About the audio:

Someone filtered it somewhat here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECUDC9lVDiI

And someone else pointed out that this music is also from Part 2 of the video on reviving organisms etc (the film where the lung footage was taken from).

Just in case anyone's interested, and it seemed familiar to a few people:

It's the 4th movement from Beethoven's 5th symphony, you can hear it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAyUzxDB9eE

Interesting about the 5th is of course the motif from the first movement, which has been interpreted as the FATE motif, as in Fate knocking at the door. Kind of fitting?

[DHock513]

Hey guys, I've decided since h(is/er) identity is so ambiguous, we should come up with a name for the guy outside Jay's car. How about... ToTheCar! Huh? Huh!?

[Magyk]

[cochinosanchez]