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[kira1000]

good point, although it does seem very similar. When I asked the creator on FB he said that he can assure me that it is not Slender Man. We will just wait and see.

[amrith777]

I'm back. The work I do is very seasonal and demanding of my time and energy.

With that said, I updated the playlist to include a video that I somehow missed, and I am blaming Google. I do not know what they have changed recently, but as I already noted in an earlier post, I am no longer getting Gmail alerts from channels I subscribe to.
So, I have been monitoring my channels closely so I don't miss anything. Even with doing that, I somehow missed the video entitled "The West Records:Chapter 2". It showed up AFTER Logs 14 and 15. Makes me feel like I'm part of the cast

So, in the most recent log 15.5, we see Randall and a friend analysing the file scan of the missing dog flyer. The code translates to "Keep level be in touch WB". Who is WB?
Also, dat ending!

There is a whole TON of shit going on in these videos and my mind is trying to sort it all, to no avail. So, what have we seen so far? A group of people go "legend tripping", for lack of a better term. Later, it's just Randall and Parker. They explore this military base and not much to see because shit's all locked up.
They eventually arrive at the place with the orange cones and there is what looks to be a "zone" demarcation spray painted on the asphalt.That's when shit gets kooky. Once they are in the woods and wandering about, there are subtle hints that things are not quite right with the geography of the place, which gets massively apparent once the God-forsaken ear-assault begins.
Fleeing in panic,they somehow wind up back at the "cone zone" and shortly thereafter find themselves BACK in the deep woods.This is also where Parker starts to appear not-quite-right.
Ultimately, they wind up in a time-warp or alternate dimension and encounter various iterations/versions of themselves.It is easy to miss subtle clues such as Parker "losing" Randall for a bit,but later encounters him leaning against a tree.Parker comments on his hair,which is noticeably shorter.
They find a buried box and one of the items is a tape with some creepy ass speaking that even "cleaned up" sounds like it came from the pits of Hell.We see them encounter Audrey eventually, but later on, no sight of her. Summer turns to winter, for them, OVERNIGHT. We also get a glimpse of an abomination in the woods not too long before Randall is "found" and then hospitalised.
Obviously a fuck-load of shit went down in those "woods".A version of Parker is later found to still be wandering, and after Randall calls the contact for Parker on his phone, he reaches a version of him, and his friend and him travel shortly therafter to get to the bottom of things, only to find that the Parker in this timeline has no knowledge of Randall.At the end of that log, we see Parker murdered.
Randall keeps describing a corridor he "dreams" about and describes a "shadow man" that is completely devoid of light. We as an audience witness this at the end of Log #15.5.

Questions: What did the military do at that base to bring about such things? Assuming that what happened wasn't the desired result, what WERE they trying to achieve? It kind of makes me think of something like "The Philadelphia Experiment". Were they messing with something on a quantum level which created a time-space vortex? A couple thousand people went missing? Where are they? Are they all wandering around various occasions/versions of those woods? And, beyond that, what are the "creatures"? Are they warped versions of humans that remained too long, or are they beings that always existed somewhere else, who suddenly gained access to our 'reality' when the breach occurred?
I just remembered that there was another early,subtle clue that things were amiss on the first night that the three went exploring. It occurs not too long after they make it on base and they are more out in the open on the street/sidewalk. All of a sudden out of nowhere some people come charging out from God knows where. Upon first view, I just thought there were other people like them trying to explore the place and the urban myths about it. One of the three even says something like "I thought you said this place was empty/abandoned and no one was here?" When I watched the series a second time, I realized that is was THEMSELVES they encountered.

I know this is a wall of text, but I'm trying to get down everything I can while I have the time. Some here are debating if this is a Slender series or not and I can see some reasons why that would be a question, but I am pretty sure that it's not. If I had to compare it to anything, it would be more like some SCP Foundation type-event.

I have been recommending this series to others around the interwebs, and a few people over at reddit are now watching. This is one of the best series I have ever seen and I love all the elements and intrigue. The creators have a totally captive audience in me.

Edit:Just spent about an hour or so listening to the 3 audio logs.Even with headphones and many repeated listens, it's very difficult to make out what is being said.I am going to post what I transcribed to the best of my ability because what I CAN make out is definitely compelling.

Audio Logs:

Tape #368: *unintelligible* Randall maybe? "I can still hear the voices off in the distance.I know it's not them.The book has been hidden, kept safe...safekeeping.They want to find it.They still try to find it.It won't let me leave...it can't let me leave…."

Tape #612: "I might've found something in the book.I can't remember….you return there….I'm starting….remembering...this is not becoming a *unintelligible* force.

Tape #299: " ...promise you'll be a true warrior.If I don't return it to the graveyard by now, do something different. Bury this...the graveyard has a sixty-eight percent chance of…" *last part I cannot make out*

Tape #368 is the easiest to understand.I think he says "Randall" at the beginning, but I'm not sure. Whoever it is has a book or has found a book that is apparently very important.He says that he can hear voices in the distance. Whose voices? It's very interesting that he used the pronoun "they" twice and just after that, he uses the pronoun "it" twice, which seems to suggest that there is not only a group but also another "singular force/entity" that is separate, but powerful.

Tape #612 was the hardest to make out but the words and phrases I can kind of make out lead me to believe he found something noteworthy in the book and it seems like he may be remembering some things like maybe something in the book triggered a memory of something he forgot because of the aftermath of the "breach" or when he experienced an iteration/timeline with Randall, or maybe even someone else.My loose interpretation of this is that he is remembering important shit and taping it so that someone may find it later, hence, "The West Records".

Tape #299 sounds like he's talking to whoever his companion was, (Randall? Another soldier?) in trying to determine the truth about what happened. It sounds like, just as we saw in the video narratives/events, whoever is speaking is alluding to a search for the truth, but got FAR MORE than they bargained for, so they are warning the other person in maybe an alternate timeline, NOT to go to a certain place and/or to not do a certain thing, because of the horrible and irreversible consequences. He is warning him to choose a different path and to leave things alone.

The graveyard is definitely important and I need to go re-watch some of the early footage when the 3 of them started out. I cannot for the life of me discern what exactly is being said when he refers to the graveyard and "sixty-eight percent". Percent of what??

[Pandaren]

I MISS THIS SHOW! If there's anyone who is producing this, please continue! I love this series...it's so creepy & interesting!

I'd like to see more, if you don't mind....

[amrith777]

So... finally trying to formulate something coherent again regarding the events since I was last here.

This is a beginning placeholder in order to sort things out and inform, it will include basics, but I intend to put together something more detailed soon.

The events so far have kind of hinted at Lovecraftian type deal and there have been certain clever nods, but as far as I'm concerned at this point, looking at the most recent updates and Tweets, there is no doubt left in my mind.

The image of "The Black Man" that Randall described is Nyarlthotep. In Lovecraft's "Dreams of Unknown Kadath" , he confronts the protagonist Randolph Carter. The name of the main protagonist that Henry Phillips is researching --- Randall Carter.

Nyarlthotep is different from the rest of the Other Gods in that he attemtps to emulate humans and uses their language to convey his message and is "The Crawling Chaos" that seeks to inform mankind of the various secrets of science, Time and Space, etc even though it will be their undoing and he is said to perhaps be the one that will greatly contribute to the end of their world.

Nyarlthotep, along with the witch Keziah Mason (Dreams in the Witch House), is said to have revealed deep and forbidden knowledge to mankind through science, math, and quantum physics, even though it would be their undoing, not only in the physical world, but also metaphysical and mentally and emotionally it would lead to utter madness.

Clearly the events and details that Henry Phillips is sharing with us chronicle similar things.It seems that Nyarlthotep passed his knowledge along to the military personnel at the West Base and aided them in building a weapon that would undo their world. As we can see in "The West Records", it has already had catastrophic consequences.

The latest Tweet from Henry Phillips is a picture of a book of poems by Tennyson and was published not too long before the latest video log. Randall finds the passage given through code, which corresponds to a poem by Tennyson entitled "The Kraken". I was a bit surprised at this, because the other entity(ies) seemed to be tied to land. But, since that huge body of water seen in pics and also on Henry Phillips Twitter account seems rather important and has been referred to a few times, I can see that incorporated into things somehow.

There are many details in the past several Logs that I want to take notes on and also try to translate the few newer audio clips and I will edit this post when I do.

[Pandaren]

Thank you, amrith777! I was enjoying this series, and I wanted it to go on. I, too, was surprised at the reference to the Kraken...I was wondering if the streams on the various videos led to a pond, or river, where it could be seen. Was Randall getting too close to an experiment gone wrong?

I'm looking forward to seeing this story unfold. Thanks again, amrith777.

[amrith777]

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[AdvantageFire]

ALLIEENNSSS! I kid i kid...

It kinda looks like the rake to me but I have my doubts, looks really... damn creepy imo. would not like to see a close up of that bugger.

[amrith777]

[amrith777]

I am going to be jumping around here a bit, because there are so many things I have noted that are important. My intention is to document what I find and also to support my theories or to at least formalize my speculation.

In Log 4 (the night the trio goes back to the base) early on when they are checking out buildings and such, Randall is musing to himself and turns away from Walker and Emma and says to himself something like "The focus on this thing (the camera) is so goddamn hard..." and this is what we see as he pans left across the street and under a streetlamp:




With figure highly edited:






There is also an orange filter, which may be incidental, but I'm mentioning it, anyway. There is very noticeable glitching/noise/interference and there is a lone figure standing perfectly still. Randall does not seem to notice it, and pans right a bit and then back left and that quickly, the figure is gone.

Who or what is that? I believe this is the same night that they were running when they saw other people there, and one of them remarks something like "I thought you said there was no one else here...". I have mentioned this previously in this thread. I also believe I asserted that it was themselves that they encountered. This screen cap is also intriguing because, later on in this Log, they are in a graveyard of sorts and Randall gets beaned in the head by something, enough to make him bleed.

During my first viewing of these Logs, I thought it was maybe an entity that wanted them gone and was antagonizing them to leave or something similar.

But, NOW I believe that it was one of them trying to get their attention, similar to -possible Harry Potter spoiler-

[AdvantageFire]

that looks like a upload thumbnails box

[amrith777]

Are you referring to the last image I posted from Henry Phillips Twitter (the one that looks like maybe a screen and door or window with thr little "loading icon" in the middle?

If so, I assume you mean that you think it looks like a YouTube thumbnail image? It kind of does. It makes me wonder if it is a preview of whatever Henry mentioned he might have found on the hidden partition of the hard drive.

I questioned him and got no reply, so I am preparing my next major findings here that I'm trying to organize from the Log 18, which I cannot believe I skipped, but I was slammed at work and although I did participate some at the time, I realized when I viewed it again that it's a MAJOR upload and I am trying to do it justice.

[amrith777]

Regarding Log 18:
I am struggling to discern some things at the beginning of this Log. If I am interpreting it correctly, it appears as if Randall set up a camera to film his bathroom on a motion sensor. That makes sense when we realize that Log 19 contains the screen shots I uploaded of the "creature". But, what confuses me is the fact that they don't appear to be the same bathroom. Which still fits in because we have both time/space fuckery in this situation and Lovecraft elements which focus on the same otherworldly and dimensional shifts/layering.

So, I decided to attempt to "unstick" myself from going forward, and just documenting here what I am/think I am seeing and hopefully I won't be too far off, and or will get some help or feedback.

I have noticed that Henry posts certain comments that are rather cryptic, things that relate to him personally, even though he is supposedly just "the messenger" documenting and asking for help with some freaky and anomalous things he discovered where he works. He is in the military, and that seems very relevant, since a lot of this centers around a military base.
From the beginning, it has been my belief that his Twitter profile pic contains important info.

Anyway, for the moment, I'll mention these: Randall goes to search for a library, that is no longer there and burnt down. He decides to go the 1.5 miles to the site of the original one, and feels at first like he's being "fucked with".
There is a noticeable blue hue to some parts when he's in the woods, that I believe are important and noteworthy (although I may be wrong).
When the phone call from another dimension occurs and Randall finds the "Tennyson" book (that Henry had teased a screen-shot of not long before uploading Log Eighteen), the passage marked is about "The Kraken" and, given all we have been shown so far, is most likely referencing Cthulhu.

And then, the other entity appears and we see the aftermath of its affects on Randall in the most recent Log 19.

I am going to upload screen shots and supporting images so things might be more coherent.There is a shit ton of info, nuances,layers, and subtle details contained in Henry's posts and the Logs he uploads. I'm doing my best but I'm only one woman