History NightmareFuel / MarbleHornets

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7DcVYRrUNg Entry #67]]: The distorted contents of the damaged tape Jay found. Totheark is hiding in the hospital, watching Alex as he hunts for Tim. After a few minutes of stalking, Totheark runs up and knocks Alex out with a lead pipe. Cut to Alex now bound in a chair while Tim, in his Masky persona, [[KickTheSonOfABitch beats the crap out of him. Totheark then takes Alex's gun and is about to kill him, but is scared off by the Operator. At the end of the video, we see Tim wake up in a field, confused as to what happened, and pick up his mask.]] This seems to take place immediately after the events of Entry #65.

'''Moments are spoilers off! Read at your own risk.'''

--->'''Jay''': Hello?
--->'''Distorted, low-pitched audio''': HELLO

-->I have the worst hheadache right now..
-->Keep thnking I'm hearing things.
-->.hea'ds poudning.
-->sllee pno.w

** There's the fact that Alex was stalking Tim after he escaped the Operator's realm, with the probable intention of murdering him given the gun he had on him. As if the nightmarish Eldritch Abomination stalking them and fucking with their minds wasn't bad enough, Jay and Tim have an honest to god psychopath hunting them down. Secondly given Alex's little smirk when ToTheArk/Hoodie was about to shoot him, its almost certain he knows the Operator is protecting him, and is thus pretty much untouchable.

* [[http://youtu.be/G7g1owxFHKk Entry #82]]: Tim's out of medicine, but finds some footage Jay left on his laptop. Before attacking Tim, Jay goes to Rosswood. After passing through the tunnel, the Operator briefly appears. Jay calls Tim, gets his voice mail, and leaves a message saying that Rosswood park [[AlienGeometries has changed its layout since the last time they were there.]] Okay, creepy enough. Then Jay has a coughing fit, begins having a seizure, and the Operator appears next to him, watching. The rest of the video is corrupted. To top it off, Tim claims he doesn't remember ever receiving the call.

---> ''You are who you are.''
---> ''You are you.''
---> ''Who are you?''
---> '''''Who are you?'''''
---> '''''WHO ARE YOU?'''''

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPiSh9aEzMA&feature=youtu.be Quadrant]]. Who am I? Am I the third? And then there's the audio overlapping with footage of Jay staking out in Benedict Hall. The audio in question? "DO NOT DO THIS"

--->''DO YOU KNOW''
--->'''''I HAVE FOR YEARS'''''

** In a strange meta-example, enttry #37 was originally uploaded for a very short time before disappearing mysteriously. It eventually turned out to be for a decidedly mundane reason and was reuploaded shortly afterward, but it didn't stop people from freaking the hell out in the interim. If nothing else, it shows just how paranoid this series can make you about anything out of the ordinary.

** The [[UncannyValley Operator doll from Entry #18]] makes a reappearance in the tunnel.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqsAWxVUUIU Entry #17:]]
** Don't look out the window.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BsPPQSwdVw Entry #18:]]
** When Jay turns around to see that somebody is sitting on a couch he walked by just a minute ago. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Masked Man.

** Jay: "Hello?" Distorted, low-pitched audio: "HELLO"

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE8aZZx1dTI&feature=player_embedded enttry #37]]:
** Let's just say that this whole thing dates back a bit further than we'd thought.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Jo6yrUVwM Entry #40]]:
** It looks like it is going to be another NothingIsScarier entry. Then just slightly past the 4:40 mark, dear sweet God in heaven, it's the Operator, and he ends up mere inches from Jay, and it looks like he might be reaching out for him. Jay, doing perhaps the first sensible thing ever in this series, drops the camera and books it.
** Just 30 seconds in, you can see off in the distance, [[http://alastairstephens.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/skillfully-crafted-diagram.jpeg somebody is leaning up against the tree off in the distance, likely totheark. We later see somebody again, [[http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x459/DHawk314/Person-1.png in Entry #42]], probably the same tree, probably the same guy, but we see him much clearer.]]

** And for once, The Operator's appearance didn't make a sound. Everything was silent. That is until he found Tim and Brian.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKiQM6DIJck Entry 54]]:
** The power goes out, and Tim goes to find the breaker box. As the lights come back on for a brief moment, we're greeted with a pan around the room in which we see The Operator standing in the corner. Then the power goes back out.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fw0i-bbc7M Entry 56]]:
** Exploring the abandoned hospital is bad enough, but then Alex attacks Tim with a metal pipe, and the Operator appears shortly after.

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** [[NightmareFuel Don't look out the window.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7QXQZjp5XM Entry ######.]] Apropos of nothing, it becomes apparent that Totheark has the capability to [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive hack into Jay's social media with ease]] (which, [[WordOfGod according to Troy]], comes from Totheark being [[ParanoiaFuel "very good at spying on people"]]). The quote at the top? ''That's just the'' '''''first''''' ''of the threats heard in the video.'']] Shudder.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLIpL26ztFo Entry #26:]] For starters, it couples random creepy images with more audio distortion. Then it shifts to the main point of the story. The [[NightmareFuel fun]] begins as soon as the [[HesBack image tears]].

** As Alex was beating the guy, we get the signature sound and picture distortion. So, does that mean that Slendy is there, that [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Slendy is controlling Alex, or that [[TheVirus Alex is becoming one of Slendy's agents?]]]]

** Hoody steals Tim's medication, then watches from the closet while Tim has a ''horrific'' seizure. At the end of the entry, Tim staggers off, trance-like, to Rosswood Park...with his Masky persona back in control.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNazUSCAEBw Entry 70]]: The first of the burned tapes that Jay and Tim found. It begins innocently enough, with Alex driving at night when his phone rings. After chatting for a bit with Amy, Alex pulls over and starts walking around [[ChekhovsGun the same park from way back in Entry 4]]. Once Alex reaches the playground, the camera tears and the Operator appears behind Alex. Unafraid, Alex demands to know what the Operator wants and tries to attack it, only for the Operator to [[OffscreenTeleportation teleport ''[[SubvertedTrope onscreen]]'' and make Alex stumble. In the closing narrative, Jay suspects that Alex wanted to burn these tapes because they are connected with Amy.]]

** The real terror doesn't begin until Tim and Jay decide to check out the basement. After the pair have a brief look around, Tim notices that it's gone completely dark outside; when Jay looks out the window, it's night (a stark contrast to the late afternoon of just a few minutes earlier). [[JumpScare And then they turn around and come face to face with the Operator. Both men escape through the back door, but Jay is unable to follow Tim. Tim escapes through a field and, after catching his breath, goes back to the house to rescue Jay. The Operator is waiting for him, and Tim slowly staggers towards him, coughing violently as distortion swallows the screen....]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDeOkTbQ1U8 Entry #74]] is a BreatherEpisode for the most part, but contains subtle signs that things are about to get much worse. It starts with Tim buying a few groceries and driving back to the hotel, to see that Jay has finally recovered from the attack in Entry #72, or at least enough to think clearly. Tim recounts the events of Entry #72, as well as the mysterious uploading of entry #73. He then explains that he's been sharing his pills with Jay, in hopes that they would protect him. [[UngratefulBastard Jay snaps at Tim for drugging him.]] The real horror is when Tim explains that [[OhCrap He's almost out of medicine and refills]]. The only place they can get more is Tim's house, where Alex is hiding in the attic, and they know it.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHiGEqFvoso Entry #77]] starts with Jay approaching Tim's house with a knife ready. He knocks on the door and tells Tim that [[BlatantLies he just wants to talk. Tim doesn't fall for it, however, and manages to subdue Jay before pointing out the latter's irrational thinking in accusing the former of being responsible for Jessica's disappearance despite being brain-washed at the time. It ends with Tim walking away, leaving [[DecoyProtagonist Jay]] as a psychotic wreck tied down on the floor, angrily begging for his camera. Tim is officially the new protagonist.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tKRictWEEI Entry #85]] starts off with Tim meandering around his house in a plaintive manner waiting for Alex to come find him so they can finish this. When Alex finally comes around, how does he try to finish this? By setting Tim's house on fire, all the while [[NeverMyFault blaming Tim for everything that went wrong throughout the series, from the coming of The Operator to the deaths of the cast and crew. While Tim does make it out alive, it really does show how much Alex has fallen, as well as spin a glorious shitheap of FridgeHorror on Tim's connection to The Operator.]]

* NightmareFuel is the point of Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos.
** [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos We're all]] [[WebVideo/MarbleHornets frightened by the]] Slender Man, but the scariest aspect of it is probably how he was specifically created to become a MemeticMutation UrbanLegend, [[ParanoiaFuel and that people have actually started hearing rumors and having literal nightmares about him]]. [[GoneHorriblyRight Almost as if it worked too well.]]
** ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'' in particular has the honour of being worthy of this list despite nothing really actually happening. For crying out loud, this series made a guy opening a door and walking through into one of the scariest moments ever.
* The page for the [[http://www.marblehornetsdvd.com/ Marble Hornets DVD]] currently just reads "See You Soon" with music that is pure fear in its most distilled form.
** While the "See you soon" is gone now, the fear is still there. Also, Clicking "Buy Now" used to send you to a JumpScare.
*** [[FromBadToWorse It got worse with the Second Season DVD.]] The first disc's main menu more specifically: The design follows around a bare light bulb fading in to show the menu options and later fades out in a loop. However, whether it be intentional or just a GoodBadBug, when it fades in the second time, [[NothingIsScarier the menu options don't show up.]]
* Masky's mask. It's ominous, almost wrong.
** The weirdest thing is how it seems to be either smiling slightly, or completely blank. Either way, it does not say much good about who wears it.
* The series takes place in [[DeepSouth Alabama]]. The two roads in the Introduction are Country Road 52 and then Highway 31. The locations in Entry #5 and Entry #21 are in [[http://www.alapark.com/oakmountain/ Oak Mountain State Park]]. For those who live in Alabama, it means that [[ParanoiaFuel everything is happening around where they live.]]
** It's also been confirmed by WordOfGod. They all live in Alabama, and based on how they talk about it, they absolutely hate it.
* Dear God. From the first entry where you first see Slendy, to Entry 11 where you will scream "He's in the house!" all the way to the utter fear of Entry 19 where someone is watching you sleep. Does nothing to you and then with a cut of the camera you are gone for 3 hours and have no idea what happened. Lastly, on the Meta side: the idea that Jay is now a target simply because he was curious about what freaked out his friend and wanted to figure out what was going on.
** To really drive this all home, let's go more in-depth with the Mythos. The focus is on a HumanoidAbomination (who provides the trope page image) who is really tall, [[NoodlePeople very thin]], and [[TheBlank has no face]]. His "arms" [[CombatTentacles are actually tentacles]], and [[WhenTreesAttack he may actually be a humanoid tree]]. He can teleport himself and others anywhere, he gives people a mysterious cough, and he drives people insane. And sometimes, he doesn't really bother trying to attack his victims right away. [[NothingIsScarier Instead, he simply stands there. Outside your window. Or in your living room. Or right by your bed. Just biding his time. Doing nothing. Absolutely nothing.]]
*** The only two times he could ever been thought to actually do anything physical in MH is when he enters a character's bedroom and the character is later seen with blood on his face, and when there is a mysterious fire. That's it. And yet it makes him so many times creepier than if he actively attacked people. Mostly, he just stands there. Watching you. Screwing with your mind. Watching as you slowly drive yourself crazy out of sheer paranoia...
** A particularly common idea in the Mythos is that [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the more you read about Slendy, the more likely it is that he'll start following you, too]], to the point where Maduin of ''Blog/AReallyBadJoke'' once did an experiment where he introduced three people to the stories by different methods and tracked how long it took for Him to find them. Aside from the one who was introduced via NightmareRetardant MemeticMutation, it was three weeks or less.
* One word: Psychosomatic. When watching these videos, it's not at all uncommon for people to start having headaches, coughing for no apparent reason, becoming more and more paranoid, and having trouble sleeping. There are perfectly good reasons for all of it. Staring raptly at a computer screen for hours at a time watching the videos would be enough to give anyone a headache; rapt fascination is likely to lead to a person neglecting to drink enough while watching, the resulting dry throat makes you cough; who wouldn't be paranoid after watching these? And did you know that paranoia is a major cause of insomnia and poor sleep? But the paranoia is enough to make most people disregard other possible causes for the headaches, coughing, and bad sleep so they assume [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Slendy is really out to get them now.]] It's honestly [[GoneHorriblyRight rather brilliant.]]
* For anyone that suffers petit mal seizures, aka absent seizures, some of the behavior of characters can be kind of scary when it's caused by the Operator. These seizures usually manifest as moments of 'staring spells' but sometimes suffers will walk around and hold conversations with no memory of what just happened, among other things.
* Have fun watching this series if you have Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, or even the Common Cold - as with most other Slender Man stories, his presence can be detected if a person gets a sudden coughing jag. [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Guess what that means for you?]]
* At one point, the ''Marble Hornets'' site was just an empty black screen with one small caption: [[NothingIsScarier "Pending investigation, this site is not available."]] However, the site is back to normal now. Use Website/WayBackMachine, I guess.

* [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking This series becomes a lot scarier when your name is Jay or Tim.]]

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** In the second part, during the shot where Jay points out the red tower, look near the pine trees in the left. The Operator was there the whole time.