History WebVideo / TheGreylockTapes

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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: "Waking Your Subconscious" begins with an instructional section of the same name. Some of the pre-test checklist items include turning off all light sources (except for the monitor used to view the tape), turning up the volume, and viewing the tape in one uninterrupted sitting, the first two of which are specifically mentioned to help with increasing feelings of fear that are important to the test. These instructions also help enhance the immersion of watching a horror video.

->''The devil has a plan for you...''

* AcidAttack: One of the malformed miners, Ramon C. Herrera, tends to randomly spit corrosive acid that also gives off nerve gas fumes.

* TemporalParadox: Something timey-wimey is implied to be happening in ''Waking Your Subconscious'', in the brief section of [[spoiler:the tape recorded by Paul Morelli. The information on screen helpfully notes that the tape was recoverd in April of 1987, but the date on camera suggests that the footage has been recorded in ''October'' 1987, almost half a year after the tape was found.]]

* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: When Troy is reviewing the camera footage in ''Waking Your Subconscious'', one of the shots he sees is of the exterior of the house, with nothing there. [[spoiler:Except after a few seconds, something moves on the roof, revealing that the creatures has been hiding in plain sight all along]]

* BungledHypnotism: A rare case of PlayedForDrama. In ''messages from the dead'', a psychologist guides [[spoiler:a young Tiffany Crisaldi]] through a hypnotic experience of her own empty home, [[spoiler:only for some sort of being to manifest itself within the vision, to his shock.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: In ''not here, not now, not anymore'', it's implied that Tiffany Crisaldi killed herself after the vanishing of her unborn child. [[spoiler:''messages from the dead'' suggests this may not be the case.]]

** In ''back online'', as the system is scrolling through cameras, it glitches out in the morgue, and is unable to display video. [[spoiler:''messages from the dead'' ends with a corpse in a morgue waking up [[CameBackWrong wrong]].]]

** Dr. Albrecht, the autopsy doctor in ''messages from the dead'', [[spoiler:correctly deduces that Tiffany's death requires further investigation - and then ignores the sounds of sobbing in the morgue where her corpse is stored.]]
** The employee from [=EverVigil=] Security Monitoring that contacts Charlotte Melgren in the middle of the night in ''Waking Your Subconscious'' to alert her to a disturbance on her property repeatedly tries to get her to let him call the police to have them investigate it while she stays in the house, but she refuses to listen and goes out to investigate herself. This is because the same thing has happened several times already over the past few weeks and the police didn't find anything those times, so she doesn't want to wait an hour for them to get there, [[ItsProbablyNothing thinking they won't find anything this time either.]] [[spoiler:Unfortunately for her, she's wrong. There ''is'' something there this time, and it had been there each previous time.]]

* ItsProbablyNothing: In ''messages from the dead'', [[spoiler:Dr Albrecht explains that when his assistant told him she heard sobbing coming from the morgue's body storage, he sent her home, assuming she was exhausted. He then reveals that he, too, heard the sobbing - and ignored it until after returning home himself.]]

* NothingIsScarier: We never find out what attacked the car in ''to the mountain''.
* OminousObsidianOoze: In ''messages from the dead'', [[spoiler:Tiffany's corpse has strange black ooze coming out of its eyes, baffling the doctor performing her autopsy.]]
* OminousVisualGlitch: Some thoughtforms - possibly ones not yet fully formed - appear on cameras as nothing more than screen distortions.

* PsychoPsychologist: In ''messages from the dead'', [[spoiler:young Tiffany's psychologist seems to deliberately be guiding her to create a mysterious additional room in her mental projection of her house, unwittingly releasing whatever was trapped inside.]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Implied with the unseen driver in ''to the mountain''; they spend several minutes looking around and then waiting, but the moment something (or some''one'') hits their car, they slam the gas pedal to the floor and don't stop.

* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: ''messages from the dead'' ends with [[spoiler:Tiffany breaking out of the locker her corpse is stored in at the morgue... except she CameBackWrong.]]

* SinisterSurveillance: The National Access Initiative is quickly revealed to be a conspiracy to spy on millions of Americans through the newly-installed electronics.

** The employee from [=EverVigil=] Security Monitoring that contacts Charlotte Melgren in the middle of the night in ''Waking Your Subconscious'' to alert her to a disturbance on her property repeatedly tries to get her to let him call the police to have them investigate it while she stays in the house, but she refuses to listen and goes out to investigate herself. This is because the same thing has happened several times already over the past few weeks and the police didn't find anything those times, so she doesn't want to wait an hour for them to get there, [[ItsProbablyNothing thinking they won't find anything this time either.]] [[spoiler:Unfortunately for her, she's wrong. There ''is'' something there this time. It was there the whole time.]]

* AllLowercaseLetters: All video titles are written as such.

** The employee from [=EverVigil=] Security Monitoring that contacts Charlotte Melgrin in the middle of the night in ''Waking Your Subconscious'' to alert her to a disturbance on her property repeatedly tries to get her to let him call the police to have them investigate it while she stays in the house, but she refuses to listen and goes out to investigate herself. This is because the same thing has happened several times already over the past few weeks and the police didn't find anything those times, so she doesn't want to wait an hour for them to get there, [[ItsProbablyNothing thinking they won't find anything this time either.]] [[spoiler:Unfortunately for her, she's wrong. There ''is'' something there this time. It was there the whole time.]]

** The employee from [=EverVigil=] Security that contacts Charlotte Melgrin in the middle of the night in ''Waking Your Subconscious'' to alert her to a disturbance on her property repeatedly tries to get her to let him call the police to have them investigate it while she stays in the house, but she refuses to listen and goes out to investigate herself. This is because the same thing has happened several times already over the past few weeks and the police didn't find anything those times, so she doesn't want to wait an hour for them to get there, thinking they won't find anything this time either. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for her, she's wrong. There ''is'' something there this time.]]

** The employee from [=EverVigil=] Security that contacts Charlotte Melgrin in the middle of the night in ''Waking Your Subconscious'' to alert her to a disturbance on her property repeatedly tries to get her to let him call the police to have them investigate it while she stays in the house, but she refuses to listen and goes out to investigate herself. Admittedly this is because the same thing has happened several times already over the past few weeks and the police didn't find anything the last few times, so she doesn't want to wait an hour for them to get there, thinking they won't find anything this time either. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for her, she's wrong. There ''is'' something there this time.]]

** The employee from [[=EverVigil=] Security that contacts Charlotte Melgrin in the middle of the night in ''Waking Your Subconscious'' to alert her to a disturbance on her property repeatedly tries to get her to let him call the police to have them investigate it while she stays in the house, but she refuses to listen and goes out to investigate herself. Admittedly this is because the same thing has happened several times already over the past few weeks and the police didn't find anything the last few times, so she doesn't want to wait an hour for them to get there, thinking they won't find anything this time either. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for her, she's wrong. There ''is'' something there this time.]]

'''Spoilers for all but the latest two episodes are untagged.'''

* HumanSacrifice: When Arnold Rivers explores the tunnels beneath Mt Greylock, he finds evidence that people have been sacrificed as offerings to the mountain over the ages.

* BrownNote: The tunnels beneath Mt Greylock seem to have that effect; within just a few days of uncovering them, the construction workers fall severely ill, their food begins to rot, and they themselves are slowly driven insane and mutated into bloodthirsty monsters.

* CameraAbuse: After Kate is attacked by a thoughtform, the recording skips ahead, showing the camera now splattered with blood.

* CompellingVoice: One of the miners transformed by Mt Greylock gains the ability to compel people to obey him.

* FacialHorror: Both the hostile thoughforms and the people mutated by Mt Greylock's influence have messed-up faces, ranging from emanciated appearance, through teeth growing where they shouldn't, to ''lack of skin''.

** The thoughtform that enters Kate's room takes a moment to chat with the girl, introducing itself as her imaginary friend and cleaning up her glasses for her. It still brutally kills her.

** Dr Albrecht, the autopsy doctor in ''messages from the dead'', [[spoiler:correctly deduces that Tiffany's death requires further investigation - and then ignores the sounds of sobbing in the morgue where her corpse is stored.]]

* AcidAttack: One of the malformed miners, Ramon C Herrera, tends to randomly spit corrosive acid that also gives off nerve gas fumes.

* CameFromTheSky: One of the videos contains a brief segment taken from a documentary talking about how another celestial body once crashed into Earth, implying that the malevolent force within Mt Greylock came from the outer space.

* EldritchLocation: The tunnels underneath Mt Greylock. They seemingly clear themselves of debris on their own shortly after being discovered, and they are filled with artifacts from dozens of ancient civillizations, including ones that have no business being in Massachusetts, such as Ancient Greeks and Egyptians. The place also seems to compel the people who come across it to head in deeper, and acts as a BrownNote to all intruders.

* WalkingWasteland: The malformed miner John S Rafferty basically becomes an unmoving, but never-decomposing corpse. Except he gives off toxic fumes that cause death or more malformations in people.