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—Los Alamos Laboratory Sign
As if national monuments holding terrible monstrosities within them were not enough, now we are treated to a world where secret government projects spiral into insidious incidents that makes one question the intentions of the United States.
Trinity Desk Project
- The Trinity Desk is the creation of a Manhattan Project in yet another alternative world. Whereas Trinity in our world referred to the atomic bomb, here, Trinity is a project that turned objects invisible, including the president's own desk. Sounds innocuous, right? That is until children playing hide and seek hide themselves inside the Trinity Desk. They are never found in time, and they die inside of it.
- The bones in the desk at first look like they are part of the desk until the desk itself starts to slowly fade away.
- The suspects for their deaths initially only seem to be three people, and then the image of the suspect list grows to the point that the number of suspects are in the hundreds.
- The Front Row at Nasa is a dream come true turned nightmare. America's best and brightest students are invited to watch a NASA rocket launch from an exclusive viewpoint they earned with their scholarly performance. Except it's not a cause for celebration as they thought it was. It's an execution, with the students placed at the base of the rocket.
- We are treated an image of the rocket, but as the video zooms towards the base, you slowly realize just how close "Front Row" is. As if to emphasize how insidious the project is, the ten-second countdown playing in the background gradually and loudly distorts to the point where it sounds more like a monster snarling than actual numbers.
- The next thing you know, you watch a video obscured by smoke and flames, listening to what may be the distorted howling of rocket engines... or what may be the students offscreen screaming as they're burned alive in the exhaust of the launching rocket.
- As if that were not horrible enough, NASA then has the sheer audacity to sell the students' ashes to their families in NASA merchandise. You have to wonder what sick mind would think to sell such merchandise, or what kind of family would be okay with buying them.
- Two Invisible Men makes this blatant horror seem more insidious, implying that the girl in the footage with the red chair has had invisible eyes on her ever since being chosen for the Front Row. How does the Trinity Desk Project play into this almost-too-obvious act of malice?
- Footage of Transparent Cat returns us to the Trinity Desk Project, where we are shown that the desk and inanimate objects are not the only things the project turned invisible. It can also make invisible human beings. The issue? We get a possible answer as to why the Trinity Desk project was given the authority to turn the president's own desk invisible. It might not be the same desk, or the same human. They're invisible copies.
- It would seem that even Oppenheimer was subjected to this, as there is a photo of an invisible copy of himself. That the photo has the phrase, "The stakes are too high for you to stay home," blaring over it implies bad things about these copies.
- And how are these things made invisible, you may ask? By exposing them to the radiation of an atomic bomb going off.
- Two Invisible Men tells a frightening story accompanied by nightmarish background audio. A woman and her dog find a buried video camera, containing three takes of the clip seen in The Front Row at Nasa of a girl showing off her folding chair... and in each, the woman can see shimmers of invisible figures in the background (if one rewatches the clip in The Front Row, nothing can be seen).
- Then, the woman's dog is taken by something unseen. The woman reports that it must have been the two invisible men in the video.
- This story adds another layer to the obvious horror of The Front Row at Nasa - because NASA seems to blatantly be killing the best and brightest students in the nation without much in the way of concealing it, even going so far as supposedly selling the students' ashes back to their families, are the rocket launch executions a cover-up of the students being subjected to a modern-day continuation of the Trinity Desk Project? And why can we hear them screaming if they would supposedly be instantly incinerated by the rocket during launch?
- OtherOppenheimer reveals the true objective of the Trinity Desk Project. Invisibility to human eyesight was never the final goal. Oppenheimer hypothesized the true potential of invisiblity is that it also renders one invisible to the laws of the universe, transforming that which is invisible into something akin to a god.
- We see an animation of the Trinity test itself, with a diagram showing the "Gadget" (i.e., the bomb) with a figure (presumably Oppenheimer) standing next to it for scale, the tower where it was placed, and a soft musical track covering the whole thing, only ending once the gadget detonates. A few minutes later, we see the animation again, but it's...changed. The colors are negative to the original, the labeled items have "OTHER" affixed, and instead of the figure standing next to the "OTHERGADGET," they seem to disappear inside of it. Then we see the Othertest, which instead of an explosion is an implosion which changes the color scheme back and brings back the music. If taken at face value, it seems to suggest that the Otheroppenheimer is not a creation of the test but a doppelgänger from an alternate reality seeking a way into the main one.
- LibertyLung is an unnerving Mythology Gag to the first episode of The Monument Mythos. There is no Liberty Lurker inside Ellis Island this time to eat anyone, but there is this giant... thing that pops the Statue of Liberty off its pedestal every Christmas Day so that it can "breathe".
- There is something fundamentally ''off'' with America as a location. National monuments such as the Statue of Liberty, the White House, and even natural formations like Devils Tower lay host to massive organ-like anomalies. It's as though the country itself is...alive.
- WhiteHouseHeart reveals there is definitely something about America that is alive. An organization called the DOCtors are trying to uphold something called the "Organic Curtain", behind which is "America's True Self". Whatever its True Self is, it is of such grave concern to the DOCtors that they even constructed a massive, butte-sized canvas to cover up something that hangs above Devils Tower. Whatever the Devils Tower Teeth is, the description is redacted.
