The Dead Are Watching



The Dead Are Watching is an Alternate Reality Game taking place in The Slender Man Mythos. It follows Leo, a reclusive man in Campbell Country. With his Ouija Board, a Necronomicon, and a need for proof of the paranormal Leo is hoping to summon something. He preforms a ritual that should bring the dead to him. Little does he know that what he summons is much more malicious than expected. When symbols and a certain faceless slender man appears things really take a turn for the worse.

View the series, with ordered playlist provided, here.

The Dead Are Watching provides examples of:

 * Altum Videtur: "Reconciliation and Penance (Leo)". This message was translated from binary to Latin then from Latin to English.
 * Arc Symbol: There are two symbols prevalent so far. The symbol of the Watchers and a new symbol which has been identified as Choronzon's mark.
 * Brown Note: The Slender Man, as always.
 * Beige Prose / Minimalism : The entries are short, as is the text, to keep viewer's attention.
 * Big Bad: The Watchers and their cultists who wear white masks.
 * Bigger Bad: The Slender Man
 * The Call Knows Where You Live
 * Captain Ersatz: Of Maskie.
 * Dark Secret: In Entry 37 Leo mentions some previously undiscussed personal history while suffering some Sanity Slippage. He has yet to elaborate.
 * Follow the Leader: The account is subscribed to Marble Hornets, Tribe Twelve and Dark Harvest. Coincidence?
 * Freeze-Frame Bonus: Sometimes highlighted in an "exerpt", but occasionally without.
 * Haunted Headquarters: Leo's home.
 * Humanoid Abomination: The Slender Man and the Watchers
 * Nightmare Face: In Entry 37.
 * Oh Crap: In Entry 30 Leo goes into his backyard to confront some masked strangers, but ends up getting an even bigger surprise.
 * Through the Eyes of Madness: We only have the videos and Leo's word that something is wrong,.
 * A True Story in My Universe: The Necronomicon that is written by the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred
 * Sensory Abuse: Videos get very loud and distorted when something paranormal happens.
 * Show, Don't Tell: Leo's wife gets all of ten seconds of screen-time, but apparently she was dragged across the room towards a closet by an unseen force. Later she is seen during a distortion of reality.
 * Slasher Smile: A particularly chilling one is given by at the end of Entry 32 and again at the end of Entry 42. Could he be a Reluctant Monster?
 * Spooky Photographs: His captured video and a picture found in a journal are Leo's first hints that something is wrong.
 * Religion of Evil: The main villains of the series for the time being.
 * Unreliable Narrator: Leo. He seems to be hiding personal information about his past.
 * Wham! Episode: Entry 27.
 * Entry 39
 * Entry 40
 * Entry 43
 * X Meets Y: Marble Hornets meets Silent Hill.