Marble Hornets/Nightmare Fuel

The Entries
"I have the worst hheadache right now..
 * Hell, look no further that Entry #1. There's no sound, firstly, so you don't know what's happening. Then Alex peeks out a window, and we meet our star.
 * Entry 2: Alex talks about seeing a weird skinny guy in a business suit who scared his Evil-Detecting Dog, Rocky. Rocky is never heard from or seen again in the entire series. Paranoia Fuel for those of us with pets.
 * Entry 3: We're four and a half minutes into the series and Alex is already showing Sanity Slippage including taping himself at all times, thinking someone's watching him, wandering the woods and avoiding contact with people. And all of this has the audio distortion to it denoting the Operator is nearby, watching.
 * Entry 4: Alex is at an Abandoned Playground at night. Worse is the swings swinging as if something's in there and not in sync with each other like they would be if it was the wind.  And since there's no audio, there's no build up, leading to sudden horror.
 * Entry 5: Jump Scare + Hell Is That Noise. And then all of us gained a new found fear of audio distortion.
 * In the second part, during the shot where Jay points out the red tower, look near the pine trees in the left..
 * Entry 6 is one of the briefest, quietest entries in the series, but it gives us our first extended look at the Operator. . If the previous entries didn't spook you, then this one sure will.
 * Entry 7:
 * Entry 9: The Fridge Horror variety. During the first half of the video you can hear children playing in the background. After the cut, the children are gone.
 * Entry 10: Just... watch it.
 * Entry 11: In true Nothing Is Scarier fashion, there is absolutely no acknowledgment that anything is wrong aside from Jay's comments on the video that "Alex missed something." What he missed was Slendy standing in his house. Alex walked right past him.
 * Entry 12: It starts out normal, then there's a sudden burst of distortion. The colors all seem much dimmer and darker than before. Then, at the 46 second mark, the camera turns to show a field. It seems like a Nothing Is Scarier entry,
 * In Entry #14, a guy walks through a door.
 * This entry takes it to another level when the reader's name is Alex.
 * Entry 16. The bloody sink. As in, a sink stained with blood.
 * Oh no, the real terror? At 3:50, the video tears. Meaning that Slendy was in the house watching and Jay never saw him.
 * Entry 17. If you look out the window you can see what appears to be someone's back in a suit.
 * Plus, it seems to be the usual regular scene interrupted by distortion that's become predictable at this point. Until
 * Entry #18. When Jay turns around to see that somebody else is sitting on a couch he walked by just a minute ago. Ladies and gentlemen, meet.
 * The white doll is pretty damn scary enough. It's presence just feels so out of place with normalacy that its scary.
 * Entry #19. Because staring at someone through a window at night isn't creepy enough for, he has to
 * "Oh god, he keeps moving, he keeps moving, he "
 * Fridge Horror: If entry #25 is to be believed,
 * God, please be a fire escape.
 * By episode 25,  Not that that really makes it any better...
 * For added hide-under-the-bed factor, J apparently disappeared from the tape for three hours afterward. And then a few days later, totheark posted "Return." And, well... just watch it.
 * Entry 22. Alex is exploring some sort of weird industrial-looking place, with a friend filming. It's dark, there's lots of low-key distortion, they find some blood, and then all of a sudden, MASSIVE BURST OF DISTORTION. He drops the camera; sudden cut to Alex somewhere completely different, saying everyone is "gone" and he doesn't remember anything after that. Then OMG shadow.
 * Entry 56 strongly implies that this boiler room is in the basement of the same hospital where
 * In Entry 23, things get really, really weird. As in,
 * Not to mention
 * The fact that  is very unsettling.
 * Entry ######.
 * Shudder.
 * Entry 26. For starters, it couples random creepy images with more audio distortion. Then it shifts to the main point of the story. The fun begins as soon as the image tears.
 * Entry 27 while very mild, it points out that a new time of terror begins. Plus the whole amnesia of the last seven months.
 * Entry 29, on the other hand, comes complete with visual tearing, audio distortion, pools of fresh blood, and being cornered by Slendy in a drainpipe just before the video ends. Yeep.
 * The first upload of Entry 31 had video errors that weren't deliberately doctored in. Interpret that how you will...
 * Entry 32. In addition to having the worst audio & video distortions yet and a terrifed Jessica explaining she's been going through the same stuff that happened to Jay,
 * Entry 30 has some subtle, but major foreshadowing to Jessica's reveal, with the camera picking up a
 * What is in Jessica's room? All through Entry 32 she keeps giving these terrified glances over her shoulder, into her room. What is she looking at?
 * When told by Jay to leave her door open, she keeps it barely ajar. In the next entry, the door is almost halfway open. This leads me to believe that when Jay wasn't looking Jessica was chased to her door, tried to get it open, and was dragged away by something before she could get through.
 * Entry 33.
 * And the ...
 * Watch closely right before
 * Entry 34.  Yeah, creepy as hell. But, if that's not enough,   But if that's STILL not enough,   It's just a board that falls over, but still, holy crap!
 * Entry 35. After already revealing that, we get to see  . Holy Hell...
 * And the fact that
 * Made even worse when, after the camera has fallen to the floor and we have seen both Alex and Jay too preoccupied to hold it,
 * The isolation of the main character. There's hardly any dialogue, most of the characters are either  or   and as the series continues, we realize that Jay is going to have to survive this and figure it out by himself. He can't trust anyone, given   and  . Everyman HYBRID is slightly less scary due to the fact that it's a group of people who can help each other. Jay doesn't get that privilege.
 * Driven home with Jay's Christmas Tweet: "Another lonely Christmas". Tear Jerker aside, it just makes you realise the fact that for more than a year, this guy's life has been in absolute shambles.
 * This series of Tweets from 3/22/11, after Jay tries to upload Entry #37 and finds out he's been locked out of his Youtube account:%The typos are all from the original%
 * This series of Tweets from 3/22/11, after Jay tries to upload Entry #37 and finds out he's been locked out of his Youtube account:%The typos are all from the original%

Keep thnking I'm hearing things.

.hea'ds poudning.

sllee pno.w"

"Alex: If I ever see you again, I'LL KILL YOU!."
 * An Unfiction commentator put horrifically well: "I think we just saw the last vestiges of J fade away".
 * When "enttry #37" finally did get released... well, let's just say
 * In a strange meta-example, it 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.
 * Entry 38 has
 * Just the way he tells the story. There's no real reason for it to be, but his matter-of-fact tone as he walks through the creepy woods to some unknown destination, especially combined with the abrupt ending of the clip, makes the whole thing far more frightening than it should be.
 * Especially given his actions in 35 and 36. I know that he was under threat at the time, but still. His casual attitude was not normal.
 * "As for "enttry 37". I did not post it. I don't know where this footage came from.
 * Entry #39: Jay is waiting for in a parking lot at night. After apparently waiting a while, he decides to take a nap in his back seat, with the camera facing the back window. After 40 minutes (in-universe),  . Woah.
 * It says a lot about the scariness of the series, since all does is just walk by,  and leaves. Any yet it left the viewers is wide-eyed terror.
 * Well turns out . That...doesn't really make things any better.
 * Entry #40. It looks like it is going to be another Nothing Is Scarier entry. Then just slightly past the 4:40 mark
 * Even when the screen tears, you know that something really really bad is about to happen.
 * Forget the tear, the heavy distortion and the focus on an ominous location (the chimney) is enough to signal a savvy watcher that it is about to happen. It's like seeing a train wreck unfold before your eyes and just keep on watching, fully knowing what is about to come.
 * Also, in a bit of Fridge Horror, we later find the cause of the distortion midway through the video.
 * Entry 41. It picks up from where the last tape left off, with the camera still on the ground. It gets picked up and, after a series of nice nature shots, gets returned to Jay's car.
 * Note that
 * Entry 43. It starts off innocent enough, filling in the gaps between entries. Then, with a little less than one minute left, The sudden Jump Scare is bad enough, coupled with the disturbing detail we get on said figure, but any hope of sleep disappears when
 * Word of God says they don't use a mannequin because they're broke. Look at the detailing in this video and remember it isn't a mannequin. So what is it then?
 * An actor in a suit? Stilts, arm extensions, a mask. He's never seen in focus or up close, so you wouldn't even have to make the costume very realistic.
 * The Slender Man Mythos say that Slendy can put people into a trance-like state, rendering them unable to do anything except walk into his arms. Jesus...
 * Entry 44, unsurprisingly.  Then Jay informs us that
 * Entry 45. Alex chases  What makes it creepy is how unhinged Alex sounds.
 * Entry 44, unsurprisingly.  Then Jay informs us that
 * Entry 45. Alex chases  What makes it creepy is how unhinged Alex sounds.


 * From the very start, the subtle audio and video distortions in 45 prove that Troy and Joseph have successfully created Pavlovian fear responses in their audience.
 * The freaky way in which
 * Perhaps they
 * Entry 46; Jay enters Alex's house while he takes out the trash, but is forced to hide when Alex returns. However, he leaves his flashlight on the chair, giving himself away quickly. Alex calls Jay and tells him to reveal himself. Jay exits the closet and the operator is right there in the window staring in. They hide in the darkness of the hallway, with Alex expressing his anger at Jay for leading The Operator back to him. When Jay turns to the window, The Operator is gone. Jay turns around to tell Alex,
 * And, to make matters worse, Alex Fantastic.
 * Another option is  That... really doesn't make things better.
 * The Totheark crew ran at the sight of the Operator. . The implications are terrifying.
 * Entry 47 is mostly a Breather Episode- no Operator, no Masky, not even any distortion indicating they're nearby. Nevertheless, it's still unsettling, simply because Alex is acting so violent and unstable that it seems like Jay is in real danger.
 * Alex's epic Death Glare is pretty unsettling...
 * Not to mention the static sound the camera makes whenever Alex gets close to it.
 * Just. Alex. Seriously. He only gets worse throughout the episode. There's all of the above and then, we find out that he And then, to make matters even worse, the episode ends off with the chilling line:  Yikes.
 * This one is much scarier after a couple more entries, when.
 * Plus, there's the way that Jay keeps leaning forward and back during the phone call, meaning that savvy viewers will likely spend the whole scene on edge waiting for Slendy to appear in the background the next time his head moves.
 * While Entry 48 is fairly low key, its concept is unnerving: Jay, and casually introduces the video with this revelation. Considering the series premise, this is not a good sign.
 * There is also an incredibly brief The creepiest part is how  for the rest of the video. The fact that Jay doesn't seem to notice does not help.
 * And now, in Entry #49, we find out where the blood way back in 29 came from.  I feel sorry for anyone who has sympathy for Alex after this.
 * Alex got driven insane by the Operator to the point of  That's some serious mind rape right there.   Oh, and at the end of the video  ...
 * Apparently, Jay edited out some of the more disturbing things Alex did, just telling us what happened in the interim. Somehow that's just so much worse.
 * A little bit of Fridge Horror: Where was Alex when Slendy showed up?
 * I made some jokes about Alex being a food delivery service for Slendy after watching this entry. Then I thought about it and it wasn't funny anymore.
 * After about a week, Jay updated his twitter to declare that after searching for the identity of  via missing persons reports, he has come up with nothing. This either means that , or more sinisterly
 * Little bit of Fridge Horror:
 * Entry #50: First the Nothing Is Scarier segment when, and then later when he shouts after -- the combination of the  and being out of breath lends his voice a quality very similar to Alex's Sanity Slippage episodes in later entries.
 * When the camera blurs and focuses on Alex, look past him.
 * What part of the entry was that (time please)?
 * Given what happened in the previous episode, it's hard not to think that
 * Entry 51.
 * Oh, you can do better than that. How about
 * And for once,
 * Plus,
 * Entry #52... Ho, boy. First off, it continues the events of Entry 48, with Jay and Jessica going to meet with Alex at Rosswood Park. He takes them to an abandoned buidling and leads them upstairs. He tells Jay that what he wants to show them is across the room, so Jay walks over, sees nothing and turns around . It gets even better when  . And that's just the first part of the video.
 * Then you have Jessica screaming in the middle of the night, Jay running to her aid and tackling the Operator with her seemingly not there, and dropping to the floor and not moving for some time... which they then wake up from just fine, if amnesiac. The Operator erased seven months in just one night.
 * The montage of Alex's terrible actions really puts the series into a new perspective and changes a lot of the dynamic of Season 1.
 * Since the climax of Season 2, Jay's twitter account has continued relaying his findings. One month after the uploading of entry 52 he suddenly starts sleeping "much too well", while continuing to  he seems to find nothing at all. Then another month afterwards his channel once again flares up, and he reports that he is once again not sleeping, and it seems to be getting worse, and worst of all he is becoming increasingly tempted to  . Also the records of his attempts to   seem to imply that the town he is in is unusually depopulated whenever Jay is there. Which given the history surrounding Rosswood Park and the legends of what people from nearby used to do there, cannot mean anything good.
 * Also, the store  was seen walking out of in #52 has been closed ever since he was seen. The fact that it is apparently an Antique shop just reeks of Lovecraft
 * And then he breaks in and looks around. One display case has dolls. Okay. One corner has paintings of woods. Okay, that's natural too. Another display case has old video cameras...oookay. And there's a painting of a man in a garden with no face. OMG JAY, GET OUT OF THERE.
 * It's only further cemeted when the guy drives back and is dragging something heavy across the floor upstairs. He's also talking about having everything delivered except for one more item. Yeah Jay...it's about time you run FAR FAR away.
 * And now Jay has taken his stalking of Tim to the length of following his trail to a mental health clinic and waiting to confront him. This itself is very, very bad and unnerving. However as of this posting on 03/09/2012 the twitter account has been updated to simply state the next upload will be tommorow. Oh crap.
 * While many were expecting #53 to not be pleasant due to the aforementioned "Tim Stalking", it was very much a breather episode with the two exchanging calm and friendly conversation before Tim gives Jay his number. However, during this conversation, Tim received a phone call from an unknown person.... and started coughing. A few moments later when they exchange numbers the video just slightly begins to tear.
 * Also the implication we will see  is pretty unnerving in itself, especially given what we now know
 * Entry 54. Starts out innocently enough - Jay picks up the tapes from Tim, nothing special. But then we get to the first tape. We're greeted with some lighthearted humor, with Alex, Brian, and Tim all hanging out on a rainy day, talking about the soundtrack for their film. Then the power goes out. Tim starts to look for the fuse box, when the power turns back on. We're greeted with, then the power goes back out. After Tim gives up on the fuse box, the trio decides to just get back to their jam session in the dark, blissfully unaware of what's causing   The last thing we see before the tape ends?  . Sweet dreams.
 * And if you pay close attention, you can see the light from the flashlight that Brian's holding jerk towards the doorway moments before  enters, meaning  . Imagining that sequence from Brian's perspective is truly terrifying.
 * At the end of the entry, when Alex turns off the keyboard, and then stares straight into the camera with a serious face right before, as if he's waiting for it to happen.
 * Entry 55. While entirely a breather episode, we are treated to a brief pan of nothing but a pool fence - and the upright poles of it make one instantly think it's The Operator making a trademark background appearance. Also, we're treated to
 * Tim's phone call at the end.
 * Entry 56 Exploring the abandoned hospital is bad enough, but then
 * Also the increasingly sinister nature of the hospital now that its all but been confirmed . Not only that but Alex seems to be   This raises the question of just what the hell is going on with that hospital.
 * Entry #58 has now revealed the hospital to be located
 * Entry 57 Tim after being attacked by Alex, aimlessly walks in an abandoned building at night, in the darkness. While his cough just gets worse. Then he sees Alex, looking for him with a flashlight and a tube to finish him off. He hides from him, but his cough appears again, endangering him of being found. He tries to control it, but he coughs harder and harder and
 * You might argue that  appears more than that one time. In the forest, you see a
 * Oh and, the first time he descends from the building, at some point  Tim never realizes. Have fun sleeping at night.
 * Entry 58 Mostly a Breather Episode, especially after the lest entry, with Tim and Jay exploring the abandoned hospital, and a nearby building. However, near the end, Jay spots a hooded man walking down a hallway, and takes off after him.  The man gets away, but Jay speculates that he went into a long, dark maintenance tunnel, which Jay plans to explore later, on his own.
 * And according to twitter, he's been feeling sick ever since the visit...
 * After more than two weeks of silence, Jay tweets that he can't reach Tim, hoping he hasn't disappeared. Given where they went in Entry #58, this could mean many things. Most of them involving Masky.
 * And according to twitter, he's been feeling sick ever since the visit...
 * After more than two weeks of silence, Jay tweets that he can't reach Tim, hoping he hasn't disappeared. Given where they went in Entry #58, this could mean many things. Most of them involving Masky.

Totheark
"You are who you are.
 * Addition, which only needs two words: SEE YOU.
 * Return, where we see what might have happened during the 3 missing hours of entry 19...
 * Warning: Smile for Death.
 * Every video has at least some kind of variation of Nothing Is Scarier and/or Hell Is That Noise, with a healthy dosage of Mind Screw and Fridge Horror when combined with the entry they are responding to (especially in the case of Exit, Return, and Addition).
 * Admission IS the trope Nothing Is Scarier.
 * Fragments
 * Broadcast. The description is creepy enough.  Couple it with the weird, possibly underwater footage and that deep warped voice.
 * Somebody took the trouble to make out what's said in the video:
 * Forecast. First, there's the Hell Is That Noise music track. Then, there's that.. that.. thing at the start of the video. (Which, by the way, is footage from 1940 documentary Experiments in the Revival of Organisms featuring an animal lung powered by machines.) Then, we have totheark speaking unnaturally straightforward. And then, we have the actual video footage towards the end.
 * And the best thing? When the video was first posted, there were reports of viewers    
 * Intermission. Again, Totheark is disturbingly coherent, and a horrific picture of... someone lying in a clearing. Then we find out that the random distortion in Entry 40 as Jay was walking through the woods was caused by someone else with a camera...
 * Indicator. Creepy Doll does this video no justice. It looks like it just crawled out of a Death Metal music video, but instead of ugly Scandinavians bellowing words that start with de-, we get audio that may sound like they came from Rlyeh.
 * And the eyes? Gone. One has been replaced with an operator key.
 * Memories. Glowing Eyes of Doom, creepy distortion, Mind Screwy messages? Yeah, this is an average ToTheArk episode and- wait, is that ?
 * Inquiry. Super creepy images, super creepy soundtrack, and it's all in grainy black and white.
 * On the twitter, someone pointed out this is embedded in the audio and can only be found when viewed in a spectrographing program. It says
 * Inquiry. Super creepy images, super creepy soundtrack, and it's all in grainy black and white.
 * On the twitter, someone pointed out this is embedded in the audio and can only be found when viewed in a spectrographing program. It says

You are you.

Who are you?

Who are you?

WHO ARE YOU?"


 * He/She/They have kept quiet for a while now, since Inquiry was posted. Seeing as every time this happens, serious Wham Episodes tend to follow, it has the same affect as Nothing Is Scarier.
 * He/She/they are back. which only add to the growing suspicion of  being far more sinister than he seems.
 * What may be the most terrifying bit is that Jay hasn't acknowledged it. Nothing on his twitter feed about it.
 * Sidenote. Loud, creepy noises. And just what is that guy saying?
 * He's saying: "You've done nothing but make things worse." Echoing Alex from Entry 47 (it may even be using the same voice clip, just heavily distorted). Doesn't make things any better.
 * The description "remainseated iwillfindyou" sounds really foreboding.
 * And unlike more recent totheark videos, this one came out fast; less than a day after Entry 48.
 * Even worse: the video says "this is the best part". Masky is eager for Jay to view the next tape.
 * It Gets Worse. On September 2nd 2011, Jay claims to have finished going through the footage on his Twitter account. And he does not want to share what he has seen! It's time to be afraid.
 * In light of Entry 49, "remainseated iwillfindyou" comes off as more relieving. TTA knows shit is about to go down, and is not gonna let Jay die (by Alex's hand anyway). TTA will probably stay cryptic as long as possible, and work behind the scenes, but will, if nothing else, keep Alex from bashing Jay's head in.
 * Extraction. Limping Masky? Oh yes. Limping down an empty road, full of purpose, straight at the camera? Ohhh yeah. Not to mention those spliced-in clips of... something. And of course the question totheark poses: HOW MUCH DO YOU HATE?
 * Reminder. The first totheark video of the new season. Worst of all, it makes you realize


 * Some Fridge Horror also strikes when you realize the video was taken in daytime... which means
 * Also, just to add to the creepy factor, at about 10 seconds in a nightmare face flashes across the screen, and also the audio in the last few seconds of the video
 * Decay.
 * Not to mention the Jump Scare of... someone with glowing eyes.
 * Session. A lot of black and white clips that look eerily like home movies. And the video doesn't focus on any of the Marble Hornets members, or even Slendy himself.
 * Session. A lot of black and white clips that look eerily like home movies. And the video doesn't focus on any of the Marble Hornets members, or even Slendy himself.

Troyhasacamera
"totheark tried to make a Youtube Poop."
 * Very Bad Fan Fiction was funny. This was not.
 * Except maybe the stair part at the end. That was pretty funny.
 * This comment de-fangs the horror a bit:


 * Joseph Touches a Grapefruit, while hilarious, was still terrifying in its own way.
 * The ending of Troy Shaves his Face is surprisingly dark. It's actually more violent than anything that happens in the series proper.
 * More Very Bad Fanfiction deleted scenes.

Other

 * Nightmare Fuel is the point of The Slender Man Mythos.
 * We're all frightened by the Slender Man, but the scariest aspect of it is probably how he was specifically created to become a Memetic Mutation Urban Legend, and that people have actually started hearing rumors and having literal nightmares about him. Almost as if it worked too well.
 * Marble Hornets 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 Marble Hornets DVD currently just reads "See You Soon" with music that is pure Hell Is That Noise in its most distilled form.
 * While the "See you soon" is gone now, the Hell Is That Noise is still there. Also,.
 * Masky's mask. It's.. so ominous. Almost wrong.
 * The weirdest thing is how it seems to be a happy face. This guy teleports in your room while you sleep and attacks you while you're awake, and the whole time that mask just looks so damned cheerful.
 * Cheerful? It looks... neutral and unaffected. Which makes it worse. Like there's no humanity left.
 * The series takes place in Alabama. How do I know this? The two roads in the Introduction are Country Road 52 and then Highway 31. The locations in Entry #5 and Entry #21 are in Oak Mountain State Park. For those who live in Alabama, it means that everything is happening around where they live.
 * It's also been confirmed by Word of God. 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 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 J 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 Humanoid Abomination (who provides the trope page image) who is really tall, very thin, and has no face. His "arms" are actually tentacles, and 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. 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 the more you read about Slendy, the more likely it is that he'll start following you, too, to the point where Maduin of A Really Bad Joke 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 Nightmare Retardant Memetic Mutation, it was three weeks or less.