Welcome to the wiki for the Marble Hornets ARG, a chilling unfolding of events relating to the SomethingAwful myth of Slender Man. If you are here, you probably found it through its unfiction forum, which you found because you were curious about Jay's youtube channel or his twitter account. But be warned: the events unfolding around the crashed Marble Hornets are not for the meek or the lighthearted. This is the realm of terror and fear, of paranoia and horror. Ye have been warned. Now, welcome to the mystery. I hope you enjoy the story chronicled below.
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Introduction
About two or three years ago, a film school friend of mine, Alex, was working on his first "feature length" movie. It was called Marble Hornets and I think it was about a twenty something returning to his childhood home and recalling events that happened there. It was pretty pretentious film student fare, but I helped out for a few days before my summer classes started, and a few rare occasions after that. Everyone on the set seemed pretty excited to be making it, especially Alex. The set itself was about half a mile away from Alex's house, roughly a thirty minute drive away from where I lived at the time. It was a pretty heavily wooded area, I guess to give it a sparsely populated small town feel. Most of the movie took place outside.
After about two months of off and on shooting, Alex dropped his pet project completely. It was really sudden when he let me know about it. When I asked him why, he told me it was because of the "unworkable conditions" of where he had picked to shoot. Which struck me as very odd since he had been living around that area since he was eight, and never seemed to have a problem with it. What's even stranger is that he acted incredibly distant when telling me this news. Soon after, he started avoiding me and from what I hear, everyone else. All he did was sit around his house.
Being a film student as well, I hated to see his work go to waste and decided to talk to him about it a bit more. A few weeks after he had stopped shooting, I finally convinced him to let me come over.
Something about him was worse than I'd originally thought. He had lost a good bit of weight, and looked pretty sickly. I pretended like I didn't notice and we just hung out for awhile. Right before I left, I asked him about Marble Hornets and what he was planning on doing with all of his tapes of raw footage. With almost no hesitation, he simply said "burn them".
This caught me off guard. When I asked why he didn't just archive them for B-roll in future projects, he just said he never wanted to work with the footage again. He was completely serious about this. I couldn't understand why he'd just want to get rid of it completely. Surely it wasn't all that useless. So I asked if I could take a look at them.
He agreed, but only under the circumstance that I never bring them back to him, and never discuss what was on them with him. He also highly discouraged me from showing any if it to anyone else. I laughed at this, and said that he must have accidentally made The Ring or something with the way he was talking. He didn't acknowledge this and brought me up to his attic, where he was storing the pile of tapes.
There were tons of them. He grabbed a couple of plastic shopping bags and piled the tapes in and gave them to me, then shooed me out of the attic. Right as I was walking out the door, he said, in the most serious tone I've ever heard from someone, "I'm not kidding, don't ever bring this up around me again."
Alex's comment was so sudden that I didn't have time to react before he had closed the door on me. He transferred to an out of state school soon after that and I haven't seen him since.
I filed the tapes separately from my others, and was honestly too freaked out to look at them at the time, and eventually forgot about them. I've decided to begin going through the tapes later tonight. If I don't do it now, I probably never will. I'm hoping all I find is an unfinished student film and nothing else. That would sure put me at ease now that I'm thinking about it again.
If there's interest, I'll post anything that I find on here.
~Jay
Timeline
September 01, 2011 totheark uploads the Sidenote Video, much more quickly than usual.
August 31, 2011 Entry 48 is uploaded.
August 18, 2011 Entry 47 is uploaded, Jay later tweets "Entry #47 youtu.be/BZxzkiUM3pQ"
August 15, 2011 totheark uploads the Classified Video.
August 3, 2011: Jay's Twitter: "By my reasoning, after Alex grabbed the tape from me, I took the key as I ran out just to have SOMETHING. Not 100% sure, of course."
August 2, 2011 Jay's Twitter: "Entry #46 will be posted later tonight." Later, Jay uploads Entry 46 and tweets "Entry 46: youtu.be/W4DFmc177AE"
August 1, 2011 Jay's Twitter: "Finding a lot of footage of me tailing Alex without him knowing it." He later tweets "@ItsMogkiKupo Who knows. I guess I'll find out soon enough." in response to a suggestion that Alex is leading him into a trap.
July 31, 2011 Jay's Twitter: "It's getting even harder to keep the footage from Alex and the footage from me straight."
July 23, 2011 Jay's Twitter: "Think I found something. If it's what I think it is, Entry 45 will be posted tonight." He later tweets "Not yet, no. Don't know what to make of that." In response to a question about whether totheark had posted a response video yet. Jay uploads Entry 45. He later tweets "Entry #45: youtu.be/xPvHv5Vzkso"
July 22, 2011 Jay's Twitter: "I don't know why I'm surprised to find footage from different cameras on the external hard drive. Makes sense Alex may have more than one."
For more, view the Comprehensive Timeline.
Current Investigations
Jay has "woken up" after a seven-month blank period in his life; he was off the grid, for all intents and purposes, and he has no memories of what he did during that time. Yet now he is fully conscious and coherent… and living in a hotel. All he has is an empty room, some clothes, an electric torch (flashlight), a bottle of ibuprofen pills, and a small, blank square key. When Jessica, his only neighbor, revealed that she has been plagued by the Operator as well, they agreed to work together… but instead, Jay found the code to his safe, took the contents, and was promptly attacked by Tim. He has now fled to a new, undisclosed, location and has begun looking through the tapes to piece together the missing seven months of his life.
Jessica is the girl who, until recently, lived next-door to Jay. She knows Jay from somewhere… but she can't remember from where. However, more importantly, she also has experienced the same memory loss and headaches that Jay has suffered as a result of being plagued by continual visits by the Operator. Yet, when they were supposed to leave, she disappeared entirely. Where has she gone? What is her story? It turns out that she was Alex and Amy's roommate.
The location of Entry 29 is something Jay has been working on for months.
Related Websites
Marblehornets on youtube (site belonging to Jay)
Marblehornets on twitter (site belonging to Jay)
totheark on youtube (site belonging to totheark)
Unfiction forum for collaboration and information-sharing.
Parties of Interest
- Jay, the uploader of The Entries and the primary protagonist of the series. Was the script supervisor for Marble Hornets, and was later given the tapes from the shoot by Alex before his disappearance. Is currently investigating the events of the past few years while on the run.
- Tim, one of the actors from Marble Hornets. He was recently revealed definitively as the Masked Man from Entry 18 and Entry 33. It has been speculated that he is also the enigmatic figure known as totheark, although this is unconfirmed.
- The Operator, the enigmatic and terrifying figure appearing in many Entries who is probably the Slender Man.
- Alex Kralie, the writer and director of Marble Hornets, who also filmed most of the early Entries. Is the secondary protagonist of the series, although recent events (Entry 35, Entry 36) have called his motives into question.
- totheark, the mysterious Youtube poster with cryptic messages and access to redacted audio. His identity is unknown, but he is believed by some to be the Masked Man, who was recently revealed be Tim from Entry 15.
- Brian, Alex's closest friend and the lead actor on Marble Hornets. His whereabouts since the shoot are unknown.
- Seth, one of the cameramen from Marble Hornets. He seems to have been a good friend of Alex's.
- Jessica, the girl staying in the hotel room next to Jay's. She disappears between Entry 32 and Entry 33.
