[0:00] Black screen.
[0:01] White text on black background, saying:
Entry #22
[0:03] Black screen.
[0:04] White text on black background, saying:
The red tower
[0:07] Black screen.
[0:08] Ambiguous footage of what appears to be a forest floor, with a tree trunk to the left of frame.
[0:13] The camera flips over, revealing a forest scene with leafless deciduous trees, dead leaves all over the ground, and a creek to the right of the frame.
[0:15] The camera pans right, passing a treetrunk close and revealing more forest.
[0:17] The camera pans up, looking through the leafless canopy at the sky, which is grey but bright.
[0:20] The camera pans left again, back to the forest floor. There is some greenery, but not much. The camera moves forward, pointed at the leaf-covered ground.
[0:25] The camera lifts up again, pointing down a small trail.
[0:29] The camera swings around to look down the trail the other direction. It moves forward, and the crunching noises of walking can be heard. The walking continues, the camera swinging right once.
[0:36] Cut to similar footage of what appears to be the same forest, with walking noises in the background still. The camera starts pointing to the right and swings quickly left.
[0:37] A hole in the ground can be seen, and as soon as it is in frame, high-pitched but faint audio distortion can be heard.
[0:39] The camera leaves the trail and approaches the hole, which appears fairly round and quite deep. As the camera gets closer, the audio distortion gets slightly louder.
[0:41] The camera pauses a couple of feet directly above the hole. There is moss around the edges of the hole, and it appears to be filled with leaves, and not more than a foot deep.
[0:43] The camera swings up and to the right, away from the hole, and the crunching footstep noises can be heard again.
[0:47] The camera returns to the trail.
[0:49] Cut to similar forest footage. A stream cuts through the frame to the right.
[0:50] The camera pans right, over the stream, pausing here and there.
[0:54] The camera pans left again, back to the ground.
[0:58] Jay begins to walk forward again.
[0:59] Cut to similar footage, though there is more greenery visible in this shot. Young evergreens are visible here and there.
[1:00] Jay is walking forward, panning the camera left, and then down, over his own shadow on the ground.
[1:03] Cut to footage of ground covered in dead, yellow grass or leaves. The camera pans upward and tall evergreen trunks come into frame.
[1:04] The red tower comes into frame between the tall trunks and across a green field of grass.
[1:06] Jay zooms in on the tower and pauses.
[1:08] Jay zooms in further on the tower, so that it breaks the frame top and bottom.
[1:10] A blue object can be seen leaning against one of the evergreen tree trunks to the right.
[1:14] Jay zooms out again, pans the camera to the ground, and begins to walk forward again.
[1:17] Cut to closer footage of the tower, just coming up on the area of green grass.
[1:18] Jay is walking forward, and pans the camera downward, and then upward again. He is walking fairly quickly.
[1:22] Cut to footage of the top of the tower. It appears to be a square of red-painted wood, with three bare-wood poles sticking out of the top. The tower appears to be segmented into three square areas one on top ofthe other.
[1:24] Jay pans the camera downwards slowly, and then quickly, till he is focusing on the bottom of the tower as he moves forward. Visible is a furrow in the ground ten or fifteen feet away from the base of the tower, parallel to the visible wall.
[1:36] Jay approaches the tower very closely, revealing irregularly-placed, round holes in its surface, and weatherworn red paint.
[1:39] Jay pans the camera upward. These holes continue up the height of the structure. Some are surrounded by whiter areas of worn-off paint.
[1:45] The camera pans down again. There is a thudding noise, as if Jay has knocked against the wood.
[1:48] The camera backs off and pans to the right, across a spindly, yellow-flowering bush against the base corner of the tower. Jay pushes some of the branches of this bush aside so he can move around the tower's corner.
[1:53] Jay rounds the corner and pans upward again. The structure appears to be triangular or trapezoidal, the corner angle too sharp to indicate a square.
[1:56] Jay pans over and then approaches this side of the tower. It looks the same as the last, with the same irregularly-spaced holes.
[1:58] Jay pans left quickly and approaches the tower more closely, revealing an operator symbol scratched into the paint near the corner he just rounded. Jay pauses for several seconds on this symbol, zooming out slightly.
[2:07] Jay pans upwards, once again to the top of the towers. The poles still visible at the top appear now to extend from the three corners of the building.
[2:13] Jay pans down and to the right, going to round the other corner.
[2:14] The camera rounds the corner. A board can be seen extending from the tower, slanted towards it as if supporting the tower. There is yellow tape at the base of this board, and nearer the tower.
[2:16] Jay rounds the corner and pans up this pole, revealing a doorway in this side of the tower into which the pole extends. The doorway has no door, and appears irregular in places. Inside the tower appears to be a lot more of the yellow tape. It appears to be "CAUTION" tape.
[2:22] Jay steps over the supporting board and approaches the corner that will take him back to the front of the tower. His shadow passes through the frame, and he briefly points the camera at the grass in front of the tower.
[2:25] Jay turns back towards the doorway and approaches it, stepping over the supporting board again.
[2:32] Jay enters the tower. It is very dark inside. He pans up the board, which is braced against a corner of the tower.
[2:36] The camera pans up, revealing the open top of the tower, as well as a wooden ladder built into the right side of the tower. All of the wood seems quite aged. There are two boards across the top of the tower in a slanted T shape.
[2:39] The camera pans down again, to the base of the ladder. Jay moves around the supporting board towards the ladder. The CAUTION tape is seen again on the ground.
[2:40] Footage of mostly darkness, as Jay pans around the dim interior of the tower. Bits of light can occasionally be seen, perhaps from the irregular holes.
[2:47] The camera pans upward again. The autofocus blurs and readjusts briefly as the open top of the tower is once again visible.
[2:50] The camera turns right so that it is facing the ladder, and swings to the eye-level section of the ladder as Jay approaches it.
[2:54] Jay's hand comes into frame, grasping a rung of the ladder. He tugs at it, tests it, and grips it.
[2:57] Jay's hand leaves frame again. He sounds as if he sighs or snorts slightly.
[2:59] The camera pans downwards into mostly darkness, and then up again, autofocusing once more. It pauses at the top of the ladder.
[3:02] The camera swings down again, coming to rest on on an image of one of the rungs. Jay takes a breath, and then another.
[3:08] Cut to close-up footage of woodgrain and boards, ambiguous imagery, with sounds in the background that sound like regular, careful footsteps or climbing.
[3:16] The camera pans a little right, and some of the CAUTION tape can be seen tied to a board. The camera swings wildly.
[3:20] Cut to footage of a broken-off board, and more close-up woodgrain. The shot is brighter. The camera moves upwards, and then tilts to the right. More CAUTION tape can be seen wedged between two boards. The camera tilts and shifts haphazardly.
[3:29] The camera points downwards, and the bottom of the inside of the tower can be seen. The camera is quite high up at this point, perhaps near the top of the ladder. An odd sliver of white or silver can be seen at a board five or so feet lower than the camera, on a board on the wall adjacent to the ladder.
[3:34] The camera swings upward and we see the upper edge of the tower's wall. Over this, there is greenery, the tops of young coniferous trees.
[3:37] The camera slowly points downwards again. It returns to that bit of silver.
[3:44] The image jolts and the camera moves downwards, as if a step has been taken down the ladder.
[3:46] The camera shifts so that boards and woodgrain take up the frame. A great deal of jolting and shifting occurs, and the camera seems shakier than usual.
[3:55] The camera pauses and focuses again, this time on a cross-board with a silver case of some sort balanced on it. This appears to be the silver thing from previous.
[3:58] The image flips left, and Jay can be heard breathing a little more heavily. The image jolts and shifts, and then turns back to the silver case, this time from much closer. Yellow CAUTION tape is fastened to the vertical board the case is set next to.
[4:09] The camera pans right till the silver thing is almost off frame. Jay's hand comes into frame, grabs the silver case and pulls it off the board.
[4:10] The camera pans left again. There is a hollow metallic rattling noise. The frame flips sideways again, and then almost upside down. A great many close-up shots of boards with cracks of light between them can be seen.
[4:24] Another rattling noise can be heard over the sounds of the camera itself.
[4:25] Jay apparently drops the camera, and some streaky, undefined shapes can be seen. The sound of something metallic also falling can be heard.
[4:27] Sudden, noisy distortion cuts in, as well as a visual of a blurry, wiggly yellow shape. A visual tear moves up the screen.
Then the image suddenly resolves and the audio goes back to normal. The image is of a very small sapling holding up a piece of yellow CAUTION tape.
[4:31] The sounds of a person moving can be heard from offscreen, and then a grunt from Jay.
[4:33] Jay coughs once, and then the image jolts as he picks up the camera and points it at the ground. His breathing is heavier than usual.
[4:36] The silver case can be seen laying on the ground a foot or two away. Jay approaches it and quickly picks it up.
[4:41] Jay leaves the tower and goes not more than ten feet away, camera pointing at the ground.
[4:45] He holds up the silver case so that we can see it and his hand, and turns it around and over. It is dented but shiny, and about the size of Jay's hand from the base of his palm to the tips of his fingers.
[4:50] The camera approaches the ground as Jay appears to kneel or sit.
[4:52] Jay places the silver case on the ground.
[4:54] Jay places the camera on the ground facing the silver case. A corner of the red tower can be seen in the corner of the frame.
[4:55] Both Jay's hands come into frame, and he pries open the silver case.
[4:57] He places one half of the silver case on the ground in front of the camera. The other half and his hands leave the top of the frame.
[4:59] Jay puts the other half of the case on the ground beside the first, and removes an object from the case. It is a tape in a clear plastic case. The resonant sound of the silver case's halves tapping against one another can be heard.
[5:00] Jay picks up the camera again.
[5:02] Jay shows us the tape. It has a "60" or an "80" on it and some other, unreadable information, as well as a white card inside the case about an inch by two inches in size.
[5:05] Jay turns the tape over. The other side is unmarked.
[5:08] Jay places the tape back into the metal case and puts the two halves back together, picking it up from the ground once he's done.
[5:10] Jay stands, and begins walking quickly again, away from the red tower and across the green field. The camera is at an angle, and footage of the green grass and the winter treeline can be seen.
[5:15] Cut to black screen.
[5:17] White text appears, reading:
I will be watching the tape I found soon.
[5:22] Cut to black screen.
[5:23] Video ends.
