Entry #36

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Summary

Entry #36 was posted on March 2nd, 2011
Its description is the description "36".
It is tagged "marble" and "hornets".
In total, this clip is 2:15 long.

Jay has recovered some distorted footage of himself talking to Alex right after Entry #35. Jay admonishes Alex for smashing Tim's leg with a rock, and Alex retorts that he should have done worse. It comes out that Alex did apparently send the tape from Entry #26 to Jay in his hotel room, and that Alex has told Jay to lay low until Alex contacts him again. Alex leaves Jay angry in a parking lot.

+ Detailed Transcript

[00:00] Black screen.
[00:01] White text on black screen:

Entry #36

[00:06] Footage from Entry 35 begins
[00:07] White text appears overlayed on the footage:

After looking, through the tape from
Entry #35, I didn't know what happened
after finding Alex at the abandoned house.

[00:15] Black screen followed by a cut to the end of Entry #35 right before Alex smashes Tim with the rock.
[00:17] White text appears overlayed on the footage:

I then noticed that the tape itself
had time left on it, but wouldn't
continue to play past this point.

[00:24] Black screen.
[00:25] White text on black screen:

But after trying for a few days, I was
able to find some corrupt footage
at the end of the tape.

[00:32]

I've subtitled what I think is
being said as best I can.

[00:38] Cut to a distorted shot of Jay driving from the end of Entry #35.
[00:39] Pixelated and blurry footage of the highway as the car drives.
[00:43] The screen flashes black for a moment. After the footage returns the camera zooms in and a ringing noise is heard.
[00:46] The camera zooms back out, the ringing stops, and then the footage becomes very bright and freezes.
[00:48] The screen flashes back. When the footage of the highway returns it is still very bright.,
[00:52] The footage has normal color again.
[00:54] Cut to footage of Jay in his car as he opens the door, grabs the camera and exits. The footage is still pixelated and blurry.
[00:57-00:59] The footage moves up very fast. Trees around the parking lot are seen.
[01:00] As Jay and Alex speak, they are subtitled in white text at the bottom of the screen. A ringing sound begins. The audio is distorted for the entire video.
Jay: "Why did you do that? What were you thinking?"
[01:03] The camera moves up and Alex is seen standing on the other side of a car.
Alex: "I did what I had to…"
[01:04] The screen flashes black and then return to the footage as audio distortion continues.
[01:05] The camera seems to be sitting on the back of the car. Alex is seen on the left side of the frame.
Alex: "…just stabbed me."
[01:06] Jay: "You broke his leg with a block of cement"
[01:09] Partway through Alex's next line the screen cuts to black again.
Alex: "I could have done worse and I probably…"
[01:10] The footage becomes so distorted that all that can seen is red shapes moving around the screen. A humming sound is heard.
[01:19] The same quality footage returns. Jay is holding the camera again, the hood of Alex's car is seen. As Alex speaks the camera moves up to look at him.
Alex: "…hotel you were at, what room you were at and then get a package delivered to your door."
[01:23] The screen is black.
Alex: "You're not exactly hard to find."
[01:24] The footage returns and Jay moves the camera to the right, pointing away from the car.
[01:26] The screen turns black.
[01:28] The footage returns. The audio is silent for a few seconds. Alex is seen walking around to the left side of his car.
[01:33] Jay: "What do you want me to do between now and whenever you decide to call me?"
[01:38] Alex: "Lay low."
[01:39] Alex opens the door of his car and gets in. Jay starts walking away to the right.
[01:43] Jay: "Yeah."
[01:44] Jay is in front of Alex's car again. He point the camera at Alex's car.
Jay: "Great, cool."
[01:46] Alex's car is heard starting.
Jay: "I'm great at doing that, Alex."
[01:50] Jay points his camera to the right, away from the parking lot.
[01:54] Jay points the camera back at the parking lot. Alex is seen driving away.
[01:55] The camera is pointed down at the cement.
[01:58] Black screen.
[02:00] The picture of the tape from Entry #26 appears with white text below it:

Alex must have been the one who sent
the package to my hotel room in Entry #26

[02:06] The picture disappears, more white text:

Why he did it is unclear, but I'm
hoping one of the tapes I have includes
him explaining it to me.

[02:15] Video ends.

Main Theories and Observations

• This video could support the hypothesis that Alex is totheark, given that Alex kept track of Jay's location apparently easily, and it is known that totheark did so as well.
  • However, it could also be suggested that because totheark could keep track of Jay, it was entirely possible for Alex to do so independently as well.
• It can be argued that because the tape cut out and didn't record the first part of Alex's sentence, Alex could be talking about how easy it was for totheark to track Jay down and send the tapes, and therefore, that Alex did not send the tapes at all. This would mean that Jay's assertion that this video confirms that Alex sent the tape is a big red herring and an example of Jay as an unreliable narrator.
• The car that Alex is driving appears to be the same car, a white Mustang, as seen in Entry #13 and totheark video Exit.
• At 0:38, a house can be seen spliced into the footage. Screenshot, as captured by Apaula.
  • This appears to be the house from this Entry, as well as #34 and #35. It may be footage from earlier in the tape.
• The park that they drive to has been speculated to be Rosswood, the park from Entry #31. Rawkz0rz compared the two parks in a series of screenshots. While there are similarities, it is hard to tell for certain, but at the very least, if it is Rosswood, the filming in #36 was from a different parking lot entirely from that in Entry #31.

The Video Distortion

• The distortion in the video was similar to distortion seen in other episodes:
  • Entry #24, before Jay gets up and leaves through the door in his room.
  • Totheark video Admission, in terms of color.
  • Entry #23, after Jay's run in with the Operator, as pointed out by Salkovitch.
• The distortion doesn't seem to have been caused by anything in the video itself.
  • It happened over a relatively large physical distance, as traversed in the car, so the Operator was probably not present.
  • It was probably not caused or triggered by emotional reactions (as is speculated by some, especially in Entry #32) or the presence of a particular person, given that in both of those cases it would have begun much earlier, in Entry #35.
  • The distortion could also have been caused by damage to the camera itself, perhaps when it was dropped in Entry #35.
• Given these facts, it's likely that the distortion is due to damage caused to the tape after the fact.
• Given the nature of the distortion in relation to distortion we've seen elsewhere, it is not unlikely to have been caused by the Operator.

Further Speculation

This shows us a few things:

A) Anyone who really thought Tim was dead after that rock throw is now wrong.
B) They hauled out of the cabin right afterwards.
C) This was the first time they met.
D) Alex didn't have a problem with the camera being on because of Slendy, more so because it probably wouldn't have been smart to catch the broken leg on camera.
E) Tim was the one following them, or at least that's what he referred to last entry.
F) We now know that he was 110% stabbed, in case you doubted that too.
~ AdrianHD, Weds Mar 2 2010