Entry #56 was posted on April 25th, 2012.
It has the description "56".
In total, this Entry is 5:59 long.
Alex and Tim walk into an abandoned hospital, while scouting for locations and examining possible film sites. Tim, at various intervals, has mild coughing fits. Alex does not like any of the locations given and is asking Tim to move all over the hospital. Tim then excuses himself for a moment, and accidentally leaves his camera pointed backwards. Tim walks behind a wall, and begins talking to Alex. Alex then picks up a stick and attacks Tim behind the wall, and Tim goes silent. The camera falls down, and The Operator is standing nearby. There is heavy distortion, then The Operator disappears. Alex walks in front of the camera, holding the stick, then he walks off camera. Tim is then heard coughing.
[00:00] Black screen.
[00:02] White text appears on the screen:
Entry #56
I'm down to the last couple of Tim's tapes.
The following footage is taken from the next to last one that I have.
[00:24] Cut to train tracks. Tim and Alex are walking on them.
[00:27] Tim speaks: "I almost thought that you've given up on this place, since it's been so long since I've told you about it."
[00:32] Alex: "Yeah, stuff came up."
[00:34] Tim: "It happens. yeah, actually, are we filming anything today?"
[00:37] Alex: "No I'm not going to shoot anything without Brian here."
[00:40] Tim: "Ok. When is he supposed to get here?"
[00:42] Alex: "Well, he'll be here tomorrow, and Seth will be here later today."
[00:46] Tim: "Alright, so we're just doing preliminary location scouting?"
[00:53] Alex: "Yep."
[00:54] Tim: "Works for me."
[01:00] Cut to a grassy area. Tim is holding the camera, while Alex is walking in front. Alex is holding another camera.
[01:02] Alex: "I'll take a wild guess and say this is it."
[01:05] Tim: "Uh…yes, that would be a correct guess." The camera pans over, revealing the hospital. The camera pans back to Alex. They continue walking.
[01:09] Tim: "Um…see, if I remember correctly, I think it's three floors, a basement…we might be able to get up on the roof, so, I think you can just kind of take a look around if you want to."
[01:23] Alex: "Yeah…alright."
[01:28] Tim: "There's a lot of graffiti on the first floor, so, not sure how much of that you'll be able to use." They walk towards the entrance to the hospital.
[01:37] Tim: "As you can see." Graffiti comes into view. "BONES" written above the doorway, "MUNG" written on a pillar. Symbols are found below "MUNG".
[01:50] They enter the building. Rubble is scattered everywhere. A hole is in the wall.
[01:53] Cut to another part of the hospital. Alex and Tim are standing in a dark room full of rubble.
[02:11] Cut to a brighter room.
[02:16] Tim coughs violently.
[02:18] Alex: "Is there a building over there?"
[02:20] Tim: "Yeah, but it's just like an annex, nothing special. This place is way better."
[02:26] Alex: "No, let's go. I want to see it."
[02:28] Tim coughs, and he says: "Well, I'm kind of not sure if I feel like I'm up to going to another place. If you don't mind." He starts walking around the room randomly.
[02:36] Alex: "I do mind. There is no way this place could pass as a school. I'll just go over there with Seth when he gets here."
[02:45] Tim: "Fine with me."
[02:47] Cut to the annex. The camera is pointed at a cracked wall.
[02:49] Tim sighs. "Well you know, compared to the rest of this place, this room doesn't really have a whole lot of graffiti in it. You could probably use it at some point." He starts walking towards Alex. "Don't you think?"
[03:03] Alex: "Yep."
[03:06] Tim: "I mean unless you're okay with having, like, Nancy hearts Kevin on the wall, or something. So are we going upstairs or downstairs?"
[03:17] Alex: "Let's go up."
[03:18] Tim: "Okay, well the stairs that go up are all the way over there, but we can do that."
[03:29] Cut to a flight of stairs. Alex is already at the top.
[03:35] Cut to a dark corridor that leads to a bright corridor. Alex and Tim are walking through. Graffiti lines the walls.
[03:48] Cut to a dark room.
[03:53] Tim: "Maybe this room down here will be…uh…more to your liking. So I'm not exactly sure what you're looking for, but…this too? Maybe?"
[04:08] Alex: "I don't know."
[04:12] Tim: "Okay. Well, uh, there has to be some room in this place that you like, somewhere, cause this place isn't exactly tiny. I got to take a leak. Hang on."
[04:32] Tim rests his camera on a flat surface, then walks behind a wall to use the bathroom.
[04:47] Alex walks into view. Tim: "So, we haven't been down to the basement yet. There might be someplace down there that we can use. We might want to head down there."
[04:55] Alex picks up a rebar/wooden stick. Tim: "So do you wanna-"
[04:58] Alex hits Tim.
[05:02] There is a rustling sound, then the camera falls over. The Operator is revealed, upside down. Distortion covers the screen.
[05:07] Sudden increase in distortion.
[05:08] The Operator disappears.
[05:20] Alex walks into view, holding the rebar/stick he used earlier.
[05:28] He drops it, just as a breeze picks up. Then he walks off to the right of the screen.
[05:43] Tim coughs.
[05:53] Cut to black.
Main Theories and Observations
When entering the building, a graffiti "S" can be seen above the door and to the left, like the 'S's in TTA videos and the S seen at the red tower.
Simultaneous to Alex throwing down the his stick at 5:27, what looks like a square of copper sheet metal falls or is thrown in front of the camera.
Tim coughs during the video. This could be cause by slender sickness or smoker's cough.
This most likely occurs the day before entry 51. Tim could've been trapped in the hospital until the next day, when Brian found him sitting in the corner. It is unclear why Tim was still there.
A slender symbol can be seen at 3:02.
When Tim walked in, it looked as if Alex was looking at it.
Entry #57 confirmed that it was indeed a piece of pipe or rebar that was used to knock Tim out.
Graffiti saying "Bones" can be seen above the door at 1:42. "Bone" was spray painted inside of Brian's home, as seen in Entry 16 at 3:08.
Further Speculation
Tim mentions a basement in the building. Could this be the basement that Seth and Alex visit in Entry 22?
Also, Alex mentions another building "across the way" which could potentially be the building Brian is attacked in in Entry 51, as the building in this entry is definitely a different building. ~scarl18
It seems like the camera i beeing pushed causing it to fall, and later when alex drops the pipe at the spot The Operator was standing it falls straight in front of the camera, suggesting a teleport. is it possible the operator pushed the camera from where he was standing? and if so, did he in fact want to be seen? ~Dentei999
What was Alex staring at distractedly at 2:59? Could it have been the Operator symbol on the wall? Perhaps this was what he was looking for while scouting through the whole building because it symbolizes something?
—It does look as if Alex is staring through the camera at the Operator symbol on the wall around 2:59, and it is right after that that the visual tearing starts in this entry. It seems like Alex is using the symbol here as a mandala, to focus his mental energy on the Operator, but specifically through his camera. Maybe this is what summons him? The visual tearing is coming from the camera Tim is carrying, though, so I guess the Operator affects any camera in his vicinity. ~elford
