So as we all know Marble Hornets was originally just supposed to be a creepy little thing about a guy doing a little investigation,
getting spooked by Slenderman and Masky and then chickening out. Because of that, there is a lot of stuff in Season 1 that kind of
doesn't make sense when viewed with the context of the whole story in mind so here I will rant about some of that. Enjoy:
Original audio and video from Alex's tapes
The totheark videos Operator and
Advocate inexplicably contain footage seemingly
taken from the same tapes Jay has, but that wasn't posted to the main youtube channel by Jay.
That doesn't make any sense.
The video Operator contains the audio that was missing from Entry #10. Now as far as I know it's not possible to just remove
specific parts of a tape like that, unless a part of the magnetic strip is literally cut out and then obviously the video would
be missing too, not just the audio. So in order to remove just that someone would have had to digitalize the footage, edit out
the audio (but keep a copy of the original) and then play the silent video *back onto tape*. And then totheark would have had to
somehow get the original file to get the audio for this video from.
The only people who would have had access to the original tape to do that were Alex and Jay, and since the audio is literally
just Alex running through the forest there is no reason to edit that out. We later learn that Alex burned some tapes that he
didn't want Jay to have but there was a reason why he didn't want him to see those and there is no reason to keep this audio from
Jay.
Advocate is slightly less bad because at least that's just normal video footage from - presumably - the same tape the footage shown
in Entry #7 was from. So for totheark to get that footage they might have just broken into Jay's apartment and stolen that tape from
him. That is something they do and since Entry #7 was uploaded months before Advocate and #15 I guess Jay might not have noticed if
this one tape was missing. This would even make sort of sense with what I said in the Speculation section there since it's possible
that the only reason footage of Brian was used in this video is because Entry #15 was the first time someone actually talked about him
instead of just mentioning his name or something. And who knows maybe he did something super crazy to his hair between 2006 and 2009
and that's why they had to use old footage of him for this video so that people would recognize him. or something.
Hell, I don't know but either way I don't think there was any deeper thought behind putting unseen Entry #7 footage in this video.
It might have been meant as forshadowing for Skully's identity but then it doesn't matter either so in conclusion I just ignore it.
List of events that happened on the dates
shown in enttry #37 (and which fit the death/disaster theme):
1900-06-03 - 8:23 PM
- Adventurer Mary Kingsley, who had written two bestsellers about the various peoples of West Africa, died of typhoid fever at the age of 37 in South Africa. (link)
- An outbreak of the bubonic plague in Sydney Australia leaves two dead. (from the wiki page, credited to "CrimsonGhost713")
- A cholera outbreak in India kills five thousand in less than four days, the dead lie unburied in the streets for days. (from the wiki page, credited to "CrimsonGhost713")
1999-07-10 - 6:03 AM
- Train Kills Pedestrian At Crossing; Witnesses Tell Police She Knelt and Waited (link)
- Andy Wallis goes overboard on a cruise ship, Walter R. Evans dies. (link)
- Cultists kill 5 students at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria. (link)
1891-08-30 - 1:00 PM
- A child goes missing at a Wichita train station (link)
- Glenni William Scofield, Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, dies. (from the wiki page)
1988-05-17 - 9:00 AM
- Joseph Lee Saldana died of a single gunshot wound to the head minutes after the accident occurred at his father's apartment (from the wiki page)
- [OOG]: Troy's IRL birthday apparently
1991-09-04 - 10:48 AM
- Worries about Africanized killer bees/hornets and how many children they'd killed in Mexico/if they would move to America (link)
- Charlie Barnet dies of pneumonia at 77, Dottie West dies at 58 in a car,
Margaret Ramsay dies (cause Unknown), Thomas Tryon dies at 65. (from the wiki page)
1992-01-01 - 12:00 AM
- An eighteen year old Canadian girl goes missing while in Halifax, Nova Scotia looking for work. She was later discovered to have been killed in a homicide. (from the wiki page)
1996-02-29 - 4:44 AM
- In Lumberton, North Carolina, Daniel Green is convicted of the murder of James Jordan, the father of basketball star Michael Jordan.
- A Boeing 737 flying for Faucett Airlines in route from Lima to Rodriguez Ballon airport crashes into a mountain near Arequipa; all 123 people on board are killed.
- At least 81 people drown when a boat capsizes 120 kilometres east of Kampala, Uganda. (link for all 3)
- Dennis Yau, a 5-year-old boy, was killed when a television set fell off a stand onto his head (from the wiki page, credited to "DJJK")
1999-12-31 - 11:58 PM
- Five hijackers, who had been holding 155 hostages on an Indian Airlines plane, leave the plane with two Islamic clerics that they had demanded be freed. (link)
- The Y2K panic (link)
1981-03-03 - 9:42 AM
- Mehmet Ali Ağca given the instruction to kill Pope John Paul II. (from the wiki page)
1993-11-12 - 12:34 AM
- H.R. Haldeman dies after refusing medication due to Christian beliefs. (link)
1944-06-06 - 9:99 AM
- WWII – Battle of Normandy: Operation Overlord, commonly known as D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. (link)
1991-04-04 - 6:03 PM
- Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane (link)