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A Leg's Tale - Masky's Timeline from April 2010 to November 2011

This is mainly meant as an explanation for why I think the footage of Masky in Extraction was recorded at some point prior to January 2011.

April 2010

Masky's leg is broken shortly after 21st April 2010 (Entry #35). We don't see him immediately after this but I think it's safe to assume that he wasn't doing much walking right afterwards.

July 2010

The next time we see him is "Approximately three months after [Jay found Alex]" - which means it's three months after April - in Entry #45. In this one Hoody lures Alex all the way from his house into Rosswood Park so Masky can attack him there (which is actually so sweet of him <3). The video is very blurry but it seems like he has some serious trouble putting weight on the leg, which makes sense:

GIF from Entry 45. Alex is on the ground while Masky walks up to him, rock in hand.
However, he does tackle Alex to the ground right before this so I would say his leg is healed to the point where he can do short sprints, but not walk for long periods of time.

October / November 2010

Next comes Entry #50 and #52. It's unclear when exactly Jay and Alex's trip into Rosswood from Entry #38 and #50 takes place but it can't be too long before #52 and that takes place on the day before #27 so 22nd November 2010. In Entry #50, Masky is hanging out in Rosswood Park (as he does) and starts running when Jay spots him, leading him to the tunnel. The video is too shaky to see how he's moving but what's notable is that once they reach the tunnel he actually manages to *outrun* Jay.

So six to seven months after the Leg Break he can already walk and run pretty well again.

January 2011

On the fated night of Entry #33 and #76 - the 12th of January 2011 - nine months after the Leg Break - Masky famously does the following things:
  - walk all the way from Rosswood Park to the hotel
  - carry a grown woman down two flights of stairs and into Rosswood Park
  - walk all the way back to the hotel AGAIN
  - chase Jay out of his hotel room
  - walk back into Rosswood Park. again.

And he is still limping here:

GIF from Entry 76. Masky walks away in to the darkness.GIF from Entry 76. Tim walks into the field of view of the camera and stops.


Slightly. But given that he does *gestures upwards* all of that, it can't be a huge inconvenience anymore at this point. Also since Hoody went through the trouble of bringing Alex to him in Entry #45 when he REALLY couldn't walk, I don't think he would have let him walk around this much if he hadn't been able to handle it.

September and November 2011

On 27th September 2011, Extraction was uploaded. This one famously features a shot of Masky walking towards the camera:

GIF from Extraction. Masky walks towards the camera with footage of Tim overlaid.
The Leg Break happened ~17 months (one year and five months) ago and as described above, his leg had already healed to the point were he could run and walk around months before this (in January - eight months ago). Here he seems to be walking with more difficulty.

Only two months later - in November - Jay spots Tim in Rosswood Town:

GIF from Entry 52. Tim walks down a sidewalk, away from the camera.
He isn't limping at all anymore. If the footage from Extraction had been from September (or around that time) there is no way that his leg would have healed this well in that short amount of time.

Le Epic Conclusion

So in conclusion I'd say the footage is definitely older than September 2011 and more likely from between July And November 2010.


Inconsistencies in Season 1 and how I ignore them

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.


The Dates and Events from enttry #37

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)