The boy and the bath is about a parent who accidentally let their child drown in a bath and their mind, ridden with guilt, makes illusions of the child haunt the parent. The video is great and has perfect atmosphere especially with the music. I had watched the video 3 times in the day before watching this video.
that sounds sort of similar to gregory from what remains of edith finch, except the boy and the bath takes more of a horror perspective whereas edith finch just takes a sad one
I interpreted it as a story of post partum psychosis, a woman in her moment of insanity who purposefully drowns her own child and then has to live with the guilt of her actions
I used to be really suggestible and obsessive, probably due to some at-the-time undiagnosed mental health issues. I'm better, but damn I'm glad this series wasn't on the internet when I was in high school lmao. Digging your thoughtful analysis. I'd also point out: the sound of trumpets is often associated with judgement day, which fits neatly into both the religious theme and the war-trauma theme. Seems very deliberately chosen for that reason.
Learned about the boy in the bathtub for the first time here, I initially interpreted it as a sibling, presumably younger, that the viewer shirked their responsibilty for resulting in him drowning. Thus the significance of the dripping, him telling us we "left him there" and him then taking up his previous spot in the crib. I think the parentification of this older sibling could be reflected in the pov characters weariness at the beginning of the video, suggesting that they're being made to take on other roles within the house that are developmentally inappropriate
Or you are just projecting your own parentification into it. There is literally no indication that it was a sibling. The POV with the crib takes place in the Master bedroom where the parents sleep. You usually would and should not put a crib in an older siblings room. The hesitation at the beginning can also be the parent having flashbacks from PTSD due to letting their kid die in this exact room. There is more indication that is either a metaphor for regret after abortion or that the new parent was not careful enough which resulted in the death of the boy.
@@tallulahraccoon3832there's no indication that it's a parent either. It's incredibly vague what the relationship is between the boy and the pov character. While it is common that a crib would be placed in a master bedroom so that the parent/parents could easily reach the baby, this is something that might not be possible in a smaller home. It could be plausible that a crib is in the room of another child in the home, esp if it's a child tasked with caring for their younger sibling in the absence of their parents. And the dialogue of the boy combined with the parentification interpretation could paint a picture of an older sibling, feeling resentment for the boy due to the unfair situation they'd been put in, let them die, and now the boy resents how their sibling only saw them as a burden ("i never existed to you.") The beauty of the video is that it's vague enough to be up to interpretation so idk why you shot down the original commenter's so readily
Honestly i really like the idea of the boiled one being a metaphor for ptsd. When I was a kid I used to have sleep paralysis very often to the point i got used to it and would just wait it out. I wasn't even scared anymore because i could tell when it was about to start and could just wake myself up before it did. But sometimes i would see this "demon" standing in the corner of my room staring at me and even before i would even go to sleep. And i would feel such a bone deep terror that i was too scared to even turn the light on when this happend. It would sometimes come up to my bed and stare at me while the only thing i could do was just lay there and hope it would leave. Surprisingly it never happend again after I moved out. When I talked to my therapist about this (because i wanted to cross out other disorders that i could have) she said it might have been a manifastation of all the trauma i went through, and once i moved out of my childhood home it got better (although i had still paranoia of strangers breaking into my flat while i was asleep) going to therapy and finding my own indentity in life literally got rid of my "demons"
I think that when the Locust types words & ends up typing things like file names, I think it’s trying to mimic punctuation. When I was a young kid periods confused me a lot, so I would just write something & then after I finished I’d just put them in random spots to appease my teacher.
Everyone always talks about The Boiled One, which I think does deserve all the attention it gets, but my favourite one of Silas’ creations is where_did_life_go & the other artworks that seem to take place in the 57th/58th century.
the PHEN-228 is also interesting! PHEN is most likely an abbreviation of phenomenon, but the 228 feels like a reference to John 2:28 And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
42:08 thank you for this analogy!!! i’ve been having really bad PTSD flashbacks/episodes recently and while that’s definitely. pretty unbearable. it kind of feels comforting to imagine all the paralyzing fear as the boiled one fucking with my head and not some nagging panic response? like assigning a face to it makes it more tangible but less scary?
Get a grip people. If you had read Daniel’s description of the video you’d have seen that at the end he says” if you read this to the end comment “ that’s comfort…..” He does this on many of his videos with different things he want people to write in the comments
I love the way PHEN is designed, and how it resembles something like a pile of laundry in the dark or something mundane like that. It lingers in your mind and gets in your head
The monster being a metaphor for PTSD/reoccurring trauma is really interesting and hits close to home. Without any proper medical diagnosis, you go through life with this faint pit in your stomach as you try to convince yourself that you're fine. It really does feel like a predator stalking its prey- pouncing when you least expect it. Its one of those things that is hard to explain, especially when you yourself don't *know* that its trauma yet- its just this feeling of unease that follows you and pops up whenever a seemingly unrelated topic makes it rear its ugly head at you again. I could talk a lot more about the medicalization of trauma- this idea that it has to be diagnosed by a doctor in order for it to be 'valid'- yet it's still there regardless if its existence has been validated by somebody else. And if you haven't gone to war, it isn't "valid" either- despite the fact that literally anything can manifest as trauma. Its this feedback loop of denial and trying to push through whatever you are feeling. Finally being able to acknowledge the struggle doesn't make it go away, but it at least helps manage it more. Anyway aha funny analog horror monster
i have a ptsd service dog. i only have him bc of sheer luck, the org i got him from doesn't really have much of an online presence, and i just so happened to be venting abt how expensive it was to someone who knew someone who got a dog from there the reason why it is so impossible to get life saving medical equipment? bc THE ONLY GROUPS THAT PROVIDE PTSD SERVICE DOGS FREE OR AT A REDUCED FEE WILL ONLY DO IT FOR VETERANS. and listen i'm not against anybody getting any mental health assistance but YOU DONT JUST GET PTSD FROM ACTIVE DUTY PLEASE YALL anyway yeah this comment really hit home
18:00 I immediately (especially from the “boy in the bath” title) thought about this being the manifestation of guilt from a parent who left their small child unattended in the bath, subsequently letting them drown. “I know you heard me” as in maybe you heard a splash, or a cry but didn’t come running in. Mainly what made me think of this was a previous game that’s really popular? I can’t remember what it’s called but essentially you go through all these rooms uncovering all of the ways these family members have died in this crazy wacky house. The sequence that always stuck with me the most was the one with the baby boy, who’s mother was distracted by phone calls and distress from a recent divorce, as the child plays and all his bath toys come to life only for this joyful sequence to be revealed as the child drowning in the tub, not even realizing what’s happening…
dude that sequence made me cry while i was playing, like it's so innocent and fun through the baby's eyes but the entire time the player knows what's happening and has no way of changing the outcome of the situation since it's essentially a flashback... all of the ones where the family members died as children were incredibly sad but that one was most tragic of all i think (although there were a _lot_ that could be contenders, the entire game is so beautiful and tragic and the metaphors in it are fantastic, can't recommend it enough)
1:18 If you have the energy Alex G deep dive part two would be awesome, also like you mentioned, Mouthwashing would be pretty cool to, I have no idea what it is I just know some of my friends like it :))
my interpretation of the Boy and the Bath is that the parent neglected their son while he was in the bath, and he ended up drowning because of it, alot of other people share the same idea. However I always thought it was strange that the boy's head is weirdly cropped off at the top for some reason. Maybe he slipped and crack his head open while he was in the bath, leading him to drown?
I had a real life "experience" with the phen 228, i've watched the video three times now, and the last time i watched it, i remember the trumpets being one of the things that made me feel unsettled Then later i went grocery shopping, and when i was walking back, i heard a sound that was eerily similar to the trumpet sound in the boiled one, and when i realized that i watched the video before going to the store, and remembering that people affected by phen 228 hear the trumpets, i got chills, for a slight nano second i felt dread Then i remembered that i live next to a trainstation and train horns can sound similar to the trumpets in the video, lol
15:30 The boy in the bath, is a tragedy about a parent who... left their kid in the bath, and they likely drowned. They are so haunted by this they dont even shower anymore. They are so dirty they cant even get comfortable enough to sleep anymore, but when they go to the bath they just see their child, or a horrific representation haunting them. Wild stuff when you get high enough to think about it. The obvious monster is the first person view, not the white figure.
18:08 he said “you left me in here” maybe a parent left a small child in the bath for just a few minutes and in that time the child drowned/slipped and died
The boiled one is one of the very few analog horror that triggered a genuine fight or flight response in me. Hair on end, and even really strong nausea. Absolute masterpiece but holy fuck man
3:53 *freaked* me out because I put this video on as some entertaining background noise while I'm drawing, and suddenly hearing my date of birth completely out of context in relation to this horror story gave me shivers :P
OMG please cover mouthwashing its an obsession of mine rn i would be so stoked!! i just found your channel a week ago and it's literally so good, keep up the fantastic work! :))
Please do a video about mouthwashing, it's so amazingly done and detailed. Spoilers for mouthwashing. Mouthwashing is by far my most favorite horror game for so many reasons, and one of those reasons is Anya and polle and how polle represents her unborn child and how much of a awful person Jimmy is and how real people like him are.
Your ability to seek out and analyze the strangest and darkest corners of the internet is unparalleled. Another awesome job. (Btw, I hope you learn how to visualize yourself being well when you're being attacked by headache.) You're #1 my man.
it reminds me a bit of the early days of SCP when SCP-096 was new that one bit of information where if he exists as even one pixel in the background of a photo and your eyes focus on that pixel, you are now basically dead without even knowing it because he'll stop at nothing to kill you
18:00 hit hard, 6 years ago on one day when i forgot to bring my phone to my workplace my friend unalived himself by self hard but before he unalived himself he was calling me. I don't know why he called me but the guilt of me not able to be there for him when he needed me the most haunting me ever since that day. Every single day i look myself in the mirror i only feel the guilt and shame of letting my friend down when he needed the most
the first thing that popped into my head with "the boy" is us being his sibling, that simply drowned their little brother in the bathtub because he couldnt handle him, and now we cant live with the guilt anymore and go crazy
"All The Lights" is always gonna be my favorite. Something about the old school generic infomercial aesthetic just gives it so much life. Feels like it would fit right in on Adult Swim at 4am
35:05 has an interrupted Morse code text in red. It reads “nobody but me and you.” I don’t know what this may mean in terms of context but I think it’s a really cool detail (put video in 0.25 speed)
I cannot explain the CHILLS the voice of thing thing sends down my spine, both reversed and regularly. This 18yo guy knows what he's doing and I love to see it
Unbroken was actually originally a biography by the same name and I had to read the censored version in 8th grade for a class I was in. Even that censored version was so deeply disturbing that it still sticks with me today. Since finding out The Bird either is or has a connection with The Boiled One, the series has been significantly more terrifying. Watanabi was called The Bird by American soldiers who were held at the Japanese POW camp he was in charge of and they called him that because if he heard them saying his name, he would beat them half to death. There was more behind why that particular 'bird' was chosen but I read the book like 9 years ago so my recall is a bit muddled. Anyway, The Bird is genuinely one of the most horrifying figures of WW2 for me, especially because he never faced justice for the war crimes he committed. He got to live his life after brutally torturing soldiers to a degree that showed he did it for his own enjoyment more than anything. The Bird particularly had it out for Zamparini in real life so the idea that even in death he tormented Louis... It mkes my skin crawl.
I love your channel so much your content has been amazing and you helped pull me out of dark place and happy new year Daniel thank you so much for being an amazing creator
this truly IS comfort of my gore character. love locust, he's just a little guy!! the comparison i made to my friend a week ago was that the locust reminds me of clover from cloverfield. it's not outright "aggressive", but it's destructive nonetheless. clover stumbled wildly onto land and happened to start knocking stuff down as she learned to use her new, baby limbs. the locust appears to be driven by curiosity, a toddler that needs to look and touch and learn about the world.
I think it is not thanks to us that you continue doing this, it is thanks to YOU that you continue doing this, YOU are the one making interesting and continuous content that manages to capture the attention of the audience, without offending other viewers. Give yourself more credit king.
I don’t know why I watched this video at night, IN THE DARK OF MY BEDROOM. I’ve been avoiding this series like the plague because just seeing pictures from it triggers my paranoia so severely. I thought watching the series through an explanation video would help, but no, I’m scared shitless lol.
:( I'm sorry my friend, if it makes you feel any better I plan to cover some of the other videos from Doctor Nowheres channel, and they are (surprisingly) much more lighthearted and even wholesome. These ones not so much, but that could be a palate cleanser later I hope you're doing well
Theres some stuff by the youtuber Katie Towell that really follows the kind of formula for the drowned boy, love her stuff. Discovered her back in the early 2000's and she's still putting videos out.
...I honestly remember that blackout lasting like, a week. Apparently it was only 30 hours at most. Thats bizzare, because I've got _so_ many memories from that blackout.
A nice secondary media piece of the boiled one is that Silas ran a plushie campaign for Phen-228 and I ordered one, I didn't realize until I received the plushie that on the bottom is a set of morse code translating to "I am alive"
i had a nightmare last night about this shit being in my room i fricken woke up at 4 in the morning and couldnt get back to sleep so thanks for that -_-
As for the boy in the bath, it made me think of a single parent trying to bathe their kid and getting distracted by something else. They "only left for a few minutes" but as the child was very young, it was still too long and he drowned in the tub
i had always assumed the boiled one phenomenon was just religious horror due to the continuous mention of christ, the bible, etc as well as the trumpets and the imagery of the sky coming apart
I've been a fan of doctornowhere for a while, back when he would make little shorts and I didn't realize he was working on a series. His work, specifically the boiled one, has literally and I mean LITERALLY been the only thing on RUclips to traumatize and scare me and linger within my brain with fear as an adult. It literally sends chills down my spine even thinking about him and sometimes if I start hearing horns at night I can't sleep. It is actually creepy and cool to find something this impactful and creative and elaborate. Y'all be careful lol
I think what's happening is you remembering you had a kid before and they might have died because you have leave them in the bathtub and somehow they drowned
i portray the boy in the bath as a little boy who either was drowned in the bathtub by the parent, or was a BABY that was left in the bathtub, the parent forgot him, and then he drowned.
I’m absolutely obsessed with Mouthwashing and it’s become my whole personality since my first play through. There is SO much substance, it would be really cool to see you talk about it!
Amazing video, I love your stuff! I think The Boy and The Bath is about a child who maybe had some sort of accident while in the shower that resulted in their death. We see the POV of the parent, clearly struggling after this trajedy. The creature, I believe, isn't the titular boy, but the personification of the parent's bad thoughts and grief. It takes a distorted and ugly shape, alike to how hideous someone's subconcious can become after this much trauma. They are fighting against themselves, trying to reason with their own head that it wasn't their fault. I don't think it was their fault, but they cannot see the truth with this thing in their mind. I think it is meant to represent the idea that after a trajedy such as this, those who mourn may find awful thoughts about themselves creeping into their head, as if planted by a third party. These people then have to conquer this in order to come to terms with their loss
The first one reminded me a lot of Frankensteins creature if your familiar. It once was naturally alive and than turned into this thing somehow. It would make sense how it learns speech at an alarming rate and with its childlike tendencies like stated. Maybe the texting we saw was from him the locust. It would make sense the familiarity between them. They used to be friends something happend to him to turn him into that and he goes to his freind completely new and changed not knowing what to do.
My interpretation of the boy in the shower is a parent who had a child but no longer wanted to take care of it for whatever reason and gave it up for adoption and is now haunted by it or something much darker along those lines.
for the one at 18:17 i think the person we are having the pov from is the parent they put their baby in the tub probably using one of those inflatable neck ring things and they sat down but fell asleep as the water kept rising and rising eventually ending up either drowning the baby or if the inflatable was too good it hanged the baby which is what i think happened due to the elongated nature of the thing and the weird messed up neck
One of the few horror things that have scared me is the crawl space in dog nigthmares, when something get's close and personal and you hve tho hear it breathing but you can't look away.
i dont think ive ever felt paranoia as much as i have after seeing a picture of the boiled one. horror never usually affects me this badly but this one did
i feel like 90% of analogue horrors are done badly. but when you find a good analogue horror its amazing. a favourite of mine is vintageeight. not as believable but its done really well imo
oh... that's comfort. That's comfort of my gore character.
Lol
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Doctor nowhere both makes me extremely comforted, yet also makes me want to leave every single light on when I go to sleep.
_there is nothing that follows you after you turn off all the lights in your house_
Bro how does it leave you extremely comforted 😭
@@beanieb0b art is supposed to disturb the comforted and comfort the disturbed
@@KandiKontent I never felt comforted to begin with and I’m still not feeling very great afterwards 😭
@@KandiKontentnah, they just kind goofy bois and girls 😊
"Can I try rizzing you up?"
"Sure lol"
"PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASELLEASEPLEASELLEALLSELLEAPLSELLASE-" ahh transcript
honestly fully thought thats what he was referencing reading it like that
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The boy and the bath is about a parent who accidentally let their child drown in a bath and their mind, ridden with guilt, makes illusions of the child haunt the parent. The video is great and has perfect atmosphere especially with the music. I had watched the video 3 times in the day before watching this video.
that sounds sort of similar to gregory from what remains of edith finch, except the boy and the bath takes more of a horror perspective whereas edith finch just takes a sad one
@xhypiseepyx As soon as I heard parent leaving child in a bath I thought of that game
I came to comment the same thing. It seemed so obvious. And done well too.
I don't think it was accidental, the creature says something along the lines of " you heard me and still did nothing"
I interpreted it as a story of post partum psychosis, a woman in her moment of insanity who purposefully drowns her own child and then has to live with the guilt of her actions
A: I hope they play Fein!
B: dude this is a doctor nowhere analysis video
PHEIN-228:
i hope they play phen
🔥PHEN! PHEN! PHEN! PHEN! PHEN!🔥
I used to be really suggestible and obsessive, probably due to some at-the-time undiagnosed mental health issues. I'm better, but damn I'm glad this series wasn't on the internet when I was in high school lmao. Digging your thoughtful analysis.
I'd also point out: the sound of trumpets is often associated with judgement day, which fits neatly into both the religious theme and the war-trauma theme. Seems very deliberately chosen for that reason.
Learned about the boy in the bathtub for the first time here, I initially interpreted it as a sibling, presumably younger, that the viewer shirked their responsibilty for resulting in him drowning. Thus the significance of the dripping, him telling us we "left him there" and him then taking up his previous spot in the crib. I think the parentification of this older sibling could be reflected in the pov characters weariness at the beginning of the video, suggesting that they're being made to take on other roles within the house that are developmentally inappropriate
Or you are just projecting your own parentification into it.
There is literally no indication that it was a sibling.
The POV with the crib takes place in the Master bedroom where the parents sleep. You usually would and should not put a crib in an older siblings room.
The hesitation at the beginning can also be the parent having flashbacks from PTSD due to letting their kid die in this exact room.
There is more indication that is either a metaphor for regret after abortion or that the new parent was not careful enough which resulted in the death of the boy.
@@tallulahraccoon3832there's no indication that it's a parent either. It's incredibly vague what the relationship is between the boy and the pov character. While it is common that a crib would be placed in a master bedroom so that the parent/parents could easily reach the baby, this is something that might not be possible in a smaller home. It could be plausible that a crib is in the room of another child in the home, esp if it's a child tasked with caring for their younger sibling in the absence of their parents. And the dialogue of the boy combined with the parentification interpretation could paint a picture of an older sibling, feeling resentment for the boy due to the unfair situation they'd been put in, let them die, and now the boy resents how their sibling only saw them as a burden ("i never existed to you.") The beauty of the video is that it's vague enough to be up to interpretation so idk why you shot down the original commenter's so readily
@@tallulahraccoon3832 hindsight's one hell of a thing, huh?
Honestly i really like the idea of the boiled one being a metaphor for ptsd. When I was a kid I used to have sleep paralysis very often to the point i got used to it and would just wait it out. I wasn't even scared anymore because i could tell when it was about to start and could just wake myself up before it did. But sometimes i would see this "demon" standing in the corner of my room staring at me and even before i would even go to sleep. And i would feel such a bone deep terror that i was too scared to even turn the light on when this happend. It would sometimes come up to my bed and stare at me while the only thing i could do was just lay there and hope it would leave. Surprisingly it never happend again after I moved out. When I talked to my therapist about this (because i wanted to cross out other disorders that i could have) she said it might have been a manifastation of all the trauma i went through, and once i moved out of my childhood home it got better (although i had still paranoia of strangers breaking into my flat while i was asleep) going to therapy and finding my own indentity in life literally got rid of my "demons"
I hope you are healing and doing well ❤️🩹
I doubt it many people get sleep paralysis randomly. Probably just a coincidence.
I think that when the Locust types words & ends up typing things like file names, I think it’s trying to mimic punctuation. When I was a young kid periods confused me a lot, so I would just write something & then after I finished I’d just put them in random spots to appease my teacher.
Everyone always talks about The Boiled One, which I think does deserve all the attention it gets, but my favourite one of Silas’ creations is where_did_life_go & the other artworks that seem to take place in the 57th/58th century.
my absolute favorite is the oddity compendium but nobody covers it 😭
Fun fact: Doctor Nowhere is a huge fan of Jack Stauber! He has said in the past that he’s a big inspiration of his.
the PHEN-228 is also interesting! PHEN is most likely an abbreviation of phenomenon, but the 228 feels like a reference to John 2:28
And afterward,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your old men will dream dreams,
your young men will see visions.
I did not think of the biblical reference, that makes a lot of sense holy-
42:08 thank you for this analogy!!! i’ve been having really bad PTSD flashbacks/episodes recently and while that’s definitely. pretty unbearable. it kind of feels comforting to imagine all the paralyzing fear as the boiled one fucking with my head and not some nagging panic response? like assigning a face to it makes it more tangible but less scary?
That unironically makes sense as a coping mechanism. It allows you to visualize combatting it
nah the boiled one tried to haunt me on one night but i'm stronger than him so i absorbed his power, don't worry guys you can watch this safely
“oh… that’s comfort. That’s comfort of my gore character.” There it’s done.
Lmao “There it’s done” like you didn’t just copy/paste Cut3yKat’s comment with added quotation marks.
are you joking you have more likes than the comment you copy and pasted LMAOOO
copy pasted lmao
Get a grip people. If you had read Daniel’s description of the video you’d have seen that at the end he says” if you read this to the end comment “ that’s comfort…..” He does this on many of his videos with different things he want people to write in the comments
@@elkeclark5548 oh thats my bad actually. i dont read descriptions much so i didnt see it. im sorry i just harassed you over that😭
I love the way PHEN is designed, and how it resembles something like a pile of laundry in the dark or something mundane like that. It lingers in your mind and gets in your head
I already know everything I possibly could know about Mouthwashing... Please make a video on it. I need more. FEED ME.
I've watched 4 videos on mouthwashing already but will happily watch more
FR. FEED US, WE ARE STARVING
We are the Jimlings, please feed us!
The monster being a metaphor for PTSD/reoccurring trauma is really interesting and hits close to home. Without any proper medical diagnosis, you go through life with this faint pit in your stomach as you try to convince yourself that you're fine. It really does feel like a predator stalking its prey- pouncing when you least expect it. Its one of those things that is hard to explain, especially when you yourself don't *know* that its trauma yet- its just this feeling of unease that follows you and pops up whenever a seemingly unrelated topic makes it rear its ugly head at you again.
I could talk a lot more about the medicalization of trauma- this idea that it has to be diagnosed by a doctor in order for it to be 'valid'- yet it's still there regardless if its existence has been validated by somebody else. And if you haven't gone to war, it isn't "valid" either- despite the fact that literally anything can manifest as trauma. Its this feedback loop of denial and trying to push through whatever you are feeling. Finally being able to acknowledge the struggle doesn't make it go away, but it at least helps manage it more. Anyway aha funny analog horror monster
Get over it
@@johnclay2716 YOU FIRST.
i have a ptsd service dog. i only have him bc of sheer luck, the org i got him from doesn't really have much of an online presence, and i just so happened to be venting abt how expensive it was to someone who knew someone who got a dog from there
the reason why it is so impossible to get life saving medical equipment? bc THE ONLY GROUPS THAT PROVIDE PTSD SERVICE DOGS FREE OR AT A REDUCED FEE WILL ONLY DO IT FOR VETERANS. and listen i'm not against anybody getting any mental health assistance but YOU DONT JUST GET PTSD FROM ACTIVE DUTY PLEASE YALL
anyway yeah this comment really hit home
18:00 I immediately (especially from the “boy in the bath” title) thought about this being the manifestation of guilt from a parent who left their small child unattended in the bath, subsequently letting them drown. “I know you heard me” as in maybe you heard a splash, or a cry but didn’t come running in. Mainly what made me think of this was a previous game that’s really popular? I can’t remember what it’s called but essentially you go through all these rooms uncovering all of the ways these family members have died in this crazy wacky house. The sequence that always stuck with me the most was the one with the baby boy, who’s mother was distracted by phone calls and distress from a recent divorce, as the child plays and all his bath toys come to life only for this joyful sequence to be revealed as the child drowning in the tub, not even realizing what’s happening…
What Remains of Edith Finch is the game you're thinking of
This comment made me think of the game The Cat Lady, something similar happens in it
dude that sequence made me cry while i was playing, like it's so innocent and fun through the baby's eyes but the entire time the player knows what's happening and has no way of changing the outcome of the situation since it's essentially a flashback... all of the ones where the family members died as children were incredibly sad but that one was most tragic of all i think (although there were a _lot_ that could be contenders, the entire game is so beautiful and tragic and the metaphors in it are fantastic, can't recommend it enough)
1:18 If you have the energy Alex G deep dive part two would be awesome, also like you mentioned, Mouthwashing would be pretty cool to, I have no idea what it is I just know some of my friends like it :))
I agree with this 🧙♂️
my interpretation of the Boy and the Bath is that the parent neglected their son while he was in the bath, and he ended up drowning because of it, alot of other people share the same idea. However I always thought it was strange that the boy's head is weirdly cropped off at the top for some reason. Maybe he slipped and crack his head open while he was in the bath, leading him to drown?
"neglect" implies that it was accidental, but we know that the parent heard the child scream and choose to not do anything about it
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My favourite RUclipsr talking about my other favourite RUclipsr!
I still feel like the boiled one is watching me sleep ever since I watched it
and that’s why doctor nowhere is so good lmao
No same. I know it’s not but lord 💀
ive seen the boiled one videos before but when the audio played at around 25:27 while daniel was talking i jumped and pulled off my headphones
SAME, OH GOD I WAS TERRIFIED LOL
i’m not joking same thing happened to me never jumped so hard in my life this is why i cannot play fnaf 4
I think you know what I want you to cover. Sodikken.
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PLEEEEEEAEAEAEAAEAEAEAEAESE
OMG YESS YES
PLEASEEEE
Ughhh please no
I had a real life "experience" with the phen 228, i've watched the video three times now, and the last time i watched it, i remember the trumpets being one of the things that made me feel unsettled
Then later i went grocery shopping, and when i was walking back, i heard a sound that was eerily similar to the trumpet sound in the boiled one, and when i realized that i watched the video before going to the store, and remembering that people affected by phen 228 hear the trumpets, i got chills, for a slight nano second i felt dread
Then i remembered that i live next to a trainstation and train horns can sound similar to the trumpets in the video, lol
The boiled one is just Captain Curly after the end of the game
that's crazy.
that's actually messed up.
that's crazy.
@ quirky even
15:30 The boy in the bath, is a tragedy about a parent who... left their kid in the bath, and they likely drowned. They are so haunted by this they dont even shower anymore. They are so dirty they cant even get comfortable enough to sleep anymore, but when they go to the bath they just see their child, or a horrific representation haunting them. Wild stuff when you get high enough to think about it. The obvious monster is the first person view, not the white figure.
really appreciating all the long vids lately! starting the new year/w nothing but bangers.
When he mentioned Mouthwashing, I started genuinely shaking from happiness
its not that good dawg
@umepawz it's the autism fam, I can't help it 😭
18:08 he said “you left me in here” maybe a parent left a small child in the bath for just a few minutes and in that time the child drowned/slipped and died
That's how I interpreted it too
The boiled one is one of the very few analog horror that triggered a genuine fight or flight response in me. Hair on end, and even really strong nausea. Absolute masterpiece but holy fuck man
half of his stuff is analog wholesome
3:53 *freaked* me out because I put this video on as some entertaining background noise while I'm drawing, and suddenly hearing my date of birth completely out of context in relation to this horror story gave me shivers :P
OMG please cover mouthwashing its an obsession of mine rn i would be so stoked!! i just found your channel a week ago and it's literally so good, keep up the fantastic work! :))
Please do a video about mouthwashing, it's so amazingly done and detailed.
Spoilers for mouthwashing.
Mouthwashing is by far my most favorite horror game for so many reasons, and one of those reasons is Anya and polle and how polle represents her unborn child and how much of a awful person Jimmy is and how real people like him are.
That game is insanely good. Honestly top 10 horror experieneces. Up there with SOMA and Darkwood.
Your ability to seek out and analyze the strangest and darkest corners of the internet is unparalleled. Another awesome job. (Btw, I hope you learn how to visualize yourself being well when you're being attacked by headache.) You're #1 my man.
yay i dont get terrified and have sleep paralysis episodes whenever i wanna watch the boiled phenomenon anymore because you covered it! yayayayay!
I’ve never looked into this analog horror, but like THIS IS SO UNNERVING THAT ITS ACTUALLY AWSOME.
thank you!!! i needed a new video :)
New viewer here, subbed to both channels because of great commentary!
It can appear in my head if it wants, but everytime I daydream the characters start doing backflips and I have to start over again
26:13 I CANT STOP HEARING THE REELS VERSION OF THIS CLIP
it reminds me a bit of the early days of SCP when SCP-096 was new
that one bit of information where if he exists as even one pixel in the background of a photo and your eyes focus on that pixel, you are now basically dead without even knowing it because he'll stop at nothing to kill you
18:00 hit hard, 6 years ago on one day when i forgot to bring my phone to my workplace my friend unalived himself by self hard but before he unalived himself he was calling me. I don't know why he called me but the guilt of me not able to be there for him when he needed me the most haunting me ever since that day. Every single day i look myself in the mirror i only feel the guilt and shame of letting my friend down when he needed the most
17:45 the it was all your fault and the bath in the title makes me think the parent left the baby unattended in the bath and they drowned
Scariest part was hearing "born in 2003" and instantly feeling old
I am trying to experience second hand horror to try to insulate myself from it, and you do this to me. How very dare you, sir
the first thing that popped into my head with "the boy" is us being his sibling, that simply drowned their little brother in the bathtub because he couldnt handle him, and now we cant live with the guilt anymore and go crazy
I love how you brought in the shadow work from Nosferatu. It is unparalleled till this day as I see it.
"All The Lights" is always gonna be my favorite. Something about the old school generic infomercial aesthetic just gives it so much life. Feels like it would fit right in on Adult Swim at 4am
This is the best coverage I've seen on this series! Subscribed and looking forward to exploring the rest of your channel. ❤
We know the world is developing when Daniel Profeta begins analyzing analog horror, specifically. Doctor Nowhere
daniel you can't do this to me, it's 11 p.m
35:05 has an interrupted Morse code text in red. It reads “nobody but me and you.” I don’t know what this may mean in terms of context but I think it’s a really cool detail (put video in 0.25 speed)
I cannot explain the CHILLS the voice of thing thing sends down my spine, both reversed and regularly. This 18yo guy knows what he's doing and I love to see it
Unbroken was actually originally a biography by the same name and I had to read the censored version in 8th grade for a class I was in. Even that censored version was so deeply disturbing that it still sticks with me today. Since finding out The Bird either is or has a connection with The Boiled One, the series has been significantly more terrifying. Watanabi was called The Bird by American soldiers who were held at the Japanese POW camp he was in charge of and they called him that because if he heard them saying his name, he would beat them half to death. There was more behind why that particular 'bird' was chosen but I read the book like 9 years ago so my recall is a bit muddled. Anyway, The Bird is genuinely one of the most horrifying figures of WW2 for me, especially because he never faced justice for the war crimes he committed. He got to live his life after brutally torturing soldiers to a degree that showed he did it for his own enjoyment more than anything. The Bird particularly had it out for Zamparini in real life so the idea that even in death he tormented Louis... It mkes my skin crawl.
I remember staring at the tv. waiting for The depending doom, waiting for the boiled on to look back at me; to tell me my final days are nigh.
Just discovered your channel. Glad I found someone else to watch! Thanks for the content
Welp, guess I’m staying up til 1am
*the trumpets won't stop blarring.*
o h thats comfort. that’s comfort of my gore character.
I love your channel so much your content has been amazing and you helped pull me out of dark place and happy new year Daniel thank you so much for being an amazing creator
31:32 He looks so happy!
this truly IS comfort of my gore character. love locust, he's just a little guy!! the comparison i made to my friend a week ago was that the locust reminds me of clover from cloverfield. it's not outright "aggressive", but it's destructive nonetheless. clover stumbled wildly onto land and happened to start knocking stuff down as she learned to use her new, baby limbs. the locust appears to be driven by curiosity, a toddler that needs to look and touch and learn about the world.
I think it is not thanks to us that you continue doing this, it is thanks to YOU that you continue doing this, YOU are the one making interesting and continuous content that manages to capture the attention of the audience, without offending other viewers. Give yourself more credit king.
I don’t know why I watched this video at night, IN THE DARK OF MY BEDROOM. I’ve been avoiding this series like the plague because just seeing pictures from it triggers my paranoia so severely. I thought watching the series through an explanation video would help, but no, I’m scared shitless lol.
:( I'm sorry my friend, if it makes you feel any better I plan to cover some of the other videos from Doctor Nowheres channel, and they are (surprisingly) much more lighthearted and even wholesome. These ones not so much, but that could be a palate cleanser later
I hope you're doing well
I love listening to these videos.
I don’t understand how some people ignore these when creators like you do a good job at editing.
I see what you did at 18:10 . The “Were you dropped on the Head” song from your latest album, very cool.
Daniel, you should become an author of some sort. You use such vivid imagery, it sends a shiver down my spine. I would 100% buy your books.
Theres some stuff by the youtuber Katie Towell that really follows the kind of formula for the drowned boy, love her stuff. Discovered her back in the early 2000's and she's still putting videos out.
...I honestly remember that blackout lasting like, a week. Apparently it was only 30 hours at most. Thats bizzare, because I've got _so_ many memories from that blackout.
My computer restarted right at 16:12 when the door was about to open, and it absolutely scared the hell out of me.
A nice secondary media piece of the boiled one is that Silas ran a plushie campaign for Phen-228 and I ordered one, I didn't realize until I received the plushie that on the bottom is a set of morse code translating to "I am alive"
has the plushie eaten you yet
I can feel this video changing my brain chemistry
i had a nightmare last night about this shit being in my room i fricken woke up at 4 in the morning and couldnt get back to sleep so thanks for that -_-
Amazing video, I am now feeling paranoid right before going to sleep!
As for the boy in the bath, it made me think of a single parent trying to bathe their kid and getting distracted by something else. They "only left for a few minutes" but as the child was very young, it was still too long and he drowned in the tub
the locust = tall dark and handsome ❤
i had always assumed the boiled one phenomenon was just religious horror due to the continuous mention of christ, the bible, etc
as well as the trumpets and the imagery of the sky coming apart
And we all simultaneously say thank you, Daniel Profeta!❤
I've been a fan of doctornowhere for a while, back when he would make little shorts and I didn't realize he was working on a series. His work, specifically the boiled one, has literally and I mean LITERALLY been the only thing on RUclips to traumatize and scare me and linger within my brain with fear as an adult. It literally sends chills down my spine even thinking about him and sometimes if I start hearing horns at night I can't sleep. It is actually creepy and cool to find something this impactful and creative and elaborate. Y'all be careful lol
I think what's happening is you remembering you had a kid before and they might have died because you have leave them in the bathtub and somehow they drowned
The boiled one is my hear me out
i portray the boy in the bath as a little boy who either was drowned in the bathtub by the parent, or was a BABY that was left in the bathtub, the parent forgot him, and then he drowned.
I believe the boiled is referencing the rapture and his excitement for the ones who are left behind with him.
What a great concept
I’m absolutely obsessed with Mouthwashing and it’s become my whole personality since my first play through. There is SO much substance, it would be really cool to see you talk about it!
Gonna start saying anything i dislike is “horribly burnt, not of christ”
Amazing video, I love your stuff! I think The Boy and The Bath is about a child who maybe had some sort of accident while in the shower that resulted in their death. We see the POV of the parent, clearly struggling after this trajedy. The creature, I believe, isn't the titular boy, but the personification of the parent's bad thoughts and grief. It takes a distorted and ugly shape, alike to how hideous someone's subconcious can become after this much trauma. They are fighting against themselves, trying to reason with their own head that it wasn't their fault. I don't think it was their fault, but they cannot see the truth with this thing in their mind.
I think it is meant to represent the idea that after a trajedy such as this, those who mourn may find awful thoughts about themselves creeping into their head, as if planted by a third party. These people then have to conquer this in order to come to terms with their loss
The first one reminded me a lot of Frankensteins creature if your familiar. It once was naturally alive and than turned into this thing somehow. It would make sense how it learns speech at an alarming rate and with its childlike tendencies like stated. Maybe the texting we saw was from him the locust. It would make sense the familiarity between them. They used to be friends something happend to him to turn him into that and he goes to his freind completely new and changed not knowing what to do.
My interpretation of the boy in the shower is a parent who had a child but no longer wanted to take care of it for whatever reason and gave it up for adoption and is now haunted by it or something much darker along those lines.
More likely a kid drowning in the bath
Great video as always. I’m very glad I decided to start watching at 11:00 pm
for the one at 18:17 i think the person we are having the pov from is the parent they put their baby in the tub probably using one of those inflatable neck ring things and they sat down but fell asleep as the water kept rising and rising eventually ending up either drowning the baby or if the inflatable was too good it hanged the baby which is what i think happened due to the elongated nature of the thing and the weird messed up neck
I didn’t expect you to start playing the boiled one audio when you did and it caught me off guard :-(
i am watching this just after waking up, I hope it leaves my brain by the time I go to bed...
One of the few horror things that have scared me is the crawl space in dog nigthmares, when something get's close and personal and you hve tho hear it breathing but you can't look away.
What types of wood do you guys like your chairs to be when you eat them? I mean all of them are good but what are your favorites?
Wicker
I love your Local 58 video. First time I was introduced to analog horror.
i dont think ive ever felt paranoia as much as i have after seeing a picture of the boiled one. horror never usually affects me this badly but this one did
i feel like 90% of analogue horrors are done badly. but when you find a good analogue horror its amazing. a favourite of mine is vintageeight. not as believable but its done really well imo