Small detail I caught about the Alternate in Volume 2: It's implied that the reason why the woman over the phone asked for Adam and Jonah to stay for three nights specifically is because Adam said, "We can do tonight if you want." She subtly mistook "tonight" as "two nights," foreshadowing her identity as an Alternate by not getting a full grasp on being human.
i don't usually comment, but that knock at the end actually got me. thought my roommate was knocking on my door, paused the video, and opened my door to a dark living room and the frankly horrifying knowledge that i was home alone before i realized what must have happened. 10/10, terrifying, my hands are shaking. thanks for the great vid
im home alone but it's barely past 4pm. the knock just happened to be perfectly placed in my headphones right where the door to my room is. credit where credit is due for a good scare, even if my heart rate hasnt recovered yet
@@BLANKONTOP one of them was about wendigoon lol. He’s live-streaming and the chat starts saying they’re going to ‘Mandela catalogue his face’ and he starts laughing and telling them not to do that before turning to the camera and suddenly his face gets all distorted and stretched out. They all kinda go like that
@@ohdearroedeer4115 yooo, i loved that stream. weird that all the vods got mysteriously erased, though... it's like that one time jerma let us peep the horror.
When I get a second, better look at the false prophet's face, it doesn't seem THAT scary. But as somebody with a very strong subconscious fear of distorted faces that occasionally makes me have night terrors, the first time I saw it the face really unsettled me. I think it's because, it doesn't matter if something distorts in a cartoonish way or not, as long as something is 'off' in any way it will always give us the creeps.
The Mandela Catalogue proves that the Analog Horror genre puts a lot of effort into building up the horrors and suspense than the entire Paranormal Activity franchise would ever be.
I feel like how much someone finds the false Shepard face creepy can be related to how religious they are (not necessarily but it could be). I’m not all that religious (technically not even Christian) and find the face a little on the goofy side, but Wendigoon is fairly religious and says this was the most disturbing thing to him which actually makes sense as the idea of the thing you’ve been worshiping being distorted beyond recognition is inherently disturbing. If I saw one of my gods presented in a similar fashion I would probably have a similar reaction for seeing something that is a figure which represents the divine being twisted into something else.
As someone who is christian, my first reaction with the false Shepard was way more scary than i thought it would be. You’re probably right with what you said, but i can see it more as goofy mainly from sr pelo’s parody of mandela catalogue
I was raised not religious (and am still not), but I was also raised in, and very close to, many churches, many of which had bizarre and terrifying indoctrination rituals, the Gabriel picture scares the hell out of me, but it’s a bit tamer than the other disturbing images. I think you hit it right on the head, how scary you find the image depends on how familiar you are with what is being distorted/utilized.
i was sorta raised religious and atheist rn but the false shepard face kept me on the edge for weeks and gave me some paranoia aswell whenever i am alone
I might be biased in this opinion, but I'm not sure it's a matter of how religious you are on not, but how affected you are by the uncanny valley. I, for one, am not very religious, but I do find the face distortions and "inhuman features" of the alternates quite chilling. I also tend to gravitate away from games that try to be hyperrealistic, the slight inhumanity in their movements and animations deeply unsettle me. I also think that the context of the series matters. To me, there's something chilling about a creature that can freely transform in front of you to freak you out and decides to do a warped smile - almost like it's mocking you, knowing that it has already won this battle.
It also always feels like people are taking the piss and making suicide sound less serious, but it's not even that. It's just that they need to say it but can't cause censorship. It makes me so mad because these are serious issues and we can't talk about any of it without being demonitized :(@@visassess8607
@@cbbblue8348 no, we've always been tired of it. But there's only so much we can do. RUclips will demonitize you over nearly anything, TikTok too, and even if you don't get demonitized you could get knocked lower in the algorithm
Honestly, I kinda hate that people have to do that. Suicide is a serious topic and making creators use creative euphemisms turns it into a joke. You can't ban discussion of a serious topic because it very quickly becomes a joke. It punishes people for treating stuff correctly and results in a lot of actually not advertiser friendly discussion of it. Don't get me wrong, I understand why creators do that and I'd rather they do it than just not discuss what they're discussing, but RUclips's decision is shooting everyone in the foot including themselves.
To be honest, I'm not really scared by the Mandela Catalogue, (mostly because I was introduced thanks to the Intruder memes more than anything), but I really do love the concept and world building surrounding it. Like, the idea of a creatures trying to imitate and replace you is neat and all, but when you add the element that they're basically demons preparing to overtake the Earth now that God and Jesus are out of the picture, it makes the alternates all the more intimidating and foreboding.
That is kinda what makes analog horror more interesting than standard horror to me, the fact its used to build such strange and creepy worlds, like Gemini home entertainment or the Monument Mythos, just to list others than Mandela
„Who have I been praying to all this time?“ Just makes it worse. They’re scared and try the last thing they can do. Pray. But in that world it seems the alternates replaced or acted as saviors and god to brainwash and overtake. And the viewer knows that there is no kind god in that universe that could help them and the one they’ve been praying to is some kind of evil entity
even as someone who isn’t religious, this is still one of the scariest analog horror series i’ve ever watched. i was religious as a kid, but drifted far away from it over time. the False Shepard’s face doesn’t exactly scare me, but if i look at him long enough, i get anxious. the idea of the god and savior i believed in for so long possibly having been killed or at least usurped by this *thing* is horrifying
I honestly feel the same, but thanks to this series I am now re-afraid of the dark because now when I look into the darkness of a room I imagine an alternate there just looking at me! It's terrorfying!
same! for some reason i'm just extremely freaked out by things looking at me too intensely/strangely! the jerma sus image actually scares me really badly :(
I can't wait for alternates to advance to the even bigger form of mass media: Social media apps. I hope we get to see the intruder twitch streaming his Halo speedruns
I announced to everyone in the house "yo my favorite youtuber just released an hour long retrospective on the only kind of horror that scares me" and they released me from the hangout to settle in and watch it immediately lmfao
that knock sound effect at the end almost sent me straight into a panic attack, absolutely 10/10 the most horrifying scare Ive seen in my life. Like my guard was down because haha cheesy skit yk AND THEN BOOM SOMEONES KNOCKING AT MY WINDOW. I somehow managed to not throw up from terror but oh my god that was great
Funfact: so the type two alternates aren't actually gone they are actually still being used the reason you dont see them in vol 1 is because their class name changes to unspeakable so most likely type two being missing is just a detail about the fact that the type tolwo alts are to remain unspoken
@@magentapurpleyap5566 what if the one who shall not be named is the Type that comes through the tv but also is both type 1 and 3 before they get and then duplicate them so it takes whomever I there and then takes the identity of the person it attacks and the reason the type 2 is “noticeable” is because they haven’t yet gotten their disguise and their voice
The scariest part of the Mandela catalogue was definitely the idea of "it's in your home with you right now." Part 1 had Marks last moments filming the alternate and part 2 had the "Oh my God behind you!" moment. Seeing how these people react to the shit around them is terrifying.
I feel like the police tape was also a scare tactic, they want to single you out, of course they wouldn't want someone else showing up and interfering. But I'm also 14 minutes into an hour long video
I KEEP THINKING ABOUT THIS! I think one of the only youtubers I found that talked about the possibility that even the police training video could be tampered by the alternates was Nightmind, and the thought is terrifying. The alternates could've easily tampered the tapes to spread further fear among the policemen in training (making them potential victims) as well as guaranteeing that no one will get in the way between them and the victim calling 911.
now that you mention it, yeah it does seem kinda weird that police wouldn’t interfere in the case of an alternate or that they tell you to be on your own when alternates are stronger when you are by yoursef
A theory I have is that the "Department of Temporal Phenomena" or some form of it has existed for a very long time and that is due to the roman numerals used in their logo. The roman numeral used for "4" is "IIII" instead of "IV" and the numeral of "IIII" was only used between the 13th and 17th century. For me that gives a rough idea when humans in power realized there was a threat.
When you brought this up this made me think how alternates don’t have a good grasp on the details of humans and are trying their best to figure it out along the way.
That honestly could be the case, they probably have something to do with the "shepherd" the false Gabriel keeps mentioning, hopefully we get some info in vol. 5, cause up to know we don't really got a clue who Gabriel keeps talking about.
At 9:07 the video started glitching out and Sagan kept repeating the words, "sense of self" it was actually pretty creepy and I had to restart RUclips to continue watching the video
The framing device, the effects on Alternate!Sagan, THE ENDING, what a wonderful ride. I'm grateful you made the delineation between Intruder/man in the tv and the False Shepard. I feel like it's gotten muddied in other discussions.
It always bugged me that Mark was calling Cesar while on his way to the hospital, before cell phones were affordable, they did exist but it was pretty rare, and car phones were more of a business thing.
I think that's intentional- he says it despite it not technically being possible at the time, but it sounds about right so neither you not Mark think about it
@@Emma88178my dad had one of these bulky cable Car phones in his car. I remember in the 90s that he used it mostly for work but he would also call us when on his way home.
The shot of "Gabriel" with his face elongated which Sagan thought was goofy gave me so much chills. As a Christian I love this series. But seeing an angel that we know is a beautiful being that brings good news as a treacherous demon is horrifying yet so intriguing. Especially when it's face is so eLoNgAtEd. That goes for all alternates.
I know what you mean and the context, but the idea of a young girl being the unconsenting carrier of a baby that's not even the result of her own actions and at worst could have gotten her killed, well... It’s just odd to hear that described as a good thing in any way, shape, or form.
I kinda wonder if the whole suicide thing has something to do with the common belief in Christianity that suicide as a sin. I don't agree with it, sometimes the struggle goes too far, but it makes sense. The Alternates are luring you to commit that sin so they can take over. They are tempting you to become something evil, and something you aren't
Sorry for my limited understanding of sinning, but I think the reason that killing yourself is a one way ticket to hell is because killing *anyone* is sinful. And when you kill yourself, you can't repent and be forgiven by god for it before you die. Killing someone is a pretty ineffective way to get more people into hell, but getting them to kill themselves is a guaranteed add to your demonic army (if that's what the false shepherd actually wants, but just getting people to kill themselves without any ulterior motive of getting more to work with seems kinda "evil for the sake of evil")
@@boneenthusiast8530 uh, interenting perspective! I've always thought of the reason why ut would be a sin as "God wanted your existence, and by taking it away yourself you're actively rebelling against him, as Lucifer once did"
@@elelcomplains1553 that's also a very good explanation actually. I'm not christian and have never been so there's probably multiple explanations for this question that I don't know about.
one of my theories was that gabriel is another fallen angel, just like lucifer is in the original bible, alternates would be lesser demons, soldiers...the intruder and the preacher could be a greater demon and an archdemon respectively, making gabriel the demon lord behind it all "the treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel"
@@sludgeskin Gabriel has never been confirmed in the Bible as an Arch Angel, its implied and most people assume he is. He has always been a messenger though.
@@jakiic23i think most people get the concept that gabriel is an archangel due to him sharing the same values as michael, but although priests, theologians, bishops, etc or any other people considers gabriel as a archangel so on
This might actually be your best video yet! I loved this, from the framing device to the increasingly convoluted ways to say "game end" to the humor, you've really hit it out of the park! ... if this is you anyway...
This was excellent! 👏 👏 👏 One thing I'd like to point out, during the training tape for 911 operators, it's very obviously edited by an alternate. So the tape shows a screen with: POLICE FIRE MEDICAL At 12:24 in this video. Notice how the text is in all caps and a font that's been used throughout the training video for titles. At 12:29 in this video, the title comes up for encounters written like: encounter Notice how it's in a completely different font, at the bottom of the title card, and it's written all in lower case. This is a font that's been used in other videos with alternates. It was the same font used for the "an intruder" text. Before the title card for encounter, the whole screen glitches with VCR tracking static. It looks like it's a part that's been tampered with and something is taped over something else. Back in the day, I'd record different TV shows and re-use the same VHS tapes and record stuff over previous recordings. Whenever I'd tape over something else, I'd get that artifacting at the start of the 2nd recording. Someone, an alternate or similar entity, definitely recorded over the original video. The part that's been altered (lol) by the alternates is the part that tells 911 operators to not send help to active alternate encounters no matter what. Tl;dr: So basically, the whole "policy" of don't send help for alternate attacks isn't a real rule made by police. All of it, from the title, "encounter," to the text to speech saying "nothing is worth the risk," over and over again, was all an edit alternates made to the training tape. It's rather obviously done so alternates can drive their victims mad in peace without having to deal with the pesky emergency 1st responders, especially police with their weapons.
19:22 My eyes tricking me to see the AV ports as eyes is far more scary visual than this series has achieved. If those are edited in and not an actual AV port, I give you props for that too
As someone who has regular auditory hallucinations, the knock didn't get me. I immediately knew it wasn't real since I have to distinguish stuff like that all the time when I'm home alone. But it was a good end
You know, the face would creep me out normally, but I had the fortune of encountering the Sr Pelo dance animation of him first, so it's hard to get spooked when you're imagining him waving his hands in the air like he just don't care.
REALLY got me into the mood of the video with how vcr's front jacks looked just enough like eyes to unnerve me with every new tape, worried something would change... I LOVED the way this video was presented, and I appreciate an in-depth look into a series I was too scared to look into myself!
the angel statue scare did scare me on initially seeing it, but rewatching it now it is a little goofy. but any horror wears off once you've seen it multiple times
I know the shot of the angel's face distorting is polarizing, and personally it doesn't really get me. But you know what still continues to pop into my head at night? The angel's weird bent face as it whispers to Joseph. I dunno what it is but that little detail fucked me up
Fantastic breakdown as always Sagan. I've always thought it weird that the Mandela police dept. have so many "how to identify an alternate" programs that highlight all of the differences between alternates and regular humans. With the recent increase in Mandela Catalog games that ask you to choose the alternate (or determine if a picture is unusual or not) I am starting to theorize that Mandela PD is fully overrun with Alternates who are using interactive media in order to better learn what humans deem "Normal" to better themselves at copying mankind, hiding in plain site, and claiming more victims. Then again, the alternates with biologically impossible features are terrifying which could be another fear tactic. Then again, maybe I'm looking too deep into it.
It c o u l d be both. With how much fun the alternates seem to be having during this invasion, I wouldn't be surprised if some alternates are testing their acting skills while others go full biblical horror for shits and giggles
I hate that your alternate's jumpscare actually got me. chills down my spine as i heard the door knocking sound effect... then i instantly realized it was fake because it came from my headphones and the overuse of the effect.
A thing with Mark’s death, he actually shot himself Edit: I love how the conversation if alternates are real with Adam and Jonah actually sounds like a conversations from people around that age. Edit 2: I think it’s insane how Mark’s journal writings go from actual writing and reports to unreadable scribbles, nearly covering the whole page.
Sagan's interpretation of "you followed the shepherd, you are a fool, follow me instead" is actually the opposite of mine. The voice matched that of the false angel. I always viewed it as Adam follows the shepherd, the man in the TV, and the false angel for some reason wants adam specifically to follow him. Just thought i'd point it out.
Just wanted to add a comment since you commented on both the Flase Shepherd and "Creasers" faces, personally I found them BOTH terrifying (tho I also hadn't seen that jerma meme til after I watched the video). Personally I just find anything with human faces distorting terrifying to me, which definitely stemmed from me reading Junji Itos Enigma Fault wayyy too young and the final page always burned into my brain, lol
me: "yeah, it can be a bit contrived and cliche at times, as there's a lot of overused tropes used within analogue horror series" also me: can't sleep for a week because i'm scared of alternates hiding in my bedroom
Sagan, wendigoon, and dantavius are easily my favorite youtubers right now. All take different approaches into their deep dives as wendigoon is more straight forward and clear cut and Sagan makes these wonderfully well made videos with entertaining cinematic parts. And Dantavius just goes on about his ex wife which is absolutely hilarious.
one thing i noticed is the quote “there’s not enough room for the two of us” which obviously means the the alternates that look like you need you to off yourself so there is only one of you. the same thing happens with Lieutenant Davis. Which does mean that it ends up looking like him. just interesting to me
39:56 Mervin Marshall, the *lawyer*, is Jonah's father. This was foreshadowed in the goofiest way possible; there is a shitpost made by Voiceover Requiem, one of the voice actors in Vol3, that is basically a skit they recorded with the VAs of Adam and Jonah. During the skit, Jonah says "I should've went to lawyer school".
one minor thing i like about this series (despite being too scared to watch) is the prevalence of all the biblical names in the characters due to the connection w/ different biblical stories. also that knock at the end got me real bad i cant even lie
I find the False Shepard's distorted face more goofy than creepy, but I will also say that if I were watching it at night and in the dark it would have creeped me out more than watching in the daytime. I never saw the memes that for the "most controversial" image until you showed them though, so I just thought it was a little on-the-nose . . . Also, that knock at the end scared the shit out of me when I first watched this retrospective last night. Especially because it came through my right headphone, where the window is, on the second floor.
Vol 333 did remind me a lot of old noir movies. I can already see what Alex meant by shifting to a more avant-garde style, his videos shifted to seem less like lost media or tapes being found to a sort of old horror movie that god is watching
i cannot stress enough how PERFECT your content is for me like omg ive ALWAYS wanted ppl to do shit like this with series' i like but everyone seems to do their own thing (WHICH IS GREAT N COOL IM NOT SHAMING THEM) but an exact timeline and all important details mentioned is literally what ive been looking for like ong
Great video with one of the most impactful endings ever - it is broad daylight right now where I am and I froze for 5 seconds straight, unable to tell if it is your video or someone right outside. This is terrifying in the best way, love the effort in editing and production.
Holy- I swear to god, once I realized that the video was about to end I just casually started scrolling through the other videos but JESUS CHRIST- the knock sounded so goddamn real to me that I had to replay the video twice to make sure that it wasn't real.
The smiling cesar distortion is so scary because the way i see it the alternate is smiling because it convinced mark to go over. Which made me jump out of my seat when i realized it.
I woke up at 3 am to get some work done I cannot tell you how happy I was to see this. I love how you play with style and every project just bleeds passion. Keep up the good work, always look forward to what you do.
Okay I just finished the video, and let me tell you. My bedroom door was shut, and to my right. My neck WHIPPED around when I heard that knock come from exactly where the only entrance in or out of this room was.
i had the experience of the "religious rug" being ripped out from under me right about a year before I discovered the series, and I think that's why i find it so fascinating, but it doesn't usually make me scared. it would if it was real, but in my life, religion was always fake. even inside of it i had a weird detachment. you made a really cool analysis that I hadn't even thought about before, and you really helped clear up the timeline for me. thanks!!
Usually I haven't personally found your lore bits in other videos particularly engaging, simply because they stunt the video (like I said, just a personal preference thing probably) but from the first scene of this one I actually loved it! Thanks for everything you do 💖
12:15 it's important to note that this training video, like most videos in the series, has been manipulated by the alternates or the False Shepard. When it reaches the segment about what to do about an Alternate encounter the voice and font change, implying a new speaker. This is further confirmed in Volume 333 when Lt. Davis sends Ruth to check out a possible alternate situation. The alternates prey on fear, so they're likely trying to spread more fear about them by telling trainees who see this film that alternates are too powerful and you should just give up and listen in horror as another victim is claimed. This could also be hinting that the Alternates do have some form of weakness, perhaps they struggle with group encounters, and they're attempting to dissuade people from discovering that
I am relatively religious (Christian) and I believe that the image of the distorted face of Gabriel is fucking terrifying. I believe that since I have been taught to trust all people and let them take refuge with you, so, to me I believe that the thought of letting in a religious figure, an angel that I would trust, just for it to transform into some fucked up creature is so fucking terrifying. Also I’m a little bitch so that could be why it’s so scary.
The knock on the door actually got me because it came through the side of my headphones my door is on. I have never actually fallen for a jump-scare like that before lmao.
Something interesting about this video is that Alternate Sagan is looking in the direction of the camera, unlike the real Sagan who is glancing off to the side. Small touches like these make me believe that you should really start your own ARG or Horror series
I absolutely love this style of video! Usually with unfiction analysis videos, it’s all done really plainly, but the thematic (?) bits really bring another layer of immersion
Sagan I just gotta say, I think you’re going to be huge one day. You’re very skilled at writing scripts for these breakdown videos, and the effort you put into the in between skits is much appreciated by me. I hope you keep doing RUclips for a long time, the platform could use more skilled people like you!
Idc how many other RUclipsrs put out videos explaining different series like the Mandela Catalogue...I may watch theirs, but I'll always watch yours man. They're amazing, great job!
28:04 Since nobody ever notices this, Vol.333 is a funny title because 333 is an angel number. What does that number mean? *Your guardian angel is with you* So yeah.
I don’t know why I find these so terrifying, but I really do. Although, the intruder is the scariest thing to me, in every possible way. And it does harken back to Marble Hornets to me, which I loved but scared the shit out of me. Grateful for this explanation, as I couldn’t watch beyond the third update, lol.
I’ve seen several of these Mandela catalog videos and i wasn’t even gonna watch this but you add such a cool spin and style to your videos I’m so fucking happy I watched this. GAWD DAMN ITS SO GOOD
It’s definitely a goofy face, but I specifically have a fear of distorted faces. Any type of facial distortion, no face, creepy eyes, etc., terrifies me to my core. I don’t know why, but that’s my very specific fear. I’ll probably be up all night lmao
One thing I love about your videos are the sketches. They add personality to topics that people are already covering and makes them even more engaging versus having the same info regurgitated to me for the 400th time. Love your stuff!! (Also I'm a weenie when it comes to horror so the sketches help balance out the fear 😅)
i can't say i'm too interested in the mandela catalogue (did still watch the whole thing tho), but i love the framing of this! taking some interesting ideas and motifs from the series, and inserting it in to characterize your retelling is really neat! also playing some of the goofier parts for comedy was a nice touch.
You missed the part wher Davis says ,,I am alive, but a part of doesn’t want to be” meaning, that he is currently suffering from MAD and it’s slowly taking over.
I'm always impressed at how the production quality of your long videos keeps improving! The set-up, the script, the editing, you obviously have more budget and time than at the beginning of your channel and it's fantastic to witness :)
One thing that no one seems to really point out is that the government department against Alternates is "Temporal Phenomenon", yet Alternates haven't really fucked with Time yet.
Temporal: 1.relating to worldly as opposed to spiritual affairs; secular. "the Church did not imitate the secular rulers who thought only of temporal gain" 2.relating to time. "the spatial and temporal dimensions of human interference in complex ecosystems" Its likely referring to the more common use of the word.
Small detail I caught about the Alternate in Volume 2:
It's implied that the reason why the woman over the phone asked for Adam and Jonah to stay for three nights specifically is because Adam said, "We can do tonight if you want." She subtly mistook "tonight" as "two nights," foreshadowing her identity as an Alternate by not getting a full grasp on being human.
Me, being unable to hear human speech well do to fucked ears leading to the above: "He could be any one of us! He could even be me-"
yeah? you caught this? because i see this same comment on every Mandela Catalogue theory vid on yt
@@slimeprivilege yeah. I caught it. Never said I was the first
@@slimeprivilege no need to be an ass man
Alternates are still learning give them some time they will get it
"Uh oh! Bad decision, Mark!" Plays in my head any time I make an error in my life ever since I discovered this series 😭🤣
Bad decision, abigali!
Uh oh! Bad decision, Abigail!
let me in abigaiiiiil!
uh oh! bad decision, abigail ( :
You guys are jerks XD
i don't usually comment, but that knock at the end actually got me. thought my roommate was knocking on my door, paused the video, and opened my door to a dark living room and the frankly horrifying knowledge that i was home alone before i realized what must have happened. 10/10, terrifying, my hands are shaking. thanks for the great vid
There was no knock at the end, what are you talking about?
@@xramboi he's gone.
It got me too lmfao. But it's daytime and my boyfriend is in the room with me
@@mama_quartz that’s not your boyfriend….
im home alone but it's barely past 4pm. the knock just happened to be perfectly placed in my headphones right where the door to my room is. credit where credit is due for a good scare, even if my heart rate hasnt recovered yet
The face itself isn’t scary to me but the idea of seeing someone’s face turn into that is horrifying. I’ve literally had nightmares about it
Im genuinely curious on how those nightmares went.
@@BLANKONTOP one of them was about wendigoon lol. He’s live-streaming and the chat starts saying they’re going to ‘Mandela catalogue his face’ and he starts laughing and telling them not to do that before turning to the camera and suddenly his face gets all distorted and stretched out. They all kinda go like that
@@ohdearroedeer4115 they???? have u had multiple nightmares???
@@ohdearroedeer4115 yooo, i loved that stream. weird that all the vods got mysteriously erased, though...
it's like that one time jerma let us peep the horror.
When I get a second, better look at the false prophet's face, it doesn't seem THAT scary. But as somebody with a very strong subconscious fear of distorted faces that occasionally makes me have night terrors, the first time I saw it the face really unsettled me.
I think it's because, it doesn't matter if something distorts in a cartoonish way or not, as long as something is 'off' in any way it will always give us the creeps.
The Mandela Catalogue proves that the Analog Horror genre puts a lot of effort into building up the horrors and suspense than the entire Paranormal Activity franchise would ever be.
Eh there’s a few films in that series that have some pretty good scares and plot points but ya the later ones are pretty bad.
what does analog horror mean ?
Paranormal Activity isn't that bad, at least the originals
@@inkozebadigbadig37 basically vhs horror
@@majinally3527 ...but what's VHS horror?
I feel like how much someone finds the false Shepard face creepy can be related to how religious they are (not necessarily but it could be). I’m not all that religious (technically not even Christian) and find the face a little on the goofy side, but Wendigoon is fairly religious and says this was the most disturbing thing to him which actually makes sense as the idea of the thing you’ve been worshiping being distorted beyond recognition is inherently disturbing. If I saw one of my gods presented in a similar fashion I would probably have a similar reaction for seeing something that is a figure which represents the divine being twisted into something else.
As someone who is christian, my first reaction with the false Shepard was way more scary than i thought it would be. You’re probably right with what you said, but i can see it more as goofy mainly from sr pelo’s parody of mandela catalogue
I was raised not religious (and am still not), but I was also raised in, and very close to, many churches, many of which had bizarre and terrifying indoctrination rituals, the Gabriel picture scares the hell out of me, but it’s a bit tamer than the other disturbing images. I think you hit it right on the head, how scary you find the image depends on how familiar you are with what is being distorted/utilized.
i was sorta raised religious and atheist rn but the false shepard face kept me on the edge for weeks and gave me some paranoia aswell whenever i am alone
Fitting... maybe the face causing more fear in religious folks could be part of the reason why they say to avoid religious practices?
I might be biased in this opinion, but I'm not sure it's a matter of how religious you are on not, but how affected you are by the uncanny valley. I, for one, am not very religious, but I do find the face distortions and "inhuman features" of the alternates quite chilling. I also tend to gravitate away from games that try to be hyperrealistic, the slight inhumanity in their movements and animations deeply unsettle me.
I also think that the context of the series matters. To me, there's something chilling about a creature that can freely transform in front of you to freak you out and decides to do a warped smile - almost like it's mocking you, knowing that it has already won this battle.
"He has typed /kill in Minecraft but in real life"
As horrible as censorship is, I love how hilariously creative people get to go around it
I mean, it does get old quick with how they have to word things like that instead of just stating it explicitly
It also always feels like people are taking the piss and making suicide sound less serious, but it's not even that. It's just that they need to say it but can't cause censorship. It makes me so mad because these are serious issues and we can't talk about any of it without being demonitized :(@@visassess8607
after a year, now people are getting tired of "unalive" "left the world"
@@cbbblue8348 no, we've always been tired of it. But there's only so much we can do. RUclips will demonitize you over nearly anything, TikTok too, and even if you don't get demonitized you could get knocked lower in the algorithm
Honestly, I kinda hate that people have to do that. Suicide is a serious topic and making creators use creative euphemisms turns it into a joke. You can't ban discussion of a serious topic because it very quickly becomes a joke. It punishes people for treating stuff correctly and results in a lot of actually not advertiser friendly discussion of it. Don't get me wrong, I understand why creators do that and I'd rather they do it than just not discuss what they're discussing, but RUclips's decision is shooting everyone in the foot including themselves.
To be honest, I'm not really scared by the Mandela Catalogue, (mostly because I was introduced thanks to the Intruder memes more than anything), but I really do love the concept and world building surrounding it. Like, the idea of a creatures trying to imitate and replace you is neat and all, but when you add the element that they're basically demons preparing to overtake the Earth now that God and Jesus are out of the picture, it makes the alternates all the more intimidating and foreboding.
try Gemini Home Entertainment, its artistically done well, and has a similar assimilation theme.
That is kinda what makes analog horror more interesting than standard horror to me, the fact its used to build such strange and creepy worlds, like Gemini home entertainment or the Monument Mythos, just to list others than Mandela
„Who have I been praying to all this time?“
Just makes it worse. They’re scared and try the last thing they can do. Pray. But in that world it seems the alternates replaced or acted as saviors and god to brainwash and overtake. And the viewer knows that there is no kind god in that universe that could help them and the one they’ve been praying to is some kind of evil entity
Wait so where is God and Jesus?
@@r011ing_thunder6 they were overthrown
even as someone who isn’t religious, this is still one of the scariest analog horror series i’ve ever watched. i was religious as a kid, but drifted far away from it over time. the False Shepard’s face doesn’t exactly scare me, but if i look at him long enough, i get anxious. the idea of the god and savior i believed in for so long possibly having been killed or at least usurped by this *thing* is horrifying
I dont think that the god and saviour was ever there. We were worshipping the false shepherd the whole time
I honestly feel the same, but thanks to this series I am now re-afraid of the dark because now when I look into the darkness of a room I imagine an alternate there just looking at me! It's terrorfying!
yeah if i take a glance at the false shepards warped face i think it looks goofy, but the more i look at it the more unsettling it is
I think that the false shepherds face is scary, and I’m watching this video at night, and it made me turn my lamp on
i think its based personally. i mean, usurping a freaking god?? respect
“The imposter is sus?”
funy
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the faces aren't always scary, but the staring is. i HATE things staring at me
Same bro
Why
same! for some reason i'm just extremely freaked out by things looking at me too intensely/strangely! the jerma sus image actually scares me really badly :(
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@@mozarteanchaos im so sorry but i just laughed at this
I can't wait for alternates to advance to the even bigger form of mass media: Social media apps. I hope we get to see the intruder twitch streaming his Halo speedruns
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Well given what happens to Adam at the end of vol. 4 I wouldn't be if we see this happening in the next few uploads
Jerma
We could already be seeing them without knowing.
MF describing Jerma
I announced to everyone in the house "yo my favorite youtuber just released an hour long retrospective on the only kind of horror that scares me" and they released me from the hangout to settle in and watch it immediately lmfao
based family
Man what a PSYCHO family.
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@@jackH262 very W
W fam
‘ a new alternate has entered the ring ‘ OH MY GOD IS THAT THE INTRUDER WITH A STEEL CHAIR?
[REDACTED] IS DROPPING FROM THE TOP ROPE! IT IS A MASSACRE IN THIS GODFORSAKEN RING!
That is a beautiful mental image
HE'S GOING FOR IT, HE'S GOING FOR IT, OOH THE ALTERNATE HAS SMACKED DOWN THE INTRUDER!
The Intruder: I’m the Trrraaaaasshhhhmaaan
Freaking hilarious
that knock sound effect at the end almost sent me straight into a panic attack, absolutely 10/10 the most horrifying scare Ive seen in my life. Like my guard was down because haha cheesy skit yk AND THEN BOOM SOMEONES KNOCKING AT MY WINDOW. I somehow managed to not throw up from terror but oh my god that was great
Ohmygod yes same here, im sitting right next to a sliding glass door, and the sound effect only went into my right ear, where the door is
@@strandedstardust1711 Bruh same but for me is a wood door
I didn't hear any knocking sound
@@guilhermefranco2930 right at the end of the video
Knock at the end?
Funfact: so the type two alternates aren't actually gone they are actually still being used the reason you dont see them in vol 1 is because their class name changes to unspeakable so most likely type two being missing is just a detail about the fact that the type tolwo alts are to remain unspoken
Well the thing with that is that Vol 1 is like an alternate. Almost the same video except slightly different
@@ravenking6891 yeah bit the only noticeable difference is that type two alternates are gone because they shouldn't be spoken of
Theory: Its the ones that can be summoned in the TV. Mentioning would summon it.
@@ravenking6891 Yeah, Nightmind brought up that fact as well.
@@magentapurpleyap5566 what if the one who shall not be named is the Type that comes through the tv but also is both type 1 and 3 before they get and then duplicate them so it takes whomever I there and then takes the identity of the person it attacks and the reason the type 2 is “noticeable” is because they haven’t yet gotten their disguise and their voice
The scariest part of the Mandela catalogue was definitely the idea of "it's in your home with you right now." Part 1 had Marks last moments filming the alternate and part 2 had the "Oh my God behind you!" moment. Seeing how these people react to the shit around them is terrifying.
I feel like the police tape was also a scare tactic, they want to single you out, of course they wouldn't want someone else showing up and interfering. But I'm also 14 minutes into an hour long video
I KEEP THINKING ABOUT THIS! I think one of the only youtubers I found that talked about the possibility that even the police training video could be tampered by the alternates was Nightmind, and the thought is terrifying. The alternates could've easily tampered the tapes to spread further fear among the policemen in training (making them potential victims) as well as guaranteeing that no one will get in the way between them and the victim calling 911.
now that you mention it, yeah it does seem kinda weird that police wouldn’t interfere in the case of an alternate or that they tell you to be on your own when alternates are stronger when you are by yoursef
@@sunnyisabunny1479 That is very weird that people were telling you you're wrong about your own opinion. What the hell made them so sure?
A theory I have is that the "Department of Temporal Phenomena" or some form of it has existed for a very long time and that is due to the roman numerals used in their logo. The roman numeral used for "4" is "IIII" instead of "IV" and the numeral of "IIII" was only used between the 13th and 17th century. For me that gives a rough idea when humans in power realized there was a threat.
This is a super good catch ngl
@@MsOdd86 Thanks!
When you brought this up this made me think how alternates don’t have a good grasp on the details of humans and are trying their best to figure it out along the way.
Maybe alternates have a foothold in the department
That honestly could be the case, they probably have something to do with the "shepherd" the false Gabriel keeps mentioning, hopefully we get some info in vol. 5, cause up to know we don't really got a clue who Gabriel keeps talking about.
At 9:07 the video started glitching out and Sagan kept repeating the words, "sense of self"
it was actually pretty creepy and I had to restart RUclips to continue watching the video
don't forget
333 ALTERNATE PRESENT
@@based980 Don't Forget Undertale Reference?!?!!!
Lock your doors and keep your eyes WIDE open. Who are you praying to? :)
@@washero EVIL omg
Yes this is exactly what I wanted to watch for an hour at 7 pm thank you Mr. Sagan Hawkes
1 am gang here!
6:00 am gang
i too am watching this for an hour at 7 pm
BRO I WAS GONNA TYPE THE SAME THING
1.45am hits different
I didn't find the False Shepherd scary or goofy, just unsettling. Like an uncanny valley kind of thing. Maybe it was the voice.
I personally got chills down my spine.
@@StoryTeller796 same
I think it's uncanny because it sounds like an inhuman entity trying to mimic a human voice
@@whawhawhawhaaaa It is.
The framing device, the effects on Alternate!Sagan, THE ENDING, what a wonderful ride. I'm grateful you made the delineation between Intruder/man in the tv and the False Shepard. I feel like it's gotten muddied in other discussions.
It always bugged me that Mark was calling Cesar while on his way to the hospital, before cell phones were affordable, they did exist but it was pretty rare, and car phones were more of a business thing.
I think that's intentional- he says it despite it not technically being possible at the time, but it sounds about right so neither you not Mark think about it
I just assumed Cesar had a car phone. Yeah they were rare and more for business, but who knows. Some people not in business still had them.
They had a buisness that depended on calls
@@Emma88178my dad had one of these bulky cable Car phones in his car. I remember in the 90s that he used it mostly for work but he would also call us when on his way home.
I really like the narrative framing of this video, of being sort of interrogated by an alternate from the arg, to explain the arg itself. Clever!
The shot of "Gabriel" with his face elongated which Sagan thought was goofy gave me so much chills. As a Christian I love this series. But seeing an angel that we know is a beautiful being that brings good news as a treacherous demon is horrifying yet so intriguing. Especially when it's face is so eLoNgAtEd. That goes for all alternates.
I know what you mean and the context, but the idea of a young girl being the unconsenting carrier of a baby that's not even the result of her own actions and at worst could have gotten her killed, well... It’s just odd to hear that described as a good thing in any way, shape, or form.
@@maximillian1109 that was so random...
@@maximillian1109 Not related to the comment but okay….
@nobitches373 yea I’m an alternate
@@maximillian1109 what if the baby is your ticket into heaven and is the one person keeping you away from an eternity of torment?
I kinda wonder if the whole suicide thing has something to do with the common belief in Christianity that suicide as a sin. I don't agree with it, sometimes the struggle goes too far, but it makes sense. The Alternates are luring you to commit that sin so they can take over. They are tempting you to become something evil, and something you aren't
Sorry for my limited understanding of sinning, but I think the reason that killing yourself is a one way ticket to hell is because killing *anyone* is sinful. And when you kill yourself, you can't repent and be forgiven by god for it before you die. Killing someone is a pretty ineffective way to get more people into hell, but getting them to kill themselves is a guaranteed add to your demonic army (if that's what the false shepherd actually wants, but just getting people to kill themselves without any ulterior motive of getting more to work with seems kinda "evil for the sake of evil")
@@boneenthusiast8530 uh, interenting perspective! I've always thought of the reason why ut would be a sin as "God wanted your existence, and by taking it away yourself you're actively rebelling against him, as Lucifer once did"
@@elelcomplains1553 that's also a very good explanation actually. I'm not christian and have never been so there's probably multiple explanations for this question that I don't know about.
Seeing the intruder smiling through the tv has always been the scariest shot of the entire series to me
39:53 that is literally a picture of Bob Odenkirk doing a thumbs up, he LITERALLY used saul goodman as the lawyer LMFAO
one of my theories was that gabriel is another fallen angel, just like lucifer is in the original bible, alternates would be lesser demons, soldiers...the intruder and the preacher could be a greater demon and an archdemon respectively, making gabriel the demon lord behind it all
"the treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel"
Gabriel in the Bible is an archangel and a prophet I think? not entirely sure, im not religious but religious iconography is super interesting
I’d like to call the preacher messenger so “the intruder” and “the messenger”
More likely, the Archangel got caught slippin by the time Jesus was to be born and got shanked by Lucifer
@@sludgeskin Gabriel has never been confirmed in the Bible as an Arch Angel, its implied and most people assume he is. He has always been a messenger though.
@@jakiic23i think most people get the concept that gabriel is an archangel due to him sharing the same values as michael, but although priests, theologians, bishops, etc or any other people considers gabriel as a archangel so on
This might actually be your best video yet! I loved this, from the framing device to the increasingly convoluted ways to say "game end" to the humor, you've really hit it out of the park! ... if this is you anyway...
"causing her to......gUh-"
"types /kill Mark in Minecraft except in real life"
Reminds me of a line from Silent Hills.
"I walked, and then soon after, I was walking in front of myself, only it wasn't me."
This was excellent! 👏 👏 👏
One thing I'd like to point out, during the training tape for 911 operators, it's very obviously edited by an alternate. So the tape shows a screen with:
POLICE
FIRE
MEDICAL
At 12:24 in this video. Notice how the text is in all caps and a font that's been used throughout the training video for titles.
At 12:29 in this video, the title comes up for encounters written like:
encounter
Notice how it's in a completely different font, at the bottom of the title card, and it's written all in lower case. This is a font that's been used in other videos with alternates. It was the same font used for the "an intruder" text.
Before the title card for encounter, the whole screen glitches with VCR tracking static. It looks like it's a part that's been tampered with and something is taped over something else. Back in the day, I'd record different TV shows and re-use the same VHS tapes and record stuff over previous recordings. Whenever I'd tape over something else, I'd get that artifacting at the start of the 2nd recording.
Someone, an alternate or similar entity, definitely recorded over the original video. The part that's been altered (lol) by the alternates is the part that tells 911 operators to not send help to active alternate encounters no matter what.
Tl;dr: So basically, the whole "policy" of don't send help for alternate attacks isn't a real rule made by police. All of it, from the title, "encounter," to the text to speech saying "nothing is worth the risk," over and over again, was all an edit alternates made to the training tape. It's rather obviously done so alternates can drive their victims mad in peace without having to deal with the pesky emergency 1st responders, especially police with their weapons.
Gooooddamn
wow that’s smart lol
Why r u actually so smart wth
damn 😮
19:22 My eyes tricking me to see the AV ports as eyes is far more scary visual than this series has achieved. If those are edited in and not an actual AV port, I give you props for that too
omg ur right.. haunting 😳
Thank god I’m not the only one
OMG YES I LOVE LISTENING TO YOUR VIDEOS WHILE I DRAW, JUST IN TIME AAAAAA
sameee there so perfect😩
As someone who has regular auditory hallucinations, the knock didn't get me. I immediately knew it wasn't real since I have to distinguish stuff like that all the time when I'm home alone. But it was a good end
Just finished this and that knock at the very end sounded so real, thank you for the first real jumpscare ive hard in years Segan!
It literally came from the speaker that's closer to my bedroom door lmao
@@SnoFitzroy yea lol. I had headphones on sitting close to a ground level window. Its good to say i got scared for real.
Wish there were captions on this. Really hard to comprehend a lot of the videos if you have audio processing issues.
Yeah I have to put in both earbuds and crank up the volume for these, I have very bad problems with auditory processing
I think he does it on purpose to fit in with the black and white he's got going on
I have auto-gen captions on this video idk why you don't have them
@@ahfuck2484 I've noticed the auto CC doesn't really pick up some of the quieter sounds (mostly the whispering).
@@ahfuck2484 bc auto generated captions tend to be very inaccurate, and personally make my audio processing worse
You know, the face would creep me out normally, but I had the fortune of encountering the Sr Pelo dance animation of him first, so it's hard to get spooked when you're imagining him waving his hands in the air like he just don't care.
REALLY got me into the mood of the video with how vcr's front jacks looked just enough like eyes to unnerve me with every new tape, worried something would change... I LOVED the way this video was presented, and I appreciate an in-depth look into a series I was too scared to look into myself!
the angel statue scare did scare me on initially seeing it, but rewatching it now it is a little goofy. but any horror wears off once you've seen it multiple times
the way I JUMPED at the end you're the WORST for that. I KNEW it was coming and it STILL scared the shit out of me
I know the shot of the angel's face distorting is polarizing, and personally it doesn't really get me. But you know what still continues to pop into my head at night? The angel's weird bent face as it whispers to Joseph. I dunno what it is but that little detail fucked me up
Fantastic breakdown as always Sagan. I've always thought it weird that the Mandela police dept. have so many "how to identify an alternate" programs that highlight all of the differences between alternates and regular humans. With the recent increase in Mandela Catalog games that ask you to choose the alternate (or determine if a picture is unusual or not) I am starting to theorize that Mandela PD is fully overrun with Alternates who are using interactive media in order to better learn what humans deem "Normal" to better themselves at copying mankind, hiding in plain site, and claiming more victims. Then again, the alternates with biologically impossible features are terrifying which could be another fear tactic. Then again, maybe I'm looking too deep into it.
It c o u l d be both. With how much fun the alternates seem to be having during this invasion, I wouldn't be surprised if some alternates are testing their acting skills while others go full biblical horror for shits and giggles
I hate that your alternate's jumpscare actually got me. chills down my spine as i heard the door knocking sound effect... then i instantly realized it was fake because it came from my headphones and the overuse of the effect.
A thing with Mark’s death, he actually shot himself
Edit: I love how the conversation if alternates are real with Adam and Jonah actually sounds like a conversations from people around that age.
Edit 2: I think it’s insane how Mark’s journal writings go from actual writing and reports to unreadable scribbles, nearly covering the whole page.
We know he did, but Sagan has to talk about it in a way where RUclips won't take his video down.
Sagan's interpretation of "you followed the shepherd, you are a fool, follow me instead" is actually the opposite of mine. The voice matched that of the false angel. I always viewed it as Adam follows the shepherd, the man in the TV, and the false angel for some reason wants adam specifically to follow him. Just thought i'd point it out.
Just wanted to add a comment since you commented on both the Flase Shepherd and "Creasers" faces, personally I found them BOTH terrifying (tho I also hadn't seen that jerma meme til after I watched the video). Personally I just find anything with human faces distorting terrifying to me, which definitely stemmed from me reading Junji Itos Enigma Fault wayyy too young and the final page always burned into my brain, lol
I blame Junji Ito for single handedly for birthing the fear of distorted faces
Just watched 2 wendigoon videos on this and now you've blessed me with the honor of watching a 3rd video on this
I am a lucky man
me: "yeah, it can be a bit contrived and cliche at times, as there's a lot of overused tropes used within analogue horror series"
also me: can't sleep for a week because i'm scared of alternates hiding in my bedroom
Honestly the overall tone of the Mandela catalogue is scary but i think the story is better than the horror
Sagan, wendigoon, and dantavius are easily my favorite youtubers right now. All take different approaches into their deep dives as wendigoon is more straight forward and clear cut and Sagan makes these wonderfully well made videos with entertaining cinematic parts. And Dantavius just goes on about his ex wife which is absolutely hilarious.
one thing i noticed is the quote “there’s not enough room for the two of us” which obviously means the the alternates that look like you need you to off yourself so there is only one of you. the same thing happens with Lieutenant Davis. Which does mean that it ends up looking like him. just interesting to me
39:56 Mervin Marshall, the *lawyer*, is Jonah's father. This was foreshadowed in the goofiest way possible; there is a shitpost made by Voiceover Requiem, one of the voice actors in Vol3, that is basically a skit they recorded with the VAs of Adam and Jonah. During the skit, Jonah says "I should've went to lawyer school".
one minor thing i like about this series (despite being too scared to watch) is the prevalence of all the biblical names in the characters due to the connection w/ different biblical stories.
also that knock at the end got me real bad i cant even lie
The fact that it is kinda goofy but when your thinking of a jumpscare its just something else and its more creepy plus the faces is also terrifying
I find the False Shepard's distorted face more goofy than creepy, but I will also say that if I were watching it at night and in the dark it would have creeped me out more than watching in the daytime. I never saw the memes that for the "most controversial" image until you showed them though, so I just thought it was a little on-the-nose . . .
Also, that knock at the end scared the shit out of me when I first watched this retrospective last night. Especially because it came through my right headphone, where the window is, on the second floor.
Vol 333 did remind me a lot of old noir movies. I can already see what Alex meant by shifting to a more avant-garde style, his videos shifted to seem less like lost media or tapes being found to a sort of old horror movie that god is watching
i cannot stress enough how PERFECT your content is for me like omg ive ALWAYS wanted ppl to do shit like this with series' i like but everyone seems to do their own thing (WHICH IS GREAT N COOL IM NOT SHAMING THEM) but an exact timeline and all important details mentioned is literally what ive been looking for like ong
I can't believe I actually got scared by the knocking in my right ear.
I KNEW IT WAS COMING, AND YOU STILL GOT ME GOD DAMN IT.
Great video with one of the most impactful endings ever - it is broad daylight right now where I am and I froze for 5 seconds straight, unable to tell if it is your video or someone right outside. This is terrifying in the best way, love the effort in editing and production.
Holy-
I swear to god, once I realized that the video was about to end I just casually started scrolling through the other videos but JESUS CHRIST- the knock sounded so goddamn real to me that I had to replay the video twice to make sure that it wasn't real.
The face is like 70% goofy and 30% creepy for me. But just because it's kinda silly looking doesn't mean it's bad, I actually like it more because it
The smiling cesar distortion is so scary because the way i see it the alternate is smiling because it convinced mark to go over. Which made me jump out of my seat when i realized it.
It's always so funny to me when videos do the fake knocking thing in my right headphone. Sorry bud, my door's on the left.
Could be comming from inside your walls...
I woke up at 3 am to get some work done I cannot tell you how happy I was to see this. I love how you play with style and every project just bleeds passion. Keep up the good work, always look forward to what you do.
Okay I just finished the video, and let me tell you. My bedroom door was shut, and to my right. My neck WHIPPED around when I heard that knock come from exactly where the only entrance in or out of this room was.
@@flawfinder5776 I just imagined it like one of the SFM videos that make the character just agressively crack their neck when they turn, made me laugh
i had the experience of the "religious rug" being ripped out from under me right about a year before I discovered the series, and I think that's why i find it so fascinating, but it doesn't usually make me scared. it would if it was real, but in my life, religion was always fake. even inside of it i had a weird detachment. you made a really cool analysis that I hadn't even thought about before, and you really helped clear up the timeline for me. thanks!!
I was legit terrified to go to sleep after watching this, nothing's done that to me in at least a decade 😂
Seeing as tomorrow is my birthday, I’ll consider this a birthday present - thanks Sagan
happy birthday!!
Usually I haven't personally found your lore bits in other videos particularly engaging, simply because they stunt the video (like I said, just a personal preference thing probably) but from the first scene of this one I actually loved it! Thanks for everything you do 💖
12:15 it's important to note that this training video, like most videos in the series, has been manipulated by the alternates or the False Shepard. When it reaches the segment about what to do about an Alternate encounter the voice and font change, implying a new speaker. This is further confirmed in Volume 333 when Lt. Davis sends Ruth to check out a possible alternate situation. The alternates prey on fear, so they're likely trying to spread more fear about them by telling trainees who see this film that alternates are too powerful and you should just give up and listen in horror as another victim is claimed. This could also be hinting that the Alternates do have some form of weakness, perhaps they struggle with group encounters, and they're attempting to dissuade people from discovering that
I am relatively religious (Christian) and I believe that the image of the distorted face of Gabriel is fucking terrifying. I believe that since I have been taught to trust all people and let them take refuge with you, so, to me I believe that the thought of letting in a religious figure, an angel that I would trust, just for it to transform into some fucked up creature is so fucking terrifying. Also I’m a little bitch so that could be why it’s so scary.
The knock on the door actually got me because it came through the side of my headphones my door is on. I have never actually fallen for a jump-scare like that before lmao.
Something interesting about this video is that Alternate Sagan is looking in the direction of the camera, unlike the real Sagan who is glancing off to the side. Small touches like these make me believe that you should really start your own ARG or Horror series
I absolutely love this style of video! Usually with unfiction analysis videos, it’s all done really plainly, but the thematic (?) bits really bring another layer of immersion
AAAAA the KNOCK at the end actually scared me WAY TOO MUCH lol. I was at school while watching this and I just about turned to look at the window-
Idk why but the part where satan repeats on saying “wake up wake up wake up” was the most horrific moment imo
Sick, Sagan seriously sat through this thoroughly thrilling series
S S s s t t t t s
Sagan I just gotta say, I think you’re going to be huge one day. You’re very skilled at writing scripts for these breakdown videos, and the effort you put into the in between skits is much appreciated by me. I hope you keep doing RUclips for a long time, the platform could use more skilled people like you!
Idc how many other RUclipsrs put out videos explaining different series like the Mandela Catalogue...I may watch theirs, but I'll always watch yours man. They're amazing, great job!
28:04
Since nobody ever notices this,
Vol.333 is a funny title because 333 is an angel number. What does that number mean? *Your guardian angel is with you* So yeah.
Also, 3:33 AM is often considered as "the hour of the devil", at least in many urban legends and horrors I had seen and read
DUDE THE KNOCKING AT THE END!!!!! I THOUGHT IT WAS MY FUCKING SLIDING DOOR!!!!! I almost fell out of my bed.
I don’t know why I find these so terrifying, but I really do. Although, the intruder is the scariest thing to me, in every possible way. And it does harken back to Marble Hornets to me, which I loved but scared the shit out of me. Grateful for this explanation, as I couldn’t watch beyond the third update, lol.
Yeah, TMC definitely has some Totheark vibes to it.
Phenomenal work man, def gonna give a sub cuz I haven't seen creativity like this in a hot minute
i just have to say sagan absolutely outdid himself with the in between footage of him and his alternate like holy fuck
God, I hate how good that knock sound effect is. I'm so glad it was spoiled for me or I'd be catatonic
i love how he uses the same shot of him putting the tape in, it reminds me of a game loading screen
I’ve seen several of these Mandela catalog videos and i wasn’t even gonna watch this but you add such a cool spin and style to your videos I’m so fucking happy I watched this. GAWD DAMN ITS SO GOOD
It’s definitely a goofy face, but I specifically have a fear of distorted faces. Any type of facial distortion, no face, creepy eyes, etc., terrifies me to my core. I don’t know why, but that’s my very specific fear. I’ll probably be up all night lmao
One thing I love about your videos are the sketches. They add personality to topics that people are already covering and makes them even more engaging versus having the same info regurgitated to me for the 400th time. Love your stuff!! (Also I'm a weenie when it comes to horror so the sketches help balance out the fear 😅)
nobody's doing it like you Sagan! this was the video that made me finally become a patron 😊
An alternate making you kill urself makes sense since killing yourself is one of the unforgivable sins
Literally love all the ways you’re trying to get around suicide
“She… does the hokie pokie?”
“He types /kill mark in minecraft :D”
I’ve become desensitized to Mandela but i love the influence they’ve had as analog horror is so creative and fascinating to me
i can't say i'm too interested in the mandela catalogue (did still watch the whole thing tho), but i love the framing of this! taking some interesting ideas and motifs from the series, and inserting it in to characterize your retelling is really neat! also playing some of the goofier parts for comedy was a nice touch.
Your music in this is so scary. The way it's barely audible ugh I just feel so scared
these intros are getting more and more complex im loving it
You missed the part wher Davis says ,,I am alive, but a part of doesn’t want to be” meaning, that he is currently suffering from MAD and it’s slowly taking over.
I'm always impressed at how the production quality of your long videos keeps improving! The set-up, the script, the editing, you obviously have more budget and time than at the beginning of your channel and it's fantastic to witness :)
One thing that no one seems to really point out is that the government department against Alternates is "Temporal Phenomenon", yet Alternates haven't really fucked with Time yet.
Temporal:
1.relating to worldly as opposed to spiritual affairs; secular.
"the Church did not imitate the secular rulers who thought only of temporal gain"
2.relating to time.
"the spatial and temporal dimensions of human interference in complex ecosystems"
Its likely referring to the more common use of the word.
Also, if they are referring to the second one, maybe the department is aware that their timeline is _"wrong."_