Dog Nightmares is a chilling treat for the warm end of spring, and one of the quietest revulsion achievements I've had the pleasure to experience in a project. Dog Nightmares Playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLUtMdfebeaodoEdSs0OWYClD2hOxMSy1P&si=eWVgz7GgUR7eU3ic Piggy Soda Official Channel: @DogNightmares Jeffiot Official Channel: @jeffiot Nick Nocturne Astraline Channel: @NickNocturneAL NM Twitch: www.twitch.tv/nick_nocturne
Waving at the window in gratitude for bringing attention to this project, much like the dog in the clip you left out for those who watched the whole project.
Your work is absolutely MASTERFUL. The lack of jumpscares, the incredibly clever uses of perspective shifting and the notes versus live action, and maybe one of the most unnerving monsters I've seen in horror yet. All of the acting and shooting has also blown me away. That scene with Bailey's head on wrong....I don't think anything had gotten me that good in years. I can't wait to see more, just amazing. Thank you.
so the line "my bailey was afraid of the dark" stuck with me because, from what I can find, dogs have pretty good night vision. What if Bailey SAW the monster hiding in the dark before going missing?
For what it's worth, some dogs *are* scared of the dark - my last dog was, she never liked going into dark rooms or outside without lights on. You're still probably right, though
Dogs typically do not have good night vision- they have a sense of smell that makes it seem like that, but their night vision isn't much better than a human's.
oh my god. hi nick lmao!! i'm the voice actor for dog man, i've literally been loving your channel since 2016, it is bafflingly surreal to see myself in one of your videos! this is literally my 15 year old dream come true LOL (used to be alkali in your server lmfao)
@@ultimablue9778 thank you so much!!! i'm having so much fun with him!! :D 💜 dog nightmares is literally my favorite webseries, i still can't believe i landed the role 😭😭😭
“Someone keeps taking the posters down” It’s the monster. He wants to be her dog. Half man, half dog, trying to choose one of the two. The twisted dog face is a mask. Just like the drawing. Something is pretending to be Bailey Since she loves animals and is so desperate to have the love of a pet, she’s accepting it. “Don’t open the door to strangers” The dog isn’t a stranger.
there's something so deeply unsettling about a child saying "and then there was silence" and not smth like "and then it got really quiet" or "and then i didn't hear anything" idk why
Probably because you wouldn't hear a kid that age say a word like silence often. For them to know the exact feeling and meaning of silence means she's felt it before. Silence implies weight and reason behind the quiet where just saying quiet does not.
The creator of this is a classmate and friend of mine. I’m always so incredibly proud to see big horror RUclipsrs cover her work and this just takes the cake.
There's so many good female horror unfiction creators out there, like the creators of Chainmail Chasers, Hi I'm Mary Mary, Daisy Brown, and so many others. So often tho they get overlooked, so I'm really glad to see Nick covering this!
I really appreciate the reveal of Dogboy being a sort of... anti- jumpscare. Like an explicit monster reveal with a scary face in any lesser horror series would just be it jumping out at you or a rapid cut to a freeze frame with a loud noise. But instead we look up at it, very casually, without any fanfare... and then we just sit there, looking at it, while it looks at us, with it shifting around in a very believable way... and only when it starts to growl slightly do we cut.
Omg showing the drawing of the dog creature waving from the doorway and then cutting to the dark doorway in real life??? Such a clever and terrifying way to make the watcher afraid without needing to use jumpscares!!!!
If you turn up your brightness up all the way and slow down the video, when they snap to the window you can barely make out the dog monster moving away from the window.
To me it sounds like she was hyperfixated on the dog show as a coping mechanism for the loss of Bailey. But one not mentions her mom going to the hospital with how it’s cut off looks like it. The way the head was turned and snapped and the weird “friend” guy makes me wonder if they killed the dog. It’s not missing. The mom might know what not only happened to the dog but about her “friend”. He looks like an adult in the Polaroid and I worry she was not only kidnapped but by a man in the mask of her favorite childhood character too. If it’s not that and is more of a dream element, it again has a note cut off to the side about the hospital and her mom. What if our main character is in the hospital and possibly in a coma from an event with not only Bailey but the “friend”. The dog had their neck snapped. What if letting that man in is because the man made sure the dog was taken out so he could go after his target? The reason I mention this is due to prior cases of adults using cartoon character costumes to take advantage of others and especially children if they have specific…desires 🤢. I’m hoping it’s not that case but man imagine the mom knowing why the dog died and feeling guilt of the event. The “friend” of the mom lived there, took the girl on adventures, and once the dog was gone and after being kicked out…came back in the mask. Not only in the mask, but to come back for something? HER?? Idk even if that’s not the direction it’s terrifying.. :(
@@uglybird1167 You also briefly see it during the darkened window during still-frames section, specifically in the upper left pane just before the image flickers and then it's gone. Love those little details!
Hold up-at 18:52, the diary is dated for ‘08. The previous diary entries were dated for ‘09. It makes it sound like Emily is still looking for Bailey, but if the date is reliable, then Bailey isn’t lost yet. Who’s the best friend she’s looking for, who Mom says to move on from, hmmmMMMMM???
@@artsmakesmusic7990 It could be, I guess-maybe Emily just waited until Jan. ‘09 to put up posters? Seems like long time to wait, though, is what I was thinking. And the letter does make it sound like Bailey has been lost for a while-“I remember playing with Bailey in the snow”. Maybe the story is trying to imply Bailey’s been gone for a REALLY long time, like longer than we initially thought. Idk
Bet mom got Bailey to distract the kid from her bigger friend (assuming mom thought they were imaginary). Then something happened to Bailey. (Second guess is dad left, mom got the dog, and entity is messing with her memories)
@@mariecarie1 Both videos showing the posters are dated March 09, after the 3/08/09 entry that tells us that shes been putting them back up after someone took them down. The first diary entry in January 09 only mentions getting phone calls, which implies the posters would have already been up, but no clarification on how long they would have been up at this point. So it is possible that they could have been up much earlier than January.
The impression I got was that the man in the Polaroid was Emily’s father (or as you said, a brother/other relative) who was absent in her childhood. When her mom went to work, Emily “played alone” and was warned against opening the door for strangers; in fact, any knocking at the door was cause for her to go upstairs and hide in her room until her mom came back (implying some trauma about abduction/a break in?). Emily is shown to be very codependent with things that comfort her, going so far as to lose sleep looking for her missing dog than waste time otherwise. It speaks to some kind of abandonment/attachment issue, maybe? A fear of being alone? That the Wegman Dog is both a nostalgic figure for her, but also one that seemingly invokes panic, it could even be said that the creature is some kind of manifestation of unresolved emotional baggage/grief towards someone she never resolved in her childhood. Just my thoughts 🤔
this theory definitely speaks to me! this entire series thus far has felt, to me, like a person dealing with childhood trauma resulting from a masculine figure. this might be my own experience talking, but as soon as i saw the Polaroid of “Emily” and the man i got actual chills. there’s never any mention of a father in her diary entries, she played alone, and waited by herself for her mom to come home. i don’t feel that it’s just happenstance that the contorted Wegman assumes a masculine body type when it’s shown in the tapes there are female Wegmans as well, nor the fact that the only confirmed male character is Bailey. im just kind of spitballing here to get some of my ideas out because i was so sure that other people interpreted this the same way i did, yet was very surprised to hear nightmind go full send into the paranormal
This is also the impression I got when I watched it. I'm not sure if the dog man is a genuine supernatural threat or if he's more of a manifestation of her loneliness/abandonment. She can't let go of the loss of her dog and she can't let go of the loss of this mysterious man-- her dad, her brother? You could imagine how those two losses might coalesce into a nightmarish dog-man who lives at the corners of your perception. If the dog man is evil, and supernaturally menacing her through the tv, I'm not sure why he would insist "DOG IS STILL OUT THERE" over and over. Right now, I don't believe that this is an entity that would kill for her sole attention. I think the dog man is more neutral-- something disturbing, something born out of fear and loneliness, something that maybe represents a greater wound in this family and in her childhood-- but not the villain of this piece, I believe. I think the villain is whoever the mother was so afraid of when she told her daughter to run upstairs and lock her door if she ever heard a knock at the door. Whatever happened to create this fear, I think, is what triggered the creation of the dog man for Emily. There is a hole in her childhood, in her memory, represented by the literal hole in the stairs, and she couldn't bear to look into that hole until one day when she got the guts to examine it, she found the dog man. The hole is still scary, but the dog man is something she grows attached to. Maybe he's even protective somehow? I think he's somehow connected to her refusal to let go but also, possibly, to her inability to remember. I'm not convinced that the dog man is the one who killed bailey or the one who sent the thing that isn't bailey to Emily. Emily did mention having nightmares that Bailey isn't "with her" anymore (meaning dead). This could be one of those. I think that nightmares, memories, and reality are all sort of happening at once in this story.
The freakiest thing was, when visiting the playlist so I could watch the series before the analysis, it indicated that I already watched the video on the childhood drawing video, which I don’t remember watching recently.
I feel like I remember night mind already making a video on this, maybe that was why? Except I can't find the video anymore so now I just feel crazy, but I swear he did
@@plants_are_pretty_cool5851 i remember it too, like sometime last year? I feel like there was a video, or part of a video, where he talked about upcoming/currently happening videos that looked promising, or maybe he was talking about a playlist of videos, or a site where ppl submitted videos for him to share/watch? Or maybe we just got Mandela Effect-ed
@@finniasmarx2438 yeah ahh I swear, I remember it had the scene showing the dog man in his red plaid shirt as the thumbnail, and I remember that video being longer and more in depth too. Maybe it was a different RUclipsr or I got Mandela effected but I swear I already knew about dog nightmares from night mind 😭😔😔
@@plants_are_pretty_cool5851theres a video by EmortalMarcus that fits what you describe, so maybe that? even if its not then its a great video so you should check it out anyway lol
As a kid around the same apparent age as young Emily, I also had a similar fear, except it was a window right at the bottom of our stairs rather than a strange hole in the wall. Whenever I had to go upstairs to bed I had to either have someone with me or run past it as fast as I could. All this because one time, I saw what looked like a face right there outside of it looking in. It seemed so real I told my parents right away, but I really couldn't say now whether it was real, I imagined it because I was tired, or I misinterpreted what was actually there. Either way, the sequence where Emily goes to check out the hole in the wall... that hit on a deeper level than anything else, for that reason lmao. Love this series and can't wait to see more of it.
If you wanna continue the Brother Theory, maybe the Dog Monster killed him, hell let go further, maybe Bailey the dog doesn't exist, Bailey is the Brother but the monster distorted Emily's memory into merging the dog monster and her brother into one and she unknowningly looking for her Brother without realizing it.
What if she named her dog after her long-lost brother? That's why her mom is telling her to move on, dogs runway, and you should be over your brother by now. S
I was wondering that too. Especially given that she's censored all of the human faces/heads in photos with animal heads. Maybe some...confusion or blurring of the lines.
Here's something that you seemed to have missed Nick. In one of the photos of tiny Emily(specifically the one you used to compare them with the one you call their brother) and in the photo of the drawings on the floor in front of the window you are able to see the Wegman. Specifically in the one with tiny Emily up in the top left corner of the shot and in the window picture they are in the middle window on the left side of it obscured by shadows. I understand why you didn't see it because those are hard to see, but once you know about them... holy cow they are scary.
not sure about the "tiny emily" one, that could just be folds in the decorations. But you're right about the photo of the drawings laying about on the floor in front of the window. (starting at 2:13 of the "childhood dreams" video)...to make it worse, the screen flickers for a moment, and Wegman disappears from the photo!
YESSSS! I'm so glad someone else caught these! I was honestly baffled Nick made no mention of them, since he'd already taken the time to tinker with the brightness in the very first vid. 🤔
When I first watched through Dog Nightmares I had the theory that the Wegman monster was something else. The Wegman monster is a human being, and it didn't just kill Bailey. It decapitated him, turned his head into a mask, and is wearing him. Which is why Bailey's head is depicted as twisted or torn off in some images and why Emily began to refer to him as Bailey as well. However, this is just what I thought it was from my watch through. But after watching this video and from closer inspection its very clear that Bailey is a different breed of dog than the Wegman creature's head. I just thought it was a fairly interesting idea and decided to put it here.
There might still be something to that; it might still turn out to be a strange person befriending young Emily by pretending to be a dog headed human (just not literally wearing Bailey's head) rather than an actual paranormal mimic monster.
I got that vibe too. Like the monster killed Bailey and replaced Bailey's head with it's own. It's a literally twisted copy of the original Bailey. It makes you wonder if it's trying to copy Bailey but is doing a really bad job at replacing him in order to get Emily's love and attention (kind of like the Wegman dog-man, (it was a terrifying copy of the original, but it was comforting enough for Emily to latch on to and befriend) or if it (and this is horrifying) is deliberately appearing as traumatizing as possible on purpose in order for Emily to be as terrified and hate Bailey as much as possible.
Notice how she draws all the adults from her childhood with animal heads. The Wegman monster might just be a manifestation of her trauma around a specific person which she always drew as a dog.
i love the style of the dog monster, being like weird animated photo-bashes, almost like Angela Anaconda but uncanny on purpose! i get the feeling this project takes some inspiration from Rule Of Rose, with Emily mentally conflating a comforting figure in her life(her brother) with her missing dog, and POSSIBLY mentally censoring an abusive figure in her life as the were-dog monster. now that i mention it, maybe rather than a stranger in her house or an abusive father, the dog going missing and the appearance of the dog-man might represent emily's brother becoming abusive as he grew up, feeling like her best friend went missing and was replaced with a monster imitating his form
looking closely at the photo of the assumed brother at the stairs, just below the black spot tucked behind and poking out left of the railing, appears to be a heavily distorted smiling face. jaw hanging open big and wide
I think Bailey is actually a human. Emily covers her face with a dog face, and her family's with other animals. It's totally possible that the guy in the picture is actually Bailey.
I think it's overthinking it. Sometimes a monster is a monster, and a dog is a dog. I'd be disappointed honestly if it were a human, it'll lose the one actually terrifying bit.
to me, i think the series of drawings narrated by emily as a child depicting her mother's stranger danger advice is curious. i was told to avoid strangers a s a child, but i was never warned that "if i hear knocking while home alone run straight up to my room and lock the door". To me, that reads as her mother being familiar with a specific dangerous individual. an ex-boyfriend? husband? emily's father? maybe thats the He who is still out there. maybe he introduced her to the wegman shorts. maybe the dog-man is some manifestation of this relationship. im v interested to see where it all goes.
Okay, it took me a while to realize that 2009 is "modern-day" in this story. The adult watching the Wegman tapes and holding the photo is writing the notes concurrently. It is NOT an adult looking back at the time she lost her dog as a kid. It is an adult who has just lost her dog while also looking at stuff from when she was little. It doesn't quite fit because the notes sound very young but I can't make the dates line up otherwise. Plus, all the photos with Bailey show a woman, not a girl. Partial theory: I think Emily's brother went missing at some point in the past. Maybe Bailey was given to her soon after, maybe she got him years later. In 2008, Bailey goes missing. This has coincided with Emily developing depression. She repeatedly mentions being very tired, is not keeping up with old friends, and receives a get-well-soon card. Alternatively, it could be a physical illness of some kind. This and the dog going missing brings up repressed memories from Emily's childhood when her brother went missing. The Wegmen monster represents her mind mixing the memories of her brother and Bailey together in a way she can't understand. She has been looking for Bailey for 5+ months because she's subconsciously convinced that finding Bailey means finding her brother. Now how much of that is literal or metaphorical IDK. I don't know if the Wegmen monster actually exists. I don't think the monster is a literal combination of her dog and brother because a) Bailey goes missing sometime after the monster first appears to Emily and b) it's a different dog just based on appearance. It could be the ghost of her brother. It could have killed her brother and Bailey. It could be the product of her troubled mind. Feel free to build from this. I'll try to answer any questions asked but I make no guarantee.
Well the thing is that Emily says “Bailey was always afraid of the dark” which could mean the dog thing could actually exist and Bailey saw it in the dark
the mental combination of the loss of her dog and bailey are super interesting, but the lack of mention of her brother, dad, and man in the photo leaves a few holes in if the creature is real or a result of trauma, cool theory post!
I don't get it. The Wegman killed her dog out of jealousy in 2008 because she considered it her best friend as she got older, but she's already an adult by then? It's only 6 months from then to the story's present. The note from 08 sounds like a kid wrote it.
I absolutely DETEST that dog (in a good way) This series makes me want to fire out all the flight responses and, for the first time since childhood, when I look into a dark room I worry that that dog is gonna be there
This is a minor thing, but something I find neat is that red and green are considered complementary colors (direct opposites on the color wheel). In the photo with Bailey that later becomes a painting, Emily is wearing a green flannel, while the Wegman monster is always wearing a red flannel. I don't know if that's intentional or not, but either way it's a really cool little detail.
It's also possibly worth pointing out that red (the Wegman's flannel) and green (Emily's favorite color) are indistinguishable to dogs, as they are RG colorblind. 🚩🟩
Emilys parents: “Yeah and about halfway up the steps I want just a big cavity in the wall, definitely gotta be big enough to hold the fears of our young impressionable child”
When I first watched this series I thought it was about a girl who was dealing with the trauma of her brother Bailey going missing by masking them as her favorite tv characters. I thought the big bad was her abusive father, divorced from mom, who punched holes in the wall and probably had something to do with the brother's disappearance. It just seemed like the mom was telling her about running upstairs when someone came to the door to protect her while she had to work full time to provide for her kids.
Could Emily be replacing her brother (if that is her brother) with her dog? As in. Whatever happened was so bad, so traumatic that instead of remembering her brother as he was, her mind is switching him up with Bailey? I mean, if the man in the photo is indeed her brother, why hasn't she mentioned him at all? At the end of the day the brother being her best friend can still support the theory that the dog creature was jealous and that's why it took him. Maybe Bailey was the family dog and he died, and then shortly after the brother died as well, but maybe it was easier for her to process the death of Bailey the dog than her brother, and that's why she hasn't mentioned him so far (but will, in time, once the memories start flooding back). Excuse any mistakes or lack of coherence, English is not my first language.
The only issue I can see with this is that the “he’s still out there” photo has what I think is the brother as an adult, which means he must have survived to adulthood at least. What I think is happening is the Wegman creature took Bailey out of the picture to eliminate competition as Emily’s best friend. Emily refers to Bailey as her best friend (“I’m not giving up on my best friend”) and the Wegman creature as her “new best friend,” which means that the Wegman replaced Bailey. Now for the speculation: later on, she grew closer to her brother, as can be seen in the Polaroid. Eventually, he came to be her best friend. And the Wegman just can’t stand that, now can he?
@@zackjones8802 Yeah!! That's kinda what I was thinking, though I couldn't really explain it well. I 100% think the Wegman took the brother as an adult but we can also see Bailey's disappearance is also recent. The polaroid makes me think that the brother was taken first but she somehow doesn't remember.
I saw a few people talk about this series. I still need to watch the whole thing, but looking at the story, it focuses on one subject, and one subject only. It doesn't handle too much or too little. It's a twisted discussion on fear and loss and I love it.
Growing up and even to this day; whenever I see that breed of dog and can’t remember their proper name I always just call them Sesame Street dogs because that’s where I always saw them growing up.
the monster has human teeth and the dog's head looks like it has eye holes with human eyes behind. do you think it wears dog's heads like a mask? maybe it's wearing bailey? possibly mimicking his bark to gain emily's trust? emily says she knew the bark wasn't bailey's because he hated the dark, meaning it probably sounded like him. otherwise she wouldn't need to bring that up.
Im so so happy youre covering this series!! Ive been a fan of thr artist since theyve just been posting Walten Files fanart. When the rebrand happened and saw them starting their own project i fell in love with it instantly!
Only barely related but reading that title reminded me of this one dream i had where my dog (very small) was horribly stretched out and bouncing from place to place attempting to catch me
while i do subscribe to the older brother theory, it was my immediate first thought upon watching, i do wonder if the man in the polaroid could also be the friend who gave her a birthday present. its strange to me that hes the only person mentioned besides emily's mother (and the wegman monster, if we're counting that lol), the only real connection we're shown to the real world beyond the wegman tapes. she does mention that she hasn't seen him in a while, and from the fact that he asked the video to be recorded, we know shes not seeing him physically. whose to say that he actually asked for the video, or if emily is trying to find reasons why he isnt actually there when she opens the present to her? and the fact that its in a box that doesnt seem like a birthday present - it almost feels like she's already opened it (could the 'oops' be referring to her feeling that she revealed that it was opened?)
I'm surprised you didn't see the Wegman in the photo of her (29:36) in front of the door on the left side of the frame. I thought you were about to bring that up, before cutting to the christmas tree footage
i love this series! ive rewatched it a couple of times when new eps drop, but it wasn't till you covered it that i noticed the dog man standing in the left of the pic at 5:38 in the video freaked me the out big time lmao
I love this one a lot! You would always see dogs as being protectors in scary situations. I love this in how it takes that image of man's best friend and inverts it into horror
I love this horror piece so much (Dog Nightmares). I watched it and started theorizing, but you realizing one figure was likely a brother was something I hadn't thought of/realized. This series did freak me out a bit. It was enjoyable! /g, pos
OMG...this hits hard for me. My Buddy passed away back in January when I went back to college...and he truly was my best friend. First time an analog horror series has actually made me cry 😭
My dog has nightmares sometimes.. she's a rescue. I wish I knew how to read her mind so I could comfort her. I also have night terrors n she licks me awake when I'm struggling.. she's a good girl! ❤
My fiance brought a dog into the relationship. I wake up with her resting on my limbs with nerve pain. She's like a heating pad. In return, I give her comforting scratches when she cries in her sleep. She's a rescue. We're pretty sure something happened when she was a puppy that she's never been able to recover from since she's a little strange. To the many good dogs in our lives. I hope their nightmares become squirrel chasing dreams soon.
I always pet my dog awake when she’s kicking while having nightmares she wakes up smiling at me all the time like “thank you for getting me outta there bro” she’s a sweetheart
I always pet my dog awake when she’s kicking while having nightmares she wakes up smiling at me all the time like “thank you for getting me outta there bro” she’s a sweetheart
Thank you, NM, for consistently pointing out amazing creators & for bringing our attention to these haunting projects!! They're never a letdown. Really appreciate you❤ ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉❤❤❤❤
Great use of the dark for many of the videos. The sheer panic and anxiety I felt every time the camera lingered on a dark shadowy area really enhanced the horror in so many of those clips. And that bizarre pitch black hole on the stairway is liminal-horror levels of "why!? why would that be there!? OH GOD NOT WITH THE FLASHLIGHT"
This is a brilliant story! I do wonder if this "creature" is in fact Emily's father, or brother if the ages make more sense. Maybe he left the family and killed Bailey, since the one picture is of a man and girl presumably father and daughter, or sister and brother. And with Bailey's twisted head, maybe Emily found Bailey's body as a child and wiped that memory from her mind but it is seeping through again and perhaps she saw it as some strange nightmare over the years? Whatever the creator shows us next I feel will send us scrambling for our own dogs to hug, and a lot of lights to keep the shadows away.
Sucha feast for the senses, the lighting, sound design, very good work! All the black moments had me on edge, ready for jump scares, and scares in general.
Well I just finished watching it and I’m honestly more confused then anything but I guess I’m kinda thankful it unnerved me rather then making me cry for a few hours like the last video series that you covered so that’s a plus I guess still it was incredible well done and I’m rather excited for whatever comes next. Edit something actually did follow me…it was my cat and now she’s sleeping
So excited to see Jeffiot here for this! I'm off to watch the original, and I'll be back! Edit: Watching the original first was worth it! Can't wait for the analysis!
the idea that this monster could've killed both emily's brother and her dog and then took the shape of some sort of wagman monstrosity amalgamation of the two isn't one I'm happy about having thought about, but here we are
Aw sweet, Dog Nightmares! I was made aware of this through SoupySoup's video on the topic, and ive been keeping up with it since that point, so itll be fun to see someone else's perspective of it.
ayyyyy Jeffiot shout! this is series i found d through him, and it's pretty much the only current alalog-ish horror media that i actually find unsettling. it's so new and different, and taps into a common childhood fear of the innocent wegman characters. very excited to see where it goes!
yo that picture of little Emily standing in the doorway looking at the door, am I the only one who sees the Wegman Monster in the top left corner standing like RIGHT THERE looking directly at the camera?
Dog Nightmares has a FABULOUS atmosphere! It took me a few tries to get through it the first time, because when she investigates the hole by the stairs with the flashlight, I had a hard time looking at the screen haha. Now that I've been able to watch it through an analytic lense, I wouldn't say it's less scary, but I do feel like I'm in on a secret more than just "hoohoo, scary dog!" I feel like I can appreciate it on another level :D
I love how every horror creator I watch is extremely accepting and caring, wonderful humans. just something about the horror movie fandoms and niche horror communities attracting the exact opposite of what I expected.
Watching Dog Nightmares lead to a weird personal moment as my late grandpa had a yorkshire terrier of unusual size named Bailey. Also, given that there's a theme with replacing the faces of humans with dog heads, it might be possible that Bailey isn't actually a dog but a human (likely Emily's sibling). Emily might be remembering and seeing them as a dog because she feels more comfortable with that. The childhood drawings show only animals and Emily doesn't show her face in the painting. Just a thought that likely doesn't mean much, but it was kind of noticeable that we never see a human face clearly throughout the series so far. There's a moment when we see Emily's eye, but the rest of her face is obscured by very black shadows. The other images of humans also have obscured or blacked out faces except for the man in the polariod.
30:25 That black area on the end of the stairs. If you look at one of the photos of the hall way you can see a black jacket or blanket right there on the little pillar
idk if this is important but I noticed that in the scene shown at 7:50 the main dog is staring straight ahead isn't the only thing wrong with the shot. It's also notable that all of the other dog heads are blacked out. Blacked out faces seem to be a reoccurring thing in this arg. It might be emphasizing how much the dog monster wants emily to focus on it out of everyone else.
I had a nightmare my dog was posessed by a demon and when I called him he ran to me with his head upside-down and I woke up pretty shook. Funny, I forgot that I watched this series
I was eyeing that window in your office for that whole outro cuz i was CONVINCED there'd be a wegman out there. Thats how paranoid this series made me T^T
If we're theorizing "Bailey" is actually her brother, it makes the theory that the Wagman dog represents the Father/Bio father in someway. She points to a puppy, and continues to have animal drawings of dogs over her face well into adulthood Do I think her dad is actually a mandog? No, but it could be how her brain deals with past trauma
This is such a well done series already, it gave me such heebie jeebies and that rarely ever happens. I'm very excited to see more, and thanks to Nick as always (and Jeff!) for sharing.
This was so unnerving. I just watched the playlist on the TV, and now watching your analysis unnerves me even more! It’s been ages since I got chills over one of these series lol.
Some things not mentioned are. Emily wears flannel as an adult, probably why she has the flannel pillow too. And she only started putting the dog face on her character after she met the dogman. Whatever this is it influenced Emily heavily. You might think it knows that Emily likes the Wagman shorts and that's why it chose to look like that. But I think it always looked like a Wagman character and that's why Emily feels the need to collect the tapes as an adult. It just makes more sense to me. This thing was a big part of Emily's childhood so big in fact that it carries into the present. It's a subtle detail I find eerie
Spot light... ape like attention. Spot light... ape like attention. Im not gunnu dooo while lookin at youuuuuu~ I look for the SIGHT not what i BITEE 💃🏽👯🏽♂️🕺🏽👯🏽♂️💃🏽👯🏽♂️🕺🏽👯🏽♂️💃🏽
I think this has been the first time I found a project way before it was covered by NM or anyone else and I’m so proud of how far Dog Nightmares has come from when I first started watching!! Genuinely one of the few that make me uneasy enough to double check my doors now 😅
So weird to see my name along with the same fav color and a dog that looks really similar to my own dog that ran away when I was young. Gave me a really unique experience that put me on edge for the whole project.
LET’S GO I did not expect to see this series covered but I’m so happy I was wrong! It’s absolutely deserves it. I feel like this is also the first time I don’t have to stop the video to go watch something lol.
I have to come back to this video because this monster design has been stuck in my head the whole time since I watched it. Maybe its cringe to be so scared of this thing, but lord just looking at it brings me back to having to shut off the lights while going to bed in an empty house when I was still young. It's scary in such a visceral way to me because of that.
@NightMind I'm soon creating a series of my own titled "Eyes in the Trees", and it's about animal-headed monsters lurking in the woods and eating people.
Eyyy! This is great, been waiting for you to cover this. Although, I do imagine this one was especially scary for you! Considering you’re a cat. Edit: Darn, you made that joke immediately! But really, excited to watch this. I adore this series, it’s got some incredible atmosphere.
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Dog Nightmares is a chilling treat for the warm end of spring, and one of the quietest revulsion achievements I've had the pleasure to experience in a project.
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Ok
Nuh uh
Waving at the window in gratitude for bringing attention to this project, much like the dog in the clip you left out for those who watched the whole project.
You missed the Wegman monster in the picture of child Emily standing in the doorway! Top left!
Night Mind.
This is the BIGGEST honor! Thank you so much man! 💕🐶✨
And, thank you. 🖤
Thank you so much for a new horror series!!
Your work is absolutely MASTERFUL. The lack of jumpscares, the incredibly clever uses of perspective shifting and the notes versus live action, and maybe one of the most unnerving monsters I've seen in horror yet. All of the acting and shooting has also blown me away. That scene with Bailey's head on wrong....I don't think anything had gotten me that good in years. I can't wait to see more, just amazing. Thank you.
Your work is one that GENUINELY scared me. I havent felt like that is a long time!
OMG CAN YOU SIGN MY DOG PLUSH
so the line "my bailey was afraid of the dark" stuck with me because, from what I can find, dogs have pretty good night vision. What if Bailey SAW the monster hiding in the dark before going missing?
Oooh that seems very plausible!!
Mmmmm! That's some good horror there.
For what it's worth, some dogs *are* scared of the dark - my last dog was, she never liked going into dark rooms or outside without lights on. You're still probably right, though
I was thinking that too! the poor thing probably knew they were being stalked LONG before emily did.
Dogs typically do not have good night vision- they have a sense of smell that makes it seem like that, but their night vision isn't much better than a human's.
oh my god. hi nick lmao!! i'm the voice actor for dog man, i've literally been loving your channel since 2016, it is bafflingly surreal to see myself in one of your videos! this is literally my 15 year old dream come true LOL (used to be alkali in your server lmfao)
Oh my dog, it's god man!
Ayyyy, good job on dog man!
@@ultimablue9778 thank you so much!!! i'm having so much fun with him!! :D 💜 dog nightmares is literally my favorite webseries, i still can't believe i landed the role 😭😭😭
Respect. You had me spooked, not gonna lie! Well done & looking forward to seeing you in more roles in the future. 😄
Didn't you make a song with femtanyl?
“Someone keeps taking the posters down”
It’s the monster. He wants to be her dog.
Half man, half dog, trying to choose one of the two.
The twisted dog face is a mask. Just like the drawing.
Something is pretending to be Bailey
Since she loves animals and is so desperate to have the love of a pet, she’s accepting it.
“Don’t open the door to strangers”
The dog isn’t a stranger.
thanks, i didn't want to sleep tonight anyway.
well put
So are all her childhood memories of it just it trying to gaslight her?
🎶and now i wanna be your dog 🎶
yike!!! i dont like that :)
even with the wonderfully voiced examination work of Nick Nocturne, the question on all our minds still haunts us:
What, if anything, the dog doin?
What _IS_ the dog doin?
Incomprehensible horrors, is what the dog doin this time
Oh gods the protogen is evolving philosophical sapience
My guy was asking the real question 🤣
Nothing good.
they always ask, "what the dog doin"
but never, "how the dog doin"
The title makes me think of that post that’s like ‘If a dog took Benadryl would it see the hatman, the hatdog, or a secret third thing’
Hat man dog door hook hand
aw hell naw Bailey took 40 benadryls
some evil third option???
@@smilesfordaysHDFHDS
bena-dreel
there's something so deeply unsettling about a child saying "and then there was silence" and not smth like "and then it got really quiet" or "and then i didn't hear anything"
idk why
Probably because you wouldn't hear a kid that age say a word like silence often. For them to know the exact feeling and meaning of silence means she's felt it before. Silence implies weight and reason behind the quiet where just saying quiet does not.
The creator of this is a classmate and friend of mine. I’m always so incredibly proud to see big horror RUclipsrs cover her work and this just takes the cake.
It's nice to see female analog horror creators get featured. She and the girl behind Somnium Dreamviewer deserve way more credit than they get.
There's so many good female horror unfiction creators out there, like the creators of Chainmail Chasers, Hi I'm Mary Mary, Daisy Brown, and so many others. So often tho they get overlooked, so I'm really glad to see Nick covering this!
OH MY GOD HI I LOVE YOUR ART
@@Apollo9898LP Lacey Games????
I really appreciate the reveal of Dogboy being a sort of... anti- jumpscare. Like an explicit monster reveal with a scary face in any lesser horror series would just be it jumping out at you or a rapid cut to a freeze frame with a loud noise. But instead we look up at it, very casually, without any fanfare... and then we just sit there, looking at it, while it looks at us, with it shifting around in a very believable way... and only when it starts to growl slightly do we cut.
Read the title and immediately thought of a dog burying his bone and it coming back as a demon bone monster
That would be sick
A horror arg for dogs!!!!
I reckon the worst thing would be digging up the bone later, only for it to be a large wriggling centipede.
Just watch Courage the cowardly dog.
Honestly sounds like the plot of a N64 era game
Omg showing the drawing of the dog creature waving from the doorway and then cutting to the dark doorway in real life??? Such a clever and terrifying way to make the watcher afraid without needing to use jumpscares!!!!
If you turn up your brightness up all the way and slow down the video, when they snap to the window you can barely make out the dog monster moving away from the window.
Dude the way I almost peed myself because I saw someone talk about this before but forgot that part and it scared me so freaking bad
To me it sounds like she was hyperfixated on the dog show as a coping mechanism for the loss of Bailey. But one not mentions her mom going to the hospital with how it’s cut off looks like it. The way the head was turned and snapped and the weird “friend” guy makes me wonder if they killed the dog. It’s not missing. The mom might know what not only happened to the dog but about her “friend”. He looks like an adult in the Polaroid and I worry she was not only kidnapped but by a man in the mask of her favorite childhood character too.
If it’s not that and is more of a dream element, it again has a note cut off to the side about the hospital and her mom. What if our main character is in the hospital and possibly in a coma from an event with not only Bailey but the “friend”. The dog had their neck snapped. What if letting that man in is because the man made sure the dog was taken out so he could go after his target? The reason I mention this is due to prior cases of adults using cartoon character costumes to take advantage of others and especially children if they have specific…desires 🤢.
I’m hoping it’s not that case but man imagine the mom knowing why the dog died and feeling guilt of the event. The “friend” of the mom lived there, took the girl on adventures, and once the dog was gone and after being kicked out…came back in the mask. Not only in the mask, but to come back for something? HER?? Idk even if that’s not the direction it’s terrifying.. :(
@@uglybird1167 You also briefly see it during the darkened window during still-frames section, specifically in the upper left pane just before the image flickers and then it's gone. Love those little details!
At 5:43 you can see the dog before the live action footage
Hold up-at 18:52, the diary is dated for ‘08. The previous diary entries were dated for ‘09.
It makes it sound like Emily is still looking for Bailey, but if the date is reliable, then Bailey isn’t lost yet.
Who’s the best friend she’s looking for, who Mom says to move on from, hmmmMMMMM???
I took it to mean that Baileys just been missing for months at this point, hence her mom telling her to move on
@@artsmakesmusic7990 It could be, I guess-maybe Emily just waited until Jan. ‘09 to put up posters? Seems like long time to wait, though, is what I was thinking. And the letter does make it sound like Bailey has been lost for a while-“I remember playing with Bailey in the snow”. Maybe the story is trying to imply Bailey’s been gone for a REALLY long time, like longer than we initially thought.
Idk
Bet mom got Bailey to distract the kid from her bigger friend (assuming mom thought they were imaginary). Then something happened to Bailey. (Second guess is dad left, mom got the dog, and entity is messing with her memories)
@@mariecarie1 Both videos showing the posters are dated March 09, after the 3/08/09 entry that tells us that shes been putting them back up after someone took them down. The first diary entry in January 09 only mentions getting phone calls, which implies the posters would have already been up, but no clarification on how long they would have been up at this point. So it is possible that they could have been up much earlier than January.
@@reinstorme Oh, that would make sense! Thank you!!
Casually watching this with my dog to comfort me… was likely a bad idea
Careful. Your dog might get ideas
Same. My dog is also named Bailey. I fear for his safety.
Getting a weird sense of deja vu from this comment and replies
*Photo becomes legible*
Me: HE SHIT ON THEM?!
Nick: He's still out there
Me: Oh
That was a nice chuckle to read aloud thank you
I THOUGHT IT SAID THAT TOO
LMAOOOO
@@travistreadway318016:35 dog man exe: but but but but but but growls
The impression I got was that the man in the Polaroid was Emily’s father (or as you said, a brother/other relative) who was absent in her childhood. When her mom went to work, Emily “played alone” and was warned against opening the door for strangers; in fact, any knocking at the door was cause for her to go upstairs and hide in her room until her mom came back (implying some trauma about abduction/a break in?). Emily is shown to be very codependent with things that comfort her, going so far as to lose sleep looking for her missing dog than waste time otherwise. It speaks to some kind of abandonment/attachment issue, maybe? A fear of being alone? That the Wegman Dog is both a nostalgic figure for her, but also one that seemingly invokes panic, it could even be said that the creature is some kind of manifestation of unresolved emotional baggage/grief towards someone she never resolved in her childhood. Just my thoughts 🤔
It can relate to abandonment, yes.
Interesting take
"He's Still Out There!" sure takes on a different meaning if "he" was actually an estranged abusive father.
this theory definitely speaks to me! this entire series thus far has felt, to me, like a person dealing with childhood trauma resulting from a masculine figure. this might be my own experience talking, but as soon as i saw the Polaroid of “Emily” and the man i got actual chills. there’s never any mention of a father in her diary entries, she played alone, and waited by herself for her mom to come home. i don’t feel that it’s just happenstance that the contorted Wegman assumes a masculine body type when it’s shown in the tapes there are female Wegmans as well, nor the fact that the only confirmed male character is Bailey. im just kind of spitballing here to get some of my ideas out because i was so sure that other people interpreted this the same way i did, yet was very surprised to hear nightmind go full send into the paranormal
This is also the impression I got when I watched it. I'm not sure if the dog man is a genuine supernatural threat or if he's more of a manifestation of her loneliness/abandonment. She can't let go of the loss of her dog and she can't let go of the loss of this mysterious man-- her dad, her brother? You could imagine how those two losses might coalesce into a nightmarish dog-man who lives at the corners of your perception.
If the dog man is evil, and supernaturally menacing her through the tv, I'm not sure why he would insist "DOG IS STILL OUT THERE" over and over. Right now, I don't believe that this is an entity that would kill for her sole attention. I think the dog man is more neutral-- something disturbing, something born out of fear and loneliness, something that maybe represents a greater wound in this family and in her childhood-- but not the villain of this piece, I believe.
I think the villain is whoever the mother was so afraid of when she told her daughter to run upstairs and lock her door if she ever heard a knock at the door.
Whatever happened to create this fear, I think, is what triggered the creation of the dog man for Emily. There is a hole in her childhood, in her memory, represented by the literal hole in the stairs, and she couldn't bear to look into that hole until one day when she got the guts to examine it, she found the dog man. The hole is still scary, but the dog man is something she grows attached to. Maybe he's even protective somehow? I think he's somehow connected to her refusal to let go but also, possibly, to her inability to remember.
I'm not convinced that the dog man is the one who killed bailey or the one who sent the thing that isn't bailey to Emily. Emily did mention having nightmares that Bailey isn't "with her" anymore (meaning dead). This could be one of those. I think that nightmares, memories, and reality are all sort of happening at once in this story.
The freakiest thing was, when visiting the playlist so I could watch the series before the analysis, it indicated that I already watched the video on the childhood drawing video, which I don’t remember watching recently.
I feel like I remember night mind already making a video on this, maybe that was why? Except I can't find the video anymore so now I just feel crazy, but I swear he did
@@plants_are_pretty_cool5851istg he did. I remember it from a year ago but I could be wrong
@@plants_are_pretty_cool5851 i remember it too, like sometime last year? I feel like there was a video, or part of a video, where he talked about upcoming/currently happening videos that looked promising, or maybe he was talking about a playlist of videos, or a site where ppl submitted videos for him to share/watch?
Or maybe we just got Mandela Effect-ed
@@finniasmarx2438 yeah ahh I swear, I remember it had the scene showing the dog man in his red plaid shirt as the thumbnail, and I remember that video being longer and more in depth too. Maybe it was a different RUclipsr or I got Mandela effected but I swear I already knew about dog nightmares from night mind 😭😔😔
@@plants_are_pretty_cool5851theres a video by EmortalMarcus that fits what you describe, so maybe that? even if its not then its a great video so you should check it out anyway lol
As a kid around the same apparent age as young Emily, I also had a similar fear, except it was a window right at the bottom of our stairs rather than a strange hole in the wall. Whenever I had to go upstairs to bed I had to either have someone with me or run past it as fast as I could. All this because one time, I saw what looked like a face right there outside of it looking in. It seemed so real I told my parents right away, but I really couldn't say now whether it was real, I imagined it because I was tired, or I misinterpreted what was actually there. Either way, the sequence where Emily goes to check out the hole in the wall... that hit on a deeper level than anything else, for that reason lmao. Love this series and can't wait to see more of it.
If you wanna continue the Brother Theory, maybe the Dog Monster killed him, hell let go further, maybe Bailey the dog doesn't exist, Bailey is the Brother but the monster distorted Emily's memory into merging the dog monster and her brother into one and she unknowningly looking for her Brother without realizing it.
What if she named her dog after her long-lost brother? That's why her mom is telling her to move on, dogs runway, and you should be over your brother by now. S
@@QuietM4n Oh, that's also a good theory!
I was wondering that too. Especially given that she's censored all of the human faces/heads in photos with animal heads. Maybe some...confusion or blurring of the lines.
“ed…ward…” moment but it’s “em…ily…”
@@chelseaatherton9813 it is interesting, wonder what hide underneath the censors.
Here's something that you seemed to have missed Nick. In one of the photos of tiny Emily(specifically the one you used to compare them with the one you call their brother) and in the photo of the drawings on the floor in front of the window you are able to see the Wegman. Specifically in the one with tiny Emily up in the top left corner of the shot and in the window picture they are in the middle window on the left side of it obscured by shadows. I understand why you didn't see it because those are hard to see, but once you know about them... holy cow they are scary.
It's also next to her as a child in the Christmas photo, all the way to the left.
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not sure about the "tiny emily" one, that could just be folds in the decorations. But you're right about the photo of the drawings laying about on the floor in front of the window. (starting at 2:13 of the "childhood dreams" video)...to make it worse, the screen flickers for a moment, and Wegman disappears from the photo!
YESSSS! I'm so glad someone else caught these! I was honestly baffled Nick made no mention of them, since he'd already taken the time to tinker with the brightness in the very first vid. 🤔
yeah the photo at 29:38 is so so clear i was so lost as to why it wasnt mentioned
It's so funny how when you get desensitized to horror and scary stuff and then some random thing comes along and really gets you lmao
I just realized the note at 12:57 isn't written in Emily's handwriting, further indicating that the 2 notes after it are written by the dog man.
23:30 I can't BELIEVE he didn't notice that the note is actually OLDER than the other ones by several months.
When I first watched through Dog Nightmares I had the theory that the Wegman monster was something else.
The Wegman monster is a human being, and it didn't just kill Bailey. It decapitated him, turned his head into a mask, and is wearing him. Which is why Bailey's head is depicted as twisted or torn off in some images and why Emily began to refer to him as Bailey as well.
However, this is just what I thought it was from my watch through. But after watching this video and from closer inspection its very clear that Bailey is a different breed of dog than the Wegman creature's head. I just thought it was a fairly interesting idea and decided to put it here.
Maybe the true Wegman Monster was the friends we've made along the way.
There might still be something to that; it might still turn out to be a strange person befriending young Emily by pretending to be a dog headed human (just not literally wearing Bailey's head) rather than an actual paranormal mimic monster.
I genuinely had the same exact thought, I was about to comment the same thing 😭
I got that vibe too. Like the monster killed Bailey and replaced Bailey's head with it's own. It's a literally twisted copy of the original Bailey. It makes you wonder if it's trying to copy Bailey but is doing a really bad job at replacing him in order to get Emily's love and attention (kind of like the Wegman dog-man, (it was a terrifying copy of the original, but it was comforting enough for Emily to latch on to and befriend) or if it (and this is horrifying) is deliberately appearing as traumatizing as possible on purpose in order for Emily to be as terrified and hate Bailey as much as possible.
Notice how she draws all the adults from her childhood with animal heads. The Wegman monster might just be a manifestation of her trauma around a specific person which she always drew as a dog.
i love the style of the dog monster, being like weird animated photo-bashes, almost like Angela Anaconda but uncanny on purpose!
i get the feeling this project takes some inspiration from Rule Of Rose, with Emily mentally conflating a comforting figure in her life(her brother) with her missing dog, and POSSIBLY mentally censoring an abusive figure in her life as the were-dog monster.
now that i mention it, maybe rather than a stranger in her house or an abusive father, the dog going missing and the appearance of the dog-man might represent emily's brother becoming abusive as he grew up, feeling like her best friend went missing and was replaced with a monster imitating his form
looking closely at the photo of the assumed brother at the stairs, just below the black spot tucked behind and poking out left of the railing, appears to be a heavily distorted smiling face. jaw hanging open big and wide
I think Bailey is actually a human. Emily covers her face with a dog face, and her family's with other animals. It's totally possible that the guy in the picture is actually Bailey.
Then who’s the dog in the painting?
@@Barakon Still Bailey the person. You can paint a dog without the dog actually being real.
@@evelawless5480 This would make the missing dog posters a bit odd though, no?
I think it's overthinking it. Sometimes a monster is a monster, and a dog is a dog.
I'd be disappointed honestly if it were a human, it'll lose the one actually terrifying bit.
to me, i think the series of drawings narrated by emily as a child depicting her mother's stranger danger advice is curious. i was told to avoid strangers a s a child, but i was never warned that "if i hear knocking while home alone run straight up to my room and lock the door".
To me, that reads as her mother being familiar with a specific dangerous individual. an ex-boyfriend? husband? emily's father?
maybe thats the He who is still out there. maybe he introduced her to the wegman shorts. maybe the dog-man is some manifestation of this relationship. im v interested to see where it all goes.
emily often replaces people's heads with animals. maybe the Dog Man is just a Man - but made dog through the prism of emily's perspective
Okay, it took me a while to realize that 2009 is "modern-day" in this story. The adult watching the Wegman tapes and holding the photo is writing the notes concurrently. It is NOT an adult looking back at the time she lost her dog as a kid. It is an adult who has just lost her dog while also looking at stuff from when she was little. It doesn't quite fit because the notes sound very young but I can't make the dates line up otherwise. Plus, all the photos with Bailey show a woman, not a girl.
Partial theory: I think Emily's brother went missing at some point in the past. Maybe Bailey was given to her soon after, maybe she got him years later. In 2008, Bailey goes missing. This has coincided with Emily developing depression. She repeatedly mentions being very tired, is not keeping up with old friends, and receives a get-well-soon card. Alternatively, it could be a physical illness of some kind. This and the dog going missing brings up repressed memories from Emily's childhood when her brother went missing. The Wegmen monster represents her mind mixing the memories of her brother and Bailey together in a way she can't understand. She has been looking for Bailey for 5+ months because she's subconsciously convinced that finding Bailey means finding her brother. Now how much of that is literal or metaphorical IDK.
I don't know if the Wegmen monster actually exists. I don't think the monster is a literal combination of her dog and brother because a) Bailey goes missing sometime after the monster first appears to Emily and b) it's a different dog just based on appearance. It could be the ghost of her brother. It could have killed her brother and Bailey. It could be the product of her troubled mind.
Feel free to build from this. I'll try to answer any questions asked but I make no guarantee.
Well the thing is that Emily says “Bailey was always afraid of the dark” which could mean the dog thing could actually exist and Bailey saw it in the dark
the mental combination of the loss of her dog and bailey are super interesting, but the lack of mention of her brother, dad, and man in the photo leaves a few holes in if the creature is real or a result of trauma, cool theory post!
I don't get it. The Wegman killed her dog out of jealousy in 2008 because she considered it her best friend as she got older, but she's already an adult by then? It's only 6 months from then to the story's present. The note from 08 sounds like a kid wrote it.
0:58 - 1:03 is so affirmative and unprompted that it feels like a self-report.
I absolutely DETEST that dog (in a good way)
This series makes me want to fire out all the flight responses and, for the first time since childhood, when I look into a dark room I worry that that dog is gonna be there
I used to love those dogs on Sesame Street.
Honestly they’re kinda ruined for me now lol 🐶 👹
Dogs are one of those animals that unnerve me to no end in horror because of how friendly they are in real life (from my experience)
@@unluckycatfish6866 they either die or turn Ghoul, nothing else
This is a minor thing, but something I find neat is that red and green are considered complementary colors (direct opposites on the color wheel). In the photo with Bailey that later becomes a painting, Emily is wearing a green flannel, while the Wegman monster is always wearing a red flannel. I don't know if that's intentional or not, but either way it's a really cool little detail.
It's also possibly worth pointing out that red (the Wegman's flannel) and green (Emily's favorite color) are indistinguishable to dogs, as they are RG colorblind. 🚩🟩
Emilys parents:
“Yeah and about halfway up the steps I want just a big cavity in the wall, definitely gotta be big enough to hold the fears of our young impressionable child”
When I first watched this series I thought it was about a girl who was dealing with the trauma of her brother Bailey going missing by masking them as her favorite tv characters. I thought the big bad was her abusive father, divorced from mom, who punched holes in the wall and probably had something to do with the brother's disappearance. It just seemed like the mom was telling her about running upstairs when someone came to the door to protect her while she had to work full time to provide for her kids.
Could Emily be replacing her brother (if that is her brother) with her dog? As in. Whatever happened was so bad, so traumatic that instead of remembering her brother as he was, her mind is switching him up with Bailey? I mean, if the man in the photo is indeed her brother, why hasn't she mentioned him at all? At the end of the day the brother being her best friend can still support the theory that the dog creature was jealous and that's why it took him. Maybe Bailey was the family dog and he died, and then shortly after the brother died as well, but maybe it was easier for her to process the death of Bailey the dog than her brother, and that's why she hasn't mentioned him so far (but will, in time, once the memories start flooding back).
Excuse any mistakes or lack of coherence, English is not my first language.
The only issue I can see with this is that the “he’s still out there” photo has what I think is the brother as an adult, which means he must have survived to adulthood at least. What I think is happening is the Wegman creature took Bailey out of the picture to eliminate competition as Emily’s best friend. Emily refers to Bailey as her best friend (“I’m not giving up on my best friend”) and the Wegman creature as her “new best friend,” which means that the Wegman replaced Bailey. Now for the speculation: later on, she grew closer to her brother, as can be seen in the Polaroid. Eventually, he came to be her best friend. And the Wegman just can’t stand that, now can he?
@@zackjones8802 Yeah!! That's kinda what I was thinking, though I couldn't really explain it well. I 100% think the Wegman took the brother as an adult but we can also see Bailey's disappearance is also recent. The polaroid makes me think that the brother was taken first but she somehow doesn't remember.
I saw a few people talk about this series. I still need to watch the whole thing, but looking at the story, it focuses on one subject, and one subject only. It doesn't handle too much or too little. It's a twisted discussion on fear and loss and I love it.
The pieces of paper uncurling and then curling up again reminds me of the old Rugrats cartoon. Gave it a sort of nostalgic feel
Dog nightmares? The vacume cleaner?
Edit: *IT IS MOST CERTAINLY NOT THE F%$
Thank you for unintentionally supplying me with my new favorite mental image: Scaring off the Wegman with a battery-powered Dust Buster.
@@submariNervous GET BACK FOUL DEMON! I HAVE THE POWER OF GOD AND DYSON ON MY SIDE!
@@matthewyeldig4608 "IN THE NAME OF THE HOOVER, THE DYSON, AND THE HOLY KERRICK I CAST THEE OUT!"
@@submariNervous THE POWER OF SHARK COMPELLS YOU! THE POWER OF SHARK COMPELLS YOU!
Might be the first time I've watched the series before you covered it ha. Anyway cheers for video man.
Hey, thank you so much!
Growing up and even to this day; whenever I see that breed of dog and can’t remember their proper name I always just call them Sesame Street dogs because that’s where I always saw them growing up.
Maybe bloodhounds?
@@anushasridhar4111 But they’re not bloodhounds.
@@anushasridhar4111 weimeraners.
the monster has human teeth and the dog's head looks like it has eye holes with human eyes behind. do you think it wears dog's heads like a mask?
maybe it's wearing bailey? possibly mimicking his bark to gain emily's trust?
emily says she knew the bark wasn't bailey's because he hated the dark, meaning it probably sounded like him. otherwise she wouldn't need to bring that up.
"Dog Nightmares"
You mean the neighbors barking hound that keeps me up at night?
Kitchen Nightmares but for Petsmart
Im so so happy youre covering this series!! Ive been a fan of thr artist since theyve just been posting Walten Files fanart. When the rebrand happened and saw them starting their own project i fell in love with it instantly!
The artstyle does remind me of walten files, albeit I think this one does it better.
Only barely related but reading that title reminded me of this one dream i had where my dog (very small) was horribly stretched out and bouncing from place to place attempting to catch me
I think the brother wearing flannel and the dog were combined in a frankenstein way
Dog head and human body
My screens must really suck bc I've never seen anything in the window no matter how many times I look
It's weird I replayed that moment a couple of times when watching on my own and didn't see anything, but I see it so clearly in this video!
@@Coulroperation must be the cat demon’s aura
@@CoulroperationI think I saw it too… but I can’t tell. Might be imagining it.
I'm just glad I have a nice OLED display (Gigabyte AORUS FO27Q3 if you're curious! It's... way too expensive though) lol
I couldn't see anything in the freezeframe except what appears to be a hook? But I did see it in motion when it ran away
while i do subscribe to the older brother theory, it was my immediate first thought upon watching, i do wonder if the man in the polaroid could also be the friend who gave her a birthday present. its strange to me that hes the only person mentioned besides emily's mother (and the wegman monster, if we're counting that lol), the only real connection we're shown to the real world beyond the wegman tapes. she does mention that she hasn't seen him in a while, and from the fact that he asked the video to be recorded, we know shes not seeing him physically. whose to say that he actually asked for the video, or if emily is trying to find reasons why he isnt actually there when she opens the present to her? and the fact that its in a box that doesnt seem like a birthday present - it almost feels like she's already opened it (could the 'oops' be referring to her feeling that she revealed that it was opened?)
Tbh I thought the 'oops' was bc she accidentally smacked the cassette on the floor, lmao
I'm surprised you didn't see the Wegman in the photo of her (29:36) in front of the door on the left side of the frame. I thought you were about to bring that up, before cutting to the christmas tree footage
Oh my god thats scary as fuck
I'm surprised he didn't see it, too.
I can’t see it I even tried to make the quality better
@@travistreadway3180 It kind of blends in but he IS there.
HELL YEAH!!! Im so excited youre covering this one, ive been following this project on my own for a while and its fantastic
Agreed! My daughter and I have been keeping an eye on this one together.
The Jeff bit was funny as fuck
Indeed, and it always nice to see him and NightCat interacting
I adore their support of each other. Really happy to have found Jeff. His videos are amazing!
i love this series! ive rewatched it a couple of times when new eps drop, but it wasn't till you covered it that i noticed the dog man standing in the left of the pic at 5:38 in the video
freaked me the out big time lmao
My god. I feel like it’s even creepier looking back and and seeing that I didn’t notice it 😭
OH MY GOD YES!! Your talking about Dog Nightmare!! Seriously one creative series!! Glad to see it here!
I love this one a lot! You would always see dogs as being protectors in scary situations. I love this in how it takes that image of man's best friend and inverts it into horror
I love this horror piece so much (Dog Nightmares). I watched it and started theorizing, but you realizing one figure was likely a brother was something I hadn't thought of/realized. This series did freak me out a bit. It was enjoyable! /g, pos
OMG...this hits hard for me. My Buddy passed away back in January when I went back to college...and he truly was my best friend. First time an analog horror series has actually made me cry 😭
Ya buddy is watching you live life while having that forever bone to chew and all the treats possible
My dog has nightmares sometimes.. she's a rescue. I wish I knew how to read her mind so I could comfort her.
I also have night terrors n she licks me awake when I'm struggling.. she's a good girl! ❤
My fiance brought a dog into the relationship. I wake up with her resting on my limbs with nerve pain. She's like a heating pad. In return, I give her comforting scratches when she cries in her sleep. She's a rescue. We're pretty sure something happened when she was a puppy that she's never been able to recover from since she's a little strange.
To the many good dogs in our lives. I hope their nightmares become squirrel chasing dreams soon.
I thought you couldn't wake someone up when they're in night terrors? Isn't that what sets them apart from a standard nightmare?
@@LaydiNite Night terrors are a sleep disorder in which a person quickly awakens from sleep in a terrified state.
I always pet my dog awake when she’s kicking while having nightmares she wakes up smiling at me all the time like “thank you for getting me outta there bro” she’s a sweetheart
I always pet my dog awake when she’s kicking while having nightmares she wakes up smiling at me all the time like “thank you for getting me outta there bro” she’s a sweetheart
Thank you, NM, for consistently pointing out amazing creators & for bringing our attention to these haunting projects!! They're never a letdown. Really appreciate you❤ ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉❤❤❤❤
never been this early to a Night Mind vid, looking forward to this one!
Saaameee
Great use of the dark for many of the videos. The sheer panic and anxiety I felt every time the camera lingered on a dark shadowy area really enhanced the horror in so many of those clips. And that bizarre pitch black hole on the stairway is liminal-horror levels of "why!? why would that be there!? OH GOD NOT WITH THE FLASHLIGHT"
I honestly can't take the dog monster seriously when it's just his dog on his shoulder lmao
Just watched jeffiot's final destination video. Glad to see a bit fun between you. Your close to 1 million nick lets go
His video on The Mustache is really good, his reading of the ending of that book made think I was actually gonna throw up lol
This is a brilliant story! I do wonder if this "creature" is in fact Emily's father, or brother if the ages make more sense. Maybe he left the family and killed Bailey, since the one picture is of a man and girl presumably father and daughter, or sister and brother. And with Bailey's twisted head, maybe Emily found Bailey's body as a child and wiped that memory from her mind but it is seeping through again and perhaps she saw it as some strange nightmare over the years? Whatever the creator shows us next I feel will send us scrambling for our own dogs to hug, and a lot of lights to keep the shadows away.
Sucha feast for the senses, the lighting, sound design, very good work!
All the black moments had me on edge, ready for jump scares, and scares in general.
Well I just finished watching it and I’m honestly more confused then anything but I guess I’m kinda thankful it unnerved me rather then making me cry for a few hours like the last video series that you covered so that’s a plus I guess still it was incredible well done and I’m rather excited for whatever comes next.
Edit something actually did follow me…it was my cat and now she’s sleeping
So excited to see Jeffiot here for this! I'm off to watch the original, and I'll be back!
Edit: Watching the original first was worth it! Can't wait for the analysis!
the idea that this monster could've killed both emily's brother and her dog and then took the shape of some sort of wagman monstrosity amalgamation of the two isn't one I'm happy about having thought about, but here we are
5:38 pretty sure the dog man is visible in the top left corner of this photo too, peeking through the railing just like in the drawing
It honestly sounds like it’s an abusive family member/friend that has created the Wegman character to get to Emily, similar to the Kid and the Camera.
Aw sweet, Dog Nightmares! I was made aware of this through SoupySoup's video on the topic, and ive been keeping up with it since that point, so itll be fun to see someone else's perspective of it.
ayyyyy Jeffiot shout!
this is series i found d through him, and it's pretty much the only current alalog-ish horror media that i actually find unsettling. it's so new and different, and taps into a common childhood fear of the innocent wegman characters. very excited to see where it goes!
yo that picture of little Emily standing in the doorway looking at the door, am I the only one who sees the Wegman Monster in the top left corner standing like RIGHT THERE looking directly at the camera?
Dog Nightmares has a FABULOUS atmosphere! It took me a few tries to get through it the first time, because when she investigates the hole by the stairs with the flashlight, I had a hard time looking at the screen haha. Now that I've been able to watch it through an analytic lense, I wouldn't say it's less scary, but I do feel like I'm in on a secret more than just "hoohoo, scary dog!" I feel like I can appreciate it on another level :D
I love how every horror creator I watch is extremely accepting and caring, wonderful humans. just something about the horror movie fandoms and niche horror communities attracting the exact opposite of what I expected.
Dog nightmares definitely is terrifying. It did inspire me a little to create my own puppy-based analog horror video myself!
So the dog, was NOT in fact, the man's best friend.
Watching Dog Nightmares lead to a weird personal moment as my late grandpa had a yorkshire terrier of unusual size named Bailey.
Also, given that there's a theme with replacing the faces of humans with dog heads, it might be possible that Bailey isn't actually a dog but a human (likely Emily's sibling). Emily might be remembering and seeing them as a dog because she feels more comfortable with that.
The childhood drawings show only animals and Emily doesn't show her face in the painting. Just a thought that likely doesn't mean much, but it was kind of noticeable that we never see a human face clearly throughout the series so far. There's a moment when we see Emily's eye, but the rest of her face is obscured by very black shadows. The other images of humans also have obscured or blacked out faces except for the man in the polariod.
Also, on the photo with bailey and Emily inside the photo album, Bailey kinda looks like she has a human eye.
30:25 That black area on the end of the stairs. If you look at one of the photos of the hall way you can see a black jacket or blanket right there on the little pillar
idk if this is important but I noticed that in the scene shown at 7:50 the main dog is staring straight ahead isn't the only thing wrong with the shot. It's also notable that all of the other dog heads are blacked out. Blacked out faces seem to be a reoccurring thing in this arg. It might be emphasizing how much the dog monster wants emily to focus on it out of everyone else.
Oh my god that abrupt cut off of Jeff has me rolling
I had a nightmare my dog was posessed by a demon and when I called him he ran to me with his head upside-down and I woke up pretty shook. Funny, I forgot that I watched this series
I was eyeing that window in your office for that whole outro cuz i was CONVINCED there'd be a wegman out there. Thats how paranoid this series made me T^T
If we're theorizing "Bailey" is actually her brother, it makes the theory that the Wagman dog represents the Father/Bio father in someway.
She points to a puppy, and continues to have animal drawings of dogs over her face well into adulthood
Do I think her dad is actually a mandog? No, but it could be how her brain deals with past trauma
Glad to see you cover this! My youtube algorithm was nice enough to give this to me a long time ago and they definitely deserve the attention
This is such a well done series already, it gave me such heebie jeebies and that rarely ever happens. I'm very excited to see more, and thanks to Nick as always (and Jeff!) for sharing.
5:37 i havent seen anyone point it out, but….. pay attention to the left side of the hallway photo.
Friend, kindly, why the FUCK would you point that out to me 😭 I will not be sleeping 😀
It took me a sec. FREAKY
(For anyone looking, look in the top left corner)
Took a sec but fuck I couldn’t tell until I saw the eye
This was so unnerving. I just watched the playlist on the TV, and now watching your analysis unnerves me even more! It’s been ages since I got chills over one of these series lol.
I love when I've already seen the series and don't have to actually pause and go watch
Then forget to come back here..
Some things not mentioned are. Emily wears flannel as an adult, probably why she has the flannel pillow too. And she only started putting the dog face on her character after she met the dogman. Whatever this is it influenced Emily heavily. You might think it knows that Emily likes the Wagman shorts and that's why it chose to look like that. But I think it always looked like a Wagman character and that's why Emily feels the need to collect the tapes as an adult. It just makes more sense to me. This thing was a big part of Emily's childhood so big in fact that it carries into the present. It's a subtle detail I find eerie
Spot light... ape like attention.
Spot light... ape like attention.
Im not gunnu dooo while lookin at youuuuuu~
I look for the SIGHT not what i BITEE
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"watch it your self" sir i am scared all of you explaining people are my emotional support
I think this has been the first time I found a project way before it was covered by NM or anyone else and I’m so proud of how far Dog Nightmares has come from when I first started watching!! Genuinely one of the few that make me uneasy enough to double check my doors now 😅
Every time Nick says "Wegman" I think of the grocery store lol
So weird to see my name along with the same fav color and a dog that looks really similar to my own dog that ran away when I was young. Gave me a really unique experience that put me on edge for the whole project.
Sort of neat to think someone is just using their own house and neighborhood to make something like this.
Also, what da dog doin'?
LET’S GO I did not expect to see this series covered but I’m so happy I was wrong! It’s absolutely deserves it.
I feel like this is also the first time I don’t have to stop the video to go watch something lol.
Don’t give the dogs nightmares… give them good dreams!!
Give them pets too!
@@AngelOfDC Yes! That too!
Is it a good thing that a thunderstorm started for me just before I got the notification for this video?
I have to come back to this video because this monster design has been stuck in my head the whole time since I watched it. Maybe its cringe to be so scared of this thing, but lord just looking at it brings me back to having to shut off the lights while going to bed in an empty house when I was still young. It's scary in such a visceral way to me because of that.
@NightMind I'm soon creating a series of my own titled "Eyes in the Trees", and it's about animal-headed monsters lurking in the woods and eating people.
Eyyy! This is great, been waiting for you to cover this.
Although, I do imagine this one was especially scary for you! Considering you’re a cat.
Edit: Darn, you made that joke immediately!
But really, excited to watch this. I adore this series, it’s got some incredible atmosphere.