Ok so here are the things I see as far as possible clues. -The opening has "eye" imagery with two distinct frames, back to back, with an audio and video glitch that draws a lot of attention to it. Eyes can hold a lot of symbolic value, or could be something to do with the moonlight and the brainwashing as we have to use our eyes to perceive the light. -Included frame of Newspaper with headline "Mine Now Burning". Other bolded statements on the newspaper are all tragic and depressing. I think my earlier speculation on the mine disaster mentioned in "Digital transition" may have been spot on. Current feeling is that it may be a sort of mass sacrifice to the entity. -Narrator comments on the county being founded by missionaries, may be early moon cultist. -Date mentioned for 1961. Vostok 1and Yuri Gagarin make history for being first man to orbit the Earth. (common conspiracy theories actually believe that he was just the first cosmonaut to actually survive and that many other cosmonauts made it into space, but didn't survive either the conditions of space or re-entry of the atmosphere) John F. Kennedy announces the Apollo program and his dedication to put a man on the moon. -Police sketch for the woman in profile notes 5 sighting dates. One in 1961, two in 1962, and one for 1963 and 1957 1962 events of note: US spacecraft Ranger 3 is launched to study moon, but misses. An incredibly rare astral event occurs where many of the visible planets line up with sun and moon creating a rare solar eclipse. The Mariner 2 passes Venus being the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet. The actual date of the sighting 6/11/62 has the Pope convene an ecumenical council that hadn't been done for 92 years. 1963: A total Penumbral lunar eclipse. NASA launches first geosynchronous satellite, Syncom 2. JFK assassination. 1967: outer space treaty signed between USSR and US to prohibit weapons of mass destruction from being used in space. NASA launches lunar orbiter 3. Surveyor 3 probe lands on the moon. NASA announces APOLLO 7 mission(first with crew). Mariner 5 launched towards venus. The Patterson-Gimlin film of Bigfoot (have to include this obviously). Launch of first successful Saturn V rocket. -Witness to Hannah Burch murder. This apparently is a character from CandleCove -kids drawing that says "the lady can see me, even though I'm not up there". Probably just referencing that it has what appears to be two faces. -Mentions that she looks to the sky at Twilight....can't think of what this could mean, but my intuition is that it could mean something. -The creature has what appears to be two faces looking in opposite directions. One up, one down. -"A predator cannot differentiate prey from accomplice" mentioned for the first time outside the ARG. I'm going to wait until another release or two before making any new speculations on the series (apparently it's back now), but I do want to point out that my hunch on the mining disaster has some weight to it now. Other than that my brain is currently soup.
@@NormansIndexOk with the two faces I can think of a few things 1. Janus, Roman god of many things but importantly doorways, transitions, and the beginning and end of conflict. 2. Greek Hecate, a goddess associated with the moon, doorways, withcraft, and creatures of the night. While she has three faces and the female figure has two… the true face in the middle could be seen as a third face…
@@NormansIndex I don't believe the creature has two faces, I took it as the "faces" are just the sides of its head and it was always staring directly at us. Certainly more unsettling that way.
How does it feel to finish a video essay on a topic that has been dormant for two years, only to publish it _Right Before_ it comes back with a double feature?
Oh cool the hidden vid is public and they confirmed something quite horrifying. Thx for telling I had no idea but damn the actual new vid had some scary shit!
There's a detail he didn't mention about the moon in Show For Children that I always thought was something important disguised as an animation error. Before Cadavre reaches the first grave, a tree comes into frame and passes OVER the moon as one would expect since the moon is way far away and the tree is in the foreground. But after Cadavre looks in the second grave and sees the beaked thing, another tree comes into frame and passes UNDER the now freaky-faced moon. I don't know if that was ever confirmed to just be an error or if the theories around it were ever proven wrong, but at the time people thought it implied that the sinister moon that keeps appearing (such as the much closer one in Skywatching) is a separate body entirely and possibly replaced the moon or is covering it. A much smaller heavenly body in the sky at a much closer distance (and with substantially less mass) could potentially obscure the moon from view and would explain the lack of natural catastrophe that would result from the real moon being vastly closer. It could also be the moon itself but replaced or corrupted by something else, and the animation bloop in Show For Children merely represents this change in its state.
18:50 the 476 megahertz is also the frequency of an unknown transmission that we received from somewhere in outer space. Just some tones but still interesting.
My favorite aspect of the Black Paintings of Goya is that he never named any of them, the whole connection to Saturn Devouring His Son is educated guesswork at best. It very well could have been raw madness, devoid of context or meaning.
I really wish I would have communicated that better than I did in hindsight. It's an absolutely inspiring topic that sent me on a whole separate rabbit hole when I was doing my research. When I was making my own speculations in regards to it's inclusion in local 58, it was based on general interpretation and name given to the work, rather than a personal interpretation or alternative modern interpretations. I feel that the general interpretation and name better coincides with my speculation on it's inclusion with "Ivan the terrible and his son Ivan". Of course that is all speculation, but that's what makes this fun. As far as my initial reaction to the painting before discovering it's name and history, my thoughts slid towards Nephilim. Anyways, I really appreciate this sort of comment, thank you.
I remember watching local 58 when I was younger and being so afraid to look outside at the moon afterwards that it continues to stick to me today, it's such a good analog horror I love it‼️‼️
@29:00 Narcoleptic here. I too often hallucinate during the day because im randomly entering rem sleep w/o being conscious of it (i might feel like ive blinked my eyes and see something, however it could be 5-10 minutes later and i slept w/o knowing) and then Ill hear/see things for a while. Its mostly under control but man is it weird. another thing, bc earlier you mentioned the goofy warped faces- i always thought they were lame til maybe a month ago when i learned that...some of my hallucinations may not actually be that- I very well may have demon face syndrome. If you look it up there was a study that created images based on someone w the disorder and ffs i cant look at them- theyre too dead on. Anyway maybe thats what people started to try to tap into, and somewhere along the way it was imitated w/o really understanding the why okay time to continue watching ^^ great work, guy!
I legit freaked out when Local58 posted a new video on Halloween, after a year of silence We have regularly scheduled car-bearing ferries in Seattle, WA. Many folks commute on them daily. It's not that odd Blair Witch Project is specifically found footage; the equipment used was contemporary for the era it was created in, so I don't know if it necessarily fits into analog horror, which is specifically looking back in time at old footage obtained via obsolete media
I'm very proud of the creator for evolving. I admit I thought it was dumb at first when it was mainly just psa videos about the monsters, but it's cool to see them evolve with cgi, props, special effects, and now voice acting! It's fun to see creators evolve and get better
i remember going deep on the Book of Job, Orion, Pleiades on the actual original local 58 vid and ppl were like 'nahhh, that's a reach' glad to see someone else actually going after that thread
@@WobblesandBean The very first frame of Local 58 says 'Focus on... Faith' and the Book of Job is expressly about Faith and mentions Orion and Pleiades in the SAME SENTENCE while Skywatching has it in back to back scenes. It's actually not that big a reach, you just lack imagination.
I also thought it was a bit of a reach because those are just two very easy to spot constellations in the northern hemisphere's night sky, but I couldn't help but notice that the year 1938 is when that cave sleep experiment took place and is the year Local 58 started broadcasting. As he said in the video, the line from Job is 38:31. When a number shows up that many times, I sort of start to believe it's not just a big reach. Of all the current videos on the Local 58 channel, 6 of them were posted on the 31st (all of these are October 31, Halloween), and 3 of them are just 1 day off from the 31st (one of them is from June however, which only has 30 days). This could just be because the videos are spooky so it's in the Halloween spirit to post them around that date, but the repetition of both 38 and 31 could lend some credence to the connection with the Book of Job.
The Golden Throne isn't an amplifier as such, it's a focusing lens. The thousand sacrifices a day isn't a fixed number, it just sounds cool as an average. The idea for the Golden Throne was to have a giant psychic gun aimed into the Webway. The Emperor and Malcador were going to, essentially, blast the Webway with psychic energy to get rid of the Eldar, then use it for the Imperium. That gets rid of Warp travel, which weakens Chaos.
@@NemFX- presumably just the literal seat part though, seeing as the false emperor wasn't a psychic juggernaut like Malcador, who the actual Golden Throne nevertheless fried to crispy ashes in abt 5 minutes flat! The actual Golden Throne is, I believe, the single largest machine in the galaxy, and many of its parts are confirmed to be of unknown Xenos origin, and according to the Dark Eldar, humanity has totally misunderstood their intended original purpose. But then I guess they would say that, wouldn't they...
@@jimdoom2276To be fair, humanity doesn’t understand much of anything about most of the tech it uses. They just cobble together shamanic operating procedures from distorted fragments of the original protocol, which is comedically inefficient.
This is so well done! I'd like to raise a possibility - what if the moon entity is contained within, or made of, moonlight? There's references to the moon 'coming in' through windows, and I think once the entity refers to itself as coming in. Light is also on the same electromagnetic spectrum as radio waves. The scary things that Cadaver sees are all bathed in moonlight. Etc, etc.
I have to say yours is the best analysis of Local58 I have watched and now I get it how well incorporated H. P. Lovecraft is in this lore. You're also the first one to explain the number 58 in the name. Subscribed! 💗
Every once in a while I come across gold on RUclips. Just absolute amazing channels that make the niche content I look for. Watching these channels grow is a joy in it of itself. Great stuff you made man and here's to many more.
I'd feel remiss if I didn't mention a few connections to Kris Straub's other works in Local58: Cadavre comes from _Broodhollow_ , a webcomic Straub also does. He shows up in characters' dreams in that comic Some of the towns the channel services include Broodhollow, Ichor Falls (another Straub horror location and the name of another horror project), Edenvale, and Lasker City, both are locations mentioned in _Broodhollow_ And of course, Local58 first appeared in Straub's works as the channel that aired the infamous _Candle Cove_
@@skoovee I honestly have no respect for people who attempt to shoot down positive comments with their negativity - In fact, such behaviour disgusts me. And I'm getting too dang old and tired to entertain that kind of BS. Therefore, my straightforward, "extreme" reaction.
@@KorilD you are being more negative than that guy who just said they disagree with your view, not agreeing with you is not trying to "shoot down" your comment. you should learn how to handle differing viewpoints, its a very important skill
Love how far wendiigoon has come in such short time. Yet the one who got me into analog and still makes it intercessor me is always Nick Nocturne/nightmind. But I just started following you and you're doing it justice.
24:40, I’m not a superstitious person, so I went in all smug thinking “huh some silly internet thing isn’t gonna scare me”, I just woke up an few minutes ago, and I’m genuinely horrified at what my brain concocted
I’m glad RUclips algorithm decided to recommend this video I fell asleep to it and I’m back to watch it fully bc it’s so intriguing! Subbed, I can’t wait to see what you make next
This video was great, I'm so excited to see what other content you make! I put this on mostly as background noise to work on a project, but I had to rewind the whole thing because I was so interested. You have a great way of speaking, keep making videos please!!
the flash face distortion effect, which is what that one with the faces was based on, is pretty weird and i think it was just stumbled upon. turns out if you rapidly cycle through different faces, 1 on each side of the screen, and you just focus on the middle between them, they just look wrong somehow. then you go back and they're completely normal faces. it's like a mind glitch or something. there are multiple videos of it on youtube
@@WhitneyDahlin the Local 58 video is just spooky video. it's the other "flashed face distortion effect" videos on RUclips that are meant to show this effect. it's nothing drastic, but for me it looks like their eyes are weird or other facial features are somehow wrong, but then if you rewind and look at those same faces again directly, they're completely normal people. maybe it doesn't work with some people? i don't know
the most accepted reason for the flash face distortion effect is that it flashes just fast enough that you brain has not fully processed it (things in your focus are prioritized more), so the faces get layered and this layering appears as distortion
This was the first video when i opened youtube and i am so glad i watched it. The way you speak and the way you explain things is easy to follow and your voice is perfect for video essays like this. I had heard about this analog horror series before but never got into it but this video has made me want to research further. I'm surprised you don't have more subscribers dude your videos are awesome keep up the good work🙏
Hey, i remember hearing the whole "this message will repeat until there are none left to hear it" in this one scp or horror related reading that was exploring some alternate dimension or planet where reality was fragmenting and the remnants of the former civilization was very similar. When the signal was translated it spoke about "Something terrible had happened, suggested to embrace loved ones in final momemts, and message would repeat until none left to hear it" Edit: found it, it's SCP-3426. A phenomenon that causes the total eradication of a planetary civilization once it reaches a certain level of technological and social advancement. Judging by the date the scp entry was made I would say, it's probably a neat little nod to this analog horror series
I remember seeing their second video on 4chan when I was a kid and thinking it was a real leaked public announcement the USA had prepared just in case.
proud to say I'm your 100th subscriber! I love your content dude, your perspective is refreshing, and the way you narrate is comprehensive! I can't wait for more videos!
i really enjoyed this, and the rest of your channel. you definitely don't *need* a huge following or fancy setup like nexpo to please your audience. it was very refreshing to see the same intelligent input and enthusiasm in a more casual environment. it makes the video feel more personal and easier to keep up with. i'd love to see more creepy videos from you!!
You know, i've always imagine the moon is behaving a bit like SCP-001 when day breaks. People are not as much kneeling as they are melting, it even has the compulsion to make people go outside. I guess the moon is a mix between SCP-001 and the markers from dead space, not a pretty way to go.
The Orson Well's Radio Show War of the Worlds and why sooo many people believed it was real is a very fascinating deep dive to get into. I really enjoyed learning about that point in our history.
Im not going to lie, i thought the Greek mythology connections were a bit of a stretch, but the latest video changed my mind. The two connected faces in profile matches depictions of Janus, a roman god of transitions, dualities, and *doorways*. I think you're right on the money.
This is impressive analysis and much more in depth than I've ever seen. I did a watch/reaction on stream for the CLOSE video as it was airing.I have a lot of analog horror unfiction stuff on my page. Glad I stumbled on this channel as I'm a small creator as well. If you ever want to collab or need any astronomy / physics related info hit me up. If not, thats cool too, no pressure. Anyway my degree is in astrophysics, might as well make use of it as much as I can.
As someone who isn't an astrophysicist, but loves space, I will absolutely take you up on that offer. I know there are some topics I will eventually cover where I will definitely need some insight. As an astrophysicist yourself, how off the mark am I when it comes to my conclusion on Eidolons trajectory? It's towards the end of the video, so no worries if you didn't make it that far.
great video, had me enthralled the entire way through, which is pretty good considering I usually have videos like this on in the background while I work on other things, excited to see what other things you make!
I love the sort of campfire storytelling vibe you're giving off! I'm too much of a weenie to watch the stuff myself but I love seeing analyses like this :D Good shit!
You hooked me with just seven minutes in the intro. Well done on the efficiency of the sequence and now I am looking forward to more long-form content from you!
Bro I love the video, probably my favorite Local 58 analysis that I've seen, I have happily subscribed and will be watching more of your stuff, thank you for your work!
I'm far too much of a wuss to watch any of these brilliant series, so ytbers such as yourself or wendigoon or crowmudgeon just come in clutch every time I want to experience the goodness without scaring myself half to death while doing so. Thank you for the great analysis and storytelling!!!
I used to live 15 minutes from LBL. Have taken that ferry quite a few times. Also, me and my family now live on a dirt road that is 2.5 miles long, just to our place, surrounded by forests. Loving the video.
First of all good work, love the video but im curious innocents at 1:31:47 , ruby ridge in your first video, a man in your second video which i didnt investigate cause it scared me, this is really cool Cant wait to see what more you do, to have a very well made about video about interesting topics with a mystery that may connect them all, I really like the idea, keep it up
Ayy I just randomly found this video on my recommended, but I wanted to watch it cuz my name is Norman too, and I feel like that's not very common nowadays; but genuinely this is a really good video I really enjoyed this, you deserve more of the spotlight dawg this is some good quality stuff
Huh, I had no idea Kris Straub was behind this. I read the guy's webcomics for years and was always sad that Broodhollow never finished. Nice to see the guy's kept busy.
This has been the best analysis I've found on this site. I hope you do more as the story comes out. Just wanted to add: parents that k*ll children in the paintings...same with "Contingency" when it asked to take care of the "littlest patriots" first before yourself.
Your entire look and way of speech reminds me of eric from evil dead 2013, and i mean this as a compliment bc you seem super cool. Hope your channel grows !
Didn’t realize that you only have 1.6k subscribers, you talk and record like someone who’s been doing this a lot longer. Definite up and comer, glad I got in on the ground floor, can’t wait to see where you go from here!
That picture of the real asteroid is going to keep me up at night. Now I know, in the thinking and planning part of my mind that it’s my brain seeing a face on an astronomical object that only exists at a specific angle of shadows cast across a big rock. But the part of my brain that kept my simian ancestors alive by waking up at every unfamiliar sound in the forest isn’t interested in all that and wants to hide.
A quick thing on memento mori, it's less interpreted as a pessimistic worldview and more of a reminder to find meaning while you can. The second phrase that often follows "remember you must die" is "remember to live." Lots of the living live in a way closer to the dead, and vice versa.
My interpretation is that potato gods project their carrot alien fursonas, which are utterly incomprehensible to the human mind, down to earth, because they want to go visit a Hatsune Miku concert and eat some poutine in Vietnam.
I used to live in Clarksville and went to LBL all the time, and I had my GPS do the same thing over by the castle at lol. Hearing that name brought back fond memories
what a great video. somehow im in Analog Horror analyitcs as much as im in t analog Horrer it self. Its just facinating on many levels. I'm going to send it to all my colleagues and friends, even though I know they are not interested in such topics at all. Some may ask what's wrong with me or why I'm sending messages with "obscure" links in the middle of the night at 1:30 am. But your great work needs and deserves more viewers, so they'll have to deal with it. "Watch it and spread it!" I'll reply on Monday to them. - Just in case somone does not already know about it " The real" by " Anomaly" Thats a Cromium Class Analog Horror Masterpice in 3 seasons. As strange and creepy as it can get. my favorite so far. Thank you & sorry 4 butchering the english language. Kind regards from Germany
Born and raised western NE here and there are public dirt roads absolutely. EVERYWHERE..... Didn't know there were people out there that thought like this guy.
Hello meep *The sleep one never gives me nightmares, and I'm sad about that, but I found out it gives other people nightmares, so you know I showed this video to absolutely everyone I could to mess with them.*
i'm not too far into the video but MAN you have such a nice voice to listen to!!! 16:58 - oh, this is a nice question!! i still have videos of it somewhere, but before i decided to be an artist full-time, i worked for my father as an errant book salesperson. it was for a short time and it ended with something worse than a car crash, but of all the things i did then, the one i cherish most was the ferry ride i would often take between our hometown and this other, somehow even smaller city lmao- the GPS never works in these places. it was mostly up to road signs and my father's batshit insane memory of the paths, ngl.
Oh, glad to hear someone else's parent knew batshit crazy directions! Mom's instructions are always right but BOY do they sometimes make me feel like I'm an extra in a horror movie whose horrible death is foreshadowed by missing person posters in the background.
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How do you theorize the newest episode fits into your already existing theory? Would love to hear it!
Ok so here are the things I see as far as possible clues.
-The opening has "eye" imagery with two distinct frames, back to back, with an audio and video glitch that draws a lot of attention to it. Eyes can hold a lot of symbolic value, or could be something to do with the moonlight and the brainwashing as we have to use our eyes to perceive the light.
-Included frame of Newspaper with headline "Mine Now Burning". Other bolded statements on the newspaper are all tragic and depressing. I think my earlier speculation on the mine disaster mentioned in "Digital transition" may have been spot on. Current feeling is that it may be a sort of mass sacrifice to the entity.
-Narrator comments on the county being founded by missionaries, may be early moon cultist.
-Date mentioned for 1961. Vostok 1and Yuri Gagarin make history for being first man to orbit the Earth. (common conspiracy theories actually believe that he was just the first cosmonaut to actually survive and that many other cosmonauts made it into space, but didn't survive either the conditions of space or re-entry of the atmosphere) John F. Kennedy announces the Apollo program and his dedication to put a man on the moon.
-Police sketch for the woman in profile notes 5 sighting dates. One in 1961, two in 1962, and one for 1963 and 1957
1962 events of note: US spacecraft Ranger 3 is launched to study moon, but misses. An incredibly rare astral event occurs where many of the visible planets line up with sun and moon creating a rare solar eclipse. The Mariner 2 passes Venus being the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet. The actual date of the sighting 6/11/62 has the Pope convene an ecumenical council that hadn't been done for 92 years.
1963: A total Penumbral lunar eclipse. NASA launches first geosynchronous satellite, Syncom 2. JFK assassination.
1967: outer space treaty signed between USSR and US to prohibit weapons of mass destruction from being used in space. NASA launches lunar orbiter 3. Surveyor 3 probe lands on the moon. NASA announces APOLLO 7 mission(first with crew). Mariner 5 launched towards venus. The Patterson-Gimlin film of Bigfoot (have to include this obviously). Launch of first successful Saturn V rocket.
-Witness to Hannah Burch murder. This apparently is a character from CandleCove
-kids drawing that says "the lady can see me, even though I'm not up there". Probably just referencing that it has what appears to be two faces.
-Mentions that she looks to the sky at Twilight....can't think of what this could mean, but my intuition is that it could mean something.
-The creature has what appears to be two faces looking in opposite directions. One up, one down.
-"A predator cannot differentiate prey from accomplice" mentioned for the first time outside the ARG.
I'm going to wait until another release or two before making any new speculations on the series (apparently it's back now), but I do want to point out that my hunch on the mining disaster has some weight to it now. Other than that my brain is currently soup.
@@NormansIndexOk with the two faces I can think of a few things
1. Janus, Roman god of many things but importantly doorways, transitions, and the beginning and end of conflict.
2. Greek Hecate, a goddess associated with the moon, doorways, withcraft, and creatures of the night. While she has three faces and the female figure has two… the true face in the middle could be seen as a third face…
@@NormansIndex peak reply
@@floatyghost633why thank you
@@NormansIndex I don't believe the creature has two faces, I took it as the "faces" are just the sides of its head and it was always staring directly at us. Certainly more unsettling that way.
The idea of the GPS telling you your destination is approaching you from behind is genuinely terrifying by itself
How does it feel to finish a video essay on a topic that has been dormant for two years, only to publish it _Right Before_ it comes back with a double feature?
Oh cool the hidden vid is public and they confirmed something quite horrifying. Thx for telling I had no idea but damn the actual new vid had some scary shit!
Life's funny that way
wait they finally added something new?! I legit thought they abandoned it.
It's good timing. I'm watching this for recap before heading into the new stuff.
Triple feature, if you count both relisted videos
Incomprehensible horror when comprehensible delight walks in:
but what about incomprehensible delight? (heroin)
@@the-letter_s their child
@@aliendxde I ship it
But then what about comprehensible horror?
@@RangeCMYK enraged bullmoose
There's a detail he didn't mention about the moon in Show For Children that I always thought was something important disguised as an animation error. Before Cadavre reaches the first grave, a tree comes into frame and passes OVER the moon as one would expect since the moon is way far away and the tree is in the foreground. But after Cadavre looks in the second grave and sees the beaked thing, another tree comes into frame and passes UNDER the now freaky-faced moon.
I don't know if that was ever confirmed to just be an error or if the theories around it were ever proven wrong, but at the time people thought it implied that the sinister moon that keeps appearing (such as the much closer one in Skywatching) is a separate body entirely and possibly replaced the moon or is covering it. A much smaller heavenly body in the sky at a much closer distance (and with substantially less mass) could potentially obscure the moon from view and would explain the lack of natural catastrophe that would result from the real moon being vastly closer. It could also be the moon itself but replaced or corrupted by something else, and the animation bloop in Show For Children merely represents this change in its state.
Glad someone else mentioned this, was going to do this myself.
Never even noticed this detail. Good catch
dude you NEED to shut that terrifying door back there. i can't take my eyes off of it
What door?
@@NormansIndexback right door
@@NormansIndexlol if u do a Halloween video next year you should totally put something in it
I think it's a doorway/entrance rather than a door
It adds to the video
18:50 the 476 megahertz is also the frequency of an unknown transmission that we received from somewhere in outer space. Just some tones but still interesting.
My favorite aspect of the Black Paintings of Goya is that he never named any of them, the whole connection to Saturn Devouring His Son is educated guesswork at best. It very well could have been raw madness, devoid of context or meaning.
I really wish I would have communicated that better than I did in hindsight. It's an absolutely inspiring topic that sent me on a whole separate rabbit hole when I was doing my research. When I was making my own speculations in regards to it's inclusion in local 58, it was based on general interpretation and name given to the work, rather than a personal interpretation or alternative modern interpretations. I feel that the general interpretation and name better coincides with my speculation on it's inclusion with "Ivan the terrible and his son Ivan". Of course that is all speculation, but that's what makes this fun. As far as my initial reaction to the painting before discovering it's name and history, my thoughts slid towards Nephilim. Anyways, I really appreciate this sort of comment, thank you.
thank you for clearing that up. its up for way more interpretation that way, it also nakes it far more disturbing imo.
I remember watching local 58 when I was younger and being so afraid to look outside at the moon afterwards that it continues to stick to me today, it's such a good analog horror I love it‼️‼️
Found the 10 year old!
@troudbalos333 I'm 18 😭
@@troudbalos333 It's been 7 whole years
@@dephtons Ain't no way wtf
@@troudbalos333 Bro I'm 20 and local 58 debuted when I was still in middle school.
@29:00 Narcoleptic here. I too often hallucinate during the day because im randomly entering rem sleep w/o being conscious of it (i might feel like ive blinked my eyes and see something, however it could be 5-10 minutes later and i slept w/o knowing) and then Ill hear/see things for a while. Its mostly under control but man is it weird.
another thing, bc earlier you mentioned the goofy warped faces- i always thought they were lame til maybe a month ago when i learned that...some of my hallucinations may not actually be that- I very well may have demon face syndrome. If you look it up there was a study that created images based on someone w the disorder and ffs i cant look at them- theyre too dead on. Anyway maybe thats what people started to try to tap into, and somewhere along the way it was imitated w/o really understanding the why
okay time to continue watching ^^ great work, guy!
I knew shit is going to be good when he said “I read every single item description before watching any VaatiVidya videos”
Why?
@@Demortixx Maybe because it means he pays extra attention to things. Don't know for sure what OP meant.
@@TheSlammurai Agreed. Also means he is presenting to us his original ideas and insight rather than relaying what he learned off of other youtubers
I legit freaked out when Local58 posted a new video on Halloween, after a year of silence
We have regularly scheduled car-bearing ferries in Seattle, WA. Many folks commute on them daily. It's not that odd
Blair Witch Project is specifically found footage; the equipment used was contemporary for the era it was created in, so I don't know if it necessarily fits into analog horror, which is specifically looking back in time at old footage obtained via obsolete media
I'm pretty sure he also released the asteroid livestream on halloween one year as well.
Done it a couple times, myself.
Local 58 says that YOU should go outside and stare at the solar eclipse with no eye protection right now!!
That’s a great idea!
Don't look at the moon in general because it gave me ligma
@@xaviidkgotta get on that ligma grindset
Vita Carnis is criminally underrated, especially cause it's one of the best Analog Horrors currently going.
Vita Carnis becomes less an "analog horror", and more like a standard "web series"
@@sertiana2512 It's analog enough imo, especially season 1. But the world building and storytelling is phenomenal.
I'm very proud of the creator for evolving. I admit I thought it was dumb at first when it was mainly just psa videos about the monsters, but it's cool to see them evolve with cgi, props, special effects, and now voice acting! It's fun to see creators evolve and get better
That and greylock are my two favorite analog horror series'
i remember going deep on the Book of Job, Orion, Pleiades on the actual original local 58 vid and ppl were like 'nahhh, that's a reach' glad to see someone else actually going after that thread
It IS a reach. Massively so.
@@WobblesandBean The very first frame of Local 58 says 'Focus on... Faith' and the Book of Job is expressly about Faith and mentions Orion and Pleiades in the SAME SENTENCE while Skywatching has it in back to back scenes. It's actually not that big a reach, you just lack imagination.
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I also thought it was a bit of a reach because those are just two very easy to spot constellations in the northern hemisphere's night sky, but I couldn't help but notice that the year 1938 is when that cave sleep experiment took place and is the year Local 58 started broadcasting. As he said in the video, the line from Job is 38:31. When a number shows up that many times, I sort of start to believe it's not just a big reach.
Of all the current videos on the Local 58 channel, 6 of them were posted on the 31st (all of these are October 31, Halloween), and 3 of them are just 1 day off from the 31st (one of them is from June however, which only has 30 days). This could just be because the videos are spooky so it's in the Halloween spirit to post them around that date, but the repetition of both 38 and 31 could lend some credence to the connection with the Book of Job.
The Golden Throne isn't an amplifier as such, it's a focusing lens. The thousand sacrifices a day isn't a fixed number, it just sounds cool as an average. The idea for the Golden Throne was to have a giant psychic gun aimed into the Webway. The Emperor and Malcador were going to, essentially, blast the Webway with psychic energy to get rid of the Eldar, then use it for the Imperium. That gets rid of Warp travel, which weakens Chaos.
It's quite fitting that the device the Emperor wanted to use to make a monument for himself ends up becoming more or less his tomb. Call it karma.
@@christopherwall2121 It wasn't made for himself. Parts of the Golden Throne were literally stolen from the False Emperor, from the first HH book :3
@@christopherwall2121 you're gay
@@NemFX- presumably just the literal seat part though, seeing as the false emperor wasn't a psychic juggernaut like Malcador, who the actual Golden Throne nevertheless fried to crispy ashes in abt 5 minutes flat!
The actual Golden Throne is, I believe, the single largest machine in the galaxy, and many of its parts are confirmed to be of unknown Xenos origin, and according to the Dark Eldar, humanity has totally misunderstood their intended original purpose. But then I guess they would say that, wouldn't they...
@@jimdoom2276To be fair, humanity doesn’t understand much of anything about most of the tech it uses. They just cobble together shamanic operating procedures from distorted fragments of the original protocol, which is comedically inefficient.
This is so well done! I'd like to raise a possibility - what if the moon entity is contained within, or made of, moonlight? There's references to the moon 'coming in' through windows, and I think once the entity refers to itself as coming in. Light is also on the same electromagnetic spectrum as radio waves. The scary things that Cadaver sees are all bathed in moonlight. Etc, etc.
I have to say yours is the best analysis of Local58 I have watched and now I get it how well incorporated H. P. Lovecraft is in this lore. You're also the first one to explain the number 58 in the name. Subscribed! 💗
Every once in a while I come across gold on RUclips. Just absolute amazing channels that make the niche content I look for. Watching these channels grow is a joy in it of itself. Great stuff you made man and here's to many more.
I'd feel remiss if I didn't mention a few connections to Kris Straub's other works in Local58:
Cadavre comes from _Broodhollow_ , a webcomic Straub also does. He shows up in characters' dreams in that comic
Some of the towns the channel services include Broodhollow, Ichor Falls (another Straub horror location and the name of another horror project), Edenvale, and Lasker City, both are locations mentioned in _Broodhollow_
And of course, Local58 first appeared in Straub's works as the channel that aired the infamous _Candle Cove_
Woah, the author is also behind Candle Cove? Didn't expect that.
@drago939393 Yeah
@@christopherwall2121love how he created his own universe based on a old cartoon creepypasta and a skeleton character from dreams
Its always a joy getting another local 58 analysis its such a cool world
This is really damned good, and points out problems I've had with others' analysis! A worthwhile watch, this! Good work!
I disagree. It's entertaining, but his analysis is so far off the mark it's just fanfiction with extra steps.
@WobblesandBean Dude, I don't know how to tell you this, but your opinion does not matter to me.
Edited for clarity.
@@KorilD thats... a rather extreme reaction
@@skoovee I honestly have no respect for people who attempt to shoot down positive comments with their negativity - In fact, such behaviour disgusts me. And I'm getting too dang old and tired to entertain that kind of BS. Therefore, my straightforward, "extreme" reaction.
@@KorilD you are being more negative than that guy who just said they disagree with your view, not agreeing with you is not trying to "shoot down" your comment. you should learn how to handle differing viewpoints, its a very important skill
Love how far wendiigoon has come in such short time. Yet the one who got me into analog and still makes it intercessor me is always Nick Nocturne/nightmind.
But I just started following you and you're doing it justice.
24:40, I’m not a superstitious person, so I went in all smug thinking “huh some silly internet thing isn’t gonna scare me”, I just woke up an few minutes ago, and I’m genuinely horrified at what my brain concocted
Great now im scared to sleep
I’m glad RUclips algorithm decided to recommend this video
I fell asleep to it and I’m back to watch it fully bc it’s so intriguing! Subbed, I can’t wait to see what you make next
Sir. That was one of the best intros to a video I’ve ever heard with my own two ears. Incredible writing.
You did a insane level of detail.
Its a crime there aren't more views. Thanks for sharing this.
This video was great, I'm so excited to see what other content you make! I put this on mostly as background noise to work on a project, but I had to rewind the whole thing because I was so interested. You have a great way of speaking, keep making videos please!!
the flash face distortion effect, which is what that one with the faces was based on, is pretty weird and i think it was just stumbled upon. turns out if you rapidly cycle through different faces, 1 on each side of the screen, and you just focus on the middle between them, they just look wrong somehow. then you go back and they're completely normal faces. it's like a mind glitch or something. there are multiple videos of it on youtube
I tried but i dont think i saw it? Like they just looked like distorted face. I didnt see any normal faces in that dream part he showed or anything
@@WhitneyDahlin look at it closely, all of the “faces” are made up of nuclear blasts, mushroom clouds.
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@@WhitneyDahlin the Local 58 video is just spooky video. it's the other "flashed face distortion effect" videos on RUclips that are meant to show this effect. it's nothing drastic, but for me it looks like their eyes are weird or other facial features are somehow wrong, but then if you rewind and look at those same faces again directly, they're completely normal people. maybe it doesn't work with some people? i don't know
the most accepted reason for the flash face distortion effect is that it flashes just fast enough that you brain has not fully processed it (things in your focus are prioritized more), so the faces get layered and this layering appears as distortion
thought you had WAY more subscribers, editing is great and you clearly genuinely care about horror!
I LOVED this video, and the theory of Atena dethroning Zeus is so satisfying to me
Hope you post more long form vids like this. Love listening to things while I work, and this was a treat. Keep up the good work!
Looking forward to you getting super popular! Good job on the production/editing, it was super nice to watch. The audio is also super clear.
This was the first video when i opened youtube and i am so glad i watched it. The way you speak and the way you explain things is easy to follow and your voice is perfect for video essays like this. I had heard about this analog horror series before but never got into it but this video has made me want to research further. I'm surprised you don't have more subscribers dude your videos are awesome keep up the good work🙏
Hey, i remember hearing the whole "this message will repeat until there are none left to hear it" in this one scp or horror related reading that was exploring some alternate dimension or planet where reality was fragmenting and the remnants of the former civilization was very similar. When the signal was translated it spoke about "Something terrible had happened, suggested to embrace loved ones in final momemts, and message would repeat until none left to hear it"
Edit: found it, it's SCP-3426. A phenomenon that causes the total eradication of a planetary civilization once it reaches a certain level of technological and social advancement.
Judging by the date the scp entry was made I would say, it's probably a neat little nod to this analog horror series
Amazing analysis, love the effort you took in finding your own conclusions
Im super excited to see what other videos you make, really enjoying your style of presentation and all the information you share here ♡
I remember seeing their second video on 4chan when I was a kid and thinking it was a real leaked public announcement the USA had prepared just in case.
proud to say I'm your 100th subscriber! I love your content dude, your perspective is refreshing, and the way you narrate is comprehensive! I can't wait for more videos!
i really enjoyed this, and the rest of your channel. you definitely don't *need* a huge following or fancy setup like nexpo to please your audience. it was very refreshing to see the same intelligent input and enthusiasm in a more casual environment. it makes the video feel more personal and easier to keep up with. i'd love to see more creepy videos from you!!
Amazingly put together video, i hope the algorithm blesses you
You know, i've always imagine the moon is behaving a bit like SCP-001 when day breaks. People are not as much kneeling as they are melting, it even has the compulsion to make people go outside. I guess the moon is a mix between SCP-001 and the markers from dead space, not a pretty way to go.
"This message will repeat until no one is left to read it" is taken from a different 001 as well. The Black Moon one
@@greglewis725 Complete forgot about that one! That's one of the best 001 proposals.
@S1337theoddoneout-ip9xc have you checked out the pallet.aic proposal? It's one of the newer ones but it's absolutely bonkers.
Honestly ive always thought that SCP-001 should be the foundation itself. Or the stack of papers
Does the black moon howl?@@greglewis725
This is the best analysis I've seen on this, and I've watched a bunch of them. I've never heard anyone mention Greek mythology in any of them.
The Orson Well's Radio Show War of the Worlds and why sooo many people believed it was real is a very fascinating deep dive to get into. I really enjoyed learning about that point in our history.
Im not going to lie, i thought the Greek mythology connections were a bit of a stretch, but the latest video changed my mind. The two connected faces in profile matches depictions of Janus, a roman god of transitions, dualities, and *doorways*. I think you're right on the money.
I love your insight here! So many new and different perspectives to something I've watched on many quiet nights.
Keep up the great content, Norman!
This is impressive analysis and much more in depth than I've ever seen. I did a watch/reaction on stream for the CLOSE video as it was airing.I have a lot of analog horror unfiction stuff on my page. Glad I stumbled on this channel as I'm a small creator as well. If you ever want to collab or need any astronomy / physics related info hit me up. If not, thats cool too, no pressure. Anyway my degree is in astrophysics, might as well make use of it as much as I can.
As someone who isn't an astrophysicist, but loves space, I will absolutely take you up on that offer. I know there are some topics I will eventually cover where I will definitely need some insight. As an astrophysicist yourself, how off the mark am I when it comes to my conclusion on Eidolons trajectory? It's towards the end of the video, so no worries if you didn't make it that far.
great video, had me enthralled the entire way through, which is pretty good considering I usually have videos like this on in the background while I work on other things, excited to see what other things you make!
I love the sort of campfire storytelling vibe you're giving off! I'm too much of a weenie to watch the stuff myself but I love seeing analyses like this :D Good shit!
What I got from that intro was "I may not be wendigoon or matpat, but I do have a lil bit of the tism" and that made me hooked right away.
this was incredibly well done, very captivating!
This is one of my favorite args. Awesome 👌 job on putting this one together 👏👏
You hooked me with just seven minutes in the intro. Well done on the efficiency of the sequence and now I am looking forward to more long-form content from you!
I know the video just came out but your channel in general is criminally underrated. You definitely deserve all the subs , me included 🙌🏽
This was such a good watch! Thank you for your amazing content
im literally a minute in and already wowed by the script and sound design!
Bro I love the video, probably my favorite Local 58 analysis that I've seen, I have happily subscribed and will be watching more of your stuff, thank you for your work!
really nice breakdown. congrats on the views on this one!
I was already enjoying the video, but when you throw in a 40k reference then you definitely deserve a like and a comment! 😊
Great video, Ive been trying to find more youtubers that talk about these topics cause i love the goon gang but it gets boring idk, u did great
I'm far too much of a wuss to watch any of these brilliant series, so ytbers such as yourself or wendigoon or crowmudgeon just come in clutch every time I want to experience the goodness without scaring myself half to death while doing so. Thank you for the great analysis and storytelling!!!
Congrats on the views, man! You did an awesome job on this video, cant wait to see your channel flourish!!!
yep, subrscribing forever, saw the first frame of you and descided, this man is the maan I want to tell scary stories to me
this is such a well made video! can’t wait to see what else you upload in the future 💪💪💪
I used to live 15 minutes from LBL. Have taken that ferry quite a few times. Also, me and my family now live on a dirt road that is 2.5 miles long, just to our place, surrounded by forests. Loving the video.
Keep it up bro, it feels like those youtubers don't make videos like they used to
Ay! I love stumbling across a relatively new creator whose channel is dedicated to just talking about whatever they find neat. You have my interest.
'Space doordash' cracked me up. Great video!
Help us, Regnad Computing! You're our only hope!
Currently trying to get Lethal Omen to run on my TI-84
First of all good work, love the video but im curious
innocents at 1:31:47 , ruby ridge in your first video, a man in your second video which i didnt investigate cause it scared me, this is really cool
Cant wait to see what more you do, to have a very well made about video about interesting topics with a mystery that may connect them all, I really like the idea, keep it up
Stay tuned
Subbed and liked. Great video to watch before sleep 👌
criminally underrated creator
Incomprehensible horror when the indomitable human spirit walks in.
Space is ours to conquer
Ayy I just randomly found this video on my recommended, but I wanted to watch it cuz my name is Norman too, and I feel like that's not very common nowadays; but genuinely this is a really good video I really enjoyed this, you deserve more of the spotlight dawg this is some good quality stuff
Earned a sub from credentials alone
Huh, I had no idea Kris Straub was behind this. I read the guy's webcomics for years and was always sad that Broodhollow never finished. Nice to see the guy's kept busy.
This has been the best analysis I've found on this site. I hope you do more as the story comes out. Just wanted to add: parents that k*ll children in the paintings...same with "Contingency" when it asked to take care of the "littlest patriots" first before yourself.
This is like Wendigoon meets flesh simulator. Wendisimulator? Fleshgoon? Idk love it❤
That is both encouraging and incredibly cursed. I will take it
Your entire look and way of speech reminds me of eric from evil dead 2013, and i mean this as a compliment bc you seem super cool. Hope your channel grows !
That intro sequence was definetly something of an existencial horror.
Peak writing.
You're a legend man, keep creating!
oh boy, a free analysis of the best internet horror series and its long
Didn’t realize that you only have 1.6k subscribers, you talk and record like someone who’s been doing this a lot longer. Definite up and comer, glad I got in on the ground floor, can’t wait to see where you go from here!
That picture of the real asteroid is going to keep me up at night. Now I know, in the thinking and planning part of my mind that it’s my brain seeing a face on an astronomical object that only exists at a specific angle of shadows cast across a big rock. But the part of my brain that kept my simian ancestors alive by waking up at every unfamiliar sound in the forest isn’t interested in all that and wants to hide.
A quick thing on memento mori, it's less interpreted as a pessimistic worldview and more of a reminder to find meaning while you can. The second phrase that often follows "remember you must die" is "remember to live." Lots of the living live in a way closer to the dead, and vice versa.
My interpretation is that potato gods project their carrot alien fursonas, which are utterly incomprehensible to the human mind, down to earth, because they want to go visit a Hatsune Miku concert and eat some poutine in Vietnam.
2 K like whoop whoop🎉
Brilliant stuff brother , subbed and looking forward to the next one ✌️🇮🇪
I used to live in Clarksville and went to LBL all the time, and I had my GPS do the same thing over by the castle at lol. Hearing that name brought back fond memories
Great video! Happy I stumbled upon it, subbed
Oh gods, Local58 and Fear and Hunger 2... people are getting Moonscorched...
Yes I enjoy hearing others ideas about uh interesting topics let's say. More please. Thanks for the video Duder.
this is the 5th local 58 analysis video, peak fiction
what a great video. somehow im in Analog Horror analyitcs as much as im in t analog Horrer it self. Its just facinating on many levels. I'm going to send it to all my colleagues and friends, even though I know they are not interested in such topics at all. Some may ask what's wrong with me or why I'm sending messages with "obscure" links in the middle of the night at 1:30 am. But your great work needs and deserves more viewers, so they'll have to deal with it. "Watch it and spread it!" I'll reply on Monday to them.
- Just in case somone does not already know about it " The real" by " Anomaly" Thats a Cromium Class Analog Horror Masterpice in 3 seasons. As strange and creepy as it can get. my favorite so far. Thank you & sorry 4 butchering the english language. Kind regards from Germany
Born and raised western NE here and there are public dirt roads absolutely. EVERYWHERE..... Didn't know there were people out there that thought like this guy.
Hello meep
*The sleep one never gives me nightmares, and I'm sad about that, but I found out it gives other people nightmares, so you know I showed this video to absolutely everyone I could to mess with them.*
I love this video. Amazing work keep going
This is going to go viral! Congrats
i'm not too far into the video but MAN you have such a nice voice to listen to!!!
16:58 - oh, this is a nice question!! i still have videos of it somewhere, but before i decided to be an artist full-time, i worked for my father as an errant book salesperson. it was for a short time and it ended with something worse than a car crash, but of all the things i did then, the one i cherish most was the ferry ride i would often take between our hometown and this other, somehow even smaller city lmao- the GPS never works in these places. it was mostly up to road signs and my father's batshit insane memory of the paths, ngl.
Oh, glad to hear someone else's parent knew batshit crazy directions! Mom's instructions are always right but BOY do they sometimes make me feel like I'm an extra in a horror movie whose horrible death is foreshadowed by missing person posters in the background.
Please do a video on the black paintings - you are really insightful, I’d love to see what you share
Local 58 gave this man the sunnyV2 treatment with Nikicado
😂😂 perfect description