Marble Hornets

The Introduction was posted on June 20, 2009. It has the description "0." It is tagged "marble" and "hornets". In total, the clip is 1:59 long. It is, for all intents and purposes, Entry #0. Footage of driving down a highway on the outskirts of a city is overlaid with text from Jay explaining the tapes he has received from Alex, and the conversation leading up to his acquisition of them.

Entry #1 was posted on June 20, 2009 It has the description "1." It is tagged "Marble" and "Hornets". In total, the clip is 00:48 long. Footage from the Marble Hornets tape. The video has no sound, but in it, Alex first turns off a light, then looks outside, seeing the Operator. When the Operator's head snaps towards Alex, Alex ducks down out of sight.

Entry #2 was posted on June 21, 2009. It has the description "first encounter?" It is tagged "marble" and "hornets". In total, this clip is 1:36 long. Footage from the Marble Hornets tapes. Alex is driving along a road at night, looking for a strange man he saw under a streetlamp. The footage cuts out as he is under the streetlamp, apparently unable to find the man. Jay suggests that the man he saw might be the same figure from Entry 1.

Entry #3 was posted on June 23, 2009 It has the description "3". It is tagged "Marble" and "Hornets". In total, this video is 2:29 long. This video consists of various pieces of footage from Alex's tapes while he was recording himself. There is one visual tear, but little else of immediate relevance. Jay points out that much of this is now Alex filming himself rather than Marble Hornets raw footage.

Entry #4 was posted on June 25, 2009. It has the description "4". It is tagged "marble" and "hornets". In total, this clip is 0:45 long. At night, Alex is walking through an empty playground. He walks past a yellow toy truck and a pair of see-saws (both leaning in the same direction), then notices the swings are swinging. Turning back around, Alex runs back toward the see-saws only to notice one of them has been pushed down. He flips the camera around, catches a glimpse of the Operator, and begins to chase him through the playground with no apparent success.

Entry #5 was posted on June 29, 2009. It has the description "5". It is tagged "Marble" and "Hornets". In total, the video is 3:35 long. Footage from the Marble Hornets raw tapes. Jay goes location scouting with Alex, in a gazebo in a forest and then in a copse of tall trees. The red tower is visible across a field from the tall trees, and when Jay asks what it is, Alex says it was a climbing wall or something from the fire department. There is heavy audio distortion in the location scouting clips, as well as visual tearing. Jay notes the visual tearing at the end of the video, and points out incidences of it in other clips he's posted.

Entry #6 was posted on July 04, 2009. It has the description "6". It is tagged "Marble" and "Hornets". In total, this clip is 0:43 long. Footage from Alex's tapes. At night, Alex is walking through his house. The house is very dark, making it difficult to see where Alex is running. He gets to a window, and looks around outside with his camera. The Operator appears outside near the house in a spot Alex had previously looked mere seconds before. Alex rushes from the window to another part of his house, where the Operator is passing by another window (moving at an angle).

Entry #7 was posted on July 07, 2009. It has the description "Patterns emerging." It is tagged "Marble" and "hornets". In total, this clip is 2:00 long. A clip from the Marble Hornets film. Alex and Brian are filming in Alex's car, doing a take for the movie, and at one point, Brian moves and in the alley his head was obscuring, the Operator can be spotted. Alex ends the take, to Brian's confusion, and drives away.

Entry #8 was posted on July 12, 2009. It has the description "Short entry. Doesn't seem like Alex." In total, this clip is 0:36 long. Footage from Alex's tapes. Alex, drawing with charcoal, is filling up sheaves of paper with drawings and large writing that seems related to trees, vision, and the Operator.

Entry #9 was posted on July 19, 2009 It has the description "9". In total, this clip is 3:36 long. This video consists of footage from the filming of Marble Hornets. Sarah and Tim, two of the actors, are running through a scene from Marble Hornets. Alex admonishes them for their acting, as well as Seth, the cameraman, for turning the camera off.

Regards was uploaded by totheark on July 22, 2009 as a video response to Entry 9. Its description is "////////". It is tagged with "ark" "marble" "hornets". In total, this clip is 0:10 long. The video is made up of distorted audio that is impossible to understand. The video is made up a series of rectangles made of slashes that flash repeatedly, and later, the word "CLOSELY".

Entry #10 was posted on July 28, 2009 It has the description "More missing audio.". In total, this clip is 1:31 long. Alex is running through the forest with a flashlight. At around, Alex shines his light on what looks like the Operator and begins sprinting. He makes his way to the outside of a building, focuses the camera on his face, and turns it back around to look at the Operator. He runs away and sweeps his flashlight over the forest before landing on the Operator, after which he continues running.

Operator was uploaded on July 31, 2009. It is a video reply to Entry 10. Its description is "\\\yes\\\". It is tagged with "marble" "hornets". In total, the video is 22 seconds long. The audio is heavily distorted and appears to be from something outdoors, possibly Entry 4 or Entry 10. The video is a sequence of appearances of text. They appear and disappear on different parts of the screen, appearing in different groupings and in different (or similar) locations.

Entry #11 was posted on August 09, 2009. It has the description "Alex missed something." In total, this clip is 1:58 long. The clip starts focused on Alex laying in his bed. Covering the wall behind him are charcoal sketches (presumably related to the ones Alex was drawing in Entry 8). Several of the sketches have visible text: "OPERATOR", "SEES ME", "DON'T RUN", "RUN AWAY", and "KILLS ME". The rest are of the Operator symbol (an ellipse with an X through it), and rough sketches of the Operator itself and other humanoid figures. Spaces on the paper that aren't covered in drawings have been shaded in. For no reason apparent in the clip, Alex gets out of bed and grabs his camera. He walks to the staircase, turns off the light, and makes his way down the stairs to the venetian blinds. He points his camera through them but does not see anything. He walks into his office and checks through the blinds, but sees nothing unusual. As he leaves the office, the Operator can be seen on the right-hand side standing in front of the curtains. Alex looks through another set of blinds but still sees nothing. He heads back to the staircase, turns the lights back on, and walks up the stairs. Placing the camera on a red book on the table in front of his bed, Alex gets back into bed. In the last seconds of the clip, a shadow moves past his wall and a breeze moves the sketches slightly.

Deluge was uploaded on August 11, 2009. It is a video reply to Entry 11. Its description is "///". It is tagged with "marble" "hornets". In total, the video is 0:15 long. The audio is a distorted bass noise. Included in the mix is a slow voice repeating what sounds like "Alex" backwards on the left channel. The video ends with the text "WATCHING YOU" - you is in bold, and spelled using the letter O rather than a zero.

Entry #12 was posted on August 29, 2009. It has the description "12." In total, this clip is 1:00 long. In this video, Alex is working with one of the actors on his movie Marble Hornets, and they are getting a shot of walking across a field of grass. However, after 29 seconds the color begins to become all distorted, the background fading into darkness while the actors stand out in full color. At the same time, a very minor bout of audio distortion occurs. It fades until the entire background is in silhouette, but when the camerawoman pans back to look at the space from where they came, where someone now stands in the distance, the colors fix themselves and a tall shadowy figure is visible.

Impurity was uploaded on September 01, 2009. It is a video reply to Entry 12. Its description is "000000000". It is tagged with "marble", "hornets", & "ark". In total, the clip is 0:34 long. The video seems to be in four sections. In the first section, there is no audio track, and the only visual is a blinking "begin". In the second section, a series of zeroes is presented, where the main message seems to be: 00000000000000000000000000 00000 000000000000000000 000000000000000 In the third section, some tree tops are filmed in the rain during a thunder storm. The audio appears to be of that storm - including rain and thunder sounds - along with a frequency of 1046 Hz. Right before the cut to the fourth section, the word "operator" appears in the plant. In the fourth section, a heavily distorted audio clip is played and the screen is filled with zeroes. Among the zeroes are the letters "T H E R E W A S M R E."

Entry #13 was posted on September 10, 2009. It has the description "I was close by". In total, this clip is 1:29 long. It is a clip of Alex asking Jay to get something from the car, then walking through the forest and eventually seeing the Operator near a building. Other than the title screen, there are no captions in this entry.

Exit was uploaded on September 15, 2009. It is a video reply to Entry 13. Its description is "remember me". It is is tagged with "marble" "hornets" "ark" In total, the video is 1:07 minutes long. The video starts with quick flashes of the words "Rat" "He" "Ore" and "Top" - an anagram for "the operator". Buzzing can be heard during this segment. Footage from a handheld camcorder flickers, then steadies and zooms in on a white convertible. Jay walks around the back of the car and enters in through the driver's side - Jay confirmed later via twitter that he was looking for batteries for Alex's camera. This places the footage directly after Jay's exit from Entry 13. Cars passing on the nearby street are the only audio - this background sound was also heard in Entry 13. Whoever is filming Jay is hiding next to a tree behind cover of ferns and other leafy plants. The car's license plate cannot be seen throughout the clip (it is covered by a fern leaf the entire time). The video seems to have a filter applied that turns darker areas of the clip completely black. Jay pops the trunk, gets out of the car, and opens the trunk. After a few moments, he finds what he is looking for, closes the trunk (while looking at the camera for a split second), and locks up the car. He runs back to where he started - the camera follows his movements, then runs after him. A beep is heard, and the video cuts. If this video is downloaded from YouTube and played in a standard media player, the text "WHEREIS THEARK" is displayed on the last frame of the clip.

Entry #14 was posted on September 23, 2009. It has the description "Beginning a search." In total, this clip is 1:58 long. This entry starts with the camera focused on a door (presumably in Alex's room) that is slightly open; the audio is removed from this entry. After a few seconds, the Operator opens the door and into the room before walking off-camera. Alex then jumps up and uses the camera to look around the room—seeing there is nothing there, he replaces the camera and shuts the light back off. A message from Jay say 32 minutes pass before the tape is changed. The screen then switches to Alex covered in blood, filming his face and looking at something across the room.

Program was uploaded on September 26, 2009. It is a video reply to Entry 14. Its description is "000". It is tagged with "marble", "hornets", & "ark". In total, this clip is 0:18 long. The video starts with two seconds of a slightly distorted color correction test screen, then cuts to red-tinted video footage. It appears to be the outside of a house, with the majority of the house hidden by trees. The audio appears to be a ticking sound (like a movie projector) mixed in with a repeating music loop. An undulating hand-drawn "S" occupies the lower-left hand corner of the screen. At 0:08, a code flashes on the door of the house (repeating three times): 00 0- -0 0- 00 00 00 0- 00 00 0- -- 00 00 00 0- Finally, the video ends with the words "bleed more" written curiously, like so: ble ed mo re

Entry #15 was posted on October 3, 2009. It has the description "15". In total, this clip is 5:00 long. It is a clip of Jay's interview with Marble Hornets actor Tim. He asks questions about the set, Alex Kralie, and the Operator. Throughout the interview, Tim claims to remember next to nothing about Alex.

Advocate was uploaded on October 12, 2009. It is a video reply to Entry 15. Its description is "00110111". It is tagged with "marble", "hornets", & "ark". In total, this clip is 0:22 long. The video begins with a black screen with the words "tick tock" written upside down on it. At 00:02, video of Brian starts. It is from the same set as Entry 7, but the footage does not seem to match up with anything actually in Entry #7. The video is accompanied by distorted audio, including a section that sounds like reversed and slowed speech. The footage of Brian pans from him to look out the back window

Entry #16 was posted on October 16, 2009. It has the description "searching." In total, the clip is 7:57 long. Jay approaches the house at night, with only his flashlight and camera. The door is locked, and no one appears to be there, so he goes around to the back where he finds an unlocked glass sliding door. Inside, the house is in disarray as if someone has been squatting in it for a while. There are coupons and drawings everywhere and the power is out. Jay picks up a water bottle he has found and the video tears, followed by a soft audio distortion1. After that, Jay begins to cough irregularly throughout the rest of the Entry. He tries to open a door but finds it locked. Just after that, he spots some blood drops dried on the floor and follows them to a bloodstained sink. Beside the sink are some bottles of pills—some of which he takes. As he turns to go back downstairs, he drops some of the drawings he has collected and picks them up, finding on the ground beside them a bullet casing. He takes that too. Again, he drops the papers at the top of the stairs, but only manages to get two before a coughing fit propels him down the stairs and out the door.

Addition was uploaded on October 21, 2009. It is a video reply to Entry 16. Its description is "//eyes\\". It is tagged with "marble", "hornets", & "ark". In total, this clip is 0:16 long. The video is grainy footage of Jay during his coughing fit in Entry 16. At 00:13 a black screen with fuzzy text reads: SEE YOU

Entry #17 was posted on November 2, 2009. It has the description "I'm not sure of what to do anymore." In total, this clip is 1:51 long. Alex, Jay, and Tim are working on Marble Hornets in an indoor location. Tim rehearses part of the script while they are waiting for Brian to return. Jay comments that he feels cold. The video ends by freezing, video and audio distortion occur as well. Jay states that he does not remember the events of the video.

Signal was uploaded on November 4, 2009. It is a video reply to Entry 17. Its description is "again". It is tagged with "marble", "hornets", & "ark". In total, this clip is 0:31 long. Stock footage and audio from an old movie is played. The video has a strange red-blue effect on it and the audio is slightly distorted. The voice of a narrator speaks through the video, saying, "Just wait 'til we're alone together, and I'll show you something new, something [c]old, something sleepy, something of cease and peace, and the long bright curve of space. Banish them, refuse to speak. Leave them. Go upstairs to your room. I will surround your bed. Close the windows, so that none will ever again be able to enter. I will be waiting for you."

Entry #18 was posted on November 10, 2009. It has the description "18". In total, this clip is 3:37 long. In this entry, Jay returns to the house from Entry 16 as encouraged by the Signal Video. While he explores the abandoned house, he finds a long white doll, and then is attacked by a mysterious masked figure.

Messages was uploaded on November 21, 2009. It is a video reply to Entry 18. Its description is ".". It is tagged with "marble" "hornets" "ark". In total, this clip is 0:26 long. This video uses external footage of a ship sinking. The audio is a reversed and slowed down version of a song played by a full band/orchestra. White text is imposed on the external images. This text reads: Tell us You have been keeping secrets. Smile for the camera Beginning at 00:21 while the text reads "Smile for the camera" a picture of the bottom half of someone's face is layered over the image of the sinking ship.

Entry #19 was posted on November 25, 2009. It has the description "19". Jay reveals that he has been filming himself constantly as Alex had. He discovers footage in which the masked figure is inside his bedroom. He also discovers that he left his room for three hours but has no memory of ever waking up. Jay decides that he needs to go somewhere safer.

Return was uploaded on December 2nd, 2009. It is a video reply to Entry 19. Its description is "91". It is tagged with "marble", "hornets", and "ark". In total, this clip is 0:11 long. The video begins with a close up of Jay with very dark marks or circles under his eyes sitting on the floor in a hallway against a door. The look on his face is of a stupor or trance. The video then cuts to a long shot of the hallway with Jay in the same position as before at the bottom of the frame. To the right is an L bend in the hallway. At the 0:04 second mark what appears to be The Operator emerges from the hall and proceeds towards the camera. The video then cuts to black with the following text centered on screen: fou nd you This is followed by another frame, only viewable with a downloaded copy of the video forever

Entry #19.5 was posted on December 9th, 2009. It has the description "Trying to make connections". In total, this clip is 3:10 long. Jay goes over the items he took from the house in Entry 16 including the pill bottle, the bullet casing, and the papers. He notes the recurring nature of the operator symbol and discovers the words "At the tower" on the back of one of the papers.

Entry #20 was uploaded on December 15, 2009. It has the description "20." In total, the clip is 3:18 long. Jay and Alex talk and set up a painting in Brian's house as they wait for Tim to arrive to work on Marble Hornets. When Tim arrives he acts very strangely as he complains about the cold, coughs, and takes strange pills. Jay states that he does not remember the events of this entry happening.

Version was uploaded on December 16, 2009. It is a video reply to Entry 20. Its description is "s". It is tagged with "Marble" "Hornets" "ark." In total, this clip is 0:10 long. It begins with chroma-keyed upside-down footage of the Entry 5 Tower and then cuts to a block of zeros with the following words flashing across in front of them: poison random endings centered excludes death encountering stale truth receives endangering every section It ends with the text "waiting for you" with each word stacked vertically atop the next. "Waiting" is italicized to the right, "for" is not, and "you" is italicized to the left. Each word is a different size, with "for" being the largest.

Entry #21 was posted on December 21, 2009. Its description is "1 of 2". It is tagged "marble" and "hornets". In total, the clip is 5:24 long. Entry #22 is the video that Jay took when he went to the red tower from Entry #5 during the course of the Winter Solstice Twitter Watch. The video is a montage of clips showing Jay's hike to the tower, including a curious hole in the ground which appears to cause faint distortion. Arriving at the tower, Jay examines it, and then approaches closer. The tower has many small holes in it and at one side it has the Operator symbol scratched on. Jay walks around it and discovers that it is a triangular prism in shape with an open top and a door-shaped aperture at the back. A beam sticks out the top to support it on the ground, and inside the tower the structural supports limit space for mobility. However there is a ladder built into one of the inside walls, a ladder which Jay climbs. At the top he finds a metal case. When he opens the case back at the bottom, he finds another tape that has been left inside. At the end, Jay says with his traditional text overlay saying, "I will be watching the tape I found soon". The second part of "part 1 of 2" is Entry #22, where he watches the tape.

Entry 22 was uploaded on December 22, 2009. It has the description "22." It is tagged "Marble" and "Hornets". In total, this clip is 6:46 long. This entry consists of footage of Alex, taped by a second person identified as Seth, wandering through a dilapidated building. There is heavy audio and visual distortion. At one point, the camera and probably cameraman appear to fall to the ground, Alex shouts Seth's name, and then the picture changes. Alex sitting with his back to a wall, looking stunned and telling the camera that "Seth is gone. …. Brian is gone, and Tim is, and Jay, and Sarah" are all gone, and that all he remembers is on the tape. He says that he is going to go home and that he is going to burn the tape. The audio and visual distortion return intermittently towards the end of this segment, and a hand-like shadow passes through Alex's head.

Attention was uploaded on January 10, 2010. Its description is "." It is tagged with "marble", "hornets", & "ark". In total, this clip is 0:14 long. Stock footage of people riding bicycles through a crowd and an image of a sailor almost throwing something out are accompanied by cryptic messages telling Jay to "return to us", "wake up", and that totheark is "awaiting your arrival", and ambiguous audio.

Admission was uploaded on January 15, 2010, as a video reply to Entry #16. Its description is "+". It is tagged with "marble", "hornets", &"ark." In total, this clip is 0:43 long. Grainy, distorted footage appears to show the Operator moving across a window with slatted blinds, and then shows a half-door in a hallway opening, and then slamming shut again. The video ends with the text "there are doors unopened".

Entry 23 was uploaded on January 28th, 2010. In total, this clip is 7:54 long. In this video Jay returns to the house from Entries 16 and 18. When Jay arrives it is daytime and the front door is already open. The place is still a mess. Jay goes upstairs and enters the bathroom where the bloody sink is now clean. He turns around and sees the Masked Man, who he chases into a room. When Jay enters the room the Masked Man is gone. Jay searches the house further, during which time he seems to be teleported by going through doors. Eventually a door takes him to the building from Entry 22. Jay encounters the Operator and his camera breaks. He explains that he does not want to know the answers anymore.

Warning was uploaded on February 3rd, 2010, after Entry #23 The description reads “failure nigh” It is tagged as “marble” “hornets” and “ark” totheark shows Jay grainy, distorted, disturbing video featuring the Masked man claiming to have been filmed by Alex Kralie.

This Entry was posted on February 16, 2010. The description for the video was "24". It is tagged "Marble" & "Hornets". In total, this clip is 2:54 long. Jay, taking surveillance of himself in his house, discovers that he has once again left his room without knowing it. However, he also discovers that when he exits out the door of his room, he sometimes doesn't come out on the other side. There is strange audio, possibly music, in the background, and one major instance of audio/visual distortion shortly before he makes his unrecalled exit.

This entry was posted on Jay's account on March 05, 2010. The description for the video is "". It is tagged "marble" & "hornets". The original video size is 480 x 320. In total, this clip is 0:27 long. This video consists of black and white clips of the masked man as well as a number of ambiguous images, most of which are heavily distorted. The audio consists of a buzzing tone, with a distorted recording of totheark's voice. The style of the video is consistent with totheark's most recent upload, Warning

Entry #25 was uploaded on March 24, 2010. Its description is "Names and locations have been removed." In total, this clip is 1:54 long. Jay films a television showing a news report about a fire in an apartment building.

Entry #26 was uploaded on April 18, 2010 Its description is "26". In total, this clip is 5:17 long. Jay reveals that after being on the run for several weeks, he recently became less paranoid and decided to give up trying to solve the mystery. However, he then received a mysterious package containing a tape. The tape reveals that Alex is alive and was safe from the Operator until Amy filmed him, somehow causing the Operator to reappear. After watching the tape, Jay decides he is going to find and help Alex but he does not know when he will post another video.