Don't Look Under the Internet
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DLUTI 184 - Midwest Angelica: Part 1
This week, we dive in to an analog horror that's actually very good!
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Speaker 3:That's. That concludes today's episode of house of keeping um. I'm very interested in the topic we have today, not only as like a person, but as a midwesterner I would say I fucking hate you thomas, and I may not be a religious person, uh, but I do like the concept of an angel looking over all of us. You know, a guardian angel, if you would. Only this guardian angel seems to have a different type of agenda. Today, we're talking about Midwest.
Speaker 1:Angelica, analog whore, analog whore, analog whore. Cheers everybody.
Speaker 4:Analog whore. I got you this time. Hold on.
Speaker 3:Oh right, right, I forgot sorry hey, you can, guys, you can do it. What are you drinking?
Speaker 4:there's a bottle here and it's empty yeah what are you drinking, real quick because they were at a buffalo trace at the drive through alcohol stand next to my house. I've got Kirkland vodka because it was.
Speaker 2:they were at a Buffalo Trace, at the drive-thru alcohol stand next to my house I've got Kirkland Vodka because it was $19 for a handle and it tastes like Grey Goose.
Speaker 3:I have a Fresca, I have Mountain Dew.
Speaker 1:I've also got ants actively crawling on me and it's really upsetting. Cheers everybody, we've got ants.
Speaker 3:We got ants. Yeah, we're talking about Midwest Angelica today. This one's been on the radar for a little bit. Uh, it was actually referenced a while ago, if you all remember, when the creator of minerva alliance was on our show. Uh, shout out to minerva alliance again. Uh, but they mentioned that this is one of their top uh projects that they uh that they're enjoying at the moment, and I see why uh, we'll get into it.
Speaker 2:Slept on this one, yeah, yeah we'll get into it it was on our fucking like to-do list forever and I think we just got lazy full disclosure.
Speaker 3:It's not a lazy thing um I thought there was more. I thought there was more to it than there actually was. I never dived too deep but from what I heard everyone talking about they're like this is like the best analog horror. This is incredible, but a lot. I thought it was going to be like 50 or 60 videos. It's actually a pretty quick burn through. It's only. I want to say like 12, 13 yeah, it's not bad at all.
Speaker 2:It's like uh it is sectioned into parts though it's still going.
Speaker 1:It seems like because there's yeah, it is yeah, like it's actually going.
Speaker 4:It seems like because there's yeah, it is yeah, like it's actually there's recent uploads, and by recent I mean January or something, but still like that's pretty recent in the world of what we cover.
Speaker 2:So yeah, One of these years we will go backwards in time and revisit some of the things that we decided to cover the first two seasons.
Speaker 3:What am I? Andy Bishago?
Speaker 4:Yes, how do I kick people? How do?
Speaker 2:I rewind the last 40 seconds of my life.
Speaker 3:How do I kill myself, jesus Christ Jesus.
Speaker 1:And we're unmonetized.
Speaker 2:And this video doesn't matter anymore.
Speaker 3:Let's kind of get into Midwest a little bit. Do you guys want me to kind of kick off this thing? Because where would you start if not the beginning?
Speaker 1:Well, you are in that section on the outline.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so let me just kick it off here. The great thing about me making the outlines is I get first pick of shit, and I usually always pick the first couple of videos because they the easiest. I'm really bad at this shit, ah that's the beauty man.
Speaker 2:Oh no we haven't noticed you, uh, you spend the time making the outline, you get the first pick of what's easy.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, brother um, but I make up for it by writing kick-ass cryptid stuff. Uh, patreoncom, slash leapod or deletedcom subscribe you'll get a cryptic corner um but anyway, we make up for it by rushing through all of it yeah, I got our last cryptic corner where I speed run the episode. Actually I'm not gonna lie, that was my top. Fantastic, it was one of my tops, it was pretty great.
Speaker 2:I'm looking back at disappointment on mike's face when he came downstairs and realized that we had four sentences left. But it was palpable, it was so funny.
Speaker 3:It was pretty great. But we're not talking about cryptids today. Well, we kind of, I guess we are later hey yeah, we are later maybe, but I think god anyway. So today I'm gonna be covering the first five uh videos here. Um, I'm gonna skim through a couple of them, as some of them are just kind of like, just kind of throwaway videos, I guess you could say. But there is Call Now, home Attention, starfield and Starkill. Call Now is literally like one of those.
Speaker 1:This is a YouTube channel.
Speaker 3:Yes, it's a YouTube channel Midwest Angelica. I probably should have said that before.
Speaker 4:Killing it.
Speaker 3:Killing it today.
Speaker 4:Mike.
Speaker 2:Thank you, I'm on top of it.
Speaker 3:Can you tell that I'm totally not sick and don't have a sigh and also don't have a fever.
Speaker 2:Mike, I will try and give you a break tonight, because I know that your sickness is probably affecting how you're thinking thank you he's down with the sickness right now so the first episode call now is a very quick thing.
Speaker 3:It's one of those like old like, like in like infomercials you find online, like old commercials, where it's like this could be yours for one payment of $19.99, blah, blah, blah. But it's talking about this VHS for a movie called Midwest Angelica and it's kind of going over the plot. It's basically saying things like when a corpse fell from the cosmos, what did earth do? You can pick up your copy of midwest angelica today for only 16.99 plus shipping to hand. Like call within the next 15 minutes and you'll get a free poster, which aren't they always just kind of giving that shit away? Because how do they that shit already like? How do they know it's within a 15 minute time frame? Because don't they already have that shit set up and ready to?
Speaker 2:go they don't.
Speaker 3:It's called yeah, so yeah, that shit's all. You're always going to get the poster, no matter when you call Right.
Speaker 4:That's the gist of it, hopefully.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I figured that's it for the first episode. The second little video here is.
Speaker 2:That's because they they're a scam.
Speaker 3:oh no, the second video $3.99 to access the thing you just paid for. This is probably one of the greatest bits of like YouTube that I've seen in a very long time. You're gonna see this a lot as we go through this, this the series. But this thing is beautiful, like the guy put in the work on this fucking series, and you could tell this shit looks awesome. Um, home is a bit longer of a video. It's eight and a half minutes long and basically, uh, what it goes over is um, in 1985, nasa discovers this new object in space by Jupiter and they named this object AZ-001. Um, they decide that they're going to run some tests to see if they can find any life on this object. They think at the moment they think it's just some asteroid, so they're like, don't know if there's life on it or not. We're going to have to find out. Turns out, they figure out that the object itself is alive, or at least it was. The object, according to the NASA, seems to be a corpse. That's fucking eerie.
Speaker 2:I wonder how? Okay, I'm sorry to cut you off, but they actually make it really cold. But I wonder how many corpses are orbiting Earth?
Speaker 3:I know there's monkey corpses Probably none.
Speaker 1:Does that count as a corpse, Mike? Well no, it didn't come back down. I mean, it's not still out there.
Speaker 2:Well, that's what I'm saying, I don't. I don't mean like the things that everyone's heard about. I just I have no idea how many manned missions to space, least to orbit, there have been, and I don't know how many of those have never returned tune into our next episode, where we cover conspiracy theories.
Speaker 1:I don't know I, I think, I think probably not many, I mean you can look that up, I guess. But like most astronauts, if they die they die on re-entry and most things that go into orbit like gonna fall eventually because they're slowly coming back yeah unless you get obviously static velocity of falling.
Speaker 4:Some die on re-outry as well. Re-outry.
Speaker 2:Re-outry, Re-outry. They want to go back out. They can't.
Speaker 3:More like re-ouchy I'm dying help.
Speaker 2:Sorry, Mike, that was just a random thought. Go ahead.
Speaker 4:I ouchie, I'm dying help. Sorry, Mike, it was just a random thought. Go ahead, I can actually answer that question though.
Speaker 3:But I won't because I don't want to. So again, this is all taking place in 1985. Nasa has done a bunch of research and they expect that this corpse object is going to reach Earth by 1999. So they form up a department at NASA called HOME. It is the Heavenly Operation and Material Examination Department. Home is basically created solely to investigate and research AZ-001. Investigate and research AZ-001. Home HQ is also located in Newport, nebraska, which kind of comes into play later. It is being run by the lead physician, who is Dr Lucas Michaels. He is the lead physician over at Home. It goes on to also mention that he goes missing in 1989, two years after home was founded.
Speaker 3:Home was founded in 1987 to do more research on this object. So 1995 comes into play now and we're hearing from a man named Dr Ray O'Connor. He is the head of research over at home and this man discovers that AZ-001 has these brainwaves that are coming out of beta waves. He mentions that they're very similar to the type of beta waves that humans give off when we're in deep sleep. So he's like, yep, we're figuring out a bunch of shit about this weird thing. So 1999 comes up, june 1st, new Year's, az001 passes by the moon. We get a visual of this as well. And again, this whole thing looks very well. I don't know about you guys. I got Vita Karnas vibes off this. This whole thing is very similar to Vita Karnas, even the imagery later in the series. Very well, like I got I don't know about you guys I got vita vita carnis vibes off.
Speaker 1:This, like this whole thing has, is very similar to vita carnis, even like the imagery later in the series.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh my god yeah this and that are, I would argue, up like top tier when it comes to these type of like analog ish, horror.
Speaker 1:Uh, just because, like you can tell, they put in the fucking work yeah, um, there's some things I prefer about this, but there's also, I think, some of the imagery in Via Carnis I prefer.
Speaker 2:I don't know we can talk about that later.
Speaker 3:So June 1st it passes by the moon, or January 1st sorry, january 13th AZ-001 passes into our atmosphere. We do get photos of this thing in our atmosphere as well and it kind of looks like tentacles sort of the photos that they get. It looks tentacly. It's very ominous already and already we're like oh gosh, this is some Lovecraftian shit, I bet. After getting these photos, three days later, on January 16th, a chunk of A-Z-001 actually separates off of the main piece they call this one AZ-001 Alpha and it separates and then lands in Nebraska.
Speaker 3:We get visual of us tracking its course as it crashes to the Earth. After this we are given found footage style visuals of a crew that is sent out to investigate the crash site and they're in like full hazmat gear. It's at this point, when they get to the site, that you hear this like screech and you hear a guy's shout um, it's alive, it's alive. And it pans over to it and you just see this giant tentacle coming like out of like the earth essentially and um, you hear it like screeching, like it's, it's, it's kind of an upsetting noise. Um, while the screeching is going on, it cuts over to one of the hazmat members and he is just a flamethrower in this fucking thing, just scorching, just scorching everything.
Speaker 1:It's great um, it's definitely the coolest shot, and it really is yeah, I don't know if the thing that's on his head is like actually a thing that's on his head, or if it's like a 3d model of a, just a cylinder that's been like stuck top of his head but it looks sick as fuck.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I agree, that's the thing.
Speaker 1:This hazmat suit.
Speaker 3:It looks like kind of like Mysterio, like how he's got that circular button Instead. Of that it's more cylinder.
Speaker 4:It's giving marshmallow.
Speaker 1:I think it is a 3D model but it's like so it's blended so well that it's it is, and the shot I really real quick I'm.
Speaker 4:I'm sorry, but I thought this was really neat and I just had to say this because this is like the best part to this all this, all the uh, the programs that this person used to make this was were free, yeah I should, because it's just like blender and like some like free photo editing stuff, like kind of crazy.
Speaker 3:I'm just saying mention this awesome.
Speaker 2:While they're like tracking az001 through space, you get like vector graph, looking like graphics, and shit yeah I love that shit so much dude that reminded me of the alien movies so much and like I am here for that, yep and that's like a reoccurring thing throughout this those, those like, like grid graphics.
Speaker 3:I love that shit so much.
Speaker 1:They're insane.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so the guy's flamethrower and everything which someone in the comments was like what are they flamethrowing? This thing came from, this thing like reentered in our gravity and it was able to survive that. Do you think a flamethrower is going to help? Maybe, yeah, and also that's just, I feel, like protocol, like because you're going to go scorched earth, burn it, fuck it. Who cares? Anyway, so you notice a hazmat member. They're like starting to bug out a little bit, like he's just like standing still at one point and he like looks down at his hands and this shit was fucking creepy as hell and awesome he like, looks down at his hand.
Speaker 3:Entire series, honestly, oh I like, so I like the last shot, but it is and you can see, it's the thumbnail, even it's the thumbnail for the fucking video. But he like looks down at his hands and all this like blood just comes like oozing out of his helmet and it's so fucking cool.
Speaker 4:Is it blood, or is he like melting?
Speaker 3:I thought it was. I interpreted it as blood, I mean, I guess it would be both.
Speaker 2:If your flesh is like melting, it's all just gonna come, that's fair specifically, doug, I'm pretty sure it is what you just said and I'll, once I get to my section, I'll I know why.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know why. So you know that in hindsight you're probably right. It is probably melting um 100, but it's just oozing out of his fucking helmet and his hands. He's just like hold him up like it's all just dripping down. It's fucking awesome, um. And then you see like um, uh, it's like the last shot is like the hat. The other has been like running for his fucking life and then it pans to like stops and it's just focusing on the helmet from the guy who's just like was just like oozing out of his helmet. It's like the helmets on the ground and you see this like tentacly thing like come out of it, kind of like a, like a, like a, like a octopus coming out of a jar. You know what I mean. Like it's it like kind of grooves around.
Speaker 1:It's fucking awesome, um, or tentacles coming out of a butthole or tentacles coming out of a butthole that's the better way of putting it.
Speaker 3:The next video is called attention. It's 50 seconds long, literally. It's just one of those like attention. If you live in this county, get the fuck out yourself, get the fuck out of there. And some of them are like Cass County, fremont County, mills County. It's just areas in Nebraska, but that's all there is to that one. The next one is Starfield. This one had my favorite visual. That one with the bleeding was awesome.
Speaker 1:But this next one has my favorite you think this is where Todd Howard got his ideas who's Todd Howardard?
Speaker 3:the test again. Huh, just continue, okay. So starfield this takes place on january 16th on starfield ranch.
Speaker 2:We, uh are introduced to the ranchers that live here or stardust starfield okay, important here Starfield or Stardust Starfield, okay Important distinction Is there one named Stardust Go check out our episode on Stardust Ranch that we did yeah. There's a guy who kills aliens with katanas and it's great, yeah, he's a pretty sick dude.
Speaker 3:He is my hero. So we're introduced to our ranchers, avery Jones and Colin Jones. His son, avery Jones, wakes up to his dogs barking at 431 am. His son, colin, is recording all of this. As it happens, you see, the two go out into like their pasture, I guess you could say, and they're just sitting at like the gate and they're like what's going on and the dad's like I don't know. He's like well, where's Rocky? I'm assuming they're talking, sitting at like the gate and they're like what's going on and the dad's like I don't know. He's like well, where's rocky? I'm assuming they're talking about the dog and he's like rocky's he's, he's not here and like kind of being a little ominous. Ominous about it, um, but you just hear barking in the distance and the barking kind of like starts to like muffle out, like it just gets like like the dog is kind of just like goes, goes from like barking to a whimper. You know that whole thing. So yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so as this happens, it's kind of like the still shot on this, like farm, like fence, and you see this like thing, like as he's moving the camera.
Speaker 1:You see this weird like I don't want to keep using the word tentacle, but it really is just kind of like a tentacle-y thing. It looks like a neuron.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it just kind of like slithers under the fence a little bit and it just kind of cuts. So the next bits of the video are apparently not usable. There's some still images that they were able to pull, but other than that the rest is just trash. But the still images that they were able to pull, but other than that the rest is just trash. But the still images that were able to be found. By the way, this is all being recorded from home. Home has all this information. This is kind of like a video that Home has created for training purposes and whatnot. But these still images they show us and you see these two deer is being like, overtaken by, like it. It looks it's like the thing from the movie, the thing. It's like being taken over and like assimilated by by like the dog scene yeah, it's literally like the dog scene.
Speaker 3:It's pretty cool okay you see this other deer um, like right next to it, kind of like in the act of also being assimilated. Um, you also hear gunshots going on in this as well. Um, and then we get a gunshots are audible, as it says. Yeah, gunshots are audible and just pew, pew, pew. Uh, we get a jump cut over to Avery Jones, who is also being like assimilated Um, it even says Avery Jones, assimilation and it's like him, his whole head is being like taken over by this thing.
Speaker 4:It's kind of legit like yeah, this thing looks like the fucking jersey devil, like I don't even know like what to call it. It's a wolf deer.
Speaker 3:So it's deer, but the other thing is the dog well, no, I know, but it everything like mushes, together.
Speaker 4:You know what I'm saying, so like it ends up looking like this fucking, like the jersey, fucking devil, because it's just an amalgamation of shit yeah, they definitely.
Speaker 3:They definitely took like whole dick. Um, they definitely took inspiration from fucking, from john carpenter's a thing with this like hunter h, this like 100, but anyway. So we jump, cut to Avery. He's being assimilated. You see his head being taken over.
Speaker 3:You see Colin just running to his house to hide from this creature and then, like a super creepy shot happens where he's like he's like goes to his house, he pans over to a window and he's like freaking out. He's breathing all heavy and you see this thing just like float up into the window. You know what I mean. Like it's just things head like pop up and it's pretty creepy. It just like cuts and all you see Colin is running upstairs. He's shouting mom. He's like mom, are you here? The only thing he finds is more tentacles and shit. So this thing is already at his house and assumed to have taken over his family. Colin runs out of his house and we get a shot of a cow that is like a silhouette of a cow on the horizon, because the sun's coming up and you see these shapes just coming out of the cow. It's kind of fungal, you know what I mean. Like those videos of.
Speaker 3:I wouldn't say the last of us. It's kind of like you know the zombie fungus. Kind of yeah, where you see like Like the Grasshopper or whatever is taking over and you see the fungus, just like it's like splitting out of their exoskeleton and shit. It looks like that.
Speaker 2:It's very creepy um you know what fungus was used in the last of us, mike uh no the zombie fungus anyway continue makes sense.
Speaker 3:I suppose they are zombies, um so um, the cow's being assimilated and we then see what is assumed and this is my favorite shot you, you see what is assumed to be avery jones, um, or at least even potentially an amalgamation of the whole family, because it's just like one person and the head is this giant, spiky, tentacly thing. It's. It's like the size of like four people on the body of one person and it's got this giant sunrise behind it and it is so fucking cool looking and I highly recommend watching this again because the visuals are fucking insane.
Speaker 4:Follow along.
Speaker 3:As all of this is happening as all of this is happening, see, like small bits of text like popping up on the screen, like it says like Avery's assimilation, um, colin's panicking and things like that. The last bit of text you see is with this, like one person over the sunrise, and it just says like family. So I assume that means that that's like, that's like their entire family shaped into one kind of being. The final shot we get is, um, the camera on its side, it's assumed you don't see colin anymore and the battery's about to die. It's one of those where it's assumed that colin got got. Um, you see, like these giant fungal stacks, like they look like mushrooms, like all around the house. You see, like this giant fungal stacks, like they look like mushrooms, like all around the house. You see, like this, like these, like spores all over in the air and everything it's fucking.
Speaker 1:It's a very creepy looking scene and then it transforms into a Toyota Supra and Vin Diesel rides out and then all of the spores become coronas, but that's where it ends.
Speaker 3:It ends on that shot and again it's so beautifully. And then all of the spores become Coronas. Yeah, because camera, but that that's where it ends. It ends on that shot, and again, it's so beautifully done. Um, my last bit here is called star kill and essentially what this one is is um, home is showing how fast the assimilation process is. They were able to get a sample of um, uh, uh, az, zero, zero the assimilation processes. They were able to get a sample of AZ-001 and they're putting under microscopes and shit to see what's going on In literal milliseconds. It shows you how fast this thing just takes over its host. It takes up to 400 milliseconds for this thing to completely take over the host and you see the cells breaking down and then just becoming this weird, like jaggedy, a mess of the best, like neuron, ish yeah appearance.
Speaker 3:It's at this point that home decides that they need to destroy this thing by any means necessary. This is the start of project Stark Hill, and that's where I end my bit pretty wild stuff.
Speaker 2:That video definitely, uh, definitely speaks for itself the part where the, the blood is just coming out of the mask. I a hundred percent agree. Like it's fucking they, they, fucking cool right off, the rip went hard. You know what I?
Speaker 3:mean.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you know what you're in for when you see it.
Speaker 3:Who's next?
Speaker 4:That would be me. I'm next. What are you up for us, doug? All right, so the next video in the series, uh, is called phantoms. Um, and this word is actually kind of important, so keep that in the back of your mind as we go through this.
Speaker 4:Um, but the description for this video says the foot it's actually super important, um, and I didn't catch this until my second watch through, but it says the footage on the tape documents the events believed to have irreparably impeded Holmes' ability to safely study AZ-001. The tape was found inside an underground bunker 12 miles west of Lincoln, nebraska. One wall within the bunker was painted with a logo similar but not identical to the logo that's used by Holmes. So this video starts off with a timeline of events and, uh, the first one we see is dr andrew evans returns to the alpha chunk for more analysis. Um, we get a uh, a sound only audio of dr evans basically visiting the alpha trunk with a team and you can hear him coughing and he's talking about the, the sample collection and marking the area, and they call for a retrieval team because they never, you know it's.
Speaker 4:It's never a good sign when you're introduced to a guy and the first thing they do is you know yeah, and I mean clearly, uh, it's clearly it's alluding to something not good, right, and because he starts coughing, the guy's like, are you okay? And he's like, yeah, yeah, I'm fine. So, um, once the audio ends, we get a picture and we can see, uh, dr evans just standing next to this thing and he's got a hazmat suit on, but only a fucking like n95 mask. That's all he has between him and the chunk um, the chunk um.
Speaker 4:But that being said, the next thing in the line, the timeline, is dr evans returns to the psych lab, uh, home HQ, and we get this like recreated scenario, with, with dots. I said with an exclamation mark. Basically, what you see is a diagram of the lab and we get this like literal replay of what happened. So says, well, at the labs, evans takes longer to get a refill of water from his cooler. He goes in the sample storage and then he goes over to the supply closet and then you see him walk over to this water cooler and it specifically is like he was at the water cooler longer than normal. So then, after he goes to the water cooler, he goes and he has a discussion with Dr O'Connor, who we are familiar with already.
Speaker 3:Yep, he's the head researcher.
Speaker 4:Now when they start talking there's some really shadiness going on. He immediately is like hey, you want some water, and then Take this, take this, drink it now, take this, drink it now. It's pretty clear with what we saw in the last video that the the speed at which something becomes infected by the uh az-001 is really fucking fast and you can kind of tell that this isn't right. You know that he's probably already infected and now we can only assume he's now infected the drinking water in the lab. Um, so after this uh, it says, dr evans displays unusual behavior and we get a video of him like sitting at his desk.
Speaker 4:Just fucking like exorcisting um I do love that.
Speaker 3:They're just unusual behavior.
Speaker 4:He's like like his arms are bending the complete wrong way and shit snapped backwards.
Speaker 2:It's just very it's not worrying, it's just a little strange a little wacky, definitely a little strange mondays.
Speaker 3:Am I right guys?
Speaker 4:nexus says it makes his way to the another part of the facility, um, and he stops at a storage unit for unknown reasons. Um, then it's no. It notes that home hq is put into lockdown after a series of gunshots are fired. Um, you see, uh, dr evans, like in this hallway, and he just full-blown, uh, does like that, that, that part in the thing where, like the guy fully turns into like that bulbous monster and like the head elongates super high and um, it's just not good. And then it probably is like yeah, uh, he was terminated, like, just like immediately yeah, they're using the same.
Speaker 3:The same reason that we we said this has like vita carnis, like vibes, is because they're using like unreal engine or something to like make these visuals blender is it just blend? Yeah? So it's just blender but definitely using like 3d.
Speaker 4:It's just for this, which which I enjoy, that they did it's just window anyways, uh, yeah, so, um, the next part is it says uh, they brought his body to the morgue for an autopsy and this was about 809, so all the other events it's same day but took place about noonish and there's like a weird eight hour kind of like lapse of where dr evans is terminated and then when his body goes to the morgue and they show the x-rays of the body and it's just like covered and like his bones look like Swiss cheese and like he's got all this like string, like all this, like all these stringers, like inside of his body.
Speaker 4:You can tell that you know, yeah, it's not great, get out of here, buddy. Um man and fucking yeah. So what it ends up saying is that the that he was assassinated by an unknown third party and if we go back to the description of this um, that leads me to believe that this other home, fake home team might be the ones that assassinated him, because they were on top of that shit.
Speaker 3:Um let me tell you, see, I took that as um like them, just using that as like a cover-up so they don't have to say that he was infected with some alien disease. The only reason that?
Speaker 4:I. The only reason I don't think it's that is because they're actively researching this terribleness, so like they know, like all, right so there's, I'm on board with that, and I'll tell you why, mike no I, I just never thought of that.
Speaker 3:That makes sense now I didn't think of it that way. I thought that was like a police report and they were just hiding it on a police report. But that makes some sense there.
Speaker 4:No, I mean it's internal, so it would make sense for them to tell what actually happened, right? So the last thing it says is a vial of az001 sample was missing after the incident. Um, also, something that's missing is fucking. Dr o'connor check his ass. Yeah, check his ass, um, but that's, that's pretty much it on that one. Now the next video is only 33 seconds and it's a public access, just like here's what's on, uh, the tv today. And then it's like oh, uh, long pine midwest church invites you to their weekly service.
Speaker 4:Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and then I love this it's like, oh shit, like the church would like to extend their gratitude to the following individuals and sure as shit, let's check this list out, shall we? Diane br-hmm, diane Briggs, john Carlisle, lindsay Chapfield, paula Horowitz Fucking. Ray O'Connor, aaron Mathis, david Rohde and Sarah Withrow. Ray O'Connor huh.
Speaker 3:I love how this tiny little. Not to like spoil too much. I just love how this tiny, tiny, like 30 second video plays such oh my god, I know it's yeah, this is a huge really important um and we'll go over that have some of the most information.
Speaker 4:It's great, it's so, uh, after I I did my research, I watched a couple other people's like, uh, like videos on this uh, one being night mind, because he's everywhere, obviously but, um, he made a really good point. Um, he says, like almost all of the videos in this series make the full use of the time that they have, and I think it's absolutely true. I feel like there's no wasted time in this. Like there's no. Like you're not just sitting there like waiting for something to happen, you don't feel like there are a couple long episodes, but like you don't feel like it's wasted, like you're like shit, like that was all that information was needed here um, yeah, whenever I was watching this, I felt like I was like I almost felt like the videos ended too soon, simply because I was like just so invested in every minute, every second of like, every frame, every hour, every day thank you, man.
Speaker 4:That little episode now leads into this longer episode at 9 minutes, and it's called Azazel now the description of this says the tape is the second of two cassettes found in a collapsed remains of a house in Stewart, nebraska. Most buildings in the Long Pine ruins were found to be destroyed, with a large crater discovered near the site of the former church building. The circumstances surrounding the crater's formation are currently under investigation. So, just right there, that gives us our biggest clue is that we're now involving this church into the mix of things, right, yeah? So the video starts off with like a police property, like intro um, from february 20th of 1999 this is a few weeks after the incident with dr evans and the video is a recount of the two officers, page and Webster, on 211 and 212. Both of them were killed in the line of duty and this tape is basically a way for them to try and determine what the cause of death was you know what's disappointing you yeah, this was.
Speaker 3:It sucks that they both died because this baby cop was just a couple weeks away from retirement and he had to go and get killed that's.
Speaker 4:That's solid actually. I'll let that one slide.
Speaker 4:Um fuck, where am I? Okay? So all right. So this is where it begins. We got a missing ad. Uh, a missing person advert is aired on tv for a missing persons, uh of Carlyle Aaron, mathis, david Rohde and Sarah Withrow, who are all a part of the church from the last fucking video that we saw on that shoutout. Why are they missing what? Why are they doing that? What an idiot. It's pretty clear at this point, if you're putting two and two together, that it's very likely that the missing, dr O'Connor, might have gone to church about it.
Speaker 1:So we'll just keep going so the police receive a call from an unknown number. Make me part of the weird, fleshy alien mass.
Speaker 3:I have this vial shoved right up my ass hell yeah um, all right.
Speaker 4:So the police receive a call from an unknown number. This person is next door to the church and he's like he's freaking out. He's kind of talking all alone. He's like he's like there's a, there's a fucking sacrifice going on next door. I think it's some pagan. Um, I can hear the screaming and they're definitely sacrificing someone um. It's a murder it's just, it's giving like like a straight midwesterner, like just being like I don't know what's going on there. Uh, some guys are just murdering a guy.
Speaker 3:I don't know, A bunch of hosers out there just doing a big murder eh.
Speaker 4:That's not how this person sounds at all either, but that's kind of the vibe I was getting while I was watching this, but anyway. So this is when the two officers are sent out to investigate, they're like ah shit, we got some fucking pagans out here, we got to go kill them. We got to kill them, so we gotta get the uh. So we get body cam footage from page and we get some photos that he took, um, and we see some just like creepy inner church footage. And then we get some photos of what looks like, possibly like some sort of like book or scrolls or something that someone was writing on. One says Blood, angel, flesh and Blood of the Stars, blissfully Closer to the Sacred Realm Ascended Beyond Mortals.
Speaker 4:Is this where my we have become apostles of Azazel.
Speaker 3:Is this where my Chemical Romance gets the name for all their songs?
Speaker 4:Yeah, no, actually this is Fall boys, but uh yeah, there you go so the last page of this book that we see shows, uh, this big tower structure looking thing, and it says altar um. It seems that these churchgoers were performing some sort of sacrifice in the name of this angel, and now we know that the name is Azazel and the thing that has been causing all this shit is AZ 001. Could it be the same? I?
Speaker 2:would imagine so. Yeah it's crazy, right? I have a strange question, doug, that I don't know if you know the answer to or not. Yes, so they labeled this thing az001, right, and they did. Presumably it was before they knew its name that is a great point, jason.
Speaker 4:Um the head, the head guy that found this thing um could possibly have had some sort of influence from this thing before it even got to the earth. As far as we can kind of see what's happening. Um, that's kind of a stretch at this point in things, but it could be assumed that maybe there is some sort of you know, connection.
Speaker 2:I just caught that and I'm like huh no, I'm gonna go plot hole.
Speaker 3:This is the worst analog horrors.
Speaker 2:You're out of town no, no, no, no, it's not a plot hole.
Speaker 4:I will actually go over that bit of things. Well, I won't go over it, somebody might go over it, I don't know. Okay, cool, perfect, then you got it. So, anyways, we see this shot of page in a tunnel and this is the last time he's been seen. I'm not sure who took the picture, because it wasn't Webster, but their body wasn't recovered. Paige's body wasn't recovered, but they're assumed dead and we'll kind of get to what may have happened in a little bit. So it switches over to Webster and you see them searching outside for a source of this like disturbance, right, and the body cam footage shows him coming across this like massive unknown structure which we now know is an altar. Um, and basically we see this thing and it's just fucking covered in assimilated bodies and now it's kind of clear like those four churchgoers were not the only thing being assimilated into this structure. Um, once you see, like the images, uh, if you're watching this and not just listening, um, this shit is fucking wild, like it looked so crazy.
Speaker 2:There's just like bodies stuck everywhere to this thing and it's pretty crazy um, if anyone's ever seen like the the paintings of that are referenced in like dante's inferno, like from the uh, the divine comedy like that's. This reminded me of that, like to the letter almost, but they're all.
Speaker 4:Yeah, this is also really big. Sorry, what was that?
Speaker 1:oh yeah, they're all like thrown together so they're like oh, it's similar to the forest, like the weird fucking things in the forest. Have you ever played?
Speaker 4:oh my god, yeah, yeah, yes oh my god, yes um, yeah, there's a lot of references to ava here too, uh, if you're a fan. But uh, so, um, once we see this thing, this mass of people, uh, you can kind of tell that webster, the one that we're seeing, like their camera footage of, begins to like be distressed, and it's really fucking clear that now they're infected. And the last thing we see is like from above, like the shot looks like it's from above a, like a tree line almost, and there's just like this guy's head, like above the tree line, and then it just like totally becomes like more twisted and fucked up and shit, and then the footage cuts. Webster's body was found, but the cause of death is unknown. I can only assume that his body turned to mush, um, and basically what ends up happening is the cia basically says all right, we found the body, we have the footage, and now a guy named robert spencer is in control of this, like investigation, whatever you want to call it, and basically they gain, the cia gains control of the area, and they're like all right, we have to like the police, you have to remain quiet or we're gonna, we're gonna beat you up, um, and then, yeah, so they're basically keeping it on the hush hush. They're like this is fucked up. We have to get this area on lockdown and that's the end of that video. Um.
Speaker 4:The next video is called stages and the description of this one. It says this tape was recovered from what is believed to have been the remains of a home convoy on us route 183 and based on all the recovered footage um from 223 1999, this seems to be the last time any new material was created by the original home group. So keep that in mind too, that we may see more home home footage, but this is the last actual home more home footage um. So basically, this is just observing the stages of the Starkill infestation, and the first one is the sustenance hunt and it basically just absorbs any available biomass to feed itself, just to get going.
Speaker 1:And I asked a question about something that was not clear to me as I was watching this. Yeah, in one of the earlier videos they say that the operation to basically stop this thing from destroying humanity is called Operation Starkill, but then, at some point, without really explaining why, they just start calling this thing Starkill um, I so this is kind of this, this actual.
Speaker 4:This video actually might explain that a little bit, and this is my assumption. I don't know if this is right or not, but basically the second step in this video for the stages of infestation is, uh, star kill. It's called intelligence accumulation, and it starts to eat all of the smartest life forms, so the people on the Earth, and basically without giving too much away. So when it absorbs things, it just kind of gains the knowledge on that thing, right, it's the thing. Oh yeah, so my thought on that is that most of the original home at this point has been eaten by Starkill, right, and now what's left is this other group of people who we can only assume Is fake home. I don't know. Actually there's a lot of questions still so.
Speaker 2:There's infected home and there's almost like an outpost Of Non-infection.
Speaker 1:I guess, I mean, I guess I have it. I I have a theory as to why it is that they changed like the terminology, but I didn't. I do too. I, I don't know.
Speaker 4:Maybe, maybe this would be better for later, because I don't want to ruin anything yeah, no, definitely there's a lot of speculation that could be done, and these are these speculations of mine, are just things that I've written down as I went through it and not what I know now, if that makes sense right, I just didn't know.
Speaker 1:There was like a reason why that I'd missed, but okay what are you guys?
Speaker 3:I don't, I don't think so. I was gone for a second yeah, so like are, were you.
Speaker 1:Earlier in the video they mentioned that Starkill is the operation to keep this thing from destroying human life. And like two videos. Later, they start referring to the thing itself as Starkill.
Speaker 2:Matt, keep that just in the back of your mind. It's not super important right now, but by the time my videos are done it will be.
Speaker 4:Alright, so getting back to the stages of the Starkill infestation, I just talked about intelligence accumulation, but the next step is self-replication. So when this thing has enough biomass obtained into itself, it can replicate itself from hubs hard quotes, um and these hubs, uh, include such things as altars, which makes small life forms, and what's also called a temple, which produce bigger ones. So one thing I want to mention about this Is that question we had in the beginning Of why did this dead carcass have life form on it. Well, clearly it broke off and had something inside of it. We can only assume that Alpha Chunk Possibly was a temple and released Whatever you know now. So, yeah, so now we know that these things Are going to start spreading and replicating asexually, because it's like the movie evolution with david dacovny and that other guy it's like flubber it's like I don't know who the other guy is.
Speaker 2:I just know that he was in the movie.
Speaker 4:Alright so, but there is a theorized force stage that does exist or might exist, and that's when the Starkill network reaches a critical mass. But it is unknown what will happen when this occurs or if this will occur, but theories suggest that in a year, from February 23rdrd 1999, that the uh network known as star kill will be almost as big as america, which isn't great. So now this video actually is technically the end of act one and according to youtube and the creators yeah, no playlists. Act 1, according to YouTube and the creator's playlists. So, that being said, I have one more video which starts off the second act. It's called Easter and boy howdy.
Speaker 4:This video was pretty cool and I guess, if you were watching along, or watching and then now listening, pretty clear that there's a lot of distressing images and noises that you're going to see along through this whole thing.
Speaker 4:Um, this one is one of those um, and the description of this is a bunch of letters and numbers and, uh, if it's, if you translate it through base 64, it uh, it just says knowledge, um, and that's all that's in the description.
Speaker 4:So this video, it's basically them looking at the research of how this Starkill network communicates within itself and basically, they determine that parts of the chunk, from any kind of distance, are able to send information into the main alpha chunk, no matter where they are. So any information that one chunk knows, they can send to the alpha chunk and they essentially all just talk together. They are a hive mind, so to say, and there are parts of the alpha chunk that are called Podolsky neurons and this seems to be that they do this long-distance communicating. Now, this series of neurons between all of the chunks in the separate biomass is referred to as the Akashic plane, and now home says we need to be able to reach this plane, we need to be able to insert ourselves into this plane so that we know what, what they know, and we can you, you know, maybe do something about this.
Speaker 4:We know what they know, that they know, that we know exactly so home begins to test these interactions with the akashic plane on 3 15 1999, and this is where shit gets weird. And now, uh, man, I'm gonna have you this the best, you. But basically, they start testing this on a test subject by putting some of these Podolsky neurons into the test subject's spinal cord. This test subject, their name, is Stanley Vega. So please keep that in mind. Oh, yes, so please keep that in mind, now, yes.
Speaker 4:So, that being said, um, we get like these close-up images of this dude's face after they infect him, essentially, and then they're asked to do a series of tests by simply re-entering the original information that they put into. Um, this like little little form, right, um, so the first test, pretty, pretty normal. And then they go to the second test and they, uh, uh, they have him re-enter his information and it's pretty much all the same. And then, um, they mentioned that they he actually thinks that he's being tested, uh, for infection not being tested on, which is kind of wacky, pretty fucked up.
Speaker 2:Um, there's a lot of that um.
Speaker 4:But so after the second test and he puts in the information, um, the like birth date changes and some like, uh, the testing name or the testing, like catchphrase, uh, it changes and um, basically, um, he all of a sudden has very intimate details known about John Carlisle and if we remember that name, that was from one of the church goers that was missing, um, or on the list of church goers and, um, we can only assume now that, uh, he's becoming like sort of linked to this, uh, this akashic network or akashic plane, his like, I guess like safety phrase or whatever even changes to like go to church every sunday or something.
Speaker 4:yeah, yeah, yep. So the the testing that that changes. And then the last test that we see uh, all the answers become easter. So name, date of birth, location, easter, easter, easter, easter, easter, easter, and then um it. So it cuts to one last little bit of video and we get up like a, like a I don't even know what to call like a commercial for an Akashic probe, and it's just up for a very brief moment, at the very end, and it seems like home. Home Delta is looking to find a better way to get information on the Akashic Akashic plane, but they, again, they have to have those Podolsky neurons to runs. Is looking to find a better way to get information on the Akashic Akashic plane? Um, but they, again, they have to have those, uh, podolsky neurons to actually do it. They'd be proven, they'd be proven, um, but yeah, that's where my videos end. Um, man, it's what, what, what, what a journey so far.
Speaker 4:Here's your outro for you. Wowie zowie, everyone. Wowie zowie, totally didn't. Just. It's been a while since we've done that.
Speaker 3:Totally didn't just figure out. This is a two parter. So here we are.
Speaker 2:You did a really good job. I'd like to cheers to you and everybody else who stuck with us for that. So Cheers everybody, cheers to you, cheers to me.
Speaker 2:Fuck off. But, as Mike said, yeah, we're doing. This is going to have to be a two part because I alone have a lot more information I'm not 100% sure on how much Matt has but the end of the series is it's a lot. It's really good, but it's a lot. So please come listen to us again next week. The rest of this shit is insane. Like I love every second of my videos. There's so so much more to go over.
Speaker 4:Yeah, take this time to go and watch the series, like them, follow them, give them those views.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is way better than many other analog horrors that have way more views and subscribers. Oh God yeah, god yeah, yeah, it's criminal almost even alex kisser said so on one one of the videos nope.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think it's like the top comment on one of the earlier videos dude, I'm I'm so upset that we didn't do this earlier.
Speaker 2:If I'm being 100 honest, like this is so good.
Speaker 4:I feel that way, but then sometimes I'm like no, it's better we're doing it later on, now that we're like I think I appreciate it more now whereas if we had done this in a big group of other analog horrors, I would have been like I wouldn't have appreciated it as much, that's fair If this was like fourth in the line of four or five analog horrors, or if we did this right after Ash Flogs I
Speaker 3:don't think we would have had the capacity to enjoy it. Sure, sure, just going to go ahead and say deletedcom, patreoncom slash, diluted pod. Go to those things. Sub, if you want, find us on all our socials everywhere. We either don't look under the internet or, diluted pod, send us an email. Delutypod at gmailcom. That's all I got. See you in part two of motherfucking Midwest Angelica everybody.
Speaker 4:In part two, you idgits.
Speaker 1:Idgidges.
Speaker 2:Stay paranoid, I guess. Bye.
Speaker 4:Slap beans, ban beans.
Speaker 2:I don't have a catchphrase 183, and I still don't have a catchphr his 183, and that's your new catchphrase. Your new catchphrase is I don't have a catchphrase. Yeah, I don't have one of those. I like it.
Speaker 1:Don't look under the internet, bye.
