DLUTI 221 - No Through Road

The first Analog Horror of the year is here! We go all the way back in time to Obama's first term this week and check out one the earliest popular YouTube found footage projects.

Chapters

• 0:00 Cold Open & Chaos Intro
• 2:45 Housekeeping: Patreon And Twitch Changes
• 6:40 Setting The Stage For No Through Road
• 10:20 Episode 1: The Loop Begins
• 20:50 Episode 2: Three Years Later
• 29:10 Episode 3: Fragmented Tape And Symbol
• 34:50 Episode 4: Barn, Masks, And Revelation
• 44:30 Interpreting The Time Loop And Identities
• 50:20 Ratings, Craft, And Mask Critique

Transcript

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Don't need to look under the internet.

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All right. Now we're recording.

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Hello everyone. Greetings. Greetings. Welcome to Don't. Look. Don't. Look. The Look. Internet.

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I thought we were all gonna know to just say the last one together.

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Nope. Yeah, we're gonna do a look on the internet. The internet's favorite horror comedy podcast featuring the likes of yours truly, Douglas.

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Wait, no, hold on. Let me do a thwomp. Oh. No, it's not very good.

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I thought you were doing the intro to war.

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Huh.

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Yeah. No, a thwomp's more like it.

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Alright, anyways, that's enough grunting from me. There's Matthew.

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New Year, new me, baby! And here I am, Mike. You'll probably notice Jason's not here. Alright, so for housekeeping today, uh we have I have one person I want to shout out, and it's a name I'm not gonna be able to pronounce. It's which gob good savam.

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Did you ever say that?

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I shan't be repeating it. No, and I shan't be repeating it.

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Okay.

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We're gonna play the next one. And I shan't be repeating it.

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Like a month and a half of build-up for that one. Yep.

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I'm gonna give it a three because boy is it original. If only I could say it.

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I'll go to solid seven.

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There you go. Hell yeah. All over the board. Um we do have a couple changes that are going on with the Patreon and the the website. So so we're simplifying it down, but we're still gonna give you some good shit. Um we got some fun stuff planned out. Uh we just have to figure out a way to do it. Do it. So we're gonna do that. Uh just be on the lookout. So it's gonna be really, really fun.

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Uh one of those things is that if you watch the live broadcast on the Twitch, there's no Twitch broadcast for the live show anymore. Because we partially because it's extra setup time and not a lot of people were watching it, but also partially because we wanted that to be a members only perk again.

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Yeah. Um Twitch no more. Twitch no more. Um it just didn't work out. But we will be using the Twitch.

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I mentioned this, yeah, yeah. You were about to say it. That's my bad. Okay.

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Yeah, we use it for other things. I, for a long time there, was playing uh Halo Let's Plays. Maybe I'll bring that back again. We'll see. Uh probably not, though. Maybe you don't know that might play through ODST and no, probably not. Yeah, you're right. You're right. There's there's no way through. There's no way through to the end. Much like what we're talking about today. Am I right, boys? Which is all the way through road. All the way to the end avenue.

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You know, they they call it that, but there's there's very obviously like very early on a road through it.

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So that's very fair. Um continuity airs, you know, continuity, contituity, con tity and twover.

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Titties convention.

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Got him.

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Titty con 2026.

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There it is. Um, we're we're talking about uh No Through Road, which is by uh Indran Cole 3 on YouTube. Um this is kind of renowned for being one of the first of its kind on YouTube. The this started 16 years ago. So it's kind of argued that this is one of the first analog style horrors, found footage horrors that you'll you'll find on the YouTubes. Very interesting. I'm very glad I came across this uh because it's a little chunk of history that got fairly popular, but nothing really came from it. Um, it's very short, so if you want to watch it, I highly recommend it. The whole thing is a four-part series. Um it's half hour, half hour long. Like it's it's pretty dang short. So I recommend it.

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Not to spoil our review of it. It's pretty good.

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It's pretty solid. Like I I had a I actually had a good time watching this.

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Hell yeah.

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Not saying I didn't have a good time watching other things that we've done, but like I was I was never at a time.

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Some of them I didn't. I made that very apparent.

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There's been stuff we watched in the past where like I had to step away to do something else. This one kind of hooked me.

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I had watched this like five, six times. I'm not gonna lie. I tried watching it at work and I kept getting busy, and then I would watch it and like look away for like two minutes, and then some crazy shit would be happening, and I was like, fuck. So then I'd restart it, and then I'd like the same part, I'd get busy again, and then I have to fucking restart it again. I swear I've watched this whole series like six times today. That's a bit different. You we were watching at work.

SPEAKER_01: 5:46

I I knocked out my lunch break, and I was like, hell yeah, I did.

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Okay, but that's my little story, and it's really, really amazing. Um, great story.

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Really important to our video.

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Very uh I remembered though. That's what matters.

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That's what matters.

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So we're gonna start with video one, the beginning. The beginning of time, the one inning. Yeah.

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War. The battle for the republic commences, or whatever I said in the last episode. So we start off with a uh UK intelligence logo that just kind of pops up on the screen here for us, um, with text on the screen that states basically the following On December 15th, 2008, four 17-year-old boys from Stevenage, Heptfordshire. It's can't be a real place, Heptfordshire, were reported missing. On the 17th, the bodies were found at Broomhall Farm, 10 miles out from Stevenage, in the car that they had been driving. The farmer the farm was formerly thought to be abandoned, but recent activities on the land shows otherwise. The following footage has been released with the uh with the family's consent. So at this point, we get four dudes, see? Uh they're just driving around. You know, when you used to go with your boys on a little late night drive. Uh that's that's basically what they're doing. They're just dicking around. They have a camera with them once he's recording this whole situation. Um the one with the camera busts out the snack and he says, time for crunchy, which uh is a phrase I've never heard before. It sounds a little sexual, but looks like he's just eating a candy bar. Um but uh they they decide to go on this ride, even though two of them have shit to do in the morning. One's got to go to work, and I think the other has to go to class or something. Um as they're cruising around, they find a no-through road, which basically means don't go down there. You won't, there's no end. Don't go down there. Um, and it starts at this like tunnel, this archway. Uh, that's where this whole no-through road starts. Oh, it's almost like it's the name.

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That's where they got the name from. Whoa. Anyway.

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I can't tell if you're being a little jokey or if it really just hit you right now.

SPEAKER_01: 8:09

No, I'm being jokey. It even gets beat over to your head because as they pull up and they look at the no through road sign, one of them goes, Hey, no through road. And then the uh the camera glitches and it goes, no through road, no through road, no through road, no through road, no through road. It really lets you know what the name of the thing is. Um, I guess I'll mention this at this point too. Um, this entire time while they have their camera recording and everything, uh, there's some like visual glitches where it seems to like glitch back to like what might be like a previous recording on the camera. It doesn't really seem to have anything to do with anything, but it looks like it's like them in class or one of the guys like playing his guitar or something. So you'll get these like cuts um in between things here and there, just randomly. They see this uh this tunnel from this no through road and they get a little creeped out, and they're like they they start to go through it and they go through and they're like ah, this is a bad idea. So they kind of just like pop a UI and they go back, um, and they agree to never go back to that tunnel.

SPEAKER_02: 9:06

Um I'm actually surprised that you didn't bring up the fact that the guy said stingrays loved foreplay.

SPEAKER_01: 9:14

Oh, his his nod to fucking I think it was a nod to what's his face that got killed by a stingray? Steve Irwin. Oh, fucking Steve Irwin. Oh, yeah, these guys are British as shit, by the way, too. They let you know. We're off the rip and just like, might we be driving around? Might we be going for a light night drive? They don't sound exactly like that, but I'm close.

SPEAKER_03: 9:37

Yeah, it's exactly almost exact as that, honestly.

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I thought I was looking into the YouTube.

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I thought I had unmuted my computer for a second.

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So as they uh as they drive back uh like toward like out of that tunnel and everything, um, they start to just kind of fuck around some more. Um and they start turning like the the cars like headlights on and off. The way to this through road, it did take them like through this like country style-esque like road to get there. Um, so they're just making their way back, and on their way back, they're like tearing the lights off, and they're turning back on. They're like, oh, that was fun. Do it again, do it again. Um they come to a crossroad between these two streets, Bennington and Watton Road. Um, they didn't see these on their way there, and they have no idea where the fuck they are. They apparently got real turned around and they're very lost. Uh, they start driving down uh the street hoping to find some way out, and they keep getting a little bit more and more creeped out by how lost they seem. Uh, but don't worry. They have a Stella Artois with them, which means they're drinking and driving, which is very irresponsible. So don't do that. Um as they're driving, uh, they even mentioned that their phones aren't getting any signal at all, and they're getting a tad worried about that. Even their GPS isn't working. They're Garmin, they're TomToms of the world. Not working. Sucks. Um, one of the guys gets out of the car. It seems like he has to go take a PP. Um, and a couple of them actually start to get out this point. And that's when we come across this dead rabbit on the ground. They are very fascinated with this dead rabbit. They're like, oh, fucking, look at it. It looks so pristine, like they've never seen a dead rabbit before. Um, this is when we get a very weird visual glitch that occurs. One of them touches the um the rabbit with like their foot, and as he does that, we get this very, very quick, instant cut of what looks like a creepy like face just kind of going towards the camera, and it's like, ah, and then just glitches back out. Um, they keep saying pulling an Elmer Fud and going, we caught a wabbit, we caught a wabbit over and over. They do it a lot. Um, like the guy's really like he you know he does it in a way where, like, you know, when you say what you think is a funny joke and no one hears you, so you try to say it again, hoping someone hears you, and it just will never land. That's what he did. And I would know I do that constantly. The one friend doing a big PP. Anyway, he kind of freaks out and he runs back to the car and he just yells, Drive, drive, drive, gotta get the fuck out of here. Um, and uh he gets in the car and they just fucking clap cheeks. And he mentions that he saw a guy walking towards them wearing a mask, and they're like, Quit fucking with us. And he's like, nah, nah, nah, nah. So they're booking it. They're driving, oh, they're driving hard. And they keep driving until they come across a very familiar sign that we may have seen before. They come across the Bennington and Watton Crossroads sign again. They try to explain it away by saying that they've been going around in a slight circle, even though one of them is arguing, no, we've been going straight. The other's like, no, no, we've been going like a slight left this entire time. So we probably just did a big old circle. It's fine. Cuts from the old footage keep happening in uh in between a bunch of this stuff. Um, they then cut the camera off for a few moments because they're kind of freaked out and they're trying to figure out their ground here. And we pop the camera back on to see them driving again. Uh, one of the guys mentions that they've been driving for about three hours now at this point, and they come across another set of signs. And wouldn't you know it? It's the Bennington and Watton signs again. The boys are proper scared now. Um, they have no idea how this keeps happening. They seem to be like pretty like they're they're trying to keep track. They're like, no, we haven't been turning left. Like, I know we haven't been turning left. Um so they're they're very freaked out about this. Um, they even get out of the car to see if it's the same signs as before, or if maybe there's this just weird like issues where like someone put up multiple of the same sign or something. Same sign. Weird. Um they keep driving and they turn on the radio to um uh try to like calm their nerves, and they hear this really weird song, like it's a s like it's like a repeating snippet from a song. Um, and then in the back of it, you hear this like screaming that's happening as well. Um obviously this freaks them out and they turn the radio off. They're like, the fuck was that? Um the song, I don't even know how to describe it. It's like I don't even know how to describe it. It's kind of weird, like creepy country-esque, this little weird snippet. It's like a two-second snippet. Um, and it just played on repeat. Um it's at this time that they notice and realize that they haven't seen another car in a long, long time. So they keep driving and they're a little suss by this. Um they finally, after another hour or so above driving, they come to a roundabout and a sign for Stevenage, their hometown. Now that they're in a bit of a lighter mood, because they kind of know where they are, they they're a little bit more joyous. They even see another car drive past them. Um, they start to joke around a little bit to lighten the mood. They even kind of start fucking around, like turning the lights uh off like they did before, uh, just to you know bring bring everyone's hopes and and and livelihoods up and whatnot. So as they turn the lights off and they turn them on, they end up right back in front of that archway from before. And I gotta say, that effect was very good.

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Yeah, it was pretty well cut.

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Yeah, very well cut.

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Uh so I don't know that it matters, but Steven is the kid filming. Ollie is the kid driving the car, the kid with glasses is James, fourth guy is Chris.

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So the boys end up at that at the tunnel again, and they're we're scared now, boys. We're in it, we're in the thick of it. The car even turns off, they're freaked the fuck out. They can't get the car to turn back on, they get it turned on, but the lights won't turn on. They're like, Well, what the fuck? So they start fucking with the lights trying to turn them on, and they're like, turn the car back on, man. Turn the car, turn the lights back on. He's like, I can't, they won't turn on. Um, all of a sudden, boom, the lights go on. And immediately as the light goes on, that weird song before from before starts playing again. And there is a man that is just standing in front of the tunnel, and it is creepy as all fucking hell. So as guys are standing in front of the tunnel, the lights start to kind of flicker on and off, and he kind of makes his way slowly closer and closer to the fucking car. Um shaky found footage cam starts to ensue, and um we hear a lot of screaming from the boys, obviously. It looks as though some of the boys get grabbed by this masked figure who um is dubbed no face um by the the fans and whatnot. So um this man allegedly, from what I could tell, grabs some of the other people. Um, there's cuts from the footage. Uh they try to back the car out and get it the fuck out of there. The man's behind the car now, you know, and they go run into him and it cuts again. Now we see um uh basically we see Steven get out of the car and he books it and he starts running through that tunnel. He's trying to find a safe place and he's he's getting out of there. Um and he turns around and the car like the lights kind of fade off for a second, and he turns around to check the car out and everything, and the car turns back on and it drives at Steven and he's like, Oh fuck, because he thinks it's gonna hit him and shit. Same song is playing through all this, that weird creepy snippet. Um as the car gets closer to Steven, the no face person gets out of the car and Steven runs into the field, and he's running for quite some time, and this is when he thinks he is safe. When a man in a mask runs up on him and knocks him down. This little bit might seem familiar because this was the cut that happened earlier when they saw the rabbit. This is the same footage that we saw. Um, the man in the mask at this point then uh starts to beat Steven to death with his own camera while old footage from the camera plays in between each hit. He's just bah bah bah slamming this thing into him.

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The first person camera view.

SPEAKER_01: 18:42

It's it's good, but still a little silly because it it goes very slow at some points. Because you can tell they're like, okay, don't hurt him. But I enjoy it.

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I have a fun fact about this actually for the end of the episode, but but it looks it it's very good, very, very spooky.

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Um that is that's video one.

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That video one that do be video one did you so that is the first video, and this was uploaded in thousand nine. It seems like it was actually intended to just be like a one-time uh short film, but three years later, which I guess in 2011, there's another upload, and we get No Through Road 2. If you will. Um, and you gotta if you're on the YouTube channel, you gotta do what I'm doing right now and sort through a bunch of other shit because this do be uploading. Uploading for sure.

SPEAKER_02: 19:39

Um, so you can hit playlists and find the no through road playlist, and it just has the or you know, you could do that, but I prefer to do things the manual way, all right.

SPEAKER_03: 19:49

Listen, we live in it we live in an auto we live in an automated world. Okay, and sometimes you just gotta do things the manual way to really enjoy and get the most out of life.

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Yeah, you gotta remember the human.

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Exactly.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Yeah, there's no AI involved in this. Um so the the second episode, if you will, begins with the words uh this footage was released without consent. So the first time they got conceit consent from the families. This time they're just they're just going for it. So apparently this is more footage that's been taken um from El Camaroo. But uh this one starts off with a daytime drive, and I'll summarize this quite a bit. I feel as though the details in this aren't quite as relevant as some of the details in the first video, but basically what you're gonna get here is James, who is one of the dudes from the car in the first video, is driving along and he has a new friend with him, and that new friend is Dave, and Dave is operating the camera for most of this, opposed to Steven, and they drive back to the intersection that Mike mentioned before, and James is laying some flowers down on the side of the road, and it's sort of implied that uh through what he's doing here, and then some of the conversation, that James is the only one of the four boys that survived the encounter with the faceless dude from the first video. So he's going back to pay his respects, he's bringing his friend Dave along with him, and they just do a lot of talking and stuff, and then then the camera kind of cuts to them driving at night. And what well guess what happens here that now now if you if it were if it were you and you were driving along with your friends and you got caught in the time loop where you kept driving and you kept driving past the same sign, you were having trouble getting out of this time loop where you kept ending up in the same location. Would you go back to that location?

SPEAKER_01: 21:57

No, no, no.

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Were you to drive back to that location? What what might you think, what might you assume may happen?

SPEAKER_01: 22:04

You're you're gonna get loopered.

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Yep, they got loopered again.

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I literally was thinking that the whole time. I was like, the last thing I would do is go back to the road that didn't let us out of the road.

SPEAKER_03: 22:15

It trapped you and killed three of your friends?

SPEAKER_02: 22:17

Yeah, yeah. What the fuck? Let me bring a new guy with though. Maybe I'll bring some friends.

SPEAKER_03: 22:23

Yeah. Bring somebody along with me. Uh well, that's what they do. And wouldn't you fucking guess? They get loopered. And so they're driving along. They keep doing this kind of the same shtick from before where they're just driving along. They go straight several times, and it doesn't fucking work. He turns at one point, he ends up right back at the same intersection. Eventually they stop and they get out of the car. They try to get pull out their phones, call for help, uh, but they have no service. Like Mike mentioned in the first video. Not a not a cell phone service type of area. Wasn't three years ago.

SPEAKER_01: 22:59

I like how they're like, uh, I'm not getting any 3G out here. I'm like, nice. Nice.

SPEAKER_03: 23:07

Uh yeah, they got old school phones, and then so they get back in the car and they're still trying to troubleshoot their phones. One of them's like, maybe you should turn it off and turn it back on again.

SPEAKER_07: 23:19

Should I?

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Which is kind of funny because he kind of looks like the guy from the IT crowd, sort of.

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A little bit, yeah.

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And while there's go on.

SPEAKER_02: 23:28

Sorry, there's too much joking around from dude considering what the severity of the situation. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03: 23:35

Right. A hundred percent. Um, so they they do this whole troubleshooting their phone shit in the car. Now, while they're in the car trying to figure out what to do with their phones, the back of the car is lit up by the brake lights. See behind them, a dude done walk through, and then suddenly a man appears at the window, and the reaction is priceless. Yeah, and it might not be who you were expecting because you may have expected Masked Man to show up at the window, but it's not, it's fucking Steven, bro. It's Steven who was the guy operating the camera from the first video, who got killed to death with his camera, and he's all fucking bloody. And they like pull him into the car and they're like, Steven, holy shit, it's fucking Steven. And they like put him in the back of the car, and his face is all still bloody like it was three years ago. Um, and James is talking to him and he's like, dude, calm down. What do you what's going on? Where you been, and or whatever. And through this conversation, you kind of figure out that in Steven's perception, it hasn't been that long. It's still the same night from the last video, and he is now just reappearing in their car. And so for James and Dave, it's been three years, and they were able to get away somehow. And for Steven, this is the same night from first video, which is spooky scary. And they they pull Steven out of the car and they're trying to comfort him and and talk to him and calm him down and stuff, which um I don't know if this is what I would be doing. I'd be like, Steven, we gotta get the fuck out of here, my man. Let's get you to a hospital.

SPEAKER_01: 25:23

Yeah, they get out of the car, I'd be like, No, it's okay. Let's let's get this ball rolling.

SPEAKER_03: 25:28

Or like, Steven, keep going. You have service, call 911. I don't know. I I don't think I'd lay him down in the dirt and like try to comfort him.

SPEAKER_04: 25:39

Give him give him a big old hug.

SPEAKER_03: 25:40

Yeah, yeah. But anyway, so there's text on the screen. The tape ends here.

SPEAKER_01: 25:45

I like how at one point they mention, uh, I got no service. I can I do get email, but I can't send anything. It's like, oh boy, I can check out my fucking well, no, doesn't he?

SPEAKER_02: 25:56

He's like, Yeah, email your dad to come pick us up. Yeah. This brings us to episode three. Um, this is the shortest of all of the videos, uh, at a whopping, like three minutes. The other two were like seven minutes and ten minutes, respectively. Um, but this is uh this starts off and it says this is the footage from in the camera. So uh the tape that was inside of the camera that was found. Um and it says the audio and the video is tearing on the tape, still, there's some distortion. Um, and basically what we see is that they're still driving and they're getting nowhere. Um, and then all of a sudden, a call comes through to James and he picks it up and it's just like garbled sound. Um and he's like, What what well what who was it? And he's like, Oh, it was an unknown number, and they're like, Well, what did they say? And he's like, they didn't say anything. And then uh basically they end up turning onto a new road. Um, and this new road is just a right turn that they haven't been taking, and now they're taking the right turn, and wouldn't you know it? They loop back to the same spot they were at, um, and they keep doing it, and they keep doing it, and then finally, one of the loops, um they see the guy in the mask, and they kind of come to this like stalemate where they're just they stop the car, and the guy in the mask is in front of them, and they're just sitting in the car, and they're kind of like not sure what to do, and then um the driver's just like fuck it, and they just opt into running him over, um, but they drive right through his ass, and it like teleports the the car right in front of that tunnel that we keep seeing. And uh as soon as you see that happen, uh basically the video cuts, and then we get this black screen with a symbol inside of it, and it looks like a circle, like a circle with like an A, but like the top portion of the A is is uh filled in, and it's like it's almost like a tiny anarchy circle or like logo almost. I don't really know how to describe it, but um, it shows up on screen, and then the video straight up comes to an end. Super short. That's really all we get out of this video. Um, the details are like the description of this video does say um that this is all the footage so far that they were able to record uh or retrieve off of the tape, and they're working on getting more, which ends up leading us to the next video. And I will I will say I believe this video is actually a whole nother year or so, like a little less than a year from the last video. So these got uploaded really slow. I think it was like 2009, 2011, and then 2012 was the upload dates. Um, and I think this next video comes a little quicker, if I remember correctly. Yeah, 2000, yeah. So it was June of 2011 was two, and then April of 2012 was three, and then August of 2012 is the next one. So the the upload times are kind of strange as far as that goes. But we're getting a little bit more frequent, though.

SPEAKER_01: 29:17

Um, so like Doug said, uh, we start this kind of where the last one ended where the cars broke. So uh Steven gets out of the car and he's covered in some blood. Um, he's asked if he's okay, and this is when he remarks that it's okay. It's not I don't think it's my blood. We'll hearken back to that later. While trying to come up with ideas on what to do, um they see uh a light in the distance. It looks like it's this like barn door with the light on, and so they decide let's go, let's go in there. Weird barn with a light on in the middle of a looper situation. What could go wrong, you know? Um, so in this barn is a lot of weird shit. To the point where I can tell you half the shit that's in there. There's just a lot of weird shit. Um, there are some white masks, uh, like what we see no face wears. Uh, you see some farm equipment. There's a baby doll just chilling there. There's some like sigils, it looks like some like a little old bottle. Um, candles everywhere. Um we look up and we see this like black curtain on the wall, and with it, there's like five masks in a row with a candle in the middle. Um, if you look on the walls, they are covered in phrases that the boys had murmured to themselves and like mentioned or said in the first video. Um, almost like whoever has been here has seen that video extensively. One of the phrases that you see on the door is time for crunchy, which I mentioned before is a weird way to say, I'm gonna eat this candy bar. Um they then kind of leave the barn, but not before Dave kind of just like peers into the corner and just kind of holds on it for a bit. And there's like this weird like audio shh that goes on. Um, and they're like, Dave, come on. He's like, and he goes. So there's something, it seems like kind of like drawing the boys to this farm, sort of, maybe kind of. So upon leaving this barn, they come across no face. Um, they duck down in this, like in these like fields, and uh Steven's kind of looking out for him. He's like, Oh fuck, he's right there. But he's just standing there. They they they they're close to the archway at this point, and that's when they see him just standing in front of the archway. They're like, What the fuck is he doing? He's just sitting there doing nothing. That's when they s they hear and see a car pull up. And our boys are a little confused at this point. Um, everyone is confused except Steven. It seems like it's kind of starting to tick in Steven's head what might be happening, to the point where he starts to hum a tune. Um as he as he gets done humming the tune, the lights of the car turn on, and that song that was playing before, that creepy, like weird song, was playing, and the No Face man is illuminated by the lights of the the car. Um it seems like Steven was humming the tune of that song that was playing on the radio when the boys got got by No Face. Um you even hear screaming coming from the car that sounds a lot like the screaming that was coming from the car the first time around. This is a very similar series of events that happened in video one. Almost like it's the same event. Weird. Wow. I think that we kind of cracked the code here. It's a time loop situation like we talked about. Even to the point where they kind of bash you over the head with it, where the boys are having a conversation earlier.

SPEAKER_03: 32:56

Like one would bash someone over the head with a camera.

SPEAKER_01: 32:58

Yeah, exactly. And they're they're having a conversation, they're like, you know what my favorite episode of Doctor Who is a camera. They're like, You're my favorite that my best the favorite episode Doctor Who is on, the one where they meet each other in different points of time, and when they they do it, they kind of meeting a different version of themselves that they haven't met yet. And they're like, uh immediately he says that I'm like, Oh, I get what we're getting into here. I get it. It's a time loop situation. So while the past boys, the past boys, boys, previous boys are screaming in the car, James and Steven, uh the ones we've been following now, current ones hiding, get into a little bit of a disagreement. You see them kind of murmur to each other, and then James just says, I have no choice, and he pulls out one of the white masks that he's apparently been carrying with him this whole time, puts it on, and he just kind of runs into the night. You don't see him. Um Steven now puts two and two in together. What's going on here? He's like, Oh shit, that's us, we're repeating this. Um so he figures he's been here before, right? And he needs to stop no face from killing his past self. He thinks that's how you break this loop. That's how he's gonna leave. He has to stop no face from killing him because he thinks no face has killed him, and that's why he's stuck in this loop, is because he died, I believe. So he's like, I'm gonna stop no face from killing me by rescuing me. So he says if he can get to his old self, then he might be able to save him and stop his death. So he puts on a white mask, and he's telling all this to Dave. He puts on a white mask, and he's and Dave's like, What the fuck are you doing? He's like, I'm doing this, so old me doesn't know that I'm me.

SPEAKER_02: 34:41

Meanwhile, he puts on the mask and at any point he's like, Man, that guy in that fucking mask has the same mask as me. Like at any point, he's not like hey, wait a minute.

SPEAKER_01: 34:58

Hey, wait, at no point are they Spider-Man memeing each other.

SPEAKER_03: 35:01

The fun the fun thing is, James sees all this happen and then is like, you know what, I'm gonna do it too.

unknown: 35:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 35:09

So uh Steve puts on the white mask and he darts towards his previous self. While he's doing that, Dave is just sitting there in the grass, still hiding, and he sees that the original no-face guy um pulls up in the car and he gets out and he kind of just stands there and he kind of just like walks away from the scene, kind of like he's like, Yeah, he'll he'll do my job for me. You know, it was very weird. Um so Dave switches to night vision, he starts to uh like run towards like into the field to see if he can find the uh Stevens, plural, even Stevens at this point, because there's two of them. Um he bumps into the past Steven on accident, it seems, and current Steven just runs up and just knocks his ass out. Um it's at this point you kind of realize too, because it's the same audio cue that uh that weird cut we saw before when they like touch the rabbit, and from the actual footage of Steven holding the camera getting knocked down, that's our new Steven ramming into him and knocking his ass out. So the current Steven tries to pick up old Steven and drag him to the car, and he's like, Oh, we're gonna get him with a car where he's safe, and we can get out of here. Then past Steven wakes up, the two Steves get into a fight, and the past Steven gets the better of our current Steven and beats him to death with the camera. So that fucking footage we saw of Steven getting murdered, that was past Steven killing current Steven with the camera. And then, shocked, Dave runs up, he's like, Steven, what's going on? And past Steven has his look of just fucking dread on his face, and he's like, Oh fuck, kind of like that, I fucked up kind of look, and he just fucking books it into the field, never to be seen again. Then our Dave turns around to see no face just standing there, looking like a cowboy, and the tape ends there. And I mean looking like a cowboy, he's got the cowboy hat on, he's got like the fucking leather kind of like a leather jacket on, but the tape ends there. You don't really, as as far as I understand, I might have missed something because there's a lot of action that's going on here. You don't really see what happens to James. I may be wrong in that interpretation.

SPEAKER_04: 37:24

He just begins, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 37:27

He just kind of ran off and was like, I guess I'll do murder. Um but that's the end of this right there. Um, let's see what we think of this. First and foremost, let's go into this. Um one one out of ten. Don't look unders. What are we thinking, boys?

SPEAKER_03: 37:42

Don't look unders.

SPEAKER_01: 37:44

Okay, not don't look just good scale. I guess don't look unders would imply this is scary. It's not really scary, it's just good. I think but what would you rate it? One out of ten.

SPEAKER_03: 37:53

I think the original video was really good. Like it's really, really good. It's shot really well, it's well done. Of like all the YouTube analog horrors we've watched, as far as like presentation and quality and everything, this is one of the best ones, I think.

SPEAKER_04: 38:11

Like obviously Steven is pretty good with camera and uh the acting isn't cringy, and uh yeah, I think it's just I think it's pretty solid.

SPEAKER_03: 38:23

I don't think the other three episodes are necessary.

SPEAKER_02: 38:27

I just don't think it's I was literally gonna say the same thing. I think the first episode is a solid like nine out of ten, and I think the other three episodes were I I feel like I feel like they just got so much like positive feedback from the first video that they were like, okay, we'll we'll make some more. And I don't think they were needed or necessary. I feel like it left off at a pretty good spot.

SPEAKER_01: 38:49

Uh I think they're in the first video alone. I think they're produced just as good though. Like that last bit with the two Stevens fighting. I don't know if he has a twin brother or something, but or it's cut really well, but it it genuinely like you believe that there's two of the same guy fighting each other. It looks real good.

SPEAKER_02: 39:05

Yeah, I I don't think they're bad or anything. I just I just don't think they were super necessary. I just I I feel like it could have left it where it was.

SPEAKER_03: 39:13

But I was also fine with watching all of it.

SPEAKER_02: 39:15

Like it it didn't get to a point where I was like, I will say the fourth video, you actually are like, Whoa, what what the fuck? Yeah, like that was.

SPEAKER_01: 39:21

And I think this whole thing was planned from the beginning as well, and I'll I'll tell you why in a minute. But I'm gonna give this a nine out of ten. I thought this was very fun, very good. Short, sweet to the point.

SPEAKER_03: 39:32

My only real criticism, and this is this feels like me complaining about budget, which is uh the you know, it shouldn't matter, but I think the mask kind of sucks. I think they could have done a better mask.

SPEAKER_01: 39:45

Yeah, just a party city mask that they found. A couple of for like a dollar eight. What are you rating it? Nine one out zero out of ten, what are you rating it?

SPEAKER_03: 39:52

The original video, I'll give it an I'll give it a solid eight and a half out of ten.

SPEAKER_02: 39:58

I'm kinda I'm kinda On the same page with Matt on this one. I really liked the first video as like a standalone thing, which I would give a nine out of ten. But the series as a whole is probably like a seven for me out of ten.

unknown: 40:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 40:12

It was very fun. I really did enjoy it. There was a part where I was going to throw up though from the camera shots, but I otherwise it was fine.

SPEAKER_01: 40:21

Yeah. There are some things that I I know Matt you said before where it's like this seemed like it was a one and done short film, but there's some bits in the first video that I think like makes it so they meant for this to be this like time loop situation, everything. Like when they turn on the radio the first time and hear that weird song, you hear their scream from later on, which you know makes me think that they planned on this being a time loop situation.

SPEAKER_03: 40:47

I think they probably had an idea of what the what the story was, sort of, and it was planned to be a time loop situation, but I don't think it's the yeah, even with the time loop situation in mind, the first video is still a pretty well self-contained.

SPEAKER_01: 41:01

Yeah, I guess that makes sense too, because if this was like I I guess, and I might be wrong in thinking this, but like my idea is I I saw a video on this that mentioned the same thing. But my idea is they think Steven thinks that uh he has to live to break the loop, but James thinks that they all have to die except him to break the loop because he was the only original survivor. In the beginning, the first video says that there's four dead bodies. So I I think he thinks they all either they all have to die or he's the only one that has to live. And so while Steven is in this time loop, he keeps going back and he keeps being no face man trying to save himself. James is also going back as no face man trying to kill everyone over and over to prevent them from living so it doesn't keep uh looping. And that's why I think you have the it's apparent you have two different um no-face guys because they're both in different costumes. One's wearing the cowboy hat all the time, the other's not. You can explain it away like the one you see in the cowboy hat is like a future version of like James or Steven, one that's been doing this for a while now and is just kind of trying whatever. That's why when he sees our Steven run into the field to get the the past Steven, that's why he just stops and walks away. He's like, I know nothing's gonna come from that. So he moves on to something else, maybe.

SPEAKER_03: 42:28

I was kind of thinking that maybe like the previous Steven has to kill a Steven to release the Steven. So that there's only one there's only one Steven in the thing at a time. Because if this is really a loop, if this is really a loop, you've only seen the second loop then because otherwise there would be an infinite amount of Stevens just hanging out in the instead of the stuff.

SPEAKER_01: 42:54

Well, so far we only we only know the Steven lives once because past Steven killed current Steven and then ran off. Which when he ran off, he probably found the car, got in the car, and was like, what the fuck, where is he? And then it just starts again.

SPEAKER_03: 43:07

But the Steven that ends up in the car is like all bloody. The Steven that kills the other Steven isn't bloody.

SPEAKER_01: 43:13

He's not as bloody though. If you if you look back at video one and you see him smashing his face in, he's like swollen and pulpy, and then it shows that in the last episode of being swollen and pulpy. That's true. This one is a little bloody on the mouth, probably because he did wrestle with the our current one. He probably just got a bloody lip or something. And he even says later, he even says, It's not my blood.

SPEAKER_03: 43:32

Yeah, the Steven that ends up in the car. Yeah, that's fair, I guess.

SPEAKER_01: 43:35

Doug, you have a little bit of info on the creator, correct? No, I don't. Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 43:40

Oh, nice. Um, yeah, so uh the creator, uh, there's not a whole ton on him. Uh his name is Steve Chamberlain. Um, they're a British director and filmmaker, although that's being generous, I want to say. Um, there isn't too much. Uh, there's a little bit of stuff on his YouTube channel, like Matt had mentioned, um, they be uploading. Um, and the little bit that I could find on Wikipedia wasn't all too uh interesting, formal to say the least. Um, he did reveal that he was the writer and director in 2020, and he'd actually kept this uncredited for a long time to keep the illusion real, or whatever he wanted to say.

SPEAKER_03: 44:24

It was there were a lot of people who thought this was real, apparently.

SPEAKER_04: 44:29

2009, I guess.

SPEAKER_02: 44:31

Yeah, early early YouTube peoples. Um, but uh some fun facts. Uh actually, real quick, he does have a movie, M U B I, I guess. Uh he's credited as an actor in like three different films, uh, Grind Sploitation 6, Avin Maqab, and Decadance. Um, and is also credited as the director for No Through Road. So, not a whole lot there. Um, but uh some some fun stuff that I did find out uh from his Wikipedia was that there's an audio commentary on the uh film Grave Encounters 2 uh that was directed by uh John Pullikan, and um basically a character in the movie is beaten to death with the video camera from like a first person perspective, and they said that they uh basically like the concept so much from No Through Road that they adapted it to that film. Um, and then um a director's commentary for a movie called In Fear from 2013 um accredited No Through Road um as the primary source of inspiration for the film's main plot and premise, which follows like a young couple as they find themselves trapped in a loop between two road signs uh in an Irish countryside. Um crazy. And then actually somebody remade the entire series uh in Sweden or something and uh literally like remade the whole thing and won like a best horror film from it. So uh yeah, it was very interesting to say the least. But yeah, that's that's really that's really it.

SPEAKER_01: 46:16

I read a thing where the people that actually own Broomhall Farm um they're real pissed off at this movie for a little bit or this video for a little bit because they kept having like teenagers and other people coming up that road and stopping in front of their farm and everything, and they were really pissed off uh for a long time, and then after a while they're like, it's it's fine. At this point, they're not doing any harm, they're just coming out taking pictures of shit and leaving. It's what it is. But for a while there, they're pulling the get off my yard. Um yeah, I love this. I'm I'm glad I found it. It was it's very entertaining. Um I hope it probably won't happen. I hope to see some form of update or at least another story from this guy because it's obvious that he can make something of the apparently this got him admittance into film school. Oh, cool. Nice. Yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing more from this guy that is more like horror stuff. I think he has a real knack for it, so cool.

SPEAKER_04: 47:20

Um this was 14 years ago.

SPEAKER_03: 47:25

Was the one the last one was upgraded uh uploaded, so my breath probably.

SPEAKER_01: 47:30

Hey, Marble Hornets did it, so who knows? Marble Hornets did it. Yeah. Um But that's that. That's no through road. So thank you for joining us on that one, ladies and gentlemen. Um episode. If you want if you want to find us on anything, just look for us on that anything, and you might just find us on that anything. Um, whatever social media. Deezer, what the hell is Deezer?

SPEAKER_03: 47:58

I don't even know if they have podcasts, they have music.

SPEAKER_01: 48:01

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SPEAKER_03: 48:09

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SPEAKER_01: 48:12

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SPEAKER_03: 48:40

Yeah, we've actually decided that we're probably going to start releasing each episode exclusively as a torrent.

SPEAKER_01: 48:49

Yep. It's gonna be mixed up with num.exe and uh yeah, and porn, we're gonna put in porn sounds gonna be a good time for everybody. Um I say if you find a no uh if you find yourself at a dead end road or a no-through road or whatever they're called, just don't go down it. Nothing good happens from them, so just don't do it. Unless unless I'm down there, then go down there and help me, because I'm probably stuck in a time loop, and I could use your help because I don't listen to my own words. I thought you were stuck in our pee hole. That's the time loop I can't get out. That's the no-through hole.

SPEAKER_03: 49:29

Ah, you have a block out.

SPEAKER_01: 49:32

You should go to your own. It turns out the murderer isn't no face at all. It's just a kidney stone.

SPEAKER_02: 49:40

You've got a dilute eye.

SPEAKER_07: 49:46

Nice.

SPEAKER_01: 49:47

Doug, what do you guys say?

SPEAKER_07: 49:56

What do I have to tell you?

SPEAKER_02: 49:56

I got nothing, dude. I got fucking nothing. I'm done here, dude. I'm done here. I'm gonna say the next I'm gonna say the same thing in our next episode.

SPEAKER_00: 50:07

Oh shit, you got him, dude. Uh Mootholamul J. Simpson, what do you got?

SPEAKER_04: 50:12

It's getting pretty crazy in Iran, huh?

SPEAKER_01: 50:21

There it is, everybody. I'm laughing not at Iran, but at that I like that you're getting that going again. Know your new me. Every episode I'll find topical bad shit to say. All right, everybody, goodbye.