Wendigoon Thread

[Pokemonquistador2]

I like the series, but I’ve always been a fan of found footage even when it’s (usually) not very good. I think Wendigoon did a good job on this video, he clearly is interested in the story and can present it well.
From a meta perspective, it’s actually pretty crazy how much SCP influenced the entire genre of Internet Horror. SCP completely set the baseline for almost everything that came after it, it’s impressive.

The SCP was pretty much a preprinted template for Lovecraftian Weird Fiction. You could pretty much plug in your own ideas for an SCP using nothing more than your own imagination and a bizarre picture you found on the internet. The problem was is that it was too easy, so it was hard to gatekeep when the troons and perverts came sniffing around.

The Backrooms will probably follow in its footsteps soon enough, although Kane Pixel's talents are enough to keep his cinematic universe secure, for now...

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

I would have liked to see the pit actually get angry, and lashing out in some fashion as a result of people literally drilling into it or building infrastructure inside of it, as I do not see how that could not be painful for the thing, and you do hear about "carnal moans" occurring every time extensive "improvements" are being made.

A fully-awake pit would be interesting, as while I imagine it to be sessile, it would basically be a ground version of a sea anemone.

Perhaps the park could reopen, with a two-mile area around the now-awake creature being enclosed within a safety barrier for guests with tower-viewers being set up so that guests can now observe the behavior of the creature from a safe distance like some sort of large zoo animal.

Isn't the monster so fuck off big that if it did wake up or react violently the entire west coast would cease existing, im pretty sure it spans across 4 states iirc

 

[Hepativore]

Isn't the monster so fuck off big that if it did wake up or react violently the entire west coast would cease existing, im pretty sure it spans across 4 states iirc

I am not sure. There is a lot of speculation about it. The thing is, if they really wanted to tell, researchers could use something like ground-penetrating radar at points around the ground near the organism.

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

I am not sure. There is a lot of speculation about it. The thing is, if they really wanted to tell, researchers could use something like ground-penetrating radar at points around the ground near the organism.

Not covered in wendi's vid about it, but the creator made a video in universe where the creature coughed and im pretty sure it showed the cough affecting counties in 4 states, and even in the og video he mentioned how the mouth they found is believed to not be the only one.

 

[Toolbox]

Not covered in wendi's vid about it, but the creator made a video in universe where the creature coughed and im pretty sure it showed the cough affecting counties in 4 states, and even in the og video he mentioned how the mouth they found is believed to not be the only one.

This isn't official, but there's a fan story that was supported in a post by the creator, and it includes details like multiple different areas where the creature at least breathes in and out which are all smaller or at least more inconspicuous than the main 'park entrance' mouth, and were kept hidden from official reports on the park for reasons like them being far and wide outside of even the fences that keep people from entering after the disaster. I'd take this as the answer if we don't get one directly explained, but I have a feeling this kind of thing will be added later. On the cough, though, wasn't it called tremors, as in spasms, not related to breathing?

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

This isn't official, but there's a fan story that was supported in a post by the creator, and it includes details like multiple different areas where the creature at least breathes in and out which are all smaller or at least more inconspicuous than the main 'park entrance' mouth, and were kept hidden from official reports on the park for reasons like them being far and wide outside of even the fences that keep people from entering after the disaster. I'd take this as the answer if we don't get one directly explained, but I have a feeling this kind of thing will be added later. On the cough, though, wasn't it called tremors, as in spasms, not related to breathing?

From what i remember from the video, the 2007 disaster WAS a cough, due to water build up iirc

Heres the video i was talking about a post or two ago, i think its official , i was wrong though it wasn't 4 states it was several counties

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJLQ5pDpzHw

 

[Mr. Confederate Man]

While the video was cool, I’ve seen things in the woods much more disturbing, yet I’m at peace every time I venture out

 

[Tor Lugosi]

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

Y’know, I really appreciate that Wendigoon just makes videos on shit he finds neat.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Theory: tryhard cowboy lifestylers fuckin' up history again.

 

[TerminalTryHard]

I had never heard of the mystery behind Van Gogh's death before, so this was super interesting.

 

[The Bovinian Derivative]

Guess Wendigoons truly hit it big now that he's shilling for Raid Shadow Legends lol

I am going to repeat the general sentiment that the guy who is putting this together is a vfx guru and all this shit at 19 is an achivement. With that said I am not sure how far you can push this concept, at least in it's current form. We had 2 proper found footage videos that were practically carbon copies of eachother (fall into the rooms, walk around looking at stuff for N minutes, stumble upon monster, run, probably die) with minimal incremental world building between them, the one where the researcher gets lost in the suburbs is creepy too, but it's also almost identical in structure. I am hoping the guy will pullout something new from his hat, because, while creepy (so I guess it does it's job), this is too minimal for it not to get boring quickly. If interesting stuff will come from this series it'll probably come in the form of the shorter/out-of-the-backrooms videos he's making not the backrooms themselves.

 

[Monuklear]

I tried watching one of the videos he made with his friend about the bible, and I just had to shut it off.
As someone who find this sort of stuff fascinating and has actually delved deep into higher criticism and whatnot, it's clear neither of the doofuses have any idea what they're talking about. But also, Wendigoon himself is just sort of annoying. He is reasonably composed in his regular videos, but the moment he has to go off-script he really comes across as a Joe Rogan "woah, dude!" sort of guy.

Incidentally, if anyone does want a good in-depth look at these topic in video form, I can recommend The Inquisitive Bible Reader, who has just today released a new video:

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

We had 2 proper found footage videos that were practically carbon copies of eachother (fall into the rooms, walk around looking at stuff for N minutes, stumble upon monster, run, probably die) with minimal incremental world building between them

I agree with everything you say, but I also kind of feel this is just par for the course at this point. I was broken in with Marble Hornets and it honestly seems like every one of these kind of webseries I've watched has been like this.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I would have liked to see the pit actually get angry, and lashing out in some fashion as a result of people literally drilling into it or building infrastructure inside of it, as I do not see how that could not be painful for the thing, and you do hear about "carnal moans" occurring every time extensive "improvements" are being made.

A fully-awake pit would be interesting, as while I imagine it to be sessile, it would basically be a ground version of a sea anemone.

Perhaps the park could reopen, with a two-mile area around the now-awake creature being enclosed within a safety barrier for guests with tower-viewers being set up so that guests can now observe the behavior of the creature from a safe distance like some sort of large zoo animal.

The author going out of his way to explain away nearly everything supernatural is kinda annoying tbh

 

[Hepativore]

The author going out of his way to explain away nearly everything supernatural is kinda annoying tbh

I would have liked to have seen more explanation on various features of the flesh pit, such as what is God's Mistake, Halls of Horror, Mustard Pond, etc and how they got their names.

Still, I think the "magical Native American" stuff in terms of being able to keep the thing under control seemed like a bit of an ass-pull as the idea of the mystical noble savage has become a tired trope by now.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Still, I think the "magical Native American" stuff in terms of being able to keep the thing under control seemed like a bit of an ass-pull as the idea of the mystical noble savage has become a tired trope by now.

I think the hard part with world-building, especially something like Mystery Flesh Pit that's much more setting than plot, is knowing when to stop.

God's Mistake, Halls of Horror, Mustard Pond sound intriguing as heck, but it's hard to live up to that promise. Some of the appeal is having a setting where a name like "God's Mistake" can just be given in the background and never explained, because the (in-universe) writers felt they didn't have to.

There could have been a lot less information given on the cataclysm, or even just on its resolution. Something was done deep underground to propitiate it, we don't know exactly what, but next time there's a horrible seismic event we know we'll have to figure it out again quickly. That's a nice end to a horror story!

The author worked so hard on the world, it's understandably hard to just stop, even if leaving that lingering doubt and unanswered questions would be objectively better. Of course you keep coming up with ideas for the setting you've been thinking about so long, and yes, you keep getting praise for it and that's just human, to enjoy people enjoying your work. It's the same reason any given TV series goes on too long, and an Internet writing project has no editor and no producer, complete auteur control.

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

I thought the Flesh Pit thing was cool, though I do wish we saw a bit more of it because what we saw was pretty cool in my opinion.
The whole native magic thing, I read that as more of a thing based around the monster, not the natives being noble savages who were enlightened. Again, if we saw more we could have figured out how the natives found out what to do to put the monster back to sleep. A decent writer could easily craft a story around dealing with a big fuckoff monster under the ground, but because we didn’t get that it felt like an ass pull.

 

[PumpkinSpiceBitchMeringue]

This is sweet

https://twitter.com/Wendigoon8/status/1565592761318998017

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[Rezza]

This is sweet

https://twitter.com/Wendigoon8/status/1565592761318998017

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(I'll update this with a screenshot asap)

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