Wendigoon Thread

[PyrrhicRustle]

The exchange about Hunter leaving his wife immediately after finding out she’s possessed made me laugh.

“Ma’am! What happened to your husband? What have you done with him?”

Pour me something tall and strong

 

[Godchu]

Creep Cast on Stolen Tongues

Takes them a while to get into the story. Wendigoon’s story about taking his wife camping is funny. Hunter hates cuddling. Story is pretty good, Isaiah gets spooked.

Here's a video of a guy doing the harlem shake that hunter was talking about. Now just imagine Faye doing this in the dark while on her tip toes.

Spoiler: My thoughts

Anyway, for the story I really have to come out and say I don't see what all the praise is about. Dare I say, past the sleepwalking events in California the first time, the story takes a massive nose dive in quality It's almost like the author was trying to stretch out a premise that was only good for maybe a few parts at most, out to a whole 10 part series while only adding the bare minimum needed to form a vague impression of a story, and even then still having to contrive so many plot conveniences because otherwise the story would stall out. There is absolutely no reason why that last half had to drag out for so long when all of five things happened in that entire section, and none of that was any meaningful conflict. It's only by pure luck that the story continues on to its (likely rushed) conclusion.

It's such a shame too because the beginning was indeed really good. The whole idea of not feeling safe inside your own home (or in this case, the cabin) is such a strong horror concept. Especially more so if the author had contrived situations where the protagonist had to leave the relative safety of the cabin for whatever reason—maybe he had to get some important item or they'd die, or maybe the cabin only had an outhouse or something. And by forcing the protagonist to be smart and resourceful and actually work to get off that mountain, I'd argue you'd have enough material to write a whole multi-part nosleep series focused solely on that.

It's kind of the same problem The Thing in the Basement had.

 

[TerminalTryHard]

The banter was the high light of the episode, but the story was good for the most part. It definitely felt like around when Felix dumped his wife off with his friends to go back to the cabin that the story started to tread water. As if the author didn't know how to end the story and was killing time while he tried to come up with something.

 

[Rick The Stick]

Isaiah gets spooked.

And heat is hot.

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

The story definitely didn’t need to be that long, a lot of the parts didn’t add anything.

 

[RandallBoggs]

The scares themselves were actually good, maybe I’m just exceptional but I had to watch it over the span of a few days because it would always get late and dark outside by the time I could sit down and listen. And nothing rustles my jimmies more than skinwalker uncanny valley shit.
The story itself though really lost me, it dragged on for way too long and the ending was garbage. I pretty much agree with everything Wendi and Hunter said about it

 

[Starman John]

How's the Red Thread podcast doing now that Charlie is out and replaced with Caleb Oompaville?

 

[Godchu]

How's the Red Thread podcast doing now that Charlie is out and replaced with Caleb Oompaville?

From what I can tell, a little better. Oompaville is certainly is certainly more talkative than charlie was.

Still might be good to watch at 1.25x speed though. I don't know why, but it really does make the podcast more bearable to watch.

 

[Blue Gem Kosher Queen]

From what I can tell, a little better. Oompaville is certainly is certainly more talkative than charlie was.

Still might be good to watch at 1.25x speed though. I don't know why, but it really does make the podcast more bearable to watch.

You didnt hear it from me, but YouTube/streamer circles have a rampant pill and weed addiction.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

I'm really having a hard time getting into Stolen Tongues, I got to the part where they were just getting home and trying to have things go back to normal and I just don't care at all, and from the sounds of it I'm already past the good part so I don't have high hopes. Having Wendi be the one to bring up SCP R34 and introduce it to Meat was far and away the highlight of the episode as far as I've managed to get, completely out of left field, though I guess it's a pervasive enough thing online that even if you're a good boy you're bound to run into it since I immediately knew exactly what he was talking about despite not knowing it was an SCP thing

How's the Red Thread podcast doing now that Charlie is out and replaced with Caleb Oompaville?

I like him a million times better than Charlie but imo he hasn't really had a chance to talk about anything I'm super interested in yet so I don't have a full opinion on him. Charlie was an active detriment 90% of the time and his greatest contribution to the show was being absent on the Jack the Ripper episode because Jackson's story accusing him of being Jack the Ripper was extremely funny to me

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

The last thing a suicidal person needs to hear is how selfish they are.

What are they gonna do? Kill themselves like they said they would?

 

[Maniacal Foreigner]

What are they gonna do? Kill themselves like they said they would?

I just think sometimes people need help with the shit they're going through. Everyone has their weak moments.

There's a difference between lolcows constantly baiting suicide as a get-out-of-jail free card like a lot of the people this site makes fun of, and people in genuine distress who deserve some compassion.

 

[Atatata]

What are they gonna do? Kill themselves like they said they would?

Family annihilate.
You can't selfishly make everyone else suffer by having you gone if you take them along with you.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Not a bad video actually. I haven't watched much of Wendi for a while but I liked this one.

"Flash-boiled their blood" is not a sentence I imagined I'd hear today.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Not a bad video actually. I haven't watched much of Wendi for a while but I liked this one.

"Flash-boiled their blood" is not a sentence I imagined I'd hear today.

Haven't watched yet, but isn't Byford Dolphin one of those Babby's First Dark Documentary topics, like Dyatlov Pass and anything about caves?

Not that it isn't horrifying and compelling, but it seems "safe." Then again, Wendi might be trying to recenter his main channel on real-world stuff, since he's doing a collaboration for fiction and another for cryptids/misc.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I just think sometimes people need help with the shit they're going through. Everyone has their weak moments.

There's a difference between lolcows constantly baiting suicide as a get-out-of-jail free card like a lot of the people this site makes fun of, and people in genuine distress who deserve some compassion.

There isn't really a solution to people wanting to kill themselves anyways. But if they really are sick of life, reminding them there are people they love who will suffer for their actions is at least something that goes outside their own bubble.

Not a bad video actually. I haven't watched much of Wendi for a while but I liked this one.

"Flash-boiled their blood" is not a sentence I imagined I'd hear today.

Haven't watched it yet, I thought it is the one where a professor convinces a nurse to fuck a dolphin. Guess it's a different infamous Dolphin event.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Haven't watched it yet, I thought it is the one where a professor convinces a nurse to fuck a dolphin. Guess it's a different infamous Dolphin event.

Perhaps you are thinking of ECCO and John C. Lilly. That's another infamous dolphin incident. Or a series of dolphin incidents featuring actual dolphins.

AFAIK, the nurse or assistant didn't fuck the dolphin. She was ordered to jerk it off and somehow, it fucking fell in love with her.

 

[Maniacal Foreigner]

Haven't watched yet, but isn't Byford Dolphin one of those Babby's First Dark Documentary topics, like Dyatlov Pass and anything about caves?

Not that it isn't horrifying and compelling, but it seems "safe." Then again, Wendi might be trying to recenter his main channel on real-world stuff, since he's doing a collaboration for fiction and another for cryptids/misc.

Shrouded Hand already made a good video on this (silly thumbnail aside), and it's 1/4th as long:

 

[DickMain]

Haven't watched yet, but isn't Byford Dolphin one of those Babby's First Dark Documentary topics, like Dyatlov Pass and anything about caves?

Not that it isn't horrifying and compelling, but it seems "safe." Then again, Wendi might be trying to recenter his main channel on real-world stuff, since he's doing a collaboration for fiction and another for cryptids/misc.

I would say so. I don't seek out 'dark doc' kind of stuff and it's one of the ones I know as a relative normie to the topic.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Haven't watched yet, but isn't Byford Dolphin one of those Babby's First Dark Documentary topics, like Dyatlov Pass and anything about caves?

Watched it; it was all right, but nothing new to the story. It seems like videos on the Byford Dolphin incident either show forensic photos or they have animated stick figures; this didn't really need to be whiteboarded. He could have just given his explanation with a loop of the Delta P Crab in the corner of the video.

I felt like he wanted to go more in-depth on coverup/corporate corner-cutting, which would be something to lean into, to differentiate himself.

Wendi does fear the ocean, so I don't think this is just a potboiler episode. I wonder if he'll end up in a rabbit hole and cover a couple of the other big diving accidents. Cave diving is well covered, but I mean that pipeline disaster where workers were alive for a disturbing amount of time after, or the diver who got stuck in the underwater intake of a dam. Underwater horror + the real enemy is government/a corporation, faceless and not even evil as such, but hungry for money and uncaring of humanity.