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Welcome back to Creepcast.

Today we are doing our second Twitter ARG, like a year and a half later.

But this is this is the holy grail.

This is the holy grail of the Twitter ARGs.

It is the sun vanished.

Yes.

Compressed.

Compressed.

The sun vanished.

Compressed.

The sun vanished is a kind of alternate reality story that began on Twitter in 2018.

And the premise was: a man woke up one day to find that the sun has gone out.

And it started to incorporate a couple of other Twitter accounts.

Now, it's a little hard to do a video going through the entirety of The Sun Vanished because the ARG went on for a couple of years and the creator was like replying to people constantly.

So it's like reading two years of constant, you know, Twitter use.

So rather than doing that, we have had some people on the Creepcast team go, and by people, I mean one indentured servant who we've portioned this yet.

Thanks, Nate.

Go through and trim it down to the big points.

So this is like, it is comprehensive for everything that happened in the Sun Vanish, but as you said, compressed.

Yeah,

it gets, it's going to be the no-fat version of the story, but if you want to go experience it, it's all still up there.

And this is actually coming from three different Twitter accounts, the Sun Vanished, Tucker, and Nat.

And it looks like the Sun Vanished stopped posting around 2021.

And then the other ones are from the other said.

Yeah, they've continued a little bit after into 2023, I think.

So as we talk about it, we're going to be talking about like what accounts it came from, what the dates are.

There's some videos.

We're going to watch those.

together.

So if you're not familiar with it, hopefully this is a great introduction, give you an idea for the series.

And if you want to check it out for yourself, we'll have the links to everything in the description, as always.

Also, disclaimer, the last time we did a Twitter ARG, there was a bunch of eggs, and

the guy, the account only followed big mouth writers.

Wouldn't it be crazy if we get to the end of this?

If we get to the end of this one, and I have to fucking check, and if it's a big mouth thing again, it's like a picture of John Mulaney.

Can you believe it?

You made it all the way through.

All right, without further ado, let's get into it.

Our first tweet here is from April 30th.

Hold on, don't we?

2018.

I'm at your house again.

Our house.

You're here.

Are we here?

Are we going to record this shit or not?

What do you want to say?

What do you want to say?

Go ahead and make your piece.

You got some magic cards there.

You got some magic cards while you're here.

Isn't that nice?

We can read the story.

All right.

We'll just read the story.

April 30th, 2018.

Go ahead and start us off.

All right.

So we're beginning, of course, with the Sun Vanished Twitter account, which began by posting Help.

Preach, brother.

That's it.

All right, there's the first tweet.

Just an account called the Sun Vanished.

It just says help.

And that's the story.

That's all.

And honestly, that would be a pretty good story if it just ends up help.

Help.

All right.

How funny would it be like to just start a bunch of accounts?

They're like, the moon exploded.

Like, help.

It's late in the morning and it's still dark outside.

I can hear the tornado sirens in the next county over, but the weather radar is clear.

Where is the sun?

Then we see our first video.

A lot of videos here, which I remember in Gregory 88, was there, there wasn't this many videos and photos.

There's photos.

I don't think there's any videos.

This afternoon.

Panic is taking hold of the country in response to the sudden disappearance of the sun, with violent riots taking place in just about every major city.

We are receiving an influx of reports of ransacking and looting from New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Washington, D.C., and hundreds of more isolated incidents begin hourly.

The president made a public statement this morning urging people to remain calm and stay in their homes.

Meanwhile, experts are claiming this phenomenon to be an event similar to New England's Dark Day in 1780, and that things will

All right, so there you go.

First video.

Is that something funny?

Is this something funny?

Oh, yeah.

There's actually a couple things.

I think it's kind of funny.

I like one.

It's like, okay, so the sun's gone.

So he's like completely in darkness in his room.

But the TV works, so it's like, God forbid you have a lamp on.

So it's like, how do we get across that the sun is gone?

Well, I'm in a completely dark room.

And then all of a sudden,

you hear this like ethereal deer outside of his door.

And I was like,

I just imagine the sun like this.

Like, poking out like

he's an actual being.

The sun's going to attack me.

Hey, the sun vanished and he's right outside my window.

I think he's looking at me.

I think the sun's been watching me.

All right, so basically, though, from the video.

What I was going to say is I think it's a pretty cool inclusion to a Twitter ART test.

I'm not going to look at you.

So what's the cool inclusion, Jim?

Shut up.

The cool inclusion was that rather than just like basic text posts and stuff like that, it's like...

There's a news broadcast saying something has happened.

Rather than like, oh, why doesn't he have the lights on?

It gives me the vibe of like he woke up in the middle of the night or like what he thought was the middle of the night, even though it's it's like midday

and he looks up at the TV TV's on and it's a news report about the sun disappearing yeah it's like it's supposed to be bright outside no I get you're saying

that's the one thing that I like about the Twitter ARGs more than a lot of the stuff is just anything with photos even the regular stories we read anything with photos adds so much more to the story for me yeah I'm like such an eight-brained person where I'm like whoa so honestly and too I just like from a product for like production value I just like whenever they have a little video yeah Like in Gregory 88 when it was like the person standing outside in the woods or whatever.

He turns towards him real quick.

Just a little something like that.

I think it's cool.

So after that, continues to tweet and says, the power keeps going out, and I keep hearing noises outside.

Sometimes far away, sometimes close.

After that, there's another video.

I'm glad this is so funny to you.

He's looking through a screen window here.

All right.

So he hears like it sounds like an engine or something outside, and there's like lights flickering in the distance, right?

Well, I thought, is that not an airplane?

Looks like an airplane.

It looked like an airplane going overhead, no?

I mean, that was like outside his window, though, like ground level.

Oh, that was ground level.

I thought he was looking at the sky.

It's so dark.

I can't.

I don't know.

Yeah.

So it's like the sun has vanished.

I mean, maybe the sun has vanished.

You may be right that it was a playing, like he's looking up, but if when I think screen window, I imagine you just think he's like looking straight ahead, and that's yeah, and there's like a blinking light out in the distance.

Yeah, I can't sleep.

I think the noises outside are gunshots.

Some of it, I'm pretty sure, is gunfire.

The other noises, though, I'm not sure.

And that's the end of the first post on April.

Well, so those were a series of tweets.

Oh, so these are just, well, I mean, that's the end of the post on April.

April 30th.

On April 30th, that was the end of his

string of tweets there, too.

Yes.

So with an ARG in this situation, too, because with Gregory 88, that's the only thing I have a basis off of.

Right.

But in Gregory 88, something that's like, oh, I'm out here and there's dinosaur eggs by this lake or whatever.

Yeah.

You could still assume that it's in our universe because he's just at some place that we don't know.

Just to play, it happened somewhere.

But here, are we supposed to, because it's either augmented or alternate reality, are we supposed to assume that these tweets, if you're playing along, are this is like a guy in a different dimension than if you're playing along, this is a different universe.

Sure.

It's like a different, I mean, like, you know, this is a reality where I woke up one day and the sun vanished, right?

So it's, yes, it's like a parallel universe, so to speak.

Do you think that's still, does that still work the same way that like Gregory 88 does or no?

I mean, it's like with any horror story, right?

Like if you write a horror story that's about

there's a killer in the house, well that could happen anywhere.

right like a murder but if you write a horror story about like the rapture or about you know world War or something, like, sure, the setting can be our world, but we didn't go through.

Yeah, absolutely.

I think it's just when I think of the Twitter ARG thing, it's almost the same thing as like

r slash no sleep, where it's supposed to be like, I am a user and this is the experience.

Same with the Twitter ARG, where I'm like, oh, you're reading the tweets of somebody going through some shit.

Yeah, yeah.

I still think that the idea is fun.

I just didn't know if I was like, oh, is it as effective?

Because the people immediately from this know that it's a horror story setup thing or whatever.

You are correct in that it doesn't work in tricking people.

You are right.

Because like Gregory 88, someone can come across that for the first time and it's like, oh man, this guy's running into some weird stuff.

The best example of that is the one David Firth did with the Dear David thing.

Yeah.

Or Adam Firth, whatever his name is.

He had a series called David Firth, though.

David First's domain.

Oh, Selling Fingers.

Yeah, Selling Fingers.

That's right.

That's right.

The boy, the goat.

Adam Ellis.

That's the name.

Yeah, my brain completely switched those two.

Adam Ellis is the guy who did a series called Dear David.

Adam Ellis, he does like online webcomics and stuff like that.

And then one day he just started tweeting that something weird was happening in his apartment.

And he was like, I think this place is haunted.

And for a long time, everyone thought he was just like, he was like putting up cameras in the night.

He was like

setting stuff to see where it would be and it would get moved around.

And then it turned out it was part of a horror story he was writing called Dear David.

But that one did a great job.

Like when I first came across it, I'm like, to me, it was like, oh, this guy, maybe there's an intruder in his house.

Who knows?

And then when it became a horror project, I'm like, that's pretty cool.

I believe it.

I mean, for a younger audience, too, I think that's like, those become the stories I think are more memorable.

Well, it's the same thing as whenever the Blair Witch project came out.

Everyone's like, oh, this is real.

It looks real.

So.

I like the idea of using tweets to tell a story.

It's just, I wonder if,

I mean, it still stands because this is people's like favorite.

Yeah, everyone loves Sun Vanished.

So they like it.

But yeah, I just didn't know if it was like,

if you needed that factor or not.

Sun Vanished definitely doesn't have the real world draw because of like the scale of the project but i think it does have a draw because it's such a unique concept unique concept and they still play into the found footage yeah like you're still you're still vicariously seeing it through like living this experience through this guy crowned it yeah yeah so you at least have that versus i wonder if it was just a string of tweets with no videos if it would have been eh i don't think it would have done as well yeah because i remember everyone posting the video clips early like when it began like making a deal out of it i remember that and his next string of tweets began the next day on may 1st yes so on may 1st he says it's still dark the news said it would be back to normal by now but it isn't now the news isn't even coming in this video or this photo is just uh like tv basically now uh it's just a static screen that says no signal yeah pretty much assuming that i think like radios towers and

the feeds are gone yeah the feed is gone so after that he says been trying to conserve battery life since the power keeps cutting out i'm worried it will go off and never come back on.

TV signal is gone.

The noises keep happening outside and I can barely keep track of the time anymore.

I'm honest to God terrified.

I am so tempted to go outside.

Should I?

I remember this when it was happening because everyone was talking about it and he would put polls up so everyone would vote and what was really fun about this is people would get into fights with each other in the replies.

Like I said, because he would do a bunch of these polls.

So he'd be like, should I check this out or whatever?

And people would be like, stop voting.

Yes.

That's stupid.

You shouldn't go over there.

Blah, blah, blah.

So it's just just a fun way to incorporate you know the audience into it because like you said he's clearly killed the gimmick that this is really happening because it's the universe where the sun banishes you keep you keep it alive by giving the choose your own adventure yeah yeah it makes it a little choose your own adventure thing for you absolutely which is why a bunch of people got really into it let the let the

People that are combating like, should I go outside yes, no, and having like the arguments, that's where it becomes real is because now you're interacting with another person that's in your reality.

I remember people getting violent.

Oh, of course.

Of Of course, you have to.

We're all stupid.

This is why we, this is why this country is falling apart.

Yeah, exactly.

Yep, Trump's America.

I do legitimately, there was, I can't remember, we'll come across it, but there's one poll that I think was something about, like, should I help this man or whatever?

And I, I feel my brain may be filling in this memory, but there's some reply.

It's like, it's all you bleeding heart liberals trying to help everyone.

Like, dude, it's okay.

It will be all right.

My gosh.

Yeah, it's not that serious.

So they make a poll that says, I'm so tempted to go outside.

Should I?

And the majority of people vote yes.

Just like the top reply is another poll from a separate user, which asks, is this person white?

Pretty,

is this person white?

And then

the top rated.

So then the options are yes, yeah, sure as hell is, and hell yeah.

And sure as hell is is the dominant answer at 59% of the vote.

That's funny.

And then the person, why does this matter?

I don't understand some people.

Well, there's a lot of races on the internet, sweetheart.

Well, I imagine the reason they set up that poll is because, like, the horror trope of like only a white person would go outside.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

White people die first in the horror movie.

Yeah.

Or like, no, the joke is that, like, you always hear, like, white people in a horror movie are like, oh, what's that noise?

I'll go investigate.

But any other person, like, I'm getting the keys and leaving.

Yeah.

The joke is that white people are like oblivious to like walk into danger.

Right.

So when this person's like, should I go outside?

The top replies, like, this is a white guy.

Yeah.

He has plot armor.

Yeah.

Yeah.

100%.

And that was the last of the tweets for that day.

And then it moved into May 2nd the next day.

It looks like he's going to be just be doing it daily for a while though.

Yes.

At first it was like super fast-paced.

And then there's one point where it drops off for a while.

And that's when I think I quit keeping up with it.

So, May 2nd, there's a video where the caption is: I went outside, I saw something out there I can't really explain, but I can show you.

And then it leads to this video.

We're back in Greylock territory.

This does feel like Greylock walking through the woods.

I miss Greylock.

Greylock's so good, dude.

Yeah, it's 11 a.m.

right now.

Yes,

kind of strange that it's so dark, huh?

Anyways,

Creepy

So it could be a toddler playing with a toy out there or there's some uh some kind of clicker going on.

What do you think it is?

Is that a can you not be dismissive for 12 seconds?

I mean

So we're it's getting into a point also whenever he looked up there was no stars.

Don't know if that's relevant or not.

And also, like, that same flashing red light that he saw outside before is now in the treetops.

Same thing from before.

Go ahead.

No, God, you got something.

I don't have anything.

I'm just curious.

For people who are listening in the audio, he's walking outside at like probably

10 p.m.

at night and shining a flashlight and then in the woods and he stops, turns off his flashlight, and there was like a clicking sound with a red strobing light is the best way I could describe it.

Right?

Mm-hmm.

You don't have anything, any smartphone?

No, that's it.

okay all right little clicking thing and he ran away

i think hold up go back to that video real quick i think on a lot of them you can see uh the time it was posted

you may not be able to on old ones 11 40 p.m 4 p.m okay so that one was actually at night never mind

we try to get a i thought it was at 11 40

i thought it was going to be fun if it was like 2 p.m or something like that yeah yeah yeah but it wasn't it was at midnight yeah which i would be so funny if he was walking.

He posted at 1140 and he's like, he's like, yeah, it's high noon right now.

Out in the woods.

Look at this.

What the hell?

It's like this.

It's a picture of the red light on the tree, yeah.

Then that tweet was made by big, big Yoshi butt.

What the hell?

Okay.

All right.

So after that, going off of what Hunter pointed out, he says, I looked for stars or planets, as you all suggested.

The sky was absolutely pitch black.

Could be because of clouds or something else.

I thought I saw some figures close by, but it is so dark.

I feel like my mind is playing tricks on me.

I don't have much food stocked up, but after this experience with being outside for only a few minutes, I do not want to drive into town for supplies.

Still shaken from the short time I was outside.

I don't know what the flashing light was, but it was following me.

Day three, still no sign of daylight.

It's getting colder.

Okay, so this is now when like other accounts start to tie into it, I believe.

An account called Another Angel responded to the previous tweet, the one saying day three, and says, stay safe, brother.

Does calling 911 or the National Guard help?

Are you able to contact anyone else besides us on Twitter?

To which the sun vanished responds, I've tried.

All I get is a busy tone.

This Twitter is the only way I know how to contact the outside world.

So again, playing into the theme that like all communication lines are down, he can get tweets out for some reason.

What are you smiling about?

Just keep reading, dude.

A person just ran by on my street.

Two of the same flashing lights I saw yesterday were following him.

They were gone by the time I got my phone out to record.

The sun vanished, then went dark for an uncomfortable amount of time or hours after this.

Continuing the tweets on May 3rd, Twitchy says, sorry everyone.

Reception went out yesterday.

I was worried it wouldn't come back on.

No signs of activity outside.

Come to think of it, it's been a while since I heard a gunshot.

An account called Jacob responds to this previous tweet asking, can you see light anywhere?

Like house lights or car headlights.

To which the Sun Vanish responds, the only lights on are the walkway lights near my front porch.

Maybe a few house lights down the road.

Power is not out right now.

I'm just keeping all my lights off as a safety precaution.

To which then, Sun Vanish says, something just flew over my house and attaches this video

so we're getting into like actual alien territory potentially touch it between the engine sounds and the red flashing lights and he says he saw people running down the street but it was hard to make out who and also to mention that he's heard gunshots around periodically so it's kind of pointing towards like a war of the worlds sort of like uh there's a ubiquitous takeover people are getting abducted or attacked by aliens i like the idea too of that if the sun vanished if it's actually just like which i don't know if this would make sense so bear with me but if it was like a giant spacecraft or something that was just like well it can't actually block stars or anything else that's what i'm saying i'm wondering if it's like a giant thing blocking it.

Everything comes out at once.

So, yeah.

And I do like the creativeness here, I will say, with just

some guy, I mean, maybe even with just like a line amp,

plugging that, like plugging that in, maybe putting like reverb on it and like putting a mic up to it and just creating like weird

ship sounds.

Just fun.

Yeah.

It's a creative.

I mean, like you said earlier, it's something.

It's like adding like just a little thing.

Because if these were just

tweets,

it would just seem so stupid.

Yeah.

It's so dark right now.

But because it's not just tweets, you certainly don't think that.

yeah

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i couldn't see it too dark outside but a wave of heat just came over me feels like the temperature increased by like 10 15 degrees Just compared to the sound of this video, to the sound of the helicopter footage I posted a few days ago, whatever this was, it was definitely not a helicopter.

Then he has a tweet that says, Oh, thank god, one of my friends is still alive.

He just texted me and he attaches a screenshot of a text he received from his friend, Danion.

Dude, please tell me you're still alive.

Yes, I'm alive.

Where the hell have you been?

Why did it take you this long to reach out to me after I called you like 40 times?

I'm sorry, but my phone was died, and I was just now able to start charging it.

You're still at your house, right?

Yes.

Okay,

good.

I'm still a two days' drive away, but I'm coming for you.

I just like that.

I'm like, all right.

I'm still two days' drive away, but I'm on my way.

Where the fuck do you live, dude?

Why am I the first person you're coming to 40 hours away?

I'm like, why don't you fucking go somewhere closer?

All right, it's going to take me 14 days to get to you, but I'm on my way right now.

That would actually be like if something happened and I texted you you and I was like, I'm on my way.

You're like, why?

Why aren't you coming here?

What tactical advantage does that have?

I saw your tweets.

I want to be a part of it.

Don't you have like a wife?

Also, if the radio, hold on a second, too.

If the, well, to be fair, it's only like

the television.

signals are down.

How would he?

He says everything keeps going in and out.

Yeah, but you would assume after days, right?

Also, the last thing that we ever saw, there's no news reports anymore.

It's just no signal.

Right.

So it's like, yeah, there's rolling outages, but it kind of just makes it seem like that

the TV stations and stuff aren't able to broadcast anything.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Which would almost make me think, would you even be able to use your phone?

So you're, you're asking the right questions.

Just keep that in mind.

Thanks.

You're not crazy.

Just keep that tone.

Thank you for talking to me like a toddler.

Also, just want to say this too.

Also, while we're in the heat of the moment, I'm going to say this because you got me riled up now.

So, the very first thing Isaiah says to me this morning, I was in my undies, and I walk over and he says this: He says,

Yeah, I heard you taking a shower earlier.

I popped my camera in and took a video.

And I says, That's funny.

I just woke up.

I haven't taken a shower.

I said, Allison took a shower this morning.

So, I'm like, What, uh, what'd you do to my wife, dude?

Are you done?

Are you done with your bit?

I was talking to Allison outside of the shower.

And I heard the shower running.

There's the glass ghost in the shower.

Yeah,

it's the glass shower case.

I was talking to her outside of the shower.

Wipe the steam off the glass.

I can't see everything.

I'm not taking videos of your wife in the shower.

All right, we'll see.

For the record.

I'm checking his phone later, so we'll see.

okay all right i'll make my own twitter argy about it

my best friend my best friends nudes and my wife have vanished

my wife vanished

does my wife vanish my friend came over and i can't find my wife what happened yeah life's been great

this is a twitter account called my wife vanished help

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Uh-oh, let's get scared again.

After that text, he sends another screenshot of text.

Oh, yeah, so he still says, okay, good, I'm still two days to drive away, but I'm coming for you.

I'm not really sure if that's a good idea or not.

Why?

What have you seen?

Lol, dude, you have no fucking idea.

That would be you in any kind of crisis.

Yeah, I like how it's like the world is ending.

Lol, dude, you can't even imagine

the fucking ghouls that I've seen walking around the earth right now.

You notice that you did you notice the sun's gone?

You cannot.

How is that not the first thing you said?

Hey, have you noticed that it's like the sun has not been up for a week?

It's like 3 p.m.

and it's still like midnight.

Yeah.

Anyway, it's a two-day drive away.

I'm coming.

What you said said was so funny.

You cannot imagine the ghastly horrors I've seen.

The little ghoulies.

The unfathomable creatures.

And now he sends another text that says, now we have another problem.

He attaches a photo of what appears to be someone outside of his house.

So it's interesting here is that the only lights that are on the street, it looks like the street lamps are burned out, but he has those solar lights on, the ones that have a self-contained battery.

So those things are still running.

But all of the like power grid stuff, like street lamps are out around his house.

Also, I hate to be this guy, but does it not look like there's kind of some sun in this?

On the horizon.

Is that not...

Is that not a little?

Is that not?

I wouldn't call that the sun.

I'm saying that like...

There are lights over the horizon.

That looks like city glow to me.

Okay.

But you know what?

Sure.

Sure, sure, Runner.

Hey, hey, I hate to be that guy, but I'm just...

Well, can we focus on the man that is on the sidewalk?

I'm tired.

I don't want to have to.

I don't want to wait till 10 or 11 tonight.

Can we just film this at 830?

Okay,

there's again for people who don't know there's a spooky man on the sidewalk or like a woman.

I can't tell what the hell it is, but there's somebody just standing there.

Yeah, maybe an alien

Okay, so that

This guy's been standing completely still with his back toward me I have no idea how long he's been standing there.

Whoever was standing outside is gone now.

This was tweeted a few hours after the previous one.

And then a tweet that just says shit, which this video attached

Dude, all you have to do is just film a door and somebody knocking, and it really is.

It's always creepy.

It's creepy, it works.

And like online, people go hog wild.

I could see my fat ass being young, just being like, oh, oh my god, oh, no one knocks on

me because like the way most people experienced this was like scrolling in bed at night, right?

Yeah, because it's on Twitter, so you're just reading through it, and then you get to that video.

It's like, oh, you know, it makes you jump.

It's almost a, it's uh, it's like being at a slumber party with your friends, and you like read a ghost story or something, and you're like, I think something just said my name.

Yeah, very similar vibes.

Very, very similar vibes.

You ever have one of those?

The very first time I ever saw a paranoid activity, that was all night.

Hold on,

guys, guys.

Did you hear that?

What was that?

What was that friend you had?

Mr.

Floppy, as you called him.

Yeah, the guy.

Was he there for that paradigm?

Floppy.

Yeah, it's so floppy.

Was he there?

He's probably the one saying it.

He's probably the one saying your name.

He's saying your name while he did.

Yeah, he's probably just like, did someone say my name?

And then you just hear his pud hitting his thighs.

I always like calling a softcock pud.

Isn't that nice?

All right, May 4th.

So that was the end of the tweets on May the 3rd.

Ended with that video.

Then May 4th, he says, to those of you asking, I'm doing all right.

Hiding in my room and waiting this out.

Sorry.

I'm actually sorry.

I just love the idea.

It's just such a kid's perspective of the world.

For those asking, I'm fine.

I'm hiding out in my room.

Oh,

God.

Sorry.

It got me good.

That actually

got me.

It was just a little thing.

It's just a little things that get you, isn't it?

It's like a paper cut.

Okay.

You're crying.

I am.

It got me good.

And I hate to keep bringing back this, but I'm just picturing up there with like, he has like 10 empty Campbell's chunky soup cans.

I can't go inside

my room.

It's like a kid who's like, if a ghost comes in, I'll hide under the covers.

That's going to help.

It's like, if there's a fucking alien, I better camp out in my room.

He can't come up here.

My mom won't allow it.

I I haven't heard any more knocking, but I don't want to get anywhere near the front door to check.

After this, he's

this is not going to help.

Oh boy.

And don't worry, I have a way to defend myself if worse comes to worse.

And it's a picture of like a fucking Civil War-era baseball bat.

Yeah, you probably don't want to be coming up near here.

Hey, alien, I'm going to bop you real good in the head if you don't come here.

He's like fucking Tom and Jerry.

It's so perfect that right after you complain, he acts like a 10-year-old child.

He's like, don't worry, guys.

So hold on.

Would it work?

If it is like for the because it's obviously like kind of a kid's perspective or a teenager or whatever

Would it be fucking weird if it's like my

you

own that shit, and you're like, Also, my parents are gone.

And I'm like, I'm hung along.

I think it would make it more

the juvenile shit.

Would be you would be like, oh my god, and your parents are gone.

Because then you can have the angle of like somebody knocking him being like, hey, let us in.

It's like, my mom,

it sounds like my mom, but it's kind of off, some uncanny shit.

And then instead of showing a fucking baseball bat, he's like, I climbed in past my dad's nudie magazines.

I found his fucking gun box.

I'm going to try to figure out the code.

Yeah.

how sick would that be?

I think it's shoots himself in the thigh.

Oh!

I'm bleeding out, I think.

Does Campbell's chunky disinfect?

I keep pouring clam chowder over the wound, but it just gets more inflamed.

I don't even mention Campbell's Chunky once.

I'm too hooked in.

I'm too.

It feels too right.

He solves every problem with Campbell's Chunky.

Man, audio listeners for this one, you're missing out.

It's just a picture of.

You're missing out on these photos, man.

Lord help me.

It was so funny because I was like, okay,

100 needs to take this serious.

And I look at the next tweet.

I'm like, well, that's going to do it.

I'm memeing on it, but I will say the knocking and stuff.

I think that it's this, it still has likes.

We're still so early on.

It's just

getting the giggle bug.

I'm excited.

My friend's here.

Is that your cope?

Yeah.

That's why I'm so excited.

Isaiah's in town.

Yeah.

There.

So after that, he says, if anyone knows anything about what's going on, please message me.

911 and other emergency lines are not responding, and the only only radio i have is out in the car so i'm trying to gather as much information online as i can when he says that they're not responding does it mean that it's still probably getting a call tone yeah or okay yeah because he says every time it picks up it's like he can't get through to anyone yeah i see all right another one so that was the end of may fourth may fifth he says i just got a text another screenshot hey brother i'm from british columbia I don't know much, but I do know that you should never look into the red light.

Ever.

If you do, you become like the guy who is at your door.

Okay.

So that's also somebody just getting an he's like basically getting an anonymous tip from the other side of the world pretty much.

Because all this is, he's putting in on Twitter.

Right.

So it's like people are

supposedly DMing a Twitter account.

Yeah.

This is followed by another screenshot of a tweet he was tagged in where he says, to be completely honest, I have no idea how to explain this.

And this is a tweet where someone says, I don't get it.

It's sunny where I am.

So now he's leaning into the fact that this is unique to just him, right?

Or at least a few people.

Now, other people are like, It's sunny here.

And he's like, What?

How's that?

Oh, that's interesting.

So he does bring it back into the

real world.

Yeah.

So he's like, oh, weird.

What the fuck?

Why is this localized?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So then another one, he simply says, not good.

And it's a screenshot again from his friend.

Dayton.

Dayton.

Yeah.

So I have good news and bad news.

Uh-oh.

Good news is I'm close to you now.

Bad news, I'm out of fuel.

What?

That's what he said.

Bad news.

Bad news is.

Don't make that.

Don't make that.

I can tell when you're.

Good news is

I'm closer to you now.

It's when you do that thing with your eyebrows.

Where are they first?

Hey, good.

Hey, good news.

I'm close to you now.

Bad news,

I'm out of fuel.

Keep going.

There are no active gas stations anywhere close to me.

All the power is down, and all the gas stations nearby are electric gas pumps.

Oh, no.

That's what I have to say.

Where does he come from?

Also, when was the first time he got the text from him?

So it's been at least two days.

Today's two.

It's been two.

Yes, because the first text was May 3rd, I think, right?

Yeah.

It has to, because he should have been there by now.

Yes.

He should have got there yesterday.

Or that day, May 6th.

No, yeah, it's May 5th, so he should be there that day.

So then after that, he says he isn't even that close.

Sun Vanish says, how far away are you?

And Dayton says.

Probably still eight or nine hours away.

So

he's still quite a bit away.

Yeah, and if you're out of gas,

if you're out of gas, too, you can't fucking eight or nine hour drive.

What is that?

How many miles is that?

Hundreds and hundreds of miles.

That's like a several week walk.

Yeah.

It has to be.

So it's like, there's no way you're going to fucking walk.

Yeah, he's not going to walk, especially because who knows what's out there attacking people and the sun's gone.

I wonder what part of the country this is supposed to be in.

I don't know.

I feel like I may be wrong about this, but I feel like he's not

even in the U.S.

I may be wrong about that.

I feel like you're probably wrong about that.

Okay.

I think he is.

I feel like there was something in my head, or maybe it was like the creator was from another country or something.

I could also completely be like misremembering.

If it's in a European country, you would think that he'd be tweeting in his native language then.

Which would actually be kind of cool too and people are just like translating it.

Yeah, I don't think it is.

I'm probably, we'll assume I'm wrong unless it comes up somewhere.

So after this, he says, I'm really conflicted.

Some of you say I should go.

Some of you say I should stay.

What should I do?

So he has another Twitter poll where the options are stay safe at home or drive nine hours to Dayton, to which the majority winning is stay safe at home.

But not by much.

54% versus 45.

So this is actually a close one.

It is close.

Well, but it's also like, yeah, like you said, your friend's up a paddle, up a paddle.

He's up a creek without a paddle, right?

But he has a car with gas, so he could hypothetically go get him, but that could be dangerous.

Would you come get me?

Hell no.

Okay.

It'd be the same thing, too.

If you were like, here, I'm going to come get you.

I'll be like, are you actually dense?

I would say, fucking stay there.

I'll figure it out.

I'm just dead.

Let's do a different thing.

Because it would be stupid for me to come to you.

in an event or vice versa, right?

But

what if I was already on the way?

I'm like, hey, let's hang out.

So I'm already on the way and then the sun vanish thing happens.

Now I'm stuck.

Would you come get me then?

Is that new into the thing?

Like the sun just vanished?

It's that recent?

Yeah, but there's a reasonable amount of time of me being like, oh, I can't get gas.

Yeah, it's been a day.

I'd get you then.

Okay.

Thank you.

I'm saying if we're two weeks without the sun, I'd be like, buddy.

Good luck.

Yeah.

It's like, yeah, at that point, I should know better.

But I'm saying.

What the hell are you doing?

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

But no, I'm saying like like I was on a drive here.

Yeah, I would be like, I'll come get you, but I would still be pissed about it.

You know who else would be pissed about it?

Who?

Me.

Who is driving to your house?

And then

I'm not the one who fucking made the sun go away, dude.

Neither did I.

What could we do?

Yeah, so I'd be like, well, why are you giving me this fucking attitude?

I'd be texting that.

I'd be like, are you kidding me?

Don't even fucking come, actually.

Turn around.

My attitude would be fear.

I'm out of gas and the sun's gone.

What are you talking about?

Can you pick me up?

Yes.

And I'm like, oh, God, dude.

Uber, question mark.

You know what?

Do you think Uber's still active right now?

Are you Tom?

Lean up.

Are you going up the road?

Which is kind of crazy with the sun going out, huh?

I would be like, yeah, meet me here, and I would lead you to a big hole.

There'd be a big hole somewhere and make you go walk and fall into it.

That's what I'd do.

And it'd be funny because I'm fat.

Fat guy falling.

Whoa.

Like a trumpet playing in the back on the outside.

I'm tumbling down.

I can't get up.

I'm like a turtle.

Roll me over on my stomach.

That's what I hope happens.

That's what would happen.

Okay.

The next day on May 6th, someone is screaming outside, and he attaches this video.

The what you just stared at me

I'm just getting a visual on how you were okay.

All right, You looked kind of scared.

You looked so quick.

You were like,

straight back at it.

Anyway, so he attaches that video.

Now he can hear people screaming outside.

Then says, I'm really, really not sure about leaving.

Now, he attaches another text from his friend.

This time, beginning with him saying, how are you avoiding detection?

Dayton says, I'm just staying in the car.

It's locked and off at the moment.

After I catch a few winks, I'm going to try to take a look around.

All right, stay safe.

Always, bud.

You too.

After this, he says, it's been really, really quiet today.

I noticed it warmed up after that thing flew over my house again last night.

Do you think he's trying to say that, like, the engines of it, whatever, are I think that's the implication?

Yeah, some kind of energy coming off of it.

So, after that, May 7th, he says, I'm really surprised the power has stayed on for this long.

Only a few outages here and there, but I'm still extremely paranoid that it will go out permanently anytime now.

And again, he has a screenshot of his friend's text, beginning with Dayton saying, Don't worry about me, dude.

I'll find a way to get to you eventually.

I rocked around for a couple hours.

I haven't seen anyone human or otherwise on the highway.

So I'm be sure I'll be safe here and we'll just figure out what to do.

Do you have enough food and supplies?

Yeah, I have enough even if I'm straight here for a while.

Don't worry about me.

Worry about yourself.

So then, after this, he says, You all have been bringing up the solar lights outside.

They actually aren't solar.

I have them on a timer outside, and I can't turn them off without leaving the house.

I feel exhausted all the time now.

I think my internal clock is completely screwed up.

The next day, May 8th, he says, I can see a faint light outside my bedroom window.

Going downstairs to check it out, he attaches this video.

This is the faint light?

Hey, I think there's a light shining in my house.

For people that are on audio listening, it's a giant spear-hallowed strobe light,

like cascading tons and tons of lights in the house.

Let me restart it.

Sorry, I'm talking over a lot.

I don't want to miss it.

This important shit.

Oh, you don't want to miss it.

Steve, what'd I tell you?

Do your filming at another time.

All right, it's a Tuesday.

Your dad has to get up early for work tomorrow.

Also, at the beginning,

you hear him breathing, but do you also hear the like?

I thought I heard like a screeching sound or something.

Like some kind of like.

Well, there's that

clicking.

Well, there's the clicking sound, but I could have sworn I heard like an actual screeching thing.

Oh, I didn't hear that.

Interesting.

I got a little, just I I didn't know if it was supposed to be like a creature sound.

Well, it certainly could be, especially because he heard a person screaming outside yesterday, right?

And now this is right outside of his house, and it's blinking white.

And then when it turns red, it's like more aggressive, so to speak.

And it's the same kind of sound he heard outside of his house and in the trees when he was walking around.

I'm surprised he had the gall to get out of his room.

I want to get up.

Did you hear that thing?

That dude saw like the strobe lights downstairs.

He's like, I better go check it out.

It's just a faint light.

Yeah, just a faint light.

Just a little bit light.

It's shining directly into his living room.

I think someone's trying to give me like a message.

I don't know what this means.

I think it's candlelight.

He then follows this episode saying, I cannot believe I'm still alive with another screenshot.

Which also, I think the name is Danion.

Or Danion, not Dan.

Danion Dayton, whatever.

Daniel Crayon says...

You didn't look directly into the red light, right?

Yes.

You were absolutely sure.

Yeah, I'm sure.

Which street did both of us live on when we were kids?

Why?

Answer the question!

Frasier Road.

Okay, Okay, we're good.

Damn it, don't scare me like that.

So then after that, there's another screenshot.

The same conversation continued where Crayon, Danion, found...

Is that it?

Danion?

Yes, Danion

found this while he was walking and says...

Those looking around just found this.

No earthly idea what it means.

And then the writing he found says, beware of headlights.

So, for one, I feel like if he just said, you didn't look at the light did you uh he would know that that relates to it somehow but sure whatever he found he found writing that says beware of headlights then the sun banish has another tweet that says sometimes i feel like i have a good handle on this whole situation and i'm thinking rationally and logically but other times i feel like bawling next day may 9th he says day 9 sorry about that tweet last night what happened at the window got to me a bit Anyway, I'm currently in touch with a couple of people with some experience and some info on what's going on.

So there's a long text chain with a new character on Twitter named Tucker who will become very important later.

So this is part of that text chain.

So to give you some background, my name is Tucker.

I live in Virginia.

I was working a night shift when all of this shenanigans went down.

Just about to clock out for the day when I realized the sun wasn't up like normally was when I clogged out.

I kind of shrugged it off at first, but after a few hours, I was getting really worried.

I lived close to a relatively large city, so you can imagine what I had to go through when riots started.

Long story short, when I was heading out of town to get away from the mess, I met this guy named Flynn, who was talking about these things that hunt people down.

At this point, I didn't believe him, but I started to notice that the crowds and traffic congestion on the highway started slowly dissipating.

Before you know it, the roads were completely empty.

Terrifying shit.

Flynn and I started traveling together after that.

We had been finding dark places to hide, enough food and water to stay alive, and we were doing pretty good for the first week.

But then just a few days ago, he came back inside after taking a leak and started losing it.

Kept going on and on, just talking nonsense.

It went on for days, and I was worried that all the stress from the situation got to him.

But one day, it all stopped and he wouldn't speak.

Wouldn't even acknowledge me.

Just stood like a statue for probably a full 12 hours.

Then he attacked me out of nowhere.

I tried and tried to keep him away, but he just wouldn't stop.

I had to stop him.

There wasn't anything else I could do.

Anyway, I've been living on my own for the past couple of days.

It's been tough, but thankfully I found an area with power and internet, which is why I can talk to you.

Thank you for sharing your story.

I'm sorry to hear about Flynn.

Pretty big emotional swing there, buddy.

Thanks.

Please share my story.

I want people to know what happened.

Of course.

So this is one of the things I found interesting about the Sun Vanished, right?

Because...

You were right earlier about the whole choose your own adventure route.

Because every time people vote something, he does it.

But then we get these accounts from like people that are out.

So I wonder if people voted like, oh, you should go get your friend, if things like that would have happened to our main character.

He would have came across the writing that says beware of headlights.

He would have maybe got a message from someone who was in their house and saw the flashing lights.

But because people voted for him to stay home, it's like they switch perspective.

I also wonder too, with the same kind of, I was thinking the same thing where I wonder if he introduces this character named Tucker where he's like, I know I'm going to use this character.

But if he would have gone out, maybe his car would have broken down and he would have met a guy named Tucker would have ran into Tucker rather than like getting DM from him on Twitter.

So

a lot of the stuff in the story is like hiding in the room, stuff like that.

Very conventional horror tropes, very basic.

But I do like little instances like that where it's like, oh, there was some thought put into how information is going to get figured out based on what Twitter audiences want to see, kind of thing.

So after that, he says, while I've been trying to collect info online, I completely forgot to check in on Daniel yesterday.

He still hasn't responded to any of my texts.

So then after that, he says, I swear to God, it sounds like someone is banging on my door, but there's no way in hell I'm going downstairs to check.

So

similar to what

we were making fun of him for earlier, where he's like, oh, I think I heard something outside.

And he goes downstairs.

He's now like, yeah, that's not happening again.

So now he's just completely staying in his room, but you can hear something that's like kidding outside, and it's not the knocking from before, it sounds like something slamming their head onto it.

Um,

as funny as the mention was in Tucker's text, where he's like, I stood next to this guy for 12 hours.

That is kind of funny.

Like, buddy, what if Tucker just be like, Yeah, he stood there for 12 hours, and Tucker's just kind of sitting there, just like, also, there's nothing to do.

No, so they're sitting in credit.

It sounds black,

black, they're sitting there, and he's just like,

You know, it's been 12 hours just getting a little weird, Flynn.

And then he kills him.

Yeah.

And then I had to beat the hell out of him.

Which also kind of makes Tucker in a weird light, doesn't it?

Yeah.

Hey, he's just standing there being weird, so I killed him.

Well, it says he attacked.

Well, yes, I know.

Very lucky.

Yes.

He wasn't just like, I'm sorry, old boy.

You're being put down, girl.

But it's like people look into the red lights, and then they become catatonic, and then they just become violent or whatever.

So this like, is this like an alien that's at his door?

Is it one of these people that have been converted?

I don't know.

I mean, whenever alien, whenever you have alien movies and they're unable to like get into a house, I'm always like, that doesn't seem like a

higher life form that's able to travel through stars.

What's the scariest alien movie to you?

It's honestly still like Posey Signs.

Really?

Just, I don't know why.

But also, it was like one of the first ones I watched.

But I think it's just more so the home invasion style of it.

There was that new Hulu one where it's like a girl, it's like there's like no dialogue in the home whole movie or something, and it's like a weird, I don't know, it was a newer movie.

There were some good moments in that, but I, signs as always, is a classic to me.

The uh, what's that one?

Fourth kind,

yeah,

is it called Invasion?

It's not invasive.

No, no, you're talking about just the fourth kind, yeah, the fourth kind, yeah.

Yeah, with me uh, whatever, the girl from Resident Evil, yeah, yeah, yeah, that one's pretty freaky, and then that one fucked me up when I was younger.

I was sitting there and I was like, sorry to cut you off, but the uh, that one fucked me up because at the end of that movie, it's like, uh, there's that part where she's she's like, it's like floating.

It's like, there is no God, whatever.

And I remember going to my mom being like, no, they said there's still a God.

Whatever.

And she's like, what the fuck are you on?

I was like, God,

I'm too afraid.

I only wanted to watch it just because I got kind of hard watching, you know, the Mia chick from the Resident Evil movies and Fifth Element.

You know, so that's why I wanted to watch it.

And I was like,

I got an existential crisis when I was just trying to have fun.

There was also, what was that?

Oh, when I was a kid, War of the Worlds, the Tom Cruise one.

That's a great one.

Freaked me out pretty good.

That scene where they have like the the eye down in the basement looking well even the just the that was like the creepiest part of that movie isn't even the fucking aliens it's like the guy who's in the house who's like oh yeah also you're gonna stay here forever now and he's going crazy and he's trying to dig and he's making noise and tom cruise beats him to death yeah you have to

yeah that's the i re-watched it that scene so menacing where he shuts the door that cut like right before he kills him that's so wild that was actually a really good movie movie rules also when tom cruise is running and everyone's getting like eviscerated in the dust and he comes back and they're like, what happened?

He has like dead human ash all over him.

Yeah, and he's just like, you know, or like right after that scene when the girl, when Dakota Fanning runs away and he opens the door and it's like the Alice in Wonderland shop, but it's blood and veins everywhere.

So sick.

That was a really cool movie.

Oh, the movie rules, yeah.

Do you remember?

Okay, we're completely off.

Do you remember when everyone's fighting to get on that ferry?

And it's like, please take my kids and stuff like that.

You're like Titanic man.

And then immediately they get to the other side and there's more of them and they just like wipe wipe everyone.

Yeah, they just get eviscerated, basically.

That was so cool.

It's a good movie.

All right, anyways, that is a good movie.

I hated it for a long time because the Dakota fanning screaming bothered me, but that was such a minor point.

Yeah, children's screaming in horror movies.

The most egregious is the Babadoke.

That movie's like almost hard to fucking do.

Yeah, but it's got that scene where it's like...

But she has that scene where she's like, why can't you be normal?

Yeah, well,

it's definitely going over the top for a purpose, whatever.

And I feel so bad for the mom.

Honestly, when she gets like transformed in and she's trying to kill him, I'm like, you get him, get him, get him, girl.

Fucking get him.

You deserve this.

When he's in the backseat of that car and he does that scream, I remember like being in the theater being like, oh, God, I just don't know if I can handle it.

I don't know if I can take this for a whole movie.

Anyway, Sun Vanished.

Yeah.

So he's hearing someone hit his door outside.

That's the last thing he says on May 9th.

The next day, May 10th, he says, it got in.

I don't know how, but it got in and I am hiding.

And he posts this video.

video.

I like that.

I like the

kind of interpretation of this, like, extra-earthly being as like a light.

Like, I mean, sure, it's like a machine they're controlling or something like that.

Well, I mean, the parallel of it's nice is the sun vanished, and now the only light source is the thing that's like trying to kill you.

Yeah, it's like an angler fish.

Yeah.

Darks everything out, come to the light.

Yeah, it's a uh

that like that parallel is really nice.

Yeah.

It's it's it's very creative.

And the idea of like, oh, it's in the house, and then like you creak open the door and you can see the stroving light.

And also, too, like,

you're getting sucked in more to just the sound.

Just the little like...

It almost seems like a fan with like a piece of, like, it's hitting plastic or something, like just like a

something weird like that.

It almost sounds like a um

you know, animals that have like a like sonar that move by infrasound, or like,

you know, that do that.

Oh, like almost like a Geiger counter or something.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like they're like they're sensing the surrounding, they're looking for prey or something like that.

Right, yeah.

It's just an interesting visual to be like, oh, the light.

The light's the thing I'm afraid of.

After he says, I'm sorry if I'm gone for a while.

I have to stay hidden and keep my phone off.

It produces light.

I am so sorry.

And that's the last thing he says, May 10th.

He continues, May 11th and says, it's finally gone.

I think I'm safe now.

I didn't stick around to get a good look, but they are big and they can move fast as hell when they want to.

I have no idea how, but the front door is unlocked and wide open.

The alarm never came on either.

I guess it got reset during one of the blackouts.

Some good news for once.

Daniel's back.

Before you all ask, he seems to be in his right mind.

I need to get serious about securing my house.

He then attaches a photo and says, it's primitive, I know, but it's a first step and apparently more reliable than my alarm system.

Let me know if you all have any other ideas to keep my house secure.

And he said,

go ahead.

Make your point.

Go ahead.

You describe what's going on.

Nick, what do you think about this defense mechanism for his new alarm for his house?

It may or may not be a pyramid of red solo cups.

My boy definitely just did cup stacking at his school.

Don't worry.

If the giant fucking light comes in my room, I'll hear the cups.

Oh, yeah, the red solo cups will fall, alerting me.

Hold up, guys.

Giving me the perfect vanilla

flies real quick.

What's the lines on the floor to supplement?

Then...

Okay, so that one's being serious.

Scroll down and just see the first guy.

You out here playing home alone.

There we go.

Boy, you'd never hear that over the screaming.

flow.

He need to watch Home Alone when all this is over, man.

Come on.

This isn't technically an alarm.

That's funny.

Yeah.

That's what's funny about this meeting on Twitter.

You could always see people being like, this is the dumbest.

What are you doing?

Well, I mean, it's.

Oh, and he has another way of security as well.

And there's another one.

He says, I have another way of security attached to this photo.

He's got 10K.

I mean,

he's like,

I put another one on the other side of the door because I want to talk to it.

It's funny, like,

because the point of a audio alarm is so you have time to do something, right?

Get a weapon, escape out a window, but he can't do anything.

No.

So this just tells him he's about to die.

That's all an alarm system would do.

It's like,

you're about to be dancing.

He just wakes up from the rest of the little cups falling.

He just

gulp.

Also, too, it's weird.

The story keeps sucking me in, being like, oh, that's kind of a fun concept.

And then it does like, yeah, like this weird home alone shit where I'm like, just cut that out.

He can't help himself.

Honestly, too, it would have been cool.

I'll save it for the end.

But he then says it's getting colder again.

I'm running low on food and water.

I feel like I could sleep for a week.

And then he says, I hope so.

And shows more text with Daniel.

I found a car with a decent amount of gas in the tank.

All I need is a siphon.

Don't worry, bud.

I'll be there soon.

Daniel's determined.

It's also funny to imagine that he's like, he's been walking for three days, Daniel, and he's like, oh, I'll bring this gas back to my car.

I just need to suck it out.

I'll drink a little bit of gas.

Get a little bit of gas in my system, pass out, and then wake up and bring it back to my car.

All right.

So then May 12th, the next day, says, I have a confession to make.

I've been keeping something from you all.

Did Harry gasp.

So he says, over the course of the last week, I've been increasingly paranoid about someone or something coming into my house while I'm sleeping.

And I don't think it's one of those lights.

It feels different.

I can't explain it, but I can sense it.

Last night, after I put cans on door handles, I've been waking up to clanging sounds.

But I'm not certain if it's real or just my imagination.

So now it's time to put my paranoia to the test.

Oh, yeah.

I see.

He's pulling a nice little parallel activity here.

Yeah, pour.

Is that powder or salt?

I'm guessing it's flour.

Flour.

Or something.

Put it

on the floor to see if anything disturbs you things walking around in the house.

Yeah.

Also, he says that it's colder now, so that implies if there was a ship or something like that overhead, it's like gone now.

That's what I'm assuming.

And every time it gets colder again, that's like...

The blinking light, the light things are gone.

Yeah.

But there could be something else.

Anytime it starts warming up, you're like, oh, the things are probably close.

He says, you're right.

It's flour.

Because he says, if the flower is disturbed, we will know.

That's the end of May 12th.

May 13th, he says.

Person from British Columbia who messaged me earlier just sent me this.

It's a screenshot of what appears to be him in a house, and there's like a silhouette over there.

Like a dark silhouette.

Yeah.

He's could not have taken a clear photo here.

It's he's like behind some kind of ridge or something, but it's clearly just a dark, like somebody in like a black morph suit.

That's how I would describe it, like a black morph suit, shadowy figure.

Yeah.

Standing over off the side of the room.

So that's what's happening with that guy.

Doesn't say anything else May 13th, but May 14th, he says, I had a nightmare about that picture.

Just woke up to more screaming outside screaming isn't like last time very sporadic can't tell where it's coming from floors untouched keep trying to record the screaming when i hear it but the microphone isn't picking it up i think the screaming is coming from the neighbor's house

that's the end of may 14th see what's also interesting about this is everyone's too afraid to go outside so everyone on the street could be dead or everyone's just like you and hype yeah if you were in this situation would you even would you check to see because you probably know your neighbor right at least would you at least try to go over and be like hey what the fuck is going on or would you just stay put?

If I had like a gun,

probably.

Even like, let's say you have a baseball batter, or even earlier before, before you're like, what, that's.

Yeah, we're like, oh, this is weird.

You haven't walked over.

And yeah, there's like some weird stuff.

But as soon as the news report, I think, yes.

Yeah.

But the issue is he's also heard screaming outside, seen running, and someone was standing facing away.

I mean, if there is by this point, if there's screaming outside and there's some people go outside.

If there's even like when you start hearing the screaming outside, that would be deterrent enough for me to to not fucking go out there.

Because you would also assume, like, oh my God, that's my neighbor.

Yeah.

Or something along those lines, right?

Right.

So you wouldn't want to, I mean, I'm just saying early, early on, I'm surprised that there wasn't more of an effort to be like, I should probably go see if anybody else is having this issue, or is it just me?

Or, you know, or in terms of like my TV's going out, or do they have power?

Like, I don't know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think early on, yes, but at this point, no.

But it sounds like wherever the screaming was coming from the neighbor's house.

Right.

Next day, May 15th, he says, this has been on my mind lately.

And it's a screenshot of a text from Daniel.

Son Vanish says, just curious, what year did we graduate high school?

Lol, what?

And then Sun Vanish says, never mind.

Kind of a suspicious response to his question.

Lol, what?

Because earlier, Daniel was the one asking this question.

And he was serious about it, too.

He should know.

They should be doing checkups periodically.

In this situation, yeah.

Yes.

There should be a constant.

Also,

him being like, oh, I found a tank of gas.

I'm coming.

It's like, that's just kind kind of convenient.

And you kind of brought the idea, it's like, we've been walking.

Yeah, it's been walking three days, but, oh, I found gas.

What I'm wondering, though, is he like, hey, can you shoot me your address again?

And that's

what, that's going to be suspicious.

Yeah.

Even though an alien is on Oliver Street.

Will they know how to reduce part of him?

I don't know.

Because I don't know the logistics yet of like, because people look into the red light and then they become like violent.

They become something else.

So I guess they could like siphon his mind or memory or something.

Yeah, like, does that connect you to a hive mind where you would know that?

Does that make you like a drone where you don't know that?

Does it just also make you because it's implying that you don't have your previous memories, right?

Oh, yeah, that's true.

So you wouldn't remember like where his home address was and stuff like that.

So

some memories are gone at least.

So then he says, I know you all don't trust Danion.

I've been reading your tweets and messages, but I just can't bring myself to confront him.

He's my friend.

I don't have an abundance of those right now.

The person who sent me the picture a few nights ago hasn't responded.

The flower test hasn't worked yet.

The reoccurring screaming outside.

I'm about ready to snap.

He then says, what?

I thought he already knew my address.

I knew it was coming.

Unless, and then it's a text from Daniel where he says.

I'm a couple hours away now.

What's your address again?

Yeah, see, that's suspicious as far as

especially after, because earlier Daniel was like,

hey, I forget what question he asked.

He was like, where did we go?

What county?

Whatever.

No, it wasn't at what street did we live on?

Yes.

It was what street did we live on?

So he knows what...

you know or at least what street they grew up on whatever yeah and now uh

so like he understands asking questions and as soon as the sun vanishes like uh what year did we graduate he's like oh that's stupid why would you ask me that that's weird so then the sun banished says i can't believe i'm doing this should i trust daniel to which he sets up a poll and 75 say no

25 say yes and one of my i love it is the top comment here says dude give his address to him if he knows you'll know it's him Whoa,

big brain.

Yeah, I love that.

You know, that motherfucker sent out that tweet, and he was like, This

sorry, son vanished, but I think I just kind of toppled this tower over.

It'll be so funny if you get to uh one of these replies and you're like, Look at this idiot, and it's just me on Twitter.

Yeah, on Twitter.

Who else is afraid?

Yeah, I'm too scared, man.

Yo,

who else?

Who else is actively peeing their pants right now?

So the next day, he sends another screenshot, this one from Daniel, where he says, Dude, where are you?

I've been waiting.

And then another screenshot, this time Sun Vanish says, I'm not even sure anymore.

Screenshot's a conversation between the two that goes as such.

Answer my question: What year did we graduate high school?

But we don't have time for this.

Answer my question.

Answer the question.

Are you okay?

I'm fine.

I'm sorry to say this, but I'm not sure I trust you.

Likewise.

Well, I guess that's that then.

The way that reads to cool.

the way that reads to me

Well,

I guess that's pretty much the end of this then

The way that reads to me

is like

It's like an entity that's trying to coax him when he says no.

It's like okay and kind of like turns away.

Did you see sinners?

No.

Okay

You have this I'm trying to reference it to something else

Just an entity that's trying to convince that to coax him away.

Go ahead, make your bet.

Whatever.

Okay.

I guess this is where we part ways.

Okay.

All right.

You get it.

Also, too, you can't answer the question.

We don't have time for this.

You texting back this is taking long.

Daniel's clearly bad.

Yes, he's clearly fucked.

But

the humor in that for me is that the alien is like, he does a fucking Jim Halper.

Well,

I guess this is where we bid a do.

It's like,

where the the fuck did you pick that up from, alien?

Glib, glorb, glob, glib.

Erm, glibby, glorb.

Welp, glorb, my glib.

Glorb, you're going to want to glib this.

May 17th.

He says, since you all won't stop teaming me about updates, here's updates for you.

There's some sass to this.

There is, yeah.

Fucking leave me alone.

I haven't slept since the screaming.

Ran out of bottled water days ago.

Been drinking from the faucet.

Very close to running out of food, too.

And I hope losing my only close friend will be worth it.

Happy?

God, what a sassy little bitch.

I just woke up and came downstairs to this.

Oh my God.

And it's pictures of the flower on the floor has been kicked around.

Look at this.

Guess I'll die.

Guess I'll die.

Thank you, Tom, for ply.

Very good.

Basically, the flower is just disrupted.

So something has been in the house.

That looks like a footprint.

Well, this looks like an actual footprint to where I'm thinking that.

It's probably a human.

That's been.

What's his name again?

Daylon?

Dayton?

Daniel.

Daniel.

Which I think Dan, I bet you it's fucking Daniel lurking around.

Yeah.

Probably.

Because he was on his way there, right?

He says, I don't know if it's Daniel.

I don't know if it's it's someone else but i don't plan on sticking around to find out it's not safe here anymore packing up and i'm leaving it's been in the back of my mind for a while but i'm heading out to the neighbor's house where i've been hearing the screaming wish me luck i'm staying low and staying away from streetlights and other light sources using my flashlights sparingly okay so once you hear the screaming do not go to your neighbor's house well it was like too little too late by this point yeah like what do you

do oh i've got my cans i guess to be fair when you look at the so he posted a picture

and it says this is where I heard the screaming from.

I'm sure of it.

Which is like, it looks like the front, the front of his neighbor's house in their front yard.

But even in their,

this looks like a light's on here, right?

Or no?

I bet you're right.

To where at least there,

that's at least a little supernatural.

Okay, that would, I haven't thought about this, but that would actually be.

Imagine a scenario where the power's out, which he says the power's sporadic, so it's not explicitly supernatural, but imagine a scenario where there's like a total blackout and you hear screaming, and then that house has all the lights on inside.

That's kind of freaky.

Well, it'd be cool to have a video of him looking over and he's like, oh, shit.

I just looked at my neighbor's house.

And like up in the bedroom, there's just a strobing.

Ah, that'd be pretty cool.

Yeah.

That'd be so cool.

Where it's just, it's going hopping from house to house or whatever.

It like goes white to red.

You can see it moving through.

Yeah.

He then says.

Here we go.

He's exploring the neighbor's house now.

God damn, dude.

Fucking Sun Vanish might be an alien, those long ass fingers.

Good lord.

Hello.

Was that Nick?

Hello?

Heard you guys guys screaming.

Have you seen the light, people?

Has a son been walking around your backyard lately?

Hello?

Hello?

It's Glor behind me, isn't it?

He says, I found fresh food and water here, checked every room to be sure I'm alone.

It's not just in my head.

I know I heard screaming.

It was ongoing, and I'm glad I came to investigate because now I have food, water, and a safer place to stay.

There have been no signs of activity outside whatsoever.

So he's going to stay at the neighbor's house now?

Yeah, because, well, they know they can get into his, right?

And he doesn't see it.

Well, he knows there is something there because earlier mentions I feel a presence, and now he's seen the flower kicked around.

So something can and has been to his house.

This house has food and water, and I wouldn't take the time to try to carry it back.

Do they?

Literally just the videos of him being in an empty suburban house.

Very effective.

Yeah.

So effective.

Yeah.

I mean, it's just like, just a picture from the outside.

Also, think about that.

Think about being like you're in your home and then some event happens and now you're staying in the neighbor's house, but it's dark.

You have to go check all the rooms.

You've got to clear it out.

Well, also, staying in someone else's home already, that would be so on edge.

Yeah.

What if someone just comes back?

You know, like, how are you going to explain?

I don't know.

It's just.

It's weird.

It's creepy.

Yeah.

So the next one's for May the 19th.

This is

from our lovely Nate.

From his notes, he says, here a new character named Tucker or TH Mad Joy on Twitter, who has been mentioned once before and has responded to the Sun Vanish tweets a couple of times, begins posting on his own.

So he begins posting on his own here, and whoever's tweeting will be denoted.

So there's another Twitter account called Tucker.

that starts his own series during this time.

So we're going to bounce back between Sun Vanish and Tucker.

So on May 19th, Tucker says, I don't know what's happening exactly, but something's changed.

There's a lot more activity outside than I have ever seen before.

And if I remember right, Tucker was in Virginia.

Correct.

Yes.

Yes.

With Flynn.

Yes.

Do we assume that this is just the Sun Vanish creating multiple accounts, or is this multiple people?

Okay, so you think it is just him?

Yes.

Because later, if I remember right, Tucker wraps in, like they wrap into each other, the two accounts.

But it's from the perspective as if it's multiple people.

Well,

that's fine.

I just didn't know if it was like, oh, this person was inspired, started doing this.

No, it's part of the Sun Vanish.

Okay.

I'm almost positive.

Yeah.

Because, yes, because Tucker's info is feeding into the Sun Vanish, like his screenshots and stuff like that up until this point.

So this has also still only been going, at this point, it's only been going on two weeks.

Sun Vanish stuff happened on Twitter.

So, so after Tucker says that, the next day, May 20th, the Sun Vanish says, I have been taking a break from the internet for a bit, trying to recuperate myself.

My mind is much clearer now than it was before.

I don't know what the catalyst was, but something changed when I left my home.

So, like, whatever presence he was dealing dealing with over there, he doesn't have to anymore.

The next day, Tucker says, it's been getting worse.

I don't have any windows for obvious reasons, but I can hear it all.

I can see a blue light from the crack under my door.

New introduction to a new color.

The only thing we've seen so far is white and red.

White and red.

White seems to be like a searching.

Red seems to be like a hostile thing, right?

Or like the thing that turns people.

So we don't know what blue is.

But that line from Tucker is also interesting.

I don't have any windows for obvious reasons.

I assume he means so he can't see the light.

Well, I think by this point, everybody knows that if you look into the light you go it like is able to get you so you got to board up it's like um

very um

what was that movie bird box where like they would like cover up all the windows so because if they looked at it they would immediately like try to kill themselves similar thing like don't look outside yeah uh may 22nd the sun vanished says what's going on and then at tucker it says please message me so tucker does not post for a while after this so next few days will only be the sun vanished so it can be assumed that when tucker tweets something the sun vanished is seeing it then being like what's going on yeah this is like they're they're really gonna start interacting with

each other so the may 23rd the sun vanished says i think i discovered something interesting i need to do an experiment to make sure details soon so the next day may 24th he says the glass of water is from a neighbor's house i've been staying at the bottle is from my house about a week ago says is it just me or is the water from my house darker okay the old boy puts a meod in that is uh hold on the bottle yeah the bottle's from his house.

Yeah, the glass is clear, but in the bottom of his water bottle, it looks like there's dark fluid or something.

It almost looks like purple.

Yeah.

Like a dark, like an extremely dark purple.

So

something that was in his house, right, is like tainted, the water supply, but the new house is fine.

So that's another interesting point.

At his house, he felt like a presence, something weird, but now that he's here, he feels better all of a sudden.

Well, now I'm wondering, too, if something lurks around or if the light shines on stuff, is it deteriorating or is it like toxifying shit?

Or maybe they're targeting him, like specifically somehow through this water source or something.

So after this, he says, I feel terrible for what I did and said to Danien, which you should not, because Daniel is 100% a meat puppet at this point.

Yes, sir.

He is gone.

On May 26th, he says, it's too quiet.

I don't like this.

I was walking past the coffee table and I noticed this sticking out from under a couple magazines.

Remember, don't look into the light.

Don't move.

They see motion.

Don't produce light.

They will see the strobe question marks?

That looks very Slender Man, doesn't it?

It does.

That's immediately what I thought.

I was like, is this actually going into a fucking Slender Man?

Wouldn't that be crazy?

I would say we have got to fucking stop reading stories.

Go back to Slender Man.

Anyone else see that tall white guy with a suit?

Another thing you Toby reference.

I guess this is Slender Man.

Makes me wonder if there's anything else around the house.

Notes, papers, anything.

I'm going to check and poke around.

Found nothing yet.

Still no response from Daniel or Tucker.

I feel isolated.

So also, are we to assume that the last people that live there wrote that note?

Yes.

Yeah.

But things don't work out well for them if the screaming's anything to go off of.

Well, also, too, would you not think like, okay, well, I'm going to stay here?

But

I guess you would think that, okay, they're not going to show back up because they probably think that everyone here is already gone.

Yeah.

So it's like, well, we don't need to go there.

We've already snuffed out that place.

Right.

Yeah.

Right.

May 27th, he says, guys, Daniel is still alive.

He just texted me.

Danien says, listen, I know you don't trust me, and I don't trust you.

If you are still you, you have to get low.

Get out of sight.

Whatever it takes.

Fuck you, Danien.

So you think this is still it trying to get in his good graces?

I guess, but I don't know.

I still don't trust him.

May 28th, he says, I've taken Daniel's advice, but I haven't seen or heard anything yet.

Still deathly quiet.

Whatever flew over my house before is back.

This time it isn't leaving.

He then says, this thing is making sounds I've never heard before.

The vibrations are shaking the house with this video attached.

It's a house shaking.

That's fun.

Yeah, kind of like a weird ethereal kind of makes you think of the Mandy soundtrack.

Yeah, yeah.

Weird, like synthy, kind of like a super high-pitch.

Almost sounds like synthetic bells.

Yeah, like it's so strong.

Like it's a rupturing.

It's shaking at the house.

I thought it was a fucking motorcycle for a second.

It's almost like it knows he's in there.

It's like trying to like shake him out.

Almost like the way you would with like

there's like a bug and like something.

You're like, you know.

like try to tear, like shake, physically shake him out of the house.

Like a cat in a box.

Yeah, like a cat in the box.

Yeah.

I couldn't see anything out of normal expression.

I was just going to say.

Shaking a cat.

Shaking a cat out of the house.

I don't know what you, Missouri people, do.

I was going to let that one.

You know, when your cats, you put your cat in a box, you shake it out.

You got to shake him real hard.

You got to shake the cat out of the box.

If that hasn't been coined, then that's just.

I want everyone to refer to that as if it's very, very normal.

Cat out of the box.

You got to get the cat out of the box.

Classic scenario.

Shake it out.

Oh, cat out of the bag.

That's the phrase.

Yeah, we're going to update it, though.

It needs to evolve a different way.

Cats in a box.

All right, there you go.

How do I not get the cat out of a bag?

It's like such a normal expression.

Well, no, the expression is now the cat's out of the bag.

Yeah, now the cat's out of the bag.

Now the cat's out of the bag.

It's not applying it's hard to get the cat out of the bag.

Why wasn't when the cat gets out, there's a bag.

The box one makes it referred to: why do we put the cat in the box in the first place?

Schroedenderk's cat.

That's Schrodinger's.

That's different.

And when he was done with it, he was like, Do you want the cheese?

Is that that experiment?

No.

Didn't he give him cheese?

No.

What do you think Schrodinger's cat is?

He's like,

if you eat this cheese, you'll get out of the box.

Is that not it?

What is Schrodinger's cat?

Do I say his name right?

Schrodinger.

Schrodinger's.

Schrodinger.

Schrödinger.

It's a thought.

If you get this cheese, you can get out of the box.

I thought he was just tempted with cheese.

Is he not?

Is there cheese involved at all?

In Schrodinger, there's no cheese.

The idea of Schrodinger's cat is that if a cat is placed into a box that cannot be observed, and in an experiment, the cat is killed.

Why was the reason the cat was killed again?

So where does the cheese come involved then?

There's no cheese.

There's literally no cheese.

There's no cheese at all.

I mean, maybe they put poison in the cheese, but I have no memory.

Is it poisonous cheese?

Is that where the cheese is?

Is there legitimately no cheese in this?

I don't think there's any cheese involved.

i have i swear to god in my life i've talked about it i'm like i've definitely been like yeah you put the cat in the box i was like the cheese and like people were like yeah

i think people were like sure

whatever i legitimately i'm so shell shocked there's no cheese if there is cheese i thought the entire

minimal part of the experiment i thought the legitimately thought that it was a guy being like if you you will get cheese if you get out of the box it's about killing a cat and that it's the in statistic like odds i thought cheese the cat has been pointed dead and alive until observed.

The whole point it gets used is that in experiments, like the result is two things until observed is one thing, effectively.

It applies to like

quantum physics.

Yeah.

A result is two things until known is one.

No cheese at all.

There's no cheese in the experiment, no.

After that, he says, I couldn't see anything out the window, but I quickly snapped a few pictures just in case before taking cover.

Then says, I can't believe what I'm looking at and posts a picture.

The picture is like, looks like a fucking Ava angel.

Doesn't it?

Yeah.

Yeah, it does.

Geometric.

It's a pyramid shape floating up in the sky.

Yeah.

Basically, it looks like a kind of like a crash bandicoot crystal.

That shape, the giant like geometric shape.

And then there's like a protruding,

protruding sharp edge off the shape.

And it's hard to tell how big it is off this photo, but it looks huge.

It's big as a house, at least, if not like

much bigger.

Yeah.

Next day, May 29th, he says day 30.

It's still there, still making noise.

I've locked myself in the bathroom where there's no windows trying to fall asleep and then says i just woke up to this post a picture oh the blue light of now the blue light fully outside of the door hmm blue light outside the door i wonder what i wonder if there's different stages you have the white lights there it looks like whenever you're detected it looks like whenever you're detected it switches to red so i'm wondering what the blue is going to emphasize blue light could be a later stage thing the initial invasion's done you would think that's part of something else maybe something yeah he then says on may 30th the blue light finally disappeared and that thing flew off and left.

He then says, should I leave the bathroom now or stay put for a while longer?

The poll by 5% more says leave.

And again, this is something cool that I like.

Like, you know, it's like choose your own adventure, people pick, and then the story follows that route, right?

May 31st, he says, I left the bathroom.

I'm trying my best to stay calm as I type this, but I think there's a dead body in the middle of the street.

There's no way I'm taking a picture of a dead body.

That's too gruesome.

I'm just going to try to avoid it.

So then two days pass pass without any updates from the sun vanished or tucker now what's also interesting about this you got to keep in mind is like

as if you were reading this like i was as it was happening it's like the picture of the blue light is all you got for 24 hours and then you got another bit 24 hours yeah i mean you get to have time to spend it was kind of the same thing we we said something similar during like gregory 88 where you're constantly just waiting for updates and then you're speculating

you're speculating with commenters and anytime that like uh you see a tweet in your feed from it you like go to the account like, okay, how many did I miss?

And you go back and read up.

Yeah.

June 2nd, after two days has passed, he says, to take my mind off of what is outside, I dug deeper into the piles of books and papers scattered around the house, and I found something intriguing.

To which he has a picture of a folder that he found.

It says there's a series of photos of the mysterious notebook.

So he has three photos in total from the notebook.

I regret my decision to stay.

It has gotten incredibly lonely.

And I have come to terms with it.

In fact, that I may never see Martha or my grandkids again.

This is an old man's writing.

Look at this writing.

This is how an old man writes.

I pray to God that they,

at the very least, are safer than I am.

I have no real caution or regard for my own life anymore.

I can only hope that what I gather from my near-suicidal experiments can be useful to someone else at a later date.

I either die and be at peace or get more information.

Both outcomes sound favorable.

And what I love, what I absolutely love about this,

there is so much room still left on the line paper.

And then he and he wrote on the back of it.

You could already tell he wrote on the back of it.

You know what's really good about this?

This would be the best thing we ever read.

If the next page starts, it's like, I found a cat and a piece of cheese.

I would I just for my first time.

I bet we're done.

I bet I'm literally done reading.

Yeah.

Oh, okay, so the old man has experiment notes.

Experiment notes.

Just in case I forget, this is, I'm labeling it.

I placed several blocks of cheese.

No kidding.

I placed several flashlights around the perimeter of the house, testing them at different intensities.

The control being no light at all.

I believe the entities are more attracted to the flashlights than myself.

I got back inside before any permanent damage was done.

Experiment notes again.

Blue lights appeared after day six in the dark.

Significant?

Question mark.

Light sources do not seem to attract their presence.

Unlike the entities producing white slash red flashing lights, the blue lights are higher in elevation and almost seem to come from a different entity altogether.

I believe the blue lights will also be more likely to move in unison.

However, there's no way to know for certain until they return.

If they return at all.

Kind of sound like Connor from Love on the Spectrum, don't I?

Yeah

It's not a love, it's just a crush experiment notes and now it's all he's getting a little wacky with his handwriting.

I have Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

It finally happened.

I was being reckless and I looked into the light.

The red light.

I feel empty inside.

The sun is back.

I do like the sun is back, but it's funny to think that like a man going crazy is just going to like

scribble.

I'm wonky.

I feel my

earthly ties leaving.

My hands are so tied.

If it wasn't this, it would have been something else.

I'm old.

But I do like the whole idea the sun is back.

The sun is back.

Which is also him going crazy and he's able to see something.

Yeah.

He's getting revealed something whenever he goes crazy.

It's like, oh, it's we see the beauty.

Like there's some revelation they have right

yeah the sun is back is really good so what what was his conclusion off the blue lights the blue lights showed up it's a it's an entity all a different entity all entity altogether is what he's saying

he's saying that the the white and red flashing lights are they seem to be attracted more by the flashlights from what i remember he said but the blue entity doesn't seem to be affected by the flashlight at all it just seems like something different

i'm guessing that that's like the elite more advanced entity is what i would assume he also says it's elevated so i don't know if he means elevated is in it's like up in the sky shooting a light in, or if it's literally like floating, like you can't hear it walking around.

Because that also proves that maybe whenever he was in the house and the flower wasn't disrupted, it could have been a blue light went in and just floated above it.

Could have been one of those.

How it got past the solo cups and the cans.

I don't know.

I don't know.

They're not.

That's some advanced.

I would recommend stacking cups.

As long as no one finds their true weakness.

Yeah, the red solo cups please upside down from

saves raid the stores and get solo cups the solo cups are bad and the cans

peel the the labels off the cans to make it look more old-timey whatever

become a hobo whatever you do don't leave a house where you've stacked the solo cups upside down never leave the house also watch dennis the menace on vhs if you find it.

It has the answers.

The writer's like, oh, no.

Oh, God.

The writer with his fucking freakishly long fingers.

Have you seen the guy's hands?

His hands are pretty.

He walked in the house before he walked in the house.

I was like, God.

Damn, dude.

It's like everything everyone wants, the hot dog hands.

It was like that.

He opens up, hello?

Glib Glorb?

This motherfucker's an alien already.

Holy hell.

Fire in the sky?

Flynn.

So after this, he says, yes, the sun is still gone.

I have no clue what this journal is talking about.

Seems like the same talking nonsense Tucker was talking about with his friend Flynn.

So we can assume Flynn was also having a similar revelation.

You'd be kind of a good way to show somebody's kind of becoming a bit senile

when writing on line paper instead of just doing squiggly lines being like, oh,

there goes my mind.

What if you kept...

So on every time you're writing, you were writing in the lines.

Then the next one is like, you're writing, but you're like writing on a line.

And on the last note, you're writing your sentences, but they're all over each other on the same line.

So it's like, I'm trying to read what you're writing, but it's like he wrote it, and then he wrote the next sentence on top of it.

I think that'd be kind of funny.

Okay, I'm almost positive in the Mandela catalog, they do that.

I feel like when someone says,

you've never seen it.

I know it.

I'm friends with the creator of it.

So I'm familiar with it.

But

I didn't.

You know, I actually know him really well.

I've lost this point in the conversation because he's just going to do that whenever I try to.

Have we not talked about it?

I saw that we talked about the Mandalorian.

We've mentioned it, but we've never watched it together.

I was reading this book called It written by Stephen King.

I know him really well.

Have you heard of that?

What I was...

What I was meaning is like, oh, well,

I meant that to say like, I talk about it a lot, which is why

I'm not even going to try to figure it out.

Well, it's such a personal thing whenever you're just like that close with the guy.

So it's like.

June 3rd, Tucker returns.

He says, I am alive.

To which, right after the Sun Vanish, post a few screenshots of DM conversations with Tucker.

So this is Sun Vanish talking to Tucker again.

Yeah, Sun Vanish is posting his conversations.

Sorry, I was gone so long.

Power went out where I was.

So I've relocated.

Trying to slowly work my way towards the West Coast.

My reception is a bit spotty.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

He's in virginia i think he's trying to work his way to the west coast is what he's saying but he's like i'm gonna do a like an 1800 mile i guess i mean i maybe maybe we don't have details maybe like the east coast got hit hard and he hears it's better west well i'm wondering if he also reveals later if he's gonna be like i've heard that the west coast is clear yeah yeah you know because in these movies like even like i am legend and all these other things where it's like a big thing happening oh there's a safe zone and exactly where it's like oh if you're if you're alive come here yeah like that whole thing with uh the walking dead at the beginning it's like France is the last holdout.

Like, everyone hears France being like, Oh, okay.

Yeah, so maybe something like that.

But I saw the picture you took with the thing in the sky.

If you can see one of those again, get as low as you can.

And if you see the blue light, do not let it shine on you.

So that's actually kind of interesting.

Don't let it shine on you.

Don't let it shine on you, but also

Dayton.

Daniel.

Daniel.

Daniel also said get low.

So maybe he is

fine.

That's true.

He couldn't know.

Because why would the because if he was an imposter.

Why would he say no to the pictures then

i don't know to me that that doesn't make sense like you just

to me that felt stupid it felt like a way of being like oh i just want to stir up the pot and like i don't know if we can trust him i think there should have been a different way because he was just so pressing before to where now it only makes sense so if he isn't if he is still fine it feels weird that he'd be like come on we don't have time for this if it's just like answer the fucking question yeah so then some vanish says i'm so glad to hear from you are you okay danien texted me saying to stay low too yeah Yeah, I'm doing okay considering what I've been through.

Sun Vanish says, Why should I not let the blue light shine on me?

What happened that makes you say that?

Well, when I got out, I saw someone running away.

When the blue light shined on them, they uh well, suffice to say, it wasn't pretty.

I think it's kind of funny that he actually typed he actually typed shine on them, and they uh suffice to say, suffice to say it wasn't pretty, it's almost like he's actually talking.

They uh it's dot dot dot people do that,

yes.

Oh my gosh, that drives me crazy.

They're all the time like

specific kind of people on Twitter who all the time are like, well,

dot, dot, dot, you know,

sigh.

I, sigh, you know, dot, dot, dot.

Like, no.

What are you doing?

Your buddy's sentence breaks in text.

Quit that.

So

it wasn't pretty, like, explain to me.

I know he's doing that to build up tension, but it's like Tucker would tell him, like, oh, he exploded or whatever.

Or even saying something like, there's actually no way I can describe it.

They died.

He's like, he's became into a pulp.

Yeah.

It's hard to even see.

He got condensed into the size of the body.

He can give a little bit while still, but yeah, it wasn't pretty.

Okay.

What does that mean, Tucker?

Yeah, I'm going to the West Coast.

Thanks, Tucker.

That's really good.

I stopped by a couple of grocery stores, got some red solar cups and cans, and we're making our way out there.

They were almost out.

Before I die, I want to hit the biggest wave.

You surf too?

Just started like a weird bromance about surfing.

We got to hit one.

Yeah, we have to go down to Hawaii, hit the Maluku Makamaka.

How many is that where it's like, we got to hit the wave or whatever?

It's Keoni Reeves.

Point break.

Point break.

Yeah.

Got to hit that wave.

The last wave.

I almost said chicken run, chicken little.

But that's.

But it's because I was thinking of, what's the fucking penguin movie where he surfs?

And there's like a chicken.

That's a lot of surfs.

And Napoleon Dynamite voices the chicken.

Right?

That's surfs.

That's surfs up.

Chicken little.

Well, I'm saying that thinking of the fucking chicken.

surfs up is a chicken.

I also want to fact check immediately on the Schrodinger's cat thing, though.

There was no cheese.

I want to fact check somehow.

Can someone please look up?

But in the end, I'm just saying I want justice on that.

Okay, but we're leaving this in regardless of what this looks like.

Okay, well,

that's fine.

Chicken Little and Surfs Up, kind of similar.

There's hoping that.

Also, Chicken Little is on my mind because I think that's an Alien Invasion movie.

The Sky's Falling.

Yeah, and it turns out it's aliens.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yep.

My mind works in pretty interesting ways.

So there's two days without any updates.

And then Tucker says on June 5th, just past the Virginia state line.

Hoping my family will be okay.

They said

his family's just like being sucked up to the sky.

I hope you guys are right.

I'm going to the West Coast.

What?

Bye.

Also, two days, and he's just now getting past the Virginia line.

How fucking long is it going to take you to get to the West Coast, dude?

He can't take any main roads because he said earlier traffic like there's a bunch of abandoned cars on them and stuff it also seems like there's no the gas stations aren't working yeah

i hope he i assume he's bringing a bunch of gas probably

i'd say cups full of gas cups

the whole bag is full of cups stacked on top of each other it's they're spelling everywhere every time it turns god gas is getting low keeps falling out

If only someone made a container to hold gasoline in.

I wish there was like a plastic container I could put this in.

And preferably red, like my cups.

Hoping my family will be okay.

Preferably red.

If I could have preference, I would make them red.

I would make them red perhaps with a black or yellow nozzle of some kind so I can see it in low-light conditions like right now.

Hoping my family will be okay.

They said they haven't seen anything out of the ordinary.

Okay.

Well,

that goes back to the whole thing where some people for some reason are like, it's localized to a few people for some reason.

So he's like contacting his family, but everything's normal with them.

But for him.

But are we saying that the family's in Virginia, though?

I don't know.

Okay.

I don't know yet.

So June 6th, Sun Vanish says, the body's just gone.

Didn't see what happened to it, but it's not in the street anymore.

That same day, Tucker says, I took a chance and decided to drive through Indianapolis.

That was a mistake.

Crawling with headlights.

June 8th, the water from this house is dark now.

Thankfully, I filled up my bottles with clean water, but I won't be able to stay here much longer after I run out.

Two days later, the Sun Vanish shows screenshots of text with Daniel, where all that the Sun Vanish says, Daniel, I'm sorry for what I did.

Please respond.

He does not need to be sorry.

And then the same day, 20 hours later, still no response.

The next day, June 11th, Tucker says, Been hiding out, waiting for the roads to be clear.

Slowly making progress.

Guys, after that, there's three days.

What's kind of, and you know, we're reading this, but it is kind of interesting to have,

if it's just like days passing and that's the one tweet you get, it's kind of fun.

Yeah.

Showing up when you're, you know, you're like open, open the app, or you're looking at it however, and you just see that one thing.

You're like, oh shit, okay, he's still going.

Yeah, you know, yeah, that's what was fun about it.

Cause, like, I remember as this was happening, like, being like, any tweets today?

No, any tweets today?

No.

And then it's like two days later, it's like, that's the one tweet you get.

It's like, yeah, okay, cool.

Because there's always, there's always also the fear with these that, like, the creator will lose interest

when they're posting at some point.

Did that ever happen?

Uh, there were a couple of ARGs I remember that like got started and then just like just died off or they just didn't have any followers, not a lot of attention.

The sun vanished like day one, blew up.

As that video of the news with like, the sun has gone out went super viral.

Everyone was all over it.

So this one had a lot of traction.

What's funny is right after I said, oh, I'll do the sun vanish.

You do Tucker.

The next Nate has a note here that says Tucker disappears for over a month.

So great timing on me putting together Schrodinger's cheese, my friend.

All right.

So anyway, after this, Tucker disappears for a month.

Sun Vanish says, thankfully, there's been no activity to take note of.

I'm worried about Tucker, though.

And then guys, someone's at the window.

Next day, June 15th, says, It's too dark to make out anything.

I just hear frantic knocking.

It could be Daniel, or it couldn't be.

I guess there's only one way to find out, and there's a video attack.

Sun's back.

Sun's back.

Sun's back.

Oh.

That's pretty cool.

The person on the outside was whispering, the sun has vanished, right?

No, they said the sun is back.

They said the sun is back.

Oh, okay.

That's cool.

That's pretty fun.

Yeah.

I like, too, how you couldn't tell what it was for a minute.

It took a second.

I thought I heard something, and I was like looking over, and I was like, what the fuck?

I could have sworn I heard like just a little murmuring.

I like that.

That's fun.

The sun is back.

That's cool.

I like that.

So then he says, they're still there at the window.

I don't know what to do.

Person is still standing at the window, but they aren't making noise anymore.

Oh, God, never mind.

They're banging on the window now with this video attached.

I think with their head.

That's fun.

Are you laughing at something funny?

Just the end bit, just kind of funny.

But the

I do think all this stuff is super effective whenever it's just simply in his house.

Yeah.

You know,

the lights and stuff are fun.

I was going to say, I was going to save this for later, but I almost feel like you would just save that for like later on.

You can have a hint of it at the beginning, like in the distance, you see lights, and then it shows up.

But like this stuff, the buildup is so nice.

The people whispering and the glass shattering and stuff.

That's fun.

That's good.

And then he has a final tweet from that day where he says they're in the house now.

They're looking for me with a picture attached of bare feet from underneath the doorway.

Probably fucking, you know, what's fucked up about this?

The immersion broken, dude.

Why?

Because I can tell with those gangly long-ass fucking toes, that's definitely the sun vanished.

Identical to his hands.

Those look kind of feminine.

He looks like a slender boy

with his hands and stuff.

Long, lanky ass fucking hands.

Hold on.

You really got freaked out about those hands.

Look at him.

Have you seen him?

And he's got the grays.

He's got the grays feet.

I guarantee you, the seven women in our audience are going to love

his Tootsies?

Yeah.

No, not his Tootsies, his hands.

Those hands.

Those like hands.

That's what they say.

The veiny hands.

They have the finger rings.

You guys like that.

It has that soundbite.

What the fuck is that soundbite that's popular with a lot of cringe videos?

It's like, say it again, I think I liked it.

Say that again.

I liked it.

Yeah.

That's that deal?

With that deal?

Like corpse husbandy kind of thing, right?

Yeah.

All those guys.

Dream.

Exactly.

Like Dream.

I don't think Dream looks like that dream is he's a people think he's cute right uh yeah i'm sure i mean he's got the hands his thing wasn't

i don't think it was as explicit with like corpse because corpse's whole thing was like oh most

he used to read cream fossils right uh yeah he did he did back in the day read a bunch of these maybe he can be a guest on our show well he did music for a while and stuff like that but i think he dipped from the internet after uh he got like a bunch of people kind of turned on him.

I think his picture of his face got out, and people were making fun of him and stuff, and then he dipped.

But he dipped around the same time that was happening.

Corpse, you want to read a spooky story?

Come on out, dude.

Yeah.

Would you bring him on with a sexy voice?

Yeah, I'd bring Corpse on with a sexy voice.

I think.

Can you do a Corpse impression?

That was pretty good.

That doesn't have the right to bad thing.

Yeah, that was the same register.

Welcome to Creepcast.

Yes.

Is that that what he would say if he was on Creepcast?

I feel like you've practiced in the mirror.

I'm Corpse husband, and this is Creepcast.

I'm Corpse husband, but I just got possessed by Isaiah.

This is Corpse husband, and I'm on Creepcast now.

I feel like you've done the shirtless in your bathroom in the mirror.

Why?

Why would you say that out loud?

For them.

The seven women in the audience.

Remember that?

Did you see them getting upset over that?

The seven women thing.

They're a bunch of girls.

Like, there's more than than seven of us.

Yeah.

I mean, it's a meme.

And now there's the people who have been saying there's the seven sister girls.

Seven sisters.

And that's sick.

The seven sisters?

Got seven.

Twelve of our girlies out there.

Yes.

That was pretty.

I felt my soul got to leave my mind.

That was

the reason you were that enthused because it was a point of meanness to a point I brought up.

That was counter to me.

So I did not appreciate that.

June 16th, he says, been hiding for 20 hours.

That's such a long time to be hiding.

I think they're gone.

I need to check the house first.

So he says, where should I check first?

Another poll.

Options are upstairs or downstairs.

Upstairs wins 60%.

So June 17th, he says, I'm heading upstairs.

First pick, the person has definitely been up here.

It is a picture of a bloody handprint across a wall.

Okay.

100% sun vanished.

Those fucking long ass hands.

Look at that.

That looks like...

Someone check his fucking DNA, dude.

Because it is not going to be human.

That is the biggest hand I have ever seen.

If either one of those is the pinky, that's terrifying.

This right here is his thumb.

There's no way.

It's no, no, because he's got a long-ass thumb.

No, it's this.

He's doing this.

It's the top four.

It's the top four, right?

So if it's right or left hand, his thumb's off the wall to the side, right?

No way his thumb's that scary.

And also, because there's only four fingers there, unless he's missing a finger.

I wouldn't throw anything, but I don't even think he has four fingers.

I think that these, I think he took his three fucking alien hand,

he kind of combined them and they got bottom together at the same time.

They're still there upstairs.

Just snap this before getting out of there.

It's another wait, so they're still up here.

I'm telling, look at that lanky motherfucker.

That's got to be a woman, I think.

This is 100% a guy.

You think that's the lanky tall man?

I bet you this motherfucker is like 6'8.

Hello?

He might be Slender Man.

Hello?

Yeah, if this, honestly, I'm not even joking.

If this fucking goes into a Slender Man thing,

I'm flipping the desk.

No, that is definitely a woman because we heard her whispering the sun's back.

That was a person outside, though.

Yeah, that was a woman.

No, but then they smashed their head through the window.

Now they're inside.

Yeah.

Okay, so you're saying that this is the woman that's out there.

That is the woman that was whispering the sun is back.

I still believe that it's him.

Okay, whatever.

I bet you he's like, oh, it's the girl from outside, but it's just him taking a picture of himself.

I mean, that could be true, but in the story, it's the girl from outside.

It's supposed to be the woman, yeah.

Yeah.

So he says, staying low, staying safe.

She seems to be in a trance.

She was trying to track me down before, but now, even if I'm right in front of her, she doesn't react.

Then we get another message: June 18th.

I don't think she's a threat anymore.

I locked her in the room where she's standing.

June 19th.

Holy shit, I woke up to find the door busted open.

First off, before I get and go into the picture or the video here,

do you like, do you, does

how do you feel about the whole,

like, holy shit, this just happened as a tweet, like him tweeting that, versus it, like, as like an actual tweet?

Does that feel weird that like in this moment you're like, oh,

you're, you know what I mean?

And it just happened?

Does that, I mean, I just thought of that and I was like, why the fuck?

So I can suspend my disbelief because it is the medium of the story.

Sure.

Okay, that's fine.

And if this was a scenario where they are still running the gambit that this could really be happening uh gregory 88

did a decent job of that where he'd be like i'm going to do a thing and then eight hours later he'd be like

this is what happened and he would describe it that was more believable because it was more grounded at least initially before we got to the well i like the idea of you it it helps me at least even in gregory 88 with the fucking eggs and all that shit at least it was something like i'm going to do this break he went and did it i'm going to tell you about it yeah like you just said but it feels weird that during the action, you'd be like, Let me tweet this out.

I will.

I forgive it here because it is about giant aliens that are running spaceships and control

with control, choose your own adventure routes.

And that's all fine to me.

I'm like, I'm almost disassociating this even as like tweets then.

And

it's almost like you're in the room with him.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't think of it tweet as tweets at a certain point.

It's just a medium of the story.

Yeah.

Is that our boy helping him out?

I think it might be.

They knew that he was there and that he didn't

from under the bed, it looked like.

Yeah, they definitely knew that he was there, so I'm wondering.

Reaching for him, heard a noise, runs outside.

Then he says, After the car horn, I heard a gunshot.

The son vanished, posts some screenshots of text with Daniel.

I found your Twitter.

Is that you honking outside and the gunshot?

Yep.

Then,

we have the same problem as we had before.

Can I trust you?

At your 11th birthday party, I gave you a Batman Lego set.

Is that good enough?

Grab your stuff.

Let's go.

How hard was that to just do that to say that?

Maybe there was.

I don't know.

It could have been.

It could have been something that read like animosity of, like, what, you think I'm one of them or something.

I mean, that could have been the author's intention.

It could have also been maybe

the, I don't know, the entity or whatever controlled danion for a little bit and got i don't know but anyway he posts this video next

so he is now in the car with danion

you like the shot of the gun is that a desert eagle my gosh

Yeah, he's got a massive cheese.

Oh, no, it's not.

It's like a 1911 or something.

Also, I like how he doesn't say anything.

He's just sitting there with his gun in his lap.

And he was just filming it as he ran.

Way to go, asshole.

So let's get out of here.

So now the sun vanishes with Daniel, right?

And this is actually when I quit keeping up with it.

Because that happened and there was a two-week hiatus.

And I don't think I may have saw one or two things afterwards.

But up until this point, I was keeping up with everything as it was going.

So now you're going in blind now.

Now I'm going in blind.

Okay.

I don't know what happens after this.

So two weeks later, July 7th, Sun Vanish talks again and says, I'm finally back.

There's so much that I have to catch you all up on, you won't believe what I've seen.

After the last video I tweeted, Daniel and I drove away into the boonies to stay away from where all the activity is in town.

He brought camping gear, so we stayed in a tent out of the woods for the last couple weeks.

It wasn't long before we were out of range from any cell towers, but I've made sure to still document anything significant.

On our way out of town, we noticed what appeared to be a star in the sky, but almost as soon as I pulled my phone, the star disappeared.

Then, this is the video.

So one singular star, as soon as it starts to be videoed, fades out.

Then says the next day, July 8th, once we got far enough away where we couldn't see the city lights anymore, we set up camp.

It was actually sort of peaceful for a bit, and it gave Danien and I plenty of time to catch up.

But unfortunately, there was some rising conflict between us.

Daniel isn't a fan of me broadcasting my situation to the internet.

He thinks it's dangerous.

My philosophy is that I have a chance to reach out to other people who might be in the same situation as I am.

But suffice to say, he hasn't been in a hurry to get back to reception.

At this point, we have been arguing for days on what to do next until our decision was made for us.

The storm rolled in and we saw this.

That actually looked really good.

That was fun.

Yeah, for like what this is, like just a little Twitter ARG put together, like the the shape floating across the sky that's fun that's cool so with the activity getting closer to our campsite i finally convinced danien for us to pack up and drive toward the closest cell tower do i trust danion yes do i trust his judgment i'm not so sure july 12th we've been camping out next to the cell tower danien took the car and left a few hours ago to find more fuel to siphon while danien's gone i'm free to answer any questions you all have nate's note for us says the sun vanished has a short q a session which is mostly not that important to the story but gets one message from an account or character that will be important later.

So this is the sun vanished saying, without knowing your situation, all I can say is to stay low.

If you are inside, stay away from windows and doors.

Good luck to you, to your survival.

He shows screenshots of messages from a character named Nat.

Nat has been making cursory posts since August 30th, where they've been compiling a survivor guide by taking messages from others dealing with the sun vanishing.

This will be cut for brevity's sake, and they won't be brought up again until they begin interacting with our characters.

Yeah, I mean, at the beginning of the story, we said that the Sun Vanished, Tucker, and Nat were going to be the three most important.

So, this is the first introduction to Nat.

So, Nat, yeah, so actually, Nat had been talking since August, but this is, or sorry, no, we're talking in July.

The next month,

Nat will make survivor's guides of like, stay away, do this, and stuff.

For the sake of brevity, for whatever that matters on the show,

we're not going to be going through all of them, but just know that's like Nat's biggest role.

There's so many of them.

This is a very consolidated thing, but they were like responding to tons of stuff.

Like, it's just like, for the overarching story of us reading this now, it's just, we're just going to be able to do that.

There were Q ⁇ As he would do where it would be, I do remember some of this, where like

the Sun Vanished would answer like dozens of questions about like, what's your name?

Is your family okay?

And it'd mostly be like, I don't know, maybe.

And it would be us reading that for like

there's just tons because it was so interactive.

It's so easy to tweet out stuff.

Exactly.

Yeah.

So, and it went, again, it went on for years.

So this is consolidated.

But this is our first introduction to Nat.

If you want to read what she said.

Yeah.

It says, hey, hey, the sun vanished.

I'm Nat.

I've survived two months now thanks to the info you've accumulated and shown us.

I owe you.

I want to make a guide for survival, pick up where the news outlets left off.

And I've been trying to collect anything I can from the other survivors out there and was wondering if you have any tips, which is kind of a fun.

I like the introduction to this kind of character because it lets him at least build in this world of...

It's almost like, you know how many fucking zombie survival books there are?

Yes.

Yeah.

So it's like, you get to kind of have that with this.

It's like that element but it's for like an alien invasion where the sun yeah yeah so july 13th i just woke up and danion is still gone and then he says no response in close to 12 hours and shows a screenshot of a text message he sent to daniel that just says where are you july 14th i'm stuck here with no car no gun just a tent and the essentials july 15th i only have 38 hours of battery left if danien doesn't come back with a car it's been two days yes at this point july 16th guys we have a new problem i can't see anything but i can hear someone walking around my tent.

And then, oh god, never mind.

Now I can see with this video.

Okay, I gotta say

I really like the aliens being depicted as flashing lights that make clicking noises.

Something about it is so mechanical.

So simple.

It's nice.

Also, too, we have got to put an epilepsy warning at the beginning of this fucking episode.

Also,

also there, Blue Tint, was that a white light or was that a blue light?

That was a white light.

So it was a white light.

I'm pretty sure.

I thought it was too.

I couldn't tell because it just illuminating it.

I think it's a white light, especially because earlier, like Blue Night, or I don't know if they said they don't make noise, but that was the white light noise for sure.

It's one that that we've definitely heard, but I was wondering, why would the white light be there if there's been...

Well, I thought that they were attracted to flashlights and stuff, so maybe he was like looking around with it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

To be fair, his light is on.

That's true on his camera.

Yeah, that's true.

Then says, this one is different from the others.

It's just wandering aimlessly and flickering at random intervals.

I'm fighting the urge to go check it out.

I know it's too risky, but I only have five hours of battery left.

Not a single sign of Daniel returning and not much else to lose.

And then he does a poll to either stay in the tent or investigate.

Oh, they said yes okay so they voted leave she said quickly snap this pick and it's just a pretty ominous picture of a guy standing in some tall grass lee says i followed it into the crops to get a good look at it the crops are about six to seven feet high so that gives you a good idea of how much taller it was oh so that was like huge it's like 13 feet tall i mean it's at least i mean i would say yeah 13 feet it was huge july 17th next day he says less than two hours of battery left i'm powering down my phone for now wish me luck then the sun vanished disappears for two and a half months pretty crazy that is that's such a wild interval but at the same time tucker's story picks back up so then tucker says hey everyone sorry it's been so long briefira asks no i'm not really okay the church of the west coast was unsuccessful i couldn't get through indianapolis i haven't heard from my family i haven't heard from my family says it twice maybe that's a typo i don't know just caught up to the sun vanishes situation wow sun vanished isn't safe i'm not safe nobody is safe you cannot trust anyone except yourself.

Save yourself.

I miss my family.

So is Tucker's family in Virginia or is he going to the West?

I think he's going to them in the West.

That's what I think.

I think that's what it is.

That's why he's trying to go.

That's why he's going.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Tucker leaves as quickly as he came and goes dark for almost three months.

So now

at the same time.

Which also from just to notice some of the times here, too, we're talking July 21st.

The posts are becoming more, more sporadic.

Because before it was daily, multiple times a day.

Now we're going, it was first it was three days, two days, days three days four days now we're that's 21st and then the next post isn't until the 31st so 10 days now which i think is the longest span we've had between posts and after that uh it says that on uh july 31st it's the first time that nat becomes important outside of world building nat says poll should i try to message tucker and interview him uh and there's a yes or no poll with yes winning by a landslide so on august 6th nat posts their interview messages with Tucker.

Basically, what it seems like here is that she's asking Tucker.

it seems like nat is asking tucker questions to be like is tucker actually who he says he is and he's posting because here nat says why do you repeat certain words slash phrases tucker says excuse me and then she says you've been repeating certain words slash phrases in your tweets and messages usually a sign of uh drinking contaminated water so that's that's the part where he's like i haven't heard from my family haven't heard from my family that y'all there i thought it was a typo but it's actually

and then you read over in a second because again we assumed it was a typo but when he says um

uh that one thing where where he was like uh i miss miss my family says that's interesting and it's a sign of drinking contaminated water tucker says i'm fine it isn't that big of a problem i'll i'll read nap go ahead okay well what about your family what happened to them we are not talking about that if you mention that again i will block you i will block you

that's suspicious

okay have you seen what the strobe's headlights look like Kinda.

I've been able to make out a silhouette of one of them.

What does it look like?

It kind of the shape of a person, but definitely didn't move like a person.

Interesting.

Can you elaborate?

What did it move like?

I don't know.

Not normal.

If it has the shape of a person, did you see its head?

I don't know.

Did it chase after you?

How tall was it?

I don't know.

How did you get away?

I don't fucking know.

When you're in the moment, fight or flight.

You aren't thinking about this shit.

You don't notice details.

You just have to stay alive.

I'm sorry, but we just want to know what's going on.

Nat, have you ever been in situation like i have have you ever had to run like your life depends on it because if you had you'd understand how difficult it is to recall things we're in a situation like that all you care about is one thing survival you're right i haven't been through something like that nat how old are you 14 14

oh no all right

this unvanished everyone enjoy 14 i'm telling you because the person who is probably making this is probably right.

Probably right.

Hello?

100%.

Some like 14-year-old gangly alien bull.

That explains a lot of some of the

baseball bat, the cups, the baseball bats.

Everything.

Yes, absolutely.

The running into the car, and the guy, like, has one gun.

It's just a bunch of teenagers, probably high schoolers, even.

You're right.

You're right.

It's probably a guy, too, who it's like, he's 17.

He's probably made this.

He's 17.

He's like, oh, she's like a younger.

She's like a little younger than I am.

She's 14.

Yeah.

Whatever.

And she's like, you know, a curious, whatever kid who's online, chronically online, blah, blah, blah.

Right.

Because to him, 14 isn't comedically young for someone.

Yeah, he's like kids.

He's going to put together a survival kid.

Yeah.

But, you know, like when I was 14, I knew, blah, blah, blah.

That's how you describe like a novice when you're 17.

A 14-year-old who now is like a child that works.

And Tucker's a fucking 38-year-old guy

who's like, I'm from Virginia.

It'd be funny if it's like, I got to be back to my family across the country.

How old are you?

16.

I get it.

You're young and eager to obtain information because you have no idea what's really out there.

But I promise you, if you experience things for yourself, you'd have a very different set of priorities.

Where have you been staying this whole time?

In your house?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So come me some slack because you haven't been through what I have.

It's interesting.

Like, I can't tell if it's like the writing or part of the story that she's like,

oh, well, like, why have you been repeating stuff?

And he's like,

girly, you'll get it when you're my age.

All right.

Exactly.

Trust me.

Go through a divorce and you'll be repeating a lot of stuff.

Try two lawsuits with one ex-wife.

See what happens.

Listen, just give me some time.

I'll come to you when I jog my memory about what I've seen, okay?

I like that on the screen, that dog.

That's the scariest thing I've seen so far.

Little puppy.

She's giving me a heart attack.

And she just responds with okay.

Yep.

And then Nat goes dark for two months.

Yeah.

So now we're not getting our next post isn't until September 30th, 2018, which is kind of interesting because I know that we've, I think we said this at the beginning, but I mean, this thing only closed out.

At least the last posts that we have here are up until 2023.

Yeah.

So now we're seeing these time jumps to where this story has stayed committed for so long, even if the posts are like, okay, well, you're not going to post for a month for however long.

Yeah.

Yeah, they've been a while.

So the Sun Vanish returns September 30th and says, I'm back.

It's been a long time, but I'm back.

I don't have much time.

Extremely low battery, but there's a car close by.

I can see it.

And then it says, for what I can tell, the car door is open and dinging, meaning the keys are still in the ignition.

Sends a picture.

You can see like the car, the car lights out in the distance.

That's a cool pic.

And he says, Oh god, it's warm here.

There's a hot spot, but it's my one ticket to getting my phone charged and getting away from here.

And then he posts this video.

So it's him seeing the car

out in the distance.

What is this kit?

He's trying to charge.

It's a charge.

It's a charging kit for, I think, his

phone.

Yeah, I think so.

It also looked like it had a light almost, but maybe that's why he's using good light.

Probably something he got off of.

That's pretty menacing to see that car

open.

Because it's been like months now, right?

Oh.

bro.

My boy just got fucking Oppenheimered for real.

You're running through the ones.

It's like, oh, lay on the grass.

He's like, well, I have cancer.

Do you have to lay down?

I can't tell if he's hiding or not.

He's laying down in the grass.

But still, you're not supposed to be exposed to the light at all.

Well, it says get down whenever or just get low.

Maybe it's play, you're playing dead or something.

Maybe that's why it works.

So, no,

two full-blast blue gamma rays in the back

for you.

He's walking around, he heard something overhead, and then the blue light shined down.

So, I think the blue light definitely comes from the ships.

That's what it looks like.

You ready to meet God, kid?

I love how

what was the Slenderman videos we were watching again?

Marble Hornets.

I love how Marble Hornets-coated it is.

Where it's like the family vehicle, like he's getting into like a Chevy Malibu or whatever.

His mom's car.

It's like, Mom, can I go park this in the road?

I won't drive it.

I'll just like just move it a little bit.

Boom, boom, boom.

hey so i actually just got hit by three blasts of radiation

is that bad

mom will i be okay mom he's like eyes like drooping down like

mom

i feel weird okay so then on october 1st so the next day he says i have to get to a colder location i promise i'll explain everything then all right i'm not in a cold spot yet but where i am will do for now the ships have certain identifiable flight patterns yeah so in the time he's been gone he's learned some stuff uh You can tell where they tread often by the temperature of the area, hot spots.

Where they don't go as often is much more safe, cold spots.

After my eye powered off my phone to save the last little bit of battery juice, some followers of the Twitter account figured out where I was and came to rescue me.

They brought me to their shelter and had food and clean water, so I decided to live with them for about two months.

Then I think the flight patterns changed and we got found out.

And they didn't make it.

That's why I've had to learn how to evade the ships on my own for the last few weeks or so.

Okay, so that's interesting because it's like

he

maybe the reason that there was a car parked out here is like there was like a group of people, like a shelter or something.

Maybe that's one of their cars who tried to get away or something like that.

Oh, yeah.

Like there was an initial fallout where everyone's dead.

We didn't see the fallout, but that's just like one of the fallout.

That's one of the people who rescued him.

It's one of the survivors.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Next day he says, Finally found a good cold spot.

There's something that I've been avoiding talking about.

When Daniel left, he said he would come back, but he never did.

He basically left me for dead out there in the woods.

I didn't really say anything here, but I was so angry at him, I couldn't believe I trusted him.

But when I turned my phone back on, I got a flood of texts from him.

He shows a picture of those texts.

I was confused.

I didn't know what else to do.

Because of what I know, I got in trouble with some people.

They're threatening to kill me if I don't tell them what they want to know.

Do you remember when we used to be close?

Before moving away and starting our own lives, we were happy.

I know it's something everyone says.

Those were simpler times, but they really were.

Lol.

There was so much stuff I never did and never said, but it's too late now.

I had my chances to fess up again, and I'm so sorry.

If I'm not a goner by the time you read this, Blank attitude, blank longitude.

I wish I was a better friend to you.

Now, is this a suicide note, or is he like infected, you think?

I think he's infected.

Well, he said the few times my mind was clear.

I think maybe what happened, the reason he wasn't answering those messages earlier and stuff like that, is because he maybe didn't fully succumb to the red light, but I think he looked at it for a bit.

And I think he got messed up.

It did something to him.

Yeah.

Which explains why he didn't answer the messages in the first place.

And then the Sun Vanish says, I wish I had responded to Daniel earlier.

And then some messages that he sent to Daniel said, hey, listen to me, you aren't a goner.

You are not a goner.

I'm going to come find you.

Okay.

Please tell me if you're reading these to no response.

I'm going to assume Daniel is probably dead.

He's dead.

I think he's certainly dead.

I mean, he's been gone for two months.

Like, good luck.

He then says his coordinates are really, really far away, but his coordinates were like up in the sky.

Daniel.

But I have to find him, even though I'm still upset at him for what he did.

I can't leave him in whatever the hell situation he's gotten himself into.

I can't move on with that on my conscience.

I mean, you'd have to assume they're just gone.

I mean, he's dead.

Right.

At what point or is it just being

stupid, you know?

When you turn your phone on and those messages are from a month ago, and you're like, I gotta find him.

Yeah, from two months ago.

From a month ago, this is where he was two months ago.

Yeah.

Good luck.

I bet he's still there.

I bet he hasn't left and nothing's found him.

That didn't read like a creepy suicide note at all.

Absolutely not.

He's probably fine.

Two months, he's clear.

He's been.

I bet that guy, a-okay.

He's like, I got into cold plunging.

I've never been so mentally clear before.

I found this new crypto you really need to get in on.

You got to get in on it.

It's called Bluecoin.

Blue coin.

October 4th.

There's something else that I haven't told you all.

I neglected to mention it because I had no idea what I saw or heard, but now I have actual proof.

And he shows a video.

It was a military jet.

Military jet, or those ships can truck if they want to.

It does sound like

the audio is definitely that of a military jet, but it's yeah, something flying overhead.

He says about a month ago, I saw one of the ships flying nearby, and after a loud noise, it suddenly exploded exploded and then came crashing down.

I bet you're right.

It is militaries, like, shooting them down or something.

Again, war of the worlds, like, you know, people fighting back.

Honestly, at the time, I thought I was hallucinating or something, but now I'm fairly certain I wasn't.

That's definitely not one of the ships.

That's a jet.

Yeah, you're right.

Two days later, Nat returns.

Nat says, happy birthday to me and post a screenshot of Tucker finally responding to them.

Hey, kid.

Glad to see you online again.

I'm sorry for popping off like I did.

I let my emotions get the best of me.

You're doing doing a good thing here with your Twitter.

Don't be afraid to keep broadcasting people's first-hand accounts and experiences.

So, Tucker's also gone.

Better, he's a belligerent alcoholic.

In this situation, I think being an alcoholic is perfectly acceptable.

That would be

in this world where, I mean, what else?

I mean, what else do you have?

You're by yourself.

You're talking to a 14-year-old on Twitter.

Hey, kid.

The only person putting together information to help people.

Maybe in a different lifetime, kid.

Maybe in a different lifetime.

Tucker, what do you mean by that, Tucker?

Nothing.

Nothing.

Where'd you say you were at again?

Yeah, where are you at?

Hello?

I don't think.

Talk to me.

I don't think I should answer that question, Tucker.

On October 8th, the Sun Vanish says, been slowly but surely making my way towards the coordinates.

Bro.

Hunter, I mean this with love.

I would not come to anything you say.

I would never, I'm going to tell you this right now.

I would fucking never, if I ever write a suicide note, I'm not going to tell you where it's going to be.

I'm just going to say, I'm probably just going to say, bye.

I wouldn't give that to anybody, though, would I?

Would you?

A suicide note?

Yeah, if you're like, this is where my body is.

Are we talking about in the bottom of the

specifics

in anything?

If you're like,

I'm going to do it in the forest, would you be like, here's my longitude, latitude?

I think it changes

i don't that may have been a suicide note that may have also been like last known location i don't know but i think it changes dramatically heavily like he was okay if that's what it is then i don't think he would say anything if that was a cry for help i think he would have been like or if like this is the last place i'm at if if i'm still alive does it also not read like a trap Yes.

If that's the case, here's my longitude.

My theory is that he's half succumbing to the red light.

Anytime someone gives me fucking directions that are like, I've had it happen a couple of times, donut.

He does that all the time.

And I was just like,

it's like, Motherfucker, give me a street name.

He does that all the time.

You know what I mean?

I'm like, oh, I get it.

It's like, where you live?

It's like, okay.

So I'm now going to punch this in, find the address that's three feet away.

Exactly.

And I'm always happy to see him.

At the same time, like, if I get another fucking latitude, longitude address again,

I'm going to be up a river.

I have buddies who do that too.

They'll give me pins.

They'll drop a pin for a place.

It's like, oh, Angie's barbecue.

Yeah.

Better drop that pin.

Whoa.

Hey, I'm here.

Oh, I'll meet you there at 1500 hours.

Whoa.

It's like I'm in an alternate universe.

Whoa, the million.

I'm going to do stolen valor.

When did the general get here?

Aye, aye, Captain.

Every time I get a text like that, now I'm just going to say, whoo-roo!

Just send the salute emoji over and over.

Yeah,

I really, I think I would have to question a friendship if they gave me like latitude, longitude to a fucking red robin or something.

Yeah, I've had people do that.

It's like, it's ridiculous.

It's ridiculous.

I get it.

I get it.

Whoa, you're very cool.

Yeah.

So the sun vanished then says on October 8th, I get paranoid when I'm outside of a cold spot for too long.

And he said,

it's weird.

The closer I get to Daniel's last location, it keeps getting hotter.

I'm on fire.

That's all.

I'm sweating profusely.

Whoever owned this car previously, they had an adult-sized sleeping bag and a child-sized sleeping bag in the back with a picture attached.

That is great

world-building.

I like more that.

Like, you come across a baby guards with like an adult and a child-size.

I like how haunting it is to be like a failing, like a parent and a kid died.

Yeah, you know, that's pretty creepy.

Yeah, just like they got sucked up, or they got they succumbed to the red light or whatever.

Yeah, didn't get low enough.

Exactly.

Yeah, didn't get, didn't get near the ground.

And also, like, just the hauntiness of like the car door was open, right?

But it was recent.

The battery was shipped.

It stripped from your car.

It was digging, yeah.

Pretty creepy.

And there was a blue light right above head.

Yeah, that's creepy.

That's great.

Damn.

That's an awesome element.

I really like it.

It'll be screwed up.

It's like the moment he drove away, like

we're taking a piss.

What do we do now, Daddy?

No, no.

I'm going to give you a latitude and longitude.

Hey, I'm going to go take a nap in the forest forever.

That's so dark, isn't it?

Walk that way, honey.

You like send the kid towards the ship.

Yeah,

don't walk that way.

Close your eyes, walk, and count to 7,000.

One, two.

He just eviscerates.

He's holding

the kid up by their legs, like, come and get me.

We're here!

We're here!

Yeah, if we don't have the Chevy Malibu, we have nothing.

Give up, kid.

That was our last hope.

Okay, so it really hit me just how many people have been impacted by all this.

How many friends?

How many families?

I wish I could do more to help.

Just now.

Yeah, it took you this long.

So then, after this, the Sun Vanish disappears for two weeks.

Ducker returns a week after his last message, and Nat makes an important post two days later.

So two days later, Nat has a post, which is a screenshot of a message received from a user who believes they know where the sun vanished is hiding.

It's weird, too, how Nat is able to get all this information.

She's 14.

Yeah, I'm 14.

So someone tells Nat, hey Nat, I think I know where the Sun Vanish might be.

Last several weeks, there have been a lot of fighter jets flying around where I've been staying.

Turns out there's an Air Force base, not but 10 miles from me.

Do you think the sun vanishes near an Air Force base?

Well, that's kind of vague, but I was to say, because surely there's a lot of

Air Force base.

There's several, yeah.

But if you're a 16 or 17-year-old riding this, you're just like, there's no Air Force.

The Air Force got him, guys.

He's safe.

He's safe.

And then after that, we get a post from Tucker on October 14th that says.

I'm much more stable now if that wasn't already obvious by these tweets, tweets, but that shit had happened.

I keep replaying the events in my mind over and over and over and over.

The images won't go away.

My parents and my sister, a ship was there, a blue flash just completely mutilated them.

If I had done things differently.

Oh my god.

If I had done things differently, it really makes the guy who's like waving his kid block fire

instantly vaporized and mutilated too.

It's just like,

there's like the war of the worlds.

Yeah, well, I think it was quick.

I wish it was that quick.

They're just just like, yeah, just fucking turn them into a pile of goo or something like that.

Yeah, just melting.

It's like it burns them.

So, like, the blue light scans, and if you play dead, it doesn't like kill you intensify.

Yeah, that's still kind of ambiguous.

I think that that's kind of, I think you're safe to assume that.

Yeah, the white and red lights are like the ground units.

Yeah.

And then the blue light, it really is War of the Worlds.

You got like the big tripods and then the little ones going around.

If I never stormed off after that screaming match and moved away, if I hadn't been selfish, they would still be alive right now.

Okay, so this older guy who's like, listen, kid, you gotta, you gotta be on the road like I have is like 21 years old.

We don't know.

He could be.

Because his family he's trying to get to is his parents.

He's an old man.

I'm 22.

Yeah, listen, kid.

When you're...

And then those fucking things came after me.

Strobes, headlights, whatever you want to call them.

I knew not to look at their red lights, so I shut my eyes as tight as I could.

They didn't like that.

Someone grabbed me by the throat and repeatedly slammed my head into the wall.

i got out of there within an inch of my life and then the thing i'll never forget when i glanced back while i was running away was seeing it look towards me there was a large cylinder protruding from its head and i swear to god its arm and legs grew right in front of my eyes so it's like extending how did he get away from it well it just seemed like he just didn't look and then it got furiated was throwing throwing him into the wall yeah i'm wondering why i didn't chase him down though or something had a little has little lasers cuts off your eyelids yeah oh

you have to look

so on october 20th, the Sun Vanish says, just Red Tucker's updates.

Oh my God.

Been staying in another cold spot.

This one clearly hasn't been traveled in a long time.

The trees are dying here.

That's an interesting note.

I guess, yeah, because there's no sun.

But it's like when there's a hot spot, there's like an artificial life, artificial sun.

He then says, used to have these kind of evergreens in my backyard when I was a kid.

It's disturbing to see them dying now.

Shows a picture of that.

And then on October 26th, so six days later, he says, just drove past a junkyard full of cards.

Something odd I noticed.

All of the mirrors were gone.

That's interesting.

Are people salvaging the mirrors?

That or the aliens are breaking them.

That too.

Hmm.

Interesting.

Or taking them or doing.

I don't know.

Yeah.

Could be user for something.

That would be a cool defense mechanism if, like, they're all about lights and like seeing stuff.

If you could just reflect yourself, you could get away from it.

So the Nat post a photo of a strange message they receive, which the sun vanished retweets.

I'm a Russian soldier camping out of an old military base and recently killed a what we call them

Thank you or demon lights we shot a ship out of the sky in an old World War II anti-air what

had an old whatever in a anti-air cannon uh and it attacked our camp we killed it with a t-14 armada an armored tank we quickly learned contact with the body equals death so hold on when one of the thing when one of the light things touch you you die I don't know.

I think it says like physically, but I'm not sure.

Okay.

More are coming.

Some are bigger than others.

And a mother's ship is right above our base and it will crush us if we shoot it.

Please acknowledge this for it might be our last stance.

So some of the English is weird because it's Russian a little bit, right?

Yeah.

So they call them Demon Lights, which is a fine name.

That works.

I'll take it.

Demon Lights.

Then November 29th, 2018, I had a dream about Danion, but it was more like a memory, I guess.

When we were little, we would climb into this giant dead tree in our neighborhood.

The branches could barely support our weight, so we would kick and push each other's branches until one eventually would snap.

I can't help but feel like

I'm already too late.

Haven't heard a word from him.

The repetition right there.

Yep.

Something feels really off, but I can't put into words why.

Wait.

What the hell do you all mean?

I've been gone for a month.

It's only been a week or so.

Oh, he's fucked.

Oh, interesting.

Yeah, that guy's gone.

He's fucked.

So November 30th, he says, I don't remember how I got here.

And he shows a picture.

Picture is of...

Is that just dead grass?

That or is it a river?

He says, I'm racking my brain to try to think, think of what happened.

I wish I tweeted more so I could remember.

But you guys are right.

It's been a month.

December 1st, I feel like that's what I've been doing.

Napping.

I have so little energy, but I should definitely check my camera roll.

These were taken four years ago.

For some reason, some reason.

They were in an album called remember four years ago okay the things to remember roadway a deer and a wall so that's probably priming something that'll show up later but they were in his camera from four years ago it's interesting sunvanish then says i know i sound crazy but it feels okay to stay here i think here is safe next to the water next to the waters yeah he's 100 gone to the waters

but you can because as proven from earlier when he goes to the different house and drinks the other water you can get over the water stuff yeah he just needs to get the fuck out of there yeah yeah tucker says at the Sun Vanish, you need to leave now.

You are not safe.

This is exactly what the water is designed for.

They're going to come for you.

Sun Vanish, then quote retweets that and says, Something is keeping me here.

I try to leave, but I just come right back.

Back.

I don't know what to do.

Next day, December 2nd, the Sun Vanish posts a cryptic photo.

This picture, what am I looking at?

Looks like he's seeing the Sun.

Oh, yeah.

The Sun is back.

He posts that and then says, I can't believe I'm alive.

I'm alive.

It took everything out of me.

I kept forgetting why I needed to leave, but you all helped me.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I understand now what people mean when I hear about close encounters with these things.

It isn't just a light.

It looks into you.

And then the sun vanished, post a screenshot of a conversation with Tucker.

You all right?

Yeah, yeah, just a bit scraped up.

I meant mentally, not physically.

Oh, I don't know.

I feel different, I guess.

I swear in my life that I didn't look into the light.

It's just that I've never been this close to one before.

Yeah, I think I understand what you mean.

But what did you mean by this is exactly what the water was designed for in your tweet?

From what I've heard, that seems to be the purpose of whatever is in the water.

It leaves you psychologically vulnerable and easily influenced by circumstances.

The question is where it came from and why.

December 4th, the Sun Vanish says, why do they want us alive?

The blue light from the ship seems to be an exception, but I've had plenty of narrow escapes from the water, the headlights, and the ships.

And I can't be the only one.

I mean, I'm crafty, but not that crafty.

What the hell do they want with us?

Nat then posts an interesting message they receive from a chemical battalion member.

Okay, so this is first off, love that profile picture.

Profile picture is so funny.

It's so funny to imagine these people messaging a 14-year-old girl.

Like, here's a.

She's the expert, dude.

Me with the military messaging the shot.

So you can tell him in the military because we're profile picture.

I am.

I am in the military.

This is clearly a military picture.

It'd be funny if, like, the Russian guy earlier, his profile picture is like the hammer and sickle.

Yeah.

It's just Stalin.

Yeah.

Hey, Nat, I'm a part of the 92nd Chemical Battalion, or at least I was.

I was on leave when this mess went down.

Me and some of my buddies made our way back to Fort Gillam to reconnect with my unit.

That was a mistake.

There wasn't really much left here, and we saw a whole mess of strobe lights, just like wandering about looking for survivors.

We took off and it's been months now, from what I can tell, at least.

Supplies have been low, but we've rationed what we could.

Advice, do not drink the water, even if it has been boiled.

My close friend, Private Logan, boiled the water and drank it.

We had to leave him.

Started acting weird.

It hurts me to say that.

I don't know how long I have left before my next scavenging run.

Apparently, people have been hearing jets.

Hopefully, this ends soon.

Stay safe.

It says, Nat post a couple, this is again a note from Nate.

Nat post a couple more screenshots of messages they received, but nothing too important.

Besides this, they do not make another important post until the new year.

Sun Vanish, for the next few weeks, does a QA that doesn't have much importance to the story.

Then, on December 29th, Sun Vanish says, I have some news on my progress.

I'm on a highway.

The quickest route to get to Daniel's coordinates.

He's still going for sure.

It's been months.

He started his journey in October.

Just trying to find him.

I'm on a highway, the quickest route.

Only problem is that the highway takes me through a city.

And he shows a picture.

Oh, there's streetlights?

Well, I guess he said the power's in and out.

In and out.

It goes in and out.

Yeah, it's just always nighttime.

He says, it's risky, but if I take the chance going through the city, it will take much less time than trying to go around.

What do you guys think?

And then he does a poll between going through the the city or not.

Going through the city wins.

Now, December 31st, he says, city it is.

I'll start driving again soon.

Wish me luck.

And then goes dark for over two weeks.

And that was the last post of the year.

That's the last post of 2018.

Yes.

All right.

We had to move back to our state.

The recording was too long.

It was too long of recordings back to back.

So here we are.

It was taking a biblical amount of time.

Yes.

January 11th.

So after the sun vanished, went dark for two weeks.

Nat then posts a screenshot of someone sending them a photo of the sun seemingly being back.

The quote says, so many people pretending with this shit.

Why?

You aren't fooling anyone.

The person is either purposely misleading or has flat out lost it thanks to the Blackwater or red lights or a combination of the two.

And then Tucker said, sorry I haven't tweeted in a while, everyone.

I might seem on edge, but honestly, I'm doing better than I'm doing better since October.

Thank you for your love and support.

So then after that, January 19th, a little over a week later, The Sun Vanish posts a picture with the message, I was really nervous driving into the city limits, but I'm here.

And the only picture we see is of what appears to be a pedestrian walk sign that's been hit, knocked over.

After that, January 20th, Sun Vanish says, I'm being extremely careful, driving slow with all the lights off to avoid unwanted attention.

No signs of life yet, which puts me really on edge.

Please help.

I can't stay.

There's something inside.

My mom got out.

I had her locked away because she wasn't herself anymore and now she is out.

After that, Tucker quote retweets nat's previous post and says what the hell did i just wake up to nat says i can't do this again then after that tucker says i've been tragically messaging nat all day no response no tweets since late last night i'm really worried look i just got to get back in the groove gotta remember the sun's gone it's not good people

red lights blue lights black water red lights stuff happening Yes, yeah, a lot of people being really confused and scared.

It seems that something bad's happened to Nat,

or at least that's what it's implying, because Tucker says, I've been trying to get hold of her and I can't.

Anyway, the next day, January 21st, Tucker says, I don't know what to do about this.

Should I message again?

I didn't even stop to really think about what condition Nat has been in at this time.

Not until now.

At the same time, The Sun Vanished has a message where he says, side note, I noticed a new photo in that album.

I don't recall taking this.

The picture is of what appears to be a car

out front of his house.

So this is the original walkway from his house that the series started at, where he saw the guy standing on the walkway.

But there's a picture of a car out front, but he doesn't remember taking that picture.

Yeah, it's weird too.

The photo album says remember.

Yeah.

It seems like in these states, in whatever states, he just like takes, he knows that he needs to take a photo and put it into these folders,

which maybe it's like when he knows that he's under some kind of

hypnosis or delirium.

Yeah, some kind of thing.

Yeah.

So January 26th, Tucker says, he posts some screenshots of a bleak conversation with Nat.

I'm here, Tucker.

I'm alive.

I got out.

Are you okay, kid?

Are you hurt?

What happened?

I forgot.

I forgot about.

I forgot about this whole dynamic where Nat's 14 and Tucker's like 21.

Yeah.

So he's like a grizzled man.

Tucker's an 89-year-old man.

Yeah.

I'm bleeding a lot.

My mom broke out of the basement where I locked her.

I couldn't hurt her even though I should have.

I couldn't do that to my parents again.

So I left.

For the first time in a long time, I left.

I always forget.

Yeah, she's like a fetus.

Yeah, she's four.

she's literally 14 right yeah probably same age as people maybe a year or two younger than the person writing this actual post yeah so the and the average age of our viewers yeah of course yeah of course now i'm so sorry i'm so sorry and then after that continues in another screenshot it hurts a lot i don't know where i am now but it's cold and dark and i'm alone Do you have any means of getting into another building, a neighbor's house, anything?

No, I tried.

All doors are locked.

I tried breaking a window, but it's way tougher than it looks.

His deal is just kind of funny.

I tried breaking a window, but it's way tougher than it looks.

Like they walked up.

Just

ow.

That didn't shatter as easily as I thought it would.

I thought my giant whole

hands would have completely busted the shit wide open.

How wrong I was.

So after that, Tucker has a couple tweets where he says, I can't believe this, but I'm going.

I'm tired of feeling useless.

I'm going to find that.

I just don't know if that's even.

Is it worth it in

an apocalyptic situation?

Is it worth going to save a 14?

This is the guy.

This is the same series where the Sun Vanish is like, I have his last coordinates before he got sucked up by the mothership.

Yeah.

I'm going to go get him.

Yeah.

yeah.

It's definitely not worth it.

Okay, so then a few days later on the 29th, Sun Vanish says, as I expected, the low-fuel warning just dinked.

Got my flashlight, bat, phone.

I'm on foot now.

I forgot his only means of defense was a bat.

Yeah, it was the photo of the bat.

A good chortling moment for me.

That was great.

And the cups.

That was his defense mechanism.

The cups.

Which, again, a 15-year-old further back.

If you're watching this episode right now on YouTube, won't you take time, go get some cups, stack it up against your door?

Because that is the only way to watch this episode is to have cups stacked up against the door.

And then also,

you have to do it at night and pretend like the sun's not coming back.

Exactly.

Just like that now.

Yep.

Yeah.

Take a picture at midnight and say it's 3 p.m.

Yeah.

Get a friend, find their last known coordinates.

Try to go there.

You just take it out.

You've just summoned the midnight man.

You've just let the Midnight Man into your home.

Then Tucker tweets that same day and says, I'm traveling light.

That isn't too far away compared to my last trip.

About 500 miles or so.

God damn.

These people are just so far away.

500 miles.

Not too bad.

They're doing this across the entire country.

500 miles.

She's not that far away.

She's not too far.

I only have to drive through five hot zones where the giant pyramids from Evangelion are flying.

I've gotten radiation flashed seven times, but I'm okay.

I like real low to the ground.

Yeah,

the radiation can't find you down there.

A couple weeks later, on February 15th, we get the next update where Tucker says.

All right.

I'm at the address Nat sent me.

Looked around and can't find anything.

No response from Nat on Twitter either.

What should I do?

I'm going to take your advice.

Gonna get into the house and have a look around.

The house is way more kept up on the outside.

Looks like it's been a shithole for a long time.

Jesus.

That's kind of rough looking.

No way this much grime and dust have accumulated in just 10 months.

I mean, maybe.

Right?

I mean, yeah, it's like

living there.

Someone has to have been in there.

Well, I'm guessing.

I'm wondering if this is where...

Could this be where she locked up her mom?

Could be.

Didn't she say she was in the basement?

Possibly.

I guess this is like a kitchen.

Oh, there's like a kitchen counter.

Yeah, this is like a living room kitchen.

You see the cat in the middle of the picture?

Yeah, with the eyes.

Hello.

That's a cool cat.

Hi.

That's her mom.

That's that's that's mom.

She became a cat.

I gave birth to a human.

That's what the aliens do.

They uh they turn people into cats.

Meow.

So five days later, February 20th, Tucker says, I'm trying to think of any possible reason as to why that is MIA.

Well, she sent you plenty of messages being like, I'm learning.

It's a pretty good.

Help, please.

It's freezing outside, so no ships and very low chance of drones.

It could be dark water, but after checking GPS, there's no bodies of water within a 10-mile radius.

I guess I don't have much choice, do I?

Ooh, going down to the basement, baby.

Yep, yep, there it is.

Okay, so yeah, this is where she was at, and her mom's down in the basement.

All right, here we go.

Now,

this is a quote followed by a vid.

It says, When I press up against the wall leading to the basement, I hear this.

Ooh, here we go.

Give me some spooky shit here.

So for people,

it's just a little like a woman trembling.

Yeah, you just hear a woman trembling as like the phone's pressed up against the door.

You know, for like

for this being a series of tweets we're reading every now and then it kind of gets a little monotonous, but those videos, they pick it back up.

They're uh

Gregory 88, too.

The pictures should go a long way next week he says i'm in the basement and then now he says i found nat

and her mom oh and the picture is a pool of blood it's like a my space era pool of blood

photo on the floor that's okay i think at least she's alive i'm trying my best to comfort her maybe nat had to kill her mom uh i bet that's why but she had to kill her mom and the whimpering was nat She's just crying in the basement.

Instead of the mom.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If you had to kill me, hunter would you be crying in the basement afterwards what'd you do um i'd be i got possessed by like the sun or whatever no you didn't you didn't let me finish what i was gonna say okay what if what if like what if you just like uh you murdered me and i didn't do anything would you be sad i'd be a little sad

i'd be like why the hell did i do that what's wrong with me i'd probably do that kind of stuff that's good Yeah, yeah, as long as there's just some level of remorse, I think.

What happened?

Do that kind of thing.

My voice is,

I still kind of sick so I got a stuffy voice, but so that's why I like when I do that voice.

It sounds like a wheezing like a vacuum.

Why did I do that?

Does this sound good?

Does that sound like an earnest crying?

Can you cry kind of?

I think so.

Uh no.

I have to like build up to it.

I think if I think about really sad stuff and like try to game myself, it could happen, but it would take a bit.

I don't think I can do it.

Just what would be the sad thing you think about?

Um,

I don't know, probably like

someone dying, maybe you dying.

That'd make me sad.

I'd be sad if you died.

What would your sad thing be?

Probably like the end of like Barley and Me.

It's pretty sad.

Maybe the end of Sea Biscuit.

Pretty much just the end of any animal movie.

I probably think about it.

I'd probably get Tyrion.

Oh, damn.

The horse's heart's too big.

That is a

Secretariat.

I forgot that's that.

Because like in real life, Secretariat had like a massive heart.

It was like misgrown.

It's what let him have so much like

energy on the track or whatever.

But in the movie, they frame it as like he just cared too much about race.

Yeah, they were trying to do like a little Hooville Grinch thing.

His hall

three size is too big for a day.

Yeah.

Next day, February February 21st, Sun Vanish says, oh, God, I just got back to where I parked.

There are four people standing in front of my car with their backs facing towards me.

I won't be.

It is funny to imagine, like, he's just tweeting.

This is happening.

Like, he gets in the car.

He's like, oh, no.

That's just a silly thing about Twitter ARGs.

I feel like I wish that they.

Yeah.

Sorry, go ahead.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, they do it later.

They talk about everything after the fact.

But it's also, you know, it's a choose your own adventure ARG, whatever.

But it's just a funny visual.

Him in the car, like,

i don't know what to do

it feels very british to me for some reason i don't know what to do

yeah like in my mind the idea of someone like tweeting in a life or death scenario sounds like something someone from the uk would do oh

oh this bloke's fucking chasing me i don't know what to do

Because in the UK, it's like if you defend yourself, it's like a life sentence.

But if you murder someone, you're just like given probation for murdering for five months or something like that.

You're tipping of a chilly-willy.

Yeah, exactly.

I guess that's why they'd be like, well, I don't want to go to jail forever, so I guess I'll tweet.

That's the one thing I can do.

I won't be able to outrun them.

I have to get to the car.

And that's the only way I can escape.

Doing my best to quietly approach, fill up the tank, and get in the car.

And then

this is such a funny tweet.

Because

he says, I'll do my best to quietly approach, fill up the tank, and leave.

And then the next tweet reads, they broke my arm.

This hurts so much.

Holy shit.

Oh, then we get a video

of him next to the car.

It's like a PT cruiser.

I wonder if he's get attacked.

Okay, so here's.

So he's in the parking lot of like a TG, like a TG Max, whatever.

It looks like he's on like the road, I think.

He's in a parking lot.

He's in a TG Max parking lot.

They are right there.

Look how close they are.

You thought you could quietly fill up a gas tank there?

What kind of pain noises?

Getting your getting your.

This is what it sounds like, by the way, to get your arm snapped.

He filled up the gas tank.

As he's opening the door, one runs up, snaps his arm with their bare hands.

He then manages somehow to get in the car, shut the door, and then they can't get into the car.

You can just hear him hitting on it.

I really like the fall.

That means your arm is crazy.

Don't do that.

I didn't like that.

I do.

I do it.

Like that scene of him being in a parking lot, and then there's like people standing next to the car in like hoodies.

This is very like,

I don't know.

There's got a, there's a

spirit to it I like.

Like this guy just started writing a horror thing on Twitter and then he's like, hey guys, I need you to come out to TJ Maxx tonight.

I need to film this scene for it.

It's fun.

It feels very much like

Marble Hornets for sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like me and the boys.

We're going to do this for

the TJ Maxx parking lot.

We're going to fake break my arm.

We're going to hold a piece of celery next to the mic and I'm going to go whenever you get close.

All right.

After that, Sun Vanish continues and says, How the hell do I treat this?

The last time I broke a bone was before I can remember.

Thank you for all your help and support.

I've made a splint and I'm trying my best to rest now.

I drove to the outskirts of the city, but I need more time to heal up.

I feel so tired and I'm still in pain.

I need as much strength as possible for continuing towards Danion.

Also, I caught up on the Tucker and Nat situation.

I'm so glad they're together now.

I'm so fucking tired about hearing Danien, dude.

Yeah, he's still, I forgot he's still going to, he's going through his coordinates before he got like pulled into space.

Danien's dead.

Danien is gone.

If Danny's alive, I'm going to be fucking pissed.

His body, he better never, he better never find that motherfucker.

It's all I got to say.

He better be like a puree on the mountainside.

I don't give a fuck.

He needs to be gone.

A few days later, February 26, Tucker says, We're on the road now.

She doesn't want to talk about it, but I helped bury her parents before we left.

Hope he provided me with some closure for her.

About a 14-year-old girl was able to kill both her parents.

I don't want to be insensitive, but her dad's body was decomposed.

I wonder how long he's been there.

And then Nat says, I'm with Tucker now.

Feeling better and on the road, heading back to Virginia where Tucker's bunker is.

The way he describes it, seems like the safest place to be.

I mean, listen, I get it, but at the same time, she's just so creepy.

All right, I'm with the 48-year-old

industrial.

Well,

didn't we find out that he's actually like 23 or something?

I can't remember if that was part of the story where we made that up, but I don't know.

Still, I just said to him, like, all right, well, I guess we got to go back to Virginia to my bunker.

It's the only place we can go, sweetheart.

I mean, I mean, he's right.

If you have a bunker, that would be the place to go.

However, you're also correct.

I got the ick.

I got the ick.

Yeah, dude, the ick.

I got the ick.

Nearly a month later, March 17th, the sun banished says, I'm so close to the coordinates now.

It's so falling the coordinates.

God.

It's been a long time since I've really thought about it.

For the past few months, it's been a mindless mission, but I don't know if I should put myself in an emotionally vulnerable mindset again.

Whatever happens, happens.

So his arm's still shattered.

Right.

I mean, it's been a month since he's been born.

never did anything to broke never did anything to probably set it or anything so he just has this like gangly arm now he's like daniel

daddy

where are you

can you hear me daniel okay so

so the next day nat posts a screenshot of a dm she received that says this People have been disappearing.

And I don't know me for the blue and red lights.

I was in contact with a military protected civilian camp over a two-way radio.

After talking to them for a few weeks, I knew the military was being pretty damn effective at fending off the headlights.

Using a method the colonel wanted to keep quiet for some reason.

They'd go radio silent a day or two before I get there.

When I finally reached the camp, half the military was gone.

The rest of the squadron was

the rest of the squadron that was there

said that the other half was hand-selected by the higher-ups to be taken elsewhere.

But they've never

been heard from again.

There's another force at work here.

I also forget that the 14-year-old girl is talking to the

military.

The colonel.

For some reason, the colonel's not messaging me anymore.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, well, this is a DM that Nat got.

So this person in contact with the Colonel is messaging Nat.

Right, right, right.

But all of the messages that Nat gets are like.

I forgot Nat was doing this survival book.

So like people are messaging them, but all of the information is like whatever the author's understanding of the military is because it's like the rest of the squadron was taken away.

It's like, okay.

Anyway, April 1st, so nearly half a month later, Nat posts another screenshot.

I've been monitoring the Twitter chatter for a while, and I can't remain silent for any longer.

Because of the nature of my work and the insight I had, both I and my wife had scrubbed social media from our lives a couple years ago.

I'm former Air Force Communications and Intelligence.

But that's a few.

Just messaging a 14-year-old girl.

It's so funny.

You're the only line of resistance we have.

But that's a few years removed now.

I still know a thing or two, and what I learned in the service did make me a bit of a prepper.

Being an early riser in Arizona, I caught what started happening on BBC World News as the veil came down.

My wife and I grabbed our bug out bags.

Because the event wasn't nuclear, we headed toward a specific area for refuge.

Remained radio silent ever since.

It's only my wife, my two-year-old daughter, and myself in a bunker, made for far more.

I can only think that maybe the others with the same plan either stayed to keep an eye on the news or try to rescue loved ones.

But they weren't ex-military.

The siren sounds and you jump.

For us, it was the sun never rose that day.

We've held up here pretty well, but the lack of radio communications was disheartening.

There seemed to be a few ham radio people that managed to hold on to maybe an hour of transmission, but then it quickly went silent.

The security cameras told us what we needed to know about the threat.

The ships, the strobe-like drones, I jokingly called disco clickers to make my wife laugh a little.

The only time we poked our head out of this bunker was when we thought that we saw other people.

We have two stage airlock with blast doors.

What the fuck are you talking about?

They're inside.

They're like the ISS.

They're inside a fucking missile silo.

We have two stage airlock with blast doors that weigh tons.

So I knew it was my dumbass.

So if I knew my dumbass got killed, my wife and my baby would be safe.

Before I even reached the surface, I heard gunfire.

The people we saw on camera weren't people anymore.

Dealt their fate.

The group that dealt their fate told me they were heading south and that we were welcome to join.

I tried to have them join my wife and daughter, but they seemed to have a destination in mind.

While I gave them a couple cases of MREs, I knew that they knew I had more.

They just took what they needed and thanked me.

So, a guy who worked for the military now lives in like a fucking industrial-sized bunker.

Those door, those doors would be insane.

Can you imagine that?

He's in a space station on the ground.

I can't believe we're here.

And also, like, I know it's like, you know, a horror movie trope or whatever, but the idea of a guy who has his wife and a two-year-old, and they have an entire bunker full of like food and supplies for himself being like, I just wish there were more people here.

That's what, that's what would make this better.

Well, I thought what was going to really happen,

I almost thought that you were going to say that the colonel or whatever, the ex-military guy that he's sending these messages to, I thought he was going to tell Nat, be like, you should come here because it's safe.

Whatever.

And I thought it was going to be that.

And I'm like, why else would a military guy be messaging some weird fucking 14 year old?

He's like, we have to repopulate the earth.

Duh.

That's that dude in Cube, right?

After everyone dies, he's like, we're Adam and Eve, me and you.

The new generation, yeah.

Yeah.

That, uh, yeah, yeah, just the bug out bag and stuff like that.

It's very, it's very cute.

It's very cute.

Doomsday preppery kind of meme.

It's yeah, it's like, oh, we got a bug out bag.

We're trying to keep people safe.

I gave them cases of MREs.

It's like, no, you wouldn't.

If you were in a bunker with your wife and child, you are not making a noise.

You are just letting that play out.

Yeah.

A month later, April 30th, Sun Vanish says, I went to the coordinates.

He finally made it.

And there's a video with the message, nothing was there.

No.

No shit, dude.

wait the coordinates were just the highway or just on the highway that's what i mean like what do you mean i went to the coordinates and it's just the highway i thought it would be like a very specific place on like a mountainside or something i thought that's what he was saying right or no you just said coordinates oh i thought that back in the day i guess last coordinates were just on the highway i thought last year or something it's like oh yeah he like i i i don't know why i thought that but i it just seems weird it's like yeah the coordinates are just in the middle of the road.

Why?

No, it's, it's because, okay, it's because

Danion went out for supplies and never came back.

And then

I think off of like phone,

I don't know, even their phone tracking.

I don't think Danion sent a message, but off phone tracking, he found coordinates.

So Daniel was like, hey, I'm going to go get gasoline.

And then he pulls up the coordinates.

And Daniel was last seen like 2,000 miles away.

It took him like, what, two months months to get there.

So Danien got whipped across the upper stratosphere.

For a millisecond, his phone like dinged off a tower.

So he's like, huh, that's weird.

We're in northern Maine and Daniel, his phone went off in northern New Mexico.

That's true.

I was like, he was.

And then Daniel's in Wuhan, China.

He went from right here in Maine to Wuhan in four seconds.

It's so weird to do that.

I'm sure he's...

Well, I guess I have to cross the sea.

Got to make sure Daniel's okay.

I guess I got to swim.

Danien getting atomized across the lower heads.

Yeah, it's like stretch across.

Oh, okay.

So then Sun Vanish continues and says, I waited so long for nothing.

He says, My arm hasn't been healing.

In fact, it's been getting worse.

My veins surrounding the broken part are swelling and getting darker, I guess.

And then he says, this car has been following me for the past 10 minutes and attaches a picture.

And there is a car following him.

This could have some relation to the car that was seen back in his camera roll.

He then says, my blood just went cold as he shares a screenshot from Danian.

That says, pull over, we just want to talk.

Ooh.

That's a great, I'm sure.

What if he sent that in Chinese?

That'd be pretty scary too.

Can you imagine that?

They just threw him all the way to China and he just like acclimated to the culture.

And then he says, I'm doing it.

With another screenshot from Daniel, it says, this isn't Danion, but he is safe.

Please pull over and let us talk to you.

I pull over.

I would not pull over.

I don't think you should.

I don't think you should.

Sunvanish continues.

I don't even know what to say after that encounter.

I attempted recording, but they noticed and stopped me immediately.

Made me leave my phone in the car.

I'm trying to make sense of what all they said.

This is way beyond me.

I was expecting a bunch of looters.

Of course, they still had firearms, but they were very civilized.

There was a man and a woman among the group.

They seemed to be the ones in charge.

They were using Danien to get to me against his will.

That's why he discouraged me from tweeting and why he left.

What?

What?

Why?

Okay, whatever.

Why not just tell him that instead of being like, stop tweeting, I have to go and then disappear?

Whatever.

Okay.

They just said they wanted my help, but why not contact me directly?

I asked about Daniel and they just keep repeating, he's safe, he's safe.

They want my account.

They consider it valuable for reasons they won't tell me.

I said I'd consider if they told me why.

They wouldn't budge.

Said that if the info is leaked in the wrong way, it will, and I quote, ruin our chances of survival.

I don't know what they mean by that, but it scares the living hell out of me.

All right, interesting.

So they want his account.

Maybe his account, because he's talked before about how no one else else seems to be able to get messages out and signal.

Maybe his account's anomalous for some reason.

Next day, May 11th, he says, I don't even know what to do now.

I finally made it to the coordinates after all this time, only to be met with more questions.

I think I've known for a long time, but now it really hit me.

I'm purposeless.

It's just, what the hell can I do?

Except give my account to these people that have Daniel.

People have been sending me stuff they've been seeing and hearing.

Unusual activity from the military, from the headlights, the ships.

Start to to piece together what's going on.

May 12th, he says another photo showed up in the Remember album.

And this time, it is a photo of, it's like, there's a cell tower and a power line on snowy ground, but it's daytime.

Yeah, because remember, all the other pictures were daytime, weren't they?

In the Remember album?

Some of them.

The last Remember one was a guy.

That had the car outside.

That was the last one, but I think the previous three were like during daytime.

I'm pretty sure.

I mean, maybe, yeah.

Maybe somehow, maybe there's something with his phone where it's like there's almost two users, one where the sun vanished, one where it didn't.

Like a parallel universe kind of thing.

Yeah, yeah.

They're overlapping.

May 14th, he says, for those of you asking, I don't want to reveal what I might know about these people since I know they're watching every tweet I send.

In other news, my arm is getting even worse.

There's this dark ooze coming from the wound now.

And then he posts a screenshot from a text chain with Danion.

How much of the contaminated water have you consumed?

I don't remember.

Why?

It functions similar to mercury poisoning or lead poisoning.

It does not just affect you in the short term.

It does not just affect you in the neurologically.

It is in your bloodstream.

And soon, if not already, all in your vital organs.

So he's saying that his broken arm has been, has exacerbated the effect of the dark water he drank.

Yeah, yeah.

That his injury is like causing like blood poisoning, basically.

So after that,

three months later, it's three months with nothing.

Yeah.

So

also except

to reiterate to people, too, this is all like in actual real time.

So it isn't just like, oh, it's like they did not tweet this story out for another three months.

Kind of crazy.

Yeah, there's these long gaps in between.

And August 8th, the only one who does speak is Tucker.

So the Sun Vanish was, you know, gone for even longer.

Tucker says, I can't believe it's been over a year since the start of all this.

These days, the internet is less and less stable.

Buffer speeds are slowing down.

Social media is getting quiet.

I don't know if it's just because less people are alive or what.

I don't really want to know.

Nothing I see ships go by sometimes.

But besides that, we're living fairly comfortably in our routines for a while now.

I hate that life feels normal.

I told myself I would log back into this account again, but I had to get it off my chest.

I despise this.

And then everything, nobody posts until November.

That's pretty crazy.

Yep.

So like another three months.

So the sun vanished like half a year gone from May 14th to November 12th.

Also, could you imagine like another survivor group coming coming across like Nat and Tucker and being like, oh,

what are you two

doing in here?

I feel like people would, if it was an end of world situation, I feel like

I would just be happy to see anybody that's like normal in living.

Yeah, but there's also like these,

again, it's kind of the writing.

The military's still fine in some instances, it feels like.

Well, yeah, I can't tell if they're if they're setting up like an umbrella corp thing where it's like our military has to do with this.

You know what I mean?

Or something like that?

Nah, I mean, because it says they're shooting down the aliens.

Maybe they did the thing to summon them.

Maybe it's kind of like, you remember in the mist how that

soldier says like, oh, well, we were doing experiments in a lab and we opened up a portal and that's what caused this.

But it's not like the military wanted this to happen.

They just goofed up.

It should be an outcome of that.

Maybe it's something like that.

So November 12th, Sun Vanish says, I'm not strong enough.

I can't help them.

I can't save them.

I can't save anyone.

Not even myself.

I've been thinking for a long time.

Would it even make a difference if I hadn't gone after Daniel?

Do the choices I make even matter?

What's the point in tweeting to the void when there's nobody left?

It's so, so quiet now.

But the irony is, my head isn't quiet.

It's like all the weight of the world got crammed into my brain.

It won't stop whispering in my head.

I think the accident was my arm.

I think it opened up something inside me.

All my veins look like this.

I feel like I have a fever.

That's a fun photo.

But at least I'm still alive, right?

And there's like a long black vein going down his arm.

So I know they're sitting up the deep water thing, but it's also one of the infected people who broke his arm.

So maybe that, you know, when he came into contact with him, maybe that exasperated it too.

He then says, I made it back home.

Everything is just where I left it.

It feels deathly still here.

Pretty sure that's like the exact same pattern to the footprints we're in last time.

Yep.

I think,

why did he go back to his house?

Yeah, I feel like if the whole world, it feels kind of weird to go back home, right?

Well, I'm going to go back to my house where like the black water was that I can't drink anymore.

Like,

our water lines still work.

Anyway, they're gone.

I don't know if they're still alive or not, but they certainly aren't here.

I haven't heard from the group that had Daniel either.

And it says, the world has been harvested.

What is there left to do?

It's over.

We lost.

That's fun.

Harvested.

It's interesting.

God damn sucking.

Again, back to what you're talking about.

A little bit of optimism there, bud.

Good lord.

It is very war of the worlds, that whole notion.

This is the last tweet of the year here on November 23rd.

Tucker says, She won't speak to me anymore.

I see the dinner table completely silent.

I don't know what I did.

How the hell do I fix this?

Then, after that, Tucker posts some screenshots of tech conversations between him and that.

I like how we can't, because of the format, we can't have them converse with each other.

So they're going to be in the same place tweeting at each other.

Yeah, it is kind of weird.

They're just like, yeah, they have to be in the deal.

Hey, what's going on?

Why would you talk to me?

I guess there's no point.

What do you mean?

I read the Subvanish's tweets, and we don't have a chance, do we?

Please don't think about it too hard.

We are surviving.

We're luckier than most people.

What happens when our power runs out?

Our clean food and our clean water.

I don't know.

Very optimistic.

Yeah, very, very fucking cool, dude.

We have it at home here.

That's what matters, right?

I I guess.

Are you seriously posting these conversations?

I'm sorry.

I just don't know how else to fix this.

I don't talk to you seriously.

Lucas and screens are a private conversation.

Smooth.

Nat, please.

I just want to help.

I just want to be left alone for a while.

Okay.

They're in the same room.

Yeah, they're like just like literally just standing across the room and they're just not talking.

I'm sorry for posting.

I just need to fix this.

Besides, Nat, besides all of you, I have nobody else to turn to.

I can't afford to lose someone someone else.

So, what do you think about the mechanical abominations of the controlled people roaming free above ground while we're down here?

It makes me wonder.

But so quiet now, because whoever's left decided to give up fighting, and that's the last tweet of the year in 2019.

So, we're coming up almost two years of this.

Yep.

In actual real time.

Yeah, I mean, it's impressive to keep a story going for this long, even if there's long gaps between it and stuff like that.

There's a uh

there's certainly a um a dedication to it that I admire.

It's a prequel.

January 2020.

I fucking almost cut up my goddamn finger with my Red Bull can with a little lip.

Good God.

Don't say the brand unless they sponsor us.

Oh, true.

Moving forward.

The liquid that turns my blood to oil.

Well, don't say that because I think that confirms we don't get sponsored.

Oh, shit.

Water.

The water cup I was drinking out of.

There you go.

Yeah.

All right.

January 25th, 2020, the first post of the new year in 2020.

And Nat says this.

She says, thanks to everyone who has been asking about me.

I'm doing okay.

I've just had to do so much growing up in such a short amount of time.

Don't even know why I'm on here now.

Guess I miss having somebody to talk to.

Yeah.

I snuck away from Tucker a few weeks ago.

I'm tired of people trying to take care of me and then let me down.

Damn, dude.

Tucker, Tucker was the guy who's like, I'm going to go 500 miles for Nat.

Right?

And also having this, like, coming of age, like, I'm not a kid anymore.

Timeline where the sun's blotted out and the space ships are like vaporizing people.

Yeah.

He wants to act like an older brother to me, but doesn't know how to not control those around him.

The surface isn't all that dangerous now.

There's still power on the internet.

Despite the cold and dark, it's pretty normal.

Sometimes I see people from a distance.

We make eye contact.

Maybe a nod and continue what we're doing.

I want to say to keep sending your experience in DMs, but does it really matter now?

It's the same shit.

Nothing is new anymore.

The ones who are left know how to take care of themselves, avoid threats, and survive.

We, the ones who are left, carry on.

Business as usual.

Which that was all reposted by the sun vanished.

Yes, or at least that last tweet was, I think.

I'm not sure, but

just in the middle of the apocalypse, I'm not a kid anymore.

I can be on my own.

Very last of us.

World energy.

It is.

And also like that level of,

well, it's got other than the fact the sun doesn't exist and the corpses and aliens that exist everywhere and the headlights we have to look at, it's pretty normal.

There's still internet.

Like, okay,

whatever you say.

But once again, we need to take it as if we're seeing the tweets now.

You know what I mean?

Like, in real time.

I know, I know.

I'm getting, I'm getting, what's the word?

I'm getting bitter for no reason.

So, what, whatever.

So, after this, Nat posts a screenshot of a message with the caption saying, Nat, please listen.

None of this is adding up.

How did the U.S.

military and every other military we know of just go practically silent overnight after months of fighting these things?

They suddenly give up?

And every voice of influence over the reach to civilians also eventually gives up and takes ridiculous amounts of time in between posts?

And what did TSV mean by harvested if there are still people around?

And then Nat says in a quote, quoting that screenshot.

I really like, well, first of all, I just want to say there's a comment that someone's just said.

This is still happening.

Question mark.

yeah she said you should ask the sun vanish about what he meant well what i've gathered through dms all i know is any war that we were fighting was lost you want to stay alive you have to fend for yourself and rely on yourself nobody's going to come save us bro

all right so then after that february the 5th the sun vanish tweets i miss danion god damn dude fuck danion

god damn i miss danion fuck danion

God

if I've been following this shit for two years and I just if I was like scrolling through Twitter one day and I just saw I missed Daniel, I'd be like, God damn, dude, I have to unfollow.

I have to unfollow.

I mean, am I wrong?

I mean, yeah, it's just been frustrating.

Like, what are we doing?

Let me ask you this so far.

Go somewhere else.

What have you preferred so far?

The Sun Vanished or Gregory 88?

Gregory 88.

Gregory 88.

Because it was

like, sure, the ending was ridiculous, but its high points were

more tied into each other because it was shorter.

The entire thing was more compact.

This has been two years and some months.

Like, it is interesting in the long term, but to go two months and your only tweet's like, I'm still alive, not sure what to do.

It's like, okay.

Like, you know, it would be easier to function if I just knew for certain that he was alive or not.

But all I have is this in between.

When I lie awake in the quietness, I can hear him.

It's faint and I can't tell what he's saying, but I know it's his voice.

And now my only friends, Nat and Tucker, are estranged.

I haven't heard from Tucker in ages.

Did I fail?

I couldn't save any of them.

I'm just rotting here with whatever sickness I have, and the ships pass by my house daily.

Not even worth the trouble to finish off.

I do like that note.

I'm not worth the trouble to finish off.

Gregory 88 is just becoming more and more like a savant in my eyes.

With everybody,

I think if we look at like the first few months of Sun Vanished, I think it's superior with like him looking outside and going to the neighbor's house.

But if I have to hear about Danion one more fucking time, Isaiah, I'm going to drive my fist through my fucking screen.

It's also just so dragged out.

Like, yes, I understand, but why are you going across country?

How are you going across country?

Why are you driving that far?

Like, I'm plugging in my face.

How is one person saying this is all normal, but then another person's like, oh, I don't know.

How is their internet?

You know, how is their internet?

Yeah.

Like, what are we talking about?

Yeah, I don't know.

So after this, the next day, February 6th, Sun Vanish continues and says, where are they going?

The ships and the strobe lights.

They're still here, but their patrol cycles have been different.

Where are they going?

About a week later, on February 12th, Nat says.

Getting a lot of vague, nonsensical DMs talking about the people?

Can you be more specific?

Do you know who you are?

About a month and a half later, the Sun Vanish says, Danien is here.

He's in the room with me.

There's Daniel, but he's here.

but he's here it's not nebulous now he's here all right let's see what the pictures he says look

here is oh my god fuck you what the picture what

i mean it's a selfie in a mirror yeah but it's i don't i don't know it's just like look here he is and it's like okay so you took a bathroom selfie with the flash on

i don't i don't see

Daniel in the picture, right?

Is that what it's is it implying that he can see Danien, but we can't?

I thought he's saying that Danien is the one taking the picture.

No, no, no.

I I think he's taking the picture, and to him, Daniel's standing next to him, but he's not actually there.

That's what I get from it.

Also, look at his fingers.

You were so right about the long, spindly fingers.

Look at that.

It's crazy.

I know.

Gross long fucking little tootsies, dude.

Okay, yeah.

And after this, he says, he's standing behind me.

I can see him in the mirror.

Which, yeah, once again, he's not there.

And then he says, why can't you see?

And then post a video with the word listen repeated over and over again.

so there's kind of a breathy whispering noise but to me that sounds like it's probably just him right yeah it's just him sitting there doing

it's just him freaking out thinking that danion's there when he's actually not uh because after that he continues and says he's here i know it i just don't know what to say to him what should i I say?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I told him I'm sorry for everything I did to him.

I just want him to stay here with me again, like how things used to be.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

So in another video, that says, no, no, no, he's gone.

He's gone.

He's gone.

And I can't get him back.

Oh, at the top comment, it says, I'm going to keep it real with you, Chief.

He was never there.

Yeah, so the next one, this video is the exact same as the last one.

It's the Sun Vanish kind of whimpering, like crying in the corner, and there's no one else in the room with him.

So yeah, Sun Vanish is losing his mind.

After that, Tucker says, As contamination continues, it's not just repeating words and phrases.

You start repeating past trauma, too.

And the Sun Vanish responds to Tucker's tweet and says, you don't have any idea what you're talking about, Tucker.

To which Tucker replies, How do I know all this?

Because it's why Nat left.

It's why I'm alone all over again.

The idea of them just tweeting at each other, like, oh, I'm so lonely.

So, next, we have March the 30th.

March the 30th.

Sun Vanish says, since you won't shut up about my hand and arm, here it is.

But I cannot fathom why that matters right now.

I have to find Daniel.

So he's completely insane.

And his arm, bro.

You want to talk about an arm.

Look at that.

Look at that, bad boy.

Those are those fingers you've been talking about

big old grippers he's got some some paddles on him

the next day march 31st nat posts a screenshot of a threatening message they received they never left they never left they never left they never left they never left they never left they never left they never left they never left they never left they never left That was good.

I like that.

That was a good read.

Thank you.

After this, Nat's account doesn't post for over a year.

That's great.

April 3rd, The Sun Vanished shares a screenshot of a group chat that him, Tucker, and Nat's account being puppeted by an unknown party with Tucker reposting the screenshots.

So...

Nat says, we need to talk.

Nat!

Holy shit, are you okay?

Are you safe?

What happened since you left?

Sorry to disappoint you, Tucker, but it's not Nat.

She's safe with us, though.

Do not worry.

Wait, what the fuck?

Who is this?

Why do you have Nat's account?

As I said, she's safe with us.

We've been the ones you ignored ignored for a very long time.

We contacted you and at the sun vanished multiple times, and you did not cooperate.

It's the people who were on Daniel's phone number and took him from me.

The liars.

We are not liars.

We are the people trying to help everyone stay safe.

Using Daniel and Nat as leverage are not something we like resorting to, but it is justified.

Your social media accounts have turned into a beacon for the world.

When the news organizations and government broadcasts seized transmission, you became the new media.

Everyone have looked to you for guidance to survive.

This is a very large responsibility that we, the people, believe that neither of you are fit to have.

I didn't ask for that responsibility.

I don't want it anymore.

So fine, you can take my account.

I don't care anymore.

Hold on a second.

Nobody's taking anyone's account.

Who are you to say which responsibility we're fans are not fit to have?

I've heard about you people, and you have no right to take our accounts.

What are you gonna use them for anyway?

Why are they arguing about Twitter accounts?

If you want to make a Twitter ARG, that's fine, but don't use the Twitter account.

No, no, no, no, use a Twitter account.

We must stop all resistance efforts against the invaders.

It only hurts our chances of future survival.

I don't have the first idea what you mean, but if I do what you want, will I see Danien again?

Of course.

You have our word.

Just as we promised before.

Hold on.

Stop Stop it.

Stop all resistance efforts?

So are you the ones who quietly shut down all the military operations to take those fuckers down?

Sure as hell sounds like you are.

That's irrelevant now.

Okay, sure.

I'll take that as a yes.

I need to see Daniel again.

I'll do whatever it takes.

Oh my god, stop it!

I'll do whatever it takes.

I want to see Nat again, too, but there's no more more at stake right now.

They're trying to take advantage of our hopelessness.

Our hopelessness.

At Lost Sun News.

The idea of these people in a post-apocalyptic tweeting in a group chat.

We need your Twitter account.

We need your Twitter account.

I need to see Danion.

I need to see the 14-year-old girl.

At Lost Sun News.

You said it hurts our chances of future survival what does that mean it means that if we continue fighting against the occupiers there's a very good chance that we all go extinct dun dun dun tsv you cannot you cannot honestly be believing this they just want control hell they're probably working with them we hate the invaders just as much as you do tucker But we aren't naive enough to believe that we can defeat them.

We would just encourage them to wipe us out entirely.

We know what they are capable of.

I don't know what to believe.

I just need some time to think.

Well, I don't.

The people can go fuck yourselves.

I'm not giving you anything.

You can use me as ransom, but not her.

You touch her and I'll break you.

Noted.

And then Tucker says, I'm packing to leave first thing in the morning.

I don't know where I'm going, but I'm gonna find the people or they will find me.

Then on October 24th, the Sun Vanish posts a cryptic video.

Did I ever stop to think about myself

beyond survival?

Daniel,

why did you leave me when I needed you?

I was living for you.

Can't do that anymore.

So

the headlights, I always imagine them as like,

you know, these big like kind of tripod things walking around to kill people, you know, aliens.

But then it's clear for like 30 seconds of that video that it's just a guy holding a flashlight.

I mean, like,

just don't show that.

And like all the monologue, it's what, okay, we're almost done.

Whatever.

Okay, after this, the sun vanished says, I think I'm beginning to understand.

i can't just survive i have to live i just thought he died he not was that not his death him saying all that and then the the the headlight thing attacking i don't know i just killed one of those things we have a chance to fight against him you can't hold danion's life over me anymore

he then says this is what happened to my old phone text conversations contact list all gone He shows, he posts like a GIF where the phone's been shattered.

He says, my only hope now is to to reach out on Twitter to Tucker, find out where he went and track down the people who took Nat.

And also, so is that implying that

the headlight or whatever just destroyed his phone and not him?

I guess.

All right.

And then after that, the entire story goes dark for over a year, picking back up in October 29th of 2021.

But considering it goes dark for a year and considering the current emotions of the room, hunter do you just want to you want to call it there you want to say that i think that is actually where the story concludes i think well they never posted again after that

our document our document so this is the this is the thing is

here's the thing it's it's just so long with just nothing happening.

We're not even halfway through.

We're two pages shy of halfway through.

If people were like, please finish it, please finish it, which we do sometimes i mean it's just like it's like the barosca thing again where it's just like i mean i don't know you got to read barosca five i i i uh

well that that's a little different admittedly because barosca five was an unneeded sequel true to a good story whereas this one is just the original story i guess i'm just saying

if i was in real time following this i it would probably be different but now by this point you're going going on without a Twitter post for a year.

Even the Gregory 88 thing, it seemed like the person actually had an idea of a story that they were doing.

Was that

delivered vision?

Was that born from the success of the Sun Vanished, or did Gregory 88 come first?

I'm almost positive the Sun Vanished came first, but there's been a bunch of Twitter ARGs.

So I wouldn't say I'm sure whichever one came first inspired the other, but I don't think it was, you know,

like

total.

You know, i mean it always i don't think one is the sole reason another existed there were several twitter args this could almost act like a creep tv episode i i just i just i'll say this with these twitter things if you're not like with it's different because gregory 88 i felt like i was actually reading a story this one just feels like you really have the arg aspect of like you're voting on things going on which is cool or whatever should i go should i not stuff you know him sitting outside of a car being like people i they're looking at me right now.

I'm so scared.

You have those things, which is like fine and cheesy, but I just, even with Gregory 88, the videos and pictures are the most effective part every time.

Except for the kid holding a flashlight that's strobing and walking up to you in a bathroom.

But still.

Okay, so the Sun Vanish started

April.

2018, right?

July.

Three months before Gregory 88 started.

Oh, there you go.

But it didn't, because Gregory 88 started July 22nd of 2018.

And on July 22nd, the Sun Vanished was at what part of the story?

It was at the part where

the Sun Vanished disappears for the first time.

And I think this is the part where he's trying to move over to the other house.

Yes, it looks like it.

So still early on in the first couple months of the Sun Vanished, Gregory 88 started.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, this is definitely something that was super inspiring to a lot of people in that Twitter ARG space.

And, you know, here's the thing: I mean, I think it's an awesome way to tell a horror story and stuff, but as a interactive game that's happening now, I would like to tap out.

I mean, I mean, it's just, it seems apparent to me, especially like, granted, with the gift of time, everything's happening immediately, and, you know, maybe it worked better.

But just in hindsight, it seems like it's kind of losing the plot.

Like, what are we doing?

We had interactive elements.

Now it's just this guy is going over here, and this guy doesn't want to do this thing.

So he does this thing.

And it's over the course of years.

So,

yeah, it just seems kind of directionless.

So I think we're good there.

Again, this is only halfway through the document.

So if you guys really want us to do the other half,

maybe.

But I think for now we're good.

I think we're good.

Not everything can be like a Midwest Angelica kind of fun

thing.

But I will say, I mean, I'm not discrediting all of it.

I'm just saying, like, I just, we've been recording this over.

I mean, guys,

if you're reading, like, which, you know, not boohoo for us, I'm just saying, it's been days.

It's been days.

And I'm at a point where I'm like, I just want to read something else right now.

Yeah, yeah.

Just, I'm not, I'm not enjoying the story.

Let's just move on to something that I join.

And if it was like, if it was like so bad, it's good.

That'd be different, but it's not that bad.

It's just kind of like standard fare for a while.

At least we got the Red Silver cups and a picture of a baseball bat.

We did.

That was actually really good.

I did appreciate that detail a lot.

And also, you know, to be honest, like as far as visual mediums and online storytelling going, this does remind me how good we have it right now.

Because right now we've got like Midwest Angelica, Greylock, The Back Rooms,

Mandela Catalog.

There's so many creative visual stories happening right now.

And a lot of people have nostalgia.

Like, oh, the Sun Vanished was better.

This old stuff was better.

It's like, no, no, no.

It's just rose-covered goggles, you know, little nostalgia goggles.

Which I will say,

I really love when people take when they have nothing at all besides their buddies and an empty house or whatever, they decide to make something fun.

And I think that this is obviously something that caught on with people and touched people's imagination.

I think that's fucking certainly came, certainly came from a point of passion.

And I can guarantee you, these were younger creators, the guys running this, or the guy running this.

So, if this was what he, I wasn't doing stuff this complex or cool when I was like 16, 17.

So imagine where that guy is now with his creative endeavors.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, all in all, I'm glad we, it's been so long since we've covered another Twitter ARG.

So I'm at least happy that we did that because I would like to kind of maybe not do these that are as long, that are years and years long.

But you can't even touch Twitter ARG without people comparing it to this.

So I'm at least, at least glad that we got to introduce our audience for people who don't know what it is to.

this endeavor and hopefully the edit so far was fun to kind of sit through and go through also want to say too what we have read you is a consolidated version down of everything.

There's so much more that we did not

even touch the survival logs.

Yeah.

I mean, there's like,

this is just to kind of let you know, like, the just getting from A to B in terms of the story.

So if you're into this stuff, there's

vastly, vastly more.

Just want to say that.

But thank you guys so much for watching today's episode.

We appreciate you and we appreciate the line.

It's been a long one.

A couple of long ones back to back.

So we appreciate you all.

We will see you next week.

Stay creeped, my friends.

Stay creeped.

And if if the sun vanished, maybe just grow up and you know, get better at it, I guess.

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