ROCKEFELLERTREETRAGEDY | The Monument Mythos

[@PowerfulWizard]

The special tree: - produces some kind of music or sound - indestructible - teleports people to alternate dimensions

[@eldrtch_3nt1ty12]

extremely black doesnt have leaves has three twigs at the top that look like a ducks foot flexible sentient

[@In_The_Base]

Can move around

[@onlyinfpeohio]

-looks like a palm tree without leaves idk

[@alymatronicdeeare8265]

- IS SPECIAL

[@amom7835]

- is kinda tHicc 😳

[@RyanPlummerRobotics]

I think the hardest thing for me to believe in this story is how ten kids made a self supporting ladder with their bodies.

[@beezmanit2683]

@resu nodmar well they literally are

[@TheGenericVideoGamer]

@@beezmanit2683 R/angryupvote

[@eleganteaura]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXTalIaJqqqnh6M my music evoke the same feeling as these videos

[@mopishlynx2323]

Probably leaned against the tree as they did it

[@Adam-lt6of]

; ;

[@antoniomv9444]

Shotout to Charles for having the strength to carry nine kids on his shoulders, makes sense why his new parents said he was always named Chad.

[@MynameisS_A]

Charles was actually the one standing just below Virginia.

[@DORIDUMBINGTON]

Phillip was the one holding all the kids and he could easily defeat freedom

[@skyty0]

You know it's an alternate universe when John D Rockefeller takes personal responsibility

[@alekmarroquin6914]

I love how it only takes intellectual people tp get this joke

[@Mr.M2045]

@@alekmarroquin6914 I mean the joke is pretty obvious

[@boeos9427]

@@alekmarroquin6914, You believe you are an intellectual yourself. Pathetic.

[@forresthenry9535]

Actually John D Rockefeller was pretty stand up guy. He donated a large portion of his money to his local church, gave money to advancements in medicine, was a major conservationist, and helped refine oil to extract kerosene. Just an interesting fellow overall.

[@alekmarroquin6914]

@@Mr.M2045 id be suprised if someone at my college actually knew his name much less what he is known for

[@saqvobase4301]

The switches between the formal recalling and the children's picture book is a very amazing way to tell the story

[@genikeyssaryalcantarabelli7430]

It is. I'm starting on this series and this is my favorite episode so far

[@specimen5481]

the tree was like "get this shit off me"

[@muhammadrafaa8692]

*TRYLER1 SCREAMS*

[@a-sea-of-salad5040]

GET THIS BETA SHIT OFF MEEEEEEE AAUWUUAAAAAAAHHHHH

[@sacaret]

**OPENS A GATEWAY TO AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE**

[@awesome_barabado]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipm6hYKrnrKJba8

[@stealtho]

@@sacaret Backrooms

[@pangolin-404]

Fun fact- having all your organs backwards is an actual medical condition: situs inversus. It's pretty much harmless, just extremely uncommon. For all the kids to have it could mean in the world they came from, it might've been considered normal. Or they just got switched around internally.

[@evandavis2494]

I believe its the latter. Rockefeller stated that he had been president and that the children's recollections of rockefeller as a wealthy oil philanthropist were wrong. This means that the children most likely came from our world.

[@jack-jack7914]

While yes the condition is harmless Isn't it a little wierd for a whole 10 children to not know their parents and have everything backwards

[@RaptorJesus]

@@evandavis2494 Then their organs actually *aren't* backwards, they're only "backwards" in the alternate dimension, because for whatever reason there organ position/placement was always opposite of our own here.

[@aliceiscalling]

@@RaptorJesus Exactly. Virginia wonders if her heart was ever on her right side. This implies her heart has always been on the left, just like ours. Her perception of history also follows our timeline. So she most likely came from our universe, or one extremely similar to ours.

[@eg0zb]

A mirror dimension

[@gavinmerasty8369]

"Yeah Axes won't work, use Dynamite" _Mr Rockfeller, probably_

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

it always gets me that he went to dynamite BEFORE he considered digging up the tree's roots

[@scpfoundationagent9660]

America

[@robotz2129]

I’m pretty sure it’s the child just exaggerating

[@nubboimobile2482]

@SCP Foundation Agent then they would use guns first

[@ballsdeep7056]

@@nubboimobile2482 wrong they will use the us air force or navy

[@roland4240]

These kids must be insanely strong to for a human ladder with their malnourished great depression bones.

[@kng5768]

🤣🤣🤣🤌🏽

[@SCP_TIME.]

Fr

[@mediterraneanclassic]

What if the Great Depression never happened in this universe?

[@john_ebubblez]

@@curlybrace4984 The nixonverse and our universe are different

[@FireballFlareblitz734]

well I mean with how malnourished they were they had to have been really light as well

[@pidza_hub7532]

Having John become a determinist as a coping mechanism was a nice touch.

[@motionsuggests]

yeah, i'm really glad they touched upon that. it's a fair belief for him. right when he found the 'perfect' tree - completely devoid of leaves - i think we all had that feeling that it wasn't all up to him

[@ProteinBlob]

Imagine being taken away from not just your friends, family, or home, but from your entire world. And not just to another world, but to a world that looks very similar to your own, but different. As a kid, no less. You are forced to eventually face the reality that there is more than likely no chance of you returning back. You have to accept that you have to live in a world with people that are very similar to your family, but aren't. You have to socialize with this new world, and force yourself to accept that this is where you are now. Your real family, friends, etc. are gone and in a far off place where you will probably never go back to. You have to live with that fact for the rest of your life. And the few people that you can share this experience with are just as terrified and confused as you. And you always feel your skin crawl when you walk past a tree.

[@shannon9993]

There's a good short story from the 80s like that-- about a kid whose evening hobby is "go out to the empty playground, start shuffling universes, and try to get home" and he doesn't think he ever can. I think it's "Playing the Game" by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann

[@SamGarcia]

On the other and, you have 10 other friends with you, so not a total lonely existence.

[@Cy-y5i]

You live in a world that is an "uncanny valley" in its entirety, even worse Virginia says that she recognizes her "parents" despite them looking entirely different. It might not be that the 10 kids swapped universes with their alternate versions, but *merged* with them.

[@CptnMango9108]

I think it was Stephen king who said fear is to discover it has been broken in, terror is see the inside vandalized, horror is to know everything has been replaced by an exact copy

[@c1oudsky]

I imagine it's not that awful considering you still have many things being similar to ones on your world. I feel it would be the more difficult the more different the new world would be from your original one. It's just about getting used to it. Maybe that has something to do with how others perceive real people's instances and clones ideas though ("it has to be that exact person, not clone, not alternate copy from another dimension, because if I feel like they're at least a bit different (but most importantly _"not the same"_ people I knew) then I won't feel comfortable around them and they will feel foreign to me). For me it would be just about letting all the people around that I may not know everything about the world I got in and being mostly comfortable around them since they're still mostly the same people

[@maverickREAL]

This made me feel AWFUL for Virginia. I know she isn't real but I'm heartbroken that all this happened to her. The atmosphere here is on point

[@randomlittleidot]

it was worth it to put the star on the tree

[@princessroyal80]

Same. Imagine suddenly getting transported to a world that's familiar, but at the same time alien. I don't think I would ever be able to recover from that...

[@Aladayle]

@@princessroyal80 Have you ever met anyone with dementia? It's basically like that in the mid-to-late stages for them. And very sad.

[@erickamakeeaina1649]

And it only got worse with time

[@Hoosierdaddyjones812]

@IAmTheRedWolf so was this story fiction or ?

[@Strider_Mane]

"-And I saw so many people. One man ran up to me and said, *The trees are not trees.-"*

[@andrewgentry2411]

W-what do you mean?

[@untitledj3007]

@@andrewgentry2411 9:08

[@ThePhrog714]

@@andrewgentry2411 you don’t stutter when typing so don’t write it down for gods sake

[@grassguy1154]

@@ThePhrog714 It's meant to be Virginia's response

[@ThePhrog714]

@@grassguy1154 fair enough still that triggered fight or flight instincts

[@Zkeleton969]

Whoever you got to voice Virginia did a phenomenal job, child or otherwise.

[@Kainlarsen]

This seems more like a supernatural tragedy than horror; The confusion and sadness of the kids and their parents, and Rockefeller's haunted expressions on realising something is very wrong, is depressing.

[@MynameisS_A]

True

[@ccfffvbbbbbffg1774]

I mean, it *does* literally say 'tragedy' in the title

[@krypticskorpioxero]

I feel like the horror element comes from imagining oneself in the situation. It's a terrifying concept that this weird tree exists that can rip you from everything you've ever known and you have no idea how to get back or if you can, plus you're a child in this scenario. That is the loneliest and scariest thing I can imagine for a kid to experience that isn't some form of actual death.

[@zaingamingtv2242]

​@@krypticskorpioxeroit doesn't even send you to a completely foreign world but one that is identical to your own except that everything you personally had is gone. Their parents aren't really their parents and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them were put up for adoption because they weren't their "real kids".

[@creek5546]

Idea: all these videos take place in an alternate universe and the special tree acts as a gateway between our universe and the MM universe

[@nostalgicflamingosproducti6597]

A gateway to the dark aether

[@kuyakyel324]

A gateway of our world, but much worse

[@nostalgicflamingosproducti6597]

@@kuyakyel324 zombies

[@kuyakyel324]

@@nostalgicflamingosproducti6597 more likely monster and parasites

[@nostalgicflamingosproducti6597]

@@kuyakyel324 that too

[@DuhNoU]

you are an true american if your second idea of cutting down a tree is 100 dynamites around the tree

[@stoplightgaming2302]

yes

[@XxBuzzedGamingxX]

Bro sometimes you need well beyond the legal amount of tree stump remover to actually remove a tree stump.

[@vibrantgleam]

Exactly

[@theabyssofmemes8538]

It works

[@SquibboQ]

No your not, your only a TRUE American if you use a dozen or so nukes.

[@megavidaeos]

So the first Special Tree, the one in the Washington monument, transported multiple people forward in the future, while this one transported the children to the same time in an alternate reality?

[@kevlot_grumpp296]

Basically, Since It was a Mirrored Demension,The two Groups Of kids happened to be at The same spot at the same Time

[@tracey8121]

Is like,an alternative Timeline to be sure. They was transported into future,and their timeline was swapped after that.

[@Dog.This_Identifier_Is_Shit.]

*The Trees are not trees.*

[@whofuckincares2024]

D4C

[@sergeantseth57]

Special Tree: Into the Tree-Verse

[@lightningstudios3630]

God this is such a good idea for a horror story, the idea of being sent to an alternate universe where everything is different, but everything still bears a resemblance to what you used to know, but everything's just different to the point where you can notice it is such a good idea I'm surprised I haven't seen it before

[@fclssknldgsekr4844]

You haven't seen mirrors. I think that's a step into what you might be looking for.

[@FulciLives]

The Twilight Zone did it in the 1960's

[@Herandezbrothers]

Or just look up what deja vu is

[@tticusFinch]

A show called Fringe did this and did just as you described

[@azuranox]

A mid 90s sci fi series called Sliders had an episode with similar a concept.

[@marcspyder6721]

What I noticed was when Rockefeller asked questions on American history to the kids. The kids explained the history: 1776 Declaration of Independence in the US, George Washington chopping down a cherry tree, Abraham Lincoln wore a stovepipe hat. In the alternate world the Declaration was in 1789, Washington chopped down an apple tree and Lincoln wore a bowler hat.

[@jo1na1na1]

I wonder if that means that Johnny Appleseed was just a regular ol Johnny since apple trees are now native to that reality 🤔

[@TheProfessor230]

@@jo1na1na1 or he was Johnny cherryseed

[@greyhayc9264]

I, much like Mr. Rockefeller and James Dean, am surprised.

[@MaxTardigrade]

Hello mr summerween trickster

[@seginusumbra5688]

@@MaxTardigrade summerween?

[@Wiener-Fag]

I, much like Greyhayc, Mr. Rockefeller and James Dean, am surprised

[@frownyclowny6955]

@@seginusumbra5688 it’s something from Gravity Falls

[@Yungwolfo]

James Dean really just chillin out here

[@theshiberealm9022]

don’t you hate it when you try to celebrate Christmas and end up in an alternate timeline

[@strilight]

A tree that sings? Oh no.

[@Strider_Mane]

What!!! what is it?!?!!? I think I've heard of it but forgotten!

[@NinjaGodzilla]

It’s the same tree In the Washington monument video

[@Strider_Mane]

@@NinjaGodzilla Washington wormwhole? Ah ok... I must been thinking of a cryptid, creepypasta, or an SCP...

[@anabominationagainstman3597]

@@Strider_Mane imean there's the tree that doesn't speak

[@Piostephanie]

FNF VS TREE

[@cumbrap]

Something interesting I just thought of, it's probably way off but it's an interesting connection. In Hawaii there exist a species of predatory caterpillar that disguise themselves as twigs on branches but stretching out their body and holding themselves completely stiff and motionless, and when they catch prey they bend down to grab it like the "tree" did here. Obviously they aren't indestructible and they don't transport people to parallel universes but it's something neat I thought of.

[@Jem_80s]

That gave me the heebie jeebies

[@cumbrap]

@@Jem_80s there's one crawling on your skin right now

[@p3wter0l0l3]

@@cumbrap there’s one crawling on all of our skin now

[@5uperM]

nice interpreation/idea. mayhaps people analising the work in the future will stumble upon it

[@cumbrap]

@Henning Eupithecia

[@zoedisco292]

I gotta say, for a kid, Virginia has amazing storytelling capabilities. The repetition really makes it sound like a children's book. Kid's got talent.

[@Supercooper-nv4my]

This is honestly one of the best videos in this genre I have ever seen, I cannof belive how immersed I was in this story and world .Great job dude!

[@azurda7483]

What genre is this?

[@SirDerpofCamelot]

@@azurda7483 yea, what have we stumbled upon?

[@epicpotatosforu2118]

I think it’s called an ARG

[@haruyoshida2338]

@@epicpotatosforu2118 ARG?

[@pelotocino1605]

@@haruyoshida2338 I think the best term will be "Analog horror"

[@y-._.-k]

This kind of horror is so much more terrifying than simple gore or horror. Well done.

[@linstough]

So dimension bending trees executions at Monuments and possibly a James Dean with mind control powers such a interesting series.

[@stoplightgaming2302]

Dean is really weird

[@aaqka]

dean is a sigma male

[@Glisten456]

You cannot escape James Dean.

[@Glisten456]

Rockefeller: *sees a massive, leafless tree with few branches and in the middle of an empty patch of forest* Rockefeller: Yeah this'll be great to set up in the middle of a bustling plaza!

[@budakbaongsiah]

*"...or perhaps, the tree chose me."* - John D. Rockefeller, former president of the USA

[@labyrinthine444]

it’s special!! :D

[@mraltheordinary7302]

The Kids and Virginia: Trying to do their best put the star on top of The Special Tree The Special Tree: *I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move*

[@tront5903]

Special Tree demensional transport MLG montage

[@MrJermeyp]

Now that’s a pro gamer move

[@mr.wik-e6001]

@@tront5903 OHHH!!! OHHH!!! OH MY GOD!!! HAPPY FEET, WOMBO COMBO!!!

[@kebab_boi7720]

Comedy homicide

[@obelix8492]

That kid on the bottom was a freaking hulk

[@mrxbx9002]

Being trapped in an alternate world with no way of returning home is genuinely terrifying.

[@c0nceited822]

Screw Zodiac signs do you prefer left heart or right heart universe?

[@zekiah2]

A reality with Rockefeller as president sounds almost as bad as a reality with Hillary as president That dude was a monster matched only by the most heinous politicians

[@zherean42069]

Middle

[@cdgamer7306]

@@zekiah2 perhaps this Rockefeller was more kind?

[@FatCatCooper]

@@zekiah2 >says Hillary was worse then trump

[@godlyvex5543]

@@zekiah2 It's entirely possible that this dude was a nicer person. People are shaped by their experiences.

[@bloxxerstudios8746]

In the Washington Wormhole video, 19 of the 20 missing people are found... This leaves 1 person missing. I suspect that this person is the Old Man Virgina encountered in the Between Plane ( What I call the place where Special Trees grow ). Stuck between our universe and the one of the Monument Mysteries channel.

[@tnc767]

That is a good theory

[@_diabetes6495]

It does beg the question of why he’s stuck, but Virginia wasn’t though? I’ve no idea to be honest.

[@andrewgentry2411]

*Mythos*

[@Two-gn9xp]

Well yeah the bolt of lightning thing is a clear connection

[@tubeguy4066]

Sounds alike like the Forest Between Worlds in the Chronicles of Narnia

[@machine-shopbilly6584]

"1273, down to Rockefeller Street Life is marchin' on do you feel that 1273, down to Rockefeller Street Everything is more than surreal" quoth the raven

[@themilkman6969]

1273, watch the Rockefeller tree The special trees ain’t trees, don’t you know that? 1273, zap the Rockefeller blimp Dean ain’t just an actor anymore

[@Justa_Guy_YT]

“In an alternate universe where John D. Rockefeller actually cares about people-“

[@tonoornottono]

that flash at the end is just like the flash of the cornerfolk. so this tree may have aligned multiple planes on this street, and cornerfolk use it to get around. that person on the building likely caught one as it went by to hitch a ride.

[@tonoornottono]

also i think the people were inverted because they live in a parallel plane

[@IIIVI]

@@tonoornottono the kids were only "inverted" in the universe they ended up in. The universe the kids ended up in have their organs flipped from ours in the real world.

[@juanandrescastillofuenmayo6619]

Honestly, I think that the Cornerfolk and MM universes are 100% different. It's just that they all have these 70-80s practical effect ish electric flashing. Awesome theory tho!

[@princessroyal80]

@@juanandrescastillofuenmayo6619 Though the Cornerfolk videos mentions alternate universes, so it's possible that the Cornerfolk videos take place in 'our' universe while the MM lore takes place in a perpendicular plane universe.

[@emtrac7898]

@@juanandrescastillofuenmayo6619 I think that they are all intertwined in the same thing though, just different universes that have yet to connect.

[@MLH9777]

The building in the end was the “General Electric building” located in the Rockefeller center

[@WypsotorNyloff]

Nextdoor neighbors, I know what you're thinking, "why would someone wake us up this late at night?" Well, it's pertinent that you are aware that a new monument mythos video has dropped.

[@KirboYT]

I love how the story is told here though two perspectives, and its also neat to learn how much of a different universe this is

[@VKnivian]

The fact that no one seems to have pointed out that the Special Tree bending when the kids put the ornament on it is clearly an eldritch parody of A Charlie Brown Christmas

[@the.sketch.projekt8851]

God damn Rockefeller creeps the shit out of me. It’s not even just this series, when I see his face normally, I just hear the music from RockefellerRevelation and I start to feel a sense of dread.

[@cosmicllama6910]

Along with the rest of the "old money" families. Talk about skeletons in the closet

[@mikebell43]

Listen to his soft yet forced voice. He's got a permanent creep whisper, reminds me of a demonic herbert the pervert from family guy

[@scharlesworth93]

I hear the 'Rockefeller Skank'

[@shalzy_]

This fits nicely with "WASHINGTONWORMHOLE". The field of special trees must be somewhere in an alternate universe and the trees in the other universes act as gateways between universes where the field of special trees is the "Hub".

[@뉴올리언스역3번출구]

For those who are unfamiliar with American history like me, the man on this video(John D. Rockefeller) is an actual Oil company founder of America. The building on the last few seconds of the video is called Rockefeller Plaza(a.k.a GE building) which has an annual of decorating Christmas tree besides the building since 1933. +the historic details on his videos are amazing. I hope someone dig this video in more detail.

[@kanna-san.]

It's the setting of a cult tv show, 30 Rock.

[@meme-pr1nc3]

I felt so awful for the kids. Just the thought of the parents rejecting the kids because of small details that are different from their “original” kids. And then trying to find the “originals”. If I was a parent and I encountered an alternate universe version of my kid, I would be shocked too. But I would say to them “Hey kiddo, you may be different from the “original” child I knew, but I will raise you the same way and love you” [Edit] It has been months since I’ve made this comment, but after reading some of the replies and long thinking my thoughts have extended and changed. I would still care for the alternate of my kid but also try to figure out how to get to my “original” kid from the experience alternate kid went through that caused the switch because I’d think the alternate me would do the same thing for my kid. And the alternate kid would want to be back with their alternate me because it is the me they’re most familiar with. Just try to help all four of us (me, alternate me, my kid, and alternate kid) the best I can

[@NotACutie]

My parents wouldn't do that for me. Breaks my heart everytime.

[@c1oudsky]

yeah same, they seemed weird to me. But maybe that's because those were older times? It still doesn't seem real to me though because even if your kid remembers some facts from their life differently you'd still see them as your kid at least because you'd want to maybe that's what they did in the end when they all calmed down

[@AA-pw5ni]

If my original child was still there, yeah I'd take them in, too. But if my 'original' child was no where to be found, and the replacement child was all I had left... I would be devastated. I would probably write it all off as effects of the accident, but I probably would always mourn the loss of the 'original.'

[@launchbase4944]

sure, you could say that easily now since you aren't in that position, and it's easy to say the parents are horrible from an outside perspective, but the idea of your kid being replaced by someone you did not raise or spend the last 7 years with is not going to be an easy thing to come to terms with within like...3 days lol

[@maxmccullough8548]

Meanwhile your actual child has been taken as a slave by the good folk, and your raising the changeling like a stupid robin hen raising the coocoo chick that pushed her babies to their deaths!

[@michaelmoser7497]

“The special tree formed an arc and lightning shot from inside” • The Washington Monument was formed around a “special tree” • In the video the monument formed an arc and shot out lightning HMMMMM

[@njf1175]

So that is maybe the same tree in that Washington monument, they had been replaced by a duplicate just like Washington himself, it’s just that the soldiers of Washington just replaced the frozen boi with a duplicate to win the revolutionary war. It’s a gateway to an alternate universe when it bends and whatnot. The special tree just appeared in a universe it wasn’t supposed to be in, therefore, those other trees the girl had seen are more gateways. I think that angel from airforceoneangel found out a way to activate the trees.

[@quint_avi]

good observations!

[@defrozendonut8715]

See here’s the thing thier not duplicates they are the same people from different dimensions so the Washington lookalike is in fact the real George just from a different dimension and time

[@defrozendonut8715]

And the singing from the tree might be them trying to get in tuned with them selves in the other dimension

[@PuppetMasterKankuro]

I never heard of Babylon Village before watching this, so when he mentioned going to Babylon to find a tree I was really confused at first. Although it would've been interesting if Babylon still existed in this universe.

[@VivaCristoRei9]

interesting name choice though. babylon being a biblical location that was at odds with the ancient jewish canaanites and was responsible for the suffering of many canaanites before it’s destruction by the canaanites themselves

[@sirsmoss7362]

And it exists in Northern America,

[@dark_lightning6909]

Biblicaly in the book of revelations babylon aligns itself with the antichrist/satan

[@ZannyAisling]

not exactly sure why people are talking about its biblical significance rather than historical, but Babylon was also the basis for the story of the Tower of Babel, a tale of human hubris attempting to meddle in the domain of God by building an especially large structure.

[@africkinamerican]

@@ZannyAisling there is a Babylon on Long Island.

[@seraphice.7053]

it's been a while since i've been so engrossed by a video that i didn't realize how much time has passed. All of these videos are wonderful pieces of storytelling and I am really looking forward to more in the future. Thanks for all of the work, Alex, you deserve way more attention than you are currently getting.

[@commissarvigil4806]

He produces 1-2 mil Sub level Quality Hes so so So Under rated

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

THIS is the kind of stuff i love being on youtube. It reminds me of the early days when people would come up with some experimental and awesome stuff that really fueled the own imagination and creativity with videos that don't feel overproduced. YOu have earned yourself another subscriber, dude :)

[@NAFProjects]

Jesus Christ. This is some of the best storytelling I've ever seen. You completely believe the innocence of everyone, that nobody intended anything to happen, and that the children are, just, children, caught in the cross-fire of whatever the hell the "Special Tree" is. I haven't seen the episodes later in the Season 1 playlist, so I'm probably missing a lot of information, but as a self-contained episode (well except the WashingtonWormhole), this tells an incredible, terrifying, HUMAN story.

[@DrKirkDemenz]

Wonderful work as always Alex, a fine end to this horrid year. Here's hoping the good people of President Rockefeller's world are celebrating the end of of a better 2020 than we had and that we all have a better 2021 ahead of us.

[@remembernavarro5344]

Considering all the otherwordly horrors they have to endure I very much doubt they are better off.

[@strionic770]

I doubt they're having a very good 2020 in the world in which a sentient cognitohazard took over the presidency.

[@cheese_weasel4953]

I doubt their having a good year because sentient Alcatrazes have already consumed half of the US by 2020

[@allanblevins5119]

2021 didn't work out hahahahahaha

[@BillyShamsReal]

@@strionic770 Hey, at least their cognitohazard wasn't malicous!

[@MSL925]

WOW a 18 minute video EDIT: Already have connections to the Washington Monument video with a tree that sings and doesn’t grow leaves The tree also bends, produces lighting in a similar form, and worm holes people like the end of the Washington monument video maybe that is what happened to that missing 20th person I think the tree worm hole also sends them onto an alternate timeline And what happened at the end?

[@ItsLilRobs]

I think the tree connects our universe with the alternate one seen in these videos, and the children from the alt universe are switched with their versions from ours, but still retain their old memories

[@stoplightgaming2302]

@@ItsLilRobs so in the mm universe, the children entered our universe. then their counterparts from our universe entered the mm universe. in our universe, John Rockefeller did become the richest person in the USA through oil. but in the mm universe, John Rockefeller was the president instead.

[@defrozendonut8715]

@@stoplightgaming2302 also in the mm universe James dean didn’t die in a car crash in 55 but later went on to be president of the United States

[@stoplightgaming2302]

@@defrozendonut8715 yep I know

[@kuyakyel324]

More like they’ve infiltrated on our world and hatch their plans in the future

[@DGP406]

Man, you should put these into pages and publish a collection of short stories. You have basically built a fantastic world filled with weird shit that feels clean and intriguing to know more if compared to other analog horror creators.

[@amaruqlol]

This is..Actually very sad. from a girl wanting to be the first to decorate a tree, too being sucked into another dimension that was close to your own but something was always off. its oddly disturbing and honestly, very tragic.

[@worshipwormking2327]

can't believe you went and made me watch a full 18 minutes about a (not) tree. you are truly a master at your craft, and i can't wait to see what you make next

[@randomexcessmemories4452]

"The Trees are not trees-" "I have seen *it* wandering in the Plaza on many occasions, and it resembles a man far more than any tree." There is a tree in the Washington monument. I think I saw a tree reaching out of the Lincoln Monument and the Pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. These trees are dimensional, and the government knows.

[@vibrantgleam]

_What is the goverment hiding from us?_

[@dinab3659]

@@vibrantgleam there is no god. Only the lorax

[@thenasiudk1337]

@@vibrantgleam the government tries to hide these 'trees' by building national monument around them, I don't know why, but probably the main reason is to public safety, and then there are some groups that aware of the tree existence that are vandalizing the monument so the people know the truth, these groups are giving warning to the people because these 'trees' will soon get their revenge

[@Takayayoyaki]

maybe it’s like care bears where each tree has a different ability. the washington monument one, for example, transports people through time. The statue of liberty one requires food of some sort for an unknown reason. The tree in this video transports you to an alternate universe. ect

[@fclssknldgsekr4844]

@@Takayayoyaki interesting thought. Bit of a trip. Is this literally just all an example? Haha. Would be awesome if you were on the trail of something here.

[@nictomahawk7018]

Virginia when the tree bends for the first time: I've killed it. Oh, everything I touch gets ruined!

[@allenharper2928]

I never thought it was such a bad little tree, it just needs some love. Lights, please!

[@gokaioh4900]

So most of us agree that the special tree’s form some sort of inter dimensional gateway. Here’s what I wanna know: What triggers said gateway to activate?

[@stoplightgaming2302]

When the special tree forms some sort of "arch"

[@jackwarbiany6067]

Maybe when someone tries to decorate the tree?

[@north6502]

I’ve heard the pyramids used to have conductive gold caps decorating their tips. Perhaps these caps were removed not by grave robbers, but in order to cease the gateways action. Maybe the metal star reversed that on a tree which was not encapsulated in stone.

[@songbird6414]

@@stoplightgaming2302 right but what makes them do it? We know the Rockefeller arch was activated after touching the top of it, but what happened to the Washington one? Isn’t it implied that they disappeared over many years, and the tree would have been inside the monument the entire time?

[@SnesySnas]

@@songbird6414 My guess is that the tree does activate when you affect the top somehow..My guess is the washington one wasn't properly maintained and some sort of debris falled ontop of it, causing it to activate

[@spartan113ish]

My heart broke a bit more and more every time she said "To which they asked: what do you mean?"

[@MagicalGirlContractor]

"Mr Rockerfeller was surprised." "I'm Surprised" -president dean cant help but feel theres something here

[@Cozm1k]

So basically the tree transported all eleven of these kids into an alternate universe. Their anatomy is different from everyone else’s in that universe, which is why the nurses were saying everything is backwards. Rockefeller was also a different person in the universe they went to as well. Along with the tree being a portal, it can also turn into a human instead of just a tree. As for the scene at the end, I think that it’s showing a clip of what happened when Virginia put the star on the tree.

[@ziggyboogydude1]

cant be it, there wasn't neon signage or widespread color film in the 30s. this is documentation of a more recent event in the zame place

[@museofbastille13]

It looks really similar to the CORNERFOLK video that goes first in the MM playlist

[@academygarden4313]

still cant get over the song used in the beginning "I'll be home for Christmas" great work with everything

[@Dominion69420]

Analysis: -Lurker-tree pairs NY: Liberty-Rockerfeller DC: Lincoln-Washington -Trees bend over to create portals to a nexus between realities (Mandela Effect) -Potentially just one tree per reality (save for nexus)-Picture used at end looks very similar to the Washington picture, could be those two universes the tree was chosen by rockerfeller instead of becoming the Washington monument -Nexus could exists “in-between” realities/space-time (mount rushmore and sphinx “forrests” where both contained the same way, could be the nexus clipping into those realities/reality-if they are in the same reality) OR different nexus exist, connecting trees linked by space-time (all rockerfeller trees connect via their own nexus, and all the Washington trees connect via their own nexus), allowing for multiple nexus to intersect realities. -Vandals could be related to sphinx??????? -Potential cornerfolk involvement???-organs being twisted, video at the end showing two bright blue flashes at diagonal angles. (probably just easter eggs or something entirely unrelated-Im aware they are separate mythos but who knows) So much is coming together but I still have yet to figure out the big picture.

[@Dunno1999]

Based on Rockefeller's talk balloons : Washington chopped down apple tree Lincoln have a bowler hat, instead the iconic top hat one Declaration of Independence signed in 1786

[@jacksonlarson6099]

Is "talk balloon" the monument mythos alternate reality version of "speech bubble"?

[@nonexistant8557]

@@jacksonlarson6099 that means theres a reality where its called "lecture floaties"

[@mediterraneanclassic]

@@nonexistant8557 this is terrifying, to say the least.

[@IanChan-ym2yc]

​@@jacksonlarson6099speaking clouds

[@anotherone6713]

Tree’s mom: “you overgrew that monument, you can rip it off already.” Tree:”fine mom.” **PROCEEDS TO CREATE MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANOMALY**

[@JetSetDman]

This is such a unique and interesting way to tell a story, alternating between the perspectives of an adult outsider and an affected child.

[@becketclark9942]

this is one of the most harrowing pieces of media I've seen since the caretaker's everywhere at the end of time

[@leothehuman1558]

I’m gonna remember that as “Virginia, those trees ain’t trees” That sounds much more iconic than the actual line

[@ammagnolia]

Breaks my heart so much coming back after seeing the rest. Her voice had hope.

[@makothefish8130]

"But I spent the rest of the night with my hand to my chest, wondering if my heart was ever on the right side" That's fucking terrifying

[@kizonyoutube]

Similarities that reveal some things about the washington monument video: The girl puts the ornament on the tree, she falls to the ground, lightning happens, she goes into the wormhole, and back out soon after In the washington monument video, the standard protocol video shows that they bring the person to the top of the tree in a bucket, possibly interacting with the tip of it. The screen shows that soundwaves come from the bottom of the monument, it's not really explainable yet whether the sounds were from the tree, or sent out to interact with the tree's musical properties as mentioned when rockefeller had first seen the tree. They then fall to the ground, I can only assume afterwards they go into the wormhole. The only other difference than "soundwaves" is that the people who went in, came out afterwards a lot later, when the monument bends and shoots lightning, just like in the story. We need to know what actually causes the tree to decide to shoot lightning, whether that signifies dimension changing or not, who caused the tree to do it in the washington video, and why the old man in the end of her story, also the 1 still missing person in the monument video, had actually stayed there. Did he cause the dimension change manually? There isn't a clear difference on why the monument video's lightningy bendy thingy took so much longer than the child's story. Maybe it didn't, and they'll be in that dimension for however many years and will be sent back after the same amount of time that the washington people did. Who knows.

[@oneosix106decena]

Uta.connected the the monuemnt built around it Where there was a clip of the washingtons monument,s top being bent and 20 people gone missing and only 19 came back Probably the person who told her that the "trees are not trees" ehere the last persontrapped therw

[@WarmageGarrison]

Poor Virginia :( I felt so bad for the kids in this story... they didnt deserve this

[@lonl123]

Alex, I just want to congratulate you..this episode was absolutly fantastic. It should have millions of more views....very clever presentation.

[@Mexican_Robobot42]

I feel like what makes this situation worse is the fact that all of this is the result of an innocent wish a child desired to do.

[@Scififan926]

"What about this tree Mr. Rockfeller?" "it's too short" "What about this tree Mr. Rockfeller?" "It's too tall "What about this tree Mr. Rockfeller?" "It's too average" "..." "..." "I quit"

[@WordofSil]

Imagine if the MM universe was documented in a wiki, like SCP, so people could browse stuff and make more sense of the lore.

[@Eric-1444]

It would be cool, but it could possible take away the charm and mystery of the series.

[@AA-pw5ni]

@@Eric-1444 Agreed, SCP Wiki ruined the whole thing

[@iceninja1997]

This being in the scp universe would make sense

[@nonbituary]

@@AA-pw5ni But the SCP wiki was the first, original piece to SCP's origin (other than SCP 173-- and, before you say "SCP CB!!".. that's literally fanmade); it's what gave it so much popularity. I think you should rephrase that sentence a bit better..

[@AA-pw5ni]

@@nonbituary LOL Fanmade as opposed to...? The entire SCP Universe which is entirely fanmade and compiled on a fan editable wiki? The wiki was created to contain the short stories people on freaking 4chan were writing. After CB and the popularity it brought, the wiki became and remains a cesspool of 13 year olds who got tired of bad votes on the creepypasta wiki.

[@TheStarwarsian]

11:55 The most fucked up thing, if you think about it, they essentially abandoned their children because they experienced an extremely traumatic event

[@DeathnoteBB]

But the whole point is they’re _not their children._ Their children are in a different dimension (probably our own), and their new kids are _from_ ours.

[@TheStarwarsian]

@@DeathnoteBB They don't know that

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@TheStarwarsian …I mean they do though. Hence them looking for their original children

[@TheStarwarsian]

@@DeathnoteBB sorry lol been a MINUTE since I watched this, my memory is a bit fuzzy

[@gloop3621]

Having one’s organs backwards is actually a real medical phenomenon, it’s rare but not unheard of iirc

[@TheONLYFeli0]

backwards horizontally.. but not front or backwards…

[@AnonYmous-ue8wg]

Also it would be weird if all ten kids had the same medical anonomaly

[@spaceistheplace2293]

President Dean then asked the tree to race cars at the track.

[@MemeL0rd13]

I thought this was gonna be 2 minutes of Rockefeller street but the lyrics would be different.

[@wanderinghistorian]

Oh my gosh this is a whole new level! Alex you keep getting better with every video and now it's getting really REALLY good. I remember the first one about the Lady and how many of made a suggestion to ditch showing the monster. You listened to us and accepted constructive criticism. I knew then that you were a serious artist and would be doing great things. This video is a masterpiece. If I don't stop now I'll be talking about it all night. Bravo, bravo.

[@richztensteinburg9096]

That plot twist tho.

[@ImmaDoWhatIWant]

Yeah fuck didnt expect that Rockefeller shit

[@stepladderwick7056]

After this video bruh, imma have to ask you to leave my backyard.

[@p_filippouz]

I don't get what the plot twist was though

[@p_filippouz]

@Scratchy ah ok. I didn't think it was a plot twist because for me it was obvious those weren't trees

[@p_filippouz]

@wenton I don't even know who Rockefeller is in real life

[@AndrewS-vu4ji]

We need more horror like this, not actively full of malice, just completely foreign, scary because its not us.

[@hornswaggle4127]

i think the idea that each of these books might be about different sets of the same children in each version of the world is really cool

[@ushankaboy7357]

Now i'm scared. I found this channel yesterday, especially it's "special tree" theme. Same day i remembered some dream about some bare tree and lightnings around it. (from this moment just ending of dream i remember) Then a tree would've followed me as i acsended into outer space. The thing that scares me is that dream were long ago, maybe even before this channel were created. How do i exist from now?

[@ericdigirolamo8904]

Stay away from weird singing trees

[@adkaquatics212]

Probably a false memory tbh

[@ushankaboy7357]

@@adkaquatics212 I remember it for sure, even when i woke up and like " woah thath was strange"

[@ScamwatchDallin]

I can't even begin to describe my excitement. Certainly don't want to insult any series that may have inspired this, but this is far and away the BEST piece of analog horror I've ever seen. I genuinely mean that. This has me hooked. I'm devastated I didn't find this sooner, but thrilled I discovered it before any of the huge horror channels I watch discussed it. Huge praises from me. This is astounding. Well done.

[@headflap7569]

Moral of the story: Mister Rockefeller was surprised.

[@trande6136]

I just figured out why “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” was chosen for this video. It’s mocking the tragedy victims. Dark.

[@cringefailtastic]

At first, when rockerfeller said "medical examination" I thought the children would be the patient zeros of whatever the mysterious "infection" that keeps being mentioned is. I was not ready for the dimension switch thing, that was a good twist.

[@ghastlyghandi4301]

A folded up table that stood on a wall fell over upstairs while watching this, it scared the crap out of me.

[@hexdepixel1165]

i like the rendition of I'll Be Home For Christmas in the background

[@Magicka24]

didint think id see you here

[@hexdepixel1165]

@@Magicka24 me neither lol

[@billeroonitheevileggfarmer4845]

@@hexdepixel1165 no need to lie, mr pixel

[@hexdepixel1165]

@@billeroonitheevileggfarmer4845 what

[@billeroonitheevileggfarmer4845]

@@hexdepixel1165 idk

[@overfoxed]

This is your best video. Lev's voice acting is a little wonky but this was atmospheric and tied together perfectly

[@Agentpman1]

Virginia Into the Virgina-Verse

[@ch592]

Yoo its you again

[@AGA-q3f]

chadverse to virginverse

[@boonie9448]

Virginia and her friends got sent to a mandela effect universe, it's *almost* the same.

[@kietvo2633]

but diffence like a bit

[@Mate_Antal_Zoltan]

*"almost* the same" *almost* Rockefeller is presidnet Dean is president The Suez Canal had a crab in it the entire time When lightning strikes the sand near the pyramids of Giza, it turns into magic glass the Sphynx is a spaceship, and so are the pyramids Alcatraz is a single cell -organism- island *almost* the same

[@greatwavefan397]

Mandela Catalogue

[@joshc5613]

I've rewatched this video a couple times now but it only JUST hit me how darkly ironic the music choice for this video is. "I'll Be Home For Christmas"... *but Virginia can't go home for Christmas.*

[@scottnyc6572]

My grandfather was an iron worker on Rockefeller Center buildings construction.He can be seen sitting on the beam during lunch with his fellow workers.You may have seen the photograph at some time or another.My Grandfather John Lewis is the second to last wearing a hat and is looking to his right.They would’ve gladly put the star on top of the tree for these poor children....

[@robyonebat]

this channel deserves MANY SUBSCRIBERS AND MANY FAN ARTS

[@matthewmccormack1291]

This hits so different now that we've actually seen "Wonderland" in LIBERTYLURKERS, makes you feel awful for Virginia being stuck in there.

[@blobofdespair]

My god, this is great storytelling. I absolutely love the switching POV between JDR and Virginia. This whole series gives me a delightful sense of dread.