The TRUE Horror of Local 58

An explanation/analysis regarding one of the greatest KZbin horror experiences to date.
Thank you all for watching!
FLASHING LIGHTS:
5:20-5:25 & 20:37-20:43
At around 5:00 I said that the events did not happen during the Cold War, I MEANT to say it didn’t happen during the space race/late50s and accidentally said Cold War. My B.
All videos taken from @local58
Full credit to Kris Straub & thank you from fellow creators
Thanks to @Nexpo for the psychology video as well as inspiration
Follow me on Instagram for short stories, merch, and more: @Wendig00n

[@mortalmike5696]

Hey Wendigoon, fun fact: HP Lovecraft had a short story called "The Moon" where he just describes how much he hates the moon.

[@shroomyk]

I just went and listened to it. I think the moon must have slept with his girlfriend or something cuz he *really* hates it.

[@nanite7092]

Thats just peak HP Lovecraft

[@allen-castle]

@@shroomyk that's rough buddy

[@Funnyguy426]

Weird, I wonder what else this nice man hated

[@chamber8234]

@@Funnyguy426 humans probably

[@chasebh89]

"be careful because this does work" is the most terrifying thing

[@amarreezlan7131]

it’s arg, what’s real is not

[@goblinofmossandmud1794]

Its an optical illusion i cant remember what its called tho but the faces linger in ur vision for a few seconds like the spots when u look at bright lights

[@cagkiller0317]

@@goblinofmossandmud1794 As some one who watched this at 2 AM yeah my vision is not nice right now

[@andrewenderle4281]

Yeah I was watching this at midnight and after I saw him talk about Real Sleep, I spent the next hour focusing on literally anything else on KZbin because I didn’t want to go to sleep with that being my lasting thought of the day

[@nealdatasstyson7097]

I literally did the whole thing before he gave the warning like bruh

[@kaeateatamarieroberts-toth4947]

"as he lays down in the grave, this happens" *DOMINO'S GREAT VALUE DEALS ARE BACK*

[@Leon.Hickey]

The true horror is domino's pizza.

[@Kano_Productions]

DUDE I GOT THE SAME FUCKING ADD!!!

[@Unreachableparadise]

@@Kano_Productions LMAO

[@KoragGames]

I got one about the new Ford F150

[@atlys258]

Lmfao mine was a Bed Bath & Beyond advert 🤣🤣

[@DIABETOR]

Whenever he says “this is one of the moon’s ploys” I think of somebody’s grandpa watching local 58 on the tv at 3am and saying “what’s that pesky moon up to this time?”

[@ct4888]

This is all just a scheme to sell soda. I have seen twelve soda adds this morning. THIRTEEN!

[@Idk017]

@@ct4888 aren’t ads personalized?

[@yaknow_tyrone]

​@@ct4888 fattass

[@dubuyajay9964]

And he'd be right.

[@boggeddown778]

Fly me to the moon And let me kick it’s fucking ass Let me show it what I learned in my Moon jujitsu class In other words Fuck the moon In other words Fucking hit me Fill my heart with rage And let me fight forever more That damn satellite called my mother A smelly whore      In other words Fuck the moon In other words Fuck the moon (Epic scat singing) Fill my heart with rage (at this point I kinda forgot the words so I ad-libbed) And let me fight that fucking whore I will kill till it knows that it is nothing more In other words Fuck the moon In other words Fuck the moon In other words In othеr words In other words Fuck the moon

[@anonymoussmith624]

It dawned on me that the reason why the moon would wish to use terror is because fear is the only thing that keeps you awake. Real Sleep is the implementation of the idea that sleep is useless so that way you always have the likelihood of seeing the moon. Such as the disassociation experiment, an experiment to keep you from sleeping due to the fear one has from nightmares. The moon is only visible when the Earth has made its daily rotation into night, it would be easy to combat such a creature since you just have to avoid it by sleeping in the dark. The moon therefore would try to make people not sleep as much as possible and as such, create a more subservient or broken people. It obviously works, cause now I don’t know if I can sleep. God Bless Horror

[@Phantomsangel]

Now this got me thinking of Luna from MLP and how she was jealous the ponies would sleep during her night lol

[@MLGProMaster-tu9tz]

Wow good thing I'm not gonna watch this because I actually want to sleep

[@Phantomsangel]

@@MLGProMaster-tu9tz I skipped that part so I could sleep rofl

[@kweenkong2281]

@@Phantomsangel sadly this video is making me sleepy

[@MolecularMachine]

... Have y'all never seen the moon out during the day? It literally happens half the month.

[@indecentthinking]

This is literally my favorite type of horror but also one of my strongest fears... just it being absolutely inescapable, almost undeterminable, and just the style of creepiness it gives off.

[@sofetchxx]

This. Just as my strongest fears. 😫

[@craigusselman546]

Ihave nightmares with true primal fear-Local 58 is the best thing that ecapsulates that feeling its excellent pure batshit terror.

[@poggerwhite]

Or binary moon

[@Krabnut]

There's something great about that deeply nauseating fear invoked by horror like this

[@majinriley9776]

You’d like Lovecraft

[@seanugly]

Love how Wendi shows you the clip that gives you nightmares before he warns you it gives you nightmares

[@boredpancake418]

That's the full clip? I am scared 💀

[@tentrix8505]

Same thing with SCP channels showing a picture of 096, and then saying, canonically, if you see any photos or video of 096, it will come and kill you. Scared the crap out of me when I was younger. I thought I was screwed

[@wspencerwatkins]

@@tentrix8505 haven’t really looked into scp stuff besides reading the original articles on the site, but it does say something about drawings being allowed I think

[@blazingblue9]

Yeah... it works too well. At least for me. A few minutes after, I looked in the mirror and couldn't recognise myself... Well done Wendigoon and Local 58, for the first time in a while, I'm scared.

[@moley249]

"they put the warnings after the spells" doctor strange

[@Goob666]

"as he lays down, this happens" *call of duty mobile ad plays*

[@Wendigoon]

😂😂😂 that’s so funny

[@reademccardell5208]

The ad I got began with "Mom, I'm not hungry" or something along those lines.

[@yolomasta6940]

I got an ad that was like "theres 20 pounds of toxic poop in your stomach"

[@robintrash]

I got the grubhub ad of the little kid dancing

[@mh7233]

@@yolomasta6940 your ads are based on your browsing history are you okay dude 😂

[@caldog619]

Luckily Dr.Eggman destroyed the moon with his super laser piss, so none of this ever happened

[@TyphusAndronicus]

I legitimately cannot thank you enough, I really needed something light-hearted after that. I'm off to watch the entire Sonic Adventure fan dub.

[@Ninjereto]

Pretty sure you mean piss laser

[@FriedIce3]

Sound like eggman wife was pissed on

[@peacooler9606]

Y e s

[@ytlplcrafter4813]

Lol

[@krovellium]

One of my favorite things about Real Sleep is one of the subliminal messages is “Your home has another door.” They aren’t trying to give you dreamless sleep, they’re trying to make it psychologically impossible to sleep.

[@driveknight3885]

I really wish I didn’t read that

[@taravanova]

@@driveknight3885 having an alternative exit to your house is good fire safety practice. Makes me feel more safe.

[@AH-tu3km]

@@taravanova while I agree, I feel like they mean a door you don't know about. When the broadcast (I think in contingency?) Says "he got in through the mirror" I think they were saying even seeing the moon in a reflection will invite the creature into your mind.

[@kadenstimpson3167]

There are other ones talking about how sleep is bad, how sleep will kill you etc

[@flavourruling2162]

@@AH-tu3km i feel like if the ideas are in a news broadcast or tv channel, then the message might mean “there is another door to your house, your mind” and that messages and changes in culture take place through TV.

[@selahs.9043]

The true terror of Local58 is that not even the cameraman is immune to anything, as seen in Skywatching

[@hiimextraaaaa]

the camera man *does* in fact die

[@privatepoggers6817]

I love the horror that isn’t necessarily scary or makes you jump but the stuff that just leaves you unsettled

[@GavinWilliamson13]

It stays with you so long after which is a good and bad thing

[@DJDistruxion]

I agree. I’m a film maker, and this type of horror and story telling is so interesting to me. Creating these universes just to slightly flex reality. Incredible.

[@kidshaldeman2091]

“Infants and pets: The Smallest Patriots.” Had me shakin in my seat

[@markjackson3531]

japanese movie "the curse" was pretty good

[@ineedhelp5844]

That type of horror is the only type I like

[@carsonwilson3140]

As a West Virginia native, can confirm this is normal.

[@deadmeme1763]

when the moon is sus!

[@ConnioJudah]

When West Virginia sus

[@carsonwilson3140]

West Virginia sus

[@noahhiatt2075]

Virginia gang

[@Crankyham422]

I’m from Ohio but live in Jackson county West Virginia and I can confirm this is normal

[@zacharyvinson6916]

Fun fact: I fell asleep with KZbin on my tv and woke up at 3 am to the faces video. I’ve never been so scared in my life (up to that point). That was my introduction to local 58. I love it Edit: Thank you guys for still commenting a year later and I really appreciate the 2.8k likes. It’s the most I’ve ever gotten on something and it’s made my day. Hope all of you are blessed and going through life as happy as yall can make it :)

[@logangustavson]

Yeah that was very disturbing

[@cococoffee2305]

Holy shit that’s terrifying

[@pickle1517]

bruh when i wake up i keep my eyes closed so any demon ahh thinks i asleep 😭

[@slaymyface1357]

I remember waking up on several occasions to the "3 games for children" specifically when they clap and cheer yay....nothing like waking up in the dark and hearing children cheering yay in that groggy half asleep state...yeah that shit woke me up faster than coffee

[@otakuinred]

Well that's one way to get into a series

[@tylercoon1791]

‘Moon’s hatching’ ‘W-What?’ *Cocks gun* ‘Moon’s hatching’

[@secreps]

I would shit my pants if i ever hear that phrase

[@tylercoon1791]

@@secreps better get to shittin’ then, boy

[@TheMostSourKraut]

I have come. The moon hatched. I forgot my mission.

[@ziggyzag07]

@@tylercoon1791 what a fucking power statement

[@jmsgridiron5628]

*grabs M4, slaps magazine home* "you heard the man, moon's hatching"

[@ihavenolife1254]

The skeleton guy on children’s show turning into a skeleton with no clothes in the span of 2 frames made me cackle

[@stcknoobs5516]

Big meme potential, bro said 💀.......☠️

[@optimumpride2618]

@@stcknoobs5516 man I'm dead 💀

[@experiencedgoat9884]

@@optimumpride2618 again

[@LRJ4]

Man im deceased☠️

[@monkeybutler6921]

Man I'm cremated ⚱️

[@antirevomag834]

something to add. in cadavre, the third grave he goes to (the one that leads into the underground). the moon passes infront of the dead tree, not behind it. Implying the moon is closer than it was prior.

[@guiltygearalonecompl]

Jesus

[@lorrisummers3371]

Nice catch!!!

[@wormwood8352]

9:15 watch the moon. It is in the foreground, not the background- the tree is behind the moon. Creepy as shit

[@SuperNiceteeth]

That might just be an animation error.

[@wormwood8352]

@@SuperNiceteeth Given how much prevalence is given to the moon as a theme throughout Local 58 I think it was very intentional, it makes it that much more unsettling if you notice it and gives the impression that the moon in the video is not at all natural which plays into the overall narrative.

[@cryamistellimek9184]

Yes that’s understandable, but it can also be an animation error

[@theannoyedlink5153]

@@wormwood8352 reminds me of a part on bloodborne where the clouds are behind the moon, in that game the moon also has very creepy eldritch implications, and when I saw that detail it made me indescribably uncomfortable, who would've said the moon could be so creepy?

[@wormwood8352]

@@theannoyedlink5153 oh man Bloodborne is one of my favorite games of all time, hadn’t even considered comparing it to this though until you brought it up, great point. In our normal lives the moon is, despite the changing phases, relatively constant, always up in the sky at night for us to see- and when something constant like that is shifted, when it breaks with its constancy and becomes even slightly different, it is ever so creepy. Even something as simple as shifting the moon from being behind clouds (or a tree) to in front of them breaks our comprehension, it is entirely unnatural and unsettling just by making it closer in the sky because it ceases to exist as we have known it to and now is just different enough to be worrying in a way you can’t quite place.

[@wileyjones7762]

am i trippin or did this dude jump 20k subs in like a week? congrats dude

[@DigitalEWhore]

I fell asleep watching him last night at about 9ish with him at 168k subs. It's currently 11 and he has 170k. I hope there's a live subcount of him somewhere, I'm curious how quickly it's going up

[@cohenresch298]

Bro I’ve been watching all his videos after coming across his channel on recommended and watched his sub count go up by like 15k in 2 and a half days

[@FunkBastid]

The algorithm giveth, and the algorithm taketh away

[@Maxbecomesgreat]

8k yesterday too

[@Ruudes1483]

He’s up to 200K now

[@KennTollens]

They don't broadcast stuff like this because some people actually believe it and might follow through with the plan. The War of the Worlds broadcast kind of put a stop those fun pranks. When they made Gilligan's Island, there were actually people trying to set up a rescue mission.

[@irishinstigator7854]

People have always been pretty gullible.

[@Tyeler80]

@@irishinstigator7854 mhm

[@nixDrgnslyr]

He says it's a AGR at the beginning though.

[@irishinstigator7854]

@@nixDrgnslyr So did Orson Welles. Everyone still thought aliens were taking over.

[@ParsureArts]

Rip

[@chattanjohnson5835]

Wendigoon: hey this is very psychologically distressing stuff so don’t watch unless you’re ready Also Wendigoon: *shows you*

[@exeli9547]

When is this what part

[@faizanali-khan671]

lmao exactly....shows it to us BEFORE giving us that warning haha.

[@dwaynelouis343]

@@faizanali-khan671 dont follow the steps lolol and dont read any of the msgs either :$

[@tituscapehart6635]

He only showed the first part and the subliminal messages, it gets much much creepier as it goes on and the faces get more distorted in the full thing so I believe that is what he was referring to

[@CodeeXD]

*shows cognitihazard* Oh btw that was a cognitihazard so you probably shouldn't watch it...

[@ajromero3692]

"The 51st State is not a place" There's something so foreboding and sinister about this. I can't explain why, it just makes me uneasy.

[@notatheory4488]

Maybe because it’s a Mandela Effect ? There was only 50 in my universe. 51st place may be a state of awarness. Not a physical state.

[@darylwilson9124]

Both halves of the statement prove to be just that. Statements. No opinions, no exaggeration just the first half implying the existence of something (the 51st state) followed by the second half of the sentence letting us know that no such place exists (is not a place) The uneasyness could be from intentional cognitive dissonance. It could come from 50 not being a small number. One by one we got to 50 over time, could there be one more in the future? Could the existence of that one more state lead to a lack of species capable to survive the impact of actions that take place because that one more state exists? America is a large world power that tetters to and frow but I think if the leader of america (I don't wanna say names or titles) lost their shit some serious worldwide damage could be the outcome. American election time heightens emotion like no other. It's not arrogance based on the military, the world watches because of what we're capable of. A 51st state would shift political power 24 hous after it was borne if not in faster. Political upheaval leads to violence and war but wars you can't control aren't as profitable. Image the military the world is afraid of being used on the people if that nation. The 51st state could absolutely be a place in some other time. I think some of the unease comes from the possibility that the 51st state DOES exist, factual, and the implications is we, a non extinct society can stop this state from existing or it will do the same to all of man kind. The 51st state is not a place. At least if we're lucky, it won't be.

[@TheBestSam42]

The moon is referred to as the 51st state, so what constitutes a noun, person, place or thing. If the moon isn’t a place it must be a person or a thing. That’s a pretty terrifying concept because it raises the question, what is it and could it hurt us?

[@TheBestSam42]

@@darylwilson9124 ^

[@adewalo]

ohio must be avoided

[@vlvyyplipsclip7379]

"the moon is screaming" yeah this is way cooler than whatever alien theory matpat has

[@SlothhhKinggg]

He seems like a great dude but his theorys are batshit insane and make little sense

[@kavky]

@@SlothhhKinggg gotta milk that clickbait somehow

[@SlothhhKinggg]

@@kavky I respect the grind but Jesus christ. How many FNAF videos has he made again? Like 500?

[@mememachinemax7708]

@@SlothhhKinggg True dat shit. He's really the equivalent of a tired sitcom after so many years man. I don't blame em for moving into live gaming or whatever lmao

[@josephbatten1462]

I was looking for this comment. I remember years ago watching it so when I saw this video I was like that thing. Then I was amazed at how much more coherent this was.

[@joshtaylor9884]

I watched "Real Sleep" after watching this. I didn't have a nightmare in the classic sense where something terrifying was out to get me, but more like the dream I had left me extremely uneasy and disassociated upon waking up. Almost when you're tripping and the trip goes bad and you have to keep telling yourself "everything is alright" and your one step away from a panic attack. So yeah. Be careful.

[@D1_Hater21]

Godammit I'm just about to go to sleep

[@use0037]

most my nightmares are like that

[@Halo2glitchlover22]

But what was the dream you had?

[@joshtaylor9884]

@@Halo2glitchlover22 If I tried to explain the dream, it wouldn't make any sense. Trying to put into words using sensory perceptions such as what I heard or what I saw would result in a description too abstract to be meaningful or useful. But I will once again emphasize that I woke feeling uneasy, paranoid, anxious. Usually when we have a bad dream, our mind uses sight and sound to frighten us. But in this dream, it went directly for my emotions and my mental state. I hope that somewhat answers your question. That's the best I can put it into words on here.

[@PrayingForTruth]

@@joshtaylor9884 For what it's worth--and to whomever is able to receive this theory--I'd say that all of this is demonically driven; demons definitely prefer to attack when our defenses are down--e.g., when we're asleep, drunk (or high), etc. And they definitely like to prey/ play upon our emotional states, especially when we're in the dream state.

[@wintergray1221]

Contingency is so chilling simply because I could see it being real during the Cold War era when a lot of Americans lived in daily fear of a nuclear attack. It's not farfetched that the government would hold mass suicide as patriotic glory preferable to allowing a takeover.

[@michaelbugner7011]

So many people would fall for it I think.

[@eatinaburger]

The worst part for me that made me terrified was "children and pets are the smallest patriots". This feels so real- the phrasing and all. Its like when there is a school shooting and people make propoganda for safer schools saying "our children are the future of Freedom/America".

[@michaelhull1813]

Nobody lived in daily fear. Just like today, the News made it appear that way.

[@spunkmckunkle5604]

I wonder if it was meant as a clue that the program says "your god." It was the cold war, a government broadcast would have taken it as assumption that everyone was Christian just like they did with the Pledge of Allegiance. Either it is from the moon, or the moon's influence is already pretty strong.

[@maxis_scott_engie_maximov_jr]

That would take "Death is a preferable alternative to communism" on a whole another level

[@finnfarrell8069]

I normally like horror, but for some reason this is almost unmatchably scary to me.

[@thenerdvoid505]

It's probably because this type of horror isn't usually seen. It's not extraterrestrial horror, it's cosmic horror

[@chucklebutt4470]

it's ok bebe

[@mewxtwo]

Same I cannot stop getting teary eyed during this. It's so freaky.

[@Alexander_Grant]

It’s horrifying because it can be true. Cosmic horror hits on a very deep level to humans. We evolved to think we’re the center of the universe, apex predators have to see it that way. This is the antithesis to millions of years of evolution, it’s why we believed in a geocentric model of the solar system for so long. I studied astronomy in college, I worked under a co-writer for the Nobel prize in physics in my undergrad years. I spent many nights in the university observatory right outside the city checking to make sure the automated picture taking was going right. He used to talk about the universe having life that we would never be able to see because we don’t know how to look for it. Organisms on the scale of galaxies, what is a human to bacteria? A being at that scale doesn’t make sense to our monkey brains. It never had to be considered, our ancestors biggest fear were dinosaurs while we were scurrying through the trees and digging into holes. Perhaps we’re surrounded by this type of life, but we don’t know how to look for it. Our five senses are so limiting, yet we do nearly all of our science using them, look at how far we’ve gotten using something like electromagnetism, something humans don’t have a sense for. To imagine a creature so out of our realm of evolutionary experience could learn to talk to our five senses is horrifying.

[@tsukikoamagiri]

When I thought I got tired of all ARGs... but this on another level

[@tlh0121]

“I’m already scared.” You don’t know how reassuring that can actually be for a 33-year-old to hear coming from a fellow adult lol. I sit here, only ever searching for dark and creepy shit, then creeping myself out because I only ever watch dark and creepy shit, and then thinking “my parents never got creeped out watching shit like this...” Funny thing is, my dad and I were talking about “The Exorcist” not too long ago and I was saying how going to bed after watching it, I’d swear I’d hear noises in the attic and shit, and my dad actually said, “I know, right.” I couldn’t believe it.

[@innerfriendyogabreathworkc1709]

As a mom who''s still waiting to grow up and find a manual for parenting somewhere: Parents are humans too LOL

[@LikeIverson3]

@@innerfriendyogabreathworkc1709 be my mommy🥹

[@dirpapa]

@@LikeIverson3 ayoooooo

[@LikeIverson3]

@@dirpapa let me rock gang

[@dirpapa]

@@LikeIverson3 fair enough, proceed

[@Mamba503]

After “Real Sleep” I saw faces everywhere in the static for the rest of the series. I still can’t tell if it’s my mind or if it’s vaguely there for us to pick up on.

[@grimm_curtis7812]

I've never seen any faces in the static in the other videos, might be the effect on "real sleep"

[@natalyst]

yeah i thought i saw a face behind wendigoon after that bit on his wall, but after going back to check there was nothing there. that's freaky

[@DiplomatOfDirt]

probably burnt ur fuckin screen lol

[@sohailsaha7427]

There are no faces.

[@jackpijjin4088]

@@sohailsaha7427 Only the awake may think.

[@lizdee3243]

Here's a weird theory about something you might not have known: Before Local 58, years ago, Kris Straub had a webcomic called Broodhollow (which, btw, was some FANTASTIC psychological/cosmic horror). The main character would sometimes be seen reading a newspaper comic called Cadavre, featuring the exact little skeleton man seen in Show for Children. He's a moody French existentialist whose antics sometimes parallel problems the main character is dealing with at the time. After a bit Cadavre starts showing up in the main character's dreams and speaking directly to him, which can be a cue to the reader that the scene is a dream. Cadavre is a very lovable little bone man (with a bunch of cute comics published if you're interested) but what's important is that he's primarily a cute, commercially digestible version of something subconsciously happening within the disturbing story of Broodhollow. His appearance as a children's cartoon in Local 58 could suggest one of a few things: 1. What is happening to Cadavre is meant as a parallel to what the people of Earth in Local 58 are going through, or will go through: trotting along happily while the Moon watches, coming across increasingly disturbing things until he eventually gets too scared, admits defeat, lies down and waits for death. 2. The Cadavre story we see is a projection of a dream or a nightmare, or something intended to influence the dreams of watchers, similar to True Sleep. 3. Maybe both: Cadvre's cartoon is the kid-friendly, commercially viable version of True Sleep, shown to acclimate kids with what's going to happen to them, including the turning fear into a casual, imitatable thing the friendly skeleton man is doing.

[@EsPit.]

Thank you, good sir. See you when you’re sleeping!

[@EsPit.]

You’ll be fine too. The thing in the other corner can’t get you anymore, it’s too scared of me.

[@sillygrelladmirer]

bro this needs more replies its literally such a cool theory wtf

[@goblin3794]

i love this theory, this is nicely written

[@baubleBeee]

I second the idea of giving Broodhollow a read, I read through it so fast when I found it and it was how I was introduced to Local 58 when the creator went on to work on that series instead. It's a great read!

[@kevinsundelin8639]

So, I tried the Real Sleep thing where I watched the video every night before I went to sleep for one week. In that week, I dreamt 2 out of 7 nights. Another week after the experiment, I had no dreams. But for 4-5 weeks afterward, I experienced some of the most vivid and terrible nightmares I have ever had. I can't say that these were caused by watching the Real Sleep program, but it sure was interesting, at least in hindsight. I'm wondering if I should do it again to confirm if it was truly the cause of my nightmares. Edit: Thank you, everyone, for your thoughts, insights, and concerns. I am in a much better place mentally now, so I do not see a need to repeat this experiment. The main reason, I think, for my nightmares, was the mental illness that I'd been struggling with for a long time at that point. i.e anxiety, depression, and such. Replicate this with caution.

[@kevinsundelin8639]

@@texrnl Why?

[@MadScientist126]

Bro I remember watching Real Sleep for the first time… this was during a time where every night I had very misplaced, WEIRD, vivid drama that didn’t make sense when I woke up and tried to remember them and think what it meant. Just random shit that was confusing. But then I came across Local 58, watched their videos and saw the Real Sleep one. I was creeped out and brushed it off. But later that night… I didn’t dream at all….. I think it’s real what you tried. But than again I only recall one night. But all those last months I always dreamed or saw something in my sleep dream wise. But after staring at the real sleep clip and seeing the weird distorted faces, I didn’t dream the following night. Idk what do you think?

[@andrewcallan9034]

Guys it's from a national sleep laboratory from before the 90's where they study dreaming, sleep paralysis, sleep walking and nightmares, what do you expect?? Let alone what was done under DOD contracts too boot

[@MadScientist126]

@@andrewcallan9034 😮

[@SyankaCreature]

You not having dreams is just a coincidence, there is a cycle during your sleep, and one of the parts of the cycle is called REM (rapid eye movement), this is when your dreams occur, you have multipld rem cycles during the night, ussualy 2 or 3, but it's common for people to forget their dreams, especially the ones during the firsts REM cycles. The nightmare part can be related to the real sleep video, those texts at the end are there to make your mind believe in them by reading it, it's pretty much a hypnosis to affect your dreams

[@mattnielsen14]

The force telling people to not look at the moon has a revelation and says this.... “HOW LONG DOES YOUR SEX LAST?” I BURST out laughing I’ve never seen ad timing like that

[@spraycheez3410]

I got: "NEW: Jimmy Dean breakfast nuggets!" 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂lmfao

[@creacherfeacher8232]

I was in the middle of writing a comment and got the same ad omg 😭

[@jamestomlin5525]

What kind of content have you been watching to suggest that ad? Hmmmmm~🤔

[@nicholasspinner638]

I got an ad telling me to visit Panama

[@primedecanus8788]

He probably did this to take some of the pressure of the creepiness off your shoulders.

[@endlord_1.185]

Local 58 is great, but if there's one thing i absolutely despise, it's real sleep. The idea of becoming unable to properly recognize or identify faces or facial features puts me into a existential panic. What if one day i just wake up, and talk to my mother, only for me to stop recognizing her has my mother, another human, but rather a faceless being to disassociate from. Can't stand thinking about that.

[@WaiW41]

I apologise if I end up worsening your fear, but this is a very real condition known as prosopagnosia or face blindness. It is thought to occur due to dysfunction or damage in the right fusiform gyrus (of the brain). Essentially the mechanism under face recognition, which is unique and differs from other object recognition, is disrupted. While we usually analyse various elements and their context to recognise objects, facial recognition almost is completely top-down or context-driven. What this means is that we do no individually register elements of someone's face such as their nose or eyes, we perceive as a whole face. In prosopagnosia, this top-down facial recognition process stops working, so people are able to view the individual elements of someone's face but cannot integrate it into a recognisable face. Usually, most people with prosopagnosia are able to live with the condition by using other cues (such as voice, clothing, etc) and the context to recognise other people, but I imagine if someone suddenly had a stroke or brain injury that lesioned their right fusiform gyrus, the initial period of the disability would be terrifying.

[@akaehm]

I actually suffer from Capgras-Delusion, after heatstroke inflicted a brain injury. It's the opposite of prosopagnosia, where you recognise the faces of your loved ones, but have no pathway of emotional connection anymore. Leaving your brain with the only coping mechanism of thought 'This is not my mother.', for example. A clone, a monster, a shape shifter, an agent, a twin, a fraud, a demon, nother dimension- you name it. It is quite terrifying. Even more so, when you are just a child.

[@jadonlimoges1830]

If i am ever diagnosed with dementia, I'm fucking my wife one last time and then my brain is going on the ceiling

[@omnimonium]

don't worry homie, the effects are minor if there even are any. if you're worried, memorize the shape of her face. her nose, her eye shape, her lip shape, jaw, etc. if you want to, you can also draw her from reference, even just from a photograph. face blindness is rare and cannot be triggered by subliminals.

[@neoordwell]

I'm minorly face blind because of autism but it's not too bad,,, makes me anxious in public though. if I'm out with someone i might not find them again and I kind of want to just be put on a leash so they don't lose me LMAO

[@kitty0chan444]

“Don’t look at the night sky” Me who’s watching this while sitting on my porch at night: guess I’ll die

[@ash-6887]

HOW ARE YOU ON YOUR PORCH AT NIGHT WATCHING THIS- I’m in my room with all of my lights on and I’m still scared

[@chucklebutt4470]

@@ash-6887 it's okay little buddy videos won't hurt yah! 😋

[@friedtoads13]

i was watching this on my backyard patio at night in west virginia which is where this takes place. i immediately went inside.

[@schawangus]

@@friedtoads13 ooooooh.... nope. Hate that.

[@friedtoads13]

@@schawangus yeah it was bad. the moon now freaks me the fuck out lmao

[@SaiyanPanda96]

I love the shit out of emergency service announcement scenarios that are spooky

[@atlascollective3000]

The genre is called analog horror. There’s not a whole lot out there unfortunately:/

[@ECMalcolm]

EAS scenarios are my favourite kind of horror. I go through random bursts of binging those videos.

[@sourpuss5951]

@@atlascollective3000 Have you seen OmegaMart videos? Not exactly horror (more on the Analogue side I guess), but their surrealist ads still give off unsettling vibes.

[@k.morningstar7983]

on a sadly true note, a broadcast of *War of the Worlds* in South America led to a riot and actual deaths. it's crazy to realize how this stuff can have real world consequences.

[@meridien52681]

The one recorded in the event of nuclear annihilation is just so fkn scary. It's almost like, "Been nice to know ya, gotta go. say hi to humanity for me, ok?"

[@oliviamontemayer7089]

Contingency is genuinely one of the most dread/anxiety inducing thing I have ever seen. I legit can’t watch it again. It’s fantastic.

[@michealshixam1731]

Beaten only by real sleep

[@martinianagbi6129]

One of?

[@SmumplytheF2P]

The most scariest things is that people may had already killed themselves from watching that Contingency video, even though it was actually not from the government, but from another force outside.

[@clonker77]

@@michealshixam1731 it doesnt feel that scary to me.

[@shainecorwin8709]

@@clonker77 do you want an award or something?

[@ashleyknox4289]

Local 58 is so scary to me, Simply due to the fact that it feels like it should be safe. It's public access television. Everyone has woken up in the middle of the night to see something on their television. But it shouldn't be scary, it should be comforting. It's taken something nostalgic and safe and flipped it on its head.

[@kcmento4956]

I like that you mentioned Lovecraft because, not only is "the moon is an eldritch horror" an amazing take on this series, its ability to instill madness and hysteria in people from just looking at it is a thing that happens in call of cthulu and the dunwich horror. Really well-put and a great video!!

[@k.morningstar7983]

totally fits the part where you can see the silhouette of someone with shaking hands reaching towards it, like their mind was broken

[@meridien52681]

I had to give up on Lovecraft. I just got tired of the whole, "...the thing which cannot be named, hidden away in forbidden books" or some such. Everything is unnameable, hidden, mysterious, forbidden, just kind of devoid of lot of its supposed horror. It just seemed formulaic and repetitive.

[@ClaireDuhLune]

@@meridien52681 to me this represents our limited perspective on such a grand-scoped entity. I do get that it can get super formulaic with the whole ideas though.

[@meridien52681]

@@ClaireDuhLune Limited perspective? How so?

[@ClaireDuhLune]

@@meridien52681 just something beyond comprehension to the point where we are forced by our own mental processes and logic to "force the square peg in the round hole" per se. Just something so beyond comprehension and defying the notions humanity as a culture have limited ourselves to that it breaks us. Just something that breaks our hard-wired psychology is so fucking interesting to me as it presents the feeling of hopelessness in such a visceral way. Could you imagine living in a world where looking at something that defies human logic in such a way just makes you change into something unrecognizable? Whether that be a physical or mental change, the idea of losing yourself to something by simply comprehending it is a fun idea regardless of overuse.

[@angrylocusts]

This reminded me of a Nursery Rhyme I read to my daughter... "The man on the moon looked out of the moon, And this is what he said, ' Tis time now, that I'm waking up, And all babies went to bed."

[@sergioandresramirezzuluaga6649]

Something on the moon (or the moon itself) has awaken, and it says now it is time for us (the babies, or its children) to lay down, looking up to the moon, and die-------------------------- Well, that's it, that damn channel has finally messed up my mind.

[@srkibble]

Man this really messed with me. I was playing Stardew Valley while watching. If you've never played it, it's kind of a life simulator where you work as a farmer and can get married or whatever. I'm married to some NPC in the game, and every day at 10PM in game, she would, like clockwork, go to bed. When 10PM hit in the game as I was watching this, hearing about not going outside and looking at the moon and shit, I saw her start to walk away from where she was standing, presumably to go to bed. I went outside to check one more thing before joining her, but when I came back inside, she wasn't in bed. Over 100 in game days of her being in bed after 10PM without fail, and this one time she was just gone. I looked around but couldn't find her anywhere, and in the relationship menu where it shows your relationship with all the NPCs, hers was bugged out. The next day everything went back to normal, she was there like nothing happened. I went to sleep (in real life) thinking about one of the concepts from your conspiracy theory videos, the one by Carl Jung about there being no coincidences, and I dunno, first time I've felt properly freaked out since I moved out of my parent's house. Guess I've been watching too much Wendigoon...

[@srkibble]

​@Hey I'm Marshall

[@thomasvalenzuela720]

@Hey I'm Marshall hey man. Can you go into some details of the creepy bugs you have experienced?

[@mac8009]

I was playing dark souls 2 while watching this video, and when I got into an area called The Lost Bastile, my character suddenly died out of nowhere, then i noticed there's full moon in that area all the time.

[@jktech2117]

@@mac8009 this honestly got me a creepypasta vibe, ya could make it a story tho

[@thetalantonx]

Thanks for mentioning Jung and synchronicities. I wish the *original* site for the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research lab was online and intact, you might be able to find it through the Wayback Machine. It was focusing on the interaction between consciousness and mechanical processes, the exchange of information absent standard pathways of communication (like remote viewing), and so on. * Human machine interaction where a random process was paired with a human operator, like a marble cascade similar to Plinko on the Price Is Right, finding that even without touching the machine the act of focusing on the machine was having a "statistically significant" impact. Different operators were able to achieve greater control (as in influencing the process towards one side or the other, or increasing coherence and decreasing scatter.) * The interaction of groups on random processes like a white noise generator, cooperation having an impact on the coherence of the generator, conflict having another. The strongest impact was when people were engaging the creative faculty and exhibiting Openness on the Big Five. * The impact of groups increased exponentially with the increase in the number of participants, the degree of interconnection. * The human machine interaction effects were not just on the micro or quantum level but on the standard physical as well. A computer can't generate randomness, it can approximate it, but it does so through very specific processes. You were cultivating a very specific holistic mindset by watching Wendigoon videos, you're fostering interconnection within the brain drawing on memory, imagination, language processing, problemsolving, yadda yadda. (Some psychedelics like psilocybin evoke the cognitive experience not by increasing activity, but by decreasing the inhibitory centers and systems of the brain. Unchecked crosstalk and simultaneous activation of the entire brain isn't genius, after all, it's a seizure. But *slightly* decreasing those often overactive inhibitory centers can lead to inspiration and a marked increase in the Openness trait even after a single dose, making it of interest in the treatment of depression.) The specific mindset could have had your brain acting as its own little field generator or modulator, or acting in such a way that the inputs you gave the system from which its PRNG work was done resulted in that abnormal synchronicity. Mantras and repetition often form a key component of esoteric/mystic practice, from focusing on the breath to a phrase to a repeated action like a rosary. It's like occupying one level of the mind with a task lets you get it out of the way to allow for that crossconnection and alternate mode activity. You were primed for it by playing a game in a habitual way, but specifically a game about manifesting order and cultivating connection through repeated tasks, and then engaging your creativity and visualization on the deep dive that Wendigoon gives us. I think it all came together to make for an interesting experience that could add some weight to your reading and Jung's ideas? Whatever the case, thank you for sharing! [Insert standard disclaimer, YMMV, void where prohibited, it's just like, my opinion, man, and there's cool shit to research on your own if you want.]

[@thisbagisnotatoy9639]

I looked away during the facial recognition experiment video because my autistic ass already has enough issues with recognizing faces and facial expressions 😂 I was tempted to watch until you explained that part and was immediately like, “I definitely can’t afford to risk that getting worse!”

[@Notmurder]

Me too

[@xoxdid]

I THOUGHT THE SAME hahahah. Fuck nightmares: more social dissonance? Hell nah

[@gault6546]

i just watched that part, and man it's freaky af. i also have trouble recognising faces sometimes, so idk if that made the experiment much more terrifying to me, but when i focused on the middle of the screen as told, the human faces, which all belong to actual human beings, suddenly turned surreal. it's like badly generated AI art of human faces, with the wrong colours of skin and the wrong facial proportions. with foreheads and chins too big, and eyes too small. i was ofc startled by this and immediately shifted my gaze back at the faces. and they were normal. they were human. yet the moment i focused on the middle of the screen again for 2 seconds, they become inhuman again. until i focus back on the faces themselves. i don't recommend doing it lol. even now, 15 mins after that happened, i still feel very uneasy. i don't feel comfortable looking at faces.

[@DaveSmith-pc4ul]

It’s like looking at your own face in a dark mirror, the faces distort and look disfigured until you look closely and they look normal. It was pretty interesting.

[@DaveSmith-pc4ul]

@@gault6546it reminds me of when you look in the mirror in the dark. Since your features aren’t clear enough they can start looking distorted and weird.

[@TheNeapher]

“I can’t explain this, just watch for yourself.” Plays REAL SLEEP “Guys just so you know if you watch this you watch this you’ll have actual nightmares 😉” Yeah, thanks for that Wendi, love your videos.

[@TheNeapher]

“If you don’t want to participate in real sleep skip ahead about twenty seconds.” Yeah I didn’t like that surprise nightmare fuel earlier so I’ll just skip ahead half a minute. > > And I’m dead in the middle of it, thanks again Wendi, love you baby; you’re the best.

[@thebasedgodmax1163]

did it give you nightmares? just curious because i only saw it briefly and i'm worried i'm gonna get nightmares

[@brujachingona2175]

I stopped watching it at 2:22 after reading these comments. BIG NOPE.

[@Gamed-dd7tj]

it should only give you nightmares if you watch it close to when you fall asleep

[@S-H-Yster]

@@Gamed-dd7tj DAMNIT ITS 10PM IM SCREWED

[@rustyshackelford312]

"As he lays down, this happens" *video continues because i use ad blockers.

[@supremelorddaddyemperorpre6365]

Of course Rusty Shackelford uses ad blockers.

[@nonoob53]

@@supremelorddaddyemperorpre6365 LOL

[@boxcarjoefromhalflife2]

propane and propane accesories

[@TheJayson8899]

Asshole.

[@oswaldcobblepot8472]

Damn

[@mrflintstoner1743]

I like how if you don't look at the red dot all the faces are completely normal but staring at the dot makes them look as if they are transforming into hellish figures.

[@SpaceKebab]

ong wtf was bthat

[@mrflintstoner1743]

@@SpaceKebab its crazy and actually pretty cool

[@1ternity22]

Thak you the moment he said "if you don't want to participate skip 20 seconds" I never fast forward so quickly

[@radbox2287]

@@1ternity22 FACTS

[@allieray7791]

That reminds me of a game me and my sister would play called "the face that you don't know" wherein we would face each other in dim lighting and stare at each other's faces until they started to morph strangely. Very cool.

[@Charlie-gn1ed]

The moon’s unspoken rizz killed Cadavre

[@lunietoonies]

LMFAO the moons W rizz is just too strong

[@D1_Hater21]

His fucking light skin stare 💀

[@krio1267]

​@@lunietoonieswhat if the moon rizzed irl

[@lenh6456]

Something that struck me about the creature in the grave is that it's curled up, eerily reminiscent of a fetus - I think this works well with the idea of the moon being an egg, and the creature in the grave being the likeness of the thing in the moon. My rough theory is that the years of beaming waves into space and whatever they did in those 11 minutes on the moon must of caused the egg to hatch. In the video 'a look back' multiple different openings for local58 are shown, and a comment theorised that they were different openings for each decade from the 50s-2000s. I like to believe that local 58 was either highjacked/created by the moon to try and take control of peoples minds. I like to think the episodes are not published in order but something more like this 1)Show for children is an old black and white cartoon, and the moons first attempt to gain influence in around the 50s. The moon has just started to hatch and is weak, so goes for children - usually more manipulatable then adults 2) contingency is the moon trying to tap into the paranoia of the late 60s/70s, where the fear of nuclear war and the belief in American patriotism was still strong 3) real sleep comes from the 80/90s 4) You are on the quickest route is more modern (due to gps) and the moon is now much more powerful - able to effect a single persons mind/gps 5) skywatching and weather service are the most recent, as the moon is strong enough to completely break out of the egg and weather service is a desperate attempt to save people. (these are just rough estimates, if anyone can make these dates more accurate or suggest a better order I would appreciate it) It makes sense to me that a horrific creature that has lived for millennia takes half a century to hatch out of its egg, and will be kinda mad at the primitive apes for shooting radio waves at it

[@JT5555]

what if the creature in the moon is just the baby and it's mother/parent is even more horrific and is the one REALLY behind all of it or perhaps is so powerful that what the baby is doing is nothing in comparison to the inconceivable power of the adult?

[@floreroafloreril1458]

@@JT5555 In that case the adult could perfectly be inside the earth or even the earth itself, right? Fuck

[@RRTSMPlayz]

@@JT5555 nah dude, probably the moon's parent is The Iris from Gemini Home Entertainment

[@leostellations4914]

This make even more sense if you've seen a bird egg under a microscope. the veins and craters thing on it look eerily similar to real life fertilized eggs. not only that but is not rare to hear birds chirping before they hatch and another fun fact, some birds sing to their eggs before they hatch, so those 'screams' being from the moon-egg or its parent it's possible

[@michaelbugner7011]

I still wonder what the creature in "you are on the quickest route" is. There's gotta be life on the moon, not including the moon itself or a giant creature being incubated in it. Remember the structures and triangle? Someone had to have made that.

[@kaitlynwhite9969]

I’m not even scared of actually seeing the faces I’m just scared of that face and subliminal shit getting in my head 😂

[@kaleidoskull224]

exactly i love this stuff but im always scared of getting hypnotized or something

[@AWWYEAHHHHHH]

Lol don’t worry it’s just to scare you

[@stt577]

@@AWWYEAHHHHHH really lifted my spirit after watching these types of videos

[@krusher181]

The faces fucked with me. It really felt like a bad acid trip. I have borderline personality and I’m stoned tho. Those faces are fucked.

[@krusher181]

@@AWWYEAHHHHHH nah man you can literally have schizophrenia and not know about it until you watch something like Real Sleep. It’s very possible that something that intense could have bad consequences. Nothing mystical, just mental illness can sprout from traumatic experiences. My ex did LSD in her house and started having a terrible trip because she’d experienced bad things in that house. She turned out to have mild schizophrenia. She was just always right on the edge.

[@GG-dx4id]

"I know how this sounds, fuck you, I'm having fun" Absolute Chad stance lmao, I love this dude and am so happy he's getting the attention he deserves

[@TheWanderer1000000]

13:10 **HEED THIS WARNING** I had a Hallucinogenic Panic Attack the day after at night after watching the whole of "Real Sleep". Real Sleep is no joke. Probably only happens if you have a history of psychosis or something similar.

[@SpaceKebab]

i watched it three times in a single hour am i going to be okay because im about to go to bed

[@SpaceKebab]

​@dennisworst sleep i ebver had yeah i was fine slept like a baby

[@justsaying6341]

@@SpaceKebab DETAILS. WE NEED DETAILS!

[@madoromi2502]

Oh fuck off I didn't see the warning are you fucking kidding me

[@pupper_ator_9000]

Eh, I’ve got severe anxiety, I guess it’s the fact that I love this type of horror. That happened to me from the backrooms, and not once since.

[@derekh375]

a triangle in the moon... whoever made this must be a pink floyd fan

[@tartine2463]

the moon has good music tastes

[@lisamathews7971]

illuminati confirmed

[@SergeantMild]

So, So you think you can tell Heaven from Hell? Blue skies from pain? this star nonsense yes, yes I am sure of it

[@thisperson102]

Especially if they made it on the dark side!

[@vescenti]

at first i thought it was an arrow

[@Legend0fTheTriforce]

I used to be terrified of the moon when I was really little. I would have dreams that I would wake up and it was looking in my window between the curtains or I would be in an empty field and look up and become fixated on it and it would slowly take over my vision. I used to call it the "mean moon". As an aside, I still think that the craters on the moon resemble more of a creepy dinosaur/monster than a face.

[@violenceisfun]

Relax. The moon isn't dangerous or evil.

[@robinsoncallou7937]

@@violenceisfun These moon apologists... smh... 🙃🙃

[@starstrudel8417]

There was this game I used to play when I was super small called Gex, and the shadowy patterns across the moon in that game resemble the face of a screaming/wailing man. For some reason that image stuck with me and I was convinced I saw it in real life. I've never seen a rabbit in the moon, but I've definitely seen a screaming man.

[@jillreyerma7592]

@@violenceisfun That sounds like something the moon would say

[@Quiltfish]

@Falcon @Jessica Hoad Y'all must've had a time with the super blood moon a few years ago.

[@xyrkzes]

I’m surprised he didnt notice that once the moon gets unhappy it’s actually in front of the trees in “a show for children”

[@monoditri8957]

oh shit you're right

[@jweather66]

That's so spooky

[@justaveryangryman7659]

Honestly, I really like "if you are afraid we will look together". It's weirdly sweet.

[@katherineb5872]

Right?? It made me feel so much better lol.

[@madmanpecos]

Bloodborne has a similar concept. It’s one of my favorite games of all time because of its take on lovecraftian horror, having a lot to do with the “eldtritch truth” similar to this series. The Moon is tied to the horrors and atrocities that take place during the game. After defeating a certain boss, the blood moon rises and it’s absolutely terrifying and changes the mood of the game completely

[@SSD_Penumbra]

The idea of that comes from reality. Lunar activity does weird shit to the human brain. The moon was also linked to psychosis, hence the term "lunatic".

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

@@SSD_Penumbra This is a myth.

[@megadumpy7042]

​@@0neDoomedSpaceMarineno it is not. Worked in EMS, full moons are busier and have more psych calls. You can find studies about it.

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

@@megadumpy7042 You can find poorly put together bullshit studies which proclaim it's totally true, yes, while you can also find far more which can't show any correlation whatsoever. Statistically, there's nothing which ties any human behavior to the lunar cycle, plenty of full moons exhibit average or even lower than average rates of reported crime and other incidents. It's all superstition and bias.

[@JoshSweetvale]

Knowledge bad.

[@snafubar447]

"There's just one more thing...the Moon." Me: *Aggressively shaking my fist at the night sky*

[@jonathanc5011]

I should NOT have watched this at midnight

[@UnoDosEx]

frick its 12am for me rn

[@Glibzer]

Im high at night and scared as fuck

[@stt577]

it’s 11 i’m watching scary videos all night

[@creativetv2547]

Dude...I am watching it now and its 4:20 am .

[@swimdog]

your pfp is more scary then this entire ARG wtf

[@drewbofficial7777]

Local 58 was the first analog horror series I watched. It's got a special place in my heart

[@samjohnson4758]

Anyone else a member of the “ I like horror and scary stories so I watched local 58 in the middle of the night three years ago and was traumatized so now even thinking about it makes me queazy” club?

[@henrybattrell4784]

I’m a member of the “I like horror and scary stories but only watch mildly scary things so I’m staying as far away from local 58 as possible but I REALLY wanna watch it but I’m scared I’ll get no sleep for the next 50 days so I’m watching videos like this that are only gonna give me no sleep for 10 days” club

[@Wertsir]

Just go outside and lie under the moon, it will make everything feel better.

[@DarthTalon66]

@@Wertsir will do!

[@seankelly3540]

Watching this video at midnight, looked away from the No Sleep part and I'm damn glad I did. Something about it made my brain unhappy, Wendigoon explaining afterward made it make sense... Still not sure how well I'ma sleep tho lol

[@Daniel-wu6pl]

this but im bored and this video

[@myshreksbox]

So I'm reading through the subliminal messages and one of them is "dreams are just screaming with pictures" what In the absolute fuck?

[@cylcyls]

noooo, thats so scary

[@markhirsch6301]

They really don't want people to dream

[@micmac274]

one on the episodes of CC was just screaming...

[@carlyedwards9648]

...sounds about right

[@shroomyk]

If you got PTSD that's basically what dreams are. 🤣

[@robertcoddington2261]

That experiment at 26 minutes was spooky. By the end all the heads looked out of proportion and some looked like they were missing eyes. Great video, this channel is amazing.

[@AWWYEAHHHHHH]

The faces became very grotesque it was honestly the weirdest part of the whole video by far

[@morganrobinson8042]

@@AWWYEAHHHHHH Yeah. Same thing happens if you mess with the sliders in an MMO for too long. It's why towards the end they used deliberately scrambled features where they don't fit and they're flipped or rotated. You start parsing them not as a whole, but as individual parts, which bypasses a bunch of visual and sociological shortcuts in your brain for identifying people. Really messes with your ability to empathize, especially if they aren't animate like a person's. It's functionally similar to the tendency of words to sound meaningless if you keep repeating them over and over. If you disassociated a behavior with it's accustomed meaning, especially one that has become mostly automatic like parsing speech or looking at a person's face to get a read on them, and draw attention to it while giving faulty information, you start re-assessing what the meaning of your actions is. And not being used to that, it starts disorienting you until you get your bearings again. Honestly it's nothing to worry about, pareidolia related to human faces will kick in again for most people pretty quick. Well, unless you're doing it repeatedly before going unconscious as part of a health regimen-turned brainwashing tool like this seemed to be styled as. Long term conditioning can nearly always cause damage, though whether it would persistently create the results of the short term-viewing or entirely other effects is hard to tell.

[@catfish8716]

@@morganrobinson8042 It would be unethical to run such experiments, but by god i wanna know.

[@isabelrodriguez9398]

coming back to see Wendigoons older videos and seeing how much he’s grown makes me soo happy 😭😭

[@FinalStarman95]

A few things jumped out at me. First, the full moon recorded for November 1970 was November 13th. The "DO NOT USE AFTER" date on the title card is also November 13th, 1970. Second, I realized that the "Cadavre" cartoon was to show that the moon feeds on the dead as well as the living, hence why the character is literally a cadaver and why there are dug up graves. This cleared up the part in "Contingency" when they referenced law enforcement making citizens comply. The law enforcement isn't there to just kill you and then kill themselves: it's so they can drag out all the corpses in the local area for the moon to consume. The "victory position" is just there to make their jobs easier, hence why it states you to take the position "if there is time".

[@flakeybran1447]

"As he lays in the bottom of the grave, this happens..." "AlBiOn OnLiNe Is A sAnDbOx MmO rPg!"

[@DiscoDeoxys]

I guess having KZbin premium is worth it

[@ItsFicticious]

@@DiscoDeoxys Premium gang!!

[@qenten05]

@@ItsFicticious (Not a good brag.

[@awfulweek]

@Frystopper fr youtube vanced so good

[@arielrose3323]

Mine was a liberty mutual ad 😭😭😭

[@Spooks-dc1jl]

“You owe us a messenger” could possibly refer to Neil Armstrong or another Apollo 11 crew member, Earth’s Messenger was an astronaut, maybe “The Thing” that hatched from The Moon is The Moon’s Messenger.

[@swagfather_6nine532]

About 'Fastest Available Route', when the guy is trying to escape, the GPS basically tells him that whatever it was is rapidly approaching. "Your destination is 150m away' then 'your destination is 50m away' while he's driving away from it. Horrifying but funny.

[@wintersterling8175]

11:11 the program briefly shows the painting "Saturn Devouring His Son" as part of the programming recap. This appears to be the only real-world piece of media featured in Channel 58

[@darkmatterburger]

*kronos

[@neonwaffle3327]

@@darkmatterburger the painting is Saturn devouring his son.

[@darkmatterburger]

@@neonwaffle3327 thX

[@BikoFactory]

All the paintings in that title sequence are real ones. Briefly shown before "Saturn Devouring his Son" is "The Vision of Tondal" by Hieronymus Bosch, the next two are "Ivan the Terrible and his Son Ivan" by Ilya Repin, and "Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill" by Pieter Claesz.

[@YorkusPorkus757]

@@neonwaffle3327 it doesn’t technically have a name right? Goya didn’t name any of them or at least didn’t tell anyone the names of his paintings iirc

[@conanodonnell8073]

Hey, I paused and reread some subliminals, "You owe me the messenger" really stands out to me, what do you think that part means? Is the moon the messenger? Why is it owed? Could a bargain have been struck in the missing 11 minutes?

[@Wendigoon]

I have not caught that one before, wow. Off hand it may mean the broadcasts themselves. Since we send signals to it and it’s using those signals to transport info back, then it could feel it’s “owed” that for our time bothering it. However, I REALLY like your idea that they cut a deal with whatever was in it or knew what was in it to begin with and a messenger was supposed to be sent to complete a deal. I’ll think on it and elaborate if I make another video on it. Thanks for that info!

[@conanodonnell8073]

@@Wendigoon super excited to see what's next, I did Real sleep about 2 minutes ago, and now I'm gonna sleep and see what happens

[@reanukeeves4862]

There are now 58 comments on this by the way

[@kaitlynwhite9969]

@@conanodonnell8073 bro what happened? Any nightmares and stuff?

[@tofunari3359]

@@conanodonnell8073 what happened?

[@BeanMartinVEVO]

Idk if its been said before but I believe the faces in real sleep are actually distorted images of nuclear detentions that are put together to look like faces, so there are quite literally no faces

[@BrapBrapDorito]

It’s a compelling theory, but if you invert the colors you see that its just split up and spliced together faces with the colors flipped.

[@SeventhAlkali]

Local58 really hits home for me because I always had nightmares as a child where the moon would follow me and see me through the windows.

[@GoodnightMoon4]

holy cats same here. Its made worse because being seen by or looking at the moon did SOMETHING in my nightmares. I doubt it was as scary as whatever is going on with local58, but child me was having none of it. In my dreams the moon was heralded with spooky storm-like alarms, and they prompted child me to crawl into my mother's room covered by my blanket to be "hidden" lmao.

[@JohnGatsbyThe3rd]

I have no memory of this but I could've sworn this happened to me too.

[@gryphon50c]

Dude the thought of any celestial body being alive is my worst fear. Majora’s mask destroyed me as a kid

[@princealigorna7468]

Straub's brand of horror is truly special. It's all location specific (Local58 and the Candle Cove/Ichor Falls universe all take place in West Virginia) and all predicated on defamilarization. This creates both a very definitive reality, and a sense that that reality (and by extension ours) is collapsing in on itself.

[@AM-mz1qo]

I am extremly addicted to your vids The topics you talk about and the way you talk about them is insanely good

[@luciusives531]

Sing me a future song from Future, future future.

[@tabbyc7143]

To quote Cecil from WTNV: '...do you ever think about the moon? I was sitting outside last night, looking at the moon, and I thought: does anyone actually know what that thing is? ...The moon’s weird though, right? It’s there and there, and then suddenly it’s not. And it seems to be pretty far up. Is it watching us?'

[@virikan3518]

Honestly, if someone made a nightvale ARG that would be fucking amazing

[@HeavenlyLoad]

Hey brother thanks for posting throughout the last couple years. You've helped me manage my bad thoughts and suicidal ideation. I love you brother. I struggle with ptsd and asd. You calm me down.

[@jbear3478]

Same, his channel is very cozy

[@emikoch5096]

Local 58's videos feel 3 hours long and the longest one is like 5 min. Pure art

[@00KiryuZero00]

My first thought about the creature in the grave was that it looked like an embryo, so the moon being an egg would actually work with that

[@turnsout689]

I think there's definitely deliberate imagery in eyes here too. In the close-up of the moon in the final video, where you can see those tendril-looking things and dust moving into a moon's crater, that has always looked like an eye to me. A close up of the iris (tendrils over the white surface) and the pupil (the darkness of the crater). Also in weather service, text describes the moon as an eye, and also the warnings are to not look at the moon, and sight is a function of eyes. I don't know how to interpret it, but I think that eyes and vision defintely play into the imagery and meaning of this.

[@UhOphelia]

Also, in Show For Children, when it pans over Cadavre in the grave it kinda looks to me like it has an eye at the top right, Majora's Mask style

[@hannahherrmann4921]

we can't resist believing what we see.

[@TheColt4521]

Perhaps an organic satellite which functions like an eye meant to protect and serve whatever is inside. And towards the end there could be some sort of awakening and you see the life force of this gigantic eye get sucked out of it as the power is transferred. Maybe?

[@koolaidmanextra2840]

Real sleep is an actual physiological thing that can cause panic attacks and nightmares/night terrors, do not watch that episode if you might be vulnerable or in a bad place mentally

[@WilliamAfton984]

DIDNT KNOW THAT TIL NOW.

[@mammoneymelon]

unironically pissed that it never worked on me

[@-kingcobra-3930]

Hey wendigoon, Local 58 has adapted into a full-blown ARG recently and it’s picking up a lot of momentum with new content. Give it a look if you have time. Great vid btw

[@alyssamoody2992]

There is more stuff like Local 58 out there--it's called "analog horror," but there's only a limited amount.

[@Naritarance]

analog* :D

[@alyssamoody2992]

@@Naritarance lol sorry 😂

[@Naritarance]

@@alyssamoody2992 nono, dont be sorry! we all make mistakes

[@donnaquixote7538]

"You Are On The Fastest Available Route" is effective because it utilisizes so many common horror tropes yet has an outwardly simple story. Typical tropes used in it include the dark and stormy night, fear of getting lost, being alone (or at least I suppose the driver is being alone in the car), a dark forest, and familiar technology getting hijacked. The story seems simple enough, a driver being lured into some lonely spot over a three hours' drive away, yet with all the other videos on the channel, it's very likely there's a more complex story behind the nightly trip and attack.

[@bruhmoment1761]

Twist is that GPS is evil. No human words

[@devonsquatch]

i never thought the idea of aliens was scary in local 58, or the government messing with people, but the idea that the moon is such a powerful and unknowable force that we have no chance to fight against it is terrifying to me

[@ItsjustMorgan89]

Isn’t there a video game with an astronaut that explores the face of the moon and finds this triangle and there’s stairs inside the triangle and he climbs down the stairs and we discover that there is a living being living inside the moon? I can’t remember the name for the life of me but I remember watching the gameplay. *Edit I found it it’s called Solipsis

[@genocidecrusade6534]

I think the game was inspired by this ARG.

[@miguelmalvina5200]

we need the game of this game

[@hartianx1698]

Is it bad the first thing I thought of was Destiny: Shadowkeep?

[@MrBlonday]

"I'm already scared, so why dont you get scared with me" Say no more fam spook me up

[@zoiebrown7316]

Wendigoon: Idk tell me if I’m crazy Also Wendigoon: **THE MOON IS SCREAMING**

[@funeur.music.]

This reminds me of Junji Ito's manga "Remina", maybe not in total story but with the concept of a planet/moon/place being a living thing that fucks with humanity.

[@prestonrasmussen1758]

I agree that the second video isn’t explicitly about the Cold War in the sense that it refers to an invasion of the Soviet Union, but it certainly uses the Cold War aesthetic and takes place during the Cold War. It’s generally accepted that the Cold War ended either with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 or the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.

[@ayayriinn]

The fall of the wall definitely marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War

[@ThereMakeBeSnakes]

Thank you! I was so distracted when he said that, I had to stop the video and see if someone had already commented this.

[@JacobGrim]

HOLY SH*T I did not know about the missing time in the moonlanding footage.

[@deviaan]

Kris Straub is such a great person. I started following him when he did some work with the Penny Arcade folks, and to this day some of the D&D games they are on together are my favorite Actual Play sessions ever.

[@wackywumbo342]

The fact that a FICTIONAL horror story can actually insure you have nightmares is great

[@wackywumbo342]

@@damienvera3135 it can and will

[@Zach-kx1dq]

“this leads into the moons motives” is something i never thought i would hear

[@PorgChamp]

SCP-058 When Night Breaks

[@Wendigoon]

BOIIIIIII I LIKE THAT

[@paw0960]

was about to comment that

[@partyrock7099]

“When night falls” vs “when day breaks”

[@riley5735]

SCP-001 (One of them at least) is really similar to this, basically the moon just kinda melts you but won't let you die, it keeps you sentient

[@dontreadthiscomment3026]

@@riley5735 I was gonna say that

[@biketothefuture829]

You're the real deal dude watching stuff that gave you nightmares all in the purpose of educating your audience and expressing your views on the topic and starting a discussion I feel these topics are very important and necessary because as each day goes things keep getting stranger

[@rogerhorton3007]

The only thing that I’ve watched that gave me horrible nightmares was when I watched a video that my friend took of me when I got married she turned out to be a real horror

[@jorsey8061]

Last night I was up for 24 hours, I watched this video for the first time. I was hopped up on caffeine and was dying to go to sleep. But after watching this video I felt dread for the first time since I was a child. I followed the instructions of the real sleep video cus I thought it was a joke. I was afraid to close my eyes cus I could see the non-specific faces staring at me. I drank myself to sleep watching Netflix. 10/10 great video!

[@squidspecs]

me too bestie! i binged the whole series in one night and was irrationally afraid to look at the moon for weeks! i wish i was kidding but local 58 has managed to terrify me, a grown ass man

[@siot05]

wha are the instructions lol

[@siot05]

@@squidspecs hmm fr? should i watch it tonight 💀 i’m 15 btw

[@breetopkuschi9657]

@@siot05 don’t say your age man, the moon’ll get you for that

[@sk8fasteatass862]

@@breetopkuschi9657 does the moon like underaged boys?

[@imadrifter]

Y O U O W E U S A *M E S S E N G E R*

[@koolaidjmmr3033]

👁👄👁

[@Sarah-om4es]

😩😏

[@theoneandonlymr.d]

🤨

[@zatrat5696]

I have to give the messenger the sloppy toppy😕

[@luciusives531]

@@zatrat5696 lmao

[@k.morningstar7983]

weird thing that happened to me was how like over a decade ago, when Candle Cove was just an internet thing, i tracked Kris down with an email to tell him about how someone in an online community i was in was taking credit for the story. IMAGINE MY SHOCK when he showed up on the board and chastised the little asshole. good for him

[@kittenface8577]

This is a good video that explains local 58. I am a 42 year old woman( Im lucky to remember when analog and VHS video aesthetic was real and actual, I long for those old times again. I was a kid,but remember it vividly)and know absolutely nothing about ARGs, but I do love some good,convincing analog horror aesthetic. I like local 58 and especially Contingency, but I never connected all of the videos together with the moon and alien motif.. Nice informative video.

[@finnfarrell8069]

Tbh the moment you started explaining what it might be I just stoped feeling scared. It reminded me that it’s just fiction with an author and a plot.

[@velvetiny7307]

Same omg

[@KatKiwi_]

Yeah

[@bryanchandler3486]

I actually like this because I don't like scary shit but I do like the creativity behind it

[@JT5555]

who says it's not based on fact? can you really so for sure that the moon is NOT a eldritch horror and WON'T one day decide to kill us all?

[@violenceisfun]

@@JT5555 It doesn't want us to die, only those who don't accept it's message.

[@thalmorshoota7586]

My grandpa has always called West Virginia “The Armpit of The World”

[@Carlie_flower]

I feel like the quick flash of the monster in "fastest available route" is a grown version of the thing in grave 2 possibly?

[@bongosmcdongos4190]

Honestly it feels like "you are on the fastest available route" was made before they decided to go with the moon thing. It doesn't seem to fit at all.

[@Carlie_flower]

@@bongosmcdongos4190 fair enough. I feel similarly hence me grasping at straws for meaning 😅 lol!!

[@hartianx1698]

Yeah I was wondering how it connects to it all but I agree that it probably doesn't really matter at this point.

[@experiencedgoat9884]

The part where it tells you to kill your kids and pets terrified me and shook me to my core. I wanted to cry

[@demonjmh]

honestly in the face of invasion its not that bad compared to what a foreign soldier might do. Which makes it darker and more grim youre fucked either way.

[@darkflurry]

they are the weakest patriots

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

@@demonjmh Depends on who invades I guess.

[@jordanberry2358]

@@0neDoomedSpaceMarineplease god not japan or korea

[@JoshSweetvale]

​@@jordanberry2358Cut open the logs, fill them with filth, and sew the logs back up.

[@BurgundyBurrito]

Contingency is what sold me on Local 58 originally. I saw "you are on the fastest available route" and was interested in it. But I saw contingency and was hooked, like "oh yeah this is gonna be a great horror thing."