War of the Worlds Analog Horror: Salem Watertower Incident (1984)

The Salem Watertower Incident (1984): War of the Worlds Analog Horror by pupbenny is a creepy VHS video about a tripod that's been spotted in Salem and is mistaken for a water tower (Oh what a faux pas). This story is based on The War Of The Worlds and it's many adaptations.
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Title inspired by Falaise Water Tower by ‪@KidnapperProot‬
None of this video is real, it's an analog horror video. This is a work of fiction and did not actually happen. Any allusions to real people or real events are purely coincidental and everything in this video is fictional and everything in this entirely fictional work is done for the sake of entertainment purposes and in a vain attempt to make it a scary story.
19:06 05/06/2024 17,331

[@Unkn0wingly]

Great to see someone else with analog horror in mind with WOTW, can't wait what you do with this!

[@stavkous4963]

Ye

[@marcyvanlapare-sc8yk]

I'm a big fan

[@dexoearth9167]

Hello, Unkn0wingly. I'm an admirer. You've even inspired me to create my own Godzilla Analog Horror.

[@drexcitement9579]

Oh wow did not expect you to be here

[@minerssssss]

Why do they look so much like Half life striders?

[@Mr_Ba1chy]

I just love how the tripod is even making loud sounds like the ones from War of the Worlds 2005, it is just making what I can only describe as tiny little screams and creaks

[@captaindreadnought212]

Covering up the otherworldly threat as a severe weather event gave me major Local58 vibes, great video

[@pupbenny]

Thank you!! :) I've heard of the Local58 analog horror, if it's giving those vibes than I guess I'm doing something right. :)

[@MedicFromDerTF2]

@@pupbennyPlease if you can,make a Falaise Water tower incident

[@transformersrevenge9]

I had the idea of a found footage style WOTW movie years ago. It's the kind of story that really lends itself to that format, as it's always been about a person recording their survival through Alien invasion.

[@pupbenny]

I hope to lean more into that with the next episodes, being more strictly found footage animation, etc. This one was pretty wordy, but I felt I needed to set up the world and context of the tapes, etc.

[@transformersrevenge9]

@@pupbenny Looking forward to it!

[@ØçëāñŠhåŕķ2334]

Like Blair witch project but wotw and good

[@arandomuser6935]

The one tripod crew that didn't get infected and was left stranded on earth, forced to mimic a water tower.

[@Jambo_Neo]

Meanwhile on mars: SIR THERES ONE TRIPOD SIGNAL STILL RESPONDING SHOULD WE SEND A RESCUE CREW?, FUCK NO %#]*| DIDNT YOU SEE WHAT WEAPONS THEY YAGE THEY KILLED THE WHOLE FLEET IN WEEKS

[@kamipollna225]

“A tracker for a tripod is still there. Should we rescue?” “No you know what they could do.”

[@DiepDefender]

ruined 69 like :)

[@Kazakhstanrobloxdkhwjffnwy]

Ok dors 1:33 water tower news kazakh! Roblox

[@Belgianmapping1830]

I always thought the alvim correa designs look liked water towers,glad you made them look more so

[@SlaaneshiChaplain]

Everyone gangsta 'til the water tower starts movin.

[@jim4194]

Im just imagining a water tower just crab walking

[@augustal100]

That ain’t no water tower

[@braenat5864]

Random person oh man I love hunting out In the woods ''here's wineing noise'' oh boy an animal finds a water tower huh I guess there was- gets turned into atoms

[@allenharper2928]

And has googly eyes 🥴

[@debthemeeb2019]

Agreed.

[@Doctor_Portly_64]

I love the description denouncing the legitimacy of the footage and story, we wouldn't want another War of the Worlds scare now would we?

[@pupbenny]

Wouldn't be the first time it's happened. ;) Just playing it safe. XD

[@connerthewubbzler1062]

@@pupbenny The saddest part is, with today's slew of conspiracy theories and insistences on the end of the world approaching next week, it seems like the body count would be MUCH higher than ever...maybe even worse

[@katherineb3737]

@@connerthewubbzler1062Oh the irony; the original broadcast was meant to shake people’s blind trust in the media to teach the lesson of “Just because it was an official news broadcast, you actually swallowed the absurd lie of an alien invasion. You *have* to think critically about biases and misinformation.” Instead, the lesson learned (by the news) was that sensationalist bullshit keeps listeners glued to the news. So yeah, the sensationalist bullshit news would have a FIELD DAY over WOTW today

[@themilkman6969]

imagine your local water tower just getting up and leaving like what do you even do about that

[@Frostaltered]

Find a new way to get water I suppose 😅 just imagine that your significant other calls from the other room. “Honey… is it just me or is our water tower walking away…?”

[@ProxiProtogen]

Me personally, I would just leave town, tf am I supposed to do lol

[@TheKingOfSpirals]

I would stop it

[@gojifan7976]

I like the design of the tripod. The realistic eyes give it this uncanny look to it.

[@IMLEECHBOYMF]

I'm honestly falling in love with WOTW analog horror, especially since I'm currently reading the book

[@benschannel9065]

Gotta get my hands on it. Been obsessed recently. My Dad even played the whole of the Jeff Wayne album on a roadtrip as a kid, albeit being a bit dated and campy, the narration perfectly captures the unease of the survivors.

[@connerthewubbzler1062]

Considering HG Well's original description of the Martians and how he wrote their methods of invading the planet, it would make for an AWESOME Analog Horror series.

[@LukeHarte-li1im]

When the video says this is the first alien encounter since 1953 i knew it was tied with the 1953 war of the worlds

[@user-wn2fh7cr3x]

It was funny how pubenny tried to do the stereotypical American accent also did feel like a analog horror series

[@pupbenny]

I had to rerecord so many lines because of how much I sucked at it lol, that's why the audio changes sometimes.

[@HNTRKLLR]

​@pupbenny honestly that really worked for me as a layer of voice modulation that a shadowy "G-man" would use. Like not just just a different voice, but changing speech patterns in real time to make it harder to identify. I thought it was completely intentional.

[@therandomkidyoutube]

bro finally made his own tripod design

[@pupbenny]

Yea it was about time I finally made my own. XD

[@therandomkidyoutube]

@@pupbenny heh, it's pretty nice tho

[@LeonardoLopez-qq4tx]

@pupbenny this was great, I can't wait to see more of these args from you, hope you create more of your own tripod designs as well whether it be a more modern or classical look I look forward to it. Also will you cover the Goliath Tripods, I think they are a good blend of old and new

[@billyholland5156]

YES, WOTW is one of my all-time favorite stories! I so want a full analog horror war of the worlds!

[@60-SecondsSikhi]

this is actually good! it feels like a real analog horror video and the animation is incredible!!! very good work with this one.

[@pupbenny]

Thank you so much!! I'm not very good at animation so I really appreciate you saying that!! :)

[@60-SecondsSikhi]

@@pupbenny np bro, keep doing what ur doing bc it’s working and the people enjoy it

[@DaMartianAl007]

The King is even moreso now lol. Thank you for making this, i felt genuinely uncomfortable

[@pupbenny]

Thank you! :) Hardy's tripods are on my list. From what I understand, I think they were originally done, but rejected, for the Jeff Wayne album. I might be wrong about that though.

[@DaMartianAl007]

@@pupbenny Yeah I think it looks similar! They just have that retro-futurism feel i fall in love with all the time

[@SpiralTeeth]

FINALLY! I’ve been waiting for a war of the worlds analog horror

[@ShinGhidorah17]

Interesting tripod design. Reminds me of the Alvim Correa design.

[@pupbenny]

Thanks! :)

[@OrangeSuitEdits]

I have seen multiple attempts to a creation of a WOTW Analog horror series but I think this might be the first to (hopefully) gain popularity

[@BananaTV1978]

Tell me about it. I know because I made "WKBW War of the Worlds Analog Horror" over a year ago but it's buried under the KZbin algorithm due to the channel being new and small. So now I have the pleasure of reading comments here like "wow, can't believe no one thought to do this before" I really do hate the KZbin algorithm!!

[@OrangeSuitEdits]

@@BananaTV1978 Pretty sad because people do end up putting tons of effort only for it to never get noticed

[@BananaTV1978]

@@OrangeSuitEdits Yeah I try not to let it bug me, but it's hard! I'm conscious it probably comes over petty and like sour grapes but I just think it's a shame. I'm not saying I'm Steven Spielberg, and it's no Shawshank Redemption(!) but the people that have seem it have been generally very positive; it just can't surface past the bigger channels so then every "finally someone made it" feels like a kick in the lower regions! 😅 I'm sure mine isn't the only one as well, but they're likely buried in search results so don't come up. 😕

[@OrangeSuitEdits]

@@BananaTV1978 Yeah true

[@jim4194]

​@@BananaTV1978just checked it out pretty cool

[@greedo-dv6ev]

looks sick, keep up the good work, animation is amazing

[@greedo-dv6ev]

i was listening to this while making a pac3 tripod in gmod, and i would be lying if i said that some parts didnt scare me, truly thrilling stuff!

[@pupbenny]

Thank you very much for letting me know greedo, I'm glad I managed to make it somewhat effective! :)

[@wieldylattice3015]

An organization named OWI is absolutely killing me XD. I get it, secret shadow organizations, but maybe for once it’d just be scarier to stick to the real ones

[@somerandomidio]

the Office of War Information (OWI) WAS a real organization

[@wieldylattice3015]

@@somerandomidio That makes it worse, not better. A REAL person in charge of creating a REAL and VERY IMPORTANT organization honest to god thought of OWI and was like "yes, perfect"

[@Byefoodman1]

It’s weird seeing an analog horror video take place on my birthday but very cool nonetheless

[@pupbenny]

Ha! Happy Birthday!! :) (I know I'm a day late sorry.)

[@dieselelectricrazor377]

Yoooo! An actually decent attempt at War Of The Worlds Analog Horror? Fuck Yeah!

[@mr.timusproductions116]

This shows a lot of promise! This is really well done! I just wish the narrator's voice for the OWI parts stayed consistent, the fluctuation in accents really distracted me

[@NonstickSQYD]

This is really awesome man I think I wotw analog horror is made for each other. Been a fan since smile factory. Best of luck

[@pupbenny]

Thank you very much! :) I've been thinking that smile factory would be a good thing to spin off into an analog horror too.

[@NonstickSQYD]

@@pupbenny an analog horror series based off oddworld creatures would go absolutely crazy

[@offbrandmario9840]

This was unexpected but I like, I was kinda thrown off about the hood being where the legs are connected to but overall it seems interesting

[@pupbenny]

Ah yes I wanted the design to be original. :)

[@anchor972]

One minute in, the autofocus shutter sounds are such a nice touch. Fantastic sound design.

[@jayt3471]

For some reason it never clicked with me until now that a War of the Worlds analog horror could work

[@marcosvannucchi8672]

Analog horror of The War of the Worlds, just listening to that I think !horrible, absolutely horrible, AND FASCINATING!

[@pupbenny]

Thank you! :) I'm glad you find it fascinating! :)

[@WSP67035]

this is superb! the tripod designs kinda remind me of the edward gorey pods

[@jpepe26juarez22]

And I thought those eyes were funny with Alvin Correa's illustration, but here they make them look quite scary and strange.

[@WalnutTheWalnut]

Finally a war of the worlds Analog horror i wonder why people didn't make this into a analog horror Also great video

[@BananaTV1978]

There's actually now three in the mix. This one came out about 18 months ago.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/e56aaYuNeZuWh7Msi=5klTwUxNg4_eh5OX

[@WalnutTheWalnut]

@@BananaTV1978 oh okay

[@realjake6164]

Yo, I've been watching your channel for years now and it really engrained itself in my HS years, I loved your Oddworld stuff. Would love to chat with you over email or something.

[@felinusfeline5559]

I like that the focus is on the "danger" of the public filming evidence of Martians. You don't often get that angle.

[@NyxMoonReads]

WOTW has so much potential for analog horror. This is amazing!!

[@pupbenny]

Thank you! :)

[@sebastianacevedo9444]

It's interesting that they're trying to cover up the knowledge of the aliens more than trying to stop it. Looks interesting can't wait to see more of the universe

[@pupbenny]

Thank you, it's nice to know you're interested in it!! :) Hopefully it will not disappoint.

[@Operator.Fluffy]

i know 2 people who make War of the Worlds 2005 Analog Horror

[@goldenmanstudios]

You have to watch war of the worlds 1939

[@Operator.Fluffy]

@@goldenmanstudios i have

[@sirenhead666wo]

i watched the 1913-1917 one and the 1906 one

[@OliTheSillyFella]

If it’s recommended by unkn0wingly, it’s bound to be a charm!!

[@pupbenny]

Thank you, I appreciate you checking it out! It's really nice and a great honour to know it was recommended by unkn0wingly! :)

[@generaldeadpool3245]

To quote Bentley from Sly Cooper 2 -"Like I said Sly, giant attack robot."

[@Random_stuff_E]

ULLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Martian approved

[@Arab_Rayman_and_TF2_Enjoyer]

I don’t remember George Orwell’s 1984 being like this!

[@OrangeSuitEdits]

That would be one heck of a combination "The War Of 1984"

[@pupbenny]

Ha! Weirdly it was actually coincidental that I set it in 1984, despite the very similar kind of story which was based on the 1988 WOTW series. Although, the first thing I did with this project was write a whole backstory of this world and there was a big aspect of it that was inspired by 1984. Pretty fortunate I set this in 1984, simply so the VHS style made sense. I'm thinking about leaning further into 1984 though, considering they're both in the public domain after all (in the UK and EU anyway). ;)

[@OrangeSuitEdits]

@@pupbenny That'd be great, just wanted to say, love your works, good job

[@robbie_the_mastermind2176]

I do like the Eldridge aspect of the Tripods.

[@lizroga3348]

I BEEN WAITING FOR A WAR OF THE WORLDS ANALOG HORROR FOR 2 YEARS

[@jjmfdl]

There is another one as well War of the Worlds 1934

[@lizroga3348]

@@jjmfdl I know, but those tripods looked like the 2005 movie, and I prefered this ones

[@pupbenny]

Ha I'm glad to finally end your long wait! :)

[@ecamern07]

Everybody chill until the The Eve of the war starts playing

[@potential_music]

The fact that this takes place in 1984 makes this even funnier

[@njfox3305]

How can something so simple and goofy in design be terrafining at the same time good job.

[@Belgianmapping1830]

It’s so goofy it’s uncanny

[@njfox3305]

@@Belgianmapping1830 The water tower ideas is also a realy good one it shows the people not taking the monster seriesly until it dose any damage and the heat ray design is an interesting choice. With the lighting it dosen't look like a weapon at all which is the point and I like it.

[@Belgianmapping1830]

@@njfox3305 I think it’s a good way to make a Martian invasion that’s not obviously an invasion

[@njfox3305]

@@Belgianmapping1830 interesting analigy.

[@pupbenny]

I've always wondered what the goofy Alvim Correa tripod eyes would look like in real life and am glad it's having the expected goody yet terrifying effect that the originals have. :)

[@APAMVs]

I like how you wrote in the description that this video isn't real, it's a analog horror 😂

[@pupbenny]

Yeah I never made one of these before and wanted to play it safe just in case it otherwise might've broke some rule about misleading people or something. 😂😂

[@JustineEllyn]

Wow. This was posted 22 hours ago :)

[@maxwatson9605]

I love how you based it of the Correa tripods👍👍

[@brainkatt]

joined for the oddworld content, stayed for the wotw videos

[@L0serCube141]

Falaise Watertower: heylo brother! Salem Watertower: heylo brother!

[@omorigaming7107]

Honestly horrifying great work 🔥🔥

[@pupbenny]

Thank you Omori!! :)

[@JustAnAstronautPerson]

I love the tripod design!!!

[@pupbenny]

Thank you!! I really appreciate you saying that and am glad you like it!! :)

[@Speakerwoman_Official.]

Amazing animation, I’ve never seen stuff such as this.

[@pupbenny]

Thank you very much! :)

[@GrizzlyJacko]

I love how this takes place in Massachusetts.

[@Fantasticfelixx]

The second wotw analog horror that I’ve seen today!!

[@johnwiggwag1789]

Someone with the ability should make an analog ai projector style based on the chaos around the real 30s war of the world's panic and show "the truth" of what happened

[@katherineb3737]

Wow! *really* creepy leg design and the “arm” as well. The legs have an almost insect-like quality. The number of joints/the angles they are bent at fall hard into the uncanny valley for me, as well as the sssllllooowww movement. It gave me the impression that while it is huge, powerful, and terrifying, it almost has a difficult time moving under its own weight. Almost as if it was made in a smaller planet where gravity is, say, 62% less than earth’s 👀 The only thing that threw me off was the googly eyes; they just looked a little bit silly lol

[@kamipollna225]

Nah those look real.

[@VideosfromOhio-ii2lj]

the part were the tripod has eyes is just funny to me

[@brodyman7169]

Honestly can't wait war of the worlds is one of my most fav stories of all time

[@AndreasUjadsikertakls1510]

Fun facts: in 1913 france falaise there was another tripod water tower it was much scarier having long arms that can stretch out and has creepier eyes so can you make a video about the falaise water tower later

[@braydendiaz-tc5if]

This is awesome!

[@elitusdelitus1509]

Tbh telling people that a tornado will show up assures that people are gonna take videos of it

[@thepessimistictitan2655]

Better than James Lathrop trying to do a British accent

[@pupbenny]

Ha thank you! :)

[@kasher0783]

I may be late, but this looks like something you'll see in Voices of the Void.

[@MRPILOT848]

hey if a tripod was real and that thing was real to i would be in home or just running from the tripod and all the tripods are dead except for that i wouldn’t go out from my house

[@therealwisemysticaltree]

Huh? 😭

[@pupbenny]

It would certainly be creepy to see it irl!

[@Ginger_FoxxVT]

Amazing work!

[@FRANKEN_BEL_555]

I actually did this play in sophomore year, It was really fun. I was apart of the tech crew but it was still fun

[@reubenrobson2003]

Is that thing looking at me

[@dexoearth9167]

Maybe I should do something with the War of the Worlds.

[@Spart10547]

My friends say this is what i look like at night time They said "becuase you tall"

[@__taka__8200]

Me: *talks to Mother nature by through Grass and dirt* Cmon!!, this is your Home!!, this is YOUR HOME. Mother Nature: Sure ill send a Virus towards them Tripods. Me: Thanks Mother nature :>

[@SMB3039E.]

I just woke up and saw this :)

[@rottenroads1982]

Idea: Don’t be mean to the aliens. Instead, say to them that their Robot suits are very cool.

[@lag690]

Better than most of the morden live action

[@Phantoms3Dzone]

Wanna ask, did you work on this by yourself?

[@Imperialism_withered]

Ok first water flalasie tower incident and now this what’s next

[@ldb45]

bruh i live in salem, oregon, and i live by a watertower that lookgs like that

[@Hamza-rd6jk]

I was on board until the googly eyes

[@humanthatisonyoutube]

dang it. he beat me to war of the worlds analog horror

[@WheetheWhiteOfficial]

1:21 No One Will Believe

[@Frostaltered]

1:27 if it’s the US Office of War Information, why is the voice British? Well. It sounds like an odd blend of Canadian, British, and American Southern

[@kikkis3487]

Oh ho ho ho i see what you did there with the 1953 i see that y can’t hide that from us

[@CherryVillanas]

its a tripod guys

[@TokusasuGuy1954]

Is it a original design?

[@pupbenny]

Indeed! A few people have said it's an Alvim Correa, but, although it's similar, it's actually quite a bit different than people might assume at first.

[@TokusasuGuy1954]

@@pupbenny who saying it looks exactly like the Correa pod💀

[@writer4000]

I was sent by TMITS

[@pupbenny]

Thank you for coming! :) TMITS is a legend!

[@writer4000]

@@pupbenny it was a pleasure And yeah he is 😎👍

[@willyLazaro-jr8hf]

This video looks like a war of the world but different

[@lochumezung8313]

Damn this looks good

[@WuBrotherNumbaOne]

oh yeah this fucks hopefully the algorithms bless you

[@pupbenny]

Thanks! :)

[@Dalek_C.F.M]

the causin of the falaise water tower

[@nathanstoysandmore]

it looks like the Falasian Cháteau D'eau

[@CharlesWilsonV]

No way

[@CorniousMouse]

Interesting....

[@JackFrostSMTReal]

HELL YEAH GOREY TRIPOD!

[@lemons4869]

Happens every day in Washington. Don't get it why people are saying it is "scary"

[@lemons4869]

Equivalent of a wild dog

[@fossiltype_computer]

it was spooky till they showed the eyes

[@CharlesWilsonV]

That's a flase water tower

[@drexcitement9579]

Was this based off the other water tower vhs thing?

[@pupbenny]

The title was (I credited in the description).