MARBLE HORNETS
Season #1
Introduction
Tape: Jay's search for Alex
Appears: No one
Cameraman: Jay
The video depicts scenery of buildings, streets and nature. The video goes on to explain that in 2006, a college student named Alex Kralie began shooting a college film project entitled Marble Hornets. During the process of filming, the cast and crew became increasingly irritable, especially Alex. The film was canceled before it could be finished, due to "unworkable conditions." Alex bid his friend, and the video's protagonist Jay to burn the tapes immediately. Jay kept them in storage instead; however, Alex made him promise never to mention them again. In June of 2009, Jay came across them and decided to look through them. The tapes were unlabeled and thus unsorted. Jay began to upload any peculiar footage from that point on.
Entry #1
Tape: Alex's Personal Footage
Appears: The Operator
Cameraman: Alex Kralie
The footage begins with an explanation that the clip had no relation to the film Marble Hornets and that the audio had been removed. The video depicts Alex picking up his camera, with a slight bit of visual distortion in the first second, and walking to his front door. Looking outside the window, he sees a tall figure with a blank white face standing ten feet away, dormant. The video ends quickly, and Jay assures us he will look for similar peculiar footage.
Entry #2
Tape: Alex's Personal Footage
Appears: No one.
Cameraman: Alex Kralie
The video takes place prior to the events of Entry #1. The video depicts Alex talking to himself, documenting how he had noticed a peculiar sight while walking his dog. He describes seeing an incredibly tall man standing completely still under a street light. The dog began to bark wildly in a defensive manner. Alex drives back to the same streetlight to see if the tall man is still standing there. The tape abruptly ends before Alex can finish his sentence, and the figure is gone. Since Alex didn't recognize the figure, this likely took place prior to Entry #1
Entry #3
Tape: Alex's Personal Footage
Appears: Alex Kralie
Cameraman: Alex Kralie
Jay begins to notice that most of the tapes are not related to Marble Hornets and are mostly Alex videotaping himself. Key clips from twelve unsorted tapes depict Alex crumpling and tearing paper, walking through the woods at night, shopping for camera supplies, using his personal computer, driving, and acting furtively paranoid. Jay claims the tapes have no substantial information. The purpose of uploading the clips was to emphasize that Alex was filming himself irrationally for extended periods of time.
Entry #4
Tape: Alex's Personal Footage
Appears: The Operator
Cameraman: Alex Kralie
The clip depicts Alex walking at night in a child's playground for an unknown reason. The clip has no audio, and has similarities to Entry #1. Jay suspects the audio was removed by Alex himself. A swing set that begins swinging by itself frightens Alex, and the Operator appears briefly in the side of the camera. Alex runs away, looking around to see if the Operator was still there but does not see him. He then appears to fall to the ground, however the clip shuts off as the camera falls. The Operator appears to be moving in this clip, as if walking forward.
Entry #5
Tape: Marble Hornets Tapes
Appears: Alex Kralie
Cameraman: Jay
The clip contains Jay filming Alex in a gazebo next to a dry river in the woods while discussing locations for Marble Hornets, which has yet to be filmed. Throughout the tape, small visual tearing occurs as well as low, guttural audio distortions which block out any other sound. The noise occurs randomly without warning. The clip moves to a later scene of discussing the flat, thinned out border of the forest, where the audio continues to distort, and the characters first refer to the Tower, a large, red structure used for an unknown purpose.