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The Entire Backrooms Timeline Explained
The Entire Backrooms Timeline Explained
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Kane Parsons' Backrooms movie takes the
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world he built in his YouTube series and
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brings it to the big screen. But, how
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does it all tie together? Here's your
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spoiler-filled timeline of the most
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important events throughout Backrooms
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history.
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>> Hello.
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>> We still don't know who first came up
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with the concept of the Backrooms. On
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May 12th, 2019, in a thread devoted to
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sharing unsettling images, an anonymous
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4chan user [music] posted a
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yellow-tinted picture of an empty
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windowless space. Another made up a
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caption for it, which starts with the
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now-famous phrase, "If you're not
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careful and you no-clip out of reality
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in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the
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Backrooms." Inspired by collaborative
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fiction projects like the SCP
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Foundation, the Backrooms grew from a
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single post to an expansive liminal
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universe. Some early fans envisioned a
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hellish dimension with distinct numbered
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levels, but one of them, a teenager from
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California named Kane Parsons, took a
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different approach. He hopped on the
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modeling software Blender, [music] where
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he started constructing his own version
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of the Backrooms lore. He posted a short
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film titled Backrooms Found Footage to
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his YouTube channel Kane Pixels on
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January 7th, 2022.
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Parsons' first Backrooms short begins in
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1991, but it's not where the story
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starts chronologically. It starts with
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the A-Sync Research Institute, a firm
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dedicated to creating and selling MRI
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machines, and its vice director, Ivan
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Beck. In August of 1972,
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Beck leads a research effort to examine
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the properties of the element tellurium.
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[music]
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He signs a research paper about it,
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which is on the wall when a strange
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green glow fills the room. We don't know
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for sure what's going on here, but many
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fans believe it to be the first time
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that the Backrooms make contact with
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reality. Either way, that green glow
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[music] will be important later, much
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later.
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A-Sync gets the opportunity to pivot in
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1988 after the Oak Ridge National
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Laboratory ceases testing on a prototype
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of the low proximity magnetic distortion
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system. That's a fancy name for what's
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basically a portal to another dimension.
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Beck has a grand plan to use the other
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world for housing and storage to avoid
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overpopulating the Earth.
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>> We must account for these never before
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faced challenges in ways equally never
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before considered.
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>> With funding from the US government, the
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company's third attempt to open the
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threshold takes place on July 2nd, 1988
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and ends in failure. It's not until the
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sixth test on October 17th, 1989 that A
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Sync is successful in opening a doorway
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into the backrooms, or as they call it,
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the [music] complex.
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A Sync starts sending employees through
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the threshold that same year, but things
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are really heat up on February [music]
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3rd, 1990 when a squad finds a corpse
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presumed to be Nicholas Bolton. He's one
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of a sharply growing number of people to
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go missing in recent days, presumably
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having fallen into the backrooms through
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gateways known as null zones. Just under
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a month later, camera operator Peter
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Tench is mysteriously separated from his
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co-workers during an expedition. It's
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around this time that A Sync records the
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first evidence of complex life forms
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native to the backrooms on a motion
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detecting camera. On May 6th, scientist
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Marvin Lee encounters one first hand
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after falling into a pit [music] in room
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14D and getting lured into the backrooms
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recreation of suburbia by what sounds
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like a human voice at first.
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>> Target.
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>> That's not a person.
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>> What is it?
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>> That is not a person.
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>> Fortunately for Marvin, he lives to tell
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the tale thanks to researcher Mark
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Bloom.
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On May 8th, representatives from the
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Department [music]
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of Energy take a trip to A Sync
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headquarters to check on their
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investment. They're given [music] a tour
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of the facility and shown a presentation
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about the real estate potential of the
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backroom. That makes it very
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inconvenient timing when Peter Tench
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suddenly returns at the threshold after
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having been gone for two months. When
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A-Sync reviews the footage that he
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recorded, they learn that he was
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transported forward in time. A-Sync runs
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a battery of tests on Peter, and while
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he's fine physically, his sanity slipped
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away somewhere back in [music] the
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complex. The company already faked his
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death, so they can't just let him go
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back to his family. After being locked
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away by his employer for two weeks while
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they try to figure out what to do with
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him, Peter escapes and returns to the
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backrooms on May 22nd. He isn't found
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until the 25th, when he runs into his
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old work buddies.
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>> Mark?
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Mark?
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>> Yes, yes, it's me.
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>> Is it Is it really you?
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>> It's me.
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>> Mark tries to call for backup, but Peter
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shoots him with his own shotgun. Peter
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makes his way back to reality and
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reaches the outside world, but allegedly
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trips on a rock and suffers a fatal head
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injury. Marvin tries to alert his
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colleague, George [music] Levy, to
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A-Sync's involvement in Peter's death,
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only to be written off as paranoid.
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[music]
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>> The things were handled poorly, but
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please, can you try to have a little
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perspective here?
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>> Handled poorly? Um
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they killed him, George.
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>> On George's [music] next expedition into
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the complex, he and his team discover
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strange errors in the wallpaper, along
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with everyday items fused into the walls
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and floor.
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That brings us to the Backrooms movie,
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which starts with a researcher named
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Narein Wu being pursued and presumably
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killed by a monster after losing touch
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with his group in June of 1990. Narein's
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coworkers discover and watch the
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recording he left behind. That same
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month, troubled furniture store owner
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Clark gets his first hint that something
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strange is going on when his electrician
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discovers three strangely placed
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switches on his store's breaker. The
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film reveals that the backrooms draw
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power from real-world locations like
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Captain Clark's Ottoman Empire to keep
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the harsh fluorescent lights on. Since
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he was kicked out of the house by his
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ex-wife sometime earlier, Clark has
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moved into the [music] store. When he
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sees the lights flicker after hours on
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June 29th, it leads him into the
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basement. That's where he discovers a
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subtle seam in reality, a no zone that's
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the exact perfect size for a human to
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walk through or fall through.
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Clark discovers all sorts of uncanny
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things during his first journey into the
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backrooms. From a pile of misshapen
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furniture to a talking caveman cutout.
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He makes a frantic escape when he
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realizes that he's not alone, but not
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before he's caught on camera by Phil, an
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A Sync employee who's very surprised to
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see him.
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Nights after nights, Clark would return
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to the backrooms to map it out as much
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as he can. He tells his therapist Mary
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about his discovery, [music] but she
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writes it off as a symptom of his
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drinking problem.
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>> I'm not saying I don't believe you.
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>> Okay, I'm going to come back here with
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proof.
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>> If dragging his shrink into the mix
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wasn't bad enough, Clark enlists his
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employees Kat and Bobby to help him
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record proof of the backrooms'
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existence. Neither of them get to leave
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as they're killed by the crude copies of
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humans that populate the backrooms known
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as Still Life. Mary follows them into
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the complex after Clark leaves her an
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ominous voicemail, only to get choked
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out by her own patient who seems to
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prefer the backrooms to reality. Turns
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out Clark had plenty of time to become
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acquainted with the [music] Still Life
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before Mary's arrival. When she wakes
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up, she's tied to a chair and forced to
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role-play as Clark's ex-wife with
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several of the warped and apparently
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edible beings in attendance. She's only
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able to escape after the Still Life
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modeled after Clark takes a bite out of
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him instead. Clark's Still Life chases
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Mary into the backrooms' version of the
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furniture store, which A Sync is alerted
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to after one of the caveman cutouts gets
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knocked over. Mary fights off Captain
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Clark with a souvenir from her traumatic
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past and hazmat suited researchers
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arrive to collect the monster's body and
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bring Mary back through the threshold.
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Mary is held at A Sync headquarters,
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where she meets with Phil and learns
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that the company doesn't actually have
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much of an idea of what the backrooms
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are either.
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After the movie's foreboding ending, the
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next notable event on the timeline is
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the original found footage short, taking
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place a year later on July 4th, 1991. It
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depicts a filmmaker, played by Kane
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Parsons, falling into the backrooms
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while trying to film a scene. He walks
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around for a little while before
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encountering a massive wiry monster and
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jumping into a hole in the ground to
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escape. He makes his way through bizarre
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reflections of residential areas,
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industrial zones, office spaces, and
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plenty of yellow hallways before the
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monster finally catches up with the
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cameraman. The life-form pushes him back
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through a null zone into the real world,
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except he's hundreds of feet in the air.
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It's not clear unless you look at the
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date in the video description that poor
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Kane here isn't actually returned to his
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own time. When he falls to his presumed
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death, it's September 23rd, 1996.
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There are a total of three found footage
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episodes of the backrooms web series so
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far, but it's believed that the third
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one takes place before the second one.
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No specific date is given, but a radio
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host referencing the Oklahoma City
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bombing places it not long after April
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19th, 1995. Found footage number three
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follows Ravi, who's pulled through a
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null zone after investigating a weird
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noise and seeing a flashing lights.
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Ravi's experience in the backrooms isn't
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too different from Mary's, except,
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spoiler alert, Mary actually makes it
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out. At first, Ravi tries to gain his
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bearings as he stumbles through a series
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of eerie environments.
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>> Where did you start now?
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>> When Ravi first learns that he's not
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alone, it's not because he's encountered
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an A Sync employee or the spindly
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creature from the original short. He
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comes face to face with a still life,
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which gives [music] him a good scare.
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After that, Ravi finds a chilling red
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city and plenty of yellow walls. He also
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finds a familiar prehistoric face,
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although he's not as chatty this time.
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>> Okay.
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>> Things get really weird for Ravi when he
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walks into a house and hears a human
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voice on the other side of a wall.
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There's presumably a null zone somewhere
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nearby, but he doesn't know enough about
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how the backrooms work to feel around
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for one. Instead, he tries to convince
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the man on the other side that he's
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trapped in an alternate dimension and
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needs some help. But, before the man can
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get to Ravi, something gets to him
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instead.
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>> Huh?
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What?
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OH MY GOD.
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>> AS RAVI ACCEPTS HIS NEW REALITY and
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waits for his camera's battery to die,
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he's haunted by a looping ambient music
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track that [music] you might remember
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from the movie.
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>> I don't know
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sky.
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It was hot out.
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>> Finally, that brings us to found footage
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number two, [music] which takes place on
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August 19th, 1995. A nameless, faceless
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protagonist is filming the glitch in
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reality that she found in her garage,
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only to get pulled inside while trying
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to measure how deep it goes. What
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follows is another backrooms survival
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story with a camera woman finding a car
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that disappeared off the road years
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earlier. She also discovers something
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rather unusual in the complex, native
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[music] plant life. That's an
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interesting find. The only problem is,
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there's a life form hiding among the
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vines.
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>> What? WHAT THE
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WHAT?
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NO.
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NO.
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>> SHE TRIES HER BEST TO ESCAPE, BUT
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THERE'S nowhere to run in the backrooms.
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Just when she thinks she's safe, the
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room starts [music] glowing green, the
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same shade that we saw all the way back
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in 1972. As of the release of the
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backrooms movie, the timeline [music]
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begins and ends with a green light. A
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light that, like many other things in
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the Backrooms universe, is still
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unexplained.
