The Backrooms
In my last article, I talked about the creator of an animated series on YouTube called the Backrooms. This series was about an alternate reality which housed creatures, anomalies, and seemingly impossible things. This however, in the context of the show isn’t true. Last time, I talked about the first 3 found footage episodes. I ran through found footage 1 last time so found footage 2 should be very interesting. I will also be tackling other episodes in the series which aren’t so bent on just talking about the anomalies but rather the company which opened the gateway to the unknown.
Found Footage 2
This found footage begins with a girl in her garage. She taped a square on the floor identifying a slip in reality which led to the backrooms. Instead of stepping in or accidentally falling in, she decides to experiment with it. She throws tennis balls into the seemingly normal floor, wood chips, and eventually she starts reeling a tape measure down to see how far it goes. This would be her blunder however as the tape measure began to become unstable. Keep in mind every time something fell into the backroom, the camera would glitch out for a moment signifying that every time something “noclips” out of our reality, it affects the surrounding environment.
Noclip – Just a term I’ll be using to describe the act of falling into another reality.
She starts to wonder what’s going on but then suddenly, her and the tape measure are nocliped into the backrooms. She fell into a room with yellow walls and a dark yellow carpet. All the items she dropped into the hole were there with her. She indeed does not follow the safety book boy scouts provide of staying put till being found since she starts exploring and shouting for help. Whilst exploring, she stumbles upon weird placement of furniture. One room has a kitchen counter in the corner but nothing else. Another room has wooden dining room chairs but they’re elongated as if something had stretched them. She then finds a room that has an archway instead of an actual hallway, this room has a relatively large sofa in the middle of it but means little to the actual episode. She soon stumbles upon a hole in the floor with rebar sticking out the sides of it. She decides not to go down but this will become very important later. After a bit of traveling, she finds a room which has multiple floors to it but seemingly no way to get up as no stairs are present. Not even 2 rooms later, she finds what is truly horrifying. A crashed car that slammed into the wall of the backrooms. At first glance, it’s just a car that’s in the backrooms, but if you think about it. Everything appears in the backrooms because it Noclipped into it at some point on Earth. This is implying that someone was driving in their car, minding their own business when suddenly, they and their entire car no clipped into the backrooms and slammed into the wall. It is unknown as to whether the driver survived or not. A door next to the car reveals a house of some sort inside the walls. She finds blood on the floor, presumably from the driver of the car. This is when things take a dark turn. She enters a room and sees a plant growing out the middle of the room. Facing the doorway is part of a historical figure. She appears to recognize it, almost as if she’s seen it before. In the video linked in the description, it’s revealed that that photo was in her parents home. She grew up living with that photo. It had to of noclipped into the backrooms. While analyzing the photo, the plant begins to move. She takes a few steps back. It’s now growling. It has taken the form of an entity, similar in appearance to the first entity we saw in found footage one. It appears to have woken from a slumber since it isn’t immediately running after her, it takes a few moments to reacquaint itself with its surroundings. She uses that moment to run and hide behind a wall outside the house. There she stays hidden for a bit. The creature is growling and searching for her. She peaks the wall and that’s when the creature spots her. She starts running for her life as most would do in that situation. While running and backtracking through all the rooms she has already explored, she passes one room which is glowing a bright green. She doesn’t take the time of day to check it out as she has bigger issues to deal with. She eventually finds herself back at the hole mentioned earlier. She carefully climbs down into another section of the backrooms. This area is different however, it appears to be a pool area of some sort. There’s ladders to climb in and out, there’s water. She isn’t here to stay for long however as the creature finds the entrance and swiftly makes haste towards her. She finds a ladder leading out to the familiar backrooms we know. There’s a gap in her path which appears to lead to the unknown. She quickly jumps over the gap with a bit of hesitation on her part. Finally she goes through a very tight hallway which leads to a dead end. She runs to the corner of the room and starts praying to God for mercy. Her prayers are unfortunately not answered. This is the part of the video which makes people go “What the what just happened?” Instead of the creature finding her, the room starts to crack apart with a bright green light emanating from the seams. She steps back in horror as the room gets brighter and brighter until the playback footage of her camera ends. The camera pans out to the T.V. the video was being displayed on while playing a little jingle.
Speculation
Theories have risen about what that light is or why it happens. A famous Youtuber, Matpat (you all know him), rose and did his best to try and answer the question. He came up with the conclusion that she got caught up in some sort of time dilation where the room she was standing in was in a time loop of some sort.
Autopsy Report
The Backrooms series isn’t entirely found footage. Actually, most of it revolves around the company trying to learn more about the backrooms. In the video “Backrooms Autopsy Report” While they were exploring the backrooms in their fancy hazmat suits, they stumbled upon a body. The body however had very interesting attributes. Firstly, we can conclude that this body does not belong to our protagonist in the first, second, or even third found footage. This body belonged to a teenager who went missing a few weeks or months prior to being found. His body was attacked by a strand of bacteria. The scientist who performed the autopsy didn’t completely understand what kind of bacteria it was, it had several weird traits. For example, the victim’s left lung was preserved perfectly intact but his right lung succumbed to decomposition faster than the average rate. Not to mention that where he was found, there was a black substance surrounding the spot he was in. It was originally believed to be a strand of pseudomonas fluorescens which is a strand of bacteria that can be seen under black light. However it appears that it is actually a mutated strain of simple hay bacillus. This probably means gibberish to you which is why I encourage you to just google it.
Missing Persons Report
This video is a prequel to the autopsy report. It starts off by showing a chart with the missing rate in people going up over the course of a few years. It then cuts to the portal created by the company “Async”. It then cuts to a few workers exploring the backrooms. They had a red rope tied through the portal so they could always find their way back. They were exploring marking down areas when they stumbled upon the body. They approached it with extreme caution.They worked together to get the body back to the company headquarters for an autopsy.
Prototype
This episode explains how Async made their breakthrough in the field of magnetic technology. They started to distort gravity and magnets. They were putting all this energy into a small ball either made out of metal or it was just a marble ball. Either way, energy was flowing through it. The ball started to glow a bright yellow light similar to the color of light the lights in the backrooms would emit. After everything shaking for a few seconds, the machines turn off and the ball is seemingly gone. This had the scientist questioning where the ball went. They used this experiment to come up with the theory of an alternate dimension.
Conclusion
Async was a company which experimented with the laws of our world. With this knowledge, they created a portal to another dimension. This dimension would be devastating for the world however. What do you, fellow readers, think of this series? What could you do if you noclipped into the backrooms one day?
