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111 - Slender Man and Marble Hornets (feat. Anne Huston)
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Anne Huston (Caveat NYC) joins Brian and Josh to do battle with the Slender Man and other monsters from 2009’s viral YouTube horror series Marble Hornets. Their journey takes them from semi-incoherent college memories to the content cornucopia of the Something Awful Forums, Reddit, and early YouTube: reminders of an internet where people could create freely without extreme commercial pressure. They also talk a lot about something called Ong’s Hat. Hope you had a happy Halloween!
Anne Huston is the General Manager at Caveat, a cabaret comedy theatre located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Marble Hornets Season 1 dir. Troy Wagner and Joseph DeLage (independent, 2009). Full playlist on YouTube
- The Blair Witch Project dir. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez (Artisan Entertainment, 1999). BoxOfficeMojo // Letterboxd // TMDB
- Ted’s Caving Page on angelfire.com
- “Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real” by Jed Oelbaum. Gizmodo, February 21, 2019.
- The Wyoming Incident Original Upload on YouTube
- The "Wyoming Incident" discussion thread on the Something Awful Forums
- Max Headroom 1987 Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident on YouTube
- Create Paranormal Images thread on the Something Awful Forums