The Lost Footage of the Hypnagogic Archive 

The password for 8X300 on Filthy Treatise is “signetics” No quotes obviously. It’s a 2 minute audio file that I cannot make much out. Like so wendigoon can see!

“You’re as much a part of this now as the rest of us” Insane theory but what if now Wendigoon is a plant for the ARG and he’s just playing 4 dimensional chess

I hope Wendigoon is now an official "character" in this ARG, and his title is now "little man". Funniest shit ever

Small thing I found might be interesting: When the word Ellis is shown with the Rat King, it might be a callback to the fact that Ellis is living inside of the walls, since that is what rats usually do.

The idea of being haunted by your own ghost is such a unique and fascinating concept

The fact that someone was so pissed at Ellis they made a high effort video calling him a rat and he uploaded it to the official archives channel is so funny to me

Just a tip: when trying to find a specific frame, you can pause the video around where you need to be and use the "," and "." keys to go backwards or forwards by one frame, respectively.

Want to throw out my crazy theory here: Ellis discovered what he thought was the afterlife and tried to "cross over", but wound up stuck in a timeloop. There are 2 Ellis' because one version of him is living these events for the second time (at least). As a result of these loops, time is beginning to decay, the same way a VHS tape wears out every time it's replayed, and the proof of that is in the mold.

The password for the site is "signetics" (without quotes obviously). The Signetics 8x300 is a microprocessor from the late 1970's which might or might not be important to the story. It takes you to a weird audio file. Edit: this might be the biggest stretch I’ve ever made, but the video with the dudes in suits reminds me a lot of computer engineers from back in the day who would always dress like that.

The line "We're dedicated to keeping the past alive by any means necessary!" on their website hits different knowing about the ghosts and the "others"

i’m shocked to see no one mentioning this, but i feel like there’s a connection between ceiling fans and the concept of hypnogogia. If you’re lying on your back in bed and trying to fall asleep and maybe having some difficulty, you might find yourself staring at the spinning fan above you. just a thought

So update: it looks like the HA story is over. They released a final video and new text files on Halloween and looks like the story is done. Now there's new merch that supposedly add to it. But doing some research I found that the HA is part of a larger project by the creator Nicholas Sequeira. Also, the Filthy Treatise does tie in to both this and the larger project. Worth having a look through....

Ellis saying ‘be quiet, I can’t think’ is a bit scary given his current mental state

It should probably be noted that the "Don't Look at the Fan" is possibly in reference to how ceiling fans are often associated with the supernatural. Specifically, it is believed that ghosts and spirits are many times often sighted at these points specifically. Which there is actually, to my understanding, some scientific basis for that, as it isn't uncommon for fans to cause hallucinations if certain conditions are met. In fact, in many cases, these are diagnosed as "hypnogogic hallucinations". I'd be surprised if that wasn't related. Perhaps these fans act as the actual gateways in this ARG?

At 7:00, that weird tan drip next to the “mold” is actually calcium deposits from the constant dripping water within the underpass. I maintain a couple of these at work and they have the same thing. Think of Stalactites but for calcitic water.

this is extra scary for me bc I have narcolepsy and as a result, I have hypnagogic hallucinations. I'll probably have some related to this and be terrified. it's easy to confuse them with reality bc there are elements of where you are actually at in the moment. it's weird. I often have to ask my husband if an event took place bc at times they are mundane. like I once had to ask him if we pulled the chicken out of the freezer and he had no clue what I was talking about. unfortunately, they are usually really scary.

So what if the Hypnagogic Archive’s goal is to keep ghosts from “passing on”? Why? Maybe it’s because if these ghosts pass on, the archive won’t be able to keep record of them anymore. They’ll be “dead”. And the goal of the archive is to “keep the past alive by any means necessary”

"You're as much a part of this now as the rest of us." Is so incredibly haunting, and to hear it from the mouth of the beast itself? Absolutely chilling.

Another theory i have is that Ellis is actually just the archivist. And what actually is going on is that Phil succeeded in stopping Fiona. This caused a paradox. Or got Phil punished. Or lost between worlds. Fiona potentually too. Ellis isnt tampering with the videos. Its Phil, and maybe Fiona, from wherever they are. And Ellis has cracked their code. And now that the reality of existance has been opened up to him, hes horrably paranoid and scared.

That bit with not looking at rotating ceiling fans hit me like a train. I used to have really bad night terrors as a child. Shadowy figures strangling me, usually causing me to wake up in the middle of an asthma attack. Before the bad parts started id notice black wispy things and particals floating around my ceiling fan. Maybe its a common thing to see during sleep paralysis, kinda like how the hat man is.

"Don't look at the ceiling fan" Me watching this in bed with a fan directly above my head: Well it's been a good run y'all

The amount of content this man has been putting out is ridiculous! My guy, don't burn yourself out but so I'm here for this.

Honestly, props to the authors and members of this ARG for bamboozling and psyop-ing you into making videos on Hypercognicajjudhev Archive

So it just hit me that the way Ellis talks about the mysterious death of the old Vice President immediately made me think of the security guard who died from the heron and that no one knew what to make of her death. I'm not sure if the two are related somehow but that's the first thing that immediately jumped out at me upon reading the email.

Wendigoon needs to drop the skincare routine already, he's literally glowing

Wendigoon is such a tall, strong, polite young man and I'd love to give him a hug :)

I love the meta possibility that someone has created a rabbit hole conspiracy throughout the web, and wendigoon finding it, has become a part of the story following the bread trail

The mold can also be the soapy substance that is all over the washrooms making them filthy (in the rest stop archive post) I haven't finished the entire video yet and I don't know if Wendigoon mentions this in his video but I have to comment this right now because I cannot hold a train of thought for that long.

I love how “Ellis” never breaks character and adds more to the story without breaking it

I did not expect part 2 this soon!! You always go above and beyond for us, thank you dad

My theory is, Ellis met his future self/ghost. Like Fiona. But unlike Fiona, he had a lengthy conversation with it, and is trying to stop himself from becoming his future self/ghost. And also unlike Fiona. Ellis succeeded. And now he has an outstanding dept to the universe. Or the universe is trying to fix the paradox he caused by being successful.

The “You’re as much a part of this now as the rest of us” really stood out to me, and started a theory of mine about all this. Something you’ve pointed out is people who pretend to be distant from the ARG but are actually related to it, and it could be world building, but I think it could be an integral part of the story A major theme is one of “crossing over”, going from one world to another, whether it’s a dream world or some odd mold room you can’t escape. But what if this sort of world is attempting to connect itself to reality, making itself real and distancing from fiction. It’s difficult to tell what’s real and what’s fake with most videos, and the same can be said for the people who tend to comment about the archive. But as we question the validity of these peoples and videos, they are no longer pure fiction, but things that can reach out to us, talk to us, connect to us. It can explain the odd messages by Ellis, as time works odd in a different and fictional world, resulting in him repeating himself or perhaps even talking to himself as seen in the 4chan post. And perhaps maybe those others are us. We’re examining Ellis so we can know more about him, looking through the videos and each and every post he makes, commenting and debating on it, no matter how crazy it may seem. All the effort each and every person puts in to this just adds another person to this ARG that connects worlds, and similar to the email, you are as much a part to discovering, explaining and expanding upon the story as the rest of them. It doesn’t explain anything within the story, but I just feel it fits the ARG well. Thoughts?

“If you hadn’t seen the last part, that sentence is probably really weird” is practically a tag line for this channel at this point 😂

This channel has grown and improved so much at such a fast rate, it’s actually insane

When are you going to make another video on this?

"To preserve and chronicle the past through any means necessary" "the very best of what was" "every frame captured on film is available to the general public" What if... the mission goal of the archives is some kind of preservative immortality? Like the tape, living on as an Other/ghost through records of works made by yourself and others. So, the terrible thing that Ellis did might be that, at some point, he (or perhaps one of him, if the multiple Ellis theory bears out) starts *experimenting* with a way to reliably preserve someone as an Other (crossing to the other side) through a piece of Internet media. The entire ARG may be a plot to ensure that Ellis becomes an Other and becomes a quasi-immortal being unshackled from time, or even so that they can develop a reliable method of making someone an Other. After all, while we know that the Archive has a mission goal that's different from their stated one, we still don't know exactly what that goal is.

I love how they're blending reality and fiction. Like putting clues in a guestbook anyone can add to and having characters create real 4-chan threads. Makes it all feel that much more surreal.

The world building of this ARG is insane. Huge props to the writers for creating such an immersive story!

Crazy Idea: what if Ellis "keeping the past alive by any means necessary" is because he did in fact see himself as a ghost and wanted to prevent whatever event caused his death, but he ALSO wants to keep anything that his ghost tampered with because his ghost would effectively not have existed in the first place.

Here’s my theory: If you recall the genetic improvement or whatever it was called text file they mention a research team that wound up dissappearing after they gave the narrator a pill and the narrator starts losing track of time and such. Maybe this research team was connected to the archive and were trying to figure out a way to contact the dead? The time displacement experience by the narrator could connect to the fact that ghosts are confirmed to ignore the laws of time and always exist. We also never figure out what happens to the narrator of that story. It just seems too much of a loose thread to not mean anything to the overall story.

In like a month Wendigoon went from being some random guy who was recommended to me to one of my favorite RU-vidrs full stop. Incredible content at an incredibly fast pace; easily the best RU-vidr for anything creepy, spooky, or disturbing. Kudos to this man for all his hard work; it pays off.

The scenes of hypnotizing are actually from the movie "The Incredibly Strange Creatures That Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies" and the only reason I know this is because I've watched it on Mystery Science Theater 3000 more than I'd like to admit 😂

I have a feeling Wendigoon is actually IN on this ARG and he is building up to something that will be part of the ARG itself through his own videos that will eventually be IN the archive and make it seem more real.

Interesting, the old owner's name is Chloe and in "An Exercise In Futility", a random poster named "ChlO" starts chatting with the only other 2 users online who do not recognize her username and say that only employees should have access to post. It's an interesting read with a lot of clues that coincide with different stories on the site! 👀

I did a little digging and I found that the most recent HypnoFest took place near Woodhaven, MI, which probably means it had a zip code of 48183. The one near Melrose, NM ten years prior almost definitely had a zip code of 88124 if I understand correctly. if you arrange both in numerical order, 2009- 88421 2019-88431 I found it interesting that the codes seemed to add one to their total for each year passed when ordered numerically, as well as the number on the end of each original code going up by one. Not sure if this has been found already, or if it’s of any use, but Ellis said the tradition was random locations and it just didn’t seem so random to me. Anyways thanks for reading random viewer (and if ur wendigoon ily

After watching part 1 last night, I made a throw-away comment on one of the videos on the Hypnagogic Archive channel and actually got a response from Ellis himself. So here is that response if anyone's interested but can't be bothered finding it themselves. "Thanks for reaching out! Here at the Hypnagogic Archive, we like to think of ourselves as "your source of temporal ephemera since 1996". We've been going strong, picking up steam, and we've been featured in several news outlets, such as the Auraria Star. We depend on the support of generous benefactors such as yourself to prolong our mission in perpetuity. Thank you for your support! -Ellis Chief Preservation Officer"

21 minutes in, but I guess Ellis heard the "I'm living in your walls" joke and took it literally. Edit: lmao Wendigoon probably got psyopped into the arg

“I can’t wait to jump in” it’s been 8 months!!! We need part 3 😢

37:46 "Хаос" means "chaos" in Belarusian and Russian. In case it's in any way relevant. Also I had no idea this arg existed until Wendigoon started uploading. Makes you wonder how many really great arg's out there aren't getting the attention they deserve.

I literally JUST got done with part 1 so I’m absolutely PSYCHED that I don’t have to wait for part 2. Thanks wendigoon! I love your content and I’m so glad I found your channel!

if i had a nickel for every time i consumed a spooky story surrounding an archive of supernatural events where the potentially evil obsessed-with-knowledge head guy's name was spelled "elis" + one extra letter, i'd have two nickels. which is not a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

"We must eat" became one of the scariest quotes I've ever heard last night. I was watching this video, and stopped part way through, because it was like 230 in the morning, and I had to go to sleep. I put my phone on the charger away from me, and got into bed. It was at this time when I heard The Almighty Wendigoon say the words "We must eat". My heart stopped then luckily my brain caught up, and I realized I had it play on my smart watch. SO congrats to Wendigoon for giving me my 2nd biggest You Tube scare of my life.

Imagine if everything on the Archive is actually real and Wendi uncovered some dark shit thinking it was all an ARG

I find it neat that Wendigoon is basically now a part and INVOLVED with the series/topic. And I *LOVE IT!!* so much.

10 bucks says that the "bad thing" that Ellis did was feed the gear thing at 44:39, possibly to open up the fourth exit mentioned by Cerberus. The mold could also tie into the gear thing, as mold and other decomposers in nature have been used in media to signify something that is eternally hungery (example: The Flood from Halo and such)

There is just something incredibly unnerving about this whole series. It somehow feels so much more _real_ than similar shows like The Mandela Catalogue.

The way he wears a different shirt during ad reads making it easy to find where to skip will never not be appreciated

90% sure the fan is referring to the circles user. When a fan is turned on at high speeds, it creates two circles - the middle connector and the blurred outer blades. This would also tie into the woman with the flower face, as the blades could translate to petals. I'm also very sure that the flower faced woman was Ellis' predesscor, who has been transformed - either her transcendance, her figuring it out or doing so to possibly punish those other members is the scandal. It also wouldn't be a far reach to say that the flower/fan are actually a representation of a maw, with the middle being the throat and the out circle being the fangs. There's an interesting parallel to Ellis and the archive, and the story of the cinema owner and their collection. I think this flower woman is Ellis' Joyce. Absolutely fascinating wrapping my head around the themes of transcending the linear of time in the forms of ghost and recordings. A photo, a film, a book, a review and a taxidermy are all things created for those in the future and many creators hope that our works will still be around even after our own end. They capture people, feelings and moments that can exist after their own death and going to a museum or watching an old film may be the closest many of us get to seeing a ghost. There's also the meta of it all in the form that this ARG is an ARCHIVE of those captures. I've got a lot of other vague thoughts in my head about this but I've rambled enough. Thank you to anyone who reads this and thank you to Wendigoon for bringng another fascinating ARG to our attention and speculation

The unsettling face from "John Kerry's Inexplicable Snafu", and most of the shots of people and the spirals in "Los Gusanos Satellite Broadcast Jun. 58-Q", are from a 1964 horror movie called "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies". Yes, that's the film's real title. It has to do with a guy who gets hypnotized by a fortune teller into killing people. If you're going to watch the movie, be prepared to sit through a lot of filler. Ray Dennis Steckler (the director, producer, and star) recorded a lot of dance numbers and variety show acts to pad out the runtime, so it can be kind of a slog to get to the actual horror parts of the film.

I want a part 3 for Christmas!!! I can't do puzzles to save my life but now I'm hooked. I love your videos. Keep up the amazing work dad!!

While I'll literally never intentionally or directly consume an ARG, I'll also never miss an opportunity to hear Wendigoon explain one in way too much detail. Keep it up buddy.

You should get RU-vidr of the year or something for what you've done in the past year alone. Insane levels of grind from Papa Wendi.

My take on your "Ellis did a bad" and "There are two instances of Ellis" theories: He grew a clone of himself, made sure the clone crosses over, and stuffed the body in the fridge. Now there's angry Ellis clone haunting the videos. There was a brief mention of cloning in the first video you made but I have nothing else to support that theory, except that is what I'd do if I saw my own ghost and didn't want to become one.

babe wake up! Wendigoon posted another movie length breakdown about a niche internet series that I've never heard of! Lets watch it anyways!

Wedigoon: "I left my wallet at home because I prefer this for my banking solution" Ridgewallet: "Am i a joke to you?"

the fact there arent new videos about this ARG makes me insane. is it because hes doing super extensive research and wants to put as many different videos or blog posts into the video? is it because something real actually threatened him? did he get bored? I NEED TO KNOW ITS DRIVING ME INSANE!!! especially with the PERSONAL EMAIL that was sent to him, like cmon now.

the blogpost about Dan being harassed reminded me of the video with the description “don’t answer the phone.” the blog post with dan mentioned how late at night he had been harassed over the phone. that just stuck out to me in the same way that some other lightly connected things did.

While I was watching part 1 he uploads part 2! It’s a great day on RU-vid 🙌

does wendigoon use filters or is his skin really that smooth? he looks like he has a skin routine! Looks great.

My first impression is that the timeline of events is confused. Since many of the stories involved mind bending time anomalies, its possible that the website may be experiencing this as well. Perhaps the content on the site changes depending on certain parts of the day etc.

I would LOVE an update on this ARG!! Im obsessed!

Hey so I don't know if this has been said before but the term "gusano" translates to worm in spanish. It's been used to mean traitor before.

"You know what's not cool?" me: balding? stamps? bulky wallets? wendi: *banks*

I'm really hyped for another Hypnogogic Archive video!

That "Very Not Good Face" is from the opening credit sequence of the legendary B-Movie "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies"! As is the footage with the spinning hypnotic wheel.

I think that the subtext under the title at the beginning says “Your source of temporal ephemera since 1998?” The question mark placement would be intriguing if that’s what that is.

love the content! A little correction: Xaoc is spelled in cyrrilic and literally just means 'chaos'.

I like that he is called Ellis. It reminds me of Alice , another Charakter trying to cross over into another world and seeing aspects of the other world in theirs.

I love this so much, it feels so much more comprehensive and well planned out than other args, especially recent ones. really excited to see where this goes as well

22:14 now hold up a second. Whatever comes next relates to the med trial story from part one. My reasoning for this goes like this. In part one, when reading out the advertisement for the trial run, the students who are “on the verge of a breakthrough” are from “UM”, and in the description of the video at the timestamp, the phrase “Go Blue!” is used. To any person not located in the Midwest USA, you may not see the correlation, but the “UM” is the abbreviation for the University of Michigan. A rallying cry/saying of UM fans/attendees is “Go blue!”

18:00 Fun fact: those scenes come from the movie The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies. I only know this because it was on a episode of MST3k.

it's been a minute since I've caught up on the longer videos on this channel. seeing the updates during the editing process for this one makes me love the internet horror community even more. excellent video!

The Hypnagogic Archive is such a mind**** on so many levels. In 2008 it was one of those weird aggregator pages being popularized in schools via word of mouth. Like ebaumsworld for creepy student films that downloaded for eternity. This new iteration is pretty amazing, not even the ARG stuff but how they play off the original making it seem like it was never there lol.

Usually I’m all good with ARGs but something about this one gives me the absolute creeps… like Mandela catalogue, in the dark home alone sure thing, but I have had to turn this one off multiple times just because it makes the hair in the back of my neck stand up. Anyone else? Great content as always :)

A note on translation: the google translate app lets you hold your camera up to text to translate things. Even if you don’t want to use google translate, it’s still incredibly useful to be able to grab the characters in text format and copy+paste them into whatever translator you want.

please make a part three when you get the time i am absolutely obsessed with this arg now and i love your channel keep up the amazing videos :)

Now just need a part 2 for the Monument Mythos I enjoyed your first video on it so much

At 22:50 For the morse code you couldn't hear. It's: .... .- .--. .--. -.-- .... .- .-.. .-.. --- .-- . . -. --..-- . .-.. .-.. .. ... It translates to: HAPPYHALLOWEEN,ELLIS

Hydration challenge: drink a cup of water every time Wendigoon says "Hypnogogic Archives" I personally like to imagine this man's passion for exploring ARGs got so many people hooked on, this author/authors decided to bait and bamboozle Wendigoon into being a part of this ARG. Awesome

Reddit has a whole bunch of people uploading their email answers from Shelby and Ellis. When Ellis answers, he signs (as Ellis) something the like of chief archiver. Sometimes however, answers will be in other colors - red etc, some assume this is where the others (red, especially being Joyce) answer rather than Ellis

Love the giddy energy; I totally vibe with that on anything that exemplifies and embodies their theme, namesake, genre, and what have you. There are few things that can make their audience/followers actively recreate the exact experience it identifies itself with. A very simple analogy is how reading the _Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows_ blog's definition of the neologism, "sonder", evokes the thought, and therefore the emotion, in the reader that the writer sought to put into writing as one of the few abstruse yet shared human experiences. It's also hilarious how "Ellis" has possibly written you, if not other random commenters, into the narrative while you're attempting to share the ARG with a wider audience. I truly hope our Wendigoon has been canonized as an interactive character in another favorite analog horror series. ^-^

I'm so glad channels like yours exist. this stuff is so interesting to me but i just do not have the attention span that it would take to figure all this out. my ADHD thanks you for your service

The story of seeing yourself as a ghost kind of reminds me of lake mungo, where the character who died saw her ghost and tried to prevent it from happening but reached a conclusion that she can't and prepared for it kinda

19:19 this may be a stretch, but that looks like the woman who died to the heron in one of the stories on the hypnagogic website. That woman seems to be missing an eye, and the woman in that story lost her one of her eyes to the heron. Maybe this road is an old road that leads to that museum?

Curious is there is, or is going to be an update?

I do think that there is more layers to the "Don't Look Up at the Fan" video, but I think that in connection to Ellis bringing it up in the email to you, maybe the warning about not looking up at the fan has to do with the sort of hypnotic influence fans can have when staring at them. The pace of a fan on low is similar to the pace of the swirling spiral imagery used in one of the videos. Perhaps this hypnosis, putting you into an altered hypnagogic like state makes you more susceptible (or is maybe even a first step) to being influenced or taken over by the entities hiding within the artifacts of the archive, like in the Joyce short story.

The "rat king" part is very interesting to me, because "rat king" is another nickname for Satan. Ellis's name showing over it is possibly a direct confrontation by someone directed towards Ellis, or maybe a direct reference by "Ellis" to who he actually is.

This is so insanely cool and the work and effort you put in comes through in the quality of the video. Super excited for more info on the Hypnogogic Archives and the 'world' of it. PLEASE do another video on it, this is so sick.

I really love this! I would have never even heard of ARGs if it was for this channel. I can’t wait to see more. When I looked at the archives page I just thought it was fans playing along but the fact that they’re actually apart of the whole series is so cool and interesting to add in. I hope there’s more updates soon!