Time Is A Flat Circle 

hi! this is my very first video where i attempt to explore/analyze/theorize horror videos. i don't intend to make "explained" videos into a genre or a category, but constructive criticism is appreciated 👍 ps: definitely left out some theories the more i think about it. let me know yours! this shits so fucking cool the more you crack at it lol

For anyone curious, the creator of No Through Road now works in film (naturally, he has talent for days). He actually praised Kane Pixels for his work in analog horror. The new generation of teenage horror fans are taking the torch from the past generation of teenage horror fans. I think that's so cool.

Imagine not just having to live as a Brit once, but multiple times. Forever, even. True horror.

Those kids are such good actors, holy shit. When the cameraman is running away from the killer saying "oh shit! oh fuck!" it sounds like genuine horror, the kind that can't be faked. Of course, it probably was faked, thus making their acting skills very impressive.

They could legit make this into a full movie. The editing and everything was really good for found footage

"It's a spooky horror story. You and your British friends-" "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH" "-I didn't even get to the scary part yet."

Incredible film project by these kids. The editing and acting is incredible for their age and the time period, considering that the editing software must’ve been hard to work with. Amazing.

My theory: James is that masked dude at the final part of the tape, the one with the hat and the scarf. Steven was traumatized and for whatever reason he ended attacking his past self, probably so it wouldn't recognize him or because he felt it would help break the loop. In any case, I believe there's at least two or three masked men, and they are their future versions, trying to understand the loop and figuring out a way to break out of it. The thing is that since they cannot interact with their past selves in fear of being recognized, their younger selves are afraid of them. And all of that "glitching/resetting" when near one of the masked man could be either because: 1- The loop is somewhat broken and the "resets" happen coincidentally in certain moments. 2- The boys have by now learnt something about the loop and can cause these "resets", and use them so that their past selves don't come too close to figure out their identities. 3- Same as (2), but instead there actually IS someone else we don't know about, also trying to break the loop while being masked and he is the one making the "resets". Or just making sure they can't escape.

In the original video they think they've gotten out of the loop but the truth is they haven't. When they pass that other car, they're actually passing themselves going the other way, entering the time loop in Benington. I think the area itself is cursed or is one of those fairy portals that features so heavily in British myths and since they brought technology into the loop then the area itself uses it to torture them for trespassing. It is a private road and they're not supposed to be there. Trespassers are punished.

I wouldn’t be going back to that terrifying place to drop off flowers. Love ya friend but you’ll be in my memories from the safety of my home.

I actually live in that city, and I feel the need to flex this every time anyone covers this. It’s just so crazy that a piece of internet horror which I’ve loved since I was a kid was recorded around a 20 minute walk from where I live.

No real answer, but I'd like to point a few things out: The British Isles were known as "The Islands of the (Dead) Souls" in antiquity and thought to be sort of a surface underworld, due to them being cloaked in a near constant mist. People from the continent (i.e. mostly Celtic tribes at this point) avoided going near them, although they could have sailed there even with their small boats. The Romans broke the myth shortly before Christ was born: Julius Caesar visited the Isles during his campaign in Gaul and confirmed, that the people living there were just people. Rome did then colonise the Isles, but they remained a spooky place, where Celtic and Germanic tribes didn't want to go. The Angles, Saxons and Jutes from northern Germany/southern Denmark only fled there because the chaos on the continent created enough pressure. The chaos, for reference: Germanic tribes starving, but resisting Christianisation pushed by Rome and its army from the south, while at the same time being attacked by the Huns from the east. The only way they could go was west or southwest, and some tribes ended up in Morocco after clashing with Celts in France and Spain. Britain may have seemed like a pretty good alternative considering all options. But even after settling there for a while, the Angles, Saxons and Jutes still felt there was something wrong with the place. Their stories about elves differ from continental Germanic lore: While on the continent there are two types of elves, who each have their functions and at least don't bother humans most of the time, British elves are mischievous and actively seeking to harm humans. They're not split up into light elves and dark elves (the latter also known as dwarfs), they're just spiteful creatures of the mist and fairy mounds. This has led to the theory, that those weird elves were exiled to the British Isles from the continent, because they couldn't be trusted around humans. I particularly like the version of that theory, where the British elves are misbehaving children: The reasonable adult elves (both dark and light), who for the most part don't give a shit about mortals, live on the continent, but have sent their unruly kids somewhere else. This may be why the British have had to deal with elves, who seemed to make it a sport to inconvenience people. Elves, who are a total menace, selfish, arrogant, immoral and prone to using innocent people for cruel jokes. TEENAGE elves - da-da-DAAAAAAAAAH! Or they're not elves at all, but Celtic spirits, who just hated the Germanic migrants 🤷‍♀ There is some overlap between elves, fairies, pixies and aes sídhe. Anyway - they're are also known for bending time: You walk through a fairygate into their world (which is surface level, so you can stumble into it without having to climb or descend anywhere), spend a day there, return and everyone you knew back home is dead, because a hundred years have passed in our world while you were gone. This is not the exception - it's a core element of British lore. Small random detail: The British mainland is tiny, compared to countries like Canada or the US, where you can get lost far more easily in the wilderness. I very much doubt that it's possible ANYWHERE in England to drive straight ahead for an hour at a moderate pace and not run into some village or farm. The country is just too densely populated. For comparison: In 2001's "Dog Soldiers" (best werewolf film ever ❤) a group of soldiers goes on a mission in Scotland and it is mentioned, that they're really deep inside the forest. Four hours from the next settlement. This is an obvious error: There is no place in Scotland, where you could be that far away from a settlement. So don't look at "No Through Road" with the vast North American landscapes in mind. Remember, that you're on a rather small island and the fact alone, that they didn't run into anyone for an hour should already have horrified those boys.

i'm surprised no one's mentioned the river song/doctor who reference. that seems pretty important to me for the backstory. river and the doctor are on opposite timelines-his first time meeting her is the last time she sees him. i wonder if steven or "the killer" is meant to be river, while james & co. are the doctor.

Reminds me of something called quantum immortality. It’s based on the Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment, however in this case the observer is the one within the box; it’s the cat’s point of view. What happens when you are both dead and alive? Well, since you can’t observe your death, you could theoretically remain in the box for eternity, only observing the instance in which you survive.

Solidly the most underrated channel on this platform. Everyone should be well rested from sleeping on this shit.

omg i remember seeing this video a couple years ago and being scared shitless, havent watched this vid yet but cant wait to see the truth behind it

I had no idea that No Road Through had actually continued past its first episode. The acting definitely got way better in the follow-ups, I hope they make more of these. Really cool stuff.

I have an experience that's remarkably similar to this video. When I was about 19 me and a buddy decided to drop some acid. As per usual I wanted to go driving because I didn't like being still while tripping. This was a while back, 1998, and at that time you could drive about ten or fifteen minutes down a road called Edmonson Pike and you were basically in the country. There was a narrow road we would often drive down so I took it. It had a one lane underpass for some really old train tracks, meaning it was only wide enough for one car to pass through. At this time it was about 1am so I wasn't afraid of anyone else coming the opposite way, so I drove through the ancient looking stone structure and kept driving. I kept on and eventually came to another identical underpass. I didn't ever recall there being two of them but we were tripping really really hard so I chalked it up to the acid and kept going. Well after more driving we came to another identical underpass. We both began to freak our because there's not three of those. We thought we'd driven into some sort of time warp/other dimension sort of thing. There were no lights around so it was pitch black due to it being a moonless night. I thought it would be a good idea to turn around and come back the way we came. There were a few farmhouses on that road, with the homes being set way, way back, like some of them were a quarter mile off the road. It was almost 2am at this point and I pulled into a gravel driveway to turn around. Standing in the middle of the driveway at an open gate were two impossibly old people, one man and one woman. They were just standing there at 2am, no car around at all and their house not visible even with my headlights pointing down their driveway. They had to be in their 70s at least. They just stared at us with totally blank looks on their faces. Of course we both let out a "WTF?"because why in the he'll wouid two senior citizens hike down to the road from their house at 2am and just stand there? Of course I got us out asap and went back the way we came. I reached the last underpass we went through and kept going. Then one of the oddest things I've ever experienced happened-the next thing we came to was Edmondson pike, the road we turned off of to get on the one we were on. There weren't two more underpasses. We drove under three going in the opposite direction, but we only drove under one coming back. We were tripping hard, but not hard enough to hallucinate two extra stone underpasses and also an old married couple (acid hallucinations aren't like that anyways, unless maybe you take a ton of the stuff, it's mostly just faces twisting, objects "breathing", and patterns seeming to crawl). I've got no rational explanation for what the hell that was, and unlike the video it was 100 percent real. We obviously didn't get killed or stalked but talk about mind blowing. About a week later I drove down that road in the daylight. One underpass, and the place where I turned around? I didn't even see a house. It was just a gravel driveway in a field. So either the old couple being there at that time seemed even more strange. The road is long gone. They built a subdivision there, and I'm kinda glad they did because something very weird was happening with that road.

Dude your videos are so good, you are honestly on your way to Nexpo status, that sounds crazy to say but the quality is in the right direction. Honestly waited for a break in my day to really enjoy this one. But my thoughts on the video are that at first i thought it was for real, took me a min, i missed the #creepypasta lol

[Turns on radio] [Radio goes insane] "Oh its the scariest thing ever" Literally me

Their flat circle is driving and being lost. Ours is endlessly watching youtube videos.

This concept would be perfect for a horror movie, the fact that this is amateur made found footage is impressive. Watching it reminds me of the first time I watched The Blair Witch Project (forever my favorite found footage horror movie)

I think I just found a fresh goldmine. This content is good! The editing is well done and overall a great video. Definitely subscribing!

I remember watching No Through Road when It first came out. I was scared out of my mind. One of the only yt videos that scared me without there being a shitty jumpscare in it.

In spite of my having been watching RU-vid in '09, I never knew or heard of this before you showed me today. I know I enjoyed your speculation and narration way more than I would watching the original. Good job on this!

This was a great project by these guys. There are popular horror movies with worse acting. That is to say, these guys are really good!

I feel like Nietzsche was sort of saying like, the concept of repeating your life is only a good thing if you've lived a life worth living, done some fantastic thing that justified everything else, and that it would be the ultimate test of how you lived your life. I kind of got the vibe that the time loop is an unidentified event or entity that can trap anyone it wants by appearing and forcing them into it, they don't notice the road changes when they enter, it's only when they loop back that they realize. And then it's too late. "The Killer" is used to describe multiple different people, evidenced by their clothing, like the one who blocks the road on the second time around is wearing a dark, maybe green, long coat. Not a camel trench coat and matching full brim hat. The person who walks behind the car seems to be wearing a hoodie. I didn't go back but I wouldn't be surprised if the boys in the car originally were wearing those items. The loop appears to only have one building it offers, the shed, where it gives people masks and they write messages, hoping to communicate with another person. It seems like some of them are just killed, but there might be multiples of all of them looping, and they just happened to meet that one version of Steven. Maybe it's a commentary on the value of the life people live. Trying to fix the past instead of making a clear plan for the future. Dwelling on things, repeating traumas, reconstructing abusive dynamics, but never looking ahead and making a plan that would bring them a better outcome. We just keep going in circles. Making desperate heat of the moment decisions while fumbling* around in the dark, never really understanding what's going on, and exercising no control. Just ruled by our fears. Idk. Just an idea.

Legitimately got a smile on my face when I saw you had uploaded, and the smile got even bigger after I saw the video length. Keep up the good work!

“No through road” is the original backrooms.

“stingrays love foreplay” would truly be some crazy last words. Imagine reading that on a tombstone with no context lol

i remember hearing about this during school in year 8 or 9, and me and my friends grouping around our table watching it and getting scared shitless. nice to be reminded of it!

Maverick files has become one of my favorite channels. Keep it up dude.

Ive noticed that videos, movies, etc that are filmed as if they are real are ALWAYS better then others. Its like the acting is better, the points being made are interpreted better, and just the feeling of "this could be real". I enjoyed this, thank you for your thoughts.

Just a small observation is that the name of the OP Indrancole3 is similar to Indrid Cold, the smiling man that was repito have been seen by man right before the moth man events in Point Pleasant. Coincidence! Anyhow these guys deserve way more recognition this story has had me at the edge of my seat more then any horror movie in the past few years. Good job blokes ❤ and great job as always Timesix

Amazing concept. Top notch editing with supernatural vibes. The acting is indistinguishable from a real horrific experience. I love how the “official” story stuck with it, and has not been disproven. Urban legend status. Bad-ass production.

Honestly, I can't help but want to believe it's real, the atmosphere of them just messing around and what felt like genuine fear from them just makes me want to! I really enjoy these kinds of things, but not everyone can make these found footage videos seem authentic and genuine, this one, imo, succeeded!

no through road is honestly one of my favorite videos on the whole internet, gives me the creeps but so so good

Welp, I have officially binge-watched all of your videos in two days. Keep up the awesome work T6! We need more content.

You did well my friend you took my favorite cherry pie and put a dollop of cool on top and that made the whole thing taste much better thank you. A. Varga.

I love your approach and I’m glad you’re trying this direction out. Also cheers for the return of T6 🎉

I’m really, really in love with your style and commentary, as well as the subject matter you do your videos on. Amazing work!

The duality of man: a few weeks ago Goose Boose put out a video absolutely shitting all over this video series and here's Mav praising it XD

Omg no throught road is so well made. I still can't figure out if this video is real or not. The emotions and movements feel so real. It all feels genuine

Wasn't aware of this series so thanks for covering it. Great work as well. I expect your channel will blow up in the next 12 months. Keep it up, man.

Love your style of story telling. All the content you’ve made for our enjoyment is greatly appreciated. Keep ‘em coming!!

"No 3g" And like that my joints ache

Please do not stop. Your channel is magnificent.

When I was younger I had a Dream similar to this There was this green building which is an abandoned Gymnasium, I dreamed of being pursued by a creature whilst having a companion with me. Endless corridors of Toilets, Stalls, Rustic Pipes, Bath tubs, and showers stretch led in that building and I tried many times to escape. As I got older the dreams changed, I dreamed I was the monster pursuing my self, this video made me think of it Thank you time six

As soon as I saw "No Through Road" in the thumbnail I knew I had to watch. What could possibly have brought this little series into the spotlight after so long?

This video kept popping up in my feed, maybe I saved it at some point, so I thought it was new. It was fantastic regardless. Love what you are currently and hsve produced.

Theories are not hypothesis. Theories are tested, evidence backed, peer reviewed reality. They're as close to truth as we get. Hypothesis is what you mean at 40:44 Edit: Schrödinger's cat isn't a theory, it's a thought experiment used to in retort of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum superposition. It's Edwin Schrödinger saying this idea is absurd. He literally led into the thought experiment by saying "one could even come up with ridiculous cases" before describing the cat thought experiment. It regularly gets misused (including in this video) in pop culture by those whom do not understand what it's referencing. It's a nerd version of a diss that people have misinterpreted as some kind of insight. Here's a hypothesis for you regarding No Through Road. James is the cause of the loop in the first place. He only pretends to not know what's happening but he actually does. The killer is the grim reaper and all of the teens are dead. Fact, James is driving both times. He is in control of the vehicle and at no stage does any one become in control of it. Fact: Every time James "pranks" his friends something happens. Every key scene and development occur at the coincidental timing of James actions Fact: James finds the rabbit both times and makes the same joke. Fact, It took James 3 years to pay his respects and they re-enter the loop without re-entering no through road. He brought someone else (Dave) with him. Fact, James points out the shed and suggests they go there. Whilst in the shed it's James that points out the masks. Fact, James randomly leaves and is never see again in the footage. He says "I have to do this, I have no choice" as he leaves. No further explanation is given. After this Steven attacks himself. Fact the original video starts by claiming 4 teens were found dead. The sequel has only Steven as dead, suggesting they never left no through road.

love how they start talking about minecraft, just makes it feel that much more real, instead of some distant horrorverse its rooted in our reality, if that makes sense

I've seen this video years ago, but I never have seen the 2nd follow up video. I tried looking for more but I never found that vid. Pretty interesting concept for a horror video and man that song on the radio used to chill me to the bone. Like a song from hell.

The ringtone we hear around 28:30 is a song called Murder on the Dance Floor. It's goddamn good, give it a listen 😊

"Someone once told me, 'Time is a flat circle.' Everything we've ever done or will do, we're gonna do over and over and over again."- Rust Cohle (True Detective)

these guys are just genuinely the best actors I've ever seen like it always amazes me honestly because I have a hard time watching movies or TV series that are live action / not animated because even the best and most famous actors just don't act like real people to me (which obviously is a stylistic choice of course like how no one really talks in an over dramatic commanding voice like super heroes do) where I find a hard time immersing myself in the world while animation is like so blatantly fake somehow its passable for me to watch, but this is the one video that is just so chillingly good, like they act just natural enough to immerse you into the atmosphere and fear for them.

i really enjoyed this video. i love that it was long, packed with food for thought while not being obvious. sound effects were just right for me to experience the ominous mood of the video, running it in the background while doing some work of my own. it's great to listen to your personal ideas about this video because they aren't a matter-of-fact commentary similar to some content creators' and actually make me think more instead. great stuff :]

oh man what a throwback! this was my intro to these kinda vids n fueled my love for found footage that carries to this day. id LOVE to see more of stuff like this from Maverick!

“Time is a flat circle.” My stupid ahh: No its not! You’re mentioning a freakin cloc…. Ohhh 😮.

I just gotta say, I always love your intro. It really sets the theme and the music is spot on.

The movie Triangle came out around the same time as No Through Road. This was also a horror movie about time loops and perhaps acted as inspiration.

They did a pretty good job. Watching it again after some time we can all point out things that would have been better, I am impressed with these kids and they should be extremely proud.

This was intensely creepy, and reminded me of several other stories I've heard over the years on this subject. Very cool, and very well done. I enjoyed watching this one immensely. Endeavor to persevere!

I clicked away for a few minutes right at 31:23, so when I returned and heard the beginning of the video repeat, I thought I was going insane.

for me the idea the loop as a living conceptual entity or deity is the most horrifying. as if it purposely traps it’s victims (or prey) and feeds off their suffering like it’s in its animalistic nature to do so gives me the heeby-jeebies.

Someone recommended your channel on the nexpo subreddit and I am so glad I came over! I’m only 13 minutes into this video and I absolutely love it!!!

What if every person there is a mask wearing killer, each one trying to undo the loop by killing their younger selves? We see instances of the killer teleporting, what if it was just someone else wearing the mask.. what if its all their future versions trying to break the loop in their own way?

I can tell you about some crazy things that happen when driving at night. I've seen roads that appear there and when you go back they are completely gone. No joke. I've seen a road that had a cat hanging from a tree for a turn to the left i believe it was and we were freaked out flet strange and kept going straight only to turn around an curiosity got us and the road was no longer there the tree wasn't there and the road was now a pile of dirt that looked recently bulldozed and blocked off crazy stuff happens when you drive randomly at night people are so locked into there phones they don't realize the craziness of the world around them. True stories an I got many more

Awesome hearing a Viidith22 demon voice pop in. Your content is superb T6.

Literally my FAVORITE CHANNEL AND NARRATOR EVER AAKSNFKSFKKF

My favorite spooky vid from my favorite RU-vidr? Holy shit. Keep grinding brother

your video editing skills makes your content 1000x better. i love your work bro

This one hit me especially strong just because it was set in the UK. Being familiar with the accents, and especially the town names being places I've actually been absolutely shakes me to my core

BRO THANK YOUUUUUUU! I watched this video many years ago and was like damn that was a really good found footage short film. I couldn’t find it for so many years until this! It’s really cool to see more context to it as well!!

I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone mention the news story Steven can't remember from the very beginning of some creepy crime that happened in the area. I reckon the news story he heard was about themselves, and the police call to the public for help by showing the tapes are that very news story.

I after watching the video got a theory that goes like this, either the time loop is a natural phenomena that they boys have incountered, or they boys are tied/are the time loop (most possibly Steven himself in particular), and the killer is Steven. Upon Steven being killed he gets stuck in the time loop while the other boys manage to escape. Later they get back into it to find Steven alive and still being in the loop, so we can already understand that no matter what happens to the 2 other guys, Steven will still stay in that loop. And no matter what he will do he will forever be there. So what I think happens is that Steven first gets his face bust, later on tries to prevent the attack just to get frustrated and tries to kill his past self just to then realize he's the murderer, exploring for a bit trying to grasp what the hell happened, lose his mind slowly so that he builds this shack and gathers the masks and all the other items, warships the time, and all that while also absorbing what his future selfs do then then repeat it, all in hopes that by doing it, he might eventually either exit the time loop or be accepted into some higher society or god knows what by the time loop.

I remember watching this video about 7 years ago and I tried serching for it ever since but I couldn’t remember what it was called. Thank you do showing up on my recommend!

timeloops scare the sh*t out of me

This is a really good video. Just realized you also had this channel and I love the content!

Watching your videos always makes me motivated to try and get better at editing so I can produce a masterpiece like this

My favorite description of the schrodingers cat theory is _"if a tree falls in the forest and Einstein isn't around to hear it... maybe it didn't"_

12:50 hes just giving the camera a kind friendly smooch

This was perfect not Evan a full day after being uploaded and I see this after being curious after rewatching these again after seeing them years ago

the masked guy had no weapons and he was outnumbered so i have no idea why they didnt fight back

Thanks for keeping us updated and informed younger brother. Ya still in Pomona area? Doesn't matter. Stay aware, safe, and vigilant. A Dead End is self explanatory

You always know something is fake when the characters always are filming themselves with everything they’re doing. Normal life just doesn’t have people doing that constantly.

My theory is that it all begins and ends with James because he is the driver of the loop. FYI I think you are very very talented at what you do.

This is a story that I could Listen to forever. Great video!!

Maverick files you have a new subscriber ❤❤❤ Thanks for the videos really enjoy them 🎉

lmfao @ 9:20 is literally the song that goes on repeat in the movie strangers when the record player acts up ahahahaha its even got the scream from the trailer that part was overlayed and bar for bar just audio taken from the trailer ahahahahahah

God damn it Mav! My one comfort watching these videos is that they all occur in the US, why did you have to bring this to my doorstep, I ever see a Bennington sign and I'm just droving through tbe fields lmao

Gotta throw on that John Maus "Girl from Bennington" I love those funky eyes... Time and time again, I see her in my dreams.

Just found you recently and have been watching a bunch of vids, awesome stuff.

The immersion is interrupted with the 2nd video, which is the problem with sequels. At the start of the video "four 17 year olds found dead" then suddenly the 2nd video 2 survived, and the 3rd found alive.

Wow man, I'm glad I found your channel you make really good videos high quality stuff and I love it. Unique and very crisp 👌

I’ve always enjoyed no through road. I remember watching it close to the time that it came out and it fascinated me. I’ve rewatched it several times and some day I want to make my own found footage like this

One of the better found footage horror I've seen for sure. Loved it.

So, it's about 9pm in my time zone. Oct 30. I'm at work. I'm not "watching" this videi, instead, I have my ear buds on. I'm about a 3rd of the way thru, and this sounds like such a wild fucking ride I'm coming back to re-watch this later and actually watch.

Coming back to this one just cuz I love the story so much lol

I really enjoyed the first No through road. The editing and effects aren’t the best but to be fair it was 2009. Their acting was perfect for the found footage genre imo. I don’t personally like the others that much, not that the quality declined or anything, I just think they could’ve taken a better direction with the series. While not staying that consistent to the found-footage horror of the first one, the acting and camera shots were great for the more cinematic style the series took. Great video btw I really enjoyed this analysis!