The Dark Tapes

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Humanity is getting closer

to the truth,

to us.

We won't let that happen.

- Ok. I got to go.

Bye.

- What's that?

- What's that?

It wasn't there before.

- Huh. Weird.

- Why's the door open?

- It's open?

- Oh, come on.

You kidding?

- Where did that come from?

- I,

oh jeez, look at, look!

- What happened here?

- Seriously? I.

- Wow.

Where did this come from?

Do you know?

- Yeah I do know.

It's,

it's Steve.

This is ridiculous.

Look at the place.

Look at the place!

- This is bizarre.

- No, it's not bizarre.

It's what happens when

you let Steve, hold on.

This is ridiculous.

- Is this blood?

- Yeah, don't touch it.

Look at this place!

What's going on?

I'm gonna call him again.

- What about that camera?

The camera?

- Steve, you need to, hold on!

Steve, you need to

call me back right now,

this place is a wreck.

Call me back, right now.

- Are you nervous?

- No, I'm ok, how about you?

- A little.

I mean.

Hello!

You ready?

- Uh?

Flux capacitor.

- Hey, you got

that extra thingy, right?

You ordered it?

You want to explain

what is going on here?

- This is where we're going

to conduct our experiment.

And we have,

well all your cameras

are set-up, which I,

there's a lot of them.

Alright.

- Don't wanna miss anything.

- Striking.

- You switched out

these fuses, right?

It's kinda weird.

I don't, I don't know what

am I supposed to like?

- Nah, just do your thing.

Just do...

- why don't you

give me the camera?

Why don't you

explain to everyone

what else you've brought us?

- Okay, well,

follow me everyone.

Over here we have my baby.

Now this is a refurbished

customized beta-model

specter v62 video camera.

This is the only kind that

can simultaneously record

and playback super

slow motion video.

- Now you know why we hired you.

- Yeah, I get it.

Look, as long as I get

to direct this shoot

with all of my cameras

and get exclusive rights

to this little seance,

I'm good.

- So, should I look at the lens?

- Straight down the lens, yeah.

Whenever you're ready.

- I'm Nicole Fallek.

I am a doctoral student in

experimental and applied physics.

- And your relationship

with Martin Callahan is?

- I am professor Callahan's

teaching assistant.

And I don't appreciate

the implication.

- My name is Martin Callahan.

Tenured professor of

applied physics at Cal-tech

and the youngest winner

of the Selder prize.

- You also have

a master's in theology.

Would you say that your

experiences in seeing a demon

were somehow divinely related?

- I don't really

call them demons.

I prefer to call them

trans dimensional entities.

- You mean they've experienced

what's known as night terrors?

- Night terrors, yeah.

Night terrors is the western

scientific explanation,

that we are

awaking paralyzed in rem sleep

and somehow hallucinating

these evil entities.

Right, so if that is the case,

then why is it

that every culture,

every single culture,

that we have interprets

it the exact same way?

- Time dilates in rem sleep

by a factor of 10 to 1,000

depending on the

individual and brain waves.

So what we perceive as 10 to

1,000 seconds in dream time

is only one second in

real or awake time.

- These entities, plus

ghosts and spirits,

operate on a different

time dilation.

Somewhere on a factor

of 1,000 and 10,000.

So for every 1,000 to

10,000 seconds of theirs,

or 16 minutes to three

hours in their time,

is equivalent to

one second of ours.

- The human eye can perceive

detail in a lit environment

up to 1/100th of a second.

In darkness,

we can perceive a

flicker of light

if it is 1/200th of

a second or longer.

Anything shorter than

1/200th of a second,

in our normal conscious state,

we don't perceive at all.

It's as if it isn't there.

But it is there.

We just can't see it.

- If we awake in a rem state,

our brain waves and perception

are still in a time dilation.

So we're actually

able to still see,

although very temporarily,

what was once invisible to us.

- That's why we only

see trans dimensionals

for a brief second in our

normal conscious state.

They would have to stand

still for 16 minutes

to three hours in their time

for us to see it for

one second in our time.

- Have you ever been

to the Grand Canyon?

No, no.

Because I can't describe to

you how big it actually is

because there's no

frame of reference.

I can't put that in perspective

to make sense to you.

Okay, that's the way this is.

I can't put it into

perspective, okay,

how much fear it is when

someone wakes in rem sleep

and actually sees one

of these entities.

I can't put that

into perspective.

Okay, all of this.

This is science.

Okay, this is science.

Everything is science.

It's not superstition, okay?

It's not magic, hocus pocus.

This is science.

And this is what we're

gonna try to find out.

These entities, plus

ghosts and spirits,

operate on a different

time dilation.

- Captain's log,

star date 2013.11.19.

3,000 miles, five days,

weary travelers

through the backwoods

of our great country

to land on a new

starship and a new home

with my lovely wife.

Say hello.

- Hello, where are we?

- Girl you will find out.

One second.

Ta da!

Welcome home baby.

- Oh my gosh.

Oh my gosh!

This is,

this is beautiful!

- Glad you love it.

- Oh my gosh, it's furnished.

I understand some of

the secrecy last month.

Maybe later.

- Alright, cool.

- Okay. So.

- Well in that

vein let's go downstairs

'cause that's where

the bedrooms are.

- Downstairs?

Oh!

- Downstairs.

These are upside down

houses in the hills.

- Oh.

And this, this rail.

- The wrought iron?

- Yeah, the wrought iron.

Like look at that,

that is so beautiful.

I just wanna stay in

the spiral staircase.

- Here,

let me get the light for you.

Okay.

- Wow.

- This is our master bedroom

- very nice.

- It's where

the magic will happen.

- I don't know, can it?

I think it will.

- To be determined.

- Oh my gosh.

Oh this bathroom.

Why is there plastic?

- The owner was doing

painting during renovation.

- I love it when there's

a separate shower.

- More storage,

there's tons of space.

And another bathroom here.

- Okay, and back here?

- Yes, another bedroom.

Perfect place.

- I'm in shock!

- Can you believe it?

And this wraps back around

to where we just came from.

- I know where I

wanna end the tour.

- I think it worked.

Hold the sexy pose, baby.

We've been here for three days.

- I understand this woman.

- What do you mean

you understand this woman?

You do understand this woman.

- This is a very

oddly furnished house.

- It's not oddly furnished.

What was that?

Did you set those on the edge?

I don't use toothpicks much.

- Wait a minute, David,

what just happened?

David?

Oh my god.

It's going, it's going.

- Did you hear it again?

- Yes.

It's on the ceiling.

- It's on the ceiling,

what are you talking about?

- Well I could hear it.

It sounds like footsteps.

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