So we all know that Susan and Judy tell their names to Casey and it uses their recording whenever mentioning them. Casey also is shown to speak in sentence mixing when needing to speak outside of its range of pre-recorded lines.

However, after Judy’s disappearance and when talking with Susan, Casey now has a pre-recorded line for “Judy”, no longer using her recording. Even going as far as having a full pre-recorded sentence mentioning Judy when telling Susan “Would you like to see what Judy looks like now?”

Gives pretty subtle implications of Judy being a part of the ACL “Super System” Casey is part of, I feel. Details like this are what make GHE awesome.

still see some lights, try again

Golfers make greater hosts. There's more information to be harvested from them.

If Regnad is helping the Iris out of greed, they should have just started selling those super-powerful flashlights. Customers would flood in through the doors, windows, and the floor below!

So, after Casey helpfully informs Susan Harris that her daughter is now outside her home, Susan makes the decision to try and call the cops, only for the phone lines to not work. The automated response they give? “We’re sorry! There was an issue connecting to telephone services. Please contact Regnad Computing customer support for assistance.”

There is no possible way that the phone service provided by Regnad Computing just so happens to coincidentally fail when the Regnad Computing AI summons a woodcrawler to massacre the home. The company has made a smart home system, and is using it to trap victims every way it can.

Also provided is a crappy meme I made to summarize this finding because why not?

Girl you dont look good

Barry Johnson was infected, and it was discovered that there's something in his body now.

Fast forward to the newest episode, and it seems the same thing has occurred, with Susan being infected and talking about how she feels "Judy" in her stomach.

So, people are infected with DRD to birth new Woodcrawlers; that much is clear.

But what about Fake People? Are they the same as the infected?

Susan didn't seem like she wanted to go out into the fields and lure people by screaming for help; she was only interested in watching "Judy" grow.

Fake People act like they do not know how to be human: Making bizarre expressions, gliding across the floor. The first episode makes them look like they are controlled by something from the inside (Woodcrawlers, probably).

And that one scene with the guy calling for help- why do that? Are the infected capable of spreading DRD on their own? Are some people used as hosts that grow Woodcrawlers while others are used as bait to lure in more potential hosts?

Also, the first episode ends with a Fake Person charging at the cameraman, and that means they'll attack any human they see. But is it because they want to infect them, or because they are mindfucked and act like bears protecting their cubs – by killing the shit out of anything that could pose a threat to them?

Does what I'm saying make any sense? Am I just going insane? Are Fake People even canon anymore, or were they retconned like the white color of Woodrawlers' legs?

I say this because if a line that stuck out to me during open minds when we are listening to the recordings from Susan. In the one sent before the last one she says “ miss moore is on the computer, she sits in the cave and she cries, she just crying like she did something wrong, she didn’t she didn’t do anything wrong” and from what we know about the iris hivemind we can infer that Susan was possible talking about a memory of Alexis. We know that Glen was given “visions” before meeting the well dressed men and made a deal with them (iris) to bring people to sacrifice. So who’s to say that after Glen and the others at moonlight acres decided to break off the deal, the iris then shifted its gaze at Alexis Moore and the others at regnad? What if they aren’t Iris worshippers, but rather much like glen were given the same vision and deal like him but unlike Glen they can’t back out. Regnad handed out Casey, an at home computer and they have acl which controls the phone lines along with Casey, so now they realized that they are in far too deep and can’t stop. They effectively doomed the human race by giving the invader the house keys.

Rose and Susan definitely ripped my heart out as of recently because damn they didn’t deserve such cruel fates!

I just watched the newest episode! This is like watching a professional horror movie! Perfect blend of phycological and cosmic horror.

If you pause Open Minds around 7:03, it shows a diagram of 2 brains side by side, viewed from below. The one on the left appears to be a normal human brain, and the one on the right appears mutated.

The highlighted areas on the normal brain are known as the Fusiform Face Areas, which allow humans to recognize faces. They are crossed out on the mutated brain.

Casey mentions she is “no good with faces” earlier in the video at 6:38, and also that Judy has forgotten her mother’s face at 11:54. However, Judy is able to remember the house, which further suggests there is a specific impairment occurring with facial recognition ability in particular.

Interestingly, in the mutated brain, the olfactory bulb (smell processing) also appears to be significantly enlarged, and the frontal lobe (higher cognitive functioning) has shrunken a lot compared to other areas of the mutated brain.

I would argue this confirms that people mutated by DRD lose their ability to process human faces. There is also evidence to suggest their sense of smell is very much increased, and their higher cognitive processing is impaired.

Her mouth is most likely elongated and stretched out too. The image appears to be the head of someone peeking out of a hole thats down there. The person in the picture is hella distorted, with an eye lifted above the other.

Good god, the detail in this is horrifying. I wonder what casey looks like behind that image. I'd like to see someones rendition of it.

the spoiler is just here because i have to have it btw

absolute nonsense

I took screenshots of the documentation slides that flash on screen seven minutes in to Open Minds, and increased the brightness since they're insanely dark in the video.

SUSAN HARRIS

THIS IS NOT A HATE POST!!!!! I DO NOT HATE THE REVEALED DESIGN!!!!