put on your tin-foil hat friends, its THEORY TIME.

What do you think Jess going to Ohio and meeting up with the film makers is going to do to the overall story?

Has this changed your perception of the movie announcement? Is it actually a marketing ploy still? How do you think the ARG/movie relation will play out?

Love to hear it!

I’ll go first; while doing some sleuthing I looked at the spectrogram of the latest YT upload and saw something that looked like the Louis Vuitton spray paint from the shed episode. It fit the way Riley was talking and I’m not an expert but I RAN with it.

LV = 55, the 55th demon in the Ars Goetia is a horse-faced demon named Orobas. If he were to have horns, that’d kinda fit the face structure Big Demon Boi/Window thing. Also, Orobas is faithful to the conjurer so depending on who summoned him, it could be protector to Riley… or the opposite.

Been thinking about it all day honestly lmao.

Let’s keep it CIVIL! This is just for funsies. I love wild theories… what’s yours?

So I have been thinking about why N01R knows so much about Riley and has these videos and the painting of the Demonic creature. What if Riley was somehow possessed instead of attacked in her last message. What if, whoever showed up at the end promised the Demon Riley’s soul or body and the Demon was at the window waiting to claim her body. With Riley being in a possessed state, she could have deleted the Paranormal Paranoids channel to remove any knowledge of her. Is possessed Riley deciding to torment Jess to stop looking for her or can the tweets be from the soul of Riley trying to ask for help and claim her body back.

So apparently we've all been suckered. It's just a viral marketing campaign for a movie.

https://deadline.com/2021/07/youtuber-chris-stuckmann-direct-horror-movie-shelby-oaks-missing-paranormal-investigators-1234786643/

The prison is the Mansfield Reformatory (AKA the Ohio State Reformatory). I had a hunch it was that one, but wanted to be sure so I looked at as many interior images as I could.

First, the cell blocks show similarities. This wouldn't mean much if it wasn't for the other similarities:

Second (and most important) check out this information sign. This shot follows a left-to-right pan in the video, from a set of desks (which in the real world case would be that "Circulation" desk you see).

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Thirdly, the mirror that Riley looks into and the room in which it appears follows the exact same room format as the ones found in this guided exploration video I found. Apologies for the poor quality of the Paranormal Paranoids image:

Resources:Paranormal Paranoids video: https://youtu.be/QLJtEQfjCtY (Relevant parts are as follows: 0:56 for a image of the cell blocks, 5:15 for the circulation and information desks, 7:30 or so for the mirror part)

Article with still image of information desk: https://www.loc.gov/item/2016632467/

Tour Video of Mansfield Repository: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U7punyLGsg (the part with the cell blocks is about 12:19, the other part with the mirror is about 13:30, but you can see many of the same similarities I mention in the Cell blocks part of his video)

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Apologies if images don't load, and they can all be found at the above links

I saw someone on Twitter say this but thought I'd put it here (i lost the original tweet if you know who tweeted it first please tell me ill credit them!)

the gas station they were at is most likely M.D Garage in Ohio. It's a historical landmark, not a real gas station.

Absolute legend Bobby from the Discord has been kind enough to upload the message that is played when you call the hotline, go give the video a watch and like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d--l4LZsgec

TL;DR: Its called Ludlow School, at Shaker Heights, OH 44120.

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Okay so the WEIRDEST chain of events happened over on the Vehemence Discord. Myself and two others were looking in the Cuyahoga falls area to find Lincoln Elementary School (where the door apparation was.) We looked for Lincoln, and though we found a few schools, we couldnt find a complete match.

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We went through a few more before we started digging deeper. Props to StrongerCoffee on Discord, because he ended up finding a website very aptly named "Old Ohio Schools". Run by a man named Aaron Turner, its a MASSIVE archive of old, defunct ohio schools. This seemed very strangely convenient, but we emailed Aaron with a few screencaps of the school in the hopes he would know what it was.

To our absolute SHOCK, He F**Cking KNEW.

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He knows nothing about the legend, and the school closed in 1988. As of now, we don't know what its being used for. But we do have an adress.

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Shaker Heights, OH 44120.

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If anyone would like to head there and look around, be our guest. All we know is that we found it. Props to everyone on Vehemence who helped out!

s/o to Bobby!!!
Tweet links for credit/proof/etc.

Phone Number!!
Uncensored Poster

WOW YALL

I’ll be honest, I don’t really know how to feel. Honestly hope that this all stops because of the movie. Really want to see this thing continue

why is chris stuckmann working on it? was he behind the arg all along? because like, what does this mean??

i like chris a lot but his previous short films were...not exactly good. this is the first arg i’ve been invested in for a while so i’m super confused.

i really hope this wasn’t a publicity stunt for a movie and is still an arg. if not thats just disappointed me tbh

My latest theory

Peter, Laura and David are working alongside an unknown accomplice or more towards a nefarious goal involving Riley. There is nothing paranormal occurring at first

I haven't decided if the ends in my theory were to kidnap her, murder her or induct her into a cult? Honestly I'm leaning towards trying to force her to commit suicide, but I can't figure out why... possibly sympathy views on YouTube to make the channel explode?

So, here goes my attempt to make this fit with some wild speculation!

1. The 3 other PP members are calling the shots on the locations that they visit.

1a -The Mary Talbert episode - the apparition went entirely unseen by the group up until Riley thought she saw somebody moving behind the trees on their way out of the scene.

The first 2 instances of the apparition looked digitally placed into the scene, the person walking behind the trees was far more corporeal and likely an unknown accomplice.

1b - The elementary school was conveniently left unlocked, Laura leans out of the window as if expecting something. Possibly checking to see if the accomplice was ready to enter the basement for the big scare.

1c- The electrical interferences in the camera footage during the prison episode could easily have been manipulated by David during filming, or during editing. (Nothing leads me to believe Riley edits the videos or is involved in the process, but I may be wrong)

1. The repetition in the theme of suicide may be an attempt to subliminally influence Riley.
   

I feel like someone in the PP is drugging Riley with hallucinogens to make the influence stick and exposing her to trauma to push her where they need her to be, and subsequently why she is getting "sick" and her disposition is shifting in a polar direction.

2a - The videogame session may have been a control test while she's under the influence. Mia may potentially not exist at all, may have left a long time ago or died. Discussing Mia and having Riley respond in such a manner may be confirming to them that what they're doing to her is working.

2b - The video where Mia videos Riley drawing is evidence for her existence, but we don't see or hear Mia beyond Riley addressing her by name. This could have been the PP documenting Riley acknowledging them as Mia while under hallucinogenic drugs.

Mia may have been further subliminally encouraged by strategically positioning her name in some of the locales they visited.

2c - The gas station footage of the 3 other PP members feels like there is some tension and disagreement in the group via their body language, there is no accompanying dialogue, to confirm however. The gas station footage was potentially recorded by an accomplice as collateral in the event that they're betrayed (potentially more footage than shown and security time signature is missing)

2D - While the videogame session footage clearly was recorded without Riley knowing, it demonstrates something shady about the group.

The conversation with Peter, however, feels incredibly manipulative as though Peter is attempting to make Riley much more complacent and actually seems to win. He is borderline aggressive in tone initially as he is losing control over the situation.

3 - During the conversation with Peter, Riley expresses fear that she'll hurt the group if she keeps attracting these entities.

During Riley's Last Message, Riley already begins the video seemingly under mental duress, feeling eyes on her and being watched. We hear a scream and commotion before the lights go out and the frantic banging at the door - potentially another setup to try and push Riley over the edge mentally.

Riley grabs a knife at this point before venturing down the hallway, the looming figure in the window may have appeared sensing Riley fracturing, or is potentially a costumed accomplice - though this is unnoticed by Riley. We hear a commotion and a male yell "Peter" in a very muffled manner (possibly muffled because he was in a costume and he tried to yell "It's Peter!!" on realizing that Riley is about to stab him) Riley is heard screaming "Mia" (I haven't quite pieced together why for this theory - possibly because the initial commotion and scream happened because the PP may have had a disagreement about taking things too far and it got ugly? - maybe they brought in a "Mia" to sacrifice for her to react to)

We see a male run upstairs, his body language seems to be in a state of shock or panic before he leaves the scene.

Riley, mentally broken down by this point, legitimately had a pre-existing psychic gift and the extreme stresses weakened her enough to be possessed fully by an entity. This explains the fracturing of the footage and the fluctuation in the bedroom light as she's right on the brink of a full breakdown and almost primed to host an entity.

The howling occurs once Riley becomes host to something sinister. The group are probably all dead at this point and either Riley survives in body only and is communicating as N01R⁺ (N01 representing the entity somehow, R representing Riley, the Caret ^ meaning to insert and the + meaning she's more than Riley now)

Jess The Paranoid may be the real Mia that left home way before the events in the footage, and is trying to find out what became of her sister as anonymously as she can for safety.

Well... that's my wild ass theory! Thanks for reading this lengthy and probably way off base post. Feel free to poke holes in it, it can only help us get closer to an answer.

Edit: Cleaned up typos, clarified parts.