The Greylock tapes - internet analog horror

Analog horror has quickly become one of the most beloved mediums of horror stories and exploration of terrifying topics, and has been delivered to a wide audience through the use of YouTube and YouTube channels dedicated to immersive storytelling. With adaptations of legendary internet stories lovingly referred to as Creepy Pastas, to completely original stories.

Iconic analog horror content finds its way in and out of the mainstream horror community pretty consistently. Some legendary pioneers of the genre are Gemini Home Entertainment, Local 58, and the Mandela Catalogue, but the most impactful analog horror story that I'm going to focus on today is The Greylock Tapes by a channel simply called GREYLOCK.

I was introduced to this story through my favorite podcast CreepCast by YouTube creators Wendigoon and Papa Meat. For a few weeks, they shifted their podcast's format from reading and analyzing creepypasta stories to looking at internet horror web series and films, and the first installment of what they called CreepTV was The Greylock Tapes. I was so captivated by this format of storytelling that gave me chills, and since it was in a medium of video I had never experienced before, I was unnerved and terrified by it.

This story takes place on Mount. Greylock is in Northern Massachusetts and in the surrounding town of North Adams, MA. Now this makes my personal viewing experience really interesting and especially terrifying, as my grandparents live about 20 minutes away from this area highlighted in the series, and I have driven through North Adams a few times in my life before and driven past Greylock too. It's a really daunting mountain to look at first hand and I recommend checking it out if you're into hiking or just want to drive up to the top lookout.

Now, I'm going to break down the series thus far by episode, giving a mini summary and review for each, but I really recommend watching the series before reading the rest of this post. This series is still ongoing today with 12 published episodes. The 12th episode was posted about 2 years after the publishing of this article; however, it still has not been concluded. You can find it here, and please give this creator some love for his work, as it is insanely underrated in the horror world. You can find the whole playlist here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYSvx_fGxPbVIAv826AEHCZJh-khx9BhK&si=zcgxV7RwXPrsgnoZ

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Episode 1: Tape 001 - back online

This episode kicks off the series with a pretty typical start to an analog horror story with old VHS security footage from different parts of a seemingly abandoned facility, with a voiceover of a robot introduction to SimioDyn company. The robotic voice is familiar, but paired with the visuals of the eerie and abandoned facility or at least empty of human life, it is pretty unsettling, and after about 50 seconds, we see a camera begin to glitch and cut out when the administrator entered their wish to access archival footage. After the glitching subsides for a moment, we hear that there has been a data extraction of the footage initiated, and then, the first episode ends suddenly.

This episode is the first in the series and is only about 90 seconds long, but I think it hooks the audience in pretty well with the introduction to SimioDyn and what that company may be hiding, and why someone needs to extract all the footage and data from them. You start asking questions and wanting to know more, given the context of the episode and what you, as the viewer, know going into the series, and what the episode is telling you. It's by far the most mundane and somewhat boring episode of the series as it tells you things rather than shows you anything, but it sets the tone of the series and the mystery up perfectly for what's to come. It's effective at getting you in the headspace and making you start to feel uneasy with it.

Episode 2: Tape 002 - to the mountain

Now we jump headfirst into the creepiness and the real meat of the story with episode two. We start out the tape with some dashcam footage of someone driving along a snowy road at night with an eerie sermon from a pastor blaring on the radio and into the dashcam's recording. This sermon is talking about the devil and evil. This sermon continues until the driver parks the car at a gate by the forest as our view of the footage shifts to a handheld camcorder operated by the driver of the car. The wind whipping creates this deafening feeling for the viewer as we hear very little else in terms of natural sounds or human dialects. He seems to be looking for something in the woods just off the road he traveled on seconds earlier, and in the snowy forest, he stumbles upon some bright red blood (presumably freshly spilt), and the camera glitches. Continuing to walk through the woods, our operator finds more blood farther away from the first, and the sermon from earlier starts up again, but is distorted and grainy to the point where you can't make any of it out. The camera glitches again, and we are suddenly faced with a trail of blood through the woods, and there's a tense feeling as the camera cuts in and out of focus, to and from a tree and the distorted words of an unknown preacher become louder and louder until we're back in the car. The sermon is clear again,n and the driver is back on the road as we hear the chilling words, "until we come face to face with the devil himself." The vehicle's lights are switched from low beams to high beams for about 30 seconds without any interruption, and then, silence. Then something bangs on the vehicle as our driver speeds off down the road, and the sermon now becomes distorted once more. Then the tape ends.

This episode was insane and really kickstarted the series and threw the viewer into the story head-first. The addition of the sermon throughout the video and it becomes more distorted the deeper into the woods our camera operator goes and it being a normal volume in the safety of the car really helps us connect that in this episode car = safe until it doesn't towards the end when something angrily bangs on the car and we feel unsafe. This 4-minute video creates an immersive world with very little explanation, and this episode combines the show-and-tell aspects to really create expectations that of car is safe, and wood is not safe. The subversion of those expectations and the quickening of the camera switching in the woods really create the tension that makes the hair on the back of my neck stick up. This is one of my favorite episodes from the series, and it only gets better from here!

Episode 3: Tape 003 - orientation protocols

This tape is much different from the previous two tapes, with a disclaimer of confidentiality given to us right out of the gate of the tape until we are greeted by the name of the person for whom the tape and instructional video are made for: Michael Marsh. Then, a subtly distorted and uncanny-sounding robotic voiceover begins outlining the preconditional protocols for unit 13 of Project Stargate. Project Stargate was a real project funded by the US government to research and weaponize the use of clairvoyance and out-of-body experience, which will come into play later on. We hear a familiar name dropped again with SimioDyn making a reappearance from episode 1, which helps to start to connect the dots a bit more. This tape serves as a bit of an info dump, but it works within the context of a government-issued instructional video. We then meet one of the central focuses of the series, Thoughtforms. Thoughtforms are explained as physical manifestations of creations of the mind. Think about a young child's imaginary friend coming to life in a semi-physical form. Later on in the tape, we are introduced to the thoughtform manifestor, which is a proprietary invention from the SimioDyn and US Army Unit 13 organization. This outlines the goals of the project and the system the organization plans to use to research and experiment on "willing participants" using this thoughtform manifestor. This tape then starts the side effects and procedures section of the information. One key takeaway from the side effects section of the tape was temporary amnesia, which will come back into play again later in the series.

While somewhat boring, this tape was informative and sets up SimioDyn's role in the army and in the world of Greylock while continuing the unsettling and uncanny theme of the previous two episodes. This episode is atmospheric and great in setting the rest of the story up and creating the idea of thought forms being important later on. It starts to make the viewer question what was a thoughtform or real or not.

Episode 4: Tape 004 - unexpected visitors

Tape 004 starts with a handheld camera facing a house at night with a silhouette of a person moving oddly in front of the window, and we are faced with our operator from episode 2 coming back to trek through the snow and towards the house of odd people or thoughtforms? Maybe they're thoughtforms, given the last episode, but maybe they are regular people.

Episode 5: Tape 005 - not here. not now. not anymore

This tape begins with an ultrasound with two women in the room, but we are only watching the monitor and hearing the conversations. The nurse and the mother-to-be, Tiffany. Tiffany becomes infinitely more important to the story from here on out, but this tape is relatively short and gets straight to the point when Tiffany's baby suddenly doesn't appear on the monitor after a glitch causes the system to fail briefly. Tiffany begins to sob while the nurse rushes out to the hall to get a doctor or another monitor. At the very end of this short tape, we see a newspaper clipping of what seems to be an obituary for Tiffany, meaning that not long after this event occurred, Tiffany would perish.

Episode 6: Tape 006 - sleeping dogs

Sleeping dogs begins with a sermon being given by a man named Dr. Bernard T Hayes of the North American Council of Thought and speaking on the nature of mankind progressing. The most horrendous line spoken comes right before the meat of the tape when Bernard says that one day man will look God in the eyes as an equal.

Then the tape cuts off to a voicemail system on the SimioDyn company's servers from March of 1987, so we are watching it through a staff member's perspective. What happens next is probably what makes this the best tape in the series, falling only behind tape 12. We are listening to a series of messages from a contracted construction team working on Mt Greylock for SimioDyn, and the manager, Paul Morelli, is recording 9 messages over six consecutive days on some weird things happening to his team up on the mountain.

Message one is Paul basically telling Frank (his contact at SimioDyn) that he and his team found a weird-looking tunnel inside the mountain that looks like humans had been inside and not just thousands of years ago, but pretty recently. The second message builds a bit off of the first, saying that some of his guys went back down and found that the rubble was cleared, but not by the team, and lights were wired throughout the tunnel, which his team also did not do. Paul also says that his crew who went down into the tunnel are sick as dogs and feeling absolutely terrible, and he's pretty spooked given that in addition to the weird tunnel and the sickness going around his team, other crew members said they saw a tall man skulking around the woods near the construction site.

Message 3 is when things start to get more and more odd when Paul tells Frank that the man SimioDyn sent out to take photos of the tunnel just left, but he was starting to feel sick too, after coming out of the tunnel. So much so that Paul's crew had to practically carry him to his car afterwards. Paul also says that when he went down there, he and another guy who knew some stuff about archaeology found weapons and trinkets, and things in the tunnels. Message 4 starts off with more of Paul's crew getting even more sick, and Paul says he saw the tall man stalking around the work site on the mountain. Later that same day, Paul sends another message stating that all their food has suddenly gone rotten, and it was all stored properly and wasn't out there for very long,g either but there are maggots and rotten food everywhere.

Message 6 is when sh*t hits the fan, Paul starts by saying that they all saw the tall man again in daylight this time too. It was watching them and stalking them in the daylight and into the night. We are then interrupted from the phone call screen we've been seeing this whole time to see a motion detector hunting camera blaring an alarm and stating that something has triggered the motion sensor. However, nothing happens before we are right back into the phone call system, but this time, message 7 has no date or time reported. There's an error as Frank opens up the message but then were launched back into the hunting camera again suddenly and we watch as some light or shadow passes by the camera and if you slow down the video and replay it again a few times, you can start to make out the shape of a person walking by.

The last two messages and what follows are terrifying, to say the least. Paul begins panting and scared as he says that his crew are really crazy sick, and a few are unresponsive. There's very little cell service for him to contact the crew member's emergency contacts, and Paul's starting to not feel so good himself. They tried calling the hospital, too, and still just more ringing. Paul starts laughing maniacally and says his teeth are vibrating, his eyes feel like they're bulging, and his skin feels like it's shrinking. He starts to put the pieces together, then says that the tunnel did all of this and that the tunnel caused this illness, so it must naturally have the cure too, but then Paul says he thinks something bad is going to happen if he doesn't go down there and investigate. The tape closes with Paul inaudibly making noise as the video screen glitches. Then the hunting camera glitches again, we see the camera warp and glitch again, and another person-figure appears in frame again and then walks off screen. The last tape is just pure chaos and screaming. Inaudible sounds and wails as a distorted photo of Paul fades out of the blackness of the screen.

The last 20 seconds lead up to a 5 second clip of the hunting camera again but this time, the man is eyeless and clearly has a face that's pressed right up to the camera in the woods but as seen earlier in the tapes from the hunting camera, this camera is pretty high up in the trees so this creature can be assumed as the Tall man everyone on Paul's crew kept seeing around the woods.

Episode 7: Tape 007 - back to normal

Don Wright, a newscaster, appears on screen right from the get-go, and he covers the ongoing crimes of the home invaders that were introduced earlier in the series. Authorities have told the news and the press of the area of North Adams, Mass., that this was all part of an organized crime group operating out of western Mass that is clearly anti-American. Police have made a few arrests with connections to the crime group, and as the news station interviews the police officer involved with the press, the camera keeps glitching out, so we can't make out what the officer is saying. The news broadcast glitches again and keeps repeating the title of the video "back to normal" as we are then greeted with a sudden visual of two conjoined twins in a saturated video crying and throwing a fit. Then we cut to more glicthing of the news cast, but this time it says that Don Wright is a liar and the screen makes it so it looks like he's dead. End Tape 007.

Episode 8: Tape 008 - old odd ends

The broadcast immediately continues and throws us into this next tape with 3 executives of GBS (the broadcasting company of the news station) and the two other executives. They're fighting over what just happened to their broadcast, and one of the producers mentions that they tried calling Don multiple times, but he wouldn't answer. After this fight, we cut to another SimioDyn system message saying that the file the operator chose is not available and another must be chosen. The operator chooses another, and the system says, "This file should not exist, are you sure you want to proceed?" to which, of course, the operator does. The audio message is from Arnold Eugene Rivers, about a month after the Paul Morelli messages, and he was the man who photographed the tunnels and had to be carried off to his vehicle afterwards. Arnold believes that his life is in danger because of what he saw, and this is why the file was created. He saw carvings and markings on the artifacts in the tunnels, which Arnold perceives to be mainly pre-colonial, but there are a few Mesoamerican ones and a few Clovis ones. All that means that people have been flocking to Greylock since at least 11,000 BCE. Arnold names a few cultures that are insanely distant from Greylock in North America, such as Indian cultures, Chinese, and even Viking cultures, going to Greylock for some reason pre-Columbus era. Arnold then makes a good point by saying that all these vastly different cultures all came here to this one place for so long, so something has to be there. Something crazy powerful to all these cultures and peoples. He then claims that all these items, from the armor to the talismans and religious iconography, were there as offerings for something. When he says offerings in the tape, the screen glitches, but the audio message slows down and lowers his voice to add fear factor, but also to seemingly confirm that yes, these are all in fact offerings to something.

In the middle of this audio message, we are thrust into a television program akin to the History Channel at 3am. This one is called "Cosmic Mysteries," premiering on the same channel that the earlier Don Wright program was on. This seemingly random program talks about an odd planet that drifted towards Earth many eons ago, before the moon even, and collided with the Earth. The program glitches and slows again to be eerie, and then it was right back to an audio message, not from Arnold but from someone calling the North Adams Police Department on behalf of a coworker whose house was broken into. The caller says his name is Liam Hollander, who is the producer who had said he called Don Wright earlier in this tape. Liam then says to the officer that someone is hurt at the scene, as we see an image appear on screen depicting Don Wright with exposed bones lying lifeless on his bed.

Back to Arnold now, who is talking about the various altars and memorials he saw down in the caves, and even a sacrificial chamber or two carved into the mountain's rock. Arnold says that it made him sick to even look at some of the odd symbols lining the walls of these chambers. Arnold then talks about the power of thinking there's something in that one location that so many different cultures have been worshipping for eons, and says he thought he heard a voice and felt compelled to explore further into the caves. Arnold asked them to stop the construction at the site, but was denied, as he thought he would be.

Now, this episode is rather long and full of details that are incredibly important to the overarching story, so in this same episode, we see the aftermath of the Morelli team's illnesses as documented by SimioDyn. We begin with Group C and are shown photos of the crew members before and after the events in the mountain and the tunnels. This next section is difficult to explain in words and is much more powerful and makes more sense if you watch it, so I will not be covering it in great detail. I urge you to watch this episode and the whole series yourself and come back for explanations of certain scenes or visuals.

Arnold cuts back in to say he was happy he was let go from SimioDyn's operations in this context, and mentions the home invasions that we are aware of from multiple tapes before this one, but then he mentions that there were dead bodies that fell from the sky and a thing called the "preganancy phenonema". Arnold got connected with a private investigator who's starting to investigate the home invasions and how they could be connected with everything else going on. Later on in this tape, we get the name Jim Melgren as the PI. Arnold says he's being watched and will be terminated imminently. A minute later, Arnold would be terminated by an entity unnamed in the audio but located coming into the house through the basement door. That location will be important later on in another tape.

This is another portion of this tape I can't describe in full detail to the fullest impact, so please go and watch it for yourself. Arnold grabs a camcorder to document the end of his life and what exactly would kill him. He decides to hide in his closet as the creature outside taunts him by mimicking the voices of other humans and even the police. Briefly, we see the face of the creature, and it appears to be the same tall man as the Paul Morelli message described. End of Tape 008.

Episode 9: Tape 009 - trojan technology

This Tape is also a pretty lengthy one and often feels boring, but I promise this is critical to the story. We begin with a file accessing system again from SimioDyn, and we watch the broadcast from 1963 regarding the National Access initiative that would help all Americans gain equal access to vital communication tools. All seems normal until the end of the broadcast when the announcer states that all of this technology and access is being made available through a partnership that the United States Government has with SimioDyn. Now, does that name sound familiar to you?

If it's not clear by now that SimioDyn isn't the best company out there, I don't know how to make it clearer than this tape does, as we see a few clips from various homes in the USA from SimioDyn technology. Like they're spying on every home in the USA. Cutting back to the news broadcast, we hear from the President of SimioDyn, Percival C Rothwell (what an evil guy name right?), saying that inclusivity and progress are driving their choices and innovative technologies. A glitch occurs and Percy over here gets caught saying that someone or something is going ot expose their upcoming NAI program. We will learn what NAI is later on, but it's important to keep in mind that they're trying to keep it a secret for a reason.

Someone eventually found the hidden cameras SimioDyn hid in an electronic device in their home and wrote out, "The NAI program was a TRAP!!! They are watching They are listening, F*ck LBJ F*ck SimioDyn I won't be your lab rat anymore!"

After we move away from the public service announcement, we focus in on a little girl's bedroom at night, and in the background of the frame, we can see a tall, lanky man who looks like a corpse telling the young girl to wake up. The little girl wakes up and starts saying "hello?" over and over again as she doesn't know who/what is there with her. Once she locates the source of the whispering voice, Katie (the young girl) asks who is there, and the thing responds with "I'm your imaginary friend". Now we could think about this as this is a thoughtform we've heard about earlier on in the series, and that this is a physical manifestation of Katie's imaginary friend come to life, and this is how I choose to watch this part of the tape personally. Still, you can come to your own conclusions as you see fit. Katie then says she didn't imagine anyone, and the thing says, "You must have. You probably just don't remember." The camera starts to glitch again while the creature says this, which means we may be getting a scare or a sudden ending to this tape soon. Katie then mentions that she had to go to a doctor's office and thinks that the creature came from there. The creature then beckons Katie over to the dark corner, saying he's got her glasses and cleaned them for her so she can see him, and we all know where this is going by now. We see Katie's hand reach out in front of the camera, and then the tall man appears and kills Katie in a sudden end to the episode.

Episode 10: Tape 010 - messages from the dead

Tape 10 starts us out with some handheld camcorder footage, and to make it easier to understand, this video on the camcorders we see in the whole series is being filmed by that Private Investigator Jim Melgren that Arnold mentioned earlier. So in the first few episodes, if you rewatch them knowing it's Melgren recording and his POV, it makes a ton more sense.

Jim's walking through the woods and walking towards a few larger trees, and when he stops for the first time, he sees a dead mouse by one of those large trees. He then picks up the dead mouse and brings it along with him.

We cut suddenly to a home office scene with a phone ringing in the background as we sit at a desk, and a man leaves a voicemail to someone saying they're more important than work and that he loves this person. The date on the camcorder recording the message is May 18th, 1987. Keep in mind what happened just before this with Tiffany. Then another cut happens to security footage from what is assumed to be a local jail, with an officer sitting opposite a man. The man is Tiffany's husband and tells the officer that after the baby disappeared, he had stayed home for about a month with Tiffany before returning to work again and when he did go back to work he would call every single day at his lunch break to check in on Tiffany since she seemed to be getting worse and not better over time. He emphasizes that she always picked up the phone when he called, but when she didn't, as we just watched, and knowing that Tiffany did pass away in the same episode we saw her lose the baby in, this is presumably the day Tiffany died.

We immediately cut to more camcorder footage from Melgren, and it's a satanic-looking ritual circle with candles and all that typical demonic ritual stuff. We get a few more worried voicemails from Tiffany's husband that she doesn't answer, and he just expresses his worry since she's not picking up the phone.

We cut again to something new we haven't seen before, which is the Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner's portal online. We hear audio notes from the medical examiner the day after Tiffany passed, and he describes strange markings on Tiffany's body that seemed to be self-inflicted but could also not be from her before her death. This all suggests that Tiffany did not end her own life as the medical examiner is insisting, but maybe she was part of that ritual we saw just a few moments earlier. We see some visuals of the markings as well, but they're so intricate and odd that words can't describe how they look, so please watch the series to understand the visual connections of everything.

Then we hear an audio archive from a therapy session between a young 6-year-old Tiffany and a doctor whose name is redacted for an unknown reason. The two talk about Tiffany's imaginary friend and what she sees when she closes her eyes. It's really better if I don't describe the entirety of the sequence since the pausing and natural silence and the voice acting really support the details were getting to Tiffany's backstory but pretty much what she describes to the man interviewing her, worries him and he seems audibly alarmed at it meaning that Tiffany had a connection with all this weird stuff since she was 6 and before she was pregnant and passed away. This sequence takes up the majority of the episode and is worth listening to in full.

To round out this tape we see Jim at home and he's cutting open the dead mouse, which is kind of gross to watch I'll admit but necessary because Jim finds a tape in the stomach of the mouse and one of the few criticisms I hear about this series is how Jim knew there was going to be the exact right tape he needed in that particular mouse corspe at that time. That I have no clue about, but I will remind you that this series is not complete yet, so the answer may come in a future installment.

Jim puts the tape into his reader, and the symbol that was carved onto Tiffany's body appears on the screen. The message seems to be directed only at Jim Melgren, as the voice on the tape says this information is about the case he has been investigating recently. The anonymous voice on the tape tells Jim all about Tiffany. The footage switched from the symbol to security footage of the medical examiner's office and the morgue holding the bodies, and after a few still moments, the door holding Tiffany's body swings wide open, and we end tape 10.

Episode 11: Tape 011 - preparations for a guest

The penultimate tape begins with another news broadcast from channel 13, which had previously hosted Don Wright before his death. This broadcast title is premiering at 3:00 am, and it's called Inside These Walls, Basement Rennovations. This is where the home invasion storyline starts to creep back into the main story of Greylock as we are going to see more camcorder stuff from Jim and how he's planning to capture or witness a home invader. This is all later on in this tape, though, so from the beginning we see Jim preparing his basement or a basement for a visitor, hence the title of tape 11, preparations for a guest. This tape is relatively short compared to the previous few tapes, upwards of 15 minutes each, so this one is pretty much Jim prepping a basement for the creatures that invade homes through basements, like we saw when Arnold was attacked in the earlier episode. One thing I do want to point out in this mostly silent episode, though, is the use of the tape recorder. Jim places a tape recording device in the basement to seemingly lure in the creatures with the sounds of a man crying.

Now, when I first watched an explanation of this series from Wendigoon, he had mentioned that this crying could be taken from that interview with the officer, in which Tiffany's husband had begun to cry. Luring the creature to finish the job and attack Tiffany's husband as well. End tape 11.

Episode 12: Tape 012 - waking your subconscious

This is by far the most viewed tape in the series and my favorite personally, but I do want to say that this is not the finale of the series by any means. When you watch the series and scroll through the playlist, you'll see that this is the most recently uploaded tape, but it was uploaded about 1 year ago from the time I wrote this explanation post. The series is still, of course, incomplete, but no news has been shared on when it'll continue.

Now, into the meat of this nearly 35-minute tape. We begin with a training video from the Government offices for the use only of Charlotte Jean Melgren. Now that last name sounds super familiar, right? This is for Jim Melgren's daughter Charlotte. I highly recommend that you watch this training video yourself and kind of go along as if you were Charlotte, as it makes it all the more eerie to experience. It goes through a few priming tasks to make sure that thoughtforms being generated from the viewer of the training video are properly generated, and it's creepy to play along as if it were made for you.

This tape contains probably the craziest and scariest plot line yet, as throughout the priming lesson, we cut to security cam footage of a local dog kennel in Massachusetts owned by Charlotte Melgren herself. The security company calls Charlotte to ask her to just go along with them as it's standard to alert customers of these occurrences, and Charlotte begrudgingly complies but asks to go check on the dogs across the way in the other half of her property in the kennel where the disturbance was noted by the camera system. The next part is purely audio-based, and it's terrifying how fearful Charlotte's voice is, and then suddenly it goes purely monotone, and then screaming, and something is growling. It's an insane experience to listen to as if you were the security person on the phone with Charlotte. We then finish the priming video as something in the liminal background inches closer and closer to us, the viewer, and we can tell, it isn't supposed ot be in that video and that space.

We wrap up the series to date with police body cam footage from after the phone operator at the security agency lost connection with Charlotte and sent the police over to investigate. It all seems pretty normal and everything until we see the mangled body of Charlotte with the dogs intertwined in her corpse, and it's brutal and the scariest imagery I think we've seen in the series thus far.

End series

The Greylock Tapes are a true masterpiece in my opinion, and probably the best internet/analog horror that I have seen personally. It's a visual masterpiece, but the audio work is truly the star of the show, from the voice acting to the phone call effects, the distortions, and paired with the visuals, it's chilling and eerily familiar too. I love how you can feel immersed in this story as you can view these tapes from the point of view of Jim Melgren, the security operator, or Frank receiving messages from an old colleague who had a tragic end. It's immersive to the point where it doesn't feel immersive if that makes any sense, and I think that makes the eerie nature of the story and the horror elements so impactful to the viewer. It's all atmospheric, and there are very few jump scares or cheap scares, and those that are included often feel earned. They aren't put into the video just for the sake of having a jumpscare, but they're put into the video to keep the story moving and build characters and plot points and complete the eerie build-up from each video, and those are often the only kinds of jump scares I have any appreciation for.

Once again, I can not recommend this series enough. Please go watch it for yourself and consider supporting this creator, as well as the work done on Greylock Tapes takes a very long time and a lot of energy and time to create.

You can use the link in the section above to find it, or you can use this link here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYSvx_fGxPbVIAv826AEHCZJh-khx9BhK&si=cO18uoY0yT7hWwGw