Morley Grove: A Chilling Internet Ghost Story

By the creator of Gemini Home Entertainment, RemyAbode, we've been given a window back in time to the chilling ghost story of Morley Grove.

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[NightMind]

By the creator of Gemini Home Entertainment, RemyAbode, we've been given a window back in time to the chilling ghost story of Morley Grove.



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[FrostyFoxDrake]

1969 is often the earliest date possible on a computer, and is usually erroneously added to images or videos with messed up date/time info, similar to a NaN/integer overflow. It would make sense that files related to kids who’ve ceased to exist would have corrupted creation dates

[HawkTeevs]

The Morley Man is my absolute favorite version of Slenderman I’ve ever seen.
It doesn’t have a cult. It doesn’t have proxies. It’s simply an unknowable entity that steals children and literally erases them from history. They fade away from every picture they’re in. Audio recordings of them turn distorted. And worst of all: their own friends, family, and parents all forget they even existed. All while the children are trapped in a plane of existence beyond our own, watching it all happen before their very eyes.
Absolutely harrowing.

[thefrogthatknows]

It goes without saying that we're talking about Slenderman.

Specifically, a version of slender Man removed from his pop culture depictions and restored to his original characterization. In the original something awful post it said that he targets children and can alter media.

Dustin isn't just being taken, he's being consumed. You are watching a child be digested, erased. You're watching him rot away in a form that matters. His memory, his image, his very words are being decomposed. Is very soul, his personhood and likeness, are decaying.

[powernade]

Dustin WAS in the house when he made the 911 call. He wasn't a ghost, he was just a kid. The Morely Man took his identity, his memory. His own parents don't remember him.

[onedumbgamer]

The Morley Drive video really fucks me up because if you watch the cop's dashcam recording, it jumps a whole minute ahead at one point in time but doesnt do so in space. The morley man can manipulate time

[Jane-xd]

I really liked how cruel this version of Slender is. It's not just that he takes the kids away, every picture, recording, etc... is distorted so there's not even anything to remember them by. The people that knew them are left with nothing and eventually forget them, the people that want to solve this have nothing to grab at.

[sauvagess]

...There's a primal fear seeded into every creature, where you hear footsteps rapidly approaching your location. I do not like having that very rational fear toyed with.

[bloodrunsclear]

That last picture of Dustin is brilliant nightmare fuel. I've always had a problem with missing heads.

[ParadoxGavel]

I think the thing that freaks me out the most about the Morley Man is that he can just take you whenever he wants. Broad daylight, when you're with other people, when you're in your own home. He doesn't have to wait until it's dark or until you're alone. If he wants you, he's just gonna come take you, no matter where you are and no matter who's with you. That's such scary and bold monster design, I love it.

[shortbredYT]

(innocent cat appears on-screen)
((anxiety magnifies tenfold))

[hands_n]

I think the most harrowing thing about this version of the Slender Man is just how absolutely massive he is. Both the Operator and Slender Man are anywhere from 8-10 feet tall, but in that clip and in the recollection he looks absolutely massive, and honestly that's not something I realized could be that scary until now

[fluffcake]

Loved it when Morley Man said “it’s moreling time” and wiped out the memories of the missing children

[kaymaybeokay]

i can't wait for more-ly grove and gemini once remy gets his computer situation fixed

[recaru]

I absolutely dislike jumpscares, but this really hits that feeling of creepiness that makes you look back at what you saw multiple times and realize that your hairs are standing. I like projects like this very much.

[nullera]

I think that distorted spacey voice in the activity video is repeating what the dispatcher was saying in the 911 video, just very stretched and slowed down, which makes it kinda hard to decipher, but if you read the dispatcher text while listening to the voice you can understand it
15:19 "Okay, they're there right now?"
15:29 "Okay, are you safe right now?"

[Lottee]

It's really interesting to see a new take on Slenderman after so long. I always preferred internet horror characters to be much more unknowable, like the way the backrooms was before it got SCP'd kinda thing, and I really love how this series seems to be leaning into the eldritch horror potential of Slenderman stuff.

[ignaciodiazmoore]

Something I really like about this series is how well hidden the Morley Grove Man/Slenderman is in the pictures. You could look aat it for like 10 minutes and not notice there's something wrong.

[XnnLP]

The feeling I get from the morley man is that he deletes everything about a person, their identity, their appearance. The only thing he keeps is the suffering. The thing we hear in the recording of the spectres? Screaming. The recording of the police call? Replaced with screams. The images of the children? Replaced with mangled visages. Dusting broke through and was heard on the camera recording. In the 2010 birthday vid we see what he got for that.

[drghostduck]

Usually not afraid by unfiction/internet horror but this definitely stirred something inside of me. I think it's because it just transported me back a decade or so and reminded me of being a kid again, secretly watching internet horror and staying awake at night petrified.