LIBERTYLURKER | The Monument Mythos

Archivist's Note:
-It is believed that all surviving audio recordings of the infamous 1889 Libertylurker interview with Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi are fakes produced by American publicists at the turn of the twentieth century. Archaic spellings and other minor deviations in the French transcription can be attributed to these publicists. The deviations have been preserved to maintain the transcription's historical integrity.
-While American publicists correctly capitalized "États-Unis" (United States) in their transcriptions of Libertylurker interviews, French writers often left the country in lowercase to subtly hint at their own anti-American sentiments.
-Includes a newly restored clip from ST-LI 1.8084. Film damage is no longer visible.

Eleonora Bramante voiced by Giorgia Pellicciaro

[redenginner]

I like the little touch at the end with the “you may be entitled to compensation”, it gives it a bizarrely mundane feeling, like the world is used to this kind of shit at this point.

[regularshowman]

The pacing here is pristine, honestly. The way it starts with a seemingly normal interview with the architect(?) of the Statue of Liberty, then shit starts to get weird when he talks about how the Americans wanted the pedestal built taller and taller. Love the way that segment ends with him mentioning how the pedestal is now taller than the statue itself, which is a really off-putting shock to the system. Then things escalate with us seeing a diagram of the statue itself, giving us a visual reference for just how massive its base is, and the fact that it's being used as some kind of bizarre bunker for something unseen. Things like the waste disposal paint a really ugly picture, and finally we get the interviews with the immigrants. The implications of the smell and the slaughterhouse tell us right away that this place is being used for feeding people, probably immigrants, to something inside the pedestal, and we even hear about people being led into its base. Finally, we get that clip at the end of the statue moving aside to allow the "Liberty Lurker" to escape, and we get just a glimpse at it to give us an idea of how massive it is before cutting to that slide at the end, telling us that this is something people already know about to some extent, at least in the present day.

[djaccountisbfisbx]

Guys, don’t worry, it’s just a massive, eldritch horror that’s really patriotic!

[leonderprofie]

The little piano part from the soundtrack gives me goosebumps every time. I love this video.

[brostrod]

Fun fact: The statue's pedestal (Specifically the part with the pointy edges) was actually a star fort before the giant copper lady got put on top of it

[Fancy_Lebowski]

The freakiest part of the video is not the thing that pokes out of the moment, but the monument has an unnatural color to it, like the Statue of Liberty has been blood-stained or heavily rusted over.

[thebraziliandragon]

Holy shit, the other guy in the comment section of LIBERTYLURKERS was probably right. The thing that starts coming out of the statue DOES look like a stretched out tricorner hat. It was meant to be him from the very beggining. This is awesome

[polishsmolish]

I’m loving this “American Monuments Creepypasta” style

[itskevinjustkevin]

dude, I live in New York it's great to know that there's a giant thing living underneath the Statue of Liberty

[astepbehind]

I like to think the pedestal was so tall to prevent lady liberty from moving either because the French were paranoid it was a very convoluted Trojan horse or the designer was scared it would come to life so they made it so lady liberty would break her legs if she *did* come to life

[hl]

I like this. It's not full of jumpscares, it just makes you feel like something is really wrong.

[wrestlingpurist]

The first Analog Horror I see with an Italian voice. Benissimo.

[mat]

Loved it!
Liked the foreigners talking in their native language being translated to english. Adds a language barrier that i would like to see experimented on in analog horror. Besides that, its an interesting concept and executed well.

[TheThief]

love the attention to detail into finding someone from italy to have the actual italian accent and not to just have a written part

[traingamer]

Alex can basically make a horror story out of the Willis tower without even needing to look hard. He's that good

[FrancisMarcosGaming]

Well that explains the beating heart inside the Statue of Liberty.

Yes, i am referring to a GTA IV easter egg.

[TheAlejandrotuvieja]

Different to other analog horror videos, Alex here manages to perturb the viewer elegantly, letting the viewer know that something is wrong since the beggining of the video.

[adjoint_functor]

3:13 GEORGIE MY BOY, YOU AREN'T LOOKING SO GREAT

[fauresfaures]

Now that this series is over, i can truly say that this was one of the greatest stories i have ever had the pleasure to follow, you sir are a master of storytelling and i can't wait to see what other tales are left to be told. Thank you !

[avgchoobafan]

"We need to feed it, or else, it will come out to search it's food for itself."