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Post by Heather, taking a piss. on Dec 24, 2017 0:44:46 GMT -6
YES.
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Post by Tweek on Dec 24, 2017 13:50:42 GMT -6
A Very Kedward Christmas!
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Post by shnhorror on Jan 6, 2018 13:04:58 GMT -6
This is awesome ! I can't wait to see more liked and subscribed over on Facebook can not wait for more
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Post by Tweek on Jan 6, 2018 13:27:39 GMT -6
Tweek, didn't Dan K. start the Elly site around 2002 ? Not sure about the year, but yes. Karcher is THE MAN. |
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Post by jacktheripper 🇮🇪 on Mar 2, 2018 18:08:47 GMT -6
New Facebook posts. The Trial chapters continue sometime this month and promise to be shocking. But Dan is heading back to Ireland again for some reason, so hopefully the new chapters won't be delayed past this month. |
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Post by jacktheripper 🇮🇪 on Mar 2, 2018 18:10:00 GMT -6
What part of Ireland?
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Post by jacktheripper 🇮🇪 on Mar 4, 2018 13:47:58 GMT -6
Really that's not far from me. I'm about 2 hours from there. County cork is a nice place to visit. Scenery is amazing, Kerry is the same
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Post by Tweek on Mar 6, 2018 17:09:46 GMT -6
The sudden (return) trip to Ireland still hasn't been explained. Mysterious!
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Post by Tweek on Mar 16, 2018 15:43:29 GMT -6
Seems like chapter 4 isn't too far away
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Post by Tweek on Mar 25, 2018 15:24:21 GMT -6
It's the "special download" that's got me hooked. Count me in. Less than 4 hours to go.
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Post by jacktheripper 🇮🇪 on Mar 25, 2018 15:29:33 GMT -6
Looking forward to this! Dan next time you are in Ireland hit me up for a few pints! I'm only an hour her hometown.
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trey
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Post by trey on Mar 25, 2018 16:59:43 GMT -6
The "HERE" link in the above post didn't work. Not everyone is on FaceBook, the evil harvester of personal data.
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Post by trey on Mar 25, 2018 17:06:53 GMT -6
Heather, if you make me yell at this point…
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Post by trey on Mar 25, 2018 17:42:22 GMT -6
Tell me you're not eating a dry leaf…
Okay, I created a temporary FaceButt account so I can see this. I'm also recovering from the flu and barely awake. This had better be worth it.
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trey
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Post by trey on Mar 25, 2018 19:35:41 GMT -6
Okay, soooo… I saw the new chapter. It was really good, much better than the previous ones. But what's this about a "special download" on FaceBook? I keep refreshing the page but don't see anything. Confession time: I stayed up in order to do this, which feels a lot like 1999 when I did that before, wearing myself out just to wait for downloads of 1-inch wide half-a-minute video clips to come through on the original Blair Witch site.  |
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Post by Tweek on Mar 26, 2018 16:05:29 GMT -6
I suppose she doesn't know the real story so that's one she made up. Why she would imagine that I don't know.
Nuns are creepy. And mean.
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Post by Dan on Mar 26, 2018 18:12:29 GMT -6
Hey there, perhaps I can answer some questions... "I wonder if he's going to change the original Elly backstory elements that used to be listed on the site." There is a specific reason for those changes. I've addressed the details here. "Hey, about Chapter Four... I'm confused. The village attack must have been a dream sequence. But why? Was it how she imagined her mother died? Elly indicated how over time her dreams became nightmares. Throughout her diary she mentions in detailed description of her dreams, of how they were an escape from her reality. In her dreams, she was a pretty, happy girl with a family, a home, a life. Her reality was anything but. Translated - "My dreams were a respite to terror, a respite to madness, a respite to revulsion."
What is curious about that statement is the grammar, in this case the prepositions of "to" and "from." Her dreams would have been a respite from terror, madness and revulsion. She was escaping them, not seeking them out. Put into context when reading all the entries in relationship to each other, it is obvious it is simply a mistake in grammar. The fact Elly could write at all is impressive. Elly's description of herself in dreams is of a pretty little blonde girl of freckles, though she describes her long brown "gruaig bhréagach" (filthy hair) on her "emaciated awkward body" in other entries that are of her reality. Translated, that says "I am but an orphan, abandoned, nay, imprisoned in a maggot infested shit house filled with hateful, corrupting creatures I could easily mistake for demons if it weren't for their carnal human appetites."
She wrote of her dreams, and of love, happiness, family and home. She also explains how... Translated - "My dreams took me away from the repulse of decay, torment and rape."
And she goes into great detail of those dreams. She also goes into great detail of how they became nightmares. Translated - "But they soon became nightmares. Nightmares in my sleep. Nightmares in my wake."In the nightmares, she was still the same "pretty girl" with a home and family, but the descriptions differ in the nightmares and apparently all hell breaks loose in those dreams. She describes being chased, of her village being attacked and set to fire without explanation. Her mother (who she never knew of course) is beaten, raped and killed all the while Elly watches from behind a closed door of which she is hidden and protected behind. But she wasn't clear it was her mother who saved her or was attacked. She indicates screaming for her mother, though makes mention of a nanny of some sort. Translated - "...I needed mum, I screamed for her, she was nowhere to be seen. There was fire and rage all around me. Nanny was there. I was taken into a closet and told I would be safe. I could see within a small hole in the door, she was beaten, he tore her clothes as others looked on. They took our food off the fire cauldron and poured it onto the table. They were animals, eating as dogs would scraps. She struck him across the face as he forced himself upon her. He then plunged a sword through her, through the door, nearly through me. He lifted her dress and violated her as she was already dead."
Translated - "...my dreams of happiness became dreams, rather nightmares, of torture, of violation, of death. Of my family, of my home, of my own being. Soon I could no longer know the difference. I was the pretty girl there, but I remain the ugly, soiled girl here."
So yes, to make a long story short, in response to what you asked, the village attack was a dream sequence, as were the scenes of her running on the fields, at home and with her family. Her reality is in that orphanage (as of the current chapter). As Elly herself put it... Translated - "There were no meadows. There was dampness. There was cold, frigid stone and mortar. There were no blues skies. There was darkness. There were enclosed caverns, overcast murk. There were no fragrant wildflowers. There was piss. There was shit. The smell of infection."
"My dreams took me away from the repulse of decay, torment and rape."
"But they soon became nightmares, nightmares in my sleep, nightmares in my wake." |
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Post by Dan on Mar 26, 2018 22:03:35 GMT -6
Nice. Thanks for the clarification. I believe I detected a bit of Carter Burwell during Elly's nightmare sequence .. Niiiiice. Was hoping that would get noticed. And you are the very first one to do so. Someone grab this fella a pint. There's a heavy and complex set lot of layers in that sequence, but Carter's work was very much intentionally included. |
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Post by trey on Mar 28, 2018 12:32:12 GMT -6
Thanks for laying it all out for us. Or as I like to call it… DANSPLAINING 😆
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Post by Tweek on Mar 30, 2018 18:06:49 GMT -6
Those pesky missing pages! Curses!
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Post by Dan on Mar 30, 2018 19:54:03 GMT -6
Blair was founded in 1734. Elly relocated to Maryland as you indicated on the sea fairing vessel "Reliant" in the summer of 1769. The Reliant docked in Baltimore, so we know she was at the very least there. Some have claimed New York or other locations, but it was definitely Baltimore where Elly landed.
Mind you, it would have made more sense if she had either sailed to New York City (then being New Amsterdam), or made her way up there, considering her Irish heritage. Obviously that didn't happen.
...I think. There are 15 years of missing pages, if those years were ever recorded that is. For all we know, they could have been blank pages. It is possible she went to New York from Baltimore. Or even Boston. 15 years is a lot of time to explore, literally and figuratively.
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Post by Dan on Mar 31, 2018 19:14:38 GMT -6
wait .. Chapter Five premieres on April Fool's Day?  It's a Sunday night. If anything, I wasn't sure to do so because it's Easter. |
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Post by trey on Apr 1, 2018 12:12:54 GMT -6
"This video contains content from UMG, who has blocked in your country on copyright grounds."
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Post by Tweek on Apr 1, 2018 12:20:57 GMT -6
"This video contains content from UMG, who has blocked in your country on copyright grounds." WTF is UMG? |
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Post by Tweek on Apr 1, 2018 12:44:25 GMT -6
You are seeing this through the links on the site (ellykedward.com)? Dan needs to see this. It plays fine for me.
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