There’s something so unsettling about the eyes of the Emperor being gouged out. Defiling a visage of humanities god. It’s like saying he isn’t watching. That his protection holds no sway here.
I thought it hinted at the nature of whatever was causing problems, something, whether the creature _itself_ or someone influenced BY it, doesn't like the emperor, which means something among his enemies, i thought it hinted that it was chaos related.
My friend immediately took this interpretation of that scene the same. It's similar to the concept you see in horror movies with pictures of Jesus or Mother Mary with their eyes scratched out, the base concept is that they can't see you, thus they can't help you.
Please please please make more Grimdark Story Hour videos, they are so atmospheric. Every time I finish watching one of them, I just blankly stare at my wall just contemplating the story.
I thought of a story where so little information is provided that the crew don’t know where to go what to do or that there even exists a mission to begin with……or so much information that they refuse the mission after the one offering blatantly explains everything that happened there and what would befall them….. …….im funny
This is by far my favorite series of yours and I feel you should know every warhammer horror story you’ve covered I’ve listened to on audible. (Watcher in the Rain has been my favorite) You cover just enough to pique interest while still giving the original author room to make their work shine. Please keep this series alive.
@@andrewsmisek8341 without giving to much away… When the ships are leaving and he’s doing his “thing” has to be one of the best suspenseful scenes I could’ve imagined. If you haven’t heard that part on audible they do it so well that I end up recommending the audio book to everyone. 😅
Why is Warframe suddenly getting so big? I thought I found a lesser known gem but hell no, I see everyone playing and I love it. Most addicting game ever I’m about to start steel path
This gives Event Horizon vibes, can definitely feel the influence. I wish 40k had started making shorts, films, and tv series decades ago as it is so rich in lore and detail. Great job narrating.
DW. The series is going to be absolute garbage (already starting with the rings of power treatment) and thus deny any further adaptions of 40k for the next 10-20 years. Yay :)
@@sint3640The Terminator franchise has been a recurring shit-show after T2 (with occasional decent hits like Salvation) but still it keeps producing content every decade. I would not worry, main thing is to start doing.
There's a pretty horrific story of a young noble that goes to a forge world and doesn't show the proper respect and ends up being "accidentally" gets swept up and turned into a servitor on his way back to his ship. The descriptions from his point of view of the process is really terrifying. And he's not lobotomized, so he's aware of his situation. I wish I could find that story again to save it.
If I understood well (which could not be the case because English isn't my native language) the desacrated Emperor image is implied to be the artefact casting a curse on the people who take it, driving them into madness. However, in my headcanon, it's just the Emperor's wrath because he is pissed off than nobody tries to fix his portrait.
It's implied that it's the picture but I don't think so. It's actually something on that asteroid their mining. The whole corpse thing and sound is a hallucination borne from whatever madness is afflicted on them by being on the roid. The scratched out eyes emperor is simply a red herring; Something left over from previous crew, who also went crazy and scratched the eyes out. A harbinger of things to come. The reason elun sees toyne is because of his guilt of her death. This is how I understood it at least.
@@desperado3236 Warhammer 40,000 being what it is, actual demonic possession and hauntings are in fact not just possible, but a fairly common - if little talked about - danger for spacers and voidsmen.
@@desperado3236 Might be some mental wave that it uses to deterr folk from being around it for too long, and if they remain too long around it, well, this happens. Then, (maybe) handful of scarabs go to the station, repair any sign of damage. Though honestly, it could be purely warp related. Chaos can force their ways into the material plane, but it is extremely taxing and difficult. Much easier to have someone "invite" them in/accept an invitation. In this case, it probably was the guy taking the picture, i.e. he accepts the "deal" that everything that happens here is outside the gaze of the emperor. See, as chaotic as the warp is, it is bound by lot of extremely restrictive "rules". Sure, those rules can be broken, but it tends to be very taxing on the warp native (though the amount of difficulty can correlate to how restrictive said rule is) Since this being that is "enticing" these people is only requiring a minor "agreement" my hypothesis is that someone made a deal/contract with a decently cunning deamon or warp entity to protect that asteroid. It was probably pretty win-win situation. The deamon keeps an eye on the place and makes sure it doesn't get tampered with too much, and it can eat all the unfortunate souls (that were around for too long) and their emotions as it wanted. That is my feeling about this at least. My hypothesis? It is probably a warp entity rather than a deamon bound to any of the factions. Unlike how the tabletop may paint things out, the deamons of the 4 factions merely take up a small piece of the river of souls. The most probable answer by my estimate? It is a dangerous necron artifact that an eldar of the old times (could be relatively recent, but I really doubt it) put up countermeasures for so no lesser species would mess with it. So an eldar of the old times likely either created or made a deal with a spirit of sorts to make sure to keep any unwanted folk away. Eldars would immediately notice the signs of their own kin and thus would avoid it, but the lesser species would be properly punished. How's that sound?
@@ethanor It is actually a very clever way to get people invested in your story. All the "i would've done this and that instead" conversations are good for building a community and getting the word out of the original story. Fan speculation is great. It is one of the reasons why Mary Sue is a negative thing when it comes to stories and the characters in them. It leaves no room for people to self-insert.
@@arkosilaura Well, he's not expected to know what to do all the time, but he should not ignore basic reasoning. Why lie to your medic, why make up that you don't hear it anymore? What's the harm in just telling the truth? When a character in a horror is dumb and ignores the obvious choice, it's not endearing, it's frustrating. It doesn't help viewers self-insert, quite the opposite, I'd say
@@AxolotlInMC My assumption as for why he behaved the way he did is because he is a former ganger. He instinctively tries to avoid saying anything that would show him to be weak in any way. In a gang in an underhive, such a thing would get him torn apart immediately. Also: Remember that the only drive of the people he leads is money. If they think he isn't able to lead them to money anymore, or that they can overpower him and try their own ideas at leading themselves to money, they will get rid of him... and they wont keep a betrayed leader around. He'd be vented.
Not throwing shade, just a funny thought but... "Here's my video on common misconceptions about why it isn't that horrible living in the imperium all the time." *Another Video* "Normal people living in the imperium, their life is an actual nightmare!" Lol, again no shade, just made me chuckle.
That's the dice roll of Warhammer. Sometimes you are just chilling on your chill lil agriworld, and then sometimes space splits open, its raining blood, and your bones are dry.
I’m currently doing a night shift in a factory with only one other member of the engineering team. I’m working on my own surrounded by huge bags of laundry creepily hanging from the roof. Hearing random clunks and clicks. This really helped make this already eerie story become real……..SPOOOOOOOOOOOOKY 😂
Currently in hospital after having a stroke 6 weeks ago I come in for a scan on my heart and found a clot been here for a week now (damn papa nurgle and his gifts) and your videos help me pass the time and stay entertained. Thank u Wes for ur enthusiasm towards the great lord of our hobby it helps more than you know ❤
I feel the horror vibes, but... I'm not exactly fan of the "no answers" style of storytelling. I don't need everything explained, but I do need at least something. In this story we read about a guy suffering from halucinations. At the end, the rest of his crew appears to suffer the same fate. But what has really happened? Was this an act of some strange creature? Cult? Just a mere halucination? The only thing we know that there is "something scary" and literally nothing more. I am ok with having questions after a story, but if the main conflict is with something we know literally nothing about... I feel like that is an cop out. Of course people are gonna have questions when you answer nothing. But making people ask questions while feeding them just the right amount of answers? Now that is art. However, the voice acting in this one was more than good enough to carry the whole story for me.
I suppose it's a matter of personal taste, I really enjoy these kind of stories, the ones with literally nothing to work with, which in turn gives ample room to theorize and analyze each and every hint that were given. Each time I read or listen to one of these stories, especially in the 40K or Warhammer Fantasy setting, I mentally roleplay as an Inquisitor or Witch Hunter and try to explain it via in-universe info, then make overtly conservative conclusions (in this case, just a feral xenos creature gnawing on random bits in the facility, mixed with stress and fatigue from the miners, which caused them to hallucinate and give into madness) while at the same time prescribing overtly radical courses of follow-up action (in this case, termination of the mining crew as they have all been touched by madness, and are more than likely to all be heretics due to the discovery of the defaced picture).
Agreed, keep it vague but if you dont even give me an idea of wtf is going on i just stop giving a shit about the story, like theres 0 pay off to it all and makes the whole thing feel like a massive waste of time
One thing I love about 40k is the horror element. It’s not your average kind of horror. It’s unique, different. Not like creepy, jump scare horror. But like body horror. What lengths humans will go to get that edge in war. The things they do to their bodies. As well as their souls. It’s like humanity tends to reflect its environment. And with all the different races and aliens and the horrors of war all reflect on what these humans become. I haven’t read any books yet, played any 40k games both video and tabletop. I became a warhammer fan through the fantasy setting. Specifically total war. But I always knew about 40k. Probably before I even knew about fantasy Warhammer, because my cousin was always obsessed with Warhammer 40k books. He had every book, and he knew I was into fantasy and sci fi like him and always urged me to get into it. Well lately I have been watching lore videos here and there, and like I said my favorite thing about these videos, is I know I’m going to be horrified by the end of it lol in a completely unique way too, I don’t know how to perfectly describe it
I agree with a lot of what you said. It's the brutality of the universe that draws me to it. It's not horror like we think of typically, but a horror of grotesque and mutilation of the mind, body, and soul. The horrors are eldritch level gods and creatures, and absolutely, the universe reflects that onto itself, always adapting and one upping the last. So far, I've only played the Vermintides and Darktide, and I am currently trying to figure out where to start reading. It is so expansive that I really don't know where to start.
@@StuckTrippinas someone who has shredded through most 40k books, a couple tips may help. 1: if your interested in being chronological and stay in the time, then start with the first Horus Heresy book, Horus Rising. Its the very beginning of the Heresy during the end of the Great Crusade that made the Imperium. Keep in mind, be ready to commit, the Horus Heresy series is complete now, but it is HUGE and is over 60 books I believe. If you dont care about that and want some of the best writing to keep you going, the Eisenhorn and Ravenor series are excellent and follow Inquisitors, and has very good and ground level descriptions of how the Imperium is for ordinary people. For some huge action, Spear of the Emperor is a great modern Space Marine book.
Space Marines can be in horror situations as well like in the the later parts of Astartes animation. Most of the Horus heresy from the primarchs POV was a bit unnerving too. Especially since no one knew what Chaos was back then.
Always love listening to your videos while I work on my Warhammer 40K TikToks. You inspired me to make my own content! Also, imagine a Horror Short Story based in the Ghoul Stars. That'll be a GREAT setting for a Lovecraftian or Flayed One Horror Story
Never heard of Vox in the void before you mentioned it here. Now that, was some damn good story telling. Im not a fan of lamenters but damn does he do those stories justice. Fangs out was another amazing one
This is honestly a fantastic story and it's taught me something. If you want to survive a horror story, you need to have emotional intelligence and be able to be honest with the people around you if I was this guy I would probably have held a meeting and told people that I was compromised in some way and explained what happened and attempted to find some solution that would maintain the safety of myself and the crew
@@Elmithianas a very sane a pious sister of battle once said: "it's better to die for the emperor that to live for yourself" or in this case... "to be sacrificed for something else"
I have been watching Weshammer's videos for months and only now realized im not subscribed with the amount of work WesHammer does they must be reaching 1m soon Keep up the good content if you ever see this bud
I like the idea that the portrait of the emperor is actually just one of those annoying noise making devices that you put in someone's backpack as a prank
No, no it really isn’t. For all its flaws from an idealistic, golden age of technology enlightened perspective, it’s guaranteed food and shelter and protection. Out there in space, anything goes and it’s a real abominable crapshoot on how bad it is. Not whether something bad will happen, that’s already guaranteed, but the severity is the gamble. Right here, this is somewhere in between getting lost in space, and turned into a chaos entity. Not as bad as permanent plague zombification, but worse than weeks of lonely starvation drifting in the void
14:57 I felt that. When I arrive with the second shift crew first shift is happy to see us. We help them get ready to close before they hand it off to us. But third shift... Rolls a little different. They expect us to be done and vacated from their space. Their expectation is we are to only see them coming in as we are heading out. Of course sometimes work carries over so you have to finish. And oh God, third shift will go Maximum Petty to make it so much harder than it has to be.
Hey wes, I really appreciate the timing man, I just had a really bad day yesterday and it carried over to today so this video is a life saver, I really appreciate it man, I really do, I love your stuff and your videos give me a sense of peace when I need it
Loving this Warhammer 40k Horror series, excellent narration and great background illustrations that give just enough context to set the scene without being in anyway distracting. Really engrossing series Liked and Subbed, keep up the great work Wes.
Definitely a warp entity of some kind inhabiting the picture of the emperor. The fact that the eyes are scratched out seems like a calling card or maybe even bait. A way to compel the observer to view and keep it. A very insidious curse-like thing that’s super difficult to combat. That’s intense…
Yeah the story definitely implies it's the picture causing things but I think it's something on the asteroid and the picture is just a symbol of the madness to come. An unintentional warning left over from a previous miner who created it in his madness before suffering the same fate. That's how I see it anyway.
@@desperado3236 it could be both for all we know. Maybe it inhabits the asteroid and uses the picture to spread its influence like a rat carrying a plague
I take it more as this. The Emporer is the head of humanity, the savior, and the reason to push on through the grim dark. Your entire life, you believe with all your being that the Emporer is watching over his flock. However, something truly horrific was happening here. Any who bore witness would surely question their faith, probably feeling alone and abandoned by their god king. Any image of him would soon become a falsehood, a liar, and a thief of belief. Somebody likely gouged the eyes in a last-ditch middle finger to the man that wouldn't save them.
PLEASE MAKE MORE! These are unbelivably gripping. I've listened in my car on the way to work, then finished on my work laptop. Ah I love these, your ability to turn these books into wonderful listening material is amazing. Thank you Weshammer
small correction fluid on and inside of a person that is spontaneously exposed to space will boil not freeze. Temperature is the speed of the particles making something up move (vibrate in solids) in space there are basically no particles, so vacuum doesn't have a temperature, at least in the way we thing about it. People in space have problems with cooling down since all the heat our body produces is trapped inside of the spacesuit, with the only way to get rid of heat energy is radiating and that is quite weak at the temperature of the human body. NASA EVA suits have undergarments with tubes of water running around so that astronauts don't get heat stroke. Also we don't give up much radiation but the sun does. And if you have been up in the mountains on a sunny and calm winter day you know that temperature may be below freezing but in the sun it can be quiet hot I mean strip down to underwear(and get a horrid sun burn) hot. Same thing but even more of that once you don't have a few 100s of miles of atmosphere to stop most of the sun.
The God Emperor of Mankind with his Gene-writers remade mankind in order to conquer the stars. He remade the entire foundation of humanity to be tougher stronger and flexible to the rules and laws of the universe and half his damn sons did the human thing and stabbed him.
It's not just a cooling problem, it's a balancing problem between heating and cooling. All matter radiates heat in the form of infrared light, and in space, that light just goes off into the void. If you're in the shade, you're constantly losing energy through thermal waste and getting basically zero back. The reason astronauts struggle with overheating is because their suit acts as an insulator; the warm inside reflecting the heat back while the cold outside radiates very little heat. But in direct exposure, space is frigid, it's just very slow to freeze you since there's no atmosphere to sap your heat, just your own ambient loss.
I love the series. There's something about the Grimdark stories and your voice that puts me at ease. Maybe it's that I grew up on "Are you afraid of the Dark", but I turn these on to lure me sleep. Keep it up. And because they lure me to sleep I have to keep replaying them to get the full story. Win Win.
And here I was expecting the twist to be that this is the recurring nightmare of a servitor dreaming itself to life, and constantly trying to kill itself in a semi-delirious panicked mania.
This reminds me of the Rimworld Anomaly DLC. There's a possible event known as "unnatural corpse" There's the chance to get an event where a corpse turns up at your colony. The corpse is that of one of your colonists, who is still alive. Its a perfect copy of them. Its warm and clammy to the touch. It causes the still living colonist to eventually go insane over a couple of weeks. In the last few days you have this sense of impending doom and horror, then it awakes. If you incinerate the corpse, throw it out, bury it, butcher it, launch it hundreds of kilometers away into the ocean or even feed it to your animals - it always returns. It teleports next to the victim whenever you aren't looking at it, always watching, driving them insane. There is a way to stop it from waking up, but its a race against time. Its basically a death clock for the unfortunate victim, before a horrible unstoppable fate in their mirror image inevitably barrels toward them at impossible speed.
So picking up the picture is what starts the madness, right? Then does it spread to the other people on the facility after it's caused someone to die by it? Why did everyone else start hearing it at the end?
The entire previous crew vanished, and it seems unlikely that they all took turns holding the photo. So, I think that once someone starts the haunting(?) everyone gets screwed eventually.
Man.. Wes, once again, my man, you fkn killed it! You tell the stories with so much passion, your love for Warhammer 40k is very clear. It makes the tellings THAT much better tho. Its always great listening to your narrations. Thank you for all you do for us.
I’ve watched and seen a lot of horror stuff, so I’m pretty used to creepy stories by now. But for some reason I got a rare “that really creeps me the fuck out. Big time” reaction about the tapping at the end. And, especially. That emperor forsaken image of that demon lady monster. For some reason that whole thing really got to me in a way horror hasn’t done in quite a while for me. Well done. I don’t know if it was just the visuals alone, or the narration or the sounds or all three. But this one really got me freaked out pretty good towards the end
Thank you WesHammer! Fantastic reading and really makes me wanna check out the original anthology of short stories this comes from. I would LOVE a Twilight Zone-esque 40k TV show, each episode a different horror story.
Yes Weshammer! Been crazy busy the last few weeks and not had a lot of time so I have some videos saved up… I will be binging this afternoon 😂 Keep it up brother Comment & liked for the algorithm gods!
Fnally. FINALLY! A Grimdark Story Hour again! I'll play this to my children as a good night story. Let's see how long it takes for the nightmares to set in. P.S. Medic looks like Idris Elba. Next we get is the Rock as an Ultramarine. DISCLAIMER: I am notgoing to play this to my children. It was ment as a joke, for everyne who actually wats to coment on this one later.
''Horror is simply a word that men use to describe what they feel when face with things outside of their comprehension, its in human nature to assign adjectives to things that unsettle and disturb them in a vain sense of making it someting that doesn't that it just *isn't* , like vapor escaping to the void we notice it and can truly acknowledge its existence the unknown does not care how big or tougth you are, if you are noble or a peasant a high raking official or a low private, it just take you *in* and there's just you, the THE EMPEROR and the strength of your FAITH"- unknown rogue trader at the cadia station bar culux sub sector
A variant of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” The real horror is thinking we are in YET ANOTHER Jacobs Ladder. Twist: he was turned into a Servitor decades ago 37:11 Its Idris Elba. Even kinda sounds like him.
Through the whole story, I couldn't help but think of this woodpecker that really liked the wall outside my window. that asshole would tap-tap-tap all the damn time...I was the only one that would hear it, because it only liked my wall for some reason. "I'm not crazy, it's the bird!"
Yall i just posted a question for Wes on the community tab and, i kid you not, he responded after just a few minutes with the exact info i needed to figure out the answer. This guy rocks 🤘
These are the best lore videos that I've ever seen. I don't read Warhammer 40K I don't play Warhammer 40K It's just these videos that I like because they're done so well
The warhammer universe is so terrifying it’s unbelievable fight in wars with torturous aliens and creatures that want to eat or kill you. Or try to just work a day job which is crap or you have to deal with stuff like this. I would have voidlocked myself the moment I’d saw that things face nevermind the stuff he went through. Also weshammer thank you for getting me into the horror series I love it your grim dark series is just amazing.
Was it the picture that activated the anamoly? The medic didnt have the picture on him so why did he also start hearing the tapping... so many questions
I dont know why they dont use these storys to make movies they would be soo good they already have great writing,world building, and story telling. I really like this story too with all the creepy moments with the picture of the gman and the tapping not to mention the returning corpse coming back with the same injures and new ones was chilling.
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These story hours make me miss running a Dark Heresy campaign, which I ran trying not to use known 40k lore
Are you a fan of desk/bookshelf sized Warhammer statues? I’m a 3D modeler and printer I have a bunch depending on your favorite race or what ever
I watched your stupid ads, I hope you're happy.
Uncool! I’m working today pulling parts out of an abandoned building. Now I’m sweating
You should be fine at work. As for when you get back home and lie in bed though...
Hey can you hear it? A weird tapping voice
@@Kululululululu'dun-dun'
If you hear a weird tapping sound, then please seek medical attentions. Fifteen years in a psych ward is better than explosive decompression.
(boom boom-boom)
There’s something so unsettling about the eyes of the Emperor being gouged out. Defiling a visage of humanities god. It’s like saying he isn’t watching. That his protection holds no sway here.
I like (and am creeped out by) your interpretation!
I thought it hinted at the nature of whatever was causing problems, something, whether the creature _itself_ or someone influenced BY it, doesn't like the emperor, which means something among his enemies, i thought it hinted that it was chaos related.
My friend immediately took this interpretation of that scene the same. It's similar to the concept you see in horror movies with pictures of Jesus or Mother Mary with their eyes scratched out, the base concept is that they can't see you, thus they can't help you.
Please please please make more Grimdark Story Hour videos, they are so atmospheric. Every time I finish watching one of them, I just blankly stare at my wall just contemplating the story.
Same here
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I second this man's acoustic request, these are great
dude same here
It always begins with a guy sending other guys to some place but not giving any information about the mission.
To be fair I give your mum the same instructions
@@mcspudoh thats why your father never come back
@@mcspud Can you also give my mum those same instructions please
I was in the Army for 14 years and you just summed it all up
I thought of a story where so little information is provided that the crew don’t know where to go what to do or that there even exists a mission to begin with……or so much information that they refuse the mission after the one offering blatantly explains everything that happened there and what would befall them…..
…….im funny
This is by far my favorite series of yours and I feel you should know every warhammer horror story you’ve covered I’ve listened to on audible. (Watcher in the Rain has been my favorite) You cover just enough to pique interest while still giving the original author room to make their work shine. Please keep this series alive.
2nded
Watcher in the rain gave me goosebumps reading it.
@@andrewsmisek8341 without giving to much away… When the ships are leaving and he’s doing his “thing” has to be one of the best suspenseful scenes I could’ve imagined. If you haven’t heard that part on audible they do it so well that I end up recommending the audio book to everyone. 😅
That thumbnail is an accurate depiction of me in school when I spend the entirety of last night playing warframe.
Accurate
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"Nah, night shift is easy!" ahh thumbnail
Why is Warframe suddenly getting so big? I thought I found a lesser known gem but hell no, I see everyone playing and I love it. Most addicting game ever I’m about to start steel path
Ahh coffee and the horrors of 40k...relaxing
Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.
Good choices
more relaxing than work
This gives Event Horizon vibes, can definitely feel the influence. I wish 40k had started making shorts, films, and tv series decades ago as it is so rich in lore and detail. Great job narrating.
DW. The series is going to be absolute garbage (already starting with the rings of power treatment) and thus deny any further adaptions of 40k for the next 10-20 years. Yay :)
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@@sint3640The Terminator franchise has been a recurring shit-show after T2 (with occasional decent hits like Salvation) but still it keeps producing content every decade. I would not worry, main thing is to start doing.
There's a pretty horrific story of a young noble that goes to a forge world and doesn't show the proper respect and ends up being "accidentally" gets swept up and turned into a servitor on his way back to his ship. The descriptions from his point of view of the process is really terrifying.
And he's not lobotomized, so he's aware of his situation.
I wish I could find that story again to save it.
It’s on vox in the void abomination I believe
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Yes, this is it.
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Thanks for reminding me this trauma
So basically the intro to Quake 4.
@@DGneoseeker1please don’t remind me of this
If I understood well (which could not be the case because English isn't my native language) the desacrated Emperor image is implied to be the artefact casting a curse on the people who take it, driving them into madness. However, in my headcanon, it's just the Emperor's wrath because he is pissed off than nobody tries to fix his portrait.
Any other ideas was the corpse real?
@@craigdonovan5068that's the emperor himself briefly appearing, he has been rotting for ten thousand years after all
@@samaeldisharmony8028 Ugh somehow I smelled it
It's implied that it's the picture but I don't think so.
It's actually something on that asteroid their mining.
The whole corpse thing and sound is a hallucination borne from whatever madness is afflicted on them by being on the roid.
The scratched out eyes emperor is simply a red herring; Something left over from previous crew, who also went crazy and scratched the eyes out. A harbinger of things to come.
The reason elun sees toyne is because of his guilt of her death.
This is how I understood it at least.
@@desperado3236 Warhammer 40,000 being what it is, actual demonic possession and hauntings are in fact not just possible, but a fairly common - if little talked about - danger for spacers and voidsmen.
eerie green light from underground you say?
*skitters off in canoptek spyder*
Here I thought they stumbled on a C'tan shard.
Holt mother of red(green) herring
I got the same vibes. Maybe it's some necron artifact on the asteroid that causes madness for whatever reason.
nah that astroid just had a hoard of warpstone
@@desperado3236 Might be some mental wave that it uses to deterr folk from being around it for too long, and if they remain too long around it, well, this happens.
Then, (maybe) handful of scarabs go to the station, repair any sign of damage.
Though honestly, it could be purely warp related. Chaos can force their ways into the material plane, but it is extremely taxing and difficult.
Much easier to have someone "invite" them in/accept an invitation. In this case, it probably was the guy taking the picture, i.e. he accepts the "deal" that everything that happens here is outside the gaze of the emperor.
See, as chaotic as the warp is, it is bound by lot of extremely restrictive "rules". Sure, those rules can be broken, but it tends to be very taxing on the warp native (though the amount of difficulty can correlate to how restrictive said rule is)
Since this being that is "enticing" these people is only requiring a minor "agreement" my hypothesis is that someone made a deal/contract with a decently cunning deamon or warp entity to protect that asteroid.
It was probably pretty win-win situation. The deamon keeps an eye on the place and makes sure it doesn't get tampered with too much, and it can eat all the unfortunate souls (that were around for too long) and their emotions as it wanted.
That is my feeling about this at least. My hypothesis? It is probably a warp entity rather than a deamon bound to any of the factions.
Unlike how the tabletop may paint things out, the deamons of the 4 factions merely take up a small piece of the river of souls.
The most probable answer by my estimate? It is a dangerous necron artifact that an eldar of the old times (could be relatively recent, but I really doubt it) put up countermeasures for so no lesser species would mess with it.
So an eldar of the old times likely either created or made a deal with a spirit of sorts to make sure to keep any unwanted folk away. Eldars would immediately notice the signs of their own kin and thus would avoid it, but the lesser species would be properly punished.
How's that sound?
Was at work bored listening to some of your older lore videos got a notification it's a new weshammer video. The God emperor protects... From boredom
Well of course I know him! It's me!
Same for me haha
Your God is a false God, The Lord of Rot is true.
@@johndonovan5521 no god smells like that, febreze yourself brother
The emperor neglects@@johndonovan5521
So lesson of the day: if you find the emperor's portrait defamed or destroyed in anyway destroy it and what ever being saw or heard it
"¡I JUST NEED TO SLEEP!"
yeah me to budy
I didn’t know Idris Elba was in the 40K universe 😂
I'd like to see him in a 40K production
I thought you were joking lmao
Huh?
@@dantauche7917you gotta watch the video first bruh
@@Sluggadome_Rotunda_Bernardson I did I didn’t hear idris anywhere….
The second the body reappeared he should have been talking
Fr, most horror stories can be helped by simple communication, but it seems like he is in a state of psychosis so his thinking was prob impaired.
If the cast in horror acted smart, we would not have the stories.
@@ethanor It is actually a very clever way to get people invested in your story. All the "i would've done this and that instead" conversations are good for building a community and getting the word out of the original story. Fan speculation is great.
It is one of the reasons why Mary Sue is a negative thing when it comes to stories and the characters in them. It leaves no room for people to self-insert.
@@arkosilaura Well, he's not expected to know what to do all the time, but he should not ignore basic reasoning. Why lie to your medic, why make up that you don't hear it anymore? What's the harm in just telling the truth? When a character in a horror is dumb and ignores the obvious choice, it's not endearing, it's frustrating. It doesn't help viewers self-insert, quite the opposite, I'd say
@@AxolotlInMC My assumption as for why he behaved the way he did is because he is a former ganger.
He instinctively tries to avoid saying anything that would show him to be weak in any way.
In a gang in an underhive, such a thing would get him torn apart immediately.
Also:
Remember that the only drive of the people he leads is money. If they think he isn't able to lead them to money anymore, or that they can overpower him and try their own ideas at leading themselves to money, they will get rid of him... and they wont keep a betrayed leader around. He'd be vented.
Not throwing shade, just a funny thought but...
"Here's my video on common misconceptions about why it isn't that horrible living in the imperium all the time."
*Another Video*
"Normal people living in the imperium, their life is an actual nightmare!"
Lol, again no shade, just made me chuckle.
That’s really how the 40k universe is written
That's the dice roll of Warhammer. Sometimes you are just chilling on your chill lil agriworld, and then sometimes space splits open, its raining blood, and your bones are dry.
Sometimes you're born on an agri-world.
Sometimes you're born on Necromunda.
We do a little bit of shade around here. 😆
Dont worry much about how you come off, you are anonymous afterall
Welcome to Warhammer 40k. Some people have it nice, some people don't. It's a hellish universe
Guess I refreshed at the right time, looking forward to this one.
Refreshing was a blessing
I’m currently doing a night shift in a factory with only one other member of the engineering team. I’m working on my own surrounded by huge bags of laundry creepily hanging from the roof. Hearing random clunks and clicks. This really helped make this already eerie story become real……..SPOOOOOOOOOOOOKY 😂
Currently in hospital after having a stroke 6 weeks ago I come in for a scan on my heart and found a clot been here for a week now (damn papa nurgle and his gifts) and your videos help me pass the time and stay entertained. Thank u Wes for ur enthusiasm towards the great lord of our hobby it helps more than you know ❤
Rest well, hope you get better soon. Trust in the Emperor to beat back Nurgle!
Get well soon!
I feel the horror vibes, but... I'm not exactly fan of the "no answers" style of storytelling. I don't need everything explained, but I do need at least something. In this story we read about a guy suffering from halucinations. At the end, the rest of his crew appears to suffer the same fate. But what has really happened? Was this an act of some strange creature? Cult? Just a mere halucination? The only thing we know that there is "something scary" and literally nothing more. I am ok with having questions after a story, but if the main conflict is with something we know literally nothing about... I feel like that is an cop out. Of course people are gonna have questions when you answer nothing. But making people ask questions while feeding them just the right amount of answers? Now that is art.
However, the voice acting in this one was more than good enough to carry the whole story for me.
I suppose it's a matter of personal taste, I really enjoy these kind of stories, the ones with literally nothing to work with, which in turn gives ample room to theorize and analyze each and every hint that were given. Each time I read or listen to one of these stories, especially in the 40K or Warhammer Fantasy setting, I mentally roleplay as an Inquisitor or Witch Hunter and try to explain it via in-universe info, then make overtly conservative conclusions (in this case, just a feral xenos creature gnawing on random bits in the facility, mixed with stress and fatigue from the miners, which caused them to hallucinate and give into madness) while at the same time prescribing overtly radical courses of follow-up action (in this case, termination of the mining crew as they have all been touched by madness, and are more than likely to all be heretics due to the discovery of the defaced picture).
Agreed, keep it vague but if you dont even give me an idea of wtf is going on i just stop giving a shit about the story, like theres 0 pay off to it all and makes the whole thing feel like a massive waste of time
Some cursed relic which kills the crew? How and why will never be known.
I've felt like that with some stories but I didn't really feel that with this one, maybe weshammer's ability to tell stories carried this
@@GayDemonWarlord Warhammer is so vague most of the time. Wes carries all the stories 😂
One thing I love about 40k is the horror element. It’s not your average kind of horror. It’s unique, different. Not like creepy, jump scare horror. But like body horror. What lengths humans will go to get that edge in war. The things they do to their bodies. As well as their souls. It’s like humanity tends to reflect its environment. And with all the different races and aliens and the horrors of war all reflect on what these humans become. I haven’t read any books yet, played any 40k games both video and tabletop. I became a warhammer fan through the fantasy setting. Specifically total war. But I always knew about 40k. Probably before I even knew about fantasy Warhammer, because my cousin was always obsessed with Warhammer 40k books. He had every book, and he knew I was into fantasy and sci fi like him and always urged me to get into it. Well lately I have been watching lore videos here and there, and like I said my favorite thing about these videos, is I know I’m going to be horrified by the end of it lol in a completely unique way too, I don’t know how to perfectly describe it
I agree with a lot of what you said. It's the brutality of the universe that draws me to it. It's not horror like we think of typically, but a horror of grotesque and mutilation of the mind, body, and soul. The horrors are eldritch level gods and creatures, and absolutely, the universe reflects that onto itself, always adapting and one upping the last.
So far, I've only played the Vermintides and Darktide, and I am currently trying to figure out where to start reading. It is so expansive that I really don't know where to start.
@@StuckTrippinas someone who has shredded through most 40k books, a couple tips may help.
1: if your interested in being chronological and stay in the time, then start with the first Horus Heresy book, Horus Rising. Its the very beginning of the Heresy during the end of the Great Crusade that made the Imperium. Keep in mind, be ready to commit, the Horus Heresy series is complete now, but it is HUGE and is over 60 books I believe.
If you dont care about that and want some of the best writing to keep you going, the Eisenhorn and Ravenor series are excellent and follow Inquisitors, and has very good and ground level descriptions of how the Imperium is for ordinary people. For some huge action, Spear of the Emperor is a great modern Space Marine book.
If that medic ever finds himself on screen it better be Idris Elba playing him
The Jamaican Edris Elba cameo took me by surprise😂
Space Marines can be in horror situations as well like in the the later parts of Astartes animation. Most of the Horus heresy from the primarchs POV was a bit unnerving too. Especially since no one knew what Chaos was back then.
I thought that was a mic mistake at the end at first 😂
Nice touch.
0:10 tell me that doesn't look like LEGO Bionicle Tahu's original mask from like 20 years ago
It does. But Mk7 Aquila-pattern power armour was introduced quite a few years before Bionicle.
@@minimalbstolerance8113 So the product designers at LEGO were 40k fans!
I love grim dark horror story time videos! Thanks for making so many
Always love listening to your videos while I work on my Warhammer 40K TikToks. You inspired me to make my own content! Also, imagine a Horror Short Story based in the Ghoul Stars. That'll be a GREAT setting for a Lovecraftian or Flayed One Horror Story
I feel you for being a warhammer fan ❤
Indeed that is a great setting for some really scary stories
strong username
Yo im not gonna lie, i would love to see you work with vox in the void, i feel like you two would do amazing work fr
Never heard of Vox in the void before you mentioned it here. Now that, was some damn good story telling. Im not a fan of lamenters but damn does he do those stories justice. Fangs out was another amazing one
You should listen to the krumpin series, omg it's so good
This is honestly a fantastic story and it's taught me something. If you want to survive a horror story, you need to have emotional intelligence and be able to be honest with the people around you if I was this guy I would probably have held a meeting and told people that I was compromised in some way and explained what happened and attempted to find some solution that would maintain the safety of myself and the crew
lol this is 40k if you made that announcement chances are you would be deemed a heretic and killed.
Lol no denying that
@@HebrewHammer1337 rather executed fast than driven to madness and THEN executing myself.
@@pedromoura1446 Rather have your soul purified and freed before corruption truly festers into it eh?
@@Elmithianas a very sane a pious sister of battle once said: "it's better to die for the emperor that to live for yourself" or in this case... "to be sacrificed for something else"
I have been watching Weshammer's videos for months and only now realized im not subscribed with the amount of work WesHammer does they must be reaching 1m soon
Keep up the good content if you ever see this bud
I like the idea that the portrait of the emperor is actually just one of those annoying noise making devices that you put in someone's backpack as a prank
Ah yes. Another fine example of "life isn't so bad in the Imperium."
No, no it really isn’t. For all its flaws from an idealistic, golden age of technology enlightened perspective, it’s guaranteed food and shelter and protection. Out there in space, anything goes and it’s a real abominable crapshoot on how bad it is. Not whether something bad will happen, that’s already guaranteed, but the severity is the gamble. Right here, this is somewhere in between getting lost in space, and turned into a chaos entity. Not as bad as permanent plague zombification, but worse than weeks of lonely starvation drifting in the void
Yeah life wasn't bad for these guys. their DEATH was bad, but they seemed to live pretty okay lives until that point.
14:57 I felt that.
When I arrive with the second shift crew first shift is happy to see us. We help them get ready to close before they hand it off to us. But third shift... Rolls a little different. They expect us to be done and vacated from their space. Their expectation is we are to only see them coming in as we are heading out. Of course sometimes work carries over so you have to finish. And oh God, third shift will go Maximum Petty to make it so much harder than it has to be.
Now THIS, is why I got into this hobby. Please do more of these horror stories.🙏
I love how Factor costs $60 a day if you eat 3 meals. Its more expensive than the hobby.
Overpriced, small portions
Hey wes, I really appreciate the timing man, I just had a really bad day yesterday and it carried over to today so this video is a life saver, I really appreciate it man, I really do, I love your stuff and your videos give me a sense of peace when I need it
I hope your next day is better, Brother!
My dude such timing
Loving this Warhammer 40k Horror series, excellent narration and great background illustrations that give just enough context to set the scene without being in anyway distracting. Really engrossing series Liked and Subbed, keep up the great work Wes.
Definitely a warp entity of some kind inhabiting the picture of the emperor. The fact that the eyes are scratched out seems like a calling card or maybe even bait. A way to compel the observer to view and keep it. A very insidious curse-like thing that’s super difficult to combat. That’s intense…
Yeah the story definitely implies it's the picture causing things but I think it's something on the asteroid and the picture is just a symbol of the madness to come.
An unintentional warning left over from a previous miner who created it in his madness before suffering the same fate.
That's how I see it anyway.
@@desperado3236 it could be both for all we know. Maybe it inhabits the asteroid and uses the picture to spread its influence like a rat carrying a plague
I take it more as this. The Emporer is the head of humanity, the savior, and the reason to push on through the grim dark. Your entire life, you believe with all your being that the Emporer is watching over his flock.
However, something truly horrific was happening here. Any who bore witness would surely question their faith, probably feeling alone and abandoned by their god king. Any image of him would soon become a falsehood, a liar, and a thief of belief. Somebody likely gouged the eyes in a last-ditch middle finger to the man that wouldn't save them.
Nurgle is a warp being and can create magical plagues. But green light usually means Necrons.
@@micmac274 honestly it’s the random flesh mutations that had me thinking of Tzeentch
PLEASE MAKE MORE! These are unbelivably gripping. I've listened in my car on the way to work, then finished on my work laptop. Ah I love these, your ability to turn these books into wonderful listening material is amazing. Thank you Weshammer
God i love these grimdark story hours. So god damn cool...
Love your horror segments, thank you Wes.
small correction fluid on and inside of a person that is spontaneously exposed to space will boil not freeze. Temperature is the speed of the particles making something up move (vibrate in solids) in space there are basically no particles, so vacuum doesn't have a temperature, at least in the way we thing about it. People in space have problems with cooling down since all the heat our body produces is trapped inside of the spacesuit, with the only way to get rid of heat energy is radiating and that is quite weak at the temperature of the human body. NASA EVA suits have undergarments with tubes of water running around so that astronauts don't get heat stroke. Also we don't give up much radiation but the sun does. And if you have been up in the mountains on a sunny and calm winter day you know that temperature may be below freezing but in the sun it can be quiet hot I mean strip down to underwear(and get a horrid sun burn) hot. Same thing but even more of that once you don't have a few 100s of miles of atmosphere to stop most of the sun.
The God Emperor of Mankind with his Gene-writers remade mankind in order to conquer the stars. He remade the entire foundation of humanity to be tougher stronger and flexible to the rules and laws of the universe and half his damn sons did the human thing and stabbed him.
It's not just a cooling problem, it's a balancing problem between heating and cooling. All matter radiates heat in the form of infrared light, and in space, that light just goes off into the void. If you're in the shade, you're constantly losing energy through thermal waste and getting basically zero back.
The reason astronauts struggle with overheating is because their suit acts as an insulator; the warm inside reflecting the heat back while the cold outside radiates very little heat. But in direct exposure, space is frigid, it's just very slow to freeze you since there's no atmosphere to sap your heat, just your own ambient loss.
@@themather1 the amount of energy you are losing by radiation is way less than the amounts that your body produces.
Interesting, I did not know these things
if ur going to correct you might as well say space is not populated with orks ,chaos gods and astartes ... oh and I am the emperor
I love the series. There's something about the Grimdark stories and your voice that puts me at ease. Maybe it's that I grew up on "Are you afraid of the Dark", but I turn these on to lure me sleep. Keep it up.
And because they lure me to sleep I have to keep replaying them to get the full story. Win Win.
And here I was expecting the twist to be that this is the recurring nightmare of a servitor dreaming itself to life, and constantly trying to kill itself in a semi-delirious panicked mania.
Finally. I just got home, work in another 9 hours, but this is going to be awesome. To the warp with sleep, let's do this❤
This reminds me of the Rimworld Anomaly DLC.
There's a possible event known as "unnatural corpse"
There's the chance to get an event where a corpse turns up at your colony. The corpse is that of one of your colonists, who is still alive. Its a perfect copy of them.
Its warm and clammy to the touch. It causes the still living colonist to eventually go insane over a couple of weeks. In the last few days you have this sense of impending doom and horror, then it awakes. If you incinerate the corpse, throw it out, bury it, butcher it, launch it hundreds of kilometers away into the ocean or even feed it to your animals - it always returns. It teleports next to the victim whenever you aren't looking at it, always watching, driving them insane.
There is a way to stop it from waking up, but its a race against time. Its basically a death clock for the unfortunate victim, before a horrible unstoppable fate in their mirror image inevitably barrels toward them at impossible speed.
So picking up the picture is what starts the madness, right? Then does it spread to the other people on the facility after it's caused someone to die by it? Why did everyone else start hearing it at the end?
Heresy guarantees death yk?
Maybe the doc looked at it too and didn't say anything?
it only spreads if other people touch it
The entire previous crew vanished, and it seems unlikely that they all took turns holding the photo. So, I think that once someone starts the haunting(?) everyone gets screwed eventually.
Man.. Wes, once again, my man, you fkn killed it! You tell the stories with so much passion, your love for Warhammer 40k is very clear. It makes the tellings THAT much better tho. Its always great listening to your narrations. Thank you for all you do for us.
I had a great idea to listen to this video while I am at work alone in a gas station at night
I’ve watched and seen a lot of horror stuff, so I’m pretty used to creepy stories by now. But for some reason I got a rare “that really creeps me the fuck out. Big time” reaction about the tapping at the end. And, especially. That emperor forsaken image of that demon lady monster. For some reason that whole thing really got to me in a way horror hasn’t done in quite a while for me. Well done. I don’t know if it was just the visuals alone, or the narration or the sounds or all three. But this one really got me freaked out pretty good towards the end
Love the dark story hours you've done. I actually look forward to new ones. Awesome story and great voices for the characters.
Thank you WesHammer! Fantastic reading and really makes me wanna check out the original anthology of short stories this comes from. I would LOVE a Twilight Zone-esque 40k TV show, each episode a different horror story.
“Save yourself from Hell.”
you just made my day, I love your story telling more than any audio book, thank you from the bottom of my heart
Tzeentch is both the funniest and undoubtedly most horrifying chaos God for precisely the same reason.
Yea this has tzeentch written all over it
@@egunter25how so? I’m new-ish
@@dr.disappointment8400 it basically seems like one big prank to get people to kill themselves. Which is something Tzeentch would do.
You always make my day whenever you put out a vid. Keep it up!
I don't know what it is about that tapping sound in the background but it gave me goosebumps.
Good to see you bounce back 😊 love the content.
I work a graveyard shift where I'm the only person on sight for 12 hours. Time to listen to some horror stories!
I swear half of these start with people mysteriously disappearing
I always look forward to your Grimdark Story Hour videos! This one was absolutely fantastic!
Yes Weshammer!
Been crazy busy the last few weeks and not had a lot of time so I have some videos saved up…
I will be binging this afternoon 😂
Keep it up brother
Comment & liked for the algorithm gods!
As I sit on the toilet, in burning agony due to my lactose intolerance, this entertains me! Another great summary!
The pics are the cherry on top of the pie is your narration 🥶😱the horror is real 😱🥶
Like indeed, as always ❤
Fnally. FINALLY! A Grimdark Story Hour again! I'll play this to my children as a good night story. Let's see how long it takes for the nightmares to set in.
P.S. Medic looks like Idris Elba. Next we get is the Rock as an Ultramarine.
DISCLAIMER: I am notgoing to play this to my children. It was ment as a joke, for everyne who actually wats to coment on this one later.
''Horror is simply a word that men use to describe what they feel when face with things outside of their comprehension, its in human nature to assign adjectives to things that unsettle and disturb them in a vain sense of making it someting that doesn't that it just *isn't* , like vapor escaping to the void we notice it and can truly acknowledge its existence
the unknown does not care how big or tougth you are, if you are noble or a peasant a high raking official or a low private, it just take you *in*
and there's just you, the THE EMPEROR and the strength of your FAITH"- unknown rogue trader at the cadia station bar culux sub sector
I usually like your videos, but man coming back to them when im baked or drunk I got new appreciation for your story telling cadence
I’ve been waiting all day for this lol I’m so excited. Thanks for another amazing video Wes!!!!
Booyah! New grimdark story hour! My painting session gonna be extra good today!
An absolutely SPOOKY video sir! LOVED IT!
This is such good timing Wes! I just ran put of things to listen to at work thanks so much for all the amazing videos brother keep it up!!!
A variant of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”
The real horror is thinking we are in YET ANOTHER Jacobs Ladder. Twist: he was turned into a Servitor decades ago
37:11 Its Idris Elba. Even kinda sounds like him.
Great man. The best horror stories are the ones where not everything is explained
I absolutely love it when your doing the horror story's. Please keep it up mate.
These are the absolute best 40k stories on UA-cam. Hands down.
YES! More grimdark story!
Anytime i see one of these videos i go back and binge watch all your mystery videos.
I had to Google the time zones to make sure I was on top of this upload, turns out 10AM for you is 12AM (the next day) for me
Great voice work. This was a great horror short. Loved it!
0:13 that’s 100% a bionicle
Nah astartes corpse.
Bionicle based in 40k universe confirmed
@@Questionsleepp it all makes sense now
DUDE I LITERALLY LIVE FOR THIS SHIT, thanks for the consistent new posts my brother
These are your best videos by far Wes, love your channel and hope you keep finding these horror gems!
"in walked Idris Elba" great story mate loved it
Through the whole story, I couldn't help but think of this woodpecker that really liked the wall outside my window. that asshole would tap-tap-tap all the damn time...I was the only one that would hear it, because it only liked my wall for some reason. "I'm not crazy, it's the bird!"
Yall i just posted a question for Wes on the community tab and, i kid you not, he responded after just a few minutes with the exact info i needed to figure out the answer. This guy rocks 🤘
ANOTHER WARHAMMER HORROR IN THE SAME WEEK?!?! LETS GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These are the best lore videos that I've ever seen. I don't read Warhammer 40K I don't play Warhammer 40K It's just these videos that I like because they're done so well
UA-cam's video player gets worse by the day. I've paused the video but the audio keeps repeating that creepy knocking.
What knocking?
I was to falling asleep to this and after rewatching I’m realizing that the tapping at the end entered my dream and made it a nightmare
THIS HAPPENED TO ME LAST NIGHT LOL THE FUCKING TAPPING. i was seeing an eyeless servitor everywhere the tapping came from.
The warhammer universe is so terrifying it’s unbelievable fight in wars with torturous aliens and creatures that want to eat or kill you. Or try to just work a day job which is crap or you have to deal with stuff like this. I would have voidlocked myself the moment I’d saw that things face nevermind the stuff he went through.
Also weshammer thank you for getting me into the horror series I love it your grim dark series is just amazing.
These knocks are terrifying dude, this is by far my favourite video
Was it the picture that activated the anamoly? The medic didnt have the picture on him so why did he also start hearing the tapping... so many questions
5:25 whoever that man’s barber is in the 41st millennium needs to be tried for heresy😂
I think you mean, "HAIResy" 😂
I'll see myself out.😊
Finally it's story time hour 😊
The tapping sound effect was an awesome addition.
I dont know why they dont use these storys to make movies they would be soo good they already have great writing,world building, and story telling. I really like this story too with all the creepy moments with the picture of the gman and the tapping not to mention the returning corpse coming back with the same injures and new ones was chilling.