The wood crawlers are also in the sardines game sense they find humans then trey to blend in with them and when there’s enough they can find the last human in the area
NO! PLEASE, DON’T TRUST COLINSIDNUJNE, Yes, of course I would. I’ll bring my little brother and sister. Tobias will be sorrely missed. Let’s play tonight. I’m currently tracking down the IP addresses of everyone in this comment thread, so I’ll drop by their houses and bring them to play. (This is a joke, I’m sorry if I spooked you)
I think one of my favourite details about this is one that is so, so subtle, but so effective. The first three games are explained in a very impersonal way, describing ambiguous people, it uses "they", "the hiders", "one player", etc. But with the fourth game, the focus changes instantly. "Wait until your parents are asleep", it says. "Gather all of your friends." These instructions are now focused completely on you. It wants you to play.
I've never heard of "sardines," but it IS apparently a children's game. Though, I found it especially creepy. Maybe because I suspected it to be fictional and horror themed, so I ran through the real-life scenario of a bunch of people trying to hide in one place from an encroaching horror. But now that I'm really thinking about it, all three games are inherently creepy. Everything is a hunt-catch scenario. The most innocent of children's games are actually predation simulators. Thanks for helping me see it.
Never heard of sardines, but i experienced something similiar in hide&seek, when a hider looking for a place spots another hider and wants to hide in the same place
Sardines is a real game. I used to play all the time with my cousins when I was really young. Feed the woods is another classical nostalgia trip for me as well, good times.
This may be obvious but I just realized it- at 5:02, it’s pointing to Earth and going “Found You!” Even though it’s already clear that the Iris is hostile to our planet, there’s something very chilling about that scene..
So it seems that the first 3 games are meant to show what happens when a woodcrawler enters into a house and the fourth shows what happens when the woodcrawler takes control of the person.
I think it's something like this: Hide & Seek: The players just hide or the Woodcrawlers find them. Freeze tag: Once one catches you, you remain frozen as it takes control of you. Like how stiffly the Fake People moved in the other videos. Sardines: When you join a hider, you form a group. Woodcrawlers prefer large groups. Feed the Woods: Offer yourself to them.
"it wins" The fact that that single phrase stays on longer than all of the other phrases is honestly amazing psychological horror. I love this channel so much!
Yeah. Does anyone want to come out and play it toni Ignore this comment please don’t go in the wood Seriously, it’s a great game, I’m hostting a little party tonight, free entry, it’ll be fun. Starts at 2:00 A.M. ends at sunrise! Bring all your friends but don’t bring any weapons. Do not let your parents know. Please listen to me don’t g See you tonight! Just follow the llightssssss
I think it’s safe to say that this channel has become much more than just another Local 58. This is its own genre of psychological VHS horror. It’s all *instructional* videos or *educational* tapes of some sort- premade and approved by the manufacturer. Any “errors” passed testing- there is no broadcast interruption to be spoken of. In short- the horror is already built in, not invading.
100% agree! I think this series has even surpassed Local 58 (which I love) in some ways. Both serve some real Eldritch, old gods horror, but I like GHE's mythos better.
I really like the idea that when these tapes were 'released', they were normal. Then decades later, you go back to your old childhood VHS's to find they're completely different in some impossible and terrifying way.
Acid Cosmos Just imagine watching a movie from your childhood, but entire characters or plotlines have been removed or replaced with something you know was NOT there. There’s something very *wrong* about tampering with the past.
It's weird how the reason it's usually the third entry that things get unusual due to the fact that Gemini in itself is the *third* astrological sign, and this breaks the pattern- but it isn't the first time it does this. In fact, artificial computer learning did this too, though it was strange even from the beginning, but the actual off-the-rails event happened between "iterations" 4 and 5, breaking form from the previous three.
Same here, it wasn't as fun when the strange people in the black and white car showed up, but mom always made em go away, turns out that game also teaches you alot of useful stuff when it comes to adult life, gonna teach my kids how to play at some point.
I love the gallows humor of this video. Here's my take on it: Hide and Seek - a metaphor for the Iris' creatures finding human resistance settlements, one by one Freeze tag - a metaphor for woodcrawlers infecting humans and turning them into nature's mockery and humans trying to save each other by *forcefully removing foreign object from body.* Sardines - a metaphor for skincrawlers who take on the shape and behavior of their human prey and pretend to hide and help along with humanity. Feed the woods - *intentionally luring children to get kidnapped by these crawlers and turned into nature's mockery or other organisms the Iris makes*
Iris is the ninth planet in the Solar System (according to Gemini Home Entertainment) Pluto is the ninth planet (now dwarf planet) in the Solar System (according to real life)
_Feed the Woods game in a nutshell: and a Woodcrawler UA-camr:_ _GOING INTO THE WOODS AT 3AM AND SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF OUR LUNGS (GONE WRONG) (GONE SEXUAL) (POLICE CALLED) (I ATE A HUMAN?) (DID I DIE?)_
I really like how the first three games have nothing wrong with them: typical rules, typical demo, and are worded normally. However, in the context of this channel, they are actually pretty creepy. Well played.
@@sandran17 It's legit fun, and especially challenging if the hider happens to have picked an awful hiding place. Played it with a bunch of my cousins as a kid, and the original hider picked a chair for some godforsaken reason, so it ended up with like 8 of us at this family gathering trying to all hide crammed together behind the chair in the dark, hoping that no one's elbows or head was sticking out far enough to be recognizable and give us away
The way this series is structured with NONE of these videos being live/broadcast, instead being pre packaged videos (such as DVD or VHS) it gives the feeling that this world has been dealing with the WoodWalkers for some time as there are many videos about how to hide/counteract them, and the Iris thing seems to be treated as just some form of phenomenon in space.
I think we should these thank these children-eating monsters for how passionate they are. They created a whole fake game tutorial to lead children to their doom. True dedication.
Freeze tag is even more unnerving when you look at it this way Red = woodcrawler White = living kid Black = dead kid Even worse once you realize that over 3000 kids went missing in this universe
I just realised that the children represented in black are actually in the fourth game, but they’re really hard to see. Either it’s showing a list of places that children are likely to hide, or showing children where to hide. “There will be a small cave with a bright light above it.” “Crawl into it.” “You will feel the flesh of them and others.” “Do not make a sound.” “The game ends when the entry to the cave shuts.”
@@scandited2763 I think its referencing deep root disease and how you can help the victims survive it by pulling out the roots before they touch the bones
so basically, Iris has been looking for Earth and finally find it through Saturn's Gateways. Also, the planet has been in every single video on this channel. In the background static is a half-circle that is sometimes orange. It's a bit hard to see but if you turn your brightness up it becomes clear.
@🍓Strawberry Crepe Cookie🍓 The Iris isn't Neptune, it mutated Neptune. It's also been pulling moons from the various planets, including one that shouldn't actually exist, known as Themis. Jupiter is wounded, Saturn's gateway is being pulled apart and oddly Uranus and Pluto have remained unaffected.
Considering there’s clearly a link between the wood crawlers and nature’s mockery, the inclusion of freeze tag is interesting since nature’s mockery can induce paralysis. Also, someone outside screamed when the first runner was “frozen”.
Y'all, I just want you to know that everything about this video is unnerving and I have no idea why. From the silence before the "yayyyys" to the human figures, and the music, it's just really unnerving. Whoever did this, did a fantastic job on it.
I’ve think that I have gotten a pretty comprehensive analysis of GHE’s creatures, called Woodcrawlers. This is all speculation and may or may not be true. Take what I say with a grain of salt. Woodcrawlers are spider like creatures with a round body, originating from the Marianas Trench and below. They clearly dislike light due to their evolutionary traits of a bright glowing eye (bioluminescent traits are very helpful when you live at the lowest, darkest point on earth). Somehow they’re able to live both in water *and* on the land. Their most dangerous ability, however, is the shifting trait that they possess. They’re able to become “fake” versions of existing animals, a near perfect audio and visual replica. However, they can’t copy the BEHAVIOR of these animals, such as Woodcrawler humans behaving erratically and screaming for help while moving around jerkily. Woodcrawlers (to my knowledge) don’t reproduce. They *infect.* Allow me to explain. The plant called “‘Nature’s Mockery” is said to cause flesh decay and other nasty symptoms. This must be how more and more woodcrawlers appear. Since woodcrawlers are also referred to as “Natures Mockery.” This is also supported by the fact that it is advised to rip the foreign object from your body in the Survival Guide. (Extra, less important details) The size they can grow up to is *massive,* becoming near leviathan like sizes, able to engulf cars (and at their larger state, as seen in the dream video) are able to become hulking behemoths that lurk in the ocean deep below. It’s also very clear that these Woodcrawlers are normal, and a regular part of society. I don’t know what Gemini Home Entertainments role in this story is, but I do know that they must (to some degree) dislike Woodcrawlers. Calling them “Natures Mockery,” telling us to burn the bodies, lest they stand up again- and even getting a lot of fake people as footage. But the thing that confuses me most is why would they have “Feed the Woods?” Is it a way to pacify the Woodcrawlers? This takes place in North America, (and judging from the style of the VHS tapes) In the 1900s no less. Why not hunt them down with Napalm, and stage a campaign against them? It’s all very confusing, but hopefully we’ll find out more over time. Thanks for reading this all the way through, have a nice day. News flash I was fucking WRONG LOL
Rewatching the videos, Woodcrawlers are also unable to be killed with bullets. Oh, and if you rewatch the Lethal Omen video, there’s a strange nest (before the “fake” human enemy appears) or some kind of human in the process of becoming a Woodcrawler because of nature’s mockery, which is a plant listed in the survival guide that I theorized turns people into Woodcrawlers if the infection is left untreated for long enough.
One of my favorites of Gemini Home Enterntainment. I love the part when arrows point us into points in shadows, suggesting that something might be hiding there (and it IS hiding there - you can see for example an arrow pointing at something that appears to be Iris just before the scene with police car. Frowny face isn't a "bad answer".). That creates extra unsettling atmostphere. Great work
@@TheMouseAvenger from what I have seen from other comments and theories, the arrow pointing could mean that a kid is found, showing a frowned face with a buzzer, meaning that the kid was found and "won", by that, meaning he got caught by a wood crawler
Ah, this brings back memories. I remember the last time I played "Feed the Woods" with my childhood friend Dan. He liked it so much, he never came out of the woods! Miss you, Danny....
really interesting how they refer to the kids as “tagger” and “seeker” but then says the game ends when “it” finds you its like the woodcrawlers are what the kids are hiding and running from
My personal favourite is feed the woods, I play it with my friends quite a lot actually. Every now and again we see a strange figure emerge from the woods after we scream for a minute of two, it seems to have something that emits a strange ominous glow on it’s head. We run. And we play the next day! The views are great by that lake.
@@lukethelegend9705 well I think they crushed the police officers with inside the patrol car, if a wood crawler is strong enough to break open the cement blocks on a storm shelter that I'm certain they can smash a part of patrol car
I played feed the woods with my friends 6/10 some of them went missing and the police were involved but other than that I had a good time would play again
Is it just me or is there a reason that all of these games involve splitting up groups? In Hide and Seek everyone splits up to hide from the seeker, in Freeze Tag everyone runs away from each other, and in Sardines you split up to search for the hiders. Perhaps there's a malicious reason behind this?
Hmmmm My best guess is this one was made sometime between the years 1988 to 1992 judging by the fact the Police Car at the end looks box shaped like a late 1980s crown victoria or mid 80s dodge diplomat, Police Cars didn't really start getting oval shaped until about 1993 onwards.
Yeah, although now my jaw feel kinda weird... And I haven’t seen my friends in about 6 months... Also, it’s taking forever to remove the red vines around my house!!!
I love feed the woods! It was always my favorite game as a child. We used to play it with our cousins. For some reason I was considered a “bad influence” and they “never wanted to see me again”. Now I don’t have any friends to play with, I think they all moved away the first time they played it. It’s strange though. They never told me.
Realize that the "seeker" in hide and seek looks white while the "it" in freeze tag looks red, this might represent woodcrawlers and if you look in 2:00 the upper text faded away only leaving "it" wins. And in sardines the "seeker" hides with the hider or "tries it's best to hide with the hider" this may represent woodcrawlers blending in society. Might be a little late but I'll give it a try
Yeah. "Feed the woods" is also a real game. And I`m not saying it because I`m a woodcrawler or something. Because I`m not. You should all tottaly play that. Like Tonight or something.
I liked how the end we didn't get the real "yay" until it was from the Iris' POV looking at Earth, showing that for the final game, It was "it" and we are the prey.
so I tried to make a report about this video in the minerva alliance style, so here goes nothing. Title: "Games For Kids" Video Creator: Optica! Video Date of Origin: Unknown, estimated to be approx. 1996 - 1997 Recovered: 6/25/2020 Recovery Location: The house of Mr. and Mrs. Lorner in Moorshead, Clay County, MN. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The cassette tape with this video was recovered by the Moorhead Police Department, in conjunction with (REDACTED) after the recent disappearance of 9-year-old Jaimie Lorner, the sole child of the Lorner family, and several of her friends after Jaimie discovered the tape in their house's attic. Jaimie was last seen sneaking outside of her parent's house at the dead of night and gathering her aforementioned friends, then heading out into the nearby woods. In addition, all attempts of contacting former Optica! Video employees have reportedly failed. It has also been discovered that Optica! Video went defunct in the mid-to-late 2000s, which may have been due to the decline of home media sales during that period. Additionally, comparison with other "Games For Kids" tapes produced by the same company have revealed that the Lorner tape has several key differences from the rest of the tapes compared. It has been reported that the nearby woods had been infested with what is called "Nature's Mockery" and creatures that are commonly known as "Skinwalkers". It is speculated that Jaimie and her friends were victims of the skinwalkers, as they produce light and are attracted to loud noises. If you have any info about Jaimie Lorner or any of the other missing children, please contact the Clay County Office of Missing and Exploited Children at (REDACTED).
i can't take this seriously cause everytime i see the crying kid face on screen i imagine that image of spongebob crying with the vine boom sound effect overlayed on it
How do you Feed the Woods, exact...? Ooh, I get it. Reports of children missing in the woods, police investigate, a colossal spider devours the police car, feeding the woods.
something about the last part is so nerve-wracking and anxiety inducing i just cannot watch it entirely without either taking one of my earphones off or shifting my attention to something else other than the video. truly one of the best analog horrors out there. ❤
Me and my friends had fun playing "Feed the Woods" with some other people in the woods who looked just like us but they had trouble talking. Jake's lookalike took him to a different part of the woods and we haven't seen him since. Hopefully he didn't abandon us for his new friend :(
I just found this channel and a few similar, and keep finding myself saying "oh you kids...maybe this new generation isn't so bad after all". This is just the content I've wanted to see since I was younger. Keep it up!
I wonder if anyone's talked about the fact it shows a crying face- the first thing I thought of were the "your tears contain salt" back in the storm safety tips video. Crying does nothing to help,and since these are kids it probably wouldn't help at all that most are sensitive and depending on the age;prone to cry when something's bad or scary
I think it’s more to do with noise. Harbinge is presumably run by the good guys, considering they’ve been trying to root out Deep Root Disease and create storm bunkers against woodcrawlers. Woodcrawlers may be somehow drawn to salt, but more likely crying will create a lot of noise. *Thus, leading the woodcrawlers closer to dinner.*
This episode is the one that unnerved me the most, with the creepy dark woods, the liminal space photos, the the arrow pointing at the Earth with the words "Found You!"
Wow they really pulled out all the childhood classics! Kids these days on their phones and ipads, but these were the fun games we played when I was a kid.
The first, and absolutely excellent, episode of Inside No. 9 is called Sardines where they play sardines. It's not a happy episode, but it's real good. Side note. The writing here is about on par with Inside No. 9 imo, although they have very different vibes. I'm a sucker for good writing. This is excellent writing Remy Abode (or whoever you actually are)
The way I see it, the first few games are telling kids to hide from “it”, try not to leave your friends behind (freeze tag), and try to stick together when hiding (strength in numbers i guess). The last game however is when it becomes corrupted by “it” and attempts to lead the kids away towards danger. This is just my interpretation but it would make sense if these tapes were made to help survive this invasion Gemini home entertainment is displaying
I remember feed the woods from when I was a kid! It was very fun and everyone always did it. If someone didn’t do it everyone hated them. You don’t want to be hated. So play with us.
As a seasoned veteran of “Feed the Woods”, the game can be hard but once you figure out the changing meta strategies, it is really easy, I have 10 W’s under my belt and I ain’t stopping anytime soon
Why do I feel like, whenever the tape refers to a tagger or a seeker, the "IT" that wins isn't them
“It” can be a representation of Woodcrawlers
@@seid3366 that’s what I was thinking as well
@@seid3366 or the iris. “It” is the iris, tagging planets.
@@xthax9718 the first one it tagged is neptune
Then triton
The wood crawlers are also in the sardines game sense they find humans then trey to blend in with them and when there’s enough they can find the last human in the area
Anyone want to hang out and play Feed the Woods? We're not allowed to play Sardines anymore after Tobias got hurt
poor tobias
@@momgo6533 😭
*NO. I DO NOT WANT TO PLAY.*
Can we play såČrïflıčė?
NO! PLEASE, DON’T TRUST COLINSIDNUJNE,
Yes, of course I would. I’ll bring my little brother and sister. Tobias will be sorrely missed. Let’s play tonight. I’m currently tracking down the IP addresses of everyone in this comment thread, so I’ll drop by their houses and bring them to play.
(This is a joke, I’m sorry if I spooked you)
Music cuts out. “Feed the Woods” appears on screen.
Me: “Ah shit.”
"Here we go again"
Ahhhh shi#. Here we go again.
Ah shit it's the scary part
Shit’s about to hit the fan.
Oh boy, here I go sacrificing people to the woods again
I think one of my favourite details about this is one that is so, so subtle, but so effective.
The first three games are explained in a very impersonal way, describing ambiguous people, it uses "they", "the hiders", "one player", etc.
But with the fourth game, the focus changes instantly. "Wait until your parents are asleep", it says. "Gather all of your friends." These instructions are now focused completely on you. It wants you to play.
great observation - i really love this!
absolutely, I could kinda tell as soon as the instructions began pouring through, it really makes you stop and take it in when the context is provided
Every analog horror does stuff like this it’s not new lnao
@@nickg5341 i didn't ask
I've never heard of "sardines," but it IS apparently a children's game. Though, I found it especially creepy. Maybe because I suspected it to be fictional and horror themed, so I ran through the real-life scenario of a bunch of people trying to hide in one place from an encroaching horror. But now that I'm really thinking about it, all three games are inherently creepy. Everything is a hunt-catch scenario. The most innocent of children's games are actually predation simulators. Thanks for helping me see it.
Me too
...You've never heard of sardines??
@@dazza2350 i've also never heard of it
Never heard of sardines, but i experienced something similiar in hide&seek, when a hider looking for a place spots another hider and wants to hide in the same place
Sardines is a real game. I used to play all the time with my cousins when I was really young.
Feed the woods is another classical nostalgia trip for me as well, good times.
This may be obvious but I just realized it- at 5:02, it’s pointing to Earth and going “Found You!”
Even though it’s already clear that the Iris is hostile to our planet, there’s something very chilling about that scene..
That part is awesome. Always gives me chills
ikr! that part creeped me out the most
I just think it's because the people recording are aliens
Here’s the thing, though: are we playing Hide And Go Seek, or Sardines?
Maybe they’re running from something, too.
@@TheBasikShow *o h*
Oh boy, “Feed the Woods” sounds REALLY fun!
The Windows Eater WALK UNTIL YOU CANNOT SEE THE L I g h T s ANYMORE
@@tipiq1357 SCREAM ON THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS.
Daft Flo [ a.k.a Saki] AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!
This is gonna sound horrible, but I’m surprised no ones made a penis joke
I'm the 200 like 😏
So it seems that the first 3 games are meant to show what happens when a woodcrawler enters into a house and the fourth shows what happens when the woodcrawler takes control of the person.
Levi Paula Yeah, it begins with trying to hide from the “seeker”, then being caught by the “tagger” and then feeding the “woods”.
Wait can you explain how all the games are connected?
I think it's something like this:
Hide & Seek: The players just hide or the Woodcrawlers find them.
Freeze tag: Once one catches you, you remain frozen as it takes control of you. Like how stiffly the Fake People moved in the other videos.
Sardines: When you join a hider, you form a group. Woodcrawlers prefer large groups.
Feed the Woods: Offer yourself to them.
Thank you for this realization
Thats really damn clever.
"it wins"
The fact that that single phrase stays on longer than all of the other phrases is honestly amazing psychological horror. I love this channel so much!
Cool anyways I was the 1000th like
Where does it say it wins btq
@@AnEgg01 1:58
Reminds me first test of AI in third episode where at first scenario with Jack leaping the river, computer said “IT IS DEAD”
shit i just noticed that
Is feeding the woods that new TickTock challenge them darned kids keep talkin' 'bout?
Oh, it’s a blast to play! My stomach is always full after the game ends!
The tower of Babble 🄾🄷 🄽🄾
Yeah. Does anyone want to come out and play it toni
Ignore this comment please don’t go in the wood
Seriously, it’s a great game, I’m hostting a little party tonight, free entry, it’ll be fun. Starts at 2:00 A.M. ends at sunrise! Bring all your friends but don’t bring any weapons. Do not let your parents know.
Please listen to me don’t g
See you tonight! Just follow the llightssssss
@@thetowerofbabble6307 hello the forest
@@Cessated just follow the lights and it will be a fun night.
I think it’s safe to say that this channel has become much more than just another Local 58. This is its own genre of psychological VHS horror. It’s all *instructional* videos or *educational* tapes of some sort- premade and approved by the manufacturer. Any “errors” passed testing- there is no broadcast interruption to be spoken of.
In short- the horror is already built in, not invading.
100% agree! I think this series has even surpassed Local 58 (which I love) in some ways. Both serve some real Eldritch, old gods horror, but I like GHE's mythos better.
I really like the idea that when these tapes were 'released', they were normal. Then decades later, you go back to your old childhood VHS's to find they're completely different in some impossible and terrifying way.
Acid Cosmos That’s an awesome interpretation.
fellicitya I think Gemini’s mythos is a little too confusing for my taste. Still super scary and well made though!
Acid Cosmos Just imagine watching a movie from your childhood, but entire characters or plotlines have been removed or replaced with something you know was NOT there. There’s something very *wrong* about tampering with the past.
This video has more dislikes than the others, which leads me to believe at least a few people thought it was for kids
It ended up on UA-cam kids…
@@trolly4233 no way...💀
Well there is a significant portion of society that demonstrate they shouldn't have had kids because they refuse to parent.
“Mommy can we play feed the woods?”
I find that kinda funny lol, I wonder if a kid got caught trying to play feed the woods
I think i missed a few steps. The kids i was babysitting are now dead and i'm lost in the woods.
Congratulations you won the game!
I don't get it ?
amateur mistake
no, you're on the right track!
FOUND YOU.
Bro I swear when the arrow pointed at Earth and said "Found You!", that high key gave me fucking chills.
Yeah, thats easily one of the freakiest moments in the whole series.
It's almost like if it just displayed an IP on the screen, pointed to it, and said "Found You!"
at first i was like what? then i choked on my drink and went OH 0_0
Reminded me of "uh oh bad decision Mark!"
I was caught off guard when it got scary at the fourth game, not the third. I love how this series always keeps me on edge.
Ye same
It's weird how the reason it's usually the third entry that things get unusual due to the fact that Gemini in itself is the *third* astrological sign, and this breaks the pattern- but it isn't the first time it does this. In fact, artificial computer learning did this too, though it was strange even from the beginning, but the actual off-the-rails event happened between "iterations" 4 and 5, breaking form from the previous three.
@@diacosiapentacontahex “HOME INVASION HELP” seems to have been hijacked by the first or second point instead of the third or fourth
@@diacosiapentacontahex tf do astrological signs have to do with anything
@@proredfly9410 Gemini is an astrological sign, specifically the third. This entire channel is named after it.
Okay but is anybody going to talk about how unenthusiastic those kids sound?
Yaaaaaay
They were recording after feeding.
It’s a sound effect from a roller coaster tycoon game IIRC
@@MaDmanEXE ay yo what the-
I think that was the point
Ah, Feed the Woods. I used to play that game all the time as a kid. You couldn't stop me from playing it.
ｎｏｔｈｉｎｇ ｃｏｕｌｄ
hell
And my stomach was always content afterwards
Same here, it wasn't as fun when the strange people in the black and white car showed up, but mom always made em go away, turns out that game also teaches you alot of useful stuff when it comes to adult life, gonna teach my kids how to play at some point.
@@tipiq1357 y e s
-Imagine if UA-cam added this to UA-cam Kids.-
Oh God No!
helo
@@bestbrostar hi
@@blastromlifyedah I would be cracking up if that happened
@@blastromlifyedah Geez...
I love the gallows humor of this video. Here's my take on it:
Hide and Seek - a metaphor for the Iris' creatures finding human resistance settlements, one by one
Freeze tag - a metaphor for woodcrawlers infecting humans and turning them into nature's mockery and humans trying to save each other by *forcefully removing foreign object from body.*
Sardines - a metaphor for skincrawlers who take on the shape and behavior of their human prey and pretend to hide and help along with humanity.
Feed the woods - *intentionally luring children to get kidnapped by these crawlers and turned into nature's mockery or other organisms the Iris makes*
Iris is the ninth planet in the Solar System (according to Gemini Home Entertainment)
Pluto is the ninth planet (now dwarf planet) in the Solar System (according to real life)
Nah, feed the wood is probably referring to kid getting lured into the forest and will soon get eaten by the skinwalker(mutated bear)
@@ismailzahir2831 *woods *kids
_Feed the Woods game in a nutshell: and a Woodcrawler UA-camr:_
_GOING INTO THE WOODS AT 3AM AND SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF OUR LUNGS (GONE WRONG) (GONE SEXUAL) (POLICE CALLED) (I ATE A HUMAN?) (DID I DIE?)_
How did you know my newest vid
But did it happen in the hood?
_(FAKE PEOPLE)_
Blackheartzero, the Underground Song Critic NATURE’S MOCKERY ON TAPE
Ali-A over here
I really like how the first three games have nothing wrong with them: typical rules, typical demo, and are worded normally. However, in the context of this channel, they are actually pretty creepy. Well played.
O_O
Edit: Sardines is a banger of a game glad to see it got a feature in this top 10 list
Honestly never heard of it before this.
MidiMaze178
Have you tried playing Feed The Woods? It's pretty good! (Also I like your pfp)
I didn’t even know it existed
@@sandran17 It's legit fun, and especially challenging if the hider happens to have picked an awful hiding place. Played it with a bunch of my cousins as a kid, and the original hider picked a chair for some godforsaken reason, so it ended up with like 8 of us at this family gathering trying to all hide crammed together behind the chair in the dark, hoping that no one's elbows or head was sticking out far enough to be recognizable and give us away
@@lzrshark617 looks fun
The way this series is structured with NONE of these videos being live/broadcast, instead being pre packaged videos (such as DVD or VHS) it gives the feeling that this world has been dealing with the WoodWalkers for some time as there are many videos about how to hide/counteract them, and the Iris thing seems to be treated as just some form of phenomenon in space.
I'm guessing that the AI they're using infected other forms of media, perhaps it was in charge of making these videos and it affected them as well?
Out of any moment in the entire series, the ending shot of the Earth and the phrase: “Found you!” Was straight up chilling…
I like how until the hallucinations start, every game has the added benefit of training children on how to run and hide
I think we should these thank these children-eating monsters for how passionate they are. They created a whole fake game tutorial to lead children to their doom. True dedication.
Freeze tag is even more unnerving when you look at it this way
Red = woodcrawler
White = living kid
Black = dead kid
Even worse once you realize that over 3000 kids went missing in this universe
Wait... wasn't the 3000 kids from Mandela catalog?
I just realised that the children represented in black are actually in the fourth game, but they’re really hard to see.
Either it’s showing a list of places that children are likely to hide, or showing children where to hide.
“There will be a small cave with a bright light above it.”
“Crawl into it.”
“You will feel the flesh of them and others.”
“Do not make a sound.”
“The game ends when the entry to the cave shuts.”
Then why after touching the become white? Are they becoming alive?
@@scandited2763 I think its referencing deep root disease and how you can help the victims survive it by pulling out the roots before they touch the bones
Yo why does the black kid have to be the dead one, racist?
😂😂😂😂
so basically, Iris has been looking for Earth and finally find it through Saturn's Gateways.
Also, the planet has been in every single video on this channel. In the background static is a half-circle that is sometimes orange. It's a bit hard to see but if you turn your brightness up it becomes clear.
Who is Iris?
@🍓Strawberry Crepe Cookie🍓 The Iris isn't Neptune, it mutated Neptune.
It's also been pulling moons from the various planets, including one that shouldn't actually exist, known as Themis. Jupiter is wounded, Saturn's gateway is being pulled apart and oddly Uranus and Pluto have remained unaffected.
Considering there’s clearly a link between the wood crawlers and nature’s mockery, the inclusion of freeze tag is interesting since nature’s mockery can induce paralysis.
Also, someone outside screamed when the first runner was “frozen”.
They were just playing Feed The Woods
Real-time.
_When all the _*_runners_*_ are frózeń_
*_ｉｔ ｗｉｎｓ_*
I really get scared when i read "it wins"
Uriel Calderón same, especially since it wasn’t “the it wins”, just “it wins”.
when everything but "it wins" fades out...
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@@a_man_of_many_screams your profile picture made it scarier good job
it just hit me that the last scene, pointed at the earth, is likely from the iris's point of view.
woah.
Y'all, I just want you to know that everything about this video is unnerving and I have no idea why. From the silence before the "yayyyys" to the human figures, and the music, it's just really unnerving. Whoever did this, did a fantastic job on it.
I’ve think that I have gotten a pretty comprehensive analysis of GHE’s creatures, called Woodcrawlers. This is all speculation and may or may not be true. Take what I say with a grain of salt.
Woodcrawlers are spider like creatures with a round body, originating from the Marianas Trench and below. They clearly dislike light due to their evolutionary traits of a bright glowing eye (bioluminescent traits are very helpful when you live at the lowest, darkest point on earth). Somehow they’re able to live both in water *and* on the land. Their most dangerous ability, however, is the shifting trait that they possess. They’re able to become “fake” versions of existing animals, a near perfect audio and visual replica. However, they can’t copy the BEHAVIOR of these animals, such as Woodcrawler humans behaving erratically and screaming for help while moving around jerkily.
Woodcrawlers (to my knowledge) don’t reproduce. They *infect.* Allow me to explain.
The plant called “‘Nature’s Mockery” is said to cause flesh decay and other nasty symptoms. This must be how more and more woodcrawlers appear. Since woodcrawlers are also referred to as “Natures Mockery.” This is also supported by the fact that it is advised to rip the foreign object from your body in the Survival Guide.
(Extra, less important details)
The size they can grow up to is *massive,* becoming near leviathan like sizes, able to engulf cars (and at their larger state, as seen in the dream video) are able to become hulking behemoths that lurk in the ocean deep below.
It’s also very clear that these Woodcrawlers are normal, and a regular part of society. I don’t know what Gemini Home Entertainments role in this story is, but I do know that they must (to some degree) dislike Woodcrawlers. Calling them “Natures Mockery,” telling us to burn the bodies, lest they stand up again- and even getting a lot of fake people as footage.
But the thing that confuses me most is why would they have “Feed the Woods?” Is it a way to pacify the Woodcrawlers? This takes place in North America, (and judging from the style of the VHS tapes) In the 1900s no less. Why not hunt them down with Napalm, and stage a campaign against them? It’s all very confusing, but hopefully we’ll find out more over time.
Thanks for reading this all the way through, have a nice day.
News flash I was fucking WRONG LOL
Rewatching the videos, Woodcrawlers are also unable to be killed with bullets. Oh, and if you rewatch the Lethal Omen video, there’s a strange nest (before the “fake” human enemy appears) or some kind of human in the process of becoming a Woodcrawler because of nature’s mockery, which is a plant listed in the survival guide that I theorized turns people into Woodcrawlers if the infection is left untreated for long enough.
That's really accurate. Woodcrawlers may also be of alien or supernatural origins but I like your take on a more grounded version of them.
redacted I don’t think the woodcrawlers are like the creatures we saw at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the limbs are more wooden like.
redacted that’s not a nest, it’s a Nature’s Mockery, compare it to the image of it in the survival guide.
It’s likely that blue ray from the solar system video was the origin of the monsters at the bottom of the Mariana Trench
Everybody knows that when someone freezes you, you also turn black.
A fun bonus side effect.
Is this why cops yell “freeze” at suspects?
@@birdgreen9337 C U R S E D c o m m e n t
So that’s why cops keep on pulling me over when I’m driving
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Could be interpreted as racism OR frostbite! what a hoot! :D
One of my favorites of Gemini Home Enterntainment. I love the part when arrows point us into points in shadows, suggesting that something might be hiding there (and it IS hiding there - you can see for example an arrow pointing at something that appears to be Iris just before the scene with police car. Frowny face isn't a "bad answer".). That creates extra unsettling atmostphere. Great work
What DOES the frowny face mean, then? :? And why the buzzer sound, if it doesn't mean "bad answer"?
@@TheMouseAvenger from what I have seen from other comments and theories, the arrow pointing could mean that a kid is found, showing a frowned face with a buzzer, meaning that the kid was found and "won", by that, meaning he got caught by a wood crawler
Ah, this brings back memories. I remember the last time I played "Feed the Woods" with my childhood friend Dan. He liked it so much, he never came out of the woods!
Miss you, Danny....
Danny is with us now.
You can join him if you want.
*_Come Back To The Woods_*
really interesting how they refer to the kids as “tagger” and “seeker” but then says the game ends when “it” finds you its like the woodcrawlers are what the kids are hiding and running from
What is a wood crawler, I searched it up and got images of carts made of wood to help the little ones walk
My personal favourite is feed the woods, I play it with my friends quite a lot actually. Every now and again we see a strange figure emerge from the woods after we scream for a minute of two, it seems to have something that emits a strange ominous glow on it’s head. We run. And we play the next day! The views are great by that lake.
me, seeing “hide and go seek” is one of the games: i Do not Like where this is Going
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I never played Feed the Woods, there are no woods were I lived. What a bummer
@Gregor Kerr SLAKE THE DESERT'S THIRST
Same
Those kids really need a adult to save them, preferably the Police
4:33
Oh,.. then I guess they are all screwed either way.
oh fuck those missing chidlens then
D-did the woodcrawler just possess that police car?
@@lukethelegend9705 well I think they crushed the police officers with inside the patrol car, if a wood crawler is strong enough to break open the cement blocks on a storm shelter that I'm certain they can smash a part of patrol car
Maybe use a flamethrower
@@reanimationeas342 burn them, at least they stand again
When playing hide and seek, make sure that you memorize all of your friends so that you don’t find somebody who isn’t one of you
Come to my house at 9 PM so we can play "Feed The Woods"
Everyone is invited!
Sure!
No thanks, don't feel like getting killed
Thanks for the invitation!
did anyone go home that night? i can't find my friend :'
@@lazuardichoiri6123 oh don’t worry, your friend is probably fine
I played feed the woods with my friends 6/10 some of them went missing and the police were involved but other than that I had a good time would play again
Is it just me or is there a reason that all of these games involve splitting up groups? In Hide and Seek everyone splits up to hide from the seeker, in Freeze Tag everyone runs away from each other, and in Sardines you split up to search for the hiders.
Perhaps there's a malicious reason behind this?
Easier for a particular "something" to pick off individuals when they're away from the group and do it silently without raising suspicion immediately.
Hmmmm My best guess is this one was made sometime between the years 1988 to 1992 judging by the fact the Police Car at the end looks box shaped like a late 1980s crown victoria or mid 80s dodge diplomat, Police Cars didn't really start getting oval shaped until about 1993 onwards.
feed the woods was such a classic game
Yeah, although now my jaw feel kinda weird...
And I haven’t seen my friends in about 6 months...
Also, it’s taking forever to remove the red vines around my house!!!
This is 100% the creepiest episode for me. The seeking sequence with the sad face and the lowering pitch made me flinch away from my phone so much.
"Found you" with the arrow pointing at Earth might be my favorite moment from any analog horror ever. It's so simple yet tells so much.
i love how the '"it" wins' just stayed there not fading away with the main text at 1:58
That sad face is really scary, i don't know why, but i really found it scary
Amazing video!
That “YAAAAAY” stock sound effect is so accurate to actual kids entertainment back in the day, yet so creepy.
I know and that one part were it show earth and then the word found you is also scary
@@writer4000 Oh god.
A lot of people talk about how scary the feed the woods part was, for me, it was when the arrow pointed towards the earth and said "found you!"
imagine if it just shows an image of your house irl and says "found you"
I love feed the woods! It was always my favorite game as a child. We used to play it with our cousins. For some reason I was considered a “bad influence” and they “never wanted to see me again”. Now I don’t have any friends to play with, I think they all moved away the first time they played it. It’s strange though. They never told me.
Realize that the "seeker" in hide and seek looks white while the "it" in freeze tag looks red, this might represent woodcrawlers and if you look in 2:00 the upper text faded away only leaving "it" wins. And in sardines the "seeker" hides with the hider or "tries it's best to hide with the hider" this may represent woodcrawlers blending in society.
Might be a little late but I'll give it a try
"When all the runners are frozen, it wins."
That sounds . . . ominous.
I've never heard of sardines, is it a real game?
yes.
Yeah, it's the thing compact house flippers put on their toast.
W
Wait it is
Yeah. "Feed the woods" is also a real game. And I`m not saying it because I`m a woodcrawler or something. Because I`m not. You should all tottaly play that. Like Tonight or something.
4:45
The police officer screamed from horror.
And so him and his car went underground.
THE DISTORTED CELEBRATION OF THE KIDS WHEN THE CAR IS EATEN, TAKEN, CRUSHED, ETC WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DESCRIBE THE SCENE IS SUCH A COOL DETAIL
I appreciate that every time the out of the ordinary section begins, the music cuts out. It’s just a little cue that stuff is about to go very wrong.
i love horror that doesnt rely on jumpscares
Instructions unclear, I am now embedded in a tree.
Thats how you win? I thought you were supposed to sacrifice your friends to the woodcrawler
Are you saying you just reenacted the ending of There, There?
What? I can confirm that doesn’t happnE seCabU i AhEV ElaPYd tI
You aren’t supposed to sacrifice your friends.
*You’re supposed to sacrifice anyone who does and doesn’t want to play, including yourself.*
This is probably the best one so far, the way this paranormal situation is explained to kids is really smart.
"It's like a deadly game of freeze tag, I touch you with the .44 mag and you're frozen inside a body-bag."
- Dr. Dre
Apart from the unsettling audios and horrid imagery, the music throughout this ARG is an absolute bop
I liked how the end we didn't get the real "yay" until it was from the Iris' POV looking at Earth, showing that for the final game, It was "it" and we are the prey.
so I tried to make a report about this video in the minerva alliance style, so here goes nothing.
Title: "Games For Kids"
Video Creator: Optica! Video
Date of Origin: Unknown, estimated to be approx. 1996 - 1997
Recovered: 6/25/2020
Recovery Location: The house of Mr. and Mrs. Lorner in Moorshead, Clay County, MN.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
The cassette tape with this video was recovered by the Moorhead Police Department, in conjunction with (REDACTED) after the recent disappearance of 9-year-old Jaimie Lorner, the sole child of the Lorner family, and several of her friends after Jaimie discovered the tape in their house's attic. Jaimie was last seen sneaking outside of her parent's house at the dead of night and gathering her aforementioned friends, then heading out into the nearby woods.
In addition, all attempts of contacting former Optica! Video employees have reportedly failed. It has also been discovered that Optica! Video went defunct in the mid-to-late 2000s, which may have been due to the decline of home media sales during that period. Additionally, comparison with other "Games For Kids" tapes produced by the same company have revealed that the Lorner tape has several key differences from the rest of the tapes compared.
It has been reported that the nearby woods had been infested with what is called "Nature's Mockery" and creatures that are commonly known as "Skinwalkers". It is speculated that Jaimie and her friends were victims of the skinwalkers, as they produce light and are attracted to loud noises. If you have any info about Jaimie Lorner or any of the other missing children, please contact the Clay County Office of Missing and Exploited Children at (REDACTED).
captainsillybouquethologram nice! Will you make more?
When they point the arrow to earth and it says "Found You!", it gives me massive "Uh oh, Bad decision Mark!" vibes, seriously unsettling
i dont know why, but the camera moving at 4:22 scared the shit outta me. made it feel like i was there.
Bro same
Noticed something after a couple of rewatches.
I... don't think that's the camera moving.
i can't take this seriously cause everytime i see the crying kid face on screen i imagine that image of spongebob crying with the vine boom sound effect overlayed on it
I saw that woodcrawler and the iris at the end!
The intro music sounds kinda familar too!
Where did you see the IRIS?
Looking for The Iris.
can’t find the iris
The part where the sun is setting!
Well that was the most terrifying video in the series thus far. Glad I saw the notification
5:10 dang I really lost the game huh, and now you have too!
I'm starting to think that this might not be about games for kids, don't know what's tipping me off though
I don't know what you're talking about, I played Feed The Woods all the time as a kit, and I never ryina gring JEKOB
Parents are so overprotective nowadays, my friends and I played Feed the Woods as kids and most of us survived!
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@@MA3DCH3N “most of us”
@@masonsykes2240 are you okay?
Really dig the tongue-in-cheek vibes. Dark humor keeps the video in the appropriate realm for its production.
How do you Feed the Woods, exact...?
Ooh, I get it. Reports of children missing in the woods, police investigate, a colossal spider devours the police car, feeding the woods.
"gather" all of your friends.
Well, it's impossible. I already did! They're in my basement, you silly!!
All of these games are so nostalgic to me, especially Feed The Woods. I wish me and my friends could play it again one day.
something about the last part is so nerve-wracking and anxiety inducing i just cannot watch it entirely without either taking one of my earphones off or shifting my attention to something else other than the video. truly one of the best analog horrors out there. ❤
Me and my friends had fun playing "Feed the Woods" with some other people in the woods who looked just like us but they had trouble talking. Jake's lookalike took him to a different part of the woods and we haven't seen him since. Hopefully he didn't abandon us for his new friend :(
Arrow: Points at Earth, "Found You!"
Me:
Bro got doxxed 🤣 they found u
I like how it starts with games about running away from someone chasing, then to become part of the ones chasing.
I just found this channel and a few similar, and keep finding myself saying "oh you kids...maybe this new generation isn't so bad after all". This is just the content I've wanted to see since I was younger. Keep it up!
I wonder if anyone's talked about the fact it shows a crying face- the first thing I thought of were the "your tears contain salt" back in the storm safety tips video. Crying does nothing to help,and since these are kids it probably wouldn't help at all that most are sensitive and depending on the age;prone to cry when something's bad or scary
I think it’s more to do with noise.
Harbinge is presumably run by the good guys, considering they’ve been trying to root out Deep Root Disease and create storm bunkers against woodcrawlers.
Woodcrawlers may be somehow drawn to salt, but more likely crying will create a lot of noise.
*Thus, leading the woodcrawlers closer to dinner.*
I’m back to watching this entire series right before bed. Pray for my sleep schedule
Good luck! You might be fed to the woods..
Literally watching this at right before bed
This episode is the one that unnerved me the most, with the creepy dark woods, the liminal space photos, the the arrow pointing at the Earth with the words "Found You!"
Wow they really pulled out all the childhood classics! Kids these days on their phones and ipads, but these were the fun games we played when I was a kid.
Feed the woods, a classic game
The first, and absolutely excellent, episode of Inside No. 9 is called Sardines where they play sardines. It's not a happy episode, but it's real good.
Side note. The writing here is about on par with Inside No. 9 imo, although they have very different vibes. I'm a sucker for good writing. This is excellent writing Remy Abode (or whoever you actually are)
I remember when me and my friends used to play Feed the Woods... I think I was the only one who lost, because nobody else came back...
"Sardines", aka "that one game from the Inside No. 9 episode".
The "it wins" not disappearing until after the resf of the text is that subtle genius people can show in analog horror
The way I see it, the first few games are telling kids to hide from “it”, try not to leave your friends behind (freeze tag), and try to stick together when hiding (strength in numbers i guess). The last game however is when it becomes corrupted by “it” and attempts to lead the kids away towards danger. This is just my interpretation but it would make sense if these tapes were made to help survive this invasion Gemini home entertainment is displaying
I remember feed the woods from when I was a kid! It was very fun and everyone always did it. If someone didn’t do it everyone hated them. You don’t want to be hated. So play with us.
Freeze Tag is called "Bente Uno" where I'm from, everyone runs to hide while "it" counts to 21 which is the translation of "Bente Uno"
I just love everything about it. About this video and the series in general. I like how everything is tied together.
I noticed that the music is the same one from eventide media's oceanview forecast (or whatever it's called)
I noticed that too
The track is called Midnight Cruise by Trammell Starks
As a seasoned veteran of “Feed the Woods”, the game can be hard but once you figure out the changing meta strategies, it is really easy, I have 10 W’s under my belt and I ain’t stopping anytime soon
I actual learned about the game sardines by watching this video. This is more learning that fear tbh.
I played Feed the Woods when I was little. It was tons of fun.
1:16 The deluge brings forth the light of the ocean.