The Dark Tapes

Humanity is getting closer

to the truth,

to us.

We won't let that happen.

Ok. I got to go.

Bye.

What's that?

What's that?

It wasn't there before.

Huh. Weird.

Why's the door open?

It's open?

Oh, come on.

You kidding?

Where did that come from?

I,

oh jeez, look at, look!

What happened here?

Seriously? I.

Wow.

Where did this come from?

Do you know?

Yeah I do know.

It's,

it's Steve.

This is ridiculous.

Look at the place.

Look at the place!

This is bizarre.

No, it's not bizarre.

It's what happens when you let Steve, hold on.

This is ridiculous.

Is this blood?

Yeah, don't touch it.

Look at this place!

What's going on?

I'm gonna call him again.

What about that camera?

The camera?

Steve, you need to, hold on!

Steve, you need to call me back right now,

this place is a wreck.

Call me back, right now.

Are you nervous?

No, I'm ok, how about you?

A little.

I mean.

Hello!

You ready?

Uh?

Flux capacitor.

- Hey, you got that extra thingy, right?

You ordered it?

You want to explain what is going on here?

- This is where we're going to conduct our experiment.

And we have,

well all your cameras are set-up, which I,

there's a lot of them.

Alright.

Don't wanna miss anything.

Striking.

- You switched out these fuses, right?

It's kinda weird.

I don't, I don't know what am I supposed to like?

Nah, just do your thing.

Just do...

- why don't you give me the camera?

Why don't you explain to everyone

what else you've brought us?

Okay, well,

follow me everyone.

Over here we have my baby.

Now this is a refurbished

customized beta-model specter v62 video camera.

This is the only kind that can simultaneously record

and playback super slow motion video.

Now you know why we hired you.

Yeah, I get it.

Look, as long as I get to direct this shoot

with all of my cameras

and get exclusive rights to this little seance,

I'm good.

So, should I look at the lens?

Straight down the lens, yeah.

Whenever you're ready.

I'm Nicole Fallek.

I am a doctoral student in experimental and applied physics.

- And your relationship with Martin Callahan is?

- I am professor Callahan's teaching assistant.

And I don't appreciate the implication.

My name is Martin Callahan.

Tenured professor of applied physics at Cal-tech

and the youngest winner of the Selder prize.

- You also have a master's in theology.

Would you say that your experiences in seeing a demon

were somehow divinely related?

- I don't really call them demons.

I prefer to call them trans dimensional entities.

You mean they've experienced

what's known as night terrors?

Night terrors, yeah.

Night terrors is the western scientific explanation,

that we are

awaking paralyzed in rem sleep

and somehow hallucinating these evil entities.

Right, so if that is the case,

then why is it that every culture,

every single culture,

that we have interprets it the exact same way?

- Time dilates in rem sleep by a factor of 10 to 1,000

depending on the individual and brain waves.

So what we perceive as 10 to 1,000 seconds in dream time

is only one second in real or awake time.

- These entities, plus ghosts and spirits,

operate on a different time dilation.

Somewhere on a factor of 1,000 and 10,000.

So for every 1,000 to 10,000 seconds of theirs,

or 16 minutes to three hours in their time,

is equivalent to one second of ours.

- The human eye can perceive detail in a lit environment

up to 1/100th of a second.

In darkness,

we can perceive a flicker of light

if it is 1/200th of a second or longer.

Anything shorter than 1/200th of a second,

in our normal conscious state,

we don't perceive at all.

It's as if it isn't there.

But it is there.

We just can't see it.

If we awake in a rem state,

our brain waves and perception are still in a time dilation.

So we're actually able to still see,

although very temporarily,

what was once invisible to us.

- That's why we only see trans dimensionals

for a brief second in our normal conscious state.

They would have to stand still for 16 minutes

to three hours in their time

for us to see it for one second in our time.

- Have you ever been to the Grand Canyon?

No, no.

Because I can't describe to you how big it actually is

because there's no frame of reference.

I can't put that in perspective to make sense to you.

Okay, that's the way this is.

I can't put it into perspective, okay,

how much fear it is when someone wakes in rem sleep

and actually sees one of these entities.

I can't put that into perspective.

Okay, all of this.

This is science.

Okay, this is science.

Everything is science.

It's not superstition, okay?

It's not magic, hocus pocus.

This is science.

And this is what we're gonna try to find out.

These entities, plus ghosts and spirits,

operate on a different time dilation.

- Captain's log, star date 2013.11.19.

3,000 miles, five days,

weary travelers

through the backwoods of our great country

to land on a new starship and a new home

with my lovely wife.

Say hello.

Hello, where are we?

Girl you will find out.

One second.

Ta da!

Welcome home baby.

Oh my gosh.

Oh my gosh!

This is,

this is beautiful!

Glad you love it.

Oh my gosh, it's furnished.

I understand some of the secrecy last month.

Maybe later.

- Alright, cool. - Okay. So.

- Well in that vein let's go downstairs

'cause that's where the bedrooms are.

Downstairs?

Oh!

Downstairs.

These are upside down houses in the hills.

Oh.

And this, this rail.

The wrought iron?

Yeah, the wrought iron.

Like look at that, that is so beautiful.

I just wanna stay in the spiral staircase.

- Here, let me get the light for you.

Okay.

Wow.

This is our master bedroom

very nice.

- It's where the magic will happen.

I don't know, can it?