My Roanoke Nightmare
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wakezakzak-89190 — 9 years ago(November 09, 2016 09:30 PM)
My Roanoke Nightmare
was a five episode documentary show from 2015, produced by Sidney Aaron James. The show details the story of Lee Harris, Shelby Miller and Matt Miller. They were the survivors of an attack by the vengeful spirits of the Lost Roanoke Colony in 2014, led by the Butcher. Among those killed were Dr. Elias Cunningham, one of the Polks, Cricket Marlowe, and Mason Harris. Elias was killed by the Polks, the one Polk was killed by Matt, Cricket was killed by the Butcher and Mason was killed off-screen by Lee. From what the documentary details, and from what
RTR: TDIH
implies, the police have been on it, and are aware of what goes on. Also, the Polks, despite acting and dressing like backwoods hillbillies, have enough money to pay off the entire police force, but not enough to afford a better lifestyle for themselves. And the Polks disappeared from their farmhouse to never be apprehended by police, or the police never investigated the Polks, especially for the murder of Elias Cunningham. But anyway, let's get to the sequel.
Return to Roanoke: Three Days in Hell
was supposed to be a 2016 thirteen episode reality TV series, again produced by Sidney Aaron James. The show was supposed to be about the actors of
MRN
put in a house with their real-life counterparts on the night of the blood moon, and they were to be just jump scared every so often, and metaphorically rip each other's throats out until the very end; all the while, hope to get a confession from Lee on camera that she killed her husband. I guess a confession from Shelby or Matt about who killed Cricket Marlowe isn't needed for some odd reason. However, the show Sidney intended to air never saw the light of day. What is presented to us now is a compiled version edited by a TV network, possibly the same that released
MRN
, but incorporated a musical score, in-text to explain to audience, bleeps for censorship (despite the graphic violence of REAL people getting butchered), and somehow got approval from all of the families of the deceased parties to air their loved ones deaths on National TV for profit. And the version of
RTR: TDIH
that has aired now is four episodes rather than thirteen like Sidney intended, and details a lot of significant amount of events. By all sheer fricking coincidence, ALL of the following happened over the course of three days:- Agnes went crazy and killed Sidney and his crew, believing herself to be the Butcher.
- The ghosts went on a murderous rampage for a total of twenty seconds with a random crew member, Diana, Rory, Agnes, Dominic and Dylan.
- Shelby bashes Matt's head in for cheating on her with a ghost witch, and then killed herself.
- The Polks magically return with cocaine to torture Lee, Audrey and Monet, and injure Dylan before all the Polks are easily killed off by Audrey and Lee, except for one Polk, who takes off in a pickup truck.
- Lee gets possessed by the ghost witch to kill Monet, attack Audrey, and brutally kills a random trio group of teenagers.
So with all of that cleared up, I have a few hundred questions:
- So, if the Polks were never investigated in the first incident, who got the blame for Cunningham's death? And exactly how were Shelby and Matt not at least tried for the murder of Elias or Cricket if the Polks were not being investigated at all? Was there video evidence to support their claims of spirits killing Cricket Marlowe?
- A random group of teenagers found Diana's car and reported it to the police while all of the events at the house was going on. The police even say on camera they investigated the car, even though the text from the documentary itself says the car was not found until three months after the events presented in the documentary, meaning that either the police did investigate the car, and
forgot
about it, or they never did, and it was found later. If the police never did an investigation on the car, that means the television network broadcasting
RTR: TDIH
have in possession digital footage of the police department in charge of the incident from two years prior with Lee, Shelby and Matt, admitting to have not properly investigate either incident. And yet, somehow, the footage got allowed to be viewed by the public, when this police department would be the rightful owners of the footage now, since it is in their jurisdiction. So how did the footage get released by the police department if its within their best interest to keep this self-incriminating footage out of the public eye?
(EDIT: Okay, the text says her footage was found three months later, and her body still hasn't been recovered. So I guess the police did do an official investigation on Diana's vehicle. But still,
RTR: TDIH
possesses info from the Polks where they reveal to be tipping off the police. You would think the police would try to keep this footage out of public eye.)
3). Unless the FBI got involved, which they more than likely would, the footage would go into the FBI's hands. But now the footage wi
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sjzaz-34243 — 9 years ago(November 09, 2016 10:04 PM)
The only way to explain all the holes would be that some of the things we saw in the reenactment portions of MRN were given the "hollywood" treatment by Sidneyin other words, he took bits and pieces of the stories he got from Lee, Matt, and Shelby and put a little creative spin of his own on it for the reenactment parts.
I think the text from the documentary said Diana's car was found three DAYS laternot three months. That would line up with the timeline of when the three ghost hunters found it and reported it.
If the police in the area knew about all of the strange goings on at that house over the yearslike the mysterious deaths of the previous inhabitants or their disappearances, as well as knowing of the illegal activities of the Polk family, and chose to look the other wayit would explain why they never investigated the deaths of the Polk Matt shot, or the deaths of Cricket and Elias. Don't forget how that cop that dropped Lee off and just left her there to fend for herself when he saw the mob of ghosts getting ready to kill Matt, Shelby, and Flora. The police wanted to ignore the story the three ghost hunters told them after they found Diana's car and saw her ghost, too. Makes me think they've ignored reports like that in the past. As a matter of fact, if Matt and Shelby's stories are to be believed, they were ignored as well when they reported the weird things that were happening to them after they moved into the house.
The only reason the cops showed up in the end was because those ghost hunter kids had cameras that were streaming live video to their website, and people all over the country saw them being killed live on the internet. The cops HAD to take that seriously.
I'm thinking the cops never found the footage that showed Lee's confession or of Lee and Audrey killing Jether and Mama Polk. The text from the aired footage clearly stated that it was found footage and that all of the participants involved died under mysterious circumstances except for one, which I'm assuming to be Lee. The only thing that makes sense is that the cops and the FBI never saw ALL of the footage. Otherwise they would have known that Shelby murdered Matt and then took her own life. Those two deaths at least shouldn't have been "mysterious" if the cops had seen the footage of their deaths. They would have also seen the footage of Agnes killing Sidney and his crew. And they would have seen the ghosts killing Rory, Agnes, and Dominic. And what about the footage of all of the ghosts chasing Dominic and Shelby around the house that night after Shelby killed Matt? If there were 75 cameras around the property, you'd think at least some of them would have recorded enough for a few of the deaths to be explained and not mysterious. -
hanonondricek — 9 years ago(November 09, 2016 10:21 PM)
Also, the Polks, despite acting and dressing like backwoods hillbillies, have enough money to pay off the entire police force, but not enough to afford a better lifestyle for themselves.
The Polks are drug runners, that's how they make their money. The farmhouse is only there to maintain the weed and carry out their cannibal urges away from their real home - I get the feeling they don't live full time there (they have TV). it is stated they have to clear out on the last night of the Blood moon. They don't sit and watch their crop grow, although the original MRN series might have mistakenly assumed and depicted the house was their permanent residence.- I get the idea Elias was a hermit and off the grid, living in the bunker near the house and making videos. Also Elias and Cricket: no bodies.
- We don't know (well we kind of do) necessarily that this was assembled as broadcast footage. This may be trial evidence compiled by Lana Winters to show the jury, and she had it edited with style using the planned graphics for the show as the network would have to keep the jury absorbed the entire time as we were.
Maybe we, the actual TV audience,
are
the jury in this story watching unreleased, but very fancily produced footage? - See 2 - I don't think RtR is being broadcast. I think it is footage slickly edited for a court case since they had thousands of hours to condense for the jury to exonerate the police, implicate Sidney, and convict Lee.
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mcbare — 9 years ago(November 10, 2016 06:18 AM)
Interesting theory. Didn't they say in E6 that the RTR footage was never aired? That would make sense if the footage was being used as evidence in a trial. The only thing I found odd was that when the Butcher traded her soul to the witch, she received supernatural powers. I figured Lee would receive the same when she ate the boar's heart, and would likely be able to get herself out of a trial/prison situation.