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This episode is all about the Backrooms
– Is it real?
– How to enter the backrooms
– How to survive the backrooms
– How to get out of the backrooms
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Outro music:
Half Mystery by Kevin MacLeod
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Show Notes:
Backrooms 23
Secret Grasp is a podcast all about the mysterious and difficult to explain aspects of life.
We cover topics relating to the paranormal, occult, conspiracy theories, urban legends, cryptids, and other strange occurrences.
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Backrooms
“If you’re not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you’ll end up in the Backrooms, where it’s nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in. God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you”
THIS IS A FICTIONAL CONCEPT
In video games – noclip is where a surface hasn’t been programmed properly to stop you when you bump against it. So sometimes you can go right through and fall off the map.
Sometimes things happen that just glitch out reality
Started in May of 2019 when a picture of an empty office building with yellow carpets and walls was posted to 4chan.
People felt unsettled by the picture. It seems to trigger something visceral in people’s memories, like they’ve dreamed about it before or something.
Phones don’t work
Watch will stop
Not hungry or tired – although some peopel say you have to eat and random foods are avilable in the backrooms. The most common liquid is almond water.
You’re stuck
Over 100 rooms, maybe thousands. About 600 million square miles
Some say the backrooms is infinite
Some have monsters
Some are happy and peaceful
Some say there are 3 levels to the backrooms.
The first is just an endless maze of yellow rooms that all look the same. Carpet is moist and smells. Fluorescent lights buzz. Humanoid hound-like creatures that make a rumbling noise. Slowly back away.
Once and a while you can find a wall darker than others. You might be able to noclip back through to reality. But it might take you somewhere else too. Or back to the start of level 0.
How you get to level 1 is not well understood. Depending on who you ask, you might come across an elevator, a hallway, or a staircase. Sometimes the scenery just starts to change on its own after either 48 hours or about 4 days. The lights flicker and turn off, then after being in pitch black you appear in a new office-like space.
Level 1 has concrete floors and walls. There’s a constant rumbling sound and creaking noises coming from other rooms. Lights will flicker or turn off sometimes. Creatures come out in the dark making screaming noises.
Level 1 rooms will eventually become long hallways and the fluorescent lights give off so much heat that you can feel it, which is level 2. The walls are covered with piping and machinery. Still monsters in this area. Since you’re in a hallway, your only option to survive is to run back the other way.
Cluster 1: Levels 0 to 999
Different people will recognize different numbers of backrooms. Some say only 1 and 2 are canon. Some will say 3, 17, or any other arbitrary number.
Level 3 – electrical station, 4 office, 5 terror hotel, 6 lights out, 7 the flooded house, 8 the cave system
Claimed to feed off negative emotions – The more upset and stressed out you get, the worse your situation becomes.
Is it real?
Pretty much a creepypasta but it’s still very unsettling. Some people claim to have visited it and got stuck in their dreams though.
Goes back to Greek mythology of the labrinth, created by Dadalus for King Minos to hold the Minotaur.
People have written their own levels, but there is a backrooms wiki at wikidot that’s considered canon lore.
How To Enter The Backrooms
The backrooms aren’t really a destination, they’re like taking a wrong turn and ending up somewhere you shouldn’t belong.
Most cases are completely spontaneous and accidental. You can just open the wrong door, turn around, or blink and end up in the backrooms. But there are a few similarities between cases that have been reported.
One way to open a way to the backrooms is by inducing intense negative emotion (Not recommended)
Rituals
How To Survive The Backrooms
Look behind you for a shadow on the wall. Go through it
If not, you’ll have to find an exit. Texture or lighting on some walls is slightly different. Check every surface, even the ceiling.
Try to make a map or keep track of where you’re going.
Don’t panic – negative feelings make things worse.
If you make it to level 2 – there are no exits. Basically the only way out is to be calm and still, enter a meditative state and imagine yourself back in the real world. You have to convince yourself that you’re safe and that the backrooms don’t exist.
Most people live in level 4. Apparently no hostile entities and lots of food.
Right hand rule – Keep your hand on the wall on your right side as you walk around. This doesn’t mean always turn right!
Mark your starting point. If you came through with keys, scrape a line along the wall so you know which walls you’ve already touched.
Try to get into the ceiling, stack stuff up.
Take any objects you come across
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