I've seen this guy posted here before and thought some might enjoy this breakdown.
From video: Most people think the Backrooms started with a single 4chan post in 2019 and then blew up when Kane Pixels dropped his found footage series on YouTube. They're wrong. The Backrooms are real, and someone described them in exact detail 2,000 years before the internet existed. In this investigation, we go back to primary sources: the Dead Sea Scrolls, a forgotten 1840 letter from missionary Elkanah Walker, and indigenous oral traditions that describe liminal spaces with disturbing precision. The endless yellow rooms. The sense that you can't escape. The feeling that something is watching you from just beyond the wall. It's all there, preserved in texts that predate the modern internet by two millennia. So the question isn't whether the Backrooms are real. The question is, what did ancient people know that we're just now figuring out? And guys, I'm not making this up. It's in the primary records. I put them on screen right here in this video.I want to thank you all for watching this video. We'll see you next time. And God bless you all.
SOURCES -
This investigation is built entirely on primary texts, peer-reviewed research, and institutional reporting. Sources below, by topic.
▶ THE BRAIN: DOORWAYS, MEMORY & MAPS
Radvansky, G.A., Krawietz, S.A., & Tamplin, A.K. (2011). "Walking through doorways causes forgetting: Further explorations." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nl...
University of Notre Dame News (Nov 16, 2011). "Walking through doorways causes forgetting, new research shows."
https://news.nd.edu/ne...
McFadyen, J., et al. (2021). "Doorways do not always cause forgetting: a multimodal investigation."
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.g...
Giocomo, L.M., et al. (2024). "One-shot entorhinal maps enable flexible navigation in novel environments." Nature 635:943–950.
https://nature.com/art...
Stanford Medicine News (Apr 16, 2015). "Encountering a wall corrects GPS cells in mouse brains." (Grid cells; 2014 Nobel Prize, the Mosers.)
https://med.stanford.e...
▶ WHY EMPTY SPACES FEEL WRONG
Diel, A., & Lewis, M. (2022). "Structural deviations drive an uncanny valley of physical places." Journal of Environmental Psychology 82:101844.
https://doi.org/10.101...
McAndrew, F.T. (2020). "The Psychology, Geography and Architecture of Horror: How Places Creep Us Out." Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture 4(2):47–61.
https://frankmcandrew....
▶ THE THRESHOLD ACROSS CULTURES
van Gennep, A. (1909). The Rites of Passage (Les Rites de Passage). The origin of "liminal," from the Latin limen — threshold.
Overview: https://theliminalityp...
1 Enoch, the Astronomical Book (chapters 72–82), c. 300 BCE. R.H. Charles translation. The twelve gates of heaven — six east, six west.
https://ancienttexts.o...
Scholarship on "The Gates Cosmology of the Astronomical Book of Enoch" and its Babylonian astronomical roots (Drawnel; Ratzon; tablet BM 76829).
https://researchgate.n...
The Celtic "thin places" tradition (Irish: caol áit) — where the distance between worlds grows thin.
The Hopi sipapu and the kiva — a literal doorway between worlds. Documented from Hopi elders by:
Jesse Walter Fewkes, "Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Spruce-Tree House" (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 41, 1909)
Heiser, M.S. (2015). The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible. Lexham Press.
https://drmsh.com
King James VI & I (1597). Daemonologie. Spirits classified by where they appear — "houses or solitarie places."
https://gutenberg.org/...
▶ THE BACKROOMS: ORIGIN & THE REAL ROOM
The original Backrooms post — anonymous, 4chan, May 12, 2019. The photograph itself dates to 2002.
The real location, identified May 29, 2024: 807 Oregon Street, Oshkosh, Wisconsin (a former furniture store; the room has since been gutted and no longer exists).
I recently posted a short spoiler free review on the new Backrooms movie: https://scored.co/c/Movies/p/1ASsdveyoq/backrooms-2026/c
I've seen this guy posted here before and thought some might enjoy this breakdown.
From video: Most people think the Backrooms started with a single 4chan post in 2019 and then blew up when Kane Pixels dropped his found footage series on YouTube. They're wrong. The Backrooms are real, and someone described them in exact detail 2,000 years before the internet existed. In this investigation, we go back to primary sources: the Dead Sea Scrolls, a forgotten 1840 letter from missionary Elkanah Walker, and indigenous oral traditions that describe liminal spaces with disturbing precision. The endless yellow rooms. The sense that you can't escape. The feeling that something is watching you from just beyond the wall. It's all there, preserved in texts that predate the modern internet by two millennia. So the question isn't whether the Backrooms are real. The question is, what did ancient people know that we're just now figuring out? And guys, I'm not making this up. It's in the primary records. I put them on screen right here in this video.I want to thank you all for watching this video. We'll see you next time. And God bless you all.
SOURCES - This investigation is built entirely on primary texts, peer-reviewed research, and institutional reporting. Sources below, by topic.
▶ THE BRAIN: DOORWAYS, MEMORY & MAPS Radvansky, G.A., Krawietz, S.A., & Tamplin, A.K. (2011). "Walking through doorways causes forgetting: Further explorations." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://pubmed.ncbi.nl...
University of Notre Dame News (Nov 16, 2011). "Walking through doorways causes forgetting, new research shows." https://news.nd.edu/ne...
McFadyen, J., et al. (2021). "Doorways do not always cause forgetting: a multimodal investigation." https://ncbi.nlm.nih.g...
Giocomo, L.M., et al. (2024). "One-shot entorhinal maps enable flexible navigation in novel environments." Nature 635:943–950. https://nature.com/art...
Stanford Medicine News (Apr 16, 2015). "Encountering a wall corrects GPS cells in mouse brains." (Grid cells; 2014 Nobel Prize, the Mosers.) https://med.stanford.e...
▶ WHY EMPTY SPACES FEEL WRONG Diel, A., & Lewis, M. (2022). "Structural deviations drive an uncanny valley of physical places." Journal of Environmental Psychology 82:101844. https://doi.org/10.101...
McAndrew, F.T. (2020). "The Psychology, Geography and Architecture of Horror: How Places Creep Us Out." Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture 4(2):47–61. https://frankmcandrew....
▶ THE THRESHOLD ACROSS CULTURES van Gennep, A. (1909). The Rites of Passage (Les Rites de Passage). The origin of "liminal," from the Latin limen — threshold. Overview: https://theliminalityp...
1 Enoch, the Astronomical Book (chapters 72–82), c. 300 BCE. R.H. Charles translation. The twelve gates of heaven — six east, six west. https://ancienttexts.o...
Scholarship on "The Gates Cosmology of the Astronomical Book of Enoch" and its Babylonian astronomical roots (Drawnel; Ratzon; tablet BM 76829). https://researchgate.n...
The Celtic "thin places" tradition (Irish: caol áit) — where the distance between worlds grows thin.
The Hopi sipapu and the kiva — a literal doorway between worlds. Documented from Hopi elders by:
Jesse Walter Fewkes, "Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Spruce-Tree House" (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 41, 1909)
Hattie Greene Lockett, The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi (1933): https://gutenberg.org/... National Park Service, Mesa Verde: https://home.nps.gov/meve
Heiser, M.S. (2015). The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible. Lexham Press. https://drmsh.com
King James VI & I (1597). Daemonologie. Spirits classified by where they appear — "houses or solitarie places." https://gutenberg.org/...
▶ THE BACKROOMS: ORIGIN & THE REAL ROOM The original Backrooms post — anonymous, 4chan, May 12, 2019. The photograph itself dates to 2002.
The real location, identified May 29, 2024: 807 Oregon Street, Oshkosh, Wisconsin (a former furniture store; the room has since been gutted and no longer exists).
Wisconsin Public Radio: https://wpr.org/news/h... WTAQ: https://wtaq.com
A24, Backrooms (2026). Directed by Kane Parsons. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve.
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