Entity 709 - "The Behemoth…?"

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Anonymous 07/06/21(Wed)12:10:26 No. 0375703764
The Behemoth

That was a close call, wasn't it? Hiding inside of a small, wooden crate, you try your best to recollect what you had just seen minutes prior—a crimson silhouette with an appearance inconsistent with the entities currently logged in the database. The chilling screaming you heard earlier has dissipated by now, and the silence has returned. Seizing this opportunity, you climb out of the crate and bolt toward the nearest door, avoiding the pile of bloody bodies on the floor. You don’t recognize them, but no matter; it’s not worth pondering something this insignificant. However, the indiscernible being startles you, and you're stuck staring right at it.

You blink your eyes, and the nightmarish entity is nowhere to be seen. Just a hallucination, it seems. Of course. They were common occurrences in this area, after all. You turn around, feeling obligated to report the bodies you saw earlier to the M.E.G., though a wave of confusion hits you suddenly. The bodies weren’t there. Surely, it was those hallucinations from… no. Definitely not. The puddle of blood was still on the floor.

Or was it? You try to focus, but an overwhelming sense of nausea consumes you. You try extending your hand to a wall to keep your balance, but seconds later, you're laying down on the floor. Though you're fighting a losing battle to stay conscious, you briefly overcome your unbearable headache to catch a glimpse of the blood on the ground. You think you just saw the blood bubble, but before you can verify whether your eyes are deceiving you, you pass out.

Description

Entity 709 is an urban legend originally conceived on /x/ - TheBackrooms on July 6, 2021. Though initially celebrated as an unsettling and short work of fiction, Entity 709 gained notoriety several months later after wanderers traversing Level 1 reported experiencing the exact situation presented in the post.¹ Unfortunately, further investigation of these claims has yielded no results, and subsequent interviews with alleged witnesses of the entity have garnered very little, if any, useful information. To date, there has been no evidence corroborating the existence of Entity 709 or any bubbling blood puddles in Level 1. However, scientists have hypothesized that the infamous post on /x/ - TheBackrooms may have accidentally, in Senior Researcher Dr. Hearst's words, "willed the phenomenon into existence."

Witnesses described the entity as a miasma—a floating amalgamation of some toxic, red gas. It can allegedly be phased through, though those who come into direct contact with the entity will begin suffocating. It is believed to be able to "suck up" blood on the ground and convert it into vapor, adding to the entity's size. It has no discernible features whatsoever and, in its most basic state, appears as nothing more than just a static, indoor cloud. It is unknown whether this cloud is the entity itself or whether it is merely an "inconspicuous disguise" for an entity that resides within the cloud.

Despite these theories, sightings of the entity remain unverified, as no images of the entity (excepting the photograph in the original post) have been discovered. Many wanderers have claimed to take photos of said entity and the corpses it leaves in its path, but upon inspecting the camera rolls of their devices, no such photos were discovered, much to the wanderers’ confusion. This revelation, of course, raises a new question about how the original image was taken.² Some individuals surmise that this paradox is definitive proof that Entity 709 does not exist, while other individuals believe that the original poster, only known to be an anonymous user, was actually the work of the entity itself.

Hoax or not—the unanswerable questions haven't stopped a solid portion of wanderers from believing in Entity 709's existence. Out of sheer curiosity³, many wanderers have stumbled through Level 1, hoping to capture pictures of bubbling blood, which would allegedly support the claims. The M.E.G., however, does not recommend this action, as many people who ventured into Level 1 to "prove a point" never returned. Whether this common occurrence is due to some internal psychological manipulation done by the entity or whether such disappearances are consequences of fractured minds remain unsolved mysteries.

GeraldFrankfurt 09/03/21(Fri)07:23:17 No. 0340822775

I’m done with this clown show. I'll prove to you spineless pussies that this entity exists. Just watch.

M.E.G. Incident Report – 09/16/22 at 4:32 PM

⚠️M.E.G. INCIDENT REPORT⚠️

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Recently, on September 14, 2021, the severely mutilated body of a wanderer named Gerald Frankfurt was found on Level 1. At least twenty distinct claw marks were found on the body, and the victim's spine was seemingly ripped out in a grotesque, violent manner. Autopsies have concluded, based on on-site analysis of Frankfurt's injuries, that a human could not have been capable of inflicting such damage; however, researchers simultaneously have been unable to link the wounds with any known entity in the database.⁴

The man was an avid participant in /x/ - TheBackrooms, perhaps to the point of obsession, according to his close friends. Murmuring to himself about some "undiscovered truth" on a daily basis, Frankfurt would seldom leave his laptop in Level 11, only doing so to take care of basic necessities. Friends claim that he was relatively fine until he read the specific post on /x/ - TheBackrooms detailing the story of The Behemoth. From then on, his condition rapidly deteriorated—he would frequently boast about journeying to Level 1 to find The Behemoth, a task he referred to as the "greatest endeavor anyone will ever undertake." This behavior continued for several months until he disappeared without a trace.

His friends' claims appear to corroborate many individual stories of wanderers developing unhealthy fixations on The Behemoth and the context surrounding the post. Researchers believe that this cannot simply be a string of coincidences, recognizing that the general public should be reasonably concerned about this perceived threat in Level 1. Despite this revelation, there is no cause for alarm, and there still is no evidence of The Behemoth actually existing.⁵

Wanderers are still advised to stay away from Level 1 if possible while the M.E.G. attempts to get the situation under control. Stay safe.

The M.E.G.

"Discovery"

Entity 709 was allegedly found in Level 1 multiple times by freelance explorers, who would report any suspicious observations that seemed relevant to the /x/ - TheBackrooms post. Each of these explorers felt some sort of "obligation" to prove the entity's existence, though the reason why currently remains unknown. Several days after the dismissal of their reports, the wanderers would have no recollection of their journeys into Level 1 or even of the /x/ - TheBackrooms post that led them to attempt such a dangerous objective in the first place.⁶ However, all of them remembered a basic description of Entity 709's physical appearance, which supposedly manifested as a recurring mental image in those who have returned from this voyage.

Do's and Don'ts

Do

• Stay away from /x/ - TheBackrooms under all circumstances until further notice. Drastic measures, such as cutting your computer's power cord, may be necessary.
• Constantly remind yourself that Entity 709 does not exist, never has existed, and never will exist.⁷

Don't

• Read the post titled "The Behemoth" in /x/ - TheBackrooms. If you have already done so, resist every possible urge to journey to Level 1. There is almost no benefit to doing so—you will not discover any evidence of Entity 709's existence—and the risks are plentiful.⁸
• Report sightings of Entity 709 to the M.E.G. or any of its associated groups. There is arguably no reason to do so, as nothing posted on /x/ - TheBackrooms is considered real. /x/ - TheBackrooms is a thread for fictional pieces of creative writing.⁹

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Want to know why The Behemoth and /x/ - TheBackrooms exist?

Author: Sky3 (Author Page)

This page is part satire about 4chan conspiracy theorists (see the incident report), part commentary on the state of academic research papers (see the footnotes, especially the ones that dispute information in the page or even previous footnotes), part meta fiction on The Backrooms community as a whole (see Dr. Hearst's comments), and part serious attempt at an entity entry. I was ultimately indecisive about the direction I wanted the page to go in, so I decided to combine all four approaches. Why? Because I (partially) control what gets posted on the wiki and what doesn't /hj. What group of individuals do you think the "we" in Dr. Hearst's footnote refers to?

Heavy inspiration taken from the old Entity 156, written by 1000dumplings.
Footnote inspiration taken from authors note by Ross Dear.
Inspiration also taken from the original 4chan post that started the Backrooms communities and the events that followed it, including the current obsession by some with trying to find the Backrooms in real life. There are parallels between wanderers' belief in The Behemoth and our belief in the Backrooms. /x/ - TheBackrooms is essentially an allegory for the culture surrounding the Backrooms.
Gerald Frankfurt's unfortunate end was inspired by posts on r/LeopardsAteMyFace.

The image of "The Behemoth" is quite literally just a heavily altered version of the image I used in Level 133—Higashi Narita Station Platform by PekePON, which is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. This is not laziness on my part; it is merely a shameless way to guarantee that Dr. Edwin is correct.

Excluding Dr. Mann's second comment, if you look at the beginning letter of all the surnames of every researcher mentioned in the footnotes, in the order mentioned, they spell BEHEMOTH. This isn't the only easter egg I hid on this page.

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Footnotes

1. I initially wrote all these claims off as bogus pranks, but the witnesses' faces displayed genuine fear, which made me reconsider my stance. However, something doesn't add up; how are all of these people telling us the same story, with the same circumstances and the same events? This shouldn't be possible. That post on /x/ - TheBackrooms can't be real… can it? I implore our research wing to examine these occurrences further.
~ Senior Researcher Dr. Brenner

2. I think it's pretty obvious that the image in the post is not of some "undiscovered" entity. I could take any random image and add a few filters to it to recreate something quite similar to this. Though I frankly believe this entire spectable is just one giant hoax, I am also frustrated in the fact that we've been unable to trace the origin of this poster or this image. What's going on here?
~ Senior Researcher Dr. Edwin

3. I have a bad feeling that we're only scratching the surface of this. There's just no way this many wanderers, especially among those who have have read the post, believe that the story is real. Something else is going on; I'm sure of it.
~ Junior Researcher Dr. Hubert

4. It's quite odd how Frankfurt accused us of being "spineless pussies" but ended up being spineless when he died. I have reasonable cause to believe that this rabbit hole transcends that one post on The Behemoth—it might encompass the entire /x/ - TheBackrooms thread as a whole. I mean, this wouldn't be the first time something posted on there has later been proven to actually be true.
~ Junior Researcher Dr. Ellis

5. I've decided to see what the commotion was all about; against the advice of my colleagues, I read the post in question. In my honest opinion, I feel as though the story is quite believable, contrary to what other researchers say. It is quite disappointing that my fellow "researchers" are so quick to dismiss such an interesting read based on the presumption that the post is just a lousy work of fiction. I encourage you all to read it. Seriously. You won't regret it.
~ Junior Researcher Dr. Mann

6. Based on my preliminary results, it seems as though there is some sort of… mind manipulation concerning this /x/ - TheBackrooms post. Some… thing is compelling wanderers to explore Level 1, and I don't understand how this issue is still being framed as people exercising free will and ill judgment. I concede that the Internet can be addicting, especially in an area where Wi-Fi is scarce, but this situation seems to be beyond biological brain malfunctions, and I fear for the well-being of anyone who has read the post.
~ Senior Researcher Dr. Ockels

7. Oh, come on. This is bullshit. Do you superstitious sissies actually believe in that mind control nonsense Dr. Ockels spews out? Repeatedly proclaiming The Behemoth does not exist is akin to taking your first step down into the echo chamber. What's next? Are you going to tell us all that The Backrooms doesn't exist? Look where that got you.
~ A very pissed off Dr. Mann

8. Unfortunately, it seems as though Dr. Mann has been pulled into the /x/ - TheBackrooms "echo chamber" despite repeated attempts to prevent him from engaging with dubious conspiracy theories. For the past several days, Dr. Mann has failed to show up to work, with his last-known message to management detailing his plan to venture into Level 1 in an attempt to conduct his own research. He has not been seen since and is presumed dead. Let this message be a warning to those who are willing to sacrifice the truth to satisfy dangerous curiosities.
~ Amanda Tran, Manager of the Backrooms Research Division

9. Is nobody reading what I said earlier about /x/ - TheBackrooms post contents being willed into existence? I'm telling you… /x/ - TheBackrooms posts may originally start out as fiction, but there's some dark force underlying those message threads. I'm not sure how to explain it, though. I just know that everything posted on that thread manifests in our reality, and the repercussions are much graver than we had initially anticipated. Many of these strange occurrences in the Backrooms… they only exist because we gave life to them.
~ Senior Researcher Dr. Hearst