Joel Hayes

> Is there anyone in this room with me?
>
> Joel, questioning an entity, *Mystifying Oracle - Salutatio*.

**Joel Hayes** is the main protagonist of the spin-off series, *Mystifying Oracle*. He is an adult who is interested in summoning a demon. He serves as a prominent character in both episodes.

## Description

Joel is a fair-skinned man with brown hair and eyes, glasses, black and gray shirt, and a beard.

## Personality

Alex Kister originally stated that Joel’s personality is similar to that of Adam Murray. This was changed later in the development of Mystifying Oracle due to Alex wanting to portray the struggle of being a content creator. He seems to not care about the consequences of uploading videos of a demon on the internet.

## Biography

### Salutatio

Joel, after ordering a package about a Ouija Board, he decided to take it out for a use. He uses the knife and cut the package, unboxing a Ouija Board along with a tutorial on how to use it. Putting the board on the table, Joel asks his first question, if anyone is there with him. Suddenly, a cut plays with Joel feeling a bit uncomfortable.

He waits for the board to move, with it then moves toward the text "Yes" then "No". As the time reaches 3 AM, the board moved into texts, forming the word "hello". Joel was surprised by this, but at the same time confused towards it answers to him.

Unfortunately, Joel makes a mistake, closing the board but not saying "Goodbye" to it. This results in a creature appearing outside of his window, with him starting at it, dreadfully.

### Evocatio

In the beginning of the episode, we see a footage from Japanese news, what they are saying is that there is a video about a mysterious apparitions who were captured by Joel and his channel became an overnight sensation, Joel has confirmed that the footage he recorded was entirely authentic in an online interview.

Joel and Chloe have a call and Chloe asks if he read comments on which he responds that he's trying not to read them, she says that the audience want to see more of his videos about summoning a demon, Joel later then responds that he's aware, she told him to fake the content and use the effect to make it look real on which he says that he can't do practical effect for his videos.

Chloe asks him how is his mother doing on which he responds that he visited her on Friday and the nurse said that she will be out in the week, she later then asks if he's going to tell his mother about that which him responding that he probably wont, she later then asks if he can hear her on which he responds with yes and asked her if she is cutting out and she asks if that's screaming to no response from Joel.

After the call, Joel films his another video about summoning a demon, he asks them if they're still there and if they put his mother in the hospital to no response from the board, he later then hears the stepping, asks if it's them and they're looking at him. He later then downloads the app called "Sleep Sound Recorder Pro", went to bed and turned off the lights, On the recording one, we can hear that Joel is moving on the bed. On the recording two, Joel hears the distorted sound which is coming from the spirit and he turned on the lights.

Joel wakes up and returns back, he walks over to the board, laying on the floor, and cuts his arm with a razor, he starts to bleed while the demon starts making distorted sounds, he later starts walking away from the Ouija Board before the camera starts glitching. On the final recording, recording 3, Joel is seen lying on the bed as a humanoid figure's shadow, presumably the entity, walks over to him. Joel states that there isn't "much activity this time".

### In Limbo

After Joel’s second video of him summoning a demon again uploaded, he appears again on Japanese news channel, who talked about Joel’s new video and how his audience think that his videos of him summoning a demon are completely fake and they are just alternate reality videos.

Joel proceeds to film an another video of him summoning a demon using the Ouija Board at the very dark night while believing that he should be able to see the city lights and stars before receiving a voicemail from Chloe who believes that his recent video has been faked and then ends the voicemail, Joel later picks up the cellphone then tries to call Chloe back.

After activating security cameras, Joel later proceeds to use the Ouija Board before planchette moves rapidly and spells out “YOU”, the demon then gets manifested in Joel’s house.

Joel later makes an announcement video after his lack of uploads where he claims that his last update video was taken down by YouTube’s moderation and then says that he gets a lot of comments and emails asking if he tolerates being put in danger with him denying that he gets put in danger as he claims that it’s a part of a progress, he later stated that he tried to upload four to five content that he filmed but failed.

Two and a half months after summoning the demon again, The Ouija planchette begins to move again spelling out “PURIFY”. Joel later receives the another voicemail from Chloe who tells him to let her know when he wants to hangout before ending a voicemail, planchette then moves again until spelling out “GOOD BYE”. Joel’s security cameras then loses the internet connection, the next day, Joel enters the hallway before the door opens, Joel later enters the room to which his video ends.

## Trivia

* Joel was originally non-canon to *The Mandela Catalogue*, but after the confirmation, he becomes a part of it.
* The series' creator, Alex Kister, has acted as two other characters in the series, Mark Heathcliff and Dave Lee.
* He is the first character in the series to appears with colored screens, as every other ones from the main series use a "black and white" tone of color.
* He was revealed to be 21 years old, according to Japanese intro.
* He was also revealed to be Canadian along with his mother.
* It has been confirmed that Joel is morally grey, with him being more "evil" due to the stress of him uploading videos onto the web.