The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 1/RESTORED EDITION

**The Mandela Catalogue Vol.1 [RESTORED EDITION]** is the second video of Act 1, and the remastered version of The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 1. It is a collection of VHS tapes showcasing Mandela county's procedures for alternates and introduces Mark Heathcliff and Cesar Torres.

## Tape One

The video opens with a scene from 1925's *The Phantom of the Opera* with added-in music that plays briefly before the feed cuts out and is replaced with the logo and theme of the United States Department of Temporal Phenomena. A narrator discusses that the department has received numerous reports of hostile organisms that they have given the name "alternates". Everyone is advised to exercise caution against them by staying home, securing all entrances, and having access to any ranged weapons. A person must run away and hide if they encounter someone with an identical appearance to them or someone who has biologically-impossible anatomy as these are the clear signs of an alternate. They must also refrain from any contact or communication with an alternate if it invades the home as the alternates utilize "psychological warfare" to gain the upper hand on victims, but exceptions can be made if someone wants to try to execute an alternate themselves.

The tape then switches over to a message teaching the viewer about the "THINK" principle: **T**ell an authority figure about your encounter with an alternate, **H**inder the alternate's movements, **I**dentify the threat level, **N**eutralize the alternate (if safe to do so), and **K**now your place in reality. Without prompting, slides of three forms of alternates are shown side-by-side with the humans they're attempting to mimic, each form appearing less human-like than the last.

## Tape Two

A call transcription between Mark Heathcliff and Cesar Torres from the night of September 13, 1992 is displayed along with a recording of the conversation. Cesar tells Mark that he has to take his mother to the E.R. after she was found knocked out and asks Mark if he can go over to his house to turn on their security cameras while they're gone. When Mark asks why he has to do that, Cesar replies that she had screamed really loud and must have saw something that caused her to pass out in fright. Mark agrees to go turn on the cameras but says he's going to do it quickly and get out, stating that "you know how I feel about your house". Cesar asks Mark to make sure that a camera gets a good view of the back hallway of the house before he claims that he's almost to the hospital and ends the call.

CCTV footage is displayed of Cesar's house with four cameras: HALLWAY, BSM STRS (basement stairs), LVG ROOM (living room), & BCKYRD (backyard). The footage begins with the cameras being turned on one by one by Mark before he's heard exiting the house and driving away. Motion is detected around 3:31 AM with the BCKYRD camera showing a shadow approaching the house before switching to the HALLWAY camera where the sound of a window breaking is heard. Footsteps begin to echo throughout the house and the back door in the hallway is shown to be wide open with a voice calling out "where did you go, Mark". The HALLWAY camera shows the now completely-darkened hallway and the footage cuts right as a face leans in to look into the camera.

Mark's notebook, labeled on the cover as "REASSURANCE", is shown with a message written:

It followed me home, Cesar

I do not want to see what is on the other side

But it has been days, and nobody has come to help me

Footage of an unlabeled tape from Mark's camcorder is played, showing an alternate attempting to lure Mark out of his room with talks of presents and a surprise. Mark opens his door as the alternate continues to search for Mark throughout the house, taunting him with nonsensical noises and questioning where he went. The footage then cuts to a view of the alternate standing in the hallway, staring at Mark and maniacally laughing at him before he yells at it and fires a shot. The date displayed in the bottom-right of the screen slowly changes to read "BAD DECISION MARK" and the alternate's face begins fading into view before the tape ends.

## Tape Three

The Mandela County Police Department has an instructional tape for public safety telecommunication with a narrator telling the viewer what to do in a situation where one must be an operator that handles calls that local 911 dispatchers are unable to. For the police, the operator must send available law enforcement to the address provided by the caller. For the fire department, the operator must contact a neighboring department for fire-related emergencies with an address and brief description of the event. For medical, the operator must immediately contact the Mandela Community Hospital. For "encounters", the narrator is noticeably absent and the instructions say that an operator is not to help someone reporting a home intrusion with their only option being to calmly "reassure" the caller that help is on the way until they stop responding.

The tape switches to an informational video that explains the concept of Metaphysical Awareness Disorder (MAD), being a severe mental illness caused by "exposure to verbal information that is not desired to be known". 97% of patients who have been diagnosed with MAD end up taking their own lives, but the 3% who do not are seen as being worth the effort of reversing the illness. To lessen the chances of falling to MAD, one must "avoid excessively frequent religious practice and belief in unnecessary philosophical implications"; looking after friends, family and loved ones is said to help with mental stability.

## Tape Four

The final tape begins with a Toddler Stress Assessment Video Accompaniment meant for children ages 1-5. The video instructs that parents must wait till dusk before they put their child in a dark, distraction-free room in front of the television with additional instructions to remove the child from the environment and update their psychiatrist if they cannot handle the test.

SECTION ONE: audio of birds chirping, a baby crib mobile's tune, and a baby's noises are played.

SECTION TWO: two clips from old movies are shown before they are abruptly replaced by a slideshow of a story called "the scary night" that was made by a 4-year-old Mark Heathcliff. The story depicts a young Mark sneaking to his mom's room, being scared by knocking at the door and of the dark room by the stairs before seeing "the man in the corner". A clip of an old Mickey Mouse cartoon plays before freezing on a part where a hooded figure approaching Mickey is about to take off its hood. The entire video ends on a picture of the man Mark saw labeled as "an intruder".

## Trivia

* The mobile music that plays during the Toddler Stress Assessment video is the same music that played in The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 2 when the alternates talked to Adam Murray in the basement.
* 6's new design at the end of the video was made to more closely resemble the version of him seen talking to Adam at the end of The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 4.
* The "kill yourself" line that appears at the end of the THINK principle segment in The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 1 was removed entirely by Alex himself for the remake as he believed that it wasn't fair for him to call out a creator when he himself was also guilty of using sensitive topics for shock value.
* This video is part of a series of smaller uploads that Alex Kister has planned for 2023 before The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 5. Some of these uploads include a continuation episode for The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 4, Mystifying Oracle 2, and a collaborative horror video he's making with friends.
* Cesar’s visual replacement from Vol. 1 and “Concerned Friend’s” scream has completely been cut out for unknown reasons.

## Gallery

Mark Heathcliff and Cesar Torres, as shown in the call transcript.Cesar's alternate showing its face after Mark shoots at it along with the displayed message "BAD DECISION MARK".6, as shown with the label "an intruder".Alternates with biologically-impossible characteristics compared to a normal human.*The Phantom of the Opera* (1925)'s Raoul.
## Sources

1. ↑ [1] Alex talking about how he's reducing shock value for the remake
2. ↑ [2] Alex showing a screenshot of his notes with the caption "looking forward"