Autopsy Report

February 5, 1990

***Backrooms - Autopsy Report*** is the sixth video in Kane Parsons's Backrooms series.

## Synopsis

An autopsy is conducted on the corpse found in *Missing Persons*, which discovers that though the person died of starvation (as would be expected after being noclipped into the Backrooms), something very strange is going on with the body.

## Full analysis

An autopsy is conducted on the corpse found in *Missing Persons* by the ASYNC Department of Biomedical Sciences. The corpse is "identified" as a John Doe (a placeholder name used for an unknown person). A person, likely a doctor from the Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, gives a report on the autopsy to Ivan Beck, the vice president of ASYNC.

Throughout the report (the doctor and Beck are not shown), pictures and videos are shown, including ones of the lab, the corpse, of organs and X-rays from the corpse, and the location in the Backrooms where the body was found (surrounded by yellow tape and ASYNC explorers in hazmat suits and gas masks. The black material is still on the wall.) Here is a transcript of the report:

"Subject is male...uh...somewhere between 18 and 21 years old. I estimate that the time of death was around five days ago, but due to the severe tissue damage, it's...it's hard to say for sure.

"Cause of death was likely malnutrition. I was able to recover most of the digestive tract. So...here's where things start to deviate from what we would consider to be natural. The decomposition process appears to have been...stunted somehow. It's...it's like...it's like portions of the body...stopped decaying and were sustained. Other areas, however, were completely overtaken by culture. So...uh...I took a...couple samples of some of the material here...At first, I-I thought it was an aggregated collection of *Pseudomonas fluorescens*, but...uh...it seems to be closer to a mutated strain of simple hay bacillus. Which...it should be completely benign, but...well, really, I don't know what to make of this.

"Mr. Beck...may I ask...uh...where this subject came from?"

At that point, the camera shuts off. When it resumes, we see a darkened room. A TV comes on, and begins showing seemingly random pictures, including:

* the ASYNC logo
* Pictures of the corpse and organs
* Pictures of the Backrooms and the Threshold
* A picture from Mar11\_90\_ARCHIVE.tar
* Pictures of people
* A picture of a speech by Ronald Reagan
* Text reading, "...nd to that point, the sentimen...all serious engagements in th...This environment was never d...suited for mankind. To maintai...delusion would be to condem..."
* Pictures of microorganisms
* The final picture/video shown is footage from *First Contact* - specifically the open Threshold, with what appears to be sunrise over the ocean superimposed on it.

## Within the series

This video further adds to the lack of knowledge that ASYNC has about the Backrooms. Combined with the discovery of a corpse (the one being examined) and the disappearance of a cameraman into thin air, now there is a seemingly more mundane mystery - what exactly is going on with the bacteria. The fact that the bacteria "should be completely benign" suggests that something strange is at work here - and though strange bacteria aren't necessarily on the same level as disappearances and corpses, there is a danger here.

It is also possible that the bacteria seen on the corpse are the same "bacteria" as the entity from *The Backrooms (Found Footage)* and *Pitfalls* (at least, a non-mutated or "generic" version). However, how the bacteria was transformed has yet to be seen. However, one theory is that it "latched on" to the cameras from *Motion Detected* that were placed by ASYNC. However, this is currently unconfirmed.

The video also establishes another fact about ASYNC - information about Project KV31 and the Backrooms is kept on a need-to-know basis and is secret within ASYNC. The doctor/medical examiner from a different part of ASYNC was unaware about the origins of the corpse - suggesting he neither knows about the Backrooms. In addition, the existence of an ASYNC "Department of Biomedical Sciences" suggests that ASYNC is much larger than what we currently know it to be - it is not just a company investigating the Backrooms.