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Strange lights in the sky

There are multiple references to **strange lights in the sky** or UFOs in the Lord Huron universe.

## Appearances

### *Strange Trails*

    The song "Frozen Pines" has a lyric about how "a strange light in the sky was shining right into my eyes" from the perspective of Danielle. The single cover art has what looks to be a flying saucer with bright lights coming from it.

    In "The World Ender" music video, there is a *Daily Trail* article circa 1955 that seems to reference events relating to "Frozen Pines":

"Missing Teens Still Not Found
Many of our readers will know that there have been multiple reports of strange lights in the sky over the city these past few months. Witnesses describe a pulsing cluster of […] have been searching everywhere, they have still not been found. With the reports of more mysterious happenings both in the sky on now on the ground, we are cautioning our […]"
In audio recordings played by a radio on-stage during the *Strange Trails* tour, there are also references to mysterious teen disappearances that were customized to the concert location:

"Two local teens have disappeared in a forest just outside [concert location] this evening. It was unclear where they were headed or why. Friends say they left a gathering abruptly in a strange quote "possessed state" and were unresponsive to questions. The teens, aged sixteen and seventeen... (radio static, changing channels) Welcome traveler, will you wander down the strange trail?"
As well as strange lights in the sky:

“There have been local report of strange lights in the sky in [concert location]."

The World Ender music video teaser and the comic book both have scenes referencing the alleged myth that Cobb Avery is an extraterrestrial. In both cases, he stands next to a crashed flying saucer, and has one arm resembling a tentacle.

### *Vide Noir*

    In Products of the Universe, there is a strange green light in the sky during the unusual weather event that Ed Rice reports on. It has a motif that resembles The Emerald Star. Dale Frandor is shown superimposed with an image of the storm’s light in his mouth and later in the final scene after Rice flees, Frandor is standing in the background facing the storm and raising his arms.

### *Long Lost*

In *Alive From Whispering Pines,* one of the the shots shows a flying saucer fly above the station.

The tuxedo jacket of Rigo Sandoval, a Phantom Riders member who mysteriously disappeared, turned up in 2021 on Craigslist near Roswell, New Mexico, a town famous for the Roswell UFO incident in July 1947.

## Gallery

Ben Schneider's art for Frozen PinesDale Frandor with the strange light in the storm in *Products of the Universe*Frandor faces the storm in *Products of the Universe*
Buildings/Quarry

The **Quarry** produces stone for collection by the governor. It is one of four such resource production buildings, along with the **Farm** (food), **Lumber Mill** (wood), and **Goldmine** (gold). Each upgrade of the quarry improves its stone production per hour and its max stone capacity.

## Building Requirements

* ***ROI*** (Return On Investment) is how many days for the quarry to produce the resources it took to upgrade the quarry. Production boost items can reduce the time. Currently it isn't worth upgrading all your quarries much past level ~13 due to the cumulative 100+ day ROI time.

## Side Quests

Rewards are given via quest completion for upgrading this building.
The Daily Trail

Daily Trail newspaper in "The World Ender" music video

**The** **Daily Trail** is a newspaper that reports on various events surrounding the Lord Huron fictional universe.

## Reporting

* Teenagers disappearing
* Winthrop Corporation
* Astral Storm Derek
* Frankie Lou's death

## Gallery

Disappearing teens article from "The World Ender" music videoGang Targets Winthrop Corp - article from "The World Ender" music videoAnother Winthrop Tragedy Article from "The World Ender" music videoSInger found dead in parked car. Francine Lu and boyfriend dead of apparent overdose police say. Article from Tarbell's memorial to Frankie.Daily Trail from *Alive From Whispering Pines* with the headline "Winthrop Tragedy, Ten Years Later"
## Fan theories and questions

Can the Daily Trail be used to help with the timeline of events in the Lord Huron universe, assuming we aren't just adrift in time and space?
Remy Fusil

**Remy Fusil** is a Cajun cowboy musician. According to Tubbs Tarbell, Fusil was a jokester and most folks considered him a novelty act, but he could write a fine song when the inspiration struck him. He was introduced to Tarbell by Booboo Slippers.

It is likely that Fusil wrote “La Belle Fleur Sauvage” about Leigh Green, considering her original stage name and album: Tarbell knows who Fusil’s muse for this song was, but is not telling.

## Description and appearances

Fusil is pictured in Tarbell's photo album wearing a pink shirt, brown pants, a dark hat, and playing an accordion.

## Music

### *The Cajun Cowboy Rides Again*

Label: Whispering Pines Studios – WP-0065
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album
Country: US
Genre: Country

### Cover versions

From Lord Huron's *Strange Trails*:
* "La Belle Fleur Sauvage"

## Questions and fan theories

* Is Fusil the singer in "Love Me Like You Used To?"
* Fusil appears to be interacting with Green in the The Broken Bottle in the music video for "Twenty Long Years," based on the pink shirt cuffs.
Buildings/Archery Range

The **Archery Range** is a building that allows for the training and upgrade of archer units. It is the second troop training building unlocked, along with the **Barracks** (infantry units), **Stable** (cavalry units), and **Siege Workshop** (siege units).

Five tiers of archer units are available to train once unlocked through research, each with increasing time and resource requirements. Existing units can be upgraded by one tier at a time, though at greater overall resource cost than training the higher tier directly.
Buildings/Wall

The **Wall** is the main defense building in the city. The wall is a requirement before upgrading the **City Hall**. Walls durability is decreased after a successful attack, along with the **Watchtower**, and must be manually repaired when damaged. If wall durability reaches zero as the result of fire after an attack, the city will teleport to a random location on the map.

## Side Quests

Rewards are given via quest completion for upgrading this building.
Lee Avery

**Lee Avery** is Norene and Cobb Avery's young daughter. She is lost in the destruction of their home.

## Comic book

In *The World Ender* comic book, she is a young girl. She only has one line of dialogue, where she asks her father if the grass gets "hurt when you cut it, Pa?" as he is mowing the lawn. He explains to her "No, sweet thing. Those clippings'll fall down into the soil and grow right back up again, and in some ways it's like they never die." This is true of some grass varieties that have runners.

## Music video

In "The World Ender" music video, Lee is shown as an infant in her father's flashbacks of his family. The video also depicts three graves, one is presumably hers, and it has a mound of earth, which suggests they did find her body and it isn't just a marker.

## Questions and theories

Did Lee Avery actually die as a child? More specifically: could Lee Avery be Leigh Green? In Vide Noir, which is set in the 1960s, one of the characters is called Lee Green rather than Leigh, but fits the characteristics of Leigh: a young singer trying to start her career and struggling with drug addiction. The use of multiple spellings of the similar names or stage names is found with other characters, so Green being called Lee does at least raise the question of Lee Avery surviving. The events of the World Ender are dated to roughly 1955 based on the documents associated with the music video, though it is unclear if these dates are intended to be canon. If Avery was around 5 years old in 1955, as she is depicted in the comic book, she would be in her late teens in the late 1960s. There is a film clapperboard dated 1967 in a split second shot in the music video of "The Night We Met," which suggests Lee Green goes out west to chase her dream at this time.
If Avery was an infant at the time of the destruction of her home and family, this timeline doesn't work, but it unclear when her father's flashback is supposed to take place relative to the timeline of the music video.

## Gallery

The Avery family graves in "The World Ender" music videoAvery family in *The World Ender* comic book
Buildings/Lumber Mill

The **Lumber Mill** produces wood for collection by the governor. It is one of four such resource production buildings, along with the **Farm** (food), **Quarry** (stone), and **Goldmine** (gold). Each upgrade of the lumber mill improves its wood production per hour and its max wood capacity.

## Building Requirements

* ***ROI*** (Return On Investment) is how many days for the lumber mill to produce the resources it took to upgrade. Production boost items can reduce the time. Currently it isn't worth upgrading all your lumber mills much past level ~17 due to the cumulative 100+ day ROI time.

## Side Quests

Rewards are given via quest completion for upgrading this building.
Tinned meats

Moose Morsels and Bear Bits

**Tinned meats** are useful to keep on hand if you get snowed in at Whispering Pines Studios and can't go hunting and gathering.

## Description and appearances

Tinned meats are preserved meat products with what appears to be gravy. They are available in different varieties and are packaged in round or rectangular cans with pull-tab lids for opening.

In episode 425 of *Alive From Whispering Pines*, Tubbs Tarbell recounts how he was snowed in by the storm. Although he tries to keep vegetarian, he had to resort to eating tinned meats since he was prevented from hunting and gathering.

## Varieties

* Bear Bits - Lite
* Moose Morsels
* Squirrel Squares

## Questions and fan theories

* Tinned meats appear to bear the name "Dandy Foods". Is this the same Dandy Corp. who produced "Dandy Karaoke Club" and "Dandy Tech", from Alive From Whispering Pines episode 426 and the "I Lied" music video, respectively?
Buildings/Academy

The **Academy** is a building which allows the governor to research various technologies. Upgrading the academy will permanently increase the research speed bonus for the city.

## Technology Unlocks

Each time the academy is upgraded, additional technologies can be researched. Note that simply because the research is unlocked at a specific academy level, it will likely still have some pre-requisite technologies. Those pre-requisites are not show here and can be viewed on the individual technology page.

## Side Quests

Rewards are given via quest completion for upgrading this building.
Buildings/Goldmine

The **Goldmine** produces gold for collection by the governor. It is one of four such resource production buildings, along with the **Farm** (food), **Lumber Mill** (wood), and **Quarry** (stone). Each upgrade of the goldmine improves its gold production per hour and its max gold capacity.

## Building Requirements

* ***ROI*** (Return On Investment) is how many days for the goldmine to produce the resources it took to upgrade. Production boost items can reduce the time. Currently it isn't worth upgrading all your goldmines much past level ~8 due to the cumulative 100+ day ROI time.

## Side Quests

Rewards are given via quest completion for upgrading this building.
Mighty

***Mighty*** is the second EP by Lord Huron. It's unclear if the songs are directly related to the broader Lord Huron narrative, but it has been stated by Ben Schneider that all of the band's media takes place in the same universe, whether or not it exists in the same plane of existence.

## "Mighty"

In "Mighty", the song's narrator challenges "a wild thing" who was mighty, but the narrator is no longer afraid of their power, conveying confident defiance. The song uses imagery of jungles and wild animals to portray a sense of adventure in an unfamiliar land. This atmosphere is reinforced by the EP's cover art.

## "Son of a Gun"

The song "Son of a Gun" is about a "pretty young girl" who would lie in the grass and fantasize of running away to find the man of her dreams. A "son of a gun" rambled into town "on a great cloud of dust carried by the wind" and seduced her, but he was "not the man she took him for." They headed out west, and he ran afoul of the law, and abandoned the girl with their little one. The song ends with the promise: "the story between them wasn't done. When she finds him she will make him regret he was ever born."

## "The Stranger"

In the song "The Stranger," the narrator sings about a stranger that is familiar yet suspicious to them.

In the music video for "The Stranger," two men lay a third dead man to rest in a snowy landscape. They put a flag on his chest and take his boots. Later, while travelling across the snow, one of the men begins to hallucinate the dead man is following them and is present in their camp. Eventually, the hallucinating man shoots the dead man. He then realizes he has actually shot and killed his other companion.

## "When Will I See You Again"

The narrator in the song "When Will I See You Again" implores the listener to get going, then in a strange twist, asks "Couldn't I keep you another day? When will I see you again?"
Hefty Lefty's drumsticks

**Hefty Lefty's drumsticks** were used for the sessions that recorded *Bombastic*. They were featured on the Lord Huron Seance.

## Reverb

The drumsticks were listed in on Reverb in York City, NY, for $315:

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Time's Blur (song)

## "Time's Blur"

**"Time's Blur"** is the 14-minute ambient closing track of *Long Lost*, which is "all either strings, voices or string instruments." The title refers to the instability of memory over time and it is a sonic representation of this concept, which is also represented visually in the blurring of artist's faces throughout the album media, including on *Alive From Whispering Pines.*

## Background and influences

Ben Schneider explained how the song came about in an interview:

"So that was the one result of the pandemic, I guess. When I was stuck at home, I started working on that. The way I made that was, it’s the string parts we’d recorded, I’m just manipulating them with tape machines and with digital timing: stretching them out, reversing them, so it’s all stuff from earlier in the record. The idea of that song is that you’ve heard this in this Long Lost record and now here’s the sort of effect time has on our memories, so it’s almost like it’s a blurring memory of the record as this long ambient track at the end. So, it’s actually all bits you’ve just heard, stretched out, chopped up and re-arranged into this sort of more abstract piece."

## Music Video

The video features colorful, blurry almost wavelike imagery.

## Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guitar Guitar interview

"The Moon Doesn't Mind" (Roy Casey)
"**Mine Forever**"
"(One Hellava Performer)" (Tubbs Tarbell)
"Love Me Like You Used To"
"Meet Me in the City"
"(Sing for Us Tonight)"(Tubbs Tarbell)

"**Long Lost**" (Leigh Green and Hauser Godwin)
"Twenty Long Years"
"Drops in the Lake" (*Drops in the Lake (film)*)
"Where Did the Time Go"
"**Not Dead Yet**" (The Phantom Riders)
"(Deep Down Inside Ya)"(Tubbs Tarbell)

"I Lied"(with Allison Ponthier) (Donnie and Midge)
"At Sea"(*L’Île Cosmique*)
"What Do It Mean"(Quentin King)
"**Time's Blur**"
**Bonus tracks:**
"Your Other Life" and "Ton Autre Vie"
Winthrop Corporation

**The Winthrop Corporation** is a successful property development and city planning company run by Andrew Winthrop that came under scrutiny for their business practices. The Daily Trail reports that five Winthrop employees all seem to have been killed by a gang.

## Appearances

### Comic book

In the *World Ender* comic book, the Winthrop Corporation is involved in the deaths of the family of their employee Cobb Avery, by selling him land that has a sleeping sinkhole upon which Avery builds his home.

### Music video

In the music video, Avery's home burns down in a fire that kills him and his family, on land the Winthrop company appears to have an interest in developing. Avery goes on to kill multiple employees or associates of the corporation, derails their train, and burns down their headquarters.

#### Employees and associates

* Gas Station Gus (killed by Avery in a fire)
* Brett “Tug” Bivens (Robert Rascal?) (killed by Avery with a corkscrew at the Frozen Pines motel)
-Robert Rascal is a personal assistant to Mr. Winthrop, according to documents in the video
* Diane Greentree (may be Norene Vasquez?) who is in the train the World Enders derail
-Norene Vasquez is a personal assistant to Mr. Winthrop
* Joyce Phelps is a building analyst on the Winthrop development team (killed by Avery)
* Pearson McLary is a surveyor on the Winthrop development team in 1954

## Gallery

Article in "The World Ender" music videoArticle in "The World Ender" music videoAndrew WinthropEmployee information of a surveyor, dated May 1954. From "The World Ender" music video.Shipping ticket dated July 31, 1954 in "The World Ender" music videoPrice list in "The World Ender" music video with building supplies
Budge Crampton

Budge Crampton in "Fool for Love"

**Budge Crampton** is credited as a member of The Tumbleweeds in the "Fool for Love" music video. He is also the producer of *Gun Thunder*.

## Trivia

* The same actor who plays Crampton the "Fool for Love" music video also plays Sri Tumbleweed in "Time To Run"
* The credits for Products of the Universe indicate it is a "Bud Crampton Production" and it has a 1997 copyright for Crampton Enterprises, with William "Bud Jr" Crampton as the executive producer.
* William "Bud Jr" Crampton is also executive producer of the Vide Noir vinyl and wine infomercial.

## Gallery

Budge Crampton production from Products of the UniverseCrampton Enterprises logo from Products of the Universe*Gun Thunder*: a Budge Cramption production
Lily

**Lily** is the unseen love interest in "Fool for Love," a song by Buck Vernon. Both the Fool and Big Jim have tattoos of her name.

## Questions and fan theories

* Is "Fool for Love" a thinly fictionalized version of Vernon's experiences? Is Lily actually Leigh Green? The French word for "lily" is "lys," pronounced "lee." Green's original stage name was "Fleur" which is French for "Flower," and she is Vernon's fiancée in *Vide Noir*. If Lily is Leigh, this also raises the question of whether Big Jim represents someone else in Vernon's life.
Buildings/Builder's Hut

The **Builder's Hut** is a building which allows the governor to see his building queues presented on one screen. It displays which building is being upgraded, to what level, and how much time is remaining.

A second builder queue can be temporarily activated by use the of Builder Recruitment item. It can also be permanently unlocked by reaching VIP Level 6.

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George’s Place

**George’s Place** is a bar in Silver Mine City and the hub of the songs on the Strange Trails album.

Known customers include Louisa.

Known performers include Buck Vernon, the Phantom Riders, and Clyde Fox, who all have posters outside. Frankie Lou has an album titled *Live at George's Place*. There is also World Ender graffiti on an adjacent wall.

## Appearances

George's Place is featured prominently in the "Fool for Love" music video. A different version is shown on the "Love Like Ghosts" cover art.

## Behind the scenes

The main location scenes depicting George's Place in the video for "Fool for Love" were filmed at Lord Huron's real-life Whispering Pines Studios in Los Angeles, CA.

## Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lord Huron official account reddit AMA
2. ↑ http://www.hitcityusa.com/editorial/post/2014/12/3/photo-set-lord-hurons-whispering-pines-studio
3. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/whispering\_pines\_studios/?hl=en
The Marais Boys

**The Marais Boys** are a group that Louisa is known to hang out with.

## Questions and fan theories

"Marais" is a French word which translates to "swamp" or "marsh." Remy Fusil is known as "The Cajun Cowboy." Cajun people are French-speaking and mainly live in and around Louisiana, a state known for its swamps and marshlands. Could Fusil be a member of the Marais Boys? What is their role?

Louisa could be another name for Leigh Green, given the fact that Buck Vernon sings about the former on one album and is engaged to the latter on the next. If Remy Fusil is a member of the Marais Boys, and the woman known as Louisa is known to hang around with them, could Fusil and Green have been romantically linked during the time of Strange Trails, given the fact that it's strongly suggested he wrote "La Belle Fleur Sauvage" about her?

## Sources

1. ↑ Lord Huron official account reddit AMA
Unidentified WBUB film reels

*See WBUB Midnight Movies for identified movies such as* The Shrivelling *and* Gun Thunder*.*

There are multiple unidentified film or television clips in the film reels Tubbs Tarbell digs out of the Whispering Pines vaults. They can be viewed in the "Mine Forever" music video.

## Beach matinee

In washed out vintage color, with a WBUB Matinee logo.

A woman is at the beach when a robber tries to steal her radio, while she fights to pull it back. A man steps in to stop the robber, but instead the robber drops the radio in fear when a lobster man appears. The woman and man run away and the lobsterman pursues them, they hide behind a surf board and peek out together. Later, the lobster man is surfing and the woman and man signal "hang loose" to him. He wipes out.

## Well-dressed skeleton scene

In warm tinted black and white.

A skeleton wearing a hat spins to the camera. She wears a large gemstone pendent.

## Dagger and book scenes

In warm tinted, high contrast black and white.

A dagger is used to dial a rotary phone. The dagger is raised and stabbed downwards. An ornate leather-bound book rests on a table with some candles, the window opens and the wind extinguishes the flames while lightning flashes.

## Locket woman scene

Vintage color.

Framed through a keyhole, a woman in a plaid dress hides a locket in a box. She is later outside in a residential neighborhood setting and clings to a lamppost.

## Cartoon worm

In color.

A big-eyed, brown cartoon creature (worm? stick? Loch Ness monster?) is inside a room with blue walls and a clock at 4:05.

## Cartoon fight

In black and white.

A larger character in overalls uses a knife to threaten a skinny character with a tin can for a hat.

## Crime scene midnight movie

    In semi black and white with a greenish tint, with a WBUB Midnight movie logo.

Two agents or detectives are at a crime scene with a covered body, one pulls back the cover and recoils at what he sees.

## Prison break television scene

In black and white with a WBUB-TV logo.

Prisoners in a chain gang with striped clothing sneak along a wall.

## Gambling gangster scene

    In color, with a warm tint.

A man rolls eleven with dice at a gambling table, before another man pulls a bag over his head. He is brought somewhere with a reddish tint where the bag is removed and a third man waits with a chain in his hands.

## Grognements scene

    In bright green tinted black and white, French subtitles.

A man surrounded by cactuses turns around on hearing growling to see a mysterious structure. The subtitle reads "grognements."

## Sphinx scene

In vintage colour.

A woman or girl shines a flashlight or lamp up at a large sphinx-like structure.

## Gallery

Locket woman clings to lampostCartoon worm?Cartoon fightGrognements structureWoman or child in sphinx sceneMysterious sphinx
Moonbeam

There are multiple characters and things called "**Moonbeam**" in the Lord Huron universe:

* "Moonbeam" - a song on the Vide Noir album
* Lady Moonbeam - a fortune teller in the Vide Noir film
* Moonbeam's Realm - a mystic persona of Marsha Tanley in *Products of the Universe* and a section on the Vide Noir hotline
Time's blur

**Time's blur** is a phenomenon that affects images and film of individuals, blurring out their faces. It represents how memories are modified by the passage of time, how things are remembered in a way that is different or changed from how they actually were. Lord Huron's song "Time's Blur" is a sonic representation of this, where fragments of Long Lost songs are stretched out and altered.

## Description and appearances

Time's blur manifests as a rainbow-tinted blurring of a character's face. Curiously, it does not typically affect the garments they are wearing, as seen with Roy Casey's mask.

It is seen affecting most characters in *Alive From Whispering Pines*, including Tubbs Tarbell, though his face is only sometimes affected. There is a photograph of Dale Frandor on Tarbell's wall that is not affected by time's blur, while other photos of Tarbell's friends are. It is not clear what this means. On the show, Tarbell comments:

"Sometimes I get to thinking about all my old friends, people I’ve worked with over the years, making records, playing shows. People I’ve loved. Lost in time’s blur. I wish there was a way I could still talk to them you know. A way we could all be together. Hm. I guess there likely ain’t. But sometimes, a good song can make me feel closer to them."
George Ranger Johnson's author photo on his website is also affected by time's blur, though it previously was not.

Time's blur is seen on the album and single covers for Long Lost.

   In the video for "Mine Forever," nearly all characters (excluding the worm and ventriloquist doll) are affected. In Gun Thunder, the time's blur effect on the female character's body is dark, including on the vision or ghost of her that Casey's character sees, even though it is typically light and colorful. It is unclear if this distinction has any significance.

There was also an Instagram filter created by Lord Huron which allowed the user to be forgotten themselves.

Time’s blur comes for us all.

## Sources

1. ↑ Southern Craft Radio's Joy Williams interviews Ben Schneider
Ghosts

Blaquefut and the ghosts in "Lonesome Dreams"

There are various references to **ghosts** or **spirits** in the Lord Huron universe, often as a metaphor for the ways a memory of a person can haunt you.

## Appearances

### *Mighty*

The music video for "The Stranger" has a dead man that appears to one of the other characters as they travel. This may be a hallucination or a ghost.

### *Lonesome Dreams*

The lyrics for the song "Lonesome Dreams describe landing on an island coast where the only souls visible are ghosts. In the music video for "Lonesome Dreams," there are several ghosts on the island where Huron encounters Blaquefut.

In the song "The Ghost on the Shore," the narrator speaks of how everyone "will remember the tale of the ghost on the shore."

### *Strange Trails*

On the album *Strange Trails*, "Love Like Ghosts" spins a metaphor about true love being like a ghost: few have seen it but everyone talks about it.

### *Long Lost*

On *Long Lost,*, a major concept behind the album is channeling friendly ghosts of former show business people who passed through Whispering Pines Studios over the years.

The song "Twenty Long Years" contains the lyric "I made a life out of chasing a ghost." This could be circling back to the metaphor of love as a ghost, or meant to refer to success and stardom.

## Sources

1. ↑ Gigwise interviewBen Schneider: "Yeah, it’s not explicit but a lot of Strange Trails deals with thinking about the memory of people in terms of ghosts. I’m not a huge supernatural guy, but I do appreciate the utility of those ideas about ghosts. It’s very engrained in us to come up with things like that to process how we feel, and I think ghosts are such a beautiful metaphor for the way the memory of someone can hang around and haunt you."
2. ↑ Atwood Magazine interview - Ben Schneider: "I guess I consider Tubbs to be the head ghost. He’s like the head of Whispering Pines Records and Studios, the father figure, if you will."
3. ↑ The Rodeo interview
Way Out There Wiki

### **Welcome, Lonesome Dreamers, World Enders, Cosmic Drifters, and the Long Lost - to Way Out There!**

Are you feeling lost in the Void? Searching all day, never finding anyone? All messed up with nowhere to go, those burning questions turning your skies red? Slipping into time's blur? You've come to the right place! This is a fan wiki tracking the fictional lore of songs, music videos, interviews and other content of the band Lord Huron. We've got information on lore from every era of the band, from *Into the Sun* to *Long Lost*. Whatever answer you seek, find it Way Out There.

For information about the band, see their article on Wikipedia.

**Note:** This site is best viewed in **desktop** mode. In Chrome you can select it in the menu to the far right of the address bar.

***Spoiler Alert!** This wiki contains spoilers for stories in the music videos, live sessions and other media from Lord Huron, **including the Vide Noir film**. We highly recommend experiencing these media for yourself before browsing the wiki.*

**Potential Editors**: fan theories and speculation are welcome, please write them under the appropriate section of an article. **Do not share lore from leaked content.** See the about page for more guidance.

May you live until you die!

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The Buck Vernon Band

**The Buck Vernon Band** is a rockabilly band fronted by Buck Vernon.

## Description and appearances

The band appears playing on the stage in the "Fool for Love" music video. Their set is disrupted when the Fool knocks a power cable for their equipment out of the socket during the brawl between the the World Enders and the Tumbleweeds.

In the Strange Trails album teaser, the band plays "Until the Night Turns" on stage. At the start of the video, they are introduced with "Buck Vernon, ladies and gentleman!".

## Music

From *Strange Trails:*

* "Dead Man's Hand”
* "Fool For Love"
* “Cursed”
* “Louisa”
Vide Noir VHS search

Vide Noir VHS at Criminal Records

There were a limited number of **VHS tapes** with hand-drawn Emerald Star and "Vide Noir” labels hidden in twenty-five independent record shops for fans to locate. It is assumed that they all contained the *Products of the Universe* footage now available on YouTube but it is not clear if they had additional content. They were apparently taped over old footage.

Copies of *Products of the Universe* were later sold through Lord Huron's online store. These had a printed label for the infomercial rather than the cryptic hand-drawn ones.

## Sources

1. ↑ Example tweet promoting the search by Criminal records
2. ↑ Ads of the World
3. ↑ Reddit
4. ↑ StereoGum interview
Booboo Slippers

**Booboo Slippers** is a clown who juggles. He introduced Tubbs Tarbell to Remy Fusil. Tarbell doesn’t care much for clowns, with the exception of BooBoo.

Slippers is dead as of episode 425 of *Alive From Whispering Pines*.

## Appearances

Slippers is depicted wearing white with a red clown nose, and juggling bowling pins in Tarbell’s photo album and on the studio wall. This same image shows up animated in the "Mine Forever" music video.
The Broken Bottle

**The Broken Bottle** is a honky tonk bar in the middle of the desert run by George Ranger Johnson. Tubbs Tarbell discovered his first act, Donny and Midge at this bar, and later many other acts.

## Description and appearances

The Broken Bottle is a small building in the desert with an awning across the front and a blue neon sign depicting a broken bottle on its roof. The word "BAR" is written in large red letters down the side of the building. Inside it has a small stage, a jukebox called the Cosmic Selector, seating booths and tables, and serves Boot Heel Whiskey at the bar.

The Broken Bottle is depicted both at the beginning and end of Episode 426 of Alive From Whispering Pines. The bar is also featured in the "Twenty Long Years" music video, and is shown on one of the TV screens in the video for "I Lied."

At some indeterminate future date, it is shown abandoned in a state of disrepair while studio cat walks through. The Cosmic Selector remains functional despite the rundown state of the establishment.

## Behind the scenes

Scenes depicting the interior of the Broken Bottle in Alive From Whispering Pines were filmed at Lord Huron's real-life Whispering Pines Studios in Los Angeles, CA.

## Gallery

The Broken Bottle in a dilapidated stateThe Cosmic Selector jukeboxTarbell and friends at the Broken Bottle
## Sources

1. ↑ http://www.hitcityusa.com/editorial/post/2014/12/3/photo-set-lord-hurons-whispering-pines-studio
2. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/whispering\_pines\_studios/?hl=en
Duvair Yaughton

**Duvair Yaughton** is an acclaimed orchestra leader who plays the violin. He was at the height of his musical prowess when he recorded *...And His Orchestra*. The same sessions produced Elsa Schöffer’s *Arias from the Astral Plane* and the score for *Times Ago*.

Yaughton was a childhood prodigy who studied viola and clarinet at a conservatory in Belgrade. When he was fourteen years old, his destitute family came to the United States. His orchestra features some of the finest players in the world, playing in countless international concert halls and produced *...And His Orchestra* after the surprise smash hit "Marmalade (Theme From 'Eternity')."

## Description and appearances

Yaughton is typically depicted wearing a dark-colored double-breasted suit. In the World Ender music video, he is a background character in George’s Place.

## Music

### *...And His Orchestra*

Label: Whispering Pines Studios
Catalog number: WP-0057
Format:Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album
Country: US
Genre: Classical
**Tracklist**

 2
 3
 2

### *Times Ago - Original Score*

> (Details unknown)
>
>

### Elsa Schöffer - *Arias from the Astral Plane*

* "Drops in the Lake" - composed and conducted orchestration

## Trivia

Kalemegdan is the largest park and most important historical monument in Belgrade, Serbia.

## Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Discogs
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 *Long Lost* vinyl cover details
3. ↑ Kalemegdan Park on Wikipedia
WBUB hotline

WBUB hotline billboard in "Alive From Whispering Pines"

The **WBUB hotline** allowed callers to request a song on Alive from Whispering Pines by calling 1-877-843-3664 or ask a question of Tubbs Tarbell. Some of these song requests, questions, and comments were featured in episode 424 and 425.

> "Thank you for calling WBUB. We hope you have been enjoying our programming. Join us February 18th for another exciting instalment of *Alive from Whispering Pines* with Tubbs Tarbell. And don’t miss this week’s WBUB midnight movie, *Dead Man’s Hand*. In the meantime to leave a message for Tubbs Tarbell, press 1. To request a song, press 2.”
>
>

There was also a WBUB section on the Vide Noir hotline.
Algona

Algona in The World Ender comic book

Lee Avery

**Algona** is the town where Cobb Avery lives with his family in *The World Ender* comic book. The Winthrop Corporation blew into Algona and built home after home, seemingly overnight. The town had a statue of Andrew Winthrop until Avery pulled it down. The entire town of Algona succumbs to a sinkhole at the end of the comic.

## Gallery

Algona sign in "the World Ender" music video
Clean Grooves

**Clean Grooves** is a band that recorded their eponymous album at Whispering Pines Studio. They performed on episode 201 of Alive From Whispering Pines.

## Description and appearances

Clean Grooves have yet to be identified in any *Long Lost* footage but on their album cover they are a band with four members who wear ties and colourful suits.

## Music

### *Clean Grooves*

Label: Whispering Pines Studios
Catalog Number: WP-0088
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album
Country: US
Genre: Rock, Pop

### Unspecified album

Seen in the Cosmic Selector:

* "The Walk" backed with "Clean Grooves (song)"

## Questions and fan theories

* Is "Mine Forever" a Clean Grooves song? The album covers look similar but the members of Clean Grooves appear to possibly be Black and the single cover for "Mine Forever" looks like it has white band members.

* Is the name a sort of Beatlesesque pun ("clean" music, records free of dust or debris etc.)?
Vide Noir (drug)

***This page contains spoilers for the newly-released Vide Noir film. It is highly recommended to watch the movie before reading.***

*This article is about the fictional drug, there is also an album and* *movie by the same name.*

## Vide Noir (drug)

### Effects

Obliterates the boundaries of time and space

### Source

*Products of the Universe*

**Vide Noir** is a drug that obliterates the self and the boundaries of space and time. Users are called sky-gazers and using is called drifting. It is a black liquid that Z'Oiseau named - French for "black void" - after he found it while lost in the jungles of Cambodia. It has other, more ancient names there. It can be consumed in a drink or by eye dropper.

    Vide Noir is promoted on *Products of the Universe* by Dale Frandor, who says it was legalized only recently and explains that a few drops can slingshot users out to the astral plane. Then remedy for an overdose is Cosmic Ash.

Overdosing on Vide Noir is known as being "black brained". In the *Vide Noir* film, it is shown that some individuals try to kill people by forcibly causing them to overdose on the drug.

Z'Oiseau distributes Vide Noir in his club. He explains that the drug does whatever you need it to and that it shows you what you need to see. He says that it removes the barriers between time and space and death. He claims "One must destroy psychological continuity if one is going to obliterate the illusion of self."

### Questions and fan theories

* If Vide Noir is legalized by the events of *Products of the Universe*, what implications does this have for the world of Lord Huron?
* In the film *Vide Noir*, a woman is shown prominently in the nightclub, smoking a cigarette on an ornate holder. Does this imply that the drug can be inhaled as smoke as well?

## Gallery

Johnnie in *Vide Noir* after he was forcibly black brainedVide Noir for sale on *Products of the Universe*Bottle of Vide Noir from the arcade in *Vide Noir*
Alive From Whispering Pines: Secret of Life

"Secret of Life" is the second excerpt from *Alive From Whispering Pines* which aired on YouTube after *Alive from Whispering Pines: Meet Me in the Woods.* Both were part of Episode 423.

The clip begins with a blank TV that immediately shows a building labeled WBUB with dramatic background music, thunder and lightning effects, and the title for "Alive From Whispering Pines." The next scene switches to brief static, then a closeup of Tubbs Tarbell, who says "Sometimes I just like staring into the darkness awhile, you see things you might have never seen in the light."

The whole of the clip is in black and white, showing the band performing the song, interspersed with the image of a skeleton with a cigarette in its mouth. This is a probable reference to Vincent Van Gogh's *Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette.*

## Sources

1. ↑ *Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette* on Wikipedia
Many worlds

There are multiple references to **many worlds**, **parallel dimensions**, or **alternate realities** in the Lord Huron universe.

## Appearances

### *Lonesome Dreams*

"Brother (Last Ride)" contains the lyrics "How long have I known you, brother? Hundreds of lives, thousands of years."

### *Strange Trails*

"Frozen Pines" contains references to "another life beyond the line."

### *Vide Noir*

There are references to a gate or window between dimensions in various songs on *Vide Noir*, including in "Secret of Life" and "Emerald Star," as well as references to a place or void "past the edge."

### *Long Lost*

"Mine Forever" contains the spoken words "Je te verrai dans une autre vie" which translates to "I will see you in another life." The music video has elements that parallel an earlier music video of "Ends of the Earth from *Lonesome Dreams*.

*Alive From Whispering Pines* has a caller to the hotline who asks Tubbs about parallel universes.

"Your Other Life" plays with this concept, with an interactive music video where the viewer can "slide between dimensions." The song lyrics reference an "other life" but appear to be referring to a person who is leading a double life, and cheating on the narrator. The music video shows two versions of the same moments at a bar, with distinct tonal differences between them. Whether these are parallel dimensions or simply different perspectives of the same story is open to interpretation.
H.W. Justine

**H.W. Justine** is the original performer of "Frozen Pines" on *Strange Trails*.

## Questions and fan theories

What is Justine's connection to Danielle, if Danielle did indeed exist?

Could Justine be yet another stage name for Frankie Lou? It is Lou, not Justine, who appears next to Tubbs at the end of the *Alive From Whispering Pines* version of "Frozen Pines". As well, having a connection to missing children, could explain why Frankie is described as having a "dark and mysterious" past.
Vernon's Chubbies

Chubbies ad from "Ends of the Earth"

**Vernon's Chubbies** are a breakfast cereal that is tasty and fun! They are advertised at the beginning of the "Ends of the Earth" music video.

## Questions and fan theories

* Is this a Buck Vernon brand cereal? Does this place the "Ends of the Earth" video on a children's program on WBUB?

* Is ChubColor associated in some way with Vernon's Chubbies?
Mickey Driskill

**Mickey Driskill** is a guitarist who Hefty Lefty introduced to Tubbs Tarbell. Driskill wrote the Whispering Pines theme song and introduced Tarbell to Roy Casey.

Mickey Driskill's Pine Record for *Damn Right,* his 4th Whispering Pines album, was listed for sale on Craigslist in 2021.

## Description and appearances

Driskill wears a tan fedora and a dark blazer with a white shirt, a tie, and a pocket square in Tarbell’s photo album.

## Music

### *Damn Right*

Label: Whispering Pines Studios
Catalog Number: WP-0048
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album
Country: US
Genre: Jazz
* "The Fortune Teller (Theme From Alive at Whispering Pines)"
* "Damn Right"
Elsa Schöffer

**Elsa Schöffer** is a singer who has recorded with Whispering Pines Studios.

The same sessions that produced Schöffer’s *Arias from the Astral Plane* also recorded Duvair Yaughton’s *...And His Orchestra*.

Schöffer's singing is featured in the "Drops in the Lake" song and WBUB Midnight Movie by the same name.

## Music

### *Arias from the Astral Plane*

Label: Whispering Pines Studios
Catalog Number: Unknown
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album
Country: US
Genre: Classical, Opera
* "Drops in the Lake"

### Cover versions

From Lord Huron's *Long Lost*:

* "Drops in the Lake"

## Sources

1. ↑ Discogs
2. ↑  Cross reference Whispering Pines Records and Tapes with "Drops in the Lake."
Danielle

Cover art of the "Frozen Pines" single

**Danielle** is a young girl, the apparent narrator of the song “Frozen Pines” by H.W. Justine.

## Questions and fan theories

In "The World Ender" music video, there is a *Daily Trail* article circa 1955 that seems to reference events relating to "Frozen Pines":

"Missing Teens Still Not Found
Many of our readers will know that there have been multiple reports of strange lights in the sky over the city these past few months. Witnesses describe a pulsing cluster of […] have been searching everywhere, they have still not been found. With the reports of more mysterious happenings both in the sky on now on the ground, we are cautioning our […]"
This song is associated with alien abduction imagery, were Danielle and her friends abducted? If so, by whom?

“Beyond the line” could be about the void.

The *Gun Thunder* soundtrack contains a song called "Danielle’s Theme" - is this the same Danielle?

## Gallery

The Frozen Pines Motel in "the World Ender" music videoBen Schneider's art for Frozen Pines
## Sources

1. ↑ NPR interview
2. ↑ Strange Trails CD and vinyl label song credits
Alive From Whispering Pines: Meet Me in the Woods

Meet Me in the Woods was the first *Alive From Whispering Pines* performance to be aired on YouTube. The clip is a part of Episode 423.

It begins with Ben Schneider counting to three. When he starts singing, his body turns into a spectrum of orange, yellow, black, blue, and green, this later happens with the rest of the band. This could be depicting the spirit of the band, or alluding to Time's blur.
Gun Thunder

***Gun Thunder*** is a tragic tale about adversity in the Old West and a WBUB midnight movie featuring the acting and music of Roy Casey, including a performance of his song "The Moon Doesn't Mind" during the closing credits of the film.

## Plot

Casey's cowboy character walks through the desert, holding a locket with a picture of a woman inside. He sees the woman in the distance beckoning to him.

Later he finds the woman's body and sheds a tear before burying her. He leaves the locket and his mask on the grave marker.

## Soundtrack

The soundtrack for Gun Thunder includes instrumental songs as well as vocal performances by Casey. A Discogs listing for the Whispering Pines release gave the following review:

"I’ve never seen this movie but the music is pretty good weirder than you’d expect but the roy casey stuff is just boring cowboy songs" [sic]
***Gun Thunder** – Music from the Motion Picture*

Label: Whispering Pines Studios – WP-0005
Catalog Number: WP-0005
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album
Country: US
Genre: Soundtrack, Country
**Tracklist**

### Cover versions

From Lord Huron's *Long Lost*:
* "The Moon Doesn't Mind"

## Trivia

The time's blur effect on the woman's body is dark, even though it is typically light and colorful, including on the vision or ghost of her that Casey's character sees. It is unclear if this has any significance.

## Gallery

Roy Casey as the protagonist of Gun ThunderRoy Casey performing "The Moon Doesn't Mind" in Gun ThunderGunthunder album - the music from the motion picture"The Moon Doesn't Mind" was performed by Roy Casey for the filmLocket Casey is carrying in Gun ThunderWoman who beckons to Roy Casey in Gun ThunderRoy Casey in Gun Thunder finds woman's bodyTears of sorrowCasey walks away from the grave
## Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Interview with Flood Magazine