Timeline

Chronological timeline of events of the *The Mandela Catalogue* and *Mystifying Oracle* universe*,* with Time Settings marked.

The events that require a source and/or are based on speculation are marked with **Bold** letters, don't take these as definite fact. Events that vary depending on the source and/or are dubiously canon are marked with *Italics*.

## Biblical Era

*Note: It is said that Alex Kister is part of the Judeo-Christian religion and the very concept of the series was born out of a personal crisis of faith. As such, this timeline will consider the mythos of Judaism and Christianity as true until proven otherwise, regardless of whether these events actually happened in real world or not.*

### Before Christ Biblical Era

#### First days of Creation

* In the first day, the 'Spirit' (it is unknown if it refers to Lord Yahweh) separated the light from darkness, creating Day and Night.
* In the second day, the 'Spirit' divided the skies from the waters creating Great Firmament to divide them.
* In the third day, the 'Spirit' separated the water from dry land and created the plants that flourish in it, including grass, flowers, and trees. An individual very akin to Archangel Gabriel would appear behind a specific tree and "corrupt" it, leading into the creation of the Forbidden Fruit.
* In the fourth day, the stars and planets that filled the night skies were created, alongside the Sun and Moon, which gave life to the day and night respectively.
* In the fifth day, sea-based, sky-based and land-based animals were created.
* Finally, in the sixth day, a Man was created from the dust of the ground, followed by a Woman created from his rib to keep him company. That same night, they'd deeply fall asleep to the stars.
* In what is either the sixth night or very early into the seventh day, the Man is awakened by a voice that refers to him as "son." The Man would stare into the forest, now filled with some sort of fog, eventually finding the angel-like creature behind a tree. The fog diminishes, revealing the Forbidden Fruit on the ground. It is implied that the Man ate the fruit and was either replaced or turned into the 'original alternate'.
* In the seventh night, the Woman attempted to stargaze as she did the night prior, only to be greeted by "the Man" staring down at her. She is implied to be patient zero for Metaphysical Awareness Disorder.

#### Noah's Ark

* A false angel is implied to have sent some sort of message to Noah, possibly related to the construction of the Ark or similar. Noah resists this message, prompting the false angel to punish him for this by sending 'another creature' on the boat, one that Noah wouldn't even be able to notice until it's too late and that, when he does find it, will give him his last message. It is heavily implied that this creature is the first alternate.

### After Christ Biblical Era

#### Annunciation and Yeshua's birth

* True Gabriel appears in front of the shepherds and announce to them that the Messiah will be born soon.
* False Gabriel systematically sabotages the Annunciation by either afflicting the involved with M.A.D or deceiving them, starting by Maria, her husband Yoseph and finishing with the shepherds. The latter of which he deceives into worshipping him instead, claiming himself to be the true savior of mortals, and that he knows everything about what makes them human; what they love and, most importantly, what they fear.

#### The Crucifixion

* Not much is known of this event, besides the fact that the false Gabriel was involved in some shape or form.

#### Easter Day

* On the Third Day, the day of the 'Messiah' 's resurrection, two Roman Soldiers were guarding His tomb when it suddenly opens by itself. One of the Romans points out to the distance, alarming his partner of the presence of 'Gabriel' sitting under a nearby tree. Afraid at this revelation, the soldiers run away, leaving the tomb unguarded. Later on, Maria Magdalene realizes that the stone blocking the entrance of the tomb moved and entered. Maria Magdalene, instead of finding him, finds 'Gabriel', who tells her an unspoken truth prior to leaving. It's implied that Maria Magdalene shared this 'truth' with her colleagues.

## Analog Era

### 19th Century

#### 1832

* Mandela County is established. It's likely that neighboring counties were also established around this time.
* The Mandela County Police Department is founded.

### 1970's

#### 1972

* The Parker Brothers release the Ouija Board as a board game, one particular board would be preserved and to eventually be sold on e-bay years later.

#### 1978

* At an unknown date, Mark, now 4 years old, is afraid after his father didn't tuck him in before bed. He goes out to his parents' room and, as he goes there, he encounters The intruder in a room downstairs.

### 1980's

#### 1981

* The United States Department of Temporal Phenomena is established, implying the need to fight off against the Alternate threat in years prior. It's likely that they also created several PSAs explaining the threat of the Alternates to the public in this year.
* MandelaTECH is founded.

#### 1982

* In the third quarter of the year, Metaphysical Awareness Disorder has a sudden return in the population. The USDTP releases several PSAs explaining the disease and how to avoid it.

#### 1988

* Adam Murray is born on January 18th.
* Jonah Marshall is born on March 7th.

#### 1989

* Sarah Heathcliff, Mark's younger sister, is born at an unknown date.

### 1990's

#### 199X

* MandelaTECH2000 likely produces Face Studio 1.

#### 1990

* The USDTP is revised.
* Jude and Lynn Murray get married on June 8th.
* Evelin Miller is born at an unknown date.

#### 1992

* The Alternate crisis seems to resurface, having about 5,000 more deaths in Mandela County on this year alone. either re-runs of previous PSAs or new PSAs entirely are shown to the public. Though it's implied that these were distorted by outside forces in order to spread misinformation and fear in the population.
* The Alternate crisis proves too much for the Mandela County Police Department to handle, so they explicitly decide not to help anyone reporting an Alternate encounter, claiming that "nothing is worth the risk."
* On April 4th, Thatcher Davis and MCPD employee of the month Ruth Weaver are promoted to Lieutenant and Sergeant respectively.
* Jude Murray and Lynn get a divorce on August 29th for unknown reasons. Custody over Adam Murray seems to remain on Lynn's side. Despite this, both parents seem to still be friends with each other and make an effort to raise their child.
* On August 30th, a now 17-years-old Mark Heathcliff had been paranoid for a prolonged period after an encounter with one, if not more, Alternates. He visits various locations, including his childhood church and what appears to be his house. After avoiding an Alternate, he locks himself in a room, where he sees The Intruder appearing on a nearby analog television. Heathcliff survives the encounter through unknown means.

#### X X, 1992

The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 5 has been stated it will take place around 1992. Where it falls in the timeline is unknown though likely before September 1992's events as Mark and likely Cesar Torres will be apart of it though this series has shown it has no problem with Posthumous appearances.

#### September, 1992

* On the 13th at 9:30 P.M, Mark Heathcliff receives a phone call from an Alternate posing to be Cesar Torres. The Alternate lures Mark to the Torres Residence with the excuse of his mother being on the E.R, and that he needed someone to turn on the cameras for him. Mark arrives at Cesar's house by 9:56 PM, quickly turning on the cameras *in just 23 seconds* and having an implied sighting of the Alternate inside. Mark quickly returns to his home, *arriving by 10:09 PM* and locking himself in his bedroom with his camcorder.
	+ *On the 14th at 5:30 A.M, the Concerned Friend dies in the Torres Residence at the hands of an Alternate.*
	+ On the 15th, Mark, still locked inside his room, writes on his composition notebook and *eventually shoots his gun repeatedly into his door in an attempt to kill Cesar's Alternate*. This causes the power in the building to go out, as well as the camcorder light to stop working. Mark leaves out a final message, remarking that he doesn't want to see what's on the other side, but it had been days and nobody had come to help him. He questions what's life really worth, when all he can do is face it all alone. Mark curses Cesar's Alternate, before shooting a single round, implying his suicide. *Cesar's Alternate, seemingly victorious in coercing Mark into suicide, stares into the camcorder for an hour, before turning it around to face Mark's remains.*
* On the 21st, Lieutenant Thatcher Davis is informed of the disappearance of Mark Heathcliff by the latter's highschool, prompting the Lieutenant to investigate his house, finding the 17 year old's corpse and belongings. Davis is implied to have gotten obsessed with the case.
* At an unknown date, in the station, Ruth tells Davis that he doesn't have to work on the Heathcliff case anymore after he got promoted. Davis answers that he simply got a lead that he needs to review, prompting Ruth to leave the building. As this was happening, 3,426 children are kidnapped by the Intruder throughout Mandela County, Bythorne County, Werksha County, and Yonder County.
	+ After reviewing the evidence of the Heathcliff case, Davis answers a phone call from a caller, Jude Murray. Jude says that he's facing a home intrusion. Thatcher tries to figure out whether this home intruder is human or an alternate, but ultimately believes that it's a human after Jude states that he has never seen anyone who looks like him before. Thatcher calls Weaver to check the place out, before they both realized that they got a similar call. Weaver calls Davis for back-up to investigate the place that she was originally meant to investigate with a police officer who ran away.
	+ Thatcher and Ruth arrive at the Murray residence, where they find Lynn's corpse hanging in Adam's room, with the TV on and occasionally flashing the Intruder's face as Ave Maria plays. Weaver seems to go somewhere else as Thatcher's camera starts malfunctioning. Thatcher continues investigating, eventually finding an Alternate mimicking his voice and Jude's. Thatcher abandons the house, while Ruth is implied to have died.
	+ Thatcher requests back-up from surrounding counties, not succeeding due to his radio malfunctioning. It's then when the Alternate arrives at the station, announcing its presence by singing a distorted rendition of Amazing Grace. Thatcher confronts the Alternate in a hallway and survives the encounter through unknown means.
* An on-site officer volunteered to set up a camera that took pictures every five minutes facing Adam's room in order to ensure security until another investigation was possible. The footage revealed the Intruder as an invisible force, mangling the corpse of Lynn until it was no longer recognizable. The MCPD was able to recover the body.
* Thatcher asks MandelaTECH employee Dave Lee to recover some of the footage seen in the Murrays' TV. He recovers at least 2 minutes of The Might of the Subconscious and what appears to be a physical copy of Overthrone from the place.

#### 1995

* Various clips of a famous Christian Cartoon are found and preserved, later to be uploaded to a Youtube channel.

## Digital Era

### 200X

* Dave Lee is contacted by a man named O'Brien. The pair become close friends and O'Brien likely becomes a collaborator for MandelaTECH.
* MandelaTECH produces Face Studio 2, with improved features, a cloud database storage, and a free demo version available to download. Unbeknownst to Dave, this program will be used by the Alternates to easen the process of stealing one's identity.

### 2000

* MandelaTECH2000 renamed itself to just MandelaTECH, as the new millennium was no longer the future.

### 2004

* The MCPD website is last updated on November 14th.

### 2007

* The Bythorne Paranormal Club is founded at an unknown date by Sarah Heathcliff.
* On June 11th, the founder of the BPC, Sarah Heathcliff, announces that she's in search of a work partner to the Bythorne High Daily News. Her club goes mostly unnoticed until a month later.
* On July 10th, Adam Murray, a student at Werksha High, finds interest in Sarah's club and its potential and decides to email Sarah to be her work partner. Adam Murray's partnership with the BPC is publicly announced, as well as they had changed their name to the Bythorne Paranormal Society, extending their range to surrounding areas.
* On July 14th, Adam and Sarah go trespassing to a crime scene to look out for ghosts. They arrive at 11:47 PM.
	+ On July 15th at 12:47 PM, Adam uses a lure to attract the crime scene's Alternate. Sarah ends up overwhelmed by the Alternate's presence and the lure, causing them to flee just 2 minutes later. 2 hours later, while on the road home, Sarah tells Adam that she doesn't want to go to any investigations anymore and that he should find a new partner if he wants to keep doing investigations with someone. Adam writes on his journal about it, calling Sarah a coward and judging her for screaming and being scared of the Alternate.
* On July 17th, Adam finds Jonah Marshall online and recruits him as Sarah's replacement. Adam hated Jonah from the beginning of their partnership, but sticks up with him for the moment.
* At an unknown date, the USDTP released (or attempted to release, at least) a PSA falsely explaining that the Alternates had been exterminated.

### 2008

* On August 14th, Adam goes through an out-of-body experience in the middle of a sleep paralysis. He describes it like being perfectly conscious yet paralyzed, like his vision was separated from his body and watching over the room like a security camera. He saw someone that he recognizes as "the man in the corner" slowly approaching him (Adam doesn't specify whether he approached his physical self or his out-of-body self). As he approached, Adam could feel his presence and "energy" communicating with his, which he describes as something akin to static coming from an old TV before it shocks you.

#### December

* Paranormal YouTuber Joel Hayes bids for a haunted Ouija Board from 1972 on Ebay and wins at an unknown date.
* On December 19th, Joel receives the Ouija Board. He would then record it's unboxing and usage for his Youtube channel, jhayesvideos. At 10:46 A.M, Joel tries to use the Ouija conventionally and says that he has "felt something terrible," prompting him to leave. He would still record the board for research purposes.
	+ On December 20th at 12:36 AM, the planchette of the Ouija Board moves around in circles across the Board until landing on "No." Hours later at 3:34 A.M, the planchette would move on it's own again, this time making out the word "Hello," followed by a female voice repeating the message. Joel would then record what appears to be a figure staring at him from the corner of his window, before finishing recording abruptly. Joel would upload the video to Youtube, giving him huge international recognition.
* In the following 8 days, Joel would get interviewed regarding the veracity of the video by a person named "Don," his mom would be pushed down the stairs by the spirit, the water in his house would stop running, and the smell of burnt matches would fill the house.
* On December 28th, Joel gets a call from his friend Chloe, noticing the sudden fame he has gotten in recent days and asking him how he did the video. The call is intercepted midway through with what Chloe describes to be screaming. Hayes would then make a follow-up video to his followers, in the video Hayes tries to ask the "ghost" if they were still there and why they pushed his mother down the stairs. The "ghost" doesn't give an actual answer, but instead scares Hayes off by making knocking-like noises. Joel goes to sleep with a sleep recording app just in case.
	+ On December 29th, 3 recordings are left in the app. The first one being Joel moving on his sleep, the second one being a camera shot facing a dark doorway before abruptly cutting to Joel cutting himself with a razor and pouring his blood onto the Ouija Board in what seems to be an attempt to make the "ghost" stop, and the third one being a camera shot facing the window before going back to Hayes' room, most notably a humanoid shadow is being cast. Hayes uploads the video, saying that "there wasn't much activity this time."

* After uploding the video, his viewership skyrockets again, breaking Youtube records and gaining 3,978,238 views. Many people in the comments discuss the video, asking questions such as if the blood seen in it was real or not, if the series was an ARG, or asking on the next video about the phenomenon.
* On December 30th, Joel records the view outside his window, claiming that he should be seeing stars or the city lights right now, but dosen't. The video cuts to Joel's cellphone, where an audio message of Chloe asking whenever or not "that had to be fake, right?". Afterwards, other audio messeges that are strange and unintelligible follow. After the sounds end, the phone plays another recording of chloe: *"Okay... I'm coming over*". Joel picks up the phone and tries to call somebody, most likely chloe, but nobody responds.
* Few hours later, Joel records himself testing out the Ouija Board again. This time he's gotten prepared, as he set up few security cameras around his house, albeit few of them are offline. The video cuts to a zoom shot of one of the cameras that Joel set up. We cut to the perspective of the camera of a room with a window, where we hear Joel asking the entity if "they want to do more tricks for the camera". The video cuts again, and we hear Joel asking where he is, signaling that he was transported somewhere else, blaming the "ghost" for the occurance. He tries to use the planchette but the spirit moves it himself, scaring him in the process. The spirit moves the planchette until it finishes a sentence: "**You**". We hear a bell in the distance, and we cut to the camera perspective of a door, someone rang the door. Joel walks up to the door, staring at it. We cut back to the room with a window, where the camera starts to glitch out until it dosen't display any footage. The room was now dark, with no light source nearby. The camera cuts back again, and the light comes back. But the pictures that Joel hang in the room change, ealier displaying landscapes, now showing a symbol of the sun and the moon.
* We cut to Joel, where we see his face. Joel is recording an update video, where he tries to explain as to why he hasn't uploaded anything in a while. He informs the audience that the last update video was deleted by Youtube for violating the guidelines. He informs the viewer that he has gotten a lot of comments and emails asking about his status, whenever or not something bad happened to him. He reassures the audience, stating that his actions in the video are of his own. He informs the audience that five (or four) videos he was planning the release for some reason are not being uploaded. He says that he dosen't really know what to do anymore, and informs the viewer that if they are watching this video, then they are in luck.

#### Post-December 30th

* an unknown person (most likely Joel) watches the uncomplete version of "In Limbo" on Youtube before rendering it.

### 2009

#### Unknown

* Mandela Meerkats has won the football match against the Bythorne Badgers.
* The Boy has recorded a video about finding a "ghost" in his house and the Mandela County Police Department received it, likely The boy was the one who spammed the emails to the officers and Lieutenant Thatcher Davis was referring to the 333 corruption (which could be The Intruder) in his deleted comment, Thatcher may took him to the safe place.
* O'Brien contacts Dave Lee to, supposedly, catch up with him, Dave asks about how his "church gig" went. O'Brien tells Dave that his performance made the entire congregation out of their seats, and that according to his fellow band members, it had never happened before. He describes it as something empowering. He then asks Dave how MandelaTECH's doing, to which Dave replied that none of the local businesses have been doing well recently, MandelaTECH included. O'Brien offers Dave a position in the church, but he declines saying that he's an atheist, which noticeably disappoints O'Brien. Meanwhile, Evelin Miller, now an employee in MandelaTECH, discovers old tapes from Thatcher's investigations and puts watches them.

#### January

* In January 12th, Adam and Jonah receive an appointment from a Woman from Mandela County. The woman claims that she had been hearing her deceased cat Jonny meowing around her house, and asks if they were willing to help him find peace while she goes on a business trip. She offers 500$ a night, almost instantly convincing the duo. In reality, the woman was an Alternate, perhaps even the Intruder himself, luring the two into a trap located in Cesar's house. After a minor car malfunction, which may or may not be caused by the Intruder, the pair arrive to the house at 11:45 P.M and start their investigation. After a non-remarkable scouting of the house, Adam finds the only locked door in the house, the basement door, and finds himself oddly attached to it.
	+ At an unknown moment in time, presumably still January 12th, Adam and Jonah discuss on their findings outside. Jonah points out that the house gives him a creeping feeling of uneasiness, similar to how it did to Mark 15 years before, and suggests to leave the house. Their discussion is interrupted by a loud screaming coming from the house, which Adam finds interesting and decides to go back in to find the source of the sound.
	+ Thatcher Davis, now in his 40s-early 50s, still reminisces about Ruth and the consequences of the Alternate invasion. It's likely that, **in this night,** he received a visit from an Alternate, presumably the one that's been haunting him for the last decade and a half, taking the form of Weaver.

##### January 13th

* Adam continues his investigation in the house. By 12:32 A.M, an interference in both Adam and Jonah's walkie-talkies make it seem as though they're attempting to prank each other, aggravating Adam and prompting him to sleep inside the house for the time being.
	+ A voice, presumably that of Gabriel or Intruder, talks to Adam, telling him that he had been a fool who "followed the Shepherd" and that he should "wake up" before "the others" are awakened. The Preacher is sent as a last resort, who breaks into the house and opens the basement door. Jonah attempts to make Adam come back and leave the house, but this leads into an argument between the two, resulting in Jonah leaving with the car and Adam going down into the basement.
	+ In the basement, "Jonny" reveals himself to be a disguise of the Intruder. Intruder attempts to speak to Adam, asking if he remembers him, but Adam fails to do so, prompting his rage. Meanwhile, Jonah is being tormented by the Intruder through the GPS, eventually resulting in his implied death.
* A few hours after this, at 5:34 AM, Adam finds the car and maybe even Jonah's body. He leaves it behind and drives away. Adam sends a voice message to Sarah, where he only mentions the footage he got from the investigation, completely glossing over his friend's possible death. Adam arrives home at an unknown hour, hops straight to Dove Messenger, deletes Jonah's contact and asks Sarah if she had listened to his voice mail. From then, a conversation ensues where Adam reveals the possibility of Jonah being dead. Sarah calls Adam out and forces him to be the one to make a memorial video to their viewers.
	+ Sometime after their interaction, Sarah asks Adam about the video. Adam says that uploading it makes it more dramatic than needed, but Sarah disregards it and makes him send it anyways. Adam sends one video, which was corrupted and missing Jonah's picture. Sarah thinks it was a joke video, but Adam says that he just sent the wrong file and sends the "real one." The "real video" is revealed to have been corrupted by something, presumably the Intruder. The corruptions include footage of what appears to be the Torres's house: a door, presumably the basement door or a closet, opening; it's contents covered by the actual video's background. There's also the inclusion of Evelin's confession to the MCPD as seen in Mandelapolice.com and a video of Adam yelling about his computer malfunctioning and making him say things that weren't true.
	+ Adam is contacted by a "spam contact" who is actually the Intruder in disguise again. He tries to make Adam recall their "friendship" again, this time going into further detail about his childhood, including the mention of "monsters" and how the light of the TV scared them off and kept him safe. He mentions about how he cradled him in his arms like he was his own, then took him away. Noticeably, he refers to Adam in third person up until this point. Intruder then asks if when he stares into the mirror, he sees himself as one of said monsters, before revealing that "[his] skin is not [his] own" and that "he's not the real [him]," thus revealing to him that he was an Alternate all along. Intruder's speech is fortunately cut off by one of Sarah's voice messages.
* Dave Lee seems to reconsider O'Brien's offer and decides to close MandelaTECH for good, stating that he can't even remember the last time the company's had a good day. He fires Evelin through a phone call, who tries her best to change his mind but ultimately fails. Dave consoles her by saying that he will put out a good word for her via Thatcher. Before Dave could hang the phone, however, Evelin confronts him about the tapes she had found. Dave hangs up anyways and calls O'Brien, telling him that he's ready to take on his offer.
	+ Later, Dave calls Thatcher and announces that he's ready to "move on." Dave tells Thatcher that continuing to investigate the Alternate cases are just a waste of time and energy, arguing that if Thatcher had given up already, he could probably find peace as well. He tells him that he needs to accept things that he can't change, especially from 17 years ago. Dave ends the call by telling him to find a new meaning in life.
	+ Following Dave's advice, Evelin gets a job as a front desk receptionist at the MCPD. In her first day, she finds that the building was empty. Tempted by curiosity, Evelin finds a key to the files room and enters, where she learns about the possibility of Adam being an Alternate. Unknown to her, however, an Alternate taking her form turns off the power in the building. She somehow manages to escape.
	+ Dave meets up with O'Brien in front of the St. Gabriel Church. O'Brien reveals himself to be Gabriel in disguise, and talks to Dave about how he was "so close" to something, but he somehow managed to follow the shepherd regardless. Dave initially tries to deny the false angel's existence and tells him that he won't accomplish anything, he's quickly corrected by Gabriel, who tells him that he has already done all of his bidding for him prior to killing him.

##### Post-January 13th

* One day later, in January 14th, Dave Lee is found dead in the parking lot of St. Gabriels Church. The event is reported by a local television network, Channel 3 Studio at 4:37 P.M. The broadcast is interrupted by a faceless Alternate who says "NO MORE RUNNING AW-[AY]," until returning back to the broadcast. The Alternate's interruption gets named as "2009 Channel 3 Incident." Only one unknown individual was able to capture the event on camera, who then uploaded it to YouTube.
	+ At 7:24 PM, Two nurses inspect Dave's body, who was pronounced dead on arrival. One of the nurses attracts the attention to Dave's brain, which had exploded following his encounter with Gabriel. At 7:53 PM, the two nurses discuss The Mandela County and how the place is nearly forgotten by the two. One of the nurses asks if Dave's death was on the news, to which another responds that it was. The other nurse finds this odd, as no one had ever talked about the St. Gabriel Church since they all migrated to Werksha County.
	+ Following the events of Adam learning who he really was. Sarah Heathcliff has gotten a new contact with Evelin Miller. During their conversation, Evelin asks Sarah about Adam's status, to which Sarah reassures Evelin that he's fine, although Evelin already felt like something bad has happened and that Sarah can tell her about it, even pointing out the fact that Adam acted strange around Sarah's presence.
	+ Around midnight, The Intruder finally talks to Adam. He finally reveals him the unbridled truth about himself and his origins, this time without interruptions. Later, Adam claims that God Himself talked to him.
* In January 16th, at around midnight, Thatcher is woken up by strange voice claiming to be his own intuition, that encourages him to "follow the screaming." Thatcher follows the direction of the "screaming" all the way to Werksha County. Thatcher reaches his destination, Adam Murray's house, by 2:21 A.M. While in the house, Thatcher hears a radio reading of *The Fate Of The Jester*. Adam is found in his bedroom by Thatcher lying on his nightstand, making abnormal face gestures and having his pupils glowing white. He yells at Thatcher, as he drops the camera.
	+ At 5:37 AM, Thatcher takes traumatized Adam into his car and drives him back to Mandela County where he interrogates him in Mandela Police County Department Headquarters on the events that transpired between January 11th to January 13th and on anything Alternate related. Although adamant at first, Adam reveals the information on the creation of Bythorne Paranormal Society, how he fallen out with the co-founded, how he found a replacement for his ex-coworker, a brief summary of the two nights that the incident transpired on, and revealing that he had a dialogue with a person that the only way he can describe him as "God."
	+ MandelaTECH announces via a commercial that it's going out of business after the death of Dave Lee, meanwhile Sarah and Evelin are looking for Dave, not knowing where he is. Evelin and Sarah discuss the encounter with The Preacher, with Sarah reassuring Evelin that Adam is fine. Abruptly, Evelin's conversation with Sarah cuts, re-connecting into a CCTV footage of Thatcher's interrogation of Adam. After the interrogation footage ends Evelin is met with a distorted, edited version of MandelaTECH's earlier commercial, displaying words: **"AN URBAN TRAGEDY, THATCHER DAVIS DOOMS ALL" ,** with low quality pictures of 6 appearing on tv screens in the edited commercial. Afterwards, a scene from the commercial appear with the window, but this time in the widow flashing lights are seen, with irregularly placed text saying: "**YOU WERE SO CAUGHT IN YOUR OWN VOLITION, THAT YOU NEVER NOTICED YOUR WORLD TURNING INTO A GRAY AND TWISTED VERSION OF IT'S FORMER SELF**." The smiley face from Mandela Catalyst appears, but this time displaying a sad face. The video ends there.
* On January 19th, a currently unknown event happens though it involves a church and answers lying beneath it.

#### March

* A few months after uploading his update in late December, On March 3rd Joel records a video, stating that "the darkness is starting to seep in". We get another zoom shot of a camera photo, and we cut to a small entrace to a room that is completely dark. Text out of the frame appears that reads "look clos(er)" , and we hear an unintelligable voice saying something inside of the room. The spirit starts to thud and run around the room aggresively, making a lot of noise. The entity stars running faster until stopping suddenly. We cut to Joel's Ouija board, which planchette has been put on the letter "u". The planchette moves on itself, until it spells out "purify". We get a small cut back into the window room from "In Limbo", and then another zoom shot of a camera picture, although this time the shot glitches out. The viewer sees a red light in a dark room, until it's revealed through the voice-mall notice that it's Joel's phone. The voice messseges start to play, with sounds of breathing, incomprehensible reverted words and strange electronic sound. We hear a voice message from Chloe, stating that she tried to stop by, but with no response, blaming Joel for oversleeping again. She expresses her support, stating that Joel has to one day let them know when to hang out together, and that she's there for him. The voice messeges stop there, as we start to hear strange magnetic wave-like sounds, and flashes of light on his window in the backround. The camera that records this event also experiences a frame drop, while the wave-like sounds continue in the backround. We cut to the Ouija board again, where the planchette starts to move again on it's own, waving around and making it for the viewer more difficult that before to spell out the sentence. But, following closely, the entity spells out the phrase "gsqrdgtuvjfgsrqdguvieqr23g", it is unknown what it means. The planchette moves through the "good bye" sentence and the bottom of the board, as the video glitches out.
* We cut to a low-quality sentence, which reads "the sun and moon look upon me and worry". We cut back to to the room with the window, but this time the pictures beside it change again. Rather than displaying the moon and the sun, there's only now one picture, that displayes the perspective of the camera on that very same room. On the picture itself there is a unknown figure, while on the camera display we only see darkness outside. As the music intensifies, we cut back to Joel cellphone, again only with the red light available to see, until we return to the room with a window, now from a diffent perspective, we can finally identify the light source of the room as a lamp. We cut back to the dark hallway, still without any spirit in there, while the music tries to fool the viewer that something is about to happen in the hallway, we again return to the windown now in another perspective. we can now see what's presumebly the street lights, until for a split second, the view cuts entirely as we return to the Ouija board, now almost unrecogniseable due to the image quality. The shot pans up, revealing the screen of all the cameras, going offline one by one. The only remaining camera footage is of Joel's house entrance door. Joel decides to investigate the scene. He goes in front of the door and he sees it open by himself. He slowly walks out of the door, into the darkness. The video footage cuts and the viewer is left to listen to the omnious sounds until they get cut with a retro youtube loading screen. We see a clip of a host show where a woman named Janet asks the pastor-presenter about being under the influence of a demonic force, saying that they feel like it's holding them back, asking the host about "the people who use it just for fun" (the whole sentence is likely in correlation of Joel's situation). The pastor responds, stating that whenever it's necromancy or any other deal with demonic spirits, there is no fun in that. The video stops, and in Kister's upload the caption's state a verse from the bible: "***Matthew 5:26: Truly, I say to you, you will never get out 'till you have paid the last penny***". Besides his left arm, a vague face of a spirit is seen. The video ends there.

### 2010's

#### 2010

* A Mandela [County] Population Trend is held. The population slowly decreases in the span of two decades from 14,763 residents in 1992 to just mere 1,075 residents by 2009. Due to the information being presented in a small box-like format, it is unknown how large the population was in 1990 and 1991, but more importantly, how large the population was in 2010.

## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 The Mandela Catalogue - Volume 4
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Exhibition
3. ↑ Overthrone
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 The Mandela Catalogue - Volume 333
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 THE BEGINNER'S BIBLE "THE STORY OF EASTER" CLIPS CIRCA1995
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 mandelapolice.com
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Mystifying Oracle 1 - Salutatio
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 The Mandela Catalogue - Volume 1
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Metaphysical Awareness Disorder
10. ↑ This is a theory, Face Studio 2 was produced by MandelaTECH so it's safe to assume that a decade earlier they also produced the first version of this program.
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 InterIude
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Intruder Alert
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 Mandelatech.com
14. ↑ Mystifying Oracle 2 - Evocatio
15. ↑ Mystifying Oracle 3 - In Limbo
16. ↑ Mystifying Oracle 3 - In Limbo
17. ↑ Mystifying Oracle 3 - In Limbo
18. ↑ Mystifying Oracle 3 - In Limbo
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Mandela Catalogue - Volume 2
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Mandela Catalyst
21. ↑ The Mystifying Oracle 3 - In Limbo
22. ↑ Mystifying Oracle 3 - In Limbo
23. ↑ based on the graph seen in Interlude