Kane

Kane being grabbed by the bacteria at the end of Found Footage 1.

*"Hello? Is someone there?”*

*―Kane, after falling into the Backrooms.*
**Kane** was an amateur filmmaker who went missing on July 4, 1991 when he fell into the Backrooms. He was the protagonist of *Found Footage*.

## Character History

### Into The Backrooms

In 1991, Kane along with a small film crew were filming a short movie on a backstreet. After finishing a successful shot, the director decided that they should get a wide angle, and Kane, acting as the cameraman backed up. Suddenly, Kane no-clipped and fell into the Backrooms. Upon regaining consciousness, Kane grabbed his camera and can be heard calling out and asking if anybody else was there. Kane then started to explore the Backrooms, walking through a maze of corridors before hearing something in the distance behind him. The Kane, still holding the recording camera, turned around quickly, revealing that something was watching him from around the corner at the end of a corridor. Kane asked again if anyone was there but received no response. It appears that this creature (Bacteria) stalked Kane throughout his exploration of the Backrooms.

The footage cuts for a few milliseconds before Kane's camera refocused on a narrow gap in between two walls. Kane leaned in closer and stuck his camera between the gap, recording another long corridor which stretched on before turning to the right.

The footage cut again, restarting when Kane stumbled upon a wide, open room. On the right wall, a ladder can be seen leading into a hole in the wall. The footage then cuts to Kane climbing through this hole, which led him to a room with a faint green hue/glow. This room had one entrance/exit on the left, and one entrance/exit on the right.

The footage cuts once again, then shows Kane navigating through seemingly endless corridors, some illuminated and some dark. After another cut, Kane is seen walking along more corridors and hallways. In the distance, something dark can be made out on the wall. When Kane gets closer, it is revealed that these are seemingly painted arrows, pointing to a drawing of a window with a sun, a pair of eyes, and some writing. The only text that can be made out underneath the drawings reads "don't move stay still." Kane zooms up close to the text with the camera and zooms out again, before distorted "trumpeting" can be heard to his left. Kane turns the camera, and the Bacteria is standing at the end of the hall.

The Bacteria that had been stalking Kane ran towards him at a rapid pace. Kane turned around to run and the footage cut again. During the ensuing chase, the Bacteria continued to let out the distorted "trumpeting," and Kane's panting can be heard through the footage. The Bacteria continued to chase Kane as he frantically fled until he entered a room with only one entrance/exit and a hole in the floor. As the Bacteria approached, Kane jumped down the hole to escape. During this drop, Kane's camera falls from his hands and landed on the floor on its side. Kane hastily retrieved it, and then investigated his surroundings, revealing what seemed to be an apartment or home. The room he fell into was empty and dark, with just an illuminated staircase and a few dimly lit doorways. Kane walked up a staircase, and looked back down the way he came. Light can be seen illuminating the previously dark room below on and off three times, before it becomes dark again. This lighting is accompanied by a flicking or clicking sound, though it is unclear if Kane was causing this change in lighting by flipping a light switch.

Kane then walked into a long, white corridor which contained a simple, wooden chair sitting beside a "window." Kane looked out of the window and saw a roofed courtyard with grass and a slew of windowed rooms surrounding it. Some windows seemed to have vaguely humanoid shapes in them while others appeared empty and blank. Some of these rooms had the typical Backrooms yellow wallpaper, though many contained entirely new rooms altogether, although it is hard to tell as the camera quality is too grainy to make out distinct features.

The footage cuts to a white corridor, which leads into a room where a rubbish receptacle (dumpster) can be seen with graffiti on it. To the right of the rubbish receptacle lays a thick rope. Kane looked at the rope and rubbish receptacle as he walked past. At the end of the room is a left turn with a gap separating it from another long hallway. Kane looked down and around the gap, revealing an infinite array of similar long hallways. He quietly reassures himself that "this isn't real."

The footage cuts again. It shows a long, white hallway with some file cabinets along the walls. As he walks, Kane passes a door labelled "fire exit," which he paused to look at then entered. He walked up a flight of stairs, leading him to another door which brought him back to Area 1. He walked around several rooms before the footage cuts to a hallway, where Kane continued to walk and follow the hall as it turned.

At a turn in the hallway, a chair was thrown at the wall. Kane immediately started running, and a loud howling or wailing sound could be heard along with a rhythmic thumping. Kane found a small gap in the wall that he could fit through. He slipped through the gap into a smaller hall and watched the Bacteria slowly walk past. Kane then turned back to follow the hallway, which led to a square hole in the floor that he looked down into. Kane then turned back around to find the Bacteria right in front of him. The Bacteria made a loud, distorted noise and grabbed Kane. The camera is dropped and fell down the hole. Kane can be seen dangling from the Bacteria's grip for a few frames before the camera footage cuts to static briefly. The footage returned as the camera fell down from the sky into a suburban area. As it approached the ground, the camera cut to black. When it began recording again, the camera was lying crooked in some grass, with trees visible and birdsong in the background. The footage ended there.

## Trivia

* He is most likely made to resemble the real Kane Parsons, the creator of the series. And the creator of ASync
* Kane's name can be seen briefly on the clapperboard at the beginning of the video. Though his last name appearing on the clapperboard is hard to make out, when paused at the right moment it reads "Pints." although Kane's real last name is Parsons.
* Some have speculated Kane to be a teenager on the assumption that the character is based on series creator Kane Parsons (who was 16 at the time of *Found Footage*'s publication) and the appearances of the other actors in the opening scene. This would place Kane's birth in the 1970s, specifically June 18, 1975.
* After some time wandering the hallways, Kane was captured and presumably killed by the bacteria. His camera, which was recording the entire time, fell out of the backrooms into the sky above a suburban area. The footage was later recovered in 1996. It is currently unknown if the bacteria killed him, though it is very likely that he is deceased.
* Kane speaks very little in the found footage, saying only:
	+ “Hello?”
	+ “Hey guys!”
	+ “What is this?”
	+ "Hello?"
	+ "Is someone there?"
	+ "Woah"
	+ "Can anybody hear me?"
	+ "Hello"
	+ “Dammit.”
	+ "Ok, Ok"
	+ "What the hell? What the hell?"
	+ "Oh Sh\*t"
	+ "What the f\*\*k is this place?!"
	+ "What the f\*\*k...?"
	+ “This isn’t real, this isn't real, This... This isn't real".
	+ "You gotta be kidding me."

* During the short segment of footage before Kane falls in the backroom, he says:
	+ “Alright, that was good, that was good."
	+ “Like how much further like--WOAH!”