Motion Detected

March 5, 1990

***Backrooms - Motion Detected*** is the seventh video in Kane Parsons's Backrooms series.

## Synopsis

As ASYNC begins building a control room in the Backrooms, seven cameras have been set up to record motion and sound in the area that the Threshold is located in. On the night of March 5, 1990, three unusual alerts are receieved.

## Full analysis

The video opens with static and text reading, "March 5, 1990."

Right next to the Threshold within the Backrooms, ASYNC is beginning to build a room within the Backrooms, likely to serve as the "jumping-off point" within the Backrooms for expeditions. As part of the construction, ASYNC has set up seven cameras to record unusual motion and noise. The video describes it as this:

"7 modified video cameras are optimally positioned along lateral division A.

"Each camera has been modified to send out an alert and begin recording when motion or substantial noise is detected."

A map is then shown, showing the position of the cameras and their line of sight. The cameras are positioned in such a way that they can look down long stretches of empty ground for optimal viewing. More text is then shown:

Afterwards, a compilation of all motion and noise alerts for the night of Monday, March 5, 1990. The alerts are:

* **19:39:43 - Motion Detected: Three researchers pass central division D.** Shown on Camera 3.
* **20:26:43 - Motion Detected: Returning researchers pass** **central division D.** Shown on Camera 3.
* **21:02:12 - Motion Detected: Supervisor passes Camera 6.** Shown on Camera 6. The supervisor is in a hazmat suit and mask identical to ones worn by other researchers.
* **21:14:04 - Noise Detected: Threshold barrier closed.** Shown on Cameras 2 and 1.
* **01:06:44 - Noise Detected: TBD.** Shown on Camera 2. It is currently unknown just what the noise was, but some theories are that it is the sound of a person noclipping into the Backrooms,[1] or an entity moving unseen. Whatever it is, nothing appears on camera.
* **02:13:35 - Noise Detected: Microphone failure.** Shown on Camera 3. It is likely that the alert was triggered by other noise, but it can barely be heard. Nothing appears on camera.
* **03:53:42 - Motion Detected.** Shown on Camera 5. What appears to be a black arm or tendril pokes around the upper part of a "pillar," and then vanishes behind it.

The final motion alert is then shown again twice, one with a circle around it, and again upscaled and enhanced. The arm or tendril is certainly not human, and could belong to an entity.

## Within the series

This is the fourth event (that we know of) that serves to warn ASYNC of the danger of the Backrooms. There is clearly some sort of "thing" out there that was *recorded on camera*. However, based on videos from after this, it is unlikely that ASYNC did anything about this. Instead, they just kept moving forwards with their plans.

There is a theory that the black arm/tendril was not an entity (in the regular use of the word), but instead a tendril of the bacteria that killed John Doe (seen in *Autopsy Report*), which is now on the move and "curious."[2] However, this is currently unconfirmed, but it fits what we know so far - although it is unlikely, based on real-world experience, that bacteria can move like that. However, this is the Backrooms, so what we know goes out the window.

## References

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FDotUHfpWk - see comments
2. https://theghostinmymachine.com/2022/06/13/backrooms-found-footage-an-updated-timeline-continued-exploration-of-kane-pixels-backrooms-universe/