alternative: Whisper to someone the person: I am Deaf alternative: Start do sign language the person: mad

Alternate: *trying to brainwash adam** Adam: *”I like your funny words, magic man.”*

Actually, the female voice saying “Nobody is coming to help you” sounds EXTREMELY like the woman calling on the phone at the video.

A detail someone else pointed out that I really love, is that the woman calling about her cat and leading the guys there in the first place, might have been an alternate herself as she seems to misinterpret speech. When Adam says "We can stop by tonight if you want?" She replies with "How about THREE nights?" This COULD be her not understanding the difference between the WORD tonight, and the PHRASE two nights.

"Its not kidnapping, Its denying the enemy potential recruits" -The Intruder 2022

Matpat’s voice is just so utterly recognizable, even under all the voice modulations he puts on it sometimes at the intros to videos. You can almost always tell it’s him. Absolutely iconic

The whole idea of not letting your fears take over, since that could be your downfall, is always scary to me. Yet, that’s what they want huh? I feel this whole series exploits many of our fears to demonstrate how easy it is for our fears to surface and how easily said fears could be used against us

A pretty common theory I’ve heard is that the woman that Adam is looking for is his mother, the one distraught who had hung herself in the earlier video. Adam was the baby in that video that went missing, but somehow survived the encounter, not unlike the encounters he can survive in vol.2. There’s some more theories too now that the fourth episode has come out and Adam is revealed to have some alternate-type behaviors himself, he’s had visions and memories his whole life, making it all more plausible that he was kidnapped and escaped as a child.

I like how the Type 3 Alternate is just portrayed by an image of an Australian.

Personally, I like horror that has few to no jumpscares. It's like a creeping buildup of tension without an outlet. It leaves you disconcerted, even long after the game is done.

0:34 Everything cycles back to missing children when it comes to matpat. Someone needs to make a theory on the theorizer himself

honestly Adam working with the intruder and Jonah working for the Shepherd sounds like a interesting analog horror story

As a Christian myself, I feel that Old Testament Bible stories could be improved on a great deal by the inclusion of descriptive terms like "yeeted".

M.A.D has to be the scariest part of the series. Just the fact that alternates have knowledge about the universe or reality that can cause complete mental deterioration is horrifying.

4:04 if someone says "OH MY GOD BEHIND YOU" in that tone id RUN.

5:07 The meowing in the back, truly terrifying.

The Mandela catalogue uses the best type of horror: absolutely no jump scares, just genuinely good storytelling that makes you look over your shoulder every 5 seconds. So interesting to me

A thing you forgot about jonah is that after he's eaten, the fish spewes him out to the shore, while he's still alive. He then goes to warn the city and he manages to save it

I love this theory...I really hope The Intruder isn't evil! It's weird how...The Intruder let Mark fall asleep...and not kidnap him...right? Cause there's no way he got kidnapped after that.

Just imagine matpat´s face watching vol 333 when the intruder helps to transport an alternate in the real world

The Mandela Catalogue, along with The Backrooms are some of my favorite horror content on KZfaq, it's truly a great year for horror content.

11:29 I guess you could say Adam got drafted

If I were a mandela catalogue character, I would most likely be fine because I'm the type of person who wonders what lies beyond the edge of our ever-growing universe and how the universe came into being. I am fascinated by practically everything.

Personally, I've got the idea that Adam himself was kidnapped by The Intruder, and that his mother was the one who exnayed herself at his disappearance. When Adam was brought back, he realized his mother had become an alternate, and started chasing answers. I don't think The Intruder actually erases/kills the kids he takes as a method to cut off the potential alternate body supply. I think he immunizes the kids he takes so that they can't be affected by False Shephard influence, and puts them back out in the world some time later, or potentially even earlier than when they were taken, as suggested by the inclusion of the Department of temporal phenomena.

You know I have this small theory about the intruder and who he might be. The intruders identity might actually be a lot more obvious than it might seem. I suspect that the intuder is an Angel. Unlike the alternates, the intruder acts more discretly and in a way that influences the outcome, while not directly partaking in the process himself. More like nudging things in a certain direction while not personally acting (which is sort of like the way God often does things in the Bible, as we can see with Jonah. Instead of warning the city himself, he asks a human to do it. Moses can also be made as an example. Instead of acting himself, God acted through Moses and so on and so forth). The chid kidnapping can also be easily explained with this variable. Why kidnap children? Simple: They are pure. Untouched by sin and desires unlike adults. Children are also fresh in this world, with a completly new and uncorrupted soul that is not fully integrated into the mortal life and it's concepts, which I'll explain the importance of later. The other thing said in this video was that the Intruder was brainwashing the children, but I do not believe that to be the case. If the children are really being "brainwashed" then why not just use adults? It's brainwashing. It works on everyone and would be more beneficial to perform on adults since they can be deployed immediatly, while a child has to grow. But what is he doing if not brainwashing? How does he create these "soldiers" out of children? Well that's also simple: He shows them their place in the universe and tells them exactly the same thing the alternates do. Why is the child not driven insane then? Well this is where we tie back to the purity/freshness concept. Children grow and they start to comprehend and learn about the world around them gradualy, piece by piece and when they get old enough they believe themselves to have figuered out the concepts of reality, so when they are told what reality is truly like, their believes and concepts turn upside down and they can no longer find certainty and safety in their believes which drives them mad. But if you take a child at the early stage, at a point where they do not understand the world around them and show them what it truly is, their thoughts are not doubtfull, they have no concepts to be thrown upside down, because they have no concepts except for the ones which just got implanted into them. They already comprehend and know everything, which is why they are not scared, why they pursue their goals despite the dangers and why they cannot be corrupted by alternates. So why do they seem not to remember anything? Well if we go by the typical depiction of the human essence it consists of two seperate things: The physical body and the soul which are two differnt things but together make up the mortal shells that humans are. The intruder reveals everything to the child, which gives the child two places to take in the information: The mind and the soul. The soul does not forget and is responsible for the draw in humans and the urge to uncover the truth as they get older. This may be a way for the soul trying to call out to the body so it can regain the information it has now lost due to age or it my be some vague memories in the subconcious that have been retained (to give a simple example: you vaguely remember something happened in a show, but forgot the name of the show and now you're trying to remember, but can't so you do some research to get that feeling of satisfaction and reasureance. Kinda same concept here ish), which brings me to the mind section. The human mind is limited, especially a childs and as they grow older some memories begin to fade either into the subconcious or be completly erased, which is the reason they can not remember anything when they are adults, but due to the concept of reality itself being already ingrained into their essence, they can not be corrupted by the information given out by alternates due to them already being aware of it in some way. The line "wake up" may very well refer to this. "Quit living in this world of pretend and dreams and see the world for what it really is. Wake up". That may also be the reason why Adams mother killed herself when she saw the intruder in the TV. He was telling the truth of reality to Adam and the mother overheard it by accident, which ended up in accidental colateral damage for the intruder. The intruder tampering with the body of the mother could also be explained this way, since he caused her to commit suicide by accident, he tried to prevent her from becoming an alternate. As to the line "don't make me wake the others". It is a lot trickier, but again I have a theory on this. I believe that the Intruder sees Adam as special and strong. He says "don't make me wake the others" which is most likely referring to the other children the intruder has kidnapped. Why would he NOT wake them? If the threat is serious and he is trying to combat it, why not throw everything you have at it? This tells me that the Intruder believes that Adam is all that is needed. But why is he special? Well the very first thing to start of with is that Adam got returned back to the mortal world after he was abducted. We know that Adam may very well be the only or extremly rare case, since it is clearly stated that the other children disappeared, implying that they were not returned. The person he is looking for may very well also be a clue as to what makes Adam special. If you haven't figured it out by now, I believe that the identity of Adam is lying in plain sight. Adam is Adam. THE Adam, the first human. A reincarnation of him. And the person he is looking for? Eve. That is why her name is censored every time she is mentioned. If her name was said there would be no mystery. It is also the reason he's so obsessed with finding her no matter what. She is his "other half". (I might be reaching in this section, so take it with a very large grain of salt) Jonah might also be exactly who his name states him to be. The only people who are not affected are not the people who SEEK the truth. It is the people who already KNOW the truth. The people who are "unaffected", who got abducted and then returned are biblycal characters and the ones who did not get returned are NEW "soldiers" for what might very well be Armagedon in this universe. Which is why the intruder is so hesitant to use them, as it would be total war. Apologies for this whole Google doc, that's probably not even going to be seen by anyone. But on the chance that someone DOES find this: I'm sorry for any grammatical errors, this took like 1 hour to write. Maybe like 1 and a half. I dunno, I didn't pay exact attention to time while writing this, all I know is that it's been at least an hour. And remember: That's just a theory. A Filmtheory.

The intruder is actually nice and trying to take the children away from the alternates and actually makes house’s in the tv

This really makes me wonder on how Stanley is a variable in this now, and how this newly introduced form of alternate(?) creation throws things into a different perspective

Something else to note, Mat, is that Adam says "Suddenly, i'm scared" Right after eating the apple in the edited animatics, right when the real Adam is approaching that weird thing which tries to infect him with M.A.D.. Just an odd timing but i think that's why The Intruder wakes him up. If he feels fear, he will expose himself to alternates.

Respect to Alex for making such a cool and interesting series, so excited so see where he’s going with this masterpiece!

I feel like it's worth pointing out how Cesar's portrait appears alongside Mark's. I think it might mean he has some relation to Cesar, especially seeing as how Intruder got very specific in what he chose to show onscreen, and Cesar - alongside Mark - was part of that selection, despite Adam probably not knowing who either of them are. Intruder does allude to someone Adam DOES know, as pointed out by MatPat in this video. Something tells me there's something special about Adam, Cesar, and Mark.

alex said in an interview with wendigoon that MAD plays a way bigger part in the story than we give it credit for the theory that sits with me the best is that those who have MAD are ACTUALLY ALTERNATES and when they learn theyre alternates they get so "spooked" they off themselves. The three percent on the other hand come to terms with it and either 1) join the alternate cause or 2) fight against it knowing that they might have an advantage. oh and with the intruder i dont believe they are rivaling factions but they are working together. yes he said "you are a fool and stuff" but i think thats 1) a red herring or 2) something different. i think that the intruder takes a child, kills it, and then replaces it with an alternate copy and thats why adam "failed" the toddler assessment test.

Quick thing I'm sure many of people have noticed. When you first see " "Mandela" Catalogue, and you don't know what it is, you probably think of the Mandela effect. An effect where the majority of people remember something a certain way when in reality, it never truly was that way. Mentioning this fact, the spirit who comes to the shepherds, mary and Joseph etc. make it seem as if everything that everyone has ever known about Christianity was a lie. Which, in itself is a form of the Mandela effect.

The Intruder IS techincally good. He’s doing the only thing possible to prevent the existance of alternates. Is there any way to stop the alternates other than preventing them?

Fun fact: you can see the intruders normal face in this timestamp 6:16

MatPat, I know it’s summer but there is a new Mandela Catalogue volume! There’s so much lore in the newest volume of Mandela Catalogue, and so many secrets to unbury! The volume is Vol. 333 The thumbnail is of Mark Heathcliff or someone else. And it’s 26:00 mins long. Thank you for being our local youtube lord explainer!

What if Adam is the child that was taken in “Intruder Alert”, and the female character that he is looking for is his mother, the one who took her life after being “distraught at the sight of her missing infant”. The Intruder is showing him his mother, and more importantly, what has become of her. She has become an alternate, and the intruder is trying to keep Adam sane while the voice of his mother mocks him through the ghost box. (AKA the thing the woman’s voice comes through). Adam says “I did the right thing” because the Intruder has already made sure he cannot contract M.A.D. I would like to point out that one of Alex Kister’s community posts seemed to be an updated version of all of the known alternates. One of which is the “Tulpa”. While most of the information is redacted, the mention of “screens and mirrors” seems to imply that whatever the intruder is is a “Tulpa”. But that may be the department of temporal phenomena may be misinterpreting what the intruder is. Happy theory crafting everyone!

Fun fact children who draw things with frowny faces or smiley faces usually reflect their relationships in real life for instance if a child is in a bad house hold or has negative relationships they will draw characters with frowning faces, and violent, sexual , etc things, if a child has good relationships that usually draw characters with smiling faces and normal things, the intruder as shown here 10:46 is drawn with a smiley face, which could mean that the intruder possibly does not have bad intentions, well that is if Alex wanted to hint that the intruder wasn’t a bad guy, if it was a hint then I would be extremely impressed if not then ignore this-

It is literally impossible for the alternates to completely wipe out humanity as some people cannot feel fear because of Damage, Disorder, or a cold depression.

If there was a matpat alternate it would be scary AF cuz no one would probarly be reconized

It's crazy. Ultimately, it all comes back to what the Angels and Cherubs were trying to tell us all along. "Be not afraid." Don't be afraid of the unknown. Knowledge is power.

This is the only medium through which I can handle the Mandela catalogue. If I didn't have mat's cheery attitude and cheesy jokes, I would be scared out of my mind!

I watched the Mandela catolougue with my friends, he absolutely hated the face at 4:30 (I did too), and since it doesn’t have a name, we all just called it the “pstpstpstpstpst guy”

Dude that’s an amazing theory, I never thought of that! You got my brain going man, and now imma be stuck on this for a while lol.

The woman that Adam is looking for is his mom. There’s one point where it eludes to the fact his mom was killed/kidnapped/whatever by alternates or the False Shepard. He wants to know what happened to his mom.

The only thing that doesn't makes sense to me is that the intruder is trying to help us by preventing us from going MAD, yet he still started tampering with the body of the mother that hanged herself, maybe he tried to clear up the evidence or something?

Adam is looking for his mother at 6:45 because he was the infant that was kidnaped in intruder alert

I also figured that the Intruder might have better intent than what might be first thought. Good theory, MatPat!

I'm kind of curious as to what happens to the people who are indifferent about that knowledge. Like, what if they're not afraid of it, but not actively seeking it out? They just don't care about what our place in the universe is. Do they get infected?

seriously though i’m so glad series like the mandela catalogue are making the analogue horror genre more well known to the rest of the internet

I love how: you always expect that the intros are gonna give you a heart attack/the intro gives you a heart attack

i like how the cat just keeps meowing while theyre arguing

"Humanity is a mere pimple on the face of existence." Me: Well at least we are on the face.

When Jonah ran away from that city, known as Nineveh, he didn't "chicken out". That's inaccurate. It's clearly stated in the story that Jonah felt that city did not deserve God's mercy. Jonah knew how wicked and immoral those people were, and he'd rather let God destroy them for their sins instead of giving them even the slightest chance of repenting. That is what makes the story of Jonah so thought-provoking. It's not just a simple story of a guy who got scared and "ran away from God". Jonah took that boat ride away from Nineveh not because he actually thought he could run from God, but as an act of demonstrating to God how much he despises those people. It's literally like sulking in front of your dad because he told you to clean your room or something. Being swallowed by the fish was basically God giving Jonah the time to reflect on his decisions, and to consider if his beliefs are reasonable. After 3 days in the fish, he gets spit out at a place in walking distance to Nineveh: God still gives Jonah another chance to decide for himself whether to preach to them or not. As one commentor said, in the end Jonah did obey God and preached to Nineveh. The king of the city and all its citizens actually took Jonah's advice and everyone repented and turned over a new leaf. The moral of the story is, don't ever let our judgement override that of God. The thing about God is that He gives free will to everyone. He won't force you to do anything, but that doesn't mean He can't chastise you and show you the best way forward.

4:40 Considering the recent Mandela Catalyst video, I'd say Adam is literally the exact opposite of fine.

Literally during the video talking about Jonah’s and Adam’s biblical connection, there was an ad for an app about prayer and meditation.

The mandela catalogue is the best example of true horror. No cheap jumpscares and shock value, just pure creepiness. Awesome!!

Matpat would let the alternates in to analyze their biology

I cant wait for more covers of it since more clips came out!!

matpat could probably spoon feed me the most backwards unexpected answer to a lore question and actually make it make an unbelievable amount of sense

The intruder being the "good guy" would be such a cool twist

I’m really curious about the connection between the intruder saying “wake up Adam” and the shepherd saying “wake up Joseph” in the first clip.

If I wanna watch a Horror Film Theory, I never move or lay a Finger on my Tablet until I hear MatPat's Voice and know that I'm safe.

Can’t wait for you to make another theory about this series!

Can we talk about that A++ editing in the beginning with the Film Theory images flashing on the tv screen? What I understand is your editor deserves a raise, Mr. Pat.

Matpat is key to the lore vault. Maybe he knows more than he's letting on. About everything.

Love when you guys cover ARGs. Mandela Catalog is such a uniquely executed series.

Huh, I didn't think about that. This is really interesting and a can't wait when/if they upload another part!

Mandela catalogue is such an interesting story! Cant get enough of it.

Mandela catalogue is fantastic and I can't wait to see more of it. I binged watched it, and was so frightened afterwards. This is true horror. No insane amount of jumpscares, yet it leaves you with a chilly feeling after watching it. Can't wait to see new content.

I love horror and everything, but this is the only thing that has actually made me scared and paranoid.

Remember these things: *Take out your tvs *If you see anything strange, run *Nothing is worth the risk, nothing is worth the risk *Bungie gum has the properties of both rubber and gum

can we just take a second to appreciate the dude who did the voice of Jonah?? class freakin act man, so well done

I feel like MatPat Deserves a break- he's working so much and he seems so tired but STILL manages to make my day better along with countless others, I truly admire your work, your a great man MatPat!

Mat: He thinks that the intruder is starving the alternates foods source and working against them by stealing children to save humanity. Me: Then how will humanities population survive if this goes on globally and longer?

At this point the ads are my only break from being terrified by the mini jump scare edits. But regardless, I’m so invested in this lore!

Here's a theory to build on this one, sorta. The Intruder is doing a pretty bad job at thinning the number of Alternates. Since he's the one stealing children, he is also the one causing the parents of said children to take their own lives as seen in a previous video. If those who take their own lives become alternates, if anything, the Intruder is creating more alternates.

The Mandela catalogue are genuinely chilling videos.

We need vol.3 theory soon

This theory immediately made my fear of the whole thing go away lol

The Mandela Catalogue is pretty much one if the best analog horror series I've watched.

"Oh it's So scary" Puts A Smiling man in the Tv Mat pat : Much Better

Well....looking back at this after Volume 4, seems we gunna have to rethink them theories.

With Volume 3 coming soon, we might get more insight as to what the Intruder wants. But I'm not convinced he's trying to help anyone. With his actions, he's actively trying to scare people. Once you're afraid of the scary imagery he provides, he takes you. A good example of this is when he kidnapped a baby, causing a mother to hang herself in grief, while he smiles sadistically. Then later, he takes the corpse of one of his victims and begins playing with it, leaving it so mangled, they had to censor it. He didn't have to do that. But he did it anyway, either as a way to taunt the investigators or to scare them.

Finally, the ominous "Mr. Incredible being Uncanny" meme is explained for us by the name of MatPat 👏🏻

The Intruder is literally the meaning of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"

During the section with the cat, I got an allergy medication ad that started with "cat got your nose?" 😂

Mandela catalog, The walten files and The backrooms are literally the best analog horror series we ever seen. Edit: i want to give a small detail that before season 2 was released Alex acctually made a post on his KZfaq channel community post (about new teasers) that in 2005 there were two new type of alternates that is Tulpa and Mimic. Maybe in the Next episodes of the Mandela catalog we will see what these new two alternates are and what are they capable to do since most of their information is redacted. Also, its probably confirmed that the person that Jonah was talking about in part where he says "that She is gone" is probably Adam's Mother from the episode "The intruder". And One last thing is that the "Error 333" is acctually a part of the bible

Here's an interesting detail: from a few shots in vol 2, we can see that Adam is in the same house shown on the cameras in vol 1

Hope you can continue talking about this series, really interesting

0:17 Guy: *growling* Captions: [Music]

Who i think could "beat" the alternates is someone daring,with no fears, willing to do anything to find the *truth.*

Am I the only one watching all those horror movies and wondering: "When will SCP interfere?" or like: "Where is SCP?". Man I would love to see SCP dealing with all those anomalies

"Cannon of the Catholic Church" is not a phrase I thought I would ever hear, but now its out there. It now lives in my head rent free. Thanks MatPat

My theory is that it was hinted that the intruder was a good guy based on mark’s drawing, when kids know someone is bad, they will draw that person with a frowning/mad/sad face. If the kid knows the person is good, they will draw a happy face on that person. In mark’s drawing the intruder was drawn with a smiling face, meaning that the intruder possible could be good. However there’s also a possibility that the only reason mark drew a smiling face on the intruder was because the intruder didn’t hurt him. But that’s just my theory of course.

I just had this random thought, could Matpat calculate how much property damage Tom and Jerry have surmounted over the series? It would be hard but entertaining as anything

Hearing MatPat call out the year I was born as a horrific tragedy has quite honestly dampened my self esteem

If the police ever need to interrogate someone, then they just need to put a playlist of all of this guy’s videos. And if that doesn’t work, then play the audio of all of the videos together at once

4:55 ohh so am good

The image of mark and his sister resembles the cursed painting called "the hands resist him." The meaning of the painting as described by wikipedia is: "According to Stoneham, the boy is based on a photograph of himself at age five. The doorway is a representation of the dividing line between the waking world and the world of fantasy and impossibilities, while the doll is a guide that will escort the boy through it. The titular hands represent _alternate_ lives or possibilities." The Paiting itself became an urban legend due to it apparently being haunted. It was said that the characters in the painting _moved and sometimes even exited the painting during the night._ Now this all may be a coincidence, but I think it is interesting to note nonetheless.

PLOT TWIST: This actually happened but we would never know because the intruder won and wiped out everyone's memory Edit: Oh god- This has a lot of likes Lmao