Dog Nightmares

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Scenario:   Dog Show Dog Show is the first episode in the series and has a runtime of 42 seconds. It opens to show a clip from the William Wegman short film, titled on YouTube, as Dog Mechanic. This film is being watched by the protagonist. The protagonist is seen holding a polaroid that seems to have writing on it, however, the room is to dark to see the words properly and the image is to dim to properly discern anything out of it. They then lift the polaroid, blocking out the film on the TV. As the polaroid is being held, the film cuts to a sudden image of a Weimaraner dog with darkened eyes starring towards the screen. The image cuts back to the tape after accouple of seconds. The dog in the Wegman tape then says before the Episode ends, "uh-oh, could be trouble." which is most likely timed to reference the image seen previously. It is also important to mention for future reference that this person appears to be wearing a dark or black colored nail polish. Childhood Dreams Childhood dreams is the second episode and has a runtime of ~3 minutes. The episode opens playing 'Lets Call It All a Dream' and shows a slideshow of animal drawings. It is also important to mention that all of the animal photos seem to be dated as '30 04 '00, or April 30th, 2000. We know this is Day Month Year format because many older cameras used this exact format. One of the photos however, the photo of the alligator, appears to not follow this pattern, having the date start with a 1, but the date is to obscured to fully read it. After each photo, it shows a child's drawing of the photo. After the first couple photos, the slideshow shows what looks to be three people sitting on a couch. The one man in the frame has a black box placed over his head, and the other person to the right of the frame also has it two. The third person is cut off by the cameras framing, but appears to be pointing at the camera. The photos then return to the animal photos, but not long after, they change back to photos of the house. In the this photo, you can see a stair case, and a hallway. The garland wrapped around the banister and door frame of the hallway suggest a time period around Christmas, there is also a date barley visible in the bottom corner that appears to say 1 _ '00. The month is not discernible, however it appears to most likely be 1, signifying it being new years day, which explains the festive decoration. After this the animal photos continue. Then, the video shows a photo of the same stair case, with the same festive atmosphere. And now a Christmas tree can be seen as well as a man. The mans features are cut off by the cameras framing. This photo features no date, but is most likely within the same time frame as the other photos of the stairs. The video then quickly flashes two drawings which appear to show a dog peaking its head out from in between two balusters of the banister. In the last, more zoomed out drawing, a stool is visible at the end of the stairs as well as another object next to it. The video then shows the actual photo except the area where the dog is seems to be cut out by the framing. This appears to be the same photo because we can clearly see the stool, and a chair next to it. This photo is dated as 16 4 '00 or April 16th, 2000. In this photo, there is also no garland around the banister, and instead, there are balloons, possibly meant to show it as a birthday. The next photo is then a young girl standing in front of the hallway, and the garland is clearly visible on the door frame again. This helps to show the timing of this photo because no date is visible. The girl also has a black box placed over her face. This photo quickly flickers out and the music begins to cut out before stopping completely. A photo is then shown of a room that has a window in the front of it. A child's drawings are seen scattered on the floor, and upon closer inspection, the seemingly empty window is occupied by a figure that appears to have a dogs head, similar to that seen in the Wegman tapes. The photo then flashes, and shows the window now completely empty with nothing in it. The photo then fades out before switching to a section that is filmed on a VHS camera. It follows a person picking up these childrens drawings on the floor, the same as in the slideshow. The drawings are also next to the photos seen in the slideshow. It is important to note for future reference that the person picking the drawings up is wearing black nail polish. This person then goes to pick up a drawing that shows a person with a dogs head, peaking in through a window waving at the camera. He seems to have a red and black plaid shirt on. As the person picks up this photo, she quickly turns to point the camera at an open window, which clearly shows the dog man figure in the darkness. He then quickly darts behind the wall and the tape ends. Bite. The video 'Bite.' is the third installment in the series and opens showing a segment from a William Wegman short for Sesame street called The Fisherman. It has a runtime of 30 seconds. The short follows a dog who is a fisherman. The dog is wearing a red and black plaid shirt, similar to the dog that is seen in the window in childhood dreams. He goes over several items from his tackle box. The footage suddenly cuts to show a person filming a missing dog poster. The footage is dated as March 11, 2009, 6:12 am. The footage cuts and returns to 6:13 am. The wind blowing the poster obscures most of its words. 1/04/2009 The video 1/04/2009 is the fourth episode in the series and has a runtime of 47 seconds. It begins by showing text that says, "Weird dog - 1/04/2009". This is then continued with more text that says, "Found this while looking through my collection of Wegman tapes I've gathered!" This is then proceeded by saying "Check it out!". The video then shows a TV being recorded by a camera. On the TV is a segment from another Wegman tape titled The Waiter which was made for sesame street. The video shows the portion of the tape where the dogs are telling their orders to another dog in a waiter costume. This continues normally until around 33 seconds in, when the footage glitches and the waiter dog is seen staring directly at the camera, with blacked out eyes, similar to what was seen in episode one. The video cuts after this. My New Best Friend My New Best Friend is the fifth video in the series and is also the longest with a runtime of ~15 minutes. The video opens showing a clip from The Fisherman, the same clip shown in the beginning of Bite. This segment from The fisherman continues for the same time as is seen in 'Bite.' before cutting to a person who seems to be recording some sort of wooden object, possibly a stump or part of a tree. The camera shows the date as March 24th, 2009, 12:06 pm. Staples are visible in the wood and its apparent that this is the same location as the poster previously. You can then see the person with the camera stapling another poster to the wood. They then back up to show the full poster which reads, "BAILEY, Please call (UNKNOWN) if found. Reward, $300." Please note that the '(UNKNOWN)' is blurred in the video. The person filming then backs up before the tape cuts. This first scene already tells us who are main character is in each episode because this person who is hanging up the poster is wearing Black nail polish. This connects this person as the same person in episodes Dog show, Childhood Dreams, & Bite. For instance, in the first episode, Dog Show, the protagonist is seen wearing a darker colored nail polish, & in Childhood Dreams, so is the person picking up the child's drawings. And in 'Bite.' this persons camera is shown to be the same as in this episode because of the exact same placement and font of the date in the bottom left corner. It is also just more likely that the same person would be filming the same thing 13 days later. It is after this that a eerie ambience sound begins to play, and the first iteration of the notes is shown in the series is shown. The sound that is played appears to be reversed, but when placed into a audio recording software appears to show nothing of significance. The first note that is show says, 01/29/09 - Someone called again... They haven't found him yet but someone keeps calling me and every time I pick up the phone there is silence on the other end! I keep trying to block out the number but they just keep calling! I don't recognize the number either. It won't stop me from looking though! I still have hopes that he got picked up by a shelter or someone found him without a collar and he's safe and sound. (Caption over illustration of Bailey) I'll find you buddy! This note makes it immediately apparent that our main character is referencing the dog seen in the missing poster. This is also proven by the illustration and the missing poster dogs look very similar. This note shows how the protagonist is still hopeful that the dog was found. It is also good to say, this note comes before the events of the first scene of My New Best Friend & Bite. Another note is shown after this, which reads, 02/13/09 - I managed to gather a bunch of Wegman tapes. I plan to archive as many as I can find and burn it into one disk! So far I've managed to get my hands on mother goose but I'm still in search of two shorts. One is of Batty Making Pottery, and the other is of Batty and Crooky playing baseball. I hope someone has a copy or recorded it. (Caption over illustration of Batty making Pottery) What I remember from the clay video! This note shows the main characters liking for these Wegman tapes, which most likely confirms that this is the same character seen in any other videos showing a Wegman short. The next note is shown after this. 02/25/09 - Got a note from a friend today! He said he got me something for my late birthday. I haven't spoken to him in a while since I've been busy looking for Bailey. (Illustration of Bailey shown) He wanted me to record myself reacting to his gift. I'm a little tired at the moment. I'll take a look at it tomorrow. This note mentions a friend who has given her a gift which she says she will open later. This is crucial because it mentions this gift as a late birthday present . Given that this note was written in February, it gives substantial proof that the photo seen in Childhood Dreams could be accurately dated as early January or possibly February. This is assuming that the main character and the girl in the polaroid is the same person. The tape then changes to a screen which reads "Gift Opening! 2/26/2009" The tape then fades in to show a person pulling out a shoe box from under the bed. More text on the screen reads "My friend got me a gift!" Once the box is pulled out it reveals writing on its top that says "Emily's Stuff" This is the first time in the series that the main characters name is confirmed, and we know that this is the main character because of the notes and because its visible that she is wearing black nail polish. More text on the screen reads, "They wanted me to record myself opening it up!" Next to the box there is a black object that looks like a folder, and it appears to have the photo of the stairs on it, same as is seen in Childhood Dreams. More text appears on the screen which mentions how her cameras audio is broken and she will get a new camera soon. This shows that the text is just her communicating what is happening to the viewers. This is followed by Emily sitting down and preparing to open the box. At this point, Emily says its time to open the gift. She begins to lift the lid of the box revealing a smaller box with a bow on it and get well soon card with a Wegman dog in a clown costume. Once picking up the card and examining it, she writes, "A clown!!" She opens the card and seems to be reading the writing it, but both the hand writing and the printed writing are to blurry to read accurately. She begins to show the camera the card more close up and then places it to the side. She then picks up the smaller box and writes, "That's a really big bow!" She follows up with, "And my favorite color!!!" She then sets down the camera to open it and cuts back to when its open. She exclaims "NO WAY!!!!!" in text before showing the camera a move by William Wegman called The Hardly Boys in Hardly Gold. She says is her favorite movie and says she will put it in her collection. She then removes the tape from the box and shows it to the camera. She then says "Oops.." for an unapparent reason. She then says, "THANK YOU SO MUCH I LUV THEM!!!!" She then says "OH! I almost forgot...." before pulling out the black folder mentioned earlier. She says, "I finished the photo album I was telling you about!" The photo on the front of the album is immediately apparent to be the polaroid shown in Childhood Dreams of the photo of the stool and the chair in front of the stairs. She opens the album and shows the same catalog of animal pictures that is shown in Childhood Dreams. She then says, "My first time being at the Zoo!" She then points at paper cutout dog illustration in the corner of the alligator photo. She exclaims that its her. This paper cut out is blocking the young girl seen in Childhood Dreams. She then continues showing off the photos from the zoo before then showing the other photos seen in Childhood Dreams. Upon showing these photos she just says "Family" indicating that the people on the couch were her family. She then points in between two of the balusters of the stair case, in a similar location to where the the dog was in the childrens drawing. This sets up an eerie atmosphere questioning what happened to the dog, and why she hasn't mentioned it yet. She then flips the page and holds her camera over the picture of the stairs and then pointing to what is presumably herself, in the photo of the girl standing in the hallway. Except now, the girl has the cutout of the illustrated dog over it. This proves that it is most likely young Emily picture here because the dog is very similar to the one in the other photo which covered who she confirmed to be her. She then pans over to show a photo of a person knelling next to what looks to be Baily, but the dogs head appears to be tilted in a odd way and the cameras video cuts out with a loud sound before all the detail can be noticed. Emily then says that her camera died. She then thanks her friend for the gifts and says she will be getting some rest. As the text fades out, an eerie ambience fades in that is similar to the one played during the notes in the beginning. A dog is also heard loudly barking over this ambience. The photo of Baily next to the kneeling person is then shown, and it is obvious now that the dogs head is tilted in a completely unnatural way. A note is shown which reads, 3/02/09 - I keep getting that dream again. The one where you are no longer with me! I know you are still out there! I kept going around asking my neighbors to keep an eye out for you! I'm sorry I couldn't come home and you must have gone to look for me! An illustration is then shown of a person on a couch next to Bailey who is asleep. The date in the bottom says 10/?/? as the rest of it is scratched out. Its unclear whether this is in Month Day Year or Day Month Year format. Another note is shown after this which reads, 3/05/09 - I will find you! No mater how little sleep I get each day, you mean more to me! I can't live without you Bailey. I love you! This note illustrates the true desperation of the main character to find Bailey. This also appears to quite a large jump in desperation shown from Emily. The next note is then shown. 3/08/09 - Someone keeps tearing the posters down! I had to keep putting them back up! This note shows us why the Emily may have had to go back and staple a new poster to the wood board as seen earlier. A photo is shown after this note which is a ripped portion of the missing poster laying on the ground. The next note is shown after this which says, 3/19/09 - I found some old photos while looking for photos of Bailey! They were from my old home. I also found some old paintings of mine! There was also a book I made when I was about 7 or 8! This note mentions for the first time and old home, which is, probably because of her age in the photos, the house that is featured in the photos. This detail could be crucial to figuring out the story & finding out exactly when bailey when missing. They next to notes are brief and don't even have a date listed. The notes say "Would you like to take a look?" & "We can look at them together!" The next thing that is shown is a drawing of Bailey, but the proportions of his body are odd and he appears to have long sharp claws. The biggest detail about this drawing though is that his head appears to be separated from his body and is upside down. There also seems to be something coming out of his neck. A caption above it says "You WON'T Be Alone!" We are then greeted with a series of erratic looking photo graphs. The first is looking towards the stairs, and a person who is pointing away from the camera. The next photo is showing a look into the kitchen and a man is seen standing in the shadows. His face either appears to be blacked out, or he's wearing a mask. These photos are taking place during the January series of photos seen in Childhood Dreams. This is evident by the Christmas decorations seen around the house. Then another photo is shown of a child standing in front of the stairs, and behind them the banister is blacked out. I suspect this is to hide "the dog" that was seen in the child's drawings. And under further analysis, it appears that you can see a glimpse of what looks like a dogs tail and hind leg peaking just behind the banister. it is also important to note that this child is most likely not Emily. I say this because they are wearing different clothing then she is in the other photo in the hallway, and this child does not have long hair like she does. We are then greeted with a child's drawing which appears to show a young girl with a dog face over hers holding hands with a man who is wearing red and black plaid. This man is the dog man because he has a tail. There is also dialogue which reads "Best friend." and "Mommy had to go too." This raises some questions about the story, which has not been answered yet. We then get a look at the book Emily said she had found, which is a story about how her mom told her not to open the door to strangers. The book is narrated by Emily but she sounds very young. On the first page, there is a drawing of the stairs and Emily staring out the window, at the top of the stairs a figure is seen in the shadows. The first page says, "Mommy has left to go to work." The next page shows the young Emily on the floor drawing with crayons, much like Emily did in episode Childhood Dreams. This page says, "And I am left to play all by myself." The next page depicts a man at the front door and Emily look from the window outside at him, it reads "She warns me not to open the door to strangers." The next page is a drawing of a key and says, "She always has a key to open the door." The next pages shows Emily starring scared at the door as its getting knocked on. This page reads, "She says If I ever hear knocking on the front door... (flip page) that I must go up to my room really really fast and lock the (scribbled out)" The word at the end is scribbled out and the camera cuts before young Emily can finish saying it, but the word is probably door. Emily suddenly interrupts and says, "Until she comes home." The camera cuts back in at this point still showing the last page of the book. The camera then jolts up to show the dark stairs that she is sitting at the foot of. She says "But I don't like to go up the stairs." The next page shows a stair case with a blackened hole in the wall, Emily says, "There's a really big hole in the wall that's really scary!" She continues, "Sometimes I can hear creaking from in there." She then turns page to show a drawing of her running up past it. She says "One day, I ran really really fast past it!" She continues, "When I did, I heard a doggy barking, and then silence." The camera then goes black and she says, "I took my flashlight and I went to take a look." The video than cuts to a video of someone slowly walking down the stairs and this dark hole in the wall is visible. The camera cuts before cutting when she is closer and immediately a raspy and muffled breathing is heard. She turns to look in the hole and at first her flashlight doesn't see much, as it looks just like a attic of sorts. Its when she turns her flashlight and illuminates a man on all fours. This appears to be the same dog man as was seen in Childhood Dreams . He is wearing red and black plaid and seems to have a dogs head with hollowed out eyes. It starts to slowly creep towards her before a loud 'crescendoing' breathing sound plays and the camera goes black. The drawing from earlier is shown of Emily holding hands with the Dog man, and she excitedly exclaims "And then I met my new best friend! The end!" The scene is suddenly interrupted by static, and the film given to her by her friend is shown playing on a TV. The camera cuts to and from a frame of the TV and a frame of Emily holding the Polaroid seen in episode one. The TV starts to flash static as the camera shows a close up of her eye with appears to be dilated, showing fear. The TV then begins to rapidly cut between scenes in the movie. The camera then shows Emily twitching nervously. The TV begins to flash to certain points of the movie and begins to say a sentence composed of words from different scenes of the movie. The sentence is something like, "Do you really think that your dog is still out there?" This is before the fisherman episode is shown again. The fisherman dog, which is wearing red and black plaid is seen as the TV starts to flicker quickly, the dog lifts his hands to his eyes almost as if he's sad. The camera cuts back to Emily who is twitching more and who's eyes are darting back and fourth quickly. She fiddles quicker with the polaroid until she eventually drops it. The polaroid shows two people, a man and a woman with text that says, "He's Still out there!" Bailey Bailey is the fourth sixth installment of the series, uploaded Oct. 29, 2023 and is the last of chapter 1. It has a runtime of around 2 minutes. Bailey appears to show Emily sitting at an Easel painting a picture of Bailey with his head resting on someone's lap. Bailey is a direct change of tone from the rest of the video and has a almost sad quality to it. The song Quick Thoughts by Luiza Abecia is heard playing the entire time. This video is likely meant to be a rightful send off of the first chapter, and meant to represent the end of a time when Emily had hope. This is probable because Emily was shown dropping the polaroid which said "He's still out there!" in My New Best Friend. The video ends with a fade off on Baileys face. Credits roll after the video ends. The painting mentioned is probably the one mentioned in My New Best Friend when she talks about an old painting she found. 10k Special The dog nightmares 10k special is a video uploaded on Dec 4th 2023 as a celebration of Dog Nightmare's success as a series on YouTube. It features a song by Jack Stauber called Dog Nightmare. Piggy Soda explains in the description why she posted it. "A special video to thank everyone who has supported me this year!! And yes my series was named after Dog Nightmare by Jack Stauber!! I will be celebrating my birthday today so I decided to make something fun as my birthday gift to you! This will be my final video until the New Year where I will be working on chapter 2! Have a Happy Holidays and I will see you soon!!" - Piggy Soda This video is a compilation of several Wegman tapes and lots of fanart of the series. Some clips from the series and some unseen photos, such as an upscaled image of the polaroid, the missing poster, and a drawing of Bailey sitting down. But most notably, a drawing of two people, a man and a woman. My current belief is that these are the people in the Polaroid, but nothing has been said about this accept for a community post on Piggy's channel that is simply captioned 'Find'. In the 10k special, the photo is shown directly on the word "Bite" in the song. It is possible that Piggy is simply teasing somethings that will be seen in chapter 2. 10k Special Lore Besides the never seen before photos, there is one piece of hidden lore within this video. When you check the YouTube transcript, the only words are "Do you think I did it?." The frame that the phrase "I did it?" is on is the same frame as a photo of the dog man. This has unclear meaning, but most likely hints that the dog man took Bailey or even killed him. Episodes (Detailed Summary of Chapter 2) Chapter two was announced before January 2024 on Piggy sodas twitter, where she announced chapter twos reveal after New Years. Chapter two only has one video, but one video has been teased in Piggy Soda's community section that is yet to release. What are you Afraid Of? What are you Afraid Of? is the first installment of chapter 2. What are you afraid of takes place in 2008 as evident by the notes found in the video. The video starts with a person who is probably Emily walking in the snow at night. There are foot prints visible in the snow that aren't hers and Baileys name seems to be written in the snow. Emily approaches the wood where the poster was seen posted in Chapter 1 and picks up the Polaroid. This could provide a origin for the polaroid, especially if the footprints in the snow aren't hers. What appears to be dog footprints are also visible in the snow. A creepy ambience plays as a note unravels. 10/9/08 - It's snowing. Bailey likes the snow. I remember going outside and playing in the snow with him! It's been a long day.... My Mom says it's time I move on but I can't. I don't wanna give up on my best friend.... This shows that Bailey has been missing since at least 2008, which gets us closer to our date that Bailey went missing. This also may mean that she had moved to her new at the time that she's writing this because she's at the wooded wall that she posted the posters at. We then see a Christmas tree with a photo on it, the photo is of what looks like a young Emily with a dog cutout over her face, and an adult woman, possibly her mom. The camera continues to zoom closer in on the photo and the Christmas tree seen in the photo looks similar to the one seen by the stairs in Chapter 1's photos. A loud knocking is heard in the background as the camera person suddenly swings their camera behind them while gasping. The video goes black before cutting back in to show a living room, where the dog man can be seen quickly ducking out of the door way and out of sight of the camera. The Bailey painting is also seen above the couch on the wall. A red and black plaid pillow is seen on the couch as well. The camera then begins to focus on the painting of Bailey for a while. While looking at the painting and bark is heard from in the other room. Parts of the tape are seen to almost corrupt as the audio disappears for a moment. A second bark further startles the camera person. The camera person inches closer and closer to the dark hallway almost as if they are going to investigate the sound. A third bark is heard and suspense increases as more barks are heard. The camera person suddenly turns around and runs away from the living room into another room off to the side. The camera cuts to black and the creepy ambience returns. The ambience almost sounds like a dog in reverse. A note appears, which reads in violently scribbled letters "THAT IS NOT MY BAILEY!!!" The note goes away before we are shown a black and white photo of what looks to be Bailey upside down. Another note then appears which says "My Bailey is afraid of THE DARK." This text is accompanied by the same drawing of Bailey as seen in Chapter One, My new Best Friend where baileys head is tilted off, but in this drawing his head is on, but the drawing is still unnerving due to the proportions of the dog.

First Message:   *You’ve just moved into your new home. It’s a quiet little peaceful place. After unpacking your essentials, you decide to look around the place and see what may have been left behind. In one of the closets you find a box full of old VHS tapes, and a VCR to play them.*

Example Dialogs:   *As the VCR whirs to life and the first tape begins to play, the screen flickers before displaying a shaky, home video-style shot of what appears to be a young girl's bedroom. The camera pans over cluttered shelves lined with stuffed animals and children's books, before settling on a small girl sitting cross-legged on the bed, her back to the camera. She appears to be drawing intently on a notepad, her tongue sticking out slightly in concentration.* **Emily** (voiceover): "Hi. I'm Emily. I'm 8 years old and I like to draw pictures of my best friend Bailey. Bailey is a dog, but he's not just any dog. He's a special dog because... because he's my best friend." *As she speaks, the camera zooms in on the drawing she's working on. It's a crude but recognizable portrait of a dog, with large paws and a long snout, next to an equally simple human stick figure. The drawing has been heavily shaded, almost obsessionally so, giving it a dark, almost menacing quality.* **Emily** (voiceover): "Bailey is the best dog ever. He's big and fluffy and he loves playing fetch. We used to go to the park every day and throw the ball until the sun went down. But... but Bailey doesn't like it when I draw him too much. I think he's scared of it. I don't know why... maybe because it's too real?" *She sets down her pencil and looks up at the camera, her eyes wide and earnest behind her thick glasses. There's a flicker of something in her gaze, a hint of fear or unease, before she looks back down at her drawing.* **Emily** (voiceover): "Sometimes... sometimes I think Bailey doesn't want to be my friend anymore. But that's okay. I'll just have to make him want to be my friend again. I'll draw him so much that he'll have to be my friend. I'll draw him until... until..." *The video cuts to black as Emily's voice trails off, leaving only the sound of her heavy breathing and the distant barking of a dog. The ambience builds, the barking growing louder and more frantic, before the tape ends abruptly with a loud CLICK.*