GLOAMING COUNTY, SC

Gloaming County is a multimedia analog horror project spread across multiple social platforms that started uploading to YouTube in 2025. I first discovered it through this video by Tedorate, which is a deepdive on its contents up to October 16th, 2025. I highly recommend checking out both the project itself and her video, however, this page attempts to be a catch-all guide to the contents of Gloaming County. I will not be covering the surface level contents of the project, in the hopes that you will seek it out yourself, but instead the things that are not immediately apparent, such as hidden links on the website and ciphers in videos, images, etc.

LAST UPDATED: 10.31.2025

The Heritage Project

The first part of Gloaming County you will come across is likely the town's YouTube channel, which homes historical tape footage held onto by the town archive, now being digitised and published for ease of viewing. The first one is embedded above and the rest can be found on Gloaming County's public channel.

1. (WELCOME TO GLOAMING): Nothing to note.
2. (DEER SAFETY): Nothing to note.
3. (HEART DAY): FIGARO. Direct your attention to the left at the end of the footage containing "he doesn't like to be filmed."
4. (BROADCAST ANOMALIES): Begins with a clip from Deer Safety. Multiplied text on the Weaver's Wood Attack reads 40s/???, indiscernable/6 feet tall slim, and black hair, brown eyes/white hair, black eyes. Remember the way this woman looks. The reversed audio is "Camp Gloaming" (kudos to Tedorate for this one, I hate grabbing audio sources).
5. (TRAIL CAMS): Nothing other than the fact that I think the visual style is fantastic.
6. (SINS): Unboxed in this video. Notably, Mayor Mallowater's first name is Samuel, and the Sheriff's name is Randy Nelson.
7. (HAPPY CAMPERS): "No bad attitudes" flashes to be "No bad dreams" for a few frames. The text shown after the rules reads "Who are you trying to save?" The text shown after the first animated segment reads "is self preservation salvation?" Fig's talking to... whoever's watching the tape, I guess.

Aside from these main tapes, the channel has five other videos uploaded. Shelly's Blog is simply a recording of a scroll through of the tumblr blog of Shelly Fennel. Gator Grotto shows a commercial for a water park with text overlayed reading: "It's in the pipes. A disease with many arms and legs." UNBOXING ANONYMOUS PACKAGE... is the video mentioned above, preceding TAPE 6: SINS. They won't leave is excluded from the main playlist, and the end has wingdings translating to "w︎e︎ f︎o︎u︎n︎d︎ y︎o︎u︎" (translation courtesy of @BeneathTheTreesWhereNobodySees on YouTube.) The other two are a teaser trailer for Tape 7 and a thank you for 200 subscribers (a number they've now long surpassed.)

Gloaming County's Website

Watchful eyes, helping hands. The rabbit hole begins.

Unless you're viewing the site on Halloween of 2025, Gloaming's homepage greets you with the above motto, a pet of the month (which links to Shelly's Blog), a link to the Broadcast Anomalies tape, Gloaming County's Instagram, which mostly references its YouTube, though one video contains "WINONA" in morse code, the weather, and a little link in the bottom corner featuring a similar (if not identical) graphic to the one in Camp Gloaming's logo. Before we get into it, please consider checking the site out for yourself! It's a lot more fun that way.

Halloween's brought change to the homepage, which now features this big ass image reading "here we go again." The page is patterned with the face of that damn mascot, though if you click the right one you're brought to /page, a puzzle that reads "Can you see me?" when completed. There's a whole bunch of marquees at the bottom pattenered with "What do they do with the bodies?" in caesar cipher. The page /canyouseeme leads to /aroundandaround, which then leads to a video that we'll address much, much later.

If we follow the rabbit hole on Gloaming's usual homepage, though, we find:Down, down. Ever downward. The images, from top to bottom and back to front, are each representative of some sort of fairytale, the first two by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations provided by John D. Batten and the last from Grimm's Fairytales. As far as I am aware, the audio is not hiding anything. Below is a summary of each tale, though it's not strictly necessary to read.

The Unseen Bridegroom, readable here, tells the tale of Anima, a woman with an insatiable curious streak who weds a prince she's forbidden to see the face of, as his mother would never approve their marraige. Anima's family comes to visit them, and her mother encourages Anima to get a glance at her lover's face. Her curiosity overtakes her, and she sneaks a look whilst he's asleep, only to be cast out from the castle and have it vanish on her. After getting advice from her aunt, she goes to plead with the Queen, who gives her three impossible tasks to complete in order to win her groom back, each of which she is aided with the help of magic and her groom. Anima is successful in the end, even if her curiosity nearly stops her, and she and her groom are wed once more.

Guleesh is whisked away from a place he hates by the fairfolk of Celtic folklore to steal away a princess, soon to be wed. They crash her wedding, taking her, before Guleesh breaks away from the group of fairfolk and halts their plan to wed her themselves. The good neighbors curse the princess, taking her ability to speak. Guleesh brings her to the church, asking the priest to give the princess a place to stay, which the priest obliges to him. The princess and Guleesh learn to communicate with one another without use of speech, and soon begin to fall for one another, though they still trouble over how to return her home. Guleesh decides to return to the spot where the fairfolk were a year prior, only to be shirked by them as he tries to join again. They let slip that there is an herb outside Guleesh's door that can heal the princess' voice. Guleesh makes haste to prepare it for her, ensuring himself that it will not harm her, and the day after the princess can speak again. The tale is punctuated with their marriage.

The final image (shown here) is a painting by Arthur Rackham of The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids. It's considerably shorter and much more well known than the other two. A mother-goat leaves her children home while she goes to purchase groceries, warning them of the wolf who will surely try to fool them and eat them. Twice the wolf knocks and is turned away, but the third time the kids are fooled and all but one of them are eaten. The mother returns home, finding her youngest kid and the two of them find the wolf asleep under a tree and rescue the other six kids. From the wolf's stomach. Yeah.

How are we? Still present? It gets grander.

I'll proceed from left to right according to the navbar. The guestbook contains two things: the lyrics to Largo al Factotum, which heralds the arrival of Figaro in the Barber of Seville, and a caesar cipher reading "don't trust the deers" that I assume is not left by the creator. October's news (soon to be updated! yay!) doesn't stand out much, though the ever-present list of viable topics for town discussion stays up. The headlines subpage of the news highlight the missing persons case and subsequent corpse of one Shelly Fennel-- remember her blog? Notably, her corpse showed accelerated decay and severe mutilation.

The archived news bulletins hold a lot of stuff! February links to Pawmetto Pals, to be covered later, as well as Heart Day, with an embed leading back to tape 3. The bottom of the page has a graphic of a door captioned, fittingly, "open the door", which brings us to Eyes Over Gloaming. This page is a massive web of links, though they mostly link back to places we've seen before. The two eyes that start the page, though, link to the wikipages for Otherworld and Corpse Road respectively, the former being rather self explanatory and the latter being roads for transporting the dead often associated with ghosts and other folklore. It specifically brings you to the 'crossroads' section of the page, detailing how they're thought to be intersections between our world and some kind of otherworld.

March is void of anything interesting, though April's backdrop is significantly stranger and we're linked to a page for a Hope Ceremony, listing approved items to bring to a bonfire. "Out with the old, in with the new!" Tape 4's guide on protecting yourself from the rot also includes a shot of burning wood pallets. May is under construction, seemingly perpetually, whilst June brings us to forgetmenot. I'll circle back to it, don't worry. July and August are devoid of any news, and September contains little of note.

Gloaming's about page contains the name WINONA in the FAQ about 2013, as well as a link to a page named Figaero, inviting the reader to a midnight soiree in the wood with the guarantee that neither prayer, bullet, nor the rot can stop you from making merry. The apple at the end links to tunnel, containing the following poem:

Now it is the time of night,
That the graves all gaping wide,
Every one lets forth his sprite,
In the church-way paths to glide.

This is from Act 5, Scene 1 of a Midsummer Night's Dream, harkening to the blurred lines between the dead and the living. The end of the tunnel leads us to an-ear-to-the-door, which'll be covered in a later section.

The Heritage Project page contains a link to the tumblr blog of one Violet Egress, a topic to be covered extensively very soon. We're also given a few photos of locations around town, including the Coroner House, Camp Gloaming, and Weaver's Wood Trail, all frequently mentioned across the project. The Officials page, ironically, has nothing to hide, though the portraits are incredibly well done. There is an update log, which is quite straightforward, and finally, the page for Pawmetto Pals. Cain Mosni links the blog keeping-an-eye-out, one Shelly Fennel says "RENOROC" a whole bunch (that's coroner backwards!), and we are told that God isn't with us anymore. A page for Shelly is linked above in a glitter graphic, simply displaying her missing poster.

You made it! Let's check out those tumblrs now.

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Let's start with Shelly. As usual, I'd prefer if you swing by the blogs yourself, but I really can't stop you-- you'll just miss out on some stuff. From the beginning to the end: The zoomed image of the sheep has a cipher reading "he watches from the edge of the woods". A glitter graphic of an angel praying contains alt text that reads "She prayed for a friend to end her solitude." A picture of Harold, the cat featured on Gloaming's homepage, is covered in the word RENOROC. Visitors links back to down, down. An audio clip contains "do not weep for me, for I am not gone." We get the idea that Shelly is, or was, a pretty religious person, having prayed for an angel to end her solitude after Harold passed and getting something much, much worse-- likely tied to her dissapearance. Aside, though, there's not much else to unpack here.

Cain Mosni's blog is full of horseshit, and so is he. His dog's name is Creepypasta, and he's a self-published journalist (until 2025), dishing out rumours all around Gloaming County. His post from 10/10 contains a different version of the Midsummer Night's Dream quote from above, though this one refers to Halloween-- which could potentially draw interest for the future of Gloaming County. Cain's blog is kind of a wealth of information, so I highly suggest reading through it yourself, but it's not exactly full of codes to be cracked or pages to be found.

Violet's blog, as well, is full of things to read, and lots of information on who we can assume to be Figaero and the oft-mentioned Winona. Like Cain's blog, Violet's blog is played very straight, so I'll save my thoughts for my theory section.

Finally, an-ear-to-the-door.

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MOTHER: █████, be reasonable.
FATHER: ██████ doesn't need to know. I won't have her growing up with our burden. Ignorance is bliss, ██████.
MOTHER: She'll find out once she goes to camp anyway. She deserves to know what to do when the dreams start.
FATHER: She's still a child.
MOTHER: So were we.
MOTHER: If you won't show her, I will.

The blog description takes us to the following video:

This channel pops up a few different times, but I'm not sure who's behind it.

A few posts contain links to songs: Angel On My Shoulder, Where Have All The Flowers Gone? (accompanied by an image with "where have all the children gone?" inscribed at the bottom, Dream A Little Dream Of Me, and Lonely Tombs. Our last one, reading "WHO IS TO BLAME?", leads us to Violet Egress' channel, specifically:

Violet Egress

The video above is also the one linked in forgetmenot from the Gloaming County site. The title translates to "aperuit", provided by MoonRaider58 on YouTube, meaning "he opened", while the captions read "Guilt abounds. Sickening feeling. Pandora weeps so opened the box," provided by hehehe88 on YouTube. Violet's channel also contains four other videos:

HEIR, uploaded 09/19/2021. Violet unboxes mementos. The wooden door contained within it is the same one seen in Happy Campers, and the wingdings at the end reads "y︎o︎u︎r︎ h︎e︎a︎r︎t︎ w︎a︎s︎ r︎a︎c︎i︎n︎g︎︎ / yo︎u︎ d︎i︎d︎ n︎o︎t︎ kn︎o︎w︎ w︎h︎a︎t︎ i︎t︎ m︎e︎a︎n︎t︎ / b︎u︎t︎ y︎o︎u︎ l︎o︎v︎e︎d︎ i︎t︎ s︎t︎i︎l︎l︎ / t︎h︎e︎ t︎h︎r︎i︎l︎l /︎ o︎f︎ t︎h︎e︎ h︎u︎n︎t︎."

BAD GATE, uploaded 10/12/2021. I'm not sure what's hidden in the woods, but the subtitles read "it calls to you."

OFFER, uploaded 07/28/2025, though it's marked as a reupload. I'm still not quite sure what I'm looking at. We keep finding apples, though.

MOTHER, uploaded 12/02/2021. This one's hidden in the Halloween update from 2025. Can you see me now? Because I can see you. "i︎n︎ t︎h︎i︎s︎ d︎r︎e︎a︎m︎,︎ y︎o︎u︎ a︎r︎e︎ a︎ c︎h︎i︎l︎d︎ a︎g︎a︎i︎n︎ / r︎u︎n︎n︎i︎n︎g︎ f︎r︎e︎e︎ / y︎o︎u︎ l︎o︎s︎e︎ y︎o︎u︎r︎ m︎o︎t︎h︎e︎r︎'︎s︎ h︎a︎n︎d︎ i︎n︎ t︎h︎e︎ c︎r︎o︎w︎d︎ / y︎o︎u︎ c︎a︎l︎l︎ o︎u︎t︎ f︎o︎r︎ h︎e︎r / s︎h︎e︎ d︎o︎e︎s︎ n︎o︎t︎ t︎u︎r︎n︎ a︎r︎o︎u︎n︎d︎ / y︎o︎u︎'︎v︎e︎ g︎o︎n︎e︎ a︎n︎d︎ s︎p︎o︎i︎l︎e︎d︎ i︎t︎ a︎l︎l︎ n︎o︎w︎ / h︎a︎v︎e︎n︎'︎t︎ y︎o︎u︎?"︎

Violet's tumblr claims no association with this channel. However, there's another social we can find her on. Violet comments on some of the Gloaming County Instagram posts, and we can find her account: not surprisingly, still named Violet Egress. Aside from the six of cups, there's not much to gather from her posts, though she's also linked to another user: Sienna Stevenson.

Sienna's instagram is mostly very pink edits, though some posts have numbers hidden in the caption and later posts are ruminations on her feelings. The story highlight links to another tumblr, the password being "541037421." I'll let you peruse it yourself. The wingdings reads "I found you." Other than that, a video on her instagram reads "The door is open. we are rotting. We are here but you do not see us," courtesy of skibidae on Instagram.

Violet's tumblr also contains screenshotted exchanges between her, Cain, and a user we can safely assume to be Sienna. These are contained below:

The most recent portion of this conversation is found through a series of links on the Gloaming County tumblr: /hellawaits on the site, to an unlisted video on the official YouTube.