Nightmares are glimpses into worlds more unfortunate than our own.
Nightmares are glimpses into worlds more unfortunate than our own.
KEY
White - Main Continuity
Gray - End of Eight
Black - Standalone, but possibly somewhere in the multiverse.
Alternate Timeline: One of Us.
War between the Backward Many and the Forward Few concludes with the Forward victorious. The Backward Many are completely annihilated and a new timeline is formed.
Only one of the Backward survives. They become a corrupt amalgamation of its reality.
Documented in ONE OF US.
Before Current Timeline
1855
Michael and Charles Cate settle in the area that would be known as Cate’s Crossing.
Documented in 20 Things You Might Not Know About Cate's Crossing.
Michael Cate survives a bout with Yellow Fever. He claims to have been saved by an entity known as the Eye of the Fallen God. Shortly after, he establishes the Order of the Eye.
Documented in 20 Things You Might Not Know About Cate's Crossing.
1888
1908
Michael Cate dies. His final words are: From his gaze, I will return.
Documented in 20 Things You Might Not Know About Cate's Crossing.
Walter Lane is murdered by the Eye. His soul is absorbed in to the Eye of the Fallen God.
Documented in 8 Steps to the Eye.
3/1974
1988
Julia Williams discovers a strange previously unknown pathogen that she nicknames “The Tangi Virus.”
Documented in The Tangi Virus.
Julia discovers that the virus is an alien lifeform.
Documented in The Tangi Virus.
10/18/89
An early version of Oracle is corrupted by an entity hiding in the sinkhole. Prophet is born.
Documented in Sinkhole.
3/22/1990
3/24/1990
The entity in the sinkhole is revealed to be the Eye of the Fallen God - the last survivor from the world of the Backward Many. The sinkhole disappears after swallowing Mr. Dunnington, his followers, and Landon Fields.
Documented in Sinkhole.
Julia Luu cures Jessica Daniels of her mutism and frees the ghosts of the children trapped under the house by helping them remember the identity of their captors.
Documented in The Children Under the House.
5/1990 - 8/1990
10/8/1990
Julia sends her notes to various people including councilmen in the Tangipahoa government, individuals in the media, and FPTV.
Julia ends her life after years of battling the virus.
Documented in The Tangi Virus.
A group of editors from FPTV turn Julia Luu’s notes into a video intended to educate the uninfected.
Documented in The Tangi Virus.
10/11/90
12/3/1990
Someone from FPTV sends a cryptic signal to the citizens of Tangipahoa Parish.
Documented in The Tangi Virus.
Daniel Peterson disappears after his family is murdered.
Documented in The Children with Black Eyes.
1992
Carl Lane, disguised as Carl Summers, begins his investigation of the Eye.
Documented in 8 Steps to the Eye.
8/8/1992
Tangi Water goes international.
Documented in The Tangi Virus.
1996
Oracle's hardware is dismantled, but not before its programming escapes to the internet.
Documented in The Oracle Project.
6/1997
7/1997
Oracle eradicates the Tangi Virus.
Documented in The Oracle Project.
1/10/1998
St. Roch is quarantined after being exposed to a parasite known as the Omega Helminth.
Documented in ITCH.
An unnamed storm strikes southeast Louisiana. Hundreds perish under mysterious circumstances.
Documented in The Tangi Virus.
1998
1998
Cate's Crossing High collapses after negligent work done by Dunnington Construction.
Documented in It Lives in the Static.
A memo reveals that North Shore Research re-engineered the Tangi Virus to create a method for controlling the mosquito population.
Documented in The Swarm.
1999
6/21/00
Randall begins documenting his experiences with a voice in the static of his television.
Documented in It Lives in the Static.
Dr. Flack and Dr. Mike Callison vanish in an experimental transporter accident.
Documented in The Disappearance.
8/1/2000
2001
Cypress Beauty condemns a select group of wealthy individuals to a lifetime of being transformed into cyrpess trees.
Documented in Cypress Beauty.
Randall and his son are consumed by a monster in the static.
Documented in It Lives in the Static.
2/21/01
3/21/00
North Shore Research releases the re-engineered mosquito near Independence, Louisiana.
Documented in The Swarm.
Independence is evacuated.
Documented in It Lives in the Static.
3/26/01
8/4/2002
Hurricane Betsy hits Cate's Crossing and the surrounding southeast Louisiana area.
Documented in They Come with the Storm.
The government allows people to return to Independence.
Documented in The Swarm.
2008
Prophet fools Agent Rivers into freeing it from the North Shore archives.
Documented in ITCH.
2008
Dr. Jones delivers his presentation on the Incomplete People.
Documented in The Incomplete People.
10/31/2008
2010
The Candle Light Killer is killed by the First Date Murderer.
Standalone short First Dates are Murder.
Dr. Stevens dies after years of trying to delete Oracle from the internet.
Documented in The Oracle Project.
8/8/2015
12/2015
Elf on a Shelf kidnaps Lindsey McDonald.
Documented in Happy Holidays from V8.
A movie recounts one of the many urban legends of Cate’s Crossing. Jess discovers the music box a yard sale. The cursed object claims the lives of Samantha, Cole, Dr. Harris and Ted. from the internet.
Feature Length Movie: Sacrilege
2017
2018
Based on the urban legend surrounding the Earworm Killer of Cate’s Crossing.
Standalone short: Earworm.
A short movie exploring one of the many disappearances to occur in Cate’s Crossing.
Standalone short: Knock Knock.
2018
2019
Based on the urban legend of the Sleepless, supernatural entities that come for insomniacs.
Standalone short: Sleepless.
Disgraced former school board councilman, Michael Singer dies. He reveals that he was behind the murder of the Peterson family.
Documented in The Children with Black Eyes.
2019
2019
The movie is based on the Alien Invasion That Never Happened, a retelling of the Tangi Virus. (END OF EIGHT Part 1)
Found Footage Horror: Married to a Sleepwalker
The Hard drives containing Prophet are recovered from Bayou Manchac.
Documented in Sinkhole.
2021
2022
Mr. Dunnington’s soul returns, possess the body of Stanley Gear.
Documented in A New Home for Mr. Bearlington.
A group of college students shelters inside a dark storage room after a mysterious disaster devastates the outside world. (END OF EIGHT Part 2).
Short film: Don't Let Them In.
2024
2026
Edie Jones is infected by an alien creature that transforms her into a voracious blob like monster.
Podcast: Edie Comic/Podcast Horror