History NightmareFuel / GravityFallsJournal3

[[caption-width-right:350:Yeah, this is what happens when you deal with ''[[Characters/GravityFallsBillCipher Bill.]]'']]

* The fact that Ford never mentions anything about what happened to Stan after he left with Journal 1 in the "Better World" dimension, only caring that he did what he asked him to do. Some fan theories assume the worst, believing Stan ''committed suicide'' after hiding the book.

* After Fiddleford creates the Memory Gun, he does some rather... questionable things, such as starting the Society of the Blind Eye behind Ford's back when he gives a younger Blind Ivan a card after talking to him and mind wiping the lumberjacks who Ford hired to build the Bunker. But worst of all, it's heavily implied that he '''mind wiped Ford'''. The special edition Journal 3 confirms the implication. Fiddleford had been using the memory gun on Ford to get away with using construction workers to build the portal. He then wiped the workers' minds to further protect the secret.

** To elaborate, the author's impressive sketches become a lot darker and more crude. It’s even scarier in the special edition where Ford draws invisible ink on every person he draws’ eyes. [[ParanoiaFuel Even the Paul Bunyan statue]].

** As soon as Ford hears this, he rears back and accidentally knocks a plate of bacon to the floor. This attracts the attention of everyone in the diner and Ford isn't sure if it was the sunrise coming through the window, but it looked like all of their eyes were ''glowing yellow'' just like what anyone who's currently possessed by Bill looks like! Needless to say, Ford gets the hell out of there and runs towards home as fast as his weak legs can carry him. This is where Ford's [[ParanoiaFuel paranoia]] reaches its height as he comes to realize that "he has eyes everywhere" and "they are watching my every move."

** To elaborate, the author's impressive sketches become a lot darker and more crude.

->''I am used to hearing the Muse's voice in the head on occasion. But now suddenly I hear whispers. The murmuring voices of beasts. The echoing howls of lost souls. This is not right at all. It is almost as though my Muse is contacting others. Ghouls from another world. The more I listen, the more I am convinced it's NOT my imagination. My head throbs. My right eye burns. I heard my Muse say something...''
->'''"The door is open"....'''
->'''''What have I done?'''''

The opening "notice" on the very first page before Ford's writing's is quite creepy, despite how brief it is.
->TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
->The Parks Department of the state of Oregon was on a routine moose-tagging mission when we located this item, a strange dust-covered book, lying in the center of a mossy clearing. Quick perusal reveals paranoid ramblings, demonic sketches, descriptions of nonsensical creatures, and uncrackable ciphers.
->We believed this to be either a prank by high schoolers or the ramblings of a local fraud. But since discovering this book, a number of our troopers have had headaches and disturbing nightmares. We have logged it in our records and are now putting it up for purchase at our annual Confiscated Items Sale/Bake-Off.
->Please take this cursed thing off our hands.

* After Fiddleford creates the Memory Gun, he does some rather... questionable things, such as starting the Society of the Blind Eye behind Ford's back when he gives a younger Blind Ivan a card after talking to him and mind wiping the lumberjacks who Ford hired to build the Bunker. But worst of all, it's heavily implied that he '''mind wiped Ford'''. [[spoiler: The special edition Journal 3 confirms the implication. Fiddleford had been using the memory gun on Ford to get away with using construction workers to build the portal. He then wiped the workers' minds to further protect the secret.]]

-->'''DO NOT LET OUT!'''
-->'''Extremely unpredictable!'''
-->'''It's too powerful!'''
-->'''It CAN TRANSFORM!'''
--> '''''IT'S PLAYING TRICKS ON ME!'''''

** In almost stark contrast, the Hand-witch's warning on the "Palm Reader" page, is ''much'' more dire. It begins when both Ford and Fiddleford go to a carnival to unwind from their research and Ford decides to check out the palm reader tent just to see if she'll be stumped because of his extra finger. But once he enters the tent she immediately calls him his [[AffectionateNickname childhood nickname]], "sixer," which is what Stan used to call him. Naturally, this creeps Ford out since he has no idea how she could've known this. It only gets worse when she brings out some tarot cards and when she sees what they say, she shrieks and looks at Ford with sympathy before telling him:
-->Someone very close to you is deceiving you. You have chosen the wrong allies. You will live two lives and both of them too short... unless you change now.

** To elaborate, the author's impressive sketches become a lot darker and more crude, and the infamous blood stains from the pages around Bill's description are revealed to be from the author's [[EyeScream irritated eye]] bleeding onto the journal.

-->Pinch yourself.
-->Pinch someone else. They'll punch you awake.
-->Put peanut butter in your face and let a dog ride shotgun. (He'll lick you awake.)
-->Put peppers in your eyes.
-->Just give up, Sixer.
** As soon as Ford hears this, he rears back and accidentally knocks a plate of bacon to the floor. This attracts the attention of everyone in the diner and Ford isn't sure if it was the sunrise coming through the window, but it looked like all of their eyes were ''glowing yellow'' just like what anyone who's currently possessed by Bill looks like! Needless to say, Ford gets the hell out of there and runs towards home as fast as his weak legs can carry him. This is where Ford's [[ParanoiaFuel paranoia]] reaches it's height as he comes to realize that "he has eyes everywhere" and "they are watching my every move."
-->'''''GET OUT OF MY MIND, CIPHER!'''''
* A lot of Ford’s breakdown in general is rather disturbing to read, especially compared to the idealism (and arrogance) the previous entries shown. No wonder he was such a wreck when Stan arrived.

* After Fiddleford creates the Memory Gun, he does some rather... questionable things, such as starting the Society of the Blind Eye behind Ford's back when he gives a younger Blind Ivan a card after talking to him and mind wiping the lumberjacks who Ford hired to build the Bunker. But worst of all, it's heavily implied that he '''mind wiped Ford'''. [[spoiler: The special edition Journal 3 confirms the implication. Fiddleford had been using it on Ford to get away with using construction workers to build the portal. He then wiped the workers' minds to further protect the secret.]]

* After Fiddleford creates the Memory Gun, he does some rather... questionable things, such as starting the Society of the Blind Eye behind Ford's back when he gives a younger Blind Ivan a card after talking to him and mind wiping the lumberjacks who Ford hired to build the Bunker. But worst of all, it's heavily implied that he '''mind wiped Ford'''. [[spoiler: The special edition Journal 3 confirms the implication. McGucket had been using it on Ford to get away with using construction workers to build the portal. He then wiped the workers' minds to further protect the secret.]]

* After Fiddleford creates the Memory Gun, he does some rather... questionable things, such as starting the Society of the Blind Eye behind Ford's back when he gives a younger Blind Ivan a card after talking to him and mind wiping the lumberjacks who Ford hired to build the Bunker. But worst of all, it's heavily implied that he '''mind wiped Ford'''.

** Just the thought of poor F getting tied up and scared shitless as he's stuffed into a cabinet in order to be impersonated by the Shapeshifter just so he can get his hands on Ford's journal easily cranks the ParanoiaFuel UpToEleven!

** The Soothsquitos message spells out, "Batch out for Will". While this has a more comedic tone to it because of the misplaced letters, reading it while [[HarsherInHindsight knowing what ultimately happens]], Ford dismissing it as "total nonsense" can make one cringe in discomfort.
** In almost stark contrast, the Hand-witch's warning on the "Palm Reader" page, is ''much'' more dire. It begins when both Ford and Fiddleford go to a carnival to unwind from their research and Ford decides to check out the palm reader tent just to see if she'll be stumped because of his extra finger. But once he enters the tent she immediately calls him his [[AffectionateNickname childhood nickname]], "sixer", which is what Stan used to call him. Naturally, this creeps Ford out since he has no idea how she could've known this. It only gets worse when she brings out some tarot cards and when she sees what they say, she shrieks and looks at Ford with sympathy before telling him:

** At which point, she gives him a ring, telling him that if it's blue, "you may pull through". But if it's black, "you can't turn back".

* There's a particularly creepy instance of BreadMilkEggsSquick on the Truck Stop page. For context, Ford's desperately trying to keep himself awake to keep Bill Cipher from interfering with his mind and body like he has been. As such, he's gone to the aforementioned truck stop to get some industrial-strength coffee to attempt to keep himself awake when another customer comes up to him and offers him some suggestions:

** As soon as Ford hears this, he rears back and accidentally knocks a plate of bacon to the floor. This attracts the attention of everyone in the diner and Ford isn't sure if it was the sunrise coming through the window, but it looked like all of their eyes were ''glowing yellow'' just like what anyone who's currently possessed by Bill looks like! Needless to say, Ford gets the hell out of there and runs towards home as fast as his weak legs can carry him. This is where Ford's [[ParanoiaFuel paranoia]] reaches it's height as he comes to realize that "he has eyes everywhere" and "they are watching my every move".

* Ever wonder where all those zombies in "Scary-Oke" come from? The mudslide shown in "Northwest Mansion Mystery" washed all the lumberjacks' graves down to the land where the Mystery Shack was later built. When he learns of this, Ford is understandably shocked and horrified that he's living and working above a ''mass grave''.

* Ever wonder where all those zombies in "Scary-Oke" come from? The mudslide shown in "Northwest Mansion Mystery" washed all the lumberjacks' graves down to the land where the Mystery Shack was later built. When he learns of this, Ford is understandably shocked and horrified that he’s living and working above a ''mass grave.''
* After Fiddleford creates The Memory Gun, he does some rather…questionable things, such as starting The Society Of The Blind Eye behind Ford’s back when he gives a younger Blind Ivan a card after talking to him and mind wiping the lumberjacks who Ford hired to build the Bunker. But worst of all, it’s heavily implied that he '''mind wiped Ford.'''

** The Soothsquitos message spells out, "Batch out for Will". While this has a more comedic tone to it because of the misplaced letters, reading it while [[HarsherInHindsight knowing what ultimately happens,]] Ford dismissing it as "total nonsense" can make one cringe in discomfort.
** In almost stark contrast, the Hand-witch's warning on the "Palm Reader" page, is ''much'' more dire. It begins when both Ford and Fiddleford go to a carnival to unwind from their research and Ford decides to check out the palm reader tent just to see if she'll be stumped because of his extra finger. But once he enters the tent she immediately calls him his [[AffectionateNickname childhood nickname,]] "sixer", which is what Stan used to call him. Naturally, this creeps Ford out since he has no idea how she could've known this. It only gets worse when she brings out some tarot cards and when she sees what they say, she shrieks and looks at Ford with sympathy before telling him:

** And sure enough, much later after an argument between Ford and Fiddleford in which Ford tells him, "We will do the test [[note]]on the portal[[/note]] tomorrow night at eight 'o' clock sharp. Be there or get left behind. The choice is yours." At that moment, he feels the ring in his pocket... and it's [[OhCrap black.]] [[FromBadToWorse Things only get worse]] when he claims that "superstition is for the weak" and tosses the ring into the lake. [[SanitySlippage And it all goes downhill after this.]]

* Ever wonder where all those zombies in "Scary-Oke" come from? The mudslide shown in "Northwest Mansion Mystery" washed all the lumberjacks' graves down to the land where the Mystery Shack was later built.

!!Dipper's entries [[note]]During season 1 and the first half of season 2, with occasional entries from Mable and Soos[[/note]]

!!Ford's entries [[note]]After Ford returns during the second half of season 2, with the occasional entry from Dipper[[/note]]