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Job Zamperini is the main protagonist of the 2024 analog horror video THE BOILED ONE PHENOMENON.
He is an American World War II veteran fluent in Morse code, which marked him as an interviewee after he fell victim to the anomalous psuedocoma outbreak induced by the malevolent, supernatural entity known as The Boiled One.
He is portrayed by the grandfather of the video's creator, Doctor Nowhere (Silas Orion).[2]
Biography[]
Little is known about Zamperini's past, except that he is an elderly man, an American World War II veteran, and a devout follower of Christianity. He also has a grandson and an immediate family, and he is fluent in Morse code.
On August 13, 2003, while watching an interlude segment of a nature documentary titled "TREE OF HEAVEN" in Pennsylvania, Job witnessed an anomalous hijacking of the broadcast by The Boiled One, which affected many throughout the region and left them in a state of pseudocoma (a condition where victims are physically unresponsive but retain some level of awareness). While most victims ultimately provided more questions than answers during interviews, Job’s case, discovered late in the Ephrata Branch's investigation, stood out as particularly unusual.
After his visiting grandson took a strange photo in Job's backyard showing The Boiled One standing beside a small playhouse, his family became disturbed, convinced the house was haunted. This led them to contact a local priest, hoping for a blessing. Job, however, claimed that something "horrible and unholy" was with him, and warned that it might harm him or others if he tried to describe it and what it was saying to him. Consequently, he was interviewed by Officer T. Gomez of the Ephrata Branch. The recording, originally archived, was later recovered.
In the interview, Job explains that before he lost full mobility, he saw a face on the television that has haunted him ever since. He insists the creature is real, not a hallucination, and even claims he can see it through the window during the interview. He describes the face as "horribly burnt, not of Lord Christ." Along with seeing the face, Job also hears the screams of many voices and, at night before sleep, the sound of trumpets, though he believes Lord Christ is still with him. The interview ends as The Boiled One’s face rises outside the window of Job’s room.
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Trivia[]
- Job Zamperini is a deliberate parallel to Louis Zamperini, an American World War II veteran, Olympic distance runner, and Christian evangelist. Job's defiance of The Boiled One and the trauma he represents through faith is meant to mirror Louis Zamperini's confrontation of Mutsuhiro Watanabe, one of his captors during WWII, with faith and forgiveness.[3][4]
- He is also based off of the biblical figure Job, a good man who looks well after his family but is suddenly faced by disaster after disaster, taking away everything he holds dear. Despite these hardships, Job remains faithful to God, which was God's intention, as the hardships were actually intended to be a test from God. This also reflects Zamperini's experiences and his unwavering defiance of The Boiled One.
References[]
- ↑ Job Zamperini had specifically requested his alias to be used in future records instead of his real name, which remains classified.
- ↑ "Both Job and Gomez are my grandfathers. What it might be is someone thinking I actually used Louis Zamperini’s face for Job?" - Doctor Nowhere on Twitter
- ↑ "The Boiled One is NOT the spirit of Mutsuhiro Watanabe— he is purely symbolic of the Zamperini/Bird dynamic" - Doctor Nowhere on Twitter
- ↑ "Job Zamperini is NOT meant to be Louis Zamperini either, but again, it all is symbolic" - Doctor Nowhere on Twitter