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** This wound up being recursive: at the end of the episode, Matt records a second [[Apocalyptic Log]] explaining what had been discovered the first time 'round, so that when the crew found it the next time, they'd have a leg up. At least two loops and logs were required to ensure the crew's survival, but for all the viewer knows, there were three, or [[Fridge Horror|three hundred]].
* ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "Ice" shows the first and last videos of the sequence. At first the tidy, cheerful and well-lit scientists of an arctic research base report digging ice cores from record levels; the second is gloomy and shaky, with one dishevelled man saying "We're not... who we are... we're not... who we are..." before being attacked.
** The seventh season episode "X-Cops" starts with a homage to ''[[Cops (series)]]'' (where a cameraman follows a sheriff's deputy check up on some disturbance), when they are suddenly attacked by something that stays ''just'' out of the camera's view all the time.
* This happens in an episode of the ''[[Logan's Run]]'' series. The protagonists discover an ancient bunker from [[After the End|before the end]] holding a few [[Human Popsicle]] survivors (the best and brightest) from the ancient civilisation devasted by a plague. There is also an Apocalyptic Log from a man dying from the disease, but holding long enough {{spoiler|to reveal he discovered that one of the hibernated people is an imposter (and potentially a murderer).}}
* The [[Clip Show]] episode of ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'' featured an [[Apocalyptic Log]] that the [[Teen Genius]] left in case they lost the [[Robot War]]. It provided a brief character summary and log of the fight, but most of it focused on the <s> merchandise toys</s> weapons and equipment they'd been using all season that the prospective finder of the log would find nearby, the general impression being "if you've found this, we lost our war of attrition. You are now one of the last humans alive. Here's what you have to work with- now take up our fight". An odd case of seeing the [[Apocalyptic Log]] as a caution of what might happen if they lose, rather than a means of figuring out how they lost.
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Last entry. ''For God's sake look after our people'' }}
* The onboard video camera was recovered from the wreckage of Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' after the disaster and the last few minutes were played, although it stopped before the actual disintigration.
* There are a number of appropriately awful accounts from the Submarine world, notably the brief log kept by the survivors of [[wikipedia:Russian submarine Kursk explosion|''Kursk'']] after her sinking. And, even worse, the audio recording from [[wikipedia:USS Thresher
* And so forth. Real life examples aren't going to detail an apocalyptic horror, or anything, but will definitely qualify in the "desperation and insanity grow from entry to entry" sense.
** And even in cases where the witnesses weren't part of those who died, records of traumatic events still capture moments in history with terrifying clarity: the Zapruder film of JFK being shot, the radio dispatch of the Hindenberg crash, the morning of 9/11/2001...
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