VHS Tapes
It was clear that these were videotapes. He knew that he would have to watch the recordings if he wanted to get to the bottom of the mystery. But what kind of footage was he going to find in them? He brought out the tapes and inspected them even closer.
Newer
One surprising thing about them was that they appeared to be newer than the rest of the items that they have found. It gave him goosebumps, but there was nothing else that he could learn about them. The tapes came with a series of numbers. They must have been labels!