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themightymooker
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ads123 wrote:
It translated to
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ROW TEN NO SPACES
I assume this is a reference to this string of symbols
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--......-.`-::--.......```````````````````````........---:---``...```..
but couldn't figure out what to do with it.


I kicked this around, and here are my thoughts (spoilered for your non-viewing pleasure):

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1) I quickly came to the assumption that the "no spaces" hint meant that we ought to condense the text. It's pretty obvious we're dealing with some sort of binary code (whether it be binary or Morse--more on this later). Since only the dots and dashes matter in a context like that, I trimmed out all of the other garbage and got this string of text:

--......-.---...............------.....

2) That doesn't mean a thing in binary, no matter how you translate the dots and dashes or whether you read it forward or backward. After finding this, I figured it HAS to be Morse.

3) Figuring out this much Morse is BRUTAL work without spaces--especially with that string of 15(!) dots in the center. To accommodate for some many dots, I started looking at hexadecimal, but it ultimately didn't prove too useful. The only logically number/letter combo I could find at the start is "7e," which translates into a lovely tilde. I could be wrong, because I am untrained in hex, but this doesn't feel hex-y to me.

4) So I tried to just translate the sucker. I got some somewhat promising results by working under a few assumptions. First of all, there are only a few letters which could logically begin this string of Morse: T, G, M, and Z. T doesn't appear to work because any letter which must necessarily follow doesn't really logically fit unless it's an anagram. I tried G and M next, and got promising results, but they both hit the skids once I hit that string of 15 dots. Z...didn't pan out at all.

5) So, my conclusion is that it is PROBABLY an anagram in Morse, but again, without any spacing, I can't see this being easily completed; not by someone of my caliber, at least. I hope my work (and subsequent wall of text) help provide some insight for someone more talented than I. Keep it up, guys!


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ads123
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themightymooker wrote:

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1) I quickly came to the assumption that the "no spaces" hint meant that we ought to condense the text. It's pretty obvious we're dealing with some sort of binary code (whether it be binary or Morse--more on this later). Since only the dots and dashes matter in a context like that, I trimmed out all of the other garbage and got this string of text:


It's worth noting there were literal spaces in that string (in order to make the shape of the tea pot) that I removed. I'm not sure that it did mean to remove the other symbols (not to say that it didn't just that I had already removed some spaces). I wouldn't know what to do with the extra symbols but thought it was worth noting.

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MalcolmInTheRight
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 		I was poking around the tea video that you mentioned earlier and the coding at the end. The very first string of characters at the top appears to be an encrypted message because of the "==" near the end.

http://imgur.com/a/PZGbf

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themightymooker
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ads123 wrote:
It's worth noting there were literal spaces in that string (in order to make the shape of the tea pot) that I removed. I'm not sure that it did mean to remove the other symbols (not to say that it didn't just that I had already removed some spaces). I wouldn't know what to do with the extra symbols but thought it was worth noting.


Fair enough. I decided to try to count the occurrences of each symbol throughout the the string of text, going in order of first appearance. Doing that, I got

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1228293


which might mean absolutely nothing, but it is interesting that it's a seven-digit number. All efforts to perform a substitution cipher proved fruitless (for me at least).

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MalcolmInTheRight
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 		So I took out all of the spaces in the string of characters and I got this:

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--......-.`-::---.......```````````````````````........---:---` `...```..


Themightmooker's looks like he has one or two characters missing.

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themightymooker
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MalcolmInTheRight wrote:
So I took out all of the spaces in the string of characters and I got this:

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--......-.`-::---.......```````````````````````........---:---` `...```..


Themightmooker's looks like he has one or two characters missing.


I have been doing a bad job of explaining myself in this thread, and for that, I apologize. When I got that seven-digit number, I used ads123's FULL string of symbols, dropping the assumption that I was looking for Morse code. So, to clarify, I counted the number of dashes (which I improperly counted as 12, but it's actually 13), then periods (28), then tildes (29), then colons (3). I hope that explains it a little better. Still don't know if it means anything, but I hope it does.

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MalcolmInTheRight
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 		The tea video that you mentioned earlier with the "ROW TEN NO SPACES" message at the end. It looks like there's an encrypted message at the top. Perhaps these dots and that message may have a connection?

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Leviathanz
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 		Tea
Hey I'm from a different site trying to solve this and while researching i found this, You've found pretty much everything we have except you dont appear to have noticed that when on this page

http://www.nationsquid.com/923658749150.html

if you view the image on the bottom of the page and click the bottom of that picture it'll lead you to this page

http://www.nationsquid.com/55569872.html

I see you've already found the tea video on vimeo but i dont think you've found what's after that

by "That's good" it will take you to another page with letters and symbols it looks like some way to crack one of his codes, although i havent found which code

If it means anything to you i'd appreciate if you could share it

Edit: I checked the vimeo two days ago there was a video uploaded called "reallyeffective" in that video i saw a motorway sign with that code on it, i decoded it to say "turbine dr lillyofthevalley" and a google search led me to http://www.turbinedoctor.com/. It was founded in 1998 which we all know is a theme with this arg but other than that i could find no link. I dont think this is it so i'll keep looking

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the_comestible
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 		In the latest NationSquid video, the number 4 story is about a woman named Caroline who supposedly got killed in 2007. In "archives" found online through searching her supposed YouTube user account "Godlyrecon" which had been deleted, she is listed as being from Scotts Mills Oregon, which is extremely close to the GPS coordinates given early on, as well as to Silverton Oregon, where the newspaper talking about a serial killer is from. All of these locations are in Marion County Oregon.

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Leviathanz
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the_comestible wrote:
In the latest NationSquid video, the number 4 story is about a woman named Caroline who supposedly got killed in 2007. In "archives" found online through searching her supposed YouTube user account "Godlyrecon" which had been deleted, she is listed as being from Scotts Mills Oregon, which is extremely close to the GPS coordinates given early on, as well as to Silverton Oregon, where the newspaper talking about a serial killer is from. All of these locations are in Marion County Oregon.


I'm aware of that too, If you watch the beggining of the video at at a slow speed you can see someone called braydon cunningham attempting to make a facebook and then browse amazon look at weapons and gun trigger locks along with doing several other activites

Edit: If you remember back to the video you got for solving the two riddles the screams you hear at the end are quite similar to those of caroline in her goodbye video. as well as the screams heard in the video before the top 10 video

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mathissatan
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 		Here is a list of stuff that happened online in the Top 10 creepy Things from the internet video
(1) Signing up for Facebook
(2) Going incognito on Chrome
(3) Went to Amazon and looked for Axe Handle
(4) Looked at 2 axe handles
(5) Then looked at 2 butcher knife
(6) Looked at one glock
(7) Went on twitter
(8) Went on Ebay for duct tape
(9) looked up how to learn French on google
(10) Went to babbel to learn French
(11) Then went to Rosetta stone
(12) Went to Netflix and got a free trial
(13) Looked up consipiracy theories
(14) Went to the Week website for a article on consipieacy theories
(15) Went to Youtube and went to the first top 10 creepiest things on the internet video and looked at the comment
(16) went to Reddit offmychest
(17) I posted I wanna kill myself with the text being my videos suck
(18) Went to Tor

Also after the web search there is a video of people on computers with the date Jun. 25 1995

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Leviathanz
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the_comestible wrote:
I researched the forested area in question.

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The coordinates are either exactly at or very close to a site where 7 female bodies were found in 1987. These were the victims of Dayton Leroy Rogers, and they are referred to as the Molalla Forest murders. However, those murders were solved long before the 1998 newspaper article (which we still aren't totally sure is real) would have been published. Could have something to do with a copycat killer, or something else along those lines. It's clearly more than just a coincidence.


After doing some research on the song feel the darkness by poison idea, The song is about one of Dayton L Rogers victims who the band was friends with, I know this is quite a while after the original post but hey worth mentioning

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Knife7
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 		I checked out the "turbine dr lilyofthevally" message and I found out their is a christian hymn called "The Lily of the Valley" but I'm not sure if that's a lead.

edit: Can some on look at the audio on the tea video, at the end of it, it sounds like someone is saying something but I can't quite make it out.

edit2: Jared B. uploaded a new video: https://vimeo.com/174773213

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Leviathanz
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Knife7 wrote:
I checked out the "turbine dr lilyofthevally" message and I found out their is a christian hymn called "The Lily of the Valley" but I'm not sure if that's a lead.

edit: Can some on look at the audio on the tea video, at the end of it, it sounds like someone is saying something but I can't quite make it out.

edit2: Jared B. uploaded a new video: https://vimeo.com/174773213


www.nationsquid.com/lillyofthevalley.html

also i just realised like an hour ago he's removed/privated his videos. I assume he became aware some people had his vimeo. I guess no more cheating for us

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Leviathanz
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Knife7 wrote:
I checked out the "turbine dr lilyofthevally" message and I found out their is a christian hymn called "The Lily of the Valley" but I'm not sure if that's a lead.

edit: Can some on look at the audio on the tea video, at the end of it, it sounds like someone is saying something but I can't quite make it out.

edit2: Jared B. uploaded a new video: https://vimeo.com/174773213


Oh whats your're hearing is just the words "That's good" in reference to the that's good next to the video. I thought i heard someone say something once and then they started say "Okay" but i can't hear that anymore Maybe that's why the video on vimeo was called tea 1. There might of been a Tea 2 which said something different at the end

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