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ReallyFreakedOut · Greenhorn Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Oregon

Graffle movie? Someone help. This is freaking me out.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 2:54 am

peter_magenheimer · Veteran Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 119 Location: Colorado

I believe what you saw was this: http://netninja.com/scrapbook/Metacortex/carelessly/carelessly.mic.swf

Am I right?

**Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 3:20 am

ReallyFreakedOut · Greenhorn Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Oregon

You nearly eased my mind, friend. Thank you.

But, alas, the file we saw was nearly fullscreen. Low quality. It featured a large, roundish tan thing that moved around because of an unsteady, handheld camera, and the whole clip was super, super brief.

My heart's in my throat.

Where's my hacker in shining armor who'll tell me it's all ok so I can sleep tonight?

**Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 3:45 am

peter_magenheimer · Veteran Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 119 Location: Colorado

Sorry to keep throwing URLs at you, but: http://netninja.com/scrapbook/Metacortex/unjust/unjust.mic.swf

Is it possible you saw the first couple seconds of this?

**Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 3:54 am

ReallyFreakedOut · Greenhorn Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Oregon

Damn it, not it either.

Alright, now that I'm pretty sure I'm onto SOMETHING, let me go into everything I can about this video.

I saw something which I've pretty much deduced to taking place within a home of some sort. The background seemed artificially lit, and had a dark brown background (Perhaps shag carpeting, perhaps wood furnishing). Some cheesy bassy music played abruptly and loudly, and I saw what appeared to be a mass of tan cloth front and center. The video was obviously focusing on this. If you've ever seen something incredibly disturbing first-hand, then you know there's a five to ten second ammount of time in which you just cannot comprehend what's going on, because you won't allow yourself to. Both Jeff and I experianced this feeling. Eitehr

A.) Because our minds were trying to catch up with the sudden video

or, the scary one

B.) Because something REALLY screwed up was going on in that video.

The crackling music and low quality full screen cut out abruptly, and I was redirected to a file in my temporary internet folder. I was unable to locate the movie in this folder, suggesting it may have deleted itself. I was unable to return to it with my back button.

I'm really on edge right now. Any suggestions?

**Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 4:07 am

Jeromy · Boot Joined: 16 Oct 2003 Posts: 20

Drugs are bad mmmkay.

Dude if that happened it was a freak accident with your computer or you got a trojan virus.

No way graffle is a video file.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 7:34 am

niobexrev

There's this video that if you watch it, someone calls you up and says, "You're gonna die in 7 days."

Sorry I couldn't resist.

Maybe if you told us which file this happened to, we could be of more help.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 9:38 am

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ReallyFreakedOut · Greenhorn Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Oregon

it was carelessly.graffle

Jeff can testify for me. I'll get us both on IRC if you like.

The only thing I can think of was something ceaser hid in one of the files... Some sort of Java prompt or SOMETHING that redirected me to a file, then redirected me out of it, then deleted every single trace of itself.

Far-fetched, I realize, but the fact the background for this video wasn't entirely different from that first one you guys showed me, it makes me feel sure that this was part of it all...

Plus, we are dealing with a "hacker" here, right? Makes sense he'd be doing crazy hacker stuff.

Additionally, I wiped my harddrive probably four days ago, and that was THE FIRST movie clip accessed on my recently fresh system.

What the hell is going on here?

**Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 2:14 pm

BrianEnigma

**Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 2:25 pm

monk · Boot Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Posts: 13

yeah for real

not that i'm one to doubt ANYTHING in this ARG, but i just tried renaming carelessly.graffle.jpg to .mov, .avi, .swf, .mpg, .mpeg, .asf, .asx, .wmv, .exe, and .fla, and none of them open, in exception of .mov, since i use Media Player Classic, it loaded it and played, but it was basically the .jpg; it didn't do anything but stay there, static.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 2:31 pm

ReallyFreakedOut · Greenhorn Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Oregon

*laughs*

I sort of wish I WAS on crack...

But alas, I was looking at the fire-breathing picture when it happened. I'm looking for some sort of reasonable explaination, which all of these have been so far, but are soonthereafter cancelled out by some factor or another...

I haven't been able to get the video to go again, so now I'm just pissed off. Maybe I should change my screen name...

**Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 2:32 pm

catherwood

Two clues stand out to me:T

**Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 3:41 pm

havok · Greenhorn Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Posts: 7

Haha..

**Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 4:22 pm

skeptical · Boot Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 38

Similar Weird "Glitch" Occured At heismissing.info

**Posted:** Sun Oct 19, 2003 8:58 pm

Chinghis

That's like me when this first started, freaking out when a pay phone rang as I walked by. Or, going to Pet Adoption fair, and asking the name of the dog.... it was Laika, of course.

That's when I decided to lay off the game a bit.

**Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 1:12 pm

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