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viraldetector77 wrote:
you might be onto something, but after rereading both stories, i only found one similarity between the two.

So Tired wrote:
His lifeless, black eyes, that shone despite their darkness, peered into my own.


The Masks We Wear wrote:
Behind the "eyeholes" was only pure darkness.


Against my better judgement, I'm posting here. I've been telling myself that I won't be drawn in further, and should just be done with this. Still, like a bad car accident, I can't seem to look away.

I've found something. And I post it here as a warning.

Seems the People with No Eyes have a history outside this.

http://www.ghosts.org/stories/tales/evil-kids.html
http://paranormal.about.com/library/blstory_june05_14.htm

The FAQ

http://www.ghosts.org/stories/bekfaq.html

The Wikipedia Entry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Eyed_Kids

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 		Smith, sometimes you downright creep me out... Shocked

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 		wow, smith's post coupled with this quote from his newest post explains a lot.

Quote:

I am not alone. He has so many children. They wear his eyes so that they may see the world as he does: in dark and obscure shades. He is completely colorblind. His children share this trait as well. They follow the living. They hide in shadows, they wear the skin of the dead, they blend in. You'll never notice them unless they want you to. They only wish to terrify. Their only joy comes from feeding.


this was posted about the same time smith posted the information about the black eyed children.

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iliketofix wrote:
My Master is the third youngest of his brothers. He is known as the Muse of Insanity, Paranoia, Irrational Fear.


Cross that off the list.

Is "third youngest" a clue to a hierarchy? Do we know of one?

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Is "third youngest" a clue to a hierarchy? Do we know of one?


Based on that posting, the hirarchy mirrors that of the "Light" Muses (which is the same as the list provided earlier in the thread; Caustic Words at the top and Earthly at the bottom).

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 		Then, can it be assumed that he is of a younger generation than his master, and lower on the list?

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 		Or he is not a muse at all, simply someone under the influence of one.

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 		Once again, I'm going back to the videos...

YOU WILL SEE SUCH PRETTY THINGS - Sounds Lovely.
WHY DO YOU HATE? YOU ARE ILL. WE JUST WANT TO FIX YOU - People with Paranoia hate. Or embody Barbarism, as the civilized seek to "fix" their violent, uncultures foreign brethren. Hatred also implies Discord.
WHAT LIES IN YOUR MIND? WE HAVE ALREADY SEEN IT - Paranoia.
YOU COULD LOSE EVERYTHING. NOTHING IS PRICELESS - A clear anti-Materialistic (Earthly) statement.

I think we'll learn a lot from the fifth video.

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 		I've got Ares on continual search right now... waiting impatiently for the video too. Good points about linking muses to the videos. And going back, in the blog before it changed dark muses were actually mentioned (Same thread as the lampreys feeding off people.) So in terms of storytelling, the hints were there. (That's why I'm going back through the threads, I feel we've missed more stuff.) Just wish we had the original blog posts, although I have a feeling if we missed something Parafonia gave us. (My guess is he's Discord.)
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 		And come to think of it, what do we know about the people that came into possession of the videos? Donald Wilson was physically sick, Jack Q. Pembry was a psychopath, Jamie is vaguely uncultured (his interests include backyard wrestling and bad cable TV shows)

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 		Summary-so far
Alright, I'm just summing things up in this post. 30+ pages of speculation, attempted gamejacks, and half-truths is a bit much to slog through. I'm not going to bother quoting people because I don't have the time, also, it may appear jumbled, but just browse through it and you should find most of the relevant data from the last 30 or so pages. Sorry in advance. First off, links to all the videos we have so far.

Video 1
Description: The Wyoming Incident (or The Wyoming Hijacking) is a lesser known case of television broadcast hijacking/hacking. A hacker managed to interrupt broadcasts from a local programming channel (believed to serve several smaller communities in the county of Niobrara) and aired his/her own video. The video contained numerous clips of disembodied, human heads showing various emotions and "poses". The camera position changed often (usually every ten-to-fifteen seconds) and the video was often interrupted by a "SPECIAL PRESENTATION" announcement. This clip is taken from one of these intervals.

The video is mostly locally well-known, and would probably not even be that popular if it were not for the effects it had on the few residents who watched it for an extended period of time. Complaints included vomiting, hallucinations, headaches, etc. While some believed it was paranormal, specialists have determined that the cause of these afflictions were frequencies played regularly throughout the broadcast. In this clip, the frequency being played is somewhere between 17 and 19 hz. This range of frequency, when played for long periods of time, causes the eyes to subtly vibrate, sometimes inducing visual hallucinations.

This video is significant in that is one of the most recent television hijackings. Such actions were rare even in the '80s (search for Chicago Max Headroom Incident) and are even more rare today. The hacker has not yet been caught, and all attempts to trace the video have proven futile.

Video 2
Description: some body left this video file on a dvd they left on my doorstep. it might just be a prank but its pretty creepy so i guess ill just upload it here

if any of yall reconize who made this video are the video just tell me

thanks to chad for helping wit tags

Video 3
Description: My brother had quite an interesting collection of underground, bizarre videos. This video (which he only called "3") was his favorite in his entire collection, despite running only about a minute. He never wanted it uploaded to the internet because he was sort of selfish when it came to his rarer videos. He liked the idea that he was one of the few people who had seen this. I found it a year after his death (I had pretty much forgotten about it), in a box filled with videos of his I guess he'd just recently burnt to DVD. I have no idea who made the video and only a vague idea as to where it came from. My brother came back with it one summer after visiting some friends up around Yellowknife.

Video 4
Video four was posted by people on the forums, as it was received via e-mail, sent to a chosen member of the game, so the description is irrelevant, but here is the text of the email it was attached to;
so, you were chosen to take the newest video. You probably think this is all
very fun. Excited? I hope so. Danny was so
excited when he bought the third video. He loved those sort of things, you see.
Unfortunately, he Refused to upload it
to the internet. That made me very Angry. He finally Killed himself, never
letting anyone aside from his brother watch
it. This also Upset me, but fortunately, his brother was kind enough to upload
it for him.

And Jack Pembry? He was a Psychopath years before he bought the video. Oh, he
never acted on any of his Impulses, but
they were always there. If he had never seen the video, he still would've
Cracked sooner or later. You might be wondering
what happened to him. He hoped giving the video to Donald Wilson would help him.
It didn't. He's Gone now. He got to be It
for awhile and that while's up. You'll be Gone too. It doesn't even matter what
you do with the video now.

Gregory Miller was a perfect Target. Vulnerable, arrogant, with an interest in
the Strange he could never even hope to
overcome. He kept the video to himself for too long. It Destroyed his mind. Even
after he gave his copy to Wilson, he
had no hope. He's still alive, completely Dependent on his mother. Everyday, she
wanders into the bedroom he now sleeps
in, says a prayer for him, and Weeps. She can spend hours in that room, just
Crying. He's completely Repulsive. Imagine,
a shell of a human, covered in bedSores, smelling like the Dead. He's gone now
too, in a way.

Oh, that's right. You didn't know. I'm not Gregory Miller. GMiller stopped
making posts on his blog almost a year ago. I
have sort of claimed it for myself. It's amazing how naive some people are.
Without anyone paying for his domain, I had
to move it to Blogger, which is better anyway. A bigger audience.

Donald was Dead long before he acquired any of the videos.

Upload the video. Watch it. Watch it until your heart stops beating. Keep
playing my game. It's just so much fun.

Tell everyone that the next one is coming out soon. So far the videos have been
sold, given, found, and won. Next time,
the video will be shared. Now if only there was someone to help me share it. Oh,
that's right. There's Ares. I think
I'll call it "Hackjob Johnny Presents Video Five". Doesn't make sense, huh? It
doesn't have to. All that matters
is that people find it. Look out for it.

You Disgust and amuse me.

Do not try and contact me at this address again. It will only be a Waste of your
time.

Video 5
Description is once again irrelevant, as it was uploaded to youtube by one of our members. It was recieved via a file-sharing program, Ares.

previous owners
------------------------
Daniel Cable - decased, possibly suicide.
Donald Wilson - deceased (with an actual obituary to back it up)
GMiller - went insane for a while. still questionable.

i also have a feeling that Jack Q. Pembry owned the second video, the one Gmiller said he didn't know who had. it makes sense if you go over the blog.


I grabbed the audio off the first video and ran it through Baudline and was able to get a look at some interesting harmonics in the tones near the middle third of the clip (you can clearly make out three, need to capture an image for posting online). Of course, I'm no expert and have no way of telling if this is intentional or not. At any rate, it's always possible there's information encoded in those tones (if each tone represented a number, say 0 thru 9). There's a polytone broadcasting mode that you can catch sometimes, if you listen to short wave radio enough, which uses a scheme similar to this (it sounds a lot like someone hitting random keys on one of those old little cassio keybords). I know it's reaching, but anything's possible.

Who:

iliketowatch
GiveMeANumber
youcanwatchnow
Danny
Chad
Jamie
ILikeToRead
ILikeToWatch
GiveMeANumber
YouCanWatchNow

Where:

Niobara County, Wyoming
Lusk, Wyoming
Yellowknife

The Blog
(Note: Much of the relevant posts regarding the blog will seem contextually wrong, as the blog has been changed multiple times. If anyone has cached versions of the past blogs, please to be sharing them.)

Here is a copied and pasted transcript of the February 16th "Three Questions Blog" lest that one be yanked from our info as well;


One last post.

I have realized that, in accordance with certain traditions, I am now obliged to answer three questions. Now, I only have to answer them. I don't have to answer them honestly. I don't have to answer them politely. I don't have to answer them with great detail. I'll answer them how I see fit. "What's the point in asking questions if you're just going to lie?" Well, there is the off chance that you could outwit me somehow, I suppose.

Choose your questions wisely, because it's going to be awhile before you get another opportunity like this.

I will also be giving an answer to a fourth question of my choosing. I do not have to tell that question to you.
posted by GMIller at 7:13 AM on Feb 16, 2007

Esteed said...
First question: Where do these videos originate from? Not where they come from, as that could easily be answered with, "I give them out." Specifically, where do they originate from.
February 16, 2007 12:53 PM

GMIller said...
What you now think of as a series of video has always existed in some form or another. They have been available as Carvings in stone, scrolls, pamphlets, books, etc. Not long ago I was charged with the task of updating them into a more modern form of media. I contacted a young native in the Northern Territories of Canada who had Strayed from his kin and their beliefs. He was rather Pretentious, but it didn't take much to convince him to work for me. He was very resourceful and already had a large library of programs and sounds. I spoke with him for 23 hours, describing what it was I wanted done. He took notes and complied. Eventually he realized that I was not part of any sort of art project and that his works would not be used in the way he wanted them to be. He became very Irate. He's Gone now. I sold the first three videos myself. You already have heard of the three people who bought them, though there are many connections you may not have made.
There are three questions remaining, one of which I get to choose myself.
February 16, 2007 1:16 PM

Esteed said...
Second question: What is the purpose of that which you are updating? Not merely the videos, as their purpose is to update previously available data into a modern medium. I am asking for the purpose of what it is you are updating.
February 16, 2007 1:41 PM

GMIller said...
What I am updating Serves various purposes. For one, it Inspires many of those who view it in small, subtle ways and those who own it in very strong ways. Modifying people in such a manner helps to guide society down the Path that my people believe is the best. They also Serve as a very important part of our belief system. They help to strengthen us and keep us healthy. They are the most sacred objects in our world. They are the winning card in the Game we play with Humanity.
February 16, 2007 1:49 PM

Esteed said...
Last of the questions we get to choose.
We know you, or others of your people, are watching our efforts. Games like these are never fun unless you can see what the mice in the maze are doing, so here it is.
Earlier you said there were connections we might not have made. We've made some connections and I've got ideas as to a few more. But there's nothing quite like the source. What connections are there that we've missed?
February 16, 2007 5:20 PM

GMIller said...
This is not a question I can answer fully. However, there are some examples I can give you. First of all, the man who Took the moniker Jack Q. Pembry bought the second video. I wouldn't try getting in touch with him. He's Gone. The Robert mentioned on Gregory Miller's blog is not Donald Wilson's stepson. He is Danny's brother. Two separate people sharing a common name, you see. He's still Kicking around, though in all honesty I can't guarantee you his last name is Cable. So, here are the three people who bought the videos from me personally: Jack Q. Pembry (alias), Daniel C., Gregory Miller. You have yet to discuss how the second video got from Pembry to Donald Wilson to Jamie to Youtube. Donald Wilson wasn't himself when he began his little collection, as his Obituary seems to hint. Of course, researching ol' Donald will just lead to a Dead end (literally) for you, which causes me to wonder why no one has investigated the others yet.
I'd be following Jamie's Youtube profile for the next few days. The first chance you get to contact him, do it. I never figured him into my equation, so his presence is, to put it lightly, slightly Aggravating to me, and even I don't fully understand how the video got from Wilson to him, though I have some ideas. There may be a group of Interlopers trying to get my videos to people I would generally consider Unworthy. If you want my help, I suggest you Stop them. Follow my advice about Jamie, and eventually you'll know what to do. In the End, you're going to end up helping me take care of Jamie no matter what it is you truly want to do. Don't make it Difficult for yourself by trying to Misbehave.
The Interlopers may be my sisters. I would elaborate about them further, but that wasn't your question. A hint - TOPIC: THE RECURRING THEME OF DUALITY IN MYTHOLOGY.
Soon, this blog will be nothing but variants of the posts that preceded this. Good luck.
February 16, 2007 5:41 PM

GMIller said...
The answer to my question? Seven.
February 16, 2007 5:43 PM

The names in the blog, Jamie, Danny, and so on... They all match to the names of people that have been involved with this.

The author, aparently, over the course of last summer went completly insane as a result of watching the videos.
He also said there were 333 of them.

It tells us to call Donald Wilson, who has two of the videos.
Googling Donald Wilson Wyoming, the first entry is a phonebook entry.
Not sure if anyone has called yet, but I bet that's the next step to call and ask about the videos, and this "G Miller" guy on the blog. Also ask about Robert (the blog mentions him as being with Donald).
Question: The number is in Buffalo, WY (With an address!) but the obit is in Lusk, 200 miles away.

the blog mentions lampreys at the height of GMiller's insanity.
there is also an excerpt from a book that talks about lampreys.

"Read about
human Lamprey
dark muses
lamprey feeds off of
our essendcesf"

From halfway down in the blog, there is a strange quote about Vedius.
Google gives us that it is a quote from Seneca, On Anger, III, 40.
Vedius Pollus was a freed slave who rose in the ranks, and was known for feeding slaves to his man-eating pet fish (Lamprey's?)
Not sure about the human lampreys connection.

"acknowledging it is just enough
just enough for sustinence"
maybe it's like a lamprey in that it's parasitic, but i'm still not sure what he was getting at.



A very nice and patient woman answered the phone, and had no idea what I was talking about.
They don't even have a computer.
No relation to the Donald in Lusk, Wyoming.
Never been or had contact with anyone in Yellowknife NT


The Obituary

The three's
I don't know if it means anything but adding up 333-333 gives you 666.

3+3+3=9, 3+3+3=9, 3+3+3=9 then you get 9 9 9
the Special presentation message is put upside down so....
put 9 9 9 upside down and what do ya get?

Of possible interest to the mathematically inclined, "333" Harshad number. The word "Harshad" comes from the Sanskrit harṣa, meaning "great joy". If we are ill, what better to cure us than happiness?

From all the clues that have been thrown at us, he wants us to see the dual nature of everything, 9sisters/9brothers, good/evil seemingly, etc. But with the numbers, there is no breaking it down into halves. Not even halves at anyrate. WHAM, like a ton of bricks, as I was taking a drag from my cigarette about to say I don't know what to look for. 9 Sisters, 9 Brothers. There are two sets of three [2][(333)(333)], however, that still leaves out the last third of the sequence. Maybe it represents the viewer? The ones being affected by the two sets of nine?

Capitalization

Here's a breakdown of the capitalized words, based on what I have been able to gather from this thread so far:

Deleted Blog Entry: UDSDSWCWHHWTSBHB
Users, Down, Started, Dream, Sick, Worry, Crazy, Wrong, Hurt, Horror, Worry, Take, Struggled, Battle, Hurt, Bye

4th Video E-mail to Esteed: RAKUPICGIGTSDDCRSDDDW
Refused, Angry, Killed, Upset, Psychopath, Impulses, Cracked, Gone, It, Gone, Target, Strange, Destroyed, Dependent, Weeps, Crying, Repulsive, Sores, Dead, Dead, Disgust, Waste

Blog Questions --
Answer #1: CSPIG
Carvings, Strayed, Pretentious, Irate, Gone

Answer #2: SIPSGH
Serves, Inspires , Path, Serve, Game, Humanity

Answer #3: TGKODAIUSEDMI
Took, Gone, Kicking, Obituary, Dead, Aggravating, Interlopers, Unworthy, Stop, End, Difficult, Misbehave, Interlopers

Working on the assumption that all these strings are encoded using the same cipher (if not, it would be so difficult to break it would defeat the purpose), I did a frequency analysis on all of the "messages" which I have also attached.

I also made note of the phrase "TOPIC: THE RECURRING THEME OF DUALITY IN MYTHOLOGY". Note that all the strings are shorter than this string... So it's possible this is some kind of key phrase, a clue and a key phrase. There's duality for you.

i focused more on the words that were capitalized that shouldn't be
Users
Down
Started
Dream
Sick
Worry
Crazy
Wrong
Hurt
Horror
Worry
Take
Struggled
Battle
Hurt

10 of these words have negative connotations. 3 others can also have negative meanings.
strange quirk for someone who claims to be fully recovered from a mental breakdown.



The Cubing Forums
(Some posts in here have been deleted also, once again, if you have a cache of these posts before they got wiped, please to be sharing.)

I think "cubing" may mean killing by some of the comments, or possibly scaring people. Like what tools do you use? Hammer, chainsaw? Clothes to use while cubing: Leather is nice, but something about getting a hug from a guy in a Homer Simpson T-shirt.

A group of "normal" people somehow influenced by something to become serial killers.
Now it is back in the form of videos that drove one person insane (gmiller), and possibly killed 1 or more people (Our WY friends).
The video lies to people.

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 		Also, I think this gives us our next lead;

Quote:
He has not spoken to his sisters since a funeral more than ten years ago. You were there.


With a direct mention to either us as a collective; or to a specific person on the forums. I think this deserves some investigating. The only things that jump into my mind are the death of princess diana, and of Mother Theresa, both in 1997, and both had widely televised funerals. Although it seems that these are wrong, and that it is more of a metaphorical funeral he is speaking of, who knows...

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 		Other notable 1997 deaths:

Allen Ginsberg
Deng Xiaoping
William S. Burroughs
Charles Kuralt
Betty Shabazz
James Stewart
Burgess Meredith
Red Skelton
John Denver
Anton LaVey
Clyde Tombaugh (discoverer of Pluto)

For a full list, see the Wikipedia article on 1997. The ones that stick out to me are LaVey, Ginsberg, and Burroughs.

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 		Very nice summary!

Sorry I haven't been more active on this. I can't get onto the computers anywhere near as much as I would like.

The Black-Eyed Kids thing is a real phenomenon. I'm a member of a paranormal investigation group, and I've come across references to BEKs quite a bit while researching stuff. I think the whole BEK thing is fascinating. But, whether it's something that actually exists or if it's just an urban legend has yet to be determined. But the references posted about BEKs are genuine (I've had them bookmarked for a while).

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 		i just realized something though it really doesn't help us with developing a story or anything. the muse being colorblind would explain why these videos are black and white.

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