Return to Unfiction unforum
 a.r.g.b.b 
FAQ FAQ   Search Search 
 
Welcome!
New users, PLEASE read these forum guidelines. New posters, SEARCH before posting and read these rules before posting your killer new campaign. New players may also wish to peruse the ARG Player Tutorial.

All users must abide by the Terms of Service.
Website Restoration Project
This archiving project is a collaboration between Unfiction and Sean Stacey (SpaceBass), Brian Enigma (BrianEnigma), and Laura E. Hall (lehall) with
the Center for Immersive Arts.
Announcements
This is a static snapshot of the
Unfiction forums, as of
July 23, 2017.
This site is intended as an archive to chronicle the history of Alternate Reality Games.
 
The time now is Thu Nov 21, 2024 5:15 am
All times are UTC - 4 (DST in action)
View posts in this forum since last visit
View unanswered posts in this forum
Calendar
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: General » Old News & Rumors
[Trailhead?] Mönröe Hööbler
View previous topicView next topic
Page 3 of 6 [80 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Next
Author Message
Stroma
Decorated

Joined: 05 Jul 2012
Posts: 156

He posted a new video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9dxCHGcXx8&feature=plcp

Edit 1:
Stroma wrote:
This was uploaded a day ago, I'm sure I'm slow

Who is the person at 0:00 - 0:30?
Me and my friend are fairly certain from 0:31 - 0:59 is Ronald Reagan.

Edit 1:
Person at 0:00 - 0:30 is Mikhail Gorbachev, me and my friend think.
23 February 1989: Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife Raisa talk with officials of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant during Soviet leader's first visit to the plant since the April 1986 disaster

Also, the audio in the background is "Us and Them" by Pink Floyd, reversed and slowed down. Possibly containing morse code, somebody please check because I don't know morse.

Edit 2:
Since there is nothing from a google search for Mr. Hoobler, I believe it is an alias.

Edit 3:
lovetick wrote:
Quote:
I assumed "MAČINES" meant "Machines", but upon further research it is
Slovak, and when translated to English means "MACI", MACI is Madison Correctional Institution, a prison in Ohio.
Website here: http://www.drc.ohio.gov/Public/maci.htm


I would still go with "Machines". The message makes more sense that way. It's probably also the phonetic pronunciation of MAČINES. Sounds like a computer is trying to communicate with us. So what happened to Mr Hoobler in 1982?


I wouldn't rule it out. Considering he posted a picture of a prison as his cover image (http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/473939_413116525391517_1160156688_o.jpg), I wouldn't rule out that the misspelling was intentional


In "I know your dirty little secrets", the guy from 0:00 - 0:30 is likely Gorbachev, but the guy from 0:31 - 0:59 is DEFINITELY Ronald Reagan, from somewhere in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MDFX-dNtsM&feature=related

Might be important.

EDIT 2:
His newest video has dots and dashes. It is morse code for "SOS"

Edit 3:
The title of the video is "éµ d˜åVR4²(}‚ˆ~"ù¯¶»öúðw š´±Iê+ا#ÖßÊÑÚ'5Ë¡6$v+† Õ¼°02"

The unicode for all these characters correspond to:

233 181 32 100 731 229 86 82 52 178 40 125 8218 710 126 34 249 175 182 187 246 250 240 119 32 353 180 177 73 234 43 216 167 35 214 223 202 209 218 39 53 203 161 54 36 118 43 8224 32 213 188 176 48 50

If you add all those together, you get 25019, a zip code for Bickmore, West Virginia (8°22′53″N 81°06′43″W). There are also 54 numbers, and 54 is the atomic number for Xenon, and also the INCORRECT answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", thought It's likely referring to Xenon as that was in Chernobyl

PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:51 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
pia ward
Decorated

Joined: 14 Sep 2009
Posts: 231

Stroma wrote:


Edit 3:
The title of the video is "éµ d˜åVR4²(}‚ˆ~"ù¯¶»öúðw š´±Iê+ا#ÖßÊÑÚ'5Ë¡6$v+† Õ¼°02"

The unicode for all these characters correspond to:

233 181 32 100 731 229 86 82 52 178 40 125 8218 710 126 34 249 175 182 187 246 250 240 119 32 353 180 177 73 234 43 216 167 35 214 223 202 209 218 39 53 203 161 54 36 118 43 8224 32 213 188 176 48 50

If you add all those together, you get 25019, a zip code for Bickmore, West Virginia (8°22′53″N 81°06′43″W). There are also 54 numbers, and 54 is the atomic number for Xenon, and also the INCORRECT answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", thought It's likely referring to Xenon as that was in Chernobyl


Cool, Stroma! The Melted Innernet group has been trying to decipher these symbols for a while now and not making any progress.

I don't understand how you translated it tho. Is it possible for you to translate the following too please when/if you have the time to do so?

Quote:
Säc®¢:X×G±O/| ¹Áúç,Žt®z)2µìcåôÇýÕïÐÔï÷þ'µÞ˜‰–8•®H¾¤j/©{z}þ>ýÿ W"B­FªtõUV¶ ´å<r>£ºEý?Yg×÷{øþ½ª~Êž!F=­{


It's from a post on Деад Ханд's facebook page which appears to be a comment on the SOS youtube vid you mentioned above and goes as follows:
Quote:
Деад Ханд
Saturday at 6:29pm It is blueberry season, and they are selling them by the plastic pint glass. — at Pripyat - Chernobyl, Ukraine.
Like · · Unfollow Post

Taylor Houle likes this.
Деад Ханд I visit to apologize.
Saturday at 6:29pm · Like · 1
Taylor Houle to apologize about what? please message me back.
Saturday at 6:41pm · Like
Andy Anderson ‎/?ref=tn_tnmn ???
Saturday at 9:38pm · Like · 1
Pia Ward They are laced with radioactive strontium.
Saturday at 11:44pm · Like · 2
Деад Ханд http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9dxCHGcXx8
éµ d˜åVR4²(}‚ˆ~"ù¯¶»öúðw š´±Iê+ا#ÖßÊÑÚ'5Ë¡6$v+† Õ¼°02
Yesterday at 12:18am · Like
Деад Ханд Säc®¢:X×G±O/| ¹Áúç,Žt®z)2µìcåôÇýÕïÐÔï÷þ'µÞ˜‰–8•®H¾¤j/©{z}þ>ýÿ W"B­FªtõUV¶ ´å<r>£ºEý?Yg×÷{øþ½ª~Êž!F=­{
Yesterday at 12:21am · Like


The post references this article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18721292

PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:25 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Stroma
Decorated

Joined: 05 Jul 2012
Posts: 156

How you get those numbers is quite simple, using unicode UTF8, if you hit alt + 233 you get é, so that is 233. I must go for a few hours

Edit 1:
I got your string, give me some time to add it together and count the numbers and find out the significance

Edit 2:
83 228 99 174 162 58 88 6 29 215 71 177 79 47 124 32 23 185 193 250 231 44 381 116 174 122 41 50 181 236 99 26 229 244 199 253 213 239 208 212 239 247 254 8217 181 222 732 8 8240 8211 56 8226 174 127 72 190 164 106 47 169 123 122 125 254 17 62 253 255 32 87 34 66 173 70 170 116 245 85 86 182 32 180 229 60 114 62 18 163 186 69 253 63 89 103 215 247 123 248 254 189 170 126 202 382 33 70 61 173 123

Adding them all together gets you 48497, significance unknown, According to USPS there is no zip code is US using those numbers , and there are 109 numbers, 109 being the atomic number for Meitnerium, first synthesized in 1982 (Check the riddle on page two for the significance)

Edit 3:
Making the two sums from the strings of characters into coordinates (25.019E 48.497N) gets you into Ukraine (T0915, Nyzhnii Verbizh, Ivano-Frankivs'ka oblast, Ukraine), Subtracting the other sums (109 - 54) gets you 55, the atomic number for Caesium ( As of 2005, caesium-137 is the principal source of radiation in the zone of alienation around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.)

PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:21 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
pia ward
Decorated

Joined: 14 Sep 2009
Posts: 231

Thank you very much Stroma Very Happy and for the explanation too Very Happy

PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:57 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
scaremongerR
Decorated

Joined: 15 May 2007
Posts: 170
Location: arizona

somehow, a troll was made a moderator of the group on facebook. posts are being deleted, people kicked, and all other mods were stripped of their privileges.

that being said, i've created a new facebook group, specifically for the monroe hoobler/dead hand ARG(?)

www.facebook.com/groups/101962013282687/


dead hand seems to communicate through private messages, and because i can't get a few of the receivers to post here, it'd probably be most beneficial to periodically check the information contained there.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 2:22 am
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
Stroma
Decorated

Joined: 05 Jul 2012
Posts: 156

Somebody posted about the number under his quotations page (1-800-841-2980), not sure if that on the forum or in the group, but I phoned it and it listed off a bunch of numbers (I didn't record them) and then it sounded like somebody was dialing them, and then it just beeps (not sure how to describe it, try it yourself, 1-800 is toll free)

Edit 1:
The numbers change. I called it again and recorded the numbers "1000 600 19 7 1 1 4 7 0 " before I lost track, so I hung up and called again and it started with "1000 500 68".

PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 11:32 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
surprise sex zella
Veteran


Joined: 28 Jun 2011
Posts: 140
Location: Aussie land

some kind of countdown maybe?
_________________
'Some kind of quote that makes me seem intelligent, open minded and wide beyond my years' - Said by someone mildly famous

PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 7:09 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
Stroma
Decorated

Joined: 05 Jul 2012
Posts: 156

My friend sent him a message via Youtube asking who Monroe Hoobler is and got two messages

#1: Monroe Hoobler was complicit.
#2:And pride.
And ego.
And hubris.

Edit 1: On impulse googled "pride ego and hubris" and the first result is "Pride, Ego & Arrogance - Hinduism - About.com", with hubris basically meaning arrogance...here's the article if anybody wants: http://hinduism.about.com/od/selfdevelopment/a/how_to_kill_pride_ego.htm

Pride, ego and arrogance is the "root of all evil"

PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:30 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
chasswow0413
Boot

Joined: 10 Mar 2008
Posts: 62
Location: Taiwan

Ok, sorry for not online for a lone time lately.
I just got a FB message from Monroe, giving a strange phome number:
1-800-841-2980

Haven't tried to call the number yet, but will do it later.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:27 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website AIM Address
 ICQ Number 
 Back to top 
Stroma
Decorated

Joined: 05 Jul 2012
Posts: 156

chasswow0413 wrote:
Ok, sorry for not online for a lone time lately.
I just got a FB message from Monroe, giving a strange phome number:
1-800-841-2980

Haven't tried to call the number yet, but will do it later.


I've already posted about this 3 posts up.

Edit 1:
That's probably a hint if he's messaging you it, though

PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:32 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
scaremongerR
Decorated

Joined: 15 May 2007
Posts: 170
Location: arizona

i don't even.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 2:13 am
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
chasswow0413
Boot

Joined: 10 Mar 2008
Posts: 62
Location: Taiwan

Ok, here's the number what i hear when calling the phone number, any thought?
18008412980_call.mp3
Description 
mp3

 Download 
Filename  18008412980_call.mp3 
Filesize  863.22KB 
Downloaded  160 Time(s) 

PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 3:29 am
 View user's profile Visit poster's website AIM Address
 ICQ Number 
 Back to top 
Stroma
Decorated

Joined: 05 Jul 2012
Posts: 156

chasswow0413 wrote:
Ok, here's the number what i hear when calling the phone number, any thought?


The numbers are

" 267 1 1 4 0 7 9 6 9 7"
Different from what I got when I called

Edit 1:
Somebody I know won a minor lottery with those exact numbers, $500,000 USD. Maybe it's listing off winning lotto numbers?

PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 1:58 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Trust
Boot

Joined: 14 Jul 2012
Posts: 13

I count 21 digits being pressed after the numbers, some having same tones, so probably a "text" number (or what it's called - we don't use them in Denmark) like 1-800-CALL-ME.

Stroma, did the sounds after the numbers sound the same when you called? Maybe someone else, that can record their call, can upload it so I can crosscheck them?

PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 2:46 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Stroma
Decorated

Joined: 05 Jul 2012
Posts: 156

Trust wrote:
I count 21 digits being pressed after the numbers, some having same tones, so probably a "text" number (or what it's called - we don't use them in Denmark) like 1-800-CALL-ME.

Stroma, did the sounds after the numbers sound the same when you called? Maybe someone else, that can record their call, can upload it so I can crosscheck them?


21 digits is interesting, since it only listed 12. 21 is obviously 12 backwards, and it sounded similar but I can't say exact, I didn't record my call and I'm not at home right now and I forgot my cell phone so I can't call back. Sorry.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 2:49 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Display posts from previous:   Sort by:   
Page 3 of 6 [80 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Next
View previous topicView next topic
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: General » Old News & Rumors
Jump to:  

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum
You cannot post calendar events in this forum



Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group