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Axys Denyed
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Uberg33k wrote:
Axys Denyed wrote:
So I got a reply back from the franzmertensSPLATgmail.com with the following image attached. I've checked it with stegdetect and came up with nothing but haven't had a chance to look any further at it.
I agree that it looks like a steg, but I've tried a bunch of things and came up empty. I can tell you that it was recently edited in Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Mac edition), so that may help. I can't imagine there are many steg programs for CS3 on OSX since its so new.

Did the email say anything at all or was it just the picture?

Perhaps he's just trying to tell you that his hands are tied and he can't say anything Wink


There was nothing in the email besides the image. Here's what I said:

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I stumbled across this site of yours and managed to find your name when looking at the whois info. I'm just curious as to who you are and what your connection to the strange video on the site is (and the strange sites it leads to).

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Uberg33k
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Lola_66 wrote:
Just a quick Houdini tidbit - He died in a hotel -- room number 401
Wikipedia says he died in Grace Hospital in Detroit, but it was room 401.

Edit : seems the same person uploading to blip has a youtube account http://www.youtube.com/j7g5f4

PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:07 pm
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xo.
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 		Godd, you guys are really good. I'm completely lost here. I've never understood morse code, and don't particularly know what a steg is.

aha. xD

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Uberg33k
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xo. wrote:
Godd, you guys are really good. I'm completely lost here. I've never understood morse code, and don't particularly know what a steg is.

aha. xD
Well, its easy when you cheat Wink If you google morse code, you'll find plenty of Java apps that convert for you. In the case of the audio samples, you open up the file in a sound editor and you can literally see dots and dashes. Then its simply a matter of transcribing them and converting them using the method above.

A steg is steganography. Wikipedia can fill you in there http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography#Usage_in_modern_printers

PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:28 am
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dunno
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 		I know what it is
Who watched room 401 on MTV its a show where illusionists do really creepy stuff....

I guessing that this is a viral for that show

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Uberg33k
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 		1911 - Houdini fails to escape from a large vat of Tetley's beer and almost dies. It seems the CO2 in the beer overcame him and that caused the problem.

1916 - Houdini fails to escape from a Buried Alive stunt in California.

Two things other than death he didn't escape from. The 1911 incident is well documented. The 1916 one only seems to appear on wikipedia.

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Aiobhan
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 		This sounds fascinating. I'm going to lurk for a little while, just to watch and see what happens.

Also: Bonjour, Laurent! Je parle francais aussi, mais assez mal. Je pense que c'est tres cool que vous etes francais, et habitez en Paris~

Sorry in advance if my French is broken - it's been a while.

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KChasm
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 		Even though I know it's just for the show, it's still really interesting. I'm following along.

Someone already saw this, probably, but--during the title sequence of the show, messages flash. I'd use TiVo or something to see what they are, but...I don't have TiVo. Sad face sad face sad face

(someone's probably going to be tivoing it tuesday, anyway, so meh...)

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muffenman14
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 		Hey you guys this seems like its going to be interesting so i thought id join after reading the forum Very Happy . havent seen the show yet but i plan to.

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muffenman14
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 		about that image... well i looked up images of houdini online and it seems that the image was photoshoped,the hat wasn't originally there...
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YOU MUST WEAR A HAT IN ORDER TO TRANSCEND SPACE AND TIME.
maybe the people are trying to tell us that houdini trancended time and space with the hat???? yay!!!! okay i post my first speculations!!! Very Happy

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Uberg33k
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muffenman14 wrote:
about that image... well i looked up images of houdini online and it seems that the image was photoshoped,the hat wasn't originally there...
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YOU MUST WEAR A HAT IN ORDER TO TRANSCEND SPACE AND TIME.
maybe the people are trying to tell us that houdini trancended time and space with the hat???? yay!!!! okay i post my first speculations!!! Very Happy
Which image of Houdini are you talking about?


Timer has run out here ... and ... nothing. Anyone else notice anything new yet?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:19 am
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Aiobhan
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 		Just a picture of Houdini peering at me from the bottom of my screen thus far.

Something tells me I shouldn't be playing this particular ARG without having slept...

edit: has anyone seen http://magicstomach.com/Transcend.mp3 that page yet? it's in morse code.

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Uberg33k
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Aiobhan wrote:
Just a picture of Houdini peering at me from the bottom of my screen thus far.

Something tells me I shouldn't be playing this particular ARG without having slept...

edit: has anyone seen http://magicstomach.com/Transcend.mp3 that page yet? it's in morse code.
Yes, it says YOU MUST WEAR A HAT IN ORDER TO TRANSCEND SPACE AND TIME.

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Uberg33k
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Aiobhan wrote:
Thanks much, Uberg33k.

Then I assume you all have also found the "better to be killed by bullets than at home by a bomb" picture and the picture of houdini with a rather hitler-esque moustache and a hat? because I went looking through the 4 pages and saw the hat picture mentioned, but not the first one.
That's not Houdini with the "hilter-esque" moustache. That's Roland Garros and the date indicated by the file name is the date he first used a sync'ed machine gun to shoot through his propeller. He went on to become a French national hero and one of the first real fighter pilots.

The name of the other picture indicates the official years of WWI. Its a WWI propaganda poster.

What either of these pics has to do with anything is something we haven't been able to figure out for a week. We were hoping for some answers after the timer ran out, but it looks like we'll be waiting till at least the airing of Room 401 EST.

Edit : I see your trick Aiobhan. You're trying to get me to think I'm insane by quoting imaginary posts.

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muffenman14
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Quote:
Which image of Houdini are you talking about?
i was talking about the image that Axys Denyed got in his response email. idk if it is anything important but it just stood out.

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