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[TRAILHEAD?] A:LA:RM - THE END IS NEAR

[S.P.I.]

Wow...that seems really cool. I signed up as well. 'The clocks are ticking'

I don't personally know you but welcome back.

[Leyton Stone]

Pretty sweet. I signed up

[Soda]

Yeah, I sign up as well, Look like a neat one if it plan on..Kind creepy here the tick in the background, Thought something was going to blow up!

[highwind767]

That site looks AWESOME! definitely signed up for this

[reyasun]

looks good i signed.do arg's come in groups or what?

[petunia]

 Re: [TRAILHEAD?] A:LA:RM - THE END IS NEAR

[Bacon Army]

Okay, I just noticed something about the guy who posted the website on the Empire UK Forums - his name is ALARM. Figuring this might be a lead, here's the post first (posted 20/5/2008 at 12:27:19 PM) -

[TheGonzoGrift]

[Bacon Army]

^It's absolutely referring to the movie, but not so sure that it's actually tied in to the film. It's a reference to Shyamalan's movie, but his first post was selling it as a possible official website to 2012. I think he's just using the common knowledge such a forum would have of The Happening's basic plot and playing on that. I think it would have to be something film-related, though, for him to be going to such a forum with the trailhead.

EDIT: Ok, I PMed him. The message was as follows - "So, if it isn't the plants' fault, whose fault is it? When will we know?"

Maybe he'll give us a cookie to bite at.

EDIT: Another thing - a friend working on this got another friend working on this - after the f.o.a.f. did a Googlesearch on Jorg Tittel, they got this - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1361000/. Pretty good suggestion that this is a movie.

EDIT: Okay, techy friend-of-a-friend revealed more stuff I hadn't noticed. The clocks each have a single number on them - New York has 9, London has 11, Beijing has 4. Also, the lights on the globe seem to be pretty strong.

[Fhajad]

Alright, so after viewing the source of the page, I came across the data coming from this site: http://www.bcsarts.co.uk Which appears to be a front as a web design site. Since no respectable web design team wouldn't put a portfolio part on their site.

The data is coming from a folder titled "tein" which in acronym, that's "The End is Near" and a Google search brings up car schools and what not. So that's another lead, albeit one that I doubt will go anywhere.

There's also the fact that the filename hints at other version of the flash file that's the gloe and count down, since it's "theendisnear_final.swf". So randomally guessing other words or what not should introduce another result. Just going straight to the folder this is coming from shows an older version of the countdown, but nothing new. Just commas and better quality really.

Nothing much else changes during the count down other then the population counting down as the clocks go downwards as well, while flashing "A:LA:RM". As it has been pointed out, the lights are strangely bright. Which leads me to believe it's something to do with humanity's dependency on technology. Possible lead.

There's a lot to still figure on all this, but so far it seems pretty straight forward for a movie stunt.

EDIT: The host of the "site designer" is hosted at, or at least registered domain, at http://www.ukhost4u.com/. The bcsarts.co.uk and the dehavillandmedia.co.uk are both the same site, and both registered by different sites. And theendisnear.co.uk is registered at a different place as well. Although the first two were registered on the same date.

[Nereus_Theophilus]

I am going to say that http://bcsarts.co.uk/ is aclutally a legit company. I checked the address on Google maps and it pulls up what looks to be an office type complex. But I can not find the number in whitepages.co.uk so I could be wrong.

I guess I can try emailing the address on the web page.


Edit: Email sent out.

[Zorgano]

This site looks very interesting. I've signed on too!

[clandestino]

Signed in also. Looks like fun

[ALISDAIRPARK]

Signed up, looks interesting. Given it's a .uk addy I doubt it's any sort of film tie in, although could be for some upcoming British film? (Just basing this on the fact the leads were posted on a film site)