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zombiekubrick
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 [Trailhead?] www.aweblife.com
Travel blog with ?ghosts?

Hey unfiction forums! Long time lurker, this is my first post. I have long dreamed to create a big thread, here is my attempt!

Found a thread on /x/ about aweblife.com, guy found some blurs on a photo that look like a person. Another photo from same site (at the zoo, he said) has more blurs. Here is one:



A post on the site also said he hears breathing at night.

Maybe something, maybe nothing? I hope it is something Smile

edit: here is /x/ thread, but most recent post has dog eating his own barf, unrelated

PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 11:26 pm
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zombiekubrick
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Okay I am sure it is something now! Look, I explore the map more and I find this icon on top of the 'Manhattan Psychiatric Center' right next to the first picture:



Click on it and some very small font says: "zna cebfcref guebhtu vagryyrpg, abg vafgvapgt". This has to be a game! Going to try cracking now...

PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 1:13 pm
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zna cebfcref guebhtu vagryyrpg, abg vafgvapgt

It's not quite ROT13...
Man prospers through intellect not instinctg.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:23 pm
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melka
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Ok, there's another weird thing in this map.
Downloaded the KML file to open it in google earth, there's a placemark right in the middle of the Atlasov Island.
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/1338/aweblifeatlasov.png
[edit: changed the 950K image to a link to speed up page loading - kona]

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

Text is :
Quote:
Considerate la vostra semenza:
fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.


It's a quote from Dante's Inferno
http://www.learnitaly.com/ulisse.htm

Quote:
Consider your origin;
you were not born to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri
Divina commedia, Inferno XXVI vv. 119-120

Here Ulysses, that is in the Hell because he's a fraudolent counselor (he suggested to the Achaei to capture * by using the famous cheat of the troyan horse; event narrated in the Virgil's Aeneid), is telling to Dante his life, after the arrive to Itaca. He departed again because he wanted to learn more about the world and its virtues.
These are words that Ulysses speaked to his mates before passing trough the Ercules' columns, jurnay that will conduct them to death for the sin of pride against the divine will.

source : http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/242865.page

So, the placemark is right in the middle of a volcano, and he quotes Dante's Inferno ? It's getting weird...

PostPosted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 11:36 am
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zombiekubrick
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Hello again unFiction! Wow melka nice find how did you open in Google Earth?

Also that is a very tiny point, though i can see if zoomed out in Satellite view, white against blue ocean easy to see.

But I notice site made some changes this evening, added links at the top of page with home, contact, mission, links. Mission and links looks incomplete.

Also there is a new entry for 'Medicine Lake CA' and two new markers on the map. One in CO the other at Medicine Lake CA. Some very cool pictures, though i cant find any more ghosts

The quotes is very strange though...

PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:21 pm
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melka
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zombiekubrick
If you look at the source of the page, there's this line :
var kml = new GGeoXml("http://www.aweblife.com/aweblife.kml");

So the KML file (the file containing all the markers and placemarks on the google map) is here :
http://www.aweblife.com/aweblife.kml

Loading this in Google Earth gives you a list of all the placemarks added.

I can't see anything else strange in the KML though.

PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:14 pm
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Caseys_Mom
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While browsing around the photos on the journey... look at the top of this one, http://www.aweblife.com/img/lakepanorama.jpg
there are symbols up there. It's hard to tell where it starts and ends because the same sequence of symbols is repeated.

It's the Medicine Lake photo, enlarge it to full size, and look at the very top, up in the sky. I'll see if I can do something with it.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:10 pm
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melka
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hiero translates to
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
vq jnfz gurer rtb funyy orl jurer vq

Using this code :
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/1776/heirocipher.png

A rot-13 on the translation gives :
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id wasm there ego shall bey where id


TexRipley shouted loud in the chat we're using to talk about imbeingfollowed :
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
TexRipley: WHERE ID WAS, THERE EGO SHALL BE.
That's a quote from Sigmund Freud.


Starting to become interesting...

PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:12 pm
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anonyMOOSE
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whoa, whoa, WHOA. heiroglyphics? ROT code? definitely related to imbeingfollowed.com

PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:47 pm
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Caseys_Mom
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Great job on the translation... and the connection. Rock On
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:37 pm
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melka
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My 2 cents on the possible connection between this web site and imbeingfollowed (block of text) :
- We found a lot of images that were used for making the backgrounds on imbeingfollowed.
Example :
on aweblife :
http://www.aweblife.com/img/bama-8.jpg
on imbeingfollowed (first background, after some little photoshopping) :
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/3443/100109.jpg

And there's a whole lot like this.

- Second, the weird texts we found on aweblife all speak about instinct and such, and it's a recurring theme on imbeingfollowed too...

- Last, the hieros on panorama.gif are using the same "decoding" table as on imbeingfollowed...

What do I think of all this ?
My train of thoughts is not really clear, but to me, it seems that the guy behind aweblife is the "Him" PM (I'll call PM the guy behind imbeingfollowed) is trying to get away from.

PM talks a lot about ID. He seems to be the personalization of id (the mails we received comes from idSPLATimbeingfollowed.com, the css is called id.css, etc...).

The translation of the hieros on aweblife gives a quote from Freud, "where ID was, there ego shall be". For Freud :
Quote:
The Id is unconscious by definition. In Freud's formulation,
"It is the dark, inaccessible part of our personality, what little we know of it we have learnt from our study of the dream-work and of the construction of neurotic symptoms, and most of this is of a negative character and can be described only as a contrast to the ego. We all approach the id with analogies: we call it a chaos, a cauldron full of seething excitations... It is filled with energy reaching it from the instincts, but it has no organisation, produces no collective will, but only a striving to bring about the satisfaction of the instinctual needs subject to the observance of the pleasure principle."

[Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1933)]

source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego,_and_super-ego#Id

It's clear that Id is unconscious or instinct, and PM said that a lot :
We are driven by an instinct
the site is not a concious physical effort, it is instinct
...

Next, what caught my attention is this :
Man prospers through intellect not instinct.
This quote from aweblife rang my bell. If you add :
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge
it's pretty clear that the guy behind aweblife is not driven by instinct, but he is thinking hard.
PM said :
My follower is intelligent
and in the last puzzle we have :
! : #4 - id
* : we are driven by instinct
@ : ????
$ : every single one
# : everyone but Him
( : He has denied his instinct

edit : Last thing, in an earlier puzzle, PM told us about "his eye". Not sure if he's reffering to his follower since there's no capital H as he usually do, but here's the picture :
http://www.noelshack.com/up/aac/100709-f6779a5b75.gif
And on aweblife, we have :
http://www.aweblife.com/img/colo-1.jpg
were he talks about getting his eyes examined to get new glasses etc...

I'll let you think, but all this text + the fact that the pictures are on the 2 websites + ... is pretty clear to me : PM is followed by the guy behind aweblife.com

Now, are they 2 different human beings, or is PM schizophrene or something like that, idk...

But i'm tired so I may be overanalyzing Dunno

tl;dr : aweblife is the follower of imbeingfollowed.[/quote]

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Bartock
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Not that it is related in any way, but does anyone remember the start of that one arg (think it was for Blindness, the movie) where the pm asked people to submit a close up picture of their eye? Like this one http://www.aweblife.com/img/colo-1.jpg? That picture just reminded me of that.

Plus this quote from airplane marker near Colorado "I had a dream where I was blind. In it, I fell asleep on a couch and dreamed in color." added to the blindness vibe.

But honestly there has got to be nothing to it, just some early morning musings while looking at the markers.

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Bartock wrote:
Not that it is related in any way, but does anyone remember the start of that one arg (think it was for Blindness, the movie) where the pm asked people to submit a close up picture of their eye? Like this one http://www.aweblife.com/img/colo-1.jpg? That picture just reminded me of that.


Wink The eye picture submission was for the Smithsonian art exhibit (it started at ARGFest 2008 with the bananahammock man - henna tattoos that lead to the website).
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:14 pm
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Sylar-rock
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"Welcome! This site will document my trip around the world. Follow me west and live the dream right along with me.

You can start by clicking on the marker directly below this one. All markers on the map are clickable to reveal pictures of the area. Select an entry from the trip log to the left to view it. Newest entries will appear first.

If you have any questions or just want to get in touch with me, visit the contact page. Thank you for visiting, and enjoy exploring the world with me."






Here is what I found on the homepage "aweblife" bizarre when he speaks of "west" do not you think?
My impression is that it focuses more on "aweblife"!

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Bartock
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Thanks Kona, couldn't quite remember what that was for, but do remember it vaguely. Very Happy

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