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[OutstretchedFoes]

Rumor? I guess, can you guys help me out?

[Nighthawk]

I see it's time for our monthly "creepy video" trailhead!

Yeah, I got nothin' on this one... A mostly static image, a burst of audio... I don't have tools nor time to analyze right now. Anyone else?

[Badgerconda]

Slenderman time again, is my guess. Gonna watch this, albeit hesitantly. It sounds like the voice in the video says "we're watching you" or something along those lines.

[M13A77]

Interesting. On their youtube page they have a twitter link which links to everymanHybrid.

[Leyton Stone]

The EverymanHYBRID page on Twitter doesn't show much *Unless I'm not looking right?* And that in itself links back to a youtube account.

http://www.youtube.com/everymanHYBRID

Where the recent video playing is about how to achieve a healthy lifestyle with minimum effort (my words not theirs)

Seemed at first to be some kind of 'push in the direction of advertising' but then if you get to the end of the video there is a scene of about 5 seconds that lingers there and a notice which says

[RandomGuy26]

Well, I see a image of a tree picture on a door for a single frame at about 0:55.
Don't know if I'll be following this unless it gets more interesting.

EDIT: Leyton. I guess you just posted before me. The everymanHYBRID is an already ongoing ARG, so it wouldn't be related to this... http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29554

[Leyton Stone]

[Badgerconda]

I don't think they're connected, I think that part of this guy's 'watching creepy videos' schtick is that he's a fan of the everymanHYBRID ARG. He's trying to be more meta than their meta, or maybe piggyback off their success.

[TRodS]

Subliminal at 56 seconds. It's a picture of a tree, not sure of relevance but figured I'd point it out.

[Badgerconda]

Relevance of the tree would probably be the tree-slenderman connection. Between the overall vibe and the link to EverymanHYBRID I'm sure this is another slendyseries. So far I'm not super impressed.... but I do enjoy me some slendy, so hopefully it picks up a little.

[helphim]

IT GROWS

[DarkProject]

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[Ifsogirl81]

[DarkProject]

Okay, that being said, let's see what we can make of this image...

I tried to play around with the image. There's an email address behind this mess, but as the font and the scribbles are the same color, it's hard to see.

In the lower right, there is a lower-case Theta symbol bounded by lines above and below.

The bottom left says Patrick for some reason.

EDIT: I got an email from a guy named Blake. Apparently I helped out a friend of his with a similar strange situation, and he got my email address. He wants me to take a look at his blog: http://dendrologymatters.blogspot.com/

[Leyton Stone]

Firstly can I say - HAIL VICTOR SURGE! </meta>

Some will know who he is, others not so much but hail him in either case

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Now onto the subject at hand, I'm not one for giving out my mailing address but is anyone else going to be emailing Blake for a sample of the free saplin mystery seeds?

Clearly the second flyer is a messed up version of the free seed one Blake's putting out. I can only make out that they've changed "Seed Giveaway" to merely "RUN Away".

Also the "Hey there, Amateur botanists!" has been changed to say what [APPEARS] to be "Hey there, 4eddtanists!" but that obviously makes no sense lol...

The signature looks like "Patricia" or "Patrick" or something... The sign isn't Omega is it? But it's some kind of Greek letter no? -- ETA: Probably not it looked like a messed up Theta or Phi...

There's also a word right at the bottom which seems not only upside down but back to front - Or, code...

ETA: DarkProject could you please copy us the email here and show us it's specificity?

Cheers