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Knife7
Boot

Joined: 22 Jun 2016
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NationSquid[Trailhead]
List channel may be converting into an ARG.

Hey what's up guys, been lurking for a long time but this is the first time I have ever had the chance to post something. There's a creepy little channel I am subscribed to called: NationSquid. It's one of those list channels. It has stuff like "Freaky 5: creepiest phone calls" and other things of that nature. Just a little over an hour ago they posted a video of a body being dragged while some creepy song plays in the background
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGJGbBJgPnc
This arg was also subtly hinted in other videos. In their creepiest 911 calls video numbers are recited near the end of the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnVZ6dPIOcc
in their "A message to you video" it's a coded message. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll78KkCgTyg
but the smoking gun comes from their website. if you go to the site and click the about page it will take you to a section that talks about how nationsquid will change your life and how the feeling of nausea, paranoia, etc are normal and a sign that the change is happening. While reading this a repeated recording of "you have won" will start playing before a row window XP icons pop up under the about portion. There is a button above the about with weird writing on it (possibly Sanskrit or Hindi) that takes you to a repeating video of old Nickelodeon shows that are inter-cut with disturbing videos. if you scroll down, you'll notice some binary code, if you click it, you will be taken to a ad for pudding. Above the ad is some more binary code but it's not clickable. Below is a strange icon of a man and (wait for it) more binary code (you can click it though). If you click the binary code you'll be taken to a page that shows a man with a mask on spinning around while Pink Floyd's "we don't need no education" plays. You scroll all the way down and a strange black and white picture appears but you can't click it. If you scroll to the middle there's a pink flower you can click. Clicking it takes you to a strange recipe video for making "strawberry fizz". There is a large set of numbers you can click at the bottom of the video. you click that and it takes you to a page that plays a coke cola ad on a little TV set. at the end of the ad a picture is barely visible on the TV set and a strange tone is repeated for the res of the time you're on that page. if you scroll down a bit more there are some disturbing coke cola pictures. Finally, going all the way back to the pudding ad, if you click the icon of the guy, it takes you to a riddle prompt and you gotta solve the riddles for a "grand prize" that's as far as I've gotten. Hopefully we can work some magic and figure out whats going on. Also, last note, at the very bottom of the page you can see NationSquid's copy right. NationSquid's copyright year is shown as 1998. NationSquid is not hardly that old.

here's the site: http://www.nationsquid.com

PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 5:57 am
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mathissatan
Boot

Joined: 21 May 2016
Posts: 14

Code list
The link with the hindu (Thai) text
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sticky

First binary code (the link)
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everything I tell you will be encrypted. Also, i got เหนียว
HOME
ABOUT
SUBMIT
CHAT

Second binary code
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you want to know who I am

3rd binary code (aka second binary link)
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I will use an encryption system of my own, however. You'll have to figure it out yourself.

I think the first tv has a clue

PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 8:11 am
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LatentMoths
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Joined: 01 May 2005
Posts: 523
Location: Texas

Re: NationSquid[Trailhead]
List channel may be converting into an ARG.

Knife7 wrote:
Clicking it takes you to a strange recipe video for making "strawberry fizz". There is a large set of numbers you can click at the bottom of the video.


Numbers decoded:
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Translate as octal to get "59 6f 75 20 61 72 65 20 67 6f 69 6e 67 20 69 6e 74 6f 20 74 68 65 20 77 72 6f 6e 67 20 64 69 72 65 63 74 69 6f 6e 2e 20 49 20 77 6f 75 6c 64 20 67 6f 20 62 61 63 6b 20 61 20 70 61 67 65 20 69 66 20 49 20 77 65 72 65 20 79 6f 75 2e"

Then translate this as hex to get "You are going into the wrong direction. I would go back a page if I were you."


Knife7 wrote:
Finally, going all the way back to the pudding ad, if you click the icon of the guy, it takes you to a riddle prompt and you gotta solve the riddles for a "grand prize" that's as far as I've gotten.


Answer to riddle:

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Click the word "What" in the riddle. I mean it tells us that "What" is the answer.


Leads to another set of numbers:

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Translate as octal to get "lmth tod 2693441 hsals moc tod duiqsnoitan ot og" which is backwards text for "go to nationsquid dot com slash 1443962 dot html". Seems to be a webcam feed.


That's as far as I've gone at this point.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 3:36 pm
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mathissatan
Boot

Joined: 21 May 2016
Posts: 14

What do the number in the corner mean?
That might be a clue

PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 4:19 pm
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Knife7
Boot

Joined: 22 Jun 2016
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I went to the homepage for the webcam feed and it led to http://www.myspellbound.com/ apparently its for looking at anonymous webcam feeds. It has hidden links all over the site that lead to seemingly random URLs. one is a actually spyware called "iminent", another is corpse party. At the bottom of the "get rich quick" is a link to a amazon forum post.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 12:09 am
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Knife7
Boot

Joined: 22 Jun 2016
Posts: 12

I figured out what was up with the webcam site. If you click the link to watch the anonymous cam, you're taken to a portion of the site that shows a bunch of seemingly random cams. The cams are in a loop. if you scroll down the to the bottom right corner and click the ad that says "This man is a killer, click here to find out who it is." If you click the link it takes you back to NationSquid and congratulates you and gives you a button to claim a prize.

I haven't figured out what kind of file it is yet but i'm sure the filename is encoded.

link: http://www.nationsquid.com/347652.html

PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 3:59 pm
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mathissatan
Boot

Joined: 21 May 2016
Posts: 14

It have a
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Video and a text file the video have coords and numbers at the end


PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 4:40 pm
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GuestUser17
Entrenched


Joined: 22 Feb 2011
Posts: 812

The coordinates lead to:
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https://www.google.com/maps/place/45°04'01.8%22N+122°29'47.5%22W/@45.06717,-123.0568381,9z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d45.06717!4d-122.49653

The numbers in the video decode to:
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I HAVE A CONFESSION

Do we have anyone near Portland, OR?

PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2016 7:22 pm
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Knife7
Boot

Joined: 22 Jun 2016
Posts: 12

I live near Los Angeles so....

However, I found the lyrics in the were from a song called "Feel the Darkness" by Poison Idea. Whatever's going on seems to be centered around Portland. I also examined the coke cola ad in more depth and inverted the color of the image shown at the end. [/img][/sub]
theFuck.jpg
 Description   
 Filesize   89.71KB
    98 Time(s)

Unfortunately, this file is no longer in our archives.


PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2016 5:48 am
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MalcolmInTheRight
Greenhorn

Joined: 25 Jun 2016
Posts: 5

Looks like a guy with an abnormally long nose, but maybe that's just me.

PostPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 5:59 am
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reesylou
Decorated

Joined: 07 May 2003
Posts: 260

MalcolmInTheRight wrote:
Looks like a guy with an abnormally long nose, but maybe that's just me.


Or a dog

PostPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 7:44 pm
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MalcolmInTheRight
Greenhorn

Joined: 25 Jun 2016
Posts: 5

Guys, I just found out there is more to the riddles. If you look in the corner of the claim your prize page, There's a black and white image. If you click on that, it takes you to the next page.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 9:09 pm
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mathissatan
Boot

Joined: 21 May 2016
Posts: 14

On the next page there is a
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newspaper with talk of a unknown killer on it and a photo of said killer


PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:21 am
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the_comestible
Boot

Joined: 26 Jun 2016
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And on that page:

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The newspaper is dated 1998 which matches the fake copyright year of the website. I think the newspaper clipping might be real. The town of Silverton, Oregon is real, the newspaper name is real, and the chief of police at the time was indeed Rick Lewis. I believe he is the mayor now.That is all I could figure out from googling, as the town is too small to have online access to its newspaper archives.


I find it slightly unnerving that this might point to a real unsolved crime or series of crimes from the year in question.

PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 7:25 pm
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mathissatan
Boot

Joined: 21 May 2016
Posts: 14

Notes:
(1)According to google Earth the Coords are in a forest.
(2)Also the txt file from the "Special Delivery" is close to lyrics from a song called "Feed The Darkness" and the band name is "Posion Idea".
(3) I think the coords from the video is where the video was filmed but I am not 100% sure.

PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 7:52 pm
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