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[SOLVED] "ADream"-> video @ DH.com (Sept 21)
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ElGameR
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Well, heres my little 5x5 grid. It just shows the total number of dots on any of the 25 locations:

13112
11302
30031
10321
11322
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:46 pm
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Coopster
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=\ Well I transcribed the dots onto a bingo board and got:

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21,67,17,32,75,7,44,22,37,47
21,45,67,32,75,7,49,44,57,72,37
21,32,49,44,14,69
13,53,4,7,49,63,11,57,37,47,69


I'm just not sure what to do with them if they mean anything, Hope I didn't just do alot of useless work.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:54 pm
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Vid
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You beat me to it.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:00 pm
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grumpyboy
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
It's a baconian cipher with empty squares = a and filled squares = b ("a blank" get it? get it? I didn't get it until after I solved it heh!)

top left:
abaab K
abbab O
baaaa R
aabaa E
abbba P

top right:
abaaa I
aabaa E
aaaba C
aabaa E
baaab S

bottom left:
abbab O
aabab F
baaba T
aabbb H
aabaa E

bottom right:
baaba T
baaaa R
baabb U
baaba T
aabbb H

Giving "KOREPIECESOFTHETRUTH". I tripled check, that's how it's spelled. enaxor and dashcat confirmed it for me as well. No idea where it leads though. Not an html page or a website of its own... Confused


PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:23 pm
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Jhrayvin
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An apparent typo:

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Changing the first letter by one, from "abaab" to "ababb", gives us "MORE PIECES OF THE TRUTH".

http://www.dreadhouse.com/morepiecesofthetruth.html has a picture of Michael and some freaky DH footage.


PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:15 pm
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Dead-Eyes
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n/m

PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:18 pm
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grumpyboy
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Jhrayvin wrote:
An apparent typo:

Thanks for figuring that out. It was driving me nuts!!! Because it's definitely a "K" that's encoded on that page... Cursing

PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:24 pm
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Coopster
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Good job peoples! I'm still relativly new, so I dont' know what all these ciphers are... Is there a nice place with all of these sorts of things?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:31 pm
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Jaragoh
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try http://www.unfiction.com/dev/tutorial/, there are a lot of good tutorials there

PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:33 pm
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herichon
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Notes and spec on the video:

For any that can't make them out, the captions displayed periodically all say:

"DH Contestant Feed #3"
"Timestamp: " (various times from 11:32 through 11:40ish)
"#error.... no audio signal"
"video signal...........poor" (or "medium", once).

From this I guess we can assume that it's all taken from the same guy's feed, over the course of a few minutes.

OK, some tasty spec which I will hide behind spoiler tags:
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One part of the video seems to correspond pretty clearly to the William S. dream of 6/17/03, the one that ends in the "God1" door. Here we see the door actually open and a figure emerge. (See "figure" screen cap below.) Note the elongated shape in the left hand - the way it reflects the light, maybe a knife? (You can spot this on the dream video as well once you know to look for it.) Also look at the head - some distortion is probably because of the poor video quality and the backlit subject, but - hardly looks human there. On the other hand some of the misshapenness around the head might be due to a video camera (looks like a line or cable extending down from the side of the head).

Mmm, spec.
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Assuming that this footage was taken from the camera of whoever dreamed that dream - didn't we spec that William S. was William Stauffer from TT? This seemed to be confirmed by the second dream by William S., which incorporated footage of ambulances and made reference to the accident we read about elsewhere. But why would Mr. Stauffer have been wearing a contestant video feed? Both of the dreams attributed to him contain footage that we can only assume would have come from a contestant's camera, as this footage indicates. Why send the VP/CFO (or whatever he was) into the fray wearing a camera?

And some more spec:
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Also this footage shows that the camera bearer (William?) runs into no fewer than three menacing figures in the space of what's probably only 10 to 15 minutes, it seems. Are these other contestants? The one in the God1 door has what seems like a camera, but hard to tell about the others. Is William running from them? (Maybe he was also running from them in his original dream, the one with the chair being thrown through the window?) Maybe this footage represents the point at which all the (remaining) contestants go crazy and attack each other? (William's second dream mentions a hum, and not being able to think straight... maybe this is a point at which either the DH producers or some other chain of circumstance caused a 40 Hz signal to reverbrate through CMH?)

Finally, a bit of spec:
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Lastly one odd thing toward the end of the clip - it seems clear that the camera bearer is attacked from the side and the screen goes red. We can infer here that it's a non-lethal attack for two reasons - one, if it's William S., we know he goes on to have dreams and end up in a car accident later. Two, the weapon does not appear to be reflective but more like a pipe or crowbar, and when it strikes the camera bearer, we get a red flash which would be consistent with damage to the camera, ie, blunt trauma and not (for instance) stabbing or something. Interestingly though, just *before* the attack, there is one frame in which some large shape seems to cross the field of vision of the camera (see "shape" screencap below). What is this supposed to be? If the camera bearer saw it, he didn't appear to turn to follow it, or to run away. And while this shape moved across the screen from right to left, the attack came from the right a moment later, thus probably not from this shape, so - were there *two* other people in the room at this point?

OK I am all out of spec. Let the trouts fly.

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Pixiestix
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i agree that he {i assumed this was M. Cypher's footage... but i guess the only bases for that assumption is that it was on jamie's page. it could have been anyone's footage} Might have been running into other contestants. there is definatly something on the head of the "figure" It reminds me of that FEAR show on mtv some years back, of course, dread house itself reminds me slightly of it. The show involved a group of strangers teaming up and completing tasks in SCARY places {there was an episode with an abandoned mental institution}. They would have to wear camera's & headsets with mics that look awfully like the silhouette's head.
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grumpyboy
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Just an observation: At the beginning of the video, it indicates that it's from the camera of contestant #3. according to the files/pages we got from TT when the DH files were there, DH contestant #3 was Dwayne Johnson... Confused

PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 2:22 am
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GMonger
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Corcerning William S., keep in mind that way back on UM there was the story about wireless transmission into your brain. So it could still be William Stauffer who had the dreams, without him being the one running around in the videos.

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Alzheimers
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Also something of note in the video:

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There's a quick pan across some words written on a wall. It seems to read "Love the dead" with something to the left of it. I love the dead? The video's not really clear enough to say for certain.

www.deadhouse.com/truth/Ilovethedead.html doesn't work.

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konamouse
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William S's dream of the ambulance may be residual memory from the van accident that took the lives of the other TT crew (remember, he was the only survivor).

I agree with the idea that he may have gotten the "signal" from one of the remote contestant cameras (because of the 40 Hz sound eminating from the CMH tunnels) - and this may be the cause of Ann's dreams as well (the signals traveled space to William S, but also through time, to Ann).

I'm leaning towards the long object in the hand being a metal pipe.
And I'm still spec'ing that the "person" could be Old Todd.
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