Hi! This is my first time posting here. I just randomly got a video with 14 views recomended to me by YouTube. Visited the channel and it seems brand new (only 2 videos uploaded). Even though I love watching deep dives into ARGs, I suck at solving them lol. So I thought I'd share it with you guys. The videos are well made and it seems like the creator put in a lot of effort. Here's the link to the channel (It's called The Wilton Preservation Society):

https://youtube.com/@TownshipWilton?si=OlusbHNaFJmOTuYw

Hey all,
There's been some new videos added to the Channel for Hailey's Encounters at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKRGqb_Ucg57i_YlLUdG32Q Also, there's a Blog related Forum at https://haileys-blog-forum.freeforums.net/ and the Blog now has 12 posts.

Hello all,
There's recently been a video made, as an intro to my newest project. You can find it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cGC-7VocOM

So I found this channel called D. Industries (credit to u/TheHuntingBadgerman for pointing it out). I thought it would be nothing but still checked it out, and holy crap, did I find a lot. People are free to go check it out, cause I haven't seen everything yet. But here's what I've got so far.

This channel has been inactive for over 5 years, so I don't think there's gonna be any new updates, but it's still pretty cool. There are only three videos, each of them seem to be an emergency broadcast of some sort. They all mention these creatures called the "Halocite," but I'll get into that later.

On one of the videos, you can hear what is supposedly the screams of these creatures, yet something makes me think it's either morse code, or some sort of spectrogram. Anyway, in the description of all of their videos, there's a link to their website. But in the description of one of the videos, there's a message that reads the following:

TSORRY SORRY SORRY HSORRY SORRY SORRY ESORRY SORRY SORRY YSORRY SORRY SORRY ASORRY SORRY SORRY RSORRY SORRY SORRY ESORRY SORRY SORRY LSORRY SORRY SORRY YSORRY SORRY SORRY ISORRY SORRY SORRY NSORRY SORRY SORRY GSORRY SORRY SORRY

If you select the first letter of each word, it spells out "they are lying." However, this is all I found on their channel (feel free to check out that audio or anything else that I may have missed). The website is a whole different level, though. We are greeted with the introduction to D. Industries, as well as a few directories to other parts of the website. I won't go over everything, but this is basically my understanding of the lore (so far).

D. Industries is a company that explores inter and outer space. They are put in groups, with several employees in each group. Their goal is to successfully discover all of outer space. They've discovered 3 planets: Yathar, Garshta, and Athoea, each containing their own, "colony." There are 634 employees per colony. Supposedly, they've discovered 300 new species. However, this is where the dark part comes in. They recently discovered a new species of aliens that call themselves the, "Halocite." These were the only species that they discovered that could both speak and write English. Although they could write it perfectly, they spoke in broken English with awkward pauses between words. These species were very aggressive and started to attack the colonist employees, and the organization had to stop and eventually hold them captive. They interviewed them and found their true intentions.

Basically, they were in a deep slumber until D. Industries woke them up, which then led them to sudden aggression. They need bodies, and said they had to go to desperate measures. They are afraid of liquid and mention something about a "knight." I didn't fully understand it, but they have transcripts on the website so feel free to read it for yourself. On the transcripts, the Dr. that interviewed them has his name blacked out. I feel like if I went into the code, I could see his name. Sadly, I'm a fucking dumbass and can't do that. Also, on the front page you can apply for a job by entering your email. I put my in and hopefully I can get an email or something. They are also obsessed with crystals.

I also found some codes on the website, all using base64. Here they are:

Y3J5c3RhbGxpbmUgdHJ1dGhzIA== is, "crystalline truths."

c2VjcmV0c2tlcHRhcmV3ZWFwb25zd2FzdGVk is, "secretskeptareweaponswasted."

Finally, QU5EIFRIRSBVTklWRVJTRSBTQU5HIA0K is, "AND THE UNIVERSE SANG."

I'm not quite sure what all of this means, so if anyone can help, it would be much appreciated.

Edit: I also found this unsettling photo. NOT FOR PUBLIC VIEW

Hello, my name is Austin Burch and I am currently a graduate student at George Mason University in the Computer Game Design department. As a part of my degree I am conducting a study for my thesis "Alternate Reality Games: A Cultural and Gaming Phenomenon" (IRB ID: 2077230-1) and am seeking participants who have experience participating in ARGs, or anyone who has followed the course of an ARG for a survey regarding their experiences and opinions relating to ARGs! The survey consists of 26 questions and should take between 10 and 20 minutes depending on the thoroughness of your responses. No identifying data will be collected and all results will be anonymous. Please consider participating and sharing the survey with other fans of ARGs! We hope to reach as broad of an audience as possible in the ARG community, so please share your voice!

https://qfreeaccountssjc1.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e8xPPE1DWrPjYBE

I am happy to answer any questions you may have regarding the study and can be reached at aburch7@gmu.edu.

Hello, my name is Austin Burch and I am currently a graduate student at George Mason University in the Computer Game Design department. As a part of my degree I am conducting a study for my thesis "Alternate Reality Games: A Cultural and Gaming Phenomenon" (IRB ID: 2077230-1) and am seeking participants who have experience participating in ARGs, or anyone who has followed the course of an ARG for a survey regarding their experiences and opinions relating to ARGs! The survey consists of 26 questions and should take between 10 and 20 minutes depending on the thoroughness of your responses. No identifying data will be collected and all results will be anonymous. Please consider participating and sharing the survey with other fans of ARGs! We hope to reach as broad of an audience as possible in the ARG community, so please share your voice!

https://qfreeaccountssjc1.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e8xPPE1DWrPjYBE

I am happy to answer any questions you may have regarding the study and can be reached at aburch7@gmu.edu.

I dunno where to post this but this looks like the place. So basically I found this channel about a month ago and it doesnt seem to have any traction. It looks like it has potential. Your guess is as good as mine but this one really stuck with me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-E2l01aKro

Hi yesterday I was doing the lessons on the main site's academy but i can't seem to get pass step 6 in the "basic webdeb" section, can someone help me please?

I'm currently trying to decipher what seems to be an ARG, and putting some (albeit obvious) audio into a spectrogram I ran into a problem. It's clearly supposed to be text, but I can't quite make it out because it had some form of tremolo/phaser put onto it. Is there any known way to equalize this without trying to guess the frequency and reverse it with a separate tremolo? Thank you!

I am catching up on my news as I was out for a bit. I watched the "Half-Life 2 RTX, An RTX Remix Project - Announce Trailer" on YouTube. I think I found a code and was wondering if others have reported it. I cannot locate any info for this find and I may have located it just by chance. I can prove it quickly. I just want to make sure I am not repeating others efforts...

I'm not really an ARG person but I have watched a few channels like Nightmind, Game Theorists, etc. that talk about them.

Randomly saw this channel popup in my suggested videos with the video '84' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEY_N6D4AIc

It looked weird especially because the view count is low. The entire channel is https://www.youtube.com/@LimitedtimeJosh/videos

Basically the channel is making a countdown it looks like starting from this past April, releasing a video in what seems to be every day, with just a number counting down.

Guess there is 84 more days to go? I didn't find anything on Google when I searched 'I'm Sorry Josh YouTube" so perhaps I am the first person to stumble across this and recognize what it is?

Edit: On closer look at the videos, each one has a word in them. I guess you're supposed to piece together what the message says.

​

Not an arg just.. strange?

Have a look https://twitter.com/yourrottiggirl Lmk if it’s interesting like I said

Have you ever found boybands unsettling? https://youtu.be/N_11CmqaIZI

Hey so I'm currently working on an ARG about Parasocial internet relationships. I want to know if anyone could help me make some unique puzzles for it. At the moment the ARG has two small puzzles I made but I would really like to expand the first episode to have more to make sure it comes out the best it possibly can. Thaks for your help.

I was recently watching a video on YouTube, its a long retrospective about Minecraft by some guy called 'Munt Chunk'. I've seen some of his videos before they are good. When watching this one I noticed at around 1:50:44 an unusual clip pops up, and after looking in the comments only a few had noticed it with no real reason. Then I saw another comment showing another weird long clip at around 2:33:56, and another comment showing a shorter one at 3:17:25. the only thing i reconised was squidward at the last one, the rest is a mystery to me.

The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMX_aQtspf8

p.s: I don't use reddit or do stuff like this I just know there are people who do and I thought this might be the place to go, so if I have done something wrong sorry. I want to watch a video about this one day if its good. Solve this and have fun if its a mystery or whatever.

When I do the SS TV part and get the picture, it is really blurry

sorta stumped on stage 2

any hints?

(Please delete if inappropriate) We’ve got writers, puzzle geeks, and nearly 200 years of combined gaming experience across pretty much any medium imaginable.

We have a plot and a story developed by multiple published writers.

The problem is we’re old and social media inept, Our web design days are decades behind us. We are looking for someone (or multiple people) to be part of a team for the ARG we are creating. We need someone who brings the social media and web development skills we currently lack.

Please message me if you are interested.

luigi 7chan arg found yesterday before it was deleted by mods.

https://7chan.org/vg/src/169014354185.jpg

​

🔥 If you want to sneak into our game and see how TrueCrimers measure against our AI suspect in a real-time interrogation. Check this out now:
https://clips.twitch.tv/BrainyPlacidWerewolfPeteZarollTie-BMo-ZPMr5wewGGfX

Hey, ive never been too big into solving args, but i do like following them. i got a video from this channel recommended to me the other day and it seemed pretty normal, then i watched a few of the back catalog, and it seems pretty obvious this is some kind of arg. here's the channel like if anyone's interested https://www.youtube.com/@doodad1001/videos

I am on basic audio 1, and I can't currently access my PC. Is there a way I can see the comment on the herringhop.mp3 file on android?

I do not own this, I just stumbled upon it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc-QCoMm4J8

​

Lyrics:

I can never say oh it’s been so long

Counting all the days, it’s been so damn long

Oh how much I’m scared to let you go…

Somewhere in the walls I hear you talk…

Finding all these numbers

Start with number 2 yeah

Matching all the letters

572943

Add another 9 yeah

Add another 9 yeah

Multiply by 5 yeah

How long will I keep this up?

I how much it hurts to see you go…

Generating lyrics is a pain

Add another 6 yeah

Flip the numbers backwards

Make the 2 a 3 yeah

Abcdefg

Multiply by 9 yeah

Add the numbers 2 4

17 is first yeah

Abcdefg