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@riori41

7 ай бұрын

😅9 ol

It feels like an art project to remind people of forgotten history, get people outside and challenge them on many levels.

@abandonedmuse

7 ай бұрын

The same vibe I’m getting. It looks to me like a group of kids from the local college got together and decided to make an ARG. it’s really well done though very intricate so it’s beautiful …it’s definitely art. I also have a sneaky suspicion they are all females….i dont know why….could be the witch in me lol

@NellieNutkins

7 ай бұрын

@@abandonedmuse deffo. I feel that using an online platform because people are chronically online, mixed with analog pen & paper / quests / brain teasers & combining it with various points of interest you can visit or may not be aware of. Along with the lord/history accompanying that you’re incentivised to learn is really smart.

@mmmossyfrog

7 ай бұрын

Hmmm... the art professor and his students

@anorakseal8119

7 ай бұрын

@@abandonedmuse A lot of people assume "Ricky" is male, but it isn't exclusively a male name, is it

@tillitsdone

7 ай бұрын

It worked on me, at least

I am so very baffled and impressed by internets ability to solve cyphers and equally unimpressed by it's inability to recognise such fundamental things as being suspicious of the OP's

@Justincoe

4 ай бұрын

Op always lying

@billblaski9523

4 ай бұрын

Lol most relatable statement I've seen ever. Sometimes people on the internet will frustrate you to no end

@FamSisher

4 ай бұрын

The suspension of disbelief is fun, but people do seem to get lost in it.

@christopherrapczynski204

4 ай бұрын

literally every youtube video is on the premise that whoever first told the story cant just be lying or hoaxing. if youre lucky the video will acknowledge that it COULD be fake at the very end. objects start flying around house? I wonder if its wind, or a ghost... or, MAYBE, the video was faked for attention from mouth breathers. it pisses me off so bad.

@qpouvtmvoelxjtu458

4 ай бұрын

@@christopherrapczynski204 this is the sad truth

That professor and students who made that boat-like structure probably made this ARG collectively.

@opax

5 ай бұрын

true probably an art project but if all these clues are as purposeful as they seem and have genuine meaning and are not just threads that lead from one to another than I'm not sure. I think time will tell and when more gets solved we will see if there is genuine meaning behind all the imagery and symbolism or if their just tools for allure and esoteric mystery.

@mohhie

2 ай бұрын

@@opaxi mean, its designed as a sudoku, to be solved. If it was a real mystery it would not have 'clues'. Also the setting is so 'contemporary north american'

@AubzCelli

2 ай бұрын

Right because that's extremely logical, that's exactly what university professors do and no one cares and no word gets out and the school is totally cool with the teacher doing all that

@a7G-82r

Ай бұрын

Professor from relevant university honoring history with art. Ticks all the boxes

That shop owner absolutely is the key. No way you keep a random “letter” like that for years

@SuiIuris_07

7 ай бұрын

I'm not so sure of that. If I received a letter as strange as that, I'd keep it around.

@tikimillie

7 ай бұрын

*looks at my pile of random letters that i can’t be fucked to sort through nervously.* Y-yeah- noone would do that haha-

@thequeenofdemons666

7 ай бұрын

Have you ever heard of hoarders? Collectors? Or holding onto something just in case it becomes worth something until it is not?

@GeneralBenj

7 ай бұрын

@@thequeenofdemons666that’s why I collect rare coins incasethey have more value in the future

@k2a2l2

7 ай бұрын

nah that letter would be extremely strange to receive, i personally would not throw that out

What I find truly amazing is how the Internet can discover almost anything when everyone works together.

@emileclarence4821

7 ай бұрын

It’s like a metaphor for something

@HauntakuTV

7 ай бұрын

@@emileclarence4821 Community is the meaning of life

@starcrossedother

6 ай бұрын

@@HauntakuTVTRUTH

@shredvansshredquarters

5 ай бұрын

a mere 10 days into quarantine aka the populace acting in a single unified manor, and was met the response of govt. and private sector reps decrying "your grandparents would rather die instead of collapsing the economy". For lack of better word "the system" cannot work without us. IT is nothing but an emergent property of money taken from your income. That is why you may be hearing the term "Mutual Aid" for the first time right now. A Community with the means to feed, and house itself though mutual aid or individual skills is not beholden to anything and could do whatever it wanted.

@corycoral7072

3 ай бұрын

It reminds me of the time when scientists couldn’t figure out how to fold a genome, a problem they’ve been working on for years… at the end of their rope, one of them decided to code it into a game to see if someone could solve it that way. Two weeks later and they had beat the game and folded the genome properly.

At 26:01 the characters shown aren't "W M W", they're Cherokee Syllabary characters, which read " Ta Lu La". It should also be noted that Tallulah Road is a road in Robbinsville, NC, which is home to the Snowbird section of the Cherokee Reservation. It connects Robbinsville to Topton, which is rather small, but is also a stop along the way to Murphy. Also, around the 20:00, the word listed as either "Liar" or "Star" is very likely "Star", which probably goes together with the previous word "Seven" as a reference to the Seven Pointed Star, which is the symbol for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and is featured on their seal. At 28:58, when the quilt trail is mentioned, it should be noted that there is at least one such marker in Robbinsville, NC, not too far from Tallulah Rd. At 31:23, "Spearfinger" is the name of a mythical Cherokee monster. It was basically a hag, with very tough skin that resembled tree bark that used its finger as a spear (hence the name) to pierce the sides of victims and carve out (and subsequently eat) their livers. At 33:18, Toccoa is also a town in Georgia from which the Cherokee were removed. At 39:00, "Tsalagi" is the Cherokee transliteration of the word "Cherokee" and is often used as their endonym (though, it isn't actually a Cherokee word, and historically they actually called themselves "A-ni-yv-wi-ya" or "The Principal People"). At 41:46, it occurs to me that Dalonega may have more significance as a word than simply the name of the mint, as "Da-lo-ne-ga" is the Cherokee word for gold. There are also t thhreeings of note to me. First is that "Cherokee Princess" isn't an actual thing, as the Cherokee never had anything similar to one. However, it is a relatively modern term that nowadays is often used to refer to people with spurious claims of Cherokee ancestry (or as a reference to things that are posed as Cherokee but are not). The second thing is that there were Cherokee Code Talkers much like the much more famous Navajo Code Talkers, so the idea that someone would have this type of knowledge on hand isn't that odd. Lastly, Cherokee, and especially its syllabary, is not widely known. It is, in fact, and endangered language. This, along with an apparent decent/functional command of both the language and its syllabary, as well as the real-world leads would lead me to believe the whoever the source of the mystery is very likely either is Cherokee or works with the tribe and probably lives somewhere between Maggie Valley and Robbinsville. They could also possibly live in Augusta, but with everything else, I would think they more likely commute there or know someone who does. If memory serves, Augusta has done some work either with or for EBCI. All in all, it feels very reminiscent of "The Secret", which is a book of codes and pictures which lead to historical places where boxes containing treasure are hidden.

@superhetoric

7 ай бұрын

Murphy is in Cherokee county; Tallulah Falls and Tallulah Gorge are places in former Cherokee land in NE GA

@barfrost007

7 ай бұрын

@@superhetoric Yeah, I just figured that the link to the reservation in Robbinsville was notable.

@billbombshiggy9254

6 ай бұрын

I was actually about to comment that Cherokee princess isn't and was never a thing. I don't think anyone really knows where that comes from but I did have a neighbor who was younger (and dumber) than me once, who claimed her great grandma was a Cherokee princess. I wanted to argue but there was no point in it.

@Coast2CoastFlyin

5 ай бұрын

Did anybody else happen to pause the video to read the bits of text from the book itself? There's something....off about the entire thing. Like, if you were to get your hands on a physical copy of this book that wasn't used as an elaborate reminder of the deep connections between ancient esoteric/arcane knowledge and certain groups of wealthy/influential Americans, it would not be the book we get glimpses of here. Between the oddly haunting/creepy photos chosen for a travel book, the weirdly specific and detailed sections on regions like the Appalacians and Georgia (conveniently the same region at the center of this mystery) it feels like a gentle but persistent attempt to draw attention to itself. And then there's the distinct way certain image captions are written. For whatever reason, in a few places, they're written with all articles absent. So no "the," "a," or "an," which gives these captions the distinct vibe of being somebody's lecture or research notes. If they were all written this way, I'd have just assumed it was an odd editing/format choice, but from caption to caption it varies whether they're written in this note-taking format or like typical textbook captions, often on the same page. This makes me think that it is an intentional decision, and that it's very possible the entire book was created for the purpose of this puzzle. Which means that the contents of the book itself are more than a canvas, but are in fact a part of the mystery too. It is, after all, very convenient that the contents of this book align with obscure references to important masonic locations and obscure oddities and locations. All of which brings me to why I'm doing this huge reply in the first place: the repeated Cherokee princess references caught my attention for the same reasons you gave, namely that there's no such thing. Which makes the passage accompanying the picture of "Noamie" the "Cherokee Princess" even more bizarre than it already was. The passage describes the photo as being of the aforementioned Noamie, emerging from a cave somewhere in the vicinity of Manhattan. It describes this cave as having been the oldest pre-European occupied location in the area, and had been home to Cherokee for centuries before coming to an abrupt end in the 19th century. Yes, this book about traveling the WORLD has a whole ass writeup about an obscure bit of Cherokee history. A rather questionable history at that. Maybe I'm wrong, but for some reason, I find it really hard to believe that the Cherokee were living out of fucking caves. Given that the time this book was allegedly originally written was around the time when the idea of primitive "cave men" gained popularity after the relatively recent discovery of Neanderthals, it actually seems pretty dogwhistle-y. I'm hoping more comes from this though, i learned a lot about history just from this video overview, and I'm hoping there's a proper ending planned with a satisfying payoff

@barfrost007

5 ай бұрын

@@Coast2CoastFlyin As a person who has some knowledge of Cherokee history, I can say that Cherokee did indeed use caves for shelter. In fact, if you go way back, before they ultimately settled around the Smokies and surrounding foothills, they were known as "the cave people" in the native tongue of various other tribes they met on their way southward, through the centuries/millennia, from their original home around the Ohio/Great lakes region. There's a number of caves that I've been to (Bristol Caves in VA and Craighead Caverns/"The Lost Sea" in TN come to mind) that have archeological evidence to this end. The Cherokee themselves are fairly open about it. If anything, I think that this book is probably a PR thing a la "The DaVinci Code" or somesuch to promote Cherokee tourism and language, as the EBCI has been trying to push that for a number of years now.

It does tick every box for an ARG, but the amount of information around it is insane. The work put in would be unlike any other ARG.

@JK-gm6kk

7 ай бұрын

Idk, was the liber primus ever solved? Alot of smart people out there, and more people get into making them all the time. Wilbur soot and unfavorable semicircle. There's so many

@strayfromlight

7 ай бұрын

The Wyoming Incident still puts this to shame.imo

@thomaslodger7675

7 ай бұрын

@@strayfromlight I love that arg. I've seen the video of nightmind covering it 3 times.

@nexaentertainment2764

7 ай бұрын

Nah, there are so many others that went even deeper than this. This is just Cicada 3301 for history nerds instead of comp sci nerds.

@therealmr.incredible3179

6 ай бұрын

Are you stupid? The Notebook dates back to the 1800s.

The fact it obsesses over cherokee and native stuff tells me its absolutely one of the professors in that college.

@MrsSurrealista

2 ай бұрын

Lmao real

Sounds like a great way to encourage people to take a hike through a part of the US that is often looked down upon as simple, backwards, and primitive and get a chance to see personally the rich history and beautiful sights it has to offer. And also probably something more.

@PhoebeTheFairy56

7 ай бұрын

Tbh i wouldn't be that surprised if it was just to get people to go to the places, especially considering the original book is literally about traveling the world

@Cereal_Killer007

7 ай бұрын

Who looks down on those states? The people in those states are anything but stupid. They have their own way of doing things for sure but its always for good reasons. They deal with alot of things the rest of us dont have to so it only seems odd from the outside looking in

@youtubeletmeintoyoutube4580

7 ай бұрын

Nah probably nothing more, imo. You got it exactly right. It’s an ARG to make people care about rural US destinations

@Cereal_Killer007

7 ай бұрын

@@youtubeletmeintoyoutube4580 You gotta admit it was pretty clever though...How did they know that this would go viral? I wouldnt have thought people would piece together half this shit if I made it

@ShyDigi

6 ай бұрын

Wtf how did this get posted here-

this is unironically gonna be a "the real answer is the journey we made along the way" ass ending. forrest fenn ass puzzle

The fact that crossfire gambit led to a keyword website means it’s an ARG, whether in part or entirely, imho

@zeyface6366

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, kind of made me instantly loose most of the interest

@michaelbrown8195

3 ай бұрын

Well yeah that and the KZread videos make it very obviously an ARG. I get the vibe that the person who posted the KZread videos was a little ticked off people are taking so long to solve the puzzle.

That moment when I actually have a totally mundane copy of this exact book lying around my house somewhere. Totally unexpected.

@luisrocha26

4 ай бұрын

Please check whether pages and texts match! Someone here in the comments mentioned that soke captions are a weirdly written or simply too specific on Cherokee history

@TheBlueKamel

Ай бұрын

any update?

I’m from Augusta and this is just fascinating. I’ve worked downtown for nearly two decades and know a good bit about the weird shit around town, like esoteric symbols and references on old buildings, monuments, and various other infrastructure. There’s even some symbols on a door in the basement of a local bar that leads to these tunnels spread out under the city. I only know about this because I worked the door at that bar for years and even stepped into the tunnels briefly (if only I weren’t terrified of spiders). Many other buildings have these doors, I’ve heard. As for the art project by Eve Street, I’ve seen it several times but I never heard of this “So Joana” book. I just so happen to know the head of the Art Department at AU, so I’m gonna have to ask if he knows anything about all this next time I see him. Wild stuff, man.

@Bluezbreakr2

7 ай бұрын

Lmao I heard Fort Gordon and kind of snapped back to reality. Weird to hear of this kind of ARG in this region

@braydonchapman3808

7 ай бұрын

dude please update me! i’m heavily invested in this mystery and would be so pleased to have it solved.

@emmareilly5141

7 ай бұрын

Pls update us when u find out more 😊

@allietheunicat8192

7 ай бұрын

I’m also in GA and it was kinda cool learning about all these places and things around my state that I’ve never heard of :)

@ninamason9001

7 ай бұрын

Is there a map of these tunnels?

I haven’t looked into this deeply aside from just watching this video but I’m originally from the area of Appalachia that’s so heavily referenced and i think it’s definitely worth looking into the Cherokee legend of spear finger who lured children away where her favorite home was said to be whiteside mt. located between highlands, NC, cashiers, NC, and the GA border. Additionally Tallulah Gorge state park/Tallulah falls in GA is fairly near to whiteside so it might also be worth investigating bc it’s also referenced :) lol also Dahlonega is pronounced (dah-lawn-eh-gah) btw!

@WhitneyDahlin

8 ай бұрын

Especially because there are a lot of missing people in that area as well. I wonder if they were investigating disappearances in the area on their own

@panopticonseye

8 ай бұрын

i fucking love whiteside mt! only somewhat related, but i've hiked it at least once a year for the past few years. the view from the top is incredible.

@CamBoone

7 ай бұрын

I love being from WNC… it’s been gentrified like crazy the last 10 years but there’s so much history and culture here. I hope & pray it doesn’t get too diluted by everyone flooding in and putting up condos and chain-stores

@jeremysmith4620

7 ай бұрын

@@CamBoone It is sad. Buying a home for most people that have spent their entire lives in the area just simply isn't possible in Boone, Blowing Rock, or Asheville. The rest of the foothills, where I am from, to the border of TN just keep getting more and more unrealistic. The cost of living otherwise is still great, but I'm afraid there won't be many, if any, generations of North Carolinians with hundreds of years worth of family ties to the region, inhabiting much of the region.

@icarussuraki9929

7 ай бұрын

The first time I heard the Spearfinger story, I couldn't sleep. Luring children away, spearing them with her finger, eating their livers-- I must have been about 6 years old and it just terrified me lol

Holy Moly! This is so well produced. The animations for the coordinates and mapping? Looks professional AF. The production value of this content is off the charts. Well done!

This is probably a pointless nitpick, but the object mentioned at 42:14 isn't a hunting knife. It's a fold-out boxcutter.

@HauntakuTV

7 ай бұрын

Could be important

@w1ndch1me

6 ай бұрын

I was thinking that too. When he said "hunting knife" I leaned back in my chair

@jpar6031

5 ай бұрын

boxed in = stuck in the matrix

@conanhighwoods4304

5 ай бұрын

​@@jpar6031This case deals with the simulation 'theory'?

@sanguillotine

4 ай бұрын

@@conanhighwoods4304nothing points to that at all.

The words Highjump and Artichoke stood out to me as they are both US government operations. Highjump was a Navy mission to study the feasibility of military bases on the Antarctic, while Artichoke was a CIA precursor to MK Ultra named after Allen Dulles’ favorite vegetable. I tried Googling some of the other words to see if they also correlated to operations but didn’t find anything; of course I didn’t try them all. Einstein is also famously linked to the Manhattan Project.

@RAWSUM2

3 ай бұрын

I like the angle you're taking. Good points.

@alexbennett6023

2 ай бұрын

I had a similar thought about “Crossfire Gambit” with ACID GAMBIT being the opening special operation mission in the US invasion in Panama.

aight bro let me get those popcorns

@P-P-Panda

8 ай бұрын

Gimme gimme 🫳 🍿

I'm still baffled at how people still believe these "omg I found something by accident" deals... It has a mystery attached? It's never an accident.

@hansenchrisw

Ай бұрын

Probably a fair number of people don’t believe the narrative but still find it interesting and/or entertaining. People are known to spend their time on more trivial things than this.

That last statement makes me think this may have been a final deed done by someone who just wants people to travel and go outside. With the new clues and uploads being done either by themselves while stuck inside, or a family member whos keeping thier goal alive. Its a goose chase where the journey is the treasure and the destination is bittersweet.

@tearsintherain6311

7 ай бұрын

I think that message is a clue in more than one way even the punctuation

@scumbagjesus999

7 ай бұрын

Like the one piece

@HauntakuTV

7 ай бұрын

There was a similar ARG in Ontario, but IDK if it's been solved yet

@Kas_Styles

6 ай бұрын

​@@HauntakuTVlink?

This is a very intriguing mystery that clearly had an immense amount of work put into it. That said, I can't help but feel like it's fairly obvious that the book absolutely was not found and bought at a random thrift store. Especially since the shop owner still had that letter. This was deliberately created by someone at the store and the "I found this random old book" story was just used as a catalyst.

Seems a lot like a convoluted ARG with a lot of sensational landmarks and symbols used to attract attention that lack any significant connection or meaning and ultimately leads to nothing interesting.

the moment the website is reveled its 100% obvious its an arg

@ANTHNYYY

4 ай бұрын

Glad I read this so i wouldn't waste my time wit a dumb ahh arg

10:56 - "weary" means "tired". "WARY" means suspicious. You can remember this by thinking of the word "beware", which is what you say to someone you want to be suspicious of possible danger.

@NatalleeK

2 ай бұрын

it sounds like it's just their accent

Your editing has gotten SO GOOD. this channel is just gonna keep climbing brotha, been here since 2000 subs ✊

I’m still very surprised at your ability to find these mystery’s bro. Thank you for covering stuff that has never been covered before! You’re probably my fav KZread channel. Probably better than nexpo

@royourrboat3315

7 ай бұрын

That and it doesnt take him 6 months to get one video out

borlest forbidden money books (thank me later)

@ST4RCRAB

Ай бұрын

lol this a bot for the unwise, has nothing to do with the vid

I feel like mysteries like this can be really captivating at first but to more general ARG/mystery heads, it's not far off the Cicada kind of thing of being too focused on puzzles without a wider "story" or lore, it doesn't really feel like a proper "rabbit hole" out of constant cryptic references to other things. some people love that but for me it's more the immersive part that I like about these sorts of mysteries. i feel like if this had been "real" it would have been more interesting in this case, knowing it's constructed I guess I hold it to a different standard

@BowDown097

8 ай бұрын

I feel kind of the same, seems like someone who's just spent too much time looking into internet mysteries and /x/ type stuff trying to make a blend of those themselves, with all of the references to appalachia, hollow earth (black sun, [operation] highjump), freemasonry, sigils, mind control stuff, etc. which are all pretty common place in those circles. Pretty sophisticated though, credit where credit's due.

@SisterRose

8 ай бұрын

yeah, a lot of effort went into it for sure. it's why i'm so thankful for channels like this that i can appreciate the work "from a distance"@@BowDown097

@superhetoric

7 ай бұрын

it's tryhard and forced, very boring apart from the fact I live in the area mentioned in the book

@HauntakuTV

7 ай бұрын

The Cicada one is dangerous

Looks like a homebrew arg. Pretty cool. Whoever made it put a lot of effort into it and considering how many times they've interacted with solvers they clearly want people to figure it out. I suspect you'll make a follow up someday, this doesn't seem like something the creator is just going to let die without being solved.

maybe joana is friend we make along the way

@KazuhiraMiller46

2 ай бұрын

You and every other person that makes this comment should go to hell

I never heard of this! Great video, this all seems like a huge art project for someone interested or even connected with those topics. Idk if there is a bigger meaning or if this is just one big scavenger hunt for the internet.

Thanks for making this compelling video. It all puts me in mind of a Thomas Pynchon novel. Maybe this is how geniuses goof and have fun? Really compelling stuff!

@the25thprime

7 ай бұрын

My fiancé and I (physicist+geologist) made a long a$$ crypt the other night in using the force of the moon and earth and jumping from that to find the places in the coordinates that matches the crypt. I’d say yes, took hs a few times to Speak in it correctly

@ribtickle4143

7 ай бұрын

​@@the25thprimeIt must be nice having someone who gets it to engage in such esoteric acitivties with 😃

@superhetoric

7 ай бұрын

​@@ribtickle4143lol esoteric? geniuses? lawdy

Videos like this make me want to scribble a bunch of nonsense in books and just drop them until someone finds one and makes a video about how "mysterious" it is.

@ihavesoul4real

6 ай бұрын

Thats a very achievable goal.

@pixpusha

5 ай бұрын

You'd be giving someone hours of entertainment.

@hyperionkennels315

5 ай бұрын

There's a schizophrenic dude in the homeless camp I guard that does this. He recently put a bunch of Karuk words in Pokemon cards and spread them around.

@kapwns

5 ай бұрын

@@hyperionkennels315 I look forward to seeing them called "mysterious" in a video comp of the future.

@pixpusha

5 ай бұрын

@@kapwns Might even spawn a religion.

Hell yeah, a new video by Virtual Carbon! Good job on all of your videos. I've been binge watching your videos, and you are an amazing content creator. Each of your videos is interesting and a real joy to watch. Keep up the good work man. You really deserve more recognition than you're getting.

For some reason, this vid doesn't show up when searched, only found it by looking for ur channel. Weird. Really good video too! Keep up the good work!

This was wild, seeing someone so big talking about my home city, and a professor I learned under. Professor Rust is awesome, he taught me carving. Such a nice guy.

@corycoral7072

3 ай бұрын

He ever make you do homework around creating a viral mystery? Or ARGs?

A fascinating new mystery I've never even heard of! An excellent topic of choice. VERY interested to hear if theres ever updates on this. I genuinely wonder what its all about.

The fact that this features U.S locations exclusively makes it obvious it is just some kind of ARG thing made by the OP of that post.

@anorakseal8119

7 ай бұрын

Did you miss the part about the drawing of Menwith Airforce Base in England on Page 37 at 12:37 ? It's also the coordinates written on the 10 of Diamonds. I wish he had linked up the wiki, it's nearly 250 pages at this point. I'd link it up but my comments with links in them aren't posting.

Symbols rule the world. I grew up in an area of the midwest that is very heavy in Freemasonry. The golf club I was a member of while in high school had a Masonic lodge at the club and even had the Freemason symbol at the 1st tee. I also lived in Hollywood, CA for a few years early in my music career and that town is littered in symbolism, specifically Egyptian symbolism which the Masons follow as well. The Hollywood and Highland mall is covered in Egyptian symbols. Not to mention the endless examples of celebrities showing secret society symbolism. The nutty part is once you know the symbols, you cant unsee that stuff in pop culture.

Listen, this might sound weird, but it sounds like a school project. In my senior year we were tasked with creating a new urban legend or cryptid, and we had a choice on how to go about it. My buddy and I made a book, like a journal. We put in pictures, we put in easter eggs, clues that made coordinates, etc. No one else in my class made a book, but it wasn't unheard of. I added Latin in, Ceasar Cipher, lots of little things, even the main character's last name was a nod to Slenderman in German. We got an A+, but it was just that. A school project we threw out heart and soul in to. If we'd had more time, we would have done even more insane stuff with it.

These look a lot like the Gideon keys. Living history never dies it seems and the acolytes journey never finishes! That's pretty cool

It looks like an ARG duck. It walks like an ARG duck. It quacks like an ARG duck.

I'm still pissed about the Georgia Guidestones, they would have been so cool to see in person.

@elio7610

7 ай бұрын

Americans blow everything up.

@jojobizadTRASH

7 ай бұрын

To be fair, if you know the backstory behind the stones, it's not surprising that people didn't care when it got blown up. I'm sure the creators of the idea made it are hippies because of its historical context, but it's basically a "billions must die" monument #570.

@elio7610

7 ай бұрын

@@jojobizadTRASH There does not seem to be much history about it. I do not see anything offensive about the inscription on the stones, it does not even seem to go against Christianity or anything like that. The stones say to keep population below 500,000,000 individuals, which seems reasonable enough. Anyone can see that our current society is overpopulated. Denying overpopulation is as absurd as denying climate change.

@jojobizadTRASH

7 ай бұрын

@elio7610 The inscription is basically a nihilistic doomsday enscription that basically pushed the red scare further and has many theories around it being a globalist thing. Though if I'm going to be real, I'm sure it's some random freemason who tried to be the next "Alan Moore," but it sounds like they sniffed their ass too hard. Also, population control is very taboo outside of Western/Anglo society because of nihilism. I feel like this goes against the goal of fighting climate change, which is basically being charitable towards nature and embracing what's created in front of you. It also doesn't help that population control implicitly works through the negative effects of industrialism and modern ideologies that fail to replace religion, causing a huge identity crisis and mass depression at the moment. This also explains why this generation of people, regardless if they're theist, atheist, or agnostic; are leaning into esoteric teachings or alt religion, while Christianity and Islam are growing outside of the west. I'd legit be curious to know what country you come from, I'm basically a Chicano who lives in Cali. The culture here is in a pretty weird spot I'd say so myself.

@ChucksSEADnDEAD

7 ай бұрын

​​@@elio7610 How is it reasonable to cull population like that? No, we are not overpopulated. In fact, we will reach demographic crisis in a few decades. Climate change is based on IR absorption band within the atmosphere. "Overpopulation" is Malthusian nonsense. Mathematically we could support a few billions more.

oh my god, utopia mention!! highly, highly recommend that show, but it's quite difficult to find nowadays. some veeerrry interesting thematic links to whatever's going on here...

I have a notebook where I write down very specific mundane work and hobby information that's written in a sort of cryptic shorthand that even I'll forget if I don't have an elaborate key describing what it all means. If I were to dump it's contents without a key on Reddit or some other site it probably have people generating all kinds of crazy theories about it. When in reality it's the most uninteresting information that's only useful to me and even then only for short period of time.

@BehappyBhairava

7 ай бұрын

👌 likewise aha

@ulose5909

7 ай бұрын

Yea but it isn’t on generating hype like this from the direction the books codes lead you. Putting your note book on the same scale as someone putting together cyphers in a around the world book is probably abit far fetched

@pixpusha

5 ай бұрын

@@nharber9837 But it will give future peoples insight into what we ancient ones did with our time. I imagine future people will have developed photosynthesis, all be one gender, and have a collective conscious so we, their ancestors will be hella bizarre to them. Shopping lists or writing anything down for that matter would be a strange concept. "They ate things, how barbaric." "They had to use devices to navigate to places rather than using the hive mind, they were veritable neanderthals!" Or whatever they'll call us.

@rexvectum

2 ай бұрын

I write my notes in a kind of secret incomprehensible language too but it's just me trying to write in normal English

Watching from Japan right before bed.

Looks like a straight up arg

This is one HELL of a mystery holy cow.

First time I’ve heard of this mystery. Thank you!

This literally feels like the big easter egg to do with Mt Chilliad in GTA 5. Except on a world-wide scale.

@HauntakuTV

7 ай бұрын

The Mt. Chilliad Mystery is still unsolved to this day

Stopped at mention of the book store. Its him/her/them. Case closed. So many reasons why and how to list. Cool video

I believe you've missed part of the enigma that hides in Ricky's playlist: kzread.info/head/PLQoVmUy5-C66LwAZim7V2JrHy8IpLaQF6 (also - it was updated today)

@QuintinArlieNoggle

8 ай бұрын

Another thing I found further digging into the mystery, is it seems in the pyramid picture there is something hidden in the shadows: snipboard.io/6m8xiU.jpg if you zoom in and play with the shadows, highlights and contrast it becomes more obvious. A bit rosicrucian, a bit alchemical. If you look to the right on the edited version it looks like an eye surrounder by a some sort of sun rays, inside of a square

@chucklebutt4470

7 ай бұрын

Nice! Of course there's clips from Twin Peaks on there haha. Also the Nazi Enigma machine. Certainly in the same wheelhouse as the So Joanna.

⚠️ the creator of this video put a lot of effort into this. The video is VERY INTERESTING, Informative, and Enjoyable!! *** WATCH VIDEO BEFORE READING POST bc some think of this comment as a spoil. I don't! *** As of 15-NOV-2023 you have to choose READ MORE before you can even read this first sentence... It's a project by a group from Augusta University and others. It's not quite an ARG, more like an art & history project to encourage people to actually go out and see these places

@naverich4603

7 ай бұрын

Love it! Here in Europe everyone makes fun of Americans for "having no history"...I would argue that although the American history may be short, it is fully packed with interesting and for the world important events + the native American history is rarely discussed while being no less interesting.

@superhetoric

7 ай бұрын

not really seeing much history trying to be portrayed tbh

@abandonedmuse

7 ай бұрын

if it is that is extremely cool and very well done.

@sexygirlmax2019

7 ай бұрын

​@@naverich4603If you call the mass murder rape and enslavement of Native Americans "interesting", yeah

@HighlyRegardted

7 ай бұрын

My immediate thought was “this is a very well put together ARG by a group of well educated people” so… that tracks …

As someone who was on 4chan for cicada this feels so much like that it’s pulling me in again.

Thanks for doing this, it’s about time someone did. Just one nitpick: wary = cautious; weary = tired.

Klingman refers to Klingmans Dome. An exceedingly high mtn. peak located near the Cherokee reservation in Cherokee, NC. For the unpolished ashlar, only dust can be evaluated.

@anorakseal8119

7 ай бұрын

Strangely It's spelled Clingman's Dome, same with Joanna Bald (not Joana)

@youmightstumble

7 ай бұрын

@@anorakseal8119 There are quite a few misspellings I noticed, such as Talula instead of Tallulah. I'm sure it's intentional and may have a deeper meaning. Many place names are also female first names, maybe referring to the 11 princesses of the Cherokee? I'm so fascinated by the whole thing.

@superhetoric

7 ай бұрын

​@@youmightstumbleno such thing as princesses in Cherokee culture

@HauntakuTV

7 ай бұрын

@@superhetoric Could be a mistranslation of the clues or a metaphor

it's more a puzzle game than a mystery.

Also the flyer with the tear away pieces looks like a skull

@JankyBruv

7 ай бұрын

I saw a lot of facial features and visual similarities between "clues".

Nice to see people taking an interest in the rich history of the Carolinas and NE Georgia. I’m from Anderson, SC and I’ve been to quite a few of these places in the past. It’s really cool to see all those little details found around them used in this story. Shame I can’t go back to the guidestones now though

@Hakimshafin

7 ай бұрын

Why ?

@superhetoric

7 ай бұрын

​@@Hakimshafinbecause they aren't there anymore?

@PhoebeTheFairy56

7 ай бұрын

@@Hakimshafin if you're asking why they can't go back to the guidestones, they were destroyed, the video itself mentions that.

Man I would love to join in and check out these mysterious locations in person. Its a pity the states of Georgia, Tennessee and N/S Carolina are nearly 15 thousand km away from me lol 🤣

I keep having these dreams where there’s like all sorts of different aliens that don’t really get along and they use earth to hide out and use earthling espionage to hide their intentions because so far it’s the least documented by alien AI due to having so much variation. This whole video gave me deja vu and seemed eerily familiar. Spooky

this is like da vinci code level arg stuff, i love it

The annotator is definitely that one unemployed friend on a Thursday at 4:36 pm

when the so-called "investigators" don't realize OP is the one who did all that to get attention

@Kas_Styles

6 ай бұрын

When it comes to arg's my first thought would be "who is posting this?" "What can I find out about them themselves." Especially when most ARG's are for selling something aka PR reasons especially nowadays.

@michaelbrown8195

3 ай бұрын

@@Kas_Styles Yup every time I see an ARG I wonder why people aren’t trying to dig into the people who present the clues and stuff… but then I never got the appeal of false mystery’s, especially ones like the one presented in this video that don’t even have a cool fictional narrative being played out.

@Kas_Styles

3 ай бұрын

@@michaelbrown8195 ya. The puzzle for me is who is making the puzzles.

@cosmicrdt

3 ай бұрын

The redditor OP had a long history of posts in subreddits like UFOs and flatearth etc. They began with how they innocently found the book but then go on to help people solve the puzzles in depth. Their profile reveals they're at least in their 30s or 40s so likely had the resources to put it together. They were definitely involved.

damn a longform deep dive on something i've never heard of?? take my sub, i guess i know what channel i'll be binging for a while

Seems like a ver complicated way to get people to geocache

Convoluted.

It would be absolutely crazy if this were a really elaborate marketing play to get tourism for a town 😂 But this is absolutely an ARG. It's absolutely crazy to me that people didn't immediately suspect OP or the person who found the flyer.

a code leading to a website ??!! - classic arg right here

Really well put together.

oh man hearing about this as someone from georgia is so strange, like these are not locations i've ever considered mysterious because i've known about them or been to them since i was a little kid

@corycoral7072

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like youd be a great help going to these places and posting pictures. Maybe you’ll find something that moves it forward

Well, it's a travel book, right? So, it's telling you about more esoteric, artistic, and mysterious places and historical events in a very thematic way.

This is as DEEP as it GETS...

Waiting to watch this tonight with a candle and snacks 🎉 can't wait!

so basically, the book is telling us to touch grass

Just wow i would love a documentary about this book, haven't even finished the video and the amount of information is insane ! This is one of the best puzzles and i dont know how i haven't even heard of this before.... Thank you for this video !!

Decorating for Halloween. This gonna rock

I wish I could be smart and rich enough to do thing like these. I like puzzles and mysteries, love hiking, etc but I physically don't have the stamina or brain power unfortunately. I'm glad it's being documented in videos like this - I hope that the full mystery gets solved and shared too.

That’s incredibly fascinating-so interesting.

Hey yo! The #Atrium image looks like it was taken in Paducah Kentuckys Excutive in before it was torn down.. it has very similar architecture.

You gotta make more videos like this! I love the sound affects and that ps2 type background music you have in the video.

Hell of an advert for a second hand book shop.

@ikejime77

7 ай бұрын

Villalobos Moneygetter Polanski

@sarah-xc8jh

2 ай бұрын

it’s like an antique shop, random stuff everywhere that never catches my eye. it’s small

50 year old book with recent stickers and grafiti on landmarks? Nah.

Of course it's an ARG. What else would it be?

This is a greaat video, even if it is just a creepypasta

I will now be following this forever.

This was amazing! A niche in my special interest topic but inset in a place where my family has a long history, in weird esoteric lore I enjoy, and repping Aniyunwiya lore? Ii!

it just sounds like rich ppl got bored

42:10 "Hunting knife"

The guy that found it actually made it hoping you'd make this video because of it. Good night.

Those 50 year old ink notes written in that book look suspiciously as if they were written a few weeks ago instead of years ago.

@NeighborhoodOfBlue

5 ай бұрын

Exactly! That's certainly a modern gel-type ink. Such a silly detail to overlook when old school bic rollerballs are so easily accessible.

@lukeriely4468

3 ай бұрын

I wonder why there are no publisher book codes as well as other information if it was a legit book. It could be a complete modern fake. These things were happening long before the internet and technology that makes fakery much easier today. Whoever scibbled in the book is most likely the creator of it (or one amongst others)

@HectorVII

3 ай бұрын

watching like 10 minutes into the video you also learn that it couldnt have been written earlier than like a month before it was discovered, considering the art installation that is drawn in the book but did not yet exist when it was found

@cosmicrdt

3 ай бұрын

Umm the book is 50 years old not the text. It has references to websites and modern buildings. I don't think anyone is saying the text is old.

@NatalleeK

2 ай бұрын

Lmaoo the internet didn't exist 50 years ago, your ballpoint pen argument is not the bomb dropper you think it is. No one claimed that the writing is 50 years old

I love that something this cool takes place in my neck of the woods. Awesome channel, had to subscribe!

i can say the guidestones were so important to my development as a teen, spiritualility wise and my connection w nature. last time i saw them was 2021 w my dad :( rip guidestones

0:05:00 merging intersection, small church and two graveyards, should be findable rather easily. the marks of the graveyards are the corners closest to the chapel

I would have loved for people to drill a picture of dickbutt into the “guidestones” instead of just destroying them, that would have been so hilarious

@axelthegreat9

7 ай бұрын

Those guidestones were also giving some pretty shit guidace, so... not surprised

@kathrineici9811

7 ай бұрын

@@axelthegreat9 Indeed, I just think drawing the more artistically salient and culturally relevant dickbutt might express more disdain for the anti-human instructions than merely destroying them

@HauntakuTV

7 ай бұрын

@@axelthegreat9 The guidestones were pretty important, so them not being around will make things tougher. As the video mentioned, it connects to the eclipse so I'd say watch the sky

@axelthegreat9

7 ай бұрын

@@HauntakuTV they specifically recommend eugenics, dude.

Funny this should have started in 2019. That's the year the Atlanta History Center opened Cyclorama: The Big Picture which featured a fully restored cyclorama painting of The Battle of Atlanta.

In a world where people are x1.5’ing, I gotta do a rewatch at x0.75 on this :) amazing stuff.

as someone born in north carolina and raised in georgia, i am absolutely fascinated by this. it definitely comes across as some sort of project that generally wants people to connect more with the history and geography around them, encouraging them to visit these real locations for clues. but perhaps also there is some sort of “prize” waiting at the end of all the puzzles as well. im now tempted to go to some of these locations myself to see if i can find anything

ARG for sure