The Internet’s Dark Side of Mystery
The internet is just full of wonder women kitten videos, yet life changing things which are as well full of mystery parts or rather, there are weird and spooky stories and tales which are yet to be solved. There are internet mysteries that have so far been nurturing even up to years without any concrete answers or viable conclusions. These computerized crackers have inspired intense threads at Reddit, documentaries on YouTube and online armchair detectives. Some people consider them simple truths, that could be some kind of elaborate prank or puzzle but yet some believe that there might be some darker evil behind them.
Now, it is time to discuss some of the most unusual internet mysteries of which we still have no answers.
Cicada 3301: The Puzzle That Made the Internet Crazy
On January 28, 2012, an anonymous post on 4chan with a picture stating that an organization was trying to recruit: “highly intelligent individuals.” This was the start of Cicada 3301- a puzzle, with a global message attached, that consisted of cryptography data security, philosophy and steganography. Its puzzles were very advanced playing with clues concealed in music, pictures and even in places in various countries.
Three more similar puzzles came out in 2012, in 2013, and in 2014. Despite some individuals stating that they have solved them, nobody has ever stepped out to expound what Cicada 3301 was all about, who was involved and what the intended objective of the recruitment was all about. There are numerous theories, and it can be nothing but a government secret program, a hacker group or it can be a simple ARG (Alternate Reality Game). Even now, Cicada 3301 is one of the most recognizable and most lcond mystery over the internet.
The Parallax Denigrate Markovian
The phrase has been seen and heard in 1996 when a sequence of Usenet posts proved with the title of Markovian Parallax Denigrate. They put a bunch of gibberish words and phrases that do not seem to have any relation with each other. What is creepy is that there seemed to be hundreds of them and nobody could make out its purpose or even where they originated.
Some people have made supposition that this is an earlier form of spam or maybe a secret message which nobody has actually been able to crack in code. The other theories have associated it either with the intelligence agencies or mere bug in the early days of Usenet. Years later, there is still nothing concrete and clear regarding the meaning of the phrase as well as the reasons behind posting the messages.
A858: A Reddit User That Posted Mysterious Codes for Years
Now, a user that had started posting absurd messages, albeit encoded in some way, on a seemingly random subreddit known as r/A858DE45… (with the full name being a collection of random letters and numbers) started posting on the aforementioned subreddit in 2011. These coded words gave way to a mass campaign at Reddits to decode them. They somehow deciphered some of their messages, but still, most of them are not yet deciphered.
All of a sudden in 2016 the subreddit went private and there were more questions than answers. What could be more peculiar, the subreddit was reopened and once again locked without any comments. Nothing has been disclosed as to the identity of the poster that made the encrypted messages and the reason behind these messages.
Did this amount to a test? An art piece of performance? Maybe that was a attempt at a clandestine convesation? I don not know.
Enigma of I Am Sophie
I Am Sophie was uploaded on YouTube in 2018 and it was a vlog channel of a rich influencer called Sophie. Originally, the videos appeared to be like an influencer culture parody. However, they became rather sinister and grim in no time, featuring glitched visuals, obscure texts, and horror components.
The show was done with strong editing, reality switching and disheartening hints that there was something natural that was going on under the surface. Even though the makers were later on found out to be creating a tall tale of a horror, theinformation concerning various thought of to be hidden messages and particulars of ARG was never told not altogether.
Up to this day, audience is still arguing about the missed hints and open questions in the plotline.
The riddle of Lake City Quiet Tablets
This kind of mystery began when a Reddit user, identified as 2-6, passed on in the year 2009. Someone posted an obituary that appeared normal on his profile yet, when other users delved on it, it turned into something unconventional. They discovered bizarre mentioning of quiet pills and the existence of a site by the name lakecityquietpills.com. The site said that it offered mature people to take care of your needs.
Scrutiny had an opportunity to discover in the source code of the site something which resembled an advertisement of contract killers or mercenaries jobs. What provoked some eyebrows was the line saying they required persons with MIL experience. Could it have been a cover to an assassin on demand service? ARG as a fiction? Or, perhaps, something totally different?
Years ago, when I tried to visit the web-site, it had been off-line, and any believable reason has not been discovered.
The “grifter” video
An online urban legend speaks of an online video known as Grifter, in which it is said to be an extremely gruesome piece making a viewer lose composure, have nightmares, or even go into crises. It is claimed that the video consists of disturbing images, bizarre noises as well as mind-bending effects. Though they have been put up online, versions exist but are not possible to confirm which was original.
To others it was a creepypasta spread through the internet. Others tell that it was an actual experiment in head manipulation. In any case, the background of the appearance of the Grifter and whether it ever was in the original and frightening version or not is a mystery.
This is one ugly Semicircle: YouTube Channel Ugly like No Other
In a roundabout year 2015, a YouTube channel called Unfavorable Semicircle started posting thousands of mysterious videos. These were very brief and in many instances, the audio content was distorted, a weird set of characters in the form of symbols and names composed an unstructured system of characters or numerical figures. There were black videos and there were some with crazy images in them. At an unmanageable rate the channel was being uploaded- dozens, even hundreds of them in a day.
Sleuths on the web attempted to interpret the meaning but little success was achieved. Thereafter, YouTube canceled the channel without any formal message of its disappearance just as mysteriously as it happened.
Nobody has ever come up to clarify as to who was operating the channel and what the videos were all about.
Who is him? John Titor & the time-traveller.
A user named John Titor, who was claiming to be a time traveller to the year 2036 started posting in online forums in the early 2000s. He presented vivid accounts of the world in the future when it was charred in a civil war and a nuclear war. Titor described how time travel works and even uploaded some pictures of his so-called time machine.
Weirdly enough some of his predictions were fulfilled and some were not. A one-year subsequent post lapsed after which Titor disappeared. Up till now nobody has managed to clear up the identity of who he was and the biggest arguments still persist whether he was telling a hoax, a genius story-teller or simply maybe a real time traveler who came from another dimension.
The Internet Most Mysterious Song
The song on the cassette tape was a new wave recording which a teenage boy in Germany recorded off a radio station in 1980s. There was no band name and DJ commentary to the song. More than 30 years after, his quest to find the song or the band has turned viral as the most mysterious song on the internet.
Even though the quality of the song is quite high and the vocals are known, people are not able to somehow locate the artist, lyrics, and any other references in archives or databases. This has turned into a musical puzzle which has not yet been unfolded with the help of advanced AI and forensic analysis tools.
Final Thoughts: Internet has still its secrets
The internet can very well be the best information center ever in the history, but it still harbours deep, chilling and unsolved puzzles. These strange internet puzzles have kept us contemplating, and they might easily attract digital sleuths go ahead and solve it by cryptography experts and theories. Chats that seem to be just the odd coincidence or a part of ARGs or some kind of a hidden operation are quite enticing due to the mystery.
With the current advancement in technology and the increasing number of eyeballs to scan through the depth and breadth of cyberspace, these puzzles may perhaps be solved one of these days. In the meantime however, they are grim reminders that even in the digital era, there still exists mystery.
