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« Reply #20 on: November 01, 2008, 01:44 AM »

You can see the place from John's picture at 16:26 in the video

And again at 19:23. We've gotten some mileage out of John's picture, but does the police report or the letter lead to anything? The police report is clearly David being tormented by the shadow people in the mall of the dead, but I can't really glean any more information from it than that. The picture of the guy in his underwear on a bed surrounded by phallic enhancements is creepy as is the accompanying letter, and it is killing me trying to figure out the significance of it all. This is already much better than the Heroes extended universe internet treasure hunt.

I wonder if this means Undisclosed = Cairo, IL.
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« Reply #21 on: November 01, 2008, 01:59 AM »

Given the fact that the hardware store is a collapsed building at 3rd street that people still call the hardware store, I'd say we can assume that Undisclosed is Cairo. It's the perfect setting for it. Also, Cairo was famous for its lynchings into the 60's and 70's even - wasn't that mentioned in JDATE at some point? Or am I making that up?


I fully support the idea of a new thread specifically for ARG spoilers. If a mod wants to move them over and un-spoiler them; or if that's too much work, I guess we could just start a new one.
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« Reply #22 on: November 01, 2008, 02:19 AM »

In his blog post John make mentions how he is hearing the screams of old Civil War guys. Cairo was an important supply base as well as a training ground for Union soldiers. Not only that but Alfred Mullet, an architect during the Reconstruction, has only one of seven Victorian structures still standing there. It has been turned into a museum according to Wikipedia. It's possible we could see this museum as a setting in one part of whatever is coming next. I doubt all of these points are coincidences. To many pieces of the puzzle right now for anything to be clear.

I am so pumped.
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« Reply #23 on: November 01, 2008, 03:11 AM »

You guys are so fat.  And gay.
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« Reply #24 on: November 01, 2008, 04:14 AM »

Sleep is for the weak.

I watched the entire video and tried to catch all of the subliminal messages. I documented them. I think I got everyone that appeared. If I happened to miss any add to the list. You can download the text file here http:// www.mediafire.com/download.php?wmz3d1kmtio

Another little odd tid bit popped up while watching the video. The narrator takes time to talk about the abundance of stray cats in the area. In John's picture with the red writing all over it on the bottom left corner it says "Update 4/20: Just a cat". I'm not exactly sure what that means or if it has any significance at all but I figured it should be pointed out. I'm not sure whether to take everything in that picture literally or if they're all codes or symbols for something.

A Google search of the name Jacob Fredlund turns up a Facebook profile as well as a couple of related items one being a high school Honor Roll list from Old Mill and a short biography for a media station.

Lastly a shot of the "Historic Downtown Cairo" archway pops up at 16:05. This could relate to the hanging that took place there in 1909. http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/pics_43.html <- this postcard marks where Will James was hung at.

So once again more pieces that don't make any sense to me. I'm probably just reading way to much into all of these things.
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« Reply #25 on: November 01, 2008, 04:30 AM »

I'm just sayin'.
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« Reply #26 on: November 01, 2008, 04:43 AM »

Well John I don't care what you think. Maybe you're the fat and gay one.

One last thing:
#12 in that text file goes with this picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/army_arch/2117169561/in/photostream/
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« Reply #27 on: November 01, 2008, 05:32 AM »

I think you're just making a cock out of a stalagmite, personally.
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« Reply #28 on: November 01, 2008, 05:30 AM »

As interesting as that documentary video is, I think we might be able to rule it out as a clue, seeing as how (SPOILER) it's been up for about two and a half years.
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« Reply #29 on: November 01, 2008, 08:53 AM »

I went ahead and made a John Dies at the End wiki. I reckon it could be used in much the same way Heroes Wiki and Lostpedia are used, to keep track of and try to make sense of all the disconnected information in the source material. If you're enjoying hunting the internet for clues, please consider contributing what you find to the wiki.

I've already gotten a couple of pages started, though some of them aren't more than a sentence at this point. There are instructions on the main page that I hope are straightforward enough to get some participation happening. For now though, I'm going to bed.

Oh, PS, I know that PurpleTowel already made a JDATE wiki, but his is for a fan-created RPG, which is completely unrelated to what I want to do with mine.
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« Reply #30 on: November 01, 2008, 09:52 AM »

I think the wiki will work nicely.  I followed The Dark Knight ARG for a while and fans made a wiki for that.  Very helpful.
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« Reply #31 on: November 01, 2008, 10:56 AM »

You can see the place from John's picture at 16:26 in the video

Matthew 16:26 - What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

Also, the first google result for 16 26 is a website selling plus size lingerie. I will be researching fat and sexy women for the rest of the day to try to solve this enigma.
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« Reply #32 on: November 01, 2008, 12:45 PM »

It's also got a thread at the Unfiction forums.
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« Reply #33 on: November 01, 2008, 04:06 PM »

This sucks, I was actually here last night but I was so sick that I ended up sleeping until 4:30 am. I just now got online because Fallout 3 froze. I hope I didn't miss anything.

Also, that video might have been out for two years, but using a retro vid as part of this scavenger hunt thing, if there is one, isn't a far fetched idea. It could easily have just fit thier needs. The only thing I know is that John's myspace page is located in Illinois so that city that you've got in white text would work. I know just about everyone here knows that, but there could be someone without a myspace page or that hasn't added them as a friend.
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« Reply #34 on: November 01, 2008, 04:52 PM »

Son of a bitch, Dave, you're fucking killing me. I haven't slept in hours. JDATE Wiki is a great idea, I'll contribute.

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The picture of the dude surrounded with guns isn't a clue, it's from the TFR subforum of Something Awful. We had a thread about the TEC-22, and Aperture Science (a goon) posed in a thong with it.
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« Reply #35 on: November 01, 2008, 05:13 PM »

This video likely isn't related to the ARG, but it is fairly interesting: (SPOILERS)

Take a look at the vid at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6lyZzHJ2uA&feature=channel

It's some kind of video tribute to the ghost town of, what else, Cairo, IL.  Very creepy stuff in there.  He has some other videos unrelated to Cairo though, so I don't think it's related to the ARG directly (though it's possible).  However, I do think Cairo is directly related to this thing somehow, as there are just too many clues pointing in that direction.  That shot on wikipedia compared to the picture John linked to was an especially good find, as it's no doubt the exact same location.

Exciting stuff!
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« Reply #36 on: November 01, 2008, 07:03 PM »

Or maybe they just like including pictures of the place.
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« Reply #37 on: November 01, 2008, 07:56 PM »

I took one look at the wiki and realized you needed the September announcement. I'm too stupid to edit it and make it fit the wiki format, but I saved it as a word document. Here's the link: http://rapidshare.com/files/159796722/This_Website_Will_Self_Destruct_On_9.doc.html
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« Reply #38 on: November 01, 2008, 08:00 PM »

Thank you, that's exactly the kind of help I was hoping for. Rockin.

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« Reply #39 on: November 02, 2008, 12:18 AM »

this might be useful: http://johndiesattheend.com/new/background_abandoned.jpg
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