11B-X-1371

The editors of GadgetZZ.com shared with readers information about the mysterious video recorded on the CD they received with the mail. According to the editors, the disc arrived to them from Poland. The video on the disk is full of mysterious characters and encrypted messages, which reddit users and other resources have been deciphering for several days.

The puzzles start from the DVD + R disc, on which a certain cipher is written on the marker. Decoding it through Base64 resulted in the string "11B-X-1371". It turned out that the video with this title was uploaded on Youtube on September 30 of this year by a user named Parker Wright.
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But the video itself contains much more mysteries. A mysterious figure, completely covered with a hoodie and a hood, in a mask of a plague doctor and in gloves, was taken on it. On the figure's hand there is an LED flashlight, the blinking of which suggests the thought of Morse code or a binary code. In addition, the video is mounted with distortions and other effects, besides its individual puzzles appear on its individual frames.

The creaking sound with which it is provided, being presented in the form of a spectrogram, turns out to be full of mysteries and ciphers. On the frames of the spectrogram, the inscription “you are already dead” is visible, and various eerie images of people .



Further public investigation revealed new details. The same video was uploaded to YouTube back in May 2015 by aetbx. Reddit visitors found this user's comment, with a link to a file called “ Are you sure what you see? ”, Which also contains an encrypted message in broken English, which could be decoded: “S09338 you’re watching the same? What are you looking for? ”

From the audio file contained on the disk, it was possible to extract the image of the skull and the character set from the windings font.



Morse code symbols seen on one of the video frames are converted to hexadecimal numbers. If they are interpreted as letters, they are put together in the phrase REDLIPSLIKETENTH, which is the anagram of the call "KILL THE PRESIDENT." The characters appearing in another frame are converted to the coordinates of the White House in Washington.

Other numerous puzzles include a chess game (4-move "E2-E3 D1-F3 F1-C4 F3xF7"), the message "we are the anti-virus" and the mysterious phrase "2015 THERE WILL BE THREE", in connection with which reddit readers decided That finally see the third Half-Life.

And one of the users of reddit caught the similarity of the video and the whole entourage with the book “Inferno” by Dan Brown, written in the mystical thriller genre. It is interesting that at the moment they are making a film based on this book , and it is already in the process of post-production. True, for a viral video advertising the film, the riddles found in it are too dark.

Whether this strange video is a big and complex rally, a promotion, a threat, or some other meaning, remains unclear. New information, picked from the video, continues to flow.

For puzzle lovers, a full ISO copy of the disc is available for download .