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False. On the news reel, there are reports from 6-8-18 and from August 8th 2018, or 8-8-18. Two different days.
Half – Life 2 Episode 1
“In the darkened alley where you first use your flashlight in the part of the game entitled “lowlife” if you turn on the alley you can see some graffiti and a bar code. The numbers below the barcode are 24724 which is the area code for freeman, west virginia.”
Hope this helps sum
Secret message in http://babel-research.eu/witb/stream/footage.html:
Salute to the crew at unfiction. We watch every step
I HAVE FOUND SOME INTERESTING!!! SEE THIS PIC:
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3364/babeloverlaid.png
Some one else has properly mentioned this but (noevilsagasliveon) if you split it up it says
(no evil sagas live on) and SAGA is a hidden on the evac sheet. What could this mean.
This may well have already been mentioned, but at 2:19 in the video at http://babel-research.eu/witb/stream/ the ticker at the bottom says “LARGEST SINGLE COLLAPSE IN HISTORY SINCE BLACK MESA”. The link to the Halflife universe most certainly extends beyond simply an homage to Valve. I don’t think it’s officially linked, but the connection was definitely a purposeful move.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx90B0C1QyY
Lost Reference within Half Life 2 episode 2, featuring both the numbers 4 8 15 16 23 42 and the symbol seen throught lost.
Lost and Half life references both within the box mystery?
Thoughts?
Also, test video! 5:31, for a milisecond, Blue screen appears as he puts something on! I cant slow it down enough to capture the exact frame, but can someone! Could be very important if its not already been done of course!
Anyone notice it says “Babel Reseach” in the middle of their main page? Is this spelling error deliberate?
Also, if you stay on the babel research website long enough, in the lower right corner, a cat will appear randomly. click on it before it dissapears and it will open a MP3 file.
i spy half life 3
What if this whole thing is nothing more than a mindfuck?
The building seen in this picture:
http://babel-research.eu/images/Babel_complex_1.jpg
Is a powerplan in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
This one to be exact.
http://www.letsgodigital.org/images/artikelen/16/energiecentrale-nijmegen.jpg
Oddly, the first picture is found on the Babel website.
http://babel-research.eu/?about=about
~Jack
I think its all is dead…
The blue screen appears when he’s taking something off, not when he’s putting something on. At the beginning of the video, he puts on one of these computer brain interfaces. Could it help?
http://babel-research.eu/?about=research_cbi
More relation to the HL2 universe is throughout the video the camera glances at the tower three times, each time some sort of crawling tentacle-like thing is creeping up the three towers. In HL2 when on the platform going to the top of the Combine Citadel there’s all sorts of tubes and junk. Could this be some sort of link between HL and HL2? It would make sense that this happens after HL because of the relation to an infection. Maybe Babel is building off of Black Mesa’s research on portals and they accidentally open the universe the Combine come out of. Aperture Science fits into this as well. This idea of portals is becoming a theme.
Also I think a good direction to go in would be to see if we can get into ftp://babel-research.eu/
I’m trying to get the ws_ftp.ini but with little results.
jim i found the exact frame of the blue screen of death. is like an error with windows 98.
exact time in video “05:21:06”
that numbers would mean something but i dont know.
UEC also stands for the Uranium Energy Corp. also, when you click the left side of the circle you can hear an english automated voice talking, and after a few seconds is overtake by a japanese reporter. if there is someone that speaks japanes/chinese, or can hear the english voice well enough, post
HEY! Somebody with better software and know-how, overlay the hidden image from the army poster:
http://wikibruce.com/uploads/2009/04/army_evac-adjusted.jpg
With this image (posted by another user):
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3364/babeloverlaid.png
Using the TOXIC symbol as the reference point.
Also, the image from the EXPOSED (http://wikibruce.com/uploads/2009/04/exposed-adjusted.jpg) page IS the symbol from the box. (pause at 00:54 of the main video for a good view)
Would the mod please merge these two?
ALSO: The two anti images (http://whatsinthebox.nl/anti.gif and http://babel-research.eu/anti.jpg)…
Look at the top pair of arrows on the JPG image, and then look at the middle pair of arrows on the GIF image (of the box). They line up in angle pretty well. And the length of the line down from middle-most point of the box (2-d-wise) down to the bottom-most corner is just about exactly the same length as the distance between the arrows (along the heavy red line) on the JPG image, so perhaps they can go together as well…
TimSmiT put out a new video, for a Netherlands’ band called Daybroke. Within the video there are all sorts of WITB references, including the object the girl carries through out the video being the very box.
At times 1:29, 2:22 and 3:15, you can see spots (the first and third being the hardest to catch.) with a the iconic WITB red diamond icon, with a question in it. Under it, there’s ??:??, in each instance.
Taking the hint from 1:43 and 1:44 in the video – the WITB poster, with the time on it (which changes from 1:43 to 1:44) and the clue in the ‘more info’ section about finding the right time to find more box – paired with a flash that shows at 3:27 – showing “http://babel-research.eu/ {1/3} / {2/3} / {3/3} .html” will give you a link to a new video.
I’m not giving the ‘solution’ away, though, if you pay attention it’s pretty easy.
Also, big thanks to Knizz at the unForums.
Just found this vid on the babel research website: http://babel-research.eu/witb/stream/footage.html
You think that is what the box did?
hey the 1:43 and 1:44 means something but …. oh this is freaking me out. and the website you published dont take me to another video.
hey other thing is that the [1/3] [2/3] [3/3] mean to put the time that the simbols appear. didnt work for me but i think you type bad the numbers they appear. the second appear at 2:21.
The Eye on the top on
http://babel-research.eu/
its a picture from M. C. Escher
called “Eye” (1946)
http://www.boszininja.com/bamako2009/escher-eye.jpg
im not sure if this will help but anyway this is one more info
At 2:20, bottom of the HUD a news update reads:
“Largest single collapse in history since Black Mesa”
Indicating perhaps, that this takes place after the Resonance Cascade in Black Mesa?
new video: http://babel-research.eu/129/222/315.html
Following the instructions posted by Telos954,
I found the hidden video with the cars.
At the end of the video, you see the red ring with smoke coming of it.
Below the ring is the text: “MMX”, wich is 2010 in roman numerals.
In the sourcecode of the webpage of the video is the text: “The wait is not yet over”
I wonder what that means?
Taking a closer look at this picture [ http://babel-research.eu/images/Babel_complex_1.jpg ], I found what I think is the Babel Complex logo on the building. Someone may have commented on this before, but this logo is similar to the logo of the Black Mesa Research Facility from the video game, Half-Life.
Now, connecting this with the storyline of the Half-Life series, and the supposed date of the video’s event, this must mean that this event took place after the fall of the Combine (to be continued in Half-Life 2: Episode 3 and beyond), or this facility was made by the Combine.
At the end of the new footage it says MMX, these could be roman numerals which would be 2010. Maybe it’s the release date?
Nice to know the project is still going. I was worried for a while that it was cancelled.
Listen.
Oke, well I dumped most of the site to my PC and uploaded it to my server.
http://babel.pittpens.com/babel-research.eu/index.html
Check it out..
Has anyone else come across that?
I also found 2 hidden MP3’s that im not sure if others have found
http://babel.pittpens.com/babel-research.eu/snd/discedoMalum.mp3
and
http://babel.pittpens.com/babel-research.eu/snd/uec.mp3
If anyone has any clue what this is all about.
Take note of the like Buttons that fade from pink to red, check their file names..its very interesting.
When looking the “Cars” video on blip.tv, in the “related videos overview” section on the right side there is note “SECOND HIDDEN”. Anyone knows why second?
yesterday Portal got updated and got some weird radios thing, the forum is working on decoding all those things
Ive found some more.
I found a hidden crypted message on http://babel-research.eu/witb/stream/footage.html
It says:
a=b b=c
Tbmvuf up uif dsfx bu vogjdujpo. Xf xbudi fwfsz tufq
Well, I don’t know if you still research, this one was pretty obvious. Went to the site and downloaded the hidden.mp3, reversed it and it said 20th November. Simple, but I though i’d contribute a bit too, cuz I didn’t found anyone mentioning it.
Once again I’ll remind people – please read over the article, even do a search (CTRL-F) for text or filenames if you think you’ve found something “new”. I’ve adjusted file links now so the filenames are in the article text rather than straight links.
Please do this.
I typically moderate comments that -only- contain known information. Discussion, theories (valid theories), new items, solves, resources, news, etc are all good to go. In other words, contribution :)
Thanks
So, I translated a hidden message obtained from http://babel-research.eu/witb/stream/footage.html which another user here pointed out. It isn’t a=b b=c though, it’s b=a, c=b! Going back through the whole alphabet, the message is translated as; “Salute to the crew at unfiction. we watch every step.”
a=b b=c
Tbmvuf up uif dsfx bu vogjdujpo. Xf xbudi fwfsz tufq
If you follow the same progression, each letter is the one before it netting you:
Salute to the crew at Unfietion. We watch every step.
I’m sorry, they meant “Unfiction”. Not “Unfietion”. Surely they are referring to: Unfiction.com
Could MMX be a double date? Such as 2010 2010 or 20.10.2010
So October 20th, 2010? Granted that is a Wednesday, so not typical of a game release date. I also thought it may be linked to binary but of course 1000100010 is not divisible by 8. But if we use 10001010 we get “Š” which of course is gibberish.
Hrmmm….
On the posters it says:
“Steven Roeters”
This is his Hyves (wannebe facebook) page
http://steven-roeters.hyves.nl/?&pageid=2RLRY1S3V3C48G4W8
Something about project “the box” is also on there…
Maybe worth looking into?
fyi, babel-research.eu does not have ssh and sftp open, however, whatsinthebox.nl does. I have not tried any username/password combinations, but might be worth investigating
So I wonder if anyone has found any significance to the Eye of Horus on the top right corner of that anti.jpg. Seems a little odd for it to just be there and not have any significance somewhere.
The eye on the Exposed picture looks similar to the eye of GLaDOS
Oh, and that lastfootage video smacks of either half-life’s portal storms or just something going wron in aperture science… or combineness.
ruff_diamont –
he looks like the guy in the short video following the one with the floating cars – boxblip? It’s very short and is ‘hidden’; I can’t watch it a second time ’round somehow. Shows the event from another persepctive.
Also on that page it says “één-na laatste online” – which means penultimate in dutch. Explains the language they talk in in that short video. Maybe it should be translated?
Hope this is some help.
You might wanne take a look at this video:
Hey Girl by Daybroke
It a new dutch band and the artist that made the video for it is the same one that did the “what’s in the box” video. I actualy contains a clue:
abel-research eu/{1/3}/{2/3}/{3/3} html
can’t figure it out though….
Nice catch on the Daybroke video! That’s definitely new. I’ve included a screen shot and embedded the video in the latest update. iiiinteresting!
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