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11B-X-1371
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Release date	May 9, 2015 (2015-05-09)
Running fourth dimension	2 minutes
Country	Poland

11B-10-1371 is an early on-2015 viral video sent to GadgetZZ.com, the Swedish tech blog that publicized it. The black-and-white segment is two minutes in length; its title came from the plaintext of a base64 string written on the DVD. Information technology depicts a person wearing what appears to be a plague medico costume walking and continuing around in a dilapidated abandoned building, with a forest visible through former window openings in the wall behind it. Accompanied by a soundtrack of loud, discordant buzzing noise, the masked figure holds upwardly a mitt with an irregularly blinking lite. The motion-picture show did not accept whatsoever credits or claims to authorship.

Letters, many in ordinarily used ciphers and encryption systems, have been constitute hidden in the video and its sound spectrogram, every bit well as images of tortured and mutilated people.^[i] About of the messages have been decoded by participants in an ongoing Reddit thread, and the images sourced to notable murder investigations such equally the Boston Strangler. They have been interpreted as implying a threat of bioterrorism against the United States, although information technology has also been speculated that the video is in reality a prank, a viral marketing stunt for an upcoming film or video game, or a student film.

After it first came to lite in Oct 2015, it was found that it had been posted to YouTube several months earlier, along with a similarly threatening bulletin in binary code. The poster of that video, known equally AETBX, has suggested to inquiring journalists that GadgetZZ is not telling the truth about how information technology came to possess the video. Internet investigators managed to establish that it was filmed in the old Zofiówka Sanatorium outside Otwock, Poland, erstwhile betwixt November 2013 and the video'south release.^[one]

Three months after the initial controversy, an private going past the name of Parker Warner Wright claimed to have created the video. He told The Daily Dot that information technology was intended as an art project, and released a sequel video, "11B-3-1369".^[2] As a way of proving his identity, he challenged viewers to create an exact duplicate of his plague doctor mask.^[three]

Synopsis [edit]

The video begins with shaky footage showing a effigy mostly concealed in the shadow between two window-sized openings in a brick wall, through which leaves in trees can be seen blowing in the air current. These images are accompanied by indistinct electronic buzzing and hissing sounds. The effigy holds their right hand to the window, signaling with three fingers, then one, and finally two.^[4]

The figure remains in shadow, with an insert showing it with cloaked arms spread, every bit the camera moves farther away and slowly circles to the right. Later a jump cut, the lighting around the figure improves, revealing that the effigy is wearing an outfit that resembles a plague doctor costume, a long dark long-sleeved hooded cloak with its face masked past a long, downward-pointing dark leather beak and goggles. The effigy holds up their right hand, palm facing outward at shoulder acme, to reveal a blinking light in the heart of the palm. Beeping noises announced on the soundtrack in coordination with the blinks.^[iv]

The effigy somewhen turns to its right to look at the hand. By this fourth dimension, the leaves outside are still. The figure turns to look at the camera, now steady, again briefly, then dorsum to its manus. Subsequently a serial of spring cuts in which they plow rapidly back and along between the 2 positions, the figure looks directly at the camera and points to it.^[four]

A quick cut after, the costumed character is looking at the camera again with hands at its sides. Subsequently a few more than jump cuts in which they turn to the right and back once more, the figure stands still, and so looks to its left slowly. The figure looks down to where a box with various triangular sections appears, then to their right as the image seems to fragment briefly. For the remainder of the video, the cloaked figure stands still with its back to the wall, with the camera apparently handheld again and occasional video effects briefly doubling the prototype.^[iv]

History [edit]

On October 12, 2015, John-Erik "Johny" Krahbichler, founding editor of the Swedish tech blog GadgetZZ, posted well-nigh a "creepy puzzle" that had been sent to him via the post, perhaps in June.^[5] An envelope, postmarked in Warsaw and addressed to "Johny M.", care of the site'due south postal service office box in Helsingborg, with no render address, contained "a really weird CD" (really a DVD). On information technology was written an alphanumeric string long enough to require two lines. At showtime he assumed information technology was a product key.^[6]

He causeless information technology was some software someone had sent him to review. He tested it out in a spare laptop, and instead found the video. "I was unsure what to think of it, but I institute it very odd", he told The Washington Post. He said that he "afterward reexamined information technology and started noticing the 'codes' and letters subconscious all around the video".^[five]

Subsequently making a minimal try to decode it himself, he gave upwardly and posted about it to his blog, consummate with images of the disc and envelope.^[vi] A few days later Gizmodo ran a story on the discovery.^[7] Lily Hay Newman of Slate described the experience of watching information technology for the first fourth dimension as "creepy" and "unsettling", likening it to the experience of watching the cursed videotape from the 2002 film The Ring.^[8]

Possible origins [edit]

Early investigations soon found that Krahblicher was non the first to make the video public. In May, a user account identified as "AETBX" had posted it to YouTube, the business relationship's only mail service to the site.^[9] There, it had been identified and described in binary code, with a string of 0s and 1s.^[iv] Equally other users began commenting on it, AETBX returned to enquire why there was all of a sudden so much involvement in his five-month-one-time posting. Some commenters speculated that he had, in fact, created it himself; he vigorously denied it.^[5]

The Washington Mail service contacted him by email. He identified himself only equally "Daniel from Kingdom of spain" and said he had been sent the video in the mail also. His version, he said, was also sent to him, via email from a girl he did not know, who told him she plant information technology on a park bench.^[5] In an update to his original mail, Krahblicher reported that someone found that even before than the YouTube posting, it had been posted to the paranormal board on 4chan.^[six] Afterward, in The Daily Dot, he cast doubt on Krahblicher'southward account, proverb "Anyone can fake a DVD".^[10]

Two other leads on possible creators proved false. Around the time Krahblicher start posted most the video, the blog of Triton Telly, a student motion-picture show grouping at the University of California, San Diego, posted a screenshot of the video along with a title and description in binary. Reached for comment, the group said it no longer used that website and it had been hacked a few weeks earlier; The Daily Dot said the image appeared to have been one of many posted by the hacker at random. A human being named Parker J. Wright replied to a reporter's query on Twitter by maxim he was not the Parker Wright who had posted the video to YouTube on September 30 with the note "Are y'all listening?"^[i]

Interior of Zofiówka Sanatorium similar to that used in the video, 2010

While the identity of the video creator remained unknown, the location at which information technology was filmed has been identified. A Polish Internet user who was post-obit the story went to the former Zofiówka Sanatorium, most Otwock, a short altitude south of Warsaw. One of the rooms there had the aforementioned fenestration and graffiti seen in the video.^[11] The latter were not present in a photo of the room taken in November 2013, suggesting the video was fabricated between and so and Apr 2015.^[ane]

Parker Warner Wright [edit]

In tardily November, later on well-nigh of the initial talk and speculation about the video, its creator and purpose had died down, a Twitter business relationship was opened nether the name Parker Warner Wright.^[12] Its owner claimed to have made the video; Wright was not the only person on the Internet actively claiming the same thing at the time and throughout the last months of 2015 others posted their ain videos in effort to authenticate themselves.^[3]

At the end of the month, Wright announced that the next video would exist released "in exactly 1.444 metric hours" on his YouTube channel. At the appointed fourth dimension, a new video, titled 11B-3-1369, in black and white with occasional effects and inserts, was published, with "Their lies unlock our dissent", underneath in the description. In it, the figure in the plague doctor costume returned, shown outside the sanatorium in the forest at first, and afterward inside. The soundtrack was quieter than that of the first video and included some electronic tinkling noises which were synchronized with the blinker on the effigy'south mitt. Later in the video, the plague-doctor effigy is joined by a adult female in a white dress with her confront covered in bandages.^[13]

3 weeks afterward, The Daily Dot published an interview with Wright. He told reporter Mike Wehner that he was a U.S. denizen who lives in Poland, and that the videos were meant equally an art projection. Afterward finishing the video, in May 2015, he had left three copies, ii on discs in a subway and park in Poland, and the concluding one posted to 4chan. Reporter Mike Wehner concluded thus that the YouTube user AETBX had no involvement in the video'southward cosmos.^[iii] Every bit a way of authenticating himself, Wright challenged visitors to his Facebook page to replicate the plague doctor mask, which he claimed to have designed and congenital himself.^[3]

Some commenters on Wright's Facebook folio were skeptical of his claims, pointing to differences in the costume between the two videos; Wright explained the differences by saying he wanted, and fabricated, a improve cloak for the second video. Krahbichler accepted Wright's claims. "It would be too much of a hassle merely to play along for this long, and making up stories that fit then well," he wrote shortly afterwards the second video was posted. "I believe it is very safe to say that PWW is indeed the creator".^[two] In an early-December exchange on Facebook, Wright had told him he had chosen him as the recipient since he had "won the concern menu lottery ... yous handed me your business carte, at some betoken". Krahbichler speculated that Wright had probably attended at least ane of the many tech shows where he had had a booth.^[14]

Interpretations [edit]

The Reddit users who responded to Krahbichler's mail service found other coded messages hidden in the video.^[15] An encoded inscription on the disc's menu was found to be "11B-X-1371", which has been treated as the video'southward title.^[16] James Billington of the International Business Times wrote that "some reported [that the video's audio] sound[ed] like 'I would love to kill you' being repeated over and over".^[17] Another user created a spectrogram of the sound and plant both text and images concealed within. The former had one in plaintext proverb "You Are Already Dead"; the residuum were enciphered. The images depicted women being mutilated and tortured; early fears that the creator of the video might be a serial killer were allayed when afterwards research discovered that one of the stills was from the horror film The Bunny Game, one was from the German film Slasher and another was a picture of a victim of the Boston Strangler.^[one]

Most messages had a more often than not threatening tone. A sound spectrogram of the DVD'southward menu yielded a movie of a skull and more coded messages. The binary title of AETBX's YouTube posting was "Muerte", Castilian for "decease", and the clarification similarly resolved to Castilian text—"Te queda 1 año menos", rendered in English equally "you lot accept one less twelvemonth".^[ten] The triangle-and-square message near the end of the video was found to read "Advertizing oppugnare homines" in Pigpen cipher—Latin for "To attack or target men".^[half-dozen]

The plague doctor costume led other readers to run across the video'southward threats as related to bioterror. One message'due south plaintext read "The eagle=infected will spread his illness. Nosotros are the antivirus will protect the globe trunk"; another read "Strike an arrow through the eye of the eagle". The year 1371, it was also suggested, was one in which the Black Death was ravaging Europe.^[16]

Single-frame inserts were establish to accept Morse code and other texts in common ciphers. The Morse's plaintext was the phrase "RED LIPS LIKE Tenth". A sequence of 20 pairs of two-digit characters was found to exist the latitude and longitude of the White Firm in Washington; it was later noted that the "Cherry-red LIPS" phrase could be an intended anagram for "Kill THE PRESIDENT". These were seen as a threat against the Us in general and President Barack Obama in particular.^[x] ^[fifteen] Krahbichler reported that a cipher in the video could be decoded to reveal the message "STANDANDFIGHTWITHUSTAKEDOWNTHEBLACKBEASTKILLHISDISEASEORFALLWITHTHEREST", and that the "BLACKBEAST" of the message could exist Obama, an African-American. Krahbichler said that he believed that the video contained a political message, only was non a terrorist threat.^[18]

Shortly later on the private calling himself Parker Warner Wright revealed himself as the creator on Twitter at the end of November, he said to those who had been working to decode the texts "you are no closer to agreement the message".^[19] However, he allowed that information technology had been his intent that people piece of work together to break the codes: "Not ane individual could decipher the whole".^[20]

Possible purposes [edit]

A seventeenth-century delineation of a plague doc.

While the video'southward metamessage was clearly threatening, it remained likewise vague to draw whatever definitive conclusions well-nigh what the makers' intent might have been. Since it was publicized a few weeks before Halloween, there was speculation that it could be an Internet prank related to the holiday. Afterward initially beingness disturbed when the threatening messages were decoded, Krahbichler said, "I'one thousand starting to remember once again it'due south but an elaborate joke". Withal, he did not recall it was one aimed at him specifically, since if the sender "knew me personally, they would know I don't have the expertise to crack it, at least non the whole thing".^[5]

The other theory to gain support was that information technology was viral marketing to promote an upcoming movie or video game. A Redditor noted that the moving picture version of Dan Dark-brown's novel Inferno was beginning production at that time for a late 2016 release. In the story, a rich villain makes a video warning of his plans to release a virus in order to reduce population growth. In it, he also wears a plague doctor costume, likens himself to death and claims at the same time to be the cure.^[v]

Moviepilot also reported on speculation that the video was intended to promote the upcoming season of the Syfy series 12 Monkeys, based on the Terry Gilliam film of the same name. Both concern a time traveler from the time to come who is attempting to prevent the outbreak of a devastating epidemic in the present. Another Redditor had observed that the line "You are already expressionless" is used frequently in the bear witness, every bit is a plague doctor costume. He added that the "3-1-2" signaled by the figure's fingers at the beginning of the video could refer to the show's upcoming third flavor.^[21]

The video'due south Polish origin further suggested a marketing gimmick, according to one Redditor from that country. "[O]ur fledgling [video game] studios don't take big budgets for 'standard' advertisement[southward]", he wrote. At that place had been a similarly creepy viral video in Poland a few years agone, he recalled, that parodied a children'due south show. He did not call back the same people were behind 11B-X-1371, all the same, every bit their clip'south production values had been college.^[5]

Ultimately, it seemed unlikely that any media company, especially the major studios and television network making Inferno and 12 Monkeys, would hazard the negative publicity that would come up from using the images in the spectrograms and a suggested threat against a U.South. president.^[21]

Another theory connected the video to popular electronic musician Skrillex. In May, when the video had first been posted to the Net, he released a song called "Red Lips". Shortly after Krahbichler's original post, he tweeted "#REDLIPS #REDLIPS #REDLIPS". It was speculated that information technology could be viral marketing for his piece of work—other musicians in that genre have been known to hide images in spectrograms—or from some CDs of unreleased work that he said had been stolen from his hotel room. But if it was the former possibility, Krahblicher noted, "the problem is that the hints towards the works existence promoted are fairly weak".^[6]

Parker Warner Wright, whom both Krahblicher and The Daily Dot believed to be the creator of the video, said it and its sequel were the first in a series of fine art projects. He would not be specific on their themes or message. "I see my piece of work as waves on the bounding main", he told the latter. "Some people look for shells in it, some surf, others—dive". He had always intended for them to be a series, regardless of whether they went viral or not. "Currently, in that location is a call for more, and I aim to please", he admitted. "However, my art would move forwards irrespective of external force. I have a call from within, I need to answer".^[3]

Wright uploaded some other video to his Facebook folio entitled 110A30213 on Nov five, 2016, three days prior to the 2016 United States presidential ballot. It features Wright addressing a crowd while dressed like a military officer or dictator. Krahbichler theorized that the video, which he accounted "very political", might have a message related to the ballot. He also felt that the date that Wright posted the video on his Facebook page could be a reference to Guy Fawkes' words "Remember, think, the 5th of November".^[22]

See too [edit]

Cicada 3301, the identity claimed by a group, about whom fiddling else is known, that has posted several cryptological puzzles on the Internet in the mid-2010s looking for intelligent people to recruit.
Sad Satan
List of ciphertexts
List of viral videos

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