TWI: The Forgotten Mystery ARG

The enigma known as the Wyoming Incident continues to confuse and disturb viewers to this day--not just by the nature of its videos, but by the deep, spiraling backstory. What can we learn from one of the internet's oldest alternate reality games and video creepypastas?
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[@JyujinPlus]

“Headaches, hallucinations, and vomiting.” Oh yeah. This was definitely a Creepypasta from 2006

[@foussenimama908]

It actual worked on me and i cant stop the effects

[@HangmanOfficialUploads]

and den der was reelistik blud cumming thru de screan!

[@youraveragefloridaboy519]

@@HangmanOfficialUploads pretty accurate

[@monkeemash]

@@HangmanOfficialUploads If you came on the screen, I think we both watched the same video. Ohhhhh... Through the screeeeeen. Got it. Nevermind.

[@HangmanOfficialUploads]

@@monkeemash And then I coomed inside the corrupted Sonic and everything got better.

[@HRANCH]

It’s pretty funny that this video has more views than the population of the state of Wyoming

[@charnlangford4298]

Not hard to achieve, since it doesn't exist

[@notme69]

But Wyoming doesmt exist Garfoeld said so

[@stockpin]

Whats wyoming?

[@deimos4109]

@@stockpin hell

[@DarkenedArk]

as someone from wyoming I can confirm that it's hard to comprehend numbers that large

[@rowanoak433]

you really can't zone out for one second in this bad boy

[@tales527]

Too late

[@abilegit4453]

zoned out in the middle, rewatching the whole video b/c idk wtf happened

[@Blady99]

It’s hard not to zone out with this annoying repetitive cadence.

[@sillyd0g]

for real. i tried to play a mobile game while watching and now im halfway through the video realizing i have no clue what he's talking about

[@RaineCarosin]

I did ... I started to read the comments, and the vid is on pause ... I got carried away ... zzz's are still over the horizon, so now, with this, I'm really going to not watch the rest of the vid ... my nerves are finished ... xxx

[@candycoated_rage6591]

this is the homestuck of args. an early-internet treasure trove that's beyond confusing, and even spacing out for a second means you won't understand anything.

[@jamiedata]

Even Homestuck makes more sense than this

[@rockhistoria2537]

@@jamiedata at least homestuck has an comprehensive timeline (or at least I think it has)

[@jamiedata]

@@rockhistoria2537 Its a bit chronologically screwy, but it makes sense

[@rockhistoria2537]

@@jamiedata yeah, considering that they pretty much reveal the beginning of the story way later on act 6 (refering to the alpha trolls and caliborn)

[@Phantomphan613]

Shit, I think Problem Sleuth makes more sense

[@cabbagepatches5480]

What I got from this: TV broadcast hack > Google video > Reddit > cubing > video retrieval > cultish posts > lore > lore > lore > wtf > profit.

[@User-ve4bl]

same.

[@Monkey-xs8ve]

Stonks

[@straightshook6493]

@@Monkey-xs8ve Stencks

[@NotWizardRealms]

*CONFUSED STONKS*

[@epicboomshine6595]

Stunks. Since they apparently regret not taking the monetization route.

[@crow_kid6528]

I feel like nightmind legit got pissed while researching this

[@ChristinaWoodall]

FiftyActionExpress I'm just glad he did this and not me cuz I would have thrown up my hands really quick, I'm fascinated by ARGs but damn...props to the ppl behind them though

[@buttermeat6529]

who can blame him? this is less coherent than Kingdom Hearts' plot!

[@agenttex5973]

some fucking Pillock Now that's a very true statement

[@VGLNTGMR]

some fucking Pillock lmfao

[@coloryournight]

some fucking Pillock Yeah but Kingdom Hearts plot isn’t that hard to understand if you try. Then again, as you can tell, I’m just really fucking obsessed with it, so.

[@cheesebird4057]

what killed me internally is that entire section in which nobody knew what a lamprey was.

[@charlestaylor253]

I hate lampreys. They suck, (literally).

[@gucciman27]

I remember seeing them on River Monsters Jesus they scared me

[@strwbrryvagabond8864]

oh yeah that was the bit that got me lmao

[@briankai4936]

Lampreys will forever be tied to internet mysteries for me ever since I discovered Lamprey Hole (yatsume ana) and the whole subeteanatanoseidesu thing

[@wor53lg50]

Lamprey is the vampire fish, its a type of eel or hag fish that feeds of the blood of other fish..

[@ItBeOnai]

As someone who solves Rubik's cubes, I had a completely different interpretation of the term "Cubing"

[@_congrats]

The second the word cubing came up I thought “I know this one!” and was dead wrong

[@CartoonCreature]

I can’t blame you, I’ve definitely used a hammer on a Rubik’s cube before.

[@optimisticwatermelon]

Ikr, cubers need some recognition ;-; although maybe we'd get some more if we didn't choose freaking "cubers" as what we go by. Goofy ahh name.

[@doodoopop8385]

@@_congrats What did you originally think it was?

[@FriggnH8ters]

@@doodoopop8385 rubik's cube solving

[@thepikazapper0522]

"There's no such place as Wyoming. Think about it, have you ever met someone from Wyoming?"

[@bandages2268]

I'm from Wyoming

[@lloydgeesaman]

@@bandages2268 you lie

[@user-vq2go2vb8z]

I live in Wyoming So please dont hate

[@thegamingodst1628]

Thepikazapper05 Actually yes

[@professionalneet5820]

CoolNerdTV how do you wyom? Or is it spelled wyome?

[@lordweebus4367]

The mess that is this ARG really makes me appreciate how much effort it takes to make an actual ARG that actually makes sense.

[@doodooman8609]

nice pfp

[@strawberrybandage]

Your username is gold

[@randallaustin6125]

how is this a fucking arg when it legit happened in reality, made people sick, the guy broke the law and it wasn't a game at all. no args actually are though. it's just people being weird saying things like, what am I doing ?? figure me out!!

[@lordweebus4367]

I'm a person UwU thank you lmao, it’s an old inside joke. :)

[@lordweebus4367]

Randall Austin ARG’s happen in reality too, that’s why they’re called ALTERNATE REALITY Games. It’s just that they’re not supposed to go this batshit. I’m pretty sure this was a failed ARG that people happened to take advantage of.

[@CPCGamer]

I was part of the game when it was first running and something a lot of people don't include in their re-telling is that each video relates to a character in the game. The generally accepted rule was that the photos were game characters and that the 3D poser heads were murder victims. For example, Entry 1 is the ringleader smiling because he's about to show off his collection of trophies. Entry 5 shows someone trying to join in the events of the game, turned into a victim by the man with dark eyes. There was also a format for the text in the videos, too. The first slide addressed the players ("Why do you hate?" was a direct response to negative feedback on the message board), and the second text slide addressed someone in the game ("We only want to fix you" was a direct threat to a character who was revealing the games secrets).

[@agenttex5973]

Honestly wish he'd remake this video, it's not a bad vid but I feel that he skims over too much shit and it causes a form of sensory overload.

[@snarevox]

@@agenttex5973 wouldnt more information cause more overload?

[@agenttex5973]

@@snarevox I mean there's so much info within a small time frame which causes the overload

[@ThyPandora]

I don't know if you still read responses, but it'd be nice if you could (and if you remember anything) make a video that basically was an understanding of how the game originally went with what's been left behind for us to analyze at the end? of the game. Because it'd be really interesting (to me) at least, to hear from an OG player about what the heck all of this was. Thanks. :)

[@CPCGamer]

@@ThyPandora The main problem with that (aside from this happening so long ago) is that even at the time it was really unclear what the game was and where it was going. I'm not entirely convinced the GM's knew, and they just kinda went with whatever stuck. Something I do remember is the audio of a murder (beginning at 21:31 in this video). Night Mind mentions that the audio sounded unconvincing, and it was: it sounded like a guy kicking cardboard boxes round a room and shouting at them. But there *was* a piece of music playing in the background, Rainbow Disconnection by Sad Kermit. One particular board user had mentioned that song a couple of times in their posts, including 'if I was going to end someones life this is the music I would play as I did it'. From here, we were able to tie several other audio/video clues to that user: any time a Sad Kermit song played in the background, you knew it was from him regardless as to what alias he was using. Unfortunately I forget specifically who 'him' was in this instance, and I wouldn't want to guess and misinform you. Speaking of misinformation though, something the video gets wrong: The Cash For Gold video wasn't a legitimate part of the game. Lots of people made meme videos with the 'special presentation' format, and that c4g clip was one of them. I remember there was also one featuring Mac Tonight singing about mashed potatoes, which is a ridiculous sentence I never thought I would type out.

[@sandordugalin8951]

My favourite part of this whole ARG is the number of times the creators were like "this is all fake, we pranked you" and then went on to continue the ARG because people wanted to believe it so badly. fuckin lol.

[@13bugeyedclowncats95]

I imagine this whole ARG as a science experiment in the classroom gone wrong, that ended up setting off the fire alarm, and also smelt like piss the whole time.

[@taylortanner37]

Sincerely not trolling. Thanks for the warning. I never got that wasted time back from a science experiment like that caused my school to be evacuated and would have been pissed had it happened again and been wasted by yet another clusterfuck. Good looking out.

[@Neon.1210]

@@taylortanner37 wait im so confused an intrigued, what happened?

[@taylortanner37]

@@Neon.1210 the teacher accidentally made a huge fireball ( not under the fume hood) that released a noxious gas afterwards cause something was mislabelled. Several people began throwing up , it spread through that entire wing of the school and into the court yard and I know it made me dizzy , nauseous and it was hard to breath for 3 hours. Hence why we were evacuated. Not a great day in Del Sol High School history.

[@taylortanner37]

@@Neon.1210 I spent several weeks in the hospital because I aspirated into my lungs and ended up with pneumonia from that fun

[@Neon.1210]

@@taylortanner37 oh my god thats horrible 💀💀💀

[@guyofminimalimportance7]

Some people still think the Wyoming Incident actually happened. If the ARG was handled better it might have been considered common knowledge that it was a hoax, but given how obscure the actual game was, its more commonly considered an actual event, just like "This Man."

[@TheEddieStilson]

Having lived in Wyoming for a very long time, I can personally say this Wyoming incident did indeed happen. It was broadcast all over downtown Wyoming and people were just freaking out, running out in the streets by the thousands and getting trampled. It was madness.

[@happywithdrawal]

@@TheEddieStilson nonsense. everyone knows wyoming isn't real

[@myhlosic]

@@TheEddieStilson You being serious? Text can't convey sarcasm well.

[@sasaranumakarim8359]

What is "this man"? It sounds interesting.

[@doga5899]

@@sasaranumakarim8359 This man was a marketing attempt that was a drawing of a man and asked if you have seen him in your dreams. According to the story a psychologist made it after many patients described him and many people believed they also saw him. However "This man" was made to promote a movie but it wasn't made clear so people thought it was a legitimate psychology phenomenon.

[@nayR5]

“This is like an ARG about an ARG that got out of control” -Someone else (I’m paraphrasing)

[@frankmerker630]

that got turned into an advertisement

[@Alex-bc3tt]

What is an ARG, I tried searching the internet and can't get it

[@neonsashimidream1075]

What amazes me most about this is how at least some people were willing to follow it for so long (and then Night Mind was willing to put all the time and effort into researching and producing this video). This ARG has all the thrills, intrigue and fascination of an improvised and rambling story by an 8 year old.

[@NxTTxT]

the wyoming incident sounds like a list of several random, seemingly unrelated incidents that are still very much bizarre anyway

[@paladinchef]

The Wyoming Incidents is for a single incident

[@CopiousDoinksLLC]

That's why it's so funny to me that NM decided to do a video on it, because it's like trying to find some connection between a series of events that have nothing to do with each other. What is there to 'explain' in this scenario? It's like trying to make sense of someone's insane ramblings while they're tripping on Salvia. There's no logic here.

[@Emma88178]

@@CopiousDoinksLLC Well..... NM even flat out said that the whole thing is a illogical mess. He doesn't just make videos on good ARG's/webseries. He makes videos on bad ones too as a way to tell people how not to do things. But he also makes videos based on their popularity and just telling a story on how a popular project was made.

[@sunmi2539]

Lol

[@sam9014]

I’m so confused

[@agenttex5973]

Is it bad that I have watched this at least5 times and I still can barely understand what's going on

[@ElazarYershovFilms]

Agent Tex I’d say it’s normal.

[@legooverkillanimation4962]

Same

[@bigballs2488]

Agent Tex very normal especially the person depicted as “Wyoming” I have no idea who the hell that is

[@beebthemilch]

Same

[@michaelhofby]

wait how did you put that text on my screen??

[@donkeyknifer7283]

"This is why gaming [...] will never become a spectator sport." - That didn't age well :)

[@TwinBleaks]

Came here to say that lmao

[@somenfelle2871]

Nm

[@sillyd0g]

the happy cube stuff was really intriguing and genuinely creepy at first, but they immediately lost me once they started throwing crowley and BEKs and greek mythology into the mix. it felt like they had a ton of disconnected ideas for the direction they wanted to take the story and instead of paring it down they tried to use all of them at once. especially because none of the more woo-y-woo elements were alluded to at any point before iliketofix started talking about muses out of nowhere.

[@theflamelord]

"That's why videogames will never be a spectator sport" How wrong we were in 2004

[@pranabmohanty7767]

Yup

[@melonman6522]

I noted that too, had to delete my comment saying essentially the same thing when I saw your comment

[@youtubearchive3668]

Its a fake sport

[@melonman6522]

@@youtubearchive3668 So is chess

[@youtubearchive3668]

Yeah like board games and shit

[@axiom6031]

We go from hijacked television footage to serial killer forums and then into a cult-like ARG

[@SexyTechSupport]

That escalated quickly...

[@rd-6137]

it escalated quickly indeed

[@seconds-kr5uj]

Reaper who's keyser soze?

[@malteaser8438]

this was the worst ARG ive seen.

[@MaxEverywhereSystem]

Welcome to the night mind channel.

[@Jack_Zandara]

Forget the Wyoming incident, the happy Cube is the scary part

[@samwindmill8264]

Almost thought that read "Cuba", even more ironic with the Hammer and sickle

[@feloniousbutterfly]

I was instantly torn out of the dream when they said that was the sound of someone flatlining. Not even close. I watched my dad flatline and it has all kinds of warning alarms to denote various things. It's unmistakable and the sound from this ARG sounds like a soap opera sound effect.

[@AuroraDee99]

Great, the one thing Wyoming is known for is this.

[@bandages2268]

That and Yellowstone

[@ceilingeye]

And Matthew Shepard

[@Loltyler456]

The hell is a Wyoming?

[@dacooldragonakadanny7833]

It’s Union Pacific’s Challenger and Big Boy, for railfans. ...for me, it’s that, that, and deserts and shit.

[@NajwaLaylah]

Didn't Charlie Starkweather make his last trip from Nebraska to the badlands of Wyoming?

[@drphil8281]

"...and just as a precaution, I've tampered with the audio a bit." Made me smile. Not sure why, just seemed awfully caring of you to do that for your viewers. If I could subscribe a second time I absolutely would.

[@daffodille]

~ fuzzy feelings ~

[@AndrewRibbit]

ARENA64 a lot of Crappy 2017 you tubers don't care about there subscribers * COUGH COUGH * Durv

[@madmaks1980]

Lol, feel the same dude.

[@he-gm1ri]

@@AndrewRibbit *Their

[@charlessmith4333]

Jordan Lysander same

[@sodagirl1092]

It really sucks how messy this ARG got, it was really interesting and freaky to learn about, but then suddenly this big ol' mess at the end.

[@DeathSpread]

After watching Wendigoon for almost 6 months now I am so happy to be getting these old gems in my recommended videos. Love this even if this is a decade and a half old the video is over half a decade ago. Awesome video

[@therewasanattempt7092]

If anyone is curious, the short story “a most dangerous game” is about a hunter who fell overboard on a hunting trip and ended up on an island where a man who hunted people for sport. The man had to survive the hunter until he managed to outsmart him and kill him.

[@crackerjack0349]

There Was An Attempt when I read it in class I imagined old Joseph from JoJo

[@georgeruiz9211]

@@crackerjack0349 here to prevent jojo fans from invading the comment section, also to jojo fans, don't invade this comment section

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@georgeruiz9211 Sorry, you have chosen futility.

[@KlutzyNinjaKitty]

George Ruiz - Dude, I appreciate you. JoJo’s become the new Rick and Morty or Undertale. It was like there was a reference on every video and it just got really obnoxious (and I actually liked Undertale. So it’s saying something if someone like me was getting tired of seeing it everywhere during its prime.)

[@icedcoffeek1tty]

i rember mentioning to my teacher about the cube thing when we did an assignment on “the dangerous game” i feel so bad i must of scared her lol 😂

[@Keirnoth]

It's 2019 and I still don't know what the f happened in this ARG.

[@ThatcherChannel]

'twas all for boners

[@cosmicdoodles2992]

Same

[@foreskinmcfat-nutsjr]

Man same. I’ve watched this 2 times. This will be my third. I always get lost pretty much right after 9:18 confused as fuck

[@billyandrew]

It was threading other fictitious stories together, such as _The Blackeyed Children_ to create an even grander prank.

[@mdog86]

I'm at minute 18 and just now realizing the last ten fucking minutes were a blur and I have no idea what he's even talking about lol

[@doggeenayter]

“What hides in your mind” “We have already seen it” You sure? Cus I think it’s only filled with sad

[@17troopper]

Went to the site just to see if they were still active and recently there have been posts, some being audio files. It's quite unsettling, all of them talking about 'oh wow the board is back up' .

[@jg5232]

I thought I had a stroke or was just extremely stupid for a moment, then I read the comments and was relieved to see others are just as confused as I am

[@swefress]

9:57 "This is why gaming and similar things will never become spectator sport." ... oh you have no idea 10 years later.

[@Minetuber07]

My favorite part about that is the fact that they just compared video games to *LITERAL MURDER.*

[@swefress]

yep.

[@pugler20]

+Minet same thing tbh

[@calderonjacob9]

Frolof I thought the same shit ha

[@swefress]

Haha yeah :D

[@gaminggladiator06]

My thought on all this is that someone, namely the creator of the arg, saw rising interest in the wyoming incident and made this to piggyback on it’s “Success”, for lack of a better word. Even though they had not revealed themselves as the creator, or even gained any monitary value from it, the thought of popularity towards them and their arg is surely the reason why they kept pushing the story so much, leaving behind it’s role as an arg to become more of an online semi-interactive fictional novel. The whole thing was rather interesting in the beginning, but the creator kept shoving so much information into it, i was having trouble keeping up with the story on this video.

[@ulawan5]

This story SUPER reminds me of this circle of roleplay blogs I've been part of for a while that isn't quiiiiite dead yet. If someone were to stumble on it without our short disclaimers and context at the time, I have to wonder if people would actually believe that emotion-feeding aliens _were_ among us. Probably not, but it was really cool in its heyday.

[@rowanwalthall9045]

This ARG has got more reboots than the DC comics main story line

[@azmhyr]

Until now, I thought the Wyoming Incident was some creepy-ass video on the internet. But now, I can't believe what I've just seen and heard. The fact that it had such a large backstory to it? *mindblown*

[@kguac9028]

A back story that made no damn sense

[@KyrstOak]

I love things with detailed backstories.

[@lolrus5555]

Too bad none of it fucking went anywhere beyond just getting more and more shitty walls of text.

[@cobrakairobloxenthusiast4291]

The video went from talking about The Wyoming Incident to talking about other stuff that was cluttered paragraphs which I couldn’t understand. Ok well if this is the backstory to Wyoming Incident and if someone would explain it to someone else then they gotta ready for a tad bit confusing story.

[@musicinthewildwood]

When I was a teenager I had a friend who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and DID. She wrote endlessly about her "world" which was divided into 4 quadrants: NW, NE, SE, SW, going clockwise. She had a vampiric entity who was her Higher Self, I suppose, in Jungian terms; at any rate, her name was Yahndu Aerii (the first name her own invention, however I later ran into the latter term in Ceremonial Magick which I'm pretty close to 100% sure she'd never encountered, except she kind of knew who Aleister Crowley was from the Metallica song "Mr Crowley"; keep in mind that this was long prior to the dawn of the internet). So she had characters in each quadrant and their qualities and characteristics were supposed to be separated by this very firm cruciform wall between each zone. As I got older I saw a lot of overlap but her illness caused her extreme anxiety if this was ever suggested to her. She would talk about what she considered to be "real" vampires; their quadrant was the SE. She invented her version, more or less, but I know all about the lore of the vampire through the ages and technically she was totally off about the subject of the "true" vampire as it was originally conceived by various cultures but most specifically the lore of Eastern Europe, where it was brought to a point of development of the archetype as a "revenant", a newly dead person unable to rest in its grave and compelled to feed on the blood of the living (and basically a peasant belief that did NOT originally involve the aristocracy). Her version was a totally non-physical being, of the Air element as one can see, but such entities, which can certainly be vampiric in nature, are not specifically vampires as such. At any rate she'd talk about "obsidian eyes" that they would have when they would "feed" on their host's life energy, caused by the dilation of the pupil to the point of the iris ceasing to be visible. The interesting thing is that the main character in her NW quadrant, a character she named Robin and who was based on the character of Darth Vader, always had eyes like this. This was of course an example of the overlap. The NE had to do with people being turned into "gray pawns" (she was also heavily influenced by D&D) who could be spotted by their gums gradually receding and their teeth progressively rotting; the word "pyorrhea" was the theme in the NE and the gradual eclipse of the personality resembled the waning of the moon, or a lunar eclipse. Of course it also drew a parallel to the disappearing of the iris in the "vampires'" eyes. That was most of what she told me about and had me read; I never heard much about the SW, just that it was inhabited by creatures much like the Djinn of Middle Eastern cultures. She would draw very vivid pen-and-ink drawings to illustrate her endless stories (much like this endless comment!). Well I had to get away from her after I'd left for college; I would speak to her on the phone from there but I had to end the friendship at that point. I did try to reconnect with her when I'd had a breakdown of my own later in my life, but it was short-lived as she really seemed worse rather than better, and she didn't even want to meet me in person. I often wonder what happened to her, but she was a semi-permanent inmate of the local mental hospital and I know things would never be very good for her. I just thought of some of her fantasies when I saw this video. Hopefully other viewers will find the story about her interesting. Sorry it was so long!

[@Xanthopathy]

tl;dr

[@xxpromlggamerproxx]

@@Xanthopathy wacky shit

[@ScottMartin-dh1ys]

The world is run a quartly bases theres only 4 quarters in a calender year

[@Emilyrkissinger]

I legitimately was scared about the frequency thing so even though it's fake it's nice to know he edited the audio 😭

[@TabbiCat101]

Ritual instrictions TLDR: imagine bad things and walk around your house

[@yonkadingo1141]

this is just daily life for me

[@steepledmender8502]

I kinda want to know what type of lasting effects this would have on me if I did it but still wouldn't do it

[@bfreeman8786]

@@steepledmender8502 you could expect to go stark raving mad mixed with believing your a toaster here to paint the sky- Or you could fragment into a Trauma Based Fractured Identity affected human that went halfway through an Mkultra style programming... Or you could stay relatively sane and get visited by the Black Eyed Kids on their terms... Your probably better off imagining the possibilities. ~Don't Go Hunting for Montauks!~

[@Jrb8k3n]

@@yonkadingo1141 maybe you should take a walk outside!

[@Jrb8k3n]

I still would like to be able to at least read the instructions... Why can't he at least post them here???

[@marseillais2687]

Watches a 44 minute video, and the only thing I'm left with is... "Wait wat?"

[@joycebirrey725]

I know what you're feeling *_You don't understand it like me, don't you?_*

[@joycebirrey725]

_i also don't know it as well._

[@Luchoz46]

i Never know.

[@danyelari7169]

*No one really knows.*

[@chookitty5219]

I don't understand either hahaa

[@hmm8139]

I remember thinking the Wyoming Incident was real when I was younger, and when I look back on it I can’t help but laugh at my own stupidity, because I saw it on creepypasta wiki and still thought it was real.

[@mooshroomgaming7140]

Night Mind, reading the text in the video: “we stand at the door” Me, about to exit the bathroom: oh no

[@mattomanx77]

The pasta and ARG were really amazing and well hidden at first, with how strangely connected everything was and how it had clearly been building for years, and then suddenly it all hit slow mud when we got to the cubing forum. Suddenly everything was on there, it stopped being about finding things and just playing along with some guy's weird roleplay.

[@walterk9916]

Ho lee fuk this is complicated as hell

[@Roadent1241]

+Walter Kelekolio Sounds about something the Professor would say on a bad day XD But I have to agree, it is.

[@walterk9916]

It has stacks on stacks of data

[@keshiawebster5227]

+Anakin Skywalker I thought I was the only one who didn't get it

[@keepitlo00]

Yeah im not getting it either but I think thats what makes me feel so uneasy about it--it went from wierd video hoax---to happy cube serial killers---to people losing their sanity over a video...Yeah shouldn't have watched this one before bed :(

[@WafflesMoguMogu]

Bang Ding Ow

[@T61APL89]

22:40 im so insanely curious now as to what the full 'ritual' requirements were

[@livedead135]

Come to Wyoming and you'll experience some weird stuff... we have a small town close to mine that has a house which catches on fire randomly. Without suffering any damage and if you sleep in that town, when you leave, you'll lose all memory of the town no matter how long you stay there. Unless you move there and live there, you'll never remember being there if you sleep there. We are also notorious for Skinwalkers and Wendigos known as "the Deer Men" to the point that the state police admit to it.

[@chozo1325]

This is like an eldritch ARG. Ancient, very confusing, not sure if it's alive and certainly eccentric.

[@sasaranumakarim8359]

What is Eldritch? I'm really into Args and this sounds interesting.

[@Soni38900]

@@sasaranumakarim8359 Eldritch is kinda like spooky and stuff. Like, Cthulu is eldritch. An ancient eldritch tentacle man who if he was real would kill us all in seconds the moment he woke up.

[@gonlegos]

@@Soni38900 Cthulhu

[@Nawmps]

@@sasaranumakarim8359 Eldritch has come to mean weird and disturbing, in a way that inspires fear or disquieting emotion. It's most commonly associated with H.P. Lovecraft's writings and similar Lovecraftian horror tales.

[@kubratichuplays4242]

I ruined 300 likes, I’m sorry

[@HeatherButt]

cubing: using math to find the number that will equal your number when multiplied by itself 3 times.

[@chilli3724]

THE HORROR

[@holwy97]

So they’re mathematicians, not serial killers.

[@chunkchunk223]

Wolfingstock I’m already scared

[@isaaca.4367]

0?

[@sinafransch161]

@@holwy97 THAT'S EVEN WORSE

[@SquirrelsRainyDay]

Nightmind is the perfect background for drawing and working... Everything they cover is just so ✨. Amazing content even if any of the videos are old....

[@Thenameless1]

You know now that I've read a bit of The Sandman I think that reference to the serial killers convention and give me a number make a lot more sense, I still don't quite have a well realized understanding of everything in this whole plot, but from the details I could parse, it does genuinely feel like they were going for trying to make like a Sandman type story out of an ARG.

[@SabbyNeko]

This story is very convoluted. I'm struggling to follow it.

[@ArtyCraftZ]

Likewise. I had to rewind the video several times.

[@hustlebones6805]

Try watching his Marble Hornets: Explained videos, they are way more confusing.

[@katdat]

Yeah I agree. It's extremely hard to follow, Marble Hornets wasn't as all over the place as this though.

[@Emma88178]

Gale 1337 but he made the experience BETTER and made it so that it was EASIER to follow the story of Marble Hornets. He did a great job!

[@sanctun-3782]

rainrunerkill Popkill It seems to me this ARG got big for its shoes. All being made on the fly could only do so much

[@brian.phillips1985]

So how did this go from a hacker hijacking a video broadcast to ghost children?

[@il-dottore]

IDK. I got lost at the serial killer website

[@m.panther]

Nobody knows.

[@SeanathanJohnathan]

"you are ill" me with a really bad cold: HOW DID YOU KNOW?!

[@jamesthomson7551]

I've been watching your videos and I really enjoy them. They are some of the best creepy videos on KZbin. I look forward to seeing your next videos.

[@vulpezerdavulcan9055]

The whole thing started to fall apart as something I found fascinating when the poster started referring to “what my people think is best for you”. This didn’t need to be a big conspiracy. It didn’t need to include Greek mythology or black-eyed alienesque humans. It’s too many components, like so many ARGs, and it doesn’t do the story any favors. Unless you’re making an absurdist work or wild comedy, you need to pick a premise and stick with it, and especially if you’re trying to make an urban legend-type story, you should probably avoid dipping into other people’s fictional works or well-known myths. Turning something this complicated into just an ARG within another ARG was a pretty decent way to salvage this overcomplicated mess, honestly. I’m sure the elements could have been streamlined, in fact, but as they are it comes off as clunky to me from what I know of it

[@lizkavanagh]

that’s exactly what i was thinking, they tried too hard to cram so many unrelated elements into this and it hindered the story rather than helped it.

[@slendiebendy]

@cromwell2007 I mean, to be fair, previous generations were tricked by orison wells doing a dramatic reading of war of the worlds, so its not like this is exactly a new thing

[@BoneSoldier666]

@cromwell2007 ive seen you on a couple different comment threads on here and bro, once someone gets past, like, 15 they know for sure about unfiction and play along because its more fun then going "haha omg this is so fake".

[@BogWitch8440]

This was back when a lot of people still actively roleplayed IRL as a hobby and I think some RL GM who was overly obsessed tried to push his homebrew story into an ARG, not realizing that internet games need to cater to smaller attention spans due to the sheer size of the player base. Also, ARGs aren't suited to the same long-term style of storytelling, as people online get more impatient with whomever is running the story when they aren't there in person to tell players to sit down, shut up and wait until the next chapter is ready or get booted from the game. And honestly, I don't think he (or she) was the best storyteller, TBH. They were way too invested in their story without considering the 'players' that were supposed to be involved.

[@casteanpreswyn7528]

@@slendiebendy the War of the Worlds panic wasnt real. It was a marketing stunt.

[@PixlPixel]

the part where transparent forum threads shot across the screen while NM was trying to explain the story was a very accurate depiction of how all of us feel mentally about the whole thing

[@jamesburk8145]

Having grown up in wyoming, it's actually a perfect place for mysterious small town intrigue or half remembered ghost stories. The people live far apart and there aren't many of them, everyone in the state is some shade of unstable, it just gives off "something isn't right here" vibes. And they're correct if you ask around.

[@gargantula3274]

In case you didn't know, there is this thing called infrasound that is basically a really low frequency (like 17 -19 hz) that does actually cause the fluid in your eyes to vibrate in such a way that makes you see shadows out of the corners of your vision. It's actually used a lot in horror movies, but unless you watch it on a system that can actually effectively reproduce frequencies that low (like in a movie theater), you won't experience anything like that. It's not dangerous by the way, just adds to the horror experience.

[@suffoc8]

I like the idea that any TV speakers from the 80's or even up to this day would actually play 17-19Hz frequencies at all

[@zachariahpoltergeist4516]

Well, they will, you just won't hear anything.

[@vlaceomuadlai2592]

@@zachariahpoltergeist4516 I don't think they could, at least ones from the 80s. The speakers wouldn't be large enough nor powerful enough to play anything below 50Hz

[@zachariahpoltergeist4516]

@@vlaceomuadlai2592 not at an audible level, which was my point.

[@vlaceomuadlai2592]

@@zachariahpoltergeist4516 Hmm, right, I think I gotcha now. Misunderstood what you were saying before.

[@vallytine]

around the ten minute mark, "This is why gaming will never become a spectator sport." Oh my God my sides

[@BlackFlagHeathen]

Valerie Aust Lol yeah, up there with AVGN saying that nobody gives a shit about virtual reality anymore back in 2009

[@owenwgoodrich]

love these types of videos, great work!

[@jaimedeleon1194]

This synopsis makes the original ARG seem so intriguing! I'm glad I wasn't mired in the thick of all of the events when it was live

[@EmilyB-px6vy]

To quote Patrick Star: "Who are you people?!" Joking aside, I'm usually pretty quick on the uptake in these situations, but this was a, for lack of a better term, clusterfuck. Even with NightMind's explanations, my mind feels broken. This whole event does nothing but throw a person into sensory overload. It doesn't scare, it just frustrates.

[@justaspectator9762]

@cromwell2007 you don't know what an arg is it seems

[@Nix-Foxx]

@@justaspectator9762 you my sir are correct

[@Reddline198X]

Jesus, I wish I had the creativity to come up with something even remotely as complex and unnerving as this. I'm no Troy Wagner, but I've always wanted to do something like this, a creepy ARG that would lead people in circles for years. Shit man, you should write something better than this. Knowing everything you do about horror, I bet you could take us all for a really wild ride.

[@NightMind]

+AModestProposal You can always do more than you believe you're capable of at this time. Don't count yourself out, friend! As for me, if I did make something, no one of you would know it was mine.

[@Uploaded1995]

+Night Mind Does that mean you would throw everyone for a loop with a big cover-up by making a video about the project yourself? (Tbf, this is not a question I expect a clear answer to.)

[@armaniacx23]

+Night Mind Nice try, I know your secret ALAN RESNICK!

[@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943]

armaniacx23 OH FUCK

[@williamronch]

armaniacx23 OH CRAP

[@greedtheron8362]

"Video 9 is a ad for Cash4Gold followed by several posts about ARGs needing sponsors" Holy hell I needed that laugh

[@AshHeaven]

I wonder why I hesitated to watch this video. I have finally watched it. The Wyoming Incident is probably one of the best and well-made ARGs and creepypastas that I have seen so far. The best ARGs are the ones that ambiguous and could be real or based in reality, have a lot of effort put in, have incomplete endings leaving people wanting more, and keep you up at night contemplating, questioning, thinking if they could be real long after they have supposedly “ended.” I admit that it is a bit inconsistent and extra complicated for no reason, but that is one of the things that make it interesting and such as fun mess.

[@elaxter]

I'm slowly unraveling who Night Mind is. He's a guardian of sorts, whos turns of phrases, vocal patterns, and voice tone all combine into an antimemetic effect to help the easily frighten digest these phenomena without being taken over by their memetic properties.

[@Protester19]

how crazy of a twist would it be that he himself is a spooky interactive thingamabob

[@cobblestonecobbler]

Yeah like one of those illuminutty fellers

[@draco_system]

You guys must be fucking physics, cause he just announced this shit on Tumblr.

[@ShootingStarNeo]

I mean, I still get crazy paranoid listening to these while alone in my apartment, so I guess I'm just a coward. :P

[@ilikeediting649]

the greatest: me, an intellectual meme

[@iconofsinder]

The one thing I'll never forget after watching this is the phone call. That's some unsettling stuff

[@vhbc8791]

Nice Video.

[@collinparks6414]

No kidding. That stuck with me more than anything else.

[@CourtlySeaDog]

the one thing I'll never forget is the way most KZbin story telling channel hosts speak. not the accent, but the way they change the pitch multiple times per word

[@rasundesilva6088]

+Crimson Titan Who else does this? Tats Tops Videos?

[@richardavelino7383]

3:33 thanks for tampering with the audio. Wasnt in the mood to start bleeding from my eyes haha

[@BurningBridgesForever]

Lol I don't know if those little noises were possibly you hitting your mic or desk on accident, but they were unnerving enough to distract me from this convoluted mess. So thank you!

[@wren_biird]

You lost me at Cubing this is so confusing

[@dogeguylol3848]

Or it can be referred to solving Rubiks cube my skills are so great I can use my clenched ass to solve a 3x3x3

[@7cassandraecw378]

This is the greatest puzzle-master of all time.

[@jsngallery]

pixelating is another term

[@fireblade295]

It reminds me of AshVlogs... ARGs need their lore small and controlled.

[@DjDestiny20021212]

@@fireblade295 Well that's no fun.

[@BeartoeConCarne]

DUDE YOU OFFICIALLY GAVE ME THAT FEELIN WHERE SOMEONES WATCHING. subscribed soo hard. scary movies suck so bad i need to get onlne to get creeped.

[@demonnogo]

Same, a lot of modern scary movies rely on jump scares to make their movies seem scary. These videos genuinely creep me out.

[@cuzimaluzer777]

damn dude clean up the jizz

[@bubbyboy5944]

every modern horror movie is a cheesy haunted house movie

[@ctdoc8368]

if you really want to be scared look at Donald trump's twitter XD

[@janeadelaidelennox7193]

+Ct Doc I did. It's pretty hard to be scared though.. too busy sifting through spelling mistakes and shit grammar.

[@flexiblenerd]

Oddly enough, the more we dig into even recent internet history (let alone its early days, which...jesus, has it really been 30-40 years?!), the more complex and confusing stuff we come across, and it just seems to get ever darker - like we're digging a hole and each thing we find is another shovelful of dirt allowing us to shed light on something that hasn't seen a candle in decades.

[@SnorelyBorely]

I love the fact you messed with the audio a bit for our safety, I love you Night Mind. We all do.

[@savannahcdunn]

Did you get any affects? I’m scared to keep watching LMAO

[@SnorelyBorely]

@@savannahcdunn nothing, it’s just a noise. And as he said he messed with it so :/

[@ky-gp4sz]

29 minutes in and I'm very confused, what does this have to do with the TV hijackings?

[@skoots6303]

ky Nothing. This fuck just wasted 40 minutes of our life.

[@girlyrot]

Bro do you like club penguin island cause so did I

[@subswithnovideos-lr8pu]

@@girlyrot maannn it so cool

[@coffin7904]

@@girlyrot bahajajajahha

[@mellamojeff458]

Its an arg (alternative reality game(s)

[@ataridc]

Args/creepypastas and horror in general tends to be creepier with the less information you have. A single broadccast in wyoming is scary because our brain does all the extra work trying to figure out how or why someone would even bother. Much like the very real and unsolved maxheadrome incident. This, if anything, is pure information overload. Especially once you get into spiritual/supernatural stuff which everyone has different threshholds for. In fact, id argue one of the scariest things about this is that so many people have devoted so much time and effort into it over a decade clogging up the internet with meaningless information. Looking at the human minds need to focus on anything to find purpose in our short blip of existence is more terrifying to me than shadow eyed children.

[@Dynabtw]

K

[@LUMINIZEDOG]

@@wilsonjonah >I had a migraine behind my right eye but oddly, not my left. dude that is exactly how migraines work

[@lordgarithos7332]

@@wilsonjonah Just because you believe in something doesn't mean it's true.

[@addisonroberts2687]

Patka Guska Really breaking new ground here. Great job

[@truthstartshere.9214]

Did people forget about a fishing rods ?? You know fishing is great its funny how hard an yet easy it is to catch a fish which is more smarter them a human. Pretty sad

[@Woodland_Adventures]

The... noise(?)... music(?) from the video, sent chills down my spine, and gave me goosebumps.

[@rewenemp]

So, like, what was the part of the ritual that Nick wouldn’t talk about? To this day I’m still unaware because I don’t wish to go dig through those forums-

[@coffin7904]

it involves basically hypnotizing yourself into a state of deep paranoia and fear. its psychologically horrific. having read it, I wish I hadn't because even knowing how to do it is really scary.

[@Benpurple4]

yeah I just read it, it basically says to imagine someone hurting you and how it would affect your loved ones if they find your mangled corpse. what a fuckin let down.

[@rewenemp]

@@coffin7904 Ah, okay. Thank you for braving what I could not 😅

[@roachdoggjr722]

@@Benpurple4 thanks, man! Just read it myself. The "imagine something bursting through your door" thing got me a little creeped to be honest. But otherwise the whole ritual is "Imagine something scary. Pretty scary, right?" 😂😂

[@AverageAlien]

don't blame it on us this time...

[@Someone-ish]

Sorry for shitting on the moon and please free local58 from mind control

[@dogeguylol3848]

Average Alien Are you in area 51

[@Sarah_270]

@@dogeguylol3848 you'll find out on the 20th Sept

[@joestanton656]

My brother I will free you The Octopi Brotheren live as one with the alien

[@jacobmartinez8341]

Are your hands weird and elongated or just grey?

[@nolives]

When you find out your murder cult is really a cash4gold rep.

[@SprightlyValentino]

The nerve.

[@jeffreypainter1845]

Never heard of TWI until just now, but this guys voice bores me to tears

[@wiltedpetals]

i started off watching a video about the wyoming incident, zoned out, and suddenly was hearing about… murder forums??

[@BuggingonBeeroids]

That went down the shitter. This arg was pretty groovy up to "cubing" and the q and a but it all descends into some overcomplicated 2spooky2edgy crappypasta about supernatural entities openly asking people to frighten themselves. Jesus. How engrossing and not cringy.

[@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943]

Alexander Falconer And it's still going as of 2017. Jesus fuck, just END ALREADY YOU PIECES OF SHIT!

[@BuggingonBeeroids]

Addison Bortion The fact that it's the "longest running arg" doesn't help the fact that it seems to be pretty directionless. I like confusing and complicated but christ on a bike, this is some bullshit they make up on the fly

[@ImmaLittlePip]

Alexander Falconer Guess you can say it's the simpsons of args Long running but lost its way years ago

[@Swordsoulreaver]

I think it being the longest running arg is a BAD thing. Args are not meant to take years, unless you really do things right. like you said, its pretty directionless.

[@gpliskin]

This ARG seems to be edgy and convoluted for no good reason.

[@grantwilliams2650]

Gabriel What's an Alternate Reality Game?

[@phyruxokari7903]

Edgyness?

[@grantwilliams2650]

I know now nvm

[@unionsocialist4611]

Noah "used to be"

[@katiecrowley980]

I love it

[@joshlewis5065]

ARGs don't typically make any sense. It just relies on shock horror of twists and gore to keep the observer questioning what is the game and what isn't. I would play that when I was 6 with my friends pretending aliens were coming. It's just a bunch of nerds talking in chat rooms.

[@peepnox7747]

Love this channel

[@DrEdward]

"This is why gaming and similar things will never become a spectator sport." -Jack Q Pembry, 2004

[@NicDoesDumbThings]

It was really cool up until all of the "dark eyed children" stuff started happening. A forum of serial killers seemed realistic enough to be super cool, but nope.

[@DriscolDevil]

I think the problem was there was no possible conclusion to that, atleast not one that would feel truly terrifying. Also, trying to pull of truly "realistic" creepypasta ARG stuff can backfire very badly. That said, this one was clearly hinting at some supernatural element from the beginning because of that whole "the video causes hallucinations" thing. Yes they give it a scientific sounding explanation but the implication is pretty obvious. But yeah, dark eyed kids was just lazy and cheap.

[@necronicone]

Actually, ive listened to some of the Coast to Coast radio show mentioned on this video, the dark eyed children, though outlandish, has a bit of long set of stories to it, so that kind of freaked me out until they mentioned the connection to the radio show...

[@DARTHMOBIUS]

I've met dark eyed children, don't scoff, they're no joking matter or some 'creepy-pasta' that took on a whole new level due to the Something Awful crowd.

[@NicDoesDumbThings]

DARTHMOBIUS sure you did, bud.

[@DARTHMOBIUS]

NicDoesDumbThings Darthmobius is a channel run by 5 administrators, with a team of Ninja's on field work, and an experimental A.I. platform. One of the 5 admin's has 'friends' in both high and low places, where by meaneth that they are followed around by both sides of the force, the Heavenly host and the Infernal horde if you will, they expressed their opinion, and as an administrator I elected to explain the situation now, my fellow admin proved to me in regards to Black/Dark eyed children, they paid the cost of travel to their home that was on a completely different matter, and where upon I met them, two apparently 10 year old twin girls, dressed in late '70's clothing. This was '98, they come and go as they pleased is what they said. I found them unnerving to be around, they simply have a presence, like that hair on the back of your neck just won't go down or cold streak breeze gently stroking your spine, only turning up at the door or simply appearing after 5pm but quickly left by 04:42 the following morning, they took delight in informing me that they wouldn't eat me simply because I was in my fellow Admins house, and that was bad form if they did, they never brought that subject up again. Concluding the matter I was there for, returning home 4000 miles away (my fellow admin doesn't know where I live btw) those 2 BEK's turned up on my door step the following night, they wanted to continue our conversations, I declined and asked them to go home, they complied. My job took me to Jordan in '02, they turned up there, still polite still asking the same thing, declined letting them in, sat with them in the Garden and talked, Job ended went home, '05 they turned up at home my 3rd home I'd moved to since '98, a bit upset asking to come in, I declined and had a sob story over one of their friends had died whilst we sat on the apartment block steps, they'd turn up every night for about 6 months during the winter, '08 having moved again to a different country, they turned up again, another 6 months of them Q&A, playing kids card games, they like monster top-trumps, then they stopped until '11, visiting every year until 2015. I know they don't age, they don't change their dress code either and are still the same creepy freaks they have always been. I asked my fellow admin in regards to dealing with them, he said give them cat food sandwiches, chocolate biscuits and raspberry aide pop, it keep's them 'happy' apparently, and _NEVER_ let them into the home, I asked them that they were at their home when we met what was the issue, yes, they replied, and they did say the wouldn't eat me because of it, I'd completely forgotten about that.

[@Suggestion_Box_Full]

Everyone: turn down the volume so not to hallucinate Me: puts my face right in front of the speaker

[@PetRock42]

I'm going to hell for this but I legit thought the Wyoming incident was just that clip of Garfield saying that Wyoming doesn't exist

[@ofelio9345]

Besides the fact that I admire how you're going through so much material with so much dedication for your videos: I just want to say I'm very thankful that you went out of your way to change the audio of the "broadcast" even though you know it's fictional. Not all youtubers dealing with creepy content do that and I personally get very freaked out when there's stuff like "this clip is said to make you gauge your own eyes out with a spoon - enjoy!" and they just put it into the video like that. Even though I know it's most likely not going to happen, it still makes me anxious and I tend to skip it. So I think it's very considerate of you to alter it, I feel a lot safer and I can enjoy the video more!

[@otamamon4324]

Kurloz Makara same here!

[@SuperSERBDUDE]

Wasn't "Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv" supposed to make you gauge your eyes out?

[@ev5837]

@@SuperSERBDUDE yeah I think so

[@theZCAllen]

Inb4 he actually edited it to make it legit

[@alexbenavidez4500]

I thought it was following pretty well until the 30 minute mark. Then I genuinely got immensely confused. The constant introduction of new people claiming to take credit, only to introduce new characters and backstory who would then also change the backstory and hijack the whole thing got too much.

[@CharCole]

I just opened in another tab and played circus music for how bad this arg was going. Felt appropriate.

[@jessicaripley5654]

WEIRD VERY WEIRD but VERY awsome interesting video..a 44min video turned into a 3hr one for me having to rewind and such to get everything(well as best I could haha) now time to see the suggested videos based of THIS!

[@TacDyne]

"... with severed heads with different facial expressions" Umm... that's a stock FaceGen head.

[@zencomeseasy602]

He said "disembodied" not severed.

[@user-qj7fp9ug7j]

Still scared us lol

[@bfreeman8786]

@MomoTheBellyDancer do you know if they were scary in the 80's?

[@whut6144]

I thought he meant a real human

[@jiaobaidun2813]

Uh ooohhhh, either someone hears what they want to or someone doesn't understand the difference between disembodied and severed.

[@chaoarata5468]

I can't helped but to feel like i’m being trolled here...

[@thresholdhatesrevenant2620]

How easy would it be for me to get into the happy cube, post some vague bullshit like "when the dagger leaves the cloak, sleeping eyes look to the sky 21345-09-827" and watch everyone lose their shit trying to find meaning from nothing?

[@eddieromanov]

Any frequency outside the nominal human hearing range of 20-20kHz is filtered out by any DAC before sampling. Beyond that, even if it weren’t, compression would immediately remove it. The compression algorithms in those days were *extremely* aggressive. EDIT - I happen to teach ceremonial magic (It’s almost certainly not what you think it is.), and the “summoning ritual” is legit (but again, not in the way you think it is). I don’t advise *anyone* to take on this kind of practice without a clean bill of physical and mental health. It’s not that if you have depression or anxiety issues, it’ll screw you up. I’ve had severe diagnosed issues with both since early childhood. This even resembles certain forms of therapy for those issues (an important key to what magic really is). There are two sources of potential problems with this sort of thing: 1. If you have metal health issues that are latent or you otherwise don’t know about, this could easily be a really bad way to find out. 2. If you are in an active mental health crisis, especially florid psychosis, you will very likely have a **very** bad time. I have seen it happen. It’s not fun. You shouldn’t start a physical exercise program without talking to your doctor first. Neither should you start something like this without talking to your doctor. Even then, you start slowly and easily and work your way up to something like this. Not because it’s hard to do; but because it’s really easy to hurt yourself by attempting to do it before you’re ready.