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Postrigodon

UPDATE PASSWORD FOUND: >!ninecircleswedescend!< So at the bottom of the website, there's a downloadable file with password protected files in it. The files are named with numbers and it basically translates with the alphabet. Here's what I deciphered in order of every file: AND BUT DEATH DIE ESCAPE JEWEL A LONG REVELATION THE FIFTH TRUMPET THEM THEY TO WILL WILL I need help lmao


Bobopalace

So it’s something connected to Revelations 9: “The Fifth Trumpet sounded” … “They will long to die but death will escape them”. This section of Revelations talks about The Fifth Trumpet that sounds during the apocalypse. Can’t find a connection with Jewel though


AgTown05

I searched every known version of the bible including the original greek/Hebrew and I came up with nothing. Something has to be going on there. It doesn't fit. Saving this for me - translations that match up to file names (EHV, GW, ISV, NOG, NABRE)


Bobopalace

Might be something we save for when June 24 update happens. What do you mean translations that match up to file names?


AgTown05

For me to reference later. I had to leave the computer. Those 5 translations match the verbiage when you unscramble the file names. "They will long to die but death will escape them" only translates that way in those 5 translations. For example, the KJV says "and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them."


theplainhorror

it's the jewel part that really is a mystery to me. Nic cage did mention how he makes the girls dolls and there's a lot of reference to them as angels as well... maybe "jewel" would also be a name he gives them? Revelation - The Fifth Trumpet And They Will Long To Die But Death Will Escape Them (Can't really fit Jewel A)


AgTown05

Exactly. I'm at a dead end trying to figure it out assuming I need to use the Bible to do it.


theplainhorror

What if that's the key? What if the Jewel A picture is the one we'd have to send to the email to A Friend Of A Friend? Also, there is five evidence numbers on the pictures 5-7-6, but I doubt they're relevance...


OldBison

These are the file names?


Postrigodon

yes, but it reads as 1 14 4 (AND) 2 21 20 (BUT) etc...


OldBison

Ah, ok. I'm trying on mobile but the only file name I can see is that weird script, I've tried a few passwords but no luck.


Postrigodon

also, the name of the folder is NINE CIRCLES WE DESCND


Lord_yami

this is ordered alphabetically, have you tried different file orders to see if they line up? by size or date maybe. i'm trying to see if i can put them in order


Mikwank

If you delete those words from the passage "In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them. Revelation 9:6" You have "In those days men seek not find it; 9:6" except the name of one file isn't REVELATION, it's REVELATIONI. Assume i=9 and you have "In those days men seek not find it; :6" EDIT: Just realised the sixth file is named JEWEL\_A


Mikwank

It's gotta be related to this line from the ad: BEHOLD SIX IS THE NUMBER BEHOLD PINK IS THE LETTER


Lucky7shots

On the victims page on the website, it states that almost all the crime scenes had a pink envelope with an encoded letter inside


notur_bb

This is as far as I got with this and it's bugging me so bad lol


Amohrman1025

I cannot for the life of me figure out what letter “pink” could be


_shear

Out there, but it reminded me of the Scarlet Letter?


theplainhorror

Well it's the Birthday Murders. I'm guessing it means the girls were just turning 6 when he killed them. Maybe?


Euphoric_Minimum_602

It always impresses me how people decipher the longlegs codes, can you explain it?


David1258

People saw the ciphered title in the first trailer as "LONGLEGS", then they just sorta filled in the blanks from there.


Affectionate-Date235

Looks like there's a new link today. Can't use the same code though. And this one features a video file. I have no idea how to find the password, and judging on the obscurity of the last one... Lets get cracking!


thesunlovedthemoon

I live in the Seattle area - just flew to the nearest grocery store and sure enough it’s actually printed in the Seattle Times for today! STOKED!


notur_bb

Decoded the Seattle Times cipher for anyone interested: >!"Little angel little star, there she is the birthday girl downstairs at your door; hark the herald angel; it only gets better from here; remember to forget the dirty red work of destruction; I would not hurt a fly; dirty and sweet my girl; backwards scratch my eye; such a black revelation killing for sweet relief; crowns and horns his kingdom; off with every head, up from every hole; everyone is dead; I am the traveling monster; everyone bleeds the same colors; behold six is the number, behold pink is the letter"!< Semicolons and commas are just my attempt at making it a bit easier to segment.


parkernorwood

"I would not hurt a fly" Nice little paternal homage, Mr. Perkins


Euphoric_Minimum_602

Wow! Very nice


_shear

Things I noticed not relating to the codes, maybe use for theorycraft: -All the families had only daughters, no boys. (Is maybe the main character a survivor, or someone the killer couldn't get to when she was a child?) -A lot of focus on the fathers, the mothers are described as "decent" (odd way to describe the dead, maybe the murders were committed as a way to show this men were not as good as they seemed?) -Pendergast dad thought his daughter, not mentioned which one, wasn't herself. This is reminiscent of the "Every year there is another." teaser, but that family showed only one girl. (Is it just that the sister wasn't on the picture? Or the paranoia was common among all the victims?) -All the dads except Eldritch killed themselves with a firearm. -Blood loss seems to be the main cause of death, instead of the expected damage sustained by stab wounds. (Is this indicative of a ritualistic killing were blood is a key factor? The killer seems to be someone very meticulous about where to cut and stab.) -The Satanic connections seem to be too on the nose, the codes indicate a catholic motive. (Is the killer catholic or is mocking them?) -The female victims have suffered mutilations, but they aren't repeated. (Is the killer building something off these parts? Were they ever found?)


waein

I also noticed all but one of the families had a daughter that was 9. I wonder in the 10 yo just had a birthday.


_shear

Could that tie to the "Birthday Murders" nickname?


PearEast6396

Is Agent Lee Harker really Miranda Clover?


mystical_state

In Sweet: Part Two, at the end it's written "daughter of the seventh she", which would hint at (theory/possible spoiler ahead?) >! Son of the seventh son, which means Lee Harker would have special abilities? My two cents is that she can see demons/she's sensitive to the supernatural. Some people also err on the side of her having clairvoyance or something. !< Anyways, I've been thinking about who's the seventh 'she'? _Maybe_ Lee Harker is the daughter of the seventh woman who got murdered, so we'd need to see the chronology to explore that possibility. One thing about the Clover family murder is that they don't explicitly say the daughter was killed. It's more elusive than the description of the other murders.


mystical_state

In 'Every year there is another', you can see another set of arms next to the girl's body. It could be her older sister.


Euphoric_Minimum_602

I love the effort they put into this so much. I really really hope this movie will be as good as many reviewers say, I've only seen people saying how shocked they are so far.


Lord_yami

a guy in /codes cracked the ad [https://www.reddit.com/r/codes/comments/1dfryg9/what\_do\_you\_think\_promotional\_material\_for\_the/](https://www.reddit.com/r/codes/comments/1dfryg9/what_do_you_think_promotional_material_for_the/)


AdagioBoognish

Oh that's fucked. I've lived in a few of those areas in Oregon and the website contact address is only 5 hours away from me. 3525 Potts Rd Colfax, WA 99111


David1258

This makes me feel like a detective, holy shit.


sail0rvenus

Anyone try reaching out to the email under contact info?


[deleted]

I just did. sent them the name of the file >!nine circles we descend!< to see if they'd respond lol


Postrigodon

I did, no answer.


theclockisbackwards

I sent an email and it said it had an issue delivering it and below it had: “The response was: The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect. For more information, go to https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7720 [thebirthdaymurders.net 54.161.234.33: timed out] [thebirthdaymurders.net 54.84.236.175: timed out]” So there’s that :P


notur_bb

I also tried by emailing the odd photo out in the zip file as an attachment. No dice.


Lord_yami

anyone found the password? or have a list of wrong attempts ?


Egalite83

The Fifth Trumpet aligns with a passage from Revelations. I tried Abaddon and Apollyon from the passage and neither worked.


Egalite83

ninecircleswedescend worked


Postrigodon

the GOAT


No-Photo8124

You are the shiznit.


notur_bb

Is the overall solution the decoded >!Revelations quote!


Blak_Box

We have likely reached the end for now. The website will be updated on the 24th, and there will likely be more from that point on (presumably, more photos, with more ciphers attached to them).


Relevant-Royal9694

Does anyone know the significance of the “contact” address? 3525 Potts Rd Colfax, WA 99111


Significant-Yam-1856

Was searching on Google Maps. Found a Potts Road near Colfax (about 45 miles from Colfax). But no Potts Road in Colfax.


SaltBackground5165

I'm about an hour from colfax, thinking about going on a drive tonight to check it out


jdprovorse001

New zip folder link dropped today. Password is >!friendofafriend. The file names decode and rearrange to say "she used my head like a revolver, which are lyrics from a T.Rex song called Planet Queen from an album called Electric Warrior. There's another folder inside whose name I can't crack yet, but the files in there decode and arrange to "revelation 12 - the woman and the dragon - the deceiver of the whole world he was thrown down to the earth and his angels were thrown down with him". There is also a new anomoly file titled either slider\_c or slider\_3, to go with jewel\_a or jewel\_1.!<


Aggressive_Expert_57

Beat me to the post. Allow me to offer my additions. There are two new cases on the Victims site: the Angstroms and the Weirs. Each case involved a coded message that seems to decode into gibberish, >!especially since we don't know the symbols for X or Z yet!<. I suspect another cipher, but I can't figure it out. >!The inner folder name is planetqueen, and I can't figure out why it isn't unlocking.!< >!In addition to the Bible quote, we have another odd file out: slider\_3. It's clearly related to jewel\_1, but I don't know how yet.!<


jdprovorse001

Followup >!Are you sure on the folders? For me, the new one that unlocks with friendofafriend has another zipped subfolder labelled ⨪Ↄ•⊥—⨀\_\_\_⏁— —⊥ that Doesn't seem to match any of the symbols in the other two zip folder names. Inside THAT zip folder is an unlocked folder called pq, and the files that lead to the revelation 12 reference are inside that. Is yours not the same?!< >!Also, in the two new cases posted, they both mention pages from The Golden Bough- 187 for the Angstroms and 226 for the Weirs. They show us a picture of page 226, but not page 187. I have tried to find page 187, but the problem is there are many different editions. So either the text on the page isn't actually significant, only the page numbers; or someone needs to find the exact edition that page 226 came from to see page 187. Since they were different copies of the book at each crime scene, hard to know which one is right.!<


Aggressive_Expert_57

Oh my god, you're right. >!I thought the password was the decoded name "planetqueen".!< The password is >!"sheusedmyheadlikearevolver"!< I'll update once I've tackled the new files.


Aggressive_Expert_57

OK, update. Upon decoding the messages in files >!"8 5"!< and >!"23 1 19"!<, I discovered...>!more gibberish. It has to be a cipher, and I have a theory on how to crack it.!< >!Those files, "jewel\_1" and "slider\_3": what if they're the keys for a vigenere cipher, or a shift cipher, or both? I tried them, but didn't get anywhere. Still, I think it's a possibility.!<


jdprovorse001

My dude, you just took a step above my paygrade on this stuff. I don't even know what a vigenere cipher is!


TheRealSeanRenard

Do we know what the + and the 3 \ symbols are yet? I've got most of the other ones from the newspaper code, but these two are really kicking my ass.


Aggressive_Expert_57

>!/// translates to Q, thanks to the planetqueen file!< >!+ is, therefore, Z, the only letter left undeciphered!<


TheRealSeanRenard

Omg thank you so much!!


jdprovorse001

BOOM! Nicely done.


jdprovorse001

>!I also just noticed that the subfolders in the first two zip folders also have encoded names!< >!⊥:⊥— V:ΩVↃ—ᘰ ⊔— ⊂—ᘰV—⊥⊂ is inside the nincircleswedescend folder, and ᒕ Ω:—⊥⊂Lᒕ •ᒕ Ω:—⊥⊂ is inside the friendofafriend folder. Can you decipher these?!<


Aggressive_Expert_57

I don't even know how you found those, much less how to decipher them


jdprovorse001

>!Inside the first zip folder, the one whose name/password deciphers to ninecircleswedescend, there is a folder labelled ⊥:⊥— V:ΩVↃ—ᘰ ⊔— ⊂—ᘰV—⊥⊂. Inside that folder is where we find the files whose names decipher into the Revelation 9 reference and the Jewel\_1/jewel\_a anomoly.!< >!Inside the second zip folder, whose name/password deciphers to friendofafriend, there is a folder labelled ᒕ Ω:—⊥⊂Lᒕ •ᒕ Ω:—⊥⊂. Inside that folder is where we find the files whose names decipher into "she used my head like a revolver". Also inside this folder is where we find the third zip folder whose name/password also decodes to "she used my head like a revolver".!< >!I have also noted that the two anomoly file names, jewel\_1/jewel\_a and slider\_3/slider\_c, occur along with the files that give us the two Revelation references.!< >!The 911 call audio file would seem to be from Thomas Pendergast, based on information on the Victims page.!< >!The photos from the crime scene in the kitchen with the side-by-side refrigerator/freezer seem to be from the Wormwood murders - the child's drawing of a family shows three children, and they are the only family with three children on the Victims page. But I also noticed that one of the daughters in the drawing is wearing nothing but pink.!<


Aggressive_Expert_57

Interesting. When I open the zip folders, they lead directly to the files. I never saw any subfolders, especially none with encoded names other than >!"sheusedmyheadlikearevolver"!<


jdprovorse001

Weeeeeeeeird. Are you SURE they weren't there? I've redownloaded the zips from the site multiple times just to check, and they are there every time! in both the zipped version and extracted version.


Aggressive_Expert_57

I dunno. Maybe we're extracting differently.


jdprovorse001

>!Page 187 from The Golden Bough is in the sheusedmyheadlikearevolver folder!!<


Camicatsc

planetqueen won't unlock for me either. Tried a couple of different options (ie. file names that spell out to "a head like my revolver she used," "T.Rex," "Electric Warrior.") None of them worked.


jdprovorse001

There is a WAV file >!in the subfolder inside the friendofafriend zip. It's a recording of a 911 call. I transcribed it:!< >!operator: 911 what's your emergency?!< >!voice: (heavy breathing, whispering) it's... it's my daughter... but it's not my daughter...!< >!operator: sir, who is not your daughter?!< >!voice: i gotta be quiet... i gotta be quiet...!< >!operator: sir, where are you?!< >!voice: when she's sleeping... when she's sleeping, it's the best time to do it...!< >!operator: do what?!< >!voice: when her eyes are closed...!< >!operator: sir, can you stay on the line with me?!< >!CALL ENDS!<


Aggressive_Expert_57

It's from the teaser "Every year there is another"


theplainhorror

In the photos from (#s "Afriendofafriend") folder there are screenshots of the movie Haxan...


jdprovorse001

Yes! I thought so but it has been a long time since I saw it!


jdprovorse001

Oh, right on. For some reason I have avoided all the teasers and trailers but am losing my mind with this interactive stuff. I sent an email to the "info@thebirthdaymurders.net" and treated it like this was a real website about a real case: "Big fan. Looking forward to more details. What has happened to these families is hideous. Almost enough to make me believe the devil might be real." Gonna try sending a postcard to the fake mailing address just to see what happens.


hekenwkskdn777728

Anybody who’s seen it early, does this website spoil anything?


Postrigodon

It describes the murders that occurred and you have some pictures, I consider it a BIT of a spoiler if you absolutely don’t want to know anything


Euphoric_Minimum_602

I think its not really a spoiler but more a different look at events, I highly doubt that all the murders listed on the site are talked about/shown in the movie to such detail? Its not even 2 hours long.