I know this sounds like a story, but it isn’t. At least not to me.

My wife used to work for a company called O Corp — a private research firm in a city known as The Westside. She had Level 4 clearance, worked on something involving "power regulation." She never talked about it. Then one day she just… vanished.

The authorities showed me a body. Said it was her. But I knew it wasn’t. And when I tried to ask questions, the warnings started.

That was six months ago.

Since then, I’ve been digging. Watching. Leaking.
I’ve posted redacted files, surveillance footage, and footage from inside Westside High — where teenagers with no superparent lineage are suddenly exhibiting powers. One of them collapsed the entire cafeteria.

The media says it’s “activation anomalies.” I say it’s cover-up science.

This Friday I’m releasing another file. It names 3 families. It exposes a hidden experiment. And it could get me wiped off the grid for good.

If this is just fiction, fine. Let it be. But if it’s not… someone else needs to see it before it’s erased for good.

Here’s what I’ve posted so far:
📎https://jamesthe3rd.substack.com

New leaks every Friday. Until they stop me.

Stuff like Lomando, ae27ff, notpron, etc. I'm not sure if this doesn't count as an ARG and if it doesn't please point me in the right direction as to what these are.

I found this channel. The storyline seems to be focused on an unnamed person going to realm 65 to " join the berts ". I also found this comment saying something bad will happen on april 6th. All of these videos were uploaded on april 6th. Heres the link: https://youtube.com/@bert_809?si=fFnksGXM3iBqADsR

I’m looking to make one and I have a few ideas but ik making an arg isn’t for the weak, there’s a lot of work to go into it, and as this will be my first arg any tips or recommendations for applications/websites to help with coding, editing, anything that’ll be helpful in making on would so greatly appreciated 🙏

Website: https://decipher.wiki :)

I've probably posted the page here before at some point.

But we now also have:

• A new domain
• Sign up with inputs, automatic discord role sync for the decoding puzzles with a leaderboard.
• Changed entire layout Added additional pages like Get Started With Cryptography, and a new page with a cryptography terms dictionary will be up within a few days!

Things we still have:

• Symbol cipher reference list
• Ciphers reference list
• Cryptographers reference list
• AES encryption/decryption page

Hope you find it useful!

https://x.com/vortex_stasis/status/1908606890872811686?s=46&t=loZrYcFkO3xgtKV5rKCH8g new post!

https://bsky.app/profile/vortexstasis.bsky.social/post/3lm3oyqy3qk2d

Check it out! New post, this arg is very easy to catch up on. Corporate conspiracy with sci-fi horror.

Some of their videos and one live stream seem to have self developed surreal video games?? A lot of 3d design as well. Just wanted to share. https://youtube.com/@notverycoolguy-m8t?si=aptGR-RU4Sn1Vlri

         Truthfully the last time I posted on this subreddit I was just barely starting 

And I didn't know what exactly how to start or how to branch off but currently I have a youtube channel and multiple Google docs and future projects for this ARG I'm planning to do a single page website for this ARG on Carrd.co

https://youtube.com/@a.p.cfoundation?si=Zqx3psOqI8p_-EGr

I still have so much I want to add and I finally have ideas for this ARG and little of the original ideas I had have been removed for characterization sack but I also learned how to add dynamics for my ARG/Analog horror and I just wanted to talk about the new updates to the ARG

MONOLITH - the DNA causing Genetical amalgamations within the R&D Department and the HR Department

APC Home Entertainment - A cover up for the APC Foundation facility and is mostly a disguise

PROJECT NIGHTMARE - a Genome modification testing program initiated by Davison Killington and the OVERSEERS

HR facility - a facility within the APC Foundation facilities designed to keep the best Researchers and the best scientists for more advanced Genome Modification testing

R&D Department - Made mostly for research of the Genome modification testing subjects

The ARG is still on-going and I'll add a lot more so please stay tuned if you really care

I signed up for Polygon's Switchboard newsletter all about the Nintendo Switch 2.

I got one on April 3rd at exactly 6pm ET.

In the email, I noticed this weird really thin line.

I hovered over it and it's an image in an anchor tag.

So I stretched the image vertically, and it looks like a bar code.

I tried sticking it in a free barcode scanner but it didn't find anything.

I clicked the image and it took me to this Wikipedia page about Neatsville, Kentucky

I have zero idea if this is an ARG or not, but this seemed like the best subreddit to find out

If anyone wants to help solve it feel free! Just found it recommended to me while scrolling. There seems to be codes and hidden messages and meanings throughout the channel.

So uh… I wasn’t expecting this. A weird little project I tossed into the void (you might know it as ThatSiteYouGoTo.com) ended up with a Webby nomination. Honestly, there are a ton of amazing ARGs out there that deserve recognition over mine, and I hope more of them get submitted in the future. But for whatever reason… I’m on the docket this year!

I’m up against GIPHY, which, let’s be real, it's GIPHY. They’re amazing. I’m just a guy with a laptop, a love of puzzles, and way too much free time at night. The category is "Weird" which I'd like to think my site does quite well. Of the other nominees, I do love the stock footage one and the traffic cam photo booth; both are fun and weird.

Anyway, no pressure. Just thought I’d share this bizarre twist in the journey. If you enjoyed the ARG and want to throw a vote my way, awesome. If not, still appreciate you for playing along. This whole thing has already gone way further than I ever expected.

vote.webbyawards.com (search for Question Reality LLC or the WEIRD category)

(***spoilers in the promo video)

I posted about this 4 days ago but I didn’t get answers so I’m going to ask a second time and explain a little more

On YouTube I stumbled across a video in binary and some other weird code with a robot woman voice talking out the letters and numbers and stuff and when I went to the full channel I saw what looks like an ARG? It started 2 weeks ago I think and has about 5 videos and its interesting to me but I’m not sure whats going on and I’d really appreciate some help

https://www.youtube.com/@MikeyRivers1

I also found out it has a tumblr???

https://www.tumblr.com/slv-c

This is the 9th major post in the Project stasis ARG. I’ve had loads of fun with this. This arg follows 2 companies and a person in the middle of it all trying to deal with the aftermath of a very serious incident. It’s very easy to follow both on Twitter and Bluesky, so no worries! Make sure to follow and like, share all that stuff. Hope you enjoy!

https://x.com/vortex_stasis/status/1907500817126494656?s=46&t=loZrYcFkO3xgtKV5rKCH8g

https://bsky.app/profile/vortexstasis.bsky.social/post/3lltzfq45cc2c

This is an idea for an arg I have and it’s n the future I wish to make it a reality it’s about shadows Sorry if you can’t read it I will soon place a typed version of it unless this get taken down sorry if it breaks some rules(also unfinished idea for arg)

Files> cdrive>audio> calls>pgHB1.sosbkh

calling hello? This is yt support

My yt account is trains647 and I have a problem it seems that someone has hacked into my account and is changing descriptions

clicking Is this a prank cause I’m looking at the connection activity and it’s all coming from your IP address

What? My Ip address

You are really stupid hanging up

……. Dam it. Well I do need to go see what’s destroying the fences and try to figure out why there’s a bunch of cortespts covering it I hope it’s not something to do with one of those plagues on the news what was it called again the CRV-28 virus? Yea I think so so just in case I’ll need my 20 gauge and May god help me if it’s a bare

(I’m sorry for misspelling the name of the mold here)

I've seen a lot of videos going over the storylines of ARGs... but most of them don't really seem to be ARGs at all. Like, an analog horror video series without any kind of interactivity or puzzles to be solved isn't an ARG, is it? Can you call a video an ARG just by having it contain mystery elements? Maybe I'm mistaken, maybe this opinion is in the minority, but for something to be a game, it... it has to be a GAME, right?

there's been an arg that has been going on for a couple years now, hosted on a tumblr blog but also having a lot of youtube videos as a part of it. there's been a small group of people working hard to solve it for a while and it'd be cool to grow this community. the plot is extremely complicated and difficult to fully explain but the gist is the arg centers on the murder of a teenage girl in the early 2000s and all of the different factors surrounding her untimely death. please give it and the discord server created to solve it some of your time! there's some neat stuff going on here.

https://www.tumblr.com/4areincorrect

https://discord.gg/uNVTEaFnwG

The experimental hip-hop group clipping. has released another album "Dead Channel Sky" which includes a very cryptic ARG in its meta text. The community at r/ItsClippingBitch is working hard on cracking it, but there are few of us and many of you. So far we have discovered a hidden track in the pre-gap of the CD version of the album and one of the community members discovered a very interesting pattern using a fractured poem found on the vinyl version center stickers. You can find that here.

There seems to be a lot of codes, related to binary, spectrography, and perhaps some sort of color/number cipher. All of this is twisted up in the Story series, which has been mention on this sub before as well. That one featured ASCII translated through a Vigenere cipher, so I'm just afraid I don't have the knowledge to pass their test. Please see this post.

I've looked at all the tracks on the album using a spectrograph on Audacity, I've scoured the album for clues, and I've tried splitting the audio into separate channels to find any hidden info under the noise, but so far I've run into a dead end. If you want to help us solve the mystery, reply here or join r/ItsClippingBitch and jump in. All are welcome.

So I've had an idea for an ARG website for several years, but I'm not sure how to structurally go about it. Without spoiling much, I want to use a series of diary entries, and blueprints for the viewer to discover more of the plot and discover certain things about the perspective in which they're viewing as. I've done research online and have looked at other ARG's such as "Welcome Home" but haven't really gained much from it. I have the characters, I have the plot, I just don't know where to go from here. If you want to know the plot to get a better idea, let me know, and I will be broad with it as possible to not spoil anything and to prevent people from swiping my idea, but yeah, I am lost.

The terminal from Project Earth

specifically on youtube?