To verify his identity and satisfy his fans’ call for more, Wright promised to release a new video on December 31. They’ve been in contact, he claims, and don’t consider him a threat. government is aware of, and possibly amused by, his little puzzles. citizen living in Poland, and says the U.S. Now Wehner is in touch with the video’s creator, who goes by the alias “Parker Warner Wright,” and has produced the most thorough article available on “11b-x-1371,” its mysteries, and its origins. This made sense considering that Gadgetzz, the site that first published the video, claimed it was mailed from Poland. Īfter weeks of digging, Wehner and others determined that the video was shot in Zofiówka Sanatorium, an abandoned Polish mental hospital. The images of killings turned out to be from slasher flicks, though, plus one from the real-life case of the Boston Strangler.
Some also worried that gruesome images concealed in the video’s soundtrack pointed to a serial killer bragging about his work. One of the video’s hidden messages, “ RED LIPSLIKE TENTH,” was an anagram for “kill the president,” and the geographic coordinates of the White House were also encoded in the video, reported the Daily Dot’s Mike Wehner, a reporter who has been researching the video since its early days. Initially, it wasn’t clear what the video was supposed to be: a viral marketing stunt? A game? A terrorist threat? The whole package, titled “11b-x-1371,” made for a tantalizing puzzle.
The creepy footage, starring a man in a birdlike plague doctor mask, is backed by a grating digital whine, a sure sign of an encoded image hiding in its audio track. A macabre video with encoded references to death, plague, and the White House has fascinated certain corners of the internet since it emerged on a DVD mailed to a Swedish tech blog last October - or maybe it was found on a park bench in Spain.