On October 7th, the main PUBG Twitter account shared this Twitter post with a video and the caption:
On tonight’s episode of Mysteries Unknown we explore the dark history around a plateau in Peru with some perplexing properties.
And with a link to PUBG Lore site.
October 7th
The website first showed several photos and objects with a Get Notified box that allowed you to enter your email address, a notification button and a share button. This is what was later called the Staging Area
. It is to note that after the website was updated, you could no longer access the staging area but it was later found on a
separate link.
After entering an email address to be notified, 6 elements in the background start glitching and was discovered to be clickable. On the click, a very quick video of a few seconds would play and you would get a prompt to enter a passcode.
SPOILER
Each elements indicated a specific map in the PUBG game.
Entering the proper map name would give you a specific sentence and the image corresponding to that map would not longer be interactable.
Here are the passcodes and what they are attached to:
- Erangel - The chest pawn -
Will you embrace who you are meant to be?
- Vikendi - The dinosaurs -
But I found a new father. And I like his game much better.
- Karakin - The broken statue -
Every secret. I know it all.
- Miramar - The lighter -
What do you know about him? What has he told you about his plans?
- Sanhok - The food -
Do you know how much these people pay to watch this?
- Paramo - The volcano -
But what if he didn't have to die at all?
Once all 6 passcode were entered, a new message appeared:
You have proven yourself. Magna Venari.
October 15th
On October 15th, it was noticed that the website had been updated and the staging area had disappear. The website now contained many entries, such as characters lore, journals, and other stories. You could also notice that some of the locked entries had a corresponding date to them which was speculated to be their unlocking date. Unfortunately, nothing was discovered before the website was changed once more. We also did not find any way to access these pages once they were gone.
October 16th
On October 16th, the website was put in maintenance with this message:
Updating Coming back online shortly...
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A quick look in the source code revealed this line:
<meta property="Yes, you!" content="Ubj bevtvany, n Pnrfne plcure... Trg ernql sevraqf, guvf vf bayl gur ortvaavat.">
It was identified as a Caesar cypher:
How original, a Caesar cypher... Get ready friends, this is only the beginning
A new line also appeared an hour after this was found:
<-- Status: 1% -->
And again changed a few hours after to:
<-- Status: 3.14159265359% -->
This new status matched the Pi number but no significance was found in relation to the website.
October 18th
On October 18th, the background image for the website changed. This new image showed 1 braille code and 3 locked one.
1st unlock
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The source code also changed to reflect the update:
<-- Status: 11% -->
The first braille code was translated to a difficulty level and a link:
Beginner
OVG.YL/#5468753
The second braille code:
Medium
The third braille code:
Hard
The fourth braille code is unclear compared to the others:
Gafeginner
We are unsure if it actually what it is until it is unlocked
The start of the link used the Caesar cypher that had been seen previously in the second part, the # indicated to look for numbers and had to be removed, as was indicated by the braille character being yellow, to lead to bit.ly/5468753 and revealed the first journal entry with the following caption:
XxxxxxxXXxxxx did discover the method used by the Dr...
letting us know when skeletons expired
XxxxxxxXXxxxx never did he have an email address
since 1980 did he himself rest
[email protected]
A quick read of the journal entry and of the caption below it points you toward a method used to determine the age of something, called radiocarbon dating. The credited inventor being Willard Libby (or per his full name Willard Frank Libby) who died in 1980.
WillardFLibby would fit the email nomenclature given in the caption.
After sending an email to [email protected], you would receive an automated reply:
Hi friend!
Thanks for contacting Willard Libby. Unfortunately, he died in 1980. To continue your quest for knowledge, reach out to our office directly.
Phone: 1 346-766-2103
Toll-Free: US: +1 833-877-5048 | Canada: +1 833-345-0727 | UK: +44 808 169 4350 | FR: +33 805 08 08 99
More branch opening Soon...
Calling a number would bring you to a phone system with menu options:
Welcome friends!
Please be advised that our menu has changed so listen carefully.
For journal entry number 1, press 1
For journal entry number 2, press 2
For journal entry number 3, press 3
For journal entry number 4, press 8
Yea I Know, IT sometimes are like that.
Pressing 1 to reach journal entry number 1 gave the following:
June 13th, 1982
The proud warrior people of Paramo had no words in their language to mean sickness or health. They simply lived and died.
I have seen references to the same individuals over unaturally long stretches of time. Longer then any normal human life span.
Perhaps they passed their names down to their children. Generation after Generation. Yet even in the mordern day local village at the base of the mountain, there is no hospital, no medic, no doctor.
Strange coincidence. The answer to this riddle is here somewhere, beneath my feet.
We begin our first excavation in 1 week.
Pressing 2, 3 or 8 gave the following:
This entry is not yet unlocked.
Pressing 4, 5, 6, 7, or 9 gave the following:
This is not a valid option but we admire your curiosity
Pressing 0 gave the following:
All our offices are closed right now, there's no one to talk to.
Pressing * or # would just loop back the phone menu.
2nd unlock
Around an hour and a half after the first braille was available, the second unlocked with an updated background image.
SPOILER
The source code also changed and gave us a new status:
<-- Status: 13% - uploading new audio entry -->
The second braille code was now available and could be translated as follow:
Medium
OVG.YL/V6239245
The yellow character was different this time but it was to be removed again to get [bit.ly/6239245 bit.ly/6239245] and lead to a pastebin:
The key is constant, irrational, calculated as men breathe or as eagles sustain themselves in the wind: with ten fingers only.
Answer: bit.ly/entry_XXXXXXXXXX
A quick search on the first part of the riddle revealed it was a reference to Euler's number and that is represented in decimal with 2.71828...
The second part of the riddle refers to ten fingers only which referred the first 10 digits of the number:
bit.ly/entry_2718281828
This new bit.ly link brought you to imgur for another journal entry and at the same time, unlocked the phone journal entry number 2:
December 21st, 1983
Wheeler has been presurring me to come to a conclusion about the mass disappearance, and whether there is truly anything extraordinary about this city.
He mentionned something about an advance time table. About how things will soon be out of his hands.
About 30 minutes after the second braille was solved, the source code was updated:
SPOILER
<-- Status: 26% - Entry updated -->
3rd Unlock
Almost 2 hours after the second braille was solved, the third unlocked with an updated background image
3rd Unlock Background Image
.
SPOILER
The status in source code changed to update to the follow:
<-- Status: 61% - Status: 8 unique ID calls received. Activity Low. More resources required for the next unlock. -->
Something noticeable was in the second braille on the newer background is slightly different. The character in yellow was inverted to be a # instead of a V.
The third braille code was now available and translated to:
Hard
OVG.UL/#1259437
