Banojxot Xuh
Banojxot Xuh | |
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15-6-17 | |
Type | [[List_of_Investigations#Investigation|Investigation]] |
Creator | Unknown |
Discovered | 2017-05-13 |
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Backstory
Banojxot Xuh is a YouTube ARG that was posted to several country-themed subreddits, and appears to have a strong political focus. It has many codes hidden throughout the video and references to Slovakia along with a strong focus with the date, June 15h, 2017.
Originally, the video was posted in the England Subreddit but the user was banned, the post and the video deleted.
Then, on May 13th, an image was posted in the Slovakian Subreddit by an user called Banojxot (same as the YT channel) featuring a QR code that leads to our video with the words "Get Ready" in red and the date 15.6.17, or June 15th, 2017.
Later, on May 18th, the user Hamburger__96 posted a photo of a sort of flyer featuring the same image posted in r/Slovakia and the number 0023 handwritten in the back in the Germany subreddit. It is speculated that Hamburger__96 is the same person behind the Banojxot account on Reddit, although this is unclear.
Videos
First Video
On May 13th a YouTube video was uploaded by Banojxot Xuh called 15-6-17. The video had the tags of, scoddD
, c432.657.33.
, 16.6294.22.30
, 177.947.29.0
, be
, C A R E F U L
, the-y
, are
, read-y
, and Y.y
.
1:00
A set of coordinates that point to Slovakia background is a picture from this book with the quote of,Desolate be Tara for ever and ever!
. This is a story from Ireland, on how a hill, Tara, was unremarkable, yet magic. It was a pagan monument to coronate the king. In AD558 a saint dispelled Tara of its function as a pagan place of worship, and brought christianity to Ireland. It is to be noted that these places given by the coordinates, are very unremarkable places.1:04
A set of coordinates that point to Slovakia background is a picture from this book with the quote of,Desolate be Tara for ever and ever!
.
Second Video
A second video was uploaded on the 21st of May, called 15-6-17.v2. The tags of the video are, 383
, slovakia
, poland
, germany
, and 0.23451.734
.
Third Video
On May 24th, 2017. At around 3:35 PM EST Banojxot released another video titled "15-6-17.v3". In the video text reading out "do not disappoint us" and "WE are not AFRAID WE are LOST". The tags on the video are "soon x8x slovakia snid y.Y" the meaning of the tags in any of the tags are known. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-lP20-DFPQ
In the video you can find 3 flashes of QR Codes, all of which are the same.
All but one would redirect to Banojxot's Youtube or Twitter, and the other one lead to a page in which it showed an image similar to the images sent in emails.![]()
Emails
Emails were sent out and Banojxot Xuh replied with a variety of similar images. We currently are ordering based off of the amount of people written on the picture. Almost all have a Slovakian flag and a variant of 15.06.2017. in the flags there is also a fineprint in pale greyish text: sn & id --> "sine nomine & idem" (without name & the same)
Email #1
The coordinates in order point to these locations,
1. An alley in Tacoma, Washington.
2. In the middle of Hamburg, Germany in what looks like a massive shopping mall.
3. Just south of Metsla, Estonia.
4. Egegik Bay in Egegik, Alaska
5. In the Waal river, Central Nijmegen, Netherlands.
6. Centre Dortmund, Germany. Another shopping centre by the looks of it.
Has blue and red text that reads,SloVakia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
This is part of a quote from Winston Churchill: "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest." The emphasised V might point towards the "V for Victory" handsign Churchill was known for. The text on the bottom saysone person
in black on the bottom.Email #7
Has the same coordinate locations as Email #2
Yellow text reads,no object is mysterious, the mystery is your mind
, a wrongly quoted proverb that means that any misunderstanding you might have in looking at something is because of you, not it. Black text on the bottom reads,seven people
, the text has a yellow back to it, and a blue line comes up from left of the seven people text.Email #8
The QR code leads to the Banojxot Xuh Youtube Channel.
The picture references V-J Day in Times Square.
The vehicle is a Ford Transit (2005). The reference might point towards a certain terror attack by the IRA where a white Ford Transit was used as a mortar platform.
gdrggvi.xln/yzmzcfs
is an atbash cipher that is the Banojxot Xuh twitter. It is also notable that the north-western and mostly central part of Europe is cut out the map in the background. In the background map, it is missing Central Europe (France, UK, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, etc.)
The e-mails show us this twitter account through an atbash cipher in Email #8.
Tweets
Date & Time (EDT) | Content | Notes |
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1:10 PM - 21 May 2017 | You aren't here by accident~B | Introduction to Twitter. |
1:13 PM - 21 May 2017 | 51°50′45″N 16°34′50″E | Location 1: rondo Solidarności, Leszno, Poland. (Note that this means "Solidarity Roundabout")
Location 2: Professor Cornelissenstraat, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. (A street named after a Dutch academic) Location 3: Steinstraße, close to the St. James Church, Hamburg, Germany. |
1:19 PM - 21 May 2017 | 9ce09f56373a96112527aebe5af12f632bd8f0c40132dd76801ad3437e6fdb42 ~B | A hash that has yet to be decrypted. |
1:21 PM - 22 May 2017 | You need to think more | |
1:23 PM - 22 May 2017 | Qt ake huyv frqg, ake wyl huyv uduhafrqls ~B | A substitution cipher that reads, If you read this you can read everything .
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1:26 PM - 22 May 2017 | 15.6.2017, soon! | |
1:38 PM - 22 May 2017 (del) | it's time for something harder ~B | This tweet was deleted in a few seconds. |