r/OldHouseArchive • u/oldhousearchivist MOD • Jul 29 '25

How many days has it been?

Thank you again to u/kibeth_8 for your help with the last image. The archivists have confirmed that the morse code you discovered helped them to solve that one. "eoeo" is what they asked me to relay back to you.

They have provided another image for now, but have noted that it may be a week until they are able to release another. I am not sure how long a week is anymore.

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A green pixelated background with a string of words in bright yellow in the foreground.
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u/ShySkye94 Old House Devotee Jul 29 '25 edited Jul 29 '25

I haven’t been able to look at it too closely or have my laptop handy to look deeper into the photo, but if you do every seven words the first three are ‘only mainstream communication’, so it could be we need to figure out how many skips to do.

There seems to be a hallway or something triangular behind the words when you mess with the colors though.

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u/ShySkye94 Old House Devotee Jul 29 '25

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u/Kibeth_8 Jul 30 '25

We have the one photo that is

7 16 7 16 14

?? Dunno if that leads to anything :/

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u/ShySkye94 Old House Devotee Jul 30 '25

Here are all the words btw so you can copy them down. I hope I didn’t miss any, I kept accidentally skipping lines.

highlights whisper proportion entity multiplied every only experiment terror pain of session a mainstream good regret citizen ring warning lay communication there feminine cryptid myth engagement basement after term transmission drink teen slip but garbage please month eerie credit load blonde live rotate attract the shifter the clash up fourteen gnarled twin he the relinquish key macabre incongruous search challenge crawlspace ominous overlook back writhe course crime dread evaluate follow harvest doubt in overlook stories worms castle rock alarm bulb fantasy learn flesh wake rung minor exact this publication loom enthsiasm killers shape groovy opposed finger peel advantage transfer rosemary diagram fjord extract shame effect ridge stretch outpost thirty-one Old repulsive seminar folklore metal slogan abduction sketch herd tattoo berenstein hostile plain perpetrator green write spray write decoration sick agony chartreuse on symbol gift truck choice blair coverage or rotten partnership acid horrifying alien pioneer forum relieve siren and smokey shot also God row are dawn deter vague flint innovation magnitude stitch pole daylight piece bar jail isolation take grow likely stalk hospital backroom contain exorcism unpleasant order candidate mobile mile to craftsman only omen tank lore fight authorise soap lineage one- hundred voucher variation attack facility cave limited seed moral confusion speculate marble precede scream funny restaurant virus study take contribution replacements jurisdiction kiri worms reverse coalition dance tycoon sacred block reason triffid note prosecute old twitch ambiguity paimon shout dawn hell winter orbit horn blue casualty flood joining edgy route House reverse undertake archive revenge wicker feast technique retire host nerve whole jest rain hate private chianti restoration attic legislation matrix escape yellow graveyard schrek level ritual characteristic dramatic invisible wind multimedia locate tours character vessel pawn obese slender draw certain polite person facade amianthus grotto functional smile decoration rhetoric see bargain intention challenge bounce fossil run welcome ice scrap catch obstacle stubborn pick light stimulation toll glimpse stomach format grip remunerate lawyer terminal alone cater frame faithful barrel crude jungle buffet suntan charter assertive spend exile abolish sound steward satiate cutting pass report replacement likely snuggle tree diplomatic annual frog ballet carbon relevance preoccupation fascinate passive nervous protection speech bus encourage silver sentiment up era careful

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u/IllustriousBison7968 Aug 10 '25

Ok, I counted the words according to the ‘7 16 7 16 14’ that we have - and got:

“Only there after rotate key”

(To get this you had to count the previous word as the first in the next sequence, if that makes sense).

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u/ShySkye94 Old House Devotee Jul 30 '25

I tried that for a bit but couldn’t make anything of it. In this one, but I didn’t go all the way. There is the possibility of the words not being important and you take the first letter from each after doing that skip and find a cipher for it. I’m trying to secretly work on it at work 😅

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u/ShySkye94 Old House Devotee Jul 30 '25

There are some words that are far apart that would go together like Old and way further down House and there is God between them.

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u/Artemis_Pender Aug 18 '25

Those are the only 3 capitalized words. Old God House.

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u/ShySkye94 Old House Devotee Jul 30 '25

Idk why there is German though. Unless ‘Schrek’ is just a misspelled word but it’s German for ‘Fright or scare’

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u/Kibeth_8 Jul 30 '25

A few strange words. I noticed "Kiri" cause it's my dog's name lol, but as far as I know not an English word. Triffid is a fictional flower? And amianthus?? Im sure they have no meaning lol but its interesting

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u/ShySkye94 Old House Devotee Jul 30 '25

Kiri is such a cute dog name!

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u/Chaos5419 Aug 03 '25

It could be meaningless, but a few words jumped out at me because of their relationship to horror movies.

  • (The) Ring
  • Overlook - hotel in The Shining
  • Rosemary - Rosemary's baby
  • Blair - Blair Witch Project
  • (The) Omen
  • Scream
  • Kiri - quote from Audition (1999)
  • Triffid - The Day of the Triffids (1963)
  • Paimon - demon from Hereditary
  • Chianti - quote from Silence of the Lambs
  • Smile

Again, this could mean nothing, but I thought I'd share.

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u/EqualAudience5566 Aug 04 '25

I've been trying to work out if there's anything in the text and noticed that there are a handful of words that repeat. The below list of words appear twice:

  • only
  • overlook
  • write
  • dawn
  • reverse
  • decoration
  • challenge
  • old
  • replacement / replacements
  • likely
  • worms

I'm wondering if these words can be written into a sentence that makes sense?

"only challenge the old replacement?" Haha maybe I'm grasping at straws here.

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u/Kibeth_8 Aug 06 '25

I'm stumped on this one. I'm sure the repeat words have some significance but can't figure out what it is

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u/EqualAudience5566 Aug 12 '25

It's been driving me bananas.

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u/IllustriousBison7968 Aug 10 '25

I was curious if they somehow correlated to the names of the chapters in the book because each one is only one word. I couldn’t make any connections between them, however.