At the center of it all was a person wearing a black robe whose face was hidden by a plague doctor mask - the beaked mask some physicians wore in France and Italy during the 17th century to guard against airborne diseases.Īlthough Krahbichler noted that he was “ personally very curious as to what actually is,” he also said that he hadn’t “put all that much time on trying to decode it.” From there, he asked readers to get in touch with them if they managed to decode anything seen in the video. Shot in black and white, the video featured an abandoned building and a lot of weird, distorted noise and images. Uh, sounds kind of like a good way to fall prey to a virus and lose valuable To play it with a machine that had anything I cared about at all on it that, (Personally, if I had received a strange, homemade DVD fromĪn unknown source, I would not have attempted But when Krahbichler put the DVD into a computer, he found not a game or piece of software, but an unsettling video he included in his piece. Sent from Poland - with later details emerging that it had been mailed specifically from Warsaw back in May - the package contained a DVD+R with a sequence of capital and lowercase letters Krahbichler took to be a product key written on it in black marker. (Its most recent updates are from September of 2018.) But despite its relative obscurity, the site received a great deal of attention, particularly after its story about 11B X 1371 made it to Reddit.Īccording to the Gadgetzz piece, which Krahbichler himself wrote, Krahbichler had received a strange package in the mail. It’s not huge - its current Alexa ranking is only about 2,790,000 - and might in fact be dormant right now. It’s pretty much entirely a one-person operation, though created and run by John-Erik “Johny” Krahbichler, it began life as a basic personal tech blog and evolved over time into something more like an independent tech news site. Gadgetzz has been around since 2009, according to its “About” page, a fact which is verifiable via its WHOIS entry and its earliest captures at the Wayback Machine. 12, 2015, when the Swedish tech site Gadgetzz published their first story (of what would turn out to be many) on it. The video made it to the public eye on Oct. Order to truly understand everything at play in this tale, we need to engage inīuckle up. Timelines do intersect, of course - and what happened when matters - but in Public, learned of the videos and attempted to unravel their mysteries and by “theĬreation timeline,” I mean the dates on which the videos actually appeared. By “theĭiscovery timeline,” I mean the dates pertaining to when we, the general When it comes to the timeline of the Plague Doctor Video story,Ĭonsider: What I call the “discovery” timeline and the “creation” timeline. Let’s finally talk about 11B X 1371, otherwise known as the Plague Doctor Video. Many, many questions about the strange video, what it means, and who exactly created it remain. Or if it has, then only the flimsiest of evidence supports it. And for several months at the end of 2015, armchair detectives all over the internet could not get enough of it.Ī lot of the mystery has been solved by now - but a lot of it… hasn’t. Or at least, someone dressed up to look like one, although no one has ever been able to find the mask worn by the figure for sale. But weirdest of all is the only “actor” - if you can call the figure that - in the video: A plague doctor. There are things hidden in the frames - blink-and-you’ll-miss-them moments that take work to both find and figure out.
The soundtrack is an ear-splitting array of noise. It’s set in a decaying, abandoned building. It’s not a long video - less than two minutes. Previously: The Pennhurst Found Footage Videos.
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