Secret Message

[Drarok]

Right, I know I've posted about it in a few threads now, but I can't find those messages. :x

So, has anyone made any progress? There seems to be two schools of thought at present:

• Welcome To Nowhere morse code
• The really quiet, weird noises after Wonderland

I'm in the latter camp, myself. I've tweaked it back and forth (oo-er!) but can't make out anything 100%.

Help?! :cry:

[YamahaSynth]

Coincidentally those are the same two that I picked out. Any luck deciphering the morse code yet? I haven't sat down and listened or attempted yet.

[kyuwert]

Coincidentally those are the same two that I picked out. Any luck deciphering the morse code yet? I haven't sat down and listened or attempted yet.

Here's my attempt...

I ..
B -...
U ..-
R .-.
I ..
L .-..
A .-
N -.
D -..
Y -.--
J .---
M --

 :|

[Pedro]

I'm far from done trying yet but, so far, I think the morse code is not meaning anything (just a good pattern?) and the quiet weird noises are, I believe, a severely beaten up recording of the UK shipping forecast.

Morse: I get some letters the same as you, vkamicht, but we differ in respect to where letter-gaps fall.

Where you have "B" _... I hear "T" _ and "S" ...
Where you have "L" ._.. I hear "E" . and "D" _..
The last 6 tones, to my ears, are ._ ._ ._  which makes little sense (AAA) and makes me think it is just a neat way to end the pattern?

It's interesting we both get "Andy" in there though....

For the latter, compare with the sample that Jem triggers at the beginning of EIMA at Summer's End. I'm not saying it's the same sample but the few fragments I can make out sound just like shipping forecast terminology to me....there is definitely "15 miles" or "16 miles" in there somewhere. Perhaps Jem has recorded direction to a secret rendezvous point where riches beyond our collective imaginations are buried....?

The forum's quest continues....

[Drarok]

I'm fiddling with the quiet bit, trying to suppress the swooshes, it sounds like "to hear this message clearly [...] four four fifty one [...]"
:shock:

[Philadelphia]

I struggled at first, but once I slowed it down... well...


Erm....
I get this code:
..  / _ . . .   /. . _   /. _ .   /. .   /.   /_ . .   /. _  / _ .  / _ . .   /_ . _ _   /. _ /. _ /. _

which translates into
"I buried Andy aaa"


Jem, what the hell???



(Edit: since the mean forum isn't showing the proper spacing, I'm editing in / between the letters)
(Edit again: Fixed a typo that sort of changed the whole hidden message. (:-P)

[Qjimbo]

...poor Andy :?

[Pedro]

I get :
..  / _ . . .   /. . _   /. _ .   /. .   /.   /_ . .   /. _  / _ .  / _ . .   /_ . _ _   /. _ /. _ /. _

which translates into
"I buried Andy aaa"

Interesting....and you could be right.
If you "modify" the hearing of the last 6 tones to ". _ _ _ /. _" you get the confession :
"I buried Andy, JM"  :shock:

[James_S]

I get :
..  / _ . . .   /. . _   /. _ .   /. .   /.   /_ . .   /. _  / _ .  / _ . .   /_ . _ _   /. _ /. _ /. _

which translates into
"I buried Andy aaa"

Interesting....and you could be right.
If you "modify" the hearing of the last 6 tones to ". _ _ _ /. _" you get the confession :
"I buried Andy, JM"  :shock:

No wonder JM hasn't turned up on the new forum then

[Pedro]

I get :
..  / _ . . .   /. . _   /. _ .   /. .   /.   /_ . .   /. _  / _ .  / _ . .   /_ . _ _   /. _ /. _ /. _

which translates into
"I buried Andy aaa"

Interesting....and you could be right.
If you "modify" the hearing of the last 6 tones to ". _ _ _ /. _" you get the confession :
"I buried Andy, JM"  :shock:

No wonder JM hasn't turned up on the new forum then

Then again, if you "modify the hearing of the last 6 tones to "_ . . / _ _" you get the more sinister :
"I buried Andy, DM" which means, of course, that the D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-drum Machine dunnit!  :shock:  :shock:

[James_S]

I get :
..  / _ . . .   /. . _   /. _ .   /. .   /.   /_ . .   /. _  / _ .  / _ . .   /_ . _ _   /. _ /. _ /. _

which translates into
"I buried Andy aaa"

Interesting....and you could be right.
If you "modify" the hearing of the last 6 tones to ". _ _ _ /. _" you get the confession :
"I buried Andy, JM"  :shock:

No wonder JM hasn't turned up on the new forum then

Then again, if you "modify the hearing of the last 6 tones to "_ . . / _ _" you get the more sinister :
"I buried Andy, DM" which means, of course, that the D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-drum Machine dunnit!  :shock:  :shock:

That makes more sense, as JM was on the radio the other day, and there hasn't been any sighting of the CR78 for ages.

The only real question - how is TBE posting on here from a buried location?

[LivingForever]

You know what, I thought someone had cracked the secret message - check the EIMA Appreciation thread, Jem wrote:

Aha! Congrats number 1! I wondered how long it would take.

Are you coming to the Peel gig? If so, first pint's on me.

I had a feeling he was referring to QJimbo's sig... unless I'm completely mistaken!

[Qjimbo]

I think that was due to my reaction to the Wonderland track... though maybe the sig too. They're on the DVD instrumentals...

The wonderland instrumental is so, so funny :lol:

[Drarok]

Bastard. :cry:

[SerFox]

. . I
_ . . . B
. . _ U
. _ . R
. . I
. E
_ . . D
. _ A
_ . N
_ . . D
_ . _ _ Y
. _ . _ . _ ;

The semi-colon indicates this is part one of the secret message. A stanza, if you will.*

*This is an assumption, but I believe it's accturate. Back later.

NB: a . _ . _ . _ (dot-dash-dot-dash-dot-dash) in morse denotes a semicolon.