Episode 3139: Dark Enigma - The Eerie Enigma of Cicada 3301

Renegade Talk Radio

Please be aware the stories, theories, re-enactments and language in this podcast are of an adult nature and can be considered disturbing, frightening and in some cases even offensive. Listener Discretion is therefore advised. Welcome heathens welcome to the world of the weird and unexplained. I’m your host, Nicole Delacroix and together, we will be investigating stories about the things that go bump in the night, monsters lurking under your bed or deep in the forest, that unknown creature lurking just out of sight and frighteningly imagined creatures, ghosts, supernatural beings or unsolved mysteries. So, sit back, grab your favorite drink, and prepare to be transported to today's dark Enigma.... And on today’s Dark enigma we’re looking into a rather interesting conspiracy theory, well not so much conspiracy as weird, but I’ll let you be the judge. Okay, with that said, we will still be playing our drinking game and as you know, the drinking game is only for those of us that are at home and have nowhere else to go tonight. The choice of libation is yours, so choose your poison accordingly… Alright, now for the game part how about every time I say Internet that will be a single shot and every time I say Cicada, that will be a double shot. Now that the business end is out of the way we can jump headfirst into today’s dark enigma… so put on your best cyberpunk duds, grab your laptop and log into the darkest parts of the web as we jump down the rabbit hole with The Eerie Enigma of Cicada 3301 We live in the age of the Internet. Virtually every aspect of our lives is tied in some shape or form to cyberspace, and the net has become a sprawling, lawless cyber jungle. And just like a jungle, there are things that move in the shadows and stalk about the wilderness here in the ether. In some cases it’s hard to know if what is prowling out there in the dark is harmless, a predator, a mere illusion caused by the play of light on the leaves, or something else. It is from this cyber wilderness that creeps one of the weirdest unsolved technological mysteries of the modern age; a puzzle put forth from some mysterious cabal whose agenda and identity remain unknown to this day, and which has spiraled into perhaps the most legendary and baffling conundrums of the Internet. On 4th January 2012, a cryptic message in simple white text on a black background mysteriously appeared on the infamous Imageboard 4chan set a small corner of the internet ablaze. It stated simply: “Hello. We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have devised a test. There is a message hidden in the image. Find it, and it will lead you on the road to finding us. We look forward to meeting the few who will make it all the way through. Good luck.” The denizens of 4chan didn’t know what to make of it. Was it a marketing tactic? A recruitment scheme for some tech firm? An elaborate joke?