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02.Found Footage_ FTAA 920312 📼.mp4

Found Footage FTAA 920312 📼.srt

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This is one of a number of tapes I found in the bottom of a cardboard box of vintage electronic manuals. They were for some heavy duty broadcasting equipment, so I'd guess they were donated from a local TV station.

Each year in Southcentral Pennsylvania there's a massive used book sale to benefit the public defender's office. Folks from around the area, local libraries, and even businesses all drop off donations. And Sunday is $5 bag day. You can fill a bag with ANYTHING you find for $5.

These tapes were buried in with the manuals in the box. Bag day is largely the domain of local Mennonites gathering up reading material - tapes and electronic manuals getting ignored makes sense. The whole jumble looked weird enough, so I dumped it in my bag alongside some older collections of Poe and Jules Verne - I thought those were the real scores of the day, not the tapes.

The tapes look like they were sent to the station in the early 1990s. Each has its own official looking government cardboard sleeve. The tapes all have a serial number - that’s what you see in the video title. There’s also some documents tucked among the VHS tapes that look like they’re related.

I had to rewind this tape when I first popped it into the VCR, so I guess it was played at least once in the past.

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Transcript

• 0:00 - Federal Temporal Anomaly Authority (FTAA) Warning
• 0:13 - Morse Code
• Transcript: The Federal Temporal Anomaly Authority in Washington, D.C. has issued a warning for the following areas: Franklin and western Cumberland Counties. At 2:45 pm on March 12th, a Weakened Temporal Barrier Status was observed by scientists at a regional FTAA observation station. Citizens are advised to monitor themselves and those around them for the following anomalies: F̵e̶e̴l̶i̸n̶g̶ ̴o̵f̷ ̵I̸l̵l̵ ̸E̴a̵s̸e̵.̸ H̶̫̆e̸͎͒a̷̯͊r̸̭̈i̷͕͘n̶̤̉ġ̴̭ ̸͉̎o̸̧͊r̸̨̀ ̶̰͊s̴͕͝e̵̪̍e̷͉̊i̸̔͜n̶̮̓g̷͉͂ ̸͔̓n̴̢̈́o̷̤͆ǹ̸̬e̸̡̍x̵͓͐ḯ̵͓s̴̩̑t̴͕͊e̵̤͠n̵͓̆t̷̮̊ ̶̤̏e̷͈͋n̴̗̈́ţ̷̀i̷̜͠ẗ̵͖i̸͔̇e̶̦͠s̶̟̋.̴͖̿ Ṛ̶̢̑̚ę̷͈̽̄v̴͕͝e̶̢̢̚r̸̮̯͝s̷͈̹̒ȅ̶͇̖́ḍ̸͎̇ ̸͉͐ŏ̴̢̞r̷̳̒ ̸͔̯̉̎á̴̢̨c̵̬̰̊ç̶̪̒e̵̗̾̀l̸̬͒͘e̵̘̔r̴͙̫̿̃ā̷̮͚͋t̵̤̖̃e̵̘͐d̸̲̒ ̸͍̳̏f̸̳̘̓l̴̹̖̈́ơ̷̬͐w̴͇̏ ̴͔͔̓̌o̴̫̼̊͝f̶͔͌ ̷̿ͅt̴̠͚͐i̸͇̊m̶̳̞͒͋e̸̥͍̔͊.̴̧̰͑ D̸͔͎̹̓i̶͙̍͛́̀s̶͍͛r̵̫̓̍͌́ͅu̴̞͕̓͝͝p̶̡̣̂̓͝t̷̳̼̳̄̄ḯ̷͍̤ơ̶̙̤ṉ̶̻͇̍ ̶̬̖̲̯͊̌͋o̵̮͉̮͍̽̊̕f̵̻͚̋͊̚ ̶̨̱͋͋̍c̷̮͚͔̉ͅa̷̮̍ͅu̷̫͌̕ŝ̴̩a̵̛͓l̵̜̿̕ ̵̭̘̤̲̉̉͌r̴̞̝͋̄̀̑ḙ̷̬̰͔͘l̶̡̠͖̞͆̇a̷͔̩̫͌t̷̝̰͉̓̆i̷̲̹̝̖̎͐͌o̶̜̩̓ň̷͍͒͜s̸͍̱̾̊͝h̶̢̗̏̔i̸̼̿̌̿ṕ̶̜͈̈͘ŝ̸̞͐̊.̷̹͆͂͜ A̵s̶y̷n̸c̸h̴r̷o̷n̴o̸u̶s̶ ̶c̶h̸r̸o̶n̷o̶g̴r̷a̶p̸h̴i̷c̵ ̵e̶v̴e̷n̷t̶s̷.̸ You are advised to avoid locations associated with personal and or communal trauma either in your past or in a potential future. You should lock or unlock exterior doors and windows (depending on temporal flow state) and shelter indoors until FTAA authorities issue an all-clear announcement. Remain tuned to local broadcasters for further instructions and updates.
• 1:22 - Morse Code
• 1:22- Hex behind Warning banner (54 68 65 20 74 68 69 6e 67 20 74 68 65 20 54 69 6d 65 20 54 72 61 76 65 6c 6c 65 72 20 68 65 6c 64 20 69 6e 20 68 69 73 20 68 61 6e 64 20 77 61 73 20 61 20 67 6c 69 74 74 65 72 69 6e 67 20 6d 65 74 61 6c 6c 69 63 20 66 72 61 6d 65 77 6f 72 6b 2c 20 73 63 61 72 63 65 6c 79 20 6c 61 72 67 65 72 20 74 68 61 6e 20 61 20 73 6d 61 6c 6c 20 63 6c 6f 63 6b 2c 20 61 6e 64 20 76 65 72 79 20 64 65 6c 69 63 61 74 65 6c 79 20 6d 61 64 65 2e 20 54 68 65 72 65 20 77 61 73 20 69 76 6f 72 79 20 69 6e 20 69 74 2c 20 61 6e 64 20 73 6f 6d 65 20 74 72 61 6e 73 70 61 72 65 6e 74 20 63 72 79 73 74 61 6c 6c 69 6e 65 20 73 75 62 73 74 61 6e 63 65 2e)

Puzzles

• Clock is at 12:15 position - J in semaphore
• Morse translates to “TEMPORAL ALERT”
• Hex translates to “The thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a glittering metallic framework, scarcely larger than a small clock, and very delicately made. There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystalline substance.” (Quote from Time Machine by H.G. Wells)