What Was Neurocam? - Internet Mysteries

woman an accident mid-forties standard canary for asking these very difficult lesions she sort of took my responses and thread the back at me in a very accusatory really selfish a huge very angry and then the other doctor visually it was the doctor turnaround syphilis look underneath through after the couple decides contacted by someone Bailey the way that it works with Eric and was that they tell us that whenever we follow that's as far as I was concerned did happen in Melbourne you know the fact that I had a paper bag on my head I'm being rude sometimes I always started out and I wasn't the policemen think cold why how how could this happen I was there to ruin window was once again eerie music line that had the pilot back you backed out of my head [Music] [Music] in 2004 a billboard was spotted in Melbourne Australia and due to this billboards placement it would have cost at least $10,000 at the time as thousands of people would have been impressed by it over its existence in subsequent years more billboards would continue to pop up that were almost identical in nature these billboards simply read get out of your mind and link to a website called Nero cam com these billboards promptly garnered tons of speculation from the local press and many articles promptly took to the story to provide further attention to this mysterious piece of advertising at first glance this individual billboard obviously looks like some kind of marketing stunt to get individuals intrigued in some kind of product it would appear like this company is trying to manipulate us onto their site obviously someone paying for a billboard must be looking for a way to make some money back on their investment 99.9% of the time that would be the exact case but not with Nero cam it's fair to say that these billboards would end up being something that no one could have anticipated all I can say about these billboards right now is that the only way I can describe it to you is that these lead down one of the most bizarre and prolific internet rabbit holes I have ever seen upon visiting that web site very few of those initial questions would get answers upon first viewing the site a video would automatically download making you and your computer feel incredibly violated this file is NCI MOV and it is about a minute long and it would seem like whoever set this up wants to look at it first so let's take a look [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] here we see in this movie various masked figures this entire video is trying to set the stage and seemingly provide social proof that there are people within this organization however we still obviously don't know their intention in 2004 something like this would have been incredibly novel the appeal of secret societies is something that at this time was basically the main conspiracy theory among all conspiracy theories when you had the History Channel rolling so what kind of organization would exist with this amount of people to be able to create a teaser trailer pay for billboards yet remain completely anonymous at the time this naturally fuelled skepticism and curiosity moving on to the website we learned that this website wasn't actually selling anything in fact this website really only told you what it wasn't on the websites top right corner under another tab we get a disclaimer that read the following below this disclaimer we get a quote some of the most rewarding experiences we have come about through random circumstances of which we have no real understanding it is sometimes important to commit to something we know very little about if the act of commitment in and of itself becomes part of an experience Bridgette Fisher CEO asia-pacific quadrant neuro cam international now moving on to the rest of the site it contained a reports tab which required a password and a registration page where you could enter your email alias age and City at the bottom it read neural cam respects your privacy and will not use your email address for any other purposes outside of neuro cam operations so what exactly are we about to get ourselves into this is incredibly bizarre and we are taking a leap of faith I will say this website is now defunct but there are many accounts of what would occur initially after you sent your details here I will now direct your attention to a blog title wTF is neuro cam blog spot.com or one user accounts for hearing about neuro cam at and seeing the billboard which prompted him to sign up in a post on this blogspot titled going down the rabbit hole we get direct access to what this person went through documented extensively one week after submitting his information he received the following email dear applicant thank you for expressing interest in neuro cam your application has been forwarded to a designated officer within the human resources security division so that our organization can further evaluate your suitability for recruitment in the interest of facilitating an expedient assignment the Human Resources Security Division is currently implementing a series of background checks we apologize in advance for the potentially intrusive nature of these checks and assure you that neuro camp international only undertakes this course of action in the interest of protecting our proprietary operational procedures any information gathered from this historical evaluation will be treated as strictly confidential if your application is successful you will be contacted by mr. Charles Hastings head of neuro cam internationals operations division mr. Hastings will further inform you of the nature of tasks neural cam requires you to complete any unsuccessful application will result in the cessation of further correspondence between neuro cam and yourself neuro cam appreciates that in eighty three point six percent of instances new applicants experience a desire to inquire about many issues which may further enlighten them as to the true nature of neuro cam due to the need to maintain a high level of operational security neuro cam is unable to provide much of the information desired by entry level participants thank you once again for expressing interest in neuro cam I hope that your application will be successful and I will soon have the pleasure of working with you regards Maxwell Knight head Human Resources Security Division neuro cam international taking a look at this first email we can see why this interestingly build more desire for users inquiring they weren't directly dropped into what exactly what this was the mention of a need for a background check obviously adds a certain degree of speculation as to what the hell is going on here not to mention the further requirement to after waiting a week made people even more eager to learn what was going on in most cases for something like this you'd expect an automated email right after you signed up but this simply wasn't the circumstance after a week later another email would come through dear applicant to continue with narrow Cam's application process all applicants are required to complete the following perception based assessment an assessment of the applicants suitability for operational deployment will be made following the fulfillment of these non-negotiable prerequisites application perception assessment and CI - mm 1/1 part a mission assess applicant's perception abilities Part B execution point number one write a detailed account of everything that happens between four and nine pm pay particular attention to any occurrence which may be deemed out of the ordinary including your account two images that represent the best and worse things to happen on that particular date point number two submit this report and via email to operations at neural cam comm by close of business date Part C operational security not applicable Part D guidelines as with all neuro cam assignments you will be assessed on the manner in which you complete this assignment intelligence and creativity are traits highly valued by neuro cam and a demonstration of both of these will expedite your further advancement within the organization your application and aptitude in this assignment will be the basis for consideration for operational integration ends applicant perception assessment NCI - mm 1/1 regards Charles Hastings head operations division neuro cam international operations at neurochemical here we see in this email that part of their initiation they were required to complete an assignment by a certain deadline to receive further correspondence for what possible reason what they need you to note anything that happens within a 5 hour time window this is a long period of time but it seems like the motive for creating something like this would be to condition your applicants that if they wanted to know the answers and what was going on here they were gonna have to dedicate some time from the get-go if they wanted any answers I will read on from the blog post following this individual as they went through with this assignment for a little bit though I will let his writing take over for a moment the following Monday at 4 p.m. i armed myself with a notebook in a small digital camera i finished my work around 5:00 and was home around 6 I made dinner and watched some TV I didn't notice anything particularly out of the ordinary but I thought that maybe I was looking too hard during the tram ride home I was hyper aware of everyone around me and it seemed that several of them were staring at me or was I staring at them when I got off the tram I kept checking to see if anyone was following me when at home I frequently looked out the windows to see if anyone was watching me from a parked car outside I waited for strange phone calls or a knock at the door nothing happened I paid extra attention to the TV thinking perhaps that they would try to get a message to me that way but nothing stood out at 9:00 p.m. I started transcribing the incredibly dull events of the last five hours I kept worrying that I failed the test and that neuro cam would reject me which was totally irrational of course as I didn't even know exactly why I was doing this in the first place I was honest in my account of the events that transpired although I considered embellish the facts to impress them with my creativity I took a picture of the perfectly cooked steak I had for dinner and the resulting mountain of dirty dishes to represent the best and worst things of my day not particularly imaginative I know I emailed off the report to mr. Hastings and felt torn between resentment for being manipulated into the situation in the first place and gratitude for examining a small slice of my own life in more detail I laughed at the idea that someone at neural cam headquarters sitting down and reading such a boring diary I wondered if they had thousands of people all over the world doing exactly the same thing over the next week I sporadically googled neuro cam to no avail I found it incredible that a super sight billboard linking to a website with presumably high traffic would generate no web presence whatsoever this further fueled my paranoia that this was a unique experience set up for my own benefit which I knew was in a surd and highly improbable idea I patiently waited for the response to my perception assessment assignment finally one week to the hour things took a turn for even more bizarre when I received an email from mr. Hastings who had another task for me here our individual author notes that at this point they were becoming paranoid and to a certain degree they felt manipulated and yes they were being manipulated by their own curiosity what's interesting and note as well is that while one might assume that each individual task was cookie-cutter everyone did not actually go through the same tasks but let's get back to our protagonist on this blog dear applicant to conclude neuro cams application process all applicants are required to complete the following assignment assignment neuro cam identifier covert delivery NCI 3001 /o two part a mission the successful cover and secure collection of standardized neuro cam identifiers the secure transfer will be executed as follows deviation from operational protocol as outlined will result in instant termination of your involvement with neuro cam part 1 travel to the secure transfer location refer to the map provided part 2 at this location carefully camouflaged there is an electronic safe using the map provided locate the safe part three carefully remove the camouflage I don't know why it skip part 4 part 5 enter the code 159 a to open the safe part 6 take only the package with your operative ID written on it part 7 re secure the safe part 8 or place camouflage in such a way to ensure that neuro cams property remains unable to be easily located by non neuro cam personnel part 9 vacate the area part 10 once in a secure location open the package Part C this assignment must be successfully completed by this certain date Part D operational security the Operations Division appreciates that attendance at a remote local primarily on correspondence and data gathered via telecommunications is known to raise risk profile issues with respect to urban environment factors to address potential concerns of operational personnel in this instance permission is granted to invite a person of your choice to accompany you while executing this mission your judgement in this case is being trusted and of course judged should you elect to do so choose a companion that will be trusted to not disclose any other party neural cams operational protocol and proprietary industrial practices please be aware for the purpose of additional security and quality control you may be monitored throughout the completion of this assignment neural cam International is aware that many operatives are tempted to publicly discuss and relate their neuro cam experiences via online forums web journals and the media operatives are strictly not permitted to disclose the details of operational assignments under any circumstances any operatives in breach of this protocol will be immediately terminated regards Charles Hastings on this blog post this guy actually documents himself going to this location many people probably wouldn't be comfortable travelling to an unknown location at this point for good reason having to retrieve something from a mysterious safe from an unknown party for unknown reasons sounds like a terrible idea at this point this seems ripe for some type of crime keep in mind no information was readily available on Google for this and someone venturing off at this point was completely taking a leap of faith into the dark as with all tasks this was paired with a deadline once again which meant that if someone wanted any idea of knowing what was going on here they had to comply in a timely manner or risk losing contact as I said previously our blogger among with many others did just that I will let his writing take over once again at about 6 p.m. on a balmy Tuesday evening I drove along a mountain and a road and parked at a community center opposite the car yard marked on the map i skirted around the car yard down an embankment and under a bridge that took me to a large concrete expanse leading to the red pillars the scale of them at such close range was impressive and it took me some time to walk way to the pillar at the far end apart from some kids and some skateboards off in the distance there was no one around I thought of neuro cams claimed that I might be monitored on this assignment and looked around for surveillance cameras nothing stood out once near the base of the pillar I had to climb up through the garden area which consisted of large grass tussocks among wood chips at the base of the pillar there was no sign of an electronic safe or a team of people with cameras hiding in the Disick's I stood there for a while feeling foolish thinking that this might after all have been someone's idea of a cruel joke I guess it was possible that the pranksters could have money to waste on such activities I was just about to leave when I noticed the wood chips at the base of the pillar that seemed slightly wrong in some sort of way I knelt down on the ground and dug a bit finding the edge of what felt like an old bit of carpet I tugged at it and lifted a squarish section of matting about 50 centimeters wide when I pulled it right back spilling the wood chips everywhere I saw an electronic safe set in the slab of concrete beneath it was the most surreal thing so unlikely but there it was still expecting the candid camera crew to come running out I entered the code I had been given into the hi-tech looking digital touchpad there was a small beeping sound and a click and a light flash from red to green I lifted the handle of the door and opened it upwards inside the surprisingly deep cavity was a pile of yellow envelopes stamped with narrow Cam's logo and hermetically sealed in clear plastic wrap each envelope had a handwritten name on it presumably operatives names there must have been about 100 in total I pulled them all out sorted through the intriguing names like tile ups midnight Eliana until I found one with my own operative name on it I was very tempted to open someone else's envelope but worried that I was being watched and this was strictly against narrow Cam's instructions following my orders I put all the envelopes back close the safe and replace the matting and wood chips I made my way back to my car without seeing anybody or anything unusual once inside my car which I considered a secure location I opened the envelope it contained a typed letter on kamme letterhead signed personally by neural cams mysterious CEO brigitte fisher along with a small orange badge with a strange logo resembling an all-seeing eye on it i read the letter dear operative welcome to neuro cam i am pleased to advise that i hereby offer you a position within neural cam international your perception assignment report was evaluated in accordance to our predetermined assessment criteria neural cams Human Resources and Security Division found that your report demonstrated a minimum of seven out of the 10 qualities desired by neuro cam international this rating determines that you will be an appropriate candidate for operational deployment neuro cam international hopes that you will accept this offer and this act will mark the beginning of a sustained mutually beneficial association with our organization upon acceptance of our offer you will immediately receive accreditation for ongoing operational deployment a privilege achieved by less than 26% of applicants your operational deployment will be effective immediately the details of your first assignment must remain confidential until such time as the operations divisions contacts you and be aware of the date of your first assignment will be determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to your location your age in the state of any current neural cam operations within in your area although your deployment is effective immediately neuro cam cannot guarantee the exact date upon which you'll receive your first assignment being part of neuro cam is a responsibility we expect you to take very seriously neuro cam international highly prizes itself on its strong corporate image and reputation and your continued involvement with us is conditional upon the demonstration of a public manner which will in no way reflect poorly upon the organization conduct contrary to this condition such as overt aggression physical violence or any similarly embarrassing or disruptive behavior displayed during the completion of assignments will result in the immediate termination of your involvement with the organization congratulations on completing neuro cams application process I take great pleasure in being the first to welcome you to the neuro cam team regards Bridget Fischer CEO neuro cam international all right now we need to take a step back to get a good understanding of what is going on as it is really easy to get lost in these blog posts if you look at many of the operative blogs from 2005 and many of them joined in a similar fashion I will say that all the tasks are not identical though however past the recruitment phase the tasks seemed to change quite a bit the purpose of these tasks are what they're used for at the time was still completely unknown so what was this company recruiting for up until 2005/2006 this was all that was basically known about neuro cam many of the tasks seem very trivial I will note people speculated and argued among blogs but no one seemed to have a consistent answer the general gist and all it was known like I said was that this group would assign you tasks that buried on a wide scale for seemingly no reason as with most AR G's they usually have a start point and end point this one seemed a little bit different keep in mind that there was real money being synced into this thing so people figured that this group had to be making some kind of money on the back end but this just simply wasn't the case there were other neuro cam recruits that catalogued their stories with other recruits on their individual operative blogs like I said they would all link them together and it created a kind of social media feed amongst themselves this game seemed to foster a community that would for strangers to work collectively on things many recruits would join from a simpler task than get promoted and then would be given a new task that would in many cases involve the recruitment of more members these tasks would usually be about printing cards leaving photos that would have the neuro Kim logo on them and would link back to the website and would create a new cycle in which other new recruits would go through the exact same process at some point in the early years of this being on the internet people got sick of going through this individual cycle that was self perpetuated and started to look for more practical solutions to this mystery the name Robin Henley was passed around quite a bit as his name was found to be linked to the neuro cam website address many people believe this to be an individual alias however that was later disproven there were quite a few people in the community at the time who started to talk about who this guy was and they also found him linked to the Better Business Bureau with a business called neuro cam registered in 2000 here is a post from one of the many operative blogs that were dedicated to discussing neuro cam I meant to post as much earlier but things hectic one of the many questions swirling around neuro cam is the Robin Halley question it's the classic chicken and the egg whereas heli who is Robert Henley in the neuro cam is mind control projects as inspired reaction to the real neuro cam or as heli the creator of the whole shebang I don't have the answer to that like I have the answer to anything they're hope cam related but I do have this Robin Mark Kelly has been the sole proprietor of an Australian company neuro cam since September 6 2000 the New Zealand neuro cam if you recall wasn't formed until August 11th 2004 hmm there were two names that were passed around Robert Henley and Robin Halley Robert Henley ended up being an alias however Robin Henley was a performance artist basically Robin Henley's entire performance artist career is based on messin with people to some degree or deceiving them in some way looking into his older website which has now been removed showed various hidden camera videos and other forms of content most of which consisted of messing with people one of his acts involved a missing person act where he made himself disappear he would post missing photos or missing posters of himself and then would go walking around town blatantly and then would create a compilation of people calling in to say they have located him thus creating a timeline of where he was walking around that day this is interesting but the other thing is that still some people didn't understand why someone would go to all these lengths and spend so much money they would have to hire people to design the website and do all the tasks of this individual operation that was operating on quite a large scale yet there was still no money component to this at all if you recall those billboards cost about $10,000 in 2004 which isn't even adjusted for inflation even if we knew who was behind it all what's the reason for creating something like this Robin Hayley's name at this point was linked to neural cam in some way but people couldn't finally put the last piece of the puzzle together for a while not until much later in 2011 a documentary trailer was announced called WTF is neuro cam in which a reporter would come and take an objective look into uncovering what the entire thing was about weirdly enough though this was produced by Robin Halley himself so many people speculated that this is a way for him to make his money back or what was weird is I don't actually believe this individual documentary was sold anywhere or it made any money whatsoever because even though Robin Halley produced this thing what was weird is that I couldn't locate this film anywhere the clips that I used in the intro I believed to be from the individual documentary there are several clips that are floating around but not the entire thing which is 75 minutes long there's an IMDB page where there are acting credits and a full profile in the entire film and the trailer but that's about it this film clearly did not make any money nonetheless let's take a look at that film trailer do you see that sign up there could you tell me what do you think get out of your mind means and do you know what neuro cam is I don't know man maybe they finally made us legal or something I think Yura Kim could be some sort of brain camera maybe it began with a billboard then an innocent exploration through cyberspace soon Graham Hin stock found himself on secret assignment an agent of a shadowy organization [Music] what is neuro Camp what is it that's the 10 million dollar question if I knew that one thing that is clear is that neuro can get people to do things for them in the hopes of solving the mystery these assignments vary in nature and are often extremely dubious in terms of ethics and even the law yeah I'll pretend Iike you've probably already been noticed with this podcast yeah thanks tomorrow already paranoid enough you gotta mention that now on Stannis here so I thought you or someone I recognize I'm not so sorry okay I'll just go I'm sorry [Music] [Music] Trinity [Music] designs it worth the risk I'm just concerned and worried about you those freaking out living [ __ ] they're going yeah why are we doing [Music] we are still making this film are we so just to establish this lengthy timeline in 2004 neuro cams first billboards were spotted and this community had been building ever since and in 2011 it was announced that there would be an individual documentary produced by the guy who was likely the creator of it all however we never got that individual documentary released to the public so what exactly happened well we wouldn't get our answer until 2012 when Robin Halley got his ph.d project neuro cam an investigation is Robert Haley's PhD thesis it's 206 pages and leaves us with some incredibly fascinating looks into the situation at hand I will do my best to summarize but this is a lengthy read the thesis itself covers a wide variety of topics this includes but is not limited to the topic of creating project neuro cam the role of AR G's flash mobs hoaxes audience interactions secret societies and for reducing a 75 minute documentary exploring the whole fake world he had created these are just a few things that I picked out there's a lot more information here but just to note if this sounds confusing it's because it is one of the big takeaways I got from reading this interesting and metathesis is that this guy sought to create a work of fiction his documentary and wanted to see the results of audience interaction playing into the role of creating a fictional piece of artwork not only do we get to look into what it took to create project neuro cam we get to look at the entire story of what it would be like to be an operative that was written from our point of view part of his thesis is the story of how a person just like us would have gone down this individual rabbit hole keep in mind that this story that he writes from our perspective our actual operations that people would go through it's from an outsider's perspective and is based on real operations that actually took place the blog I was reading to you earlier while there are many others like it out on the Internet is actually written by Robin Halley himself and this exact piece of writing was also in his thesis if we pick up where we left off and we wanted to read through this entire thing on his thesis basically the process would have gone like this people would join neuro cam they would complete tasks in neuro cam they would go up the ranks recruiting new members and then the ultimate end goal would be to finally meet the creator of the entire project Robin Halley in which the protagonist which is us confronts Robin Halley scan him what it was all about so let me make this clear this guy made a fake organization to tell a fictional story based on true events and then at the end of this story he created a fake interview with himself all written from our point of view which is incredibly meta I must point out I do have to hand it to him though this is beyond creative especially at this point in time in 2004 people barely talked about a orgies let alone created one this meta and self perpetuating this one only required one billboard and then thereafter would get new recruits to consistently keep this thing alive for many years to come with these new recruits as well he was also able to offload much of the work thus creating a fully self-sustaining Arg another thing I wanted to point out is that at this point in time it's almost impossible to create something like this again because due to the age of the Internet at the time in 2004 many of the people involved in this weren't actually trying to solve the mystery they just wanted to be a part of this group Facebook still didn't have widespread adoption and many of these people being brought together from the internet was still a relatively new concept thus making this incredibly prolific at the time in conclusion I highly recommend that you go read through the entire thesis if you have the time it's a good read so if you want to go read about yourself as I said this story is written from your point of view going to the entire operations involved with neuro cam rising through the ranks and seeing all the things you would have to do I highly recommend you start on page 55 it is the initial blog post that we read through and builds off of that with all other subsequent missions and the full story is really really captivating I want to leave you with one more thing before we in this video at the time that this ended around 2012 something that a lot of people never really talked about is the fact that many people actually thought Robin Helly to be behind cicada while this has not been proven whatsoever I will say though that both cicada and neuro Cam are both secret societies looking to recruit individual members by doing tasks for them I will say that cicada is by far much more prolific in terms of the puzzles required however the basis and premise is the same and if the people behind cicada are not some huge organization it might be safe to assume that whoever created that individual Arg or puzzle was also taking influence from this individual neuro cam project I don't think we'll ever know for sure but it's still interesting to think about that being said this is barely sociable have a great night you

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Keywords: Neurocam, ARG, Internet Mystery, arg, neurocam, internet mysteries, internet mysteries solved, early internet mysteries, secret societies, secrets, documentary, down the rabbit hole, internet rabbit hole, real story, solved mysteries, case closed

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Length: 34min 25sec (2065 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 29 2019

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