A YouTuber's Slow Descent Into Chaos

I stumbled upon a strange channel on YouTube called Laosher Hands and there are a series of strange videos, all from the year 2008. The first video is titled Mansion One, let's take a look at it. There's something a little disturbing about this video, but it's hard to identify what it is exactly. Things get stranger as we examine the description. It contains a series of binary codes of ones and zeros. One way that computers store text information is by encoding each letter into an 8-bit sequence using the American standard. code for information exchange or ascii for short, it turns out that these numbers are ascii code when translated, they are read if you look at the light, you can see, we can see where this place is, why did someone feel the need to upload this video ?

It is simply the introduction to the strange world of the Laosherhans The first video on Laosher Hans's channel is not the beginning of the story There is also a link to a blog by the title It would seem that this person is called Hans Altman The first publication It is before the video for several days and was written on April 23, 2008. It is titled Looking for a Hideout, Let's Read It. It's been a couple of weeks since the incident. They wanted to kill me, but I survived. Now I'm here, without really a home. without reality my family is far enough away that I miss them I'm looking for new hiding places fortunately here are some friends of mine now I'm living in an old mansion among wild trees I don't know how long I can hide from them from others the truth is one day I have to get out one day within this post there is an image that appears to be from the same location as the video notice the similarities between the skylights the post offers more questions than answers they wanted Kill me looking for new hiding places hiding from the truth at this moment we still don't know what will happen later that day.

Hans published another blog entry titled Strange Friend. I'm living in his mansion. He doesn't say much. I don't. I say a lot I don't even know his name, I trust him and he trusts me, that's enough, we just have an agreement, he may never visit the basement of the house, it's a restricted area, so, well, I don't want to break up I trust, actually, I wonder what is hiding in the basement, but surviving is more important to me as it is satisfying my curiosity. It seems that our friend Hans is not alone in this mansion. There is another person, but the details remain murky.

We do not know it yet. I really don't know what's going on here the blog goes silent for three days before Hans returns with a short message erica o erica this post has some comments a conversation with a user named illy ili thinks they've met hans before hans answer with a sequence of numbers another code, this is very similar to the youtube description above in the same way that binary numbers correspond to letters in ascii, so do decimal numbers, each set of numbers can be converted into a letter. By doing this, each number reveals readable text.

It's a pretty small world, my friend, I've heard this and I've heard that perhaps the answer lives in our heads or our hearts. Billy responds with another coded message, but this one is different, it contains letters and numbers, how can we convert it? send a text message, the answer to this is a little technical, but bear with me. Different number systems have a special property called base, this represents how many unique digits there are, for example we are used to the base 10 or decimal number system, this means that there are 10 different possible symbols we can use, but there are also other bases.

An example that we just saw is base 2 or binary. In this system there are only two symbols we can use, 0 and 1. Both bases have the same numbers. This number is equal to 13. We write it in decimal or binary the value is the same, it's just a different way of writing it, however there is more than just these two number systems, in fact you can go as high as you want as long as you can find enough symbols for the third one. The most common is base 16 or hexadecimal. In this version we need more symbols than just 10, so we started using letters too.

He's just as expressive as the other two, he just looks different. In this case, the number 13 would be written d. that the characters in ilies and han comments are actually hexadecimal numbers and can be converted to text. I see how Erica feels about butterflies. I wonder if Hans responds with Erica. Oh, she loved all living things. Butterflies, fish, dolphins, horses, everything she lives, this presents a new. Erica's character, all we know is what Hans just told us. We don't know that she is a family member, a lover, or a friend, but it seems that she is important to Hans.

Hans waxes poetic again a few days later in a post called Path in the Shadow. refers to elysium three times elysium is the ancient Greek concept of the afterlife also refers to eden the biblical paradise found in the book of genesis the path in the shadow will be your elysium the place in the shadow is your elysium your paradise hidden his twice-cut Eden once again, we don't know exactly what Hans is talking about here. His writings are cryptic and obtuse. The pattern continues the next day when Hans posts a photo of a statue he saw during a trip to Paris, according to the post.

The photo was taken from inside the Louvre. Hans talks about how his goal was gone and how he failed that day, but he also has the strange feeling that he won and that he was a human being, which is good for his soul. There is a comment on this post from a user named The Silent Observer and it turns out they have a blog of their own called Shoe Arsenal. The first comment links to your post. I found your blog, spanker, yes I did. What a spy you are, even if you don't delete a story in my browser laosher hans what a great noble nickname you have laosher hans lives in my house mansion he calls this place he is eating my food he is using my computer and what a mysterious miracle he doesn't hide his things from me too much imprints trusts Laosher Hans too much, one day one day in you, Laosher Hans will know the whole truth about you and me, apparently the silent observer is the other person in this mansion who has been mentioned a couple of times so far, Hans has not was able to cover his tracks. and it has been discovered, however, there is a discrepancy.

Hans writes as if the other person in the mansion has been aware of him for some time, but the silent observer writes as if they are just making contact and then there's another strange nugget, what's the whole? the truth about hans for now we just don't know in the next few days the silent observer makes posts commenting on han's blog they claim that they rescued hans in a post called Oops, we learned that the silent observer has problems with the technology they use from the photographs of Han pointing out that they are not a great craftsman and banning the basement, it is not long until Hans finds the blog on April 30 and makes a post that is a list of ascii numbers that, translated, reveals the following Oh, now The sun has risen and told me: I have to be careful with my relationships.

I trust my friends, but I have to be careful. They also read me and write something like defamation. Hans has discovered that the silent observer is aware of his blog there is another encoded message in the comments but this is a combination of base 10 and base 16 ascii using both we can decode it to the following text in german this roughly translates to "everything is fine "Thanks for the warning, I still trust him, you know? netany's story coding has managed to obscure the text of the silent observer in the following post they say they have no idea what the numbers mean, but the alarming title suggests that hans has discovered something the rest of the post is strange and winding full of typos observer mocks han's post about erica then there is a strange sequence of encoded letters turns out this uses a type of code called a caesar cipher a caesar cipher is pretty easy to understand just take two rows of the alphabet and move one of them going around to the other side to encrypt the message use a letter from the top row and write the corresponding letter from the bottom row the decoding is done in reverse take an encrypted letter find its place in the bottom row and write the text raw decoded the key to the Caesar cipher is knowing the change in how far the second alphabet shifted relative to the first alphabet the mysterious text looked as if it could be a Caesar cipher the umlauts implied it could be a German text, but how The good thing about the German language is that there are only 30 letters in the alphabet, this means that the Caesar cipher only has 30 possible changes and it is trivial to try them all so that the text can be decoded using a change of 13.

Once decoded, the message can be translated to say the following. My pathos would surely make you laugh. Haven't you stopped laughing? The meaning is as if much of the observer's text is somewhat obscured. Why are they acting so strange? What is really happening? inside this mansion, the observer posts again two days later. Yesterday I had a splendid conversation with Laosher Hans o in Hindi. Italogo is also truly a bookworm. This fool has read as many books as I have. His favorite, by the way, is crime and punishment, especially the The protagonist of this masterpiece, Laos Rohan, says that he used his copy, how pathetic, I hate this book and I told him about a legend, my very private secret, yes , boys and girls, even foxes like me have their secrets, I don't know why I told them.

I haven't told anyone yet, but you know, my friends, maybe one day you won't forget. It's clear that Hans is becoming increasingly nervous about the watcher's presence, as his next post is password-protected, but Hans made a critical mistake during their conversation. with the observer who was going to tell him that his favorite book was Crime and Punishment by the famous author Dostoevsky the password for his publication is Raskolnikov who is the protagonist of the novel in the text Hans also refers to the conversation about literature mentioning that to the observer He likes Cervantes, an author famous for writing Don Quixote, in fact, the observer already mentioned El Niño Hidalgo, which is the Spanish title of the book, there is another mention of the legend of Netanyahu, this is the second time that Netanyahu appears in this blog, what is it?

Well, it seems to be related to Mount Nittany, which is a mountain in Pennsylvania, United States. It is probably most famous for being the inspiration for the Nittany lions, which is the mascot of the nearby University of Pennsylvania. The etymology of the term Nittany is somewhat controversial. In 1918, Henry Schumacher wrote a book titled Juniata Memoirs, Legends Collected in Central Pennsylvania, Chapter 10 Is Called Nittany, A Tradition of the Juniata Maiden, tells the story of a leader named Nittany who ruled over an Indian tribe and was revered. for his peaceful philanthropy. fighting only when necessary as the story progresses about his burial after death a great storm arose overnight in the morning his burial mound had been transformed into the mountain now known as nittany however this story may be the author's imagination rather than what is stated. traditional legend, while the term nittany appears to predate the book, some have suggested that the legend it contains is a mere invention, regardless of its authenticity, this is probably what Hans has been referring to in his publications, the legend of nitini, this development suggests that the mansion may be somewhere in rural Pennsylvania after all, that is the most likely place where someone would be aware of the nittany legend, but the reason for the repeated reference remains a mystery. .

The Silent Observer and Han seem to have an interest in literature and folklore. Observer's next post. references both are titled waiting for godot this is the title of a famous work by samuel beckett in it two characters wait for godot a character who never appears the work has a wide range of interpretations some say it is a parable that represents the wait for a god that never arrives, others believe that it has a Freudian interpretation and others believe that it is an allegory of the cold war. Perhaps the only thing we can say for sure is that there are many potential meanings.

The Observer also has some Danny Boy lyrics that were written in 1913, just five years before Henry Schumacher's book, the pikes call from glen to glen and down the mountainside, the rest of the text talks about the strange publication of han and how the observer has yet to crack the password, but it wouldn't last long. The commenter named xxx told the observer the password and about 12 hours later they made another post about it and then there is a report while Lausa Hands was enjoying the autumn sky of Paris. Her goal was gone. Yes, dear ones, our bibliophile is cold-blooded murder. and the funny thing was oh he comes now I have to delete a history onmy browser the next day hans made a post with a new video called flat, let's see it talks about his growing distrust of the man he shares the house with then he says that while snooping around the computer he found a password protected file called hansaltman.zip, this understandably shakes Hans, why would there be a file with his name on someone else's computer?

The file is not directly linked to the blog, however, some research leads lead us to a thread on a forum called Unfiction, as it turns out there are some people here who have been discussing Laosher Hans. Someone has posted a link to the file and we can download it and take a look. It appears as a PDF file, but unfortunately. It appears to be corrupted, however, if we change the extension to zip, the file is readable, a password is required to access it and a user named sun78 discovered that the key is rosinante, the name of the horse in Don Quixote, the file contains unpdf of faust a story by german author guthi involves a man who makes a deal with the devil but it backfires the pdf is quite long and contains some additional images interspersed between the scanned text the first is a photograph of a handwritten letter dear redacted my beloved redacted he is here i had to rescue him even if you are more important to me as someone else he is here and you are in danger and i can't do much about it there is only one solution for us and i am sorry to tell you that you have to hide in our basement.

I know he will be very surprised and angry if he sees you and this is very dangerous for all of us, so I will prepare the basement as comfortable as I can for you, dear, you will be safe and secure there. I know it is very difficult to go from the surface from our house full of harmony and peace to the underground and I will try to put an end to it, but not yet and then in a different way. writing by hand sometimes we have to make decisions against our present but for the sake of our future always yours drafted the letter implies that there is a third person living in the house hans's fearful observer has decided to put them in the underground cellar with the hope of protecting them is surely why they insist that Hans never entered the basement because he would find this hidden person.

There is another detail in the background. There is a book. This is a physical copy of the same Faust story found in the pdf. The pdf also contains a strange map. Hans recognizes it as a path to the loft and posts a picture of the building. If you look closely at the left side of this house, you can see this rounder's window. The pdf also has a code on the final page, as it turns out we can. decode it if we interpret it as base 64. this works the same as base 2 10 and 16 except this time there are a total of 64 different characters when decoding we can read the text there is a circle in a loft you will see where it is it is a key look in a circle, then hans posts a video of his trip to the parking lot, but hans doesn't have much to say about it as he had trouble with it the next day, the watcher posts that I was nice to him, rescued him and more tried to protect him from a inescapable danger but he didn't trust me, he stole my data, he cracked my codes, he's sniffing around this desperate fool, he trusted you, my precious anonymous ones, you play with his sponsors, so let's play, I help you destroy. he I will tell you the truth about him you just have to understand me a quote contains a code that appears to be base 16 but when we convert it it is little more than double text, however using another Caesar cipher this time with an offset of 23 we discover that it says institute friendly kids from a high school are following you and they can get very angry if you don't do what they want and then the silent observer gives a clue to hans he creates a code in the form of three numbers representing a page, a line and a letter, this is a book cipher that corresponds to the book scanned in the pdf.

By locating the appropriate page line and letters, we can find that the key is in the refrigerator the next day. Hans posted another YouTube video titled refrigerator. In it he searches the refrigerator as the observer suggested, after a while Hans finds a key, it has a label on it which is hard to see in the video, but luckily he has posted higher resolution images and once again it is some code type. we can decode it if we interpret it as base64 there and the back end says that the key was decoded by a commenter and the observer is getting upset about the help others are giving, yet they continue to give hints on their blog, this is another one. set of numbers that can be decoded using base 16 ascii produces text but mixed we can again use a caesar cipher with an offset of 21 to decode it completely if you look deep into your heart you have to rise to heaven remember be careful with your heart Next post Han is shortly after and reflects on the meaning of the words on the keys, but shows resolve.

It's time to enter the tower and discover what's there. He thinks the watcher doesn't want him to find Erica. He says she hangs like. the sword of damocles over his head this is a reference to a story about a person who agrees to trade places with the king for a day while he enjoys the luxuries and riches of being a ruler. On his head there is a sword hanging from his hair, a constant reminder of how when you are king everyone wants your head. The observer publishes a photo of Hans descending to the tower with a flowery description.

Ha, look at this great image, it's fun, our superhero. lausure hans is moving towards his own hedis the tower is swallowing his petty figure like an abyss gaping in the apocalyptic fog, is it not a masterpiece? this brave fool is really bold enough one small step for humanity one last step for a good man, not the last but not the least at the end of this post there are some The text that is hidden once again is in base 16. We can translate the text as let all who enter here abandon hope. This is a reference to Dante's Inferno, an epic poem about a journey through hell written in the 14th century according to this poem. text appears on the gates of hell inside the tower they search and find a heart-shaped box when they open it they discover another key but this key does not open the basement door the profile is different it has a label with a message encoded in base64 ascii when it is decoded it reads saw and bag apparently this means that the next key is in a saw bag hans discovers that he opens a box in the wall with a key to a room in the hallway the room is noisy and chaotic there are several machines everywhere even There is a cat wandering around but Hans can't find what he is looking for.

A person named Karen gives a clue she received from an anonymous message on Facebook. The key to the future is in silence, but what does that mean? could be the finger on lips sign, Hans returns to the engine room to examine the sign and it turns out there is a key once again, he has a strange label that he describes in a new blog post. We can use our base64 decoder to see that. the key says kaina on one side and not on the other, this must be the key to the basement, at least hans thinks, so it's time for him to head underground and finally rescue erica, but that's the last time We hear directly from Hans in the next blog. the post is very strange to say the least, the title is a long string of numbers and letters hidden inside, we can see netany, it is the latest observation protocol for authorized use, only then there is a sequence of dated messages, each one thousands , i found a key to the basement erica i rescue now it's ok i'm going downstairs yes it was the right key the basement is now open by the way on the inside side of a door there is writing rxjpa2e whatever that means it's dark in here where there's the light switch oh my god oh my god oh my god, mirrors are just mirrors.

The basement is full of mirrors. What did you expect? Where is Erica Erica? Haha, fool, look at this mirror, what do you see? Have you heard there's someone upstairs? Yes, of course she is here, have you called him? they knew where you are boy they were always here they will hug me they will chain me to my bed again they will hug me and you very reasonable our little Socrates I know the exit here go this way that little door that leads outside I'm free keep running lost contact report immediately to the dr freudenstein what is happening why is hans talking to himself and even more important was the observation protocol who is dr freudenstein there is a final video posted for both laosher hans and the silent observer this is a split screen of two people running who finally merges into a single image at this point we are almost totally lost, we have no idea what is going on, but there is one more post on each blog in the form of a couple of emails, the first is about laosher hans and is in german , but here I have a rough translation.

The subject is the final report of the nittany project and was sent by Versic to Dr. Freudenstein. Dear Dr. Freudenstein, I attach the brief summary of the final report that you will receive by internal mail this week. The subject of our experiment, who suffered from acute dissociative identity disorder, was placed in an unenclosed territory, in a complex of houses and in the garden area in experimental sector number 17f, so that he could move freely there, with some exceptions, no medical or psychiatric care was received. required, however, the test subject was under the most complete surveillance 24 hours a day.

Surveillance cameras were installed throughout the test site and in the house, in addition, their online activities were subject to constant monitoring from our monitoring center. See the docs for more details. Our experiment was successful. This supports his theory that a mentally unstable patient suffering from did or mp can cure himself under certain conditions, on the one hand, this is possible thanks to indirect influences, in our case it was the anonymous context of the Internet with whom he communicated and whoever passively or actively helped him with healing, on the other hand, was the aspect that played an important role in his complex theories.

The effort of split personalities to unite this effort is driven by both artificially and naturally generated identity entities. Here the intensity of psychological disorientation is used. as a tool to remedy and restore the all this became clear at the end of the experiment the patient guided by a survival instinct reconnected his identities and cured himself unfortunately our subject managed to escape however we are in the process of searching for h.a and the Consensus within our investigation team is that there is no danger to the public because the former patient is now cured. I am sincerely sorry for the inconvenience and the fact that we cannot show you the topic of this project immediately after the end of the experiment. however, we are working on it.

Best regards from the Versic Research Institute for the Department of Human Experiments in Psychosomatic Medicine. Then, about the silent observer, another email from Versic, this time to Dr. W. Dear Dr. W. Annually, our experiment has been completed successfully. I am sending you the full report as attached as promised my report contains a complete description of our project. I am proud to inform you that your theories have been proven for years. I was a passionate reader of his articles for the Alternative Psychiatry Studies Bulletin and his monograph on the power of unconscious participation. It belongs to my most read books.

I have not informed mr freudenstein about the fact that the anonymous online contacts were not really accidental. In fact, I followed his advice and provoked intense participation from some members of two arg forums, unfiction and patmo the constitutional. of a so-called alternate reality game allows full involvement in a project even if the participants do not know the background and take the project as a game the nations of the communicator divide the forum members on one side and the divided personalities on the other by On the other hand, it allows us to build a perfect model of communicative coexistence, a therapeutic network as you defined it in your works.

In our case, the art actors curated our reagent without even knowing it. Thank you in advance. Sincerely, PDV Versic Versic ends up asking for a job because they believe they will be fired for Dr. Freudenstein. Our understanding of lousy hands has changed dramatically over the last few posts, so what exactly is going on here? Let's break this down as best we can. All of our evidence for this story is found online. Whether in YouTube videos or blog posts, Hans Altman runs both the Louser Hands blog and the Laosherhan YouTube channel. The other source of information is the Silent Observer or Shoe Arsenal blog.

Laosher Hans documents his experiences living in a mysterious mansion in the forest. The reason. Starting a blog is never obvious, but Hans and the Silent Observer are aware of each other. They apparently live in the same mansion. They talk to each other.another in his blogs, including conversations between the two Hans believes that there is a woman named Erica hidden inside the basement of this mysterious mansion and the observer gives clues to Han, but when Hans finally reaches the basement it is revealed that there is no Erica, in fact, there is no silent observer either. Instead, both blogs have been written by Hans the entire time Hans Altman suffers. from acute dissociative identity disorder a mental health condition where people can have multiple distinct personalities according to the Cleveland Clinic different personalities control behavior at different times each identity has its own personal history likes and dislikes traits and sometimes there may be gaps in memory or hallucinations this information clarifies several of the mysterious components of this project, we now know why there was a file called hans altman on the silent observer's computer because it was also han's computer, we also noticed several similarities important between the two personalities.

They both really enjoy literature. so that they use characters from their favorite novels as passwords for their protected documents, both use codes and cryptography. If we look a little deeper, we notice that the whipping hands and the arsenal of shoes are anagrams. By rearranging the letters, we can go from one to the other, no matter what. is the whole story, the email suggests that the entire mansion is an artificial location designed as a place to try to heal. The indirect influences of the anonymous users who read the blog fueled the effort of the split personalities to unite the attempt to find Erica. interpreted as the personality fighting each other this was foreshadowed with the keys.

We have used the codes on one of the keys but not on the rest. We combine them to say there is no note from Erika which kindly means no in German. The second email is a delving a little deeper into the topic, suggesting that while this was presented as an alternate reality game or plot, it was simply a ruse to find outside communicators to create a therapeutic network for Hans, in other words, those that contributed to the supposed plot, unknowingly helping the real world. the emails are from the psychosomatic medicine research institute on the fipm.de.edu website if we try to go to the page it redirects us to a.o.r with a mysterious symbol as the only image on the page.

Some research leads us to jarrod hill, a designer who created the logo, however this logo is found on several other pages on the internet and unfortunately we have no way of knowing if this website or logo is affiliated with arg, otherwise it is not We have covered are the descriptions of the videos on Laosher Hans' YouTube channel. By translating the entire binary, we can combine them to read the following if you look at the light. you can see the absence of shadows you can discover the light within your soul and even if it is dark within you even if your inner world is full of disbelief and fear you can find yourself there is a possibility to rescue yourself from the pain of ambiguity there is a possibility to change your darkness there is a simple way to maintain balance just look at your reflection and you will understand who you are solid and single like mount nittany firm and eternal like the body of a lion's paw in the soft and warm hands of nittany an individual an individual it is not clear why hans decided to put them in his videos, but it aligns with the prepared effort of the personalities to come together by looking at their reflection hans was able to become an individual the laos rohan project is one of the most intriguing online mysteries with the ones I've come across, it's been dormant since 2008 and, as far as I can tell, is a relatively unknown Internet rabbit hole.

We now know that this project was created by cosmopol, as they made a post confirming it is in the non-fiction thread, while Usher Hans has faded into relative obscurity. Cosmopolis posted on their website as recently as 2019, so perhaps they are still active working on other projects, regardless of whether I wanted to give credit where credit is due. I encourage you to join the rg. and discord server where I will create a channel dedicated to the project. I'm very excited to see your thoughts. It's a corner of Internet history that has been hidden for so long. I'll leave you with one last question about everything we've seen so far. seems to align with the idea that Hans and the silent observer are the same person, but if that's the case, then the one who took the photo of Hans entering the tower couldn't have been him, so who was it?

Could it be that there is more than one unreliable narrator. Thank you very much for joining me on this journey. I didn't know what to expect when I found the strange channel, but I'm glad we looked into it to get the story. What do you think about it? Let me know in the comments below, of course, I also invite you to join the Discord server for a more detailed discussion. I would like to make sure that we recognize that, while presented as real, the Lasher Hands project appears to be a work of fiction. Mental health is a serious topic and This video is not medical advice for those suffering from mental health problems or disorders.

I don't want to disrespect them at all. This argument appears to be a fictional characterization that does not necessarily reflect the complex reality of mental health. We'll go ahead and get it over with. it's been rgn thank you so much for watching and I'll see you all in the next video have a great day