Part 1

First Video - I let a random guy edit this video
On December 16, 2018, YouTuber JackSucksAtLife uploaded a video titled I let a random guy edit this video. In this video, YouTuber Wilbur Soot appears and is applying to Jack via his email for his non-vacant role of editor. Jack allows Wilbur to go for a trial run of “editor”, by editing a short, controlled video of Jack on Minecraft. However, his editing is very erratic, out of the ordinary, and cuts away to him, giving a monologue about how he is “suffering from hypothermia”. He says he is on the run and that "they will find him soon". He starts to sing a song with his guitar while plugging in a plea for money, saying to check it out on iTunes and help him out. Soon after he starts the song, someone bangs on the front of the building and Wilbur curses and sprints out of the building.

Second Video - I let him edit another video.. this is what he sent back
The ARG really started off in the second video which Wilbur Soot edits for Jack. During a point in the video, he is seen outside, in some park/forest, sitting on top of what looks to be an old beer keg. Another clip shows him running and falling over next to a house.

Clues (in logical order)
Transcript of “foundahutinhandcross.wav” || Credits to @_MythicalSheep_ and @Fleury 🌼
 * 1) At the end of Jack’s video, we get a link to a video of Wilbur leaving a message for someone on the phone, expressing a poem called "The Raven". This is an old poem by Edgar Allan Poe. It is written in English and it was what first told us that Wilbur was really into poetry and writing itself. The video was originally called “clues” but was later renamed to “/r/LincolnshirePoacher” to help out those new to the ARG.
 * 2) In the subreddit /r/LincolnshirePoacher we got another video of Wilbur, posted by one of his alts. The video started out with, "Leave a message after the beep noise" hinting at this being him leaving a message for someone, then Wilbur reads out an entire short story. It is very well written and is by Edgar Allan Poe. At about 9 minutes in, the sound of the morse code appears. When reversed and translated to text, the message is in base64 and when deciphered, the message was a URL to another YouTube video. At the end of the video, there is also some reversed morse which says, “DON'T LET KAI TELL YOU WHAT I DID.”
 * 3) The video linked was called “a ramble” and was just Wilbur telling everyone that he was okay and that Kai needs to be fired. Suddenly Wilbur starts running and there is another Morse message at the end of the video saying, “DON’T LET KAI FIND OUT”. Earlier in the video notes are played. If you put these notes into Morse code it comes out as K. This could be related to Wilbur only typing K** when referring to Kai. If reversed, a robot says, “I did something embarrassing. I did something embarrassing”
 * 4) After the previous, we got a lead on another video titled “a gift” through a link in the description but the video was removed 24 hours later. The video was just Wilbur walking past a rugby club and he’s singing a Christmas Carol. He puts a box in the trees and says “I hope nobody finds this unless they are meant to.” It was a clear clue that it was meant for us to find. During a section of which coordinates flashed up on the screen.
 * 5) Member Mr. Jeeves lived near the coordinates and the next day he went to the location and found a Fidget Spinner with two tissues and a note from Sonichu stating that they were too slow and that he beat them.
 * 6) Later, Sonichu joined the server and sent the note that he stole.
 * 7) /r/LincolnshirePoacher was originally password protected before the name change of the video. On Wilbur’s Reddit page (/u/WilburSoot) morse code block was found that once translated became a string of binary. Once that was decoded it led to a backward google drive link leading to an audio file named foundahutinhandcross.wav. which contained a line of audio hidden within it stating; “The password is Poe. I mean, it makes sense, doesn’t it?” Messaging the moderators it gave early access to the subreddit before it was public and linked in the title of the first video.


 * 1) We also found a video with him singing a song called “Privately Owned Spiral Galaxy”. He was really passionate about his music and yet again showed that he enjoyed the singing and words. Some of the lyrics were cut out or altered, such as the lyrics "And the brain I used to cultivate reveals my lovers were a lie" being cut to remove “reveals my lovers were a lie” and the lyrics "Normalities effect traject agony of rationality, which thankfully penetrates with no avail to my unreality" being almost totally cut to only say "no avail to my unreality" Lyric Transcript: (credits to @TLL_Zed(Matty))


 * 1) Another alias for Wilbur on Reddit was discovered under the user name /u/LP39715. This account posted a string of binary which when translated and flipped led to a section of an image[1].
 * 2) Along with this the account also uploaded a discolored, low-quality version of the O2 arena with hidden text in it stating “you have all of the clues now btw” along with the title “grapeshot yang” which is an anagram for steganography. When this is put into a decoder another part of the image the string “Oh! It’s gonna be a cold Christmas” appears along with a base64 string that turns into a google drive link(Untitled.wav) for a new audio file when flipped which has another image[2] in the metadata.
 * 3) Along with this a comment by /u/WilburSoot on Reddit contained “(3 jokers 4 frogs, Opened house 2. June pressed grapes)” which led to yet another section of the image[3].
 * 4) /u/LPatO2 was discovered to be another one of Wilbur’s accounts with one comment having “rniQLBd.jpg /r/ sha 1 ed 2345” The first part leads to another section of the image[4] and the second is a key for use with it. When the key is used with the contents of the new image /r/sharedfelt is discovered.
 * 5) The subreddit gives a google drive link(Untitled2.wav) to an audio file containing a robot reading off a string of letters. Which after Mr. Jeeves and Alspal made a bot to try different phonic combinations it made a Pastebin link. The Pastebin has another video (reupload) called “they are getting closer” hidden inside of it in the middle of this video is some audio that when put through a spectrogram shows text. It says:


 * 1) User pixel combined all 4 of sections of the image into one.

False Leads
As a general rule for this ARG, the only trustworthy sources of information are Wilbur, Jack, Kai, and any directly associated people or posts (ie. retweets, replies, etc.) All others can be assumed fake, and a false lead.


 * A comment that was found, stating that Lincolnshire Poacher was code for “be sure to drink your Ovaltine”, a joke to a scene from the A Christmas Story. However, upon googling it a site was found which was password protected. By looking at the JavaScript for the page the code was cracked, and some images were found, of an ultrasound. This is now all believed to be unrelated to this ARG due to how it was found and the fact that it was registered back in 2015
 * In this new video by Wilbur, he reads a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, whilst cutting in and out of clips from Lincolnshire Poacher 1_06; a former number station. Upon looking at the revision history for the Lincolnshire Poacher Wikipedia page, an edit by a ‘Wilber Soot’ containing what was believed to be a code was discovered. However, Wilbur later stated that this was not him in a tweet. Along with this, users tried to put the numbers from Lincolnshire Poacher into a website. However, this resulted in a rick-roll, likely from an outside source (potentially a Clue Saboteur).

Synopsis of Part I
After taking all of the clues from this point on, we have figured out that Wilbur is running from someone, and that there is something that he needs to hide from the public. Wilbur says that the only way for the public not to know is to find out before Kai does, and the only way for him not to find out is for him to get fired. Wilbur at this point seems very dead set on his one goal of taking over Kai's job as Jack’s main editor solely for the reason that he doesn't want the public to know what he has done wrong/embarrassing.

Another thing to note is that we know that Wilbur is "moving up North" as he has stated multiple times. He mentions that it is getting colder and that he's also leeching off of other peoples’ wifi. This suggests that he doesn't have a solid place to live or stay. He may be constantly moving and trying to find sources of heat as the Winter moves on. All of the hints that he gives us have to be in the form of a code so that Kai can't easily find them out before we can in order to save the information from getting out.

Christian’s theory:

After we obtained one audio clip, it had audio at the end talking about Wilbur coming down to see his "mom(?)" for Christmas. He mentioned that at the time, he was just hanging out with some friends and he had hoped to see her soon. This could also somehow relate to the previous phone calls and could be a hint to who he was talking to before. In another audio clip, we got the translation "Yeah… (a Cough) Please, I didn’t want him to know. Yeah, we haven’t gone on a date since, like, forever, so I just wanted to know if you would like to go to (Packerburger? Pack - A - Burger?) um tonight (Laugh) Hope you come! Oh, I hope you um...". This also brings up another suspect for who the person could be. he suggests that it’s a girl wanting to go on a date (yet we still don’t know for sure if this was just fill in information or if it actually mattered).

What else we know:

 * 1) Throughout many of his clues/edits for Jack, the English folk tune Lincolnshire Poacher is played. (The specific version is a very low-resolution MIDI, used as a tone to signify the Shortwave channels ID. A female voice reciting the intel in encrypted numbers followed after.) The numbers read out likely have no bearing on the ARG. This is archival audio of the Lincolnshire Poacher numbers station, suspected to have been used to send messages to spies in the cold war.
 * 2) Wilbur had nowhere to live, so he is constantly moving up North while making phone calls to someone (we don’t know exactly who) as well as leeching off of others’ internet and searching for heat as the Winter rages on.
 * 3) He likes to create music to express his feelings as well as the fact that he has a love for English literature.
 * 4) He must have friends in contacts reach as he mentioned it in a phone call to his supposed mom in one of the audio files (more info above). Most of his phone calls don't seem to be answered yet they go to voicemail where he will leave a poem as the ending message.