Monument Mythos Video Takedown "State Authorities"

[cease and desist]

So, the dude making The Monument Mythos (an analog horror series) has removed one of the entries, "The Gainseville Booms," at the request of state authorities. I can't find a copy of the video, and it was deleted very shortly upon release so not many people saw it. I'm super interested in the reason. Anyone archive it or have any ideas? It's like 1984 in the discord, no info there. Going to start downloading these videos with yt-dlp on release cause damn

 

[SnakeEye]

I watched the video, so here's basically everything I remember that happened in it:
In 2011, a great boom was heard in the area around Gainesville, many people speculated about it's origins but no answer was found. Until 2014 that is, when another(?) boom was heard, this one recieved media attention, which led to the police saying both where caused by artillery weapons being fired at a military base.
However, the video maker distrusts this narrative, and shows a video of the House on the ocean with a voice saying "Fire!", at which point a massive explosion happens.
That's everything that happens, so to me, it seems like the takedown is purely part of the story told about the House and the US's reaction to it.

 

[Klaptrap]

Maybe one of those "how did you know about our base!? Oh you didn't? Well you do now. Take it down." things.

 

[Shitted Scaredless]

They're going to kill Alex aren't they.

 

[cease and desist]

Thank you Snakeskin!! It definitely could be like a part of the lore that it got taken down but Alex even said himself that while he has taken down videos as a part of the ARG before this wasn't like that, and the mods are on hard lockdown mode in the discord. It's just wild.

They're going to kill Alex aren't they.

The FBI is rapidly approaching him and everyone who learns what was in the video, rip

 

[cease and desist]

Someone re-uploaded it on YouTube and it lasted for about 30 seconds. Nabbed it

Spoiler: probably lore, possibly crime

Edit: https://m.facebook.com/GainesvilleSun/posts/10152470512431022

 

[Shitted Scaredless]

Plot twist
This wasn't an ARG

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

I can easily see why they want to censor that video. I looked at it, and I'm fairly certain it shows a test of some kind of hypersonic weapon. Whatever it was, it was traveling at about Mach 5, which is the hypersonic threshold.

If that event was a decade old, that means the hypersonic weapons technology the US has is far more advanced that anyone thought. They've been trying to make it seem like the US somehow got behind in the development of hypersonic weaponry. But, if they were already running prototype tests a decade ago, we are actually way ahead of the game.

 

[cease and desist]

What I want to know is where he got the footage in the first place lol. Also I love that the authorities "assured" him it wasn't real. Posting this screenshot bc this announcement has actually been deleted, probably to stop people from talking about it.

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

What I want to know is where he got the footage in the first place lol. Also I love that the authorities "assured" him it wasn't real. Posting this screenshot bc this announcement has actually been deleted, probably to stop people from talking about it.

The military usually films its tests for analysis purposes. Going over the footage can reveal possible points of failure, aberrant behaviors, unanticipated secondary effects, etc... Basically, it given them another source of analysis to determine if it worked, how well it worked against theoretical calculations, potential places where outcomes can be improved, etc... or if it failed, what the possible failure vector was, did what was being tested fail? or was there an unanticipated event that screwed up the test?, etc...

However, footage of a prototype weapon would obviously be classified at some level. So, whoever leaked it to the public was likely committing a crime.

Also, I'll eat my own face if that video is a hoax. From the delay in the shockwave after detonation, the person filming the test was ~ 70 meters away, on the water (background noise in the video before the impact shows a periodic pattern characteristic of an oscillating wave, such as would be seen if one was standing on something subject to the motion of the ocean or other large body of water). No one making a hoax video would go to the hassle of emulating that kind of background noise waveform. Way too much work for something practically no one would notice.

 

[Shitted Scaredless]

This is just really suspicious on so many levels. To late, feds. The kiwis have it.

 

[Meat Target]

Good on the glowies. Monuments Mythos sucks. It makes no sense.

"James Dean is president but then totally-not-1/6 happens because people hate him for no reason and something something trees blah blah blah Rockefeller".

 

[cease and desist]

Good on the glowies. Monuments Mythos sucks. It makes no sense.

Haha fair, I enjoy Monument Mythos but I get that. I'm just annoyed the authorities (probably) lied about the footage being fake and made Alex take down the video. Kinda fucked

 

[cease and desist]

Update from Alex shedding more light on who actually contacted him

 

[SnakeEye]

Update from Alex shedding more light on who actually contacted him

From the look of it, it's 100% a part of the story. The way he refers to the boom as if it was real, while acting like the Monument Mythos isn't, fits with an interesting detail about the House videos: they have no credits at the end, unlike with MM.
This whole thing is probably Alex's side project, like the Corner Folk, and it's a pretty nice one at that.

 

[Shitted Scaredless]

Man's being held at gunpoint.

 

[Altrinex]

If that event was a decade old, that means the hypersonic weapons technology the US has is far more advanced that anyone thought. They've been trying to make it seem like the US somehow got behind in the development of hypersonic weaponry. But, if they were already running prototype tests a decade ago, we are actually way ahead of the game.

It's no hypersonic secret test, here's the link to the YouTube video of the weapons test used in "House in the ocean" https://youtu.be/zMfkO5iUkb4

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

Im 99% sure its part of the ARG , going from "state authorities" to a air force member and anonymous texts seems to reinforce that it is bullshit, and even then that footage of a "test" just looks like a bomb going off underwater

 

[SnakeEye]

Update from Alex shedding more light on who actually contacted him

From the look of it, it's 100% a part of the story. The way he refers to the boom as if it was real, while acting like the Monument Mythos isn't, fits with an interesting detail about the House videos: they have no credits at the end, unlike with MM.
This whole thing is probably Alex's side project, like the Corner Folk, and it's a pretty nice one at that.

Actually, I was wrong.
Alex clarified in a community post that he never is a character in any of his series, and it seems that the reason he dropped the House series is because the 2014 boom was a real life event and that someone related to the Gilchrist Police Station thought that the video was spreading misonformation about it, I think.

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

I guess it wasnt a arg , i saw the whole thing as a obivous troll anyone with some experience on the internet could tell was bs but i guess when you get unknown texts about it, its a whole new level of real