Big Updates + Broadcast #2 Analysis

Hello again.

Apologies for not posting a new blog entry in, well a year (not really), as it is now 2016. We finally get our second Broadcast and quite a few other things have happened. I am really far behind on my posting. But, before we go into analysis, I want to update you guys on some stuff.

First of all, I got a twitter. Smaller updates will go there, plus links to the full blog posts here. It will make things much easier to track when something comes up from Cave of Shadows.

Speaking of, Cave of Shadows has been pretty busy lately. Not only with the new broadcast, but recent activity.

So great, Broadcast #2 is supposed to stream on November 1st. But, the day passed with no broadcast. Later, this was uploaded.

The Fall Celebration was something scheduled for Broadcast #2 that was apparently a live event from the system. So something terrible happened during this Fall Celebration that made Broadcast #2 never air.

Also this Xavier isn't the first time we have heard of him. He appeared on the original /x/ thread where I first found out about Cave of Shadows. In this thread, he was warning us about Cave of Shadows and The System. Here's the archive if you want to look for yourself: http://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/16619951/ I have tried emailing him questions but he hasn't answered back to any of my emails since that night.


After a month, Broadcast #2 appeared as a scheduled YouTube livestream. And when December 19th came, the broadcast finally came as well. There was apparently some weird technical problem with livestreaming, but it was uploaded anyways.

In the meantime, another member of The System named Charlie did a short Question and Answer portion in the live YouTube chat. Basically, the info that we collected from the QnA is this: Cave of Shadows exists to promote The System, a group of people joined together for an unknown purpose and that in order to join The System you must do a favor for them that they want. We also know that Xavier, Charlie, The Overwatcher, and another person called ns0mnby which I have not refereed to before.

Ns0mnby is another channel that uploaded a video attributed to Cave of Shadows called correspondence.

I am not going to get to this video in this post due to a large amount of other content I have to peel through. But anyways, ns0mnby apparently "did a favor" for The System to get in. I personally believe that this favor was posting the correspondence video, this being the only public content that could be considered a favor.

Finally, Broadcast #2 is uploaded to Cave of Shadows on December 19th, 2015.

There is alot of information to get through so lets get cracking.

So the broadcast starts off just like the first one. The "Overwatcher" (still won't get over that name) pops up and talks about a couple of new things. Then he introduces a "special announcement" which is apparently a video someone took of a drain. Words quickly pop up at the end of the clip that say "he sees all".

The Overwatcher then introduces the familiar segment, You Know More. This one is very simple, especially compared to the last one. It is only some vintage looking footage of a lion attacking a deer. In this episode of Mr. Giraffe, he dies again, closely resembling the layout of the last broadcast's episode. But there is one part that affects the overall broadcast.

We will get to why at the end of this analysis.

Alright, here's where things get a bit interesting. The next segment is Weather Forecast, just like the last broadcast. But this is where the "censor by The Overwatcher" starts to take affect, as the segment starts but then is interrupted by this.

There is no explanation of the segment being skipped except "due to Material Under Investigation". Investigation? Why? Like I said, no explanation. My theory is this: the person or people behind hidden messages in the previous Weather Forecast that were supposed to be a form of communication behind the Overwatcher's back, were found out. And the Overwatcher blocked possibly new messages in this Weather Forecast from the public.

Next, we have the segment called "Blank Room with Xavier". Xavier describes an "activity" of sorts where people watch a person fall asleep with narration of the person's movements and apparent feelings and emotions. This is called "Somnum", which in Latin means sleep. As we watch this anonymous person sleep (the face is blocked out), Xavier's narration becomes inaudible and then the stream appears to have been cut short as a technical difficulties screen pops up. This doesn't seem too important, so I won't talk about it. If something comes up where this might be important, I will touch on it in the future.

The next segment is Relaxation, another one that was also in the first broadcast. This time, things are a little bit more interesting. Throughout the segment we see old vintage footage of Disneyland accompanied by an extended version of the song "Beware The Friendly Stranger" by Boards of Canada, which is a familiar artist to CoS as some of their other work is in their Radio playlist. During this footage and music, text appears at the bottom of the screen every so often. The text is as follows.

you are important
you are valued
you are a trusted individual
we need you here
you are safe
with us
you can trust us

I have no idea what this means, but I assume it is addressing the people watching the Broadcast. But, it might be addressing a certain individual. The song played during the segment also might have to do with what the text says. But, there is no evidence to back up my theories, so who knows what it means.

The next segment is called "b3JpZW50YXRpb24", which is displayed as Orientation during the video and translates to that. This segment has multiple strings of Base64 displayed during the segment. These strings are as follows.

bGlzdGVuIGNsb3NlbHk
Y2FuIHlvdSBoZWFyIGl0Pw==
dGhlcmUgYXJlIHZvaWNlcyBpbiB0aGUgd2F0ZXI
aGUgaXMgd2F0Y2hpbmcgeW91
aGUgaXMgc2VlcyBldmVyeXRoaW5n

The translations are as follows.

listen closely
can you hear it?
there are voices in the water
he is watching you
he is sees everything

There is definitely a reoccurring theme of he/him watching and seeing you and everything. It was in the last broadcast, and it is in this one. My theory is that this is talking about The Overwatcher, as his name already refers to seeing and watching. We need to find out who the Overwatcher is. First, the recent Questions and Answers period with the System member named Charlie suggests that the Overwatcher is a real person, not a figment or a symbol for something. Second, that means that we know that the weird MS paint image of the Overwatcher is only a representation of him. For now, that is all I can gather with these hidden messages. Personal note: the voices in the water thing actually disturbed me physically.

Then, finally, the segment that was hyped up by both The System and the public watching, The Fall Celebration. This is the thing that made Broadcast 2 censored. According to both Xavier and Charlie, something happened at the Fall Celebration that stopped the broadcast. Of course, this is removed from the Broadcast #2 we get to see. Whenever I have asked Cave of Shadows by email and through the QnA, people in The System aren't allowed to talk about what happened.

And then, the broadcast ends. Or atleast we think it does. Some Base64 code pops up with some distorted footage from the same playground the Mr. Giraffe episode takes place in. This code translates to a link that goes to a page on the Cave of Shadows website. The page only shows a date, 1/1/16.

I will be talking about and analyzing experience_1 in my next blog post.

Special Thanks to Creepypasta Archives for supplying most of the pictures and for helping organize information.

Apologies again for getting this out so late, Broadcast #3 will be coming out soon. I will try to update everything CoS up to the present as fast as I can.

Until then.