Creepy Things That Seem Real But Aren?t is a series that explores modern urban legends, bringing you a new tale each week.
You find a timer. It?s counting down. You don?t know why, and you don?t know what to. But something is going to happen when that timer hits zero? and it won?t be good. So what do you do? Take a look inside the event that most call:
THE EON 8 PROJECT
In December of 2005, a website launched. Simple in its design, the main page featured only an image, a handful of links, and? strangely? a timer. As the timer counted down, certain ?projects? were ?deployed.? The site was believed to be a part of some sort of global phenomenon, but it raised many more questions than it answered. What exactly was Eon 8? Who was running it? Was it a government program? Part of the military? Viral marketing? Terrorists at work? What were Projects X21-B and Z-Theta9 and what happened when they were deployed? And, perhaps most importantly, to what was the timer counting down?
In the days following its launch, Eon 8 attracted much attention. In addition to the timer page, it also had a page documenting deployment logs for Projects X21-B and Z-Theta9 as well as a deployment tracker. The deployment log puzzled most; it contained some form of raw data displayed in strings of letters and numbers, but no one was quite sure what the data meant or where it was coming from. The tracker, on the other hand, was of particular interest: It displayed a map of the world dotted with red markers, which was presumably where these mysterious projects had been deployed. The markers were largely focused on cities and other densely populated areas. This did not bode well for those of us who lived in those locations.
But as with everything else contained on the site, we didn?t know what the information meant or where it was coming from. Many believed it to be part of something evil, and numerous attempts to hack or shut down the site were made; however, none were successful. Clicking on the project or login links on the main page prompt the user to input a user ID and a password, which invariably the user didn?t have; inputting unverified information resulted in a warning and a prompt to ?consult C22:S13 of your handbook? for further instructions. Any attempts to hack the site or shut it down failed. Furthermore, any user who visited the site had their IP address logged on a security page, where all visiting users were filed under one of two categories: Approved referrers and unapproved referrers. The approved list held only two domains, both of which were associated with Eon 8 itself; the unapproved list, however, spanned pages.
And here is where the plot thickened: The unapproved list revealed something that most users did not want to see. Somewhere buried in the middle of the list were these two domains:
The U.S. Department of Defense. The Pentagon. Not even the U.S. government knew what Eon 8 was, which opened up a whole new set of terrifying possibilities. If Eon 8 wasn?t a U.S. program, then who was running it? A number of people thought it had links to a terrorist cell working within the U.S., and given the political climate of the world, this was perhaps not an unreasonable assumption? though it was quite alarming. The idea of unknown technology in the hands of our own government was frightening enough, but now, we knew that anyone could have it. And we still didn?t know what it did. And that timer kept ticking down.
A handful of people did the math and deduced that the Eon 8 timer was counting down to July 1, 2006. Many believed it would be the end of the world? not by biblical means, perhaps, but by weapons or war or some other real-life tragedy. All we could do in the meantime, though, was watch and wait. And at midnight on July 1, the timer finished its final countdown, we hit the Zero Hour, and?
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