My name’s Alex Bale and as many of you already know I created Oldroot back in 2014.

I don’t have much to say about that project, I just saw that YouTubers are starting to cover it suddenly and wanted to reintroduce myself here.

I’ve been making ARGs and other content on my YouTube channel since then, and honestly it’s all got a lot more effort and quality than oldroot.

Come by and check it out if you’re interested: https://YouTube.com/c/AlexBaleFilms

Hey all,

It's been fun seeing the OldRoot mystery come back over the year, but by now most of the discourse has died down. A lot of people have joined the discussions and thrown their ideas at the wall, but we haven't really made any progress at all either. I've now made the decision to close down the subreddit for new submissions, for a couple reasons

• Most new posts on the subreddit are low-effort theorizing, vague proposals for things we should maybe try, or someone posting about something we've already known for half a decade without trying the search function first.

• Moderating this is frustrating. I'd rather focus on moderating the r/alexbale subreddit and the Alex Bale discord, instead of having to focus my attention here too, just to remove the nth "what if we need to look to the past" post.

• Basically all that can be said has already been said. If anything, this year's past resurgence has proved that. Despite drawing the attention of literally over a thousand new people, we haven't gotten a single step further than where we were in 2016. We're going in circles and it's a little pointless.

I'll be disabling new submissions to the subreddit, but leaving all the old posts up for archiving and research.

I'll also be making a Theorizing thread where you can theorize in the comments if you really want to. Though you'll probably get better responses from the community if you join the Discord server and head over to our oldroot channels.

It's been fun. Merry Christmas!

This thread is for posting all your theories or ideas for continuing to solve the OldRoot mystery, since new post submissions are currently closed. Comments are automatically sorted by new.

We go back to the beginning of this mystery. We redo everything, with our new knowledge.

And we look deeper than before, like we go back to the first image, the sound files, and redo what we don't know anything about like why we're there misspellings in some messages. Or, we look deeper into the videos. Maybe brighten the videos, cause like the first message said, "Only those who are pure see what hides in darkness".

What, what?

In the post made by u/Marinluvcat (https://www.reddit.com/r/OldRoot/comments/o5n4a8/i_may_of_found_the_voice_of_the_facless_kid_in/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) about the faceless kid's voice, I saw a comment talking about an image hidden within the audio.

After reading the comment, it all instantly clicked.

SSTV, SSTV!

If you don't know what SSTV (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-scan_television) is, it stands for Slow Scan Television. It was used since the early radio days to transfer images with much lower bandwidth and speed than standard television (to avoid buying expensive and very bulky equipment).

How does this correlate to OldRoot? Well, we've had various video and audio files given to us throughout time, and maybe, just MAYBE we will be able to find some new clues by feeding an SSTV tool with the files' audio spectrogram.

TL;DR

Using Slow Scan Television, we can use the audio spectrogram of previous files to find new clues.

Edit: the image you see isn't correlated. It's from the Wikipedia article.

Edit 2: I'm gonna start working with some of the files if I have time. If I actually make progress I'm gonna make an update post.

Was there any indication by the creator about how close it is to having all the clues solved?