At the time, players theorized it was a teaser for a new Valve game or a viral marketing campaign for a horror project. Analysis Summary Media Type MP4 Video / WAV Audio Primary Leads Spectrographic analysis of audio tracks Visuals Low-quality, "glitchy" footage including a flash of a face Outcome

A user claimed to be digitizing three old tapes containing "weird stuff."

how to use spectrographs for similar ARG puzzles.

The videos (alyri1.mp4 and alyri2.mp4) featured distorted imagery and eerie audio.

Investigators ran the audio files (e.g., horrorbark.wav ) through spectrographs , revealing banding patterns that resembled Morse code or musical scales.

💡 The "alyri" series is a classic example of early 2010s internet mystery culture, relying heavily on hidden metadata and spectrography to hide clues.

Largely considered an unsolved or abandoned ARG from the early 2010s