Hidden Images
First Clue: NIN Tour Shirt
On the back of a new NIN Tour Shirt, some of the letters are highlighted. These letters form the phrase "I AM TRYING TO BELIEVE."Using this information, fans discovered that www.iamtryingtobelieve.com is an actual site.
- Full ninwiki page for www.iamtryingtobelieve.com here
Text Collages in Site Images
Several pages have text scrambled in background images from media banned in Year Zero.
- Full ninwiki page for banned media references at Year Zero Banned Media.
Year Zero in 2022
According to both a statement from Trent Reznor and an image clue from The Year Zero Website entitled "I Am Trying To Believe"[1], Year Zero occurs in 2022.
Clue One
http://www.ninwiki.com/images/b/b0/Yz2022.jpg
The faded image to the left of the main article shows the date "2022", yet the article itself is reduplicated and clearer, showing the date "0000".
Clue Two
In an MTV News Article from February 15th, 2007[2] Trent Reznor reveals:
"Concept record. Sixteen tracks. What's it about? Well, it takes place about 15 years in the future. Things are not good. If you imagine a world where greed and power continue to run their likely course, you'll have an idea of the backdrop."
Clue Three
On the "Church of Plano" Website [3] under the heading "This Week's Sermons:", the date reads Sunday, February 13. Coincidentaly, February the 13th falls on a Sunday in the year 2022.
Clue Four
One of the shards from The Mailstrom contains the following:
"Belize has completely recovered from hurrican Imagard in 2020–(that’s -2 BA for those of you on the American System) and rebuilding has led to improvements in our infrastructure!"
Audio Clues
My Violent Heart
- Members of the community have noted that the burst of static at the end of the My Violent Heart strongly resembles what has become to be known as The Presence when run through a spectrograph.
nohurry.mp3
"nohurry.mp3" (here) is one of the three (so far) mp3s linked to on the Another Version of the Truth forums. It is about a son of an Imam who is killed by a SWAT team looking for a Muslim extremist.
- The end of the recording has another Morse Code message
http://www.ninwiki.com/images/4/4b/Nohurry_morse.jpg
It has been decoded to be: 24.10.1
opalo.mp3
"opalo.mp3" [4] is one of the three (so far) mp3s linked to on the Another Version of the Truth forums. It is a woman talking about a DEA battle with a Columbian drug cartel.
- The end of the recording has another Morse Code message
http://www.ninwiki.com/images/d/dd/Opalo_morse.jpg
It has been decoded to be: 24.10.3
BallgameOver.mp3
ballgameOver.mp3 (here) is one of the three (so far) mp3s linked to on the Another Version of the Truth forums. It is about a man (presumed to be "Angry Sniper") who sets off bombs of Silver Nitrate in Wrigley Field, and then shoots and kills someone.
- The end of the recording has another Morse Code message
http://www.ninwiki.com/images/5/5e/Ballgameover_morse.jpg
It has been decoded to be: 24.10.5