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| Date | 2013 |
|---|---|
| Location | Tennessee, United States |
| Participants | Users "tq8" and "Alex" |
The 4chan body coordinates incident is an internet mystery that occurred on the imageboard 4chan's paranormal board (/x/) in 2013. The event began when an anonymous user posted a set of GPS coordinates implying they led to a dead body. The thread evolved into a real-time investigation involving a user named "Alex," which culminated in the discovery of disturbing items, cryptic messages, and an eventual revelation that the entire event was a staged piece of fiction.
Background
editIn 2013, a user with an ID tq8 created a thread on the /x/ board of 4chan. The post contained specific GPS coordinates: 37.761962N, 96.210194W. Internet sleuths identified the location as an abandoned industrial area in the state of Tennessee. tq8 teased the community, stating, "No one has gone to the spot yet," and uploaded a realistic-looking photograph of what appeared to be a dead body on the ground.[1]
The investigation
editApproximately 18 minutes after the initial post, a user identifying himself as Alex joined the thread. Alex claimed he lived near the coordinates and volunteered to investigate the location.[1]
The warehouse
editAlex drove to the location and began uploading photos to the thread in real-time. He documented his journey, which included:
- An abandoned warehouse marked with the number "3".
- A main floor filled with rubble and debris.
- A staircase leading down into a dark basement.
Inside the basement, which had a dirt floor, Alex discovered a series of unsettling items:
- A freshly dug hole.
- A large rock or tombstone-like object.
- Several empty pill bottles.
- Loose wires hanging from the ceiling.
- A pile of animal bones.
- A paper plate with the word "RUN" written on it in red ink.
- The carcass of a dead dog, wrapped in plastic.
Encounter at Walmart
editDuring the investigation, Alex claimed he needed to leave the site and went to a nearby Walmart. He posted that a strange man with a beard and glasses approached him at the store. According to Alex, the man asked if he used 4chan and instructed him to "meet me at 11:00 PM behind the store."
Despite warnings from other users, Alex agreed to the meeting. Following this update, Alex ceased posting, leading users to speculate that he had been harmed or killed.[1]
Return of tq8
editShortly after Alex's disappearance from the thread, the original poster, tq8, returned. He posted a message stating "Alex is alive" and "He was a friend," accompanied by a photo that appeared to show Alex bound and in distress. tq8 also uploaded an audio file which, when translated from Icelandic, said: "body buried behind a fence with skulls." Following a string of numbers and binary code, tq8 vanished from the board.[1]
Debunking
editFor years, the case remained unsolved, and some users even went to the warehouse in person and took their own photos, but found nothing unusual. Others studied the timing of Alex's uploads, saying he posted too quickly for someone walking through a dark basement while typing on a phone, which made some believe the whole thing was fake. But another user pointed out that the image sizes from Alex and tq8 came from different devices, which suggested that the photos at least were not edited in the same way.
Someone eventually created a website called the "Alex Archives" to gather every detail. The wesite later went online, but an old saved version suggested that the people working on it believed Alex was dead and that a person named Corey Saylor had been connected to the case. The page ended with a message that sounded like they had quit the search.[1]
Conlusion
editAs the case became more and more famous, one investigator decided to hire a forensic linguist. The expert compared Alex's writing and tq8's writing, and something finally came up. They noticed that both sets of posts use the same unusual sentence style, the same strange punctuation, and the same vocabulary. They also said that both writers likely used a computer instead of a phone. The expert concluded that it was highly likely that Alex and tq8 were the same person.
If that is indeed the case, then the entire story might have been created by one person pretending to be two different people, probably for fun, just to create an online legend.[1]
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