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Mystery Projects

heavy focus on a mystery, finding clues, and gaining answers for characters and audience

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Walking in a Maze of Corn | ASMR Adventure

9/28/26, 7:01 PM

When two girls get confused and lost inside a corn maze in the small town of Peterborough, it is up to their Mom to make sure that this sunny day reaches a happy end.

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mystery-puzzle-horror, ARG, YT, ASMR, multiple paths

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The Bureau

9/19/26, 7:58 PM

The project follows a strange organization known only as The Bureau. At first it presents itself as fairly ordinary, but players who investigate further begin finding inconsistencies, hidden paths, unusual website behavior, puzzles, and material that suggests the organization may be much older and stranger than it appears.

mystery, ARG, website, scifi, cosmic mystery, archival investigation, browser based

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Pulite

9/19/26, 7:51 PM

Pulite is a narrative world built around a working web OS. Use its apps, manage files, read messages, and explore the websites it connects to. The story unfolds through the system itself.

Explore personal files, old conversations, original music, SignalYard’s working forum, and a web of connected sites. There is also Keep, a complete game inside PuliteOS. The story unfolds through what you find, what you do, and how the system responds.

No download or signup is required to enter.
Open on desktop and pick up the PulitePad on the website.
Sound is part of the experience.

mystery, ARG, website, lost technology, PC simulator, game

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S.I.E.R. Public Monitoring

9/19/26, 7:27 PM

Strange informational broadcasts attributed to an Arizona research institution called S.I.E.R. have begun appearing across archival media, online transmissions, physical artifacts and occasional local FM broadcasts. Following the signal leads into S.I.E.R.'s institutional records, research programs and public studies. Players who volunteer for one of those studies may discover that their submission has reached someone it wasn't meant to…and that she has been quietly searching for a missing researcher named Mara Calder.

mystery-puzzle, ARG, multiplat, scifi, time travel, FM Radio, multimedia, philosophy

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Randolph Co. Ramblings

9/19/26, 7:05 PM

This is an ongoing, non-horror unfiction project following Gerry Kesner, a retired West Virginian who recovers a box of shortwave-radio logs and cassette tapes from his teenage years. Among the familiar broadcasts is a numbers station he heard on Friday nights in the late 1980s. The station is a mystery he abandoned decades ago. As Gerry digitizes the collection and shares what he finds, an old radio hobby becomes a new investigation. The story unfolds in real time over approximately one year.

mystery-puzzle, ARG, website, old man solving a mystery, radios and cassette tapes, retro internet

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Northern Catskill Center for Applied Parapsychology Research

9/19/26, 6:37 PM

The offices of the Northern Catskill Center for Applied Parapsychology Research are shutting down after forty-odd years and clearing everything out of storage.

A carved wooden figure in their possession needs a new home. They don't know who made it or how old it is. It's free but there's a short interview, because they need to know that it ends up in the right home.

mystery, ARG, website, applied parapsychology, retro site

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FauxNostalgic

9/19/26, 6:01 PM

Alex Gosling is an aspiring horror writer preparing to return to college. As they start vlogging with an old camera of theirs, they seem to become increasingly uneasy with their situation.

As a work of metafiction, players will have to solve puzzles and interact with Alex in order to find the lines between fact and fiction in the story.

mystery-horror-puzzle, ARG, YT, text, image, vlogstyle, metafiction, old camera

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Searching for Sanctuary

9/19/26, 3:28 PM

An Instagram user's estranged father passes away, leaving a journal behind mentioning Sanctuary Spring, Wyoming... a place that does not exist.

Will you join the search for Sanctuary?

mystery, immersive narrative, IG, lost journal story, secret town, monsters?, family history

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