The Story of OldRoot: Minecraft's Strangest Mystery

One of the strangest mysteries ever discovered in Minecraft is still unsolved - join me as we explore the twisting story of OldRoot.

Music by RetroGamingNow:

[AlexBaleFilms]

Hey there, I made Oldroot. Weird that it's getting so much attention now. I make much better ARGs and webseries on my channel now. Nice vid RGN!

[xx_dank_memer_xx]

damn these "not a robot" tests are getting harder and harder

[DANGERINTHEFALLS]

The reason why OldRoot kept on saying that we need to know the past before future was because in order to solve the whole mystery, we must look back. There was probably something EVERYONE missed. There may have been a few missing pieces to the mystery, but they all could've been vital to solving it. It really could have been easier than we thought.

[DedicatedCaffeineUser]

5:00 If I had to guess, I’d wager that the message within the poem wasn’t meant to be read based on where they appear in the lines of the original poem, but based on where the sections of the poem appear in the word “Raven”. Thus, the message wouldn’t be “The hidden truth is”, which appears incomplete, but “The truth is hidden”, which is a complete phrase.

[sludgy]

It could be scary until you realize this dude had to go into block game, build or find creepy areas, find a good angle for a screen shot, then photoshop and edit the screen shot, For every image

[EnverWasHere]

imagine all of this leading to a rick roll

[ChopperNLE]

It’s funny how it went from disturbing minecraft things to literally Master/Expert level of Decoding.

[umlaut_loser]

If I had a nickel for every time an ARG related to Minecraft referenced Edgar Allan Poe's poetry I would have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice

[Pixelcraftian]

It's funny how this goes from a strange minecraft player in the void to a red staring eye.

Wow

[KptKosmit]

Herobrine looks like a child's toy when compared with this

[l_rbuttons]

OK, can we agree that the family photo is the most disturbing picture in this entire thing? It didn't make things better when Retro said that the family's faces were crossed out, except for the youngest kid, who had NO face. That's horrifying.

[Not_C]

I'm pretty sure the "If you wish to know the future, you must know the past" is saying that you should use new ways (Exteacting files or the block of text used as a decoder) to find new clues in past/unsolved images.

[danthewoodman]

I feel like the "look in the past to know the future" was OldRoot trying to tell us to check again on the clues.

[ash_dies_alone]

while I struggle with creating a simple password, this guy makes a whole series of ciphers

[_u]

5:02 Pretty sure it's "The truth is hidden." That's what it is in order.

[h.a.z.m.a.t]

We should also focus on combining different things from different posts together. That’s how a lot of major breakthroughs happened in this thing. Find something from one post that is unused and seems useless and then apply it to the missing part of a post that’s unsolved.

[grace]

I'd like to point out that "LENORE" isn't just it's own poem, it's also the name of the girl who died in "The Raven". Likely nothing new, but wasn't mentioned in the video.

[Hexra_]

OldRoot: *sends any image*
Everyone: "So anyways, I started brightening"

[Gameplayer]

Mom, can we go to an escape room?
No, we have an escape room at home.
*The escape room at home:*

[isjjypq]

Man i love the poem "the raven" and creepy stuff. This is a dream come true