More Viral Marketing for J.J. Abrams' 'Cloverfield' Arrives Online

It's Lost: The Movie!! Ok, maybe not really, but all these puzzles and clues are sure reminiscent of Abrams' show.

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The letters at the top in code... 26 of them, so it's got to be an alphabet.

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If you view the page source of http://www.ethanhaaswasright.com/ you get some juicy info...

...war came, no longer from the elemental nor from the star's rain of fire. The world was again remade, and the glow was as the coming of the sun upon the Earth. The children of the gods were again too few, scattered and divided and among them walked the ancients and those whose thoughts were not as to the towers and the marvels, but to the End and the destruction of the Earth and to the fires from which nothing could escape.

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Got in, another video.

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Wow, another video, a new diamond shaped puzzle, and the cityscape behind it is ruined and destroyed.

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The star on the left links to an email address too. I got past the first puzzle and now it's gone. Weirdness!

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How do you get past the second puzzle- where you need to line up the two different coded letters?

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From the e-mail:

"If you're receiving this auto-response message it means that I've gone into hiding. You should be careful now, too. They're likely to start coming after all of us in an attempt to keep the balance of power in their favor. But remember, as our numbers increase as a group, the weaker they'll become.

As you recruit new people to our cause, you might need to share this message as guidance for how to navigate the 5 locks to the key code...

1) The first lock will test your memory. Follow the trail of light and sound, but be careful -- one wrong move will send you back to the beginning.

2) For the second lock, you may need to look to the stars. They will help you find HAAS who will lead your way.

3) The third lock will require you to extinguish all lights but one. Only with one light remaining will you be able to proceed.

4) The fourth lock will let you move all 4 pieces through the control of one. However, unless the three key pieces are simultaneously placed into position, you will not be granted access.

5) The fifth lock will be the toughest. Seek help again from the stars to reveal your key and the message that you must decode. The two working together will open the way.

Good luck.

Van"

Stuck on #3.

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All the hints/spoilers you want or need:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/board/flat/78835262

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The third puzzle is the sort of 'leap' puzzle. You can jump the lights into the unlit spot and remove the one between. Like those golf tee puzzles at cracker barrell. We're still on the 4th puzzle. But the Ethanhaaswasright site has been up for a bit and people have been working on the puzzles without any clue about Cloverfield. How did the Ethanhaaswaswrong site link to Cloverfield? Different domain reg than the 011808 site.

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The weird thing is that Ethan Haas was the name of the main character from CBS's series "The Class". The show that starred Lizzy Caplan, who is in this new JJ Abrams trailer/film. It seems a tad bit too coincidental.

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Now, why do we think these Ethan Haas websites have anything to do with the JJ Abrams movie? Don't you double-check your sources at all on the internet?

Can you point me to just one thing in that flash animated site that suggests it has anything at all to do with 1-18-08?

Ever get the feeling you've been had?

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Here is how I know this Ethan stuff is tied to Cloverfield.

I went to Youtube to watch the Cloverfield trailer, well Paramount removed nearly all of them. So, I clicked "Sort By: Date Added." Videos of Ethan's messages popped up, four of them, I clicked to watch one but I was denied. At the top it read "Youtube removed this video due to Paramount..."

So I am sure it has something to do with Cloverfield.

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This is how I know Ethan is tied to Cloverfield


I went to Youtube to watch the trailer, I typed in Cloverfield and selected a video. At the top it read
"This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Paramount Pictures Corporation." So I selected "Sort By: Date Added." Soon, Ethan's messages popped up, four in total. I clicked on one and the same message popped up- "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Paramount Pictures Corporation."

So that is a pretty good sign that the two are connected.

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Got the solution right here,
http://thebraxcave.com/2007/07/05/solution-for-ethan-haas-was-right/

Cheers

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#9 - It *would* have told us something, if only every post from all 10 pages hadn't been deleted. Very Evil of them.

The more I think about this, and look at these puzzles, etc, the more I feel like J.J. Abrams has decided to bring an H.P. Lovecraft movie to the big screen.

Cthulhu anyone?

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When I first saw the picture, I thought that was Glitch's head from the METAL ARMS video game.

http://metalarms.com/

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Every hint to the "game" on EthanHaaswasright.com has been deleted from IMDB.COM

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Here are the videos (all 5 of them if y'all are interested)

http://rapidshare.com/files/41300138/ethanhaaswasright.zip

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Theory:
EthanHassWasWrong is just the anti-marketing rant of some angsty teenager trying to sell t-shirts and has nothing really to do with the alternate-reality game.

Also, IMDB has wiped the entire message board.

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