Despite what you may think, Fringe isn't just some silly little J.J. Abrams show on Fox about a Scooby Gang trying to uncover the secret behind a haunted alien spaceship. Not only do we have to deal with mind-bending scientific explanations for creepy out-of-this-world happenings in the show itself, but there is also an intricate Fringe ARG ready to mind wipe the sense right out of you. Case in point: On one Fringe viral site, the third dot on a sequence of a hidden braille pattern (which spells out the name of a town in Iowa) directs you to a site with videos of man-made tornadoes. Makes perfect sense, right? I journeyed down the rabbit hold of the Fringe ARG and attempted to "find the pattern and follow the clues." Be warned; some spoilers ahead.Radio News Bulletins: First Fringe started leaking their ARG goodies into our brain via the old fashioned radio. Spewing out news bulletins (including one about a 51-year-old female patient growing over eight 1/2 inches overnight) and car commercials, the spots urged us all to "find the pattern" by whispering over each segment. Take a listen here:Click to viewSorry, radio DJ, but I'm not buying a car from J.J. Abrams. That thing would probably come alive and try to eat me. Fringe Bloggers played around with the audio from Abrams car lot commercial and discovered that if you reverse the muddled section it says "And you know what that means." Yikes, guess we'll find out soon enough.
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