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Today’s update is going to be brief, as I don’t have much to share. But I do want to get out what I have found and figured out since my last post.

First things first, I’ve been trying to figure out how the numbers of the “signature” fit into the puzzle. If you didn’t read my last post or need a refresher, I found that the “signature” in one of the images on the website wasn’t actually a signature at all, but a set of numbers placed on top of each other. The numbers, from what I could tell, were 6, 7, 3, and 5. My initial thought was to try to see if these corresponded to any sort of url, much like the misplaced letters on the website do. However, I tried every possible combination of these 4 numbers and found nothing. So as of right now, I still do not know what these are meant for but rather, we at least know what they’re NOT meant for.

The next thing I actually noticed before my first post, but completely forgot to include as I kept that one entirely focused on the slideshow images. This bit is hidden within the gif of Frank’s head spinning on the About Us page. On the books in the bottom right are a series of messages disguised as the books’ titles. Here is a closer look at the books themselves.

From what I can tell, it reads out in order as:

HELLO It’s You Know Who? I’m Your Neighbor. Do you ____ about me? You do. I see you

I can’t tell exactly what the third word of the fourth one is. We believe it’s either “know” or “think”, but it’s too crunchy and blurry for me to make it out as any exact word. So I’ve chosen to leave it as a blank in the transcription.

The last thing I’ll be adding to this post is another observation from the slideshow images that I completely forgot to include with the others due to how excited I was over finding the hidden words. This finding is in the very first image, and is particulaly just an observation that has me a little intrigued. You see, in this image of the slideshow we have several different merchandise items shown off. Each has a little letter placed on it in the advertisement, and the letters lead to descriptions of the items in the lower left of the image. This text is typically far too small to really make out, but by zooming in using my browser, I was able to identify what it says and the fact that there’s one certain item cut off and/or left out of this image. Whether intentionally or unintentionally done, it’s piqued my interest.

In the image, there’s 4 letters attached to the various items. I’ve highlighted them below.

A is attached to the little cut-outs, B is on the record, C is on the house, and D is seemingly attached to the puppet that is holding the record as there’s nothing else there for it to be for. To note, the letter D is not included in the item descriptions in the image. Only A, B, and C are included. I’m not sure if it was left out or if it was cut-off by the bottom of the image. Below is a zoomed in screenshot of the descriptions in the bottom left.

As you can see, D is excluded in the description. I can’t help but feel like if they didn’t want us to notice it, they wouldn’t have included the letter D on the image, or would have included the description for it with the other letters. It’s a little hard to make out what it says unless you look at it really close and focus, but I’ve typed out what it says below.

A. SALLY STARLET AND EDDIE DEAR can be played with for hours with their fellow cut-out neighbors! Included in the #3 "The Welcome Home Dailies" activity booklet. Howdy Pillar included. B. SING-WITH-WALLY RECORD lets yous sing along with Wally Darling and the cavalcade of colorful cast members from "Welcome Home." Includes 7-inch 45 rpm vinyl record with five memorable songs. C. HOME is a darling house fit for the most darling neighbor. One of eight houses to play and place on the WELCOME HOME TM PLAYMAT. Wally Darling included. Wood/Plastic.

The particular things I noticed are on the “Whats Welcome Home” page. All the bits I found are in the slideshow, which if I remember correctly are the only images on the site that we’re not able to open, download, or really enlarge. Some of these findings required me to fully zoom in using my browser to notice them, and at some points, even screenshot and furthur enlarge them in another program to be able to decifer what I was looking at. We’ll be going through them in the order that the images come in in the slideshow.

The first thing I found is in the second image of the slideshow. Nothing here appears out of place to me EXCEPT for the “signature” in the bottom right corner. This isn’t actually a signature at all, and is a set of numbers placed on top of each other. From what I can tell, the numbers are 6, 7, 3, and 5. I do not think there are any others there, but please do let me know if you spot any that I didn’t. Here is an enlarged screenshot of the numbers.

The next thing I found is actually in both the third and fourth images, as they’re the same but one’s in black and white. I zoomed in because I thought I saw something else elsewhere on the image, and when I didn’t find anything there, I started combing the whole image while zoomed in. And that’s when I noticed that in the words “We’ll Be Right Back!”, there’s another set of words in much lighter color cleverly hidden around it. It’s basically impossible to notice unless you zoom in, and I had to enlarge it furthur in another program to able to tell what it seems to say. From what I can tell, it says, “Now Your Home Be”. I’m not sure I have it 100% correct, but that’s what I see. It doesn’t really make sense to me, particularly the inclusion of the last word, but I wanted to include it none-the-less. Here is an enlarged screenshot of the words.

Even here, it’s hard to see. I recommend zooming in on it furthur to see what’s there. It’s also slightly easier to see if you look at the black and white version of the picture.

The last thing is a little message that’s kind of in plain sight in the fifth image. In this image, we can see the edges of paragraphs to the right. Towards the bottom, we can find a couple words spelled out vertically. They say, “Hello you”. Here is a screenshot of this part.

We’re going to go through the more relatively well known bits and bobs, divided up into groups, each in their own post. We’ll start with the basics, that being the simplest and most apparent things on the website. Let’s begin on the home page.

One of the first notable things when visiting the home page is a wonderful and beautiful image of Wally at the top, sitting on a rock beneath a tree. On this rock, we can find an eye painted on it, as seen below.

This is the most obvious eye in the picture, but there do, in fact, seem to be others hidden in there! Such as this white one you can see in one of the flowers:

This other eye in another flower:

And this one in the top right of the tree! Though I know this could likely be just a little knot in the wood, as is particularly common in trees, I still would like to believe it’s eye-like shape to be on purpose!

The next thing one may notice that’s odd is all the silly little eyes in the side bar images! Alongside these are a number of items, and there’s at least one for each of the characters! Home is represented by itself as well as likely representing Wally, flowers that I assume are for Julie, butterflies for Frank, silly balls for Barnaby, letters and a mailbox for Eddie, feathers for Poppy, a bunch of fruit for Howdy that includes a little caterpillar and the abundance of apples possibly also representing Wally, and I believe the confetti and party popper and neat little star-shaped explosion to be representing Sally! Below is an image of the sidebar showing all of these.

Hopefully you can see everything I listed as I do!

Another small thing that sticks out to me, though it very likely has no real significance and simply adds to the feel of the website, is the current gif displayed under website updates. I’m not sure if this gif has ever been anything different or will change, but I will attempt to aptly secure proof of it as it is for the sake of this post and partitally for that little part of my brain that yells for me to catalogue!

Here we can see it’s skrunkly little self, with all it’s strange green pixely-ness! My eyes like to deceive me into thinking there’s eyes in the background, but I’m pretty sure that’s just my brain playing tricks on me. I believe this certainly adds to the feel of the website, though as I’ve said, it very likely has no real purpose or meaning in the story other than to look nice on the front page! Still, I will catalogue it!

Next bit on this page is within the paragraphs next to the gif. Here is where we find the very first of the strange letters that are out of place! The y in “your” is slightly out of place. For those that may not know, there are several letters on the website that are out of place and putting them together in a certain way gives us some very interesting things. But! We’ll get to that in another future post, after we’ve gone over all these letters and where they are, as I personally actually had some great trouble in finding a couple of them and I wonder if others, too, struggle with it?

These paragraphs also mention the ever strange and curious Question-Answerer, which we will likely discuss more of when we talk about the News page!