#visitbadlands

On the website there is a typewritten letter. At the end of the letter is this sign off.

The word “LOVE”, highlighted in red, leads to a website called “lxxxxxp.com”

note the 5 X’s 

Also note the 5 periods following the text “FIVE YEARS”

The observation that I made is that the commas and periods in the letter are exceptionally bold. This made me think that perhaps the letter had encoded a message in morse code. 

In morse code, 5 is spelled with five consecutive dots. 

This was enough to make me believe there might be something to this idea and so I converted the entire letter into morse code. I only looked at commas and periods. The letter also contained one semicolon and one question mark. I interpret the semi-colon as the first break in the code. The question mark falls just before a paragraph break, so I interpret it also as signifying a break in the code (and likely the end of a phrase, but we will get to that.) 

(note: In morse code, dashes are long tones and periods are short tones. That is why I have converted the commas to dashes and left the periods as dots.)

Here is the code that I transcribed. Please feel free to use this however you want and be sure to check my work!

-..-.-...--/..--.....-.. / -....... /-...... /.---..... /..-.-.--. / .-.. / -. /..... /. / -.

(note: each / is a space. I’ve placed these spaces wherever there is a line break in the letter.)

I then put this code into a morse code translator. 

Note the transmission tower logo the website uses and the similarity it bares to the the one seen above on the visitbadlands.com website.

I experimented with different ways of breaking up the code, but none seemed to give me a coherent message. I strongly encourage you to try to interpret it in your own way. As a fan of Halsey, you might better recognize things she would include in a message.

However, despite not having a translation, this morse code can be played as a sound. Halsey is a musician, so I figure that she might have turned a snippet of a song or an upcoming song into morse code and then encoded it in her letter. Why not. 

So, above, you can hear the MP3 generated by the morse code translator. 

Does it sound familiar? 

Will it?

By sincerest best wishes and good luck to all of the Halsey fans who are working on solving this!