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A collaborative database archiving all information regarding the Johnisdead ARG.

What is Johnisdead?

Ben Drowned is an ARG that occurs within the universe of Johnisdead. Johnisdead follows a young man named Tyler who is being pursued by a mysterious cult known as the Lunar Children. Players slowly uncover the twisted history of the cult by exploring websites, solving puzzles, and analyzing videos - all while trying to keep Tyler alive.

This wiki is still a work in progress. Please be patient!

Community Updates

Hello everyone. It's me, your faithful Producer. THE Producer. Hope you're not too surprised to see me here. I mean, I am the head of The Library, after all.

Anyway yeah, I'm stepping out from behind the curtains here a bit to clarify a few things. It's been viewed as a bit... "unfair" for me to give you guys too much of a guiding hand. While I AM your guide, my constant interpretation and input on events that transpire may be seen as me tipping the scales a bit too harshly. As such, some parts of this archive may be incomplete until you yourselves do your own interpretations and analysis.

These sections will be labelled when this is the case. I just don't wanna ruin the fun by doing your jobs for you. With that said, the most recent archive has been updated. Some things have been added in where they previous were not, so give it a look.

Past Announcements

Updates

April 23rd, 2025

Enward and Edwin cryptically rapped about various subjects in the Internet Detectives Discord server.
"Trying" was uploaded to Silentdork, showcasing more edited footage of the JID Movie.

April 17th, 2025

The Katu account became active and posted the cryptic message "lost story future imscared" in the Internet Detectives Discord server.

April 14th, 2025

"Sequence_01.mp4" was uploaded to Silentdork, showcasing an edited version of the JID Movie trailer.

This day in JID...

March 19th

In 2015, the player Mugen Kagemaru forced Mason to dance thanks to the submission of KamaroMaskFever.arg. Meanwhile, The Gray Man chided the players for their rash actions.
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In 2019, Nocta posts in a thread about dragons on the Astral Observatory Forums, seemingly resenting how society dictates what's acceptable to believe.
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In 2020, ᛏᛖᛋᛏ was uploaded to Silentdork, which featured Alex.
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Random Quote

"Your mask is everything. You wear it when you talk to others. You wear it during rough times. And during good times. You wear it to show what you'd like to be outwardly. And hide what you are inwardly."

Masks.txt, YSHDT.com