Mortis.com

The website was rumored to have a new version at https://www.mortis.cc/ but this has since been debunked by a reddit user on r/mortisdotcom.

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Below is the original Reddit text post by u/Mrx-01 titled The mysterious “mortis.com” internet mystery submitted to r/UnresolvedMysteries on March 10, 2019. (original post So awhile back I stumbled across this internet mystery while researching lakecityquietpills.com and came across and equally intriguing internet mystery related to a mysterious website called mortis.com. Apparently this website when it was active, it was created in 1997, as it has long since been shut down, Came up with a login and password screen that according to some experts was extremely hard to hack into. with some resorting to using brute force applications and having little to no luck in getting past the login screen. It got a lot weirder the more people started looking into it, because more and more weird connections and Links started being made with this website.

Some of the more strange and weird aspects were:

•the website seemed to be linked to a dentists office, a lawyer and a high end security firm.

• Usenet files were discovered to Be linked back to the website, that were apparently encrypted with password protection and had weird titles.

• some of the file sizes were huge. one of the biggest being 39gb in size, which got people wondering just what this website was hiding.

• all references to the site have since been removed from the internet, including a wiki page and there is not much information regarding the website itself.

• the website was apparently owned by a mysterious individual named “Thomas Ling”. although it was speculated that this was an alias as there seemed to be great difficulty in trying to gather and ascertain any information about him. other than he was an artist at one point.

• over a dozen other websites were linked to mortis.com and were just as mysterious and weird. One which Had a white chess piece and nothing else.

It was also reported at the time that Thomas Ling apparently came out and said that the site was just for his wedding photos and nothing more. however all this did was prompt people to work even harder to get through the login page and discover for themselves what was really going on. People also found other very bizarre connections, such as the site being linked to empty vacant lots and warehouses and people who were listed as having something to do with the site were all deceased. Which fueled speculation that this site was a front for something much more sinister.

The website was also, from various accounts from people who tried to hack in, very difficult to get past the login screen and that the website was very well protected.

If there was anyone around during this time who actively was involved in this little internet mystery and can shed some light and give more details as there is still so much about this site, I’d love to know about, that got lost when the wiki get down. I’d love your help and input as I’d love to clear up this mystery thanks guys.

Also anyone who can help me gather more info on this internet mystery would be greatly appreciated.

Here is a few links that sheds some light on this mystery: https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/12368387/

https://web.archive.org/web/20121226070556/http://chanarchive.org/4chan/x/21645/mortis

https://web.archive.org/web/20121226070602/http://chanarchive.org/4chan/x/24849/did-anyone-ever-get-into-mortis-com

Update: I will continuely update this post with any information I find as much as I can.

Update 2: I found this from the /g/ section of 4chan. now I don’t know much about 4chan but I believe /g/ stands for the technology section. in here as you scroll through they show information about ling his connection to a dental business and his other associated websites. People researched this guy when this first took off and found all this stuff. Link: https://warosu.org/g/thread/20173666

Update 3: another persistent story which is hard to back up stated that the feds apparently became involved with the site for some unknown reason and shut it down however another reddit user who was there when this site shut down claimed it was actually Thomas ling who shut it down himself again for unknown reasons. Which story is true is hard to say. It also opens up more questions and provides few answers.

•If the feds part of the story is true why did they shut the site down and become involved.

• if it was ling who came along and shut the site down himself I can only assume it was because of all the attention he was getting and he decided to shut down before any got to close to discovering what he was up to.

Either way it only deepens this mystery.

Update4: there were other websites that were backtracked as belonging to Thomas ling that were just as weird and equally mysteries as mortis.com which included:

http://cthulhu.net/ -this one was said to caontin nothing but a white chess piece with the very eerie saying Dead but dreaming whatever that means.

http://karenling.com/

http://joshualing.org/

lingsborough.com

eternalknight.com

dentalfillins.ne

To my knowledge no one really found out what the purposes were for these websites either and some of them I believe are also defunct now to.

Update 5: as I mentioned down in the comments below and here about the feds. I stumbled across these two reddit users, who were around during the time this website were active, give a bit more insight. And another who has some interesting links.

DaemonJerky • Dec 23, 2012, 4:18 AM Though it's no longer up, the strangest website I've encountered is definitely mortis.com.

I used to browse /x/, the paranormal board on 4chan, pretty regularly. One night, someone posted asking if anyone had any updates on a website called mortis. I decided to visit the site and see what the hubbub was. What I found was, seemingly, uninteresting.

Completely black background with the word "mortis" in lower case, white lettering. Absolutely nothing else. "Weird, but not worth investigating," I thought. I tried clicking on the word, and a login box came up. When I checked back to /x/, people were talking about trying to login. No one was getting anywhere.

A few people did enough research to learn that there were many terabytes of information being stored here.

You read that right. Terabytes. Hundreds, if I remember correctly. It was something absolutely ridiculous. We all had our theories- most of them disturbing. A lot of people suggested we give up trying to get in, for our safety, depending on what was in there. Most people disagreed and kept trying. Eventually tired of trying generic username and password combos, someone decided to ask /g/, the technology board, to hack their way in instead of trying to bruteforce.

People tried for weeks to get in. We learned that the website belonged to one Mr. Ling, who owned multiple other anomalous websites, which were also interesting but irrelevant. We learned more and more about Ling, but never got past the login box. I gave up, but others kept trying.

A few months ago, I decided to look around and see what progress had been made. Apparently the FBI stepped in. I think they actually contacted some of the people involved in trying to crack the login, but I wasn't around at the time this happened. Soon after, the website, and all others owned by Ling just went down.

I would still like to know what was in there. But, it was fun getting involved with the biggest conspiracy theorists on the interwebs on something so fun.

TL;DR /x/ found a mysterious, password protected website with terabytes of information. Before it was cracked, the FBI apparently stepped in and the website went down soon after.

edit: If anyone's curious, I do remember the names of two of the other websites this guy owned. There was cthulhu.net, in which there was the familiar black background with white text which said "Dead but dreaming...." Apparently this guy was into the Lovecraftian mythos. The other was a website with a woman's first name and this guy's last name. for example, "shannonling.com" or something of the sort. I don't remember what was on it, but I think it was real estate related. It felt off though. There was a plethora of others, but it's been about a year now so I can't remember them. Sorry!

more important edit: /u/Mental_Illness has a bit more information with a differing story here. We were involved at different times, so it's interesting to see it from someone who was there at the end. From what he remembers, the FBI didn't step in, Ling did.

Cameron_D• Dec 23, 2012, 5:43 AM Interesting. Decided to look into it a bit:

Two threads from /x/ (Contains NSFW/L images): http://chanarchive.org/4chan/x/24849/did-anyone-ever-get-into-mortis-com http://chanarchive.org/4chan/x/21645/mortis A wiki which has since closed: http://mortis.wikia.com/ Nothing in the wayback machine. There doesn't seem to be a lot of info about it anywhere.

Apparently the data on there had some relation to a usenet http://www.zoklet.net/bbs/showpost.php?p=3049828&postcount=7

EDIT: Turns out the domain is still registered, to a Thomas Ling, http://whois.domaintools.com/mortis.com It also has some name servers set, I wonder if there are any DNS records.

Mental_Illness • 23. 12. 2012, 06:44 Ach jo vole! Byl jsem ve všech irc a tak, když se to všechno stalo. FBI se bohužel nijak nepodílela, chlápek, který vlastnil stránky, přišel do našeho IRC chatu a řekl nám, že to byly jen rodinné fotografie nebo tak něco, když jsme ho požádali o důkaz, že mluvíme se skutečným chlapem, změnil titulní stránku webu na nějaký text vysvětlující sebe sama a pak ho rychle odstranil. Bylo to všechno velmi velmi rybí. Měl jinou stránku, která právě ukazovala obrázek rytíře (šachová figurka) a nabízela přihlášení, když jste na ni klikli, nikdo se do toho také nedostal, nepamatuji si uAktualizaci 10. června 2019: Omlouvám se, kluci, že jste tak dlouho zkoumali tuto záhadu jako blázen a odhalili spoustu nových informací. Zdá se, že původní vyšetřovatelé 4chan odhalili mnohem více informací, o kterých jsem dříve nevěděl, takže zveřejním aktualizace nových informací, které jsem našelOdkazmikrom