Cicada 3301 – The Internet’s Strangest Puzzle Pt 1 #storytime

In January 2012, an image appeared on an internet forum. It read: “Hello. We are looking for highly intelligent individuals…” What followed was one of the most complex and chilling puzzles ever posted online — involving cryptography, steganography, classical literature, dark web clues, and even physical posters placed in multiple countries. The group behind it? Known only as Cicada 3301. To this day, no one knows who they were, what they were recruiting for… or what happened to the people who made it to the end