Hello /nosleep I have no idea what is going on. I don't have a virus, at first I thought I
got a bot-net or something similar off of browsing Reddit, but logically this can't be
the truth, then again there is nothing logical about this. I am a Computer Science
major and have never heard of anything of this sort before. The events over the past few
days make me want to change my major.

Basically the other day I decided to log onto aim/meebo for the first time in quite awhile,
like most people, I just use the Facebook chat to get a hold of whomever. I don't know
what made me log in, even after not remembering my password; I kept trying until I was in. I
saw a few of my friends on, nobody worth talking to though. Anyways I left Meebo open
just in case someone I haven't talked to in awhile decided to message me. Looking back
I feel like this was the mistake I made, but there was no way I could have known what
I was getting myself into. So I decide to browse Nosleep. I love the horror genre.
I've become pretty desensitized after reading so much of it (I used to frequent /x/ quite
a bit back in the day as well). I live with my girlfriend; she’s currently sleeping because
she needs to get up early. So I'm alone reading a story with no light other than my monitor
and I get an IM. I nearly jumped out of my skin; I was in the middle of reading that story
about Flashlight tag. I click on the Meebo tag and I have a message from username: "baast41"
and the messages were just blocks of ####### filling up the entire chat window. This
continues for a couple minutes. The last message I get sent is the same continuous #'s
except now in between then it'll say "ERR#R", basically like:

#########################################

####ERR#R#############ERR#R############

ERR#R##########ERR#R###########ERR#R############

So I calm myself down and realize that it is most likely just one of my friends that I
haven’t talk to in awhile playing a joke on me. I have headphones on, and it's about
2:30 in the morning. Out of nowhere my headphones emit what sounds like multiple
people gutturally screaming through static. I freak out at this point and throw my
headphones onto my keyboard, I check my volume, and it's muted. At this point I figure,
ok chill, I'm being hacked. I unplug the Ethernet chord. My internet is gone; the hellish
noise is still escaping my headset. I rip the power chord out of the back of my computer
and then there is finally silence. I get my trusty flash drive, plug it in and boot into safe
mode. I watch it load the usual drivers as safe mode starts up. Everything is fine; I
run all of my necessary anti-virus, anti-spyware, etc. It found a few entries, but just
the usual things you get when surfing porn, heh.

I hoped that the virus would be gone now, and I’d have no more worries. This is
when an aim window comes up on my screen. Mind you my Ethernet is unplugged,
AND I have no wireless card in my computer, it was not attached to any network.
"Do not worry, that will not do anythink." I ask who it is, and they just reply something
about everything becoming clear soon. If I was in my right mind, I would have
copy-pasted it, but I wasn't (don't worry I have a copy pasted conversation later).
It then shows "Baast41 is typing", but before anything is said a very heavy electronic
sound is played into my headphones. It was similar to what it sounds like when a computer
blue-screens and you have music playing in the background, but instead of a repeating
sound, the pitch would change, but never loop. The pitch got really low and I thought
I heard a voice, I hear what sounds like "Om" and the sound stops. “Baast41 is typing”, at
this point I come to the conclusion that my computer is fucking haunted rip the power chord
out again. I had no care about what he wanted to say, I just needed to sleep or something.
I sit back down in my computer chair all the way for a second with my eyes closed just to
try and make any sort of sense of what just happened.

I heard really a distinct sound of tapping at a window in my room. I feel my body become
really, really hot for some reason. I don't look and just brush it off as me freaking myself
out way too much. I hear it again. I look. I see a figure that is completely black, except for
the eyes. The whites of its eyes were like flashlights, the contrast made the pupils stick
out like nothing I’ve ever seen. I felt my knees almost give out. I yell for my girlfriend,
she wakes up freaking out, because like I said, it's about 3:30 in the morning at this point
if not later. I look to her and look back, there’s nothing at the window. She asks me what
the problem is. I tell her I thought I saw something. I don't tell her about what happened
at my computer. Looking back at what happened now I could say that what I saw really
could have just been some sort of hallucination due to a mixture of the stress, fatigue,
and creepypasta. I was freaked out, and wasn't in the right state of mind at all.

I lie down with her making sure every inch of my body is under the covers. Its summer
and I'm hot, but I was too scared to expose myself, I just imagined something being
at the window watching me. I went over everything again in my head. If I had internet
capabilities, I would have been able to sleep. If I could say I got a serious virus, and
some random dude was sending me screamers, I'd be ok with it. I could reformat my
computer and it would be over. I have yet to reformat, but if I can get hacked with no
internet connection (now that I think about it, does anyone know if it is at all possible to
take control of someone’s computer with say radio waves?) , the only thing I can
think is that my computer is actually haunted.

The next day starts. I do my usual routine, not really thinking about the night prior. I bring
my girlfriend to work, and I'm now home alone. It is the middle of the day, I brush off everything that
happened, plug my computer's Ethernet chord back in and fire it up.Everything is completely normal.
I do my daily Reddit browsing; convincing myself that I may have dreamt everything from last night.
This is until I decide to log back in to my aim account, to see if it even happened. I log on and under
recent buddies I see the account, "baast41" I check his profile and there is nothing, and mysteriously
there is nothing under our chat log either.

I decide to IM him; I was able to get a copy of this conversation. I ask who it is and he pretty
much said replies with "Purr" for about 5 minutes straight, says something about summer sanders.
Someone named Tom, not to be afraid, and that he/it, is closer than I think. A copy of this
conversation is at the bottom of this post. After this the account goes away with the away
message "(my username, you have been added to the gate's database." I check my chat
log and there is still nothing there. I screen-shotted the chat log, and copy pasted the whole
conversation and saved it to my flash drive. I get the hell off of Meebo.

Now this is when I noticed my computers fans working extremely fast. I look over at it
and notice they stop, and hear the internal speaker beep a long beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
my computer overheats and restarts. I'm just about ready to throw the fucking thing
out the window. It boots oddly, and goes to a DOS screen. The cursor is blinking, I try typing,
but it won't, I press ctrl alt delete to restart, but it won't. The computer starts typing to
me. I don’t remember it word for word, but it started with more # signs mixed with a few other
characters that I hadn't recognized, some sort of odd Unicode. I watch in horror as I lose
complete control of my computer. "There is no hacker, J###" "My name is #o# ###s#, I am
not a human. I am right next to you. I only want to warn. This may be our last communication..."
I am thoroughly scared shitless and intrigued by what I'm reading. The cursor blinks almost
asking me to type something. I start to write, "WHAT IS GOING ON!?" but before it is
halfway done, he responds, "Find it, it is out there. The gate is now closed." My computer restarts
and everything is back to normal. As windows loads I could swear I saw a quick flash of
something... like that talk of subliminal messages? I feel like for half a second I saw the
face of a red humanoid figure screaming. I never saw this again. This was the last time I
used my computer.

I am now using my laptop, instead of my "haunted" desktop. I
have a copy of the aim conversation. Now I have to ask you guys.
What the hell is going on? Could this really just be a virus? I feel like
he, no... Like my computer was trying to tell me something. And this
talk about a gate... I don't even know what to think, I just think of
other dimensions. I don't believe in this kind of stuff, I'm even skeptic
of myself while I write this. It asked me to find "it" the simple facts are
I've been spoken to, and he seemed to give me several clues.

Conversation: http://www.text-upload.com/read.php?id=98907&c=8412070

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/uHlnX.png

-Update. It's getting late, I'm going to sleep. I'm extremely interested in who this guy is, what the gate is, and just wtf is going on in general. As of right now I can't tell if this person is malicious, toying with us, or asking for help. There is something he wants me to find. Anyway tomorrow morning I'm going to reformat my computer and then I'll be back. I have no odd happenings tonight to report, other than this spiderweb that we've all got caught in. Thanks for the help /nosleep.

-Update What we have found so far

Blog - http://tombaast.blogspot.com/

-from what we see here he seems to have either schizophrenia or some
sort of serious split personality issues. The sounds on that website is indeed the sound I heard.

Twitter - http://twitter.com/THOTIATEOT

-only leads to one tweet with a link to a passworded text file. The file has what seems to be a journal of this "Thomas Baast" it looks like all of the kitten references are due to
some chick that he fell in love with. It talks of the future and warns us. There also seem to be a few messages hidden in the garbled text

What creeps me out more than anything at this point is when he mentions in the unicode, that my computer is now self-aware. The way he makes it sound, he is literally in my computer. He said he would no longer be communicating with me, does this mean he's reached the internet? Do we have some sort of indescribable paranormal conciousness roaming the network of the world now?

My computer was turned on today, everything seems back to normal.

Update -

New sound file - http://www.mediafire.com/?74aa7c44dv3kf8e

New text file - http://uploading.com/files/e69298m2/Iw0K.zip/

Seems like someone has girl problems and they're taking it out on us.

Also; I didn't make this up to get a twitter acct with 1 tweet and a meaningless blog traffic...
and be weary of fake troll Baast accounts.

New sound/text file - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5TEN84PM
Mentions himself getting lonely and looking to make new friends... Well, I guess I'm safe now... I hope.

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I cannot attest to any other reddit posts made about Tom Baast or Baast41

There has been another tweet involving a file http://uploading.com/files/8f7f339e/Upload.GIF/ In the tweet he also says Mega and ?d=

MissMister has claimed to received a message that decoded to "Live for Eternity"

There has also been another blog post with more binary.

When both the file's code and the blog's new post code are put together it reads

"The lonliness hurts. I wish I could have you back my love. I cannot be alone nymore. I need more. Come with me my children. Leave your vessels, well I suppose it is not your choice. Time to run a few... tests"