afloweroutofstone:

Coolest underreported internet mystery: Mortis.com. Some people on 4Chan’s paranormal board found the website Mortis.com, which just had a graphic of the word “Mortis” and a place to enter a username and password. They and the people on the electronics board both tried to get in to the site, but failed; they did find, however, that the email address mortis@mortis.com had several terabytes of uploaded data attached to it (for those unaware: a terabyte is an amount of data equivalent to roughly 500 hours of HD video).

They started digging more and found the website was registered to a number of different people and companies. All of the “companies” were non-existent, with their addresses being empty buildings and vacant lots, and all of the people it was registered to were apparently deceased except for some guy named Thomas Ling. Depsite looking pretty hard, they were never able to find much at all about Thomas Ling, except that he had a number of other similiarly strange websites registered in his name. Apparently someone managed to get in touch with Ling at one point and harass him, and Ling claimed the site was used to just store wedding photos and similar things, which makes no sense for several reasons.

Allegedly, the FBI got interested in the website for some reason and it got pulled down within days. It was evantually put back up with a Brazilian domain (Mortis.com.br, where it is now) with a countdown that went on for over two years. The countdown ended on 12 April 2015, and nothing of significance happened. Now, all that’s on the website is the “Mortis” image, and most of Ling’s other websites are gone (with the noticeable exception of Eternalknight.com).

I should note that the sourcing on all of this is mostly gone at this point, as the entire original investigation took place on unarchived 4Chan posts, but still. Because interest in the mystery has faded over time, there’s still a lot of loose ends left.