The most compelling version of the story isn't about what's in the file, but the it creates. It follows a lonely IT worker who finds the file on a decommissioned server. He spends months trying to decrypt it, losing his job and sanity in the process. When he finally opens it, the archive is empty—except for a single text file that contains his own social security number and the current date.

: Like the "Mariana's Web" or "Cicada 3301," the file became a vessel for people to project their fears of the unknown parts of the internet.

: Many who have actually found a file with this name report that it is simply a corrupted archive filled with "junk data" (random bits) that cannot be extracted, which fuels the mystery.