LogInAnd they didn't even have to noclip out of reality to do so.
In 2024, everyone and their mother has heard about the concept of Backrooms, a mysterious parallel world one can get enter and get stuck in by noclipping out of reality, which gave birth to heaps of dime-a-dozen horror games designed to unnerve the player with their liminal spaces.
Until recently, however, the original Backrooms photo that kicked off the trend remained an internet mystery. Few people knew its original location, and considering its indistinct appearance and lack of defining characteristics, many thought identifying it would be impossible.
Proving doubters and pessimists wrong, the team of Discord detectives has managed to finally find the iconic location, demonstrating once again that the internet is the living embodiment of the Infinite Monkey theorem – anything can happen given enough time.
Determined to locate the Backrooms, the team scoured the internet for clues and eventually found a 2019 tweet that outright revealed where the photo was taken, making our detective story somewhat anticlimactic, considering that the answer has been lying on the surface all along.
By using The Wayback Machine to open the now-inactive link from the tweet, our Sherlocks discovered a 2003 blog post dedicated to a renovation of HobbyTown store's Revolution Raceway RC car racetrack, and lo and behold, the Backrooms photo was there, accompanied by another shot of the location taken from a different angle:
The blog post also revealed the address of the location as 811 Oregon Street, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, a site where the racetrack still exists today. Some enthusiasts have even found a 2017 photo of the renovated interior, along with a video of a race that took place there in 2008:
Others dug even deeper and uncovered what appears to be a 1977 photo of the location, back when it was known as Rohner's Furniture store:
And just like that, one of the most popular internet mysteries has been solved, giving creepypasta enthusiasts a new pilgrimage site and providing horror game developers with ideas for setting their next game in an abandoned RC car racetrack.
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