Call of Duty: WW2 teaser site goes live with enough cryptic information to keep you busy for a while

By Stephany Nunneley

A teaser site for Call of Duty: WW2 has gone online, and Sledgehammer wants those visiting the site to have a bit of fun figuring out the mysteries locked inside.

Yesterday when Call of Duty: WW2 was revealed, a teaser image for Nazi Zombies was released showing a typical, rotting, undead fella wearing a German military helmet.

When the image is brightened, on the inside rim of the zombie’s helmet you can see some letters.

These letters, per reddit are: IUFDJ BHLOP JMUBA. Upon entering these numbers on the typewriter, the three lights go green and a message pops up: “A New Horror Rises” before three images appear: a document folder with signatures and letters and numbers on the side of it; a worn image of Holy Roman Emperor and King of Burgundy and Germany, Frederick Barbarossa (Frederick I); and an image of Raphael’s famous painting, Portrait of a Young Man.

Between reddit and Charlie Intel, a few things have been figured out.

First up, the numbers on the typewriter’s serial plate are coordinates to Dunkirk, France where the Battle and Siege of Dunkirk took place in 1944.

The image of Frederick Barbarossa likely points Operation Barbarossa, which was the codename of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. There is an interesting theory regarding Frederick I on the Call of Duty Zombies subreddit regarding an Arthurian “sleeping hero” legend tied to the ruler.

According to this the legend, Frederick is asleep with his knights in a cave located in the Kyffhauser mountain range, and when the “ravens cease to fly around the mountain, he will awake and restore Germany to its ancient greatness,” according to Wikipedia. There’s more to the story, so just click the Wiki link. The theory on the reddit page, is that the “horror” which rises may pertain to Barbarossa’s knights. That’s rather interesting, to be honest.

Raphael’s painting seen in the fifth image, was one of many works of art stolen by the Nazi’s during World War 2. The painting was stolen from the Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, Poland in 1945 and its whereabouts are still unknown.

The numbers and letters on the side of the folder, which can be seen much better when viewing the Call of Duty: WW2 website on mobile, show the following: FORM – YMF – 212514 – 12123 – 131. These also seem to be coordinates pointing to the Battle of Dunkirk.

When plugging the numbers into the typewriter on the website, I can’t seem to get the green light in the middle to appear no matter how many times I punch in BHLOP (because I’m dumb, apparently) so I will take everyone’s word for all of the aforementioned information.

Give it all a go yourself through the official website, and keep checking back with it, because we expect more ARG type of fun in the coming days and weeks leading up to the Zombie and multiplayer reveal at E3 2017.

Call of Duty: WW2 releases on November 3 for PC, PS4 and Xbox One.