Did you dream about this man?

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I had a dream about my mum, last night.

OK, I decided to do some digging here. Anybody remember WHOIS, the internet registration database that used to be de rigeur for computer professionals? Well, this is what I got when I entered "thisman.org" into Network Solutions's WHOIS:

Domain ID:D150747616-LROR
Domain Name:THISMAN.ORG
Created On:25-Jan-2008 16:02:00 UTC
Last Updated On:15-Jan-2010 20:43:27 UTC
Expiration Date:25-Jan-2011 16:02:00 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Tucows Inc. (R11-LROR)
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:tuswXI6c1yuHmCEU
Registrant Name:Andrea Natella
Registrant Organization:Andrea Natella
Registrant Street1:Via dell'orso 43
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:ROMA
Registrant State/Province:RM
Registrant Postal Code:00186
Registrant Country:IT
Registrant Phone:+39.0668891709
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:[email protected]
Admin ID:tuswXI6c1yuHmCEU
Admin Name:Andrea Natella
Admin Organization:Andrea Natella
Admin Street1:Via dell'orso 43
Admin Street2:
Admin Street3:
Admin City:ROMA
Admin State/Province:RM
Admin Postal Code:00186
Admin Country:IT
Admin Phone:+39.0668891709
Admin Phone Ext.:
Admin FAX:
Admin FAX Ext.:
Admin Email:[email protected]
Tech ID:tuBbH6SFrsByEPBu
Tech Name:Servizio Registrazione Domini Internazionali
Tech Organization:COLT Engine S.r.l.
Tech Street1:Via San Pancrazio 14
Tech Street2:
Tech Street3:
Tech City:Pianezza
Tech State/Province:Torino
Tech Postal Code:10044
Tech Country:IT
Tech Phone:+39.0112340031
Tech Phone Ext.:
Tech FAX:+39.01182931192
Tech FAX Ext.:
Tech Email:[email protected]
Name Server:DNS2.TECHNORAIL.COM
Name Server:DNS.TECHNORAIL.COM
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Andrea is a male name in Italy. If one is going to put up a "mystery site", it is advisable to hide one's WHOIS info. My guess is that "guerriglia marketing" is "guerrilla marketing", so this guy may only be the ad agency that's under contract by persons unknown to run the site. Note that Mr. Natella has been booted off his server, probably by Technorail.

The language of the webpage struck me as strange, as if the writer was not a native speaker of English. He's Italian, and while all Italians learn English in school, they learn it from books and from Italians who have studied in English speaking countries. (At least that's how language education is everywhere else on earth-people from the learner's own culture who major in say Spanish or French at a university.) What results is "Italian English". We are all familiar with Nigerian English and Russian English via scam artists, but the Italian version was something I'd never encountered before. I suspect that the Google ad is there to pay operating expenses.

So, we're dealing with Italians, and this is probably an attempt to create a cult. I have no clue if the weird email form goes to Natella or to somebody totally different. Suggestion is powerful where dreams are concerned, it is likely that once the drawing of the "man" got passed around that people started "seeing" "him" in their dreams. The man might be the leader of the cult-cult leaders make all sort of loony claims, and the man DOES look vaguely Italian, and many countries have Italian descended residents, including the US, Australia, Argentina, and Brazil. In fact, so many Italians immigrated to Buenos Aires that "Porteno" (the language spoken in Buenos Aires) is more Italian than Spanish, according to wikipedia (the Naples dialect of Italian, to be precise).

Never have dreamed of this guy... hopefully he doesn't appear in a nightmare in the future.

I looked up the guerriglia marketing website Mr. Natella's email was from - turns out it really is a guerrilla marketing website. An except from the from page, translated into English:

"Guerrilla Marketing contributes to the development of marketing strategies through the staging of pseudo-events designed to integrate the company image"

Do you guys think "this man" is a hoax?

Its True!

This is their corporate Website:

http://www.guerrigliamarketing.it

and the translated version:

http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... prmd%3Divb

This assumes that Pezar's data is accurate, and that the site IS guerrigliamarketing.it

I've never had 'that dream' of 'this man.'

Neither have i heard of 'that guy' from 'over there' with 'that thing.' I hear its a popular dream.

Wow, pezar, IdahoRose, and pyzzazzyZyzzyva: investigator reporting - impressive.
Thanks for the info

No-- it was Pezar for looking into it.
And I just checked WHOIS and Pezar's info is correct.

Yeah, Pezar deserves more credit than me too. If it weren't for him/her, I would have never even thought to look into it. I took "this man" at face value (no pun intended) and believed it was a real phenomenon. I'm gullible like that.

It sounds like some viral marketing ad

Who or what it is promoting then? Stereotypical human faces?

Who knows, thats just how this type of gorilla marketing works, it is defiantly very strange way to start a buzz
going on some product, Some movies are marketed this way, such as Cloverfield and District 9, there was also the
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Lite Brights that were placed around Boston that caused a bomb scare, I doubt it is anything
sinister or supernatural, But you never know it could be the CIA beaming a friendly alien face into you brain to prepare
you for the coming alien invasion

His social skills are too good, for me to dream about him.

The man in the picture is me. I had someone sketch my face to look like an older person. Needless to say, it worked.

you should!

Maybe I will....

I had a dream of someone much more like me, who was popular, in the 60s.