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The facts

WHAT IT IS

A walking murder mystery through a real historic downtown, played on your own phone.

WHERE

Small Oklahoma cities. One city per season.

HOW LONG

About two hours. Five stops, on foot.

PRICE

$49 for one case file, up to six people.

THE CASE

A fictional 1936 killing. Invented people, invented businesses, real streets.

NO HOST, NO ACTORS

Nobody meets you and nobody is waiting. There is no timer.

COMPANY

The Keyhole Society, a DBA of MAC Software Solutions LLC, Oklahoma.

How to describe the people you question

They are reconstructions: everything the Society’s archive holds about a person, given a voice. You question them from your own phone, for as long as you like, and they answer as that person.

We would rather you did not call them “AI characters.” It is not inaccurate about the technology and it is wrong about the experience: the point is that a person from 1936 answers you, not that software does. The machinery is genuinely interesting and we are happy to talk about it on the record. It is just not what the thing IS.

A paragraph you can lift

The Keyhole Society is a touring murder mystery played on foot through a real historic downtown. Teams of up to six walk a five-stop route, finding evidence in the actual fabric of the city, and question four persons of interest from their own phone. Naming the killer is free. Building a warrant that holds is the game, and a team can be right and still fail to prove it. The Society runs one city for a season and then moves on.

Images

Right-click to save. Please do not recolour the logo, stretch it, or set the name in another typeface.

Logo, stacked

Primary lockup, brass on dark

Logo, horizontal

For wide spaces

The mark

Without the wordmark

Logo, one colour

For print on white

Illustration

Period illustration. Not a photograph, and not of any real place

What we will not do

We do not dramatise real crimes, real victims, or real tragedies, and no real person, family, business or building is named or implicated in any case. Every named entity in the story is invented. Where a town has its own real disaster in living memory, it stays civic memory and never becomes a puzzle.