has anyone read the manson letter carefully?
Well, I'll get back to that in a #>/sec... First, what caught my eye about the manson post was the very distinctive photo. I reside in Vermont, and well, that photo made me stop dead in my tracks for a few minutes. Mainly because I'm pretty sure that I've been to this place, or maybe just a few hundred like it, at some point in my life. Evidence: 1) weathering patern on barn/shack/covered-bridge-ish-thing. 2) Dirt Road.
3) Tree species. 4) New Power Lines -- we had a huge ice-storm in '98 --. 5) Post-and-beam house in background.
But one big thing didn't sit right... the time stamp says "98 4 19" and the trees are never this green by the end of April. However, a few quick checks on weather and news archives revealed that '98 had temperatures consistantly in the upper 70s from early march through may. It was one of the earliest springs on record. In addition, on 4-19 the weather was overcast, 90% precip, and unseasonably foggy. So one of the big reasons I'm interested in this is that it would seam that Chucky M has an original photo from somewhere near where I live....
Back to his letter, because this is where it either all gets really interesting, or where you all call me crazy and flame me out for ruining a perfectly good killer-bashin'.
Some oddities (other than the crazy) about these letters:
1) End of the first letter certainly sounds like a clue/challenge to me -- "I bet you don't remember this - you don't even know where it's at. HAHA. I got you there." So That got me to thinking: maybe I already have the first clue?
2) At the beginning of the second letter he draws our attention very sharply to a few key themes:
2a) the idea of replacing syllables with numbers in some sort of pattern -- ie. he separates the numerical "4 GOT" from all other instances of "forgit".
2b) the dissection of certain words into separate phonemes -- ie. "Hay Lo Soul".
2c) The selective use of homo-nyms/phones. He even points out later that this is not simply because he's stupid, he specificaly says he's "playing clown words to say I didn't forgit".
2d) selective capitalization. could be some sort of an anagram... not sure yet.
2e) this one is hard to notice until later in the letter, but he only uses "+"-signs, never the word "and", and for the entire first half of the letter, he uses "to" at any place where he could have used "+".
3) The end of the first letter talks pretty specifically about two key points. The first is that Billy "don't remember" --notice the use of the word don't, even though everything else is in the past tense--. The second point has something to do with geography and space --"where it's at", "got you there". The rememberance theme is picked back up on right away in the second letter, and the excplicit change from "hear" to "here" show that the spacial theme is as well.
So if we assume that Chuck doesn't ask everyone why they've forgotten an important place (which is a pretty big, but necessary assumption), that means one of two things: 1) That the entire thing is a hoax, and that Billy wrote both sets of letter, or 2) the more likely option that Charles Manson spends a bunch of time on the internet researching all sorts of exentric things, found out about "Billy", and has decided to use this as an oprotunity to encode a message in a published letter. I don't know, it kind of seems like his style.
So what do you all think? Am I as loonie as Manson, am I way too into Crypto, or is there the chance that all of these Crypto-red-flags actually do point to something worth finding out? I'll be working on it, let me know if any of you other procrastinating crazzies decide to do the same.
--Oh, almost I almost forgot(git) the most crucial thing.... the transcription missed one of the margin notes. On the second page, as far as I can tell it says: "The book warrom Turns - code3"
I didn't notice this until after I had gone through all the other stuff, so now I'm even more convinced. Or maybe just loonier...
has anyone read the manson letter carefully?
Well, I'll get back to that in a #>/sec... First, what caught my eye about the manson post was the very distinctive photo. I reside in Vermont, and well, that photo made me stop dead in my tracks for a few minutes. Mainly because I'm pretty sure that I've been to this place, or maybe just a few hundred like it, at some point in my life. Evidence: 1) weathering patern on barn/shack/covered-bridge-ish-thing. 2) Dirt Road.
3) Tree species. 4) New Power Lines -- we had a huge ice-storm in '98 --. 5) Post-and-beam house in background.
But one big thing didn't sit right... the time stamp says "98 4 19" and the trees are never this green by the end of April. However, a few quick checks on weather and news archives revealed that '98 had temperatures consistantly in the upper 70s from early march through may. It was one of the earliest springs on record. In addition, on 4-19 the weather was overcast, 90% precip, and unseasonably foggy. So one of the big reasons I'm interested in this is that it would seam that Chucky M has an original photo from somewhere near where I live....
Back to his letter, because this is where it either all gets really interesting, or where you all call me crazy and flame me out for ruining a perfectly good killer-bashin'.
Some oddities (other than the crazy) about these letters:
1) End of the first letter certainly sounds like a clue/challenge to me -- "I bet you don't remember this - you don't even know where it's at. HAHA. I got you there." So That got me to thinking: maybe I already have the first clue?
2) At the beginning of the second letter he draws our attention very sharply to a few key themes:
2a) the idea of replacing syllables with numbers in some sort of pattern -- ie. he separates the numerical "4 GOT" from all other instances of "forgit".
2b) the dissection of certain words into separate phonemes -- ie. "Hay Lo Soul".
2c) The selective use of homo-nyms/phones. He even points out later that this is not simply because he's stupid, he specificaly says he's "playing clown words to say I didn't forgit".
2d) selective capitalization. could be some sort of an anagram... not sure yet.
2e) this one is hard to notice until later in the letter, but he only uses "+"-signs, never the word "and", and for the entire first half of the letter, he uses "to" at any place where he could have used "+".
3) The end of the first letter talks pretty specifically about two key points. The first is that Billy "don't remember" --notice the use of the word don't, even though everything else is in the past tense--. The second point has something to do with geography and space --"where it's at", "got you there". The rememberance theme is picked back up on right away in the second letter, and the excplicit change from "hear" to "here" show that the spacial theme is as well.
So if we assume that Chuck doesn't ask everyone why they've forgotten an important place (which is a pretty big, but necessary assumption), that means one of two things: 1) That the entire thing is a hoax, and that Billy wrote both sets of letter, or 2) the more likely option that Charles Manson spends a bunch of time on the internet researching all sorts of exentric things, found out about "Billy", and has decided to use this as an oprotunity to encode a message in a published letter. I don't know, it kind of seems like his style.
So what do you all think? Am I as loonie as Manson, am I way too into Crypto, or is there the chance that all of these Crypto-red-flags actually do point to something worth finding out? I'll be working on it, let me know if any of you other procrastinating crazzies decide to do the same.
--Oh, almost I almost forgot(git) the most crucial thing.... the transcription missed one of the margin notes. On the second page, as far as I can tell it says: "The book warrom Turns - code3"
I didn't notice this until after I had gone through all the other stuff, so now I'm even more convinced. Or maybe just loonier...