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A Breakthrough on the Grids |
Based on some of the hints we've gotten from the MHC forums, we think we've discovered the method of solving the grids - although we haven't quite figured them all out yet.
Bascially, each of the grids is sorta like this addictive game. Each pair of numbers can be connected along one unbroken path. It's just a matter of twisting all the other paths around.
Once all the paths are found, you can see that there are phrases within one of the paths on the grid. In all but one grid, the phrase is found within the longest path (making me think that something is messed up within gride 2). The phrase that you find in the longest path, we believe, is the hint to the unknown dashed word. From there, the theory is, we take the circled letter and put it into another word at the numbered position.
- Grid #1
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1: TLNERE
2: IHISCAAI
3: MODEHNRS
4: BMRADHRONOPERATIONROTATIONYOWIEQUINKINJIMBRA
5: U
6: LI
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Phrase: Operation Rotation Yowie Quinkin Jimbra
Answer: AUSTRALIA or SASQUATCH
Explantion: Refers to an Australian Sasquatch
I like Australia better because a: the phrase refers specifically to the Yowie which is a native of Australia and not different types of Sasquatchs around the world and b: Q is an awful letter to start with (although it would give us the second letter as U right away).
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1: LFOEAE
2: EROBZREIA
3: HALUZMSCNLI
4: ANOGSIOEPACRPIDS
5: VCGUI
6: REYENNT
7: EZLJGNAMEGCYT
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Phrase: "Name" is found in Path 7, but this does not follow the pattern of longest path having the key phrase.
Answer:
Explantion:
- Grid #3 (unfound)
- Grid #4
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1: FSOENBKO
2: OEPTLYM
3: RRSOECIUANOLNWATERLAKE
4: TBCBTRCN
5: FIOAREATIBIIG
6: RS
7: AHVIUEM
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Phrase: Water Lake
Answer: LOCH NESS MONSTER
- Grid #5 (unfound)
- Grid #6
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1: MBSTYLHHUOA
2: PNROTAPOEL
3: EBGOCT
4: COEKATOWNUOUNTAINS
5: ADSLPERNDE
6: NSIIE
7: TRFGZBY
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Phrase: Town [U]ountains (Possibly a typo of Mountains or Fountains)
Answer:
Explantion:
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1: C
2: A
3: ICLAL
4: ENJLMSEQATATENERWATERVIDEO
5: DULSCRUUDDEOCD
6: OAHOIARH
7: NNNDNL
8: IAMT
- - 7 - - - - -
Phrase: Water Video
Answer:
Explantion:
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1: BHYRINSFDDM
2: RMCTMIILSBIGA
3: OYA
4: MSTEEVT
5: WTSASEYEAINHMTVQUIZ
6: RNEORUNFEI
7: CROT
8 - - - - - - - - -
Phrase: TV Quiz
Answer:
Explantion:
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1: ZIMKTOE
2: ALOUWWK
3: CTSMICBGMLINGENZOLIHUMBOLDTTIMES
4: KOKCLRO
5: HN
6: AMOA
7: MOOSLEBI
- - - 9 - - -
Phrase: Humboldt Times
Answer: BIGFOOT
Explantion: The name Bigfoot first appeared in the October 5, 1958 copy of the Humboldt Times.
- Grid #10 (unfound)
- Grid #11
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1: ROOVERNARNENRDITT
2: OWYFFEDHIELAIRIDWO
3: DBAEAVTFS
4: IESCKOE
5: OYMAIROOTNU
6: CKOMXSN
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Phrase: Lair ('Over' is found in Path 1, but I think 'Lair' makes more sense)
Answer:
Explantion:
Right now, we only have T - - E - - - - - F - - in our solution, which isn't a whole lot to go on, but I think we're getting there.
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A Today Show Disaster? |
Sun-Yi updated her Myspace blog with some footage of their trip to The Today Show - and it doesn't look good.
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Thursday, February 01, 2007
TODAY Show footage
So, for the record we actually were on the Today Show. We were on during this segment, but just in case you miss us, here's a shorter clip that I labeled with our names. I've also compiled our experience into a little mini-documentary. Enjoy!
There were some technical problems, which I am not getting into here. Matt and Derek are both pretty touchy about it, and I don't want them to think I'm taking sides. On the bright side, we got to give away a couple dozen Monster Hunter shirts and got to meet a couple local fans. And we got to watch a live taping! Am I the only one who finds the boom mic guy fascinating? Probably so.
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Monster Hunter Club
Adventures at the TODAY Show
a film by Sun-Yi Park
Matt: It's...uh, 6:22, and Derek has left with Bigfoot. All we have left is this sign. If Derek is not here because he took off with Bigfoot, because security wouldn't let us bring it in. And it's been about half an hour and he's still not back. So...there. Thanks a lot. All we have is this sign.
Matt: Well, we're about to go outside right now and Derek is still not here. Well, it's almost 7:00 and we're gonna go without you, Derek. Derek's not here. He left close to an hour ago, with Bigfoot, which I assume he's lying in bed with right now. And...uh, it's really not cool, Derek. Thanks a lot, Derek.
It seems that Derek couldn't bring his 7-foot Sasquatch to the taping. Another probable victim of the ATHF terror scare in Boston. Damn viral marketers. Anyway, Derek had to take Fluffy home, and mistakenly fell asleep on the couch. He didn't wake up until after 8am despite the fact that Sun-Yi and Matt kept calling him. He tried to make it up to them by treating them to breakfast, but Derek doesn't understand that pure anger suppresses the appetite. Then Derek discovered that he missed Sun-Yi's birthday (oops!) and got into another fight with Matt on the way back to their place. Derek, bit of advice: When you're friends are utterly pissed at you, don't go stopping off at bookstores and buy stuff for yourself. They were probably cold, tired, and just wanting to get back!
And poor Sun-Yi. First Derek forgets her birthday, and now he's all excited about his ex-girlfriend coming into the City to see him. And suggesting that she might stay at his place while she's in town. I just have to wonder if Amie is gonna make it out of the city if Sun-Yi decides to take matters into her own hands.
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Journal 11, 12, and 13 |
The latest journal entries have John Wheeler visiting VietNam and seeing first hand the effects of Agent Orange. But he still has high hopes for Project Yellow in helping out the civilians in the area. When he gets back to NKP, Dr. T seems to have discovered something about Dr. G and is pretty giddy about it. It seems to be a pretty big secret as Dr. T refuses to tell John while anyone is around.
I now have a sinking sensation that Dr. T may never tell his secret. Matt found a photo that may be of Dr. T's family: The Tinnerman's. Tom Tinnerman, what a name. Anyway, it's entirely possible that the Tin Man from "The Tin Man Has Disappeared into the Rainbow" may be Dr. T. As we don't know when, or how, or why the Tin Man disappeared, it is conceivable that Dr. T was gotten rid of because he found out some big secret about Dr. G. We won't know more until Matt provides us with more journal pages. And it seems that Matt has learned his lesson about blank journal pages - this time he cut off the bottom of the page so we can't see that he's "forging" the stuff *snicker*. I do get amused at the smallest of things.
One other item of note: Matt posts a picture that is marked 'Overseeing CHASE'. Operation CHASE was a program that "loaded unwanted Army materiel on old ships which were then scuttled at sea." CHASE stood for "Cut Holes and Sink 'Em". While most of the time conventional ammunition was scuttled, there were four sinkings that involved chemical weapons, the first being in 1967. Well, at least that's what's reported on the web. Since Project Yellow has never been declassified, it's entirely possible that there were other CHASEs involving chemicals that no one knows about.
- Journal Entry #11, 8/8/66
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8/6/66
Heading out with Dr. G in a few minutes here. I told Dr. T about the trip yesterday, and strangely he seemed perfectly OK with not going. I didn't mention the cigars or single matl, though, so that probably helped. Maybe a bit of time away from Dr. G will give Dr. T a chance to get his head straig. I told him how much I was looking forward to reading his results when I got back, and asked if I could bring him back anything fromm VietNam. Without pause he said, "A pretty young gal who's into mustaches, salt and pepper hair, and who is looking for a new papa-san." Then he said, "Nah, why should I be so picky? I'll take whatever girl you can fit in your backpack!" I told him I'd see what I can do. It's good to see Dr. T in a good mood. Makes going on this trip a bit easier on my mind.
- Journal Entry #12, 8/18/66
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8/18/66
Back at NKP and all I want to do is sleep. My eyes are burning. I'm exhausted. But I just can't sleep for the life of me. So I may as well write a bit, since it's been a while anyhow.
The trip was amazing in many ways. I think I got a bit more insight in the mind of Dr. G. I believe my instincts were on the money - he's a man who, while a little eccentric and certainly not steeped in Southern hospitality, nonetheless has a heart. His face was largely expressionless throughout the trip, but this was no doubt a function of the distance and scientific objectivity that must nceesarily be at the core of what we do. Dr. G may just be a bit better at it than me. But the fact that we even took such a trip speaks to the depth of his concern.
The most difficult part of the trip was a visit to the hospital. There Dr. G and I saw a poor old man who was obviously in an advanced stage of dioxin poisoning. Obvious to us anyway - the Drs. there were still puzzled as to what exactly caused the numerous large cysts all over his face, neck and chest. There was little they could do for him except try to keep him comfortable. Seeing this man sent a chill through my heart. Dr. G staid the man was from a village right near where some of the AO applications took place. It was truly awful.
But the trip filled me with hope as well. Viet Nam is a beautiful country, and so are her people. Despite the strife that has torn their home in two, I saw many smiling faces. These people have a quiet strength and happiness that radiates from within. It's quite an admirable trait. I was filled with a jumble of emotions as I toured a few different areas of the country. At first it was anger, that Operation Ranch Hand got shoehorned on when it was clearly not ready to deploy. But what's done is done and I can't change that. But Lord willing, I can help change the future. Seeing the faces of the way people who might one day feel the projects efforts, made it all so much more real than even in NKP. I shot some film of a group of children I encountered on the street. They were transfixed by my camera, as if I wwere about to do a magic trick with it. Looking at their perfect little faces, I couldn't help but think of John Jr. especially since a couple of them looked about his age. I thought of the families these little boys would go home to after I left them. How their parents loved them just as much as I love John Jr. How they wanted nothing but the best for them. To have better than they probably had, just like all of us want for our kids. It made me well up a bit, filming these kids. Even more than at the hospital, where decorum dictated I have my best poker face on. I could really feel the Lord's presence at that moment, talking to me through the eyes of those young boys, telling me what I needed to do.
Ultimately, I left filled with a renewed sense of purpose. Engergized and ready to get back to work. Too energized, obviously, since I still can't sleep. Dr. T's been sawing logs since I got back and hasn't stirred once. Sometimes I think that man could sleep through an atomic bomb. I hope he gets a kick out of the little present I got him - on our brief stop in Bangkok on the way back, I picked up a deck of nudie cards for him, that says, "Sexy cartes" on the box. "Guess what, Tom," I'll say, "not only did I fit one pretty girl in my bag, I gotcha 51 more!" It's the thought that counts anyway.
Well, better turn in an [sic] try counting sheep or something.
- Journal Entry #13, 8/19/66
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8/19/66
Dr. T pulled me aside this morning, and whispered that he'd found out something about Dr. G. He looked happier than a pig in slop, telling me this. I asked him what he'd found out, but he just hemmed and hawed and wouldn't tell me. He seemed nervous that some of the fellows were around, but he just kept on grinning. All he'd really tell me was, "At least I have some proof!"
Haven't had a chance all day to be alone with Dr. T, what with him catching Dr. G and me up with what we've missed. But I must admit I'm very curious as to what the heck he's talking about. Haven't seen him for a couple of hours, and I'd really like to hear the scoop before I go to bed, but I'm pretty exhausted. I'll give him about 15 more minutes befure I start in on some shut eye.
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Sun-Yi and The Host |
As the game gets more popular, more people keep coming around, most with questions like "Why is MHC advertised on The Host's websites?" I'll admit, it did bother me a tad, but at the same time, I'm quite used to seeing weird META stuff like that, and I just decided to ignore it when it came to the game.
But now I no longer have to! It seems that Sun-Yi is 'responsible' for the MHC popping up in reference to The Host. She had talked to a Magnolia Pictures marketing guy and had casually mentioned the MHC during a lunch one day. Next thing she knows, the guy has put the MHC website on The Host movie posters possibly to show people that just maybe this movie isn't so fictional after all. Either that, or he wants to date Sun-Yi.
So that is one mystery solved. But it still doesn't explain why a bunch of us got Derek's toys in the mail (Sun-Yi is adament that she had nothing to do with the theft). Maybe the marketing guy did it because he's jealous of Derek and Sun-Yi (not that there's anything there - but he might not know that).
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Grids Solved! (mostly) |
So, we were sorta on the right track with the strings in the grids before, but we missed a couple of important steps. Now that we've figured out what exactly to do, the solution is much more elegant with a lot less guess work.
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The main thing we missed is that we have to use all of the letters in all of the paths when coming up with the answer. Once you get a list of all the letters along the paths, you have to read down the list to come up with an understandable string. The main trick is just determining in which direction you need to read the paths. We were able to get partial strings simply because those strings were so long, there weren't any other letters above or below them.
molecularr was able to solve grid #11 this way, and from there all the other grids were solved in a very short timespan.
- Grid #1: AUSTRALIA
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1: TLNERE
2: IHISCAAI
3: MODEHNRS
4: BMRADHRONOPERATIONROTATIONYOWIEQUINKINJIMBRA
5: U
6: LI
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Phrase: Timbull Hominid Research Dean Harrison Operation Rotation Yowie Quinkin Jimbra
Answer: AUSTRALIA
Explantion: Refers to an Australian Sasquatch
- Grid #2: HEUVELMANS
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1: LFOEAE
2: EROBZREIA
3: HALUZMSCNLI
4: ANOGSIOEPACRPIDS
5: VCGUI
6: REYENNT
7: EZLJGNAMEGCYT
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Phrase: Le Havre France Zoology Le Bugue Jazz Singer Minnesota Iceman Pelagic Cryptids
Answer: HEUVELMANS
Explantion: Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans was the "Father of Cryptozoology.
- Grid #3 (unfound)
- Grid #4: BRITISH COLUMBIA
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1: FSOENBKO
2: OEPTLYM
3: RRSOECIUANOLNWATERLAKE
4: TBCBTRCN
5: FIOAREATIBIIG
6: RS
7: AHVIUEM
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Phrase: Fort Fraser Bishops Cove Toba Inlet Ruby Creek Mica Mountain Boiling Water Lake
Answer: BRITISH COLUMBIA
Explanation: All locations are in British Columbia.
- Grid #5 (unfound)
- Grid #6: WASHINGTON
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1: AOUHHLYTSBM
2: PNROTAPOEL
3: EBGOCT
4: COEKATOWNUOUNTAINS
5: ASDLPERNDE
6: NSIIE
7: YBZGFRT
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Phrase: Ape Canyon Bossburg Ediz Hook Light Cape Flattery Port Townsend Blue Mountains
Answer: WASHINGTON
Explantion: All locations are in Washington State.
- Grid #7: LOCH NESS
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1: C
2: A
3: ICLAL
4: ENJLMSEQATATENERWATERVIDEO
5: DULSCRUUDDEOCD
6: OAHOIARH
7: NNNDNL
8: IAMT
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Phrase: Caledonian Canal John McLleod Tim Dinsdale Urquhart Castle Underwater Video
Answer: LOCH NESS
Explantion: John McLeod and Tim Dinsdale both reported on seeing Nessie. And Urquhart Castle is situated on Loch Ness.
- Grid #8: KARL SHUKER
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1: BHYRINSFDDM
2: RMCTMIILSBIGA
3: OYA
4: MSTEEVT
5: WTSASEYEAINHMTVQUIZ
6: IEFNUROENR
7: CROT
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Phrase: Bromwich Mystery Cats Fortean Times University of Leeds and Birmingham TV Quiz
Answer: KARL SHUKER
Explantion: Karl Shuker is a British Zoologist who lives in West Bromwich. He studied at Leeds and Birmingham, wrote a book called Mystery Cats of the World, writes two columns for the Fortean Times and severed as a question setter for Mastermind.
- Grid #9: BIGFOOT
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1: ZIMKTOE
2: ALOUWWK
3: CTSMICBGMLIN GENZOLIHUMBOLDTTIMES
4: KOKCLRO
5: HN
6: AMOA
7: MOOSLEBI
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Phrase: Zack Hamilton Momo Skookum Cast Willow Creek Bob Gimlin Genzoli Humboldt Times
Answer: BIGFOOT
Explantion: The name Bigfoot first appeared in the October 5, 1958 copy of the Humboldt Times. The other names are all associated with Bigfoot
- Grid #10 (unfound)
- Grid #11: ROGER PATTERSON
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1: ROOVERNARNENRDITT
2: OWDIRIALEIHDEFFYWO
3: DBAEAVTFS
4: EOKCSEI
5: OYMAIROOTNU
6: CKOMXSN
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Phrase: Rodeo Cowboy Kodak Movie Camera Six Rivers National Forest Nine Hundred Fifty Two
Answer: ROGER PATTERSON
Explantion: Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin shot one of the best known videos of Big Foot. The 1952 connection comes from a letter to Roger describing an encounter that took place in that year.
* NOTE: JazzMusee got corrected grid #11 with the desired letter shifted to the right. So we really want the 11th letter of the solution.
So with eight of the eleven grids found and solved, we have T H - S - A C K F - R for our meta solution. Closer, but we're gonna need to find those last three grids to really know what it says.
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Creature Captured! |
After seeing one of the mysterious creatures in shallow water, cryptidtruth was going to try and capture it. And what do you know - he did! Well, maybe 'capture' is a little overkill as it just washed up dead, but he does have the body of the creature. Now maybe we can figure out what it is.
To prove that he really did capture the creature, cryptidtruth posted a video on YouTube - complete with spliced in frames that contain a hidden message!
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There are four different frames you have to get: 0:05, 0:10, 0:14, and 0:19. When you put them all together, you get this picture which can be a little difficult to read.
It seems someone doesn't want people know
about these things. The person who gave me the
pictures had his home burned down and several
people have been confronted and threatened for
trying to go down to the water area. It's not the
government. It is something worse.
I hope this last video doesn't endanger the person
whose home I filmed it in. He has the only body I
know of one of these fish but the local people say
there were more. I think he was going to bury it.
I've heard rumors of other strange things like this,
people have written to me because of my videos
and pictures. I'm going to check one that is not too
far away and let you know what I find.
So, cryptidtruth is afraid of someone - who isn't the government (which I think is a first). Maybe it's aliens and they are upset that someone has found their little alien babies and plucked them out of the water before they had a chance to grow. Or maybe it's a bunch of ninja monks who are growing the strange fish in order to take over the Presidency by getting the fish to bite the President and turn him into a werefish. Maybe we should test to see if the fish are allergic to mistletoe.
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Update Tuesday |
So, the game keeps getting updated on Tuesdays and Fridays. The only problem is, it updates kinda late on Tuesdays and Fridays - after I get out work when I normally write this guide. So I have to do updates on Wednesdays and Mondays. Except this Wednesday I had a massive headache and wasn't about to spend it trying to type up letters and fight with the forum postings in an effort to discover which things were found first. Who came up with the bright idea to keep putting updates in old threads? Sure it keeps the webpages together, but anyone coming into the game late is at a huge disadvantage as they have to keep flipping back and forth between threads and if they accidently read an update post before it's time, they might get confused. Putting updates in threads by date gives you one thread to worry about at a time - plus its so much easier to see that there is an update rather than someone just discussing something that took place a few days before. That and it sort of keeps people from posting in what should be a dead thread. Why no one has locked the initial trailhead post is beyond me as there are continuing discussions in it that are also happening in other threads.
So enough ranting. Today we learn the truth about Matt and Derek's fight, that Dr. T is somewhat psycho and John Wheeler won't believe there is a fire until his clothes are ablaze, and that it is possible to find the mysterious Painted Soul.
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Derek Is a Dork |
Derek really doesn't have much in the way of updates this week - probably because he's too busy trying to patch his friendships up with Matt and Sun-Yi.
First, there is the fight that he had with Matt. I can't help it. When I first watched this video I was reminded of those first Geist videos with Eva - sadly painful but so silly bad that you just have to giggle for like an hour. At least I did. Maybe it reads better than it plays out on video.
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Derek: Guys! Check it out! A signed, first edition copy of Bob Slaughter's Fossiled Remains of Mythical Creatures.
Sun-Yi: Wow, that's great Derek. Can I see it?
Derek: Matt! Matt, you remember this book? It's...it's the guy from Texas. He made all those fake pictures and then he put them in the book like they were real.
Matt: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Texas, yeah.
Sun-Yi: Show some pictures, Derek.
Derek: Okay, umm...here! Fairy bones! Isn't that wild?!
Matt: Dude, they're not real. They're fake.
Derek: Yeah, I know, but...
Sun-Yi: Why would anyone make fake pictures and say they're real? Won't people find out?
Matt: How much did you pay for that? Weren't you just saying about how you had no money? What a waste?
Derek: Who died and made you my mother?
Matt: Dude, are you serious? (to Sun-Yi) Shut it off.
Derek: Turn it off.
Maybe it doesn't. I'm still giggling. Anyway, I can see why Matt was giving Derek a hard time about buying the book though. It's freaking expensive. I'm sure Derek's copy must have cost more than $184 since it's signed and appeared to have the dust jacket. Either that or someone's price is out of whack. But how can Matt get upset that Derek forgot about his mom? Derek had just found a first edition copy of a hoax book! That's enough to make anyone forget that their best friend's mother had just died!
Sorry. I gotta stop laughing. I'm getting strange looks at work.
So Matt is on the 'no talking' list, but there's always Sun-Yi. Sweet little Sun-Yi who will retain her crush on Derek through long, cold winter nights even after he's slept with Amie again because she retains that slight hope that he'll realize that she is better for him than some pierced, tattooed ex. Or she probably would have if he didn't completely screw-up her birthday. I can tell you from experience that having your good friends screw-up your birthday is ten times worse than them forgetting it in the first place. Because the screw-up always comes right after they have built everything up so you're really on a high before they trip and push you down off over a cliff.
Sad note - Mario Danello was legally drunk when he fell to his death. Poor kid. Friends don't let friends get so drunk that they are liable to die in freak accidents before they sober up. Remember that.
So back to Derek and Sun-Yi. Derek took her out dinner and gave her an IOU birthday gift. This has better be one killer gift - but I know from experience that it won't be. I'd be surprised if he actually does get her anything in the end. We'll see.
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Win a poster of The Host |
During Sun-Yi's screening of The Host, she'll be giving away a movie poster, autographed by the director Bong Joon-Ho. Pretty nifty - wish I could go. Free movies are always great - but free movies with a chance to win a prize are even better. Especially if not that many people go. After all, look at how many people showed up at the Today show taping. Yeah, early in the morning, but still. Not that many people showed up at the Audi event in NYC during AotH. You'd think in a city the size of NYC, you'd find more players going to stuff like this. I do hope a lot of people show up for the movie - show them that their advertising money has not been wasted.
Sun-Yi has also given a shout-out to another one of the sponsors of the game: Helio Drift. Not my type of phone, but it's interesting to see a startup company jumping on an alternative marketing promotion. Kudos to them. Maybe after they saw all the press that the Treos were getting during AotH and decided that ARGs are a good way to show off your phones. Sun-Yi is willing to give out her BuddyBeacon if anyone else has one. I guess that means that she wants you to stalk her - or allow her to stalk you. Very scary thought either way.
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Journals 14, 15, 16 and 17 |
John Wheeler is now beginning to suffer the effects of sleep depreviation from working too much. He doesn't know what day it is. He has problems writing and even walking. And most disturbing for him, he forgets what his wife's face looks like. But in happier news, Dr. T isn't dead yet. Although, based upon some of things that Matt found, I'm betting it's just a matter of time before he winds up dead/missing.
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8/22/66
Stuck at the lab waiting for my two assistants to finish their work so I can close up shop. There's no more work for me until we collect the next set of tissue samples tomorrow morning, so I might as well type my thoughts here.
I finally had a chance to sit down and talk privately with Dr. T this weekend, while Dr. G was gone. He went into town to check into reports of a local village boy who claimed to have been bitten by a "dragon" while playing in the Mekong. Strange thing is, it's supposed to have happened right in an area of the river I filmed not too long ago. The local kids fish and play there all the time, by the railroad bridge. Grace, can you imagine? I may have walked in the very footsteps of a dragon! It seems so silly, I'm surprised Dr. G even went to investigate. Maybe he just wanted the excuse for some R&R. I wonder what the boy thinks he say, though. Siamese crocs are pretty rare, and we're a long way from Komoda. Probably just a dog bite that he's using to get some attention. Boys will be boys, after all.
Speaking of, Jr. got into a fight! A neighborhood kid said that Jr's Daddy worked in Viet Nam thinking up news ways to blow people up. So Jr. socked him in the mouth. Grace said his desire to learn is slipping, too, even in science and penmanship! She said she sat him down and gave him a good talking to, and that everything's a-OK now. Is it really, Grace, or are you just saying that? I know it must be so hard, not having me ther. I pray the Lord gives her strength.
Anyway, Dr. T told me about his "proof" which was nothing more than a fanciful, second hand description of Dr. G's new private facility. Dr. G has set himself up in a seperate building, a private lab that no one is allowed into, except the security guards and the Thai locals hired to do menial tasks. Of course Dr. T asked him point blank what was in there and why we weren't allowed in. Dr. G just said it was none of his business, nor was it his place to question his supervisor.
So Dr. T charmed one of the cleaning girls over a bottle of Sang Thip while Dr. G was off on his "dragon hunt" this weekend. She told him in her broken English that there were "peoples in back" of Dr. G's lab. When pressed, she told Dr. T that they were from the countryside, other villages. Dr. G had told her they were North Viet Namese spies, but she didn't believe him. She said there wer also bodies on tables, covered in sheets -- more spies, she presumed. I'm sure this girl was just talking gibberish, though -- from what some of the GI"s have told me about Sang Thip, the stuff can make you see the devil himself standing right before you!
He tried to get more information out of the girl, but she just kept saying Dr. G "make bad sex-it" and that he was a "non-tah" by which Dr. T said she meant "non-touch" or "untouchable." Dr. T then told her that unlike Dr. G, he himself was very touchable, and that he would show her some "good sexy" for a change. I tried to change the subject, but Dr. T continued with his story, the details of which I am still trying to forget. Let's just say that not all the men who cross the 180th parallel remember their wedding vows as well as I do, Grace. Which is a shame, because Dr. T really does seem to care about his family, or at least his daughter. He carries her picture around everywhere. I really hope Dr. T can get a handle on all this erratic behavior he's been exhibiting lately. It's really starting to affect his work. And mine.
Well, my guys are almost finished, time for me to quit tapping and get some shut eye. With any luck, Dr. T's already asleep.
- Journal Entry #15, 8/30/66
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8/30/66
Exhausted to the point that I am seeing stars. Each day bleeds into the next, and I'm not sure if it's day or night half the time. Had to sit and think for five minutes just to figure out what date to write here. Dr. G and the military are whipping us like half-dead oxen for results. I overheard my assitants yesterday talking about shotting each other in the foot so they could get sent home. I'm not entirely sure they were joking. I actually felt jealous for a second, being excluded from their plot. I guess that's the way youre brain can get twisted when the lack of sleep catches up with you. Just got to keep remembering what this is all for, which gets harder and harder each day.
It doesn't help much being awakened several nights this week by screams echoing through the compound. Dr. T insists they're coming from Dr. G's private lab, but base security says it's just N. Viet Namese sympathizers trying to stir up trouble along the perimeter of the base. Well, it's working.
- Journal Entry #16, 9/3/66
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9/13/66
Too tired to even think let alone write but I'll try [sic] best. Sorry I've not kept up with our corresondence, Grace. Probably just as well I can hardly even speak in complete sentences lately.
Had to report Dr. G yesterday and found myself reeling just trying to stand up straight. He leaned in real close, I think to see if there was liquor on my breath. WOnder if he checked Dr. T this way. I don't know how Dr. G stays as lucid as he does, can't imagine he's getting more sleep than us.
The situation is worse than ever. Dr. T has been stomping around like a bull ever since his "girlfriend" disappered. He was told she was fired for stealing, not an uncommon charge among the native workers on the base. But of course, Dr. T doesn't believe that and thinks it's a personal slap in the face.
I close my eyes and try to think of you, Grace, but you're gone before you're even there. I don't dream anymore. I blink my eye and I'm back at the lab. I was in a panic the other night because I forgot what your face looked like. I bolted out of bed and found your picture, I couldn't fall asleep again. I don't know how much more of this I can take.
woke me up at 3am last night to show me some more "proof" that he "liberated" from Dr. G's personal quarters. Dr. T sneaked in when he knew he was working late. His proof: an Easter card and a couple of bank books. I -->
- Journal Entry #17, 9/7/66
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9/17/66
I think Dr. T has finally lost his mind. I'm one to talk, I reckon. But his personal obsession to make Dr. G look bad is getting ridiculous. Son of a bitch woke me up at 3am last night to show me some more "proof" that he "liberated" from Dr. G's personal quarters. Dr. T sneaked in when he knew he was working late. His proof: an Easter card and a couple of bank books. I laughed because I thought was finally dreaming. First dream in weeks and it's about crazy Dr. T.
Dr. T said he found about a dozen bank books under different names, from different banks around the DC area. He only took a couple so they wouldn't be missed. He also found an Easter card in an envelope that looked like it had been received in Germany, from around the same time it looked like. I told Dr. T I didn't see what any of this proved. He wondered why Dr. G was in Germany in 1949, while at the same time having bank accounts in the US under multiple names. I told him I wondered why he woke me up in his drunken rampblings and went back to sleep. Dr. T didn't mention the incident today. Hasn't spoken to me at all, actually. Good. Maybe I can finally get some work done.
In the August 22nd entry, John talks about how Dr. T carries around the picture of his daughter everywhere. So why is the picture in with John's papers? Obviously Dr. T didn't take it back to the States with him (unless it came with the other Christmas picture - though I don't know why Dr. T would send a picture of his daughter by herself to John). It's a much better story to think that Dr. T died in NKP and that John took charge of all of his personal papers. That would also explains why John has the bank books and the Easter card that Dr. T stole from Dr. G. I really don't think that Dr. T can last too much longer, especially since he's now unhinged over the disappearnce of his 'girlfriend'.
But Dr. T did make some good points. Why does Dr. G have so many bank books and a German Easter card from 1949? Is it possible that he was some sort of Nazi spy that had never been caught? And why did he suddenly withdraw all of his money from the Citizens Bank of Riverdale in September 1949? Were the authorities getting to close to him? Or did he just decide to buy a pony one day?
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Implant Boy Speaks |
Over on the freak front, Amie got an email from Jon's address, although she doesn't believe it's from him. There was a cryptic sort of message saying that she "would get more details soon on where Jon is and what he’s doing" along with a new video that she has put up on Youtube. Watch out if you don't like blood. Maybe Jon has been kidnapped and has coughed up his password so that the kidnappers can send out messages to freak out his girlfriend. Or maybe he's just sick of Amie and wants to screw with her a bit to see what she does. Either way, I'm still not emotional invested in finding him yet. I care much more about Dr. T's fate (and that happened 40 years ago!)
But we were finally able to get a lead on that Painted Soul guy. Based on the fact that Amie wrote his name as 'GemalteSeele' in a previous update, degravity tried it as a Gmail address - and it worked! While you get an autoresponse
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Hello and thanks for writing to me, Gemalteseele, or the Painted Soul
for you non-Deutschlanders out there.
I am away and will only be checking my email periodically from the
time of the Berlin Convention until early February. I will try and get
back to you as soon as I can but please be patient.
Auf Wiedersehen.
from emailing Gemalteseele@gmail.com, you usually get a response back from a live person in short order. Not that it helps us much. It seems that Painted Soul last saw Jon getting on a plane to NYC where Jon 'hoped to find the next part of the tale Fate has written for him.' Translated from New Age-ese, he was gonna meet up with a Doctor who would be more willing to perform body modifications than more credible doctors.
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A Puzzle for Derek |
It's nice to know that whomever stole all of Derek's toys didn't forget to give him a present as well. Derek discovered an envelope under his door, which contained more grids as well as the 'instructions' of 5 per.
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O P E N S | C A P E S | Y T E F G
Q A U R K | E D E D V | U N T E D
F O N A M | Y B D G O | H I S I H
V D S W E | B T Y U H | R E T T O
T T F C D | E W E D C | A X O S D
T R R F L | V I O L I | T S R E D
A I I L V | R W S V O | I L A R T
S O C A L | T M A D E | O R S H W
B E E I L | D W E V B | W A H A Y
Y E S S E | S X O R P | B T A Q P
K O L M N | S X W I F | F B I R T
M E Y O U | V G B Y Y | C O V E T
I M P O R | T A N C E | O B J E C
U V C D E | H U N T E | H U J I T
R F R E S | H S W G I | C U N H E
Current thinking is that you can arrange the grids so that they spell out words that will lead to a solution (you can see 'importance' in the 13th row for example). I do have to say though, that all of these grids are giving me flashback so the Evil Cube from AotH. Wonder if it's the same guy...
Update: The mysterious puzzle bandit has struck again, giving Derek a new set of grids with the same instructions.
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I S G V A | L R E M R | L P C Y E
D E A R H | F V I U B | W U C C F
N D C X S | W G G R C | O A G H D
I V S X E | R U A L K | E I B G T
F D G I K | V B D R T | G O R S A
A R E U I | V G Y W D | O F G N I
S B J K Q | S K O I L | S Q U X F
R T O I V | B N E W D | J O P W S
B I R G X | A T Y D F | M I O O K
A I N I N | V I N G S | I Z S E R
T M B K K | G I N I A | F D Q I O
S S H L B | E H T N A | D X U I M
O M B U W | R O I L E | P O P E E
L Y R E T | G A N D Y | Q W I R T
Y D X Z L | N C J U T | R O T Y H
Still don't know what all this means. Don't even know if each of these are stand-alone puzzles or if we have to combine the two of them together.
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Video Blogs from Sun-Yi |
Sun-Yi has uploaded a couple of more videos to her Myspace blog.
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
New Videos
I've uploaded a couple of new videos for you to check out. The first one is a video blog entry about my latest school film project and my two big upcoming events - the free screening of The Host on Monday, Feb. 12th and my appearance on the Fangoria Radio Show this Friday night, Feb. 9th. The other video is a brief compilation of some of the footage I have been filming for my school project.
I hope you enjoy them.
Transcripts
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Hi, Sun-Yi here. So, lately I've been working on a new project. I've been doing a lot of filming around town. I thought I'd post a few clips for you to look at. By the way, check out that guy that shows up in a bunch of my shots. It's a pretty bizarre coincidence that he and I happen to be going to the same places. I remember one time we drove all the way from Bethesda to our home in Annendale, and there was that same car again behind us. Even when we turned onto our street. Mom was about to call the cops or something until right at the end, the guy in the car pulled into our neighbor's driveway, and then he got out. And there was this big commotion because apparently they were having a party for him or something. I don't know. But, what I'm trying to say is, there are so many odd coincidences in this world and this happens to be one of them.
Oh, and by the way, I'm going to be on Fangoria Radio this Friday to talk about the upcoming screening, my Twitch column, and some various filmy stuff. I'll post more details about when and where to listen to it soon. Oh, and don't you hate it when you totally misread a situation and think that there is more to it than there actually is? Yeah, me too. I'm a big dummy sometimes. Sometimes, a surf is a surf and a turf is a turf. [?]
Hi, my name is Sun-Yi Park and this is my walking tour of NYC.
We're now entering the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. Follow me.
And we are now entering Central Park Zoo. Turtles! Follow me.
Nothing too exciting, although there is that guy in the green jacket that keeps popping up in her video. Coincidence? Is it someone we're looking for? Or is it someone who is stalking her?
And the day before update Friday, she gives us another audio blog about how she is over the fight between Matt and Derek and a brief news clip of the alien fish sighting in South Korea. See - the fish is real! I saw it on the internet news. Transcripts §
Hi everyone. I decided to quit feeling sorry for myself and focus on the postive stuff. So here I am, a new shiny, happy Sun-Yi, wishing a happy Thursday to you. So, what's new in your world? Has everyone seen the sighting video stuff on Monster Hunter Club? That's some seriously weird footage. At first I was sure it was a convincing fake, except that, I found this clip from a Korean newscast that has the creature in it and looks almost exactly like the one on cryptidtruth's videos. Surely, that's not just coincidental. I'll upload link the video to my blog, so keep a lookout for it. Derek should be happy that his site is getting even more international exposure.
Speaking of which, yes, he and I did go out to dinner the other night and yes, it was just a friendly thing. Also, I haven't really seen or talked to Matt much lately after the Today show and book store incidents. Matt hasn't been posting to Monster Hunter Club either. Surely he can't still be upset. I'm guessing that he's been focusing on his research on his website, RainbowOfDeath.com.
Don't forget to listen to me on Fangoria radio on Friday, between 12 and 1.
This is Sun-Yi Park signing off. Bye.
Hello, I'm Kim Zuhn-ah for KIN reporting from Ochon Village in Cholobokto Province along the road from Chun-chu to Namwon in Inchingon [in other words - I have no idea what she's saying right here]
For the past few weeks, this small village has been filled with outsiders and newcomers all hoping to catch a glimpse of strange fish residents say live in the river nearby. Many locals and vistors claim to have actually seen these large and strangely behaving creatures, but so far, no one is really sure exactly what they are. One village man, who perfers to remain anonymous, even managed to record this very brief video of one of the fish as it swam in the nearby river. He did not want to appear on camera, but says he thought the fish would swim away when he came close. But, it didn't appear to be scared of him at all. Is it a new species? Or a genetic experiment? Or a monster? Until someone manages to catch one, no on knows for sure.
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Recap #3 |
Sites we've visited: (since the last recap) none
Sites we haven't visited: none
Things that are unsolved:
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