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[johnny5]

OK, changing tactics.
There are 42 characters in the "morse", divided by 3 yields 14 "elements".
These may represent Trinary (000=0...222=26) or simple substitution.

[EDIT]: Ok, I seem to have messed up the conversion somewhere. Look below

[madam o'brien]

I tried this approach and didn't get anything useful.
Using all 6 possible encodings of signs to trinary digits I got

13 19 7 2 6 11 25 0 21 14 25 6 18 7
M S G B F K Y U N Y F R G
13 7 19 24 20 15 1 26 5 12 1 20 10 11
M G S X T O A Z E L A T J K
0 21 15 14 16 5 24 13 19 2 24 16 6 7
U O N P E X M S B X P F G
0 15 21 25 23 7 12 26 11 1 12 23 3 5
O U Y W G L Z K A L W C E
26 11 5 1 3 19 14 0 15 25 14 3 23 21
Z K E A C S N O Y N C W U
26 5 11 12 10 21 2 13 7 24 2 10 20 19
Z E K L J U B M G X B J T S

None of which make any sense to me.

Edit 2

I tried all possible ROT encodings of these messages and also got nothing.

BTW there are exactly 14 of each character in the first encoded line - that doesn't seem like a co-incidence.

[CrispyG4]

Hmmm, this could be a long shot, but going by the answers fitting in the blanks, and that Erdlemann is really Erdelmann, and a google hit, Erdelmann's speciality is "singing" which fits in the 4th blank down, giving us the letters N and G as letters in the pass.

[CrispyG4]

Oh, and as for Gough...interesting site..

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Jungle/8700/whitelady.htm

[Garbanzo]

It may be worth noting that the apostrophes are not standard. On my Mac, in TextEdit they show up as i with an accent (like this, í if you can see that on a windows machine)

Opening the file in Safari and changing the text encoding comes up with some interesting variations in Japanese, Chinese and Cyrillic. I don't know if those variations are important, but the fact that they aren't normal apostrophes seems like it might be significant.

[Meatball]

Enzo, Mather, etc.

[madam o'brien]

I noticed that the title of the file has 14 characters, excluding the .
So I 'added' this text to the results I got from the trinary encoding system above.
This doesn't seem to lead anywhere but I'll post it to save other a goose chase.
The raw info is here, it's more readable in it's native .doc format, attached.

The decoding of the first coded line of the thingstoask.txt file, using 1st encoding of _ . and spaces into trinary.
Then mapping the output (0-26) using 0 = space, 1=A, 2=B etc
M S G B F K Y U N Y F R G
T H I N G S T O A S K T X T
(First line + second line) mode 26
G A P P M D S O V G J P A
The decoding of the first coded line of the thingstoask.txt file, using 2nd encoding of _ . and spaces into trinary.
M G S X T O A Z E L A T J K
T H I N G S T O A S K T X T
G O B L A H U O F E L N H E
The decoding of the first coded line of the thingstoask.txt file, using 3rd encoding of _ . and spaces into trinary.
U O N P E X M S B X P F G
T H I N G S T O A S K T X T
T C X B W X R B T U I J D A
The decoding of the first coded line of the thingstoask.txt file, using 4th encoding of _ . and spaces into trinary.
O U Y W G L Z K A L W C E
T H I N G S T O A S K T X T
T W D M D F O L T W Q A Y
The decoding of the first coded line of the thingstoask.txt file, using 5th encoding of _ . and spaces into trinary
Z K E A C S N O Y N C W U
T H I N G S T O A S K T X T
T S N O J L H O P R Y W U O
The decoding of the first coded line of the thingstoask.txt file, using 6th encoding of _ . and spaces into trinary.
Z E K L J U B M G X B J T S
T H I N G S T O A S K T X T
T M T Q N V B H Q M D R M

[clalonde]

Trout?

[landlord]

"morse code section"

[madam o'brien]

Decoding the - .

[landlord]

great work madam

is it likely that the relevent answers to the questions asked i.e. erdlemann's specialty would then correspond with the blanks below
in this order:

Bigelow's gallery = _ _ ,
Enzo's move date =_ _,
Erdlemann's specialty = _ _ ,
Gough's last sighting = __ ,
Hem's age =__,
Mather's location = _ _ ,
Novotny current home =_ _ ,
Pang's occupation = _ _ ,
Renford technique = _ _ ,

I still dont believe that the names are of any real meaning but now we may try BEEGHMNPR

SEE ABOVE POST

[clalonde]

right track

[hamatoyoshi]

[nhansard]

based on the information from the photos the answers are:

[nhansard]

Images from ppics2.zip (virgil's solve). used for answers to thingstoask.