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thelsdj
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You can lookup lat/long here: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/latlong.adp

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thelsdj
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Joined: 13 Apr 2006
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I've sent 2 emails to Sue:

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Hi,

I may not have known Charles directly but I am an associate of the 'faceless studio' you mentioned. I'm helping search for Charles.

I found your blog because some clues led me to this message to you from Charles:

"She was right, she was right all along. Sue Terrini, if you ever see this, you were right. I should never have brought John into this. Never. He's dragging dark things up from the past.

I'm sorry, Sue. I'm so sorry. You're going to have to keep these things safe from him while I run away. I'm too old, I can't stand and fight. It will have to be you."

I found this message here: http://www.geocities.com/cryptochuck38/apology.html
Do you know what he meant by 'You're going to have to keep these things safe from him while I run away'? What things?

I know you may not have reason to trust me, anything I can do to prove to you that I have Charles best interests at heart I will do what I can.

Thanks,

Adam Wendt

PS: The woman who was looking up things in the latin dictionary, "Dis Manibus" means: "To the shades of the departed", there is a peom with that title available here: http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/2-1874.texms.rad.html Smile


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Sue,

One thing I forgot to mention in my last message, The man you know as Shyler Mond may be related to Charles dissapearance. I'm telling you this because I want you to be careful around him.

In our search for Charles we came across a rogue computer system (seemingly hostile to us of the faceless studio) that was prompting for questions about the writing in classic pieces of fiction, first "The Jungle", then "Heart of Darkness" and then "Frankenstein". I know he seems nice, but there is no chance this is just a coincidence so please watch out, I will let you know if I find out anything else about him.

~ Adam


PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2006 2:50 am
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ladyindigo
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Just sent one off too:

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Ms. Terrini,
I'm a new agent of a group that your friend Charles Lehner belongs to, and we've recieved a communication from him that brings up your name. We decoded something he wrote which led to this message:

"She was right, she was right all along. Sue Terrini, if you ever see this, you were right. I should never have brought John into this. Never. He's dragging dark things up from the past.

I'm sorry, Sue. I'm so sorry. You're going to have to keep these things safe from him while I run away. I'm too old, I can't stand and fight. It will have to be you."
I've perused your blog but I'm still having trouble piecing together exactly what happened to the three of you. Either way, you and Charles seem to be in some kind of danger. I'd love to help a fellow agent, if he needs me, so I'd appreciate any information on the situation that you'd feel comfortable telling me. And if there's any way I can help you, please let me know.

- Agent Indigo


PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2006 3:13 am
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carlwebb
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Well, Sue's getting a lot of email tonight! Here's mine:

"Hi!

I understand you're a friend of Charles Lehner. I'm helping some friends of his at Studio Cypher who are looking for him, and it looks from your blog like you're trying to find them."

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carlwebb
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thelsdj: Could you please go into more detail about how you found the apology page? I know what a Vigenere cipher is, but what was the plaintext and what was the key?

Thanks!

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thelsdj
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On the main cryptochuck page the final section had the letters m o r e a u italicized, and the clue 'my favorite book' was on the vampires page, then we had the clue, vampires + ???? = coelacanth, the ciphertext of 'twstgryqrhmwdxogsli ' was on the coelacanth page, so combining his favorite book 'the island of doctor moreau' with the ciphertext gave 'apologydothtml'

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Svengoolie
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Joined: 19 Apr 2005
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Oh, man. No one ever believes that I'm cursed, but it's true. God loves playing jokes on me. I'm always checking the sites for new stuff, clues, story developments... anything. And it's been dead for the past week. But the one day that I'm gone at a concert all day, all this action happens.

Even worse, I haven't gotten the postcard. FEEL my dilemma.

PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2006 11:42 am
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LatentMoths
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Another page found thanks to Wojcik over at the SC board.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The very first line of the cryptochuck page gives us yana which takes us here.


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4/15/04

Sometimes I wonder if I should be thankful for jet engines or not. On the one hand,
they've made it easy to drape another veil over humanity's eyes. Granted it was never hard.
No one looks up. You know what's up there! Nothing! Just blue or gray or white. Maybe
there's a bird up there, so what? Maybe there's a plane up there. So what?

And none of them expect to see Superman. Just birds, planes, or sky. So no one looks up,
or if they do, they think all they can see is birds or planes. I still have fond memories
of the summer I spent teaching Thunderbirds to sound like jet engines. That did wonders for
the Cyphers' underground railroad.

And yet, still, I have my doubts as to how much good this will do us in the end. So many
people could have their eyes opened to the wonders of the world if they would just look into the
sky and see what was really there.


I don't see any hidden text on this one.
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Nova Loop
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Just sent an email to cryptochuck38SPLATyahoo.com and add him to my messenger contacts. Will see what happens.

Here was the email:

Subject: Where you are

I am working with a group that is trying to secure your safety. We are following your trail.
TJ
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PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2006 1:56 pm
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Svengoolie
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Still nothing today. Screw this game.

PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2006 4:12 pm
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thelsdj
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Can't wait to see if Svengoolie will eat his words if it shows up in the mail tomorrow

PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2006 4:55 pm
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Silverkun
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thelsdj wrote:
Can't wait to see if Svengoolie will eat his words if it shows up in the mail tomorrow


I'm willing to start laying down odds. I'll even cover the bets...Wink

-R
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AliasNode00
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It seems like only yesterday that thelsdj said:
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Ok so I'm working on the longitude/latitude locations, the location that the "great rains" has left uninhabitable is near Barataria, Loisiana so I assume the "great rains" were the hurricaines.

the border crossing that has "dissapeared from the map" is right next to DA DA DUMMMMMM Hachita, NM!


Google Earth and Google Maps will both accept lattitude and longitude as inputs, so they're pretty handy for this kind of stuff. I'm attaching a Google Earth image showing all 9 of the locations plotted on a satellite image.

Summarizing:
30° 46' N 105° 9' W is along the US-Mexico Border, maybe 25 miles SW of Van Horn Texas.
39° 20' N 106° 28' W is in the Ski country of Central Colorado, between Aspen and Vail
52° 58' N 106° 54' W is on the shore of Paddling lake in Saskatchewan, Canada. Maybe 60 miles north of Saskatoon

26° 23' N 99° 4' W is just south of the US-Mexico border, near Roma TX
29° 43' N 90° 7' W is in or along the river south Barataria, Louisiana, just north of New Orleans
30° 21' N 84° 34' W is maybe 10 miles west of Tallahasee Florida.

31° 47' N 108° 12' W Near the US-Mexico border near Old Hachita NM
31° 46' N 112° 31' W Just south of the US-Mexico border, maybe 80 miles W-SW of Tuscon Arizona
35° 27' N 114° 39' W is on the border between Nevada and Arizona, in or on Lake Mead
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tallerbird
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Here's a kml file with all the place marks if anyone wants it.
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dvw
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Svengoolie wrote:
Still nothing today. Screw this game.


I haven't got anything either, but then again I marked "do not want to receive physical objects"
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