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[Possible Trailhead?] E.S.S/The Order?
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All right, it's taken me an eternity it seems (to me anyway) to get this done, but here are both letters scanned.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:05 pm
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j-dog
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Thanks for the scans paperbound Very Happy
Nothing immediately sticking out though.
peace and love guys.

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Ditto on the THX, paperbound. Very Happy you're back and A-OK. If we ever get web presence I'd really like to dive in to this one.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:45 am
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hey.... how about some scans of the pics sent.

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Lovely Luke
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I am very much in.

Would it be silly of me to send a letter all the way to Texas from over here in Ireland? ;D

Any chance we could see those photos or the symbol of the order?
Thanks for posting all of the stuff!

PostPosted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 12:31 pm
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these are the images with comments from original letter


sightings in the Yucatan and south pacific which I will later explain.


first photograph taken of a certain 'species' of these beings, I believe it took place during the 1920s in Cyprus Texas


I am not entirely sure; my guess is as good as yours.


what appears to be the dissection of a dead being

Edit: got the pics and comments mixed up Sad

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Lovely Luke
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Well the picture he isn't sure about is definitely a transverse section from an MRI scan of the head. I have no Idea what the highlighted section could be. It's hard to get a clean scan to compare it with because of the very nature of an MRI. It looks to be taken from behind, just above the neck, although It could be a frontal views either. Hard to tell.

I know that wasn't helpful, but yeah, just wanted to get that out of the way.

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To me, the highlighted part looks like something lodged in the brain, but as I said before I have NO experience with that kind of stuff Laughing . It also looks like it could be something "extra" in the brain, like an organ or growth, and they're pointing it out with the red outline.

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scotgaz
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the shape in the brain scan pic looks very similar to the shape in the second pic, alien parasite anyone?

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scotgaz wrote:
these are the images with comments from original letter
<snip>

first photograph taken of a certain 'species' of these beings, I believe it took place during the 1920s in Cyprus Texas
<snip>


Kinda looks like the Presence (from Year Zero) reaching up instead of down... Vaguely, so I doubt that's it, but I do see the resemblance to some degree.
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Can't resolve the photo text any clearer and am super intrigued to know what it says...

Have got so far: (something) (something) at Cyprus T X.
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I think it says "Sighting at Cyprus TX". Been googling on it from the start but couldn't find anything that odd. A UFO sighting but in the sky, nothing with forests...
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:54 am
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Got a new letter today - posted to the journal and I'll try to find some time to scan it.

I tried scanning the earlier pictures, but they didn't turn out any better than my cellphone snapshots (apparently my office scanner is just as lame).

Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to straighten out the certificate that came with this letter to get some good pictures of it. It was wrapped up in paper with "The Point of No Return" written in pencil on the package. Other than Erwin's mention of the members of the Order being listed on the front, it's the art on the back that I can't quite get over.

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cant you just take at least some pics now? we've been waiting for this and waiting another night is unthinkable. at least describe it to us.

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Trust me, I've been waiting too - but considering that my cellphone and laptop don't like to agree with one another and I can't get even a slightly decent pic of any one part of the certificate due to the folding (because seriously, I'm dying to show you guys the back of this thing!), I have to get it straightened out first.

The front side of the certificate says:
Quote:

Quod, bonum, faustum, felixque, sit.

Sub Auspiciis

Civitatis Texadis
In Republica Americana,

(Texas State Seal)

Septentrionali
Foederata,

Collegii Medici Dallas

Nos, Decanus Ceterique Facultatis Professores, Virum Nobilissimum
atque Doctissimum.

Lee M. Polk

Propter, (A?)rtis Medicae Scientiam Penitus Comprobatum

Medicinae Doctorem.

Creamus, Ediemque, Hop ipso Diplomate Omnia Jura, Privilegia,
Honores et Insignia Quae Hic aut Uspiam Gentium Medendi
Peritis dare solent tribuimus Sub Collegii Sigillo.

Dallas, Kal. Apr 1(?) Anno Domini MCMIV


There appear to be fifteen signatures, some of which are relatively clear.
W.M. Lively
S. Burton
Jesse E. Mitchell
John G. Clay
B. Duke Choate
Hugh L. McNew
C.O. Bryan
Henry A Moseley
C.F. Maxwell
H.L. Wright

The back is a bit harder to explain - images cover the entire back of the certificate and there's only one thing written that can be translated by type -
Quote:
HUMAN ILDEN VESSELS


But there is a pretty good-sized sketch of a human skull (minus the lower jaw portion) with what appear to be tentacles coming out under the teeth.

I can't even begin to describe these drawings and properly do them justice.

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