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[Side-Story] Just Another Fool
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TheNightmareComplex
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Yougottaloseallhope wrote:
New post on the blog.

HANDS ARE THE KEY?"

"Hands are the key"....


PostPosted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:27 am
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TheNightmareComplex
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Oh, dear me, I stopped reading your post after the letters in bold and went right into detective mode. My bad, lol. Anyways, am I the only one that finds it slightly suspect that this updated today? As well as MH? Both official update days are November 2nd?

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Marveler wrote:
In this pic:
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/DavFlamerock/Picture34.jpg

Is there something in red on the inside of the spine? I can't tell if there's something actually there or if its a camera artifact thing.

Good eye! It would seem I missed the red HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA laughter written on the inside of the binding.

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kevrock
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Sirdangolot5 wrote:
Clock hands.

11:11 it is.

But what, then, does 11:11 mean?

Armistice Day?


Yea, November 11th is in a week. It's also Saint Martin's Day.

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dopeoplethink
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Speculation on Blog/notebook puzzle.

Quick recap for myself and those that have to catch up:
Yougottaloseallhope wrote:
New post on the blog.

"you HAve come upon a door.

stop trying the haNDle if it'S not working.

if A dooR is locked, surEly you must first find THE KEY?"


"Hands are the key"....

Sirdangolot5 wrote:
Clock hands.

11:11 it is.

But what, then, does 11:11 mean?

Armistice Day?


Yea, November 11th is in a week. It's also Saint Martin's Day.[/quote]

So we have a date. November 11th, 9 days from now. But, what is going to happen on that date? I can only think of the missing page(s?) that have been torn from the book. Many people within the forum that have referenced the mythical Norse creature named Yggdrasill, which is explained here :
Reila wrote:
OneEyedGod wrote:
Reila wrote:
TheNightmareComplex wrote:
EDIT: Oi, there isn't an I after all. It is, indeed, a sideways H.

But some people, maybe especially writing like that, writes I like a sideways H (or like you would write 1 in roman numeral).
The reason why it looks more like an H, could be because it follows a shape.

But it certainly does say Yggdrasil.


Thatīs exactly what i thought when i watched the video.

But i canīt think of any connection between SM and Yggdrasil or any other aspect of norse mythology...

Well, it is a tree. And as much as I've gathered, there seems to be something about SM and trees..
Looking up Yggdrasil on Wikipedia:
Quote:
The generally accepted etymology of the name is that Yggdrasill means "Odin's horse," which means "tree," and that the reason behind the name "Odin's horse" lies in the notion of gallows as "the horse of the hanged," (...)

thus making the tree somekind of a gallow (probably unrelated, but in Matt's drawing there are people in the tree :B)
Also:
Quote:
A third interpretation by F. Detter is that the name Yggdrasill refers to the word Yggr ("terror"), yet not in reference to the Odinic name, and so Yggdrasill would then mean "tree of terror, gallows."


But yeah, I have no clue really..


Later it was found out by msheadwound on page 17 give a clue to the city of Schenectady, NY. Using the Phone number puzzle that Dav Flamerock had sloved. Using the numbers on the corners of the pages in the notebook(mentioned by himself in the unveiling of Matt's notebook.)

Explained here:

DavFlamerock wrote:
I really like the telephone number idea. It ALMOST perfectly fits, because if you flip through it and pay attention only to the corner, you get the following:
CONTACT

(Skipped alot of problem solving to cut post. Sorry Dav.)

1-518-631-5813

"Hey this is Joshua. Sorry I missed your call, but leave a message and I'll call you back as soon as I can. Thanks. Take care."

I left a message telling him how I found his number.


So, I assume that on November we are going to be contacted by Logan or Josh and probably handed a clue or give a specific location the look for something (Me just hoping that my first ARG involves me getting something from a dead drop *dreams* or even sees slender man.) So, take what you want from this. It is my best guess at what might happen.

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msheadwound
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Things 215 does not seem to be: A library in Schenectady, a post office in Schenectady, or anything related to veterans or the army in Schenectady. Figured I'd run a check just to see.

Wondering if the hands are the key in the sense that the arrangement of the clock hands helps solve some clue in the notebook, but didn't get much overlaying the hands on the YOUR MOVE page.

Still, I feel like it's not exactly right interpreting HANDS ARE THE KEY and the message in which it was contained as "sit around and wait for Veterans Day."

edit And 11:11 aren't the only hands we've been given.
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YUtsubara
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This may be slightly off topic but I recalled seeing one of the journal pages in Jafool having Yggdrasil written on it. Yggdrasil had its three roots in different bodies of water and drew its power from them. The water also had powers of knowledge but in order to get it you had to sacrifice something. Odin had to give up an eye for example. Maybe if the slender man is connected to that myth then he could very well get power from water and maybe that's why he has no features.

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As you say, Odin gave up his eye for the knowledge from the Well made up by those three bodies of water. But Slenderman doesn't seem none-too intelligent, rofl.


Unless, and I hate saying this, the third set of handwriting found in the notebook is his? Or, perhaps him via Logan? [Example: Matt's handwriting, Logan's handwriting, Slenderman using Logan's body's handwriting]. Whatever.

Since I seem to be pretty good at betting imaginary money against the board and winning, I'll wager $200 infinity-internet dollars that Dav should be receiving a special package on the 9th, with the missing pages intact.

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I wouldn't like to think it's the slender man controlling Logan's body. It kind of takes the mystique away from him. Maybe he's like a "death god" sort of thing. He appears when he knows your going to die soon or because he's meant to kill you. Pure speculation on my part. feel free to ignore my rambling.

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For what its worth. There's also the watch hands in Logans very first post. Hands pointing to 2:36:30.

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Samiam4200
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Has anyone mentioned the paranormal significance of 11:11 being like a portal or sacred number of sorts?

Being that Logan is talking about a key to opening a door It sounds somewhat important.

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kevrock
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Samiam4200 wrote:
Has anyone mentioned the paranormal significance of 11:11 being like a portal or sacred number of sorts?


I looked it up and there's actually a Wiki article about this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11:11_%28numerology%29

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msheadwound wrote:
Things 215 does not seem to be: A library in Schenectady, a post office in Schenectady, or anything related to veterans or the army in Schenectady. Figured I'd run a check just to see.

Wondering if the hands are the key in the sense that the arrangement of the clock hands helps solve some clue in the notebook, but didn't get much overlaying the hands on the YOUR MOVE page.

Still, I feel like it's not exactly right interpreting HANDS ARE THE KEY and the message in which it was contained as "sit around and wait for Veterans Day."

edit And 11:11 aren't the only hands we've been given.


Long time lurker, first time poster. Forgive me for posting as a guest.

So, the watch in the first post (the front of the watch in the JAFOOL header banner) is pointing to 2:36:30. The clock drawn in the journal, as we have determined, is pointing to 11:11.

If we take these numbers at face value, and combine them with the corner of the page writing that says "CONTACT" and Joshua's phone number, my guess would be that someone - I vote for Dav - should call Joshua on his cell phone at roughly 2:36 (pm for the sake of not waking the poor guy up) on 11/11/2009. Since nobody answered when you guys all called him when we discovered the number, and (as far as I can tell from the posts in this thread) your voicemail messages were never responded to, maybe he's signaling that he's willing to answer the phone at that time on that date.

I could be way off with this but it seems like all we have to go on right now.

The Yggdrasil information is interesting, but we may be going way off base at this point with that. I love mythology as much as the next guy, but if I were a betting man, I'd say this is a request for contact to be made.

Also, did anyone notice that in response to one of Logan's random posts, Joshua starts his post with something to the effect of

"Logan - if you see this, call me. You know my number."

This could have been hinting to the number in the book, since if Logan knows his number it's not a ridiculous assumption that Logan put it in the book for his own reference, or for whomever found the journal after he no longer had it to contact his close friend.

Consider the following: he disappears, his apartment is trashed - except for the book and the surrounding desk top, and inspection of the journal reveals that it has been modified since Matthew Selby has had it. We can only assume that Joshua's number was added by Logan after the fact, and not by Matthew (since we have no reason to believe the two are connected.) Perhaps Logan anticipated leaving, or disappearing for whatever reason, and in an attempt to save himself (or warn his friend), he left Joshua's number written in the book, somewhat cryptically so that someone casually perusing the book (such as a police officer reviewing the disappearance) wouldn't find it, but anyone seriously examining it would. Either he intended for us to contact Joshua, as a warning or to get answers that Joshua would be afraid to post online, or he has Joshua's cell phone and was hoping that one of us, or Joshua himself, would see the number and call it to contact him while he is in hiding.

I know that is far fetched, but since the discovery of the number, has anyone bothered to ask Joshua if he has his cell phone? Or perhaps its an older phone of his, that he has since replaced - thus presenting the need for Logan to leave the number for him, instead of a simple note saying "call me."

I apologize in advance for the long post, but the recent developments have had my brain going a hundred miles per hour, and some of this may end up being relevant.

TL,DR; version:

1) Someone should try calling Joshua on 11/11/2009 at 2:36 (am or pm, depending on how much of a jerk you feel like being Very Happy )
2) Perhaps Logan left Joshua's number as an indicator that he knows more than he's willing to state online and we should contact him to find out what he knows
3) Logan may have left the number as a means for us to contact him, since he may have stolen Joshua's cell phone or may have an older phone that Joshua used to own
4) Someone may want to contact Joshua to ask if he still has his cell phone, to clear up #3 and #4 above

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zygotesix wrote:
1) Someone should try calling Joshua on 11/11/2009 at 2:36 (am or pm, depending on how much of a jerk you feel like being Very Happy )

You left out something important: what time zone?

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DavFlamerock wrote:
zygotesix wrote:
1) Someone should try calling Joshua on 11/11/2009 at 2:36 (am or pm, depending on how much of a jerk you feel like being Very Happy )

You left out something important: what time zone?


It would be US East Coast Time.

I live in the same area code as the cell phone.

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