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[grazman]

the thing to keep in mind when you say, "oh the smudges are just to add realism"
how do you erase pen or marker, are you going to whip out the whiteout during your drunken stuper and fix your mistake. Maybe there is something she wrote originally that someone took out to cover something up possibly, maybe she knew exactly where rob was going, maybe a far away location that ends with 'ide' maybe something to do with the ocean or something...

The other thing I thought, that goes against my theory is that it might be that some water or beer or something got on the photo because I know when writing gets wet it smudges and bleeds onto the paper around it.

But I just think the whole back of the picture things are suspiciously put together, with the large white spaces and then the shaded and smudged areas. If they were going for authenticity, they did a horrible job because it stands out like a sore thumb. I have seen plenty of movie and internet 'fake' documents look more authentic than that picture. (E.g. the Cheese playlist document .)

[Nitsujest]

[grazman]

[Ecks51]

[Spandyrules]

[n8ro]

I think we might be on to something.

But if it was just a inconsequential smudge, why wouldnt the whole word "wide" be smudged?

that doesnt quite make sense.

[n8ro]

the other writing has an inconsistency as well:

"kes" of the word takes, & the word "care" appear different from the rest of the message.

punching those letters (as they appear) in a anagram generator gives 20 possibilities. though the one that stood out to me is: car seek or seek car

yeah im a n00b, so g'head and tell me to shut up (seems to be what many waste time doing on this board). not that i will listen ...

[grazman]

[n8ro]

disclaimer: I totally know im reaching here, but ...

I went with "ad sneak crew" in Google, which gave me a g-billion hits, the first of which was this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident_at_Loch_Ness

odd that.
*scratching chin thoughtfully*

[BiC]

[i_c_weiner]

The "seek car" and "ace" ones stand out for the fact that there's the "ACE" grafitti and the SUV in the trailer. It would be odd if that one site that got it's name from the license plate of the SUV was actually real and we wrote it off as fake. I still think it's fake, but it would be interesting none the less.

I think the smudges are cleverly placed, yes, and that the messages don't seem natural. Yet, I don't think there's going to be a secret message coming from these smudges. I think the messages were mainly used as a portkey to the Myspace pages.

[Bluzu]

[MonTag]

interestlingly enough if you take all the smudged letetrs and throw them into an anagram solver you get,

New Car Ads

S C A R E A N D W are the only smudged letters

also you can get Was Scared.

[Clover]

Iono if it'll help, but I'm left handed, and when I write with a pen I have a tendency to smudge some of the letters. It's just 'cause of the way I position my hand when I write. OMG someone in the movie's left handed, and in the olden days they burned lefties at the stake because your left hand is your evil hand... It's all coming together... A sorcerer summons some kinda ooky doomness. Yup. That's it.

(Sorry. I've been on a Dresden Files binge. XB)

[eliwein]

OT-ish: there is such a thing as erasable pens. i used to use them all the time.