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Bristel Goodman: Game On?
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ModalRealism
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 		Bristel Goodman: Game On?
I have noticed activity at the Facebook page for the Bristel Goodman Documentary. A trailhead?
[url](http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bristel-Goodman-Documentary-Film/161811360515250?v=wall)[/url]
Apparently there are newly discovered clues that lead to a website about "Smiley Face" murders. These are stills of the clues:




Is this old news?

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 1:57 pm
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 		Looks like it has been around a while
Taking the letters from the 3 pictures gives you:
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pdaizuzsykefqdk which is a Caesar cipher conversion to drowningmystery

I googled that domain and found references over the last couple years. Anyone know the current status?

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 2:46 pm
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 		No end in sight?
As of yesterday there is another victim

http://hosted2.ap.org/RIPRJ/94df6789960948c2869c5b6429e1fe7d/Article_2012-05-22-Missing%20Harvard%20Student/id-b1185c6cec5448d2aed2d8e7273b9218

Looks like another Smiley Face murder to me.
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PostPosted: Thu May 24, 2012 10:16 am
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The "new" video is actually the original video with new clues added
and the so-called "original" is just a shortened version of the real original
Whoever sent these videos is just trying to jack a dead ARG.

PostPosted: Sat May 26, 2012 11:04 am
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I contacted Milena to ask for the "new" and "original" copies of #2 BG videos.

Quote:
Milena,

It has been suggested that the "new" video #2 is really just a version of the actual original
video #2 with clues added. And that the new "original" video is really just a shortened version of
the actual original without the added clues. In other words maybe the whole thing is a hoax, or worse,
a new Game-Jack. Can I have those videos so that I can examine them?

Bill
(ModalRealism)



Her reply:
Quote:
From:
Milena Gerbicova <optika88>
Date:
May 31, 2012 1:08:23 PM EDT
To:
William Harrison <modal>
Subject:
Re: The disputed videos

Bill,

I sincerely hope that this is not another "game jack" but after so long what else can it be?
Just as I gave up on the whole documentary project this happens.

I uploaded those videos to my FTP. I have also added the strange postcard that I received. Good luck!

Milena



FTP instructions (please do not share):


As per her request I have deleted the FTP info.
I have the videos and postcard. If anyone wants to help examine them send me a PM.
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PostPosted: Thu May 31, 2012 4:17 pm
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 		I want to believe…
Modal, thanks for the link to the files. The videos are exactly what I expected, though there's no way to be sure which is the original. Both creation dates are for the time and day I downloaded them. Is there a way to find the original creation dates for a file that's been emailed?

The postcard is interesting. It was sent from Germany to Milena by someone named "TJ Booth". The picture on the front is the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco. There was a Golden Gate picture with the word RHINO over it that was part of the game in 2007. The text on the back of the card says that the bridge is the "entrance to the San Francisco Bay from the Atlantic Ocean". Milena said it didn't seem like "a commercially printed postcard".

In the message on the card "TJ Booth" wrote "Well, I hope your grandmother is better now." Milena said her grandmother "passed away years ago". I suspect there's more to this card.

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I agree. I googled "TJ Booth, Ridley" and the top hit is to a page called "Footprint's At The Rivers Edge". Tommy (TJ?) Booth was found dead in the Ridley river, outside of Philadelphia, in 2008 like a Smiley Face murder. There's a smiley face on the postcard so it seems pretty clear Smiley is in game.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 8:25 pm
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 		Yes, but don't force the trust
Weren't TJ the initials for the guy who communicated with Brrittany in the original ARG, pretending to be RHINO? On the post card he writes, "I am fin." Is this meant to imply Tommy Booth was the "game-jacker"? The card has a 2010 copyright so obviously it wasn't sent by the TJ in the google search. I fear I'm being sucked-in again.

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 		Too late for that
I wasn't around for BG 1.0. I hope 2.0 (I'm being optimistic) will be better. You are right, TJ was the original game-jack. R.I.P.
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 		BG 1.0 was before my time as well, but I have gone through most of the original postings.
There's a lot of frustrated postings, but the story is there if you have the time. Apparently all of the original videos are at Milena's FB page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bristel-Goodman-Documentary-Film/161811360515250?v=wall
I'd watch them first.
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 		Is this right?
NoSubject,
You were around for the demise of the bristelgoodman.com website, right?
Did it look like this?


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Ugh, I don't remember seeing this before. One of the listed pages is an anagram for RHINO. This is definitely not a real error page.

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 		what the hell is defailt definitely not a real error page can't spell default.

try this http://www.bristelgoodman.com/35ass2graphics871/



dunno if this is old or not or if it even has anything to do with this.

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youngpaddy1 wrote:

dunno if this is old or not or if it even has anything to do with this.


Strange. I clicked on the link you provided and got nothing.
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