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Tien_Le
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 		enoch online
I'm kind of behind on the whole enoch online stuff. I keep seeing these little picture like things on the side of the text in the strange text window where the recent findings are. I click on them and another window opens, but nothing happens.

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 		enoch summary
Here's the stuff I've found at enochonline to date plus a great spec from argn.

Most residents of Push, Nevada simply live their lives. Some may play games. Others may sense that there is more. I
would agree.

I first heard of Push over a decade ago. A colleague - who, I should mention, tends to indulge in hallucinogens, fantasy
novels and conspiracy theories - ranted about it one night over drinks.

When I remained unconvinced, she sent me a copy of an old corporate memo that she had obtained from a so-called
reliable source. The document presented a brief site-selection comparison that recommended Push. It was printed on
letterhead from a company called Watermark Consolidated.

So what. A little desktop publishing by conspiracy theorists, I thought. Besides, it could have been a recommendation
for any real estate development. The memo convinced me of one thing: that she was a bigger fool than I gave her
credit. I returned to more interesting preoccupations.

However, "seeing can be believing." On an extended trip to Las Vegas a few years later, I recalled my colleague and
her rant. I was bored with Vegas - after about a day of its disorientation-by-design, I was weary - and decided to leave
my companions to take a side trip in search of Push. If nothing else, I'd get to look around the nether regions of
Nevada, the Silver State.

My colleague, it turns out, was not entirely delusional. Push does exist in central Nevada. It's hotter than Hades out
there, but the town is nice enough. The locals seem decent and enjoy a good standard of living. Sure, the place is odd,
but what small Southwestern town isn't?

So I stayed two days, and met a few people. No one had anything particularly negative to say about the place - no
more than in any other small town. I got comfortable with a couple of Old Timers, told them a little bit about myself
and asked them whether they had heard about any experiments in Push.

They thought I was asking about the Army's radiation experiments. I thanked them, and let them know how to reach
me.

When I got home, I also took my colleague out to dinner.

Whether it's true or not, my colleague's theory shouldn't be news to us these days. People drip into this world and surf
its chaos. Many react to life and its mysteries by endeavoring to control them - or at least to maim them into
organizational submission.

Perhaps you're familiar with this impulse. You've read the proud corporate press releases about their new "Living
Laboratories." You're probably also aware that many of these efforts have historically produced unfortunate
consequences, without yielding desired results. Et ecce universa vanitas et adflictio spiritus, and such.

Of course, there have been other perspectives. Some declare, "People want to be free." "Information wants to be free."
And, again I would agree.

A few weeks after leaving Push, I received a letter from one of my new acquaintances, saying that he'd like to keep in
touch with an out-of-towner, and that I seemed fine enough. We began to communicate sparingly, mostly with holiday
cards.

In the past two years, he started to email me, and our correspondence increased. Then about three months ago, he sent
me a note that obliquely referenced the question that I had posed to him years ago. It revealed that he knew more than
he had originally let on: "By the way, of course there were no radiation tests in Push. That was a coy response to a
reasonable question whose answer is Yes. Reservations, No. Georgia, No. Nevada, Yes."

He wouldn't elaborate, but when you see the old memo (threw my copy away long ago, but have asked my colleague
for another one, which she promised to provide shortly), you'll understand. He indicated that he would explain more in
the future, and that I shouldn't ask him again.

Then this morning, I received a fax: one page from a general financial ledger belonging to the Versailles Casino in
Push. The cash-flow section contains an accounting error of over one million dollars (I have posted the fax to the
"Recent Findings" section of this site).

About an hour later, my friend emailed me. He wanted to know whether I'd received his fax. "What fax?" I asked. His
reply: "The fax you just got." With little further explanation, he said, "This is the beginning. You and I must stop now.
I'll reach you."

So let's just say, up front, that my friend may simply be a bored, small-town Local who has decided to spice up his life
by throwing me a red herring. Or perhaps it's a more elaborate ruse. Fine.

Having said that, I sense that my friend is not snowing me. I've decided to use my resources to look deeper, and then to
post to this site whatever I discover. If there is something nefarious happening in Push, then the only way to stop it is to
get the word out (you'll understand, as well, that I'm not mentioning my friend's name because I feel the need to protect
my source). Sunshine, after all, is still the best disinfectant.

I hope that you'll help. If you'd like, you can email me your findings: enochpushSPLATyahoo.com. Send links, not files. I'll
take care of the rest. Moreover, the "Dialectic" section of this site links to a message board where we can both debate
ideas and disseminate them -- and, ultimately, communicate the truth.

Most residents of Push, Nevada simply live their lives. Some may play games. Others may sense that there is more. I
would agree.

I first heard of Push over a decade ago. A colleague - who, I should mention, tends to indulge in hallucinogens, fantasy
novels and conspiracy theories - ranted about it one night over drinks.

When I remained unconvinced, she sent me a copy of an old corporate memo that she had obtained from a so-called
reliable source. The document presented a brief site-selection comparison that recommended Push. It was printed on
letterhead from a company called Watermark Consolidated.

So what. A little desktop publishing by conspiracy theorists, I thought. Besides, it could have been a recommendation
for any real estate development. The memo convinced me of one thing: that she was a bigger fool than I gave her
credit. I returned to more interesting preoccupations.

However, "seeing can be believing." On an extended trip to Las Vegas a few years later, I recalled my colleague and
her rant. I was bored with Vegas - after about a day of its disorientation-by-design, I was weary - and decided to leave
my companions to take a side trip in search of Push. If nothing else, I'd get to look around the nether regions of
Nevada, the Silver State.

My colleague, it turns out, was not entirely delusional. Push does exist in central Nevada. It's hotter than Hades out
there, but the town is nice enough. The locals seem decent and enjoy a good standard of living. Sure, the place is odd,
but what small Southwestern town isn't?

So I stayed two days, and met a few people. No one had anything particularly negative to say about the place - no
more than in any other small town. I got comfortable with a couple of Old Timers, told them a little bit about myself
and asked them whether they had heard about any experiments in Push.

They thought I was asking about the Army's radiation experiments. I thanked them, and let them know how to reach
me.

When I got home, I also took my colleague out to dinner.

Whether it's true or not, my colleague's theory shouldn't be news to us these days. People drip into this world and surf
its chaos. Many react to life and its mysteries by endeavoring to control them - or at least to maim them into
organizational submission.

Perhaps you're familiar with this impulse. You've read the proud corporate press releases about their new "Living
Laboratories." You're probably also aware that many of these efforts have historically produced unfortunate
consequences, without yielding desired results. Et ecce universa vanitas et adflictio spiritus, and such.

Of course, there have been other perspectives. Some declare, "People want to be free." "Information wants to be free."
And, again I would agree.

A few weeks after leaving Push, I received a letter from one of my new acquaintances, saying that he'd like to keep in
touch with an out-of-towner, and that I seemed fine enough. We began to communicate sparingly, mostly with holiday
cards.

In the past two years, he started to email me, and our correspondence increased. Then about three months ago, he sent
me a note that obliquely referenced the question that I had posed to him years ago. It revealed that he knew more than
he had originally let on: "By the way, of course there were no radiation tests in Push. That was a coy response to a
reasonable question whose answer is Yes. Reservations, No. Georgia, No. Nevada, Yes."

He wouldn't elaborate, but when you see the old memo (threw my copy away long ago, but have asked my colleague
for another one, which she promised to provide shortly), you'll understand. He indicated that he would explain more in
the future, and that I shouldn't ask him again.

Then this morning, I received a fax: one page from a general financial ledger belonging to the Versailles Casino in
Push. The cash-flow section contains an accounting error of over one million dollars (I have posted the fax to the
"Recent Findings" section of this site).

About an hour later, my friend emailed me. He wanted to know whether I'd received his fax. "What fax?" I asked. His
reply: "The fax you just got." With little further explanation, he said, "This is the beginning. You and I must stop now.
I'll reach you."

So let's just say, up front, that my friend may simply be a bored, small-town Local who has decided to spice up his life
by throwing me a red herring. Or perhaps it's a more elaborate ruse. Fine.

Having said that, I sense that my friend is not snowing me. I've decided to use my resources to look deeper, and then to
post to this site whatever I discover. If there is something nefarious happening in Push, then the only way to stop it is to
get the word out (you'll understand, as well, that I'm not mentioning my friend's name because I feel the need to protect
my source). Sunshine, after all, is still the best disinfectant.

I hope that you'll help. If you'd like, you can email me your findings: enochpushSPLATyahoo.com. Send links, not files. I'll
take care of the rest. Moreover, the "Dialectic" section of this site links to a message board where we can both debate
ideas and disseminate them -- and, ultimately, communicate the truth.

-Enoch
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9.17.2002
Friends & Others: here is the Versailles Casino fax that I received this morning.

In addition, seemed odd that The Push Times closed their online archives service last week, so I inquired about it. An
acquaintance at the PT said that he didn't know much, but he forwarded me an internal PT email in which the
Publisher demanded that the service be shut down. Here is the Push Times email (yes, I crossed out my contact's email
address). Am going to poke around a little more.
Re: the 1045 Hand stealing the book.
As many of you mentioned, there are a few possibilities, including...

1. The thief's body temperature had warmed above 80 degrees.

2. The camera was calibrated to a temperature lower than 80.

3. There was more than one thief.

4. Someone planted the clip in the security system.

5. Something else.

Given the facts, Theory #1 seems most reasonable, but again any of them is possible. Will continue to explore the
system for video clips

9.18.2002
F&O: Your response to yesterday's "message in a bottle" has been remarkable. Our message board has become a
repository of strong theories and relevant facts.

Yes, Silas Bodnick robbed the Versailles, and stole an amount that is equal to the accounting error in the fax. This
so-called error was Bodnick's poor attempt to conceal an inside job.

It's worth noting that many of you uncovered these facts before I did. Following your leads, I then explored the casino's
voicemail system. A voicemail confirmed the stolen amount.

I've posted that message, as well as a couple of others, with my Audio Optimizer tool. Feel free to optimize the files,
listen to them and draw your own conclusions.

Am going to hunt down additional leads through the casino's security system.

And to some: yes, you've discovered subtleties in the site's design. Clearly you are very perceptive. Well done.

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9.19.2002
F&O: Explored the casino's security system, and found video clips of the Versailles robbery. Their video feed comes
from a thermal imaging camera that reads anything above 80 degrees. Anything below 80 degrees will not appear.

See what you can deduce from the footage. It appears that both the money and a book were taken.

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
9.20.2002
F&O: A Push acquaintance sent these photos. Claims that they show the charred remains of a house belonging to Silas
Bodnick, the manager of the Versailles. Says that the house burned down earlier this week.

If the photos are legitimate, then it seems unusual that The Push Times declined to report a major house fire. Would
seem to be news in a small town.

Regardless, who are the Suits and what are they doing there?
9.23.2002
F&O: Noticed the "Print Archives" section on The Push Times site, and decided to poke around their server.
Found a bunch of scanned microfiche files, but this one caught my eye. It references the week that
Watermark bought the Versailles Casino.
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9.24.2002:
F&O: Amid discussion on the message board, found a posting that may prove informative. Here's an excerpt:

"...yesterday, spotted three Suits walking around. Trailed them and overheard the following:

Suit 1: `...concerned about the Caleb-Mary situation. We know Demonhead Flats is significant,
but why did I keep hearing the word `Television' in that surveillance video?'

Suit 2 to Suit 3: `The Princeton boy is hearing things again, must have been that New Jersey water.'"

In addition, someone sent this video clip, which a few of you have mentioned: Sunny DuPree,
a Push TV show host, emphasizes the word "television" within the context of a non sequitir.

Whether these two data points are significant or coincidental, "television" seems worth noting.

______________________
Spec: Someone specced that they saw the title Esq. in the crossed out email contact name: This from the sprint site:

Name: Ms. Ance E. Neegan, Esq. Age: 35 Occupation: Personal Injury Attorney
I use my PCS Phone from Sprint to check the news on the Web, which also helps
my business. Being a personal-injury lawyer in a small town is not easy. I spend
a large portion of my time on the road looking for new clients at locations like
Blackwell's, the Sheriff's Department and the Speed Hunting Club.

But sometimes I'm not in the right place at the right time. I need a way to get
the latest news and to have access to the town's pulse without having to be in the
office.
_____________________

Text of the email:

From: XXXXXXXXXXXXX Fri 9/13/2002 2:55PM
To: Enoch
Subject: FW: Print Archives Service
----Original Message----
From: Patrick Flander
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 2:42PM
To: XXXXXX
Subject: FW: Print Archives Service

----Original Message----
From: Elmer Green
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 10:45PM
To: Patrick Flander
Subject: Print Archives Service

Dear Pat:

I realize that this request will sound odd, but please simply take care of the following: we
need to take down the Print Archives service immediately.

In its place, with the launch of the inaugural online issue, please include a placeholder
screen which mentions that we're performing a comprehensive re-archiving of all Push
Times issues, and planning to provide our users a new, improved online archive service
(don't worry, you won't really need to do so).

I can't discuss why with you right now, but please simply trust me on this one. Will come by
to chat later.

Best,
EG

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 		T_L, although you may be missing some plug ins for those windows to work, I've found they simply take a long time to load, and don't always let you know that's what they're doing. So click on one and walk away for a while. See what happens.

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 		Thanks...I'll do that.

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 		Newest info from Enoch is a video of the helicopters/searching from last Thursday's episode. Midway through the video (play it slow), a strange image distortion takes place. Check it out.
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F&O: Watch this video clip. Last week, one of you shot it while camping around the area that those Suits mentioned, Demonhead Flats outside of Push.

Camper said that she observed dozens of people searching the desert with metal detectors and flashlights, while a black helicopter maintained a perimeter from above.

Whatever you think of it, the operation does not appear to be your standard small-town search party. Especially the black helicopter.

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 		Enoch is right...it looks nothing like a standard search party...not to mention the fact that no one seems to know what these dark-clad people are actually looking for with their black helicopter. Enoch should look into that.

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 		Image distortion? I don't think so. It's just the video replaying itself. For some reason, it plays twice, maybe just to take it all in. As if there were something there to take in amid the darkness.

---Scott

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 		"Fiction is the truth inside the lie"
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie"
also appeared last night on the enochonline header.
Just to the left of the walking shadowman.

I searched on the phrase, and it appears to be a quote from Stephen King.

it looks like it's from "It" and the phrase ends "and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists"

hmmm. why would enoch post that?

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 		That text is also in morse code at the very bottom of the header. And E-N-O-C-H is flashed repeating in Braille at the very lower-right corner of the graphic, in red-on-red (may need to zoom in 4 or so times to see it.)

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 		The filename for the swf is http://www.enochonline.com/cms/stories/story1259/enoch_hdr_925.swf

Guess it changed sometime on 9/25. What is the tie-in to story1259?

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The filename for the swf is http://www.enochonline.com/cms/stories/story1259/enoch_hdr_925.swf

Guess it changed sometime on 9/25. What is the tie-in to story1259?


That may just be a numbering coincidence. The PMs appear to be using some content management system to add post items to some of the sites (hence the "cms" in the url string). So far, these numbers have not appeared to follow a pattern but perhaps it's too early yet to tell.
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Tien_Le wrote:
Enoch is right...it looks nothing like a standard search party...not to mention the fact that no one seems to know what these dark-clad people are actually looking for with their black helicopter. Enoch should look into that.


Aren't they looking for the money and/or bible?

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 		You mean they weren't looking for coyotes like pushtimes.com said? Twisted Evil
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I mean did anybody actually watch the show? They were looking for the either the money, bible, or both! Most likely the bible, especially considering that the winner will get the money.

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especially considering that the winner will get the money


huh?
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