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ShotgunSteven

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Originally posted by: LeetestUnleet
Originally posted by: seepy83
LeetestUnleet, this information about runes is interesting. were you familiar with it before this thread, or you just happened to look after reading this?
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I'm a little familiar with it before this thread. I play a character in the LARP I play (linked in sig) who is a superstitious, self-proclaimed "magic" creature, who believes he can tell fortunes (there's a skill that allows him to get one piece of information from the GM, and I RP it with my home-made Rune deck)
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An interesting read.
 
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LeetestUnleet

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Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Originally posted by: LeetestUnleet
Originally posted by: seepy83
LeetestUnleet, this information about runes is interesting. were you familiar with it before this thread, or you just happened to look after reading this?
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I'm a little familiar with it before this thread. I play a character in the LARP I play (linked in sig) who is a superstitious, self-proclaimed "magic" creature, who believes he can tell fortunes (there's a skill that allows him to get one piece of information from the GM, and I RP it with my home-made Rune deck)
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An interesting read.
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Yes it really is. That website has some very nice information, and although it's only one person's interpretation, they're rather in-depth and seem to make sense. Runes are very close to Tarot in a historical sense.
 
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sxr7171

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OMG! This thread has reached page 4 in whatever view I'm using. I'm getting scared.
 
yukichigai

yukichigai

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Originally posted by: sxr7171
OMG! This thread has reached page <STRONG>4</strong> in whatever view I'm using. I'm getting scared.
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Yep, you're going to die by page 5. Best make peace with things. :p

Well based on the new "evidence", both from the doc and from the previous head, I'd say this could be some thinly veiled death threat. The big list of fours is pretty significant, and the cutouts from the Clue game seem to cement the Chinese-death-4 thing. (Clue being a murder mystery game)

However there could be more. Can you get us even more details on what the doc was sent? Scans of the material even? I'm interested to get full descriptions of all the women in the pictures, as well as what the picture was on the stamp(s).

Does playing connect-the-dots with a map and the four places the letters were mailed from make any shape or something similar? At the very least it might give you an idea of where this guy is.
 
yukichigai

yukichigai

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New day, new curiosity. Just wanted to let you know someone's still really curious about this.
 
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LeetestUnleet

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Me too. Unfortunately most of the posts in this thread are just saying "Any updates?"

We *so* need to have an online Murder Mystery game we can all participate in. We're obviously curious :p I'll save you all a lot of time and tell you I didn't do it, and the bloody weapon you found in my room was a coincidence.
 
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slackerinabox

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Here's my half baked theory... Ok... The person writing this lost his wife... He's sending scanned images of women in sets of 4 .. 4 is an established death symbol so, to him, his women (woman, wife, etc.) is dead.... Now the library in the game clue- perhaps one of the doctors was intellectually responsible for her death (library) while the other doctor was the actual butcher, the doctor who's hands are responsible for her death (kitchen). The 4 cent stamp - what's on the stamp, silly! It's important... That could be a clue - 4 by mail.. death by mail.. mail bomb???

The cards.. 4 of spades (right), and 4 of hearts.. Hard to find symbolism here.. Are the two doctors two cards from the same deck? Why did one get the heart and library combination and the other get the spades/kitchen combination?? Lets think about that.. A posibility is that he just send out two #4 cards and the spades and heart were picked at random.. So the #4 is the important part in the equation..

Hmm... Well, why psychoanalyze this guy anymore - call the freaking cops!
 
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LeetestUnleet

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Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Here's my half baked theory... Ok... The person writing this lost his wife... He's sending scanned images of women in sets of 4 .. 4 is an established death symbol so, to him, his women (woman, wife, etc.) is dead.... Now the library in the game clue- perhaps one of the doctors was intellectually responsible for her death (library) while the other doctor was the actual butcher, the doctor who's hands are responsible for her death (kitchen). The 4 cent stamp - what's on the stamp, silly! It's important... That could be a clue - 4 by mail.. death by mail.. mail bomb???

The cards.. 4 of spades (right), and 4 of hearts.. Hard to find symbolism here.. Are the two doctors two cards from the same deck? Why did one get the heart and library combination and the other get the spades/kitchen combination?? Lets think about that.. A posibility is that he just send out two #4 cards and the spades and heart were picked at random.. So the #4 is the important part in the equation..

Hmm... Well, why psychoanalyze this guy anymore - call the freaking cops!
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Cuz it's fun to psychoanalyze ;)
If it wasn't, you wouldn't have posted :)
 
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This thread is cool and creepy. It's like one of those "My wife is having a baby and I'm posting on ATOT before I do anything else!" threads, but more on the lines of "It's 2am, there is a man in a mask outside our house who wants to kill us. He has a weapon, but we aren't sure what it is - nor do we know how he is going to get in the house, and I'm posting this on ATOT before I call the cops!"

And then a panel of ATOT'ers are all trying to figure out the weapon, and how he's going to get in. And the poster is anxiously awaiting to discover his/her own demise.

Intense!
 
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LeetestUnleet

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Originally posted by: ProUser
This thread is cool and creepy. It's like one of those "My wife is having a baby and I'm posting on ATOT before I do anything else!" threads, but more on the lines of "It's 2am, there is a man in a mask outside our house who wants to kill us. He has a weapon, but we aren't sure what it is - nor do we know how he is going to get in the house, and I'm posting this on ATOT before I call the cops!"

And then a panel of ATOT'ers are all trying to figure out the weapon, and how he's going to get in. And the poster is anxiously awaiting to discover his/her own demise.

Intense!
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Wow... loved the analogy. Made me LOL in the middle of my campus computer lab, where I'm working ;)
 
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The best advice you have gotten and obviously NOT followed is to contact the Post Master. Postal Inspectors have the jurisdiction to cover the US, have real guns, and the know-how to track incidents like this. Just do it and quit fooling around. This maybe nothing, but it is a little to strange with two doctors involved in the same incidents. The chances will be is it is an ex-employee that worked for both doctors. Let the Post Inspectors handle it from there.
 
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Originally posted by: LeetestUnleet
Originally posted by: ProUser
This thread is cool and creepy. It's like one of those "My wife is having a baby and I'm posting on ATOT before I do anything else!" threads, but more on the lines of "It's 2am, there is a man in a mask outside our house who wants to kill us. He has a weapon, but we aren't sure what it is - nor do we know how he is going to get in the house, and I'm posting this on ATOT before I call the cops!"

And then a panel of ATOT'ers are all trying to figure out the weapon, and how he's going to get in. And the poster is anxiously awaiting to discover his/her own demise.

Intense!
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Wow... loved the analogy. Made me LOL in the middle of my campus computer lab, where I'm working ;)
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Me too w/ the LOL. Sittin in my cube at work and had to lol.
This has got to be one of the most interesting OT's i have ever read anywhere. Kinda like a fecked up movie. "7" come to anyone elses mind. Maybe this movie will be "4"
 
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mdcrab

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It has been over three days since last update. Has this been reported to police or postmaster?

mdcrab
 
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Thoreau

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Originally posted by: Kauru
Originally posted by: yukichigai
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: Kauru
anyway, so far we have:

chinese 4 is pronounced DEATH
and that he should definitely NOT do anywhere near a library (which is hard considering you drive right by one on the way to the office--he could go the back way though)
and calling the cops sounds like a good idea

any more? This is getting pretty interesting, albeit strange

`K
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Yea, dust the envelopes for fingerprints.
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Pretty much pointless, though worth a shot. Unless you live in a small-ish city and the mail was sent within that city you're going to find probably 25 different prints from the people who handled it on the way to its destination. Which brings up an interesting point: if the person sending the letters was a post office worker and as such is expected to handle the letters, wouldn't you overlook him?
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I live in Maine! Small as can be!
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Isn't that where Steven King lives? Didn't the character that Kathy Bates played in misery have something to do with being a nurse as well?
 
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