yukichigai
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- Apr 23, 2003
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Is there EVER going to be another update? I'm seriously thinking it was all an elaborate prank now.... and we fell for it.
Where's the update? Was this just a prank? Or were you sworn to secrecy or paid hush money?
mdcrab
mdcrab
MikeyIs4Dcats
Lifer
- Nov 5, 2001
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Talk to my mom about this (her and I are Cantonese). She pretty much said what you guys said about this, except for the 4 cent stamp. When you say "4 cent" in cantonese, it sounds like you're saying "die first" if you change the tone a bit. Maybe the stamp means he'll die first?
Who knows
Who knows
- Jul 20, 2001
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Well, per request, here is the next update.
Things seemed to have calmed down a bit. The next letter was just a bunch of 4's (in like, confetti form). Just a bunch of cut-outs of the number 4. It also had a note, to check out the ads in the next forecaster (free local newspaper) under Lost for another clue.
In that forecaster, was a message, addressed ATTN: fours. Need more clues? Contact Eric.
That was it. It seems that more people are getting this, and all of them are in my mother Doctor's office and were a friend of the past supervisor.
Thanks to TheGrandCow for PMing me about this
Things seemed to have calmed down a bit. The next letter was just a bunch of 4's (in like, confetti form). Just a bunch of cut-outs of the number 4. It also had a note, to check out the ads in the next forecaster (free local newspaper) under Lost for another clue.
In that forecaster, was a message, addressed ATTN: fours. Need more clues? Contact Eric.
That was it. It seems that more people are getting this, and all of them are in my mother Doctor's office and were a friend of the past supervisor.
Thanks to TheGrandCow for PMing me about this
i don't think the poster literally meant eric, it would be too simple, and why not just say so in the note instead of posting an ad in the newspaper. I believe there could be a hidden message in the ad, perhaps eric is an anagram.
alkemyst
No Lifer
- Feb 13, 2001
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Was there a phone number in the paper? if so Eric is probably a penname....if not not much possibility with a letter anagram.
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yukichigai
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- Apr 23, 2003
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I'd say the phone number angle is fairly likely. Try dialing it as the suffix (last four digits) of any of the local prefixes.
Anyone living in the same area as Kauru? It'd be great if someone could verify if that ad was really in the paper, and that Kauru isn't just toying with us (sorry Kauru, but thanks to some ATers, it's hard to trust people).
QueBert
Lifer
- Jan 6, 2002
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good idea, but she could have paid like 5 dollars to take the ad out herself if she wanted this prank to seem real.
also at this point, aside from the general idea of weird letters from an unknown source being sorta scary. There's nothing in any of them directly saying ""harm will come" She said the doctor plus a doctor who left, and various other people at the office have been getting letters. So it can't be a random thing. Whoever it is has to have access to employee information. Not that it would be hard to find out addresses (I could do it) I would imagine Doctors get a lot of people who hate them for not being able to save a loved one.
everyone has a thory on what the 4 is, but it could be anything. The 4 of Hearts would make sense as a tie in to his job because she said he was a chest specalists. I'm with the theory one of his female pacients died at his hands and her husband blames him. Or maybe she died later on from something unreleated, but he still blames the doctor.
I am facinated by this thread, even if it's a hoax, it's got me tripping out. I don't want to make jokes here because if I do it might happen to me down the road, and I'd be really fckin freaked out.
She said the 4th letter had 4 pics of a woman, I believe she said the same one, in different poses. I know this is a long shot but if the face is clear and semi close up on any couldn't the police do that scan thing with their data base and see if anyone comes up. Excuse my ignorance about this, I think I use to watch too many TV Cop shows and I have this idea they can take a pic and ID that person off their of their Drivers Licens or something in a snap.
I'm really interested in finding out how this turns out, for somebody to go to this level of trouble to comfuse a person with riddles spooks me out. If this is for real and there's somebody planning to murder him and his family, and they caught him before it happened. That would make for a kick ass 20/20 or Dateline.
QueBert
Lifer
- Jan 6, 2002
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it's not a random prank because more then 1 person has gotten letters. A random prank they wouldn't know information on all these people who all tie into the one ex doctor. It's gotta be somebody who either worked there, or was a pacient. Not to say it's not a prank, but it's not random. Generally random pranks don't tie into a group of people, and you don't hear often about a random prank where 1 person recieves 4 different letters. It's like a prank call, generally you get 1 call and they never call back. This is very caculated, it could be a sick joke (I hope) What you said about the lines in the news paper is facinating to me. I don't see how this doctor can sit around and wait. I'm not a pussy, but if that was me I would have been at the police station ASAP.
but if this is really all about the number 4, seeing how he's gotten 4 letters we might never find out how this mystery ends.
what's interesting to me, the doctor seems to have no clue what's going on and what the letters mean. And doesn't seem bothered enough to contact the authorities. So this somebody trying to play mind games, it isn't working. If it was me that had gotten the letters, I would have too been clueless as to what was so important about the number 4. But I would have researched the hell out of it.
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