Do you ever just feel…at peace? Not really approaching any of the emotional extremes, but just calm?
That’s how I feel today, and I don’t really know why. When I think about how I should feel, it occurs to me that I should be teetering on the brink of absolute anxiety and welcomed relief. Anxiety because this mess I’ve gotten myself into is way beyond what I ever imagined, and relief because my brother is apparently OK…for now.
Maybe I’ve struck a balance. And that’s alright with me, even if it does strike me as being a bit ominous. I just hope it isn’t the calm before the storm.
I have to thank everyone who dug through the 8th Spoke’s website yesterday, and Aidoneus for sharing his wisdom, even if he doesn’t exactly make it easy to get to. And while I certainly have a lot of stuff to say about that, I’ll save it for tomorrow. For now, I just want to take a breather, just in case things get tumultuous as we go on ahead.
With that said, something did strike me as odd today, but I could just be imagining things. I received a message at 7:27 AM from an unknown caller, and while it could easily be a messed up telemarketing call, I thought it might be something important. So I saved it, to see what you folks thought of it. You can download it/listen to it here. It’s shrill, sure, but there was something comforting about it.
Anyway, that’s all I really have to say today. I’m going to spend the rest of the day thinking and digging through papers, and if I find anything out about St. Ignace, you’ll be the first to know.
May 27, 2009 at 11:44 pm |
That certainly is a very odd call…wonder if there’s a message encoded in it…
May 27, 2009 at 11:45 pm |
Oh, and thanks for giving us the night off…unless we end up working all night trying to decode the message encoded in the call…let’s get to work fellas!
May 28, 2009 at 3:46 am |
The night off! HA! Was I wrong or what?!?
I needed a fix though, that’s for sure. Good luck sifting through paperwork.
May 27, 2009 at 11:57 pm |
Hmmm…perhaps we need to get the numbers from the dial tones?
Someone else do it. =p
May 28, 2009 at 12:08 am |
I wonder if the file name holds a clue? 727Message395. 7.27 is the time of course, but what about the last three digits?
May 28, 2009 at 12:09 am |
I’m not sure what the numbers are but I’ll see if I can figure it out.
May 28, 2009 at 12:22 am |
is there a way to save the file? or can we only play it? there’s a website that will read the tones and convert them…
May 28, 2009 at 12:24 am |
what is the website?
May 28, 2009 at 12:26 am
http://www.dialabc.com/sound/detect/
though it looks like we don’t need it now….
May 28, 2009 at 12:25 am |
The numbers are 9*369*839362622
May 28, 2009 at 12:26 am |
that’s what i got with a program i just downloaded…how did you get that?
May 28, 2009 at 12:27 am
Garage band and my iPhone.
May 28, 2009 at 12:30 am
That’s cool because I got the same thing using a totally different thing. So, it must be the correct numbers.
May 28, 2009 at 12:30 am |
Okay, I got the numbers… 9[5]369[5]839362622, not 100% sure on the 5s but it’s the closest I could get…
May 28, 2009 at 12:31 am |
Oh, okay, so the * key was pushed, not the 5…?
May 28, 2009 at 12:34 am |
http://www.dialabc.com/words/search/index.html?pnum=839362622&dict=american&pad=ext&filter=normal&mtcontinue=Find+Words
Can anyone make anything of that? BTW, I’m tgosnell on Twitter in case you are following #wish27.
May 28, 2009 at 12:41 am |
So is there any meaning to the numbers?
May 28, 2009 at 12:42 am |
Mayber the numbers can be converted to letters and the stars are spaces between words? Well done with getting the numbers by the way
May 28, 2009 at 12:49 am |
Wow congrats on the numbers. I cant make sense of it but i did notice that the last four digits are 2622, which correspond to the letters ABC and MNO on a keypad respectively. The 8 Spoke site got me thinking since it ends in co.cc that maybe this is a url. Because if 2=c 6=o 2=c 2=6 then you get same url thingy.
May 28, 2009 at 12:54 am |
2=c 6=o 2=c 2=c my bad
May 28, 2009 at 12:54 am |
I think you’re onto something there. Good call!
May 28, 2009 at 12:57 am |
here’s the possibilities i found going by tristan’s numbers
9=WXYZ
*=???
3=DEF
6=MNO
9=WXYZ
*=???
8=TUV
3=DEF
9=WXYZ
3=DEF
6=MNO
2=ABC
6=MNO
2=ABC
2=ABC
anyone make any words out of that??
May 28, 2009 at 1:35 am |
for 363 i found end, doe, or foe lol but i’m thinking it might be end
May 28, 2009 at 12:58 am |
maybe the “9*3″ at the beginning is “www”? not sure how the next * would figure into it though….
May 28, 2009 at 12:59 am |
It’s w times 3!!!!!
May 28, 2009 at 1:00 am
but that would mean the other * is time T or U or V how would that work..hmm
May 28, 2009 at 1:01 am |
Maybe http://www.my._____.co.cc ?
May 28, 2009 at 1:08 am |
The only interesting thing I can see is that 3 and 9 appear a lot, and when multiplied they = 27
May 28, 2009 at 1:14 am |
OK i’m going to put the letters together in possible ways that might make sense
1. WXYZ and * are exluded because they don’t really make sense!
2. FO and DO , EN, and EM from 3&6 could go together
3. Starting to wonder if 9 and * are red herrings because the only possibilities when putting them together with the ones i mentioned bring back FOW, FOX, FOY, FOZ, DOW, DOX, DOY, DOZ, and the EN and EM ones don’t even make sense…
4. skipping to 8&3 all we can use for a word is prboably TE, VE, etc.
5. again 9 but i dont know
6. another grouping of 3&6 which was FO, DO, EN, EM
7. and the 2622 which i think might be co.cc
so assuming 9 and * are red herings i got
??DO??TE?DO.co.cc
??EM??UD?EM.co.cc
??EN??UF?EN.co.cc
??EO??VE?EO.co.cc
??FO???FO.co.cc
so i dunno maybe we are meant to fill in blanks? or mix around the letters from those to make something
anyone see any words there for a url
May 28, 2009 at 1:21 am |
today is 27th do you think there might be a clue in http://27project.wordpress.com/links-resources/
we might have overlooked something there
May 28, 2009 at 1:28 am |
if you multiply 9 x 369 x 839362622 you get 309724807518. Maybe we have to do something with those numbers?
May 28, 2009 at 1:34 am |
we have ceros in it, hard to convert into letters
May 28, 2009 at 1:36 am |
2787523267662
May 28, 2009 at 1:37 am
thats a url!
http://the8thspoke.co.cc/2787523267662
May 28, 2009 at 1:37 am |
9 x 369 x 839362622 is 2787523267662
May 28, 2009 at 1:37 am |
The only sense I can make of the *’s is that 9 x 3 equals 27 and 9 x 8 = 72 which is 27 backwards… not sure how that helps though
May 28, 2009 at 1:40 am |
2787523267662 is the correct total i apologise. Gary is right
May 28, 2009 at 1:40 am |
/-1 / -1 / – / – / -1 / -1 / -1 / – / -1 / – / – / – / – /
is in the source code, any ideas?
May 28, 2009 at 1:40 am |
the source code has “-1′s” and such…take a look
May 28, 2009 at 1:42 am |
Just throwing out this idea, it probably won’t work. Maybe 1=a 2=b 3=c 4=d etc. When I did that I got this I C F I H C I C F B F B B and maybe we could possibly have to work with these letters.
May 28, 2009 at 1:45 am |
I ran the -1 s and -s from the page source as binary but that doesn’t make anything. Anyone know if it might be morse code?
May 28, 2009 at 1:45 am |
There are 13 numbers, and there are 13 “things” in the source code, maybe we need to subtract 1 from each corresponding number?
May 28, 2009 at 1:46 am |
I did that and tried the url but it didn’t work.
May 28, 2009 at 1:47 am
Yea i just tried too, didn’t work
May 28, 2009 at 1:48 am
substracted also the original numbers. no luck with url
May 28, 2009 at 1:53 am |
Not morse code.
May 28, 2009 at 1:55 am |
maybe we need to divide. if this(*) means multiply then maybe this(/) means to divide. just a thought
May 28, 2009 at 1:59 am |
divide -1 from each number maybe…or not lol
May 28, 2009 at 1:56 am |
Where is /-1 / -1 / – / – / -1 / -1 / -1 / – / -1 / – / – / – / – / found? In the source for this blog post? I don’t see it.
May 28, 2009 at 1:57 am |
Source code @ http://www.the8thspoke.co.cc/2787523267662
May 28, 2009 at 2:00 am |
it´s in source from http://the8thspoke.co.cc/2787523267662
May 28, 2009 at 1:56 am |
Maybe the -1′s mean we have to take away 1 from each of the original numbers?
Like…
9 -1 = 8
* = ?
9 -1 = 8
* -1 = ?
8 -1 = 7
9 -1 = 8
That would make the numbers 8*368*738362622
But that doesn’t work because you can’t take away from a *!
Maybe take away that many keys on a keypad then?
9 -1 key = 8
* -1 key = 9
8 -1 key = 7
So maybe the correct sequence is 893689738362622?
Just thinking out loud. Gonna try these as URLs!
May 28, 2009 at 2:04 am |
changed for letters using the phone letters twentyseven.co.cc
May 28, 2009 at 1:57 am |
In the source code from http://the8thspoke.co.cc/2787523267662
May 28, 2009 at 1:59 am |
Maybe it’s something about subtratcing 1 from all the numbers that correspond to a “-1″ and changing all the numbers that correspond to a “-” to a negative?
May 28, 2009 at 2:02 am |
Which is (I think):
8,2,-6,-9,7,2,8,-3,5,-2,-6,-2,-2
May 28, 2009 at 2:05 am |
http://twentyseven.co.cc/
May 28, 2009 at 2:07 am |
Nice find Riddle, but I gotta ask, how exactly did you come up with that? I’m just scared that, with all of the “pretender” sites that have popped up, this may potentially be another one…
May 28, 2009 at 2:09 am
used the numbers from lostfan88 up here and changed into letters was so excited to actually find something first I forgot to explain, sorry
May 28, 2009 at 2:11 am
Oh you’re right! So subtracting -1 from *all* of them was the right tack after all! And the “* – 1 = 9″ was a clever find.
Good job you two!
May 28, 2009 at 2:07 am |
aleph is the first letter in hebrew and the only novel by Jorge Luis Borges.
other than that I´m clueless now
May 28, 2009 at 2:08 am |
How did you come up with that Riddle?
May 28, 2009 at 2:12 am |
Its the numbers LOSTFAN88 found
May 28, 2009 at 2:12 am |
Awesome you guys! Now what?
May 28, 2009 at 2:13 am |
from the numbers obtained by lostfan88
893689738362622
I tried:
8 equals TUV
9 WXYZ
and so on…
May 28, 2009 at 2:14 am |
Way to go lostfan88 and Riddle!
May 28, 2009 at 2:16 am |
Now what though? I tried aleph with the 8th Spoke site but it doesnt work
May 28, 2009 at 2:16 am |
Oh, and good job on figuring this out guys
May 28, 2009 at 2:16 am |
Hey, tried the second letter in hebrew, mem…got this http://twentyseven.co.cc/mem.htm
May 28, 2009 at 2:17 am |
and the third – gimel… http://twentyseven.co.cc/gimel.htm
May 28, 2009 at 2:22 am |
well spotted! now what?
May 28, 2009 at 2:20 am |
Also works with .bet.htm , another letter.
May 28, 2009 at 2:20 am |
http://twentyseven.co.cc/dalet.htm another letter
May 28, 2009 at 2:21 am |
is anyone else getting a blank screen when using these url’s?
May 28, 2009 at 2:21 am |
I am too
May 28, 2009 at 2:22 am
Not even anything meaningful in the source. Hrm… placeholders, perhaps?
May 28, 2009 at 2:22 am
oh ok i thought i was missing something lol
May 28, 2009 at 2:23 am
That’s what I was thinking, almost like the other “bild” image under the existence one on the 8th spoke page
May 28, 2009 at 2:23 am |
http://twentyseven.co.cc/nun.htm
May 28, 2009 at 2:24 am |
also with letter he http://twentyseven.co.cc/he.htm
nothing in source code
May 28, 2009 at 2:25 am |
same with zayin http://twentyseven.co.cc/zayin.htm
May 28, 2009 at 2:27 am |
There are 27 letters in the hebrew alphabet. Maybe there are 27 corresponding blank pages at this site.
May 28, 2009 at 2:28 am |
not blank pages with
vav or het
anyone trying the rest of them?
May 28, 2009 at 2:29 am |
Yes, I’m running through them…figured I’d wait to try all of them first instead of posting one at a time…im finding quite a few, as I’m sure you are.
May 28, 2009 at 2:30 am |
The ones that work are:
aleph
bet
gimel
dalet
he
zayin
shin
resh
per
ayin
samekh
nun
mem
I tried them all
May 28, 2009 at 2:31 am |
This one’s not blank.
http://twentyseven.co.cc/qoph.htm
May 28, 2009 at 2:34 am |
it’s blank for me…. nothing in the source code either…. apparently some people are getting countdowns but they don’t match? weird….
May 28, 2009 at 2:32 am |
there are numerical values associated with each letter, seems a road to try
May 28, 2009 at 2:36 am |
This also work with alternate spelling from the ones i tried earlier
heth
teth
kaph
qoph
May 28, 2009 at 2:36 am |
I’m not seeing any countdowns.
May 28, 2009 at 2:37 am |
maybe the ones that work spell something…
May 28, 2009 at 2:38 am |
Did ANYONE besides me and Gary see the countdown?
May 28, 2009 at 2:40 am |
i didn´t
May 28, 2009 at 2:40 am |
No it was blank for me from the time I first entered the address
May 28, 2009 at 2:42 am |
Are you talking about the the roman numerals I, II, III on twentyseven.co.cc?
May 28, 2009 at 2:46 am
no, at http://twentyseven.co.cc/qoph.htm we both saw a countdown. Except I refreshed mine when people said they couldn’t see it and now i have a blank page too.
Anyway, Mine said 0 days 11 : 30 and some odd seconds (counting down to 10 pm EST tomorrow night)
Gary’s said 1 day 11 :30 and some odd seconds.
I’d like to figure out if anyone saw it too and if they had something different….
May 28, 2009 at 2:39 am |
Maybe they count down to when the other roman numeral pics will become links?
May 28, 2009 at 2:43 am |
Yep
May 28, 2009 at 2:44 am |
I tried to post all the links here (there’s one for every letter thus far except the last one), but it’s rejecting my comment – probably because with all those links, it looks like spam.
Anyways, I posted them here, if you’d like to see an exhaustive list:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=617591#617591
May 28, 2009 at 2:46 am |
Thank you for making this, I wouldn’t be able to remember them all if anything showed up on them.
May 28, 2009 at 2:48 am |
Last one is “taw.htm”, so all letters have been found. Now, what to do with them?
By the way, a few people reported seeing a countdown on the qoph.htm page, but it has since been removed…
May 28, 2009 at 2:50 am
Now I’m afraid to close that window!
May 28, 2009 at 2:50 am |
thanks!
May 28, 2009 at 2:51 am |
Is there more to solve here?
May 28, 2009 at 2:52 am |
just curious fact there are 22 not 27 as it said in http://27project.wordpress.com/about/ was it erroneous on purpose?
May 28, 2009 at 2:54 am |
There are five Hebrew vowels…haven’t tried them yet.
May 28, 2009 at 3:00 am
I had previously tried all the “sofit” letters like “kaphsofit.htm” and “kaph%20sofit.htm”… no dice.
May 28, 2009 at 3:48 am
Yea, no luck here either.
May 28, 2009 at 2:54 am |
On the wikipedia page, it looks like there are some that have more than one way of being, like kaf and final kaf. If you include the “final” ones there are 27.
May 28, 2009 at 3:00 am |
Just noticed the II and III images are called “5tamuz.jpg” and “6av.jpg”. Anyone know the significance of that?
May 28, 2009 at 3:01 am |
They correspond to months in the Hebrew calendar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar
May 28, 2009 at 3:04 am |
hmm…earlier tonight i think they were just called u2.jpg and u3.jpg
maybe i am hallucinating now, though
May 28, 2009 at 3:07 am |
That is new – they were different earlier (EE not hallucinating!)
May 28, 2009 at 3:06 am |
The Hebrew letters that were found are also used by the Phoenicians in their alphabet. Also, some of the hieroglyphs used to represent the letters in the Phoenician alphabet “gave rise” to Greek letters. I don’t know if that means anything but I just thought I would let everyone know.
May 28, 2009 at 3:09 am |
The jpg file names were changed in the past 50 minutes, and the new names are Hebrew dates corresponding (this year) to June 27th and July 27th.
May 28, 2009 at 3:10 am |
So do we have to wait a month to find out what’s going on? :- S
May 28, 2009 at 5:48 am |
Morning all – just been catching up. Damn my need to sleep!! NONE of the links are working for me!!! Will try again later – really hoping it’s just a temporary fault.
Did anyone save any screen shots??
Great work as always guys!
May 28, 2009 at 8:30 am |
Well, hope this hasn’ been written before, but just noticed:
Thx to sdishman and his HEBREW CALENDER
this year’s >>5 TAMUZ<>6 AV<< is July 27.
The Hebrew Year is 5769 (no idea if this means something) but the dates are suspicous…
May 28, 2009 at 8:31 am |
Sorry just found Gary’s comment…
May 28, 2009 at 8:54 am |
[...] telephone call yesterday at 7.27pm (which just happened to be May 27th btw!), saving it to his blog for us to have a listen [...]
May 28, 2009 at 8:56 am |
Could some one tell me what was on the twentyseven.co.cc page that led you to the Hebrew Alphabet?
Still can’t access it
May 28, 2009 at 9:10 am |
source code of this side says: aleph.htm This is the first letter of the Jewish alphabet…
May 28, 2009 at 9:47 am
Thanks Serm – wriitten it all up best I can
http://www.lostarg.wordpress.com
Let me know if any of the details are wrong.
May 28, 2009 at 11:27 am |
así se ve la página, yo aun la veo el link en el I nos lleva a la página aleph los otros numeros no tienen link
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/5314/54018131.jpg
May 28, 2009 at 3:22 pm |
Hey guys,
As was suggested by sdishman on a previous blog, can we concentrate all our work at the uF Forum?
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27856&start=345&sid=19a1f35d4cb394e11089013176e1076b
It is a LOT easier to follow than the comments posted here.
May 28, 2009 at 7:44 pm |
No because a lot of our progress is received by elliot, and it would be a pain for him to have to go over there and search through what is going on.
May 28, 2009 at 7:53 pm
I bet Elliott’s already following the unfiction thread. I know I would be.
May 28, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Yeah, but a lot of this is wild theories and collaboration amongst ourselves. We could work over there, and post our progress here so Elliott gets all the information in a much more concise and less confusing manner.
I think it’s a pain for him to sort through all of this here….
May 28, 2009 at 9:37 pm
That’s a good point.
May 28, 2009 at 11:31 pm |
Ok I just signed up over at unfiction. “See” you there!
May 30, 2009 at 2:23 am |
Hey Elliott, I just wanted to mention, as I’ve seen no one else has (here anyway) that the website the clues led us to is registered to the same man that registered the 8th spoke website, Edmund Montgomery. Just thought it was worth mentioning.
May 30, 2009 at 6:53 am |
Just a little timezone-check: 8:58 CET.
July 2, 2009 at 5:12 pm |
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