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jetblack wrote:Don't know if this is correct or if I've jumbled a few letters, but this is what I have so far:

itsorOaUhardPHTrygetinoutnyoUTWJeASehisestatedY
VERY interesting! Can you explain how you got there? You're definitely unto something here...

EDIT: ok, I got it. Good work!
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tiltingwindward wrote:Frankly, I'm not sure how the post on Frank's Private Thoughts blog could in any way be caused by his death/death throes/etc. First of all, he would have had to type out the perfectly coherent title to the post, BEFORE he died suddenly enough to cause the randomness in the message. Second, there is almost no way that his supposed wife would be typing on a computer that her husband died on--I'm assuming here that Frank's death probably involved at least minimal transmission of bodily fluids. And finally, if Frank just keeled over and slammed his head down on the keyboard, the resulting message would likely be gibberish featuring large quantities of the same letter/s. Think about it: if you press your head to your keyboard, does it randomly select letters from all over the keyboard and enter them, or does the computer get stuck on the area around the H or D or something and enter those letters a million times?

Side note: If Frank's wife left him because he was hearing voices, then how likely is that same woman to come back and leave a nice thank you note when she discovers that her husband has been communicating with a lot of other crazy people who think they hear voices too? The last thing I would expect that woman to do is try to maintain some kind of contact with the people who were (in her opinion) exacerbating Frank's illness.
These are all very good points, in my opinion. I think it is a message.
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http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/index.php

this page has lots of tools for cipher cracking good luck
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Man, if this thing is this hard to solve and we put all our remaining time into it only to discover that it reads "RIGHTHEREABOVEYOU" or some other typically vague, mysterious-sounding-but-not-very-helpful business I will riot. [/vent]
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Wilkie wrote:Man, if this thing is this hard to solve and we put all our remaining time into it only to discover that it reads "RIGHTHEREABOVEYOU" or some other typically vague, mysterious-sounding-but-not-very-helpful business I will riot. [/vent]
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If you take Tomen's alphabetized rearrangement of the original gobbledy
Tomen wrote:
ABBBCCDDDDDEFFFGGGGGHJKKMMNNNOPQQQSTTUUVWXXYZZZ
and convert it to a string of numbers where each letter's frequency is represented (A=1, B=3, C=2, etc.) you get this:

13251351122311312211213

... which almost looks like ASCII, but I tried

132 51 35 112 23 113 122 112 13

in binary, hex and oct and it all translates to gibberish.
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Post by scooby4932 »

ok i have concluded this WAS casssie ...

Clue 22: WHY Poem
Clue #22 - Morse Code found on October 2, 2006 ~10:52pm PST

This message was found on the page for cassieiswatching at YouTube.com:

"WHY

codes into serapis
-.-. .... .- -. .-- .- - - -. . -- -.-. .- -.. . -. ..- -.. . -. - .... .-. -.-- ... - ..- .-. ... . --..--
-.-. .- -... .- ... -.- . - -.-. .... ... .-- ..- .-. . ...- .. ... . .-- -. --- .-. ... . .-.-.-
-.-. .... .- .... .-- .- - - - . -.- -. . -.-- -... . .- . .... .-- .... .. ... - - - .. -.
-... . .- .... . .-- .... .. ... - - --- - - ..- .- -... -... . - .... --- ... ... ... .-. .. -. .-.-.-
-.. . . .... .... .. -.-- .. -. - .-. .. - --- - ..-. .- -. - ... .-. . .... .- -- . --..--
-.. . . .... .... .. - - --- .. - - --- .-. -.-- ..-. .- ... .-. .... - .... . ... .- -- . .-.-.-

HOW"

Morse Code Translator reveals the following from the code above:

"CHANWATTNEMCADENUDENTHRYSTURSE,
CABASKETCHSWUREVISEWNORSE.
CHAHWATTTEKNEYBEAEHWHISTTTIN
BEAHEWHISTTOTTUABBETHOSSSRIN.
DEEHHIYINTRITOTFANTSREHAME,
DEEHHITTOITTORYFASRHTHESAME."

SOLUTION:

CHANWATTNEM | CADENUDENTHRYSTURSE,
What men can't | understand they curse,

CABASKETCHSWUR EVISEWNORS.
what curses back | is even worse.

CHAHWATTTEKNEY | BEAEHWHISTTTIN
when they attack the beast within

BEAHEWHISTTOTTU | ABBETHOSSSRIN.
the beast without | absorbs the sin.

DEEHHIYINTRITOT | FANTSREHAME,
they do it in their | father's name.

DEEHHITTOITTORY | FASRHTHESAME.
they do it to their | father's shame.

What men can't understand they curse,
what curses back is even worse.
when they attack the beast within
the beast without absorbs the sin.
they do it in their father's name.
they do it to their father's shame.

[edit]Clue 23: HOW Poem
Clue #23 - Morse Code found on October 3, 2006 ~2:45pm PST

This message was found on the page for cassieiswatching at YouTube.com (she had been logged in 15 hours)

"HOW

codes into serapis
- .... - .- . -- . ... .-.. .-.. .-. . . . .-.. - . . -- .-- . - -. -- .-.. .-.. .-.. .-.-.-
.-.. --- . .-. .-. - . ... .... .-- -.-. .- ..- --. . -.- .-.. .-- .. --- .. --. -... -. .. -.-. . -.-- .-.-.-
.... -.-- . . . -.-- --- ..- .... -. .-.. .-- .. - -.-. --- .-. ..- .-. . ...- - . . --..--
-. .... . ... -... .- . .... - ..- -. ..- -.- . .-.. .-. .- .--. - .... --- .- -.-- . --- -. -- -... .-. ..-. .-.-.-
. - ..- . . -.-- .- -. . - -. -.-- ..-. ...- .- ... -.. .-.. -- .. .-..
. -.. . .-- ... --- - .. . .. .--. .... ... -.-. -. .-. .. --- ... ...- -.-. .- .- .. .-.-.-
"

Morse Code Translator reveals the following from the code above:

"THTAEMESLLREEELTEEMWETNMLLL.
LOERRTESHWCAUGEKLWIOIGBNICEY.
HYEEEYOUHNLWITCORUREVTEE,
NHESBAEHTUNUKELRAPTHOAYEONMBRF.
ETUEEYANETNYFVASDLMIL
EDEWSOTIEIPHSCNRIOSVCAAI."

SOLUTION:

TELL ME TELL ME TELL ME THE ANSWER
WHILE YOU BEG IT GROWS LIKE CANCER
YOU'RE THE ONE WITH EVERY CLUE
BUT FRANK HAS BEEN MORE HELP THAN YOU
ELEVEN DAYS UNTIL MY FATE
SEREPIS CODES, HI NOVICE, WAIT

The final line also contains two futher anagrams, hidden by Cassie:
SERAPIS CODES = CASSIE PROSED
HI NOVICE WAIT = A VOICE WITHIN

(Dictionary definition Prosed: To write prose.)
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Possible (but unlikely) new clue?

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Hi all. I've been following the CIW "project" for a while, but this is my first post. I was reading about the connection to Hole lyrics in Frank's last blog post, and decided to Google "hole "right there above you"", because that sounded like something that might be a lyric. The only hit for that search is this:
http://www.outofbodytravel.org/images/T ... ticism.pdf
(Warning to people on slow connections: 700+ page PDF behind that link)

It seems to be someone's treatise on out-of-body experiences. It's very long, and very inscrutable, but it looks like the kind of thing that might be a Cassie clue. Unfortunately, not only is that PDF file large, but the site which it's part of is huge and filled with similarly...odd?... text. (It reminds me a bit of TimeCube.com). If there's a clue buried in there, it could take a while to dig out.

I have a feeling this is just a complete coincidence, but I thought I'd point it out.
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Post by Nicole »

DontHaveAClue wrote:
jetblack wrote:Don't know if this is correct or if I've jumbled a few letters, but this is what I have so far:

itsorOaUhardPHTrygetinoutnyoUTWJeASehisestatedY
VERY interesting! Can you explain how you got there? You're definitely unto something here...

EDIT: ok, I got it. Good work!
Ok, I'm trying to help restore hope that there was something important in this message, and I was wondering exactly how you guys got that out of those letters when there were no Is or Rs. What code did you use?
My name is Nicole and I'm a Cassie-holic.

* Merv closes it, and gives his attention to Nicole =P
* Nicole22 melts
* Merv saves some Nicole for his cookies :P
<Merv> They gotta be loved now :P
<Nicole22> awwwww!!!
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Re: Possible (but unlikely) new clue?

Post by Nicole »

zonko99 wrote:(It reminds me a bit of TimeCube.com).
That's one quacked website.
My name is Nicole and I'm a Cassie-holic.

* Merv closes it, and gives his attention to Nicole =P
* Nicole22 melts
* Merv saves some Nicole for his cookies :P
<Merv> They gotta be loved now :P
<Nicole22> awwwww!!!
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