Morgan Harrington Murder: Anchorage Farm Could Yield Even More Clues
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Charlottesville, VA– In a new development in the murder investigation of Morgan Dana Harrington, blinkoncrime.com has learned that Anchorage Farm was very much a frequent party spot for local musicians.
In fact, there was a 7 Mile Sleepover exactly one week after Morgan’s disappearance from the JPJ arena that included an invitation list of over 130 guests.
Jenny Bass, the adult daughter of David and Nancy Bass, is an accomplished pianist, musician, horticulturist and artist in the Charlottesville community.
The Seven Mile Sleepover appears to have been posted prior to Morgan’s disappearance, approximately October 14, 2009.
While it is unconfirmed how many guests actually attended the event, it is clear there could have been over 100 people within a few hundred yards of Morgan’s final resting place a week after she went missing, and presumably, her death.
As Anchorage Farm is a verified crime scene in an active murder investigation, one wonders if anyone found anything they may not have realized of importance at the time.
According to her facebook, Ms. Bass was clearly disturbed by her discovery as well:
Jason Mateos and Elizabeth Morton, contributing editors to this report
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Hello, Blink & Blinksters. I’m a first-time poster here, although I’ve been following along with the Blinksters in the forum here for several weeks. I’m not sure how to start, as I feel very much out of my league among the dedicated and well-researched people who contribute to this forum. In fact, I put off posting anything at all until I was able to read enough posts and follow enough links in order to feel up to speed.
I don’t have any expert or local knowledge to offer, but there is something in me that feels compelled to give Morgan a voice and to lift up her family, even if I’m a complete stranger. When a childhood friend of mine died from cancer at age 17, her mother, in reaction to the amount of people who had attended her daughter’s funeral–and to the support and love they had given to the family–remarked,”You know, they say it takes a village to raise a child. Today I can also say it takes a village to bury a child.”
It was encouraging to come to the forum the other day and read the new information that’s been coming in about Anchorage Farm, and all the new windows and doors the BOC posters have been able to open from it. I’ve been frustrated all along by my lack of understanding of the property. If a body is found on someone’s property, naturally you want to know about the people who live there, and it seemed (to me at least) that we knew plenty about D. Bass and his wife, but very little about his adult daughter. I mean, she is an adult, right? She lives on the property, but she has her own freedom, her own social life, and her own visitors. I’m not sure why we are just finding out more about her now, but perhaps there was a reason for this, from a LE perspective or otherwise.
I’ve looked through the pictures of the so-called Melon Guy (or whatever we’re calling him), and I agree with some of the other posters that the pictures–both individually and as a set–seem oddly unfocused and lacking in even the most basic aesthetic sense, especially coming from someone who appears to have other artistic endeavors (I guess I’m assuming the detailed scroll pictured is his, which may not be the case). But as I looked closer at the pictures, it dawned on me that these photos might not be from a still camera. I think there is a good chance that these are still frames extracted from a video. I have a small digital camcorder, and the way Melon Man’s pictures of AF look all pixel-y and blurry and sort of unfocused look a lot like the thumbnail library of my digital video files. The subjects/scenes don’t appear to be purposefully framed up like a photograph; to me it looks more like what you get when you pause a home video.
Other posters have also hypothesized that it looks like they are headed somewhere in particular in the sequence of pictures. I also agree with this, which is another reason why I think he/they could have been using a video camera. IMO, I think what they are doing on the day the pictures are taken have nothing to do with MH, at least not directly. I have more to say on this, but given that the people associated with this FB photo album are not POI, I’m not sure what’s allowed to be discussed about them. I suppose I’m not yet familiar with the protocol here.
I’ve been wondering how much JB–or anyone else for that matter–is involved in the upkeep of the farm. That’s a lot of land for just one person to take care of.
I’ve also been wondering how long the creek is near where Morgan’s body was found. Where does it begin? Does it run through any other adjacent properties? Is it possible for someone to end up in AF by following the creek, thereby avoiding being spotted out in the open traversing an open field?
Sorry for the long first post. I’ll aim to be more succinct in the future!
tokyorose
Tokyo Rose-
Welcome to BOC and what a very measured and insightful post.
If the possibility exists these images came from a video camera, I would say there are tons of images missing.
Your welcome to share your thoughts freely as long as they are not accusatory without merit, but I gather from your first contribution you are very capable of being open and diplomatic at the same time.
Thank you for your support of Morgan and the Harrington’s as well.
B
Has it crossed anyone’s mind that these pictures have the feel of a scavenger hunt?
Or a map. Yes.
B
40.justice says:
May 21, 2010 at 10:19 pm
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Perfect!!
Blink: a map? Hmmmm…….very interesting.
How much time is lost when people go missing by saying they have no evidence of foul play and this person could have ran away or left of their own free will? How many lives could have been saved if they were treated as victims of foul play right off the bat? I realize that there are people who just walk away from their life, but when you have those closest to them telling you that they know this person would not just walk away from the life and loved ones, you are loosing critical time, time that could have meant someone’s life being saved by not treating it as foul play.
What brings this to my mind is two things. 1) IF these pics are completely innocent and of no connection to Morgan and IF JB and/or her associates have nothing to do with Morgan, then these pics may mean Morgan was not yet on AF at the time these pics were taken, which we all believe I think to be within days of 10/17, as I simply cannot believe that she was there when the pics were taken and they didn’t come across her. 2) The case I posted on here about the missing teen the other day last seen getting off the school bus and CUE saying that if it were classified as foul play, they could obtain more resources.
That crossed my mind too Katie.
Great idea Judy and Justice, thankyou for running with it, the memory quilt is a wonderful idea and making it big enough for Gil to wrap herself in it would be perfect. it seems like all of us here just want to wrap Morgan, and Gil and Dan and Alex for that matter in our collective arms….sigh ….and ease their sorrow.
Perhaps as you say Gil has some article of clothing of Morgans’. You could give us guidelines re size and approach, so the quilt would have some kind of continuity, and be attractive and soothing to Gil, who seems to have a lot of style. I love to think of her wrapped in a big quilt from all of us and like the examples you have shown us.
Thankyou for offering this and what a great skill you have.
Thanks Blink regarding photo 12. I saw on FM that you are able to see the EXIF data from the photos, but you can’t legally post it. Was GPS data included?
I haven’t read all of the posts this morning, but I did see that Katie and Taz mentioned something about these photos reminding them of a scavenger hunt or something. Now that I think about it, I think this could be right. In addition, Eloise’s post above got me thinking. Was their task somehow related to the 4 elements? (earth, wind, fire, water) Maybe someone can expound on this. I don’t think there is anything sinister in any of the photos, btw. Just my opinion. Maybe they were out there exploring and kind of half way looking for Morgan in a “what if we found that girl who disappeared from the Metallica concert” kind of way. Never really believing it possible or knowing they may have been pretty close to where she was place. IDK.
No GPS Yoshi, we are working on that.
B
37.ConcernedBystander says:
May 21, 2010 at 9:47 pm
total mateos says: May 21, 2010 at 7:48 am
Now it’s question time. Blink, I know that your choice of words are always purposeful. Can you elaborate any more on these two remarks made earlier:
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Probably easier to go to the next cubicle and ask her, Jason.
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Comical, and I’m flattered. I hope you are closer to finding out who murdered Morgan Harrington, than you are on this wildly off the mark accusation. That is where your focus should be. I know you’re better than that.
I am not your enemy… don’t turn me into one. Leave well enough alone.
I am apparently out of a loop of sorts apparently. If this is Morgan related I would appreciate a heads up, if it is not, it has no place here.
B
B
29.MarchmallowWI says:
May 21, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Hi Blink,
Here is a possible facebook for James Melvin Brown. I don’t know how to verify further. He is friends with a lot of kids that graduated from Charlottesville’s high school and area high schools in the past 3-4 years.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=509169903&ref=sgm
That is definitely him. In the words of editor Elizabeth Morton.. what you bet he knows Eades?
B
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Blink, any idea what is up with this kid? No comments on the Cville weekly article. It is like nobody cares that he is missing…
I have a suspicion, but not ripe. Cville PD posted that, not his family, and nearly 3 weeks after he was allegedly last seen.
B
Blink you wrote:
What I did note, was that the yerta has significant entire “sheers” of bark, and they are in excess of 6 ft. One would think someone would have to have access to loggers, or a clearing company to get sheaths that size. They would have be some very large and very old trees.
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Interesting thought Blink- I would tend to think there are many downed/fallen trees naturally on AF- But due to your remark, I think it would be rather unusual, that the bark is uniformly cut and of the same size- ect. The pics are not that clear though- But you now have me wondering about a logging company that would do this…….
Tokyo Rose- welcome to BOC -Wow-very astute first post- I would like to hear more of your theories- your post was brilliant and very thought provoking- stills huh?
Katie- I also got this feeling from the pics- scavenger hunt- mapping- reminds me of many horror movies where young newbie traffickers document where their stash/crop is- you know, the movies where, these unassuming kids end up- dying, because they meet up with the really bad guys, and all that is left behind, is their video footage, which acts as a deterrent to future newbies? Scary
I failed to also say that it reminds me of the movies where unassuming kids stumble upon a crop and the really bad guys hunt them down so that their secret is never revealed…. Great observation Katie- as you can tell your post got me3 to thinking…. I have also watched too many movies, I’m sure LOL
Just to remind everyone – there are trails in the field where Morgan was found, one leading to the upper left corner, the other towards the tree line. The latter one ends there, rather abruptly. To me, this proves that someone goes there. These trails are there on all the aerial photos from the past years.
There is also something strange in the upper left corner of that field. There used to be a tree there, and on the latest GIS web photos it looks more like a massive tree stand/ tree house.
I can’t see the facebook photos, but I had a glimpse at a few of them on mindmorgan.com before they were removed. I found them very strange. They were intended not to look like a conventional/ordinary/bourgeois photo series. Katie’s comment, that they have the feel of a scavenger hunt, is exactly to the point. I also thought of blair witch project, or whatever it was called.
Re: James Melvin Brown III. Today’s Daily Progress has this:
http://www2.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/article/charlottesville_police_seek_missing_man/56435/
WTH? It says he was “last seen on Saturday” but does not provide a date. Intentionally vague?
The article also provides his address: 2102 Arlington Blvd, unit 9.
Heh? Big difference between last Saturday and May 1st.
B
A yurt? She certainly didn’t build it on her own. Who helped her? Who delivered the bark/wood etc?
Beautiful idea on the quilt! I wish I had the patience and skill.
What impressive brainstorming going on here! I want to apologize if I am going off on a tangent and am misdirecting anyone. What I was looking at is the reason for the obsession over certain things like creeks, trees, etc. I would think they would be rather commonplace if you lived in the area. ( which I don’t)
Video, very interesting. Also, anyone w/ better knowledge of fb- but do the pics have to originate from melon, or could they have been originally posted by someone else? I know I have pics from all kinds of people that are in my ‘photos’, if they are on MY friends list, or are we not really saying they are from him directly?
Also, are we able to share what’s up w/ 1/11/10 date?
E- they came from Melon.
Im not sure I understand your question, as I am not sure of the date relevance, if your asking if you may share your theory, of course.
B
I tried to look closely…as much as is possible to the long floor drawings and what i suspect are parts of the two that we see in the pic on the living room floor. The one thing that stood out to me was that there are a few places on #12 where the illustrator used Hebrew letters. in other parts Chinese characters are used. it’s just a bunch of eclectic themes from different types of spiritualism or perhaps religiosity. It’s almost as if it is yet another map or part of this game that goes along with the photos. IDk, i find it all a bit too coincidental. At first, I thought Melon Guy seemed like a typical young adult perhaps an innocent spirit. Maybe he and the Balding Melon-Gut guy are normal and thought they were out for a day of fun and mystery…maybe they are knew what they were challenged to find. I hate to even say it…but I feel like people kept moving her around that damned farm.
First of all, WoW.
Second, I would appreciate anything you could glean from it, many thanks
B
J2K says:
May 21, 2010 at 6:53 pm
Taz -
Very, very Interesting observation you made (at least for me, as this escaped my attention until now):
“The last time Jesse used his myspace was 1/11/2010″
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Did we need to know the significance, or not really?
Didn’t we just discuss logging not too long ago?
Katie-
yes, my daughter did some looking the other night. Putting words together.
Here’s a good link.
http://www.hebrewchinese.com/
Blink, the art in the beautiful scrolls is alchemic. Not that it would surprise you to know that since I took on studying alchemy and the occult right when Morgan disappeared….. Too many signs. One meaning is of a union through multiplication, another union through multiplication. I will try to interpret the rest of the meanings, but if someone else can get me a better picture of this art work, it would help a lot.
I don’t have a better pic as none of it is raw file and it over pix’s when I try to blow it up-
anyone else?
I think I am convinced there is an element of “that” with this crew, I am not convinced Morgan got caught in the middle of it per se.
B
katie says:
May 22, 2010 at 2:57 pm
I tried to look closely…as much as is possible to the long floor drawings and what i suspect are parts of the two that we see in the pic on the living room floor. The one thing that stood out to me was that there are a few places on #12 where the illustrator used Hebrew letters. in other parts Chinese characters are used. it’s just a bunch of eclectic themes from different types of spiritualism or perhaps religiosity. It’s almost as if it is yet another map or part of this game that goes along with the photos. IDk, i find it all a bit too coincidental. At first, I thought Melon Guy seemed like a typical young adult perhaps an innocent spirit. Maybe he and the Balding Melon-Gut guy are normal and thought they were out for a day of fun and mystery…maybe they are knew what they were challenged to find. I hate to even say it…but I feel like people kept moving her around that damned farm.
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Its not one illustrator. Its a party game. You get high or trip together and they have paper that everyone draws on to their hearts content and it hopefully looks cool in the morning. I have seen several of them back in the day. This is just a better than normal one because she has artsy friends (have you seen what her boyfriend can do with a pancake — wow).
We are reading to much into this folks IMO. I lived on a similar farm in c’ville and have seen tons of pics taken by our weekend visotrs that looked just like these. The valley and blue ridge mountains are unbelievably beautiful; that time of year. They walked round during the day (nothing else to do there) and took pics of some of the cooler places they saw — just a lot of the pics didn’t turn out that well — either because of the taker or the equipment. They are important because they show us what the area looked like, they identify some folks LE has to talk to if they haven’t to see what they saw and, who knows, maybe they captured something very important — but I don’t believe for a second these guys are doing some macabre weekend at bernie’s reenactment with morgan.
I swear to God I am the most sheltered 41 year old on Earth. I couldn’t draw a straight line after 2 glasses Vino let alone “tripping” which other than my driveway 2 months ago, I have never done via drugs so what the Hell do I know.
B
acho says:
May 22, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Re: James Melvin Brown III. Today’s Daily Progress has this:
http://www2.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/article/charlottesville_police_seek_missing_man/56435/
Looks like the Police Contact person is Det. Todd Lucas. He is apparently a Gang Enforcement Officer but there is an entire website called I HeArTE JADE which is devoted to outing all of the area Drug Enforcement Officers. On that site a Det. Todd Lucas is covered extensively. Would be very interesting to know who the site belongs to.
Here is the site:
Lol, lol. We know exactly who she is.
Tell me if she picked up Kudro’s latest smash up.
O and as an aside, anyone else notice IJS got a reprieve? Till Wednesday actually.
B
yep, front page news on the Kudro crash up
Thanks, see, I did not even have to look-
B
Eloise – re:May 21, 2010 at 9:31 pm)
“OK I am an idiot please advise.”
El, as we know that is not the case, I’ll accept that my post may have been less than clear. (I’m still trying to catch up on everything poppin’ here and pokin’ around, so, at the time of that post I had not read back very far yet page-wise, and didn’t want to be repetitive if this point had already been discussed.)
Anyway! What I meant to convey in spotlighting Taz’s observation:
“The last time Jesse used his myspace was 1/11/2010″
… was that *if* the pics in question are in some way related to this case (other than just being taken on the same property that housed Morgan’s body), then when they were taken is obvs quite significant, as is *why* – but only JB and an intimate number of individuals are privy to that. On Jan. 26, when news broke that her remains had been found on AF and the obscure site was suddenly under intense scrutiny, those who were personally familiar with the property – in various degrees – were certainly more stricken than anyone else not directly involved in the investigation.
‘Put it this way: if MH had not been found yet, no one would have given these particular photos (and similar collections we’ve yet to see) a second thought (except for: dude, there is no shame in reading “Photography For Dummies.” Just sayin’).
That said, even if JB and friends have absolutely nothing to do with what happened to Morgan, I’d think photos such as these would be turned over to LE after Jan. 26 (or at least taken down from Facebook, out of respect) – the shots are clearly (and perhaps unknowingly) taken in the vicinity of where she was found, around the same time of year she was left there.
That said, Meloncube has not been in a position to do either, it appears, because the last time he logged into his FB account was Jan. 11. I’m not implying that this dude has ANYthing to do with the case, but it’s hard to believe that after all of Cville – and many people throughout the nation/world – became suddenly fixated on where MH was found and how she got there, he wouldn’t think “wow – I have those pictures up of us walking by/near that area on AF,” and at least feel compelled to look at them (which requires a log-in).
And so, Eloise – this is my typically long-wind way of articulating (and actually thinking through, so thanks for the prompt) why his “last login” date stood out to me as inconsistent with what most people would have done being in possession of such images. Not saying it’s suspicious; just saying it’s perplexing.
I think it’s pretty clear that whomever is responsible for Morgan’s death believed her body would not be found for quite some time – or, ever. I wonder who else has pictures of the untended portions of the property…
Thanks J2K-
I would just add that his facebook activity is current per his usage habits-
B
I never said I thought it was one illustrator…notice I didn’t say artist as I don’t think the title really fits. I meant that at least one person used Hebrew and at least one person used Chinese characters. I figured it was a group effort in some sort of a party game akin to artistic Twister.
I have taught both Visual Arts and Dance so I am drawn to movement both spacial and visual. I also had a darkroom back in the days of SLR cameras and film. I too think these are sight seeing type pics but I still think that it looks like a scavenger hunt of sorts. I have an open mind and have not decided either way as to the import of these pics…other than the fact, as you say, they may unwittingly have gotten important evidence on “film.”
Katie, I’m going to have to disagree with you. The symbols in the artwork are not a combination of varying spiritualities, but rather one. This is not a piece done by a number of tripping people. It is quite symbolic, from the eye of horas through the yin and yang.
EDIT: hence her super hero cause ‘to’ out a drug task force?
Sorry folks. This is why publishing co’s won’t hire me.
Thank you so much J2k.
I fully get what you are saying now. I get mighty frustrated with myself and think, what did I miss now!
Also, you said-
I’m not implying that this dude has ANYthing to do with the case, but it’s hard to believe that after all of Cville – and many people throughout the nation/world – became suddenly fixated on where MH was found and how she got there, he wouldn’t think “wow – I have those pictures up of us walking by/near that area on AF,” and at least feel compelled to look at them (which requires a log-in).
He and everyone else that has communicated with him. I agree with what Blink said about a sense of arrogance. I think ‘they’ believe everyone is a bunch of idiots. Well, you know what, we aren’t anymore darn it.
mynamehere-looking forward to your views. Do you have a good magnifying glass? It helps alot.
Ok, if everyone is on board for the Morgan memory quilt, I say let’s get started.
How do you guys want to do this?
Justice, is there a particular format that you need everyone’s contribution in?
Is there an email address we should send it to or how should we do this?
I’m going to go get started on mine. I think I will do a little power point
Looked at the Hebrew in picture 12 – I am transcribing the consonants, followed by my interpretation of what it could mean
rwh – wind/soul
ras – head
bra – creating/he created
These three words are quite common, but it stood out to me that they are also in the first lines of the book of genesis.
akr – peasant
bar – well (for water)
bryq – in a vacuum/void
Not sure where these come from… at least one of them is not in genesis. There are two more words which I can’t quite make out.
It looks as if these words were excerpted by random. They are not the main principles of the Kabbalah. Odd choice. It all looks like pseudo-esoteric stuff – but where do the Hebrew words come from? I would have expected a more obvious source for them. Something one could find on the Wikipedia.
The picture isn’t very focused, that makes it difficult for me to recognize words. Hope the above is correct.
another B-
Thank you so much for taking a look at that and providing your thoughts. This is not my area obviously, I would love any additional feedback. So what do you think it means in terms of a “party activity” ?
B
A long time ago someone brought up these hunts out there for little caches, and you do it using GPS and clues. I think it’s called geo-caching. This would fit in with the “scavenger” hunt vibe. It’s a long shot but they do have sites in c-ville environs near A farm. It may be a long shot, but no longer than the Wiccan occult link, right?
You freaked me out, as I have an as yet unpublished piece that contains the word environs, lol.
B
As for the pictures – odd. There were obviously two different cameras used, one appears to be a mobile phone. Two different photographer, in my opinion, one photographing the usual, the view from the house, the house itself… the other one taking pictures where half a person is cut off or where there is nothing to see, really. Why combine these diverse sets of photos? Because it is all Anchorage Farm? Why not edit them? And why are photos missing, as I have read somewhere? How poor could the quality possibly have been? Honestly, some of the pictures which are online are not very good.
Strange. To me, the point is that there were visitors who were moving around the farm, and there were activities such as constructing a yurt, which involve more than one person. And I bet LE were pretty confused when they saw evidence of some of these activities.
As for the farm land itself, I am now even more convinced that there must have been something very specific about the field where Morgan was found. The wooded areas look dense, and I don’t think too many people go there. They would have been an ideal hiding place.
I finished creating and uploading a video to YouTube today. Here is the link… Please remember the pictures are in poor pixel quality. As the video progresses (and you will see) I attempted to post the very same pictures within the same slide-show in the exact order but with using a tool known as edge detection. It looks well on my hi def computer screen but I do fear you won’t get as much out of it viewing it as a slide-show via YouTube…As far as the music selection used, of all the songs I found, it was the most appropriate I felt…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C49eFbvjLeU
Justice, I think that is a very thoughtful idea.
I refrained from commenting earlier, as your idea sent me down memory lane– My grandma would make a quilt like this for all of her grandchildren- it was made from pieces of every special shirt, dress, or baby blanket that we grew up wearing- I have 2- I treasure them both.
I think this is a great idea, Justice- and perhaps Gil can take Morgan’s clothing and have one done, specifically from her things. Another thing my Grandma would do is, take pairs of our favorite jeans and turn them into purses and backpacks- I was always so proud of those, and friends would always want one.
Oh the memories…thanks Justice. I think your idea is quite special.
Blink, please don’t post if you feel this is inappropriate:
As you may know, I am not typically one to throw stones of speculation at someone specific. I am interested, however, if some things strike you as “odd” about a person’s bio? Reading specific references below, I can’t help to think (although I hate myself for doing so) that he may, hypothetically, “fit” a possible profile for Morgan’s killer, a set of characteristics that have been discussed multiple times on these threads:
-Selfish and self-centered to the core
-I take things to personal
-I love real hard
-Have an overactive libido
-I love people, i just want them to like me as much as I like them
-but sometimes in the past I was the hulk
-sometimes i covet the prettyboy hand, pampered by his mummy and diddy
-I covet many things I have not
I am sure LE is looking, or has looked into a similar individual, at least I hope. Some additional things to think about I guess.
Cat- I softened this up to be able to post, I know you will understand-
B
Given the sleepover on 10/24, doesn’t it make sense that the BGs used that occasion as cover to dispose of the body? Lots of people were coming and going so what’s one more vehicle? That’s one scenario.
The other is that Morgan was not killed, but kidnapped. After being held for a few days, the BGs decided to use the occasion of the sleepover to take her out to the farm and kill her in a remote location. Given the nature of some of the creeps out there, she could have been killed rather violently on site and then her body placed in a more orderly fashion. Again, since there were many people around, who would pay attention to something happening away from the action?
@ Blink May 22, 2010 at 5:50 pm
“This is not my area obviously, I would love any additional feedback. So what do you think it means in terms of a “party activity” ?
B”
Not my area either! Well, what I can say is that in my opinion the person who wrote this had a basic knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet. There are various subtle differences which s/he picked up on… unlikely if you have no idea what you are doing. This looks more like someone trained in classical Hebrew, rather than Ivrit. For a modern speaker of Hebrew this handwriting would look antiquated or ornamental. S/he would probably use a different style. It would be like trying to imitate a garamont or times font – to insert English words into a painting like this, we would probably use capitals, but we would not try to imitate the looks of a font used in printing.
I was mainly wondering about the sources. Did they have a Hebrew bible or similar lying around, opened it at some page, chose a word and inserted it into their painting? If that was the case, the person would have understood the words. If you have absolutely no idea what you are doing, then choosing random words is not a good idea.
Alternatively, did they have some secondary literature handy which contained Hebrew words which they chose? Unlikely. Most of these books would present Hebrew in transliteration rather than in the original alphabet. I also can’t picture a book discussing a combination of these keywords.
To me, this painting looks like a compilation of religious and philosophical symbols from various cultures mixed up with some doodles. Had it not been for the odd selection of Hebrew words, I would have thought this is based on various pseudo esoteric books with illustrations. I don’t believe there is a system behind this.
I don’t read Chinese or Sanskrit, so I can’t comment on these texts.
I don’t think there is any deeper system in this drawing. No attempt to find Jungian archetypes
It is odd, though. And – if she is a herbalist, does this suggest that she is more into Eastern concepts? From what I had heard about her before I would have guessed European roots (no pun intended).
I am SO confused by some of the posts on this page.
First of all, regarding JC (Melon) log-in dates. What does his last log-in on Myspace have to do with the AF pictures on Facebook? Were they on Myspace, too? He has been on Facebook fairly regularly, and posting pictures of varying quality over the past 6 months.
Second, why would he have to log in to look at his own pictures even if they were on Myspace? Wouldn’t they still be on his own computer/camera/card?
Third, do we have any clue as to whether he turned them over to LE or not? As far as taking them down out of respect for Morgan, I guess I really don’t understand that either.
Fourth, after looking at his Facebook page and a few of his postings, this really doesn’t strike me as a guy who’s trying to hide much. (Although I guess his Aunt Bev isn’t happy with him.)
I’m just left feeling like I really missed something here regarding JC. I mean, he talks about music and wiccan and his Kate and lots of other things, but . . . Or are you all talking about someone else, and I’m even further off-topic than I know?
I wrote my previous post before reading Cat’s “softened-up” post. Wow; I can only say that it is amazing what different impressions we got after reading the same material. (I read his Myspace blogs, his Facebook profile and Wall, and some of his photo comments on both sites.)
OK All,
Been lurking since my busy season, but haven’t forgotten you. Just wanted to say to crimewriter that that video brought me to tears. What mystery do the rolling hills of AF know? It is time for the answers to be exposed.
One of the things I find disturbing about the photos is that they are posted on fb in the first place, now and for all these months. The news of MH is very widespread–WHY would anyone care to keep these (very odd) photos of AF posted, while also (no doubt) having the knowledge of the discovery her remains there?
Re: #30, I see what others see–and it looks like a small bucket with a handle (mouth) arranged somewhat to look like a face (two dots) with a black hat or hair.
Cat- Hi I read that on his page also- In my experience his description of himself was a description of most young-men in his age group….
I wasn’t frightened by what he wrote, some of the things gave me pause, but IMO the fact that he was so open with his thoughts- makes me think he doesn’t fit the profile-KWIM?
Crimewriter-thanks for putting that together- I am having an issue trying to get it to play but look forward to viewing your work.
Oblio says:
May 22, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Geo caching! I SWEAR I just learned about it from a parent who’s childern are madly into it. FWIW, it’s still alive and well in my area. I understand it can involve toys or letters, etc. This ‘trend’ doesn’t sit well with me but some parents swear it’s a great family outting.
Never thought of it as an occult trend. There’s also something called a ‘travel bug’. It makes an item trackable from place to place, sometimes around the world. You could send that gawd awful garden gnome grandma left you in her will for a trip to Pitcairn Island.
Needed to step away from the photos for a while…..my eyes are going buggy. My take on some of the ones in question:
#32. I don’t see much there except a stream with shadows and light.
#30. I still see the skull, even asked my husband to take a look. After a VERY dramatic eyeroll, he indulged me and checked it out. He saw it too, but says it’s just poor resolution, pixelating.
Regarding the scrollwork, I’m not convinced it’s the work of many different people. Much of the handwriting that we can see looks to be from the same person, as do alot of those curvy shaped things. I’m inclined to think most of it was done by one person, with the exception of some of the “artwork”, but even that may be his/hers as well. Can you imagine the amount of time and extreme concentration it would take to do something like this? It would take hours at a time, days on end…who has this kind of spare time and a mind that would do this kind of scroll? I really think it’s the work of a disturbed individual…not necessarily violent, but I have no idea since I’m no expert on the human mind. Don’t think it’s occult related, just strange ramblings of a busy mind with no apparent outlet for expression.
I do think the people taking the photos/videos were headed in a particular direction, to a specific place. Pot grows wild in many areas of the U.S., and if it wasn’t there naturally, I’ve always felt perhaps someone had a little “garden” out there, it’s whereabouts known by any number of locals, including our “photographers”. That would describe Mr. Maroon Shirt’s big grin in one of the last pics.
All in all, a very strange turn of events….what are the chances there would be pics of AF a week after MH disappeared? This really is one of the weirdest cases I’ve ever seen.
Justice for Morgan….please.
Wow Crimewriter!
Great Job on the youtube video! Thank you!
alrighty!!!! can’t remember who posted about the moons waning, waxing , etc a few months ago… but, if y’all will look back at the moon cycle dates i think you will find correlations regarding morgan, disappearance tshirt discovery, body discovery….and, while you are perusing ‘wiccans’, etc. i would like for us all to think about the things we know…. #1… morgan is abducted from a ‘lamb of god’ concert…. is there meaning in that? as in, sacrificial lamb of god? is morgan the lamb?
if there are kids out there messing with this stuff, certainly attending and disappearing from this concert on the day that moon is waxing is coincidental??????
the pics from the farm, the tarp… comments made in photos… ‘stomp me down’… think people… it all ties in.
I did run across a post on the wall of a female relative of melon guy’s FB who had an album full of pictures of a party in honor of a visiting relative from Europe. The relative hosting the party was “Bev” and melon guy posted a comment that he wasn’t able to attend because he was still banned from “Bev’s” house. Don’t know why or what that means.
Thank you, crimewriter. Very nice work and beautiful music.
Yes, CW, although I had to watch it 3x to get through it, the video is incredibly touching and as my Blinkettes will tell you, I cry at some commercials.
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Observer….I sent my rock yesterday to you. Thanks again for helping us get our small monuments to Morgan’s bridge spot. I made my rock sparkle even in the dark just like Morgan’s spirit sparkles still.
Judi says:
May 22, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Ok, if everyone is on board for the Morgan memory quilt, I say let’s get started
Ok, I’m in. Can we actually make our own quilt block. I am a newbie quilter but this would be something I could do.