Mishaps of Paddle Steamer General Slocum. Recent Possible Aligner Activity.

As a useful reference I thought I would make a definitive (everything I have noticed) list of the mishaps of Sidewheel Paddle Steamer General Slocum. Slocum was launched 18 April 1891. In my opinion, besides the horrific 1904 Slocum fire, with its many alignments, and the onboard riot of anarchists 20 days before McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist, it's for whatever reason just the mishaps of summer 1894 that align well with assassination.

• 10 August 1891. Florence Schermack, 12, drowns after falling off dangerously crowded dock at Jewell's Wharf, foot of Fulton Street, Brooklyn, she being one of about 800 passengers unloaded there from General Slocum in dark at 8:30pm or so.
• 13 August 1891. Runs aground on mud bank off Rockaway Beach during low tide. Passengers have to return to NYC by LIRR.
• 15 August 1891. About 10am Slocum runs into SS Monmouth off Pier 6, North River [a former name of the lower Hudson River], off Rector Street.
• 29 July 1894. Slocum loses electrical power and lighting after striking sandbar off Rockaway with about 4700 on ship. Pandemonium ensues onboard.
  • Six years to day before assassination of Umberto I of Italy.
  • Sixteen years to day before Slocum, TX, massacre.
  • Twenty-one years to day before Matheson fire (day before Black Tom Explosion).
• 15 August 1894. Slocum runs into sandbar again. Stays aground all night.
  • The assassin of French President Carnot is executed the same day. Elliott Roosevelt died the previous day.
• 1 September 1894. Slocum's rudder falls off or is heavily damaged after backing into tugboat Robert H. Sayre shortly after leaving Jewell's Wharf, Brooklyn.
  • Same day as Great Hinckley Fire that may have killed Thomas “Boston” Corbett. Robert H. Sayre had saved about half the passengers of the James D. Nicol when the latter sank off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, 24 June 1894 (the day after the Albion Mine disaster and the same day that President Carnot was assassinated).
• 8 July 1898. Slocum crashes head-on into starboard side, amidships, of Steam Lighter Amelia in afternoon. Amelia deems it necessary to beach herself on Governor's Island.
  • Probably insignificant, but same day that con artist Soapy Smith was killed in “Shootout on Juneau Wharf”, Skagway, Alaska.
• 17 August 1901. The General Slocum is carrying about 800 anarchists from Paterson, NJ, on an excursion from Jersey City to Rockaway. A group of likely inebriated anarchists decide sea is too rough and that Slocum should turn around. Possibly mutinous riot ensues and Slocum does turn around—to police dock near Battery, where seventeen rioters are handed over to police.
  • Twenty days later, on 6 September 1901, President McKinley is fatally wounded by an anarchist assassin perhaps influenced by anarchists associated with Paterson.
• 15 June 1902. At 4pm runs aground at Far Rockaway while dodging yacht 400 yards from Seaside Hotel.
  • Two years to the day before Slocum fire.
• 3 July 1902. At 7am, the cook on General Slocum possibly murdered, purportedly by porter from St. Thomas, West Indies (newspaper says cook expected to die).
• 6 July 1902. Collides with Thomas Patten, morning, Battery, during competition to enter pier vacated by Bay Ridge.
• 9 August 1903. Some buckets on one paddle wheel damaged and box about this paddle wheel crushed during heavy seas while returning to Manhattan from Rockaway Beach. Likely a comparatively minor incident.
• 15 June 1904. Slocum catches fire at Hellgate, East River, with 1029 dead. St. Vitus day in Gregorian Calendar (Catholic liturgical calendar).
  • Same day that Hitachi Maru shelled and sunk (1086 dead) by Russians during Russo-Japanese war.
  • Day before Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor General of Finland, assassinated.
  • Thirteen days later, on 28 June 1904, SS Norge sinks (635 dead) after striking Hasselwood Rock off Rockall, the deadliest ocean liner disaster in the Atlantic before Titanic. Norge sinks on St. Vitus day in Julian calendar (Serbian Orthodox liturgical calendar), ten years to the day before Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip. St. Vitus day is the day Serbs commemorate Lazar of Serbia, who died in 1389 leading the Serb forces in the Battle of Kosovo (15 June 1389 in Julian Calendar).
  • Six years to the day after Slocum fire, on 15 June 1910 (St. Vitus day in Gregorian, Catholic calendar), Herzogivinian Serb Bogdan Žerajić attempts to assassinate Governor of Bosnia-Herzogivina in Sarajevo. The day before Princip assassinates Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, Princip would visit the the grave of Žerajić.
  • On 14 October 1912, exactly six months after Titanic hit iceberg, and exactly one year before Senghenydd Coliery disaster, John Flammang Schrank wounds presidential candidate and former president Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a shot to the chest from a .38 revolver. Schrank claims that a young woman who perished in the Slocum disaster had at that time been his fiancée (it is dubious that she had ever been his fiancée). In Schrank's pocket when arrested was a note on which he had written the phrase “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott”. This phrase is the title (in German) of Martin Luther's hymn translated in English as “A Mighty Fortress is our God”. The hymn was purportedly being played by the band of the General Slocum as it was about to leave the dock on its fateful voyage. The Chicago Tribune of June 17, 1904, says the hymn was sung: THE SONG ON THEIR LIPS AS THEY SAILED AWAY TO DEATH. "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." 17 Jun 1904, Fri Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) Newspapers.com.
  • On 15 June 1881, Guiteau bought the ivory-handled British Bulldog revolver which he used 17 days later to assassinate President Garfield. Kaiser Wilhelm II started reign 15 June 1888. The Sanriku tsunami earthquake killed about 22,000 in Japan on 15 June 1896. On 15 June 1920, three black men were lynched in Duluth, Minnesota. Polish Interior Minister Bronisław Wilhelm Pieracki was assassinated in Warsaw on 15 June 1934 by elements associated with the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists); in particular, Stepan Bandera supplied the bomb and gun used during the assassination, and later he led the OUN radical faction OUN-B, the so-called Banderites, who during German occupation helped slaughter many Jews and ethnic Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia notwithstanding that during the middle of the German occupation Bandera was held prisoner by the Nazis. George Dasch and his fellow saboteurs left Lorient, France, 26 May 1942. His mission included blowing up the Hellgate Bridge, which was probably about where the General Slocum fire started going in a big way. Instead, Dasch called the FBI office in Manhattan on 15 June 1942, to give himself up.

Recent possible aligner activity.

So while preparing this reprisal of the weirdnesses concerning the General Slocum disaster, a disaster that took place some 119 years ago, I noticed some current, quite recent weirdnesses possibly suggestive of recent Aligner activity. As mentioned in a recent post from this March, the 18 June 1975 Paul Lentz case seems like it might refer to the 25 May 1896 axe-murderer attack on the Buxton family (which took place in Gaithersburg, Maryland), and also to the 17 June 1905 Ransom train wreck in Finksburg, Maryland. Well, on 25 May 2023, whadya know, there was a train derailment "at the Wesley Road crossing" some seven-tenths of a mile from the location of the 1905 wreck, on the same old Western Maryland railway line. (As for the distance, I am going by a map of the 1905 collision on the Facebook page of the Carrol County Railway Historical Society—it's definitely worth noting that a sign near the Whistlestop indicates (if it wasn't destroyed by the recent derailment) that the 1905 collision was 300 yards [east] from the Whistlestop Cafe and Train Station in Finksburg, which would put the collision just 230 feet from the crossing at Wesley Road. It's also worth noting that in 2005 the Whistle Stop Cafe and Shops held a commemoration of the wreck according to a 2005 Baltimore Sun article.) And on 18 June 2023 a submersible vanished while diving the Titanic site. But why Titanic? One possibility (besides that sheer randomness produces mere coincidences on occasion) is that Lentz was murdered on the day of the execution of the assassin of the Saudi king, a king born 14 April 1906, six years to the day before Titanic struck the iceberg. The king's assassin was born 4/4/44, exactly 24 years to the day before the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Like I said, it may be significant that Lentz's body was placed not too far from a named place called South Covell, considering George Covell was the heroic engineer of westbound passenger train No. 5 in the 1905 Finksburg wreck that was just one day off from being 70 years to the day before Lentz was last seen alive. (Something else I've noticed for years that I didn't mention in the earlier post is that there is a Hope Hill Cemetery near the body recovery site in Urbana just as the railway men on No. 5 who constituted most of the fatalities in the Ransom wreck were returning home from working on a train wreck in Mount Hope, Maryland.) On 4/4/44, or perhaps 4/5/44 according to some authorities, Germans used tanks [as in the Tank Road near where the Carroll County Railway Historical Society places the Ransom wreck] of the 5th-SS-Panzer Division Wiking to (temporarily) prevent the capture of Kovel (formerly in Poland, now in northwestern Ukraine) and its garrison by the Soviets, one of Germany's last victories on the Russian front, even if merely a temporary tactical one (the First Ukrainian Front under Ivan Konev took Kovel for the Soviets on 27 June 1944). Kovel wasn't just a problem for the Russians during WWII—indeed, the Brusilov offensive of 1916 during WWI was tactically successful everywhere for the Russians except when it came to capturing Kovel, which they could not manage. The Russian loss in 1916 at the Battle of Kovel is considered a leading cause of the 1917 February Revolution which deprived the tsar of his power. In particular, Arch Duke Paul, the uncle of the tsar, led an imprudent attack on Kovel with a frontal assault using the most elite and loyal Guards Army composed of 60,000 Preobazhensky and Semenovsky Guards troops, notwithstanding the charge would necessarily be through an area heavily guarded by well-positioned machine guns. Apparently Paul, like many aristocrats of the time, had the notion that warfare should be by gallant direct charges rather than cowardly flanking maneuvers. Machine guns don't care, and the Guard Troops were slaughtered en masse. So there you go, Paul Lentz may have been targeted because of his first name. His surname may have got him noticed as well, what since "Lentz" sounds rather like "Linz", the Austrian city Hitler considered his hometown and which he lived more-or-less near (in various communities) until he moved to Vienna in 1907. The deadliest naval loss during WWI for the Austro-Hungarians was the sinking of SS Linz off the coast of Albania at (according to most standard-looking accounts on internet) 0:45 19 March 1918—perhaps the SS Linz disaster spirits might have been blamed for Hitler's failures as if they hated Linz and anyone associated with it—if so, there may have been special efforts by superstitious Nazis to appease the SS-Linz-disaster spirits. It's worth pointing out that the first name of Katherine Mary Lyon, 10, the younger of the Lyon sisters who vanished on the day of the assassination, possibly might have had some significance to the aligner weirdos in Montgomery County from the axe murderer attack on the Buxton family having been the day before the sidewheel paddle steamer Katherine disaster. As for Kathy Lynn Beatty, 15, who was fatally injured in an attack in nearby Aspen Hill a little over a month after Lentz was murdered, I don't have any information that Kathy Lynn Beatty was actually named "Katherine", which thus seems dubious, but aligner weirdo(s) may have figured it was sufficiently probable, or that her having a first name that is often a short form of "Katherine" would be close enough to being named Katherine so as to have considered her a more aligned target than otherwise. On April 4, 1975, what would have been the thirty-first birthday of the assassin of the Saudi King, someone called the Lyon family with a demand for ransom (homonymous with the Ransom train wreck) in exchange for their daughters. Another curiosity is that Abraham Zapruder was from Kovel. Zapruder was born in Kovel on 15 May 1905, slightly more than one month before the Ransom wreck and exactly nine years after the Sherman tornado in Texas, which recall was the first massively deadly tornado of the May 1896 tornado outbreak sequence.

A recurrent pattern in those disasters that the aligner weirdos seem to be interested in is the phenomenon of two disasters occurring on consecutive days and then another disaster happening three days after the second disaster. Lo and behold, looking things up, the 1905 Ransom train wreck arguably starts out such a sequence. Indeed, looking at Blanchard's list of American disasters, you can't help noticing that the Mentor, Ohio, train wreck (21 dead) of 21 June 1905 was exactly four days after the Ransom wreck. And the Mentor wreck was not just any train wreck, but a train wreck officially believed to have been caused by sabotage, probably officially listed as the second deadliest (behind the 24 dead of the 12 August 1939 wreck of the City of San Francisco in Harney, Nevada) such US train wreck. What's more, Mentor has a spooky assassination reference inasmuch as President Garfield lived in Mentor immediately prior to becoming president 4 March 1881, about four months before he was fatally wounded by an assassin on 2 July 1881. And investigating 18 June 1905—70 years to the day before Paul Lentz would be attacked—reveals that (according to many short American-newspaper articles of 18–19 June 1905) there was a mine disaster in the Ivan Colliery in Khartsisk that killed about 500 on or about 18 June 1905. (The American newspapers tend to suggest the disaster happened 18 June 1905, while the British newspapers tend to suggest the disaster happened 17 June 1905, the same day as the Ransom wreck, of course.) Very little is online about the Ivan Colliery disaster, I'm thinking because probably Imperial Russia didn't want the incident publicized or investigated well. After all, it was less than a month before that Russia had suffered defeat at the Battle of Tsushima. Almost all the articles mention that the story came from "Ekaterinoslav", which means "Glory of Catherine" in Russian, and was founded as a city by Catherine the Great in 1787, and is nowadays known as Dnipro. I mostly think "Khartsisk" refers to the city that nowadays is usually named Khartsyzk in English. Khartsyzk lies just east of the city of Donetsk. Formerly, Donetsk used to be part of the Yekaterinoslav Governate (American newspaper articles tend to suggest that Khartsyzk, too, was part of Yekaterinoslav Governate (on occasion apparently called Katherinoslavia), whose capital was the city of Yekaterinoslav). Donetsk in 1905 was referred to as Yuzivka, being named after the Welsh businesman John Hughes ("Yuz" sounds like "Hughes"), who built coal mines and a steel plant in the region. I don't know though—honestly, I'm not really sure that Khartszyk actually was part of the Governate of Yekaterinoslav in 1905 since old maps of Yekaterinoslav Governate put Yuzivka right near the eastern edge of Yekaterinoslav Governate, which might put Khartzyk in the Don Host Oblast until after the First World War (an area east of Donetsk purportedly officially joined Ukraine in 1920, and only the eastern part of this addition was later taken away in 1925). ANYway, the reporters reporting to the western newspapers about the accident were in what was then called Yekaterinoslav, "Glory of Catherine". And the mine disaster was near what is now called Donetsk, a city that was in Yekaterinoslav Governate near the center of the Donets Basin ("Donbas" for short) coal region: "The industrial development of the Donbas began in the 1870s when railroads linking it with central Russia and the sea were constructed, and particularly when the first Catherine Railroad (1884, now known as the Dnipro Railroad) and the second Catherine Railroad (1902), which linked the Donbas to the Kryvyi Rih Iron-ore Basin, were built [emphasis added by me]."

Something linking Ukrainian history with May 25 is that on May 25, 1926, the thirtieth anniversary of the Oxford, Michigan, tornado, Symon Petliura was assassinated. Petliura had been Chairman of the Directorate of the Ukrainian People's Republic from about the start of the Ukrainian-Soviet war in early 1919 and continuing in the period of the exile of the Directorate after the Soviets took control of Ukraine. The assassin Sholom Schwartzbard is believed to have killed Petliura because he was avenging the loss of thousands of Jews during the pogroms of 1919-1920, and more particularly the loss in the Odessa Pogrom of 15 members of his family, and he blamed Petliura, or because Schwartzbard was a Soviet (NKVD) agent (according to KGB defector Peter Deriabin) acting under orders (or both). Petliura was born in 1879 on May 22, another date that has lately been connected to weird incidents (possibly because Lockerbie is arguably the first place of consequence on the railroad north of Quintinshill, and the Quintinshill train wreck was on May 22, 1915).

Let us extend the date range away from the June 17 date of the Ransom train wreck and see if we can catch additional weirdnesses—seems like maybe the disaster killers get obsessed, at least for a few years, with particular date ranges. Do let us try, say, 13–24 June.

• June 13 in 1977 was quite interesting, being the date James Earl Ray was recaptured after escaping from Brushy Mountain Prison for a few days as well as the date of the triple girl scout murder in Locust Grove, Oklahoma, and of the murder of postulant nun Roberta Elam near Wheeling, West Virginia.
• On June 14, 1946, President Trump was born in Jamaica Hospital, in Richmond Hill, Queens, NY. June 14 was the date of the 2017 Grenfell Tower Fire (72 dead) in North Kensington, London, UK. Grenfell Street, Kew Gardens, is about the same distance from Track Two of the nearby LIRR as Austin Street, where Kitty Genovese was first stabbed in full view of the Mowbray apartments in front of her apartment building (she was stabbed again and left for dead, recall, at 82-62 Austin Street, on the other side of her apartment building)—both streets are more-or-less opposite the spot, on opposite sides of the tracks where (according to the testimony of Conductor Austin of Train No. 174) Motorman Benjamin Pokorney made the mistake on Track Two that likely mostly caused the 1950 Kew Gardens or Richmond Hill wreck—which street is closer may well depend actually on exactly how far right-of-center Pokorney stood (engineers look out the right side of the cab in America just like they do in the UK, which I have heard has to do with many of the first locomotives in the US being of British manufacture). The rear brakeman, Bertand Biggam, of Train No. 780 recuperated after the wreck in the same hospital that Trump was born in. Recall the submarine SS Thresher sank the day Oswald shot at Gen. Edwin Walker. The day after the sinking, Vice Admiral Bernard Lige Austin was appointed to oversee the official investigation of the sinking, which issued its conclusions on June 5, 1963. It was Vice Admiral Elton Watters Grenfell, Commander of the Atlantic Fleet's Submarine Force, who did by telephone tell the wife of Thresher's skipper of the loss of the sub. Grenfell is a fairly uncommon name—there are only about 710 people in the 2010 United States census with the last name Grenfell. Though not I suppose particularly directly relevant, it's worth mentioning since I am discussing "Grenfell" to mention that at the start of his career, Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr., a son of the Robert H. Sayre that the tugboat was presumably named after, did work for a mission in Newfoundland that was led by one Wilfred Grenfell. Francis Sayre would marry a daughter of President Woodrow Wilson. Later, Alger Hiss worked directly under Francis Sayre, which is interesting because recall that arguably the most important New York City official to visit the Kew Gardens wreck in its immediate aftermath was Thomas Francis Murphy, who was the prosecutor who won a conviction against Hiss that was just twenty-seven days before the 17 February 1950 Rockville Centre train wreck that presaged the Kew Gardens wreck that would happen about nine months later. Wilfred Grenfell introduces the movie Viking, a fictional account of the sealing ship SS Viking (as in the SS Viking Panzer division), which on 15 March 1931 blew up while the movie was being made (28 dead). June 14, 1891, was the Munchenstein railway bridge disaster in Switzerland. Also, early in the twentieth century there was another Vice Admiral Grenfell, namely
• June 15, 1904, of course, was the General Slocum fire on the steamship headed on the East River to the picnic grounds in Locust Grove, Eaton's Neck, Huntington, Suffolk County, Long Island, NY, USA.
• June 16, 1883, is the date of the Victoria Hall stampede (183 dead) in Sunderland, England, opposite Mowbray Park, that killed just children, and of course June 16, 1904, the Bloomsday, is the day General Bobrikov was assassinated the day after the Slocum disaster. In 1925 on the same date you've got the Rockport train wreck which recall may be a reference in the 1974 murder of South Trimble, Jr. (and a possible reference in the 1975 murder of Kathy Beatty as well, what since the wreck was caused by Hazen Road, which actually crossed the railroad at the western corner of Beattystown, NJ).
• June 17, 1905, we have just seen is the date of the Ransom, MD, train wreck.
• June 18, 1975, we have just seen is the date of the murder and execution of, respectively, Paul Lentz and the assassin Prince Faisal bin Musaid. And of course this year on June 18 the Titan submersible imploded near the Titanic wreck site.
• June 19, 1938, is the date of the Saugus, Montana, train wreck. Saugus, Montana, an unincorporated community about 10 miles southwest of the town of Terry, Montana, has same name as Saugus, California, the town that in 1928 was closest to the St. Francis Dam that collapsed two days after James Earl Ray was born. On November 14, 2019 (the anniversary of the 1970 Huntington, WV, Flight 932 disaster that killed most of the Marshall University football team) there was a mass shooting (five shot, two fatally, besides shooter) at Saugus High in California. Rep. Katie Hill was a 2004 almnus of the same Saugus High. She resigned eleven days before the shooting, after having had an affair with a female campaign staffer which she admitted to having been inappropriate.
• June 20 is a date comparatively free of notable disasters and weirdnesses—the most significant disaster for our purposes is probably the quite deadly June 20, 1956, crash of Flight 253 (74 dead) in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, NJ, which for ten days (June 30, 1956, Grand Canyon collision) was the deadliest ever air disaster befalling scheduled commercial flights (the foiled Christmas 2009 Underwear Bomber attack also happened on a Flight 253).
• June 21, 1905, gets you back to the Mentor train wreck mentioned earlier.
• June 22, 1893, would be the loss of HMS Victoria caused by the error of Admiral Sir George Tryon. June 22, 1918, would be the Hammond or Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train disaster in Gary, Indiana, as the train was headed to its destination in neighboring Hammond.
• June 23, 1944, is the date a tornado of the Appalachian Tornado Outbreak devastated esp. the Pleasant Hill section of Shinnston, West Virginia, and nearby locations in West Virginia. Another tornado in same outbreak struck several places in Pennsylvania, including Dry Tavern, where Debra Lynne Makel, 8, would go to school before being attacked October 5, 1973, and murdered, after being dropped off by the school bus near her home and (probably) entering her house.
• June 24, 1894, recall, is the date that French President Carnot was fatally shot and that the tugboat James D. Nicol sank in (arguably, esp. to aligner weirdos) a foreshadowing of the General Slocum disaster. In 1971 on this same date, the agency whose forerunner was responsible for the St. Francis Dam disaster suffered another disaster with the Sylmar tunnel explosion (17 workers dead). In 1973 on this date, as mentioned a few posts ago, there was the arson fire (32 dead) at the Upstairs Lounge, a gay nightclub in New Orleans. June 24, 1975, Eastern Airlines Flight 66 went down (113 dead) from wind sheer from a microburst when on approach at JFK airport, the same day Edna Christine Thorne, 15, vanished in North Philadelphia near the site of the 1943 Congressional Train wreck (79 dead) that happened on the anniversary of the 1901 President McKinley assassination. Finally, June 24, 2021, was the collapse (98 dead) of the Surfside Condominium building in Florida.

Crumbley, the Michigan Oxford Township shooter, was apparently born April 28, 2006. I noticed this was exactly three weeks after a tornado destroyed 80 residences in Hendersonville, TN, where Taylor Swift at the time was living and going to high school, I believe. The tornado is usually called the Gallatin tornado since all seven fatalities associated with the tornado were in Gallatin, which borders Hendersonville. Meh, three weeks is a space, and so I probably shouldn't have even mentioned it except that the Highland Park shooter was apparently obsessed with "4-7" (and arguably its transposition, "7-4", since his mass shooting was in 2022 on 7/4), and the 4-7-2006 Gallatin tornado could be a possible explanation of this obsession (along with the 4-7-1911 Throop mine disaster near Scranton, where President Biden grew up).

It's also suggestive of spookiness that there was a mass shooting in Richmond, Virginia, in Monroe Park on June 6, 2023, the 55th anniversary of the death of RFK, near a Belvidere Street. (Recall the coincidences connecting "La Salle" hotels both to the date and time of RFK's shooting and also to the South Shore Line accident in South Bend that took place the same day as the Belvidere tornado.) In Richmond, "Belvidere" seems to refer to an old mansion originally named "Belvidere" that burned down February 5, 1854, 130 years to the day before Jessica Hatch was last seen alive in Richmond in 1984. But police seem to think the mass shooting was motivated by a personal dispute, and so quite possibly all or mostly coincidence as regards the Richmond mass shooting.

The 5 August 2023 murder of Rachel Morin is interesting because it happened in Bel Air, MD, where John Wilkes Booth was born, especially since Oswald's rifle traveled in Chevy Bel Airs owned by Ruth Paine and Buell Wesley Frazier in it's last two trips by automobile before the assassination of JFK. And the murder was on the 30th anniversary of the Holly Piirainen case. Of course, it could all be coincidence.

After writing the above, I can't help feeling how nerdish listing all the coincidences is. There is the danger if I limit myself too much to the process of finding the weirdo coincidences that I could lose touch with the emotional underpinnings of the killings. The truth is sacred, but what is even more sacred is to present the truth sacredly. With the aligner weirdos, yes, I could limit myself to robotically listing in basically a giant list the quite possibly weirdo alignments I've discovered, but since the purpose of what the aligner weirdos were doing was in all likelihood a deceptive one, it seems prudent to present those truths along with other truths that get into the underlying motives of weirdo behavior, so the behavior will tend to be suitably mocked and hated. I imagine it will at first be amazing to most people just how long a history what I call Alignism has. This history suggests a very strong tendency of Aligners to copy other Aligners—this fondness for copying makes me a little leary of nerdishly just pointing out all the stuff Aligners have done, lest they might decide to copy some of it. On the other hand, part of the allure of Alignism I suspect to reside in its initial mysteriousness. What typically happens, I posit, is that at first Aligners come across as having intimates who can hate, which has a certain appeal to those worried about the Aligner being addictive, because it is hard to feel love from addiction as if from a love potion without the addiction making one love everything, akin to Oberon's potion. Hate is difficult when under the influence of a love potion, and so if a sordidly controlling zombifier has zombies that seem to be able to hate, that can make the zombifier seem less sordidly controlling than he actually is.

Recall that at the end of a previous post I mentioned I've been thinking about how natural female cruelty relates to the loving feelings they may have in their chest. It takes time to come up with inspiration all by myself, and impatience is no virtue, especially there. No, but I do think there's something to one or several girls or young women in such a huggy situation holding back from hate per se, and resolving to imagine killing on account of whether it is beautiful to her or not that such killing occur. Still, I don't mean it isn't okay if she likes to imagine torturing bad males to death because it is pleasant to find it beautiful to imagine loving one male while also torturing another to death. Under ordinary circumstances, it would seem rather flippant for a female to imagine getting off on torturing someone to death without focusing on the sexual hate that to the extent her hate is morally justified and in particular compatible with love of sacred beauty does mitigate the cruelty toward him, but since she simultaneously has a huggy attraction in her chest to the chests of girls full of hate toward what she finds it beautiful to imagining torturing to death, it's not in the aggegate so flippant that the beauty of her analysing the greater beauty of the sex and cruel acts as a whole is counteracted in the situation where she simultaneously feels love in her chest for the fruitfulness of what could go between her lover and the hater girls—the hater girls have so much hate it rather covers the aggregate need for hate. The benefit of a huggy female with cruelty motivated by or through her sense of beauty is that without a female like that, female sexual cruelty might lead to a kind of dangerous automatic hate for relatives of the hated if it were just up to the hater girls or her lover just wanting to please and thereby attract the hater girls. Also, torture seems especially sacred when females are enjoying killing people just because it hurts some hated relative of the person killed. Torture is a directly mean and cruel act—it would be difficult for a female to torture someone unless there is much direct hate toward the actual person tortured or a sense that the torture is beautiful and right. It behooves the male in such a situation to encourage his lovers to torture what they are going to kill anyway by having more loving feelings toward them when they are torturing and terrifying. This is very controlling behavior, of course, on the part of the male, but so what? I really believe that to the extent people imagine a situation where human sacrifice priestesses or authorized murderesses or whatever you call them are killing a certain number of people in ritual killing, they will come to the conclusion that it is very sacred for the female to kill males with sexual torture (if they are killing anyway), and especially is this the case if females are getting off sexually on hurting people by killing the latter's relatives.

Perhaps the most important moral truth as regards, licit, authorized killing is that it should be democratically controlled. There's a big difference between authorized murderess and murderess. A murderess that is not authorized is just a murderer in the common sense, a definitely vile thing to be. But maybe in some societies people as a whole vote that some beautiful wise-looking females should be able to murder a certain limited number of hopefully evil people. Nowadays, such authorized murderesses (as at times I prefer to call them) would be described as human sacrifice priestesses, and would tend to be assumed to be behaving to appease some spirit or god of sorts, I suppose. But that's a bad sort of killing if the killing is a sacrifice to humanity or, even more importantly, a sacrifice to life on earth or the universe itself, and killing for a god reminds me of killing for some evil, nasty controlling zombifier. I don't think humanity nowadays tends to get whatever inclinations some otherwise fairly ordinary people may have toward ritual killing in the latters' imaginations or all the important basic moral principles that could make such killing behavior most moral or least immoral. But as I say, I do think humanity right now (at least in fairly democratic countries) would tend to get that ritualistic killing would work better if it were more democratic as to who if anybody gets to be authorized to do the killing. But as for torture, I do believe there is a natural tendency for humans to naturally see the advantages of females killing with sexual torture when they are killing people anyway from sexual hate, but certain obvious confusions indeed probably now confuse people who haven't felt or thought much about the matter, as is often the case, since people probably consider it quite unlikely that, at least in fairly democratic countries, replacing some of the justice system with authorized murderesses would be a system that has much of a chance of happening anytime soon. Probably nobody or almost nobody is holding their breaths awaiting for authorized murderesses even if they might admit there is the advantage of killing would-be evil criminals before they commit the selfish acts of greed that law on the other hand can protect us against only after the crimes have been committed.

It is not particularly difficult to get at why people are hesitant to admit that it is better if females getting off sexually on killing people are more particularly getting off on killing people with sexual torture. Obviously most sexual violence nowadays is perpetuated by males, mostly against females. So-called sexual violence committed by males tends to be associated with sodomy. Usually the violence is against the female being sodomized, something which sodomy facilitates because semen contains algesic chemicals like PGE2 that increase sensitivity to pain, presumably making torture more effective when the PGE2 gets absorbed by the digestive system to have systemic effects (or at least that's my theory). But males can also trick or force a sodomized person to commit violence on others, which may satisfy the sodomizer's selfish interest by making the sodomized person look able to hate, a hate which would suggest the sodomized feels actual love rather than a mere sordid addiction to the male on account of love-potion-like chemicals in semen causing a chemical addiction to the sodomizer—obviously that sort of sexual violence is evil. At any rate, sexual torture committed by males one would expect to be associated with sodomy, or more precisely, the physical abuser putting semen into the digestive system of a victim of violence to make his violence more terrifying, thereby making his torture more terrifying. And it is very important that females be true to their own natural feelings in their sexual desires, and so rape, a sexually violent act, is very bad. At any rate, sexual violence committed by males is very bad, and if the violence involves torture, that torture presumably makes the violence even worse. Males committing sexual violence, and more particularly male sexual violence involving torture, is strongly suggestive of behavior that is nasty and rapacious and therefore bad either way. Part of the confusion is that male sexual violence tends to be controlling, and since sodomy tends to be associated with the male being behind the female, tends to involve the male being behind the female. Indeed, as we have seen, there are good reasons for males having sex with females getting off on cruelty to encourage the female to get off more on torture than just killing, which can be looked at as controlling. Also, there are technical difficulties with a male having sex with a female who is torturing someone else to death. The person being tortured needs must be in front of the female, which causes her front side to be occupied as it were, making it awkward to have sex with her from the front while she is actually torturing. But this is basically not of any philosophical significance of course so long as sex rather than sodomy occurs—not significant enough to dwell on. And the more the male gets off and finds it beautiful to force the female to torture, a good thing, the more he may want to look at least somewhat at the male being tortured by her, to make sure he is full of agony and terror, and it is hard for the male and female to face the same direction (toward the tortured male's face) when they are having sex while being pointed in opposite directions. Of course, the female face being expressive is something any decent male will want to look at when having sex, and similarly, she may well often want to look at her lover's face as well, so it would be well for the female to turn around occasionally (making sure the hopefully evil male she's torturing to death can't get at her) or at least turn her head back often to exchange looks with her lover, and at times maybe much twisting can to some extent supplant facing the same one direction. But that's probably enough said about something like sexual direction that's plain awkward and slightly embarrassing to talk about. Of course, since sex with females having cruel feelings tends (in my theory) to involve intraejaculate sperm selection, it is especially important for a male having such sex to have clean feelings during and before such sex; an approach is for him to try then to be quite intellectual about unclean depravity to the extent it is necessary to consider it.

(October 11, 2023 update) The obsession of the aligners with Sayre may go back farther the 1894 activities of the tugboat Robert H. Sayre. Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth was named after John Wilkes, a former mayor of London. One of John Wilkes' close associates was Stephen Sayre, who allegedly tried to hatch a plot (the Sayre Plot) to kidnap George III when he was to open parliament on 26 October 1775. Later Wilkes spent a year or so in Russia at the court of Catherine the Great, more-or-less pretending to be an American diplomat (he also spent some time trying to gain a footing in the Prussian court). From the little that exists about him on internet, he spent a good deal of effort trying to convince the American government that he deserved pay for his diplomatic activities. Sayre's actions are are somewhat reminiscent, for example, of the preposterous attempts of the nobody Charles Guiteau to convince the Garfield administration that he was owed a consulship in as he suggested Vienna or Paris.

It's worth considering that in 2016 an individual from a small town named after Robert H. Sayre at first purportedly plotted to blow up the federal building in DC which shares a name with the West Virginia mine disaster of April 28, 1914, and then tried to blow up a building in OKC (reminiscent of the horrific 1995 bombing believed by the FBI to have been planned at the James D. Nichols farm).

If there is indeed interest from aligners with the Khartsyzk mine disaster that happened about the time of the Ransom train wreck, I have a feeling that at least in 1916 this interest was centered on nearby Yuzovka (named after an individual named "Hughes") basically being homonymous with the surname of Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. The Summer Street retractable bridge disaster that sent Trolley No. 393 into Fort Point Channel in Boston, MA, happened the day of the 1916 presidential election. Hughes was favored to defeat Wilson, and at the time of the accident, it presumably seemed likely to most people that Hughes would win. The trolley accident possibly wasn't even an accident at all, but a deliberate act of sabotage to try to suggest that Hughes' administration was cursed by the trolley disaster gods, much as the Victoria trolley disaster that happened on the day of the coronation of Nicholas II may have been used in attempts to make Nicholas II's reign seem cursed. Hughes was generally seen as more for entering WWI than Wilson was (though not so against the Central Powers as Theodore Roosevelt was). Of course, Wilson quickly joined the fight anyway on the side of the Allied Powers, not long after the start of his second term. Indeed, America formally declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917 (Wilson's second term started March 4, 1917). Perhaps the Summer Street trolley accident being useful for little but a pointless joke after Wilson won may have made it seem to the aligners that it needed a purpose, partly causing them to manipulate things so that the storming of the Winter Palace was on 7 November 1917, the first anniversary of the Summer Street trolley disaster. Hughes went on to be Secretary of State and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

It's worth considering that "Hughes" appears somewhat more often than one would expect in the circumstances concerning the JFK assassination. Just seconds before Oswald started shooting, Robert J.E. Hughes' film of the motorcade shows the window Oswald shot from. Officer Tippit was retrieved from the scene of his shooting by an ambulance from the Dudley M. Hughes funeral home. Judge Sarah Hughes it was who swore LBJ in as president aboard Air Force One as it was sitting at Love's Field. The Texas Theatre was owned for a while in its early history by a company controlled by magnate Howard Hughes. I doubt any of that is anything other than coincidence, though perhaps some of it could be more than that. Still, even if it is all coincidence, those coincidences could be used later to cause aligners to feel it is right to be more obsessed with "Hughes" than a normal person would think reasonable. But there is at least one coincidence with Hughes in the circumstances of the JFK assassination that I suspect indeed is intentional. In the famous picture that Marina took of her husband Lee holding his recently purchased guns not long before (according to testimony of Marina) his attempted assassination of Edwin Walker, Lee Harvey Oswald is also holding two radical leftist publications, one of which is the March 11, 1963 issue of the Militant (the other was the March 24, 1963, issue of the Worker). Published in this issue of the Militant was a letter signed "L. H." listed under the heading "News and View from Dallas" on Page Seven which discusses (among other things) the independent candidacy of H. Stuart Hughes in the Massachusetts Senate race in which JFK's brother Teddy was the democratic candidate. It is believed (e.g., by Gerald Posner) that the letter was indeed written by L. H. Oswald. H. Stuart Hughes is the grandson of Charles Evans Hughes, Sr.

It's worth listing the dates involved with Oswald buying his guns (there is some uncertainty, especially in the date he picked up the guns):

• 28 January 1963. Oswald sends mail-order coupon (dated 27 January 1963 in his writing) with $10 to Seaport Traders for Smith and Wesson .38 revolver (balance of 19.95 payable on delivery when gun is picked up at Railway Express Agency office, along with $1.27 for postage and shipping).
• 12 March 1963. Oswald sends $21.45 money order and a coupon from the February issue of American Rifleman for 6.5 mm Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, complete with 4x scope.
• 20 March 1963. Both guns are shipped.
• 25 March 1963. Oswald picks up both guns, the rifle at the Post Office, the revolver at the Railway Express Agency office.

The Frankford Junction Wreck and some observations about recent mass shootings.

Today, May 12, 2023, will be the eighth anniversary of the Frankford Junction Amtrak derailment (eight dead) in North Philadelphia. The wreck happened on the anniversary of the 1899 Exeter Horror (29 dead), which took place only six miles southeast of Reading, the area Taylor Swift is from. Swift tour is in Philadelphia today. But then I was concerned last week, too, her being in Nashville (where the Covenant School attack happened) on the 150th birthday of President McKinley's assassin (recall the assassin was born the day after the Truesdell bridge disaster). The Frankford Junction derailment happened at pretty much the exact same spot as the September 6, 1943, Congressional train wreck (79 dead), which took place on the anniversary of McKinley's 1901 assassination.

The northeast corner of Northside Hospital in Atlanta's Midtown is at 13th and W. Peachtree NW. Margaret Mitchell was killed by an off-duty cab driver while crossing the street, according to official dogma, at a quite homonymous intersection located 500 yards due east, namely at 13th and Peachtree NE. (The driver whose car hit Mitchell claimed that Mitchell was jaywalking between 13th and 14th rather than crossing at 13th. James Earl Ray's rooming house that he rented a few days before killing MLK was on 14th near its intersection with Peachtree NE.) There was a mass shooting at this Northside Hospital on May 3. Swift's tour had been to Atlanta the previous weekend. On May 6, the anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster, which recall is a possible reference of the Covenant School shooting given its location near Trimble Ave, there was a mass shooting in Allen, Texas. Allen is a suburb of Dallas, where recall I thought the miscreants most wanted to do mischief. Recall that Holly Piirainen was taken at the intersection of Allen and South Shore. The perpetrator in the Allen shooting had been staying at the Budget Suites Hotel at 8150 N. Stemmons Freeway. JFK was about to turn onto the Stemmons Freeway when he was gunned down at Dealey Plaza, and the freeway led from there to both the Trade Mart where he was to have had a luncheon and speech and also Parkland Hospital, where he was declared dead thirty minutes after being shot. Possibly this month's mass shootings in Atlanta and Allen were secondary targets chosen because Swift and her concerts have stellar security. Or admittedly it could be coincidence. Anyway, I seriously doubt any serious mischief will happen at the concerts, but you never know, I guess.

Alarming possible references to the Molly Bish murder in the Nashville Covenant School shooting.

Friday, March 24, 2023: Palmer Chocolate Factory explosion kills 7 in West Reading, Pennsylvania (pop. 4212), Taylor Swift's birthplace. Taylor Swift had begun her tour one week earlier on March 17 (in Arizona), and on this date begins singing at Allegiant Stadium, the football stadium for the Las Vegas Raiders, which is just the other side of Mandalay from where the Vegas shootings happened on the third anniversary of the El Faro disaster. (El Faro is Spanish for “the lighthouse”. People think that poker was the gambling game that was most popular in the gambling halls of the old west, but actually it was game named Faro, which name is believed derived from the word “pharaoh”, and then you've got the Luxor casino pyramid (as in a tomb for a pharaoh) building right north of the Mandalay, along with its collection of Titanic artifacts).
Saturday, March 25: Swift sings in Paradise, Nevada, once again at the stadium for the Raiders. Anniversary of 1975 Lyon sisters case, which authorities believe may have led to Taylor's Mountain.
Sunday, March 26: Nashville music mogul Scott Borchetta is hospitalized after his race car crashes during race in Atlanta. Borchetta founded Big Machine Records, which produced Taylor Swift's first six studio albums. Borchetta first noticed Swift at the Bluebird Cafe on Hillsboro Pike. The Bluebird Cafe in Montreal caught fire as a result of arson on September 1, 1972, killing 37. The Hillsborough Crush of April 15, 1989, killed 97; the Taylor Report was written as a response to the crush, which caused inexpensive terrace areas where fans would stand (and mingle) packed together at UK soccer games to be replaced with more expensive seats. In 2019, on the anniversary of the crush (and of Abraham Lincoln dying and of Titanic sinking), Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire. In recent years, Borchetta and Swift have been feuding over the master copies of the albums.
Monday, March 27: Eight-tenths of a mile southwest down Hillsboro Pike from the Bluebird Cafe, the Covenant School shooting happens, killing 7 if shooter is counted.

I was afraid in 2018 someone was going to attack a Taylor Swift concert. Why? Partly because (1) the Waffle House shooter was obsessed with Taylor Swift, and that attack happened in Antioch, and Taylor Swift was born on the anniversary of the Antioch earthquake of 115 AD that injured Emperor Trajan and future Emperor Hadrian. This quake killed by most accounts about 260,000. Standard opinion seems to be that this death toll probably (but not certainly) was exceeded in one or all of the horrific Chinese quakes of 1303, 1556, 1920, and 1976, and that's about it as far as earthquakes in recorded history. (There also had been an aborted assassination attempt against MLK at Antioch College, Ohio, and it's worth remembering that later Kyle Rittenhouse came into the news, and he's from Antioch, Illinois.) Also because (2) Taylor Swift had apparently dated Conor Kennedy, the son of RFK Jr., in the summer of 2012, and his mother Mary Richardson Kennedy had just died supposedly by suicide on May 16, 2012, and then on May 16, 2018, was the school shooting (stopped by a heroic police officer guarding the school) at Dixon High, Reagan's alma mater. Where Dixon High is now and where Reagan mostly lived when he went to Dixon High are very close to the site of the Truesdell Bridge Disaster, which happened the day before President McKinley's assassin was born. As a lifeguard, Reagan kept 77 bodies from floating down the Rock River to where this bridge had been, which was obviously part of why the disaster killers wanted to kill him, probably. (When Reagan as Governor of California saved a 78th person June 15, 1969, which made his saves equal the dead in the Kew Garden train wreck which equaled JD Tippit's unit number and patrol district, there you go, another reason the assassins probably felt the disaster spirits wanted him dead.) May 16 is the anniversary of the Mill River Dam Disaster in Williamsburg, MA. Hinckley was living with his parents in Williamsburg, VA, and still lives in Williamsburg, I hope. Pretty clear Hinckley was chosen because his name suggested the Great Hinckley Fire of 1894. You see, the James D. Nicol sank June 24, 1894, the same day President Carnot of France was shot dead, but about half on the Nicol were rescued by the tug Robert H. Sayre, which on the day of the Great Hinckley fire, namely September 1, 1894, did ram into the General Slocum, knocking the latter's rudder off. Of course the General Slocum fire killed over a thousand on June 15, 1904. And the Great Hinckley fire is often said to have killed Boston Corbett, who killed President Lincoln's assassin the day before the Sultana blew up (the theory about Corbett's death became well known when a history book concerning the Great Hinckley fire mentioned it, a year or two before Hinckley's attempt in Nashville on Carter). It's likely that whoever did the 1973 Upstairs Lounge fire in New Orleans was thinking about the Bluebird Cafe fire and the tugboat Robert H. Sayre, because the New Orleans fire was entirely analogous in its physical characteristics to the Bluebird Cafe fire that happened on the anniversary of Sayre crashing into General Slocum, and the New Orleans fire happened on the anniversary of Sayre rescuing some from the Nicol disaster.

[Update:April 7, 2023. This paragraph contained a very significant error when I posted it one week ago, that I noticed just now and corrected with a strikethrough. Somehow I conflated Arlington, TX, with Irving, TX, I suppose because I originally probably defined Irving as the place between Dallas and Fort Worth where the Dallas Cowboys played, and I never noticed much that in 2009 the Cowboys moved from Texas Stadium in Irving to what would become AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Anyway, there goes eighty-percent or so of the reason to have been frightened about the concert at AT&T stadium. Urrgh, how stupid I was! My apologies--my only excuse is that I am just not as good at quick thinking as slow thinking for sure and it seemed an emergency situation that gave me no choice. I also failed to mention something I had forgotten about that I had noticed maybe six months or so ago, namely that Ruth Paine went to Antioch College (as did Coretta Scott King).] Anyway, what's especially interesting and relevant now is that it's clear (to me anyway) that the murder of Molly Bish was largely about the same bridge disaster that was used as an excuse to shoot Reagan. The Truesdell bridge was designed (incompetently) when designer Lucius Truesdell lived in Warren, MA, the town Molly was a lifeguard (like Reagan) in. Bish's body was found on top of Whiskey Hill in Palmer, Massachusetts. Until the Palmer chocolate factory explosion, it's the only Palmer reference I have noticed in a murder or assassination. And of course, which is bizarre and has never felt sacred to me, a race car track has been built atop Palmer Mountain where her body was found. Moreover, there's an excellent chance the dump site was accessed via Bel Air Drive. The Carcano rifle went via Ruth Paine's Bel Air wagon from New Orleans to her home in Arlington Irving, then it went from this home in Arlington Irving to the Texas School Book Depository parking lot via the Bel Air of Buell Wesley Frazier. Those conveyances be the penultimate and ultimate rides by automobile of Oswald's Carcano rifle before the assassination! Also, John Wilkes Booth was from Bel Air, Maryland, and James Earl Ray had a chance to kill MLK in LA on March 16, 1968 (and on the morning of the next day), an opportunity he didn't take—and March 16 is the anniversary of the Neffs mine disaster near Belaire, Ohio. Tonight the Taylor Swift tour takes her to Arlington, TX. I am once again concerned about her safety and the safety of those around her. March 31 is the anniversary of the Army Transport General Lyon disaster that killed over 500 and almost surely largely inspired the March 25, 1975, murders of the Lyon sisters. Then April 1 is the 150th anniversary of the SS Atlantic disaster off Nova Scotia which pretty obvious was a reference in the 2020 Nova Scotia shootings (e.g., the murderer named his workplace “Atlantic Denture Clinic”). And April 2, 2020, RFK descendants Maeve Fahey Kennedy Townsend McKean and her son were last seen alive after their canoe was being carried out to sea near Herring Bay in the Chesapeake, only for them to be drowned. Some other (not red) herrings are the Herring fishing club that chartered the James D. Nicol the day it capsized and the Herring that collided his Greyhound bus into the Greyhound bus carrying Thomas Terry Murphy, causing the death south of Waco of the latter and 27 others, which remains the deadliest collision in US history between (non-railway) motorized vehicles. JFK was shot dead right in front of Thomas J. Murphy, father of Thomas T. Murphy, and Oswald caught Whaley's taxi after the assassination at the bus station where Thomas T. Murphy probably caught the bus that fateful day in August 1952.

At her concerts, I'd say it would be prudent for Swift and her security to worry the most about sniper rifles (especially in Arlington, think Oswald's Carcano), then speeding vehicles (think race cars), then bombs (think May 22, 2017, attack in Manchester, UK).

Also probably relevant is there's a Trimble Road that ends about at the Covenant church. In 1975 in the same section of Nashville was the infamous Marcia Trimble murder. Less than two months before that, which Websleuth Richard noticed, South Trimble, Jr., who was a coauthor of the official report concerning the Hindenburg disaster, was murdered in DC. He was murdered near Hazen Park, as in Hazen Road, the cause of the 1925 Rockport train wreck. The Rockport train wreck and the Hindenburg are the main US disasters after the Slocum disaster that killed mainly Germans or ethnic Germans. Hindenburg happened on fifth anniversary of other President of France being assassinated. Right before WWI, the main such disasters included the General Slocum and Nicol disasters, as well as the Hoboken Docks fire than happened where NYC Mayor Gaynor would be shot, the fire being the day before Franz Ferdinand entered his morganatic marriage.

A little over two weeks before South Trimble's murder in DC, Eileen Kelly was snatched in DC on what would later be Taylor Swift's birthday. Her body was found near where a trolley overturned on August 1 during the Red Summer of 1919. On the centennial of this trolley disaster, Saoirse Kennedy Hill—another RFK descendant—would die of supposed overdose.

Thursday, April 13, 2023 update: I suppose the few readers of this blog may be interested in whether I still think (notwithstanding the stupid mistake I made) the Taylor Swift concert in Dallas (more precisely, Arlington) was to have been a target for some sort of attack if possible. Yes, I do certainly think Dallas definitely was where the signs pointed the danger was. Actually, looking at AT&T stadium as a football stadium and event venue, it doesn't take long to see how the killer may have adjusted his malarkey slightly in order to migrate the Bel Air malarkey concerning Irving to Arlington. For instance, whoever was associated with the Molly Bish killing may have said that the Bel Air spirits associated with Irving (via the Bel Airs of Ruth Paine and Buell Wesley Frazier) are disturbed that Irving no longer has a football team, etc., on account of the Arlington stadium, and so demand retribution at the new stadium. But is there evidence that this may have been the case? Indeed, there is, and you don't have to look far from the Covenant School shooting. Just look at the 2020 Christmas bomb attack. This attack, which thankfully but unusually killed no one but the bomber, did however heavily damage a nearby AT&T network facility, disrupting communication services for a few days. And the 2020 Christmas bomber lived in Antioch. And something else I should have mentioned was that the school resource officer who foiled the Dixon High shooting was named Mark Dallas, which name may have suggested to the disaster killers that spirits associated with the city of Dallas (or its athletic and entertaiment venues) somehow need to be conciliated to the killers with death. It's worth mentioning that on September 24, 2017, in Antioch there was a church shooting at the Burnette Chapel. I suppose it's quite possible that the April 22, 2018, Waffle House shooting and the Christmas 2020 bombing by the Antioch resident may have been at least partial reactions to this. I mostly don't think the Burnette shooter believed in disaster malarkey, even though the September 24, 1904, New Market train wreck east of Knoxville is the second deadliest Tennessee train wreck and happened on F. Scott Fitzgerald's eighth birthday. I see, curiously, that the 2017 church shooter was convicted on May 24, 2019, Queen Victoria's 200th birthday, which I suppose may have at least partially motivated or resurected the possible Victoria obsession in the disaster killers. The horrendous earthquake that this year on Reagan's 112th birthday killed over 50000 in Turkey did devastate the area around Antioch--the ancient city overlaps the city now called Antakya. Antakya is the capital of Hatay province, the southernmost province of Turkey, and over 40% of the deaths in Turkey occurred in that province. According to Wikipedia, 70% of the homes in Antakya were destroyed and up to 80% of the buildings in Antakya required demolition. It's easy to see how the 2023 Turkey earthquake, fitting into both the "Antioch" obsession that seemed to take off at about the time of the Waffle House shooting as well as the "Reagan" obsession likely largely behind the Dixon High shooting may have been interpreted by the aligner weirdos as a sign that the relevant disaster spirits wanted more in the same line from them. Arrrgh. I was thinking about pointing out it still might be prudent to consider that Tampa, where Taylor Swift is going next, is the County Seat of Hillsborough County, Florida, when it occurs to me that Saturday Taylor Swift will in fact be there at her concert on the anniversary of the Hillsborough Crush disaster and the sinking of Titanic, etc. Okay, now given another emergency, I suppose it is time to mention that the 1993 Holly Piirainen murder, obviously done by the same miscreant or miscreants who killed Molly Bish, does probably refer to Titanic in two different ways. First, as is well known, the trail her body was found near in Brimfield is sometimes called the Titanic trail because it is a railbed that never had rails put on it because the project was cancelled after the main supporter of the Grand Trunk rail line between Palmer and Providence, Rhode Island, namely Charles M. Hays, the president of the Grand Trunk, who formerly had been chief manager of a forerunner of the Wabash Railroad, died on the Titanic when it sank (the Mill River flood was on his eighteenth birthday). As for the second reference one has to understand the meaning of where she was snatched, namely the intersection of South Shore and Allen in Sturbridge, MA, on August 5, 1993. You don't have to search the history of 1993 much to notice an obvious candidate for the "South Shore" reference, namely the collision on the South Shore Line (widely considered by purists as the purest thing left of America's system of interurbans) on Martin Luther King Day (observed) in 1993 between two passenger trains headed in opposite directions in Gary, Indiana on a gantlet-track bridge (the 1950 Rockville Centre wreck also occurred on a gantlet track, i.e., where two tracks partially overlap). According to a 24 January 1993 Northwest Indiana Times article, the youngest of the dead, a boy who was ten years old (Holly would turn ten the day after the wreck) was found by his father at the Guy and Allen Funeral Home (there were seven dead) in Gary. So that is the sort of thing that gets you to look at other South Shore Line wrecks, and before long you encounter the train in South Bend that ran off the end of the line the same day as the 1967 Belvidere tornado two days before James Earl Ray escaped from the Missouri Penitentiary. And one week before that, i.e., April 14, 1967, the 55th anniversary of Titanic striking the iceberg, pretty much the exact same thing had happened at the exact same spot, namely in front of the La Salle Hotel in South Bend (not the La Salle Hotel in Chicago which caught fire at 12:15am local time on June 5, 1946, but a homonymous one). RFK was shot 12:15am local time on June 5, 1968. As a result of the 1967 wrecks, Mayor Allen of South Bend supported the process that caused the end of street running in South Bend. The Capital Gazette shooting was close to the June 5, 1908, wreck on the South Shore Line (of the former WB&A interurban) near the Best Gate station near Annapolis, Maryland (the latter South Shore Line referring to the south shore of the Severn River as opposed to the south shore of Lake Michigan). Robert Preston took off from Tipton Field Airbase prior to landing at the White House. (Perhaps just a coincidence, but the Preston Pointe building is where the Louisville shooting happened Monday, April 10. Also worth noting is that the Gulf Hotel fire happened at 615 Preston in Houston, TX, the day after the 1943 Congressional train wreck. General Edwin Walker was shot at by Oswald April 10, 1963, when Walker was at his home at 4011 Turtle Creek Boulevard in the Highland Park neighborhood of Dallas. After shooting at Walker I imagine Oswald fled on Avondale Ave en route to hiding his rifle along the tracks of the Katy Railroad. The Congressional train wreck of 1943 happened in Pennsylvania on the anniversary of the 1869 Avondale Mine disaster in Pennsylvania.) Tipton Airbase was on the South Shore Line of the WB&A. The Tipton Ford, Missouri, train wreck (43 dead) of 1914 took place on August 5, the day (Berlin time) when Britain entered a state of war against Germany. Holly was snatched on August 5, 1993. Recent events suggest that James Earl Ray probably thought the tornado and trolley car incidents of April 21, 1967, were supernaturally auspicious because he felt the close proximity time-wise of the Victoria, BC, street car disaster of May 26, 1896 and of the tornadoes the day before and the day after had supernatural signifance, and whoever killed Holly Piirainen probably knew that. Looking at the 1989 Hillsborough Crush more closely, I see that the general area of the disaster was devastated by the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864 caused by the March 11, 1864, collapse of the Dale Dyke Dam upon initial filling. Possibly this spatial alignment between disasters could have something to do with the 2004 Madrid train bombings being 140 years to the day after the Dale Dyke Dam failed, though at this point I don't have a clue why it would.

The 2021 Oxford High Shooting

Almost two months ago I noticed something very interesting about the November 30, 2021 Oxford High shooting (4 killed) in Oakland County, Michigan, the deadliest school shooting before the 2022 Uvalde shooting and after the 2018 Santa Fe, Texas, shooting that happened on the centennial of the Oakdale munitions explosion. As I discussed in one of my recent blog posts, it seems likely that the date of the May 26, 2021, shooting at the San Jose streetcar maintenance facility had something to do with it being the 125th anniversary of what is still North America's deadliest streetcar disaster, namely the May 26, 1896, streetcar disaster in Victoria, British Columbia, which occurred when the bridge over Point Ellice Channel collapsed under the streetcar. Recall that what's especially weird about this disaster is that it happened the day of Nicholas II's coronation ceremony as (the last) tsar—then the next day, on May 27, 1896, the St. Louis/E. St. Louis tornado, and on May 30, 1896, the Khodynka tragedy. It seems likely to me that elements associated somehow with German militarists were trying to create fatalism against the tsar by using the juxtapositions as evidence that the tsar was doomed by the disaster spirits, or something like that. Perhaps (or maybe it is just coincidence) the German militants may have even done something to encourage the Khodynka tragedy. Anyway, what I should have noticed earlier is that the day before the Victoria trolley disaster a tornado wiped out the northern part of Oxford Twp. About 41 in total were killed by the tornado, including 17 in Oxford Township. In particular, the community of Oakwood (which was partially in Oxford and partially in Brandon Twp) was obliterated. Oakwood was centered at the intersection of Baldwin and Oakwood Roads. Madisyn Baldwin was one of the four students murdered by Crumbley in the high school shooting.

Why Crumbley chose November 30 as the date of the shooting is not as clear—it's a day that's quite free of disaster anniversaries. One possibility is that he was so excited about the 9mm semiautomatic pistol his dad got him the Friday (Black Friday) before the shooting that he could hardly wait. Another possibility is that he chose the date to align with that of an F3 tornado that struck Ocoee, TN, on November 30, 2016, killing two. Not a very deadly disaster, but Ocoee, TN, shares a name with Ocoee, FL, which is where the Klan infamously perpetrated the Ocoee massacre (about 35 dead) on November 2, 1920 (election day), in response to blacks trying to exercise their right to vote.

There is a history directly tying the date of the Michigan tornado of May 25, 1896, to racial violence in Montgomery County, Maryland. The last lynching to occur in Montgomery County was apparently that of Sydney Randolph, which occurred July 4, 1896 (in Rockville near present Montgomery College), supposedly (to the extent one can take the word of a lynch mob at face value) because the lynchers thought him the axe murderer who attacked the four members of the Buxton family in their home in Gaithersburg as they were sleeping during the early hours of May 25, 1896, the same day as the tornado in Oxford, Michigan (seven year old Sadie Buxton would die from her injuries at Garfield hospital in DC on June 5, 1896). Not that Randolph shouldn't have been entitled to a trial regardless, but the evidence against him was circumstantial and I'm inclined to think rather flimsy (but it's not something I've studied closely). The site of the Buxton home is believed to have been across 355 from what would be the site of Dalamar Roller Rink and Bowling Lanes (which later became the Golden Bull restaurant, and which apparently was torn down about September 11-12, 2019). Paul Lentz, 14, was last seen alive June 18, 1975, while headed from his home near Montgomery College to an unspecified nearby bowling alley—perhaps this bowling alley? The date Lentz was taken probably has to do with it being the day the assassin of the Saudi king was executed. I think the attack on Lentz may have been originally planned for one day earlier, the anniversary of the 1905 Ransom or Finksburg train wreck, to this day the deadliest Maryland train wreck since 1854, but was moved back in reverence to the assassin. The heroic engineer in the 1905 wreck (who died staying at the brakes rather than jumping) was a Covell, and there is supposedly according to some online maps a community called South Covell not too far from where the body of Lentz was left. It's an old Ghoulardi saying according to a cartoon from Dahmer's former friend Backderf that “fink” is “knife” spelled backwards.

The last tornado of the May 1896 tornado sequence was on the 28th, an F2 that dissipated near Littlestown, PA, where barns were destroyed. Littlestown is where Tracy Anne King, 14, vanished less than three weeks after Lentz was murdered. The interested will find it worth while to look at a contemporary thorough list of the US tornadoes of May 1896.

Also of interest is that the first devastating tornado (73 dead) of the May 1896 outbreak sequence started in Denton County, TX (on May 15)—the storm formed over Denton, then dropped a tornado near Pilot Point, Denton County, which later killed many in Sherman, TX, in Grayson County. That said, the Sherman tornado was not the first tornado of the May 1896 outbreak sequence. A couple hours or so before the F5 tornado that hit Sherman, there was an F3 that killed 2 in Justin, Denton County and then an F2 that killed 3 in Gribble Springs, Denton County. Early in the morning of the 15th a predawn tornado killed an elderly gentleman in Moundridge, KS. There were other tornadoes scattered in the midwest on May 11 and May 12, but these latter I do not believe caused fatalities. Anyway, the Rockville Centre train wreck happened as a result of a motorman having failed to react to signal S176, which I mostly believe was located next to Denton Street in Lynbrook, NY. My blog post of February 18, 2021, explains the possible significance of the wreck and, more particularly, the number of this signal, to JFK's assassin(s). I didn't point out there that JFK was to pass through the intersection of Denton and Mockingbird on his trip from the Trade Mart to Love Field. Quite close to Love Field, it would have been the last major intersection he would have went through during his visit to Dallas, and so possibly (or quite possibly not, I'm admittedly being rather speculative) might have been a secondary backup sniping nest, to be used if Oswald failed to hit JFK. In 1974, in Fort Worth, Carla Walker was taken on the anniversary of the Rockville Centre wreck, the same night Robert Preston flew his helicopter onto the White House grounds; her body was found in a culvert three days later. The Gray Audograph recording of channel 2 of Dallas Police transmissions indicates that about 10 minutes before JFK was shot, police squad 212 inquired of headquarters when JFK would be by there, because a crew of telephone workers wanted to know when JFK would be through there:

Unit 212: A telephone company construction crew out here wants to know approximately what time the President will be back through here so they can clear out.
Dispatcher: Back through where, 212?
Unit 212: Around Mockingbird at, uh, near Denton.
Dispatcher: It will probably be after 2:30.

Dallas Police Channel 2, ~12:22pm, November 22, 1963

Lee Harvey Oswald's brother Robert Oswald was living in Denton (where he was a sales coordinator at the Acme Brick Plant) when JFK was assassinated.

The May 25, 1955, Udall, KS, tornado was on the anniversary of the 1896 Oxford tornado. The Udall tornado was headed directly toward Oxford when it did an S-curve around the town, taking out just the King (note the surname homonymy with Martin Luther King) family residence on the north side of town, killing five of that family, the only fatalities in Sumner County. Then the tornado slammed into Cowley County and Udall (77 more dead).

The same day as the Victoria, BC, streetcar disaster (and the coronation ceremony of Nicholas II) was the (somewhat less deadly) sinking of the sidewheel paddle-steamer ferry Katherine off Cairo, Illinois (11 dead). Cairo is the county seat of Alexander County. Catherine and Alexander were the summer palaces for the tsar at Tsarkoye Selo, just south of St. Petersburg, and so this ferry disaster may have been another disaster German and racist occultists may have used to convince the superstitious that the disasters of mid-late May 1896 may well comprise a supernatural sign that the disaster spirits hated the tsar or whatever. (It's curious how you've got all three types of homonymy going on, viz., with Alexander County you've got homophonic and homographic homonymy with the palace, while with the sidewheel paddle steamer Katherine you've got homophony but not homography, what since the Catherine Palace is spelled with a “C” in English; as for Cairo, Illinois, it's pronounced like the corn syrup (Karo), thus, yep, it's homographic, but not homophonic with the capital of Egypt.) After the violence of 1905, the dangers from would-be revolutionary assassins were judged to be sufficiently strong that the tsar stopped living in the Winter Palace downtown, living mostly all year round at the Alexander Palace, while using the Catherine palace three hundred yards from it mainly for the formal ceremonies—or at least that's what I gather from the superficial history I've gained from internet searches—but I'm no expert in Russian history. Cairo sits at the confluence of the mighty Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Youtube is replete with videos trying to explain why what was a bustling town in the 1920s, with such a significant location, is nowadays an almost deserted spooky quasi-ghost-town. But Cairo's squalor and that of E. St. Louis are really the sort of thing you'd expect once you get it, i.e., the particular references of the occultists to these towns, and the history of these towns with racial strife is confirmation. For sure, one of the things you don't want if you live in a town is for weirdo racist pro-German-militarist- nationalists to believe your town is of supernatural occult significance, as I suppose is the case with Cairo and E. St. Louis on account of their May 1896 disasters with dates on or near that of the coronation ceremony of the tsar. Admittedly, I hadn't much thought that Montgomery County, Maryland, where I grew up, was such a place, but it does have some sordid history (an axe murder that a racist lynch mob used as an excuse to murder) from that era that was just one day before the tsar's coronation, as well as a quite racist past.

Recall James Earl Ray left the St. Francis Hotel on the anniversary of the Tri-State tornado. Well, Cairo is adjacent to the actual place three states come together. In fact, Katherine was known as the ferry that “touches three states in less than an hour”. (The tornado route and Katherine's route both involved Missouri and Illinois, but while the tornado's route involved Indiana, Katherine's involved Kentucky.)

I mentioned briefly in a previous post that Lincoln's assassination may have been organized at least somewhat over the explosion of the steamship Medora. On April 14, 1842, twenty-three years to the day before Lincoln was assassinated, when Medora was setting out on a trial run from the dock of the engine builder, Mr. John Watchman, off William Street on the southern side of the Inner Harbor (formerly called “The Basin”), about where the Maryland Science Museum is today, or between that and the adjacent skate park, her boiler blew up, killing 28. Medora was to be delivered to the Baltimore Steam Packet Company, which lasted until 1962, better known as the Old Bay Line. Her hull was mostly undamaged, and was reused to create a new steamship for the Old Bay Line, namely Herald. Yeah, that's right, indeed it is suggestive that Herald is basically a (homophonic but not totally homographic) homonym with Herold, as in David Herold, who was the one conspirator in Lincoln's assassination who stayed by Booth's side until the end, when federal troops surrounded the barn they were hiding in. (Unlike Booth, Herold gave himself up, and Herold was hanged July 7, 1865, for his part in the assassination conspiracy.) Also, it's worth looking in this connection at the employment history of one John Surratt, Jr., who admitted to conspiring with Booth in an earlier aborted attempt to kidnap Abraham Lincoln. Surratt, whose mother was hanged for her part in the assassination conspiracy, did flee to Canada and Europe for a while, but eventually was found and returned to the U.S., where he admitted involvement in the plot to kidnap Lincoln, for which the statute of limitations had expired. He underwent a civilian trial as regards participation in the plot to assassinate Lincoln, but there was a mistrial and he was not convicted (eight jurors voted not-guilty, four voted guilty). After returning to the U.S., he first taught in a girl's school just south of Rockville (an area called North Bethesda nowadays), and then taught at Emmitsburg, Maryland. The schoolhouse “in Rockville”, being off where Nicholson Lane is today, apparently was in those days just two houses east of the plantation house that enslaved Josiah Henson when he lived in the “Uncle Tom's Cabin” that gave the name for Harriet Beecher Stowe's quite influential novel. Judge for yourself as to the likelihood such a choice was made from symbolism. He ended up marrying a woman from Montgomery County—not just any woman, but oddly enough, the first cousin of the father of F. Scott Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald's father's family lived at Locust Grove, a farm which I mostly think was somewhere in Bethesda near where Montgomery Mall is today. Shortly after his 1872 marriage, Surratt went to work for the Old Bay Line, working at the firm until August 1915, lastly as a general freight agent and auditor [according to his obituary in the 22 April 1916 Baltimore Sun]. Mary Surratt's other son also ended up working for the Old Bay Line. So there is more that ties the explosion of Medora to the Lincoln assassination than that they both happened April 14 and that the explosion happened in the city closest to where Booth grew up. True, if one doesn't suspect a pattern in other assassinations of references to disasters, one wouldn't think too much of it, but because such a pattern seems to exist, it is quite suggestive given the evidence from other assassinations, especially what with Medora being one of the two deadliest non-natural disasters in Baltimore before the Civil War, each of which occurred April 14 (the other disaster being the Baltimore fire of April 14, 1857). Still, I like to hope that in his later years working for the Old Bay Line, Surratt was basically making himself useful to humanity and even the world in general, notwithstanding having earlier plotted to kidnap or even (a matter of debate) to kill Lincoln, either of which was manifestly very bad—but the evidence I've seen affords nothing by way of proof one way or the other.

It's rather peculiar that Charles Follen was headed to give his first sermon at the church he designed in Lexington, MA, when he perished in the January 13, 1840, catastrophic fire of the paddle steamer Lexington (139 dead). Perhaps the fire was intentionally encouraged or the cotton bales intentionally set alight in order to kill Follen, the alignment of the ship's name being aligned with Follen's destination having been seen (by aligner weirdos) as an omen of sorts from the spirits of death? Perhaps some of the same European (Prussian?) forces that caused Follen to flee Hesse-Darmstadt were responsible, or perhaps the forces responsible were the same anti-free speech pro-slavery forces that murdered Elijah Lovejoy on November 7, 1837, and set fire to Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia on May 17, 1838—not that the choice is mutually exclusive (take George Atzerodt, hanged for his involvement in the conspiracy to kill Lincoln, but born in what was then Prussian Saxony). Another weird thing is that the Lexington fire started off Eaton's Neck in the Long Island Sound. Recall that General Slocum was going to the Locust Grove Picnic Ground on Eaton's Neck when she caught fire June 15, 1904. In 1975, Wendy Eaton, 15, disappeared from her home in the Philadelphia suburbs on the anniversary of the Pennsylvania Hall Fire in Philadelphia (also the anniversary of the 1923 Cleveland School fire (73 dead) in Camden, South Carolina).

It seems ominous that a well-known singer spent her teenage years in Nashville after spending her childhood years essentially where the chocolate factory exploded Friday, exactly one week after her new tour began. Perhaps Miss Hale felt the need to compete with male, gay zombies for the sodomy of some bisexual male zombifier who was into forcing those he sodomized to kill, largely so he would look like people intimate with him could hate notwithstanding their love isn't real but a consequence of sordid naturally produced "love" potion up the wazoo. She was probably frustrated at not being able to compete very well, which would explain her attempts to look male. This frustration probably signifies the zombifier wants a whole army of nasty little zombies, which skanky little Audrey zombie could never recruit for by copying the zombifier, because being female, it was physiologically impossible for her to sodomize. The main zombifier probably hopes to produce death on a much more massive scale with more illustrious victims, and those little (probably mostly male) zombies (along with any of their zombies, etc.) that competed with Audrey in the scramble to get screwed-up thoroughly, whoever they are, may well try to do zombifier's evil bidding, not from hate but from, say, having an unnaturally glorified superstitious view of the significance of the close juxtaposition in time of the start of a singer's tour with a factory explosion in her birthplace and with the school shooting near where she spent her teenage years.