Malarkey Triples of disasters. Signs of possible recent Aligner activity.

As I have suggested, the Aligner Weirdos seem to be peculiarly interested in triples of disasters whose dates are aligned with the dates of two other disasters in a particular way: the second date in the triple must be the day after the first, and the third must occur three days after the second. I didn't know at all what to make at first of the recurrence in aligner-referenced disasters of such a seemingly arbitrary pattern, but eventually realized that in all likelihood the repeated references to disasters forming such a pattern is due to a secret reverence in Aligners for such a triple in 1896 that started with two disasters the day Tsar Nicholas II was crowned. After noticing a few months ago that the Kew Gardens train wreck that seems the main reference in the JFK assassination is part of such a triple, I have decided to list all of them that I have noticed involving disasters that I have thought might be referenced in murders or assassinations, etc. Unless and until in the future I can think of a better name, I shall call these triples Malarkey Triples (a phrase I will also use to refer to a triple of disasters whose dates form such a triple). I have also included in my list any interesting auxiliary disasters that occur within a day or so of the disasters forming the Malarkey Triple. For clarity, I put the dates of the disasters forming the Malarkey Triple in bold, while using normal font style for dates not in the Malarkey Triple.

• 1896. This is the Malarkey Triple that I believe has been so greatly revered by Aligner Weirdos that they have come to view other Malarkey Triples as significant at least partly because they harken back to the special May 1896 triple.

  • May 25.
    1. Gaithersburg, MD, attack on Buxton family by axe murderer(1).
    2. Oxford Township (and nearby areas), MI, tornado (47).

    I mentioned in a previous post that the axe-murderer attack took place across Maryland Route 355 from what would become the Dalamar Fairground Lanes duckpin bowling alley. And the other prominent, fairly local, bowling alley that I remembered was at Congressional Plaza in Rockville, especially interesting because in a Lyon Sisters' thread at Websleuths it is mentioned by user ShurlT that she suspects someone who looked like Tape Recorder Man (shortly before vanishing the Lyon sisters were seen communicating in Wheaton Plaza with some unknown man attempting to record his conversation with them with a tape recorder) may have tried to kidnap her two daughters outside the G. C. Murphy department store at Congressional Plaza in early July 1975.. On June 24, 1975, six days after Lentz was last seen alive, Edna Christine Thorne vanished in North Philadelphia, PA, after being last seen alive near where the Congressional (Limited) train wreck happened in 1943 on the anniversary of President McKinley being shot. Thorne vanished on the same day that Eastern Airlines Flight 66 crashed on approach to JFK airport, killing 113 of the 124 aboard, which happened on the anniversary of the 1894 fatal stabbing of French President Sadi Carnot. But a recent highly believable comment in a Reddit thread on the murder of Paul Lentz claims that he was actually headed to a bowling alley in Montgomery College. I verified the existence of such alley by noting that the heading for Montgomery College in the 1974-75 Maryland Suburban C&P White Pages telephone directory (available from Library of Congress) gives a phone number for bowling lanes. Though obviously it doesn't seem as much a sure thing as it would be if he had gone to the Dalamar bowling alley, I still think that in Lentz's murder there was a reference to the axe-murder, since the lynching supposedly motivated by the axe-murder happened very close to Montgomery College in Rockville. I will have more to say about the Lentz murder later in this post.

    Recall that the November 30, 2021, school shooting by Ethan Crumbley was in the same Oxford Township that had been hit by the tornado.

  • May 26.
    1. Point Ellice Bridge collapse, Victoria, British Columbia, streetcar disaster (55).
    2. Cairo, IL, side-wheel paddle steamer Katherine sinking (11).
    Recall that the 2021 San Jose attack at the streetcar maintenance facility was on the 125th anniversary of these disasters, and that the Victoria streetcar disaster is the deadliest streetcar disaster in the history of North America. The significance of these May 26, 1894, events has always likely been great to the Aligner Weirdos on account of the coronation ceremony of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia being the same day.
  • May 27. St. Louis, MO/East St. Louis, IL, tornado (255). It is believed more died in St. Louis than E. St. Louis (137 vs. 118), but the tornado was actually more intense (but of smaller diameter) in E. St. Louis (which had much less population). Recall that the 1917 E. St. Louis race riot (massacre) may have been motivated by malarkey concerning both this tornado and also the 1917 Mattoon tornado that happened the day before the anniversary of it.
  • May 30. Khodynka Tragedy, Moscow, Russia (1389).

• 1900.

  • June 30. Hoboken, NJ, docks fire (326). Recall that New York City Mayor William Gaynor was shot on a docked ship ( Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse) here on August 9, 1910, at these Norddeutscher Lloyd docks. Gaynor died in the mid-Atlantic on September 10, 1913, on another NDL ocean liner, quite possibly as a result of lingering effects of the shooting.
  • July 1. Morganatic marriage between Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Countess Sophie Chotek. Three days earlier, on June 28, Ferdinand had signed document renouncing any claims their descendants might have to succession. I know it might be considered a stretch to view a marriage as a disaster, but that may have been part of the official line used to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Certainly, his uncle (the Emperor) Franz Jozef claimed the marriage was a disaster, justifying removing Ferdinand's heirs from the succession. And aligner weirdos toadying to German interests may have also found it convenient to portray the marriage as a disaster, since Ferdinand was supposedly more pro-Slavic and less pro-Hungarian than Jozef and his recently assassinated wife Empress Elisabeth (Sisi) were; the Slavs being more numerous than the Hungarians might make it more likely for the Germans to see them as a rival (and at any rate, there is some evidence those Germans who were aligner weirdos were trying to isolate Russia by the malarkey they likely created about the 1896 disasters near the time of the Tsar's coronation ceremony).
  • July 4. Tacoma, Washington, streetcar loses brakes going downhill and derails (43).

• 1902.

  • May 18. Goliad, TX, tornado (114).
  • May 19. Fraterville, TN, coal mine explosion near Coal Creek, TN (216).
  • May 22. Coal Creek, British Columbia, coal mine explosion near Fernie, BC (128).

  As I have mentioned, the May 18, 1918 explosives plant explosion at Oakdale, Pennsylvania, was on the anniversary of the Goliad tornado, tied with the 1953 Waco tornado as deadliest ever tornado in Texas history insofar as deaths in Texas is concerned (the April 9, 1947 Higgins-Woodward tornado killed at least 184, but most of those deaths were in Oklahoma, while only about 52 were in Texas, and some say the tornado was actually several tornados). Brushy Mountain Prison, whence James Earl Ray briefly escaped in June 1977, was founded partly as a reaction to the Coal Creek War of the early 1890s, which resulted from miners being disgruntled at having to compete with leased convict forced labor. As a result it was decided that it was preferable for convicts to do forced labor in mines run and owned by the state government, and Brushy Creek Mine and Prison was built in Petros, Tennessee, to enable convicts to work in the state-run mine. There's an Oakdale, TN, not too far from Petros. May 18, 1902, the date of the Goliad tornado, was also the date a member of the Jewish Labor Bund, Hirsh Lekert, wounded General Victor von Wahl in Vilnius in an attempted assassination. (The tornado hit Goliad about 3:35 pm, which would be about 11:35 pm in Vilnius. And so no way the assassination could be motivated by the tornado, but the temporal coincidence date-wise between the two incidents may have motivated later malarkey.)

• 1905.

  • June 17. Ransom, MD, train collision (28).
  • June 18 (date uncertain). Ivan Colliery, Khartsisk, Russian Empire, mine disaster (460). A 30 June telegram to a Press Association Cardiff correspondent from a Welshman working in mine in same area as disaster put death toll at 460 and placed mine disaster in Makeyoffka (presumably modern-day Makiivka between Khartsisk and Hughesovka). It's amazing, really, how little is online about this disaster. If the death toll is correct, the only earlier mine disaster I know of that was deadlier would be the Besshi, Japan, copper mine disaster of August 1899, which resulted from a typhoon occasioning a landslide from the mountain above onto the mine facilities.
  • June 21. Mentor, Ohio, train derailment of Twentieth-Century Limited from sabotage (21).

• 1910.

  • February 27. Burke Canyon, Mace, ID, snow avalanche (15).

  • February 28. Burke Canyon, Burke, ID, snow avalanche (5). The Burke Canyon, a silver, lead, and zinc mining area, stretches from its mouth at Wallace, through Mace and then past neighboring Burke, the town farthest into the canyon (but Mace and Burke are now ghost towns). On April 29, 1899, striking miners connected with the Western Federation of Miners hijacked a train (the Dynamite Express) in Burke, forcing it to travel to Kellogg, picking up along the way dynamite, pro-union miners, and weapons. At Kellogg the miners exited the train, and then they blew up a state-of-the art Bunker Hill Mining Company Mill in neighboring Wardner, shooting dead a worker there in the process. At Governor Steunenberg's request, President McKinley sent in the US army, which indiscriminately rounded up 1000 men, confining them for several weeks in miserable conditions under martial law. On December 30, 1905, former Governor Frank Steunenberg was assassinated by a bomb placed by Albert Horsley (better known by his alias Harry Orchard) on the gate of his house at 1602 Dearborn Street in Caldwell, Idaho. The April 29, 1903 Frank Slide, the deadliest ever mainland-North-American landslide, occurred on the fourth anniversary of the Kellogg bombing. Frank, Alberta, located in the Crowsnest Pass mining district of Canada, is only about 160 miles as the crow flies from Burke. Steunenberg was blown up on the second anniversary of the December 30, 1903, Iroquois Theatre fire (602) in Chicago, to this day the deadliest US structural fire, and exactly one year before the December 30, 1906, Terra Cotta wreck (53) in DC not too far from the present-day Fort Totten Metro Station. Recall Richard Paul Pavlick also lived on a Dearborn Street (in Belmont, New Hampshire) until right before he decided to blow up JFK. And the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago had a side entrance (behind the stage) onto a vacant lot on Dearborn Street. But what's especially peculiar to me is that according to all the internet sources I have seen, Lloyd Lee Welch, Jr., was born December 30, 1956 while Lloyd Lee Welch, Sr., was born April 29, 1932, and so presumably their birthdays align with the dates of the explosions destroying the Burke Mine and former Governor Frank Steunenberg. And last year, the same day as the implosion of Titan submersible (and the forty-eighth anniversary of both the murder of Paul Lentz and also the execution of the assassin of the Saudi King), there was a quadruple murder in Kellogg. The sentencing in the Kellogg murder was March 25 of this year, the day before the Francis Scott Key Bridge was destroyed in Maryland. March 25 is Maryland Day and the anniversary of the 1975 disappearance of the Lyon sisters by Lloyd Lee Welch, Jr., and considering that law enforcement suspects Katherine Lyon may have been dismembered in the house in Hyattsville where both Welches were living, it's not a stretch to think Lee Sr. was involved (IMHO) with the murder of the Lyon sisters. On May 2, 1972, a fire at the Sunshine Silver Mine, killed 91 in Kellogg, yes—it's the second deadliest non-coal mine disaster in the history of the United States, behind only the June 8, 1917, Granite Mountain/Speculator Mine copper mine disaster in Butte, Montana (168). Karo syrup is more for waffles than cereal, and butter or buttery topping (Mayor William J. Gaynor in 1910, Margaret Fox in 1974) is for bread or pancakes or waffles, etc., and basically (in my opinion) does not go well with breakfast cereal, but Kellogg's is a leading breakfast cereal manufacturer, which gets me to thinking that perhaps this supports somewhat my hypothesis that perhaps the disaster killers claim that for breakfast disaster spirits like murders to be (aligned) with their disasters, akin to how people might like sugar or berries or sliced banana, etc. with their cereal, or syrup or butter or jam, etc., with their waffles or pancakes or toast, etc.

    But is there any evidence of a possible Burke Canyon obsession with murders relating to disasters that are nearer to places that the Welches had known ties to, in particular the DC suburbs? Yes, Rosie Gordon, 10, was last seen alive in Burke, Virginia, 2 July 1989, 100 years to the day after the Thaxton, Virginia, train wreck that killed 18. And her body was dumped near Fairfax City 10 feet from the side of Bentonbrook Road near Edenderry Drive, which is adjacent to a cul-de-sac on Tydfil Court, as in Methyr Tydfil, which recall is where the mining engineer was from which the city of Donetsk (Hughesovka or Yuzovka) used to be named after (he died exactly 16 years before the Ransom train wreck, which British newspapers suggest may have been the same day as the Ivan Colliery disaster in Khartsisk next to Donetsk). And Aberfan—where 21 October 1966 a coliery spoil tip collapsed on Pantglas Junior School killing 116 children and 28 adults—is in the borough of Methyr Tydfil (as is the town of Methyr Tydfil, where most of the people in the borough live, and which is just four miles from Aberfan).

    Hollywood starlet Lana Turner was born in Burke and lived there until her family moved to Wallace when she was about four, and lived in Wallace until her family moved to California when she was about nine. Turner might be of interest to aligner weirdos since ten years to the day before MLK was assassinated, her daughter stabbed to death an abusive ex-boyfriend of her mother, in an act ruled justifiable homicide.

  • March 1. Wellington, WA, snow avalanche onto Train No. 25 ( Spokane Express) and fast mail train No. 27 near Cascade Tunnel at Stevens Pass (96). Led to the construction of new, longer and lower Cascade tunnel, which became the longest North American railway tunnel when it was completed in 1929.

  • March 4. Rogers Pass, British Columbia, snow avalanche from ridge between Mount MacDonald and Avalanche Mountain kills railway workers (58). Led to construction of Connaught Tunnel under Mount Macdonald, which became the longest North American rail tunnel until the Moffat Tunnel was finished in 1928. Another tunnel was built under Mount Macdonald in 1988, which replaced the new Cascade tunnel as the longest North American railway tunnel. Now, typically, the Macdonald tunnel is used for westbound traffic, while the old Connaught tunnel is used for eastbound traffic (westbound traffic using the Connaught tunnel encounters a steep upgrade which typically would require attaching pushing engines).

• 1913.

  • March 3. Five to ten thousand suffragettes march through streets of Washington, DC, demanding women being given the right to vote. About one-half million spectators watch, including unruly sketchy elements that almost produce riot against suffragettes.
  • March 4. Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th President of the United States of America.
  • March 7. Tramp steamer Alum Chine explodes (55) while being loaded with dynamite, off Leading Point, Patapsco River, Baltimore Maryland.

  I suppose it questionable that Aligners would dislike Wilson enough to consider that his presidency once it started should be considered cursed, but I can well imagine that having some malarkey filed away in the back pocket suggestive of the Wilson administration being cursed is something that might have seemed prudent to the 'ligners, e.g., in case Wilson turned anti-German.

• 1915.

  • March 18. In the Dardanelles, Ottoman Empire (Turkey), naval mines lead to sinking of French battleship Bouvet, and British battleships Irresistible and Ocean (700).
  • March 19. Defence of India Act. The Defence of India Act you could argue wasn't a particularly inappropriate measure considering the wickedness of the Germans (like Hitler's future Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen) behind Pro-German WWI plots in America, and more particularly the Annie Larsen Affair, but to basically extend the act by enacting the similar Rowland Act after WWI, definitely seems a highly inappropriate overreach, which it can be argued led to the Amritsar Massacre (as well as to India demanding independence from Britain).
  • March 22.
    1. Britannia Beach, British Columbia, landslide destroys Jane Camp (56).
    2. Second Siege of Przemyśl (now in southeast Poland) ends with surrender of 117,000 Austro-Hungarians to Russia.

• 1916.

  • June 4. Brusilov Offensive begins.
  • June 5. Sinking of armored cruiser HMS Hampshire (737, including Lord Kitchener) by naval mine.
  • June 8. Italian armed merchant cruiser SS Principe Umberto sunk (1926) by torpedo from Austro-Hungarian submarine U-5, deadliest sinking during WWI.

  I know it is something of a stretch technically to consider the Brusilov Offensive, a military campaign, as a disaster rather than as simply a military campaign, but since the Battle of Kovel near the end of the Brusilov offensive may be a reference in the 1975 Paul Lentz murder, it seemed worth considering it as disaster-like, which of course it in some sense was, what since it involved about 2.5 million casualties, comparable in deaths to the deadliest operations on the western front (Somme, Verdun, Hundred Days Offensive, etc.). It's worth noting also that the 1915 Battle of Jutland was a two-day affair, starting on May 31 and ending on June 1. Considering the days as two distinct events, one could consider June 4 as not only the first day of a Malarkey Triple, but also the last day of a Malarkey Triple.

• 1917.

  • May 26. Tornado strikes Mattoon and Charleston in Illinois (101).
  • May 27. Tornado outbreak strikes esp. Kentucky (145).
  • May 30. Tornado outbreak strikes Missouri (65).

  As mentioned in previous blog pages here, there are quite possibly references to the Mattoon tornado in the 1917 E. St. Louis race riot/massacre (which was almost incited May 28), the 1918 sabotage of the Deer Creek Wabash bridge in Delphi, Indiana, and the Mad Gasser of Mattoon flit gun attacks during WWII.

• 1918.

  • July 1. Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, National Shell-Filling Factory explosion (134).
  • July 2. Explosion (52) at explosives factory of Semet-Solvay Company, Split Rock (hamlet in town of Onondaga, near Syracuse), NY.
  • July 5. Sternwheeler Columbia strikes submerged log shortly before midnight on Illinois River, ripping gash in hull during heavy fog between Pekin and Peoria. Sinks (mostly) (87) at about 12:05am on 6 July.
  • July 6. Former New York City Mayor John Purroy Mitchel, while learning to fly in the Army Air Service, nosedives during Army Air Service training flight in Louisiana. He had failed to latch his seat belt, causing him to fall out of plane to his death into marsh 500 feet below. (Mitchel had served as temporary Mayor of NYC for six weeks after Mayor Gaynor had been shot. After being elected mayor in 1913, Mitchel was himself shot at on April 17, 1914.)

• 1950.

  • November 21.

    1. DC-3 carrying families of New Tribes Mission from Chico, CA, to Billings, MT, crashes into Mount Moran, WY (21). It's worth noting that the New Tribes Mission suffered two other significant disasters in the 1950-1953 time period that mostly contains the disasters Oswald seems to be trying to refer to in the JFK shooting. On June 9, 1950, another DC-3 owned by New Tribes Mission crashed into a mountain near the border of Columbia and Venezuela, killing 15, all associated with the mission. On July 9, 1953, 14 volunteer firefighters from New Tribe Mission and one Forest Service employee lost their lives fighting the Rattlesnake fire in Mendocino National Forest, California.

       It may be no accident that the 21 November 2021 van attack happened in Waukesha, where the New Tribes Bible Institute is now located (called the Ethnos360 Bible Institute after the mission changed their name in 2017 or so). And similarly, the 12 July 1972 disappearance of Kathy Sue Wilcox from the tiny town of Otsego, Michigan, could be occult malarkey related to the 1972 purchase by New Tribes Mission of the former Otsego Hotel in Jackson, Michigan (at one time purportedly the most luxurious hotel in Michigan outside Detroit), for use as a secondary campus to their bible institute (this secondary campus moved to another building in Jackson about six years later I think I read somewhere, and everything was consolidated in Waukesha just a few years ago—there is no longer a campus in Jackson).

    2. At Canoe River, British Columbia, a troop train collides head-on with Continental Limited (21).

    Perhaps it is of some (likely minor?) significance to the Aligners that the number of dead in the Mount Moran plane crash and the Canoe River troop train wreck each equal 21, the date in November these incidents occurred (also notice that the Waukesha van attack was in '21).

  • November 22. In present-day Kew Gardens, NY, Train No. 174 rear ends train No. 780 on Long Island Railroad (78). As mentioned at length earlier, the Kew Garden train wreck seems to have been the main referent disaster in the assassination of JFK and subsequent murder of Officer J. D. Tippit, which both occurred 13 years to the day after the train wreck.

  • November 25. Peak day of Great Appalachian (snow) Storm of November 1950 (383).

I wish to move on now to stuff that I have noticed recently, largely inspired by recent events. I first list what are apparently the four deadliest Maryland disasters (excluding pandemics and heat waves). The first disaster is definitely worth learning about if you have any interest whatsoever about the weird coincidences between Abraham Lincoln's assassination and sidewheel paddle steamer disasters; fortunately, there's an excellent online article, Peril on the Potomac: The Sinking of the Black Diamond , about it written by Karen Stone, the Museum Division Director of St. Mary's County, Maryland (and she is writing the first-ever book about it, that will be published by The History Press in 2025, probably). Much that is online puts this disaster on April 24, 1865, but her writings about it are so much more detailed than anyone else's, I think it's fairly safe to assume she is correct about the date (which recall is 102 years to the day before James Earl Ray escaped from the Missouri Penitentiary).

Deadliest Maryland disasters

• April 23, 1865. Sidewheel paddle steamer Massachusetts collides with anchored Black Diamond off St. Clements Island just before 1 a.m. (87).
• December 8, 1963. Pan Am 214 catches fire after probable lightning strike and crashes near Elkton (near Delaware border) with loss of all onboard (81).
• July 23, 1883. Tivoli Pier Collapse. Excursionists from Baltimore (especially parishioners from Corpus Christi Catholic Church, Bolton Hill) waiting to return to Baltimore overcrowd weak pier, which collapses. Tivoli used to be called Holly Grove, and is on what is now called Sparrows Point (63).
• March 7, 1913. Freighter Alum Chine is being loaded with explosives off Leading Point, the explosives to be used for building Panama Canal, when they quickly explode after a fire starts amid the explosives during loading. Death toll quite uncertain (55).

Recent weirdnesses

• October 7, 2023. Israel attacked by Hamas loyalists from Gaza (1200). Anniversary of October 7, 1985, Achille Lauro hijacking/murder on the same day a deadly landslide (130) hit Puerto Rico.
• October 25, 2023. Lewiston, Maine, mass shooting at Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley (9) and Schemengees Bar & Grille restaurant(9).
  • On January 31, 1945, the day after the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff (9500, to-this-day the greatest loss of life ever on a ship), there was a fire at the LaCoste's Baby Home in Lewiston's twin city Auburn (Auburn and Lewiston together form a conurbation), which killed one adult and 16 babies and toddlers.
  • Half the deaths in the shooting were caused by the shooting at a bowling alley. Recall Paul Lentz was supposedly headed to the Montgomery College bowling alley in Rockville, Maryland, when last seen alive. The mother of the Lyon sisters was likely at a duckpin bowling alley more or less adjacent to Wheaton Plaza when her daughters vanished after heading home from Wheaton Plaza. Carla Walker was kidnapped by her murderer in the parking lot of a bowling alley in Fort Worth.
  • The date October 25 doesn't seem more suggestive than average, however (though I might have missed something). Spookiest October 25 event I know of would probably be the 1918 loss of all 364 aboard Princess Sophia in the Lynn Canal near Juneau, Alaska, one week before the Malbone Street train wreck in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City.
• March 22, 2024 Krasnogorsk Concert Hall attack. There's an obvious pattern: 22 March 2016 Brussels bombing (32), 22 March 2018 Westminster Attack (5), 22 March 2021 Boulder attack (10), 22 March 2024 Krasnogorsk Concert Hall attack (145). I started telling law enforcement back in 2018 that an obsession with 22 March if it exists probably has to do with the 2014 Oso, Washington, mudslide (43) and the 1915 Britannia Beach, British Columbia, avalanche (64) both having occurred on 22 March. I suppose Islamist terrorists may have considered the alignment a miraculous sign of some sort. After the Boulder attack, I noticed that apparently (according to various Islamic websites) there is a hadith about how three landslides will signal the Last Judgment. And of course, a Boulder is what might end up killing someone in a landslide such as the 1915 one in Brittania Beach. But the biggest North American landslide wasn't one of those slides, nor even the Frank, Alberta, slide that happened on the fourth anniversary of the Dynamite Express being driven to Kellogg where the quadruple murder happened on the day the Titan submersible imploded. No, careful attention to definition apparently shows that the deadliest North American landslide was the aforementioned one that occurred in 1985 in Puerto Rico the same day the Achille Lauro was hijacked. (The deadliest event in North America causing landslides may have been remnants of Hurricane Camille causing the 1969 landslides centered on Nelson County, Virginia, but enough of those deaths were probably by drowning that the total dying from landslides is probably somewhat less than those who died from the one landslide in Puerto Rico. And the deaths in Virginia caused by landslides were caused by multiple landslides, not just one. Kind of pedantic to be so fixated on landslide death tolls, but the Aligner Weirdos are presumably very pedantic about such things, which I daresay causes it to be useful to make some effort to be similarly particular.)
• March 26, 2024 collapse of Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.
  • Where the Francis Scott Key Bridge was hit by the Dali on March 26 was about one-half mile (~805 m) east of where the 350 tons of dynamite on Alum Chine blew up 7 March 1913 (about 55 dead), according to the map in the 8 March 1913 Baltimore Sun . It's arguably the fourth deadliest Maryland, USA, disaster.
  • The Tivoli pier collapse is Maryland's third deadliest disaster, and it was in the community that used to called Holly Grove on Sparrows Point, on the other side of the bridge, about 1.5 miles away from it. (Holly Grove appears on the West Part of Twelfth District map from this 1878 Atlas of area surrounding Baltimore, from LOC).
  • Maryland's worst disaster would be the Black Diamond disaster. About 1.5 hours after the the sidewheeler Massachusetts perhaps passed John Wilkes Booth and David Herold rowing across the Potomac to Virginia and thus the former CSA late on April 22, 1865, Massachusetts collides with Black Diamond resulting in 87 fatalities. The collision happened off St. Clements Island, where the first European colonists first landed in Maryland in 1633 aboard the Ark and Dove, and where the Black Diamond had anchored for the night, switching from patrol to sentry while traveling back to Alexandria from Piney Point while searching for Booth trying to cross the river. A few days after landing the colonists had a feast on March 25, 1633, which is why March 25 is celebrated as Maryland Day in Maryland (in Britain, the year used to start on March 25, also known as Lady Day or Annunciation Day, rather than January 1). The settlers had left from the Isle of Wight on November 22, but very early the next day they encountered strong wind for which an anchor was useful until it had to be cut away because a French vessel was blown by wind so well as to be in a good way to run foul of the line, and that day was St. Clements Day, hence the name of the island (St. Clements is patron saint of mariners because he was martyred by having been tied to an anchor and cast into the sea). The 1:28 am bridge collapse was almost on Maryland Day, and the ship had suffered severe electrical problems in port, which I suppose may have delayed it.

  • Francis Scott Key has a very direct relation with an attempted assassination against a US president. The first attempted assassination against a US president was the January 30, 1835, attempt by Richard Lawrence against President Andrew Jackson. The attempt might have succeeded but for that both of Lawrence's pistols misfired. Anyway, Francis Scott Key was the prosecuting attorney in the April 11, 1835, (one day) trial of Lawrence. Lawrence was judged insane (Lawrence apparently thought he was Richard III). What is especially curious is that this trial was one hundred years to the day before the bus/train collision in Rockville about 140 yards from where F. Scott and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald would be reburied in 1975 in the old St. Mary's Catholic Church cemetery (where F. Scott had originally wanted to be buried). According to findagrave, after being murdered in 1975, Paul Lentz would be buried in the new St. Mary's Catholic Church cemetery located across Baltimore Road from Rockville Cemetery, where the Fitzgeralds were originally buried. Recall F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose full name was Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, was named after Francis Scott Key, the second cousin of his father's maternal grandmother (Eliza Maynadier Key Scott). Recall that the 1975 reburial ceremony for Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald was on November 7 and that three days later the Edmund Fitzgerald sank. Something I've noticed recently is that one day later, on the eleventh, John Fitzgerald Kennedy's would-be assassin Richard Paul Pavlick died. I suppose it may also be considered significant to aligner weirdos that the 1938 assassination of Ernst vom Rath was on November 7 (as was the reburial service for the Fitzgeralds), and then supposedly in response to the assassination, Kristallnacht happened on the night of November 9, 1938, and so it started (at about sunset) November 9 and ended (at about sunrise) on November 10, much as the Edmund Fitzgerald left port (Superior, Wisconsin) November 9 and sank November 10. The only child of F. Scott and Zelda was their daughter Frances. Frances died less than one year after she attended the reburial ceremony of her parents, and is buried next to them. Frances had been suffering from throat cancer, which she blamed on her smoking habit, and I suppose it's just a coincidence she died on the one year anniversary of Paul Lentz's murder, but it strikes me that often during chronic illnesses people are given narcotics to allay the pain, drugs which can tend to hasten death by, for example, relaxing muscles to such an extent that breathing is impaired. It's a great matter of controversy on internet to what extent that sort of death hastening occurs, but I'm guessing that each year thousands of the terminally ill have their lives cut short a few days at the least by such drugs in the US, and many don't care much since avoidance of pain is (informally at least) considered an acceptable good (to not hasten death seems mostly the better, more sacred concern in this context).

    It's also worth mentioning that Francis Scott Key's sister married the infamous Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney. I highly recommend Chris Haugh's webpage, Taney's Other Ill-fated Decision, about how Taney's wife and daughter ended up dying while the Taneys were vacationing in Old Point Comfort, Virginia, as a result of the 1855 Yellow Fever Epidemic that affected Norfolk, Virginia, and surrounding areas. Old Point Comfort, at the northern end of the entrance to Hampton Roads just west of the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay, is where the Ark and Dove first landed in North America. The Army Transport General Lyon was headed from Wilmington, NC, to Fortress Monroe at Old Point Comfort, VA, and then on to Camp Parole, MD, when it caught fire 31 March 1865 (~500 dead). And Massachusetts was carrying many if not mostly soldiers who had recuperated in Camp Parole when it crashed into Black Diamond 22 April 1865 (87 dead)—on this journey, Massachusetts was headed from Alexandria, VA, to Fortress Monroe at Old Point Comfort, with an intermediate stop at City Point, VA, to pick up supplies. The Old Bay Line sometimes used to stop at Old Point Comfort on its way to and from Norfolk—it always stopped there during the Civil War on account of the Union blockade of Hampton Roads preventing access to Norfolk. S. Davies Warfield, the uncle of the future Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, was at one time President of the Old Bay Line (as well as of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad). Edward VIII was king for a while in 1936, but his abdication was not due from any curse as might be suggested by Aligner Weirdos from his having been born on the day of the Albion Mine Disaster, but rather a result of his marrying an American divorcee and his being too pro German. Irony, there, if the Germans caused the Albion Mine disaster to make him seem cursed, which you have to wonder about, actually. (Or maybe not irony if the Germans decided ultimately better to try to use malarkey to convince him that the alignment of the Albion disaster was a sign that he the disaster spirits wanted him to align with Nazis and harm Albion (a poetic word for Great Britain). The Old Bay Line named a new ship after Warfield a year after Warfield died, which later was bought by Jewish interests, who renamed it Exodus, and used it after WWII to transport Jewish refugees from Europe to the future Israel, the plight of those aboard playing a role in gaining international support for the founding of the State of Israel, which is kind of ironic as well.

  • The 1905 Ransom train wreck that Paul Lentz seems to have been partly murdered about happened at or near a tiny village called Ransom which is no longer on maps, but the nearest stop listed on the timetable was Patapsco, about 7/8 miles west of the wreck--the station stop on the other side of the wreck would be Finksburg; these stations as well as the wreck site are in Carroll County. The Thurmont Express, i.e., Western Maryland Train No. 5, which was the west-bound passenger train involved in the wreck, met the freight in a head-on collision about 50 feet after crossing the North Branch of the Patapsco River (there are many crossings of this river in the stretch east of Ransom, where the tracks follow the valley created by the river). The Francis Scott Key bridge collision site is 1000 yards from the middle of Fort Carroll, an island in the middle of the same Patapsco River the bridge crossed. The heroic engineer George Covell who stayed at the brakes at the cost of his life was from Williamsport and his funeral was there (don't know the cemetery); the engineer of the freight train involved in the wreck also lived in Williamsport, where his wife was from, and was buried in the Riverview Cemetery—according to Findagrave, five of the 14 Williamsport High School kids killed in the 1935 train/bus collision in Rockville were also buried there.
  • The Wikipedia entry for chine mentions that chine-like valleys can be found in Coquitlam, BC, resulting in communities there called Harbor Chines and Chineside. Don't know anywhere else outside southern England that's got valleys considered to be chines. Looking up March 1913 in Wikipedia, it tells us that Port Coquitlam was carved out of Coquitlam the same day the Alum Chine blew. Robert Pickton, often considered Canada's most notorious serial killer, lived on his farm in Port Coquitlam. (Pickton died recently on May 31, 2024, after having been stabbed by a fellow prisoner twelve days earlier.)
  • As mentioned, where the Francis Scott Key Bridge was hit by the Dali on March 26 was about one-half mile (~805 m) east of where the 350 tons of dynamite on Alum Chine blew up 7 March 1913 (about 55 dead), according to the map in the 8 March 1913 Baltimore Sun. It's arguably the fourth deadliest Maryland, USA, disaster. I see that about one-third mile ENE of Alum Chine in Bournemouth is Durley Chine--but the beach goes on a good distance east, and one-half mile ENE of Alum Chine is about where the groyne is just west of where the West Cliff Zig Zag path meets the beach. Don't know, though, which groyne Amie Gray's blood was at after she got murdered this year on Queen Victoria's birthday (the same day as the Enga landslide in Papua New Guinea).
• 15 May 2024 assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in Handlová, Slovakia.
  • The August 10, 2009, Handlová mine blast killed 20. I can't find any disaster that has killed more in Slovakia since the July 20, 1998, floods killed 54 (but there wouldn't appear to be anything like definitive lists of disasters in Slovakia on internet, at least not written in English).
  • December 1960 - May 1961 Handlová landslide destroyed 150 residences, 2 km of a state road, high power lines and water lines. Fortunately, the landslide was akin to the movement of a slow blob (max. speed of 6.3 m/day) and so nobody was killed by it. [ damage summary from History of Systematic Research of Slope Failures in Slovakia, Slovak Geol. Mag., 14, 1 (2014), 5 – 18, citing 1982 article in Slovak by A. Nemčok.] It's worth mentioning that in the period this landslide was happening there was the very deadly (and fast) March 13, 1961, Kurenivka mudslide, near Kiev, which killed about 1500. What's additionally quite ghastly about the latter landslide is that it happened essentially where the Babi Yar massacre of 100,000 Jews and others occurred during World War II. There could thus well be an oblique reference here to the landslide near Kiev (notice Kitty Genovese was murdered on the third anniversary of it).
  • As for May 15, the date Fico was shot, recall that the Sherman tornado was May 15, 1896, and was the first devastating tornado of the May 1896 tornado outbreak sequence. Also recall that Abraham Zapruder was born in Kovel, Russian Empire (in modern day Ukraine) on May 15, 1905. But that's not all. On May 15, 1973, opposite Montgomery College, 12 cars of a B&O freight train derailed in Rockville. (One may check this by consulting the May 16, 1973, edition of the Washington Post, but I can't seem to search for it anymore from the Washington Post Archives online, which I suppose aren't what they used to be—but I know I wrote down that the accident happened May 15 after looking at an article that shows up in internet history as having been in the May 16 edition of the paper, and so I am confident that I am right.) My recollection (I actually saw the remains of the wreck when my mother was taking me somewhere via 355 not too many hours or days after the wreck) is not very precise as to location, but I believe it was closer to the north side of Montgomery College than the South side—nearer North Campus Drive or even College Parkway than to Mannakee Street (the address of the Rockville Campus of Montgomery College is 51 Mannakee Street, and the campus sits between Mannakee Street and North Campus Drive). Sarah Hedlund of the Montgomery County Historical Society, in the Fall 2021 Edition of Montgomery County Story puts her best guess of the lynching site of Sidney Randolph as being just west of 355 at what looks to me to be between present day North Campus Drive and College Parkway (headed north toward Derwood and Gaithersburg, 355 starts to angle away from the B&O Metropolitan Line opposite College Parkway).

    Looking up Montgomery College in the Suburban Montgomery White Pages listed above, I couldn't help noticing how 51 Mannakee Steet boldly stands out. So on a lark I looked up Mannakee on internet to see if anything bizarre would come up. Okay, yes, something jumps right out at you for sure. Barry Mannakee was a body guard of Princess Diana who supposedly was forced out of his assignment in 1986 after he and Princess Diana supposedly gave the impression of being especially cozy with each other, and then (according to Wikipedia) he was hit by a Ford Fiesta May 15, 1987, while being given a lift as a passenger on a motor bike, and was killed instantly. But I don't know whether the accident actually was on May 15. Many articles do claim the accident and death happened on May 15, perhaps the majority of them, actually, but it seems to me the best-written ones and most of the period articles available on Newspapers.com put the accident and death on May 14. It is a mystery, but I (slightly) lean toward May 14 given the online evidence. There is a tape, supposedly, in which Diana said regarding her learning of Mannakee's death, This was the biggest blow of my life.

    Right across 355 from Montgomery College (more precisely, across from the area between North Campus Drive and College Parkway) is Suburban Propane. Suburban Propane was offered the eternal flame contract immediately before JFK's funeral after Jackie expressed her desire for an eternal flame—apparently when the calls were made on the weekend before Monday's funeral, Suburban Propane in Rockville was the only one of many establishments called that happened to have someone in the office on the weekend. And so Suburban Propane it was that installed the original eternal flame at JFK's burial site at Arlington National Cemetery. But Suburban Propane used to be on Halpine Road in Rockville, and I think it was moved in early 80's—maybe 1981 or 1982?—presumably because its former location was too close to where the Twinbrook Metro Station was going in when that portion of the Red Line Metro Line was being constructed. It was quite the coincidence, I suppose, that it would be moved across from Montgomery College, at a spot that perhaps already had great significance to aligner weirdos, which could have caused the aligner weirdos to think, I don't know, ah-ha, this is a sign we must make something bizarre happen to Barry Mannakee. But maybe not—remembering Montgomery College and how prosaic it looked, I just can't express sufficiently how totally bizarre it seems that someone could kill Princess Diana's favorite bodyguard over it, but something in me wants to say that some matters are too bizarre not to be true or almost true, even though, yeah, I slightly am leaning toward the Mannakee matter all being a coincidence, and that the most probable thing is he died in a simple accident. It could also be, however, that the weird coincidences of his death and the new location of Suburban Propane together could be part of what I definitely feel is a likely obsession of present-day Aligner Weirdos with the murder of Paul Lentz, who recall lived near Montgomery College and is believed to have been walking toward the bowling alley on campus when last seen alive.

  It wasn't so long ago (end of 1992) that Slovakia and the Czech Republic were one, constituting together the former Czechoslovakia. The chief founder and first president of Czechoslovakia was Tomáš Masaryk, who ruled from 1918 until 1935. His son Jan Masaryk became ambassador to Britain, and then foreign minister. Shortly after the Soviet coup in February 1948 supplanted democracy in Czechoslovakia, Masaryk was forced to live inside private quarters marked off for him inside the foreign ministry in Prague, and on March 10, 1948, he was found dead beneath the window of his bathroom, widespread speculation being that he was murdered by the communist authorities (his death is sometimes called the third or fourth defenestration of Prague). Recall that March 10, 1948, was the twentieth birthday of James Earl Ray and that it was also the day that Zelda Fitzgerald was burned up in Asheville, North Carolina, in the Highland Hospital fire. James Earl Ray was serving in the US Army in Germany at this time (but in relatively distant Bremerhaven [according to Gerald Posner's Killing the Dream], which is a 345 mile (555 km) train ride from Prague).

Maryland's history with lynching

Congratulations to Maryland for memorializing their lynching victims by encouraging the archival work, historical research and historiography (in the sense of writing about history as opposed to the history of writing about history) necessary for people nowadays to hope to have an accurate understanding of what happened. So is it reasonable to look at these other lynchings to see if they relate somehow to patterns of disasters, murders, and assassinations? Yes, lynchings were a nasty business, and you'd expect more of an association between occult nonsense and evils that are nasty. That said, lynchers were more in a conspiracy in standard sense than pure Aligners were, in my opinion. Alignism, I posit, spreads almost exclusively through chains of abuse—abuse that I figure has a nasty addictive component that makes what the abuser is doing (e.g., talking about historical occult alignments) while abusing seem more wondrous and supernaturally mystical than it really is. But lynching is tied up with racism, and racism by its nature tends to involve wanting to identify with the group that is one's race as constituting part of one's fundamental identity. The tendency one can imagine would tend to imply team activity, and thus an aspect that is just conspiracy in the normal sense. And one sees that historically (and in the present day) there are organizations like the KKK, in which members come together in a conspiracy to plan racist mischief and discuss racist occult nonsense. Even when there is technically no formal organization involved, there are likely to be informal social groups that constitute societies of sorts that practically amount to almost the same thing as formal organizations, each group member pushing the racism in repeated collaborations with other members (of their own race) in their racist groups. Anyway, inferences based on observations of past zombifier activity, i.e., what I call nasty people using sodomy with occultism to force others to do mayhem from hidden occult superstition, is not going to be as applicable when conspiracies of ordinary sorts are more involved than zombification. Anyway, it is doubtful that the pattern-observation techniques that I have developed are going to work as well when dealing with conspiracies, though the techniques will be somewhat applicable when the conspirators tend to be nasty people, as with racist lynchers. I do see signs of the standard disaster-referent-zombie patterns in the nasty mayhem that was our nation's history of lynching, and I see it especially in Maryland. Besides the 1896 lynching of Sidney Randolph in Rockville, the lynchings in Salisbury, Wicomico County, seem especially concerning yet worth considering to people who care enough to want to try to exorcise the evil. There's an occultism surrounding Salisbury from the 1 July 1906 wreck of SS New York's boat train in Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, next to Sergei Skripal's drinking club ( Titanic almost crashed into SS New York upon leaving Southampton at the start of her fateful last voyage). The Amesbury poisonings from a perfume bottle of what was believed to be leftover Novichok happened June 30, 2018, the anniversary of the impatient passengers transferring at Plymouth from SS New York to the fateful boat train on 30 June 1906. Friday, 13 July 1906, shortly before midnight, in Barber Junction, North Carolina, four members of the Lyerly family—the parents and two of their five children—were murdered in their beds by axe-murderer and had their house set-a-fire (the same day Alfred Dreyfus was reinstated into the French army after having been formally cleared the preceding day). On the night of August 6, 1906, three African-Americans on sketchy evidence were lynched by a racist mob in Salisbury, North Carolina, supposedly for the murder of the Lyerly family. On Friday, July 13, 1888, French nationalist Georges Boulanger injured Charles Floquet in a duel (this observation about Boulanger may well be an irrelevant observation). Skripal-poisoning alleged conspirator Alexander Mishkin was born Friday, July 13, 1979. There was a hostage situation at the Salisbury, NC, Harris-Teeter grocery store that likely would have reached its conclusion on Friday, July 13, 2018, except for a police sniper disabling the hostage-taker with a gunshot shortly after arriving at the scene (the police were notified about 11:30 Thursday night). The first known lynching in Salisbury, MD, was that of Garfield King (as in the assassinated James Garfield and Martin Luther King, Jr.); it occurred in 1898 late on May 25 or early May 26, the second anniversary of either the axe-murder in Gaithersburg or the coronation of Nicholas II (and the contemporaneous disasters). The especially brutal and depraved lynching of Matthew Williams occurred December 4, 1931, in Salisbury, Maryland, and another unknown African-American was found dead nearby, believed to have been killed by same lynching mob. Some pundits, pointing to Kavanaugh's 1982 calendar, suggested during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings that the likeliest date for the sexual assault that Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of committing (and which he denied) was July 1, 1982. That would be the 76th anniversary of the Salisbury train wreck in Wiltshire; the day before was June 30, 1982, the day CBS News broke the 1982 Congressional Page scandal (Gorsuch's mother, as Reagan's first EPA administrator, was first agency head ever to be cited for contempt of Congress) and the 100th anniversary of the execution of President Garfield's assassin. Kavanaugh's calendar indicated that he was to go to an unnamed beach on July 2, 1982—if he went to Ocean City, probably the most standard beach destination for young people in the DC area, he would have travelled through Salisbury on MD Route 50 on the 101st anniversary of President Garfield getting shot. But his calendar in two other beach trips mentions Rehobeth Beach in Delaware, and nowhere in his calendar does he explicitly mention Ocean City. Other lynchings all over the state could have intentional alignments as well, though they don't seem to be on average as suggestive, at least not from what I have noticed. E.g., on (Monday) July 13, 1885, Howard Cooper was lynched in Towson, Maryland, after he had hid in a barn on the Edward Rider farm only about one-half mile or so (confer map in article of Fall 2011 Maryland Historical Magazine concerning this lynching, written by Alexander Ormond Bolton) from the site of Maryland's deadliest ever train wreck, which happened July 4, 1850, south of Ruxton, Maryland, near the northernmost point of Lake Roland (according to Steve's excellent phototour website about the Northern Central, the wreck would be at milepost 8, a location which he indicates on his copy of an 1892 topological map with a red number 8—his positioning, from a careful-seeming train buff, seems more believable than that the wreck is just north of Joppa Road, another common claim which I believe was popularized from a probably erroneous Baltimore Sun article. But like I said, I don't think one will find the same degree of alignments of mischief with lynchings as with disasters (though it still might be significant), and so I don't plan to concentrate on that any time soon if at ever, though I will certainly not pay only insignificant attention to the lynchings either. Notice the similarity between Ruxton, and Buxton, the latter recall being the name of the family attacked in Gaithersburg that furnished the excuse for the May 1896 lynching in Rockville. It seems likely that this similarity is not merely a coincidence. For instance, maybe "Buxton" was on the family's mailbox, but the bottom of the "B" at the beginning of their surname had flaked off, say, from the lower part of the mailbox rusting, making their name look even more like "Ruxton". Or maybe the murderer put a black spot on the lower part of the "B", making it an "R", thinking that made him look clever—who knows, exactly. And the similarity is strong evidence that the attacker of the Buxtons also was involved in the lynching of Sidney Randolph, because the 1896 lynching of Randolph over (supposedly) the attack on the Buxtons was on July 4, the anniversary of the 1854 train wreck just south of Ruxton.

Attempted Assassination of (former) President Donald Trump. Possible reference to disaster?

The July 13, 2024 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump may have something to do with the December 8, 1909, loss of the SS Marquette and Bessemer No. 2 (train) car ferry with no known survivors as it was plying between Conneaut, Ohio, and Port Stanley, Ontario. It encountered sustained 75 mph winds. But if you read about it online, you'll see the circumstances about it are strange and suggestive of something sketchy. There was only one passenger, and he was purportedly carrying a briefcase with tens of thousands of dollars in it. A lifeboat was found a few days later with nine frozen bodies, including that of a steward in possession of knives and a large meat cleaver from the galley. The captain's body was found on the beach at Long Point with slash wounds. The ferry was apparently a joint project of the Pere Marquette Railway and the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad. The Bessemer and Lake Erie goes through Butler. What is especially sketchy is that December 8, 1909, is the same day Alma Katherine Kellner, 7 or 8 y/o, was last seen alive in Louisville, Kentucky, shortly before heading to mass. The “killer priest” Hans Schmidt (from Bavaria) is known to have been in the area at the time of her disappearance. Schmidt was into dismembering, and Kellner's body was found dismembered in 1910 (on the 14th anniversary of the Khodynka stampede). Also, on December 8, 1909 (according to the Wikipedia article for December 1909), St. Petersburg Okrahna (the Tsarist secret police) leader Colonel Sergey Karpov was assassinated by Alexandr Petrov. What's interesting about this is that Alexander Petrov is apparently the pseudonym of Alexander Mishkin, one of the two would-be assassins of Sergei Skripal. As I mentioned, Bellingcat claims Mishkin was born Friday, July 13, 1979. But looking at period newspaper articles, which universally transliterate Petrov as Petroff, it's clear he actually was blown up about midnight between December 21 and 22 in our Gregorian calendar. The Wikipedia article apparently mistook a Julian date for a Gregorian date—easy to do concerning pre-revolutionary Russia. So that makes me rather doubt my hypothesis is correct, but the assassin could have made the same mistake, if so probably from directly or indirectly taking the same Wikipedia article at face value, and so it still seems worth while for investigators to consider my hypothesis.

The SS Pere Marquette 18 rail-car ferry sank in Lake Michigan east of Sheboygan en route to Milwaukee (as in where Trump was officially nominated as the Republican candidate for president at the Republican National Convention a few days after getting shot) from Ludington, Michigan, on September 10, 1910, about nine months (about one human gestation period) after the similar SS Marquette and Bessemer No. 2 disaster, as if the former was begotten by the latter.

If the Marquette and Bessemer No. 2 Hypothesis about the Trump assassination has some truth to it, it seems like there would be likely tie-ins with weirdnesses of six years ago. In fact, upon reflection, I'd say the main reason to think the assassination might be related to the Marquette and Bessemer No. 2 disaster is not so much that the coincidences between the disaster and the shooting site are numerous and sharp (basically all you have that way is that Marquette and Bessemer No. 2 may constitute the worst disaster significantly involving the only Class 1 railroad going through Butler), but that the reasons that this 1909 disaster is weird relate very well to recent likely aligner activity, especially to events of the early summer of 2018 (recent to aligner weirdos). In my opinion, the FBI should study most carefully people Crooks may have associated with during or near the early summer of 2018. In fact, if the M&B No.2 hypothesis is correct, then probably Crooks failed to notice that Sergey Karpov was only killed on December 8 in the Julian Calendar, which would be thirteen days after M&B No. 2, a mistake suggestive of amateurish tendencies and haste, neither of which suggest very recent involvement with other aligners that may have influenced him this year to do what he did.

2018, late June – early July

The first thing I thought about upon learning that President Trump was shot at was the date, Saturday, July 13. It took me back right to 2018. In 2018, first I noticed Skripal's drinking club was opposite the site of the 1906 train wreck in Salisbury, UK, which happened only 12 days before the axe murders of four families in Barber Junction that supposedly motivated the infamous triple lynching in Salisbury, NC, and then there was the hostage incident at the Salisbury, North Carolina, Harris-Teeter grocery store that had been in a good way to end badly on Friday, July 13, 2018, which day as I mentioned above did start only 30 minutes or so after police were notified. (Notice that by starting the attack July 12, the Harris-Teeter shooter caused the July 8 death of Dawn Sturgess and the July 9 announcement by Trump of the Kavanaugh nomination to form datewise something akin to a Malarkey Triple with it.) All that got me to looking in 2018 at all sorts of coincidences, most probably being dead-ends (that I knew were probably dead ends, but you never know when something improbable might end up useful). I thought I might likely had foolishly done gone and overdone it in the wildness of my speculative quest for further connections relating to Friday, July 13, until Bellingcat claimed that Alexander Petrov was born Friday, July 13, 1979. But the July 13's I was paying attention to in 2018 were all Friday, July 13's, and so when I went to bed after the assassination attempt on Trump, I thought, well, maybe this is actually an assassination attempt that, what 'ya know, is NOT actually associated with 'ligner activity.

WB&A Electric Railway

I wrote to law enforcement about the June 28, 2018, Capital Gazette shooting not long after it happened. I'll just repost an almost exact copy of the relevant section of the small treatise I sent them:

But on June 28, 2018, the shooting at the Capital Gazette Newspaper office in Parole, Maryland, (near Annapolis) happened about 400 yards from the former Best Gate depot of the Washington, Baltimore, and Annapolis Electric Railway (which was abandoned in 1935). The address of the newspaper office is 888 Bestgate Road, and the depot was basically at the intersection of Bestgate Road and Callahan Road. At 7:35pm on June 5, 1908, empty Extra Train No. 21, en route from Annapolis, passed by the Camp Parole Station, located (my best guess) only about 200 yards from the nearest corner of the former (until September 2014) Capital Gazette office at 2000 Capital Drive [edit: and presumably at or very close to the Camp Parole mentioned when discussing the Massachusetts and General Lyon steamship disasters, which camp was finally located on a 250 acre farm leased May 1, 1863, from Charles S. Welch and Anne Rebecca Welch]. There was confusion about the orders, and it was decided near the Camp Parole siding, during consultation between the conductor and motorman, that there was time to make it to the siding at Best Gate before the regular Train No. 133 from Baltimore would interfere with their travel on the single-track rail line. There was confusion about the train orders and it cost lives! The regular from Baltimore was going above 60mph to make up time and at about 7:38 or 7:39pm met them head on with little notice in the curve that existed between the two stations. The Camp Parole Station I believe was located near the intersection of Old Solomons Island Road and West Street, probably on the north side of West Street, probably between the intersection and the present Shell gas station. The station probably was between the tracks and West Street, and the tracks there ran roughly parallel to West Street. According to an account of the final Coroner's Inquest, the accident was about one-third mile west of the Camp Parole Depot, which would have put it about on that part of Defense Street near Route 50, which would put the wreck site at less than three-fourths of a mile from the shooting site. But an early account has it half way between the stations, which would put it just on the other side of Route 50, which actually makes more sense from the speed of Train No. 21 being about 20mph. So I don't know exactly. (The tracks went through the future Annapolis Westfield Mall and just west of the present-day Jared's Jewelers, which may be relevant from the suspected shooters first name being Jarrod, even though I doubt the wreck was quite that far north.) Anyway, ten people ended up dead in this accident (the tenth death likely caused by the wreck, that of the elderly Mrs. Susan Julia Hamilton of Baltimore, didn't happen until July 28, 1908, which explains why usually the deaths are listed as nine). I believe from looking at the list of Maryland train wrecks at Gen Disasters that it is the sixth deadliest ever Maryland train wreck. All the deadlier Maryland train wrecks were on my list in the Appendix, but I had made ten fatalities the cut off and thought only nine died in this wreck, and so it (just barely) didn't make it. Notice that when the Capital Gazette switched offices, it more-or-less left the Parole Station area to go to the Best Gate depot area, the exact same thing the train was trying to do—punishable by death as far as the local 1908 train-disaster spirit is concerned, it might be argued by disaster cultists.

I had suggested from recent events and the 50th anniversary of RFK's June 5 shooting that there might be some incident referring to RFK, and this shooting, occurring extremely close to the “special” places involved in the train wreck that occurred exactly 60 years before RFK was shot seems to suggest that my warning was not too off. I expected something a little closer to June 5, and with Taylor Swift connections. And there is a good candidate for a Taylor Swift connection (though I had expected a more bizarre one), since the day before the Gazette shooting Taylor Swift succeeded in getting a five-year restraining order against Julius Sandrock, who on April 14 or 15 may have been trying to break into her Beverly Hills home while wearing a mask and wielding a knife. Since the alleged shooter, Jarrod Ramos, apparently had very obsessively and rudely stalked someone himself, the Taylor Swift restraining order of the previous day being a contributing factor in choosing the exact date of the attack doesn't seem implausible. June 28 is also the anniversary of the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, which led to World War I.

What's also especially interesting about the WB&A is that many murders of young women from 1969-1974 in Anne Arundel County, MD, seem to involve locations associated with the WB&A. Also, the assassination or quasi-assassination attempts against Wallace and Nixon in the early 70s by Arthur Bremer, Robert Preston, and Samuel Byck all were associated with places in Maryland at one time on the WB&A. I'm now going to post what I had first planned to post on Pamela Conyers's Websleuths thread, but I'll post here instead because I changed my mind.

It's not clear exactly where Pamela Conyers' body was found between the east- and west-bound lanes of Route 100. My best guess from what's on the web and newspapers.com is she was found near where 648 used to go before Route 100 was built (also where Synergizer Bunny of Websleuths puts the X on map). The remains of old 648 between Mountain Road and Baltimore Annapolis Blvd that aren't in the median of 100 are 915 south of 100 and 915A north of 100 (these remains used to connect across the future Route 100 when they were part of 648 as I believe Baltimore Annapolis Blvd). Googling random sites online, it seems locals often abbreviate Baltimore Annapolis Blvd as B&A Blvd., akin to the Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad often being abbreviated as the B&A. The B&A railroad (the bed of which is now there a walking trail) was just west of Ritchie Highway, adjacent to the mall where Conyers and Malecki might have been taken. Sandra Lee Berkey (Knight) was murdered at her apartment on the 7800 block of Winborne Drive, an address very close to B&A Blvd (Route 648), last being seen alive June 30, 1974 (the same day as the Gulliver's Nightclub fire and the assassination of MLK's mother). I have read her case might be related to that of Phyllis Bohle, who lived in Severn in a fairly rural area very close to a street actually named WB&A Rd, and whose body was found at her home one year to the day before the Lyon sisters were taken. Before the WB&A came into existence, there were two rail lines to Annapolis: the B&A which ran along the north shore of the Severn and the AW&B, which ran along the south shore of the Severn. WB&A incorporated those lines into its system as north shore and south shore division. In particular, between 1921 and when the WB&A ceased operating in 1935, the B&A was part of the WB&A. WB&A's main line (between DC and Baltimore) went along WB&A road in the area near Phyllis Bohle's home. Donna Lee Dustin's body was found November 17, 1973, very near the former Myer's Station (off Myer's Station Road according to the Anne Arundel cold case website), one of the interurban stations on the main line. Fort Meade, where Malecki's body was found, was served by the AW&B, in fact standard internet opinion is that the part of the line serving Fort Meade (between Annapolis Junction and Odenton) wasn't mostly all torn up until about 1980 or so (east of Odenton, the AW&B was torn up in 1935 I believe, as was most of the WB&A mainline).

And then you've got three incidents from 1972 to 1974 which are assassination attempts or akin to assassination attempts.

May 15, 1972. George Wallace was shot in Laurel, leaving him paralyzed from waist down for the rest of his life. From 1902-1910, the entity known as the Washington, Berwyn, and Laurel Electric Railroad Company only included that part of the future Washington, Berwyn, and Laurel Railroad that existed between Berwyn and Laurel, whose tracks were laid by the WB&A in 1902, and was controlled by the WB&A (between downtown Washington and Berwyn, WB&A merely had permission to use the tracks of the City and Suburban Railway). WB&A had hoped to extend the line three miles from Laurel to meet up with its South Shore Division at Annapolis Junction, but they never had the wherewithal to do that. Alas, WB&A went into receivership for a while, then (from 1910) causing the whole of the new WB&L—from Washington to Laurel—to be owned by the City and Suburban Railway Company. This WB&L, which stopped going to Laurel in July 1925 and gradually had its northern end get truncated closer to Washington as politicians decided to favor automobile-friendly policies, eventually became Route 82 as part of National Capital Transit, but before July 1925 the streetcars on it went right by the mall where Wallace was shot at (and also through Hyattsville near the house where Lloyd Lee Welch and his father were living when the Lyon sisters were kidnapped).

February 17, 1974. Robert Preston hijacked a helicopter at Tipton Field near Fort Meade and flew it to south lawn of White House. Tipton Field had formerly been adjacent to the South Shore Division of the WB&A, i.e., the old AW&B. The main line of the WB&A terminated variously at 15th and New York Avenue at the Treasury Building adjacent to the east side of White House, and then at 12th and New York Avenue, four blocks east of the White House. The remnants in DC of the WB&A mainline became (with a slightly altered route) the Route 12 streetcar to Seat Pleasant. The 12 and 82 streetcars both went along Pennsylvania Avenue between Lafayette Square and the White House, taking you basically as close as ordinary people not on a White House tour can get to the White House's front (northern) portico (door).

February 22, 1974. Samuel Byck kills a pilot and a policeman at BWI airport while attempting to hijack a DC-9, which he hoped to crash into the White House while President Nixon was there. BWI is near Amtrak's Northeast Corridor (formerly part of Pennsylvania RR), but the WB&A mainline actually went through what would become BWI.

The evening of Saturday, November 5, 1960, three days before JFK would be elected president, Lloyd Lee Welch (Sr.), traveling north along Brock Bridge Road near Annapolis Junction, ran off the road into a utility pole, the car ending up astraddle railroad tracks. His wife, Margaret Dull Welch, the mother of Lloyd Lee Welch, Jr., was dead on arrival at the hospital. The driver's son and the 8 y/o sister of Margaret were injured and taken to hospital, but survived. Perhaps the tracks the car ended up straddling were of the south shore division of the AW&B (the tracks right there still exist, serving a Vulcan Materials facility, and in fact in 1960 also still extended to serve Fort Meade)? Brock Bridge Road runs along the B&O Washington Division (between DC and Baltimore), and until the Patuxtent Freeway (MD 32) was built into highway (in 1980s?), did cross the former AW&B right at Annapolis Junction (which is named after this railroad junction). So possibly the accident that killed Lee Welch's first wife could have something to do with obsession with WB&A. According to Anne Arundel County's cold case website: “On June 25, 1974, Joseph Schroeder, a 34 year old black male, was discovered deceased on the side of Brock Bridge Road, Jessup, Maryland. Mr. Schroeder’s cause of death was trauma to the head and torso with the manner being homicide.” Jessup is right next to Annapolis Junction. His body was found five days before Sandra Lee Berkey is believed to have been attacked on June 30 in Glen Burnie. Something else that jumps (less strongly) out at me is the case of another African American male found deceased in 1978 perhaps very close to where the body of Conyers was found, with his car fairly close by as in her case: “On November 10, 1978, 19 year old Charles Turgot Jones was found deceased in a shallow grave on Maryland Route 648 near Mountain Road in Glen Burnie, Maryland. The victim’s vehicle was located approximately 500 yards from the victim. He had been reported missing by his parents to the Baltimore City Police Department on November 8, 1978. Mr. Jones had sustained injuries from multiple weapons and his manner of death was homicide.”

Of course, another possibility is that Lee Welch intentionally crashed his car where he did from some pre-existent obsession with the WB&A.

The president of the WB&A for most of its history was George T. Bishop, who formerly had been president of the interurban between Dallas and Fort Worth. In 1902, his group actually financed building the line between Oak Cliff and Fort Worth. JW “Dub” Stark, the owner of Top Ten Records near the corner of W. Jefferson and Bishop, and his young clerk Louis Cortinas claimed in a 1981 Dallas Morning News article by Earl Golz that after JFK was shot and right before Officer J.D. Tippit was murdered, Tippit had tried unsuccessfully to make a phone call from their establishment, and that Tippit had parked his car on Bishop. I imagine Bishop Avenue was named after George Bishop, since that's what it was named in a 1905 map of Dallas, whereas an 1891 map shows it as Monroe Avenue (and in 1905 there were streetcar tracks on Bishop north of Davis). It was in the Waco-Times Herald of November 29, 1903, that Oak Cliff cofounder Thomas Marsalis got into a feud with Bishop's group over breach of contract, suing Bishop and associates for either one-tenth of all their Northern Traction Stock and bonds, or $200,000. Don't know how that turned out. It's a mystery why Oswald caught the Marsalis bus when he could have caught one for Beckley, where his apartment was (because after one week he had been kicked out of the room he had rented October 7 on 621 Marsalis Avenue, 2000 feet east of the Beckley rooming house). Also it is a mystery why eyewitnesses claim that until right before Oswald spotted Tippit's Police Car No. 10 on Tenth Street, Oswald was walking from Marsalis towards Beckley (and not the other way around). Perhaps Oswald after killing JFK had felt he had to visit Marsalis Avenue as some sort of ritual memorialization or desecration of Thomas Marsalis? Marsalis had an interesting history after founding Oak Cliff. Could somehow the feud between Marsalis and Bishop over the Northern Traction Company interurban be related to murders and assassination attempts having WB&A references? If so, exactly what was going on is likely to be too bizarre to understand exactly without a great deal of study, but maybe a strangeness affords an important clue for beginning to understand.

March 7, 1916, three years to the day after the Alum Chine explosion one-half mile west of where the Dali would collide with the Francis Scott Key Bridge, it came out in the morning NYC paper The World that Marsalis was a lobbyist secretly working for Alphonse G. Koelble, who the paper claimed operated the clearinghouse for the congressional campaign of the National German-American alliance. Marsalis supposedly was being used clandestinely by the Alliance through Koelble to lobby pro-German anti-English interests with respect to submarine warfare in a way that kept secret that the German-American alliance had anything to do with his lobbying. In particular, Marsalis was lobbying for the legislative resolutions of Senator Thomas Gore and Representative A. Jefferson McLemore that were to formally warn Americans of the dangers of traveling on armed Allied Merchant Vessels (trivia: Gore's daughter was the most recent ex-wife of Jackie Kennedy's first stepfather). It was thought by some pacifists that warning Americans of the dangers of traveling aboard such ships might reduce the chances of America getting into a war as a result of Americans being killed by German submarines. And Germany, which was having a hard enough time in the war as it was, did not want America to declare war on Germany, at least not yet. It came out that the lobbying campaign started not long after Koelble had visited Germany, which The World claimed suggested Koelble was working under direction of the German government, and Koelble, a lawyer, claimed that, no, it was a work trip on behalf of one of his former clients, Hans Schmidt, the homicidal priest who drank the blood of his victim after dismembering her (supposedly to this day the only priest convicted of murder), who had emigrated from Bavaria, which of course made Koelble (and by association Marsalis) only seem more creepy.

It's weird that Marsalis, who during the war lived in New York, was buried in Paterson, NJ, the center of the American anarchist movement. The assassins of Umberto I and Mayor Cermak of Chicago both had lived in Paterson, and the assassin of President McKinley was inspired by the assassin of Umberto I. They all used .32 caliber top-break (anarchists aim to “break the top” of society?) safety-automatic five-cylinder revolvers made by Iver Johnson (or, in the case of Cermak's assassin, a subsidiary of Iver Johnson). At one time, Oswald owned a first model Iver Johnson top-break safety-automatic five-cylinder revolver from the last decade of the 19th century (but the caliber was purportedly different, Oswald owning a .38). Oswald's brother Robert apparently bought the gun away from him right before Lee joined the US Marines, telling Lee it was so old and rickety (top-break revolvers are rickety by most accounts) that it wasn't safe to use (though maybe he did so to try to keep him away from mischief). Thomas Marsalis's son Thomas Marsalis, Jr., helped found the American Stock Exchange out of so-called curb traders who would sell securities outside of the stock exchange proper, “on the curb”. Thomas Marsalis, Jr., came to live on an estate in the Eastern Shore, in Queenstown, MD. Queenstown, Ireland, (aka Cobh) is where the plurality of the floating corpses and survivors went after Lusitania was sunk in 1915 (on the 75th anniversary of what was until 1925 the deadliest ever North American tornado, the 7 May 1840 Natchez tornado) as a result of unrestricted submarine warfare, and it's the last place Titanic anchored off ere sinking. The first (duckpin) bowling establishment of the Rinaldi brothers was the (originally named something else) Triangle Bowl in Wheaton where the Lyon sisters' mother was bowling at about the time her daughters were taken. Second I believe was Queenstown Bowl in the Queenstown section of Mount Rainier next to Hyattsville.

The excellent online article, Where did Thomas L. Marsalis go? by Jim Barnes and Sharon Marsalis mentions the $200,000 suit by Marsalis against Bishop's group and also that just prior to America’s entry into World War I, he [Marsalis] was portrayed as being a lobbyist in Washington D.C.; allegedly working for pro-German forces trying to convince United States Senators to keep America out of the World War. So I investigated the matter and learned from reading on newspapers.com that it was the March 7, 1916, news article in the morning New York paper The World that broke the story about Marsalis secretly working for Koelble. For some reason, the evening edition of this newspaper is very easy to obtain online, but the morning edition, a quite different newspaper, does not seem to be available anywhere electronically, despite it being supposedly the newspaper with the greatest amount of advertising revenue of all New York City papers at the time. The day before Trump was shot I went to the library to see if I could get help in obtaining a full copy of the relevant article, and it was earlier on that day, July 12, I believe (looking at my search history) that I first noticed that Kellner's murder, the sinking of Marquette and Bessemer No. 2, and the 1909 assassination by the real Alexander Petrov all happened on the same day, December 8, 1909, which I figured likely would have some significance (it took me a week or so to figure out that the assassination by Petrov actually happened December 21, because Julian date and because I hadn't known the convention of translators, e.g., those used by period English newspapers, had been changed at some point (perhaps the same busybodies that make studying Chinese history so difficult for English speakers because there are so many conventions in English as to how to transliterate Chinese characters into English, with modern changes that actually make the words less and less memorable because if a word isn't slightly strange and silly looking it is harder to remember, and these busybody people have no tolerance for silly), formerly was to transliterate Петро́в into English as "Petroff" rather than as "Petrov", and similarly Ка́рпов used to be written "Karpoff" instead of "Karpov"). Little did I feel or think the coincidence would be someone's motive to shoot President Trump the next day! The one thing Secret Service basically has no idea about supposedly is motive, but I sitting at my computer looking at patterns of recent (and not so recent) tragedies, murders, and assassinations, perhaps basically figured out the motive (but mostly nothing else) not just shortly after Trump was shot, but one day before Trump was actually shot! Anyway, if Trump was shot at over malarkey concerning December 8, 1909, the Aligners obsession with WB&A is probably connected (via lore concerning Marsalis and Koelble) with why he was shot and also with why the Capital Gazette shooting of June 28, 2018 happened.

Charlie Rowley is believed to have picked up the Novichok-laden perfume bottle from a charity bin in Salisbury on June 27, 2018—the day before the Capital Gazette shooting—thinking it was perfume. He is believed to have (accidentally) poisoned himself and his female companion, Dawn Sturgess, on June 30, 2018. Dawn Sturgess died July 8, 2018. The day after Dawn Sturgess died, July 9, 2018, was the centennial of what is probably most often considered America's deadliest ever train wreck, the Great Nashville train wreck of 1918. July 9, 2018, was also the day Brett Kavanaugh was nominated by Trump to be a Supreme Court Justice. His first day as Supreme Court Justice was October 6, 2018, the centennial of the loss of HMS Otranto, which killed about 470 men, including 356 US Army personnel, 94 British personnel, and 6 fisherman from Quebec (the British military troop ship was ferrying US Army personnel to fight in the war, but also carried some French fishermen that they had rescued after ramming into a French fishing schooner). Otranto sank after the steamer Kashmir collided with it during rough seas and poor visibility. It's worth mentioning in possible relation to the Trump shooting that the Otranto disaster was eleven years to the day after an explosion at the Standard Steel (railway) Car Company plant in the Lyndora section of Butler, Pennsylvania, sprayed molten steel on numerous workers, killing at least 13. I believe Otranto was the greatest loss of American lives in a ship during WWI while America was at war (more than with the Princess Sophia or Cyclops disasters). Of course, that in itself would, given the evidence I have hitherto presented, by a reasonable person likely be considered as very probably just coincidence. But I can't help noticing that the Ransom train wreck that, as my last few posts have suggested, seems to be something that is being referred to lately, was a result of the freight train involved having disregarded its need to wait not only for the two trains it had already waited for (No. 17, the Union Bridge Accommodation, and No. 11, the Blue Mountain Express), but also No. 5, the Thurmont Express. Where was the crew when it made this mistake? The Gorsuch siding 3.5 miles east of Westminster, that's where. Justice Kavanaugh wasn't the first judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court by Trump. Before Kavanaugh there was Neill Gorsuch. Kavanaugh (Class of '83) and Gorsuch (Class of '85) were both graduates of Georgetown Prep, a high school located in North Bethesda Maryland. So what do dates suggest about Gorsuch? Is there also something weird about his dates? Gorsuch was born August 29, 1967, the day before the Senate voted to confirm Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, and the birthday was the fiftieth anniversary of a big day in Canada, namely August 29, 1917, the day the Military Service Act passed allowing conscription and the day Albert Grey died, who had recently been Governor General of Canada (he was succeeded in 1911 by Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, whom the Connaught Tunnel under Mount MacDonald was named after, and who served until 1916). Gorsuch's nomination was announced by Trump on January 31, 2017, and he took office April 10, 2017. January 31, 1917, it was when Germany announced it was rescinding its Sussex pledge of 1916 and resuming (the next day) unrestricted submarine warfare against allied and neutral shipping in war zones (which included an area surrounding the British Isles). This policy change along with the Zimmerman telegram are generally considered the main reasons for America deciding to enter WWI. And Marsalis became disgraced on account of his lobbying for German interests relative to submarine warfare. April 10, 1917, recall, was the Eddystone, Pennsylvania, munitions plant explosion (139). Still, I think even focusing at the totality of the weirdness in the dates mentioned concerning Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, it could well be all coincidence. Kavanaugh's birthday, for instance, seems ordinary. And as for dates of nominations, I could have gone by the date the nomination was announced to the Senate (usually the next day) rather than the day the President announces the nomination. Similarly, rather than the date the Justice takes office, I could have looked at the date the Justice was confirmed by the Senate (as I did when looking at Justice Marshall being confirmed the date after Gorsuch's birthday). And World War I was full of disasters, not only on the battlefields on land and sea, but also on the home front as a labor force depleted as a result of soldiers leaving for war was asked to increase production and transportation as a result of war. But still the dates are weird enough, that in my opinion one should see that even if the dates are just meaningless coincidences, aligner weirdos may decide to kill over them, and that the dates being what they were may be significantly responsible for recent tendencies to refer to the 1906 Ransom train wreck (and the murder of Paul Lentz), the wreck having been caused by a mistake made at Gorsuch siding. But there's something else a little even more bizarre relating to the justices: the weirdnesses concerning Maryland Route 547, the road whose western end is at the entrance of Georgetown Prep. The western half of 547, mostly in Garrett Park, is Strathmore Lane, while the eastern half, mostly in Kensington, is called Knowles Avenue.

I actually got to thinking about Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne when I was considering the September 7, 1975, murder of Terry Cornell in Syracuse, NY. Her slippers had been found two different places on Strathmore Drive. She was last seen alive walking west on Glenwood Avenue, which is homonymous with the road in North Philadelphia next to the site of the 1943 Congressional Train wreck. She had just left the Avalon Bar on South Avenue, which becomes Slocum Rd on its northern end. South Avenue is Route 175, as in the train number of the westbound train in the 1950 Rockville Centre train collision. Her body was found in a culvert going beneath McDonald Road—as in the Connaught tunnel under Mount MacDonald near the 1910 Rogers Pass snow avalanche (the Connaught tunnel replaced the Hoosac tunnel as the longest North American Railway tunnel, a position held until the Moffat tunnel opened in 1928), which also seems to be a reference in the 2 November 1974 murder of Katherine Kolodziej in Cobleskill, NY. And Syracuse is near the 2 July 1918, Semet-Solvay Explosives plant explosion in neighboring Split Rock, which is possibly the most significant July 2 disaster (important because President Garfield was shot on July 2). The attack on Cornell closely followed two incidents the preceding day, which was an anniversary of President McKinley's death (and of the Congressional train wreck). A girl was murdered and her friend raped after being snatched from Statesville, NC, very early on 6 September, and then at about the exact time of the anniversary of the Congressional train wreck, Sylvia Lwowski (who resembled Kolodziej—both of Polish ancestry) disappeared from Staten Island. Those other murders seem also to have (somewhat less obvious) references in names of geographical particulars to the Congressional train wreck. Anyway, so subsequently way back then (2016?) I looked up Strathmore.

The British peerage includes an Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who lives at Glamis Castle, and whose Earldom goes back all the way to 1372 and the (I believe) original Thane of Glamis and progenitor of the Clan of Lyon, named John Lyon (born 1340), called the White Lyon (as in Kimba) because of a pale complexion. Two things are interesting about that. First, John Lyon is the name of the father of the Lyon sisters and is a somewhat near homophone of the assassinated former Beatle John Lennon— John Lennon sounds a little like John Lyon. Second, the Thane of Glamis appears ominously in Shakespeare's play MacBeth. MacBeth was the role assassin John Wilkes Booth was best known for playing. Between 1968 and 1974, Director Roman Polanski directed three films in America: Rosemary's Baby, MacBeth, and Chinatown. Rosemary's Baby revolves around an apartment building which insofar as exterior shots are concerned, is the same Dakota apartment building in New York City where John Lennon was assassinated. The character Hollis Mulwray in Chinatown is based on William Mulholland, who took responsibility for the St. Francis Dam disaster that seemed particularly to motivate James Earl Ray, the disaster happening two days after Ray was born. In MacBeth, the Thane of Glamis is mentioned by the witches along with the Thane of Cawdor. Originally the Thane of Cawdor was called the Thane of Calder, which I suppose might have something to do with the Texas killing fields of the unknown serial killer(s) betwixt Houston and Galveston being located at or near the most well-known field, the so-called Calder Field next to Calder Road, an oil drilling site where remains of four murdered young females were found. There are rumors from many respectable-looking sources (so probably more than rumor) on internet that serial killer John Alcala, using alias John Berger, studied film at NYU from Roman Polanski.

As it turns out the present Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Simon Bowes-Lyon, the 19th such Earl, has committed serious criminal offenses. He was convicted of violently sexually assaulting a visitor to his castle on February 13, 2020. And on 10 November 2023 he was convicted of driving with a blood alcohol level 2.5 times the legal limit for DUI while speeding. And he was apparently born 18 June 1986, the eleventh anniversary of the murder of Paul John Benedict Lentz in Rockville (and of the beheading of the assassin of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia). In 1942, John Lennon's former bandmate Paul McCartney was also born on 18 June. True, it seems to me unlikely (but worth considering, I suppose) that at some point in past hundred years or so an Earl of Strathmore was involved with the various assassination attempts, murders, etc., that 'ligners might have committed from an obsession with Strathmore, but at the least people ought to consider the Earls of their associates might have been a target for corrupters. Take Edward VIII. The day Mary of Teck gave birth to the future Edward VIII, Albion Mine disaster (290 dead) happened. And two days shy of four years later she christened the Battleship Albion (which for a while would be commanded by a Vice Admiral Grenfell and which later, like Bouvet, would participate in the Dardanelles naval disaster of March 18, 1915) immediately before its 21 June 1898 ill-fated launch, which was accompanied by a structural failure in a viewing stage that killed 34 mostly women-and-children spectators. Hard to say whether it should be considered probable that the Albion mine disaster was due to sabotage by 'ligners with pro-German motives (that are not pro-German because it's dumb to think it in the interest of Germany for Germany to behave like psychopaths), but it's hard to see how one shouldn't think that the disaster at the launching of HMS Albion was not some wicked attempt (by 'ligner weirdos, presumably) to make the future Queen Mary and her son Edward seem as though they were supernaturally destined to hurt Albion (England) in favor of, say, Germany. And judging by Edward's future pro-German tendencies, you've got to think, I don't know, Germans, in particular the camarilla of pederasts that replaced Bismarck's faction in influencing Kaiser Wilhelm II, decided to help destiny along a bit via (say) subtle (or maybe worse than subtle) corruptions. And when Elizabeth the Queen Mother was seen as leading the isolation of the Duke of Windsor (and more particularly his wife) after he abdicated the throne, it's not a stretch to think her brother and his descendants may have somehow ended up as targets to be brought to heal to destiny via corruption. Of course it makes no sense to try to bring destiny to heal, since that would be no destiny, though the fake destiny that malevolently goes for actual destiny is something that corrupters can encourage the enshrinement of, and that heroes and a virtually united public possibly can be at least sort of destined to expose as fraudulent and to right via justice and a thorough moral washing.

Some other dates involving recent Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne are also somewhat peculiar. I'll give the most salient example. Austro-Hungarian troop carrier (and former ocean liner) SS Linz (Hitler would consider Linz his hometown) hit a mine off Albania on 19 March 1918 at 12:25 am, which corresponds (differing time zones) to a date of 18 March 1918 in Britain and the US. The sixteenth Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, namely Timothy Bowes-Lyon, the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the nephew of her mother, was born 18 March 1918. Since Linz is basically homophonic and largely homographic with Lentz, one can see how the date indeed suggests an original connection between the murder of Lentz and the Strathmore obsession, a connection that would be reinforced by the birthdate of Simon Bowes-Lyon and more recently by the accession to the Supreme Court of Justice Gorsuch, whose former high-school basically has Strathmore Lane as an access road and whose last name is homonymous with the railroad siding where the mistake was made that caused the accident that Paul John Benedict Lentz was presumably mainly killed over. The date of Lennon's 1980 assassination, namely December 8, also has something of a connection with the Lyon sisters' death, at least if one is disaster obsessed. Indeed, the most prominent December 8 disaster world-wide would be the 1863 Church of the Company fire in Santiago, Chile, during ceremonies celebrating the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary (when Mary was conceived), which killed about 2500, making it the world's deadliest ever structural fire. Three of the bells from this church were carried to Mumbles, Wales, where from the late 1860s until 2010 they were at All Saints Church, Oystermouth, in Mumbles, Wales. The Swansea and Mumbles Railway was the first railway in the world to haul fare-paying passengers, and it started doing this March 25, 1807, and the Lyon sisters were taken to be murdered in 1975 on March 25. True, a railway starting a useful service is not at all a disaster, but without the existence of passenger rail, there would be few to none of the most deadly railway accidents that 'ligners are so fond of, and passenger rail perhaps wouldn't have much come into existence if it hadn't been profitable on account of fares, at least not in highly capitalist societies.

But what about the eastern half of Maryland Route 547, i.e., Knowles Avenue? What's creepy about that, or more particularly, what could have been creepy about it in 1975 when the Lyon sisters were (presumably) murdered? There is something, actually, about Knowles which is very creepy, and it was a great deal more creepy in 1975 from the associated reference being more current. Something you may have noticed is that (I believe most would agree) the two most illustrious Beatles are Paul McCartney and the late John Lennon. So you've got a Paul and John there, just like you've got in the name of Paul John Benedict Lentz. Those familiar with serial killers will see where I am going with this. Paul John Knowles, the so-called Casanova Killer, terrorized the Eastern United States in 1974, driving around from murder to murder, killing a total of about 19 people between 26 July 1974 and 16 November 1974.

And just as you have to look at the western end of 547, you've got to look at the eastern end. More particularly, you've got to look at the little bit of Knowles Avenue that is east of Connecticut Avenue (whose northern end is at Georgia Avenue, near where Kathy Lynn Beatty was found fatally injured), the last block. I believe 547 stops at Connecticut Avenue, and so this 500ft segment (between Connecticut and Armory Avenues) is (at least according to standard internet opinion) the only part of Knowles or Strathmore that is not part of MD 547, and basically is what 547 goes to on its eastern end just as Georgetown Prep is what 547 goes to on its western end. In 2002 from October 3 to October 22, the DC sniper attacks killed ten in the Washington, DC, area, and critically wounded three more. The sixth of the fourteen shootings, a murder, was at the Shell gas station in this segment, more particularly in the block bounded on the west by Connecticut, on the south by Knowles, on the east by Armory and on the north by Howard. The weirdness extends slightly just north of this block. Right next to the westbound lane of Howard (which runs along the south side of the tracks of the Metropolitan Division of the former B&O Railroad) you've got railway block signal 1124-2, which is the block signal which was at approach (medium speed, prepared to stop at next signal) when passed by MARC Train No. 286 on February 16, 1996. Whether the train crew of No. 286 failed to notice the signal or simply forgot about it cannot be determined, because they were among the nine killed in the subsequent collision with the northbound Capitol Limited, Train No. 29, as a result of not stopping short of the next signal. On 11/24/1977, Lloyd Lee Welch, Jr., was arrested subsequent to a robbery on Hobson Street, a reckless act for someone involved in kidnapping and murdering the Lyon sisters, because Hobson was only about 500 feet from where witnesses last saw the Lyon sisters (walking towards home from the Wheaton Plaza Shopping Center). November 24th is the anniversary of Ruby shooting JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The Lyon sisters vanished March 25, 1975. The birthday of Ruby as given by the driver's license (not the different date on his tombstone) he was carrying when arrested for shooting Oswald was March 25, 1911, the same day as the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory fire and the resolution of the infamous homicidal-racist railway strike on the former Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railroad (part of Southern Railway's Queen and Crescent Route connecting Cincinnati and New Orleans), which runs between Cincinnati and Chattanooga through Oakdale, Tennessee, where Lloyd's stepmother was born (according to findagrave), and where railway crews could be changed because it was one of the dividing points of the three divisions comprising the route. The USS Hobson sank on the anniversary of the only other shooting of an assassin of a US president (the 26 April 1865 shooting of John Wilkes Booth by Boston Corbett). Just north of signal 1124-2 is where Route 192, homonymous with the train number of the eastbound train that ignored the approach signal in the Rockville Centre Wreck, takes off from Plyers Mill Road, which goes to where the Lyon sisters lived basically at the corner of Jennings and Plyers Mill. Connecticut Avenue goes north toward Aspen Hill, where near its intersection with Georgia Avenue Kathy Beatty was found fatally injured. The first, fourth, fifth and fourteenth sniper shootings were within 1.05 miles or so of my best guess of where Kathy Beatty was left fatally injured behind the Kmart. The first and last shootings of the spree were significantly closer to where she had been left than that, namely about 500 yards south and 350 yards east, respectively, and the fourth shooting (of a cab driver at the then Mobil Station at Connecticut and Aspen Hill Road, which I believe is now a Sunoco) was about one-half mile southwest, whereas the fifth was about 1.05 miles north. The relation, if it exists, between the DC snipers and the Kathy Beatty murder seems hard to fathom, though, notwithstanding the weird coincidences mentioned, but even if the coincidences are merely coincidences, the coincidences themselves might motivate mischief that's happened since 2002 or that might happen in the future. It's also weird that John Allen Muhammad's ex-wife (whom it is speculated Muhammad may have wanted to murder) lived in Clinton, Maryland, which used to be called Surrattsville, and was the location of one of Mary Surratt's two properties, the one where Booth obtained supplies after the assassination. By most accounts on internet, Mary Surratt (the Lincoln assassination conspirator) was born in Waterloo, Maryland, which is close to where Lloyd Lee Welch's mother was fatally injured in a November 1960 automobile wreck in Annapolis Junction while his intoxicated father was driving. The injured young sister of Lloyd Lee Welch's mother was (according to a Baltimore Sun newspaper article about the wreck), a resident of Waterloo. The date of conspirator Mary Surratt's birth is by most accounts unknown, but findagrave claims she was born fifty years to the day before the Truesdell bridge disaster in Dixon, Illinois (which recall was next to where Reagan lived when he was in high school and which happened the day before McKinley's assassin Leon Czolgosz was born).

Since the Trump assassination seems like it might be a reference to December 8, it's only appropriate for me to discuss other weirdnesses that I have noticed about the December 8, 1980, assassination of John Lennon. There seem to be weird connections between the shootings of Lennon and Reagan. About two months before the assassination of Lennon, handguns were confiscated from Reagan shooter John Hinckley at a security check at Nashville airport on October 9, 1980, the day President Carter was visiting Nashville. John Lennon's fortieth birthday was the same day, i.e., October 9, 1980. John Lennon shied away from the media in his last years, I suppose perhaps because he felt he was safer and less likely to be harassed by doing so. Lennon's last interview occurred in April 1975, when he was interviewed by Tomorrow Show host Tom Snyder. Lennon's assassin Mark David Chapman was born in Fort Worth, TX, May 10, 1955, the fiftieth anniversary of the Snyder, Oklahoma, tornado killing 97. When Reagan was shot, Vice President Bush was leaving Fort Worth. Hinckley grew up in Dallas (more precisely, he grew up in University Park where he went to high school at Highland Park High School—but Highland Park and University Park are tiny contiguous enclaves of Dallas, i.e., they are surrounded by Dallas and the Post Office prefers addresses in these locations to be considered Dallas—the enclaves are nevertheless well known from being areas containing very wealthy residents), and he bought the gun used to shoot Reagan in Dallas. Nineteen days after Chapman was born, Hinckley was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma on May 29, 1955, four days to the day after two F5 tornadoes killed 20 in Blackwell, Oklahoma, and 80 in Udall, Kansas. (Hinckley was born on JFK's thirty-eighth birthday while Chapman was born on John Wilkes Booth's 117th birthday.)

And then there are the hotel-fire connections. The November 21, 1980, MGM Grand fire in Las Vegas killed 85, and made at the time Hotel fires a topic of conversation. On December 4, 1980, just four days and thirty miles away from Lennon's assassination, there was the fire which killed 26 at the Stouffer's Inn of Westchester, in West Harrison, NY, (as in Beatle George Harrison). On December 10, 1980, two days after Lennon was shot, it made the news in papers all over the country that the Sheraton Park Plaza Hotel in New Haven, Connecticut, had to be evacuated on account of an electrical fire (fortunately no deaths)—Hinckley stayed in this hotel when stalking Foster in New Haven while she was a student at Yale (located in New Haven). A copycat stalker of Foster, namely Edward Richardson, wrote a letter to Foster which she received Monday, April 6, 1981, indicating I will finish what Hinckley started. R.R. must die, he ('J.W.H.') has told me so in a prophetic dream. Sadly though, your death is also required. You too will suffer the same fate as Reagan and others in this fascist regime ... And the next day, i.e., Tuesday, April 7, a (worded slightly differently) copy or draft of the letter was found in the room Richardson apparently was staying in at the same Park Plaza hotel. Hinckley spent sixteen days during early March 1981 at the Golden Hours Hotel on West Colfax in Lakewood, Colorado, where it is believed he plotted the assassination of Reagan (conceivably, but not I suppose probably, the hotel was chosen because the similarly named Golden Ages Nursing Home Fire killed 63 in Fitchville, Ohio, the day after JFK was assassinated). It is supposedly not believed that Richardson and Hinckley had interacted, but from mid-December 1980 to early March 1981, Richardson was staying with his two sisters in an apartment in Lakewood, Colorado (recall Lakewood was punched on the bus transfer found in Lee Harvey Oswald's pocket upon his arrest, because that's where the Marsalis bus originated). Hinckley shot Reagan 30 March 1980 as he was leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel. On February 10, 1981, only forty-eight days before Reagan would be shot, the gigantic Las Vegas Hilton Hotel caught fire as a result of arson, killing eight.

Taylor Swift concert in Vienna targeted by terrorists.

So about ten days ago as I was in the process of composing the immediately preceding paragraph or two, what do you know, a terrorist attack on a Taylor Swift concert has been averted in Vienna. The first concert of the three concerts in Vienna was to be on the first anniversary of the Lahaina fire killing 102 in Maui. Taylor Swift had had an extensive vacation in Maui, apparently, starting in January 2015. But why Vienna? The only Vienna disaster I could recall was the Ringtheater fire (about 400 dead) of December 8, 1881. Another December 8 reference! I had been thinking after the Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster that it was a little peculiar that the bridge collapse had connections with the first, third, and fourth deadliest Maryland disasters, but not apparently with the second, namely the December 8, 1963, Pan Am Flight 214 disaster near Elkton, Maryland, a few weeks after JFK was killed (see above). True, looking with Google Maps at Vienna, you see that the concert site is not particularly close to the Ringtheater fire site, but you notice something about Anton Bruckner practically right next to the Ringtheater site. Turns out that Anton Bruckner lived right next to the Ringtheater when it burned down, and even had tickets to the show that unfortunate night, but had chosen to stay home instead. In the scherzo or third movement of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, the violins at the beginning supposedly represent the crackling of the fire, whereas the trumpet fanfare represents the arriving emergency responders. The second movement of the Seventh Symphony, the adagio, was apparently played by German Radio immediately before both the January 31, 1943, announcement of the German loss at Stalingrad and the May 1, 1945, announcement of the death of Adolf Hitler. Yeah, but one might ask if there is any evidence Aligner Weirdos might have a creepy Bruckner obsession? Yes. And this obsession may well have been largely started by Hitler. Bruckner was buried in Linz, Austria, at a monastery dedicated to St. Florian. Twenty-five years to the day before MLK was assassinated, Hitler accompanied soldiers from the SS into the crypt where Bruckner is buried beneath the organ in the church of the monastery and performed rituals with Bruckner's coffin. St. Florian's feast day is May 4. On May 4, 1984, in Black Rock, NY, near Buffalo, Michelle Kasperek, 13 y/o, who lived on St. Florian Street, is believed to have been murdered. Last December (in 2023), I posted in the thread about her on Websleuths, which I encourage you to check out. I copy my post from there here:

It's curious that Michelle Kasperek lived on St. Florian Street and that she is believed to have been murdered on May 4, the Catholic feast day for St. Florian. St. Florian is the patron saint of, most prominently, firefighters. The Florian cross so often used as an emblem for the firefighting profession is named after him. Looking up the history of St. Florian, he seems to be especially venerated in Austria and Poland, with the veneration centered about the St. Florian Augustinian monastery near Linz, Austria, and about the St. Florian Church in Krakow, Poland.

St. Florian was martyred in 304 A.D. as a result of the anti-Christian policies of Emperor Diocletian. St. Florian is purportedly buried beneath the basilica at the Augustine monastery at St. Florian, located some 10 miles from Linz. The monastery is from at least 819 A.D. What might make this monastery significant to sketchy people is that Hitler considered Linz his hometown and some of his favorite music in his later years was written by Anton Bruckner, who was formerly the organist at the monastery and who is buried beneath the organ. Hitler had the monks evicted and encouraged Heinrich Glasmeier to turn the monastery into a place centered on Bruckner devotion and on April 4, 1943 (curiously 25 years to the day before MLK was shot) went beneath the organ in a ritual visit to Bruckner's coffin. Later, on May 1, 1945, German radio would announce Hitler's death (he killed himself April 30, 1945) while playing the adagio from Bruckner's 7th Symphony.

St. Florian is widely considered a patron saint of Poland. Some of his relics were being carted by oxen (or horses?) to Krakow when the oxen (at least according to lore) decided to stop not far what was then the city boundary. This was considered a sign, and so in the late 12th century the Church of St. Florian was built at this very spot to house the relics. When Kasperek was murdered, John Paul II was pope. As a young priest, Father Karol Wojtyla served as assistant pastor and university chaplain at St. Florian Church in Kraków . Later this priest became St. John Paul II. (I can't find anything definitive, but I believe from various accounts on internet he was at St. Florian for a few years starting in 1949.) So that's a weird coincidence, too, especially considering Kasperek is a Polish surname (one of the heroes of the navy of Free Poland during WWII was Kazik Kasperek). I suppose murderers may try to desecrate the memory of those widely held sacred.

What else seems to be weird about May 4 is that the Truesdell Bridge disaster happened May 4, 1873, the day before McKinley assassin Leon Czolgosz (whose parents had emigrated from Poland) was born. The bridge disaster was essentially next to the current location of Dixon High, where the 2018 school shooting was thwarted by heroic Officer Mark Dallas. Reagan's alma mater was Dixon High, which was located in a different part of town when Reagan went there, but when Reagan graduated he was living with his family very close to both the current location of the high school and also the site of the bridge disaster. Truesdell created the dangerously weak Truesdell truss bridge design for his bridges when he lived in Warren, Massachusetts, but he had a factory in Belvidere, Illinois, where I guess the ironwork in the bridge was manufactured. In my opinion, there's a good chance James Earl Ray chose to escape from the Missouri State Penitentiary when he did because two days earlier (21 April 1967) there had been a tornado that killed a bunch of school kids in Belvidere and also a (non lethal) interurban disaster in South Bend, and he considered these disasters to be an auspicious omen of some sort.

Of course, now May 4 is more widely known as Star Wars Day ( May the Fourth be with you).

It's worth pointing out that the Pope John Paul II reference is another Paul and John reference. And deciding to refer to the murder of Black Rock resident Kasperek may be (or maybe it's just coincidence) related to Trump's shooter Crooks appearing a couple times in the background of a 2022 BlackRock advertisement shot at his school concerning BlackRock's ability to manage teachers' pension plans; there seem to be (probably highly dubious, but I haven't bothered to look at them) conspiracy theories online about BlackRock.

So I guess another obvious question worth asking is whether the foiled Taylor Swift concert attack in Vienna is related somehow to the 29 July 2024 mass murder of three girls by stabbing at a Taylor-Swift themed party in Southport? Quite possibly, because recall John Lennon will forever be associated with December 8 (the date of his assassination) just like Vienna is associated with it (the date of the Ringtheater Fire) and just like Swift's Eras Tour is associated with it (the last concert in the tour is scheduled for December 8, 2024, in Vancouver). And ( according to Ron Watson of Mersey Beat) John Lennon as a Beatle often played in Southport, indeed, about 26 different times, in a total of about nine different venues, all in the 1961-1963 period (the Beatles were from Liverpool, which is only about 20 miles from Southport by automobile). Even the Hainault samurai sword attack of 30 April 2024 could be related to what happened to Taylor Swift in Vienna, since (1) 30 April 1945 would be the day Hitler killed himself, which as I mentioned was memorialized by German Radio the following day using Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, and (2) the 8 August 1956 Marcinelle mine disaster killed 262 in the Hainaut region of Belgium, 68 years to the day before the date of the first of the cancelled concerts (and 67 years to the day before the Lahaina fire), and Hainaut, Belgium, is sometimes (especially formerly) written as Hainault.

Back to the Trump assassination attempt, I thought I'd mention something about the address of the building from which he was shot, namely 615 Whitestown Road. Whitestown, NY, is a town located west of Utica that I have thought might have some significance to aligners. Where the future New York Central mainline crossed Sauquoit Creek in the Whitesboro Village in Whitestown, there was a train wreck May 11, 1858, that killed about nine when the bridge collapsed, having been built of structurally weak wood from the water elm tree. Another village in Whitestown is Oriskany, where NYC Mayor William Gaynor was born, and near where the Battle of Oriskany happened. The US aircraft carrier Oriskany suffered an accidental fire that killed 44 on October 26, 1966. The murder of Kimberly Simon, 15, likely occurred in Whitestown on September 19, 1985, the anniversary of President Garfield's death (the psychiatrist, John P. Gray, who had testified at Guiteau's trial that Guiteau was not insane when shooting Garfield, was later shot by a madman in Utica on March 16, 1882, shortly after returning to his place of work as superintendent of the spooky-looking New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica). Screams were heard from near a water tower after 1 am on September 19 near Wilcox Road, where according to a preview of an upcoming movie about her death, two cars were seen speeding away. Her body was found later the same day just outside Whitestown in Marcy in a wooded area north of the Mohawk River and south of the Erie Canal near Mohawk Rd. The old New York Central runs more-or-less along the south banks of the Mohawk River. The Battle of Oriskany occurred when British and loyalist native forces ambushed the American Tryon County Militia and their Oneida allies on August 6, 1777. Tryon County was named after the then loyalist governor of New York, William Tryon, who is infamous as having instigated with New York City Mayor David Matthews a plot to induce Thomas Hickey to assassinate George Washington when Washington was leader of the Continental Army. Hickey was hanged by order of George Washington on June 28, 1776, just a few days before America declared independence. Before becoming Governor of New York, Tryon was governor of North Carolina, which is why there is a Tryon, North Carolina, near Charlotte. I suppose that is also the reason why there is a South Tryon Road near Charlotte airport, next to where Eastern Airlines Flight 212 crashed on September 11, 1974. Anyway, I thought now I'd mention that having read about Kim Simon's murder, and in particular having read she lived in Marcy and had her body dumped there while having perhaps been killed near a Wilcox Road, is largely what made me write the following 2.5 years ago:

Perhaps it's worth pointing out other prominent disasters that reference a “Victoria” (typically in only one way). The non-Canadian 16 June 1883 Victoria Hall stampede in Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, that killed 183 children, though it would seem just a single-Victoria disaster, is nevertheless especially worth noting because it killed just children and because it occurred next to Mowbray Park, as in the Mowbray Apartments across from where Kitty Genovese was first stabbed the night she was murdered. It's also somewhat suggestive that the battleship HMS Victoria sank 22 June 1893 (358 dead) in a presumably accidental collision (with HMS Camperdown), 25 years to the day before the Hammond Circus train collision in Gary, IN. The fault of the HMS Victoria collision principally lay at the feet of Vice Admiral Sir George Tryon, who had ordered excessively dangerous maneuvers (something similar happened with the destroyer USS Hobson on 26 April 1952, an anniversary of Lincoln's assassin being shot dead). On September 11, 1974, Flight 212 crashed near South Tryon Road in Charlotte, NC, killing 72 (it is well to notice all 9-11 coincidences, far-fetched though the significance of them may be). Stephen Colbert lost his father and two brothers in this crash. John Hinckley Jr.'s father, John Hinckley Sr., was born in Tryon, NC. Those familiar with the Battle of Oriskany (Mayor Gaynor was from Oriskany) will be familiar with the Tryon County Militia. Oriskany is near Marcy, named after the same individual as Mount Marcy. September 11, 1901, was a day of misplaced optimism—the day doctors were most optimistic about McKinley's recovery and the day the yachts of the Kaiser and the Czar made rendezvous. According to Wikipedia, The New York Tribune would write that As a result of the meeting between the Czar and the Kaiser one feels confident that the peace of Europe is assured as long as the Czar lives. On September 11, 1901, Theodore Roosevelt went through Marcy on the train on the New York Central on his way to the Adirondacks, in his confidence that McKinley would recover. The day before McKinley's death on the 14th he had to be fetched from Mount Marcy, and after being fetched he returned to Buffalo later on the 14th, taking the oath at the house of his friend, Ansley Wilcox.

Sometimes when writing publicly about occultism it is well and rather beautiful I should think to surround one's writings with a kind of fog by hiding some observations to maintain a sense of mystery. The idea is to put enough out there to haunt those with an innate spooky sense that could lead them to be of useful help in the never ending quest to lessen evil, while simultaneously hiding enough to cause those with an excessively crazy fear of being crazy or an excessive belief in normal explanations to run away to avoid being crazy or after reading a few sentences to not return from fear of boredom. It's probably the same sort of thing, I suppose, that makes some of the old mystery movies better when they take place in foggy settings (though also here in my writings reminding people of fog seems appropriate because the anti-occultist relies on his facility in accepting but handling via statistical intuition that the inevitable fog of randomness produces coincidences that fit an occultist pattern but are merely random). There's a good to all that, especially if one can share somewhat more with englightened law enforcement than the general public. But at other times, the blare of the fog horn seems more symbolically beautiful than the fog, because people just gotta know what seems sufficiently probable to be worth considering, especially if there is some evidence that people in government are being manipulated if they aren't involved (but it is a very common mistake to ascribe to an organization what is caused more by chains of abuse, because chains of abuse are underappreciated, since like most addictions only more so, the danger from sodomy is underappreciated (and is something very top down and not likely to have much of an organization to it)—still one can't forget what also may be underappreciated, namely that when governments do get corrupted with nasty occultists, e.g., nasty Aligner weirdo murderers, all hell can get loose as I claim likely happened to the world as a result apparently of a few nasty Aligner weirdos surrounding the Kaiser infiltrated the German General Staff or similar advisory roles and gained disproportional domineering influence over Kaiser Wilhelm II). Still, I mention the Tryon business chiefly because anything that connects with the 9-11 attack is worth considering if it is only slightly possible, and I suppose it still is improbable that a Tryon obsession or the murder of Kim Simon has something to do with inspiring the 9-11 attacks—but it's definitely something sufficiently probable that it's worth considering by the authorities, IMHO. One possibility is that authorities having initially gotten the wrong man and incarcerating him for 20 years (he wasn't released until 2008, long after the 9-11-2001 attacks) made the aligner weirdos think the alignments in the ritual used to kill Miss Simon had especially potent supernatural powers.

So what in summary does it seem to me we should make of what is going on? Perhaps most importantly, one should see that it would definitely be prudent for security to be very high for Taylor Swift's last Eras Tour concert in Vancouver, since it's on December 8, and December 8 disasters seem to be a thing to Aligners right now. Likely reasonable, too, to increase (to a much lesser degree) the security around the remaining Beatles, especially Sir Paul McCartney. As for the Trump assassination attempt, it's by no means a sure thing that he was shot at largely over the December 8, 1909, Marquette and Bessemer No. 2 sinking, but given that Taylor Swift was very likely targeted in Vienna over a December 8 disaster (the 1881 Ringtheater fire), I suppose it now should be considered slightly more likely than not that there was an intentional reference in the Trump shooting, namely to M&B No. 2. If so, there seem to be close ties between the circumstances of the attempted assassination of Trump and what was going on in mid-2018, and so as I mentioned particular attention should be given to whomever Thomas Matthew Crooks, the Trump shooter, was associating with at about that period, especially since a likely confusion of Julian calendar dates with Gregorian calendar dates suggests a disaster-referring amateurishness in the attempt by Crooks suggestive of his not having recent collaborators.

It's pretty clear now that the seeming recent interest by aligners in the 1975 murder of Paul John Benedict Lentz has to do somehow with Neil Gorsuch having become a Supreme Court Justice and his surname being homonymous with the Gorsuch siding where the mistake was made that caused the 1905 Ransom train wreck between Patapsco, MD, and Finksburg, MD, that I have for several years thought Lentz was killed largely over. I'm not saying that Gorsuch or Kavanaugh are involved somehow, just that some Aligner for some likely highly bizarre reason may well be saying that the alignments of the circumstances of them becoming Supreme Court justices are something to kill about (but perhaps Gorsuch or Kavanaugh or both may have at one time been associated with someone involved, probably slightly, in their past). I may cause two Supreme Court justices to wrongly be dragged through the dirt more than they should be, which is not what I want, but there's I suppose the tiny possibility that they are involved, blackmailed, or in danger somehow, which be very bad, and more likely that there is some minor official in government who has been manipulated into (say), I don't know, scheduling things (perhaps unknowingly) according to aligner ways that could be an important clue. I guess what most makes me less reserved about saying things publicly now is what my intuitiion feels in my bones, namely that at whatever interface there exists in government to separate the law enforcement officials from the time-wasting writings of crazies and conceited armchair detectives, that's where a large fraction of the Aligner weirdos and the crazy-about-not-being-a-crazy in government will most have sought and thus gained employment. And there does need to be an evaluating interface there now more than ever given the low expense of email communication, etc., and given what seems to me the skyrocketing commercialization and relentless proliferation of pompous online sleuthing of a low quality akin to phone spam (also skyrocketing), and the weird alignments involving Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are so weird they do suggest there very well could be some Aligner infiltration of government. All of this will be exacerbated by what I vaguely feel is the selfish general tendency of administrators to want focused results and to want the results excessively in the short run. And focused results in law enforcement don't tend to come (at least in the short run) from looking at cases in the abstract or from wanting to have a general idea of what the hell is going on. But I am somewhat more confident in my ability to find relevant bizarre patterns and in the worth of my sense (foggy though it be) of what the hell is going on than in my ability to know what the hell to do about what I've found and believe is going on.

The Michelle Kasperek murder is something that authorities interested in the foiled planned attack on Taylor Swift ought to look at better since that may give some sort of connection, and similarly the Kim Simon murder ought to be looked at since it could be something mentioned in the Trump shooting that could yield (doubtfully, but possibly) a connection with what was behind 9-11. And people really ought to keep in mind that partisan politics probably has very little to do with any of this, because aligners mostly only care about themselves, the people who forcibly sodomize them (an unnatural care), and the (presumably nonexistent) disaster spirits who supposedly want murders aligned with disasters as something akin to a dessert topping to go with the mass death they supposedly caused. As for Paul John Benedict Lentz, authorities ought to look at the bicyclist also named Paul Lentz falling off the LeGore Bridge in Frederick County on June 6, 2018 (the 50th anniversary of RFK's death, of course as result of assassination), as quite possibly homicide. And maybe there is a connection between the break-in and robbery of guns at the Gaynor residence (as in the New York City Mayor who was shot at the site of the Hoboken Docks fire while boarding a ship which had been at the same docks the day of the fire) on Park Mills Road the night after Paul Lentz was last seen alive, given that his body was ultimately left at the intersection of Park Mills Road and Maryland Route 80 (Fingerboard Road) The News, Frederick, MD, June 19, 1975, pg. 7.

A part of me likes the idea of mixing my writings about Aligner weirdos with more philosophical observations about cruelty and in particular the best or least bad ways for people to be cruel. As I have mentioned in my past posts, Aligner weirdos may be largely motivated by wanting the look of having people intimate with them appearing cruel to others. If you use addiction to make someone feel they love you, that person, being under a love potion of sorts, will have a hard time feeling hate for anybody, which inability to feel hate will possibly make your intimate partners not look like lovers (lovers are impressive) but addicts to your sexual depravity (unimpressive). I posit this explains an evil tendency in some bad people to try to force intimate partners into murder or assassination. As I have put it in previous posts, Aligner Weirdos are cat impostors. Figuring out the best or least bad way to be cruel to one person while loving someone else, and all the moral considerations involved, is a great help in understanding cat impostors like Aligner Weirdos. But looking at Aligner Weirdos and exhaustively searching crimes for their wicked patterns basically has nothing to say whatsoever about what constitutes the most moral (or least immoral) way to contrast cruelty with loving sexual behavior. Even worse, all the numerous mostly useless stuff you have to keep in the memory when writing about aligner weirdos does conflict somewhat with writing about other things. I still think and fantasize much about the best (or least bad) way to incorporate cruelty into sexual behavior (taking into consideration it heavily matters the extent to which society accepts and allows that sort of thing), but honestly after periods of heavy thought about aligner weirdos and their patterns, writing about moral considerations concerning cruelty is undesirably difficult and laborious and likely to seem forced. I'm guessing what I will do (but I do what I end up feeling like doing, which is not totally predictable by me) is to alternate between posting about the evil of Aligner Weirdos and posting about the moral issues surrounding females getting off on cruelty (at least in fantasy world) while having sex with someone beloved. And maybe I will post about other moral considerations (not involving cruelty), because it strikes me as not sacred to consider only moral considerations relating to cruelty, and it is especially important to be very sacred when considering moral considerations relating to cruelty. Anyway, I haven't stopped thinking about morality or more particularly the morality involved with sex, it's just that I don't want to write about it in this post. I mostly feel I will post my moral ideas in new posts that reflect a brain in a different state than the peculiar state useful when thinking about Aligner Weirdos--it will suffice to mostly intersperse posts with aligner weirdos with posts about what constitutes good morals (and more especially good sex morals), and putting such writings in separate posts will be more reflective of how my brain wants to behave as regards how I can think best about both.

I've no ideas yet about the new September 15, 2024 assassination attempt on Trump, and it's the morning of the next day. Urrrgh, something else to check for aligner activity. Oh, it's a few hours later and I think I may have already sort of figured it out. No offence, but JD Vance doesn't seem quite as popular as Trump, and so the would-be shooter may have planned to say right before shooting Trump dead, "F*** it, landslide for Kamala!". There was a "Phuket" landslide (13 dead) just a few weeks before on 23 August 2024 above Karon, Phuket, Thailand, that killed about 13, and I suppose one could make out that disaster-Jinns or whatever upon unleashing the landslide did say, "Phuket, landslide for Karon". Phuket is somewhat homographically homonymous with "F*** it", and could be mostly homophonic, too, at least if you tried to pronounce the ph homophonically (and wrongly) as f. But what was Karon supposed to represent? Possibly, nothing. Well, the landslide came basically down the slopes of the Nakkerd Hill surrounding the recently built Phuket Big Buddha, the third largest statue in Thailand. That may have had something to do with it--it came down a slope below a monumental Buddha statue. Probably it wasn't claimed to be a sign that the Buddha himself wanted to wreak havoc upon Karon, but rather that jinns hate Buddha statues and the land below them and decided to slay some of the people living below as punishment for the statue (the Taliban in a major act of disrespect for history and the wishes of culturally (mostly) refined long ago dead did blew up monumental ancient historical Buddha statues in 2001, for instance, and similarly Isis blew up Buddha statues). But that's not all, no way, my guess is that the recent landslide was probably made out to be a reminder from the "Phuket" Jinns of a deeper assassin meaning, namely what they might have been made to have said in the "Phuket" landslide that happened in 2017 above the Kamala section of Phuket, i.e., "Phuket, landslide for Kamala!". The strongest evidence for this is that the Kamala landslide (also called a landslip) did by most accounts on internet happen September 15, 2017, though some put it as having happened September 14—other evidence is that in the recent landslides a few weeks ago that produced the havoc in Karon there was at least one (I suppose not very consquential) landslide above Kamala. The tsunami from the Boxing Day quake of 2004 killed 5078 in Thailand, including about 259 in Phuket, and on Phuket it mainly affected the western beaches, like those of Karon and Kamala.

10-23-2024 update.

So a week ago or so I was daydreaming upon waking up thinking that my hypothesis about MD Route 547 being of occult significance to aligner weirdos would be more likely if I could figure out a numerical significance of “547”. I believe I had already looked for unfortunate examples of Flights 547 and Trains No. 547, but couldn't find any likely reference. It occurred to me I really ought to look at May 1947, i.e., 5/47. On 30 May 1947, the day Georg von Trapp died, a Douglas C-54B Skymaster four-engined aircraft (basically a DC-4) crashed near Bainbridge, Maryland, killing 53. (The former US Navy Training Center Bainbridge at Port Deposit Maryland is about two miles west of the crash site.) It's probably the fifth deadliest Maryland disaster. The flight number of the Skymaster was 605, as in June 1905 (6/05), the month of the Ransom train wreck, etc., and as in June 5 (6/05 in American date style), the date of the shooting of RFK in 1968.

I see that on October 26, 2006, the Von Trapps (great-grandchildren of Captain Georg von Trapp) sang with the Baltimore Orchestra as teenagers at Strathmore off 355 just south of MD 547, but I haven't found anything bizarre about that date (the day Bush signed into law the Secure Fence Act of 2006).

Since there are possible references in the Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster to Maryland's first, third, and fourth deadliest disaster, the next obvious question is whether the bridge disaster has some sort of curious relation to the Bainbridge crash of Flight 605, Maryland's fifth deadliest disaster. USNTC Bainbridge is named after William Bainbridge, who captained Constitution when it sank the British frigate Java during the War of 1812 with Britain. It was during the War of 1812 that Francis Scott Key wrote out National Anthem very close to the Francis Scott Key Bridge (hence the name of the bridge). But one can do much better than that. In 1805, Key penned "When the Warrior Returns" a precursor to Star Spangled Banner, set to the same tune, with a few similar phrases, but in reference to the heroic actions of Stephen Decatur and Charles Stewart in the First Barbary War. The most heroic thing they did was set fire to the formerly American frigate Philadelphia after it had been captured by Tripoli. How had Philadelphia become captured? Because William Bainbridge as captain of Philadelphia had allowed it to run aground on an uncharted reef and abandoned her prematurely.