The death of my mother. A sense that justice is best memorial.

So my mom passed away November 19, 2024, at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem. Starting in April or so, she had gradually stopped eating hardly any protein, and had also become dehydrated from not drinking enough liquids. Despite concerted efforts on my part and similar efforts of the various care givers that the home health care agency had provided increasingly as her situation got more dire, we couldn't get her to eat or drink right, and she at the end quickly got to where she couldn't walk (unfortunately, that happened on a Sunday, at the end the only day of the week I had no help—I felt it important to stay in practice so I could be used to dealing with dire situations on my own if necessary). Anyway, in consultation with my sister we decided thing to do was to call 911 and take her to ambulance. Maybe hospital by running further tests could figure out what was wrong or stabilize her with ivs, special concentrated nutrients, or feeding tube, etc. The long-and-short of it is that in my opinion the hospital gave her bad care. So bad, that when the PA from palliative care team zoomed in about 6pm on November 17, and said my mother is likely to die within six hours or so (she lived about 48 hours) and be in pain and then got my distraught 95-year old Dad to agree to giving her a pain killer that he had claimed to us (don't remember what he said exactly) was a tiny dose of a drug that was not a strong drug like morphine, I decided to look up drug. The drug was like morphine and was in fact 2-8 times stronger than morphine. I became furious and told staff at hospital that this hospital is murdering my Mom. I suppose I said this loud enough for a neighboring room or two to hear, and apparently that or my insulting the pa was their excuse to ban me from hospital.

I am not going to get into technical details of her care right now. That is not why I am posting this, but on account of what I suspect might be arising somehow from what happened to my Mom and me on November 17. First allow me to repost the last two paragraphs of my previous blog post. (It wasn't until about a week or so after my mom died it occurred to me I ought to look up November 17 disasters in reverence to my mother (the sort of thing I do when investigating murders that might be caused by aligner weirdos), and I quickly noticed the November 17, 1972, plane crash in Western Kentucky near an Elkton.

[posted December 4] There's another air disaster that I think 'ligners may refer to (if they already haven't done so) in some sort of evil mischief or another to make the Flight 214 near Elkton, MD, seem related to Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster, namely the plane crash that killed all 11 on board on November 17, 1972, near Elkton, KY. The 10 passengers on board were all returning (flying to Lexington) from watching the previously undefeated football team of their local high school, Madison High in Richmond, Kentucky, play against Trigg County High in the western part of the state (because of bad field conditions, the game was played at Hopskinsville, also where the return flight originated) in a playoff game. It's not just that Elkton, Kentucky, has the same name as Elkton, Maryland, it's also that Madison High and James Madison are both Madisons and that James Madison started the War of 1812 that caused the battle that Francis Scott Key created the National Anthem over while next to the future site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

[posted December 14]Very strange stuff indeed is going on in Winston-Salem lately. Tuesday, December 10, there was a school shooting at Reynolds High that has not been solved. The same day there was a dramatic parking deck fire near the Forsyth County Courthouse. December 10, 2021, was the day of the Western Kentucky EF4 tornado that killed 57. There was another long-track tornado (the last of outbreak) in the same outbreak that produced no fatalities but injured 9; the latter tornado went through Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and then passed just about seven (not sure exactly) miles from Hopkinsville (a city about about 20 miles from Fort Campbell), which as I just mentioned ten days ago (in the preceding paragraph of this blog post) the November 17, 1972, plane that crashed near Elkton, WV, had just left from after the passengers had seen Madison High play football there. Then the tornado lifted (I believe) as it was crossing Elkton only to come back down, and then it petered out maybe 15 miles ENE of Elkton. On December 12, 2024, a resident of Bainbridge Drive was kidnapped from his home and murdered not too far east of Forsyth Memorial Park near Winston. On December 12, 1985, Arrow Air Flight 1285R crashed in Gander, Newfoundland, resulting in the deaths of all 256 on board. It was carrying army personnel to their base at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. It is to this day the deadliest ever aircraft incident on Canadian soil. As I explained in this blog post starting seven paragraphs or so ago, the 5/47 Bainbridge, MD, plane crash corresponds to the MD Route 547 that has many malarkey reference, and (in more malarkey) the flight number, 605, corresponds to 6/05, the month of the ParoleRansom train wreck that Paul Lentz was presumably mainly murdered over [and also in American date-style to June 5 the date of the Parole train crash]. Similarly, flight Number 1285 has a totally obvious reference to 12/85, since that's the month it happened (and the twelve reference is doubly obvious, since the Gander crash happened on the twelfth, i.e., 12/12/85). There used to be a Gander Outdoors store in Winston-Salem—not sure when it closed—perhaps it did so along with the many other stores that closed from the Covid19 quarantine?

A few other related things I have noticed is that I left Forsyth Memorial Park (in order to show my father the site we would end up choosing for my mother's grave) at about noon on the 12th, (noon is yet another twelve) the approximate time of the aforementioned murder (a double shooting) that happened nearby in the 3600 block of Yarbrough Avenue in Winston-Salem. In fact, since I drove east from the cemetery, we were actually on Yadkinville Road driving east to Reynolda, when we passed a spot even closer to the murder (due south of it) at about the same time of the murder. Actually, while trying to remember how Yarbrough was spelled, I just noticed something more bizarre (and suggestive of homonym fanatics like the aligner weirdos), namely that there was a double murder on the 3600 block of Yarborough Road in Fayetteville about two months earlier on October 15. The suspect in the Fayetteville murder was shot dead by Surry County police after he shot at them (killing a police K9) after he fled on foot after being forced to stop his wanted vehicle. I don't know what to make of that. Possibly a reference to Ralph Yarborough, a former Texas Senator who was riding with LBJ when JFK was shot? Supposedly, a main purpose of the Texas trip was for JFK to try to heal the split between the Yarborough left-leaning wing of the Texas Democratic party and the right-leaning LBJ and Connally wing. Anyway, there was much feuding before JFK was shot as to who would ride with JFK, etc., in the motorcade. Connally it was who got to sit in the car with JFK, but it proved no victory because he too ended up getting shot, presumably by the same bullet that went through JFK's throat.

And then on December 16, there was the school shooting at Madison, Wisconsin. What could that have to do with this? Extremely much, unfortunately, because I have been a long-time reader and commenter on the Althouse blog, based in Madison, Wisconsin. And if my hypothesis indeed be correct that the palliative care team was trying to kill my mother on the 17th of November because the Elkton, Kentucky, crash of November 17th, 1972, refers to Madison and James Madison officially started the War of 1812 that motivated Francis Scott Key to write the national anthem next to the future site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, thereby furnishing the Kentucky disaster with a Francis Scott Key bridge reference (unlike the Elkton, MD, plane crash of December 8, 1963, which is the only one of the five deadliest Maryland disasters to lack such a reference), then of course that could be significant. But what is even more blatantly related is that on the Althouse blog, I actually posted only about 24 hours after the collapse of the bridge, at 1:27 am and 2:54 am on March 17, two comments explaining how it`s weird that the Alum Chine Explosion, the Tivoli Pier collapse, and the Massachusetts/Black Diamond collision all seem related to the bridge collapse but that the Flight 214 disaster (near Elkton) did not seem related, despite it being the only one of what seemed to the deadliest four Maryland disasters without any alignments to the Francis Scott Bridge collapse. December 16, 2024, is the 50th anniversary of the murder of Henry Bedard in Swampscott, Massachusetts. I posted some posts to Websleuths about that murder being mostly related to the February 28, 1956, train wreck in Swampscott, but they were mostly or all removed (it's probably the best sleuthing forum on interent, but for better or worse Websleuths has I believe one very zealous censor who at least with me tends to claim that weird-sounding stuff is not relevant).

And while researching the school shooting at Madison, I came across online articles concerning the December 4, 2024, school shooting near Oroville, California, by someone living in nearby Chico. Those who read carefully my last blog post will have noticed my discussion of Chico, which recall is where the New Tribes Mission was located when they suffered a series of most unfortunate disasters in the early 1950s, one of which (a plane crash into Mount Moran, WY, the day before the Kew Gardens train wreck) may have played a significant role in causing Oswald to kill JFK 13 years to the day after the Kew Gardens wreck. But that`s not all—my father grew up in Chico, California, leaving in 1942, I believe (he has never returned since).

It`s unfortunate that I have to consider all this evil in such a personal way when in many respects it would be nice to focus on my mother at this point (she is to be buried Saturday), but justice comes first and even before that comes stopping people from dying right now who knows where in school shootings, murders, etc., that might be to come as a result of all the malarkey of the aligner weirdos; justice and saving lives seems more sacred than the whole lot of rituals, etc., or even just concern for the needs of my mother or myself, and that is how I felt on a very spiritual level when my mother was dying, and I honestly felt she felt same. Burial ritual at the expense of justice and of preventing murder is nothing sacred. Still, here`s her obituary, because her obituary like the other parts of the ritual good people want in dealing with death is important too (only less so than justice and saving lives). As I have mentioned earlier, I tend to think much better slowly, which is not what this post is because the subject matter is urgent. Oh well, I can't think of anything better to do under circumstances. The patterns are too bizarre, involved, and relentlessly longstanding to easily convince anybody new in a short amount of time that my ideas may hold water. But long term readers of my blog (that I suspect and hope may include some people associated with law enforcement) will be much more likely than anybody to take me seriously it seems to me, and so the best I can do it seems to me is to concisely post here the crux of the very recent concerning stuff that I have noticed since my Mom's final hospital visit.

December 26 update.

On December 23, a couple more concerning evil things happened in Winston-Salem and nearby Greensboro. At about 11am, Greensboro Police Officer Michael Horan was shot dead while responding to a call of a man with a gun at the Food Lion located on Lawndale Drive, exactly one kilometer (~0.62 miles) north of the Greensboro Science Center (one of most interesting attractions in North Carolina). Less than twelve hours later, at about 10:45 am, someone near Buchanan Street in Winston-Salem shot at traffic heading eastbound on I-40, critically injuring a toddler and also injuring two others (by most accounts). The shootings were on the fiftieth anniversary of the disappearance of the Fort Worth Trio, something I have made a post about on Websleuths, likening it to an event at the Murphy's at Congressional Plaza in the southern part of Rockville that happened in early July 1975, a couple weeks or so after Paul John Lentz's murder.

I have been mentioning in my blog posts of last few years that there seems to be an obsession with the murder of Paul John Lentz in recent Aligner criminal activity, and as I mentioned in my last blog post, I theorize it likely has arisen because Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch shares a name with the Gorsuch siding where the mistake was made by the train crew in the 1905 Ransom, Maryland, train wreck that Paul John Lentz was largely if not mostly killed over, because Neil Gorsuch is going to be heavily on the aligners' radar because his high school (the same one that Justice Kavanaugh graduated from) was at the west end of MD route 547 (recall that the Bainbridge, MD, plane crash happenimg in 5/47 was one of at least six spooky coincidences of MD 547 with other morbid stuff the aligners would have other reasons to want to refer to more than typical morbid stuff). What I didn't say in my last blog post is what happened at Gorsuch siding. According to his testimony, when flagman George Lynch of the freight train asked the fireman where they were going to pass No. 5, Lynch thought the flagman said in response "Lawndale". "For God's Sake, Look at your watch!" said Lynch, but when the fireman waved him off, Lynch foolishly went along with the even more foolish other five freight crew, resulting in the accident. The shooting of Michael Horan off Lawndale Drive therefore fits the pattern of recent crimes being related to the 1975 murder of Paul John Lentz, as well as fitting fairly well the pattern of recent evil near Winston-Salem referring to my last blog post (I didn't mention Lawndale by name, but I prominently mentioned the significance of the Gorsuch siding that refers to Lawndale if one know the history). It's worth mentioning that Lawndale, like Ransom, is not much currently used as a placename. Ransom, the site of the wreck, is about halfway between Patapsco and Lawndale, maybe a little closer to Patapsco than Lawndale. As for the I-40 shooting near Buchanan Street, the house on Baltimore Road in Hyattsville, MD, where MCPD suspect the Lyon sisters may have been hostages for a while, and where at least one of them may have been butchered, is directly across Baltimore Road from the Buchanan Street that goes down to the railroad bridge where in one of his stories Lloyd Lee Welch suggested his uncle Richard may have harmed the Lyon sisters. According to John E. Merriken's definitive book on the WB&A, one of the reasons the railroad went into receivership in 1903 was that it overextended itself after two-thirds completing a massive power plant on a four acre lot next to this railroad bridge, which structure was abandoned after receivership, never used, and torn down.

So I guess the interesting question is Why would there be references in North Carolina in recent crimes to long-ago past mischief in Maryland that Lloyd Lee Welch or his associates may have been involved in? That's hard to say. Since I have mentioned in this post the shooting of Officer Horan and the attempted police shooting (that killed a police K9) in Surry County on September 17 by the alleged double murderer on Yarborough Road in Fayetteville, let's look at recent police officers killed in North Carolina. On April 29, 2024, there was a quadruple fatal shooting of law enforcement officers in Charlotte that made the national news. On December 30, 2023, Officer Dale Nix was murdered in Greensboro at a Sheetz gas station on Sandy Ridge Road close to I-40. Notice that the dates of these incidents align with the purported birthdays (different years of course) of Lloyd Lee Welch, Sr., and Lloyd Lee Welch, Jr., respectively, just as I mentioned in my last blog post is the case with the April 29, 1899, "dynamite express" explosion near Kellogg by saboteurs launched from Burke Canyon, Idaho, and the December 30, 1905, murder by dynamite of ex Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg, presumably largely over his draconian response to the explosion in 1899. Recall (last blog post) there is evidence that this coincidence with the Welch's birthdates may have something to do with the June 18, 2023, quadruple murder in Kellogg, Idaho, because (1) Kellogg was the destination of the "Dynamite Express (a hijacked train full of disgruntled miners), (2) The quadruple murder happened on the anniversary of the murder of Paul John Lentz (which the Welches may have been involved with because it was near in time and place to the murder of the Lyon sisters), (3) the quadruple murder also being the day the Titanic submersible happened gives it an obvious possible direct disaster reference (besides Kellogg being where the horrific 1972 Sunshine mine disaster happened), (4) Rosie Gorden was murdered in Burke, Virginia, on the centennial of the train wreck that took place (on the eighth anniversary of President Garfield being shot) below Taylor's Mountain where one of both of the Lyon sisters are thought by MCPD to perhaps have been burnt up, and her body was found near Tydfil court, as in Methyr Tydfil, which John Hughes was from, who died on June 17, 1889, sixteen years to the day before the Ransom wreck and who was the namesake of Yuzovka (Hughesovka), which he basically founded and which eventually became Donetsk, Ukraine, and next to which, on June 18, 1905, the day after the Ransom train wreck, there was (according to suggestions of period American newspaper articles) a catastrophic explosion (killing about 460) in a mine a few miles outside its city limits. But there's more. As mentioned in last blog post, there are strong unrelated references in the Paul John Lentz murder to September 15 and Kovel, Poland (now part of Ukraine), where the most famous filmer of the JFK assassination, Abraham Zapruder, was born in 1905 on September 15, which together constitute a strong reference to Abraham Zapruder, who took the most famous (because closest and clearest) film of the JFK assassination. Well, perhaps the two other most famous films of the JFK assassination were by Orville Nix and Robert Hughes (though the Mary Muchmore film is similarly famous). The Hughes film also shows Orville Nix filming and Senator Yarborough riding with LBJ. It was an Officer Nix who as I just mentioned was killed in Greensboro December 30, 2023, and it was a Hughes who shot dead the four police officers in the Charlotte shootout. A Caleb Hughes is often mentioned in connection with the murder of Rosie Gordon because in the same county that Gordon was abducted from he was convicted of abduction with intent to defile 5-year-old Tammy Brannen, who has never been found, and it seems even more plausible that he is involved given that Gordon was found near Tydfil Court (Methyr Tydfil being the birthplace of John Hughes).

It is slightly odd that Joshua Eyer, the Charlotte Metropolitan Police Department officer killed in the April 29, 2024, Charlotte Shootout, served in the North Tryon district, given a possible obsession of aligners with "Tryon" (I suppose the obsession is probably not likely, but still interesting to consider, because as I have mentioned before, if it does exist it might suggest something about causes of 9-11).

I am not really at all sure what to make of all the recent events mentioned this blog post. Thinking of the old TV show, I feel rather as though I've "stepped into The Twilight Zone".

February 2, 2025, update.

Urrrgh, so New Year's there was another deadly shooting in Greensboro on Lawndale (this time south of the science center) as well as a house getting shot up in Winston-Salem on Peachtree Street, resulting in the death of a 54 y/o man inside the house and a child getting injured. And the following day, January 2, there was a house getting shot up in Winston-Salem on E. Sprague Street (fortunately no injuries). January 1, recall, was the day of the New Orleans massacre-by-car-ramming on Bourbon Street that killed 14 besides the suspect, and also of the Tesla cybertruck explosion outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas. Historically, New Years actually has been over the years a boring day disaster-wise, and the attacks in New Orleans and Nevada were not especially suggestive of the sort of Aligner patterns that I look for, but there still might be something there.

The streets the rammer crossed after getting on Bourbon at Canal were Iberville and Bienville. Iberville and Chartres (two blocks south of Bourbon St.) is where the June 24, 1973, Upstairs Lounge arson attack happened analogously to the Bluebird Lounge fire in Montreal (also similar is the 1990 Happy Land fire in the Bronx that happened on the anniversary of the March 25, 1911, Triangle Shirt-waist Factory fire). Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville was a famous explorer from Montreal who is known as the founder of Louisiana. I remember considering whether Nathalie Boucher, who very early on June 5, 1985, was murdered near her residence in the d'Iberville apartments on Place De La Louisiane, in Longueuil, Quebec, may have been murdered over the Upstairs Lounge fire, but the direct evidence was fairly weak. What to me was especially interesting about the Boucher case is that it happened the same day a five year old boy, Denis Roux-Bergevin, was murdered in nearby Montreal, which murder to me was obviously done by Aligner Weirdos (and so one should take evidence of Alignism in the Boucher case seriously). Indeed, there's very strong evidence that RFK was killed largely if not mostly over the June 5, 1946, La Salle Hotel Fire in Chicago. For instance, the fire and the shooting of RFK both happened at 12:15 am local time on June 5. In 1965, Montreal had its own “LaSalle” disaster, namely the LaSalle Heights gas explosion of March 1 (as in the March 1, 1910, Wellington, Washington, snow avalanche—four days after the Lyon sisters were snatched, Sharron Prior was headed to a Pizza place on Wellington when she was snatched and subsequently murdered). The LaSalle Heights gas explosion happened in a neighborhood at the corner of Rue Bergevin and Rue Jean Milot, on the island of Montreal, as a result of a natural gas leak in the supply line in the cellar of 367 Rue Bergevin. “Rue” sounds similar to “Roux”, and so Denis Roux-Bergevin was very likely targeted because his last name sounds like Rue Bergevin. Both Roux-Bergevin's last name and the date of his murder refer to prominent “LaSalle” disasters. Bienville, too, was named after an explorer from Montreal, namely d'Iberville's brother, the founder of New Orleans, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville. Manon Dubet was walking to her home on Rue Bienville when she was apparently snatched after having gone sledding. She was found murdered a few months later. It (along with the Louise Camirand case, which also happened in Sherbrooke) was one of the two cases that John Allore felt most related to that of his sister, Theresa Allore. But of course, you expect stuff in Francophone Quebec to be named after prominent French explorers—similarly with the French quarter of New Orleans.

Peachtree Street in Atlanta is something I have referred to in my posts—true, not especially lately, and again, January 1 doesn't seem like it would be of special significance to aligner weirdos, but still, possibly the murder on Peachtree in Winston-Salem could be an intentional reference. Recall Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell was fatally injured when walking across the street after having been struck by an automobile driven by an off-duty taxi driver, her having been hit between 13th and 14th, or possibly at 13th, and that James Earl Ray may well have intentionally chosen to rent a rooming house at 113 14th Street NE (where he rented two weeks in a row starting March 24, 1968, eleven days before he shot MLK) because it was just around the corner from where Mitchell was struck on Peachtree (and evidence suggests he liked to refer to disasters). Last week, this thinking about Atlanta roads and Ray got me to thinking about what highway Ray may have taken from Atlanta in the jaunts to Birmingham and Memphis he took before shooting King. US 78 would I believe have been the answer, it starting at King Street in Charleston, SC, and going through Atlanta, Birmingham, and Memphis (where it ended). What is intriguing about US 78 is that recall that Officer Tippit's officer number (and patrol district) was “78”, and that's the number of dead in the Kew Gardens crash, and Oswald may have been playing in his head with that number and “10” in the murder of Tippit for superstitious reasons. What especially somewhat suggests that Ray may have been trying to make an Oswald reference is that the night before he killed MLK, Ray stayed at the New Rebel Inn, 3462 Highway 78/Lamar Avenue, Memphis (78 and Lamar run concurrently in that part of Memphis). If Lamar sounds familiar, it may be because after killing JFK and exiting Cecil McWatters' Marsalis bus after killing JFK, Oswald walked down Lamar Street from Elm and caught a taxi to Oak Cliff in front of the Greyhound bus station located on Lamar (probably the same bus station where Thomas Terry Murphy caught the Greyhound bus that incinerated him August 4, 1952, after it caught fire near Waco in Lorena, Texas—notice how Lorena sounds a little like Lorraine). It also may be that US 78 starting in Charleston, where it is concurrent with King Street, played a role in encouraging Dylann Roof to choose the Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston for his evil racist massacre on June 17, 2015 (the 110th anniversary of the Ransom train wreck that Paul John Lentz was probably mainly killed over—also the seventy-fifth anniversary of the sinking of HMT Lancastria, a low-point for Britain during WWII). The church is on Calhoun Street only about 1.5 blocks E. of King Street, though technically in 1968 US 78 began at Spring Street or Line Street, about 3000–4000 feet north of Calhoun, and headed to Atlanta north away from Calhoun.

So that pretty much covers the stuff that happened January 1. What about the house getting shot up on E. Sprague Street on January 2? Sprague Street is a long street (almost four miles long) that runs through dangerous parts of Winston-Salem—googling shootings on that street from 2022 or so, there seem to be on average about two shootings, etc., a year on that street. I wasn't expecting to find much, but I was in a too determinedly lazily-slow mood to make assumptions.

Let's first look at January 2 in the highly unfocused way that is right for these kinds of considerations. When I think of January 2, I think first of the Volland, Kansas, train wreck (32 dead) of January 2, 1907. What is especially interesting about it is that it happened only three days after the December 30, 1906, Terra Cotta train wreck in DC, that killed 53. Lloyd Lee Welch, Jr., supposedly was born 50 years to the day after the Terra Cotta wreck, the site of which in DC is not actually too far from Hyattsville where he was living with his parents when the Lyon sisters case happened. The Terra Cotta wreck site was very near the current Fort Totten Metro station. On June 22, 2009, at a location 1 km north of the Fort Totten Metro Station, Metro train 112, headed toward Fort Totten, did rear end Metro train 214, resulting in the death of nine. The signal system had malfunctioned, purportedly due to parasitic oscillations consequent to a circuit component being replaced June 17, resulting in train 214 becoming invisible to the Automatic Train Control system. June 17, of course, is the anniversary of the Ransom train wreck that Paul John Lentz seems to have been mainly killed over. As for Train 214, it's reminiscent of Flight 214, the flight that crashed near Elkton, Maryland, on December 8, 1963, the second deadliest Maryland disaster. But what about Train 112? The late John Allore believed that murders between Montreal and Sherbrooke may have been congregated about Quebec Route 112, which starts in Montreal at the intersection of Rue Sherbrooke and Peel Street, then runs south (in Montreal, streets heading to the St. Lawrence River are considered southbound) on Peel to Wellington, then west on Wellington to Rue Bridge, which runs by the Black Rock monument to the 6000 Irish who died from Typhus and other disease in the nearby fever sheds in 1847-48 and then over the Victoria Bridge toward Sherbrooke. It continues through Sherbrooke as King Street, and ends up in a place called Frampton not far from Quebec City (though east of Sherbrooke, Allore didn't seem much interested in Route 112). Just to be clear, I don't think John Allore thought that a murderer had some occult belief in a supernatural significance of Route 112, just that a murderer may have used 112 often because it was convenient for commuting, etc. It's also worth noting that Al Italia Flight 112 crashed May 5, 1972, near Salerno, Italy, one year to the day before the highly suspicious murder of Donna Maria Boudreau in Fitchburg (among other things, Boudreau was killed on Leon Czolgosz's 100th birthday, in the town where the gun was manufactured which was used by him to kill President McKinley). Since 112 may have Quebec connections, it is worth thinking of 214 in that light. Maybe it is a reference to Valentine's Day, i.e., 2/14? Considering this possibility reveals that February 14, 1918, was the Grey Nuns orphan fire that killed 53 at the corner of Guy and Dorchester Streets. Since it was believed set by 27 y/o orderly Bertha Courtemanche, that may be the deadliest mass-homicide or arson in Canada. True, on December 12, 1942, there was a deadlier arson (generally suspected as being deliberate espionage against the Allied war effort) in St. John's, Newfoundland, at a Knights of Columbus Hut that had been erected as a sleeping, eating, and recreation centre for service men, which killed about 99. But Newfoundland was not a part of Canada until 1949. (Notice that the 12/12/85 crash of Flight 1285 was also in Newfoundland (at Gander), and took place on the 43rd anniversary of the Knights of Columbus fire.) What is especially concerning lately about the Grey Nuns orphan fire is that it was exactly 100 years to the day before the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17. Parkland conjures up Parkland Hospital in Dallas, where JFK, Oswald, and Ruby all died. And on its south end, the high school is next to FL Route 869, the Sawgrass Expressway. In July 1963, United Arab Airlines Flight 869, a DeHaviland Comet 4C DH-106, crashed on approach to Bombay–Santa Cruz airport during heavy weather, killing all 63 passengers and crew on board. That may not seem particularly strange, and that's the point, actually. Because in July 1962, United Arab Airlines Flight 869, a DeHaviland Comet 4C DH-106, crashed into a mountain in Thailand, it's believed after the flight crew underestimated the distance between it and the Bangkok airport at which it was next to land, resulting in the death of all 26 passengers and crew on board. Something else about Quebec Route 112 is that east of Sherbrooke it passes by the community of Thetford Mines, known for its history of asbestos mining. Soon after the June 22, 2009, Metro collision, in August 2009, Route 112 had to be closed (and eventually rerouted) next to an open-pit mine in Thetford Mines, because a landslide took much of the foundation of the road into the pit. Apparently the wall of the mine between Route 112 and the mine had already shown signs of deterioration as of May 2009. The 2009 Metro collision near the site of the 1906 Terra Cotta wreck was on the anniversary of the Hammond Circus train wreck. The murderer of Cheryl Henry and Andy Atkinson in Houston on or about August 22, 1990 is believed from DNA tests to have raped someone at 7826 Terra Cotta in Houston on June 20, 1990. The Hammond Circus Train was known as Extra 7826, from 7826 being the number of the lead locomotive. I'm inclined to think the Halloween 1981 (or possibly the day before) murder of Debra Mae Fulton, 16, in Hammond under the Calumet Avenue Lift Bridge across the Grand Calumet River from the old Circus grounds where the Hammond Circus train was headed, was motivated by malarkey concerning the Hammond wreck. (Her body may have been found on the river bank just inside in Turner Park, technically the home field of the Hammond Pros, the first NFL team to have an African-American quarterback, namely Fritz Pollard (way back in the 1920s). Her murder may be related to that of Karl Heikel near Calumet, Michigan, on the same Halloween, 1981. One of the last more-certain sightings of him was at the Harter's Party Store in Calumet, at the northeast corner of 6th and Pine, just one block north and east of the former Italian Hall at the northwest corner of 7th and Elm, where the stampede (73 dead) happened to strikers and their families in Calumet, Michigan, on Christmas Eve, 1913, after some miscreant falsely yelled “fire”. Heikell was born September 7, 1970, on the 75th anniversary of the Osceola Mine disaster associated mostly with Osceola Shaft 3, which is just about 1.7 miles SSW of the site of Italian Hall disaster. The September 7, 1895, fire killed 30, making it still the deadliest-ever mine disaster in the Michigan Copper Country. The infamous 1963 Indianapolis State Fairgrounds Coliseum explosion (81 dead) also happened on Halloween.

So what about any possible significance of Sprague Street? All I could remember about “Sprague” historically is that there was some sort of Admiral named Sprague frequently mentioned in World War II documentaries on television (WW2 is the historical event which is best covered by television documentaries). Sure enough, Admiral Clifton Sprague was the scrappy admiral who led task force Taffy 3 during the Battle off Samar, the central theatre of action during the larger Battle of Leyte Gulf that took place as American Forces from the 6th Army were making their first landings on the Phillipines during the beginning of the operation to free the former US colony from Japanese occupation. Sprague led a force of a few small escort aircraft carriers protected mainly by destroyers and destroyer escorts that managed to hold off a Japanese force with much greater firepower, a truly heroic action. Unfortunately, the operation was responsible for 1161 American dead and missing, a truly tragic loss that so far as I know is exceeded only by Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) and the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (November 13, 1942) insofar as US naval losses in a single battle is concerned; but the Japanese lost even more dead and missing during the battle off Samar than the US did. Despite the large numbers of US casualites, it's widely considered a US victory that actually may have saved US lives, since Taffy 3's actions prevented the powerful Japanese ships from attacking the vulnerable US troops and supplies that had landed on shore as well as the vulnerable supply ships that were supplying them. But for the purposes of the Aligner weirdos, what is amazing about Admiral Clifton Sprague is how well the particulars of his life fit into the malarkey concerning F. Scott Fitzgerald being buried near the site of the April 11, 1935, train/school bus collision that happened 100 years to the day after his namesake Francis Scott Key prosecuted Richard Lawrence in his trial for shooting at President Andrew Jackson in the first assassination attempt against a sitting US president. On April 12, 1925, one day off from being exactly ten years before the April 11, 1935, train/school bus collision, Sprague married the sister of F. Scott Fitzgerald. That's not all. Sprague died on April 11, 1955, the twentieth anniversary of the train/school bus collision. And he had a granddaughter who died as a passenger in a car that lost control during a drag race on April 12, 1970, in Los Gatos, California, just one day after the thirty-fifth anniversary of the train\bus collision in Rockville opposite the Old St. Mary's Catholic Church Cemetery. Herbert Mullin, the serial killer (13 victims killed from late 1972 to early 1973), who claimed to murder to prevent earthquakes because he was born on the anniversary of the San Francisco quake, committed all but one of his murders within five miles or so by road from the center of Santa Cruz, California; the exception (just over 20 miles by road from Santa Cruz) was his murdering a priest in Los Gatos at St. Mary's Catholic Church, on November 2, 1972, supposedly, according to his police confession, after he had gone there to confess.

Looking at the findagrave page of Paul John Lentz's mother, there are three things that are somewhat peculiar. First (according to findagrave), she was born February 17, 1925, which would be 25 years to the day before the Rockville Centre, NY, train wreck that as I earlier explained may be considered by aligner weirdos to have in some sense given birth about nine months later to the Kew Garden train wreck that JFK was probably mostly killed over. Murders and disappearances near Rockville, Maryland (Lyon sisters, Paul John Lentz, Kathy Lynn Beatty, DC sniper attacks), Rockville, Connecticut (Deborah Lee Spickler, Janice Kathryn Pockett, Lisa Joy White, Susan LaRosa, Patricia Luce) Rockville Centre, NY (Mary Beth Heinz and Laverne Moye (evil Richard Cottingham confessed to those 1972 murders), Kelly Eileen Morrissey, Theresa Fusco, Christopher Gruhn) and even the Reker sisters' bodies being placed sort of close to Rockville, MN, could all be motivated by the homonomy of Rockville Centre with Rockville, Maryland—both places with prominent railway disasters (in 1950 and 1935, respectively). Findagrave also indicates that Paul Lentz's mother was born a Hughes, as in the November 7, 1916, Summer Street trolley/bridge disaster in Boston that happened the day Charles Evans Hughes was expected to be elected president—recall F. Scott Fitzgerald was reburied in 1975 on the anniversary of this disaster. Finally, findagrave indicates that Lentz's mother died 25 years to the day before the recent shooting here on December 10, 2024, at Reynolds High School. However, I do believe findagrave is wrong about her date of death. The Washington Post obituary and the 1999 Maryland death certificate index (available online from the Maryland state archives) both put her death one day later, on December 11, 1999. Still, the latter is 25 years to the day before the day between the December 10 Reynolds High shooting and the December 12 kidnapping/murder that started at Bainbridge Drive and ended at Yarbrough Avenue. And of course whoever was behind organizing the school shooting could I suppose have trusted findagrave that she died on the 10th.

Still, it is good to remember what in my opinion is the main reason for the obsession of aligner weirdos with the Fitzgeralds' burial place and the 1935 Rockville train/school bus collision that happened nearby. The Highland Hospital fire in Asheville, North Carolina, was responsible for the death of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and the fire happened on James Earl Ray's 20th birthday. There is strong evidence that Ray was obsessed with “Highland” (and “Serrano”, the Spanish word for Highland), some of which I may not have posted online (there's a kind of sacredness to maintaining something of a foggy air of mystery about what one has noticed, though over time I seem to more want to just put it all out there). Aligner weirdos might consider it an especially good time to refer to this hospital fire (by, for instance, referring to the other coincidences surrounding her gravesite) considering the deadly flooding Asheville experienced about September 27, 2024, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The occultism around F. Scott Fitzgerald's burial place and the nearby train/school-bus collision is fundamentally about the racist James Earl Ray's 20th birthday, which one would think should make African Americans hesitant to participate in such occultism, but then September 20, 1958 (the tenth anniversary of 11 onion-field workers getting killed near Kingsbury, Indiana, after their truck got hit by a semi, whose driver was fatally injured), Martin Luther King, Jr., was almost stabbed to death in Harlem by a crazed African-American woman, and June 30, 1974, his mother was murdered by another crazed African-American, so I suppose it's not the most surprising thing that African Americans could be participating in killing in WinstonSalem/Greensboro over the same occultism (the racist part of such occultism relating to James Earl Ray they may not have been told about?), though to be honest, to me it still seems surprising.

Another weird thing that happened less than three years ago in Winston-Salem was the Weaver Fertilizer Plant fire that broke out January 31, 2022, in a warehouse storing by most accounts 600 tons of ammonium nitrate, over twice what was stored in the West Fertilizer explosion in Texas on April 17, 2013, that killed 15, the latter an explosion originating from a fire the ATF suspected was arson. The West Fertilizer explosion was just one day off from the anniversary of the horrific April 16, 1947, Texas City, TX, explosion (579 dead) of 2300 tons of ammonium nitrate on the ship SS Grandcamp (there was another, some say even greater explosion of ammonium nitrate on April 17. 1947, on the ship SS Highflyer, which killed two). Certainly Winston-Salem owes much to the heroic efforts of its firefighters in ensuring that much water was continually doused on the ammonium nitrate. Recall that the October 25, 2023, mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, may possibly have been motivated somehow by the January 31, 1945, mass death of 16 babies and one adult at the LaCoste Babies' Home orphanage in nearby Auburn (which together with its sister city Lewiston form a connurbation, much as Winston and Salem form a connurbation, only Auburn and Lewiston are technically separate cities), which orphanage fire happened the day after the Wilhelm Gustloff sank in what is still the greatest loss ever of life on a ship. And just six days after the Weaver Fertilizer fire started, I pointed out in my blog when discussing Victoria disasters that MV Princess Victoria sank (135 dead) on January 31, 1953, in the North Channel during the Great North Sea Flood, one day after the death of Ernest Augustus, the husband of the last Kaiser's daughter Princess Victoria Louise.

Before I get too far away from the previous discussion of the February 14, 1918, Grey Nuns Orphan fire in Montreal, it is fitting to bring up another tragedy in Quebec and Canadian history which the Grey Nuns were involved in, namely that of the Duplessis orphans in the 1940s and 50s. Turns out the Quebec government under Premier Duplessis was given $1.25 subsidy per day per orphan for taking care of orphans but $2.75 per day per patient for mental patients, which caused many orphans to be forced into mental institutions for little to no reason. According to Wikipedia, “A commission in the early 1960s investigating mental institutions [in Quebec] after Duplessis' death revealed one-third of the 22,000 patients classified as "mentally ill" were classified as such for the province's financial benefit, and not due to any real psychiatric deficit. Truly it matters how hospitals, etc., are subsidized.

I have a feeling most people think that inpatient hospitals in the US are reimbursed by Medicare for their expenses incurred with Medicare patients in proportion more-or-less to how much they spend on appropriate care. This is not at all the case, as I discovered while doing desperate research a few days after my mother was admitted. What happens is that not long after admission the patient is assigned a diagnostic code, and the hospital will be reimbursed with a Diagnostic Related Group payment corresponding to that code. This gives the hospital an economic incentive to get the patient out of the hospital quickly, since the expenses of taking care of the patient will naturally increase the longer the patient is in the hospital. This is not such a terrible thing if the patient is in a good quick way to recuperate before leaving the hospital. After all, most people don't want to be encouraged to stay in a hospital longer than is necessary, which might happen if the hospital is given money for all their expenses, no matter how unnecessarily prolonged. Another advantage is that the need for hospitals and Medicare to carefully account for expenses is reduced. However, if a patient is in a bad way that may require (say) weeks of expensive care to recuperate, the hospital presumably will make more money (if they can get away with it) by promoting the quick death of the patient. That could explain why, for example, in my mother's case, the hospital seemed to want to talk more about the propaganda in favor of “comfort care” (which I think is used synonymously palliate care) and revoking resuscitate orders than her actual condition and what could be done about it. Life has a sacredness to it. Sure, there comes a point when it is better to spend health care money on those who can benefit more from it, but in my mother's case and perhaps in the case of many seniors all over the country, she didn't get near there, in my opinion. Particularly unsettling is obsesssive recommendations against (default) resuscitate orders. Sure, maybe it is true that CPR may cause broken bones in the elderly, and that should be a consideration, but if hospitals know they are going to have to incur the expense of CPR if they let a medicare patient die, maybe the resuscitate order is the only thing that could keep a venal hospital from trying to keep the patient alive so the order won't be needed (I have not been able to find who ends up paying for CPR in a medicare inpatient hospital setting, but I'm guessing it's the hospital), and how many people understand Diagnostic Related Group financing? It's worse though—CPR is akin to bringing someone back to life and an obsession with it is creepy on a primeval level like the mythological undead creatures, such as zombies, vampires, werewolves, etc. There's a simple explanation for primeval fear of the undead and whatever cults might arise about them, namely that erotic asphyxiation (often associated with nastiness because prostaglandins are degraded in lungs) can presumably lead to repeated near-death states that end when the asphyxiation ceases just in time (say by stopping strangulation), which events are in a way akin to resuscitation, an "undead" state as it were. The repeated near-death states may well lead, I'm thinking, to strange brain changes in the victim that may well lead upon awakening to dangerous states in the victim replete with a combination of terror, rage, and hyper-sexuality, akin to homocidal rapacious werewolves, and hence the fears people naturally have of mythological undead creatures, etc. That's my theory, anyway, but whatever, I just don't want to talk about it anymore presently if ever. Regardless, one of the central things I have learned when studying assassins and murderers, etc., is that oftentimes (particularly with aligner weirdos) the causes of killing can be as much about the mystique of having intimates seem as if they are capable of hate, as it can be about any direct natural desire to kill. Ideally, there should be no job so contrary to sacredness that it involves encouraging others to end or shorten life, especially not in an obscure hidden place like a part of a hospital few will encounter until an elderly family member covered by medicare has an expensive condition, but it stands to reason that's what presumably happens in at least some hospitals in this country given the current economic incentives, in my opinion. Why wouldn't it? There's a very simple solution to the misincentive I mention with Medicare—decrease the payment to the hospital for a Diagnostic Related Group code medicare patient if the patient dies (Medicare does reduce payments if a patient is readmitted within a short time, which usefully does discourage at least somewhat hospitals releasing patients before they are sufficiently well, but death is worse than readmitting, and so deserves a higher disincentive), while increasing payments if patient survives. It makes sense it could be that the situation is worse in Forsyth Hospital than other places. North Carolina was the last place in the country to do forced sterilizations on people declared mentally feeble, a wicked thing to do even if even-handed and not racist about it, but they were immoral and racist about it, a disproportionate number of those who were sterilized by command of the Eugenics Board being black females (especially in the latter part of the program in the 1960's and especially late 1960s—the last sterilization was in 1973). What's more, Forsyth County in particular was the birthplace of the Human Betterment League of North Carolina, a prominent pro-eugenics group that in the period after WWII promoted sterilization and the Eugenics Board, whereas almost everywhere in the US outside North Carolina after WWII, anything eugenics was fairly quickly shunned because Hitler. On entering the hallway headed to see my mother, I couldn't help noticing (people who seriously fight Aligners get to know their dates) the plaque indicating the building was dedicated April 20, 1964. I quickly did the math in my head and checked my cell phone to be sure I remembered the date right—yep, Hitler's 75th birthday. Sure, it's very unlikely many people behind the ceremony in 1964 knew it was Hitler's birthday, but in my opinion it is no stretch to believe that at a least a few of them did, and of those, who knows, given the area was infested with notions from the Human Betterment League and the Eugenics Board, etc., there may have been at least one who was glad of the 'lignment. Anyway, most of the discussion in this paragraph is not something I am expert at, it depending mostly on arcane regulations governing Medicare payments to hospitals, but I thought it well to discuss it at least somewhat, since it makes sense given the way Medicare payments to hospitals are determined that hospitals promoting and giving cheap “comfort” care to otherwise expensive Medicare patients to maximize profit would be a very real and creepy phenomenon, and the whole subject seems essentially totally ignored by a mainstream media more focused on, say, politics.

There have been a couple other suspicious shootings just recently. Saturday, January 18, my late mother's birthday actually, there was a shooting that critically injured a juvenile on Shalimar Drive in Winston-Salem. Raleigh police officer Max Gillick was critically injured in a shootout in Raleigh on Tuesday, January 21, after responding to a shooting that left a man dead (the shooting suspect died in the shootout). Tuesday, January 21, 1893, recall, is the date of the Wann or East Alton train wreck/explosion (31 dead) in Illinois that happened quite near James Earl Ray's birthplace of Alton and very close to where the bullets were manufactured that were used to kill JFK. The shootout involving Officer Gillick happened in the Renaissance Park neighborhood in Raleigh off Tryon Road, and recall I look for “Tryon” references because I think from looking at patterns that the 9-11 attacks might well have been (but probably not) partly motivated by a “Tryon” obsession. What I have noticed about the Shalimar Drive shooting is more involved.

The word Shalimar is mostly used geographically to refer to beautiful gardens in India and Pakistan, especially three gardens created during the Mughal Empire in Srinagar, Delhi, and Lahore. There is a train in Pakistan between Karachi and Lahore called the Shalimar Express, presumably named after the gardens in Lahore. On August 5, 2013, the twentieth anniversary of the murder of Holly Piirainen (I think Piirainen's abductor/murderer chose to take someone from South Shore Drive partly because there had been a train crash on January 18, 1993, on the South Shore Line in Gary, Indiana), there was an explosion on that train that killed 3. There's also a Shalimar Express in India that goes from Delhi to Jammu, the latter a city in the same province (Jammu and Kashmir) as Srinagar, which train I found nothing weird about. But what Shalimar probably most would relate to in the minds of Aligners nowadays as regards India is the Shalimar railway station in Howra opposite Kolkata (Calcutta). It is called Shalimar because it is in the same Shibpur district of Howra as the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, an elaborate world-renowned botanic garden famous for The Great Banyan, a tree in the fig genus whose canopy covers 4.67 acres, one of largest trees in the world. Banyan and Bodhi trees, both trees in the fig genus, are considered sacred by Hindus and Buddhists. Anyway, on June 2, 2023, there was a horrific triple train wreck, with most deaths on the Coramandel Express, that killed 296 people (probably India's third-deadliest train wreck ever from what I could gather). The crash has similarities (both involved at least three trains and took place at locations where there were two passing loops that were both occupied by stationary non-passenger trains) to Britain's deadliest ever train wreck, the Quintinshill wreck of 1915. The Coromandel Express originated at Shalimar Station in Howrah, and was headed to Chennai (Madras) (the coast of India on its east side adjacent to the Sea of Bengal is called the Coromandel Coast, and the route of the train is near that coast). The wreck happened in the state of Odisha, much closer to Shalimar Station than to Chennai. I'm guessing that most, or at least a plurality, of those killed in the wreck had boarded at Shalimar, what since Odisha is fairly close to where the Coromandel Express originated at Shalimar station in West Bengal, and what since the metropolitan area of Kolkata is the third most populous in India, behind the National Capital Region (Delhi, etc.) and Mumbai (and Shalimar station is just across the Hooghly River from the city of Kolkata).

The Wikipedia entry for Shalimar lists one place in the Western world named Shalimar, namely a town in Florida with a population of 737 as of 2020, near Eglin Air Force Base and Destin. Per Wikipedia, it originated in 1943-44 as a housing development organized by developer Clifford Meigs, to be used as housing for Military Officers. Clifford was the first Mayor of Shalimar, and his son was the second Mayor. According to forbears.io, less than 2,000 people in the United States are named Meigs and only 1 in 187,000 Americans have that surname. I had never heard of the town or him before, and don't know if I'm related to him.

Shalimar rhymes better with Dalamar than with anything else I can think of, and recall that the 1896 axe-murder of Sadie Buxton took place essentially across 355 (Frederick Avenue) from the future Dalamar Street in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where Dalamar Bowl and Skate would be.

Okay, so right now as I am writing this paragraph it's January 30. Before I get to yesterday evening's horrific plane crash, let me point out that the day before yesterday I guess it was (definitely after I finished everything before this paragraph) I finally noticed that there had been a shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville on Tuesday, January 22. Recall that in 2023 in this blog I mentioned in several blog posts all the weird stuff that had happened involving Antioch, and the Nashville, TN, neighborhood of Antioch in particular. Recall Coretta Scott King and Ruth Payne both went to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton. At a commencement address at this college there was purportedly to have been an assassination attempt against Martin Luther King, Jr. on June 19, 1965, the anniversary of the Saugus (homonymous with the town closest to the site of the St. Francis Dam disaster that happened two days after James Earl Ray's birth), Montana, train wreck of 1938, but the assassination attempt was canceled after being partially planned. Kyle Rittenhouse was from Antioch, Illinois, and he shot dead two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a few days after the August 23, 2020, shooting of Jacob Blake very near the site of the February 23, 1930, North Shore Line train crash in Kenosha (13 dead) at a grade crossing. This 1930 wreck is I believe the deadliest US accident that has occurred as a result of a train hitting an automobile (not a truck or bus) at a grade crossing. The southbound passenger train derailed and went into a ditch, causing (after some died in following weeks in hospital) 11 deaths on the train, with the automobile getting jammed between the passenger train and a northbound freight, with two dead in the auto (including the reckless driver Norman Shinners) and causing the northbound freight to also derail but remain upright. The April 22, 2018, Waffle House shooting by a Taylor Swift obsessed creep and the September 24, 2017, Burnette Chapel Church shooting were also in Antioch, and the guy on Christmas Day, 2020, who blew up himself and his car and the Nashville AT/&T network facility across the street was living in Antioch. And then of course Taylor Swift was born on December 13, the anniversary of the December 13, 115 AD, Antioch quake that injured Emperor Hadrian, and on February 6, 2023, on Reagan's birthday, there was another horrific quake in Turkey that caused catastrophic damage in Antakya, which overlaps the ancient Antioch. Taylor Swift, too, had lived in the outskirts of Nashville, in Hendersonville. The Antioch High School shooter's surname is Henderson. Henderson also may be a reference to the former Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. Recall that I mentioned when discussing Admiral Sprague that the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal caused slightly more deaths than the Battle off Samar. I didn't mention that the 8-9 August 1942 Battle of Savo Island in the Iron Bottom Sound just north of Guadalcanal almost killed as many as the Battle off Samar and is something I had to look at closely to make sure. Okay, yes, but what about January 22? Well, there are two things I have noticed. First, January 22 is the anniversary of the January 22, 1915, train wreck in Guadalajara, Mexico, believed to have killed about 600, making it the deadliest ever North American train wreck. Maybe this has something to do with the May 24, 1993 (Queen Victoria's birthday again), shootout at Gudalajara Airport that killed Bishop Ocampo and six others. Or maybe not. I'm guessing it's more likely to be relevant (given the India references in the shooting at Shalimar Drive four days earlier) that January 22, 2024, was the consecration or inauguration date of the Mandir Ram temple to Ram in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India. The groundbreaking for the Ram Mandir had been on August 5, 2020. The site of this temple is apparently a significant matter of contention in India between radical Hindus and radical Muslims. On December 6, 1992 (the 75th anniversary of the horrific explosion in the harbor of Halifax, Nova Scotia) a Mughal-empire era mosque finished in 1529, the Babri Masjid, was destroyed at this site; apparently nationalist Hindus believe the site to have been the site of a Hindu temple built on top of Ram's purported birthplace, which Hindu temple they believe was destroyed and replaced by the mosque in 1528-1529. Purportedly about 2000 died in various locations in India in riots that were subsequent to the destruction of the temple in 1992.

A few weeks ago, after thinking about the Shalimar business, I couldn't help thinking how it was such a shame that Muslims and Hindus have at times not gotten along well since majority Hindu India was separated from majority Muslim Pakistan and Bangladesh when Britain relinquished its Indian empire in 1947. When I was young, I felt at times spiritually connected with God or at least some spirit that I loved especially well that I respected. Now, after I've realized that my present duty and what seems most sacred is to stop the evil I have found, I feel more alienated from God. But it is not as though I feel God is angry at me or I am angry at God, no, I have intimation that my present spiritual situation is what is right given that basically I am in a destroyer mode. It is so much easier to destroy than to create, there's a real danger to destroying recklessly. Sacredness is the emotion that guards against it, I figure. Being significantly selective in the spirits to which you communicate and listen looks too much like conspiracy when one is in a destroying mood, the spirit world as a whole won't tolerate it, and maybe the general rules that govern such are rightly against it. Sacredness demands of destroyers that they listen to the entire universe, sure more fellow people animals, plants, etc., than whatever one imagines is on far-away planets, but everything in the universe will eventualy I suppose be affected at least a tiny amount by what we do, and so one must listen to everything interested that isn't evil (unless they are all competing for your attention, which doesn't often happen). None of that matters to God, probably, because God is presumably a believer in democracy and justice by juries as opposed to by tyranny and sees the extra appropriateness of destroyers being sacredly spiritual with everything, and how that may trump the advantages to being especially selective of the companions one keeps, spiritual or otherwise. Anyway, I guess what I am saying is that it may well that for people in destroyer mode who want especially to be sacred in what they are doing, the spirit world properly feels more polytheistic, whereas for people more geared to being creative, the spirit world feels properly more monotheistic, and so it's good to have choices because you never know what circumstances will lead you into it being more right and useful by way of doing good to create what is beautiful, a non-dangerous activity that does not particularly demand sacredness, or to destroy evils that destroy what is beautiful, an inherently dangerous activity that demands sacredness lest one destroy what is not evil or encourage others to do so. It got me to thinking about Kipling, some of whose stories I read last week, something I hadn't done for a while. Kipling was in a way a destroyer-type person, glorifying Britain's military, for instance. You've got to think his having been in India, a predominately Hindu country with spiritually polytheistic options might have something to do with his ability to pull off that sort of writing in the martial spirit so well, i.e., I suppose, so sacredly. Though I have always liked Kipling, I probably underappreciated Kipling when I was young because I never realized until recently just how evil the evils (warmonger German-nationalist aligner weirdos, in particular) faced by Britain in WWI actually were, and I wasn't at all a destroyer person when I was young and had no inkling I might find it my lot and duty to be mostly that....But enough of this for now, there was after all a horrific plane crash yesterday right here in the USA, and I've got a few ideas about it that might help reduce that sort of thing if the right sort of people pay attention (though you can never be sure coincidences aren't just coincidences). Sometimes I have to be fast like a policeman has to be when someone calls 911, something I may not be anywhere near the best at, but if you do something slow enough well sufficiently often, you may sometimes be able to help at least fairly quickly when the crime is right in your area of expertise, or so I hope.

Okay, now, let's look at the midair collision of PSA Flight 5342 with a US Army Sikorsky helicopter near Reagan National Airport, Washington, DC, on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. First notice that PSA stands for Pacific Southwest Airlines, but actually the original Pacific Southwest Airlines was based in the San Diego area and existed from 1947 to 1988. It was bought out by USAir on May 29, 1987, and merged into the latter on April 9, 1988. Its two most infamous incidents are definitely worth considering. PSA Flight 1771, en route to San Francisco from Los Angeles was hijacked on December 7, 1987, by a recently fired USAir employee, David Burke (as in Burke Canyon, Idaho, and Burke, Virginia). He shot the crew dead and sent the plane into a nose-dive, killing all 43 aboard in the second deadliest mass murder in California history (a similar mass murder/suicide happened on Pacific Airlines Flight 773 in California on May 7, 1964, which killed all 44 aboard). The more interestingly aligned incident to me was the midair collision of PSA Flight 182 with a Cessna while PSA 182 was trying to land at Lindbergh field in San Diego on September 25, 1978, killing all 135 aboard Flight 182, and both occupants of the Cessna and 7 on the ground. I have always looked out for possible references to this crash since it is far and away the deadliest US disaster to have happened on my birthday. Until the crash at Chicago's O'Hare of American Airlines Flight 191 eight months later, it was the deadliest air disaster in the history of the United States, and is the worst-ever Pacific Southwest Airlines (1947–1988) disaster in its history. What's especially interesting about the disaster is that the flight number, namely 182, could stand for 1/82, the month of the most infamous incident at National Airport, namely the Air Florida Flight 90 disaster, which happened Wednesday, January 13, 1982, and killed 74 of 79 aboard and also 4 on the ground (actually on the 14th Street Bridge). The first fatal incident to happen on the DC Metro train system happened only about 30 minutes after the crash of Flight 182, killing 3 between Federal Triangle and Smithsonian stations, when the rear car of Orange Line train No. 410 was demolished when unintentionally backing into the barrier separating the tunnels at a crossover between tunnels because of a misaligned switch.

Besides Air Florida Flight 90, there are two other incidents that are often being mentioned in connection with PSA Flight 5342. PSA Flight 5342 killed many elite current US figure skaters, their coaches, and their family members. Something similar happened with Sabena Flight 548 from New York (Idlewild) when it crashed in Berg, Belgium, less than two miles from Brussels Airport on 15 February 1961, with the loss of all 72 on board and one on the ground. Indeed, the entire US figure skating team was killed in the crash. My paternal grandmother was born and raised in a town only about six miles away from this disaster. The other disaster being mentioned is the collision at DC National of Eastern Airlines Flight 537 into a Lockheed P38 Lightning military aircraft, which recall I mentioned only two months ago in a November 30, 2024, update appended to my last blog post.

The flight number 5342 has a curious alignment with the date of its collision with the helicopter. Indeed, May 3, 1942, i.e., 5/3/42, was the date of the Japanese Invasion of Tulagi in the Solomons, a small island off a somewhat larger island, namely Florida Island (Ngella Sule). The town of Tulagi was the capital of British Solomon Islands until the Japanese captured it (and later destroyed it) and made a decent harbor in the area between it and Ngella Sule. Tulagi and Florida Island sits on the north side of Ironbottom Sound not far from Guadalcanal on the south side. While anchored off Laguna Beach, Guadalcanal, in the Ironbottom sound, the Coast Guard ammunition transport ship USS Serpens, being loaded with depth charges, exploded (255 dead) on January 29, 1945, 80 years to the day before the Flight 5342 disaster. Notice this disaster happened the day before the Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk, to this day the greatest loss of life ever on a ship. Recall that the orphanage fire in Auburn, Maine (the sister city of Lewiston, where the mass shooting happened October 25, 2023) was the day after the Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk. In the days following the Japanese invasion of Tulagi, The Battle of the Coral Sea south of Guadalcanal was fought by the Allies to prevent Japanese forces from capturing Port Moresby. In this battle, the Americans lost more ships of consequence (particularly the carrier Lexington), but the Japanese were deterred from capturing Port Moresby, which they never managed. After capturing Tulagi and Port Moresby (Operation MO), the Japanese had hoped to continue the campaign in the nearby areas, capturing Nauru and Ocean Island for phosphate deposits (Operation RY) by May 15 (the Japanese occupied these islands without resistance at the end of August 1942 and held them for rest of war), and then onto Fiji, Samoa, and New Caledonia (Operation FS, cancelled after the Japanese loss at Midway). The battle of the Coral Sea is not considered a part of the Guadalcanal Campaign and only sometimes considered a part of the Solomon Islands Campaign, presumably because the rather geographically distant Battle of Midway (operation MI) on June 4 interrupted naval operations in the Southwest Pacific Theater of Operations (notice the significant homonomy with Pacific Southwest Airlines).

There are three other airlines besides the original Pacific Southwest Airlines (1947-1988) that are worth mentioning with respect to Flight 5342, airlines that at least in late 1986 were all part of the original Piedmont Airlines (1948-1989) based in Winston-Salem. There's (1) the PSA airlines that actually owned and operated PSA 5342, (2) the original Piedmont Airlines (1948-1989), and (3) the current Piedmont Airlines.

The current PSA Airlines originated as Vee Neal Airlines in 1979 in Latrobe, PA, a small town southeast of Pittsburg, and quickly expanded to the Erie area and in December 1983 renamed itself Jetstream International Airlines after purchasing several British Aerospace Jet Stream 31 Aircraft. The next year the headquarters was moved from Latrobe to Erie. Piedmont Airlines bought out Jet Stream International in a deal that closed August 1, 1986, and Piedmont used the subsidiary mainly as a feeder for its Dayton hub, causing Jetstream to move its headquarters to Dayton. Jetstream was bought by USAir in 1987, as was Piedmont Airlines (Wikipedia is not clear whether the purchase occurred at exactly the same time). Piedmont was fully merged into USAir in 1989, technically ceasing to exist, while Jetstream was not apparently fully merged, and remained a wholy-owned subsidiary of USAir, but started to operate under USAir Express brand. In November 2005, USAir decided to rename Jetstream International as PSA Airlines because they wanted to protect the PSA trademark that they owned from the original PSA having been merged into USAir in 1988, and because Jestream International was replacing its Jet Stream aircraft with aircraft from other manufacturers. USAir changed its name to US Airways in 1997 (and US Air Express became US Airways Express), and was acquired by America West Airlines in 2005 in a reverse merger of the holding companies (US Airways Group and America West Holding Corporation) that decided to keep the name of the better known holding company, US Airways Group. US Airways Group merged with AMR Group (which owned American Airlines), the announcement occuring December 9, 2013, when the latter emerged from Chapter 11 Bankruptcy to form American Airlines Group (in my opinion, American Airlines had better reputation with public than USAir). The flights run for American Airlines by three of its wholy owned subsidiaries, namely PSA Airlines, the current version of Piedmont Airlines, and Envoy Air (Envoy Air, never having been part of US Airways or the original Piedmont Airlines, I will not discuss further) and also flights run for American by three privately owned contractors are under the American Eagle name, which is why PSA Flight 5342 is sometimes called American Eagle Flight 5342. The Wikipedia article for PSA Airlines makes one claim that I suspect may be confused and needs (as we shall see) to be looked at quite closely, namely that when USAir decided to rename Jetstream International as PSA Airlines, PSA Airlines moved its headquarters from Dayton, Ohio, to Vandalia, Ohio. I believe this may reflect a broader confusion about where Dayton International Airport is located. Originally there was a "Dayton Airport" in Vandalia that became the Dayton Municipal Airport, on December 17, 1936, an airport owned by City of Dayton. I'm guessing (perhaps it happened at some other time) this caused the airport from being part of Vandalia, Ohio, to being part of Dayton as it is now, a part that is not contiguous with the rest of Dayton (technically, it is called an exclave of Dayton). The present PSA headquarters is at this airport, but Google queries for the address pull up 3400 Terminal Drive, Vandalia, OH 45377. I think what is going on is that though the headquarters is technically in Dayton, the zip code 45377 covers both the airport and central Vandalia, and so the post office naturally (and as makes sense for efficient, fast delivery) prefers a postal address of "Vandalia" for the airport, even though the airport is in Dayton, legally. One can in fact check on the USPS website, by entering the street address and zip of the headquarters without entering the town, that USPS recommends "Vandalia" as the suggested locale for the postal address. I imagine the PSA headquarters has been where it is at James M. Cox Dayton International Airport ever since about the time it was bought out by the original Piedmont Airlines in 1986. It is very curious that earlier on the day PSA 5342 crashed into the helicopter, PSA Airlines announced that it was moving its headquarters in about a year from Dayton to Charlotte. It's well to remember that the Wright brothers, though they made the first airplane flight in Kitty Hawk (not very close to Winston-Salem), North Carolina, were residents of Dayton, Ohio, where they designed the first airplane—historically, Dayton has a very strong connection to aviation.

The alert reader will notice that three paragraphs ago I highlighted Samoa and last paragraph I highlighted Vandalia. On the fifteenth of March, 1889, there were seven steam-powered warships anchored at Apia harbor in Samoa—the three German ones, namely Olga, Eber, and Adler, the three American ones, namely Trenton, Nipsic and Vandalia, and the British one, Calliope. That day it became clear to many locals and experienced seamen that quite possibly a ferocious cyclone was developing (the barometer had fallen to 29.11 inches by 2 pm), and that the thing to do ordinarily would be to leave the exposed harbor and set out to sea. But neither the Germans nor the Americans wanted to be the first to leave, and so they all stayed until the next day, when it was too late. The following day Eber and Adler were wrecked, as was Trenton and Vandalia, while Olga and Nipsic managed to beach themselves so that after extensive repairs and efforts they could be refloated. Only the British ship HMS Calliope managed to escape the harbor in time, though just barely. Anyway, as a result of the imperialist fiasco that was the Samoa Crisis, the storm and the sea took the lives of 92 Germans (73 of whom were on Eber) and 52 Americans. All but nine of the Americans who died were on Vandalia. The 15th of March is the Ides of March, as any admirer of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar will tell you ("Beware the Ides of March"). Funny thing is that only eight hours before the collision of Flight 5342, I got to thinking about the old poem that my high school Latin teacher had pasted on the front flyleaf of all her Latin textbooks, "In March, July, October, May, the Ides fall on the fifteenth day, the Nones the seventh and all besides have two days less for Nones and Ides."—I looked it up on internet shortly after noon. Somehow, that poem, having a lot of poetry in it considering the subject matter, stuck with me for all those years. I thought about it on the 29th because a few days earlier I had read the first entry in John Wilkes Booth's diary after he shot Lincoln. It started "Friday, Ides". (John Wilkes Booth 's father was named Junius after the Marcus Junius Brutus who was the most famous assassin of Julius Caesar.) But Friday, April 14, was not the Ides of April, and neither was April 15, the day Lincoln died, and I knew it because the poem. No, in April the Ides fall on the thirteenth day. The boldest communication I ever made was in March 1989, and I had a choice what date to put on it. I chose March 15, 1989, I suppose as much from poem as from Shakespeare, and despite Stevenson being then as now one of my favorite authors, I can't recall having had read his A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa, which discussed the 1889 Cyclone at Apia and its effect on the ships anchored there. His interest in the Samoan Crisis is what led him to Samoa in late 1889, I read somewhere, though he liked the island and figured the climate and clean air would be good for his health, and so he had a house (Vailima) built there, his permanent home until he died 3 December 1894 (he was buried there the following day). Looking all this up, I notice that from April 1885 to August 1887 he lived in Westbourne, in an area now part of Bournemouth, in a house called Skerryvore (named after the tallest lighthouse in Scotland, which his grandfather had designed) at the head of Alum Chine at 61 Alum Chine Road (as in the March 7, 1913, explosion of the Alum Chine near where the Francis Scott Key Bridge would be struck last year). About a month ago because my spirit felt like it and it felt right, I read most of his "A Child's Garden of Verses", which he supposedly finished at Skerryvore. Skerryvore was destroyed by a German bomb during WWII on the night of November 15-16, 1940. Best I could recollect after my Mom died, she took a serious turn for the worse at hospital on the night of November 15–16, 84 years to the night later—the night closest to the full moon that month, something I looked up a few weeks after her death (though I suppose I may have emotionally noticed it earlier after having seen the moon when it was full, but I don't remember).

There's a neighborhood in southern Greensboro called Vandalia, and on January 6 (fourth anniversary US Capitol riot), 2025, someone was shot dead in the 2700 2900 block of W. Vandalia Road in Greensboro. The road is fairly long, about 4.5 miles in length, but still this Vandalia Road may be related in the minds of Aligner Weirdos to PSA Airlines being headquartered at an airport that has a postal address of Vandalia, Ohio. The local newspapers all wrote about how strange it was that Greensboro had four murders already in just the first six days of the year, and all so soon after the murder of Officer Horan. The ship Vandalia and Vandalia, Ohio, were purportedly named after Vandalia, Illinois, which formerly was more important than now, being the capital of Illinois between 1821 and 1837.

The original Piedmont Airlines was I believe for most of its history headquartered at Smith Reynolds Airport. It was named after Zachary Smith Reynolds, who loved flying planes but died from a gunshot 6 July 1932, at the Reynolda House mansion in Winston-Salem, and there is still much debate as to whether it was suicide or murder, and if the latter who was responsible. He was a main heir to the fortune that his father J. R. Reynolds, Sr., had accumulated (mainly through manufacturing and selling tobacco products—he invented cigarette packs). Reynolds High School was named after this J. R. Reynolds, and Reynolds money generously funded both the building of the high school and the airport. In 1987, the headquarters of Piedmont Airlines was moved to One Piedmont Plaza, and they also bought the adjacent building Two Piedmont Plaza (both on First Street near Five Points in Winston)—I believe my parents and I may have gotten our second or third Covid booster shots at one of those places. The Piedmont Airlines disaster that seems to me the most possibly peculiarly aligned would be the October 30, 1959, crash of Flight 349 into Bucks Elbow Mountain near Crozet, Virginia, because a Congressional Special train carrying Congressmen and Congresswomen to a retreat at White Sulphur Springs, WV, hit a refuse truck at a grade crossing near Crozet on January 31, 2018. (In 2016, on the anniversary of the West Virginia 23 June 1944 Shinnston tornado, and of the peak of the West Virginia 1901 Elkhorn Valley flood, there was a bad flood in the region about White Sulphur Springs that killed about 23, about 15 of the deaths being in Greenbrier County, the county containing White Sulphur Springs.)

The current Piedmont Airlines started in Maryland in 1961 as Henson Aviation and became a subsidiary of the old Piedmont Airlines as "Henson, the Piedmont Regional Airline", in 1983, and just as with the current PSA Airlines, the old PSA Airlines and the old Piedmont Airlines, eventually became part of USAir. Like the current PSA Airlines (but not like the old PSA Airlines and the old Piedmont Airlines) it remained a subsidiary and was not fully merged. The most interesting thing to me about the current Piedmont Airlines is that ever since 1968 its headquarters has been based in Salisbury, Maryland. Recall there were historically at least three lynchings there and the place may be considered significant to aligner weirdos from its homonomy with Salisbury, North Carolina, and Salisbury, England (where the Salisbury train wreck happened July 1, 1906, next to Sergei Skripal's future drinking club just twelve days before the Friday, July 13, 1906, Barber Junction, NC, axe murder of the Lyerly family that supposedly motivated the August 6, 1906, triple lynching in Salisbury, North Carolina).

8 Feb 2025 minor update: A week before the crash of PSA 5342, I posted on Websleuths about how possibly it might be significant that Karyn Kupcinet died on the anniversary of the horrific November 28, 1942, Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston. The address of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston was 17 Piedmont Street, as in the now defunct Piedmont Airlines that is responsible for PSA Airlines' headquarters being in a place with a Vandalia postal address. As for the murder that took place on December 12, 2024, in Winston-Salem off Yarbrough Avenue, I have found some evidence a few days ago that perhaps (or perhaps not) it could be a reference to Cale Yarborough, who was the first Nascar Cup race car driver to win the championship three years in a row, namely in 1974, ’75, and ’76. The Nascar Cup Series was called the Nascar Winston Cup Series from 1971-2003, when Winston-Salem based R. J. Reynolds (manufacturer of American Winston cigarettes until 2014 and of overseas Winston cigarettes until 1999) was leasing the naming rights. Cale Yarborough passed fairly recently, on 31 December 2023, and a Facebook post mentioned that a few months before his death he was living in his home town of Sardis, South Carolina, with an address number of 2700, the same number that was on the tail (as N2700S) of the aforementioned plane that wrecked in 1972 in Elkton, Kentucky. His father Julian died when Cale was 12, when they were living in Sardis, as a a result of Julian's personally-owned private plane crashing on Friday, July 13, 1951, in Peniel, located between Sardis and nearby Florence, killing both himself (as pilot) and his only passenger. Recall that I mentioned in my last blog post when discussing the Saturday, 13 July 2024, assassination attempt on Trump that there could be a possible significance of Friday, July 13, to aligner weirdos.

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 Mountain 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 Bunker Hill Mining Company Mill 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 1916 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 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 23 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, (anniversary of 1777 Battle of Oriskany) 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 Friday, July 13, 1906, 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 gunman 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 for 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, DC, 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 particularly bizarre about that date (the day Bush signed into law the Secure Fence Act of 2006 and the fortieth anniversary of the fire aboard USS Oriskany).

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. This heroic action was 192 years to the day before the aforementioned February 16, 1996, MARC/Capitol Limited train collision caused by an ignored, misremembered or misinterpreted (perhaps because of sabotage) signal near the east end of MD 547. 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.

11-30-2024 update.

So, I got to thinking about MD Route 648 (which in most places is also called Baltimore-Annapolis Boulevard). Maybe it has a reference analogous to MD Route 547, which would make it about some event in June 1948, i.e., 6/48. It turns out that United Airlines Flight 624 crashed into the community of Wilburton Number Two, Pennsylvania, on June 17, 1948, and upon inspection it's all extremely peculiar. June 17, of course, is the anniversary of the Ransom, MD, train wreck of 1905 that Paul John Benedict Lentz seems to have been killed largely over. Wilburton Number Two is adjacent (on the north) to Centralia, a well-known place among disaster experts, since a mine under Centralia caught fire in 1962, and the fire has been going ever since, causing the entire town to gradually but irregularly subside among smelly vapors, and consequently to be condemned. The population has gone from over 1000 in 1960 to about five at present. But that's hardly the only strangeness. The second deadliest US mine disaster in the period 1925-1950 is the Centralia No. 5 mine disaster of March 25, 1947, which killed 111. Tied for fourth deadliest in the same period is the Wilburton No. 21 mine disaster of January 13, 1926, which killed 91. But these Centralia and Wilburton mine disasters did not happen in Pennsylvania, but in Illinois and Oklahoma, respectively. It definitely seems like it could be the work of homonym worshippers like the 'ligner weirdos. So continuing with Flight 624, you notice that there's an American Legion Post quite close to the accident site. That's kinda of a bit peculiar because on November 11, 1919, in Centralia, Washington, four members of the American Legion were murdered by IWW members while marching in a parade. It's easy to imagine that bitter pro-German elements were behind the massacre, what since it occurred on the first Armistice Day, the one-year anniversary of the end of WWI. The Legion Hall in Wilburton, Pennsylvania, was formerly Legion Hall 608 in Centralia, Pennsylvania, moving after the fire. Now Wilburton also has issues with a different sort of long-term coal fire: a culm bank (the local name for a coal spoil tip in the anthracite country) in Wilburton No. 2 caught fire about December 2022 and is still burning, at least as of July 2024. Well, 608 is rather peculiar, what since Flight 608 crashed into Bryce Canyon, Utah, on October 24, 1947, (52 dead) and of course the Parole train crash (deadliest in WB&A history) did occur in June 1908, i.e., 6/08. Recall this train wreck happened on June 05, i.e., 6/05, and 605 is the flight number of the May 30, 1905 Bainbridge plane crash. May 30 is the day African-American shoeshine Nick Roland tripped in an elevator and (most common account) grabbed the arm of a white young female elevator operator, startling her into a scream, sparking the 1921 Tulsa race massacre of blacks. Of course, that all happened in May 1921, i.e., 5/21. And the May 26, 2021, massacre at the San Jose Streetcar facility was also in 5/21. Flight 521 crashed upon takeoff from LaGuardia, the day before the Bainbridge wreck, killing all 43 aboard. (For one day Flight 521 was the deadliest American fixed-wing aircraft disaster.) Back to Centralia, it is indeed weird that there has been so much strangeness concerning Centralia, but there's been more. One of the most outrageous Confederate massacres during the Civil War was that committed in Centralia, Missouri, on September 27, 1864, by (evil) Bloody Bill Anderson and his subordinates. Flight 624 could refer to the coincidences concerning 6/24/1894 (the day the James D. Nicol sank and the day the President of France was shot), and (even more likely I'd say) also the Kenneth Arnold “flying saucer” incident of 6/24/1947, which started the flying saucer craze, and which occurred while Kenneth Arnold had taken a detour to the Mt. Rainier area in search of the missing Curtis Commando C46/R5C that had crashed into the Tahoma glacier on Mt. Rainier on December 10, 1946, in what was then the deadliest (32 dead) fixed-wing aircraft disaster in the US. (The May 6, 1937, loss of Hindenburg in New Jersey killed 34, and the April 4, 1933, loss of USS Akron off New Jersey killed 73, but those were blimps. It's also curious (but I'm guessing merely coincidental) that the same day that the C46 crashed into Mount Rainier a USAAF C46 crashed near Itami Air Base in Osaka, Japan, killing 23 or 24). One week after the June 17 crash of Flight 624, on 6/24/1948, Thomas Dewey was unanimously elected Republican Candidate for President in the Republican Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Berlin blockade began. Back to 1947 aircraft disasters: on June 13, 1947, Pennsylvania Central Airlines 410 crashed in West Virginia. April 10, i.e., 4/10, would be the date of the 1917 Eddystone, Pennsylvania, ammunition plant explosion that killed 139 mainly young female workers. The plant was located on the most important line (now Northeast Corridor) of what was then the Pennsylvania Railroad and would later be the Penn Central Railroad on February 1, 1968, a day weirdly filled with many historical events. (And of course Central is partially homonymous with “Centralia”.) Exactly 30 years to the day after this crash James Earl Ray would be captured during his escape attempt and the initiate nun would be murdered in West Virginia and the Oklahoma Girl Scout murders would happen in Locust Grove not too far from Tulsa. The death toll of the Bainbridge plane crash was finally exceeded (55 dead) on November 1, 1949, by that of Eastern Airlines Flight 537. The Hindenburg fire was in May 1937 (5/37), on the anniversary of the shooting that caused the other French President to be assassinated. Among the dead was six-term Massachusetts Congressman George J. Bates, who was one of the most interventionist anti-Nazi and pro-English Republican Congressmen during WWII before America entered the war. And November 1 is an important date to the zombie murderers, in particular, being the anniversary of the 1918 Malbone train wreck opposite Prospect Park , Brooklyn. In 1974, on November 1, the anniversary of the wreck, Lisa White, 13, disappeared from Rockville, CT, (as in Rockville Centre train wreck and the weirdness concerning Rockville, MD) and was last seen near the intersection of Prospect and Park, and the same evening Kimberly Benoit, 18, was last seen leaving an Italian Hall near the West Portal of the Hoosac Tunnel only for her body to be dumped later fairly close to the Eastern Portal. As many as 195 died constructing this tunnel. And very early on November 2, Katherine Kolodziej, 17, was abducted from Cobleskill, NY, and her body later found near a McDonald Road (recall that near the site of the Rogers Pass Avalanche, the Connaught tunnel under Mount MacDonald replaced the Hoosac Tunnel as longest North American railroad tunnel). All three girls seem to have been killed over railway tunnels near where much death happened. One month later, on December 1, 1974, a passenger was dragged to death onto a third rail after getting foot stuck in door of train car at Huntington Station on the Long Island Railroad. Three minutes later, there was a crash with several injuries at the exact spot of the Malbone Train Wreck. One hour eighteen minutes after the latter, Flight 514 crashed into Weather Mountain, Virginia, killing 92. The RMS Empress of Ireland collision happened in May 1914, i.e., 5/14, in the Saint Lawrence River, killing 1012, but I'm guessing the correspondence of Flight 514 with it was just coincidence. Come to think of it, it's slightly interesting that the flight number of Flight 932, which crashed November 14, 1970, into a hill on approach to Tri-State Airport in Huntington, WV, corresponds to the September 9, 1932 (9/32) explosion of the screw steamer Observation (72 dead) while carrying prisoners from the dock at E 135th Street, Bronx, to Riker's Island. The explosion was near (25 feet from) the E 135th Street Dock, and thus near (about 2000 feet from nearest edge) N. Brother Island, which recall is where the PS General Slocum more-or-less ran aground in 1904 en route to a picnic ground on Eaton's Neck, Huntington, NY.

12-04-2024 update.

I realized that I hadn't bothered to investigate whether Flight 624 could additionally be a reference to 6/24, i.e., June 1924. There indeed is something peculiar there, namely the Sandusky/Lorain, Ohio, F4 tornado of June 28, 1924, which killed over 85. It's the deadliest tornado in the recorded history of Ohio. Lorain was hardest hit, with over 72 dead. You can't help noticing the tornado occurred on the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and that Lorain sounds like Lorraine, a territory that Germany had wrested Moselle from into Germany after the Franco Prussian War, only to have to give it up again as a result of WWI. It's as though 'ligners full of superstitious occult balderdash might have been thinking that, hey, thanks partially to Americans fighting over there, Lorraine was separated from Germany in the war sparked by the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, and the tornado spirits have cursed America with death by tornado in a profound aligned way that susggests their displeasure. So anything weird about Lorain? Of course, the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King was assassinated. But there's something else. As mentioned a few posts ago, the 2015 train wreck in North Philadelphia was very close to where the September 6, 1943, Congressional train wreck happened, and the wreck happened on the anniversary of the May 12, 1899, Exeter Horror train wreck on the Reading. Exactly why some wrecks get called "Horrors" and other don't is nothing scientific I guess, but anyway, Exeter got so sick of being known for nothing but the "horror" they changed their name to Lorane. So there's a connection going on: Arnold UFO sighting ---> June 24 ---> 6/24 ---> June 1924 ---> Lorain tornado ---> Lorane, PA = Exeter, PA ---> Exeter Incident (major UFO incident in New Hampshire). As I pointed out over five years ago on Websleuths, many of the dead in the Exeter wreck were former members of the 51st Pennsylvania, which regiment along with the 51st New York did exhibit well-known heroism at Antietam at Burnside Bridge. A few days before Antietam, and 39 years to the day before President McKinley would die from having been shot, Union General Reno was killed right after or during an attempt by him to adjust the position of the 51st Pennsylvania, at Fox's Gap, South Mountain, Maryland. In April 1984, Lorraine Zimmerman's body was found somewhere near Reno Monument Road on South Mountain, which goes through Fox's gap. To sum, there is evidence that in aligner child murderers' minds that South Mountain has supernatural connections with Area 51, Arnold UFO Incident, and Exeter Incident, and hence may well be to them, I don't know exactly, something akin to a more bloodthirsty version of the Devils Tower in the UFO movie. What's been bothering me more for years is the case of Simone Ridinger, who for a while I have figured was targeted largely because on the morning of September 3 (the anniversary of the 1965 Exeter Incident), I figure she was last seen by the elderly gentleman whom she had hitched a ride from walking to a restaurant near the Hyannis Airport rotary (a traffic circle), which restaurant I believe was the former Red Coach Grill adjacent to Hinckley Road. What is the connection there between Great Hinckley Fire and Exeter Incident I have long wondered. Now with the significance of the Lorane tornado, I see it's the same chain I mentioned earlier, except for first term gets replaced by three different terms. Instead it starts Great Hinckley fire---> (same day) Slocum backs into tug Robert H. Sayre ---> tug Robert H. Sayre rescues about half from James D. Nicol ---> (same day) June 24 ---> etc. Simone Ridinger was headed to Chappaquidick. Chappaquidick also is known for an incident, namely the belatedly reported death of Mary Jo Kopechne after the car she was in (driven by Ted Kennedy) fell off a bridge and ended up in the estuary. How could that relate to UFOs in the minds of the 'ligners? Because the Chappaquidick incident happened late on July 18 (or early on July 19), 1969, only about thirteen hours before Apollo 11 entered lunar orbit, and of course Teddy Kennedy's brother JFK more inspired Americans to go the moon than anybody, and representatives of Earth (and humans in particular), namely Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, finally got there when the Eagle landed a little after 4:17 pm EDT on July 20. Now, for the first time, humans had proven they had something like a spaceship that could carry people to other terrestrial objects where (if inhabited) they, too, could be recognized as alien beings from outer space, analogous from a different viewpoint to the critters hoaxsters claimed were found after a Roswell, New Mexico, saucer crashed (a crash most often claimed by "UFOlogists" to have happened July 2, 1947, just 8 days after the Kenneth Arnold UFO incident). I suppose it worth mentioning that the Watergate burglary happened June 17, 1972, the sixty-seventh anniversary of the Ransom, MD, train wreck and the twenty-fourth anniversary of the 6/17/48 crash of Flight 624, though I doubt it important.

Something else that seems worthwhile is to see whether the December 8, 1963, crash of Flight 214 near Elkton, Maryland, has any interesting sort of reference to something that happened in February of the year '14. Scouring February 1914, and February 2014, I find they both look rather dull. But I figured that the mostly likely sought reference would be to something in February 1814—after all, that would be during the War of 1812, which of course could lead to a reference to Francis Scott Key. But I guess in those days maneuvering around in winter to launch a battle was an especially miserable thing, which I guess is why not many winter battles happened. At any rate, February 1814 seems to have been boring as well. But in looking up dates from 1812, something does strike you right away, namely that President James Madison signed the declaration of war against Britain on June 18, 1812, exactly three years before the Battle of Waterloo, and only six days before Napoleon, leading the Grande Armée, foolishly invaded Russia on June 24, 1812. June 18, 1975, of course, is the day Paul Lentz was attacked and the assassin of the Saudi King was executed, and June 18, 1905, most seems to be the day that American 'ligners believe a horrific mine accident near Donetsk (Yuzovka) happened, and of course my last paragraph and the importance of Flight 624 should convince you if I haven't convinced you before that June 24 is of great significance to 'em. Considering this, I immediately saw the thing to do would be to search for a Flight 612, because June 1812 is likely of importance to 'ligner weirdos, especially at the current time since the War of 1812, Paul Lentz and Flight 624 are especially likely to be in the minds of aligner weirdos that might be associated or obsessed with the destruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the deaths of the six workers that were on top of it. On August 22, 2006 (the 20th anniversary of the Flight 28M fire at Manchester Airport that killed 55), Pulkova Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 flew into a strong thunderstorm which the pilots tried to climb over too steeply for too long, only to enter a stall and tailspin from which the flight crew was not able to recover. All 170 aboard died after the plane crashed in Sukha Balka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) NNW of the center of the City of Donetsk (Yuzovka). It was the second deadliest aircraft disaster, next to the 1979 collision at Kamianske, to have occurred in Ukraine, until Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in 2014 some 40 miles east of the crash site of 612, on the anniversary of the Tsar's execution and the sinking of SS Carpathia. The Kamianske mid-air collision of August 11, 1979, was about 35 km WNW of Dnipro and killed 178. All three crash sites may have been in the former Yekaterinoslav Governate (Katherinoslavia) when most (the farthest western part was controlled by Austria-Hungary) of present-day Ukraine was a Russian territory before WWI (I'm not sure about MH17 because near border). And though it didn't happen in Ukraine, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashed 8 January 2020 right after taking off in Tehran, killing 176. It is believed to have been shot down by an Iranian missile. As for 7/52, the famous Washington, DC, UFO incidents happened one week apart on the nights of July 19-20, 1952, and July 26-27, 1952 (both incidents started on Saturday evening).

There's another air disaster that I think 'ligners may refer to (if they already haven't done so) in some sort of evil mischief or another to make the Flight 214 near Elkton, MD, seem related to Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster, namely the plane crash that killed all 11 on board on November 17, 1972, near Elkton, KY. The 10 passengers on board were all returning (flying to Lexington) from watching the previously undefeated football team of their local high school, Madison High in Richmond, Kentucky, play against Trigg County High in the western part of the state (because of bad field conditions, the game was played at Hopskinsville, also where the return flight originated) in a playoff game. It's not just that Elkton, Kentucky, has the same name as Elkton, Maryland, it's also that Madison High and James Madison are both Madisons and that James Madison started the War of 1812 that caused the battle that Francis Scott Key created the National Anthem over while next to the future site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

12-14-2024 update.

Very strange stuff indeed is going on in Winston-Salem lately. Tuesday, December 10, there was a school shooting at Reynolds High that has not been solved. The same day there was a dramatic parking deck fire near the Forsyth County Courthouse. December 10, 2021, was the day of the Western Kentucky EF4 tornado that killed 57. There was another long-track tornado (the last of outbreak) in the same outbreak that produced no fatalities but injured 9; the latter tornado went through Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and then passed just about seven (not sure exactly) miles from Hopkinsville (a city about about 20 miles from Fort Campbell), which as I just mentioned ten days ago (in the preceding paragraph of this blog post) the November 17, 1972, plane that crashed near Elkton, WV, had just left from after the passengers had seen Madison High play football there. Then the tornado lifted (I believe) as it was crossing Elkton only to come back down, and then it petered out maybe 15 miles ENE of Elkton. On December 12, 2024, a resident of Bainbridge Drive was kidnapped from his home and murdered not too far east of Forsyth Memorial Park near Winston. On December 12, 1985, Arrow Air Flight 1285R crashed in Gander, Newfoundland, resulting in the deaths of all 256 on board. It was carrying army personnel to their base at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. It is to this day the deadliest ever aircraft incident on Canadian soil. As I explained in this blog post starting seven paragraphs or so ago, the 5/47 Bainbridge, MD, plane crash corresponds to the MD Route 547 that has many malarkey reference, and (in more malarkey) the flight number, 605, corresponds to 6/05, the month of the ParoleRansom train wreck that Paul Lentz was presumably mainly murdered over. Similarly, flight Number 1285 has a totally obvious reference to 12/85, since that's the month it happened (and the twelve reference is doubly obvious, since the Gander crash happened on the twelfth, i.e., 12/12/85). There used to be a Gander Outdoors store in Winston-Salem—not sure when it closed—perhaps it did so along with the many other stores that closed from the Covid19 quarantine?