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 whether future 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 Bournemouth. 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.

March 8, 2025, update. More about plane numbers, etc.

I've been thinking more about patterns of flight numbers involved with disasters or almost disasters, such patterns possibly suggesting occult evil. It's an especially bleak undertaking. Let's start off with the flight numbers of the hijacked 9-11 planes.

American Airlines Flight 11, recall, was the first of the four 9/11/01 hijacked flights to crash, when Mohamed Atta, the ringleader of the 9-11 hijackers, flew it into the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 am local time. It was responsible for about 1700 fatalities, the deadliest aircraft crash in history. If the January 1 incidents this year refer to anything in the minds of Aligner Weirdos, I'm guessing they refer to Flight 11, what since January 1 can be represented as 1/1. Possibly the 9-11 terrorists at one point had decided to cause mayhem at New Year's at the beginning of the new millenium, taken variously to begin January 1, 2000, or (by the more pedantic) January 1, 2001, and they were trying by using a Flight 11 to make out to each other like they were doing homage to the millenial spirits that they might have offended by failing to do so, but who knows? Then United Airlines Flight 175 went into the South Tower at 9:03, killing about 900. A significance of "175" to aligner weirdos we have discussed earlier: 175 was the number of the westbound train in the Rockville Centre wreck, another New York incident. As for American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon in Virginia at 9:37, killing 189 (184 innocents and 5 hijackers) there are various possibilities, but since the 2005 London bombing was on July 7, it makes since the flight number points mainly to July 7, i.e., 7/7. Two possibilities are the July 7, 1903, train wreck at Rockfish, Virginia, perhaps the deadliest train wreck in the history of Virginia, and the July 7, 1865, execution by hanging of the Lincoln conspirators Mary Surratt, George Atzerodt, David Herold, and Lewis Powell. As for Flight 93, in which the hijackers were likely overpowered immediately before the flight crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in Stoneycreek Township, killing all 44 onboard (40 innocents and 4 hijackers), the simplest explanation is that it was a reference to the earlier attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, i.e., '93 (February 26, 1993, to be exact). Hard to say what February 26 might refer to. The February 26, 1972, Buffalo Creek flood in West Virginia that killed 125? The failed February 26, 1936, coup in Japan (the February 26 incident)?

I have been thinking recently I should have mentioned the other shooting that occurred in Winston-Salem on January 1, 2025, namely that of the last Chief of Staff of the 2024 campaign of the Republican candidate for the Governorship of North Carolina at 12:11 am, while leaving a New Year's service at the St. Peter’s Church & World Outreach Center on Old Lexington Road in Winston-Salem. Nothing weird about street names, etc., that I could find, but a shooting of someone associated with a governor candidate makes it vaguely akin to an assassination attempt, and so I mention it.

Flight 548 it was, recall, that crashed near Brussels in 1961, killing the US Figure skating team. Well, just as it's the deadliest aircraft disaster in Belgium, so is a Flight 548 the deadliest purported aviation accident in Britain (the Lockerbie crash was not an accident). Indeed, British European Airways Flight 548 crashed in Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, UK, shortly after takeoff from Heathrow en route to Brussels (recall the other Flight 548 in 1961 was also going to Brussels), killing all 118 aboard on June 18, 1972, exactly 3 years to the day before the murder of Paul Lentz after being last seen alive in Rockville, Maryland. It may be relevant that 548 is but one removed from 547, as in Maryland Route 547, and differs in but one digit from 648, as in Maryland Route 648, the two Maryland Route numbers that the alligner weirdos seem most obsessed with, presumably at least largely because the Bainbridge plane crash happened in 5/47 and the Wilburton, PA, plane crash happened in 6/48. So is there anything interesting about 5/48, i.e., May 1948? On 14 May 1948, Israel declared its independence, and the next day was the start of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Recall that Flight 514 (which crashed on approach to Dulles Aiport on December 1, 1974) seems like it also might be significant to aligner weirdos, and so the flight number could also be a reference to 5/14/48, at least in the minds of antisemitic or anti-Israel ’ligners.

A month ago or so, when thinking about my mother's room number, number 126, where she was put after leaving Emergency and where she died, it occurred to me that it could stand for 1/26 in the sense of January 1926, the month of the Wilburton, Oklahoma, mine disaster that happened Wednesday, January 13, 1926, which I mentioned in an update to this blog post may have been an intentional reference in the June 17, 1948, crash of Flight 624 in Wilburton, Pennsylvania (or if Flight 624 was just an accident, may have largely inspired aligner weirdos to try to murder over it). And about the same time it occurred to me that 126 also could stand for 12/6 in the sense of December 6, the dates in 1907 and 1917 of America's deadliest mine disaster at Monongah, West Virginia on 12/6/1907, and of mainland North America's deadliest explosion at Halifax, NS, on 12/6/1917 (recall I just mentioned in a recent update to this blog post that the Babri Masjid Mosque was destroyed in 1992 on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Halifax explosion). According to my desktop computer's browser's internet history, I may actually have started thinking about the relation between Flight 624 and the 1926 Wilburton, Oklahoma, mine disaster on the day before my mother was taken to the hospital. Thus, it may seem doubtful that aligners associated with the hospital could have put her in that room intentionally based on my recent blog posts, but really, since I discussed in my last blog post that weird murders in the early 70's took place along Maryland route 648, and since the Flight 648 disaster happened in June ’48, i.e., June 1948, it is still a possibility.

So about the next thing I did was to search for a disastrous Flight 126. Sure enough, Georgian Express Flight 126 crashed into Lake Erie shortly after taking off from Pelee Island airport, killing all 10 on board on January 17, 2004. The only deadlier Canadian aviation disasters since 2000 that I have noticed would be the 12 March 2009 crash of Cougar Helicopters Flight 91 (17 dead) and the FirstAir Flight 6560 crash of 20 August 2011 (12 dead). Pelee Island is a near homograph of Mount Pelée, whose May 8, 1902, eruption killed all but three of the 30,000 or so inhabitants of St. Pierre, Martinique. (In fact Pelée is often written as Pelee since it is a nuisance using English keyboards to deal with accents.) In recorded history, only the July 15, 1815, eruption of Mount Tambora (the deadliest and most powerful in recorded history) and the August 27, 1883, eruptions of Krakatoa are believed to have been deadlier. As for the date of the Flight 126 crash, it was the tenth anniversary of the Northridge, California, earthquake, which alignment I suppose is not very peculiar. But on further inspection I noticed that looking at American date styles, 126 could stand for several other dates, all of which are rather peculiar. Indeed, besides December 6 and January 1926, 126 could stand for (1) January 26th, (2) January 2 of the sixth year, i.e., 1906 or 2006, or (3) December of the sixth year, i.e., 1906 or 2006. As for (1), the helicopter crash that killed 9 including former Lakers' basketball star Kobe Bryant occurred January 26, 2020, and what is perhaps the deadliest earthquake in the history of the confines of present-day India occurred in Gujarat on January 26, 2001. As for (2), January 2, 2006, was the Sago Mine disaster in West Virginia which killed 12—there's only been one deadlier US mine disaster since, namely the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster of April 5, 2010, which killed 29 and was also in West Virginia. As for (3), December 1906 was recall the month of the Terra Cotta train wreck in DC that I mentioned earlier.

Yeah, but doubters will say that it's misleading to say that anyone would write, January 2, 2006 as 1/2/6 rather than as say 1/2/06, or December 1906, as say 12/6 rather than as 12/06. Sure, it's a little unconventional nowadays, so let us look at evidence of similar behavior in other accidents that may be related somehow in the minds of aligners to Flight 5342. How about Flight 182, which recall is the San Diego mid-air collision that happened on my birthday and is a possible reference to the 1/82 crash of Air Florida Flight 90 shortly after takeoff from DC National. As it turns out, January 8, 1902, i.e., 1/8/2, is the day of the Park Avenue Tunnel disaster in Manhattan, a rear-end collision at about 56th Street which killed 17 and is about tied with the August 24, 1928, Times Square derailment (17 or 18 dead, one of whom died from a heart attack believed induced from shock upon seeing the bodies) for worst ever rail disaster in Manhattan, NYC. And there's not just the Piedmont Airlines Flight 182 disaster, there's also an Air India Flight 182 disaster from June 23, 1985, that originated in Toronto, where a bomb was placed onboard from a connecting flight from Vancouver on direction from Sikh terrorists in retaliation for the deadly Indian Operation Blue Star to remove Sikh militants from the Sikh Golden Temple in early June 1984, and also for the anti-Sikh riots that killed several thousand Sikhs in the days following the October 31, 1984, assassination of Indira Gandhi by two of her Sikh bodyguards. Air India Flight 182 blew up about 120 miles WSW of the nearest coast on Ireland, while en route to Mumbai with a stopover at Montreal and planned ones at London and Delhi, killing all 329 on board (between 1994 and 2000 inclusive, there were five airplane crashes worldwide on October 31 that each killed at least 49, but very likely all coincidence, I'm guessing).

And then on February 06, 2025, the second anniversary of the catastrophic 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake that killed about 60,000, and just eight days after the loss of PSA Flight 5342, there was the loss of Bering Airlines Flight 445 in Alaska, with ten dead. Since 9/11 there have only been ten or so US commercial aviation accidents with ten or more deaths (at least judging by lists from Wikipedia). So could 445 stand for something? Yes it could, what since April 1945 was the month Hitler died, which recall may have been a reference in last year's Vienna, Austria, planned terrorist incident at a Taylor Swift concert (probably tied up with Anton Bruckner having witnessed the Ring Theatre fire there). But there's also the possibility of 445 standing for 4/4/5. On April 4, 1905, there was the Kangra earthquake in Himal Pradesh, India, that killed about the same number as the January 26, 2001, Gujarat quake, i.e., about 20,000, which is the main reason why two pararaphs ago I mentioned that the Gujarat quake may be the deadliest ever Indian earthquake in recorded history (another possibility is the September 1555 quake in the Kashmir valley, but the death toll is so uncertain (600-60,000) because the history is so uncertain it in a way is not in recorded history, at least not well-recorded history). I should point out that April 4, 2005, is sort of interesting too, being the date the UNC Tarheels defeated the Fighting Illini of U of I 75–70 to win their fourth NCAA basketball championship; the pilot of the helicopter that collided with Flight 5342 was a graduate of UNC-CH, and so too am I (having at that time what seems to me now a somewhat excessive will to be a very serious person, I did not care at all about any sports or games while at UNC). I am not going to take the possible reference to the Illini/Tarheels championship game as a sign that a 'ligner fan of U of I or of UNC's main rivals (Duke and NC State) are any more against me than others, since it is just as likely to be misdirection, I figure. But I figure there's a good chance the reference is intentional, regardless.

It's a little curious that the next plane scheduled to land on runway 33 after PSA 5342 was PSA 5347, a plane of same airline whose flight number differed only by five. It diverted over restricted DC airspace per Air Traffic Control instructions. But I have noticed that flight numbers assigned to PSA are always in low 5000's, and so it is not quite as weird as at first glance. Still, it's another possible Japan reference since the flight number corresponds to 5/3/47, the day the current Constitution of Japan (largely written by the staff of US General Douglas MacArthur) came into effect. The constitution has not been amended since.

What to make of things? Since November 10, I have not been quite as sure of recent things as I usually am, though I still feel quite sure that what I have noticed recently is worth talking about: I am being true to myself and more particularly my haunted feelings when it comes to when and what to post. The whole Japan and India references are something I have not really encountered much in previous studies of aligner activity, presumably because the aligners were too racist to consider deaths of non-"whites" as disasters unless perhaps death toll is enormous. Given that the numbers of Flight 548 and Flight 514 have antisemitic overtones, the remnants of the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo cult comes to mind, especially since the convicted killer that most often comes up in a discussion of the 1975 Kathy Lynn Beatty case (he purportedly worked between where she lived and where she was found) in Aspen Hill, Maryland, was born exactly 50 years to the day before the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin (nerve gas) attack. But things may be different with aligners when they feel like people are onto them. I'm guessing there is only a small or negligible or non-existent connection with Aum Shinrikyo that is mostly a misdirection to lead investigators (like me or law enforcement) in wrong direction. Who knows? As for India references it's worth noting that there was an Air India Flight 605 that while attempting to land at Bangalore crashed short of the runway on February 14, 1990, killing 92. Recalll that it was Eastern Airlines Flight 605 that crashed for undertermined reasons near Bainbridge, Maryland, on May 30, 1947, and that Maryland's only deadlier air disaster was Flight 214 (as in 2/14, i.e., February 14) crashing near Elkton, Maryland, on December 8, 1963, as a result of a lightning strike. I noticed yesterday that on the night of June 9-10, 2013, a ten-year-old girl, Kami Ring, was raped and murdered near Bainbridge, Maryland. If she was murdered on June 10, that would be the fiftieth anniversary of the deaths of seven Boy Scouts and of six adults accompanying them at Carcass Wash, Utah, when the truck they were in suffered a failed gear shift and lost brakes, causing it to roll backwards down a hill and overturn off an embankment. Recall that United Airlines Flight 608 crashed near Bryce Canyon airport, Utah, on October 24, 1947, less than five months after Eastern Airlines Flight 605 crashed. The site of the Boy Scout disaster is only a little over 60 miles southeast of the site of the Flight 608 disaster, both being in arid mostly uninhabited southern Utah. Elkton is the county seat of Cecil County, and so the murderer of Kami Ring was sentenced for Kami Ring's murder in a courthouse in Elkton. Of course, it could very well be, however, that Kami Ring's murder has nothing or very little to do with alignism. (It is also worth noting, I suppose, that infamous murderer Henry Lee Lucas lived near Bainbridge at various times during mid- to late-70s, though there's nothing else about him that suggests to me a connection of him to anything I am talking about, though I haven't studied him much.)

March 18, 2025 update. The NTSB preliminary report on the January 29, DC plane collision. Various other recent aircraft incidents.

Last week NTSB issued its preliminary report on the collision of PSA Flight 5342 with US Army helicopter PAT25. It is well worth reading. What strikes me as most interesting is that about 18 minutes before the collison the PAT25 helicopter had turned around somewhere near Laytonsville, Maryland. Laytonsville is quite close to Derwood, where I grew up, and at the Montgomery County Airpark near Laytonsville a small plane (an Embraer EMB-500) trying to land had crashed into a nearby residence (19733 Drop Forge Lane), after striking the tops of two other houses, on December 8, 2014, killing all three on the plane and three in the residence (a mother and her two young sons). The cause of the 2014 crash per the NTSB report was ice accumulation arising from the pilot's failure to turn on the plane's in flight de-icing systems in the latter part of the flight. I had not remembered the date, nor that the plane had originated in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (the college town where the pilot of the helicopter had finished her schooling at my alma mater UNC-CH, recall). Recall that in my last blog post I mentioned that it might be well for those protecting Taylor Swift to take care about her last concert of the Eras tour then upcoming on December 8, 2024 (the tenth anniversary of the crash near Montgomery County Airpark, though I had not realized this), given that it would be on the anniversary of the Vienna Ringtheatre fire (her concerts in Vienna were cancelled because of terrorist threats), of the Elkton, Maryland, Flight 214 crash of 1963, and of (likely) the 1909 Pere Marquete No. 2 train-car ferry disaster, which last the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, may have largely been about. Fortunately, nothing disastrous seemed to have happened on that 2024 date (though it was still a quite interesting date historically, being the date Damascus was freed from Bashar al-Assad, and the day he fled Syria to Moscow). Perhaps PAT25 flying to the Montgomery County Airpark area was some sort of ritual (by someone on that helicopter or by someone who had planned the helicopter trip?) to try to atone for no mischief having been done a few months earlier on December 8? Or it could be some sort of twisted reference to my growing up near that part of Maryland. Or both. Or just all randomness.

The pilot of the plane that crashed in 2014 in Gaithersburg was Dr. Michael J. Rosenberg, founder and CEO of Health Decisions, a global clinical research firm. On March 30, 2011, the thirtieth anniversary of Reagan getting shot, a small plane headed from Wilmington, NC, to Winston-Salem (that was diverted to Greensboro's PTI because of dense fog) crashed on approach to PTI into treetops and then into a house in High Point near its boundary with Greensboro, killing two, namely the pilot and the only passenger, a former chief of the division of family medicine at Forsyth Medical Center and a longterm president of a Winston-Salem-headquarted firm focusing on clinical research. A father and three children (two boys and a girl) were in the home when the plane crashed into it, but fortunately the plane hit the garage and the occupants were not in that area, and so they were able to escape physically unharmed. The Lyon sisters may have been killed over malarkey partially concerning the screw steamer US Army Troopship General Lyon disaster, the fourth greatest loss of life on a ship in a US maritime disaster not caused by warfare (behind Sultana, Slocum and Eastland). On its last voyage, General Lyon originated from Wilmington on March 29, 1865, and entered the Atlantic on the morning of March 30, after having waited at the mouth of the Cape Fear River for the tides to be right before traversing the treacherous sandbars and shoals there that give Cape Fear its name. It was on the 31st in rough weather that she caught fire off Cape Hatteras, with more than 500 dead.

Yeah, I suppose March 31 would probably be the date one would more expect to see associated with the General Lyon disaster, and in fact on March 31, 2013, a small plane from Wilkes County Airport did crash in Winston-Salem near the Graylyn mansion while headed to Washington, NC, in eastern North Carolina. I believe I actually heard the strange sounds that plane was making as its engine was failing (from lack of oil pressure, apparently, according to an NTSB report)—to my ears, the volume of the engine noise was oscillating with a period that itself was changing and then abruptly became quiet. The pilot was an optometrist who worked at an eye center in Washington, NC, and the other passengers were his wife and a dog. No survivors.

So the General Lyon business got me to thinking more about that maritime disaster. Something a little strange about it is that about ten years after the tragedy, someone calling himself Henson Raines in a hospital in Britain claimed he was a survivor of the General Lyon tragedy who while clinging to floating debris had been rescued by a passing schooner and rudely abandoned on a remote island in the Atlantic full of cannibals for ten years until a British Man-of-War rescued him. He claimed to be Corporal Henson G. Raines of the 56h Illinois. Notwithstanding he was almost certainly a fraud even though there really was a Corporal Henson G. Raines in Company K of the 56th Illinois who died from the General Lyon, his story is often related as if true. Murphysboro, Illinois, 100 years ago today as I am writing this, suffered to this day the greatest loss of life of a US municipality from a tornado. By the General John A. Logan museum in Murphysboro, there's a sign memorializing the 205 soldiers of the 56th who died on the General Lyon after being mustered out as the Civil War was winding down. The 56th were recruited from southern Illinois. Anyway, Henson Raines got me to thinking about Henson Aviation, the original name for the current Piedmont Airlines, causing me to look for other Hensons.

Looking up "Henson" it jumps out at you that the famous African-American explorer Matthew Alexander Henson, who may have been the first person to reach the North Pole during the Peary expedition, was born in Nanjemoy, Maryland, which borders the west side of Nanjemoy Creek. In a small deserted farm's slave cabin off the eastern side of Nanjemoy Creek, John Wilkes Booth and David Herold are believed to have stayed during the two days immediately before starting after dusk on April 22 their successful crossing of the Potomac, probably in their stay having had some limited assistance from John Joseph Hughes, the overseer of the farm (owned by his brother-in-law). (This here John J. Hughes is not to be confused with another John J. Hughes we've mentioned, the John James Hughes who founded Donetsk.) The Nanjemoy formation is apparently an excellent site for obtaining fossils of the earliest stage of the Eocene, which stage is called the Ypresian (between 56 and 48.07 million years ago); this formation is present not only on the shores of Nanjemoy Creek, but also on the cliffs above the mouth of Pope's Creek, whence Booth tried crossing the Potomac the first time, two evenings before he succeeded. And yes, the Ypresian is named after Ypres, Belgium, which gives its name to some of the deadliest battles on the western front during WWI. Another Henson would be Jim Henson, the creator of The Muppets (my favorites are the Yip-Yips). Wild speculation in the immediate aftermath of 9-11 was that there may have been obsession with the particular muppet "Bert" among Islamic extremists, his image next to bin Laden having been photographed by Reuters on placards used in Dhaka, Bangladesh (and perhaps elsewhere), at an anti-American pro-bin-Laden demonstration (the original image having originated on a mirror of the meant-to-be-humorous website bertisevil.com). Jim Henson went to high school in Hyattsville, where a little more than two decades after Henson graduated (from Northwestern High), Lloyd Welch, Jr., and his father were living when the Lyon sisters vanished.

While taxiing at Sea-Tac International Airport on February 5, 2025, one week to the day after the disaster at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the right wing of Japan Airlines Flight 68 clipped the tail of Delta Airlines Flight 1921. Of course, 1921 could stand for the year 1921, when the Tulsa, Oklahoma, racist massacre happened, which recall might be a reference of the flight number of the UAL Flight 521 disaster of May 29, 1947, and also of the date of the Flight 605 disaster in Bainbridge that happened the next day. Even more concerning is that on January 9, 2021, i.e., 1/9/21, another Flight 182 (besides the PSA 182 midair collision in San Diego on my birthday in 1978 and Air India 182 being blown up by a bomb by Sikh radicals in 1985) suffered disaster, namely Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashing into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff from Jakarta, Indonesia, killing all 62 aboard in the deadliest aircraft disaster worldwide of 2021. The flight number of Flight 68 could conceivably be a reference to ’68, or 6/8, especially to 6/8 of (19)68, the day of RFK's funeral and also the day James Earl Ray was caught at Heathrow.

Delta Connection Jet Flight 4819 flipped over while landing at Toronto Pearson International on February 17, 2025, in an incident that gained much media coverage. Fortunately, no fatalities. I can't find anything peculiar about the flight number, and so I think it was just an accident. That said, it happened on the 75th anniversary of the Rockville Centre train wreck, and so I reckon it should seem it's still a slight (but not quite negligible) possibility that ’ligners are involved somehow.

And then there was the March 13, 2025, engine fire aboard American Airlines Flight 1006 after reaching its gate at Denver (62nd anniversary of Kitty Genovese stabbing and 64th anniversary of Kurniveka mudslide near Kiev). Fortunately no deaths or serious injuries, apparently. As for 1006, assuming American date style, it seems that could stand for October 6 or October of the year ’06. As for the latter, possibly it could stand for the October 1806 defeat of the Prussians by Napoleon at the Battle of Jena and the subsequent fall of Berlin to Napoleon, or maybe the second mass-death Atlantic City train wreck, which happened October 28, 1906—neither seems particularly connected to any recent aligner activity I've noticed, and so I'm thinking probably not, at least not as the main reference. As for October 6, recall that Kavanaugh's first day working as Supreme Court Justice was October 6, 2017, the hundreth anniversary of the Otranto disaster. "Otranto" has some other weirdness about it. It was at the Strait of Otranto (in the Adriatic Sea), on the fiftieth anniversary of the Sultana explosion, that Captain von Trapp's sub torpedoed the French armored cruiser Leon Gambetta, killing 684 of her crew of 821. As for HMS Otranto, she was (as an armed merchantman) one of the four British ships at the November 1, 1914, Battle of Coronel off Coronel, Chile. The two largest British ships present, the armored cruisers Good Hope and Monmouth, were both sunk by the larger and more powerful East Asia Squadron, with the death of all 924 aboard Good Hope and all 734 aboard Monmouth. The other two British ships present, namely Otranto and the light cruiser Glasgow, escaped, though the latter suffered some damage (but survived the war). As for the Germans, three sailors were wounded, and no ships were lost. That said, this German East Asia Squadron was essentially obliterated on December 8, 1914 (another December 8 reference) at the Battle of the Falkland Islands when they encountered a significantly larger force of British ships containing armored battlecruisers. Of the German fighting force of two armored cruisers and three (smaller) light cruisers, only the one light cruiser Dresden escaped, until it was cornered on March 14, 1915, and scuttled to prevent capture. Anyway, what is especially interesting insofar as possible current ’ligner activity is concerned is that early on the morning of December 29, 2024 (the anniversary of the 1876 Ashtabula, Ohio, railway bridge disaster), a man was shot to death in Winston-Salem on E. Monmouth Street in the parking lot by a house (formerly the headquarters of a local union) apparently known then for troublesome late night parties involving, e.g., underage drinking, gunfire, and public urination. And there's the other Monmouth ship disaster. The deadliest Mississippi river boat disaster before Sultana was the explosion of the paddle steamer Monmouth on October 31, 1837, near Baton Rouge, which killed about 311 Muscogee (Creek) Native Americans as they were being forcibly transported during the Trail of Tears.

March 31, 2025, short update

A few other things I have noticed since last posting about Monmouth disasters. First, notice that the Mississippi River steamboat Monmouth exploded one week to the day before Elijah Lovejoy was murdered in a town on the Mississippi river. Also, somehow I forgot temporarily what I had mentioned a couple posts ago, namely that on August 15, 1891, the PS General Slocum backed into the steamer Monmouth, which ran regular trips between NYC and Sandy Hook in Monmouth County, NJ. Premonition of bad luck of PS General Slocum. 17 Aug 1891, Mon The Evening World (New York, New York) Newspapers.com It is worth noting that President Garfield died in Elberon, Long Branch, Monmouth County, New Jersey. His itinerary I believe I read somewhere had been to visit his wife there (who was recovering from malaria) after he had given his speech at his alma mater of Williams College, in Williamstown, Massachuetts. Instead, later in the day Garfield was shot, his wife hurried back toward Washington on a special PRR train (one locomotive and one car). Alas, she was almost killed when a connecting rod on the locomotive broke, tearing up ties for a couple miles or so before the speeding train could stop. The papers all declare that is is a wonder the locmotive didn't derail, and that if it did, she and the other occupants of her car would probably have been killed by her car being demolished upon crashing into the locomotive. But to me the most intersting detail about this almost disaster is where it happened: Bowie, Maryland. Recall that Donna Dustin lived in Bowie when she was murdered in 1973. But even more to the point is the significance of Bowie to the construction of the railway line to the P&B railway station where Garfield was shot.

The proponenets of the B&O railway did not want competition with its route (Washington Division of B&O) between Baltimore and Washington, and so Maryland politicians which supported it were blocking the Pennsylvania Railroad and its partner railroads from connecting Baltimore with DC. But the charter of the Baltimore and Potomac railroad had allowed for the railroad to be built from Baltimore through Upper Marlboro to Port Tobacco and thence to the Potomac somewhere between Liverpool Point (the western extreme of Nanjemoy, Maryland) and the mouth of the St. Mary's River, and for branch lines to be built from it of length less than twenty miles. And so starting in 1867 the "main" line of the B&P railroad was built from Baltimore to what would become Bowie (near Fairview Plantation, owned by the first President of the B&, the future Governor of Maryland, Oden Bowie, whom the town of Bowie was named after), and then on to (just east of) Upper Marlboro and east of Port Tobacco through La Plata and on to the middle of nowhere near the Potomac River at Pope's Creek (originally the rail terminus was only about 1.3 miles downstream from where Booth had started his first attempt to row across the Potomac—around 1970 a short line from Faulkner was built to connect to the Morgantown Power plant that lies a couple miles downriver from its former terminus at Popes Creek, and the Popes Creek line was removed south of Faulkner). Simultaneously, a "branch" line was started between DC and Bowie—the freight trains could cross the new Long Bridge over the Potomac to Alexandria, Virginia, while the PRR passenger trains could stop at the B&P station where Garfield would be shot. In 1907, a new short branch of the B&P (called the Magruder Branch) was constructed connecting the new Union Station (also serving the other railroads going to DC) to Landover, Maryland, on the B&P; routes of passenger trains were rerouted to Washington's Union station and Washington's old B&P station was torn down.

So the day before yesterday I noticed that Josiah Henson was born near Port Tobacco. He is someone I have been familiar with because his experiences at the Riley plantation just south of Rockville, Maryland, were a main inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and his house has become a museum. In fact in her work The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, she mentions how particular people mentioned by Josiah Henson in his autobiography were inspirations for the characters in her novel. In particular, Uncle Tom was modeleed on Henson himself. Recall that I mentioned a few posts ago that John Surratt, one of Booth's conspirators in the plot to kidnap Lincoln, taught for a while at a school likely on Nicholson Lane, whose west end terminates at Old Georgetown Road near the old Riley Plantation house (located near the southwest corner of the intersection). But that's not all. Right across the street from the Riley House, on the southeast corner of the intersection was the Maught house, the only house in 1865 within 600 yards or so of the Riley House. John Surratt apparently boarded at this Maught house while he was teaching from 1870-1873. I can't help thinking Surratt intentionally chose that house because it was very close to the plantation house that inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin, suggesting in him either a tendency to be very symbolic or even superstitious, which makes his future choice of employment with the Old Bay Line seem more likely to have a similar cause (recall that Lincoln was shot on the anniversary of the explosion in Baltimore of the Medora side-wheel paddle steamer, which was to be an Old Bay Line vessel). Abraham Lincoln is known to have checked out The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin from the Library of Congress on June 16, 1862, and to have returned it July 29, during which period Lincoln first discussed his draft of the Proclamation, on Sunday, July 13, to his Secretaries of State and Navy (he presented the draft at a cabinet meeting on July 22). What's weird is that I spent the greater part of a day thinking about Josiah Henson and the proximity of the old Riley House to where Surratt lived, and yet it wasn't until I was waking up the next morning (yesterday morning) that it occurred to me before physically getting up something to the effect of "Wait his name was let's see, uh, Henson, and so that duhh is another Henson, oh let me check right now [reaching for my cell phone] whether that is right." Somehow I failed this March 29 to notice the significance of his surname notwithstanding on that day I must have read his name about 50 times and the last update I had done on this post concerned a possible obsession of 'ligner weirdos with "Henson". Those who recall the Henson discussion will naturally wonder whether Matthew Henson is related to Josiah Henson, both originating within ten miles or so of each other in Southern Maryland. Most common opinion on internet is that Matthew Henson is a nephew or great-nephew of Josiah Henson, but there is much uncertainty. An excellent discussion of Josiah Henson, with a pretty picture of a trolley approaching from Rockville to where the schoolhouse used to be near, occurs in this site focusing on the history of Luxmanor. Port Tobacco is now apparently the least populated municipality in Maryland (pop. 12). To me I have to wonder whether the decrease in population should suggest that bad people have recently had occult ideas about the place, it being near places tied closely with the flight of John Wilkes Booth, which may have scared people away as result of nearby 'ligner weirdo antics or rituals. George Atzerodt, who lost his nerve when it came down to assassinating Vice President Andrew Johnson, was living in Port Tobacco from 1857 until Lincoln's assassination in 1865, and according to his testimony John Surratt met him there shortly before the assassination of Lincoln, and induced him to come to DC shortly before the assassination. Atzerodt slept in Room 126 in the Kirkwood Hotel in DC the night before the assassination of Lincoln. The evening of the assassination, when he was believed to have been tasked with assassinating Vice President Johnson, who was staying in the same hotel, he decided to get drunk at the bar instead. He is believed to have spent the night wandering drunk in the city, perhaps eventually having slept or passed out somewhere. The morning after the assassination, Atzerodt fled Washington by hitching a ride in a carriage to Gaithersburg, and after stopping there to have a drink at Mullican's Tavern, he is believed to have walked along Clopper Road to Germantown, where he stayed with a cousin, and was captured there six days after Lincoln's assassination. Authorities, alerted by hotel employees on April 15 of a suspicious person having stayed the night of April 13-14 there who had inquired of the barkeeper what Andrew Johnson's whereabouts and routine were, searched Room 126, decided he hadn't spent the previous night there, and found a loaded revolver under the pillow, a bowie knife, a map, and a bank book of John Wilkes Booth. Fortress Monroe, at Old Point Comfort, is another place that I have mentioned, e.g., as where the US Army transport General Lyon was headed when she caught fire 160 years ago today (North Carolina's deadliest disaster), and also where the Paddle Steamer Massachusetts was headed 160 years ago this April 23, when she collided with Black Diamond (Maryland's deadliest disaster) about 1.5 hours after possibly passing Booth and Herold rowing across the Potomac. Conspirator (at least to Booth's kidnapping plot against Lincoln) Samuel Arnold was captured at Fortress Monroe, where he was during the assassination. All of the conspirators to be tried, except Marry Surratt and Dr. Mudd, where imprisoned on two iron-clad warships in the Potomac, namely the Saugus and the Montauk. Saugus, of course, conjures up Saugus, California, the town nearest the site of the St. Francis Dam disster that presumably would later largely inspire James Earl Ray, and also the Saugus, Montana, train wreck of June 19, 1938. According to Wikipedia, Rockville Centre, where the train wreck happened February 17, 1950, is on the Mountauk Branch trunk line of the LIRR (LIRR has three trunk lines), though on timetables it shows up as being part of the Babylon branch (whose easternmost point is Babylon, where Train 175 originated and where Train 192 was headed (Babylon is also where train No. 174 was headed when it rear-ended Train No. 780 on November 22, 1950, in the Kew Gardens train crash). Going east, Babylon is where the Montauk Branch service starts and where the Babylon Branch service ends.

April 8, 2025, small update

There is rumor on internet that Mullican's Tavern was on the east corner of the intersection of old Redland Road (now called Paramount Drive—that's where Redland Road used to be when it crossed the old B&O on a gradecrossing before Metro Construction necessitated a bridge over all the tracks slightly farther to the north) and Md Route 355, and indeed one can see on the Martenet and Bond Montgomery County Map of 1865 that a John Mullican owned a building there. This is of especial interest to me, because if Atzerodt did indeed have a drink at a tavern there, the drink would have been consumed in Derwood, where I lived when in Maryland. Presumably, the John Mulican is the John E. Mullican of Derwood who died a little over three months after losing a daughter in the 1906 Terra Cotta train wreck in DC. John E. Mullican also had a son born in 1862 who was named John, who was hit and killed by a train in Derwood, dying October 20, 1887. If you look really carefully at the Martenet and Bond Map, you will notice that there appears to be a W. R. Gaither living just west of where Gaither Road now ends on its western end somewhere the best I can figure (it's hard to figure at all exactly) near where the interchange now is between I-370 and I-270. It is hard to find on the map because his name is split by the crease where the map folded. Going to (say) historicaerials.com you can find a 1908 USGS map of the area which shows that Shady Grove Road and Fields Road existed in 1908, as did the part of Gaither Road west of Shady Grove Road. Fields Road used to start between where the current Redland Road meets 355 and where the old Redland Road met 355, and of course there was no I270 in 1908, so you could have taken Fields Road to Shady Grove Road and then go north to Gaither Road in 1908. Perhaps proto-versions of Fields Road and Shady Grove Road existed in 1865 as well, though they aren't on the Martinet and Bond Map, which outside of downtown Rockville, shows no roads whatsoever in the region bounded by proto-versions of Muddy Branch Road, Frederick Road, and Darnestown Road. Another option would be to take Frederick Road and go south on a proto-version of Shady Grove Road to Gaither Road. In his testimony, Gaither claimed to have taken the left hand fork after dropping off Atzerodot at Mullican's tavern (where Redland Road takes off to right)—I'm not sure whether that means he kept going on Frederick Road or whether he took a proto version of Fields Road, which until the late 1970's or so went off to the left from Frederick Road just a little beyond where Redland Road takes off to the right—a wild guess is that he meant some proto-version of Fields Road. William Ridgely Gaither's daughter Ida married a Rabbitt. A large property more-or-less surrounding the Fulks' property where the Buxton family may have lived when attacked by axe murderers in 1896 was apparently owned then by "the heirs of Ida G. Rabbitt". Ida's son Charles Herman Rabbitt is well known locally for having been an eccentric highly frugal individual, who was found upon dying in 1972 at age 81 to have buried $700000 of (mostly) silver coins in (mostly) milk jugs under his basement. The mother of the founder and namesake of Gaithersburg, Benjamin Gaither, was born a Ridgely, and so you might think that there is a close relation between W.R. Gaither and Benjamin Gaither, but this does not seem to be the case. In fact, insofar as their Gaither kin are concerned, they are second cousins once removed, each descended from the nearest common ancestor, John Gaither II, who died about 1702. William Ridgely Gaither's grandfather (according to standard internet opinion) Rezin Gaither, Sr., supposedly had a half sister whose second husband was a Henry Ridgely IV, but this second husband is not in the same line as that of Bengamin Gaither's mother Martha--their first Gaither ancestors to come to America are supposedly different (though they could be related). On his mother's side, Benjamin Gaither had a second cousin who was prominent, namely a Governor of Maryland, Charles Carnan Ridgely. (Martha Ridgely's paternal grandfather was Charles Ridgely I, and the latter's great-grandson was Charles Carnan Ridgely.) The wife of the governor was Benjamin Gaither's third cousin (the governor married his uncle's wife's youngest sister, who was also his biological third cousin, and the governor before being governor took the last name Ridgely of his uncle (and mother). Perhaps the most interesting and perplexing thing about all this is that there was another relevant Jim Henson besides the pupeteer from Hyattsville, namely the (somewhat obscure) Jim Henson who like Josiah Henson had fled to Canada and wrote a memoir (Broken Shackles, pub. 1889) about his experience in Maryland as a slave. This Jim Henson had had as an owner someone he claimed to be the first cousin of Governor Charles Carnan Ridgely, namely Richard Orrick Ridgeley, who apparently mostly went by the name "Orrick". Most sites on internet claim Orrick's father was William III and Mary (Orrick) Ridgely, which so far as I can tell would mean Richard Orrick Ridgely is not closely related to Governor Ridgely. If standard internet opinion is mistaken, and this here William is actually the William Ridgely, Sr., that is the father of the Martha Ridgely that is the father of Benjamin Gaither, that would make Benjamin Gaither, the founder of Gaithersburg, a nephew of the Nicholas Orrick Ridgely who was the owner of Jim Henson, and make Nicholas Orrick Ridgely actually a first cousin once removed of Governor Ridgely. According to findagrave, there is a George Washington Ridgely buried in Laytonsville (in Montgomery County), born in 1858, who was the son of a Nicholas Orrick Ridgely (perhaps the son of the owner of Jim Henson?), which lends credence to Jim Henson's master being the brother of the Martha (Ridgely) Gaither whose son founded Gaithersburg. But none of that would explain why Nicholas Orrick Ridgely was given the name "Orrick" (William III supposedly married an Orrick, but William Ridgely, Sr., apparently married a Duvall). It's good to keep in mind, however, that the evidence from looking at patterns is very weak that any Ridgely or Gaither was consciously involved with helping assassinate Lincoln. William Ridgely Gaither presumably had no idea of who George Atzerodt was or of what he was up to before giving him a ride to Mullican's tavern (and similarly, John Mullican presumably didn't know about any of that either). The long-ago dead can't very well defend themselves. It is extra-wrong to cast aspersions on them from circumstantial evidence. But at the same time, and for the same reason (they can't defend themselves) it is extra-right to protect their memories from those seeking to nowadays desecrate their historical legacy by committing crimes motivated by malarkey involving ancient coincidences involving their lives. Sure, maybe there is some hidden great evil that careful research may find resided significantly in the neighborhood of Gaithersburg in the 1800s. I'm not thinking it's much probable, but it's worth keeping an open mind about, especially given the coincidences about the 1896 axe murder of Sadie Buxton and the lynching of Sydney Randolph. So long as I often seek to do what is most sacred and beautiful about this whole mess, I will not be too worried about what will happen. If I'm wrong, I suspect the consequences will not be especially harmful. At any rate, here I'd rather be open now about my present opinion than to wait until I have clearer notions as a result of discoveries by me or others (which clearer notions I can presumably be open about later, if and after I have them).

On October 8, 1873, the steamer Wawaset from Washington caught fire while about to dock at Chatterton's Landing, Virginia, across the Potomac from Maryland Point, Nanjemoy, Maryland, with about 82 dead. After docking it was to head to the Coan River near Lewisetta on Travis Point near the mouth of the Potomac. It's generally considered a Virginia disaster, but technically the Potomac belongs to Maryland, the boundary being the low-water mark on the Virginia shore. So maybe this fire is to Aligners the second deadliest Maryland disaster? I can't see offhand that the Wawaset explosion has anything to do with Francis Scott Key or the eponymous bridge, but aligners very well may have had it recently in mind, since the Maui fire of October 8, 2023 (the deadliest US forest fire since the Cloquet, Minnesota, fire of October 10, 1918) occurred on the 150th anniversary of it. Recall that Taylor Swift's first concert in Vienna, Austria, last year was to have been on the one year anniversary of the Maui fire, but the concerts there were cancelled because of a terrorist threat uncovered by the CIA and its partners that the Deputy Director of the CIA claimed had as a goal the killing of tens of thousands of people. Taylor Swift's boyfriend is Travis Kelce.

June 9, 2025, significant update. Possible additional significance of "Henderson". Some incidents in 1975 that happened in North Carolina that seem like they may be related to the four murders of children in Montgomery County, Maryland, that occurred from March–July 1975. Two curious plane crashes from 2024. Various odds and ends.

The other day I got to thinking about how the Antioch (in Nashville, TN) High School shooter was a black white-supremacist named Henderson. Somehow it came to mind that where the triple lynching occurred from the limb of an oak tree in Salisbury, North Carolina, at about 11 pm on August 7, 1906, was at the Henderson ball field. Period newspapers indicate the field was across from the home of John S. Henderson, a member of the US House of Representatives from 1885 to 1895. His son became an accomplished mathematician and literary scholar who helped make the UNC-CH mathematics department what it is today. Which is quite good actually, or so it was when I studied mathematics there. There's another Henderson Field in North Carolina, namely the Henderson Field that is the main airport for Pender County, which is kind of interesting because Fred Howard Coffey, Jr., who killed young Amanda Ray on perhaps the tenth anniversary of the Chappaquiddick incident, and who had worked near where Kathy Beatty was found murdered when she was murdered, was incarcerated there until quite recently. Coffey is someone with ties both to North Carolina and (in 1975) Maryland, though he has been incarcerated since 1986 (he was arrested for the murder a young boy in Bristol, Virginia, but he was never tried for that). He is currently incarcerated at the Greene Correctional Institute in Maury, North Carolina. In 1984 on the eightieth anniversary of the General Slocum disaster, Reesa Trexler was raped and stabbed to death at her grandfather's house on North Shaver, quite close to where the lynchings happened in 1906. Given the Slocum massacre of blacks that happened in Texas in 1910, it for sure would seem that something racist was going on. About six years ago DNA tied the killing to Curtis Edward Blair, Sr., a black man who would have been about 40 years old at the time. In 1964, on the anniversary of the Eastland disaster he was arrested in Salisbury for a peeping Tom incident, and he had used a knife to attack his wife and 2.5 year old daughter in 1966. A few weeks ago, on May 2, 2025, Cincinnati Deputy Larry Henderson, while directing traffic, was run over by Rodney Hinton, Jr., whose son Ryan has been shot the previous day. Perhaps it is more likely that there is no malarkey involved, but "Hinton" too is a rather interesting name, given that there is the Hinton, Alberta, train collision of February 8, 1986 that killed 23, and that arguably the best train wreck song (at least to my ear) is the Wreck of Engine 143, which is a song about the heroic death of Engineer George Alley after a boulder had fallen on the track in front of his locomotive near Hinton, West Virginia, which refers to an actual train wreck that happened thus three miles east of Hinton to the crack C&O passenger train Fast Flying Virginian about 5:40 am on October 23, 1890 (only the actual number on the locomotive was 134). And there was an Anthony Ray Hinton who was wrongfully convicted of murder during armed robberies in 1985 in Bessemer, Alabama (the place near Birmingham where James Earl Ray had first tried to buy a gun to kill Martin Luther King (but he decided the guns at the establishment were not to his liking). Anthony Ray Hinton had to endure 28 years on death row before his conviction was overturned.

Just recently, I've noticed a bizarre double murder of police officers that occurred 15 miles or so west of downtown Winston-Salem, late on May 30, 1975. Back in the days of the Old Wild West, it was not terribly uncommon for highly dangerous ruffians to legally become outlaws, who are declared by a judge to be so dangerous that if they don't surrender they may be legally shot even in situations where they aren't presenting weapons or otherwise exhibiting threatening behavior that in standard situations might excuse self-defense. The last outlaw in North Carolina was Morrey Joe Campbell, who shot two policemen west of Winston-Salem on May 30, 1975. First, when he was stopped for suspicion of driving while intoxicated, he shot Davie County deputy Wayne Gaither, who had six weeks earlier stopped him for the same reason. Gaither died very quickly nearby at about 11pm on a driveway at 789 Redland Road (near the northern end of Redland Road, northwest of Advance). Then Campbell headed east toward the Winston-Salem area. Forsyth County Deputy R. L. "Buddy" Russ and his partner, reserve deputy Jack C. "Red" Renigar, upon being notified by radio of the police officer having been shot near Advance, were waiting in Clemmons at the northern end of Middlebrook Drive (which becomes Lewisville-Clemmons Road there where it meets US 158), looking for the eastbound car that Campbell had been driving. To their surprise they found the car with the correct license plate and description, but it was headed westbound, as though it had already been to Winston-Salem or its environs. They started following it and put the flashing lights on, which caused Campbell to stop, and after one of the policemen used a bullhorn to tell Campbell to surrender, out Campbell comes and points a gun at them, causing Renigar to shoot back with a shotgun and Russ with a revolver. Then Campbell goes on west, bumping into a car along the way, and what-ya know, Campbell's car turned north when it got to Redland Road again, and they followed. Then Campbell got out of his car near Andy's Store near the southern end of Redland Road and ran out to nearby woodline, escaping into the darkness. Renigar went to back of car to get ammo for his shotgun while Depty Russ went out front with his pistol, but then a shot cracked out from Campbell near the woodline and Renigar lay dead. Campbell fled on foot, and dropped his rifle after being shot in the knee near his sister's house west of Redland Road and Campbell fled and hid all day Saturday and was eventually cornered on Sunday June 1 about 5pm in a tobacco barn off Spillman Road, which comes off north from Highway 801 west of the north end of Redland Road and east of Farmington (where Campbell lived). How that cornering went down was that deputy Mitchell Davis went into an old barn upon having to urinate, and saw Campbell watching him on one of the tier poles (rafter-like horizontal beams used for drying tobacco). After finishing, Davis calmly left the barn and told his partner that if he was there he's gone now, but then after getting farther from barn, told him he's in there. Campbell was forced out with tear gas, and it turns out he had not gotten another rifle after his knee was shot out and so he couldn't have shot Davis if he had wanted to (and maybe he had wanted to). Campbell ended up hanging himself in prison on Thursday, July 30, 1992. All that explains a lot. Not the first unfortunate incident to happen to a Gaither on Redland Road—recall that William Gaither dropped off George Atzerodt at the Mullican's tavern at the southern end of Redland Road in Derwood, Maryland, where I grew up, after driving him out of D.C. the morning after Lincoln was assassinated, something for which Gaither had to spend a few weeks in jail over. Campbell was a heavy drinker just like Atzerodt was. Campbell was sentenced on (Tuesday) July 13, 1976. The Farmington, West Virginia, mine disaster was on November 20, 1968 (the first birthday RFK missed) and killed more miners than any coal mine disaster since the W. Frankfort, Illinois, mine disaster of December 21, 1951. Campbell is reminiscent of Fort Campbell at the extreme west end of Kentucky, where recall Flight 1285 was headed when it crashed in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada, during takeoff on the twelfth day of 12/85, killing all aboard. The deputies were slain May 30, 1975, an anniversary of the 1947 Bainbridge, MD, flight 605 plane crash. Campbell was forced out of the tobacco barn just 17 days before Paul John Lentz would be murdered after being last seen alive in Rockville about 1.25 miles from the old Mullican's tavern. The authorities cornered Booth in a tobacco barn just as was the case with Campbell; tear gas hadn't been invented in 1865, so with Booth, fire was used instead.

But if the date refers to the Bainbridge crash, what could that have to do with the Lincoln assassination? Quite a bit actually. On April 24, 1865, David Herold and John Wilkes Booth found their trek south through Virginny paused at Port Conroy at the edge of the Rapahannock River, waiting for the ferry to Port Royal on the opposite side. (They were near where today Highway 301 crosses on a bridge, but no bridge had been built near there yet. Notice that 301 could stand for March 1, the date of the 1910 Wellington, Washington, avalanche of snow at Stevens Pass onto trapped railway trains; 301 was also the area code of telephones throughout Maryland, from its introduction in 1947 (year of the Bainbridge plane crash) until additional area codes were made starting in 1991). While waiting they made conversation with three ex-Confederate soldiers that rode up to the ferry landing wanting to cross the Rapahannock and then to go on to Richmond (the capital of Virginia) to parole themselves as they figured war's over. Their names were Willie Jett, and two individuals who were first cousins of one another, namely Absalom Ruggles Bainbridge and Mortimer Bainbridge Ruggles. Herold asked if he and Booth could join them, but the ex-soldiers figured the two were wanting to find their regiments to continue the fight, and so Jett wondered what was up with them. At that point, Herold told it as it was, "We are the assassinators of the President." Jett, Ruggles, and Bainbridge agreed to help them. Booth was allowed to share the horse of Mortimer Bainbridge Ruggles while Herold shared the horse of Abasalom Ruggles Bainbridge, and after failing at one house because of propriety (there was no male in the house) and at another because there was nobody there who answered, they went south a few miles to the Garrett Farm, where the injured Booth, posing as a Confederate soldier suffering from war wounds requiring rest, was allowed to park himself in their farmhouse . He stayed his first night upstairs in the farmhouse (the site of which is now located in the median strip of Route 301), while the other four in the party went on south toward Bowling Green. It's worth mentioning that the western half of MD Route 547, which corresponds to the 5/(19)47 date of the Bainbridge, Maryland, train wreck is Strathmore Lane, and that lane cuts across Garrett Park between North Bethesda (more precisely, where Georgetown Prep sits along Route 355) on its western end and Kensington on its eastern end (where it becomes Knowles Avenue). Recall that about 200 yards from the last sighting of the Lyon Sisters, on Hobson Street in Kensington, is where Lloyd Lee Welch was arrested in 1977 on November 24, the thirteenth anniversary of Lee Harvey Oswald being killed by Jack Ruby. The one peculiar thing I have noticed about Ruby is that according to the Dallas driver's license in his possession on his arrest, Ruby was born March 25, 1911, the day of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in NYC. The Lyon sisters' disappearance would be on it's 64th anniversary. As for what Hobson could stand for, I'd say it would be Richard Pearson Hobson, since there is a Pearson Street one block west of Hobson. Richard Pearson Hobson was a naval hero during the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War and later became a rear admiral and US Congressman representing Alabama. As the only recipient of a Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions during the Spanish American War, Hobson became a hero which resulted him becoming something of a sex symbol after purportedly rarely minding at all being kissed by the many young women who wanted to kiss him (I'm guessing oral venereal disease was not nearly as common then). And he was discriminating (in the good sense) enough to be a total abstinence man who completely avoided both alcohol and tobacco. It's worth pointing out that Hobson's mother was born a Pearson in Richmond Hill (homonymous with the Richmond Hill, NY, where the Kew Gardens train wreck happened before border changes), North Carolina, where her family lived south of the Yadkin River close to the Siloam Bridge, which collapsed February 23, 1975, killing four, just over one month before the Lyon Sisters were kidnapped. Hobson's mother's brother, Richard Mumford Pearson, was a prominent US Representative and ambassador, who had a mansion built in Asheville that he also called "Richmond Hill", as in his father's estate in Richmond Hill, Pearson's first name, and the last name of the architect, James G. Hill (this mansion eventually became an inn and was destroyed by a somewhat mysterious arson March 29, 2009). Pearson, Jr., who was born on January 26, 1823. was the son of Richmond Mumford Pearson, Sr., who was Chief Justice of the North Carolina for many years, and presided over the impeachment of the first Governor of a US state to be impeached (W. W. Holden). The impeachment was a disgrace resulting from Holden's attempts to resist the lynching campaigns of the Ku Klux Klan. But at least standard opinion is that Richmond Mumford Pearson, Sr., was sympathetic to Governor Holden and to resisting lynching, and that there was little he could do given the highly racist makeup of the North Carolina legislature after the Democrats got (firm) control of the legislature in the 1870 elections. Richmond Hill is not far west of Winston-Salem (Yadkin County borders on the west the Forsyth County that contains Winston-Salem). There was a law school set up in Richmond Hill by Pearson, Sr., which trained several thousand young men in law, having I'd say quite a beneficial effect on North Carolina. The USS Hobson, named after Richmond Pearson Hobson, was a US destroyer that during peacetime collided with the aircraft carrier USS Wasp and sank off the Azores on April 26, 1952, killing 176, the deadliest peacetime US naval disaster. When in New Orleans, Lee Harvey Oswald saw fit to pass "Hands Off Cuba!" flyers in the environs of Wasp as it was docked. April 26, of course, is the anniversary of Booth being shot dead on the Garrett farm in 1865. So yeah, Lincoln references all the way around involving Bainbridge. Worth pointing out that there's a Decatur Lane approximately bisecting the very short Hobson Street. Recall Stephen Decatur it was who became celebrated for having burnt the frigate USS Philadelphia on February 16, 1804, after Bainbridge abandoned it to the enemy during the first Barbary War, and that before Francis Scott Key wrote the Star-Spangled Banner he penned a song about Decatur's heroic act, set to the same British drinking tune.

April 24, 1865, the same day that Booth and Herold were crossing the Rappahannock, an attachment of the 16th New York Calvary, with 26 men (and their horses) led by Lieutenant Edward Doherty and accompanied by two detectives, Everton Conger and Luther Baker, did take the tug John S. Ide (notice near homonomy of "Ide" with "Ides [of March, April, etc.]") down the Potomac from DC to Belle Plain, Virginia, located on Potomac Creek. Belle Plain is about halfway between Fredericksburg and the Matthias Point near where Booth had intended to land when crossing the Potomac. The soldiers crossed the Potomac on the evening of the 24th looking for Booth, and got information from a fisherman who had seen them at the ferry that Booth and Herold had crossed the ferry accompanied by Ruggles, Bainbridge, and Jett. The wife of the fisherman suggested Jett liked to dote on a woman at the Star Hotel in Bowling Green, Virginia. After dropping off Herold on the morning of the twenty-fifth, Bainbridge and Ruggles noticed the cavalry looking for Booth, and so they rode south and warned Booth and Herold to hide, which they did, in the woods. The cavalry galloped by them headed to get Jett. At gunpoint, finding Jett at the Star Hotel, the detectives encouraged Jett to tell them that Booth and Herold were hiding at the Garrett farm. So back north the cavalry and the two detectives galloped until reaching the Garrett farm after midnight, early on the 26th. They found the pair in the Garrett barn, purportedly because the Garrets' had forced them to stay there and locked them in fearing they might be horse thieves. Herold surrendered, the barn was set alight, and at about 2 am, Booth was mortally wounded by Boston Corbett, a sargeant serving in the 16th. Booth's body along with Herold and the horses and men and detectives that had found Booth went back to Belle Plain and thence to DC on the same steamship that had taken them.

One of John Wilkes Booth's best friends was a Tom Gorsuch he had gone to school with at the Milton Academy in Baltimore County. In 1851, Tom Gorsuch's father Edward Gorsuch had gone to Christiana, Pennsylvania, to forcibly take back his escaped slaves, and he was shot dead there in the Christiana Uprising of September 11 (exactly 150 years before 9-11-2001), one of the early main excuses the South used to justify secession sentiment. Booth's friend's father having died there may have encouraged Booth to doggedly side with the South and (ultimately) to kill Lincoln. Edward Gorsuch was from northern Baltimore County, a good deal east of the Gorsuch siding in Carroll County where the mistake was made (deciding to meet the next train at Lawndale rather than to wait at Gorsuch) that caused the Ransom train wreck of June 17, 1905. Speaking of Gorsuch siding, I notice an unidentified body (skeletal remains) was found near there on or about November 9, 2014. Nothing I can find on internet as to whether it has since been identified or what the cause of death was.

As I mentioned earlier, the night before Lincoln was shot, George Atzerodt stayed in Room 126 of the hotel Kirkwood House (at 12th and Pennsylvania Avenue, basically just two blocks west of Ford's Theatre on 10th Street NW). I mentioned that on New Year's this year an individual was shot on Lawndale Avenue in Greensboro in a shopping center just south of the Science Center (museum). As mentioned, that struck me as odd since the cause of the Ransom train wreck that I had spoken of at length in my last two posts had involved the eastbound freight crew trying to meet the next westbound at Lawndale siding rather than to further wait at the Gorsuch siding, and since a few days earlier a police officer had been shot dead on Lawndale not far north of the Science Center. The shopping center where the shooting happened on January 1 at Aunt E's was and is Kirkwood Commons.

The media is trying hard to tell us that this year aircraft disasters don't seem to be any worse than recent years, except for the outlier that is Flight 5342. So let's look at (say) the past two years.

In 2024, the deadliest US aviation disaster was the July 26, 2024, plane crash northeast of Recluse, Wyoming that killed seven, namely three members of the gospel group The Nelons, along with a husband of one of them and their assistant, and the pilot and his wife (the pilot was also superintendent of the Georgia Department of Corrections). They were headed to SeaTac (Seattle/Tacoma) airport, where they were to board a ship hosting the Gaither Homecoming specialty cruise (to Alaska). According to Wikipedia, "Gaither Homecoming is the name applied to a series of videos, music recordings and concerts, which are organized, promoted and usually presented by Christian music songwriter and impresario Bill Gaither". And yes, Bill is short for William, as in the William Gaither who the day after Lincoln was shot drove Atzerodt to Derwood (about where the Toyota dealer is now located in Derwood). But this here singer Gaither is a William James Gaither, while the middle name of the William Gaither who shot Lincoln was probably Ridgely. Still, that is weird.

Tied (with five other crashes) for third deadliest US aviation disaster of 2024 was an incident in North Carolina that happened September 28 (the thirtieth anniversary of the MS Estonia sinking in the Baltic, 852 dead). Not just anywhere in North Carolina, either, but at First Flight Airport in Kill Devil Hills. This airport is adjacent to the (National) memorial to the Wright Brothers, where they made the first-ever plane flight (after having designed their plane in Dayton, Ohio) directly adjacent to the airport. In fact, the crash may have been caused by the pilot having been distracted by showing off the monument or talking about the history (there was a previous landing attempt, which was aborted, thereby occasioning a flight over the monument); the plane crashed into trees to the left of the runway as the plane was landing, between the runway and the monument (the crash site was about 300 yards from the wing shaped quasi-obelisk at the center of the monument). Another possibile explanation for the incident is that it was some sort of malarkey concerning the Wright Brothers and the discovery of aviation. Orville Wright died January 30, 1948, the same day Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, and the day before the death of the photographer who took the only picture of the first flight on December 17, 1903. Wilbur Wright died May 30, 1912, 35 years to the day before the Bainbridge, Maryland, plane crash. The first flight happened one day before a fire in the women's dormitory in the two upper stories of the administration building (no fire escape), killed about 12 at Walden University (earlier called Central Tennessee College) in Nashville, the first institution of higher learning in the south for blacks. US 158 goes right by First Flight Airport about nine miles from where it ends just east of Roanoke Island where it meets NC 64 (back in the day, US 158 went further on its eastern end, taking a short dog leg to the west over a bridge to end on Roanoke Island, which of course has its own tragic history (the Lost Colony backed by Sir Walter Raleigh that settled on Roanoke Island in 1585 was the first colonization in America by the English, but by 1590 the colony was no where to be seen and no clues remained except the word "Croatan" carved into a tree; on the Outer Banks, 158 is known as Croatan Highway). Recall that Morrey Joe Campbell was driving on 158 in 1975 on the 72nd anniversary of Wilbur's death when discovered by Officers Renigar and Russ, and on Redland Road near 158 Renigar was shot dead by Campbell. US 158 is one of the most central roads to shopping areas in Winston-Salem, where it is known as Stratford Road. The pilot of the 2024 plane crash was from Silver Spring, Maryland (recall the deadly February 16, 1998, train crash in Silver Spring caused by the engineer of a MARC train disregarding the intended signal near the terminus of Knowles Avenue just west of the Kensington Depot). All the five occupants of the plane died. One of them was a Campbell, as in Morey Joe Campbell and Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and another a Neely, as in Neely Smith, a five-year-old girl who was vanished in Charlotte, NC, in 1981 on February 18, a few hours after a bus crash on I-95 in Quantico, Virginia, killed 10. The partial skeletal remains of Neely Smith were found by police April 11, 1981, after being spotted the evening previous by locals; it's worthwhile noticing the proximity of these dates to anniversaries of the April 11, 1935, train-bus collision in Rockville, MD, and the February 17, 1950, Rockville Centre, NY, train collision.

The deadliest US aviation disaster of 2023 was two US Army Sikorsky HH-60 helicopters colliding over Fort Campbell, Kentucky, on March 29, killing nine. Recall Fort Campbell is where Flight 1285 was headed when it crashed on takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland, in 12/85.

It's worth mentioning a few other cases (especially those in North Carolina) in the seventies and eighties that (intentionally or unintentionally) have similar patterns with disasters to what I have been discussing. One would be the shooting and death of Pamela Mayhew, 15, in Shinnville, south of Statesville, at the same time her 17 y/o friend was raped and shot. They were kidnapped from Statesville very early on September 6, 1975, (the 32nd anniversary of the wreck of the Congressional at Frankford Junction, Kensington, North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and shot at the abandoned farmhouse of Calvin Shinn, which I believe was near a Houston Road. Shinnville and Shinn conjurs up Shinnston, West Virginia, where West Virginia's deadliest ever tornado happened June 23, 1944. A tornado in the same outbreak killed 8 in Dry Tavern, Pennsylvania, where Deborah Lynn Makel, 8, had gone to school on October 5, 1973, immediately before being last seen alive that afternoon as she was leaving her school bus; Makel was discovered dead in woods not far from her home. (Two of the individuals that had been mentioned in connection with the Lyon Sisters' case were born about nine months later.) The murder of Pamela Mayhew and the rape and shooting of her friend may be related to the disappearance of Sylvia Lwowski, 22, in Staten Island later that day, and the murder of Terry Cornell, 17, in Syracuse very early the next day. Lwowski was last seen with her boyfriend, who lived in Port Richmond, NY, homonymous with Port Richmond, PA, which by some accounts is bounded to the north and west by Frankford Creek and Frankford Street, which would mean that the locomotive in the 1943 wreck stopped about on the boundary of Port Richmond, and which would put the whole of the 2015 Frankford Junction wreck of Train 188 (the so-called schoolhouse blizzard was in January 1888, i.e., 1/88?) in Port Richmond. Port Richmond is sometimes called merely "Richmond"; the movie Lwowski was seeing prior to her disappearance near her disapperance was off Richmond Avenue. She may have taken Richmond Hill Road to get to the theater, as in the Richmond Hill or Kew Gardens train wreck. I believe I have mentioned that Cornell's slippers were found off of a Strathmore Ln in Syracuse, NY homonymous with the Strathmore Ln that is the west part of MD 547, and which goes through Garrett Park, MD, from across Georgetown Prep High to Knowles Road, which last goes through Kensington where the Lyon sisters lived. Cornell was last seen alive about 3:20am on September 7 walking along Glenwood Avenue, as in the Glenwood Avenue which is next to the site of the 1943 Congressional train wreck. The day after the Congressional wreck (79 dead) there was a fire at the Gulf Hotel in downtown Houston that killed 55. A blue car may have been involved in both the Cornell and Mayhew cases, which was said to have bucket seats in the Mayhew case, and was two door in the Cornell case. (Back then I believe most four door cars had one continuous bench seat in front); but in the Cornell case observer(s) described the car driving in the area where and when she may have been killed as dark blue, while Mayhew's friend described the car involved in her and Mayhew's abduction as light blue. Still, I suppose it could be the same car, especially considering both murders happened at night, when I suppose dark and light blue may be hard to distinguish. There were actually two other highly strange criminal incidents in Iredell County in September 1975. As for these other two incidents, it's worth noting that per the quoted article concerning the triple murder by Donald Lee Harding, "Mary Engelbert’s body was found the next day on the banks of Third Creek, just off Wallace Springs Road about a half of a mile south of where the American Legion building now sits on the same road". North Carolina's second worst train disaster was the Bostian Bridge disaster on a bridge over third creek about 1.6 miles upstream from where the body was found. Mayhew and her friend were kidnapped by a man who got out of his car to chase and abduct them when the girls were on a bridge in Statesville over Fourth Creek. The engineer of the May 12, 2015, train wreck at Frankford Junction (very close to site of the 1943 Congressional wreck) was a Bostian. Besides being mentioned in connection with the murder of Kathy Lynn Beatty, the only mentioned suspect in the murder of Neely Smith in Charlotte was convicted of murdering Amanda Ray in Charlotte on the tenth anniversary of the Chappaquiddick incident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne and hurt Teddy Kennedy's career chances (assuming that the incident happened right before midnight rather than right after, which is not clear—anyway, it's clear that if drinking was a contributing factor, the drinking happened on the 18th). The perpetrator in the Amanda Ray case was arrested in his hometown connection with the murder of Travis Shane King, 8, in the same town, who was last seen on August 21, 1986, but after the arrest it was decided to try him for the death of Amanda Ray, for which he was given a death sentence (later commuted to life imprisonment), though he is still considered the main suspect in the Travis King case. August 20-21, 1910, is the date of the Big Burn (forest) fire that devastated Idaho and Montana (including Kellogg and Burke, Idaho, and more especially Wallace, Idaho, at the entrance of the Burke Canyon). Near Wallace, Forest Ranger Edward Pulaski saved the lives of dozens of firefighters by leading them into an abandoned mine tunnel southwest of Wallace; the tunnel is now called the Pulaski tunnel. (June 14, 1828, the sidewheel steamer Pulaski sank about 30 miles east of the easternmost point of North Carolina, with the loss of 128, after suffering a boiler explosion.) Recall Burke had been hit by a snow avalanche earlier that year on February 28.

The murder of Donna Marie Emmel, 15, in Newport, NC, on June 16, 1975, would be of interest to me if for no other reason than it happened just two days before the murder of John Paul Benedict Lentz, 14, last seen alive in Rockville, MD. Both of them were found dead in a ditch. I noticed right away several years ago after discovering her case that there is a Lakeview Drive that becomes the Easy Street that her house was located upon. The Lake View or Collinwood School fire near Cleveland, Ohio, killed 175 on March 4, 1908. Just two years later you've got the March 4, Rogers Pass snow avalanche from the ridge between Mount MacDonald and Mount Avalanche, just several days after the Mace and Burke snow avalanches in Burke Canyon, Idaho, and the Stevens Pass snow avalanche in Wellington, Washington, onto the Spokane Express (train No. 25) and the fast mail (train No. 27), near the west entrance to the original Cascade Tunnel on the then Great Northern Railway. The bodies of Sylvia Lwowski and Terry Cornell were both found near McDonald Roads. In fact the body of Cornell was found in a culvert by McDonald Road, presumably a small tunnel of sorts under McDonald Road (the Connaught rail tunnel, built after the Rogers Pass disaster to prevent another such tragedy, goes under Mount MacDonald, and was the longest North American railway tunnel when built.) On the tenth anniversary of the Lake View school fire, on March 4, 1918, the US Navy ship Cyclops was last seen after leaving Barbados en route to Baltimore laden with manganese ore (used for hardening steel) from Brazil. But why Newport? John Wilkes Booth stayed at a hotel in Newport, Rhode Island, nine days before he shot Abraham Lincoln. There is also a Newport in Maryland just east of where Thomas Jones took care of Booth in the pine thicket. In fact, Thomas Jones is buried in the cemetery of St. Mary's Catholic Church in this Newport, Maryland. As for the date of Emmel's disappearance, it's the fiftieth anniversary of the Rockport train wreck caused by water from a heavy thunderstorm washing down Hazen Road onto the Rockport grade crossing on the old Lackawanna line at the boundary line between Rockport and Beattystown, New Jersey. In this stream of water was dirt, because at that time Hazen Road was a dirt road. The dirt washed onto the crossing, fouling it and causing the derailment (50 dead) of the train carrying ethnic Germans from Chicago to Hoboken, where they were to embark on the United States Line Steamer Republic, which was to take them to Bremen, Germany, in order for them to visit Germany. Recall I have theorized that South Trimble, Jr., may have been murdered December 31, 1974, over this because he lived near a Hazen Park and because he had overseen the investigation of the Hindenburg disaster (which shared with the Rockport wreck and the General Slocum disaster the characteristic of killing mostly ethnic Germans). The governor general of Finland was killed the day after the General Slocum disaster and 21 years to the day before the Rockport wreck; the President of France was killed exactly five years before the Hindenburg disaster. Perhaps, I don't know, paranoid pro-German aligner weirdos may have viewed these latter coincidences as caused by aligner weirdos with anti-German tendencies seeking retribution for past assassinations motivated by the pro-German aligner weirdos. Anyway, could Rockport have something to do with Lincoln or Booth just as Newport does? Yes. Lincoln mostly grew up in the boondocks of Spencer County, Indiana, in the Little Pigeon Creek Community, where he lived from 1816-1830. His mother Nancy Hicks Lincoln died there in 1818 from milk sickness, now known to be caused by drinking milk from cows that had recently eaten poisonous white snakeroot. The county seat of Spencer County was Rockport, where the Lincoln Pioneer Village and Museum was constructed by the WPA in 1935 to represent what it was like in the farm community that Lincoln had been raised in 17 miles away. It was built next to the pier where Lincoln in 1828 set off on a three-month flatboat trip to New Orleans accompanied by fellow Little Pigeon Creek Community resident Allen Gentry and by goods to be sold in New Orleans from the merchant father of the latter. Apparently during this time period, Lincoln would also borrow books in Rockport from John Pitcher, a lawyer.

Thinking about Booth's visit to Newport, Rhode Island, caused me to look into the matter further, in particular to see if there be anything weird about the place. Newport has a great deal of history about it, being an enclave for the wealthy and home of the original US Navy Officer Candidate School. Anyway, I decided to look for strange murders there. Turns out in the early to mid 1980s there were three strange murders of young females about the place that have possible Lincoln assassination references as in the Donna Emmel murder.

Diane Ruth Drake, 20, was last seen alive March 21, leaving the place she had rented to walk to her place of work, a photo booth in Middletown, which borders Newport on the east. She was last seen while walking north on Valley Road in Newport toward the photo booth from the 9 Easton Terrace, Middletown, small cottage she shared with a friend and fellow student, and then stopping to get into a car, though it might have been someone who looked similar. She was found dead the next day in the surf at Newport's Easton's Beach; the most common theory is she got a ride from the wrong sort of person, though purportedly she was not the sort to accept a ride from someone she didn't know. On April 5, 1865, when John Wilkes Booth checked into the Aquidneck House (named after the island containing Newport, Middletown, etc.), at the northwest corner of Pelham and Corne Streets in Newport at about 9 a.m., he signed the register as "John Wilkes Booth and a Lady", and was accompanied by a woman claimed by many to be his mistress Ella Turner (aka Ella Starr), though others say she was someone else, even Lucy Hale, the daughter of New Hampshire Senator John Parker Hale, and then he left the hotel and visited Easton's Beach with the lady. He was a little confused, having gotten off a Fall River Line steamer, and purportedly asked whether he might be in Fall River. Despite what renting a hotel for just a few hours might suggest of impropriety, Booth wasn't in Newport for long, purportedly taking a 3pm train for Boston, apparently to visit his brother Edwin with whom he didn't get along. Edwin in 1888 built a mansion in Middletown. The photo booth Drake was headed to when she died was in Middletown. She was a student at that time at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island, and her parents lived south of there in Portsmouth, which is mostly located on the northern end of Aquidneck Island.

Hillary Hellewell, a former Rhode Island University student living in Jamestown was strangled on May 19, 1985, and her body was found the same day a few hours later, at 4:15 am in front of 25 Anthony Street in Newport, RI. Anthony Street is just south of Aquidneck Park, as in the Aquidneck House Hotel which John Wilkes Booth had checked into on April 5, 1865, and which is about 2000 feet away from 25 Anthony Street. Anthony is a near homonym of Antony, as in Mark Antony. Booth played Mark Antony on November 25, 1864, when he performed for the first time with both his brothers Edwin and Junius, Jr. (Late in his life, Edwin built a mansion for himself, "Boothden", in Newport.) This performance was at the renowned Winter Garden Theatre in New York City. This production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar was proclaimed as the greatest theatrical event in New York City history. That same night, pro-Confederate saboteurs tried to burn down New York City by setting incendiary devices in numerous places around town, but their devices were ineffective. One of the plotters, Robert C. Kennedy (same first and last name as the Senator assassinated June 5, 1968), was captured and later hanged March 25, 1865 (exactly 110 years before the Lyon sisters' case); the same day Kennedy was hanged, Captain Thomas Watkins was murdered at his home in Davidsonville, Maryland, by Confederate Captain, horse thief, ruffian, and guerilla, John Henry Boyle. After the Lincoln assassination, George Atzerodt claimed that Boyle was "one of the party, in the conspiracy". Someone claiming to be John Lyon (he was never identified, but note he gave same name as father of Lyon sisters) suggested to Union Detective A. L. Fisher in Philadelphia that Boyle's brother-in-law, a man named Pearson (as in Richard Pearson Hobson) may have gotten $5000 as a result of the assassination, which he gave to his wife. Hellewell may have been targeted at the party she had attended at 1 Friendship Street. It is believed she walked south on Broadway and Spring Streets after the party. She may have been at the party before midnight on May 18, the anniversary of the May 18, 1918, Oakdale, Pennsylvania, munitions explosion (193 dead). May 19, 1928, was the Mather, Pennsylvania, mine disaster (195 Dead). In 1977, roughly halfway between Oakdale and Mather, around midnight between May 18 and May 19, Brenda Lee Ritter, 18, was murdered.

Another Rhode Island case that might be related is that of Roseanne Robinson, 17. June 2, 1980, she was hitchiking on I-95 from Providence, Rhode Island, where she moved after high school, to visit her family in Willis, Massachusetts. She was dropped off at the Route 152 overpass in Attleboro, MA, by three men who had given her a ride from Providence, because she needed to get off there to continue her trip to Willis, while they were continuing on I-95. Her strangled body was found the next day, June 3, by children playing off Albion Road behind the Lincoln Mall in Lincoln, RI. True, Lincoln is in the northernmost part of Rhode Island, while Newport is in the southernmost, but Rhode Island is our smallest state. And the mall and the town are both named Lincoln, as in Abraham Lincoln. And Albion conjures up the Albion mine disaster that happened the same day as the birth of the future King Edward VIII, and the day before tug Robert H. Sayre rescued so many from the sinking James D. Nicol. Recall that the General Slocum backed into the Sayre the same day that the Great Hinckley fire killed about 418, including perhaps Thomas "Boston" Corbett, who killed John Wilkes Booth. Grace Stageberg Swenson's book about the fire, published in 1979, the year before Robinson's murder, is what brought to the public the possibility that Boston Corbett was killed in the fire.

A peculiarity of the three Rhode Island murders I have mentioned is that the initial letter of the last name matches the initial letter of the first name. This characteristic is famously associated with three murders in Rochester, NY, between November 1971 and November 1973, which were dubbed The Alphabet Murders: Carmen Colón, age 10, Wanda Walkowicz, age 11, and Michelle Maenza, age 11. I figure the Rhode Island murderer may have imitated the Rochester murders in order to refer to Rochester. So is there a good Lincoln reference to Rochester? Yes. New Hampshire Senator John P. Hale, the father of Lucy Hale, was from Rochester, NH. Standard opinion is that Senator Hale did not approve of his daughter seeing John Wilkes Booth, which is not surprising and shows good sense on his part. He did however give his daughter two tickets to see Lincoln's second inauguration on March 4, 1865. The companion she took with her was purportedly John Wilkes Booth.

There are a few other odds and ends I have thought of that deserve mentioning. First, somehow I failed to notice that two years to the day before my mother's death was the last aviation fatality in Winston-Salem, and I suppose the last one in Forsyth County since the March 31, 2013, crash on the anniversary of the 1865 transport General Lyon disaster (North Carolina's deadliest ever disaster probably), which was caused by an engine failure that I heard signs of while on a walk. November 19, 2022, a metal fabrication plant owner living in Freeburg, Illinois, and his wife died while trying to land at Smith-Reynolds Airport, on a trip to visit family for Thanksgiving. According to the final NTSB report, the fuel servo was contaminated by a thermoplastic, causing an engine to fail. They had taken off from St. Louis Downtown Airport, which is actually just south of East St. Louis, in Illinois. They had one intermediate stop, namely London-Corbet Airport, in Kentucky. Last month on May 16, a tornado hit Kentucky, killing 19 there. The EF-4 tornado hit hardest (nine fatalities) the Sunshine Hills neighborhood of London, about 1.5 miles west of the London-Corbet airport. It became EF-3 temporarily, then became EF-4 again right before it took out a neighborhood between Miller and Meadowlane Roads, adjacent to the airport. Then the tornado destroyed the southwestern most structures of the airport immediately east of the area between Miller and Meadowlane Roads (the hangars and the planes therein were obliterated, and the maintenance facility was purportedly damaged, but not substantially). I don't know whether the thermoplastic contamination was introduced at this airport, because it is unknown how it happened. This is somewhat bewildering and the second time something signifcant like this has happened, because a few years ago when I was especially worried about the Taylor Swift concert in Arlington, TX (near Dallas) being attacked on the anniversary of the Geneal Lyon troopship disaster, a weak tornado struck at about the time I figured Taylor Swift was walking onto the stage, killing someone at a death metal (to my ear the most obnoxious of what is often considered by some people music) concert in Belvidere, Illinois. Recall that May 16 was the date of the attempted school shooting in Dixon, Illinois, and was the date that RFK Jr's second wife (mother of Connor Kennedy, whom Taylor Swift has dated) was found hanged in what the authorities consider a suicide. The Truesdell truss bridge that collapsed in Dixon was built from ironwork probably manufactured in Belvidere. May 16 is also the date of the Mill River Dam flood. In 1974, Evelyn Hope Thomas Shrewsbury was murdered on its hundreth anniversary in Flat Top, WV, where future President Hayes would be jolted somewhat by lightning when he served in the Union army during the Civil War. On it's anniversary in 1982, Brenda J. LaCombe would be last seen alive after visiting her grandmother at a facility in Lowell, MA, named after the gatehouse designed by the lead author of the official engineering reports concerning the Mill River and Johnstown dam disasters. Recall, I got concerned about Taylor Swift after the Palmer chocolate factory explosion in her hometown, and saw evidence that aligner weirdos might be connecting that with Molly Bish's remains being found in Palmer, Massachusetts. Recall that Bish vanished in Warren, MA, where Lucius Truesdell thought up the (poorly designed) Truesdell truss. And Holly Pirainen was abducted from the corner of Allen and South Shore, and the South Shore possibly refers not only to the South Shore wreck in Gary that happened a few months earlier on MLK day, but also quite possibly to the wreck on that line in South Bend on April 21, 1967, the same day as the Belvidere, Illinois, tornado, which James Earl Ray may have decided to be some sort of miraculous alignment that would bode well for him to escape two days later. January 27, 1978, Manon Dube was snatched from near her home in Shebrooke, QC, Canada, not long after she was sledding at the intersection of Rue de l'Union and Rue Belvédère. Near its southern end, Rue Belvédère becomes Chemin MacDonald, as in Mount MacDonald. Recall that the Rogers Pass avalanche came from its shoulder (and the shoulder of Mount Avalanche), and that the Connaught Tunnel was built beneath it. Anyway, it was really weird for the tornado to hit the theatre in Belvidere at the exact time more or less that Taylor Swift stepped onto the stage while I was concerned she or others at the concert might get killed over malarkey significantly involving coincidences concerning Belvidere, Illinois. One possibility is that nature plays a role in reducing the strengths of tornadoes or of steering tornados at least slightly away from where they otherwise would go, unless of course nature doesn't want to. Compared to humans, bird brains may not be especially good at understanding most science or the morality of humans, but being flying creatures and all (that goes with that), they may get aeronautics and atmospheric phenomena pretty well, at least intuitively or however it is that birds think, and being cloacal animals, at least the more crow-like ones may have a heightened sense of evil occult nonsense, probably why crows (and ravens) somehow seem fitting around graveyards, as graveyard guards or whatever (there's always a sort of trade-off between finding connections (as in the bizarre connections of aligner weirdos affected by evil occult nonsense) and being wisely discriminating, and cloacal animals have less need for being wisely discriminating, since they don't have to worry about discriminating between sex and sodomy. Passenger pigeons, having been the most plentiful bird in the midwest, the most tornado-prone place in the US and even in the world, probably, I figure were likely the best at preventing tornadoes if indeed there are such powers in birds, especially because they were known for flying in massive formations presumably more capable of producing significant atmospherical effects. But they are all gone, unfortunately. Anyway, if my hypothesis that tornado placement may be somehow controlled by some birds, it might be well to look closely for connections of London, Kentucky, with plane disasters that occur for occult reasons, but it would be a mistake to take the signs too seriously, the signs in this case having been controlled by bird-brains after all, who wouldn't be expected to be especially refined at understanding human motivations and affairs or to have absolute carefully discriminating control over tornado placement. Tornadoes are notoriously indiscriminate in their killings, as I'm sure birds would take into consideration if they may alter tornadoes somewhat. If it should be taken as a sign, it should taken more as a sign that birds thought that there might be some extreme evil somehow related to the general area of the tornado as opposed to a sign that there might be some evil right exactly at the tornado. Doubtless many good people were sadly killed by the tornado, a tragedy which I can well imagine birds, if involved, regret to have done to the many innocent people killed, even if they felt they had no good choice, e.g., because of some proximal evil. Anyway, it's not being an aligner weirdo or a superstitious person to think the tornado might should be taken as a sign from forces of nature as a whole that there may be some sort of evil somewhere near London, or of something else, which accordingly should be investigated by me and perhaps by the law enforcement authorities in consultation with the NTSB, etc. Where did the thermoplastic contamination arise, and how?

How much the imperfection of accurately discriminating ideas one from another lies, either in the dulness or faults of the organs of sense; or want of acuteness, exercise, or attention in the understanding; or hastiness and precipitancy, natural to some tempers, I will not here examine: it suffices to take notice, that this is one of the operations that the mind may reflect on and observe in itself. It is of that consequence to its other knowledge, that so far as this faculty is in itself dull, or not rightly made use of, for the distinguishing one thing from another,—so far our notions are confused, and our reason and judgment disturbed or misled. If in having our ideas in the memory ready at hand consists quickness of parts; in this, of having them unconfused, and being able nicely to distinguish one thing from another, where there is but the least difference, consists, in a great measure, the exactness of judgment, and clearness of reason, which is to be observed in one man above another. And hence perhaps may be given some reason of that common observation,—that men who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion; wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit, which strikes so lively on the fancy, and therefore is so acceptable to all people, because its beauty appears at first sight, and there is required no labor of thought to examine what truth or reason there is in it. The mind, without looking any further, rests satisfied with the agreeableness of the picture and the gaiety of the fancy. And it is a kind of affront to go about to examine it, by the severe rules of truth and good reason; whereby it appears that it consists in something that is not perfectly conformable to them.

—Paragraph 2, Chapter XII, Book II, Volume I, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke, 1689.

It's worth mentioning that the original Piedmont Airlines was the only commercial carrier to ever serve London-Corbin airport, and they discontinued the service in 1980. London is in the middle of a sparsely inhabited area, about halfway between Lexington and Knoxville off I-75. You have to go north on I-75 about 50 miles to get to the nearest town or city with more than 20,000 people in it, namely Richmond, Kentucky, where the occupants of the 1972 Elkton, Kentucky, plane crash were from (the plane took off from Lexington, as in the sidewheel paddle steamer that caught fire in Long Island Sound off Eaton's Neck on 13 January 1840).

I just noticed that there has been another plane crash (a Stinson 108 Voyager manufactured in 1948) near Winston-Salem lately, this time in Davie County at Sugar Valley Airport, six miles northeast of Mocksville, a little before noon on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. The pilot and a young passenger were killed, while the third and only other person on board suffered minor injuries. I suppose Sugar Valley refers to the valley formed by Sugar Creek, which is nearby. As the crow flies, the airport is about two miles west of where Officer Renigar was murdered near the intersection of Redland Road with US 158. Upstream, Sugar Creek ends at its source only about 1,000 feet due west of where Deputy Wayne Gaither was murdered on Redland Road. Very little additional information is available to the public (like me) at this point, before the preliminary NTSB report comes out, which is expected to be about one month after the accident.

I know there have been three other notable small plane crashes (two in san diego, one in tennessee, that I know of) worth looking into, but there's no point worth holding up so long what I have written or hurrying up with the other plane crashes (I don't do hurry, at least not well). May 22 and June 8 are all important dates to the aligners. Similarly, there's the riot in Paramount, California (as in what the southern end of the old Redland Road in Derwood, Maryland, is now called). I really encourage you my readers to look at some of the various videos of the Kentucky tornado to see that good people are hurt by these sorts of events, and to help you explore your own feelings about the matter.