For decades now, the so called Toynbee Tiles have puzzled and intrigued people from all over the world. Their cryptic messages and unknown origin make them one of my personal favorite unsolved mysteries. 🧵
They read:
TOYNBEE IDEA
IN MOVIE 2001
RESURRECT DEAD
ON PLANET JUPITER
Many of them also feature smaller subtext that varies from tile to tile, though the original message remains the same.
The tiles are said to be made of layers of linoleum with asphalt crack filling compound.
One particular tile, called the Manifesto Tile, was found at 16th and Chestnut in Philadelphia. It didn't contain the Toynbee message, but was similar in all other aspects. It was paved over in 1998.
At 11:42am on the morning of June 2, 1976, investigative reporter Don Bolles climbed into his white Datsun for the last time. As he was backing out of his parking spot at the Clarendon Hotel in Phoenix Arizona, a bomb that had been planted under his car exploded. 🧵
As he lay dying next to his car, Lonnie Reed, a local refrigeration tech working nearby, was the first on the scene. Reed used his belt as a tourniquet on one of his shattered legs. Bolles' last words to Reed were "Adamson. Emprise. The Mafia. They finally got me."
Bolles was taken to nearby St Joseph's Hospital. Over the course of the next week and a half, he would have two legs and one arm amputated. He was unconscious for a majority of his time there. Bolles died on June 13, 1976 due to infections from the bomb shrapnel.
On March 22, 1977, Charles Morgan disappeared after dropping his daughters off at school. Three days later, he showed up at his house with plastic handcuffs on his wrists and ankle, unable to speak, and handed his wife, Ruth, a note claiming he had been abducted and tortured.🧵
In addition to being tortured, Morgan also claimed that a hallucinogenic drug had been "painted" on his throat, and that he would go insane or die if he ingested it. Ruth fed him with an eye dropper for days until he could speak again.
Charles claimed to have worked as an agent for the federal government, fighting against organized crime. He warned Ruth not to call the police, as "they" would put a hit out on him and his family. He didn't elaborate on who "they" were.
Would you be surprised to learn that this commercial aired at 8:14am the morning of 9/11, showing a paper airplane flying around a city and past skyscrapers? When it lands, it's opened up to reveal the words "I'm on my way". What is this an ad for and why does it matter? A 🧵
This ad, put out by Keybank, aired at 8:14am on the morning of 9/11. 8:14am is also the exact moment the first plane, American Airlines 11, was hijacked AND the exact moment the second plane, United Airlines 175 took off. Below are a few shots, including "I'm on my way."
This commercial can be found on the internet archive here. Scroll down to the CNN table and you can clearly see it labeled as being aired at 8:14AM
Lucky we get a marketable rallying cry from a cellphone call that couldn't have been made before the plane disintegrated, as they do, flown at speeds that even top pilots won't go, by ill trained men who can't fly a Cessna and weren't caught on any of the airport security tapes.