Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles Page #5

So we start going through

the back-

the back catalog

of all these e-mails.

Most of it is just this endless

array of people

who believe that

they've figured out

the Toynbee tile message

or they know

what it's really all about.

And it's anything you can

think of.

People have conspiracy theories

about the Toynbee tiles.

And people who believe that

they've solved the mystery.

There were multiple

who mentioned seeing the tiles

in the early '80s.

We're not the first

people

to try and solve this mystery.

Yeah, it's definitely

been investigated

in depth by other people.

We learned from

the Toynbee.net e-mails,

there's two other groups of

people who had resolved

to make documentary

films about it, even.

Everybody

who researches this

seems to just hit

a brick wall.

And this has been going on

for decades, yes.

A detective tried and failed.

Two documentary teams

tried and failed.

Countless other

people tried and failed

to solve this mystery.

It seemed to me like

we weren't special.

You know, we had, you know,

no training in being detectives.

We're not gonna make

this discovery.

You know, we're wasting our time.

We're barking up

the wrong tree, it's--

You know, it's a quagmire.

H, like, who is--

it's a person.

Like, it is

someone... somewhere.

There are so many ghosts

and phantoms

and shadows to chase.

But the tiles

are a physical thing.

They exist in physical reality.

We're not dealing with

the supernatural.

The tiles are being cut

out with some kind of blade.

A hand is holding

the blade.

It's totally real.

It's physical,

it's tangible.

It's not a shadow.

It's not a phantom,

it's not a ghost.

Somewhere

there's a human being

who's behind all of this.

One interesting thing that came

out of the Toynbee.net e-mails

was an e-mail that came

from a guy named Joe Raimondo.

He said that in 1985,

this really strange broadcast

came over his TV.

Look, I got a real story here

'cause I heard this.

I was watching

"Eyewitness News"

at 11:
00 on Channel 3.

I was by myself, kind of

in the dark, just chillin' out.

All of a sudden,

I heard this thing about

Toynbee's conception

of 2000-- of Clarke's

"2001" or whatever it was.

Like, the television newscaster

is talking

and, all of a sudden,

like, they kind of faded out

and then this voice comes in,

you know.

And then they

said it real fast

and then there's all this static

and then it went away.

Somebody hijacked the TV news

and they're beaming this

Toynbee Idea thing at me.

Like, it took me a minute to get

my head together, like,

"What's going on here?"

So I thought, I gotta find out

what's going on here.

So I called Channel 3.

I called-- like,

I called them up.

I'm like, "I'm watching

your news

and I just heard

this thing about Toynbee."

And the person who's

the operator is like,

"Um, yeah, well, you're not

the only one."

The voice of the Toynbee

tiler

is apparently coming through

his TV set.

This is just fascinating.

So... how is

this happening?

I mean, that's like some

"Twilight Zone" thing, you know?

I'm not crazy.

I definitely-

I definitely heard this.

This guy, Nathan Mehl

wrote into Toynbee.net

many, many years ago

with this story

of running into

this street prophet guy

in the Greyhound Bus Terminal

in Philadelphia.

And he's giving out

these pamphlets

or pieces of paper with

the Toynbee message on them.

Steve Weinik...

decided he was going to

track down this Nathan Mehl guy

because we were thinking,

well, maybe he's

got one of these pamphlets

or something, still.

Nathan Mehl

told us this story,

"Bill O'Neill misquoted me.

"There was no street prophet guy

or whatever.

"I didn't meet a guy on

a Greyhound bus or anything.

"What happened was, in those

days, in the early '80s,

"there were wheat-pasted

fliers all over the city...

"... with the Toynbee message

on them.

"And then a pirate

shortwave radio address,

so you could tune in."

Now, we knew something

we never knew before,

which was somebody involved

in the Minority Association

or in spreading the Toynbee

message

had involvement in

the shortwave radio community.

So I thought somebody in

the shortwave world

knows who these people

were or who this person is.

Well, we're here at

the shortwave radio convention

in order to track down people

who may remember

the shortwave radio

broadcasts from the 1980s.

Is this fictitious?

No, it's not fictitious.

- I mean, I don't know--

- Well, who--

I've never-- I don't know

what you're talking about.

And they were

propagating this message

of Arnold Toynbee's

ideas in the movie "2001"

to reconfigure dead molecules

on the planet Jupiter.

This is the thing,

you found it.

That's the gold mine.

We found a schedule of

events.

Most of the discussions were

just technical

radio things that

were way over our heads

but there was one thing that did

sound interesting.

So now what I'm gonna do

is conduct

this paranormal

experiment with you.

I'm going to think of

one of these cards

and then we're

going to find out

if my messages got out to you.

How many people think that

I thought about the star?

One, two, three, four.

How many people think I thought

about the square?

One, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine, ten,

How many people think I thought

about the wavy line?

One, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine, ten,

20, 21, 22,

So all of you thought,

in my fine thinking apparatus,

that I was thinking about

the wavy line.

That was

the majority of the people.

Well, I'll show you what

I was thinking about.

I was thinking-

see, there's nothing here.

That's the-- I was thinking of

the wavy line.

Maybe there's

something to this.

At the end of the lecture,

the guy who did it

opens up a little forum

for people to ask questions.

Question and answers, you know.

I apologize, it's kind

of off the subject,

but it's a mystery

that we're trying to solve.

Somebody's been creating

sort of like an art piece

or whatever that's--

somehow, Arnold Toynbee's ideas

in the movie "2001" would--

people would be able to raise

the dead on the planet Jupiter.

They were doing

shortwave radio broadcasts

in the early '80s.

What we were

basically trying to do here

is see if anybody remembered

those shortwave broadcasts

talking about this stuff.

And I figured this

would be as good of a place--

You've got an

old-fart audience here,

so they ought to...

Anybody remember

any of that stuff?

Big zip here.

Sorry.

Right after everybody

says nobody knows anything

and the guy says, "Okay, well,

we're gonna move on then,"

somebody

sitting in front of me

turns around their little

metal folding chair a little bit

and whispers to me,

"Hey, listen, I know

some guys that probably

"know about what you're

talking about.

"It's some of the pirate guys.

You know, just catch up with me

after it's over, all right?"

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