Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles Page #7

nurse it and this and that.

Like, he does do

stuff like that.

He's very timid.

Like, he has to know you,

I guess, to talk to you.

But other than that,

he keeps to himself.

He rides his bike

and then he comes back.

He was, in his house

that he lived in,

he's, like, made himself

a prisoner in the house

because he had a confrontation

with one of the neighbors

that was renting off

of the next-door property.

See, he's like a late-

like a night owl.

And he plays the organ

and then he plays the thing...

- The accordion.

- The accordion.

And he plays that, like,

And so the neighbor that

lived next door to him

was drunks and they broke

into the back of his house,

and while he was sleeping

on the couch,

they put a knife

to his throat.

One time he had

the music so, so loud.

He says, "Well, we hear your

piano all the time."

So he said--

so he threatened him.

And that's why he barricaded

the windows.

And now, recently this year,

he just took off

all the boards.

But he still locks his

door up with the big lead pipe

with the lock 'cause he's

still a little timid.

These guys

break into his house

and hold a knife to his throat.

I think that would

make anybody paranoid.

It's interesting because it ties

into a message

that was actually

found on a tile.

People trying to kill him

and he boards up his house

with blast doors.

This is another

version of the story.

Do you think if you

knocked on his door and said,

"Hey, it's Frannie,"

do you think he would come,

just for you?

Well, we can knock,

we'll try.

Sevy?

I see somebody

there, like...

Yeah.

He was home.

And, um, he just wasn't

answering the door.

We start to

realize here's somebody

that's really sensitive to any

kind of outside pressure.

And it's doing

something bad to him.

No.

I don't think we'll

ever talk to Sevy.

It's a mystery.

It's a public mystery,

it's been put out in the public

for 25 years asking

to be solved.

But once you solve it,

you realize that the person

really doesn't

want you to solve it.

He doesn't want it

to be a mystery.

He doesn't want

that kind of attention.

And what do you do with that

information, then?

At that point...

we had kind of hit a dead end.

I've been looking for this

needle-in-the-haystack name

or whatever for years and years

and years and years.

You know, it's, like,

how do you connect

with this person, you know?

I always had doubts that that

would ever happen.

A mysterious phenomenon

that has been unfolding,

as far as we know,

well over a decade.

I guess putting it out

there in shortwave radio land,

we'll get it out there

and maybe somebody

who has experienced

this phenomenon

can get back to you all.

Ulis Fleming

has this amazing story.

When he was a kid,

he was driving from

Baltimore to Philadelphia

and he was listening to

shortwave

and he picked up

the Toynbee Idea message

shortwave transmission.

And at some point in

the transmission,

the person read out

a PO Box address

that he could write to.

And so he wrote to

the address and said,

"Yes, I'd like some of your

information."

It was the press packet

for the Minority Association.

Ulis still had

all of the material.

Still had all of the papers.

We all got together

to have a meeting

while we received

the e-mails in real time.

So, as Ulis was scanning in

the sheets of paper

and sending them to us,

we were actually receiving them

as they were coming in to us.

And we're all

watching them unfold

out of the ether world.

And we finally get to see

the type-written messages

and all the details of

everything and who knows what.

I couldn't even imagine what

would be in the material.

All these details were running

through my mind like wildfire.

The information

that he had

was a personal letter signed

from James Morasco.

As well as some other documents

on the Minority Association.

The fact that we knew

that it was an original letter

from James Morasco

was incredible.

You know, who-- we had

pretty much given up on

the name James Morasco

at this point

and now here it was being

tied back in to the mystery.

The question then was,

why James Morasco--

how did he

fit in to all this?

James Morasco

was the publicity director

for the Minority Association.

The name Julius Piroli

never came up.

The author of the documents

refers to himself repeatedly

as James Morasco except

for one time

when he refers to

himself as Severino Verna.

"He sounded blue collar,

proud of his education,

certain of his information."

Sevy is very intelligent.

Yeah, yeah, he seems

like it.

Very, very intelligent man.

"But not confident of

his presentation to me,

"or rather,

to the 'inquirer.'

He had a soft bass voice."

Sevy is very quiet.

Very quiet person.

I don't think there ever

was a James Morasco in Fishtown.

I think Clark DeLeon remembered

incorrectly.

The descriptions of

James Morasco via Clark DeLeon

all matched with

the descriptions of Sevy

that we had gotten from

Sevy's neighbors.

They could have very easily

been describing the same person.

James Morasco is sharing

the same PO Box.

He's got the same handwriting.

He's using

the same typewriter.

He's got the same phone number.

Everything really suggests that

James Morasco never existed.

There was only

ever one person

and that person was Sevy.

The fact that he would create

a pseudonym

to unleash his idea

on to the world made sense.

It's very difficult to do that

if you're not an outgoing,

charismatic person

who's willing to deal with

the public and everything.

And so I feel like he wanted

there to be somebody like that,

so he just made up a character

to do that.

In the writing of

Arnold Toynbee he felt that

there was a promise that

physical resurrection

could be achieved

through scientific means.

Toynbee never uses the

exact phrase "dead molecules,"

but he comes real close to it.

If you look at it

from his point of view

it seemed as if Arnold Toynbee

was giving

specific instructions

about how, if you were to take

every molecule that made up a

person while they were alive

and you were to

reassemble those molecules

exactly as they were when that

person was alive,

that they would

then be alive again

just as they had been

at that point.

The tiler tied Toynbee's

idea of physical resurrection

being a scientific process

in with the movie "2001,"

where humanity achieved

its next stage of evolution

on the Jupiter mission.

In the end of that

movie,

there's this section where the

astronaut sees himself dying.

But then he could be

coming back to life.

He had

some trouble with death.

I think he felt that people die,

and they're gone.

Yeah, heaven,

now at this stage

of evolution, does not exist.

I think that the basic

the promise that God

has made for there to be

some type of afterlife is true-

it will be true-

but it will only become

true when humans use science

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