This is Not a Game: The Mysterious Death of Theresa Duncan
(Graphic removed at objection of the author of the book which was featured. )
Theresa Duncan, artist, writer, perfume critic and video game pioneer is dead. The police aren’t making it official yet, but the papers are calling it suicide. Her longtime partner and collaborator, Jeremy Blake, is alleged to have stripped off his clothes and taken a one-way swim into the ocean. A body was recently discovered that fits his description.
(I first learned about all of this via Jeff Wells’ Rigorous Intuition blog and I have included links to all his posts on the subject at the bottom of this post.)These people were real. But almost everything else about this case seems false. When I initially went to Duncan’s website, my first thought was that the whole thing seemed very much like one of those alternate reality games or “ARGs” which you often encounter on the internet. These are stories which are not written out in one central narrative but consist of an introductory website and a series of clues. It is up to the readers to piece together the larger story. The more immersive ones will bring in other media…players might receive emails or phone calls, or be given phone numbers to call which actually work. Real websites not affiliated with the game might be referenced…videos produced…fake photographs created.
Duncan’s site looks very much like a “rabbit hole”, the term for the entry way into an ARG. Here’s another ARG term: puppet master. That’s the person or group running the game. What follows is what is likely to be a long series of investigative pieces into who the puppet masters are in this case. It will bring together some of the themes we’ve already introduced on this site.
In this first few posts, I’d like to explain a little about why I think there is some sort of structure behind Duncan’s website and numerous websites which connect to it which is designed to lead the reader onto some kind of trail. If you aren’t familiar with ARGs, and I was not that familiar with them until just recently as I researched them in another context, this will seem a bit nonlinear at first. What I have to offer is not proof, but simply an analysis that is highly suggestive that something “ARG-like”, for lack of a better term, is going on here. But I am feeling more and more certain that I am correct about this. In fact, already some ARG-like clues have been put forward in other places. Links to websites containing nothing but mysterious pictures, seemingly pointless lists, and cryptic text. These don’t prove anything, of course. But they are exactly the sort of thing you’d expect to find in an ARG. The difference here is that the “characters” are very real and two of them, apparently, are dead.
We will also see that the dead lovers have connections in various ways to the very community of people who create ARGs in the first place: internet innovators, “new media” theorists, occultists, chaos worshipping Discordians, and perhaps even a few intelligence agents along the way. This is the culture Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake already were a part of.
The research that is already underway is far too unwieldy to contain on this blog, so I’m not exactly sure how to proceed. I don’t want to be disrespectful to the dead couple and I cannot at this time figure out how to reconcile the ARG nature of this material with the very real deaths of these two artists. There are others researching this material with whom I am working though they prefer to stay anonymous.
What I am going to do with these first posts is give a brief summary of some of the factors that have led me to conclude that this ARG really exists, for whatever purpose. But let me give you a little more background on ARGs, particularly one ARG, so that you can see what I’m talking about a little more clearly.
One of the more famous ARGs that was never completely owned up to as an ARG was called “Ong’s Hat.” It centered around rumors of certain documents about a device that allowed people to go back in time. It sounds silly, I guess, but it roped a lot of people in. Here is one summary of the structure of an ARG written by a veteran of Ong’s Hat
- Create a interactive medium that immerses the public in an addictive, tantalizing story but keep the content restricted to certain personality types. Reveal concepts and ideas that generally represent your beliefs.
- Along the way, feed this portion of the public information which may or may not be true about the story. (Filtration of the idiots)
- Those that breach the truths and untruths may pass to the next level of information. Introduce more directed and personal information. Once again reveal accurate and inaccurate information. (Further idiot filtration)
- As this select group narrows, inject information that more specifically reveals their personal belief systems, ideals, goals.
- If the users ideals, beliefs and goals have been properly modified by the process or the user already fits the mold, those persons are then accepted into the “fold”.
Notice, if you will, how those same words might be used to describe a sophisticated disinformation campaign. Indeed, with Ong’s Hat, there were many who thought the whole thing was real. Probably still some who do. And this sort of trickery has been going on since way before the internet began. Two non-web-based ARGs which come to mind are the alleged communications from aliens from the planet UMMO which eventually ran to thousands of documents, and all of the material around the Priory of Sion that ultimately found its way into a blockbuster book and movie. It doesn’t even matter that BOTH of these have not only been proven to be primarily based on hoaxes, and that the hoaxers themselves have admitted as such; people still believe. I’ll bet if you think really hard, you can come up with some other examples. I know I can.
Unfortunately, one of those examples turns out to be the whole area of MKULTRA and mind control. Not that MKULTRA didn’t exist…but at least one ARG drew heavily on the MKULTRA material and, I would argue, did much to obscure whatever truth lies in those dark and murky waters. The ARG was called “El Centro.” And here (this is a pdf link) is what the creator himself, Joseph Matheyny, said about it:
One (goal of El Centro) was to set up a multi-leveled puzzle scenario that
would serve as a ‘survival of fittest’ course so that we could
find candidates that had the unique qualities that we desired
in a PM.
I’d like to suggest there was another goal. And that was to fuck with people’s minds. Here’s an excerpt from the El Centro material:
Him: “Ok. Ever heard of Mind Control Programming?”
Me: “MKULTRA, Monarch, etc.?”
Him:”To name but a few, but yes, exactly. Ever wonder how many of those Mind Controlled morons there are running amuck out there?”
Me: “Not exactly..”
Him: “I’ll tell you how many. A lot. A whole fucking lot. That’s how many. A bloody majority.”
Me: “How does that tie in..?”
Him: “I’ll tell you how but you won’t want to hear it. There are varying layers of programming. I’ve managed to hack a few of those over the last several years. Of specific interest to me was the OMEGA layer. This is the failsafe layer, the self-destruct button if you will. Recently I’ve learned how to trigger it.”
Me: “I see…”
Him: “Do you? I’ve grown tired of trying to figure out a way to deprogram large groups of people. There’s too many of them out there and more are created every day. It’s like being in a ground war with the Republic of China. You deprogram one and they throw 20 or 30 more at you. They wear you down through attrition. So I’ve come up with a more elegant solution. I’ve discovered a method to trigger the OMEGA response en masse. They’ll off themselves. Every single agent, sleeper or active, that comes into contact with El Centro will have their OMEGA response triggered. Oh sure, we’ll see a period of mass extinction that will be unprecedented, but..”
El Centro is off line but is archived here. However, I don’t know how long those archives last.
And this brings us back to Theresa Duncan and her blog, for as you’ll easily see if you look around, aside from perfume reviews and Kate Moss updates, she began to write about various Mind Control/MKULTRA/Project Monarch topics AND she also claimed she was being stalked by forces related to those. And then, I suppose we are to infer, her “OMEGA” programming kicked in. As we’ll see, her life in intersects in a variety of ways with guys like Matheny who are behind some of the more well known ARGs. I’m not saying that some evil ARG writers killed Duncan, only that something ARG-like has been constructed around her. Whether she was witting to that, or was being somehow led to do it, I don’t know.
I’m going to end this section here. Take the time, if this story interests you, to get the background at RI. And then have a look at the comments. Some of the commenters are part of the game and have begun to leave a little trail of clues. But be careful, as I have no idea where all this is leading so I’m not even going to point out just yet which comments I believe are deliberately planted. You’ll have to come to your own conclusions about that but I’d suggest looking for the links lead….because some of them lead to some pretty weird shit.
And I want to reiterate…I am the one who is “outing” the ARG nature of this game but I have nothing to do with it. In fact, I think the people behind it, especially given the two deaths that are somehow related, are malicious in intent, whatever that intent actually is. But my goal is very simple. I would like to expose these motherfuckers. I hope you’ll join me.
Links to the background from Rigorous Intuition:
http://rigint.blogspot.com/2007/07/after-ambulances-go.html
http://rigint.blogspot.com/2007/07/imitation-of-life.html
http://rigint.blogspot.com/2007/07/thursday-july-26.html
Next up…hopefully later today, I will outline some of the telltale signs that Theresa’s Blog was being used as an ARG “rabbit hole”. I’d ask those of you who are wondering if I’m making a huge leap here to bear with me. The case becomes very convincing, though it will be particularly convincing if you familiarize yourself with the nature, structure and some of the major “authors” of recent ARGS. But it’s going to take a little time to develop this idea. Please don’t call the paddy wagon on me just yet.
Oh, one other warning. Once this article gets “on the radar” we will have new people leaving comments here. PLEASE remember that you don’t know anything about who other commenters are. Already I’ve had some games played in my comments section (not related to this post…but similar kinds of folks). So be careful. I don’t want anyone to be paranoid, but the folks who do this stuff are really good at building trust and manipulating.
Banta said,
July 26, 2007 at 7:03 pm
This sounds fun, DE. Deadly fun!
I’m going to go and read the background information now. Can’t wait until the new folk get here. I’m always looking for a sexy new operative to chuckle at. Also helps my spook recognition, which is a handy skill to have.
As an aside, I sometimes hope that DE himself is an operative, because he’d be the best one in the world. Yeah, I’m weird.
wombaticus said,
July 26, 2007 at 7:04 pm
I’m glad you’re on the case, captain.
dreamsend said,
July 26, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Banta, don’t misunderstand me. I don’t want to play their games. I want to shut them down. We will research clues as provided…and if you want to start on that path and have time to kill, sort through the RI blog comments and look for new posters…but I am more interested in who these people are and putting them out of business, or at least doing my part to help in that direction.
Banta said,
July 26, 2007 at 8:08 pm
No misunderstanding here, DE. I got what you were saying and I’m completely with you.
Professor Pan said,
July 26, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Just to play the old debbil’s advocate here, DE, but I think people are reading too much into this sad set of circumstances. I’m interested in hearing what you have to say, but nothing I have seen yet has convinced me this isn’t a suicide of someone who just happened to swim in the parapolitical waters and wrote about MKULTRA.
I’m listening.
dreamsend said,
July 26, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Yeah Pan…keep reading. It’s not a concise case to make, especially for those not familiar with ARGS. I hope you’ll follow the story…yours is a good set of skeptical eyes to keep on it but I’ve yet to present any details about the ARG aspects.
erno said,
July 26, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Well color me skeptical. You’re not falling into an ARG of your own making are you? It even sounds like you’re trying to pull us into one. Titillating us with promises of explosive revelations. Warning about shady commenters who might try to play games with us. Sending us to trawl through a blog looking for suspect comments. And of course, you’re on our side against THEM. I don’t actually believe you’re creating an ARG, but remember what you were saying about Colin Ross and his code? About how placing a secret code into a book about mind control seems irresponsible? I didn’t quite get what your problem was with Ross but maybe I do now. You’re making this too much like a game for my taste. Or maybe I just feel like complaining about something. That’s probably it, carry on.
Banta said,
July 26, 2007 at 9:08 pm
When you get down to it, what isn’t a game, or rather, could not also be perceived as such?
I’m just gonna wait for DE’s next post. Although, I did take a good glance at the posts at RI and found some interesting comments. But I’ll withhold commenting further for the moment, at risk of stealing DE’s thunder.
dreamsend said,
July 26, 2007 at 9:14 pm
“Well color me skeptical.”
Stay that way. I have not promised any “explosive” revelations…what I have promised is to paint a picture that is strongly suggestive that this is going on.
Fat Lady Singing said,
July 26, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Hi Dream’s End, other RI folk: Haven’t visited your blog until today except for just briefly now and again. I will be coming back more often. I’m completely with you here. I saw it right away. And… look into that horrible cannibalistic murder suicide in New Orleans, Zachery Bowen and Addie Hall. I don’t know why, but I *immediately* thought of it when I read Jeff’s first blog post on the subject. Here’s from a Times-Picayune article on the murder/suicide (Oct. 20, 2006):
She came from the comparatively bland environs of Durham, N.C., and like many who gravitate to New Orleans’ bohemian epicenter, the Quarter fueled her artistic streak — writing, ballroom dancing and decorating her apartment with random found objects, friends and acquaintances recalled Thursday.
“She was a little stick of dynamite,” said Ali Narvaez, who tended bar with Hall at the Stage Door on Chartres Street.
But Adriane Hall also had her emotional burdens, which she told close friends stemmed from childhood sexual abuse, three of those friends said.
“She was definitely a girl with a lot of personal demons, but she had flashes of a very magnetic personality,” said Frank Lin, who dated Hall for a few weeks in 2002 in Durham before she moved to New Orleans. “There were times when you would think, ‘This is the greatest person in the world.’ ”
People who got to know Hall, 30, after she arrived in New Orleans echoed that assessment. She would eagerly spend all night in charged conversations on esoteric topics like art and religion. Hall’s passion for her adopted city would be matched only by her love for Zackery Bowen, the man she met and offered shelter to the night Hurricane Katrina hit. Yet despite their attraction to one another, the couple seldom went long without struggling through a rough patch, their acquaintances said.
Doodad said,
July 26, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Came here from the RI link. Interesting stuff, plus I saw your post about a certain RI poster at Prosemite Undercover where I ended up after looking for something, can’t remember what, from Dkos where I post as Doodad as well.
I was looking at the comments at the site someone listed and got a rather eerie feeling when a bunch of Anon’s started painting her as a “troubled,” person.
So, though I know nothing about these ARG things, I look forward to your posts. Mind playing jerks deserve to be shut down.
Blowhard said,
July 26, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Ty,
Can’t wait to read your latest. I just read about the case for the very first time in this morning’s edition of the LA Times and thought to myself “there has got to be a much better story here than the Times is telling and I wish I had the time to dig around and find it.” And then, just hours later, I check your site and see that my work has already been done for me. Very cool.
D
dreamsend said,
July 27, 2007 at 12:59 am
I’m having a helluva time getting the next post. It sounds like associational paranoid rantings. I’m taking a break…and hope to be back to it soon…if not tonight then sometime tomorrow.
I just realized I’ve gone about writing the next post all wrong. I will have to start fresh.
Nice to see ya round, Blowhard.
wonderer in the wilderness said,
July 27, 2007 at 2:14 am
Interesting that there are all these ARG Through the Rabbit Hole references, considering that Blake’s old girlfriend Anna uses Alice In Wonderland so much in her photographic artistry. Also interesting that Duncan claims her boyfriend describes old-girlfriend Anna as stupid and smug (?) and with nothing to be smug about, considering Anna Gaskell appears to be quite a rising star in the art world with an international reputation.
slomo said,
July 27, 2007 at 2:19 am
“…But I am invented too for your entertainment and amusement! And you poor creatures, who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?”
– Frayn in Zardoz
Fat Lady Singing said,
July 27, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Hi again: I wrote about this seeming ARG on RI in the movie marketing thread. Now, here’s a Washington Post article on it, and ARGs, that you may want to check out.
http://tinyurl.com/2k6u66
From the article:
Alternate-reality games, for those unfamiliar with the genre, are perhaps best illustrated with an actual example: Imagine you find a Web site. The owner says it’s been hacked and she asks the online world for help. People search the site and find corrupted data files, and a countdown to the year 2552. The site is like many small sites that run into tech problems and need help.
Except the site is fake. The woman is fake. Stay with us here: Her entire world is a fictional creation, a web of fake sites and fake blogs, with more and more mysteries slowly unraveling, as online participants decrypt codes in the corrupted data files. As it happens, 2552 is the year that an alien horde invades Earth in the Xbox video game series Halo. Indeed, the entire fictional world was part of an alternate-reality game called I Love Bees — promoting the 2004 launch of Halo 2 and deepening the mythology of the Halo world — created by a firm, 42 Entertainment, devoted exclusively to the creation of “immersive entertainment.”
WoodyWoodman said,
July 27, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Do you all ever wonder if this ARG is an information gathering exercise to watch how folks go about gathering and breaking down information? A field test of Conspiracy Researcher Diversion System v2.0 If I were a dissinfo/psyops type dude (and I am, so I have it on good authority) I’d encourage guys like Blowhard and DE and Jeff, to do their thing without any resistance. Hell I’d probably throw them a bone from time to time just so I could more likely plant some straw men and miss leading info. If I was really concerned I might not try and have them ‘rubbed out’ or ’suicided’ I’d just keep dropping puzzles with no real solution for them to sort out, and their dedicated readers to enjoy. Not that this isn’t a concept suggested already by DE (in one fashion or another). It’s just that I immediately thought that elements of this story seemed like conspiracy researcher chaff deployed to divert a secret seaking missle.
At any rate, (and with no disrespect to Theresa or Jeremy) this is way more interesting than Lost. Where have all the good TV writers gone?
dreamsend said,
July 27, 2007 at 5:27 pm
If you look at ONG’s hat and El Centro there were several things that happened and, whether any official agenda or no…sure would be handy.
First, important themes such as MKULTRA got picked up and distorted and likely incorporated into internet lore and, sadly, into the self understanding of some unstable folks.
Secondly, as Matheny admitted with El Centro, the idea is a sort of “initiatory process” to bring in more “puzzle masters.”
Finally, these things can get cultish…UMMO became a sort of cult.
In addition, WW’s idea seems likely and I’ve also always speculated that sometimes it’s about tracking how quickly and by what avenues information spreads on the internet. That would explain the wilder theories as you have to have something unique to be sure subsequent retellings are definitely related to your initial “injection of the meme” so to speak.
In any event, we’ve had one person already in these comments playing a little bit of a game. Kinda surprised no one spotted it. I emailed the guy but likely it was a one-off. People like to log into stuff like this and claim insider knowledge without ever revealing anything helpful. I will investigate leads as well as I can but if that seems to be all it is I’ll try to chase them off.
The post was “slomo” and if you want to see the kind of games that get played, you can figure out why I’m suggesting he is hinting at insider knowledge. Then again, he could just be a scifi geek.
Banta said,
July 27, 2007 at 5:53 pm
“At any rate, (and with no disrespect to Theresa or Jeremy) this is way more interesting than Lost.”
Just a crazy thought that I’ve had, I know that Lost has acknowledged ARG elements, but I sometimes wonder if there isn’t a deeper game being played with that show, having to do with the New Age ARG that seems to be floating around.
Tom Mule said,
July 27, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Hey, where’s the rest?
This is rather open ended.
I don’t quite understand how a quote from Zardoz would make someone a servant of the big monkey master. I think “slomo” was just being ironic. And apt to the discussion.
I have to admit, it seems a little too soon to start speculating on their deaths, seeing as though there aren’t very many established facts, at the moment. Could be more harm than good. Have you interviewed anyone involved? Field research? Not being facetious. Just curious. I’ll give you the benefit of doubt and see where this is going. Looks interesting.
BTW, found you through the RI board.
Long time listener, first time caller.
slomo said,
July 27, 2007 at 8:20 pm
No, I’m just a scifi geek. Basically, I was hinting at what other commenters made explicit by suggesting that DE has some kind of meta-ARG set up. I actually don’t believe that, but what is more interesting (and hence the koan-like comment) is the idea that the internet itself is one big ARG. In retrospect I suppose that it reads like I’m gaming. Sorry to cause concern, it’s just the way I think.
But I think it bears repeating, explicitly this time: the internet itself is one big ARG designed to seduce you into its endless maze, much of which leads nowhere.
dreamsend said,
July 27, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Yeah…so slomo above has said he’s not part of anything. But it’s that kind of thing I’d expect. Basically, the full quote from which slomo excerpted is this:
“I am Arthur Frayn, and I am Zardoz. I have lived 300 years, and long to die. But death is no longer possible, I am immortal. I present now my story – full of mystery and intrigue. Rich in irony, and most satirical. It is set deep within a possible future, so none of these events have yet occurred. But they may! Be warned, lest you end as I. In this tale I am a fake god by occupation, and a magician by inclination. Merlin is my hero! I am the puppet master. I manipulate many of the characters and events you will see. But I am invented too for your entertainment and amusement. And you, poor creatures, who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in showbusiness too?”
Let’s all make a commitment to post directly and say what we mean. If we have some line of enquiry..be explicit.
Now, I have another post up and, to Mr. Mule, give me a couple more posts to make the case. I’m going as fast as I can but I’m avoiding research trying to write this. The REASON I’m trying to get all this up quickly is to try to put it out there before gameplayers who have nothing to do with this might try to co-opt it.
I’m the only one that will look stupid if this all ends up going nowhere…but that’s okay. If there’s anything to it, I’d like this to be known. Even if there’s not, there’s a whole interesting world of ARGS, internet games and disinformation that I’ve been wanting to learn about…and many of the sorts of folks who pioneered that sort of thing are at least tangentially connected to Duncan.
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cadeveo said,
July 27, 2007 at 9:15 pm
I suspect you’re right, slomo. Internet is an ARG. But I wonder sometimes if there’s not a concerted effort to make The Spectacle that Guy Debord talked about more of a HyperSpectacle, both online and off. There’s the whole Second Life thing people are becoming immersed in, then there’s the ARGs that are more real-world…
Not sure where exactly I’m going with this, but it’s got me concerned.
provocative piece, DE.
peace.
Banta said,
July 27, 2007 at 9:22 pm
I once posted on this site I thought it would be interesting if the government was to offer the people a kickass virtual reality machine and all the food that one would need to survive and in exchange all they had to do was do whatever job the government gave them, how many would accept this deal?
Not that I’m saying that’s going to happen or even has a remote chance, but when I look at the pyschological game playing that already exists and then I go and watch a trailer like Beowolf’s (absolutely stunning, btw), it amuses me that one of my crazy thoughts that I had isn’t terribly implausible.
Going to go and read the next post now.
slomo said,
July 27, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Banta says “it would be interesting if the government was to offer the people a kickass virtual reality machine and all the food that one would need to survive and in exchange all they had to do was do whatever job the government gave them, how many would accept this deal?”
Isn’t this the basic idea of Cards’ Ender’s Game? A government-sponsored “game” that turns out to be a horrific reality. The problem is that we have already collectively accepted this “deal”. We participate in the economy (i.e. we do whatever the government and its corporate sponsors give us) and in return we are allowed to live in a fake world with fake goals and fake opportunities. My larger point: not only is the internet an ARG, the whole of 21st Century Western culture is as well.
This is larger and more abstract than the very specific problem DE is working on at the moment, and so somewhat beside the point. Except it’s not: the larger dimensions of the issues researched by DE, Jeff Wells, Kevin Flaherty, et al., involve our fundamental disconnect from anything real.
Banta said,
July 27, 2007 at 10:42 pm
I haven’t read Ender’s Game, but this wouldn’t be the first time I’ve “channeled” material from something that already exists.
As I said earlier, what really isn’t a game? The model of a ARG in the current context refers to specific patterns which fit the definition, but I mean, isn’t the whole 9/11 business a ARG too? Peak oil? New World Order?
So, yes, I agree that basically all of the internet is an ARG (or rather, multiple ARGs) and the culture, but by broadening the definition like that, you’re really just saying that mostly everything with a certain level of prominence is controlled. And this is certainly nothing new and definitely not limited to our current culture.
cdub said,
July 27, 2007 at 10:46 pm
“it seems a little too soon to start speculating on their deaths” (Tom Mule)
One (of many) things I find interesting about Duncan’s death is the numbers of comments and posts with people saying ‘obviously she was silenced’, or ’she was just unstable’, etc etc. The only thing that is obvious to me is that people are willing to jump to conclusions, given the lack of any evidence one way or another, and use things like this to reinforce whatever reality tunnel they already had.
DE has gone into more detail than I’ve seen elsewhere, with regard to themes and motifs – if this sheds any light on the reason for the suicide, more power to ya…
“the internet itself is one big ARG” (slomo)
Duncan called her blog “The Wit of the Staircase”, from a French phrase. While this would usually be transliterated as “wish I’d thought of that”, the quote in the header of her blog puts an even more fatalistic spin on it: “The answer you cannot make, the pattern you cannot complete till aterwards {sic} it suddenly comes to you when it is too late.”
Quickly, two quotes from Wikipedia’s entry on ARGs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_reality_game)
* “Storytelling as archaeology. Instead of presenting a chronologically unified, coherent narrative, the designers scattered pieces of the story across the Internet and other media, allowing players to reassemble it, supply connective tissue and determine what it meant.”
* “Real life as a medium. The game used players’ lives as a platform. (…) Participants were constantly on the lookout for clues embedded in everyday life.”
In those ways, “conspiracy theory” resembles “alternate reality gaming” – searching for patterns, a quest for meaning.
dreamsend said,
July 27, 2007 at 10:54 pm
My main interest in this is that I am interested in how the internet is being used for propaganda and disinformation. I don’t mean in the obvious ways, but in the ARG-like ways. Even if that’s a dead end for this particular case…this whole line of inquiry will be fruitful. Not for me, of course, ’cause I’ll be a laughingstock…but for others….heh.
Anyway, there is good info on the internet, though increasingly hard to find..it’s not ALL disinfo and ARGness.
I think that we should consider that Duncan was being fed this information about mind control stuff…and maybe she did simply end up ending her own life. But the folks putting out the disinfo on mind control, etc…THEY really can be studied like an ARG. It’s how they operate. I’m certain of this.
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Della Foix said,
August 2, 2007 at 4:30 am
She has a very interesting mom, sounds quite conscious.
This is not a game
Or are going to say this is fabricated as well?
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end of dreams « the seaword said,
August 5, 2007 at 10:06 am
[...] This is Not a Game: The Mysterious Death of Theresa Duncan This is Not a Game: The Mysterious Death of Theresa Duncan Part Two Absolutely fitting there is no Part Three This is Not a Game: The Mysterious Death of Theresa Duncan Part Four This is Not a Game: The Mysterious Death of Theresa Duncan, Part Five Announcement from the Management Through the Rabbit Hole and What I Found There No more ARGuments….Duncan’s Death confirmed to be part of a “game”. More on this ARG Business. I Just Leveled Up [...]
waking from the dream « the seaword said,
August 26, 2007 at 10:10 am
[...] the image […] pretty much sums up the situation. That’s the cover of my 2nd book – Through the [...]
KennyWalley said,
November 4, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Never been here b4, I think I started out on MACK WHITE, then ANOMALY RADIO, then REDICECREATIONS , and somewhere caught the story which smells as bad as the so-called suicide of HUNTER THOMPSON.
They must have shined the light of truth on some roaches. damn.