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CRYPTIC COMMUNICATIONS

CEREAL CHILLER

In late December 2023 Joe Miller of SugarloafTownship, Pennsylvania, opened a box of Lucky Charms Smores cereal and a mysterious cryptic note fell out. Believing the note had been in the sealed bag, he was somewhat unnerved and refused to eat any of the cereal, saying, “It just bothers me… it’s the note that really bothers me”. Neatly printed on a small rectangular piece of paper, the note had “LIES” prominently printed on it twice, accompanied by a highly abbreviated and largely incomprehensible message that began “SECRET soc. r tied to drugs/riots/terror/m… JFK warn’d of SS. A sign/*word/sumb. sys unites SS. It’s tied to Saturn, Lord o/t Rings/time: Toyota rgs; NBC/CIA’s bird: cross (+) w/rg/fire (Bayer/KKK); Yale/Harv.’s shield; cube/sq (D. of Ed.);

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