Mayday Mysteries

linehedonist 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/4hq4o1...

Seems likely that Robert Truman Hungerford has been placing these ads himself for the last 45 years, as a kind of solitary practice. He is apparently now giving hints to their interpretation (http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/texts/25-dec7.html): "Good starting point: Historically, what sort of compass is in the picture?"

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rm445 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So... someone has been posting cryptic adverts annually from 1981 through 2026, which together constitute logic puzzles and obscure references.

The main thing I think is quite cool, besides the sheer persistence, is that anyone noticed and there's a community following this. Everyone has stuff going on in their lives, this seems so obscure that you'd almost expect people to shrug and ignore.

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sans_souse 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I just want to be the first to make this connection to "Digger" 2026 starring Tom Cruise and no I'm not joking I'm just really deep in this rabbit hole

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sans_souse 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The term "Diggers" historically refers to "The True Levellers" - 17th-century radical Christian agrarian group that fought against the English establishment and believed the earth was a "common treasury" for all.

See also; edited liquor bottle image referencing the Eagles' "Hotel California" ("We haven't had that spirit here since 1969"). Pop culture reference

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defrost 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Their peer group the "Ranters" can perhaps be tied into another Tom Cruise film, the one directed by that A Clockwork Orange director.

That's assuming we agree on the Winstanley take on Ranter principles as amounting to the excessive enjoyment of "meat, drinke, pleasures, and women".

	▲	sans_souse 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm coming back up for air, these rabbit holes go deep.

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sans_souse 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some more info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Daily_Wildcat

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gfaure 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Have there ever been sections of this that the community would consider "solved"? If not, these seem less like logic puzzles and more like complete nonsense...

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CamperBob2 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

From the April 3, 1999 entry at http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/update.html :

This week sucked, so nothing really got updated, but I took a cue from one of the previous emails and decided to blow off about 3,000 important things I should have been doing and read Magus (link to Amazon product page) instead.

I have my complaints about Amazon, but you know what I respect the hell out of them for: that 27-year-old web link still works.

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readthenotes1 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It looks a lot like what one of my schizophrenic relatives does

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sans_souse 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ok, someone, anyone, explain?