The Pattern Files
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Something is wrong.
The patterns are everywhere — in the blueprints, the filings, the names that keep showing up in places they shouldn't. I started writing it down because my department wouldn't listen. I started recording because the page wasn't enough.
I'm not a journalist. I'm not an investigator. I'm a professor with a legal pad and a data set that won't let me sleep. What follows are the case files — the episodes, the evidence, the questions I can't stop asking. I publish them here because if the feed goes quiet, the quiet is the answer.
— Asa Thibodeaux, early 2019
Chapter 7: The Things We Bury
Asa asked his listeners not to go hunting for the two people he could not name, and they did. The voicemails run from funny to unsettling, and one sends him to a priest to ask about a word from the filings. He then reads about an archaeological site in Turkey that was deliberately buried, and the cost of asking questions begins to arrive close to home.