Package Retrieved in Alphabet City!

[Sinyx]

Bingo! It was such a nice day I decided to take the trip to Alphabet City to check out the Palm reader B.A. alluded to in her last batch of Craigslist postings. When l got to the Palm Reader and asked if there was a Nicole there, I was told yes. I said a friend had left a package and she perked up, telling me to come back in 10 minutes. When I returned, She sat me down and asked me again why I was there. Repeating my story, I said the package may have my friend's name on it, B.A. Saint Feline. She handed me the package and then told me that whoever left it had paid for a tarot reading. Seriously, I'm not sure if this is where B.A.'s part ended and where the pyschic's salespitch began.

Supposedly I'm going to live till I'm 91, have 3 kids, and move to either California or Florida. I should also watch someone with the letter J in their name and I have a heck of a problem with bad spirits. She was pretty adamant about selling me special white candles to cleanse me of the buggers. Two very special $220 candles. When I turned her down, she tried to sell me a $50 piece of green stone. Yikes!

[Mkaos]

Wow. I did not see this coming! There's something about this that is really exciting but, it's all a bit creepy. I don't know what's creepier - the cat or the finger! I would have fallen over the moment I saw either of them.

[PoeticExplosion]

Ok, so this has to be a hoax. HPhack's Arabic is weird, but he probably was just exposed to it recently without thinking about it. But other than that, it doesn't fall outside the realm of a fairly good hoaxer. Heck, I'm still not sure it wasn't getMEout doing a particularly brilliant performance art-type thing.

Think about it, the hoaxer just wrote some posts on craiglist, which told a story about a package. They arranged to have the person mentioned in the CLs have the package. What's so weird here?

[Cem]

Actually that's a mighty fine point you've raised there Ockham.

The only real mystery that exists in this possibility is how she found the addresses of those who received packages, but even that [in today's day and age] doesn't seem completely out of the realm of King Conceivable.

Even though some people's dreams have been assimilated into her own dreams in various tangential ways and distributed via CL...how do we know she's actually dreaming these things and not just sitting at her computer with a cuppa coffee making it all up?

I could say I'm a 22 year old supermodel - but it doesn't make it so.

The package was left with a fellow psychic, and one who was trying to sell some pretty pricey candles at that....not sure I trust it.

....and has she really given us any reason to trust her?
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[Econjen]

So now we have BA's dreams manifesting themselves in finger-form in NYC... just when I thought the city couldn't get any more odd (New Jersey keeps sounding better and better. I understand the male:female ratio is in better favor down there, too.)

If we all stare at the finger picture really really hard, click our heels three times, and talk about there being "no place like home," do you think we can make it go "POOF!" and send it back to her? And gah, why is it green?! It looks moldy and smelly (does it smell?!) and icky and weird. I should stop staring at the picture or I'll find the finger poking me in my sleep.

Creepy.
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[Unknown Quantity]

[Aisforapple]

[Sinyx]

Hoax or not, I have to admit I'm intrigued.

I called the number on B.A.'s website and left a message saying we found her Craigslist posts and intercepted her package. I told her that it contained the finger and a note from DC, who sounds like he may need help.

I also replied to her through Craigslist with the contents of the note. Hopefully she'll contact us back somehow.

[Mkaos]

[GetMEout]

This is so fuckin' awesome! We've got bizarre mail, freaky dreams, craigslist postings that don't involve sexual fetishes (shock), and now she whips out the big finger and gives it to you. (With optional good juju candles for the minor cost of $200 - how could you say no! The ambiance!)

I'm a little disappointed I didn't whip something like this together myself I wonder if I can get her to spring a toenail or something from out of her dreams and stick it somewhere near me... Hark! The psychic toenail speaketh! It says "Trim me, for I groweth too long and poke through thine sock making big hole!" and then, when I pick up the toenail, I will heal the giant gaping wound in the cottony soft universe. Or something.

I need to come up with something better than a damn toenail to give her. Think, brain, think! Dream sexy!

Anyhow, I'm totally lovin' this shit, man. This is some seriously awesome work, hoax or not. This girl's brain must be so damn hot.
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[Unfictionrose]

A couple of quick things:

The quote in the note:

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery"

is Dante.

I think that DC took the finger after reading the Craigslist posts of BA's dreams. Note that the last time BA went to the cemetery the finger was gone, presumably DC took it. He went to the psychic because he knew that BA would go there...is she (the psychic) a friend of BA from when she lived in New York?

Is the image of the woman on the note the psychic that had the package? Is it BA?


I'm still pretty confused. What is BA resisting doing that she is telling us to do?

No idea where the cemetery is supposed to be, it sounds like it isn't that far from the Village, but I can't tell from the dreams. Very frustrating.

I thought the finger was green to show that it wasn't marble, but perhaps a copper sculpture? Again, no idea.

Hey but at least we've made some progress here. Great work on putting the pieces together and finding the package.

Edit: don't kidnappers sometimes send fingers of victims to prove they have the victim? In a way, this finger is a similar idea - proof that the angel, or the dream of the angel, is real.

Or else this could be a pointing finger accusing us of taking too long to get the statue put back together.
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Servers aren't part of the collective unconscious. ~HPHack

DC had us give B.A. the finger. I don't think you can get much more explicit than that! ~Y2K

[Sinyx]

[Lovek]

[James Stone]

Maybe we should 'gain access' to the Craigslist servers and grab the IP that these postings are coming from and sniff her out?

[Unfictionrose]

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