a little while …

of all the websites i check regularly, postsecret has undoubtedly claimed top spot as the one i’m most anxious to check when updated. early in october, someone sent in a postcard marked with coordinates, these coordinates: 39 08.060 N 77 19.270 W, pointing to a forested area somewhere in rockville, maryland which, definitely not owing to serendipity, is really really really close to the postsecret mailing address. shortly after, and this is where it leapfrogs from quaint to eerie, someone sent in a picture of a cave located in that forest. (owing to the somewhat ‘buddhist sand art’ overtones of this whole postsecret project, i can’t find the postcard with the coordinates written on it or the cave pictures online at all anymore, as every week the previous weeks’ postcards are replaced by an entirely new batch).

this is one of those things that gobbles up insomniacs with overactive imaginations and self-imposed agoraphobic tendencies.

so one late night, working with the rather obvious assumption that a murder had been committed and the body hidden in that cave, i started scouring the web for reports of missing persons in the rockville area, and any other information pertaining to the forested area and its immediate vicinity. among the more fascinating results (i use fascinating here not in the ’spock’ sense of the word, that there is any ‘truth’ to whatever it is i was looking for, but as something that fueled my imagination to invent a newer even less plausible back story) were these: the blair witch project, a haunted townhouse across the street from a graveyard in germantown, and also that black rock mill, somewhere in the forest, is haunted by the ghosts of two teenage girls who were killed in a car accident on a bridge.

after a few hours of idle searching, i scared myself to sleep and as easily as i had latched on to this web-based caper i managed to pretty much forget about it … until a couple of nights ago.
the point of this post: mystery solved.
to make a long story short: people googled the coordinates so much that abcnews took notice and did a piece on it … turns out someone left a copy of frank’s new postsecret book in the cave and it’s become a geocache version of the postsecret site where people leave their postcards for each other to find.

anti-climactic? pretty much.

here’s a link to something funny: something funny