Now This Is Weird

[Ash]

I got a call from my dad yesterday.  He was at his auto repair shop.
Apparently he'd received a letter addressed to a David Young.  Mr. Young supposedly lives here in town but when you look through the phone book, there are six of them and none of them live at that address.  He called each one of them and none of them ever lived at the address on the envelope.
To make matters even more strange, the envelope had my dad's business letterhead on it. 

It had been marked returned to sender.  But he never sent it.
When he opened it up, there was a blank sheet of notebook paper in it.  

The strange thing is that he uses a stamp with his letterhead on it, so the only way that stamp could have gotten onto that envelope is if someone had gone back behind his desk and used it.  And he doesn't let anyone except me or his wife (my stepmom) back there.  I didn't use it.  Heck, I don't even know where he keeps it in the mess on and around his desk.  And my stepmom didn't use it either.

So basically, someone got ahold of his letterhead stamp, used it on the envelope, and sent a blank sheet of paper to Mr. Young which was rejected and sent back to my dad.

Weird huh?

The thought that the blank sheet of paper might have invisible ink written on it crossed my mind.  But upon close examination, you can tell that nothing has ever been written on it.
I also thought that it may be a code of some kind.
You know, like between spies or something.  If one spy received a blank sheet of paper, it meant that he's either dead or something else happened.

What do you think?

[ghouck]

I got one of those, if you x-ray the paper, it shows the secret formula for an advanced coating for the A.F.P.B.: The Aluminum Foil Protective Beanie. With that, you can figure out a way to circumvent the advanced AFPB, and we can get back to controlling minds, , again. I heard that on the radio the CIA planted in my toothbrush. 

[Captain Tars Tarkas]

Maybe he was sleepwalking

[Psycho Circus]

Maybe it was a ghost 

[schmendrik]

That is a little weird. Possibly somebody was intending to mail something with the letterhead wrapped around it (like cash), and for some reason the envelope got sealed and mailed instead.

The spy stuff is a little unlikely unless you live near Washington, DC or a major defense industry or military base. I wouldn't discount all talk of espionage as tin-foil hat stuff. I used to work in the defense industry in the DC area, during the cold war, and spies probably outnumbered pigeons at that time and place. Some people made a hobby of spotting cars with diplomatic license plates in places they shouldn't be (the State Department had a handy little table of what license numbers went with what country).

But at any rate, spies have more direct and subtle ways of communicating than sneaking into somebody's garage and using their letterhead. I was amused to learn from the memoirs of a retired KGB agent that my neighborhood grocery store (specifically, chalk marks on the mailbox outside the grocery store) had been a major communications site for years.

[ghouck]

Yea, but he lives right next to Area 52. .

[Sister Grace]

Ash, that is wierd! When I read your post, I couldnt help but think of the short story, "Everything is Eventual". It was probably just a fluke, but these days you just never know....

[RCMerchant]

Beware of weird serial killer types. Really.
Fingerprint it.

[Ash]

Ash, that is wierd! When I read your post, I couldnt help but think of the short story, "Everything is Eventual". It was probably just a fluke, but these days you just never know....

I own that book and that is my favorite story in it.      
He was lucky it wasn't filled with fouders, smims and other weird characters with a circle drawn around it and an arrow pointing to his name.