SOMERTON MAN: TIBOR KALDOR LAST LETTER, WHO WAS DANETTA? PLUS IMPORTANT UPDATE

The image above is an acrostic view of the Bible Codes. An acrostic message is one hidden in an apparently ordinary message or poem, I am sure that many reading this post will probably already be aware of that.

Words or letters can be extracted from a poem such as:

- Initial letter of a line
- Initial letter of a word
- Letters in the middle (mesostic)
- Last letters of a line (telestic)
- First and last letters (acroleuton)

And more.

TIBOR'S NOTE, Who Was Danetta?

In the case of Tibor Kaldor's last letter to the world, it is just possible that he left a hidden, if cryptic message. The letter itself was quite unusual, having seen a number of last notes at first hand, many would be simple messages of goodbye with regrets and apologies, others would be rants and recriminations but I cannot recall one where such care had been taken to structure their last words.

 I can tell you that at first, I thought I would just give the acrostic approach a try but when the first word popped out of the decoder, I was actually stunned. The first word was 'DANETTA', a girls name, in fact, a Hebrew girl's name and its meaning is 'God is My Judge'. Could that be purely a coincidence?

The approach I took was to decode the letter one paragraph at a time, below you will see the method used followed by the output from each of the 7 paragraphs:

Letter n Line n: Danetta ( Girls Name Meaning God is My Judge)

Word end each line: And see observed

Word n Line n Reverse: Left Leave Like Teaching Leave    

Word n Line n Reverse: Incident be informed necessary

Word 1 each line: I and others

Word n Line n Reverse: Kaldor yours trouble unpleasantness everything

Word end each line: Things inventory suitcase

What could this all mean? Why would a man who, in his own words, had no relatives and no one to notify except for someone in London, leave a hidden message and just what would that message be meant to convey? Could it be it was his way of reaching out to someone he already knew to be dead? Could it be that he believed that someone with an understanding of what had happened would get to read this note? Someone perhaps in authority?

Who was Danetta or was it a message telling those that need to know that there was perhaps something of value in the suitcase inventory? Had it not been for that name appearing 'off the bat', then I probably wouldn't have looked much further.

Is it a valid message? There are, I feel sure, those reading this, who have far more experience in this kind of decoding and any feedback would be welcome.

Here's the transcript of the original note left by Tibor:

Dear Sir,

             I am very sorry to cause some unavoidable in  -

convenience. I have decided to end my life and have

taken an overdose of sleeping tablets. The reasons

do not matter, but you will understand that nobody

would take such a decision lightly. There was no

other way out.

           I suppose the formalities will be fairly simple, and

I would like to ask you, as far as it  rests with you, to see

that the following arrangements are observed.

           I should like to leave my body to the University

for research or teaching purposes. If this is not possible

I should like to be cremated without any ceremony.

I leave my belongings to the Red Cross if something is

left after payment of expenses.

          No notifications are necessary as I have no relatives

and have informed a friend in London myself. I

should be particularly grateful if you could prevent the

incident getting in to the press as far as this is possible.

       I am enclosing one pound for my hotel expenses

and 10/- sh for distribution to the chambermaid and

others to whom I may cause inconvenience.

Page 2.

          I think this covers about everything. Once more

sincere apologies for the unpleasantness and best?

thanks for the trouble you are taking.

                                                 

                                                Yours Faithfully

                                                     

                                                               T Kaldor

             P.S. If you want to take any of my things

you are quite welcome.    There is an inventory

of  clothing  articles in  the  bigger  suitcase

For those who would like to try an acrostic extractor, here's the link

With many thanks to Clive who found the original news article on Trove that provided this blog with the information on Tibor and thus led to the many interesting and relevant facts surrounding the Hay and Tatura Internment camps and the Dunera Boys.

UPDATE:

We have a name, we have someone who matches the description of the Somerton Man and who has other important links to the case. 

NEXT POST SUNDAY 25th SEPTEMBER

There are a few things that we need to clarify and a few wrinkles to work on but this man has so much in common with his profile that we have an 85% certainty at this stage that we may just have found SM. This will be a joint article with Clive and very probably the most important post ever presented on our blog.