THE MOST IMPORTANT POST EVER MADE IN THE SOMERTON MAN CASE.
Above is the first part of the torn TAMAM SHUD torn piece. It looks a little fuzzy but when you get close to it you can see that the 'fuzziness is a lot more than that. Because tightly fitted into each letter in the 2 words TAMAM SHUD above, you can see the presence of letters and numbers. This is steganography and it has been very skillfully executed.
Let's step through just two of those letters to start with, the letters TA:
Here you can see a mass of tiny writing, difficult at this stage to make them out clearly but you can see it's presence.
The next step is to start highlighting parts of this particular image, see below:
This next image is the same image as above but with specific areas highlighted which show strings of mostly numbers but with some letters
The next step is to rotate the image to get another view, again it's highlighted to enable you to better focus on the individual strings:
There is absolutely no doubt that all the letters in the TAMAM SHUD torn piece are filled with micro coded letters and numbers. The big question is, of course, what does this all mean?
THE SIMILARITIES
The lettering and methodology used bears a strong resemblance to that used in the image of the small bunch of grapes found on the title page of the Boxall Rubaiyat. See the previous posts, JESTYN'S STORY PART 2 & 3.
We now have a definite link between Alf Boxall, Jestyn, and the Somerton Man, and again for my amateur sleuth friends, this is exactly why the number 70 on the inscription page of the Boxall Rubaiyat. It, too, contains micro writing and it was put there after the Littlemore interview that took place in 1976. That book was only in Alf's possession.
(The images above were taken with a Samsung S9 + mobile phone camera fitted with a Zeiss lens. It was taken in daylight and then sharpened to show the result you can see above. The image itself was one of a series taken by Adelaide University around 2009. At that time, they had used a microscope fitted with a camera. Their intention was to look closely at the nature of the paper. It is possible that because they did not use any document recovery techniques as in oblique or infrared lighting, they could well have missed this.)
THE GOOD NEWS
Many of the letters and numbers are legible, we therefore should be able to recover a high % of the strings and then apply the decryption techniques that we have discussed earlier on this blog. It could be that we are looking at a HILL cipher but we won't know until the string has been recovered. Each letter contains code and so we will list them individually. As you can see each letter has component parts so the individual strings will need to be tested in sequence.
NEXT STEPS
The next steps will be to examine each letter of the phrase TAMAM SHUD pairing them and then getting close-up images. The intention is to look at two letters in each post and make comments.
Final note, any talk of micro writing not being present in the Code page, the Torn piece, or the Boxall book, is quite definitely, to borrow a phrase, a 'croc'.
