The landlord only found it because the $50 rent went unpaid after he died. He went to haul a dead man’s junk to the curb and found a shimmering cathedral of artifacts instead.
The thing that has been sticking with me is the journal. Cryptographers ran Markov models on it in 2004 to see if it was just rambling or a substitution cipher. It showed a complex, linguistic structure that shouldn't exist in a one-off journal. Now the collection lives in the Smithsonian revered as classic Americana art. What do y'all think?
by rileythelostboy