From my research, what I’ve been able to ascertain, is that in order to hide a post on the blogger.com site you have to alter the code. It doesn’t appear to be something you can do by pushing a button or by accident. It can only be done with absolute intention. If I’m wrong about this, then by all means, please correct me. But so far, that’s what I’ve been able to find.
Unsure what this hidden post was supposed to signify I realized that in order to find it in the first place you’d have to know what to look for. That I stumbled on it is not because I’m clever, but really, just sheer, dumb luck. And if there was one post that you could find only if you knew what to look for, what else might you find if you really started trying?
I won’t lay it out for you, since most of you will probably figure it out fairly quickly, but I will say I went through a number of permutations trying to find anything. Anything at all. And then, there it was. Another post. Dated Sunday, September 16, 2012. The same as the Roberto Calvi post. Which meant, it was also hidden.
At first, it seemed to be just another post of incoherent gabbling by Tony Ryals, but the name “Rey Rivera” is mentioned 18 times, and just Rey’s first name: 41 times.
While most of the content appears to be focused on Agora Inc, this is a very lengthy post, and includes at least one legitimate news piece on Rey Rivera’s death revolving around an interview with his wife, Allison. Everything is cut and pasted of course; no original content.
So, that’s two hidden posts on the “porter stansberry” blog.
One about Roberto Calvi.
One, at least in part, about Rey Rivera’s death.
Unlike many of the other posts, which are repeated, these posts are unique and were posted only once.
It was at this point that I sent a couple of emails to people connected to Rey’s case, including one of the reporters who was interviewed for the Unsolved Mysteries episode, as well as leaving a very brief tip with links on the Unsolved Mysteries website. This was around the second week of July. Then life happened, I moved on. Or so I thought.
I hadn’t heard anything about any one else coming across this blog. I figured no one I contacted had taken me seriously. In all honesty, at the time, I probably sounded about as sane and levelheaded as Tony Ryals.
Then, my oldest daughter, who had helped me research by looking into some of the posts and affiliated websites from which the content had been taken, started asking me if I’d heard anything. Had any one been interested in what I found?
I just shrugged and replied, “I guess not.”
“Then you should post this online. People should know about this blog. It’s so weird!”
I figured she had a point, so I started reviewing everything I had discovered, and found myself tumbling back down into that impenetrable chaos. It still really bothered me that not only could I not figure out who the blog author was, I couldn’t even really get a grasp on what their intention behind all of this was. What was the point of all these blogs and all these posts? Was it even anything at all?
One of the things that nagged at me was the fact that the number of posts per month felt too contrived, that is, across all the blogs, many had close to, or even the exact same number of posts.
As you can see, for the month of August, every single blog by this author has 5 posts exactly. Other months come close to August, with almost every blog in January having 15 posts; same with October. Almost every blog has exactly 65 posts. The rest of the months are also relatively consistent except for September, which is just all over the place.
There is one notable exception. On the “usda rural development” blog there are two posts for March 2013. No other blog has any posts in March. Just that one blog, and just those two posts. Looking at it, it didn’t feel like an afterthought by the blog author, so much as a correction. Those two posts brought the total number across all the blogs to 4,635. Was it deliberate?
On a complete lark I decided to do a query and see if anything turned up. And it did. Angel number aside, it looked like it could be anything, which means nothing. But then I clicked on a website for acronyms and slang, and found this:
Which had to be a complete coincidence, right?
I continued searching and I found a list of New Zealand police codes which confirmed that 4635 means “Makes Sells Software for Crime”
At this point I realized I needed to stop. First, all the navigation buttons and dates on the blogs are in Turkish. Now the number of posts seems to correspond to a New Zealand police code for “Makes Sells Software for Crime”?
The problem with searching for hidden meaning is that if you do it for long enough, since you don’t know what’s truly relevant and what’s not, everything starts to take on meaning. Do I think the number of posts across all the blogs is deliberate? Quite possibly. Do I want to spend hours, days, weeks of my life trying to see if there actually is any meaning to all of this? Well, after you’ve invested a significant amount of your time into something, emotionally it gets harder and harder to walk away, which sets you up to find meaning, even if there is none. Otherwise, you’d have to conclude you just spent a chunk of your life chasing the shadows of ghosts. It’s only a worthwhile pursuit if there is a meaning or a clue there, but you can’t know that for certain until after the fact. So, I’ve stopped. No more searching.
I did show my oldest daughter what I had discovered and she said, “They [meaning the blog author] set up an ARG.”
[For those of you who have never heard of an ARG, or Alternate Reality Game, Inside a Mind does a great job of explaining it: What’s An ARG?]
Confused, I replied, “No, this is real life. It’s not a game.”
“No, I mean, they set it up to be an ARG. “
“You mean on purpose?”
“Yes. On purpose. It’s just too much like an ARG to not be one.”
“But was that even a thing in 2012?”
“Yeah, the whole Batman ARG.”
“What? Explain it like I’m old.”
“You are old. The Batman ARG was 2007, so yeah, this feels like it was set up to be an ARG.”
“But why, tho????”
“Idk, I’m 17!”
After thinking about it for a moment I felt she had a really good point.
What if you knew something, something that you were scared to reveal but also weighed on your conscience? What if you desperately wanted to unburden yourself but were just as equally terrified of doing so?
Maybe fashioning a weird smattering of Internet crumbs into a puzzle to be solved that will divulge what you know without identifying you or endangering you in any way was the only solution this person could come up with. Or, more likely, I’m seriously overthinking this.
Maybe it doesn’t mean anything and this is all a massive coincidence.
But, there are those two hidden posts.
And, while I didn’t initially think it was relevant (and still don’t), I did discover that there is Masonic Accounting software, called Assistant Secretary, but it doesn’t really seem nefarious in any way. It actually looks pretty humdrum, overall, but 4635 potentially meaning “Makes Sells Software for Crime” does give me a bit of pause, but still, not very much.
It’s the two secret posts, one about a member of an illegal Masonic lodge who was a grifting banker and who’s murder was staged to look like a suicide, and another, about a man who looks, on the surface, to also have completed suicide, but with enough irregularities to call that conclusion into question, including a hidden note, behind his computer, that links his case to the Masons. Did Rey Rivera know a modern day Roberto Calvi? It doesn’t even have to be Porter Stansberry. What about Agora, Inc.’s founder and president, Bill Bonner?
As for the author of the blog: maybe they know something vital, something incredibly important to Rey Rivera’s case. Or maybe they don’t. But it seems so odd to put that much time and effort into a blog and then just stop. Even if they don’t know anything specific, it still feels like they are very close to this case in some way.
Maybe they’re even reading my posts about their blog right this very moment.
If the blog author is reading this and this person does know something about Rey’s death, now is the time to say something. With so much attention and scrutiny on this case, it’s never been safer to disclose what you know.
I don’t know if the “porter stansberry” blog is connected to Rey’s death directly. I just know it adds another layer of weird to this case.
In case you were wondering if Porter Stansberry also ever had a blog on the blogger website, the answer is yes, yes he did. It was called “Porterian” and was active from 2003 to 2006, with the last post being published on May 8, 2006, just eight days before Rey Rivera disappeared.
At the very least, you can see how different “Porterian” is from the “porter stansberry” blog. There’s just no way they’re the same person.
So, that’s the end of my part in all of this. I’m done. I hand this off to whoever else may be interested. Good luck and God speed.
And remember: don’t use any radioactive cookware from the government, and if you do, don’t forget to take your Reishi and Cordyceps to prevent cellular damage!
Peace and Love to All
p.s. The answers: Juerg
Allison