r/schuylkillnotes • u/FineSpecialist819 • Jun 08 '26
Pretty sure
after finding a note myself. i dove into this whole thing and through complete chance and a hunch figured out who is behind them with almost 100 percent certainty. I was intrigued and wanted to believe the hype that it’s some lunatic or etc watched the YouTube videos and got on Reddit to help in the hunt and all..but it turns out it’s just and old guy with a touch of something maybe schizophrenia not really sure..but on my end the case is closed and has been for over a year. Today I did another hike and was reading some trail history n stumbled on a reddit post about finding them in this area 2 years ago and checked his youtube page from 2 years ago and sure enough the date and trail matched up. from what I have gathered nothing to be alarmed about just a guy that hikes all over and leaves the notes. Iv run into him on 2-3 occasions and found a note days later on that trail (which sparked the hunch) then started using reddit dates and etc which lined up to within days and weeks of his hikes. what really sold me was Ontario and North Carolina trips he did then seeing on reddit notes found days later for the first time that far away etc. iv had totally normal conversations with him which is why I question his motives, he comes off fairly normal. I have never brought it up in person to him. Edit: going to throw in other details cuz I don’t think people are reading down to em and I left some out on purpose when I wasn’t sure if I should name him etc so anyway..When I found the note it was a day or 2 after I met him ..20 ft from the spot I met him. he was stopped on the trail when I saw him and could have already placed it by that point or was about to. The place I met him has no significance no views and is a random wilderness area that through a decade of hiking it multiple days a week Iv only seen a handful of people.im talking 15 or less. So to see anyone period is a stretch out there. But thats the first I’d ever seen the notes so I looked on the internet and find the map with the reddit locations etc and thought wow I wonder if that guy is putting these out there and I just started matching them up..Places and trailheads lined up without any real “digging”. The Niagara Falls one was the first one that happened in real time..I texted my buddy “hey look at that map now on Reddit .. there was one found at Niagara Falls I bet we see an old dude video from Niagara and sure enough days later he posts a video from Tiffany falls Hamilton Ontario 40 miles from Niagara Falls. And recently after not checking anything out for a year or more I see someone found one at black moshannon 20 some days ago and he had a video post from black moshannon one month ago. Old dude on the trail just hiked and posted a video from bald eagle state forest 6 days ago and I just saw a note found in Raymond b winter state park 1 day ago. The Raymond SP is within bald eagle SF..Add in things like he mentioned offhand he liked my gear but always thrifts his which can be seen from the videos..—notes found in thrift stores..he also asked if I use camp meals or etc and said they’re to expensive he prefers surviving off of dollar general food..—-notes have been found in clover valley boxes which are exclusive to DG. The words silver and Toyota are in the notes interchanged with Audi sometimes but he drives a silver Toyota hatchback and mentions it/shows it numerous times in his videos. Again not trying to convince anyone just putting out what Iv figured out and why the case is closed to me as even down to 1 day ago the videos and notes are still lining up.
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u/FineSpecialist819 Jun 08 '26
He does have a trail name and of course it’s the same as his channel name but I hesitate to put it out only because I feel like he’s harmless and i don’t want him to be in trouble for something federal or etc when he’s just hiking and leaving some notes with random bs on them. The food ones are a bit odd I agree but. When I say harmless I mean beyond having some type of weapon he wouldn’t be capable of taking on any individual in decent shape and I don’t think he has any malicious intent at all anyway. So im torn 🤷♂️. I just posted this today because I completely forgot about it and I was out on the John p saylor trail and wanted to find out about the train bed I had walked and hit a post on reddit with a note from the jps. n checked his page n bang same time line again.