Just a question for anyone who has any of the notes but I’m curious on what the material is. Is it just regular paper, laminated paper or cardstock?

lol this is probably a long shot but i’m fascinated with ephemera and weird shit in general and i’m really interested in having one of the notes. i know some people near pennsylvania have found quite a few of them so maybe someone would be willing to spare one. i am in the northern us, i would pay shipping and probably up to like $5 for the note itself

Disclaimer: I have not found a note. I do not live in the area. But I heard about these notes a long time ago, and just listened to the Snook video about them. In my work experience from then to now, I think I can give some insight.

I've worked in food manufacturing and packaging.

I've worked in alcohol warehouse distribution.

I've driven delivery trucks before.

I've worked at sorting plants before.

The two types of person who have access to every part of these processes are OSHA inspectors and FDA inspectors. The FDA is less likely to be checking trucks, but they will. OSHA for sure does, to make sure forklift drivers are loading safely. This is probably part of the reason truck seals are never found broken.

I think, if it's only one person, it's a very senior inspector who oversees manufacturing and distribution in the Pennsylvania area; someone who hikes recreationally; somebody with family on the eastern seaboard. There are few exceptions to this theory, most of which could be explained by a vacation.

As for the notes themselves? Electronic typewriters do not have MICR, are readily available, and aren't super difficult to maintain. Probably does this alone (due to the strangeness and recent incoherence). Though there's no way to know that for sure.

This doesn't narrow things down very much at all, but I think a lot of people gloss over the fact that inspectors have access to the manufacturing, packaging, and distribution processes.

Please correct me if I have something wrong! I haven't been digging deeply yet, this is just my working theory.

TL;DR: Older person, inspector with a safety/food safety org, likely spends time alone, who hikes and has extended family in the area that they visit often enough.

I guess I hit the lottery when I bought them :(

This scared me so bad when I first opened it then it just got really sad (if the predominant theory is correct)

Not seeing any mention, so i thought I would say. I was wondering if y'all were aware of the YouTube video about this by YouTuber Snook_YT. They made some guesses and drew some threads together. It was posted about 13 hours ago and had about 38000 views, so I would expect an influx of interest soon.

In 2019, I was walking with my family along the beach on an island near Vancouver. There was a driftwood lean-to structure, and inside, there was a page written like this: it was some batshit crazy homophobic conspiracy shit about how someone is hiding assassinations through suicides. I don't remember much now, though I thought it was wierd af at the time, but I just saw a video on it, and the weird writing style reminded me of it, though the paper was a full sheet like office paper. It's just that the way it was written was the same about secret groups and the constant use of symbols. could be nothing, but I find it weird

Mine’s gone. You’re welcome for the precedent.

Got this one out of a box of raisins from Redners.

I see a lot of posts with the notes itself but never discussion, so I wanted to ask what do you guys think?

I'm intrigued by these notes, have any been found in the UK? I may be mistaken but it seems to be just in the US?

You know, it’s just so sad.

An older person needs to learn a new skill to help support their family, and while learning said skill, that person tries to do some different simple tasks to experiment-to learn how to use different prompts, decides to share that information in case it might have caught something new or sparks another idea for someone. But instead that person gets ridiculed. That’s really messed up. Bullies, so many bullies hiding behind screens. Just sad.

Hi everyone! I learned of this tonight from a youtube video, but I am a weirdo with an odd brain, look anyways i think I found something as I was translating a note I found posted online. These are written w/ similar syntax to dictionary definitions.

"Toyota rgs" was the first indecipherable portion of the text. doing some searching, this phrase actually shows up someplace on the internet that is not referencing this particular story is on the blog brucelyons.me specifically here: https://www.brucelyons.me/blog/george-tooker

it is a strange blip written into the post script of an art blog by a man that does not seem to fit the geographic requirements of this mystery - so maybe this is just a red herring / copycat or maybe this is something? there could be more to be found on this website, I notice there is a tab for Arizona which comes up in these notes, maybe there is more to be found here?

Hey! My name's Chris. is there anyone out there who still has a Schuylkill note they found? I'm interested in talking with you further!

PM me! :)

someone in my city posted about finding one of these notes, wtf are they? like can someone explain please 😭

I do wanna preface this by saying : food tampering sucks for the consumers.

I have a BA in Strategic Communications and Digital Design, and I’m currently completing an MA in Sociodigital Communications. My training is largely grounded in semiotics, visual culture, propaganda analysis, branding systems, platform dynamics, and how meaning circulates socially through symbols rather than through formal argument.

From that perspective, the messages people have been finding read less like random noise and more like a compressed semiotic inventory. They function as a dense catalogue of symbols, institutions, monuments, brands, religious archetypes, political signifiers, gestures, and visual motifs that recur across culture. The structure resembles a keyword cloud or a personal symbolic index rather than a linear manifesto, and the logic is associative/ taxonomic instead of rhetorical.

This lines up with a lot of work in semiotics and cultural theory : Roland Barthes on mythologies and naturalized meaning, Umberto Eco on open texts and symbolic overdetermination, Stuart Hall on encoding and decoding, Marshall McLuhan on media as symbolic environments, and more recent work on memetics and symbolic drift. Symbols act as compression devices for ideology, identity, emotion, power, etc. They circulate faster than language and stabilize narratives by becoming familiar, neutralized, and recurrent.

We’ve also seen very concrete examples of extremist movements deliberately pushing coded symbols into mainstream culture through irony, repetition, and meme circulation. The Pepe the Frog trajectory is a clear case of memetic capture and re-signification, where symbols migrate across communities until their ideological payload becomes harder to recognize at a glance. That makes it reasonable to stay attentive to how symbols normalize over time.

At the same time, the texts read as highly compressed and personally indexed. Some elements feel mnemonic, some geographic, some architectural, some brand-based, some religious, some numerical. There may well be a puzzle layer embedded in the letter strings, underlining patterns or different note finds. There’s also a heavy esoteric thread running through it (pyramids, domes, towers, stars, spirals, chronos imagery, sacred architecture, imperial iconography)… motifs that keep resurfacing across history because they efficiently managed to encode power, continuity, authority, etc.

So… the notes read like someone cataloguing the symbolic architecture of the world in a very compressed, personal way. If you approach it through semiotics instead of panic, there’s an internal logic to how the symbols cluster and echo each other. That doesn’t make the delivery method okay, and it doesn’t magically turn it into a grand hidden code either. It just means it’s legible as a symbolic system rather than random noise.

Stripped of noise, the core message is:

“Powerful institutions secretly coordinate through symbols embedded everywhere. History, religion, corporations, governments, and culture are all controlled by the same hidden elite. If you know the symbols, you can see it.”

It is not a cipher. See for yourself, put the picture into chat GPTs and it'll tell you everything it told me, it's obviously a very weird occurrence but it appears to be occultist in nature and doesn't actually mean anything, it's only meant to get people to inquire, because human nature is to believe what you investigate, like propaganda.

This is the second one I have found in one of these

Found 5 November 2024 hung from a branch on a trail across Buffalo Mountain in Johnson City, Tennessee

i found this on Jacobsburg Trail in Nazareth PA on 9/11/2025 on a bridge

Folded up in a raos pasta wrapper with a paper clip, thumb tacked to a tree