It started in late December 2023, when Joe Miller, a resident of the US state of Pennsylvania, bought a box of his favorite cereal at the store as usual, but when he poured it into a bowl, there was a small note with a very strange text out together with the breakfast cereal.
In the note, which resembled some kind of code or cipher, you could recognize individual words such as Disney, Oprah, black sun, Musk, Nazis, mafia, Hamas, labyrinth, etc., which is similar to the themes of many conspiracy theories: but some of the rules didn’t seem to make sense.
But what scared Miller most was that the cereal box was completely sealed, that is, the note could not have been placed in the store and that this had apparently been done at some earlier stage of production.
Miller immediately complained to the police, the local FBI office and also to journalists about the strange note containing ‘conspiracy theories’, but they initially did not publish the contents of the note in order to ‘not cause panic’.
Soon, however, more and more people like Miller appeared.
They found notes with the same “conspiracy” content in various food and non-food products in several cities in the state of Pennsylvania and surrounding regions.
According to journalists, about a hundred people wrote to them saying they had found similar notes in chocolate, cosmetics and other products in at least six different retail chains.
The same banknotes were found in some parks, attached to the bark of trees.
“Who would take the time to take some wire, wrap it around a tree and attach this note to a paperclip? It’s just scary,” said one woman. “There’s some kind of code in there, it’s part of the puzzle,” said local computer expert Spencer Rappaport.
“The insertion [of the notes] took place somewhere between the point of production and the point of sale, so that they could penetrate the manufacturer’s box without compromising its integrity,” says the local police chief.
These notes almost started mass hysteria in local social networks and the authorities and the FBI became seriously concerned about this phenomenon. But so far there are no reports indicating that they are close to a solution.
