Wednesday, 22 January 2014

Can The Internet Help Decode A Grandmother's Dying Words?

MetaFilter users are trying to unravel a final message left twenty years ago by a woman dying of brain cancer.


MetaFilter user JannaK's grandmother passed away in 1994 from brain cancer. In the weeks before she died, although she didn't speak, she wrote index cards with mysterious sequences of letters on them.


For two decades, the family have been in the dark about what these letters could mean.


So yesterday, JannaK decided to see if Ask MetaFilter could help unravel the mystery. Here's an example sequence of letters:


So yesterday, JannaK decided to see if Ask MetaFilter could help unravel the mystery. Here's an example sequence of letters:


Based on the repeated sequences of letters in several parts of the card, JannaK thought they might represent song lyrics. The letters read:


JannaK / imgur.com / Via ask.metafilter.com


PDGNHBOBVPNSNHANAOENCNANHPNCPND,NUOCP

NNPNAPNMSMDKBMLPOWP,NAP,]NEENTGBTMLS

HHSSSTMALHFFTMOFPANSTP,NIOOIPNTPNROA

NTRSANTOTTAPOD,PLUADONNOANPBOOLL,PKUA

SASIMAB,PAGA,]PMOMTAVMAJAMMSSSLLAB

APMUTTCTCCATFGSHHILANRNPHTAOLP,]PST

WAAHASIOLAIOW,PSTWALOJTHTPATP,PSTWA

GAOKWOCWASAPSTWADVGWAIIRARBOSAO,]

PSTWAHPPAAETWW,PSTWAHTPMAESTCWE,]

PSTAOUCOOTIOWHAMPAPSTTPDNHA,PSTWAA

HAS,PAGA,PSTWAAIEHAPSTWARIEH,]PSTTPAI

DNBTVJEOAOU,PAGA,]PSTTOUWWTLWATOUWS

LWDSWGOBS,PSTWAHSAHVASASBTATWARH

SFAOT,PSTWAHBPITNRSTNOTROUHTTBPM,]

PSTVCADAFLAFESJMPLGBGBMBATROURSSAS

FOHP,]PSTWAGAVWWOA,PAGA]PSTEIFFAWAU.]

TYAGFPFG,TYAGFLTMPAAT,TYAGFE,A-TYAGFE,AAA


And this is the back of the same card:


And this is the back of the same card:


JannaK / imgur.com / Via ask.metafilter.com




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