BIAD's Brother

[Mystic Wanderer]

BIAD, you never told us your brother moved to California!    

What other secrets are you hiding?    





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[BIAD]

BIAD, you never told us your brother moved to California!    

What other secrets are you hiding?    





online picture uploader

Oh my, it's happening again.

Sometime in the past, I was approached by a chap I vaguely knew where I worked at a newspaper company.
This person worked in the archives department and his main task was to store photographs in a room full
of high shelves and filing cabinets stuffed with old pictures and newspaper clippings.

Maybe it was because the job is a lonely one and to pass the time, he'd decided to browse through the
sepia photos and paper-clipped information of long ago or maybe he was genuinely interested in history
and how cultures change, I don't know.

But he'd come across something that had disturbed him and because I dealt with image manipulation
for the company, he felt it prudent to ask if what he'd discovered could be a mere abnormality that
happens when old photographs are stored for a long time.

"Do you see her...?" he asked me when he placed the slightly faded pictures on my desk "...can
you see how she keeps turning up in every photo?" he added and thrust another brown-tinged image
in front of me.

I must admit now that at first, I was a bit hesitant due to the way he had seemed to just roll in
demand an answer to whatever was bothering him, but I finally put it down to him just working
alone and doing it in the wee-small hours that I worked.
(We worked well into the early morning from the evenings before)

The very-worn, dog-eared picture of a group of sailors standing together on the deck of -what I presumed
was the ship they were assigned to, offered very little information except that at a guess, I'd say it was
during the Second World War.

Accompanying the grinning crew was a woman, a woman wearing a dress that for the time, I'd say
was very daring and even though time had damaged the photograph, one could see that the mysterious
female sported a long fringe that hid her eyes.

"Explain this..." he said softly but with conviction "...taken in 1963" he whispered and showed me  one
of the many photos taken of John F. Kennedy's assassination.
The scene was of Dealey Plaza and dozens of confused people were milling round on the embankment
in front of a white structure next to the infamous picket fence.

There, just standing next to some foliage in front of the fence and on an inclined path, was a woman in
a short-hemmed dress and watching the bewilderment through a long fringe.

There were other photographs where this 'person' seemed to have caught on camera, including an
iconic image of the Beatles playing on a rooftop of the Apple Corps building in 1969.

"The navy pic is from 1943, Kennedy was killed in 63' and the Beatles... well, you can see it's marked
as 1969..." the man from archives said. "...The same woman is in all of them"

Sitting down on a nearby chair, he informed me that he had dozens of photographs that were
taken during historical events and in all of them, this stranger could be seen.
Usually in the background or partially in the picture.

I assured him that it looked like no trickery had been used on the images and apart from that,
I was at a loss at how this could be. Then he said something very odd.
"It's not a woman, the way the figure stands and doesn't hold the same demeanour a woman
would in those times, tells me it's something else" he said with a snort.

We were both quiet for a few moments and then he gathered up the photographs and
was about to leave, when -for no reason that I can think of now, I asked him a question.

"The...er, the picture of the sailors... what's that from?" I said with the look of something
trying to show interest. The chap who spent most of his time breathing in dust and aromas
of long forgotten memories looked at me with eyes that seemed distrustful.

"The ship is the USS Eldridge, the one supposedly used in The Philadelphia Experiment"
he whispered and walked away back towards his station.

I had no idea that the same figure that could be glimpsed in those old photos would
one day, arrive at my door and dwell in my shed. At least, I think it's him.

Life, huh?!

[Mystic Wanderer]

BIAD, you never told us your brother moved to California!    

What other secrets are you hiding?    





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Oh my, it's happening again.


Life, huh?!

(Deleted part of reply to save space)

Oh, okay.  I knew there had to be a logical answer.  

[guohua]

So, you have an actual Time Traveler! 

[BIAD]

So, you have an actual Time Traveler! 

Well, it sounds more intriguing than it actually is.
I think he used to 'visit' certain aspects in the human timeline, but if he does it now,
I don't know.

I sometimes see him looking around the garden and picking up small stones and
pebbles to examine. BIAD doesn't talk about it and I don't ask anymore.

[BIAD]

Boy In A Dress wasn't a happy bunny when I asked if I could post
some of the photos he has that implies a kind of time-travel.
I managed to convince him that most would think it was merely
work of photoshop and not to be bothered with.

He gave me two, but one was ripped,so I'll have to repair it.
This one was with someone called Dr. J. Hynek, who I have
no idea is.




Edit: Here's another he's just handed in.

[guohua]

Nice,,,,, Very Nice! 
Looking better than Marilyn Monroe ever did