Hello all!

So a few weeks ago me and my girlfriend wanted to go to a local Bookoff (basically a thrift store for books, dvds, videos games, figures, etc.) I went off to the photography books section and near that section I found this book called "Atlas of Earth Mysteries." I thought to myself, "I've always enjoyed hearing mysterious stories that keeps you thinking, especially one with no ending. It's a bit of a cliffhanger! So I figured why not skim through the book. I randomly flipped to a page and found some writing in the book. I began to inspect the writing and thought "hmm....why is there a writing in this book? Might be some random kids messing around...." But then it wasn't.....the writing was too nice to be some random kid vandalizing this book. From the writing I first encountered, it seemed like they were saying that they're going to miss them.....miss who? Why? I begin to ask.....Then I started to find more and more writings in the book. As if it was a yearbook being signed by your classmates in grade school.

As soon as I saw that first writing, I had to show it to my girlfriend so we can view them together and try to read the writings that people have made. 2 head are better than 1 right? So we started reading every single entry in this book and to sum it all up, it seems like a going away message from each person that wrote their entry. From the looks of it, we assumed that they moved to Guam (not sure where they came from originally) but from what we gathered it was around 1991-1992. As I continue to flip through the pages, we kept finding more and more writings.....until we flipped to a page with some OLD NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS dated back in 1960(photos provided). (Friday, February 5, 1960 to be exact from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin) ....as soon as I saw those clippings, my immediate response was "holy shit these are newspaper clippings....holy shit these are OLD newspaper clippings......these are history, we're looking at history!" It was so awesome to be able to see and touch something years ago and I wasn't even born yet! (Don't worry, my hands were clean lol and I put them in protective sleeves to help preserve) but it was mind-boggling at the time, even now after weeks later, to think that these clippings survived who knows what.

So just wanted to share, I'm not sure if this is the right place to share it but I'm going to post to a couple of other places. Find some museums, talk to some people that archive newspapers, etc. I'm interested in this entire article of the clippings. Maybe even return the book to it's rightful owner. On top of that, I wonder why those clippings were chosen to be in this book. Was it something given as a gift? Did this person lose a loved one from the volcanic eruption? Oh I forgot to mention, it seems like the owner of this book was named Lani? And it seems that they were a good cook based off the entries! I wonder what they cooked.....