Someone is leaving coded messages and items such as a plastic leaf with paint dots inside envelopes between the pages of books at Western University. “It’s completely baffling!” says assistant professor Mike Moffatt, who has been tracking the messages on his blog.
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9:12 am Tue
Mar 25, 2014
Mysterious coded messages at university library
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