29: Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Strangeness is afoot. Most people don't notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been his obsession. He has been collecting clues that the tiler has embedded in the streets of major cities across the U.S. and South America. But as Justin starts piecing together key events of the past he finds a story that is more surreal than he imagined, and one that hits disturbingly close to home.

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1:01.0	I-tanya. Oh, okay. You never asked. You and your adorable husband to I-tanya.
1:06.8	My super-hot husband, Michael Paul Smith, saw I-tanya on New Year's Eve. We saw the 430
1:11.0	show on the other side. It was amazing. It was an empty theater. I really updated the
1:18.0	Facebook group about this. I was like, you guys hear the tickets and then in the comment
1:21.4	section, I was like garbage just dinging thing because it was an empty theater. And then
1:25.4	this family with 800 shopping bags sits in the- there was enough of them to take up two
1:30.6	rows set in the two rows in front of us. I was like, it's 430 on New Year's Eve. There's
1:35.4	a nowhere else for you guys to sit. I was so annoyed. And then garbage people in the
1:40.7	row behind us and this bitch kept kicking my chair. I turned around three times.
1:48.3	Did you have to say something? The first time I was so nice about it, you guys. I swear.
1:53.2	But I did turn around. I was like, I'm in fucking itanya. It's New Year's Eve. I'm not
1:57.3	doing I can't my chair. Also, what even it still does that at the movie theater? Who doesn't
2:02.5	have that awareness? I know. I know. So I turned around. I was like, oh, sorry. Can you
2:06.6	just, you're trying to play dumb? What are you doing? I'm going to go great. Looked through
2:12.1	me. I wasn't even there. They were step-ferred people. So then I was like, don't, I'm going
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