Moab – day three – 08 :47 PM – weather : blue sky in the morning, more and more clouds in the afternoon – temperature : 29.1°F (-1.6°C)

Dear reader,

I went in the desert today, almost all the day long, hiking thru the Arches and the Canyonland National Parks, but when I came back I had tremendous news in my mailbox. Here it is, without any comments:

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Best regards,

Daniel Capelletti
Head of Research of the Global Connected Researcher Union

Moab – day two – 11 :52 PM – weather : rain, wind and snow – temperature : 31°F (-1°C)

Dear reader,

The weather was suddenly changing, and I decided to postpose my trip to the desert.

The Grand County of Moab, 125 E Center Street, is one of the rare recently constructed buildings of the city, and about 3 minutes walking from my hotel.

I was first speaking to a few officers, asking about the possibility to visit the jail, and take some pictures, but this is not allowed. Anyway, this building is too recent – builded around 1990 – for house the jail where Tulse was kept as a prisoner. After a last, little and pleasant conversation about my quest with the sheriff of Moab, mister Jim Nyland, I decided to continue my researches at the museum of the city, just accross the street.

I met first Mrs. Kathy McGill, and after a few minutes of research this very conscientious lady, helped by Mr. Travis Schenck, Director of the Museum, found a few documents related to the jail’s history. The first jail of Moab was a very little and summary construction builded at the very end of the 19th century. The place still exists, and is used as a small restaurant called the Jailhouse Cafe. Next came the Grand County Courthouse, located Northeast corner of Center and 1st East. Ground breaking ceremonies for the construction of the native sandstone courthouse was in 1903, after passage of $10.000 bond issue. White sandstone with red sandstone trim made the building an outstanding example of local masonry. The building also housed the public library, but that beautiful courthouse doesn’t exist no more!

This is, I’m afraid, one more dead end in my quest about Tulse Luper and suitcase 92, and I dont really expect to find other helpful evidences concerning Tulse here in Moab. I need a period of reflexion.

Best regards,

Daniel Capelletti
Head of Research of the Global Connected Researcher Union

   Moab, Utah. Sheriff Jim Nyland

   Moab, Utah. Mrs. Kathy McGill, assistant director of the Museum of Moab

   Moab, Utah. Mr. Travis Schenck, director of the Museum of Moab

   Moab, Utah. The Jailhouse Cafe

   Moab, Utah. The Grand County Courthouse, view 1 *

   Moab, Utah. The Grand County Courthouse, view 2 *

   Moab, Utah. The actual Grand County

*with the courtesy of the Museum of Moab

Moab – day 2 – 01 : 07 PM – weather : mostly cloudy – temperature : 45.7°F (7°C)

Dear reader,

The tailings pile is about 3 miles away from Moab. It is located just near the highway, at the banks of the Colorado River, and looks like a giant red book of almost 130 acres (526,11 m²) lying on the ground.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has started the project to move the tailings to a permanent disposal site 30 miles north, near Crescent Junction. The project is called the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project.

The whole project will cost about US$635 million to $835 million, and will end in 2019.

No one unauthorized person is allowed on the site, and unfortunately I cannot bring further my researches about this specific location. Anyway there is nothing more common between the site like it was in Luper’s time, and the actual situation.

I will bring the rest of the day in a first visit of the desert.

Best regards,

Daniel Capelletti
Head of Research of the Global Connected Researcher Union

   Moab, Utah. Tailings pile

   Moab, Utah. At the UMTRA entrance

Moab – day one – 11 : 52 AM – weather : cloudy – temperature : 47.1°F (8.4°C)

Dear reader,

After a short sleep and a big and tasty breakfeast at the Moab Diner, I make my first tour, just as any other tourist will do.

Moab is a very peaceful, almost drowsy place, certainly much more animated in the summer, when the temperature is climbing up to 100°F (37,8°C) or even higher. But for now I take advantage of the silent of Main street (Hwy 191), a large avenue edged on the both sides by hotels, restaurants and stores. Just behind, a few humble family houses are niched at the bottom of the world famous red sandstone rocks of the desert.

I will wait for sunshine before I go to visit the desert: for the light and for the colors, the result will be much beter on the pictures.

I started my quest by a visit to the Moab Information Center, where I met Mrs. Peggy McNeil, information specialist, a charming lady which was not as surprised as expected by my weird questions about the jail of Moab and the uranium. Regarding this last point, she explain me that the only yet visible think related to the uranium is a huge tailings pile, that will be cleaned and relocated in the coming years due to the pollution by radioactivity generated on the site. That pile is located at the north of Moab.

Enough with investigations for today! I feel tired and want to rest well. I need to be fresh and full of energy for my mission.

Best regards,

Daniel Capelletti
Head of Research of the Global Connected Researcher Union

   Moab, Utah. General view

   Moab, Utah. A house amongst other

   Moab, Utah. Mrs. Peggy McNeil

Moab – day 1 – 02 : 59 AM – weather : clear – temperature : 26.1°F (-3.3°C)

Dear reader,

Just arrived in Moab, one hour ago, after a very long travel of 30 hours from door to door!

I dont have a lot to say about the travel, an usual succession of monotone flights and boring stops at airports: Brussels, Atlanta and Salt Lake City. I was first intend to take a shuttle between Salt Lake and Moab, but there isn’t any regular connection between these two cities, especially in this period of the year. So I finally rent a car and went to Moab by myself, five hours of night driving thru the I15 and I70.

My hotel is the Best Western Greenwell, South Main Street, and I will stay here for a few days, in order to find interesting informations about Tulse Luper. More specifically I expect some revelations from two major places I need to investigate here; an uranium pit, which seems to be one of the most important keys of all Tulse’s story and life, and of course the jail of Moab where Tulse was kept as a prisoner for such a long time.

A very consistant program of researches that I’ll start in a few hours is thus awaiting me, but I’m shure to bring concrete results to the G.C.R.U. in the coming days.

Best regards,

Daniel Capelletti
Head of Research of the Global Connected Researcher Union

   Moab, Utah. Hotel in the night

   Moab, Utah. My room

Dear reader,

Once I’ve explained the details of my search at the Department of the Historic Monuments of Belgium, they redirect me to the Archives and Photograph Service of the Belgian railway, where I was received by mister Jan Verhaeven, Public affairs & External relations.

Mister Verhaeven, a very quiet and competent person, helped me by searching in their documents database for pics related to the Central Station of Antwerp, especially in the period going from 1905 to 1980. Most of the available documents are old postcards, and it is very difficult to find some views from the inside of the Station, due to the commercial aim of the original sources.

After an hour of research we had to give up: no one document shows any bathroom or showers.

Mister Verhaeven gave me the name of another person, working at the Archives service in Antwerp, where are kept most of the maps of the station. A phone call later, I knew that there is no mark of any bathroom or showers on the original map.

But I had one more source to explore. Mister Constant Wagemans was working for many years at the Belgian railway, and possesses the most important collection of documents related to the Belgian railway’s history. Mister Wagemans is regarded as a real expert about the Belgian trains, even by the official authorities. There is no railway’s museum in Belgium (like the NRM of York in England, for example), and all the ‘memory’ is supported by the national Archives services, and private collections.

I had a very thrilling conversation with mister Wagemans, who learned me a lot of almost incredible details about the Central Station of Antwerp. This station was the first official building ever gas-lighted in Europe! That was in 1906. It was for many years a huge chimney near the station, and inside of it, at the bottom, a wheel-less steam locomotive was producing steam enough to heat the station by a net of underground tunnels…

But even mister Wagemans never heard about any bathroom at the Central Station of Antwerp.

Daniel Capelletti
Head of Research of the Global Connected Researcher Union

All documents with the courtesy of the archives of the SNCB-holding

Dear reader,

I started today my search about the true content of suitcase 92, by a visit to the main railway-station of Antwerp, the Central Station, which is located at less than 80 km of my residence.

This is a very large and beautiful building, constructed around 1900, but recently a lot of huge restorations were applied to the original construction, in order to enhance the train traffic by adding lower-levels.

Even if the main part of the restoration is done, they are still a lot of scaffoldings everywhere, keeping some areas out of any public investigation.

My goal was to find the bathes of the station where Tulse was kept as a prisoner. I was first rambling around, trying to find any clue by myself, with no results. Then I asked to a gracious lady, person in charge at the info office, who left me after a few explanations with a venerable doorkeeper, supposed to be the living memory of the station!

The ancester lead me silently thru a dedaleous succession of inner corridors and majestic lifts to the very heart of the station, at level -1 ½…

Opening a last door with an impressive high-security key, the man gave me finally access to… the shower room of the technical staff, a miserable, apparently barely used, but above all desperately recent corner build in 2003!

The doorkeeper was very kind, and answered to all my questions. He never heared about any old bath-room of the station. During our way back to the surface, he was questionning a few other employees, all the answers were negative.

A failure as a first attempt is a very common result for a professional researcher. In a couple of days I will learn more about the Central Station of Antwerp, at the Department of the Historic Monuments of Belgium.

Daniel Capelletti
Head of Research of the Global Connected Researcher Union

    Central Station, Antwerp. Front facade

    Central Station, Antwerp. Inner facade

    Central Station, Antwerp. Roof of the main hall

Dear reader,

As recently nominated as Head of Research I want to thank you to bring your faithful interest in our quest about Tulse Luper’s suitcases. My new function allows me to freely extend my researches to foreign countries far from any administrative fuss, as long as I regularly report to the G.C.R.U. about my finds.

Without any deny of true respect for our close colleagues of the Research Department, a few of us, including Pat Fields, Richard Douglas and Jin Nami Huyen never subscribed to the Knockavelli thesis. The 16mm movie founded in suitcase 92 is obviously NOT an original, but a fiction filmed a posteriori. The contents of all the other suitcases is always chronologically connected to Luper’s time, no matter how concrete or virtual it is.

On the other side the authenticity of suitcase 92 was clearly demonstrated and proved by many analyses. There is only one conclusion: the original content was removed from the suitcase, and replaced by this fiction movie. Why, who did it, where and what is or was the original artefact are the main questions related to this last found suitcase.

I am currently preparing my travel, selecting the locations I need to explore in order to get answers to these questions. For evident reasons, Sark Island and the desert of Moab will be important steps of my journey, but I also have to consider other places depending of the result of my researches.

I will further inform you about more concrete elements related to my travel.

Best regards,

Daniel Capelletti
Head of Research of the Global Connected Researcher Union