Adventure seed: The Haydn Autopsy Files.

Blame this.  Yea, indeed, you should so totally blame this.

The Haydn Autopsy Files

Description: a cardboard box with six files in it.  Files one through five each consist of an incident report and an autopsy report of an individual killed while attempting to hijack an El Al plane in 1986.  Casual researchers will assume that the files are duplicates, given that the first picture in each folder seemingly shows the same person; but a careful look at the files will show that each individual was shot in different places and at different times/locations.  Added to the each file is a lab report dated from 2013; all five individuals had identical DNA.

The sixth file is much fatter, and consists of a variety of documents and press clippings involving the lively post-mortem perambulations of noted 18th Century composer F.J. Haydn’s head. The head in question was stolen by rogue phrenologists hoping to validate their theories, and kept separate from the body until, ostensibly, 1954.  ‘Ostensibly’ in this case because one of the documents is a journal that purports that the head was secretly and temporarily reunited with the body on three separate occasions. The first was in 1896 (marginalia suggest that the event was somehow related to the Dreyfus Affair); the second, in 1933 (two days before the Berlin Reichstag Fire, which is also referenced in the margins); and the third was in 1986 (also two days before the aforementioned hijacking).  The 1986 entries in the journal are largely a collection of odd algebra formulae that make no sense to people with mathematical abilities and even less sense to people who do: calling it ‘gibberish’ seems generous.

It should be noted that the individuals in the autopsy reports do look a great deal like F.J. Hayden did in his paintings.  It also should be noted that Haydn was not particularly known for being associated with either anti-Semitism or occultism; in fact, with regards to the latter… the man was barely even a Freemason.  Possibly the entire thing is simply an elaborate practical joke? – Although if it is a joke, it’s a rather complex, yet pointless one…