What Happened on Vintém Hill?: The Mystery of the Lead Masks
It was on August 17th when they left the area, telling their families they needed to buy work supplies, and hopped a bus heading southeast to Niterói, more than 3 hours and 160 miles away. On August 20th, 3 full days later, their bodies were discovered laying side by side on Vintém Hill by a young man named Jorge da Costa Alves who had been flying his kite at the time. They were dressed identically in suits, each wearing trench coat style weather resistant jackets and, covering their eyes, lead masks designed to protect one from exposure to radiation.
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Aside from the way they were dressed, and the lead masks upon their faces, the police made note of a few other strange items as well. Next to the bodies lay an empty bottle of water, a packet containing two towels, and a notebook with a bizarre and cryptic message scribbled inside. Translations from the Portuguese vary only slightly, but remain perplexing because of the grammatical and spelling errors contained in the note. It read: “16:30 estar no local determinado. 18:30 ingerir cápsulas, após efeito proteger metais aguardar sinal mascara.” Translated, this means: “16:30 be at the agreed place. 18:30 swallow capsules, after effect protect metals wait for mask sign.” Though one can make some sense of the message, including the deduction that the bottle of water was used to swallow some strange capsule, it is just incomplete enough to provide one more stumbling block in the way of solving the mystery. What was the effect they were waiting for? What was the mask sign? And why did they need protection from radiation to begin with?
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