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Hand out #1: The Saginaw News, June 19th, 1990
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Handout #2:Flint Journal, Nov 5th, 1979.
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Handout #3:Detroit Free Press, March 13th, 1965.
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Handout #4: Clio Messenger, April 20th, 2011
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Not technically a handout, but here is the list of interviews for the last two days (16th and 17th) found on Lyn Cartwright's laptop.

Mayor Charlotte Coleman: Interviewed Sept 16th on camera.
Chief Donald Mathews: Interview scheduled, Sept 17th, 9:30am at the police station.
Vanessa Volker: Interview scheduled, Sept 17th, 2:00pm office.
Baker family: Declined interview.
Grover family: Interviewed, Sept 16th, on camera.
Joseph family: Interviewed, Sept 16th, masked audio only.
James Burke and Alexis Romanov: Interviewed, Sept 16th, on camera.
Lily Austin: Interview scheduled, Sept 17th, 12:00pm office
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Transcript of the Audio File.
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In answer to Karl’s Google search;

The Yellow Sign is a fictional symbol or glyph, first described in Robert W. Chambers' book The King In Yellow.

The King in Yellow
The King In Yellow never fully describes the shape and purpose of the Yellow Sign. The story of the same name offers only that it is "a curious symbol or letter in gold. It was neither Arabic or Chinese, nor as I found afterwards did it belong to any human script". Nonetheless, "The Repairer of Reputations", another of the stories in the collection, suggests that anyone who possesses or sees, even by accident, a copy of the sign is susceptible to some form of insidious mind control or possession, by the King in Yellow or one of his heirs. The stories also suggest that the original creator of the sign was not human and possibly came from a strange alternate dimension that contains an ominous and ancient city known as Carcosa.

The Cthulhu Mythos
H. P. Lovecraft and many of his imitators were great admirers of Chambers' book and incorporated many of his characters and symbols into their own works. Lovecraft refers, in one story, to the Brothers of the Yellow Sign, as enemies of the Migo. In the latter-day Cthulhu Mythos, developed by August Derleth and other Lovecraft imitators, the Yellow Sign is the sign of Hastur and is used by members of his cult to identify one other. In addition, according to many of these works one of Hastur's avatars is known as the King in Yellow. This interpretation is popular among role-players, but many prefer the more vague horror of Chambers' original vision.

Call of Cthulhu
In 1989, Kevin Ross designed a Yellow Sign symbol for the Call of Cthulhu RPG. Ross created the symbol for an adventure scenario entitled "Tell Me, Have You Seen The Yellow Sign?" in the supplemental book The Great Old Ones. The symbol resembles a yellow triskelion, and is also believed to resemble a tentacled creature, since Hastur is often described as an aquatic tentacled being similar to Cthulhu.
Ross later stated in an interview that the image used is actually a corruption of his original drawing; apparently, Chaosium printed the image both upside-down and backwards. Flipping the image horizontally and vertically reveals Ross' original conception of the Yellow Sign, which resembles a coiled body or tentacle with two tentacles branching upward. Fans have pointed out that this image bears a resemblance to the "Kronos" symbol used by the band Blue Oyster Cult. When asked, Ross admitted to being a big fan of the band, but could not remember if the resemblance was deliberate.
Presumably the mistake occurred because the sign (as familiar to us now) contains what looks like a question-mark, acting as a counterpoint to the question "Tell Me, Have You Seen The Yellow Sign?". Ironically it makes the Sign appear more fluid, more dynamic, than it would have otherwise appeared.
Some have suggested that the sign was represented in Chambers's own illustrations for the King in Yellow. A symbol of a burning, inverted torch (resembling the torch of Thanatos) is shown several places on the cover of the first edition. While no other evidence exists that Chambers intended this to be the sign, the imagery serves to suggest the corruption and inevitable destruction which the sign portends. Similar in form to the inverted torch is the thyrsus, the token of Dionysus.
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The Cooper Hose - Haunted or Hoax?
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Information on the Cooper House: Gracie's online search

“Before the Cooper house was “the Cooper house”, it was the McCumsey house. It was built by Edmund McCumsey of Britain, who immigrated to the U.S. after World War II in 1946. He was joined by his wife Deborah and their three children. At the time, Clio was an even smaller place, and McCumsey not only built his house far from town, but paid to have a road laid out to it where none was before.”

“Edmund McCumsey was a scholar and historian from the University of Birmingham. He is most noteworthy for writing a book in 1937 entitled Before Daedalus: Labyrinths in History and Legend. Shortly after coming to Clio, Edmund McCumsey rankled his new neighbors by not hiring locals to build his new home, instead importing German masons.
It seems that many Clio residents expressed resentment at the employment of “Krauts” so soon after the war; others wondered why foreign experts were needed for a simple house. In December, 1947, the McCumsey’s eldest son, Jacob, age 14, reportedly dies. However, no certificate of death can be found to substantiate this.”

“In March, 1948, three local men (James Steely, Thomas Drake, John Drake) disappeared. Thomas’ wife claimed that the trio planned to break into the McCumsey house to look for Edmund’s rumoured secret vault. It was thought in the town that the McCumsey family had money, and it was widely assumed that the German “bunker builders” (as they had become
known) that Edmund had hired had built him a secret vault underneath his home, in which to hide his wealth. The McCumsey family was questioned and their house was searched. A day later, all three men came home, filthy and “confused” about the previous 48 hours. It was determined that all three men drank themselves into a stupor, as they were wont to do.”
In October 1948, one of the McCumsey daughters, Rebecca, age 10, dies. No certificate of death can be found. The following month, Deborah returns to England with her last surviving child. Edmund stays behind in Clio.
In February 1951, after no one can recall having seen the reclusive Edmund McCumsey for months, police go out to his house but find no trace of the man. They remark that the place looked to have not been lived in for quite some time.
In 1955, after sitting empty for years, the McCumsey house is purchased by John Cooper. Cooper also purchases the surrounding land and turns the place into a family operated farm.”

“In April, 1948, John Drake dies. Two weeks later, James Steely dies. Two days after that, his wife is institutionalized and their children become wards of the state.
One week later, Thomas Drake and his family die in a house fire. No cause for the fire is listed.”
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Map of Clio updated to show location of the Cooper House.

X= the accident site
Y= the motel
B= the Bakers Farm
C= the Cooper house
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Location Map of the Cooper House.
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