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Mystery Note Found in Sealed Cereal Box
PAhomepage ^ | Dec 26, 2023 | Andy Mehalshick

Posted on 12/26/2023 2:59:16 PM PST by nickcarraway

These cryptic messages have reportedly been found across Pennsylvania in a variety of food packages

How did a note get into a sealed cereal box? That’s the question, among others, being asked by a Luzerne County man.

He contacted the FBI about the note as well as the I-Team to look into the situation.

There are a lot of moving parts to this story, but it does appear, based on our research thus far, that notes like this are showing up in all types of food products from numerous grocery stores around eastern Pennsylvania and beyond.

It also does appear that the note found in Luzerne County was not put into that box of cereal at the point of sale. We are still working the story and looking for answers.

“I opened up the box. I usually open it up take the bag out and I opened the bag like this so I poured it out in my bowl and out came this paper that was all folded up just like this,” said Joe Miller of Sugarloaf Township.

Found a Note Like This? Contact the I-Team Miller says he couldn’t believe what he was seeing. He tells the I-Team he bought the box of Lucky Charm’s Smores cereal at a Luzerne County grocery store on Sunday and opened it on Monday night.

“Oh, I was devastated. I mean I didn’t even want to eat the cereal, although, I still have the box here. Probably not going to eat it. I don’t know what’s inside the cereal or was this note laced with anything,” Miller explained.

At this point in time, 28/22 news is not showing the name of the store where the cereal was purchased or the contents of the note as we continue the search for answers.

We can tell you the note contains a mash-up of words and references to current events and conspiracy theories.

Miller says his big concern is that somehow a note made its way into a sealed food product.

“It just bothers me, the note really it’s the note that really bothers me. These notes are found inside food like kids food,” Miller continued.

Miller contacted the FBI as did the I-Team. An FBI spokesperson had no comment on the note.

28/22 News did reach out to the manufacturer of the cereal, General Mills, for comment, but we have not yet heard back.

A spokesperson for the store also tells 28/22 News they are investigating the situation and we have not yet heard back.


TOPICS: Food; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: donatefreerepublic; getnoticed; joindu; note; paping; secrecy
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To: broken_clock

LOL!!!!!!


21 posted on 12/26/2023 3:49:46 PM PST by CapnJack ( )
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To: nickcarraway
I used to find folded Mystery Notes in new shirts, pants,sometimes packages of underwear and sometimes packaged autoparts.

All notes had the same message: *Inspected By Number 6.

Then at some point, Number 6 moved on to another person and I never found any more notes.

22 posted on 12/26/2023 3:53:35 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: CapnJack

😃


23 posted on 12/26/2023 3:54:16 PM PST by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: nickcarraway

“Help! I’m a 4-foot-tall woman trapped in a cereal factory! Please rescue me!”


24 posted on 12/26/2023 4:00:54 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: nickcarraway
"How did a note get into a sealed cereal box?"

I'll take a stab in the dark here...Uh, it was unsealed?

25 posted on 12/26/2023 4:03:30 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: stylin19a

Ha! I watched that movie yesterday, every Christmas. “Dont forget to drink your Ovalitine! A crummy commercial!”


26 posted on 12/26/2023 4:04:55 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: frank ballenger

Maybe it said, ‘Tastes like chicken’

I helped a friend bag corn back in the 80s at a grain elevator. The corn was sent to Louisiana to sell. He threw a Playboy pic in one bag and sewed it up. We laughed at the thought of an old lady opening her bag of corn to feed the chickens and the surprise she would find.


27 posted on 12/26/2023 4:16:17 PM PST by taterjay
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To: Seruzawa

Have you ever watched how food is packaged? Human hands never touch cereal while it’s being packaged. It’s all done by giant machines. I don’t know how anyone could get a note into the part of the machine that positions the bags into the filler mechanism.


28 posted on 12/26/2023 4:19:55 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: spacejunkie2001

RE: since it was kid’s cereal, I bet it was pro tranny propaganda

Kid: Mommy, this picture is of the guy at my second grade Drag Queen Celebration. What does “Available for male stripper girls’ night out and bachelorette bookings” mean?


29 posted on 12/26/2023 4:23:16 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Leaning Right

You can first apply your decoder ring to the story. What a jumbled mess.


30 posted on 12/26/2023 5:00:26 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: nickcarraway

Very weird story.

Has to be a worker at the place that boxes up the cereals. If it’s in a few kinds then the place that does all of those is probably one place I would think and it has to be that place’s staff with access to the line before the boxes are sealed.

I wonder if they have cameras on the line?


31 posted on 12/26/2023 5:17:08 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: stylin19a

Beat me to it!


32 posted on 12/26/2023 5:33:10 PM PST by funwithfood
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To: nickcarraway

Why bother to report it if the reporter isn’t actually doing any reporting? Is the reporter sitting on the secret after seeing and reading the note, or the editor, or the cops? And if so, why? Is the finder under a gag order as to the contents of said note, and couldn’t reveal what it said? Is the notewriter a possible forced laborer, child laborer, illegal, disgruntled employee, practical jokester, etc? Were there threats, predictions, clues that the public may be able to help solve? When was the box sealed, expiration dates, etc?

The media utterly lacks curiosity and is worthless.


33 posted on 12/26/2023 5:56:52 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: nickcarraway
I'm gonna wait for corroboration from an adult that doesn't eat Lucky Charm’s Smores cereal.
34 posted on 12/26/2023 6:30:46 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: nickcarraway
We can tell you the note contains a mash-up of words and references to current events and conspiracy theories.

So for sure we know it’s pro-Trump, put there as a prelude to the deep states’s false flag on food poisoning… 🙄

35 posted on 12/26/2023 6:46:24 PM PST by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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To: Deaf Smith

Monk had to track down his favorite shirt inspector


36 posted on 12/26/2023 7:04:56 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.")
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To: Seruzawa
Re-sealing bags is not hard. You just need a battery operated heat sealer. Unusual but not hard to get. A bit of glue for the box top and there you are.

So it is possible for someone to open both box and bag and reseal them then slip them back into the stock to end up on the shelves.

The last part is the trick.

Doing it as a customer is not likely. Getting it into the store without being seen would be difficult. BTW this is why if you return food to a store it is thrown away. They do not want to put product back on the shelf that may be poisoned in some way.

Next is a store employee. Possible but not probable. They would have to sneak the products somewhere where they would have privacy to do it. To small an area, to many people around, way to many cameras.

Since we are talking about various packaged foods across various stores I would check the central distribution center.

Probably the easiest place to do that and the least watched.

37 posted on 12/26/2023 7:17:57 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: MayflowerMadam

Since they moved manufacturing to china, my Number 6 got laid off.


38 posted on 12/26/2023 8:39:52 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Seruzawa
Let’s see if we can figure this out. Anyone want to give the odds that it’s some joker at the packaging plant having us on? 100%? A note got put in the bag before it was sealed.Not that there are cameras in packaging plants or anything...
39 posted on 12/26/2023 8:46:34 PM PST by GOPJ (Surgery doesn't make a man a woman anymore than wearing a Gorilla costume turns a man into an ape.)
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To: stylin19a

Ha!


40 posted on 12/26/2023 9:12:53 PM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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