Day 3 - Wednesday, July 27
Good morning honey, didn’t sleep too much last night but didn’t expect to. But I know you’re going to be just fine.
July 27 at 9:18am
No nothing happened after EVERYTHING happened last night, slept a little...
July 27 at 9:20am
Def needed the rest. Today's a new day. No signs anyone came in last night, did a quick sweep of room, everything seems the same
July 27 at 9:23am
Oh sweetheart, I know it will be ok too... some of those things last night - the email, the site etc - were a little upsetting but we need to be strong and face a new day... Going to get you out of there angel. I love you.
July 27 at 9:37am
Love you too mom
July 27 at 9:54am
Margaret, this is the site we are talking about: http://www.yourfriendsaremyfriends.com/ it really upset Christina, she used to have a music box like that. You guys need to support her, she needs your help
July 27 at 9:55am
Thanks Emma! Did you see that music box in the site last night?? like the one we used to play with as kids. So insane, how could anyone have known about that?
July 27 at 9:42am
I know... I don't get it. But I mean a lot of people had boxes like that, maybe it's just a coincidence? I don't know. Try not to think about it too much right now, we'll figure it out. We'll figure this whole thing out and get you home.
July 27 at 9:43am
GUYS - OMG HATERS. Seriously, I am worried about Christina but this came up and I need to resolve, had our hearts set on a quartet. There's nothing I can do for Christina right now.
July 27 at 10:17am
BUT I DO CARE... oh whatever you people just don't get it, not going to try to talk sense into a bunch of haters. Wedding is going to be BEAUTIFUL and Christina will be there, I just know it. She HAS to be there.
July 27 at 10:24am
Thank you guys for being there for me - no food and water yet today...
July 27 at 10:53am
Thank you nice people who want me to have a beautiful wedding and WHATEVER to the haters. Just don't get it.
July 27 at 11:58am
Yeah you'd think I could take a shower with all this soap and towel and stuff, but no, the water is shut off
July 27 at 11:42am /span>
Water is still shut off, won't work. Can't move tub, too heavy
July 27 at 11:46am
Thanks Jen. Holding up ok.
July 27 at 12:00pm
Whew. I'm glad you're back--every time you're not on the page it seems like forever.
July 28 at 1:10pm
Thanks guys for kind words. This is so hard and... disturbing. Not going to give in though.
July 27 at 1:34pm
All I saw was fingers in black gloves again... creepy. Ugh I hate this
July 27 at 2:01pm
Black leather gloves... don't hear any breathing or anything.. just sound of keys jangling
July 27 at 2:04pm
I told you I was in touch w police...
July 27 at 3:12pm
You guys aren't getting it. There's a reason I'm not releasing my IP addy to you guys... there are people working on it... outside... telling me to sit tight...
July 27 at 3:16pm
I just want to know what they or he or she WANTS FROM ME??!! Just to see me SIT???!!
July 27 at 5:01pm
Happy to help Mrs. Perasso... I'm so sorry this is happening but I know it's gong to turn out all right. Stay positive!!
July 28 at 6:35pm
seems like maybe internet outages and feeding time may be connected? Hasn't always been case but today it is...
July 27 at 6:44pm
@Chelsea Noelle Tryon - you're right, we don't know it's a he, could be a she or even a they... @Mishelle Fuller - you may be right, maybe I'll ease up on exercising... @Hayley Beischer I hope it's not some twisted experiment but thanks for your kind wishes... @Nick Rosatti - thanks, I'll try to hang in there...
July 27 at 7:00pm
yes I def use social media a lot, but I like to think I see people in "real world" a lot too...
July 27 at 8:16pm
Ok so maybe the person was hurt by society, and they are turning their anger onto me?
July 27 at 8:31pm
I just can't think of anyone like that Anthony!!
July 27 at 8:36pm
More disagreement this time - lots think its someone who knows me well, but there's a bunch who are saying it could be a outlying person who's obsessed or something, like a lurker or something...
July 27 at 8:30pm
Ok, more people seem to be leaning to being close to me. Ugh hate that idea. OK. LEAVING EMOTION OUT OF THIS... There are a couple of things that a little weird - the XTINA thing. No one calls me that, and I've never used that myself. Heart pillow seems really specific, but I never had anything like that. The only personal thing is the music box. And those are pretty common, right??
July 27 at 8:35pm
So lots of you guys are saying it's someone who I wronged in some way, or who THINKS I wronged them OR someone obsessed who wants to control me... and was already angry about changes in society around social media and stuff like that??!
July 27 at 8:41pm
@Jenna Felter - so you think it's a stranger who got obsessed... trying to think of someone that matches your descrip... @Shelby Nesbitt - I don't know how they knew the music box, and that is freaking me out... maybe I talked about it to someone.. maybe it's a coincidence, I do mention I like ballet in my FB info..
July 27 at 8:53pm
Ok ok ok. Maybe wishful thinking that it's a coincidence... seems like lots of people had music boxes but so many different kinds. Ok. I have to accept that I think.
July 27 at 9:07pm
It was a long time ago but I think my father gave it to me. But anyone who knew me as a kid, until I moved out, would have seen that music box in my room...
July 27 at 9:12pm
No out of office. Whew! So glad your kidnapper is out of your email.
July 27 at 9:37pm
OK I responded to some people, did some of you get my email?
July 27 at 9:37pm
christina.perasso@gmail.com
July 27 at 9:40pm
Ok good - guys I can't answer everybody's email... just wanted to make sure it was working. Thanks EVERYBODY!!!
July 27 at 9:46pm
Thank goodness honey! I don't know why that makes me feel so relieved but it does!
July 27 at 9:48pm
I know it's a little weird. I have a back-up email too... which I'm keeping super private...
July 27 at 9:48pm
GUYS!!! I'm trying to lighten the mood for her, JEEZ SERIOUS HATERS!!! You guys just don't get it!!! When she's bummed out I always say something like that
July 28 at 10:54pm
Maybe Emma, def the best explanation I've heard yet...
July 27 at 10:07pm
have you guys come across anything new?
July 27 at 11:55pm
Oh honey!! So glad youre back was getting worried about you!!
July 27 at 11:57pm
@Tasha Lore'e Olson - it's normally super hot in here, think whoever is doing this is has heat blasting - @Sandyra O'Meara - You're right Sandyra, just my imagination @Marissa Bowering - don't beat yourself up this is hard.. I can't figure it out either
July 28 at 12:04am
Yeah the WHY doesn't quite get fully answered by the WHO
July 28 at 12:15am
Matt not ignoring, you've been helping, I'm hearing you... sorry, can't comment on everyone's
July 28 at 12:17am
So lots of people saying Southern California, specifically LA. Ok. Seems like sunrise and sunset are in line with that. I guess that could be faked but that's too crazy... right??!
July 28 at 12:45am
Why do you other guys think still in Washington State?
July 28 at 12:45am
Yeah people are set on LA. Not sure.
July 28 at 12:53am
Talking about WHERE. where did you guys get with the numbers - the first set, 118233?
July 28 at 12:55am

So not too long after this, there is a posting on Christina's wall that says the person was playing around with the numbers and found the website http://332811.com. If you look up the DNS, it was registered at GoDaddy like the other sites, but not until July 26th, while the others have been registered in June. What's weird is that 332811.com was found before the original number order http://118233.com - but they appear to have the exact same info (and were registered at about the same time). And to top off the bizarreness for these sites, Christina has taken to mentioning only 332811.com in her updates. Were we really supposed to find 332811 before 118233? Were both sites registered just in the off chance that we might take a bizarre route to the next step? And why were they registered so late in the process?

So looking at http://332811.com or http://118233.com (personally, I think the latter is a better solution but since everyone keeps talking about the former, I can't exactly ignore it), it starts off with a handwritten message from the kidnapper.

teChnology has tricked us.
the Human condition cannot be rendeRed In zeros and ones.
it haS made us ThInk that each of us can stand aloNe.
truth is the wAy.

The picture beneath the handwriting is later confirmed by Christina's mother to be Christina as a baby. This would seem to rule out any doubt of Christina being a random victim since presumably he had acquired the picture before he took Christina.

Checking out the source code also gives more of the kidnapper's manifesto:

A darkness has fallen over the world The fog of diversion, the lie of distraction Proxy has become primary Avatar has become hero You cannot embrace alone You cannot agree with yourself Progress is a group activity Friendship a hands-on pursuit What has crept in to deceive us? Or was it always in us, the temptation To lower our eyes, to avoid the world To hold inside what should be shared To hoard ourselves And impoverish us all. Bear the weight as I do To pierce the darkness with brilliant light No matter what laws I break Or milk I spill...

And if you don't already have enough numbers running through your head, the page is titled 332881 - which is not the same as the URL since there is an extra 8 (and a missing 1). However, there is no 332881.com or 188233.com. Please let it be noted that I did think about registering either one of those URLs but in order to make it truly believable, I would have to go through GoDaddy and fuck that shit.

So, anyway, where we we? The creepy handwritten picture. If you take all the capital letters, it spells out CHRISTINA. If you add that to the end of the url (in lowercase since this all seems to be backwards for some reason), you get the next page: http://332811.com/christina (By the way, do not add on an ending / because for some reason it thinks that means you are looking for christina.html which doesn't exist.)

where is 3 8 18 9 19 20 9 14 1 ?

This asks "where is christina?" I actually could think of a million ways to answer this, but since this is the Inside Experience the answer is "inside" which takes us to the next page: http://332811.com/inside

20 18 21 20 8 is the way

Truth is the way, as we are so frequently reminded by the manifestos and so it's off to http://332811.com/truth

This page has a very faint symbol on it. The symbol is from the flag of New Mexico (which is taken from the sun symbol of the Zia Indians).

Unfortunately, this is as far as we've gotten. Trying /newmexico, /zia, /sunsymbol, etc just gives 404 errors. I'm not entirely convinced that this is a dead end, but as to what the next step would be, I have no idea (and neither does anyone else apparently).

There is actually one other page that was found: 404.html Note that this is a specific 404 page and that any other 404 pages that you'll access by typing a wrong answer will just be your run-of-the-mill 404 page.

404 ERROR: page cannot be found.

May be temporarily unavailable, or may be removed permanently.
Make sure you aren't annihilating freedom forever by your blunders.
Subdirectories follow the logic of emphasis.

 
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