The box will be 10x18x24 cm
Here is a sketch
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And a 50% scaled down mock up
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Inside the box will be an A5 perfect bound book with approx 26 pages inc. front and back covers + inside
A double page spread will be allotted to each mystery, the left hand page containing the text and perhaps spot illustrations if necessary or if the story is too short, and on the other side will be a full page illustration relating to the story in some way.
Inside the box with the book will be ten envelopes which will contain ephemera and documents from each case, like passports and tickets and newspaper articles. Some of this will be printed/replicated from real documents and some invented to explain things in the story further, like personal detauls of the people involved or things children might not know about, old things mentioned in the stories.
I have narrowed down my list of unsolved mysteries to these 10
- D.B Cooper - Highjacked a Boeing 727 and parachuted away with a million dollars, never to be seen again.
- Dylatov Pass - Group of explorers on a mountain ripped out of their tents from the inside and died in the snow after removing all but their socks, for no discernable reason
- Dancing Plague - People unable to stop dancing, died from exhaustion and heart failure after weeks of constant dancing
- Kentucky Meat Shower - Chunks of meat fell from the sky for several minutes
- Mary Celeste - Passengers on the ship disappeared
- Mothman - Sightings of a large winged bird man appearing to warn people of danger
- The Eileen Mor Lighthouse Mystery - Inhabitants of a lighthouse disappeared, logs report horrible storms causing them to fear the end, despite no storms being recorded at that time
- Jack The Ripper - Notorious serial murderer, never caught
- Elisa Lam - Found dead in a water tank of a hotel after behaving strangely in a lift, seen on cctv. Hotel customers compained about bizaare tast of water which lead to her discovery.
- Hinterkaifek - All residents of a small farm murdered one at a time with a mattock by unidentified person. No explanation for how they got there, stayed there or killed everyone.
I have loosly planned the ephemera that will go with each mystery
- Plane ticket, passport, note passed to flight attendant, ransom bills found
- Group photo, ID, map of area, autopsy/death records
- Articles/chronicles from time, physician notes, sermon record
- Article, witness statements, analysis of meat, ripped out book page about vulture and tendancy to vomit projectilly
- Passenger boarding documents, sailing map/chart, captains log/chart
- witness reports, articles, suposed images, book specification of creature
- keepers logs, weather records, ID, photographs
- from hell letter, articles, potential IDs, victims
- video stills, ID, holiday related documents, water complaints, death certificate
- death reports, new maids arrival/employment docs, crime scene pics, ripped out book page about weapon (mattock)
This will equate to roughly 30 pieces of ephemera
It shouldn't be too difficult as many of them will just be printed out or replicated.
Serveral of the incidents happened a long time ago so I plan to make these documents on parchment and age it with various methods.
Below is the contents of my 505 bookmarks folder, to demonstrate a portion of my research.
I think I'm ready to draw something now ...........
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