A 24-year-old psychology student, Bruno Borges, disappeared on March 27th. He’d been working on a secret project since 2013, borrowing about US$ 6k from a cousin and more recently taking a year off from work to finish it. All he would say is that he was writing 14 books that would change the world.
His parents traveled on March 1st, leaving him at home with his twin brother and sister. During that time, he kept the door to his room locked and would not let anyone inside.
His parents returned on the 22nd. On the 27th, in all other respects a perfectly normal day, Bruno’s father dropped him off at the corner of their house and he was not seen again. His family opened the door to his bedroom and found that all the furniture was gone. They found the fourteen books, full of strange symbols and painstakingly handwritten in an unknown cipher.
The walls and shelves were covered in writing, which consisted of careful and precise handmade copies of pages of the books.
In the middle of the bedroom was a life-sized statue of Italian monk and polymath Giordano Bruno.
Nobody knows how or when he got the statue in the room.
Also, many have commented on Bruno’s resemblance to his Italian namesake:
Bruno also had a longstanding interest in UFOs.
Here’s a video of the scene:
The case of his disappearance is ongoing, and details are being kept secret by the police.
ARG Art Project April Fool’s Day Psychotic Episode You just made the whole thing up and he never existed (In increasing order of probability)
Shit, tumblr kept crapping out when I tried to post and it ended up eating the source (in Portuguese, with additional video of the bedroom).
My money’s on psychotic episode (the article mentions he was undergoing psychological treatment and his mother, who is also a psychologist, suspects the same).
