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The Toynbee Tiles
Hundreds of cryptic tiles about resurrecting the dead on Jupiter have been embedded in city streets since the 1980s — and nobody's ever been caught doing it.
Since the early 1980s, hundreds of homemade tiles bearing a bizarre message about resurrecting the dead on Jupiter have been discovered embedded in asphalt streets across dozens of cities in the Americas, with no confirmed identity for the person or people responsible.
~speculative
Quick facts
- →The tiles are embedded directly into street asphalt, not just glued on top — suggesting installation involved briefly digging into road surfaces.
- →A 1983 media figure named James Morasco described a theory matching the tiles' message almost exactly.
- →A 2011 documentary followed one researcher's decades-long attempt to identify the creator, without ever definitively succeeding.
- →Very few tiles believed to be from the original maker have appeared since 2002; most since then are considered copycats.
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Toynbee Tiles (artwork)
Cryptic homemade tiles embedded in city streets since the 1980s; creator never confirmed.
No outgoing connections on file.
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Justin Duerr (person)
Amateur researcher who spent decades documenting and investigating the tiles, later featured in the Resurrect Dead documentary.
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