Hibernation

Last night, it came to my attention from one of our followers that some animals can achieve a state of such extreme relaxation during hibernation, their heartbeat slows to less than one beat per minute.  Naturally, this slows all biological processes, including aging.

 

Could it be that Sam Bailey is spending months or years at a time in a comatose state, thus extending his life?  While the periods we've tracked him through (the turn of the nineteenth century, for example) suggest consistent activity, there are long periods where we have no records at all.  In addition, the information we have suggests that Sam Bailey may have spent over fifty years in captivity, between his tribunal under the Inquisition and his release as documented in the "Resurrection of Antelao."

 

If Sam Bailey passed that time in torpor, is it a consequence of his immortality, or the cause of it?

 

This is a physiological consideration I hadn't considered, but which seems likely to fit into the puzzle somehow or other.  How else could someone live in an iron maiden for half a century or more?

 

On the subject of iron maidens, there is some information forthcoming later this week or early next.  Stay tuned.  In the meantime, anyone with scientific information pertaining to hibernation and Sam Bailey is welcome to submit to scoop@whoissambailey.com.

Would you kill Sam Bailey?

"Why don't you try cutting his head off?"

This is the e-mail I got yesterday morning. On the one hand, the person who sent this in wishes to remain anonymous. On the other hand, they didn't feel the need to elaborate on their point.

Are you serious?

Before yesterday, it had never occurred to me that someone could look at the work we're doing here as a video-game troubleshooting session. This whole project revolves around a man's life, unusual as it is. Ending that life is all you can think about?

My intent was to post about the iron maiden and the bloodwork the Vatican is doing - I have some news on that front. At the same time, this e-mail was such an eye-opener for me that I couldn't let it sit ignored. This site, as controversial as it may be, is a research project. I consider myself bound by both integrity and reason when it comes to sharing information here. Our mission is to ethically, safely test and explore the theory that at least one man is impervious to both age and death. Violence has nothing to do with it.

On a personal level, I consider the evidence suggesting that Sam Bailey is five centuries old to be nothing short of magic. I agree with the postulate that magic is simply that which science has failed to explain, but you know what? Should I manage to explain this thing, it'll still be a miracle which has changed my life, and for which I am eternally grateful.

Anyone looking to end Sam Bailey's life is serving up a big slice of justification for Sam and anyone like him choosing to remain hidden from the world. Like the Inquisition, like those behind the Salem Witch Trials, you demonstrate those qualities most base and pathetic to the human condition.

Is this blog a mistake? Am I threatening Sam Bailey's life by conducting this research? I'd like to think my readers are better than that. In today's world, with as much effort as it takes to stay ignorant, I'd like to think that information naturally leads to discovery instead of repression.

I'll tell you one thing. If I start chopping heads off, I won't be starting with Sam Bailey.

Documents Found

Now, we're getting somewhere.

 

Several weeks back, I mentioned that several documents from the late fifteenth through the early seventeenth centuries had gone missing, including the "Resurrection of Antelao".  While I can't get into how, I apparently have companies of a number of them coming to me in the mail over the next week or so.  More on that as I get them translated.

 

In the meantime, there's one other object of interest that's been moved from the archives: a late fifteenth century iron maiden.  Presumably, the artifact was relocated to the same place as the documents.  What I do know is that access to the artifact has been granted to some kind of Italian biotech firm.  While my source neglected to write down the name of the company, she assures me that it's easy enough to get.  Later this week, I should have that information.

 

Has the Church found the blood of Sam Bailey?  It's seeming more and more likely.

Open Letter Debunked

Presumably, this is the guy who sent us the open letter. Enough said. Moving on.

Church officials destroying archival documents?

While I've been asked not to name them, I can tell you that my source in the Vatican archives is now more than willing to help us move forward.

 

Yesterday, I received an e-mail from her indicating that various sixteenth and seventeenth-century documents have disappeared from the archives.  For the most part, these were journals and records pertaining to the rise of the Holy Roman Inquisition.  Maintaining these documents is an enterprise that costs the church millions of dollars in total, and the number of documents gone missing represents a significant investment on the part of the Church endowment.

 

While the possibility that these documents were stolen remains a possibility, my source tells me that it's an unlikely explanation.  No reports have been filed with either Vatican City or Roman law enforcement, and the catalogue numbers of the missing documents are no longer in the archive directories.

 

Could these documents simply be too obsolete to justify the expense of maintaining them?  In that case, there would have been mor einternal discussion, and online copies would be maintained for posterity.

 

If Sam Bailey were subject to a Roman tribunal, would the records of his trial, as well as any confessions he signed, be among the missing files?  They were of the right time period, certainly.

 

Naturally, I can draw no conclusions.  At the same time, these disappearances have convinced at least one person inside the Vatican that our research is relevant and worthwhile.