The Red Boot on the Porch: Seven Words No One Explains
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The Red Boot on the Porch: Seven Words No One Explains
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A single child's red rain boot, size four and perfectly upright on a snowy porch with no footprints, contained a folded note of seven blue ballpoint words that no one has explained. The boot was found January 9, 2011 on Jennifer Riley's farmhouse step after months of mysterious nocturnal sounds concentrated in the northwest corner of the house-so what did the note mean, and who left it?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Jennifer Riley moving into the farmhouse in spring 2008 through the sounds that began in October 2009, the January 2011 discovery of the boot and note, and the later investigations that partially explained the noises but never the message. What leads from a rhythm of nocturnal hums and a pattern of "no Tuesdays" to a buried pipe and an unanswered paper note?
Person: Jennifer Riley
Date: January 9, 2011
Location: northwest corner of farmhouse, Millard County, 43 miles outside Grover Flats
Event: mysterious low traveling sounds logged 47 times between October 2009 and late summer 2010
Investigation: acoustical engineer consulted and buried pipe removed after freelance journalist Richard Baker's visit
- The red rain boot was size four, standing upright in the center of the top step and dry with undisturbed snow around it.
- Jennifer logged 47 separate occurrences of the nocturnal sound by late summer 2010.
- All recorded sounds were at night and concentrated near the foundation wall facing the woodlot; none occurred on a Tuesday.
- Six entries noted a high, thin harmonic tone layered above the low thumping, clustered in late summer and early fall.
- A corrugated metal drainage pipe was later found buried along the north fence line and removed during investigation.
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