The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

Since the nineteen eighties, hundreds of cryptic messages have appeared embedded in streets

across America. Linoleum tiles. Pressed into asphalt. Always the same message.

"TOYNBEE IDEA IN MOvie 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER." No one knows who creates them.

No one has ever been caught installing them. They appear overnight in major cities.

Philadelphia. New York. Boston. Baltimore. Washington DC.

Pittsburgh. Even South America. The tiles are professional quality. Designed to last

decades under traffic. And in twenty eleven, filmmakers investigating the tiles discovered something disturbing.

A pattern connecting them to a reclusive man in Philadelphia who died in two thousand three.