The May Day Mystery

The  University of Arizona (located in Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.) students, alumni, alumnus, and many many curious others have become intrigued with the University of Arizona’s  "May Day Mystery"  since it began long ago one May Day in the very early 1970’s.

Since then on every May 1st (May Day-A.K.A. Law Day-A.K.A. Etc) and at other various random times, unknown persons or a secret group-society have been posting cryptic advertisements in the universities newspaper the Daily Wildcat. These ads are mysterious, bizarre, logical, and highly addictively curious at the very least. They consist of in depth references to world history, world geography, higher mathematics and sciences, current and ancient world wide languages, ancient events, world religions of today and back into antiquity, puzzles and riddles, and an as yet an undiscovered mysterious  treasure of untold wealth.

Brian Hance,  an enetrprising student attending the University of Arizona in Tucson  from Ohio , and an employee of the Daily Wild Cat in the mid to late 1990’s, started to notice these very  mysterious cryptic advertisements and soon began checking all around campus for more information on what they might possibly mean and who had written them.

His inquiries soon got him very curious, so he quickly started a collection of the advertisements, painstakingly scanned them onto a computer with the help of his cat, and then put together a comprehensive information website for deeper analysis of the entire mystery. It also soon drew the attention of another student who has proved very elusive by the name of  Winston Reynolds.

Within a very short time after Hance started the online website various communications from all around the world that claimed they were part of the mystery began contacting him.  Very soon afterwards, the records show that  Reynolds suddenly began making regular trips overseas. Travel records indicate visits to London, Paris, Moscow,  Brussels, Stockholm, Berlin, Mexico City, Peking, Tokyo, Geneva, Madrid, Bombay, Cairo, Istanbul, and 3 private audiences with the Pope at the Vatican in Rome.

The mysterious Mr. Reynolds seemingly quickly went from a dorm room and walking everywhere right to BMW's, then JAG's, and finally a Bentley  while still a student. One personal friend confided, "  Winston Reynolds was a really top student, and has to be one of the smartest guys I have ever met. But, it always seemed like he was holding some great secret on his shoulders".

Mysteriously,  Reynolds seemingly vanished a few years after graduation at the University of Arizona. Although allegedly living in one area or another according to reports and eye witness sightings his actual whereabouts remain unknown. 

The  unanswered questions of the Mayday Mystery  continue. Are these all from former students of the past ? a secret group or society who began it all and now faithfully continue the  effort after it mysteriously started almost 40 years ago? 

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