Real Life Mysteries: The Question Mark CD

Pretty wonderful story over at WFMU?s Beware of the Blog regarding a guy who was taking a hike in the Los Angeles-adjacent Joshua Tree national park and found a highly mysterious in the middle of the desert. I?ll let the storyteller do his (highly sic?d) telling of the story:

Usually when I find -rs out in the world, they?ve been tossed out of car windows or left on the counters of stupid hipster coffeeshops. The last place I ever expected to find an unlabeled -r filled with music would be in the middle of the fucking desert. But nearly two years ago I was hiking in Joshua Tree and I came across a completely surreal sight: an old-school 5 ?? computer floppy disk. It appeared to have been tossed casually near the side of the trail I was on, housed in a simple plastic baggie. I reached into the bag and pulled out the floppy disc. I noticed that the magnetic tape inside the plastic case had been replaced by a recordable compact disc. The disc had a creepy message scrawled on it which read, ?A silvery female voice breaking through onto the airband sang in German, ?We are from another world, but you have cut us out?. I don?t believe in ghosts or extraterrestrials or anything, but standing in the middle of nowhere reading that line was enough to send me into a miniature freak out. What?s more, a folded-up piece of paper was also buried inside the plastic cover. A treasure map. Browned edges and everything. It featured a pirate ship (?), a series of footsteps through mountains and palm trees (?), one red X, and ten blue X’s. One of of the X’s appeard to be floating in the middle of a body of water.

Treasure maps and aliens, abound! What else do you people want!? Head over to the blog, read the rest of the story and listen to a few of the tracks.