A Mysterious Death At Baltimore's The Belvedere
In this month's issue of Fortean Times ( #286 ) , local author Mikita Brottman has an article involving the curious 2006 death of Rey Rivera, a 32 year old financial writer working for Agora called "Death on the thirteenth floor". Rivera fell from the 13th floor of The Belvedere (one of our favorite buildings in Baltimore, also featured in the AMC show Mad Men ) and wasn't discovered until a little over a week later when tenants began to complain about a smell. The real mystery, Brottman's article reveals, comes from the Masonic connections. "Confounding the mystery further, Rivera's death involved a number of obscure Masonic elements, one of these being the unusual phrase beginning and ending the note found taped to his computer: 'Whom virtue unites, death cannot separate.' In its Latin form, this phrase was used in ceremonies performed by the Knights Templar, and it is still inscribed in the inside of Masonic rings. Rivera's family ...